I'd say evolution has favored redundancy, or there'd just be one human. If one fails, there's almost 7 billion more to pick up the slack. I think this goes for pretty much every species on earth.
Next step: more planets in case the one we're on breaks down.
If it managed to connect to something "a little more than 500 miles away", the connect timeout has to have been at least 6 ms. The SYN has to go a little more than 500 miles and then the SYN-ACK has to go the same distance back, and as the story says, it would take light 3 ms to make a one-way trip that distance.
There is something that really bugs me about that story though.
If the timeout is ~3ms, and that roughly corresponds to the time it takes for light to travel "a bit over 500 miles", I guess the speed of light was being broken, as I'm pretty sure there would need to be a response from the other end to prevent a time-out, and that would take an additional 3 ms, not to mention the processing time on the other end.
I call BS. If the story is in any way true, that means that the 3ms timeout was something that was (wrongly) chosen after the fact to fit the distance and not a "marvellous coincidence"
It's an amusing story though, it's just that I always overthink stuff..
The point was lost in a bit of rambling, but I think it was this: You were a kid once, see it as you paying for having had the privilege to go to school when you were a kid, as you surely didn't pay for it yourself back then.
(Disclaimer: I also think being trapped in a confined space with kids can be annoying, but they have to travel somehow, don't they?)
The problem with that is of course that Planescape: Torment wouldn't be one movie; it would either have to be a small short-movie anthology about the different paths an individual can take, or a series of movies all covering different dispositions of the nameless one.
The probability of any one Torment movie matching the experience you got out of the game is almost nil, considering the amount of choice you had. (Were you a sadistic warrior-type? Did you dabble in magic and care about your companions? Were you motivated by curiosity or some desire for revenge? Did you join a faction and, if so, which?)
And what is it about space exploration shows that inevitably turns them into space warfare shows? The same things that make real exploration end in real warfare. Unless you're willing to make the case that Cortez had milk and cookies with the natives he encountered.
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System Shock 2. Play it, love it.
Unless you know the game backwards and forwards when you start it, expect to be low on ammo and weapons. It has some level of ammo starvation, plus different types of ammo for different types of target, as well as weapon degradation.
And beside all that, there's a really, really good game with plenty of atmosphere and different ways to solve problems. It's linear in the large scheme of things, but even Fallout was like that, after all.
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I'd say evolution has favored redundancy, or there'd just be one human. If one fails, there's almost 7 billion more to pick up the slack. I think this goes for pretty much every species on earth.
Next step: more planets in case the one we're on breaks down.
That would be true if there was a last nine. Since the line is infinite, there is none.
We could, but it wouldn't do any good. They're too full of hot air to fall at fatal velocities.
Calculating the caloric density of turkey twizzlers?
You do understand that 235 * 235 km is 55225 km2 right?
And that's exactly what's fishy.
If it managed to connect to something "a little more than 500 miles away", the connect timeout has to have been at least 6 ms. The SYN has to go a little more than 500 miles and then the SYN-ACK has to go the same distance back, and as the story says, it would take light 3 ms to make a one-way trip that distance.
There is something that really bugs me about that story though.
If the timeout is ~3ms, and that roughly corresponds to the time it takes for light to travel "a bit over 500 miles", I guess the speed of light was being broken, as I'm pretty sure there would need to be a response from the other end to prevent a time-out, and that would take an additional 3 ms, not to mention the processing time on the other end.
I call BS. If the story is in any way true, that means that the 3ms timeout was something that was (wrongly) chosen after the fact to fit the distance and not a "marvellous coincidence"
It's an amusing story though, it's just that I always overthink stuff..
Well, South Carolina springs to mind: http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/56.htm
And please stop raping the english language calling copyright infringement "theft".
I agree that theft is the wrong term, but I couldn't resist pointing out the inconsistency in this statement.
The point was lost in a bit of rambling, but I think it was this:
You were a kid once, see it as you paying for having had the privilege to go to school when you were a kid, as you surely didn't pay for it yourself back then.
(Disclaimer: I also think being trapped in a confined space with kids can be annoying, but they have to travel somehow, don't they?)
The problem with that is of course that Planescape: Torment wouldn't be one movie; it would either have to be a small short-movie anthology about the different paths an individual can take, or a series of movies all covering different dispositions of the nameless one.
The probability of any one Torment movie matching the experience you got out of the game is almost nil, considering the amount of choice you had. (Were you a sadistic warrior-type? Did you dabble in magic and care about your companions? Were you motivated by curiosity or some desire for revenge? Did you join a faction and, if so, which?)
System Shock 2. Play it, love it. Unless you know the game backwards and forwards when you start it, expect to be low on ammo and weapons. It has some level of ammo starvation, plus different types of ammo for different types of target, as well as weapon degradation. And beside all that, there's a really, really good game with plenty of atmosphere and different ways to solve problems. It's linear in the large scheme of things, but even Fallout was like that, after all.
Don't you all just love how Apple stuff Just Works(tm)?
Graphite is a) not a liquid and b) not a metal.
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Graphite was present in Chernobyl, but it was used as a moderator. The coolant was our good friend h2o.
http://www.chernobyl.info/ has great info (The
You mean you don't know about the beta version at ai.google.com? If there ever would be a place for an "I feel assimilated" button, that would be it.
But the lurkers agree with him in e-mail!