I think the idea is that if you're choking, you won't be able to speak. I've heard that you should bang the phone a few times in that case, but responding if there is no bang might be a "just in case" thing as well.
Maybe it's because many people outside of Germany wouldn't know where Bonn is.
Would you say that the German news message is "cityist" because it mentioned the city where he lives? Heck, are the Olympics racist because they separate groups of athletes based on nationality, and then proceed to make a big deal of the nationality of those who win events?
Metroid is a FPS that uses the wii mote as a mouse and keyboard. (...) I have enjoyed my wii but it's flavor of games have thus far not held my attention in the same way. So you'd rather play an FPS on the PS3 than on the Wii? You said that the Wii mote is good for some things, but not for others. I'm pretty sure one of those things at which it excels is FPS games. Playing Metroid, I actually found the nun chuck to be much better than wasd for movement, and the wiimote was pretty much as good as a mouse for aiming. The only downfall that I can see (in games where this would be necessary) is that switching weapons may not be as easy as hitting the number keys.
Yes, the Wii doesn't have much in the way of FPS games, nor could it have FPS games as shiny as those for the PS3 and XBox360. However, the first part is due to the fact that developers seem to have not realized the Wii's potential, relative to the second part, which is that the vastly superior control system offered by the Wii outweighs, IMHO, its inferior graphics, especially since they aren't *that* bad.
I think he meant that most Canadians, like most citizens of all first-world countries, don't know what Net Neutrality is. So, no, this wasn't an insult directed at Canadians.
However, I do admit that it is rather odd that they don't advertise this. They should make a point of telling users not using https to do so, if possible. I only found out about this from a/. post a week or so ago.
Do you understand second derivatives, and possibly local minima/maxima? Do you understand statistics? At the current rate of acceleration for Terrorism deaths, it'll be a while before they catch up; it's quite a stretch to generalize this trend that far. Your extrapolation seems flawed.
To be fair, the final weapon was "universal." That is, anybody could wield it as though they were proficient. Also, you could use it to cast those spells... Not sure how well that worked (I just used Sand, Elanee and the Gith to blow stuff up). They may have been able to attack what you needed to attack from a range if you couldn't take hits. Still, it is a legendary artifact; I expected it to be the most powerful weapon in the game. However, you can craft items better than it.
One solution I can see to help tailor it to the player is give it a shape-shifting ability. Heck, allow it to be gloves for monks.
Could you explain the point about how processes not sharing memory will minimize inter-thread cache-misses? Are inter-thread cache misses somehow worse than inter-process cache misses. Wouldn't the fact that processes don't implicitly share memory cause more overall cache misses?
I'm not an expert on this, so I'm probably wrong. Regardless, I don't quite understand it, so I wouldn't mind having it explained.
Perhaps they haven't properly updated the website? Has anyone actually tried running one of these MP3s on a mac? If not, I would suggest waiting until somebody has actually shown that it is infact DRM laden, and not a problem on the side of the site admins, before calling shenanigans.
What? Do you mean using some sort of BigInteger-like library? Otherwise adding two big numbers is a single operation (assuming they're already in registers).
The prices went down before the CAD went up. They were at 50ish when the CAD was at something like 67 cents US. I remember thinking about how lucky we were up in Canada because of that.:P
Has anyone noticed that game prices haven't really risen much latelty? At least, they are definitely BELOW inflation.
In fact, here in Canada, I'm pretty sure many computer games, backin 1997, used to go for $70-$80 (I'm remembering Daggerfall in this case). Now, the prices are down to about $60, 10 years later!
I can understand prices going down if the cost of game development has gone down as well, but I really don't think this is the case.
Could it be that game publishes are still trying to expand the market? They could be worried that if they increase the price of games to a reasonable level, relative to the 1997 cost/inflation, the game industry would greatly shrink. BUT, they still want to make their profits. Consequently, they bully the stores into making up the difference.
So the more invalid patents go to courts and get changed there, as opposed to directly to the PTO? (I'm not trying to be contrary; just asking for clarification.:))
If that's the case, how often is such litgation successul in changing the patents?
70% of reexaminations being "succesful" does not mean that 70% of all patents are invalid. All we know is that 70% of the patents that are reexamined are invalid. We need to know the proportion of patents that are reexamined in order to draw any conclusions about the total number of invalid patents, and thus, the actual error rate of the patent office.
For example, if there have only been 100 reexaminations in the past 100 years, while, say, 100K patents have been granted, then the failure rate of the patent office is 70/100K--pretty small. However, this assumes that all patents that would fail if they were put for reexamination were actually put up for reexamination.
So, even this little thought experiment doesn't do it quite right. This is a pretty hard problem.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that 70% of reexamined patents failing doesn't imply that the patent office has failed. We need more information to determine that.
People will exist who are going to be of the mindset to commit murders, no matter how harsh we make the punishment for murder. Likewise, people will probably exist who are going to be of the mindset who are attracted to people below the age of 18 (or whatever makes you a pedophile). The point of the GP's post is that a good portion of these may recognize that something is wrong with them before they harm anybody, and seek help. However, they will only do this if the stigma attached to seeking such help isn't too high. Nobody in their right mind, at least in North American society, would openly attend such a group because they would be shunned, if not outright attacked, by everyone who knows of their attendance. Now, the GP's post assumes that this help will prevent bad things from happening. I don't know about that. If it's true, though, he may have a point, since this would prevent more bad things than simply increasing the punishment.
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http://universitytoolkit.com/ (mentioned in the pdf) seems to have some hidden content. The page displays a link to: http://universitytoolkit.com/MPAA_University_Toolkit_Admin_Guide.pdf. If you look at the source, you can notice a link at the bottom which isn't displayed: MPAA_University_Toolkit_Administrators_Guide.pdf (it's a relative link in the source).
This version is slightly longer, with what looks like a section detailing development goals. Can anyone see anything incriminating there?
I think the idea is that if you're choking, you won't be able to speak. I've heard that you should bang the phone a few times in that case, but responding if there is no bang might be a "just in case" thing as well.
Maybe it's because many people outside of Germany wouldn't know where Bonn is.
Would you say that the German news message is "cityist" because it mentioned the city where he lives? Heck, are the Olympics racist because they separate groups of athletes based on nationality, and then proceed to make a big deal of the nationality of those who win events?
Yes, the Wii doesn't have much in the way of FPS games, nor could it have FPS games as shiny as those for the PS3 and XBox360. However, the first part is due to the fact that developers seem to have not realized the Wii's potential, relative to the second part, which is that the vastly superior control system offered by the Wii outweighs, IMHO, its inferior graphics, especially since they aren't *that* bad.
The RST is handled at the OS level. Functionality would need to be added to turn off acceptance of RST packets on particular ports.
I think he meant that most Canadians, like most citizens of all first-world countries, don't know what Net Neutrality is. So, no, this wasn't an insult directed at Canadians.
Really? I need to look into this a bit more (the underdog stuff, that is; I know full well that sympatico is Bell. :P)
Switch ISPs? I'd be surprised if Sympatico weren't offered there if Rogers is. Mind you, YMMV substantially with them.
Google does support SSL. Try logging into https://gmail.google.com/
/. post a week or so ago.
However, I do admit that it is rather odd that they don't advertise this. They should make a point of telling users not using https to do so, if possible. I only found out about this from a
Do you understand second derivatives, and possibly local minima/maxima? Do you understand statistics? At the current rate of acceleration for Terrorism deaths, it'll be a while before they catch up; it's quite a stretch to generalize this trend that far. Your extrapolation seems flawed.
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Does it have 4TB Drive, 4TB RAM, 6.8G Processor? Only then will I consider its purchase (Atomchip ftw).
To be fair, the final weapon was "universal." That is, anybody could wield it as though they were proficient. Also, you could use it to cast those spells... Not sure how well that worked (I just used Sand, Elanee and the Gith to blow stuff up). They may have been able to attack what you needed to attack from a range if you couldn't take hits. Still, it is a legendary artifact; I expected it to be the most powerful weapon in the game. However, you can craft items better than it.
One solution I can see to help tailor it to the player is give it a shape-shifting ability. Heck, allow it to be gloves for monks.
Ah, thanks. I see now. The part about synchronizing caches between processors was what I needed to know.
Could you explain the point about how processes not sharing memory will minimize inter-thread cache-misses? Are inter-thread cache misses somehow worse than inter-process cache misses. Wouldn't the fact that processes don't implicitly share memory cause more overall cache misses?
I'm not an expert on this, so I'm probably wrong. Regardless, I don't quite understand it, so I wouldn't mind having it explained.
Thanks!
Perhaps they haven't properly updated the website? Has anyone actually tried running one of these MP3s on a mac? If not, I would suggest waiting until somebody has actually shown that it is infact DRM laden, and not a problem on the side of the site admins, before calling shenanigans.
What? Do you mean using some sort of BigInteger-like library? Otherwise adding two big numbers is a single operation (assuming they're already in registers).
Couldn't you get access to it through a virtual machine? Heck, if you have the time, run it in bochs; you'll be able to see everything.
The prices went down before the CAD went up. They were at 50ish when the CAD was at something like 67 cents US. I remember thinking about how lucky we were up in Canada because of that. :P
Has anyone noticed that game prices haven't really risen much latelty? At least, they are definitely BELOW inflation. In fact, here in Canada, I'm pretty sure many computer games, backin 1997, used to go for $70-$80 (I'm remembering Daggerfall in this case). Now, the prices are down to about $60, 10 years later!
I can understand prices going down if the cost of game development has gone down as well, but I really don't think this is the case.
Could it be that game publishes are still trying to expand the market? They could be worried that if they increase the price of games to a reasonable level, relative to the 1997 cost/inflation, the game industry would greatly shrink. BUT, they still want to make their profits. Consequently, they bully the stores into making up the difference.
Bah, you beat me to it! Though, I must say that you structured it better.
So the more invalid patents go to courts and get changed there, as opposed to directly to the PTO? (I'm not trying to be contrary; just asking for clarification. :))
If that's the case, how often is such litgation successul in changing the patents?
70% of reexaminations being "succesful" does not mean that 70% of all patents are invalid. All we know is that 70% of the patents that are reexamined are invalid. We need to know the proportion of patents that are reexamined in order to draw any conclusions about the total number of invalid patents, and thus, the actual error rate of the patent office.
For example, if there have only been 100 reexaminations in the past 100 years, while, say, 100K patents have been granted, then the failure rate of the patent office is 70/100K--pretty small. However, this assumes that all patents that would fail if they were put for reexamination were actually put up for reexamination.
So, even this little thought experiment doesn't do it quite right. This is a pretty hard problem.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that 70% of reexamined patents failing doesn't imply that the patent office has failed. We need more information to determine that.
People will exist who are going to be of the mindset to commit murders, no matter how harsh we make the punishment for murder. Likewise, people will probably exist who are going to be of the mindset who are attracted to people below the age of 18 (or whatever makes you a pedophile). The point of the GP's post is that a good portion of these may recognize that something is wrong with them before they harm anybody, and seek help. However, they will only do this if the stigma attached to seeking such help isn't too high. Nobody in their right mind, at least in North American society, would openly attend such a group because they would be shunned, if not outright attacked, by everyone who knows of their attendance. Now, the GP's post assumes that this help will prevent bad things from happening. I don't know about that. If it's true, though, he may have a point, since this would prevent more bad things than simply increasing the punishment.
Ah, but would someone who knows what he is doing actually want to carrying said torch?
Add some CPU and memory instensive programs like Matlab or Maple. They can be quite handy in math courses, and especially with AI.