Putting the cross hair on someone's head doesn't have to be the point of an FPS. The game can be based on strategy, teamwork and experience indpendent of accuracy.
In fact I would argue that an FPS with no aim what so ever that was purely random would be equally as fun as one which involves twitch aiming.
In a game like TF2, unless you're sniping, most of the game is pretty accuracy independent. That being said.... the 360 version of TF2 is unplayable.
Your OS most certainly DOES make you more productive.
Many applications use the OS for file management and browsing. Finding that photo from a previous project that you need is the task of the OS.
Also most people run more than one app simultaneously unless you're using a turnkey system like Flame. It's the OS's job to manage the various applications you have open and enable the user to exchange data easily.
An application in a bad OS is like a sports car without any wheels. It might have an impressive feature list but interfacing with other applications and data is a big component of many applications-- a component which many applications rely on the OS to make fast and effortless.
support is a huge thing if you are using adobe in your career.
First of all... when have you EVER gotten support from Adobe?
Secondly, if getting official 'Adobe support' is critical to you then a topic titled "Alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite 3" probably isn't going to be very useful.
Everybody gets old and ugly, unless they're lucky enough to die first. The outside beauty doesn't matter at all, what matters is the beauty inside.
While I don't disagree with that statement... I would find it pretty inadequate.
If people just cared about personality then there wouldn't be a Gay Marriage debate. If it wasn't for the beauty on the outside and the way my brain is wired to appreciate it I would just marry one of my friends who I enjoy hanging out with. I would say that if it wasn't for the shiny candy coating--homosexuality would be the norm. We're biologically engineered to be attracted to potential mates regardless of sexual orientation.
And you can always play the numbers game. A stack of 100 CDs or DVDs is practically free.
Burn 100 DVDs. Then if 99 of them fade or die you still have 1. Safety through redundancy. I can't believe that all 100 DVDs would die after 17 years.
Alternately you could put it onto the internet. Then just store the URL. Let someone else worry about keeping it backed up. Again if you're paranoid... use multiple hosting sites and provide a list of mirrors for the data.
That's a stupid comparison. You assume that the only impact of the 9/11 attacks were the fatalities. How many traffic accidents result in billions of dollars of economic damage, the invocation of article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and the collapse of a major industry?
I find your reply ironic since his statement could be summarized as: "9-11 was a huge crisis for our nation not because of the actual event but because of our reaction to it."
You're right. It did cost us billions of dollars. It did result in the collapse of a major industry--most of which was the result of stupid disproportionate panic not the actual attack. If people had viewed it in context of actual threats to their safety (i.e. you aren't going to die in an airplane flying into the WTC) then the airlines wouldn't have imploded.
It's only a stupid comparison because of stupid, easily frightened people.
Actually the Rwandan Genocide was largely carried out by people with Machetes not assault weapons.
It would be an example of neither side having firearms. It was also a case of being outnumbered. If either side had been armed it would have been a very different conflict but still would have taken place.
Guns are a human right because people have the right to defend themselves?
By that regard I should be able to have an automatic weapon. (Banned in the US). I should be able to rig land mines in my yard. (Banned in the US). I should be able to use armor piercing ammunition. I should be able to employ hand grenades.
Anything that lets me protect myself from an aggressor? Uhhh... no. That's not why we have the second amendment.
Is it a human right? No I don't think so. That doesn't mean it should or should not be a right for citizens but it's not a human right to own any weapon which helps defend one's self.
I'm not even really sold on the original cause for the second amendment (to defend against government tyranny).
1) As was said above... when you ban guns only criminals have guns. If you need a firearm to overthrow the government then you're by their definition a criminal. Also the government is no longer valid so why do you care if you're breaking a law? Also as was said above it's not terribly difficult to acquire weapons even with a ban. So I assume I could acquire one when joining the resistance. 2) I'll still be HEAVILY out gunned. The day I'm fighting the US military I pray to god that I'm not still depending on the weapons currently available to me. If I need to overthrow the US government they'll probably have horse fly sized search and destroy drones which kill anyone holding a gun. Weapons will be useless. Even now the best weapon in an insurgency or revolution is C4. Which is currently unavailable to me. If we really cared about 'safety from tyranny' then we would give everyone a nice brick of C4 and some remote detonators.
So as I see it, I'm not entirely certain it's practical or really useful to ban weapons. But I also don't see them as anything really relevant to the topic of human rights. Now should it be a fundamental human right that you may use appropriate force to defend life and property? Sure.
I'm with GP I never have quarters. I never have cash. I have never have quarters. I never have nickels. As far as I'm concerned magnetic strips are the only way to pay with for goods and services.
I have a Tablet PC. Whenever I pull it out and use it at a coffee shop or park I will inevitably have 2-3 people per hour come up to me and ask what is, "Is it a Mac?" and are always amazed that I payed less than $1k for it and want to know where they can buy it etc etc...
I use it almost exclusively as a digital sketch pad but it works great as a general browsing computer as well. You can get a pretty good tablet for about $600. The most common reaction from people was that they had no idea such a thing even existed.
The thing is that life expectancy is closely tied to your socioeconomic group. The top group in the USA has worse life expectancy and health outcomes than the lowest group in the UK, despite expenditure on health care in the USA being twice the percentage of GDP that it is in the UK.
Even some of the live action shots looked really bad by today's standards. Him wheeling out of the landing craft looked like a CG stunt double even though I'm sure it's live action. The CG stunt double in the Mech suit in the same scene looked straight out of a 1999 game cinematic. Matrix Revolutions' mechs looked pretty much dead on perfect--District 9's mech looked pretty much perfect. These? Look like average to below average movie CG. Terribly unimpressed so far with the VFX. Especially after seeing District 9 which nailed it across the board.
Although I've heard from people in the know that all the shots in the trailer look nothing like the final quality. I'll take their word for it, because not very many of those shots look like they should have been approved and finaled in their current state.
If you really want to nitpick, why do they design fighters to require an external loading of astromechs from the outside? Wouldn't it make more sense to put the loading hatch in the bottom so the mech could be winched in on its own?
I know you don't accept anything Nu-Trilogy. But the Naboo fighters have just such a feature.
Just to be clear...you calculated the efficiency of the whole process from fission in the carrier's reactor to fuel in the aircraft's tank and multiplied that by the energy content of the reactor fuel and divided it by the energy content of a tank of kerosene? Really?
That doesn't quite sound like something you look up on google.
Uhhhh no. I just googled the storage capacity of a carrier and the average capacity of an F-18 super hornet. Then divided one by the other.
Note my assumptions in case someone has better information: Carrier: ~3 million gallons of fuel. Aircraft: ~3,000 gallons of fuel.
It's entirely possible I got either or both of those numbers wrong.
Obviously, only 4% of the respondents have never talked to a frustrated RROD 360 owner.
Actually it sounds like 50% of their respondents were RROD 360 owners.
Mine died and I don't fall into the 4% that cares. Microsoft sent me a box. I dropped it off on the way to work. They sent it back to me 2 weeks later. It was less hastle than changing the oil in my car.
Microsoft overall has done an excellent job taking care of their customers. Inconvenient? Yes. Worth the inconvenience? Most definitely.
And by my Google search estimates a carrier only has enough fuel for about 1,000 flights before exhausting its supply and needing a tanker.
I imagine during combat operations that doesn't last terribly long. And having to pull along side another vessel and safely pumping that fuel has got to provide some pretty serious tactical limitations.
Your "teabagger" statement kinda proves the point. Anyone who disagrees with Obama must be "teabagger".
No the only thing proven here is that you didn't actually read TFA too closely.
Conservative activists co-opted the photo and began using it as conservative propaganda. If they hadn't started printing off anti-Obama posters then the Photoshop job would have probably gone largely unnoticed--certainly wouldn't have had a newspaper article run on it and therefore wouldn't have come to the attention of Flickr who said "Hey wait a second... that's a magazine cover. Copyright infringement... delete."
Gizmodo reports that robots that have the ability to learn and can communicate information to their peers have learned to lie. 'Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other robots went to their battery-death.'
Couldn't the defense though just demand that they test something else? Like mitochondrial DNA? It might be slower but if your conviction hangs in the balance then they could splurge on proving it wasn't your DNA. You might come up as a false positive as a suspect but then actually be cleared anyway.
That being said, just because your DNA was present doesn't mean you commited the crime. Especially in a murder trial. After all they could also obain your blood through other means and just directly plant real hair and blood probably easier than manufacturing blood. A little social engineering is probably easier than genetic engineering.
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Putting the cross hair on someone's head doesn't have to be the point of an FPS. The game can be based on strategy, teamwork and experience indpendent of accuracy.
In fact I would argue that an FPS with no aim what so ever that was purely random would be equally as fun as one which involves twitch aiming.
In a game like TF2, unless you're sniping, most of the game is pretty accuracy independent. That being said.... the 360 version of TF2 is unplayable.
Your OS most certainly DOES make you more productive.
Many applications use the OS for file management and browsing. Finding that photo from a previous project that you need is the task of the OS.
Also most people run more than one app simultaneously unless you're using a turnkey system like Flame. It's the OS's job to manage the various applications you have open and enable the user to exchange data easily.
An application in a bad OS is like a sports car without any wheels. It might have an impressive feature list but interfacing with other applications and data is a big component of many applications-- a component which many applications rely on the OS to make fast and effortless.
support is a huge thing if you are using adobe in your career.
First of all... when have you EVER gotten support from Adobe?
Secondly, if getting official 'Adobe support' is critical to you then a topic titled "Alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite 3" probably isn't going to be very useful.
Everybody gets old and ugly, unless they're lucky enough to die first. The outside beauty doesn't matter at all, what matters is the beauty inside.
While I don't disagree with that statement... I would find it pretty inadequate.
If people just cared about personality then there wouldn't be a Gay Marriage debate. If it wasn't for the beauty on the outside and the way my brain is wired to appreciate it I would just marry one of my friends who I enjoy hanging out with. I would say that if it wasn't for the shiny candy coating--homosexuality would be the norm. We're biologically engineered to be attracted to potential mates regardless of sexual orientation.
I wouldn't even be that paranoid.
CDs will be readable in 17 years.
And you can always play the numbers game. A stack of 100 CDs or DVDs is practically free.
Burn 100 DVDs. Then if 99 of them fade or die you still have 1. Safety through redundancy. I can't believe that all 100 DVDs would die after 17 years.
Alternately you could put it onto the internet. Then just store the URL. Let someone else worry about keeping it backed up. Again if you're paranoid... use multiple hosting sites and provide a list of mirrors for the data.
That's a stupid comparison. You assume that the only impact of the 9/11 attacks were the fatalities. How many traffic accidents result in billions of dollars of economic damage, the invocation of article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and the collapse of a major industry?
I find your reply ironic since his statement could be summarized as:
"9-11 was a huge crisis for our nation not because of the actual event but because of our reaction to it."
You're right. It did cost us billions of dollars. It did result in the collapse of a major industry--most of which was the result of stupid disproportionate panic not the actual attack. If people had viewed it in context of actual threats to their safety (i.e. you aren't going to die in an airplane flying into the WTC) then the airlines wouldn't have imploded.
It's only a stupid comparison because of stupid, easily frightened people.
Actually the Rwandan Genocide was largely carried out by people with Machetes not assault weapons.
It would be an example of neither side having firearms. It was also a case of being outnumbered. If either side had been armed it would have been a very different conflict but still would have taken place.
Guns are a human right because people have the right to defend themselves?
By that regard I should be able to have an automatic weapon. (Banned in the US).
I should be able to rig land mines in my yard. (Banned in the US).
I should be able to use armor piercing ammunition.
I should be able to employ hand grenades.
Anything that lets me protect myself from an aggressor? Uhhh... no. That's not why we have the second amendment.
Is it a human right? No I don't think so. That doesn't mean it should or should not be a right for citizens but it's not a human right to own any weapon which helps defend one's self.
I'm not even really sold on the original cause for the second amendment (to defend against government tyranny).
1) As was said above... when you ban guns only criminals have guns. If you need a firearm to overthrow the government then you're by their definition a criminal. Also the government is no longer valid so why do you care if you're breaking a law? Also as was said above it's not terribly difficult to acquire weapons even with a ban. So I assume I could acquire one when joining the resistance.
2) I'll still be HEAVILY out gunned. The day I'm fighting the US military I pray to god that I'm not still depending on the weapons currently available to me. If I need to overthrow the US government they'll probably have horse fly sized search and destroy drones which kill anyone holding a gun. Weapons will be useless. Even now the best weapon in an insurgency or revolution is C4. Which is currently unavailable to me. If we really cared about 'safety from tyranny' then we would give everyone a nice brick of C4 and some remote detonators.
So as I see it, I'm not entirely certain it's practical or really useful to ban weapons. But I also don't see them as anything really relevant to the topic of human rights. Now should it be a fundamental human right that you may use appropriate force to defend life and property? Sure.
And yet they too are mysteriously empty!
I'm with GP I never have quarters. I never have cash. I have never have quarters. I never have nickels. As far as I'm concerned magnetic strips are the only way to pay with for goods and services.
Intuition is just the scientific method with a small sample size.
Yeah because door knobs and keyboards are so much more hygienic...?
At least with a touchscreen it's only the tips of your fingers and not your entire palm (as in the case of a mouse or door knob).
I have a Tablet PC. Whenever I pull it out and use it at a coffee shop or park I will inevitably have 2-3 people per hour come up to me and ask what is, "Is it a Mac?" and are always amazed that I payed less than $1k for it and want to know where they can buy it etc etc...
I use it almost exclusively as a digital sketch pad but it works great as a general browsing computer as well. You can get a pretty good tablet for about $600. The most common reaction from people was that they had no idea such a thing even existed.
The thing is that life expectancy is closely tied to your socioeconomic group. The top group in the USA has worse life expectancy and health outcomes than the lowest group in the UK, despite expenditure on health care in the USA being twice the percentage of GDP that it is in the UK.
GRRRR ARggghhH! Socialism! GNUHHH!!!!!! COMMUNIST!
Even some of the live action shots looked really bad by today's standards. Him wheeling out of the landing craft looked like a CG stunt double even though I'm sure it's live action. The CG stunt double in the Mech suit in the same scene looked straight out of a 1999 game cinematic. Matrix Revolutions' mechs looked pretty much dead on perfect--District 9's mech looked pretty much perfect. These? Look like average to below average movie CG. Terribly unimpressed so far with the VFX. Especially after seeing District 9 which nailed it across the board.
Although I've heard from people in the know that all the shots in the trailer look nothing like the final quality. I'll take their word for it, because not very many of those shots look like they should have been approved and finaled in their current state.
If you really want to nitpick, why do they design fighters to require an external loading of astromechs from the outside? Wouldn't it make more sense to put the loading hatch in the bottom so the mech could be winched in on its own?
I know you don't accept anything Nu-Trilogy. But the Naboo fighters have just such a feature.
Just to be clear...you calculated the efficiency of the whole process from fission in the carrier's reactor to fuel in the aircraft's tank and multiplied that by the energy content of the reactor fuel and divided it by the energy content of a tank of kerosene? Really?
That doesn't quite sound like something you look up on google.
Uhhhh no. I just googled the storage capacity of a carrier and the average capacity of an F-18 super hornet. Then divided one by the other.
Note my assumptions in case someone has better information:
Carrier: ~3 million gallons of fuel.
Aircraft: ~3,000 gallons of fuel.
It's entirely possible I got either or both of those numbers wrong.
Obviously, only 4% of the respondents have never talked to a frustrated RROD 360 owner.
Actually it sounds like 50% of their respondents were RROD 360 owners.
Mine died and I don't fall into the 4% that cares. Microsoft sent me a box. I dropped it off on the way to work. They sent it back to me 2 weeks later. It was less hastle than changing the oil in my car.
Microsoft overall has done an excellent job taking care of their customers. Inconvenient? Yes. Worth the inconvenience? Most definitely.
And by my Google search estimates a carrier only has enough fuel for about 1,000 flights before exhausting its supply and needing a tanker.
I imagine during combat operations that doesn't last terribly long. And having to pull along side another vessel and safely pumping that fuel has got to provide some pretty serious tactical limitations.
Your "teabagger" statement kinda proves the point. Anyone who disagrees with Obama must be "teabagger".
No the only thing proven here is that you didn't actually read TFA too closely.
Conservative activists co-opted the photo and began using it as conservative propaganda. If they hadn't started printing off anti-Obama posters then the Photoshop job would have probably gone largely unnoticed--certainly wouldn't have had a newspaper article run on it and therefore wouldn't have come to the attention of Flickr who said "Hey wait a second... that's a magazine cover. Copyright infringement... delete."
Old News (even covered by Slashdot):
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/01/19/0258214/Robots-Learn-To-Lie?art_pos=1
Gizmodo reports that robots that have the ability to learn and can communicate information to their peers have learned to lie. 'Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other robots went to their battery-death.'
And what is a "Mental Health Day"? Evidently gamers are the only people clever enough to invent a new reason to skip work.
"Hey uhhh yeah... I need a *mental health day."
*Gamer stays home and plays Fallout 4.
Couldn't the defense though just demand that they test something else? Like mitochondrial DNA? It might be slower but if your conviction hangs in the balance then they could splurge on proving it wasn't your DNA. You might come up as a false positive as a suspect but then actually be cleared anyway.
That being said, just because your DNA was present doesn't mean you commited the crime. Especially in a murder trial. After all they could also obain your blood through other means and just directly plant real hair and blood probably easier than manufacturing blood. A little social engineering is probably easier than genetic engineering.
They might not have Common Carrier status but they do have a monopoly on cable access in most places--enforced by local governments.
Personally I want Comcast. Of all the cable companies in my area they are dramatically better. But that's not to say they aren't slimy.
Only 2 digits? That's a small botnet.
It'll look like a simple front end on top of a massive database composing millions of documents which had to be assembled and prepared for the web.
Interface usually isn't the most time consuming or expensive component to a website: it's content.