Does Heisenberg actually define it as indefinite or simply unknowable.
Something can be definite and unknowable. It's entirely possible for instance that an electron actually does have a definite position but be unknowable.... we just don't know.
Let's be clear. The reason GM is failing is not because of the unions. It's because they made cars nobody wanted to buy.
When GM was raking in the cash the unions asked for a bigger cut. Now that GM is on the brink of bankruptcy after squandering their billions in profit the unions are accepting concessions.
If you think UAW unions are strong... take a look at Japanese employment contracts.
I saw one on a fresh install of Vista last week. But it was before Windows Update had even gotten the latest drivers and it was pre-SP1 install.
Haven't had one since.
I have to say. My computer ran like COMPLETE SHIT while windows update was getting up to date. Windows Update was hogging tons of system resources even while I was working and constantly crashing.
Now that' windows update has finished doing its thing it's behaving like normal. I normally download the latest release of Vista with all the patches ready to go so I've never done a fresh install this late in the game before... I could see why people would think Vista was slow. It was for about a day until it finished downloading/installing patches.
If you turned of windows update everything ran smoothly it was just the act of downloading/patching that murdered system performance.
Or that some of Bush's policies were actually good.
I mean... I disagreed bush as much as the next guy. But not every single moment of his presidency was a failure. Sometimes he made the best bad decision he could.
The AP does ONE THING. It licenses news stories to other people to broadcast/print. The sole reason for its existence is to license out content.
That means... anyone who doesn't pay the licensing fees and uses the content is liable to get sued.
Now in this case it's stupid because the party getting the cease and desist was an AP subscriber and also within his legal rights to share an AP video. To me this sounds more like a left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
But if anything the AP is actually the business mdoel that will survive this change in business model because they're consolidated. They make their money from giving the same news to thousands of other sites which can reproduce it as they see fit. There's a reason that country music station has an AP subscription--it's a nice cheap and accessible way for them to offer news without a news department. Personally I think this is an excellent way to run things. Does every city paper REALLY need an international news beureau? Focus on the business that is local and profitable and then add the AP coverage on top of that.
Without licensing deals the AP has no income. So to say that they shouldn't be protecting their licensing deals in principle is rediculous. This was one case of an AP executive overstepping their reach. After all as the article said it's strange that this ONE station is being picked out for notice when thousands of websites are also doing it and not receiving any trouble at all.
Big companies make mistakes. Non-story if you ask me.
I got into DnD through a pirated copy... and then bought books. But I never use them I just use the pirated PDFs. Because I can use CTRL+F to find what I need. You can't do that with the books which I pretty much only have to just have. Also in the circle of friends which started playing based on the no-risk introduction of the world of PDFs... now 3 others have gotten pretty heavily invested.
DnD isn't an easy activity to get into. Asking your customer to invest $50-100 to get started is asking quite a bit. Especially considering DnD's reputation amongst non-PenAndPaper-RPG-fans.
By the time Halo came out on PC it was run of the mill. When it launched it was a number of things which weren't standard FPS fare at the time:
1) Vehicles. (Besides Tribes... which was incredibly hit and miss on the fun factor... there were very few to no games with vehicles that could be driven and flown. 2) Recharging shields. No health packs. This is now STANDARD FPS gameplay behavior. Give the player shields which recharge. Even 'realistic' games like COD 4 now use this sytem and Gears of War. 3) Instant Melee. Press a button while fighting and smack stab or impale an opponent. Many games had knives or other melee weapons. Very few if any had an instant melee button while a gun was armed. 4) Instant Grenades. Team Fortress Classic had this but most games again required you to arm a grenade, throw it and then switch back to your gun.
All of these things combined is what made Halo not just "mediocre" at best. It was a game changer and not just for the console.
Drive/Fly to the fight -> Throw Grenade to take out 'shields' -> Shoot to reduce health -> Finish with Melee. That's the modern FPS. That's largely the product of Halo.
Yes but really the point of the article was that there were no Sci-Fi MMOs called World of Warcraft.
Really there is only one major player and that WOW. With some smaller successes still running like Guild Wars. And a few ancients still around. But the real money maker is World of Warcraft. And since it's fantasy the author jumped to the conclusion that since the only success currently seems to be WOW-- Therefore Fantasy MMOs are more successful.
I'm not trying to say that there isn't great fantasy out there that doesn't fit the DnD mold. Or that Tolkien wasn't widely borrowing from mythology. Just that what most any "Fantasy" MMO would define as fantasy doesn't really resemble anything except for the DnD/Tolkien canon.
Sci-Fi on the other hand sort of has the Star Wars/Star Trek genre pretty well defined. (Warriors in Space). Flying around on battleships of sorts. That would be the Eve Online MMO. But most science fiction isn't very gameable. For instance almost all of Arthur C Clarke's short stories aren't exactly ripe for gameplay. Now if someone made a Mass Effect or Fallout MMO I would never be seen again. So thankfully nobody has done that yet.
I think the article is overestimating the reach and historical significance of "fantasy".
While there have been stories of elves, trolls, goblins, wizards and the like for centuries it hasn't been "fantasy". Now I'm not an english/mythology major but from what I remember about western mythology there was very little of said storytelling OUTSIDE of the historical epics which were mostly written around the time they were set. The story of King Arthur, Dragons, swords etc... comes from a time when it wasn't abnormal for someone to run around with a sword. Dragons were still mildly plausible and Wizards and Witches were believed to walk the earth. So while it was at the time debateable whether or not there were witches etc... it wasn't 'fantasy'... it was dodgy news with a dramatic twist.
Furthermore. The assemblage of "Fantasy" as we know it today has pretty much one primary source and one derivative source: Tolkien -> DnD. The Fantasy world which DnD popularized was largely the creation and invention of JRR Tolkien. Before Tolkien the canonization of what a goblin/troll/elf was and how they interacted wasn't nearly so clearly identifiable as we would today describe a fantasy game.
Really "Fantasy" as we recognize it today is all just Fan Fic for JRR Tolkien written less than a century after the original and has very little mythological root in actual western literature and lore.
Actually speaking purely hypothetically it is possible to not only compute everything... but everything x2. Although it depends on your definition of everything. If there is somesort of subspace it's entirely possible you could put a computer in an alternate universe which makes our own look microscopic. Based on scale if there was a way to use this alter-dimensional computer you could theoretically build a system larger than our universe.
Yeah! Good thing Microsoft doesn't have a lightweight OS developed to run on ARM! Take that Microsoft. Bet you never thought to develop a Compact Edition of your OS to run on embedded systems! When ARM takes over you'll be left... selling windows ce. wait a second...
Something tells me shooting down a NK missile isn't terribly challenging. Especially since they only have liquid fueled rockets that have to be set up in advance and fueled.
So like some people on planet A may or may not have bombed something on Planet B. People planet B build a fleet and go to kick the ass of Planet A. Planet A is caught by ?suprise? but sneaks out a remnant fleet to go kick planet B's ass? But they fail. So they crash their ship into Planet B killing millions of civilians and ?helping people back on Planet A somehow escape?"
I don't get it. What happened in this movie? I give it a C- for clarity.
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Does Heisenberg actually define it as indefinite or simply unknowable.
Something can be definite and unknowable. It's entirely possible for instance that an electron actually does have a definite position but be unknowable.... we just don't know.
It's too bad they used Titanium instead of Lithium. We could have had DyeLithium Crystal solar power
Let's be clear. The reason GM is failing is not because of the unions. It's because they made cars nobody wanted to buy.
When GM was raking in the cash the unions asked for a bigger cut. Now that GM is on the brink of bankruptcy after squandering their billions in profit the unions are accepting concessions.
If you think UAW unions are strong... take a look at Japanese employment contracts.
Dear lord if you're going to troll... at least get the grammar right:
Linux, 'cause even Windows techs can be real tools sometimes
Insert Windows 7 Disc.
Click "repair"
Yes I've done it.
I saw one on a fresh install of Vista last week. But it was before Windows Update had even gotten the latest drivers and it was pre-SP1 install.
Haven't had one since.
I have to say. My computer ran like COMPLETE SHIT while windows update was getting up to date. Windows Update was hogging tons of system resources even while I was working and constantly crashing.
Now that' windows update has finished doing its thing it's behaving like normal. I normally download the latest release of Vista with all the patches ready to go so I've never done a fresh install this late in the game before... I could see why people would think Vista was slow. It was for about a day until it finished downloading/installing patches.
If you turned of windows update everything ran smoothly it was just the act of downloading/patching that murdered system performance.
They block it BUT also provide a work around in TFA if you feel the need to take the 'unsupported route'.
The block is much like a toll booth with a paper gate. It lets you know where to stop but you could just drive through it.
Or that some of Bush's policies were actually good.
I mean... I disagreed bush as much as the next guy. But not every single moment of his presidency was a failure. Sometimes he made the best bad decision he could.
That's rediculous.
The AP does ONE THING. It licenses news stories to other people to broadcast/print. The sole reason for its existence is to license out content.
That means... anyone who doesn't pay the licensing fees and uses the content is liable to get sued.
Now in this case it's stupid because the party getting the cease and desist was an AP subscriber and also within his legal rights to share an AP video. To me this sounds more like a left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
But if anything the AP is actually the business mdoel that will survive this change in business model because they're consolidated. They make their money from giving the same news to thousands of other sites which can reproduce it as they see fit. There's a reason that country music station has an AP subscription--it's a nice cheap and accessible way for them to offer news without a news department. Personally I think this is an excellent way to run things. Does every city paper REALLY need an international news beureau? Focus on the business that is local and profitable and then add the AP coverage on top of that.
Without licensing deals the AP has no income. So to say that they shouldn't be protecting their licensing deals in principle is rediculous. This was one case of an AP executive overstepping their reach. After all as the article said it's strange that this ONE station is being picked out for notice when thousands of websites are also doing it and not receiving any trouble at all.
Big companies make mistakes. Non-story if you ask me.
I got into DnD through a pirated copy... and then bought books. But I never use them I just use the pirated PDFs. Because I can use CTRL+F to find what I need. You can't do that with the books which I pretty much only have to just have. Also in the circle of friends which started playing based on the no-risk introduction of the world of PDFs... now 3 others have gotten pretty heavily invested.
DnD isn't an easy activity to get into. Asking your customer to invest $50-100 to get started is asking quite a bit. Especially considering DnD's reputation amongst non-PenAndPaper-RPG-fans.
Something tells me the nuke launch systems aren't on the same network as the rest of the DOD.
By the time Halo came out on PC it was run of the mill. When it launched it was a number of things which weren't standard FPS fare at the time:
1) Vehicles. (Besides Tribes... which was incredibly hit and miss on the fun factor... there were very few to no games with vehicles that could be driven and flown.
2) Recharging shields. No health packs. This is now STANDARD FPS gameplay behavior. Give the player shields which recharge. Even 'realistic' games like COD 4 now use this sytem and Gears of War.
3) Instant Melee. Press a button while fighting and smack stab or impale an opponent. Many games had knives or other melee weapons. Very few if any had an instant melee button while a gun was armed.
4) Instant Grenades. Team Fortress Classic had this but most games again required you to arm a grenade, throw it and then switch back to your gun.
All of these things combined is what made Halo not just "mediocre" at best. It was a game changer and not just for the console.
Drive/Fly to the fight -> Throw Grenade to take out 'shields' -> Shoot to reduce health -> Finish with Melee. That's the modern FPS. That's largely the product of Halo.
Would you actually advise us to read it? It sounds pretty stupid from the synopsis.
Say what?
We have complete jurisdiction to pollute our skies.
Just like China has complete jurisdiction to pollute our/their skies.
You know... just like how we got into this mess by warming the climate without waiting for anyone's approval.
Yes but really the point of the article was that there were no Sci-Fi MMOs called World of Warcraft.
Really there is only one major player and that WOW. With some smaller successes still running like Guild Wars. And a few ancients still around. But the real money maker is World of Warcraft. And since it's fantasy the author jumped to the conclusion that since the only success currently seems to be WOW-- Therefore Fantasy MMOs are more successful.
Precisely.
I'm not trying to say that there isn't great fantasy out there that doesn't fit the DnD mold. Or that Tolkien wasn't widely borrowing from mythology. Just that what most any "Fantasy" MMO would define as fantasy doesn't really resemble anything except for the DnD/Tolkien canon.
Sci-Fi on the other hand sort of has the Star Wars/Star Trek genre pretty well defined. (Warriors in Space). Flying around on battleships of sorts. That would be the Eve Online MMO. But most science fiction isn't very gameable. For instance almost all of Arthur C Clarke's short stories aren't exactly ripe for gameplay. Now if someone made a Mass Effect or Fallout MMO I would never be seen again. So thankfully nobody has done that yet.
I think the article is overestimating the reach and historical significance of "fantasy".
While there have been stories of elves, trolls, goblins, wizards and the like for centuries it hasn't been "fantasy". Now I'm not an english/mythology major but from what I remember about western mythology there was very little of said storytelling OUTSIDE of the historical epics which were mostly written around the time they were set. The story of King Arthur, Dragons, swords etc... comes from a time when it wasn't abnormal for someone to run around with a sword. Dragons were still mildly plausible and Wizards and Witches were believed to walk the earth. So while it was at the time debateable whether or not there were witches etc... it wasn't 'fantasy'... it was dodgy news with a dramatic twist.
Furthermore. The assemblage of "Fantasy" as we know it today has pretty much one primary source and one derivative source: Tolkien -> DnD. The Fantasy world which DnD popularized was largely the creation and invention of JRR Tolkien. Before Tolkien the canonization of what a goblin/troll/elf was and how they interacted wasn't nearly so clearly identifiable as we would today describe a fantasy game.
Really "Fantasy" as we recognize it today is all just Fan Fic for JRR Tolkien written less than a century after the original and has very little mythological root in actual western literature and lore.
IANAEM (I Am Not An English Major).
- Gavin
And I live in Washington. >85% of our electricity comes from Hydro, Nuclear and Wind.
Actually speaking purely hypothetically it is possible to not only compute everything... but everything x2. Although it depends on your definition of everything. If there is somesort of subspace it's entirely possible you could put a computer in an alternate universe which makes our own look microscopic. Based on scale if there was a way to use this alter-dimensional computer you could theoretically build a system larger than our universe.
And for every person like you 10 probably installed a pirated copy of windows on the less expensive linux option.
Yeah! Good thing Microsoft doesn't have a lightweight OS developed to run on ARM! Take that Microsoft. Bet you never thought to develop a Compact Edition of your OS to run on embedded systems! When ARM takes over you'll be left... selling windows ce. wait a second...
Two Words: Windows CE.
Do you see what all of Nvidia's fancy ARM based MIDs feature? Windows CE.
Microsoft has you covered on the lightweight front as well. Don't you worry.
If you see an ARM netbook it'll probably be Windows CE.
Assuming of course we aren't "xeroxing" around the cosmos in the Xerox X9 faster than light drive.
We could always... ya know... call their bluff.
Something tells me shooting down a NK missile isn't terribly challenging. Especially since they only have liquid fueled rockets that have to be set up in advance and fueled.
So like some people on planet A may or may not have bombed something on Planet B. People planet B build a fleet and go to kick the ass of Planet A. Planet A is caught by ?suprise? but sneaks out a remnant fleet to go kick planet B's ass? But they fail. So they crash their ship into Planet B killing millions of civilians and ?helping people back on Planet A somehow escape?"
I don't get it. What happened in this movie? I give it a C- for clarity.