That's true. Bush won by just enough that this is an article on/. instead of an epic disaster.
The race didn't have to be a whole lot closer before this type of thing turns into real vicious fighting-in-the-streets ugliness.
E-voting is impossible. This proves it. The miscounts weren't on purpose... and that's scary. E-voting proponents claim that the errors were mostly "human error". Well no fucking shit! And that's a reason we should switch to it?! Fucking morons. What are you going to do? Make a law against human-error?
Not until you change to a "vote for as many as you like" style voting system, where candidates have to compete for the greatest-common-cross-section of opinions. Now it's a system where the politics have led people to believe that how you feel on 1 or 2 issues determines how you feel about everything. How do you feel about taxes? How do you feel about abortion? Alright, here's the entirety of your other political opinions.
They've even convinced us that it even goes down to the very fabric of our being... Who are you? A Liberal, or A Conservative? So it's vitally important to *them* that *they* be the ones to draw the line... make the definition. But of course it's not true. You can believe whatever you want about any different issue. Son of Reagan shows up at the DNC to promote stem cells... and people are SHOCKED.
But no politician has to worry about the lines being blurred when it's a battle of Us or Them. Not until you destroy that paradigm can you begin to have influence.
Yeah, but I know a lot of video games that won't touch the shit with a 40ft pole. Animators hate the thought of being reduced to the equivalent of highway-side trash collectors, trying to pretty the mocap solely by removing the trash.
Plus it prevents them from adding their own stylistic personality to characters. Look at Naughty Dog's games -- there's no way you could get that kind of genuine expression, both facially and with body language, from a perf-cap.
Of course, I have no idea how good the tech has gotten lately, I guess we'll see. Still there's just no way to replace a talented animator. All you can hope for is a more efficient way to generate gobs of average-looking content.
But that's missing the point. The president had to convince 50% of the people that he's actually on their side. To some extent he has to make decisions that can at least be spun to be 'for the people'.
China has no such nuisance for their leaders. They can make decisions totally independent of the happiness or the will of the people. They can keep their people disproportionately poor by keeping their currency down, and eat off the fat of America.
So China can plan for the best long-term strategies while America has to make the most people happy in the short term. America just has to promise that the long-term will be fine... Oh, yeah, Social Security? It'll be fine. Jobs'll come back! The federal deficit will heal itself! The trade deficit? Who cares! Our currency is propped up by $1.8 billion foreign investment every day? Well, why should they ever stop! Our federally-insured pension programs are doomed to spectacular collapse? Shhhhh! Oil production will peak in the next decade? I said SHHHHH! And natural gas-- SHUT UP!
Let me sum up where slashdot falls on the election, and when I say 'I', I mean the/. collective.
I'm all for free elections, however, I can't believe we still use the electoral college, whose purpose is antiquated and whose effect has proven downright fraudulent. I believe that our 'vote-for-one-candidate' system should be replaced by a more mathematically correct ranking system, or 'vote-for-as-many-as-you-like' allowing for 3rd and 4th parties to be elected by holding the most common cross-section of the population's beliefs.
However, I'm skeptical that even such changes will do any good because the manner in which we gather votes is flawed and subject to fraud from all sides. I'm horrified that Diebold machines are actually being used in the election, however I secretly hope that CowboyNeal wins Ohio just to prove the point.
All in all, I believe that all politicians are corrupted by illegal and immoral means via corporations and lobbyists. . . and, quite honestly, I would vote for any candidate just for saying 'linux good, DRM bad'.
Half of the questions were answered with "I think" or "it may" or "possibly".
So, it's translated from japanese, a fairly polite, non-commital language. I think a translation of english would yield more 'like' and 'you know' than would make literal sense.
all evidence still points in the direction that it will suck, or Sony would have been more clear
Wow. This is truly startling.
What evidence?
He said basically, it depends on how it's used, but at least a full-length movie. Or More if the UMD is accessed less. So, since a full length movie accesses the UMD constantly, 2.5 hours at least. He just didn't give an upper bound is what you mean.
He said 20 miles/gallon city, but didn't offer a highway consumption estimate. Why are you being so harsh? The interview offered more than you cared to decipher. Based on your import I assume you'd like to see the DS succeed. If you need to criticize the competition, please base it on something substantive, not on Sony's choice to ignore internet rumors.
If the responses aren't as informative as you'd like, you should probably blame the interviewer. This is an engineer being interviewed, not a spin doctor. He -wants- to talk about the technical merits of the PSP, and instead he's asked about what pretty colors will there be.
"skips around questions regarding the processing power" -- that has been set in stone for awhile. 333Mhz R4000 Mips III with 32 Megs RAM and 4 MB video with 2 16 flop/cycle VUs and a 'media engine' (?). Regarding battery power, watching a full-length movie is the 'minimum requirement'... that's more than I've heard in the past.
"...indicates they had to stick with an analog controller...", Uh, yeah. Duh. Gran turismo 4. Tough to play with digital steering. Let's call it the 'killer app'. You can almost picture the dude waiting for takeoff, swaying from side-to-side focused insanely clutching a little black gizmo.
"...use your heads/wallets and get a DS..." -- Maybe. Maybe Not. The one number we're all waiting for is the price! Battery life, honestly, is like the Bush/Kerry stance on Social Security... sure you want to hear it, but it doesn't change who you vote for. Price (and launch titles) will make the whole big entire difference.
Since I think that seeing planets outside our solar system is cool, my first question when RTFAing was "Will we be able to see planets outside our solar system?" The answer took a little while to find, so for anyone interested:
It will permit formation of images of sufficient sharpness (diffraction-limited) that the planet could be detected against only a low surface brightness halo of residual scattered light. In this manner, a Jupiter-like planet could be detected, if present, around some fifty of the nearest stars. The interferometric mode will enhance the planet/background contrast even further, thus increasing the number of candidate stars and the sensitivity of the survey. The direct detection of such a planet would surely be counted as one of the major steps forward in determining the likelihood of life existing elsewhere in the Universe and in understanding our place in it.
So, gas giants, but no mention of anything Earth-like. Too bad. I'd definitely be psyched to someday hear about "Earth-sized planet discovered about an AU away from a Sun-sized star."
Sweet! Thanks for a link to the problems! It's really interesting to know how much money was won or where they're from.
Anyway, I did notice that Reid Barton was a 3rd place finisher. I recognized the name from a book called Count Down by Steve Olson about the U.S. High School Mathematics Olympiad team in 2001. Good read about geniuses in high school. What's interesting is that programmers are usually mathematical, but not necessarily the other way around -- that one person can be near the top in both fields (esp 2 years out of high school) is remarkable.
Hack Slashdot Moderators to get free plug for website!
Here's How:
1) Include summary with either the uber-geek 'DIY' or the more more linuxesian 'how-to' in the text.
2) Make sure that summary implies the site is undeniably about 'hacking'. So much so, that no RTFAing would be required of the editor.
3) Make sure the editor is Michael.
Yeah, the vagueness is emasculating. But it's a spatial/temporal difference between hurricanes and earthquakes. For Earthquakes, you point to a map and say "10 Years or Less!" For Hurricanes, you point to a hurricane and say "This 300 miles of Florida or Less!"
From that perspective, there's another similarity... the damning oversight. See, hurricane predictions are achieved by coordinating a number of models, and then normalizing them by what hurricanes have tended to do in the past. But this "history repeats itself" idea washes out the chaos inherent in the system.
To be really useful, you have to be able to sift through the noise and predict the non-obvious thing -- the hurricane swerving suddenly and making landfall 100 miles off course... the fault under San Fran that everybody overlooked.
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Since there's been so much bitching about article content lately*, Slashdot should enact a meta-editoring system.
of course, you could just devnull the results, but at least it would cut down on sheer bitchiness.
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"Give me your phone number, starting with the area code first."
It's so much like an order that people don't even think to say 'No' or 'Why?'...
I'm surprised people don't ask, "and would you like my SSN, also?"
That's true. Bush won by just enough that this is an article on /. instead of an epic disaster.
The race didn't have to be a whole lot closer before this type of thing turns into real vicious fighting-in-the-streets ugliness.
E-voting is impossible. This proves it. The miscounts weren't on purpose... and that's scary. E-voting proponents claim that the errors were mostly "human error". Well no fucking shit! And that's a reason we should switch to it?! Fucking morons. What are you going to do? Make a law against human-error?
Idiots.
They've even convinced us that it even goes down to the very fabric of our being... Who are you? A Liberal, or A Conservative? So it's vitally important to *them* that *they* be the ones to draw the line... make the definition. But of course it's not true. You can believe whatever you want about any different issue. Son of Reagan shows up at the DNC to promote stem cells... and people are SHOCKED.
But no politician has to worry about the lines being blurred when it's a battle of Us or Them. Not until you destroy that paradigm can you begin to have influence.
2. Repetition
3. The console FPS ALWAYS sucks
4. ...
5. Profit?
Yeah, but I know a lot of video games that won't touch the shit with a 40ft pole. Animators hate the thought of being reduced to the equivalent of highway-side trash collectors, trying to pretty the mocap solely by removing the trash.
Plus it prevents them from adding their own stylistic personality to characters. Look at Naughty Dog's games -- there's no way you could get that kind of genuine expression, both facially and with body language, from a perf-cap.
Of course, I have no idea how good the tech has gotten lately, I guess we'll see. Still there's just no way to replace a talented animator. All you can hope for is a more efficient way to generate gobs of average-looking content.
China has no such nuisance for their leaders. They can make decisions totally independent of the happiness or the will of the people. They can keep their people disproportionately poor by keeping their currency down, and eat off the fat of America.
So China can plan for the best long-term strategies while America has to make the most people happy in the short term. America just has to promise that the long-term will be fine...
Oh, yeah, Social Security? It'll be fine.
Jobs'll come back!
The federal deficit will heal itself!
The trade deficit? Who cares!
Our currency is propped up by $1.8 billion foreign investment every day? Well, why should they ever stop!
Our federally-insured pension programs are doomed to spectacular collapse? Shhhhh!
Oil production will peak in the next decade? I said SHHHHH!
And natural gas-- SHUT UP!
Seriously I wonder how long they've been planning this.
I'm all for free elections, however, I can't believe we still use the electoral college, whose purpose is antiquated and whose effect has proven downright fraudulent. I believe that our 'vote-for-one-candidate' system should be replaced by a more mathematically correct ranking system, or 'vote-for-as-many-as-you-like' allowing for 3rd and 4th parties to be elected by holding the most common cross-section of the population's beliefs.
However, I'm skeptical that even such changes will do any good because the manner in which we gather votes is flawed and subject to fraud from all sides. I'm horrified that Diebold machines are actually being used in the election, however I secretly hope that CowboyNeal wins Ohio just to prove the point.
All in all, I believe that all politicians are corrupted by illegal and immoral means via corporations and lobbyists. . . and, quite honestly, I would vote for any candidate just for saying 'linux good, DRM bad'.
It doesn't matter what base you're in, an "order of magnitude" always means '10' times. If you're working in base 16, for example, it means 0x10.
No Kidding! Damn karma whores. Euler does all the work and this guy gets a [+5 Interesting]. Shameless.
Uh, I thought that's who Vin Diesel is...
So, it's translated from japanese, a fairly polite, non-commital language. I think a translation of english would yield more 'like' and 'you know' than would make literal sense.
all evidence still points in the direction that it will suck, or Sony would have been more clear
Wow. This is truly startling.
What evidence?
He said basically, it depends on how it's used, but at least a full-length movie. Or More if the UMD is accessed less. So, since a full length movie accesses the UMD constantly, 2.5 hours at least. He just didn't give an upper bound is what you mean.
He said 20 miles/gallon city, but didn't offer a highway consumption estimate. Why are you being so harsh? The interview offered more than you cared to decipher. Based on your import I assume you'd like to see the DS succeed. If you need to criticize the competition, please base it on something substantive, not on Sony's choice to ignore internet rumors.
"skips around questions regarding the processing power" -- that has been set in stone for awhile. 333Mhz R4000 Mips III with 32 Megs RAM and 4 MB video with 2 16 flop/cycle VUs and a 'media engine' (?). Regarding battery power, watching a full-length movie is the 'minimum requirement'... that's more than I've heard in the past.
"...indicates they had to stick with an analog controller...", Uh, yeah. Duh. Gran turismo 4. Tough to play with digital steering. Let's call it the 'killer app'. You can almost picture the dude waiting for takeoff, swaying from side-to-side focused insanely clutching a little black gizmo.
"...use your heads/wallets and get a DS..." -- Maybe. Maybe Not. The one number we're all waiting for is the price! Battery life, honestly, is like the Bush/Kerry stance on Social Security... sure you want to hear it, but it doesn't change who you vote for. Price (and launch titles) will make the whole big entire difference.
Imagine... Neal Stephenson writing this phrase with a Big Huge Grin.
It will permit formation of images of sufficient sharpness (diffraction-limited) that the planet could be detected against only a low surface brightness halo of residual scattered light. In this manner, a Jupiter-like planet could be detected, if present, around some fifty of the nearest stars. The interferometric mode will enhance the planet/background contrast even further, thus increasing the number of candidate stars and the sensitivity of the survey. The direct detection of such a planet would surely be counted as one of the major steps forward in determining the likelihood of life existing elsewhere in the Universe and in understanding our place in it.
So, gas giants, but no mention of anything Earth-like. Too bad. I'd definitely be psyched to someday hear about "Earth-sized planet discovered about an AU away from a Sun-sized star."
Anyway, I did notice that Reid Barton was a 3rd place finisher. I recognized the name from a book called Count Down by Steve Olson about the U.S. High School Mathematics Olympiad team in 2001. Good read about geniuses in high school. What's interesting is that programmers are usually mathematical, but not necessarily the other way around -- that one person can be near the top in both fields (esp 2 years out of high school) is remarkable.
Maybe to get the 40% number they averaged in those who've taken a 5% pay cut along with those who've taken a 100% pay cut
Build IFVs, HURRY... HURRY... Almost there...
KABOOM! Good bye vehicle factory.
Build more rocketeers, HURRY... HURRY...
KABOOM! Good bye barracks.
Build patriot missiles...
Netcraft confirms it...
Here's How:
1) Include summary with either the uber-geek 'DIY' or the more more linuxesian 'how-to' in the text.
2) Make sure that summary implies the site is undeniably about 'hacking'. So much so, that no RTFAing would be required of the editor.
3) Make sure the editor is Michael.
voila!
OOO! Let me try. How about build a house with one room. Once inside, take away the door. Hilarity ensues.
I'm sure they'll find some mutant gene that cures that also.
From that perspective, there's another similarity... the damning oversight. See, hurricane predictions are achieved by coordinating a number of models, and then normalizing them by what hurricanes have tended to do in the past. But this "history repeats itself" idea washes out the chaos inherent in the system.
To be really useful, you have to be able to sift through the noise and predict the non-obvious thing -- the hurricane swerving suddenly and making landfall 100 miles off course... the fault under San Fran that everybody overlooked.
of course, you could just devnull the results, but at least it would cut down on sheer bitchiness.
* = always