Your idea is correct, but the use of the word infinite is off-base. That's like saying chess is infinitely variable. It's simply not true. There's only a small number of openers in both games. And from any situation, there's only a small set of viable next moves (somewhat true in chess - especially true in SC where the game flow depends heavily on what happened before).
In the beginning two minutes of the game, if you have more than 40 APM you're just doing something excessive. Even through midgame, until you're in the active engagement phase, 150 APM is more than sufficient for the number of useful actions you can take.
Try vs. Very Hard. Any decent rush strategy (that's not all-in) will be met with a good defense. The thing with the computer at VH level is it's a very balanced player. It builds units as it builds economy and tech tree, so it's hard to work a non-all-in rush against it, but it's fairly simple to out play it in either units or economy or tech and exploit the hole in its gameplay.
In addition, addition APM does not equate effective actions. You have to know which units to move where to maximize advantage. This is again something the computer will have a hard time doing.
Examples like that are rare. Taking your example of SC2, there's few scenarios where superior micromanagement can turn a big disadvantage. From experience, most silver+ level players do not just NOT micromanage their units. They just do it without taking a hit in their macromanagement or they do it less effectively than top level players. Even in the reaper vs ling/roach scenario, a player who's seen the situation more than once will know how to properly react (without needing to excessively waste APM defending against the reapers).
The choice is never straight-forward. From a business perspective, it is often easier to go with a commercial solution rather than a stand-alone FOSS product for the same reason people rather invest in a hedge-fund rather some random high-yield bet: risk. If something breaks, there's someone else responsible for fixing it in a timely manner. It's also the reason Red Hat is able to make a business off free software.
The main things you want to look at when considering your options include: feature set (is one option missing features), support (does the commercial company have a good record for supporting their feature? does the FOSS solution come with some kind of paid support service?), and reliability of the software itself.
What's the point of that? Making things secret and posting them publicly seem like mutually exclusive things to do. If you just want to communicate to a small group of people, send an email or an IM.
Out of curiosity, how do they deal with your issue?
Do they just credit you? Do they put some limit so that your phone becomes useless after it reaches the limit? Do they give you a one time credit? Do they offer an upgrade so you can avoid paying this bill?
Because the nature of the business (high barriers to entry, mainly) ensures we have a limited selection of carriers. Limited selection means less competition means less competitive practices, like charging for random "services" like text messages even if the "services" should come for free as part of the protocol.
Whoops what I missed emphasizing is that not only is it not junk food, but the food is made to actually seem good. It's certainly not gourmet, but since the most prevalent breakfast/lunch/dining places in China and HK are small shops on the side of the street, McDonald's and its ilk are on an equivalent or even higher level than those other food venues.
False. They actually don't care that much whether it's American or not. Though there is no such thing as "junk food" yet. McD's, KFCs, Pizza Huts, etc. are all "go-out" type of places in China. They are considered less formal sit-down restaurants. For example in KFC nowadays you can get certain traditional Chinese breakfast items.
McDs is a "date" place. Even on TV, kids in high school are portrayed to have their dates in "fast food" restaurants. It's not that surprising that HK is starting this wedding hosting service. Though... the balloons for a dress sounds a bit weird.
Well if I found a strange device that looked like that I wouldn't take any chances. I'd probably head straight for the lake and throw it in. All this fear mongering by the media really makes me scared of bombs, see...
Your screens are getting more dpi and more inches per screen. You're getting relatively fewer vertical pixels because you're simply getting more horizontal pixels. This is an improvement, especially considering most people don't need tall screens. If you're one of the few who do, do what the guy posted and rotate 90 degrees.
Whenever a new technology or standard is proposed, there will inevitably always be overlapping patents that someone else owns. This is why big companies like to hold patents like poker cards. Nobody knows exactly what/how many/how effective the cards the other players hold, which is why most of the time nobody plays the litigation game. It's like saying "I'll hold on to my King because I'm afraid that guy has an Ace" unless that other guy already played a Queen against you in another game and then... well it's revenge time!
It's kind of like the mutually assured destruction of the litigation world.
Steam engines used to not solve any problems because they didn't exist. I guess people should never have researched the abilities of steam engines.
What I like about vistapwn's viewpoint is that he is coming up with potential solutions. Yes it's farfetched given our current understanding of the world, but with our current understanding of the world, this idea is one member of a very small subset of POSSIBLE solutions. We see a target. We should aim for it even if it turns out to be a mirage.
Assuming they have the technology to travel much faster than we can, they likely also have the technology to detect "Gliese 581g-like" planets. In other words, they probably already know about Earth, and probably already know about humans. It would be conceivable that they've already traveled here. Why send a message to their home planet when you can just indicate an interest to learn right here in our solar system? Latency: 1 second.
If they can make a nice switching network like they advertise, this can actually alleviate much of the congestion commonly found in urban areas, especially in parts of the world that are much denser. The only problem is scalability - people barely even have room to walk in some cities in China and India, so enlarging everyone's footprint is going to make the problem worse. Also the design seems like it'd only be conducive to only one level of rails, and that already costs a lot of steel. If we want to make it effective, it needs to cover at least one line per every three or four blocks. That's a lot of steel and cable for something that took centuries to pave over.
Their unspecialized biology, flexible diet and reproductive strategy make them successful colonizers and survivors in diverse locations and conditions.
If they had just read the first two paragraphs in wikipedia, they'd know possums don't just "die off" after there's no more rats.
General Internet utility makes general internet utility revenues. They will find a way to squeeze out the developers' efforts and take in the big bucks from the service oriented applications.
1. Yes summaries containing the opinions of some AC is bad.
2. My point is readers should have the brains to decide for themselves that the MS statement is disingenuous.
3. Compare your user ID with mine.
I thought the summary is supposed to just be a preview of the article. Why not separate news from opinion? A bit of light joking is fine here and there, since after all Slashdot is not a formal news site, but about half the summary was just MS bashing.
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Your idea is correct, but the use of the word infinite is off-base. That's like saying chess is infinitely variable. It's simply not true. There's only a small number of openers in both games. And from any situation, there's only a small set of viable next moves (somewhat true in chess - especially true in SC where the game flow depends heavily on what happened before).
In the beginning two minutes of the game, if you have more than 40 APM you're just doing something excessive. Even through midgame, until you're in the active engagement phase, 150 APM is more than sufficient for the number of useful actions you can take.
Try vs. Very Hard. Any decent rush strategy (that's not all-in) will be met with a good defense. The thing with the computer at VH level is it's a very balanced player. It builds units as it builds economy and tech tree, so it's hard to work a non-all-in rush against it, but it's fairly simple to out play it in either units or economy or tech and exploit the hole in its gameplay.
In addition, addition APM does not equate effective actions. You have to know which units to move where to maximize advantage. This is again something the computer will have a hard time doing.
Examples like that are rare. Taking your example of SC2, there's few scenarios where superior micromanagement can turn a big disadvantage. From experience, most silver+ level players do not just NOT micromanage their units. They just do it without taking a hit in their macromanagement or they do it less effectively than top level players. Even in the reaper vs ling/roach scenario, a player who's seen the situation more than once will know how to properly react (without needing to excessively waste APM defending against the reapers).
The choice is never straight-forward. From a business perspective, it is often easier to go with a commercial solution rather than a stand-alone FOSS product for the same reason people rather invest in a hedge-fund rather some random high-yield bet: risk. If something breaks, there's someone else responsible for fixing it in a timely manner. It's also the reason Red Hat is able to make a business off free software.
The main things you want to look at when considering your options include: feature set (is one option missing features), support (does the commercial company have a good record for supporting their feature? does the FOSS solution come with some kind of paid support service?), and reliability of the software itself.
What's the point of that? Making things secret and posting them publicly seem like mutually exclusive things to do. If you just want to communicate to a small group of people, send an email or an IM.
Out of curiosity, how do they deal with your issue?
Do they just credit you? Do they put some limit so that your phone becomes useless after it reaches the limit? Do they give you a one time credit? Do they offer an upgrade so you can avoid paying this bill?
Because the nature of the business (high barriers to entry, mainly) ensures we have a limited selection of carriers. Limited selection means less competition means less competitive practices, like charging for random "services" like text messages even if the "services" should come for free as part of the protocol.
Whoops what I missed emphasizing is that not only is it not junk food, but the food is made to actually seem good. It's certainly not gourmet, but since the most prevalent breakfast/lunch/dining places in China and HK are small shops on the side of the street, McDonald's and its ilk are on an equivalent or even higher level than those other food venues.
False. They actually don't care that much whether it's American or not. Though there is no such thing as "junk food" yet. McD's, KFCs, Pizza Huts, etc. are all "go-out" type of places in China. They are considered less formal sit-down restaurants. For example in KFC nowadays you can get certain traditional Chinese breakfast items.
McDs is a "date" place. Even on TV, kids in high school are portrayed to have their dates in "fast food" restaurants. It's not that surprising that HK is starting this wedding hosting service. Though... the balloons for a dress sounds a bit weird.
Explain to me for what purpose the general public will need to compare 2 letters side by side with more frequency than they view media.
Well if I found a strange device that looked like that I wouldn't take any chances. I'd probably head straight for the lake and throw it in. All this fear mongering by the media really makes me scared of bombs, see...
Getting ringtone: iTunes->Ringtones->find the one you want->purchase
Your screens are getting more dpi and more inches per screen. You're getting relatively fewer vertical pixels because you're simply getting more horizontal pixels. This is an improvement, especially considering most people don't need tall screens. If you're one of the few who do, do what the guy posted and rotate 90 degrees.
Whenever a new technology or standard is proposed, there will inevitably always be overlapping patents that someone else owns. This is why big companies like to hold patents like poker cards. Nobody knows exactly what/how many/how effective the cards the other players hold, which is why most of the time nobody plays the litigation game. It's like saying "I'll hold on to my King because I'm afraid that guy has an Ace" unless that other guy already played a Queen against you in another game and then... well it's revenge time!
It's kind of like the mutually assured destruction of the litigation world.
Steam engines used to not solve any problems because they didn't exist. I guess people should never have researched the abilities of steam engines.
What I like about vistapwn's viewpoint is that he is coming up with potential solutions. Yes it's farfetched given our current understanding of the world, but with our current understanding of the world, this idea is one member of a very small subset of POSSIBLE solutions. We see a target. We should aim for it even if it turns out to be a mirage.
Assuming they have the technology to travel much faster than we can, they likely also have the technology to detect "Gliese 581g-like" planets. In other words, they probably already know about Earth, and probably already know about humans. It would be conceivable that they've already traveled here. Why send a message to their home planet when you can just indicate an interest to learn right here in our solar system? Latency: 1 second.
If they can make a nice switching network like they advertise, this can actually alleviate much of the congestion commonly found in urban areas, especially in parts of the world that are much denser. The only problem is scalability - people barely even have room to walk in some cities in China and India, so enlarging everyone's footprint is going to make the problem worse. Also the design seems like it'd only be conducive to only one level of rails, and that already costs a lot of steel. If we want to make it effective, it needs to cover at least one line per every three or four blocks. That's a lot of steel and cable for something that took centuries to pave over.
Their unspecialized biology, flexible diet and reproductive strategy make them successful colonizers and survivors in diverse locations and conditions.
If they had just read the first two paragraphs in wikipedia, they'd know possums don't just "die off" after there's no more rats.
General Internet utility makes general internet utility revenues. They will find a way to squeeze out the developers' efforts and take in the big bucks from the service oriented applications.
"Technology firm Yahoo"? Does it need such an introduction now?
Also I can calculate with 50% certainty that the next digit is 0 also. Do I get a prize?
1. Yes summaries containing the opinions of some AC is bad. 2. My point is readers should have the brains to decide for themselves that the MS statement is disingenuous. 3. Compare your user ID with mine.
I thought the summary is supposed to just be a preview of the article. Why not separate news from opinion? A bit of light joking is fine here and there, since after all Slashdot is not a formal news site, but about half the summary was just MS bashing.
They have that option at $170.
Can you elaborate? How does this prevent them from suing for IP theft?