Try Starcraft 2... After the first 5 games, you'll get placed in a league that's appropriate to your skill level, and you'll be playing even games afterward even if you play once a week.
And, it has quite a fun single-player campaign, as well.
Don't forget hybrid solutions, where a small SSD holds the OS and the most commonly used apps, while spinning disks are used for everything else. It keeps the cost down to mid-range levels, while providing a very noticeable bump in the user experience.
Mostly because if standard AI did this, players would raise hell. No human can really keep up with 2 100% controlled and coordinated attacks. Mainly because we have to split our resources between them. The AI could realistically perfectly control 2 attacks with all the skill that a human player could devote to a single attack.
The great equalizer is that the computer would be leading half of his army to each attack, which would lead to annihilation of one of his two groups. Depending on what damage to the base(s) the other attack did, the computer army now has to deal with human army almost twice its size and would probably lose the game.
Multi-prong attacks are a good harassment strategy, but you can't actually win the war (not in SC2, anyway) by splitting your army in two.
I don't think the parking tickets are the problem, but the all seeing eye in the sky that smites you from a distance the moment it thinks you've broken its rules. As soon as people are fully acclimated to this sort of regime, and that may be generations from now, who knows what sort of new laws such a system will be used to enforce -- and people won't even know any better.
What an argument... The "eye in the sky" doesn't have any rules that don't already exist. You already have traffic/parking cops watching you and giving you fines if you park where you shouldn't. They are just going to do a better job from now on.
On a related note: irony is an odd thing, really. Last year I expected a toy bike for my birthday, and got a toy car instead. Not ironic by any definition even though it fits the technical requirement of being the contrary to expectations.
It's quite a stretch to say that a toy car is contrary to expectation of a toy bike. It doesn't *match* the expectation, but it's not the opposite, either.
If you got a real bike instead of a toy bike, then you might be able to make a case for a gift that's contrary to expectations. Or, if you got nothing at all -- maybe.
You mean, little you can do except get the judgment and your money? You don't really think Sony can hide from the court's decision?
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It wasn't until the last 10 years that they started in with this copy protection shit again under the name DRM. The idea was to maximize profit. We're not having "blanket-hate" - what a stupid concept - except maybe for the corporate weasels who thought this was a good idea. We're looking to repeat history.
You have a hole in your memory if you think that copy protection took a break between 80s and the last 10 years. All kinds of other crap went on, including hardware dongles, reading word N from page X in the manual, spinning wheel, and/or included map, and even having to phone the software company to get your secret serial number.
Those were arguably much worse, as it was pretty easy to lose the original manual/map, and the hardware dongles sitting on parallel/serial ports were often interfering with your other peripherals.
Copy-protection was always around, and it was always a pain in the ass. It never stops, it only evolves...
There was already a patch this morning that apparently fixes several crash issues... Give it a shot -- at least they are proactive in getting the fixes out quickly.
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This post is a carbon copy post of dozens of similar ones, I'm not sure what's so insightful about this point of view any more.
Sure, I know there are probably cracks already, but that isn't the point. When (not IF, WHEN) Steam ceases to exist someday, anyone who owns this will own a useless plastic disc.
What's the point, then? Until Steam ceases to exist, I, and others who own it, will be play a fun game. When Steam ceases to exist, I'll use the crack. I'm not really sure what else do you want.
What does it matter to have the clock ticking at 40GHz, if the simplest operation is going to take 5 clock cycles to complete?
That's why pipelining was invented.
But, we were talking about the time it takes to get to the RAM, right? Having it take multiple cycles only increases the latency, the bandwidth is still directly related to the clock speed. You'll get plenty of performance from 40GHz RAMs, when we get there, even if it takes hundreds of cycles for the data to get from them. Again, thanks to pipelining, you can send out a request (and receive data) on every clock cycle, you're only impacting the latency by having the data travel for a while.
On a more serious note, I think the graphics on Civ IV and now V are actually detrimental to the game. It's like going to war with the wrong kind of map. As an old board- and war-gamer I prefer my maps and graphics simple. Top-down, no (fake)3D, animated, colourful shrubberies or flocks of birds please.
It looks like Civ 5 designers were thinking about you. There's a button available to turn on "strategic" view, that shows something that looks like a board game -- simple top-down hex board, with plain 1 or 2-color icons showing the unit positioning and such.
I haven't really found it necessary to use yet, but I did only play one game so far.
At that speed, the signal will travel about 0.6cm per clock cycle. Even at current clock rates at least one clock cycle will pass while the signal simply travels to the RAM chip on the motherboard, without accounting for any circuitry, just the time spent on the wire.
So? Nobody says the signal has to get there in one clock cycle. You already have interfaces like PCIe gen 3 where the signal travel time from one pin to another is far larger than one clock period.
[blockquote]Why are you convinced that schooling is the only way that someone can obtain an education?[/quote]
Maybe you're being intentionally obtuse, but I'll reply anyway. He's not saying that "someone" can't be educated another way, it's just that all those other ways also generate a large number of completely uneducated people that you don't get by the current system.
3) was at least accomplish what he did in large part due to the incompetence of those who are, in theory, supposed to be competent in protecting themselves from such attacks
This is completely irrelevant. If I shoot somebody because their bodyguard is incompetent, I shouldn't receive any less of a punishment for the crime.
When the only information passengers have is route and ticket price, the airline that can scheme to have the lowest upfront price will win.
Only initially, and only with very occasional travelers. Taking me as an example, I don't fly more often than 2-3 times a year, yet I've had my share of good and bed experiences with different airlines... and I'll always look for options from the airlines I had good experiences with while scanning through Kayak's results.
Now, if they are much more expensive than somebody else, I'll consider the others... but I'll pay the 5-10% more to fly the ones I like.
We all remember the crappy legroom, shitty entertainment options, and bad food, even if the search engine doesn't show it.
That works out to $4 per hour of fun. I can't really think of too many purchased entertainment activities that are that cheap.
Really? I can't think of too many that are that *expensive*! Other than movies, theater, concerts, and others that have strict time limits which are usually a couple of hours, just about everything else is much cheaper. Books, music, board games, sports equipment, fishing rods, a new barbecue:), etc. etc. all end up with much lower price per hour of entertainment.
Apple didn't just pull an iPhone out of no where in 2007. Jobs himself said that the iPad came first way back around 2000 or so. Once that tablet basically worked, they started the iPhone. Don't really have exact dates other than around 2000 when Jobs wanted to get rid of the keyboard and mouse and do touch only display.
The idea to ditch the keyboard for what Jobs calls a multi-touch display came about in the early 2000s, although the company was working on a telephone at the time, he said. That's when a prototype was brought to him that used the device's now-famous scrolling mechanism. "I thought, 'My God we can build a phone out of this,' " Jobs said at The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference in Rancho Palos Verdes.
All they had was a prototype of a screen with the scrolling feature... Far cry work "basically working".
Agreed. Given the mere 0.5% arrest rate, I'm pretty skeptical that such figures would show that the SPOT officers earn their pay.
Well, until such a research is done, you're talking out of your ass. The random sampling could result in 0.0005% arrest rate, for all you know. 0.5% means one in 200 was arrested -- do you really think that random sampling of 200 people at the airport will yield one criminal on average?
iTunes warns you when buying content to back it up. If people don't heed this warning, it's their fault.
What a thing to say... If the warning read "I may format your hard-drive at any point, back-up everything every time you run iTunes", would it be my fault when it formatted my drive? Just because they warn you about a bad thing, it doesn't mean it's ok for them to do the said bad thing.
In ASIC world, to "design" means to write RTL code (and all that follows it) that matches the desired architecture. To "architect", means to write the high-level spec of what the design should look like.
It's not bullshit, it's the proper terminology for the topic at hand. You could argue that the terminology is lame or whatever, but it is what it is.
What's better: a world where the money belongs to naive innumate fools, or to exploitative hucksters?
A world where every fool has the right to spend/give away their money as they please. We are all fools in some ways, and we sometimes need to do foolish things to learn. I paid sticker price on my first car. It sucks, but I learned from it. I don't want a law to prevent me from overpaying for things, we'd all be even more foolish because of it.
I love Slashdot. The assumption that I'm a fish just because I recognize that poker is a game about people, not cards, and over the Internet you just can't play the game.
Even for Slashdot, that's a pretty ignorant thing to say from somebody who's obviously played some poker. Any poker player is in their full right to assume that you're a fish when they hear you compare online poker to dice. You may be able to do well at your local 5/10 game because your opponents can't control their emotions, but as soon as you get into higher stakes and play with serious players, reading the betting patterns, remembering their starting hand selection, etc. is what will make the difference. You'll get a physical cue out of them once every ten hands. The online game makes you a better real-life player because you rely on things that are there for every hand, not only when your opponent isn't being careful.
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Try Starcraft 2... After the first 5 games, you'll get placed in a league that's appropriate to your skill level, and you'll be playing even games afterward even if you play once a week.
And, it has quite a fun single-player campaign, as well.
Don't forget hybrid solutions, where a small SSD holds the OS and the most commonly used apps, while spinning disks are used for everything else. It keeps the cost down to mid-range levels, while providing a very noticeable bump in the user experience.
The great equalizer is that the computer would be leading half of his army to each attack, which would lead to annihilation of one of his two groups. Depending on what damage to the base(s) the other attack did, the computer army now has to deal with human army almost twice its size and would probably lose the game.
Multi-prong attacks are a good harassment strategy, but you can't actually win the war (not in SC2, anyway) by splitting your army in two.
What an argument... The "eye in the sky" doesn't have any rules that don't already exist. You already have traffic/parking cops watching you and giving you fines if you park where you shouldn't. They are just going to do a better job from now on.
It's quite a stretch to say that a toy car is contrary to expectation of a toy bike. It doesn't *match* the expectation, but it's not the opposite, either.
If you got a real bike instead of a toy bike, then you might be able to make a case for a gift that's contrary to expectations. Or, if you got nothing at all -- maybe.
You mean, little you can do except get the judgment and your money? You don't really think Sony can hide from the court's decision?
You have a hole in your memory if you think that copy protection took a break between 80s and the last 10 years. All kinds of other crap went on, including hardware dongles, reading word N from page X in the manual, spinning wheel, and/or included map, and even having to phone the software company to get your secret serial number.
Those were arguably much worse, as it was pretty easy to lose the original manual/map, and the hardware dongles sitting on parallel/serial ports were often interfering with your other peripherals.
Copy-protection was always around, and it was always a pain in the ass. It never stops, it only evolves...
There was already a patch this morning that apparently fixes several crash issues... Give it a shot -- at least they are proactive in getting the fixes out quickly.
This post is a carbon copy post of dozens of similar ones, I'm not sure what's so insightful about this point of view any more.
What's the point, then? Until Steam ceases to exist, I, and others who own it, will be play a fun game. When Steam ceases to exist, I'll use the crack. I'm not really sure what else do you want.
That's why pipelining was invented.
But, we were talking about the time it takes to get to the RAM, right? Having it take multiple cycles only increases the latency, the bandwidth is still directly related to the clock speed. You'll get plenty of performance from 40GHz RAMs, when we get there, even if it takes hundreds of cycles for the data to get from them. Again, thanks to pipelining, you can send out a request (and receive data) on every clock cycle, you're only impacting the latency by having the data travel for a while.
It looks like Civ 5 designers were thinking about you. There's a button available to turn on "strategic" view, that shows something that looks like a board game -- simple top-down hex board, with plain 1 or 2-color icons showing the unit positioning and such.
I haven't really found it necessary to use yet, but I did only play one game so far.
So? Nobody says the signal has to get there in one clock cycle. You already have interfaces like PCIe gen 3 where the signal travel time from one pin to another is far larger than one clock period.
Where did you get that? It seems that the historical literacy rates have gone down pretty much since forever.
[blockquote]Why are you convinced that schooling is the only way that someone can obtain an education?[/quote]
Maybe you're being intentionally obtuse, but I'll reply anyway. He's not saying that "someone" can't be educated another way, it's just that all those other ways also generate a large number of completely uneducated people that you don't get by the current system.
This is completely irrelevant. If I shoot somebody because their bodyguard is incompetent, I shouldn't receive any less of a punishment for the crime.
Only initially, and only with very occasional travelers. Taking me as an example, I don't fly more often than 2-3 times a year, yet I've had my share of good and bed experiences with different airlines... and I'll always look for options from the airlines I had good experiences with while scanning through Kayak's results.
Now, if they are much more expensive than somebody else, I'll consider the others... but I'll pay the 5-10% more to fly the ones I like.
We all remember the crappy legroom, shitty entertainment options, and bad food, even if the search engine doesn't show it.
Really? I can't think of too many that are that *expensive*! Other than movies, theater, concerts, and others that have strict time limits which are usually a couple of hours, just about everything else is much cheaper. Books, music, board games, sports equipment, fishing rods, a new barbecue :), etc. etc. all end up with much lower price per hour of entertainment.
That's not what he said. He said:
http://www.gnn.com/article/ipad-came-first-apples-jobs-reveals/1094797
All they had was a prototype of a screen with the scrolling feature... Far cry work "basically working".
Well, until such a research is done, you're talking out of your ass. The random sampling could result in 0.0005% arrest rate, for all you know. 0.5% means one in 200 was arrested -- do you really think that random sampling of 200 people at the airport will yield one criminal on average?
What a thing to say... If the warning read "I may format your hard-drive at any point, back-up everything every time you run iTunes", would it be my fault when it formatted my drive? Just because they warn you about a bad thing, it doesn't mean it's ok for them to do the said bad thing.
How do you figure? BP is going to sell their oil at a higher price than other oil companies (who's going to buy it from them)?
The whole "they will just pass the cost to the consumer" argument only works when every company in an industry is hit by something...
I don't know if that latter part is true. I think they all equally don't care about your opinion of ATT.
In ASIC world, to "design" means to write RTL code (and all that follows it) that matches the desired architecture. To "architect", means to write the high-level spec of what the design should look like.
It's not bullshit, it's the proper terminology for the topic at hand. You could argue that the terminology is lame or whatever, but it is what it is.
A world where every fool has the right to spend/give away their money as they please. We are all fools in some ways, and we sometimes need to do foolish things to learn. I paid sticker price on my first car. It sucks, but I learned from it. I don't want a law to prevent me from overpaying for things, we'd all be even more foolish because of it.
Even for Slashdot, that's a pretty ignorant thing to say from somebody who's obviously played some poker. Any poker player is in their full right to assume that you're a fish when they hear you compare online poker to dice. You may be able to do well at your local 5/10 game because your opponents can't control their emotions, but as soon as you get into higher stakes and play with serious players, reading the betting patterns, remembering their starting hand selection, etc. is what will make the difference. You'll get a physical cue out of them once every ten hands. The online game makes you a better real-life player because you rely on things that are there for every hand, not only when your opponent isn't being careful.