Hugeass countries always have more GDP than small ones. Size matters, Liechtenstein has a GDP of 1.7G$ while Ethiopia has 69G$ yet noone would call Liechtenstein poorer than Ethiopia. Same for comparisons between the US and Europe, each European country is much smaller than the US and as such doesn't rank nearly as high but combined they are CAPTAIN PLANET, errr, a freaking huge economy.
Being a public nuisance is punishable (though usually just a misdemeanor) in most western countries. While "disturbing unity" is usually only claimed by communist countries and militaries (not limited to communist militaries) other countries usually just use different terms to the same effect and if you do anything the police doesn't want you to do there's a good chance that they can take you in at least for a few days.
Actually 2d customization is harder since you have to draw the relevant parts for each frame in the character's animation, in 3d you just attach a few parts to the skeleton and it follows the animations by itself.
Considering the kind of crap that goes into multimedia applications these days it wouldn't surprise me if Quicktime had parts that needed to be run in kernel mode.
Only if they intend on doing something really bad (or suicide afterwards) that'd get them a long sentence anyway. Almost any crime carries a MUCH higher sentence if you have a handgun while doing it. Any regular old criminal will just make do with a knife or his bare hands, mugging relies on the assumption that the police doesn't care. Once you bring a gun into it they care. Panic, shoot someone and they will really care.
Another thing they watched for in the military was that noone steps in front of a rifle, even if the entire platoon hasn't seen one piece of live ammunition yet. When a rifle is lying somewhere you are still supposed to stay outside its theoretical line of fire NO MATTER WHAT.
They also taught us about the people who use their rifles as hammers.
Jesus wasn't eliminated because he was antisocial, he was eliminated because he was seen as a threat to the Roman Empire and a wannabe revolutionary. Crucifixion was the SOP for dealing with wannabe religious leaders because usually the death of the founder would make those anti-Roman organizations fall apart pretty quickly. We may shun antisocial people but Jesus was more of the enemy combatant persuation, at least in the eyes of the government.
Why exactly did Nintendo reject an immersive world for a bare-bones cartoony poor man's version with little actual value to the player?
Because they found it unnecessary and only wanted to provide a way for the player to get "himself" in the game? Because it's easier to make a carricature of yourself from cartoony parts than a realistic representation because the latter will be held to a much higher standard and just a slightly different nose can ruin the illusion?
However, if we just assume that it's fully mapped out, how can we make any claims about it? For obvious reasons we cannot say if any "slice" (i.e. point in time) out of that spacetime has any relation to any other slice as we can only see what is within the slice and within the slice is all the information we use to make claims about other slices. Thus if there was no logical connection between the slices we would never know.
Granted, that's probably deep into "we don't care" territory for science and only interesting to philosophers.
Free will is the idea that the will of a person is not solely a result of past and present stimuli, it is the belief that given the exact same physical state a human's decision is not always the same. Thus free will, it's not tied to determinism. Reeks of religious self-importance to me (some claim that humans are better than inanimate matter or perhaps even animals) but whatever people see as necessary to make their life bearable...
What this means for free will depends on how things exist within the time dimension, I'd think. Either things move through time like they move through space (i.e. when they move somewhere they're no longer at their old position which would require some kind of metatime and of course make time travel impossible since you'd land somewhere with nothing in it) or they exist at each point in time at the same "time" which would preclude free will since the whole universe is mapped out from creation to destruction (apparently called Eternalism). Having things leave "trails" through time would violate the conservation of mass I'd assume and obviously introduce metatime again.
So, um, I guess if you somehow projected an object's 6 dimensions into something we could see the question would be if we'd see a point or what appears to be a function plot. I really don't know how scientists expect time to function within these theories.
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Hugeass countries always have more GDP than small ones. Size matters, Liechtenstein has a GDP of 1.7G$ while Ethiopia has 69G$ yet noone would call Liechtenstein poorer than Ethiopia. Same for comparisons between the US and Europe, each European country is much smaller than the US and as such doesn't rank nearly as high but combined they are CAPTAIN PLANET, errr, a freaking huge economy.
Being a public nuisance is punishable (though usually just a misdemeanor) in most western countries. While "disturbing unity" is usually only claimed by communist countries and militaries (not limited to communist militaries) other countries usually just use different terms to the same effect and if you do anything the police doesn't want you to do there's a good chance that they can take you in at least for a few days.
Actually 2d customization is harder since you have to draw the relevant parts for each frame in the character's animation, in 3d you just attach a few parts to the skeleton and it follows the animations by itself.
The comparison to Gunpei Yokoi kinda implies that.
Because it just happens to be one of the most selling videogame series still in use?
What I'm more interested in is if it allows private people to do the same so you could e.g. legally hack into government machines.
A requirement for a game to be branded a "Game for Windows" is that it is compatible with an X-Box 360 Controller.
Really? How do I play Company of Heroes with that gamepad, then?
Considering these are DRM-capable players they probably run in kernelspace to some extend.
Considering the kind of crap that goes into multimedia applications these days it wouldn't surprise me if Quicktime had parts that needed to be run in kernel mode.
The GPS unit's message system most likely uses a registered frequency since it's meant for large area broadcasts.
In school they told us exactly that, doesn't matter if your conclusion is wrong if you argue it right.
Or maybe that site just used "SEO" to spam itself into all search results.
Wouldn't want them to find any weapons of mass destruction on your harddrive, right?
played with children and touched them;
So did Michael Jackson *ducks*
Criminals, at least, have guns, I presume?
Only if they intend on doing something really bad (or suicide afterwards) that'd get them a long sentence anyway. Almost any crime carries a MUCH higher sentence if you have a handgun while doing it. Any regular old criminal will just make do with a knife or his bare hands, mugging relies on the assumption that the police doesn't care. Once you bring a gun into it they care. Panic, shoot someone and they will really care.
Another thing they watched for in the military was that noone steps in front of a rifle, even if the entire platoon hasn't seen one piece of live ammunition yet. When a rifle is lying somewhere you are still supposed to stay outside its theoretical line of fire NO MATTER WHAT.
They also taught us about the people who use their rifles as hammers.
Jesus wasn't eliminated because he was antisocial, he was eliminated because he was seen as a threat to the Roman Empire and a wannabe revolutionary. Crucifixion was the SOP for dealing with wannabe religious leaders because usually the death of the founder would make those anti-Roman organizations fall apart pretty quickly. We may shun antisocial people but Jesus was more of the enemy combatant persuation, at least in the eyes of the government.
Ironically the 360 still has the most japanese RPGs out of all three next gen systems.
Why exactly did Nintendo reject an immersive world for a bare-bones cartoony poor man's version with little actual value to the player?
Because they found it unnecessary and only wanted to provide a way for the player to get "himself" in the game? Because it's easier to make a carricature of yourself from cartoony parts than a realistic representation because the latter will be held to a much higher standard and just a slightly different nose can ruin the illusion?
It's The Inquirer. This forum posting is at least as credible, if not much moreso.
So in effect block time is what we have, right?
However, if we just assume that it's fully mapped out, how can we make any claims about it? For obvious reasons we cannot say if any "slice" (i.e. point in time) out of that spacetime has any relation to any other slice as we can only see what is within the slice and within the slice is all the information we use to make claims about other slices. Thus if there was no logical connection between the slices we would never know.
Granted, that's probably deep into "we don't care" territory for science and only interesting to philosophers.
If the brain was reverse engineered enough it could be determined whether free will exists.
Free will is the idea that the will of a person is not solely a result of past and present stimuli, it is the belief that given the exact same physical state a human's decision is not always the same. Thus free will, it's not tied to determinism. Reeks of religious self-importance to me (some claim that humans are better than inanimate matter or perhaps even animals) but whatever people see as necessary to make their life bearable...
In some regions the presents are attributed to Jesus himself instead of any Santa Claus.
What this means for free will depends on how things exist within the time dimension, I'd think. Either things move through time like they move through space (i.e. when they move somewhere they're no longer at their old position which would require some kind of metatime and of course make time travel impossible since you'd land somewhere with nothing in it) or they exist at each point in time at the same "time" which would preclude free will since the whole universe is mapped out from creation to destruction (apparently called Eternalism). Having things leave "trails" through time would violate the conservation of mass I'd assume and obviously introduce metatime again.
So, um, I guess if you somehow projected an object's 6 dimensions into something we could see the question would be if we'd see a point or what appears to be a function plot. I really don't know how scientists expect time to function within these theories.