Highest level SF play requires frame accurate timing. 17ms per frame, and humans are easily capable of timing short intervals to this accuracy, (do not confuse timing accuracy with reaction time (which is always at least 100ms), eg. DDR marvelous timing is also single frame, and many people can consistently hit that accuracy). Pings of 17ms over the internet are very rare. What's worse, the lag is inconsistent, so it's impossible to compensate for it accurately.
This is already a solved problem, as the gigabytes of scanned books on your favorite P2P network attest. The OCR won't be perfect, but it's good enough.
You're assuming too narrow a definition of "reproductive fitness". It means not only having children, but those children having children of their own, and also relatives having many descendants. This certainly can allow for evolutionary pressure past reproductive age, but in mice this is minimal.
The protein is associated with diseases that mostly happen in later life, so there will be very little evolutionary pressure to remove it. Evolution optimizes for reproductive fitness only, and as elderly mice do not look after their young, genes that improve survival in old age will not be selected. It would require only a minor benefit in youth to evolve a gene which causes harm in old age.
The GPL version 2 has absolutely nothing to do with use of software. It is only concerned with copying, and you are under no obligation to accept the licence if you do not distribute the software. This allows abuse such as modifying the software and then only providing it as a web service, so it is technically not distributed, which is one of the problems the GPL version 3 will correct.
The world would not "revert to mediaeval levels of entertainment", because there already exists far more entertainment than anyone could possibly experience in a lifetime. Have you seen every good movie? Read every good novel? Watched every interesting TV show and heard all good quality music? Played every good game? There's absolutely no shortage of copywritten entertainment out there, so copyright encourages wasted effort (remakes etc.). Abolition of so called "intellectual property" would greatly improve the lives of the majority of humanity. A few people would temporarily find it harder to make money, but they'll just have to adapt to change like everyone else does.
Then FOSS is a useless word, because by that definition it is identical to Free software. I think your definition is false, and FOSS is really a FUD word designed to confuse people and make them think freedom is not important.
The fact that memorizing the maps ruined the gameplay proves that it is a bad game. Every serious PC FPS player memorizes all the maps they play, which is the only way to compete because their opponents do the same. This does not harm the gameplay at all, because there is usually good map design and and weapon design, so you do not need to rely on surprise at the map layout for entertainment.
Being the least bad FPS on a failed console is not a notable achievement. Terrible frame rate, unwieldy controls, and far inferior to what was available on PCs at the time.
Ignoring the blatant lie that the GPL is incompatible with "intellectual property" (the GPL *depends* on copyright for its effectiveness), this whole article is clearly designed to obscure the real issues.
The article is correct in that "Open source is a way of building software", but the GPL is primarily concerned with Freedom, not the practicalities of building software. You'll notice Microsoft never refers to Free Software, only Open Source. Open Source *is* primarily concerned with the development methodology, and by concentrating only on this issue Microsoft implies that Freedom is unimportant. There's a great danger of thinking only of Open Source, and then ending up in a situation not much better than if you had used proprietary software. Open Source doesn't necessarily mean Free.
FFVIII summons were only a major part of the game for people who didn't understand the battle system. The real high damage/second was from limit breaks.
Paper might have high resolution, but it has poor contrast ratio, doesn't scroll, is unsearchable, is uncopypasteable, takes up physical space, and is a fire risk. There's a generation gap here - you think "cozy" books are best on paper because that's what you grew up with. Younger people are used to reading everything on screens. I read far more novels on screen than on paper and don't find it "cold" at all.
That sounds like good AI to me. Resources saved are, with very few exceptions, resources wasted. Far better to defeat the enemy before your resource production ends than stockpile resources and risk loss.
I read The Faery Handbag and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a joke or what. It's slightly clever, but nothing happens, it's like the story is one big troll. I got to the end and it feels like the ending of Lost in Translation, like I've been mugged and had a big chunk of free time stolen. Maybe only females can understand these types of stories.
No, a certain chemical found in hops was found to inhibit cancer growth. Drinking beer was *not* found to reduce cancer risk, and alcohol is in fact a known carcinogen. Even moderate drinking dramatically increases cancer growth in mice, see: http://www.the-aps.org/press/conference/eb06/8.htm
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In the context of fighting games, "frame" always refers to the usually 60Hz video frames, and has nothing to do with networking.
Highest level SF play requires frame accurate timing. 17ms per frame, and humans are easily capable of timing short intervals to this accuracy, (do not confuse timing accuracy with reaction time (which is always at least 100ms), eg. DDR marvelous timing is also single frame, and many people can consistently hit that accuracy). Pings of 17ms over the internet are very rare. What's worse, the lag is inconsistent, so it's impossible to compensate for it accurately.
remove binding + sheet feeder + scanner + OCR
This is already a solved problem, as the gigabytes of scanned books on your favorite P2P network attest. The OCR won't be perfect, but it's good enough.
Just turn off Javascript after the page has loaded. Disabling right-click is a even more trivial "protection".
Using Firefox there's a much easier way: select all, view selection source. Decrypted HTML is shown. This works for any HTML "encryption" method.
You're assuming too narrow a definition of "reproductive fitness". It means not only having children, but those children having children of their own, and also relatives having many descendants. This certainly can allow for evolutionary pressure past reproductive age, but in mice this is minimal.
The protein is associated with diseases that mostly happen in later life, so there will be very little evolutionary pressure to remove it. Evolution optimizes for reproductive fitness only, and as elderly mice do not look after their young, genes that improve survival in old age will not be selected. It would require only a minor benefit in youth to evolve a gene which causes harm in old age.
The GPL version 2 has absolutely nothing to do with use of software. It is only concerned with copying, and you are under no obligation to accept the licence if you do not distribute the software. This allows abuse such as modifying the software and then only providing it as a web service, so it is technically not distributed, which is one of the problems the GPL version 3 will correct.
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The world would not "revert to mediaeval levels of entertainment", because there already exists far more entertainment than anyone could possibly experience in a lifetime. Have you seen every good movie? Read every good novel? Watched every interesting TV show and heard all good quality music? Played every good game? There's absolutely no shortage of copywritten entertainment out there, so copyright encourages wasted effort (remakes etc.). Abolition of so called "intellectual property" would greatly improve the lives of the majority of humanity. A few people would temporarily find it harder to make money, but they'll just have to adapt to change like everyone else does.
Then by using "FOSS" we are wasting an opportunity to educate them.
Then FOSS is a useless word, because by that definition it is identical to Free software. I think your definition is false, and FOSS is really a FUD word designed to confuse people and make them think freedom is not important.
The fact that memorizing the maps ruined the gameplay proves that it is a bad game. Every serious PC FPS player memorizes all the maps they play, which is the only way to compete because their opponents do the same. This does not harm the gameplay at all, because there is usually good map design and and weapon design, so you do not need to rely on surprise at the map layout for entertainment.
Being the least bad FPS on a failed console is not a notable achievement. Terrible frame rate, unwieldy controls, and far inferior to what was available on PCs at the time.
The most anti-ad readers ("customers"? I'm not buying anything) are all running ad-blocker software, and so have nothing to complain about.
Ignoring the blatant lie that the GPL is incompatible with "intellectual property" (the GPL *depends* on copyright for its effectiveness), this whole article is clearly designed to obscure the real issues.
The article is correct in that "Open source is a way of building software", but the GPL is primarily concerned with Freedom, not the practicalities of building software. You'll notice Microsoft never refers to Free Software, only Open Source. Open Source *is* primarily concerned with the development methodology, and by concentrating only on this issue Microsoft implies that Freedom is unimportant. There's a great danger of thinking only of Open Source, and then ending up in a situation not much better than if you had used proprietary software. Open Source doesn't necessarily mean Free.
I don't get why so many people criticise CC for low frame rates, when it's usually much higher than all the PSX FF games.
FFVIII summons were only a major part of the game for people who didn't understand the battle system. The real high damage/second was from limit breaks.
I don't think the springs will be a problem, because the range of movement is very small.
If it's really so iron clad why can't you represent yourself?
Paper might have high resolution, but it has poor contrast ratio, doesn't scroll, is unsearchable, is uncopypasteable, takes up physical space, and is a fire risk. There's a generation gap here - you think "cozy" books are best on paper because that's what you grew up with. Younger people are used to reading everything on screens. I read far more novels on screen than on paper and don't find it "cold" at all.
That sounds like good AI to me. Resources saved are, with very few exceptions, resources wasted. Far better to defeat the enemy before your resource production ends than stockpile resources and risk loss.
Yes, and I don't see how "magical realism" qualifies for a a Nebula award. There's nothing science fiction or fantasy about it.
I read The Faery Handbag and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a joke or what. It's slightly clever, but nothing happens, it's like the story is one big troll. I got to the end and it feels like the ending of Lost in Translation, like I've been mugged and had a big chunk of free time stolen. Maybe only females can understand these types of stories.
No, a certain chemical found in hops was found to inhibit cancer growth. Drinking beer was *not* found to reduce cancer risk, and alcohol is in fact a known carcinogen. Even moderate drinking dramatically increases cancer growth in mice, see:m
http://www.the-aps.org/press/conference/eb06/8.ht