I've also resorted to Bob the Angry Flower, and even wrote a perl script that will silently fix many things I read on IRC and HTTP, so that I don't go insane.
Normally, shock sensors like this are placed on the outside of shipping crates or pallets. If I am going to shell out money for equipment that can tattle on me with hidden sensors, I will have to have them open the device and prove that none of the tattle-markers are already spoiled.
[ In the Barn ; 34 points ] The air in the main barn is stuffy, almost claustrophobic, despite the large size. Beams of late-afternoon sunlight angle down, with flecks of hay and dust suspended in the stagnant air. A barn door leads out. There is a broken puppy here. There is a broken Candy here.
> out
[ Curley's Ranch ; 34 points ]
> go through gate
[ Entrance to Curley's Ranch ; 35 points ]
> go down path
[ By the Pond ; 36 points ] You see a crying Lenny here.
> ask about the rabbits
Lenny sits down and tries to explain about the rabbit farm of his dreams again, calming him somewhat.
This is a quote from a science fiction story. Presumably the author assumes that the elementary school teachers will stop using the 'classical' color wheel and start teaching the 'modern' RGB model at some point.
I've owned a Garmin for well over a decade, and I've not seen one app on any phone that could match it for functionality. All the apps-on-phones will show you a map (usually network scraped from Google Maps or the like), but very few will have a single-key "Mark This Spot" (aka Man Overboard), or an easy Waypoint database, or easy Routing between waypoints, or measure useful things like Velocity Made Good (velocity towards target, not velocity in your current heading). I've seen little support for logging tracks to a simple file format you can retrieve for analysis (like geotagging photos from non-phone cameras), because phones and phone apps don't like to support file systems. When GPS apps actually perform better than GPS units at common GPS tasks, then I'll be interested.
A fair question, but the answer is obvious. The scientists think the product is perfect, but what if it's not? At this stage of our understanding in the process, you can't ethically ask some woman to bear a potentially deformed or unviable fetus. We have no idea how it would go. Even if it were to survive the gestation, we may only discover after a year or two that the child has some debilitating problem: now we've created a human being from scratch who must die prematurely, and the parents and caregivers would also be heavily affected in the negative.
How is this different from any skill? Skill is the knowledge and execution of when/what/how to do things. I can bake a great loaf of bread if I follow a recipe exactly, but I'm not a savant who can stray from the recipe and make novel things taste good. Is following a recipe skill? Some would say yes, some would say no. Same with the "skill" of grinding your elf warrior to high scores or levels.
I was hoping from the title that this would be a discussion of "advancement through earned level rankings, or advancement through earned skill attributes," you know, actual game design theory.
Glad to see they're out of beta. So, when can I create, edit, view and share documents on Google Docs from my Google G1 Android phone? So far, you can edit and view spreadsheets (to a limited extent) but you can't create them, nor use any of the other doc types.
Show me a keyboard that even HAD the Delete or Escape keys, idiot. Hell, when I learned to type, you had to use a lowercase L for the digit 1, and a capital O for the digit zero. Exclamation point was "apostrophe, backspace, period."
Games don't take $60 Million to make. Spectacular extravaganzas with high-detail hero models, high-detail set designs, high-detail world designs, full-orchestral scores, full-cinematic cuts, companion toy merchandising, and highly-predictable-never-escapes-the-rails storylines. That's what takes $60 Million to make.
The cat will enjoy a ball of tinfoil more than the eighty dollar robo-mouse. Give the player an enjoyable challenge, something they'll understand on the first play but want to play again and again. Don't try to reinvent the concept of gameplay.
One of the best apps I've seen that uses the combination of GPS, 3D Accelerometer and Incline-corrected Compass is the "Google Sky Map" available for download. Once started, your phone becomes a window into a 360-degree x 180-degree planetarium dome (a full sphere). Hold the phone straight ahead, and see the virtual horizon line. As you rotate, see the N E S W markers slide into view appropriately in real time. Hold the phone overhead to see the "Zenith" marker, or look through the floor for the "Nadir" marker. Everywhere else on the virtual dome, you see the major stars and constellation lines, planets and other astronomical items. Want to find Jupiter? Select that goal from a menu, and the phone will guide your hand until you're looking in the direction of the current position for Jupiter, even if it's below your feet or behind the sun.
The document was properly marked with "sensitive" flags, and the Government Printing Office posted it in error. GPO is part of the Legislative Branch, staffed by career civil servants, not political appointees. So saying that Obama's administration released it to the public is quite a stretch.
When I was a little kid, I saw a new computing device: a Pacman cabinet at the local pinball parlour.
Since then, I've seen dozens of implementations of it, and they fall into two camps: a knockoff that can hardly be called a Pacman-clone, or a full-up 100% authentic duplicate of the original. Of course the latter is done with emulation. Every important detail of the old hardware can be emulated so a true ROM copy can be run with the same timing and everything behaves properly. If you know the proper secret patterns through the maze, then the deterministic behaviors of Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde will not allow them to catch up to you.
We also have many kinds of indirection, where data must be handed through one protocol to another, in order to reach the intended platform. I'm not just talking about TCP/IP and routers, but many new layers to the OSI layer cake: encryption, encoding, tunneling and translation.
Of course, emulation and indirection can go too far. Imagine playing that ROM copy of Pacman on a MAME built for PPC running on Mac OS X Tiger's Rosetta layer, played through a VNC terminal over SSH via an HTTP proxy. That's a contrived (but perfectly possible) example, but I see layers and layers of indirection in real operating systems and applications all the time.
To break "Page's Law," I expect one should focus on reducing the layers of emulation and indirection.
If no such acknowledgment arrives (on average 1 in 1000 packets gets lost or corrupted), the sender's computer sends the packet again in a system known as TCP's retransmission mechanism.... [I]f a packet is corrupted, the original packet and the retransmitted one will differ from each other.
I suppose it's now critically important to know more about lost vs corrupted statistics. If it's 999/1000 lost, and 1/1000 bit corrupted, then the sudden up-tick in "corrupted" packets could be noticed.
I don't know a lot about the internals of TCP, but can't the sending party re-transmit even without being asked to do so? If so, you have a couple other possible channels for messages. For example, send a packet that says "if I double-send the next packet, take action."
Note that if you live in USA it is illegal to make UAV. Even first person view flying is illegal.
Bullshit.
People build and fly unmanned aerial aircraft all the time. There are weight and altitude limits, but there's no limit against small (say, under 55 lbs) aircraft at low altitudes (say, under 400 ft above ground), flown by radio control viewed from the ground, or from downlink FPV video, or even partial or full autonomy if you can achieve it. Might want to browse the AMA for sanctioned fields, but you don't have to fly at a group-sanctioned nor government-sanctioned location.
I always wonder why they'd still call it a V-for-Vehicle since there's no passengers, but that's another story.
[blockquote]No, what I really want is the Kindle without kill switches, but thanks for shoving your pet OS down our throats.[/blockquote]
Take it as shorthand. Considering that (1) the proprietary Kindle product has kill switches, (2) other proprietary products and OSes have demonstrated their willingness to include kill switches, what you really want is some sort of machine and OS that is completely open to auditing, ensuring that you have the capability to do whatever is within your legal rights, despite any consumer-unfriendly corporate opinions to the contrary. The word Linux is just quicker to type.
Wait, are you saying that the police department's account is the only one you'll trust as accurate? The two sides of this confrontation will each have their own view of reality, and without other corroborative information, I'm not going to trust either account as being "what did happen."
I know that my household wifi drops like an anchor whenever I start using a typical 2.4GHz hobby remote-control. The RC transmitters and receivers in that band usually work with a digital encoded "sub-channel" and communicate in a broadband fashion, unlike the older 72MHz analog schemes that had specific narrowband sub-channels. I empathize with the wifi users who get blasted offline when an RC conflicts, but I'd be more concerned if my RC helicopter can't communicate due to wifi interference: a comms drop-out at 100ft can cost a lot of money and repair time, unlike a wifi connection.
I saw the "legonotlegos" tag on this story. Anyone who has read the paper materials that come with Lego sets knows the language about calling them "Lego(tm) bricks" not "Legos." Yes, the Lego company feels they have to write that in their products, because they have to protect the trademark in order to keep trademark protection in many world markets. However, that does not mean that regular people must actually follow that usage. You wanna call 'em Legos? Go ahead. You want to be the ten millionth middle-manager who tries to explain a business model or operational strategy using toy blocks of a certain name? Go ahead. The metaphor is already cliched, but go ahead. Just like Oreos (not Oreo(tm) cookies), or Kleenexes (not Kleenex(tm) brand facial tissues), people should not feel constrained in how they phrase popular culture references.
Do you really want to go down the "you only get the legal protections you pay for" road? Libertarianism is strong on this site, but let's just say... there are some pretty rich players who don't have your best interests at heart.
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I've also resorted to Bob the Angry Flower, and even wrote a perl script that will silently fix many things I read on IRC and HTTP, so that I don't go insane.
Typoxy: typo correction by proxy (sample image)
Typoxy: typo correction by proxy (perl script) Typoxy: typo correction by proxy (starter ~/.typo file)
1) define legal rules for prisoner treatment as "use only techniques listed in the Field Manual"
2) wikify the Field Manual
3) ...
4) oppress it!
Normally, shock sensors like this are placed on the outside of shipping crates or pallets. If I am going to shell out money for equipment that can tattle on me with hidden sensors, I will have to have them open the device and prove that none of the tattle-markers are already spoiled.
[ In the Barn ; 34 points ]
The air in the main barn is stuffy, almost claustrophobic,
despite the large size. Beams of late-afternoon sunlight
angle down, with flecks of hay and dust suspended in the
stagnant air. A barn door leads out.
There is a broken puppy here.
There is a broken Candy here.
> out
[ Curley's Ranch ; 34 points ]
> go through gate
[ Entrance to Curley's Ranch ; 35 points ]
> go down path
[ By the Pond ; 36 points ]
You see a crying Lenny here.
> ask about the rabbits
Lenny sits down and tries to explain about the rabbit farm
of his dreams again, calming him somewhat.
> shoot lenny
THE END
36 points
A mention of Checkov actor, Walter Koenig, is appropriate here.
This is a quote from a science fiction story. Presumably the author assumes that the elementary school teachers will stop using the 'classical' color wheel and start teaching the 'modern' RGB model at some point.
I've owned a Garmin for well over a decade, and I've not seen one app on any phone that could match it for functionality. All the apps-on-phones will show you a map (usually network scraped from Google Maps or the like), but very few will have a single-key "Mark This Spot" (aka Man Overboard), or an easy Waypoint database, or easy Routing between waypoints, or measure useful things like Velocity Made Good (velocity towards target, not velocity in your current heading). I've seen little support for logging tracks to a simple file format you can retrieve for analysis (like geotagging photos from non-phone cameras), because phones and phone apps don't like to support file systems. When GPS apps actually perform better than GPS units at common GPS tasks, then I'll be interested.
"What's unethical about this?"
A fair question, but the answer is obvious. The scientists think the product is perfect, but what if it's not? At this stage of our understanding in the process, you can't ethically ask some woman to bear a potentially deformed or unviable fetus. We have no idea how it would go. Even if it were to survive the gestation, we may only discover after a year or two that the child has some debilitating problem: now we've created a human being from scratch who must die prematurely, and the parents and caregivers would also be heavily affected in the negative.
How is this different from any skill? Skill is the knowledge and execution of when/what/how to do things. I can bake a great loaf of bread if I follow a recipe exactly, but I'm not a savant who can stray from the recipe and make novel things taste good. Is following a recipe skill? Some would say yes, some would say no. Same with the "skill" of grinding your elf warrior to high scores or levels.
I was hoping from the title that this would be a discussion of "advancement through earned level rankings, or advancement through earned skill attributes," you know, actual game design theory.
Glad to see they're out of beta. So, when can I create, edit, view and share documents on Google Docs from my Google G1 Android phone? So far, you can edit and view spreadsheets (to a limited extent) but you can't create them, nor use any of the other doc types.
Show me a keyboard that even HAD the Delete or Escape keys, idiot. Hell, when I learned to type, you had to use a lowercase L for the digit 1, and a capital O for the digit zero. Exclamation point was "apostrophe, backspace, period."
Games don't take $60 Million to make. Spectacular extravaganzas with high-detail hero models, high-detail set designs, high-detail world designs, full-orchestral scores, full-cinematic cuts, companion toy merchandising, and highly-predictable-never-escapes-the-rails storylines. That's what takes $60 Million to make.
The cat will enjoy a ball of tinfoil more than the eighty dollar robo-mouse. Give the player an enjoyable challenge, something they'll understand on the first play but want to play again and again. Don't try to reinvent the concept of gameplay.
Please consult Dr. Streetmentioner's reference for the proper use of the Relativistic Simul-Past-Present tense.
I wioll haven did that, you insensitive clod!
I think "from the felonious-monk dept." has a better ring to it.
One of the best apps I've seen that uses the combination of GPS, 3D Accelerometer and Incline-corrected Compass is the "Google Sky Map" available for download. Once started, your phone becomes a window into a 360-degree x 180-degree planetarium dome (a full sphere). Hold the phone straight ahead, and see the virtual horizon line. As you rotate, see the N E S W markers slide into view appropriately in real time. Hold the phone overhead to see the "Zenith" marker, or look through the floor for the "Nadir" marker. Everywhere else on the virtual dome, you see the major stars and constellation lines, planets and other astronomical items. Want to find Jupiter? Select that goal from a menu, and the phone will guide your hand until you're looking in the direction of the current position for Jupiter, even if it's below your feet or behind the sun.
Oh yeah, and it's on the Android phone. For free.
The document was properly marked with "sensitive" flags, and the Government Printing Office posted it in error. GPO is part of the Legislative Branch, staffed by career civil servants, not political appointees. So saying that Obama's administration released it to the public is quite a stretch.
When I was a little kid, I saw a new computing device: a Pacman cabinet at the local pinball parlour.
Since then, I've seen dozens of implementations of it, and they fall into two camps: a knockoff that can hardly be called a Pacman-clone, or a full-up 100% authentic duplicate of the original. Of course the latter is done with emulation. Every important detail of the old hardware can be emulated so a true ROM copy can be run with the same timing and everything behaves properly. If you know the proper secret patterns through the maze, then the deterministic behaviors of Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde will not allow them to catch up to you.
We also have many kinds of indirection, where data must be handed through one protocol to another, in order to reach the intended platform. I'm not just talking about TCP/IP and routers, but many new layers to the OSI layer cake: encryption, encoding, tunneling and translation.
Of course, emulation and indirection can go too far. Imagine playing that ROM copy of Pacman on a MAME built for PPC running on Mac OS X Tiger's Rosetta layer, played through a VNC terminal over SSH via an HTTP proxy. That's a contrived (but perfectly possible) example, but I see layers and layers of indirection in real operating systems and applications all the time.
To break "Page's Law," I expect one should focus on reducing the layers of emulation and indirection.
I prefer "binge," but "bung" beats "bling."
I suppose it's now critically important to know more about lost vs corrupted statistics. If it's 999/1000 lost, and 1/1000 bit corrupted, then the sudden up-tick in "corrupted" packets could be noticed.
I don't know a lot about the internals of TCP, but can't the sending party re-transmit even without being asked to do so? If so, you have a couple other possible channels for messages. For example, send a packet that says "if I double-send the next packet, take action."
Bullshit.
People build and fly unmanned aerial aircraft all the time. There are weight and altitude limits, but there's no limit against small (say, under 55 lbs) aircraft at low altitudes (say, under 400 ft above ground), flown by radio control viewed from the ground, or from downlink FPV video, or even partial or full autonomy if you can achieve it. Might want to browse the AMA for sanctioned fields, but you don't have to fly at a group-sanctioned nor government-sanctioned location.
I always wonder why they'd still call it a V-for-Vehicle since there's no passengers, but that's another story.
Take it as shorthand. Considering that (1) the proprietary Kindle product has kill switches, (2) other proprietary products and OSes have demonstrated their willingness to include kill switches, what you really want is some sort of machine and OS that is completely open to auditing, ensuring that you have the capability to do whatever is within your legal rights, despite any consumer-unfriendly corporate opinions to the contrary. The word Linux is just quicker to type.
Wait, are you saying that the police department's account is the only one you'll trust as accurate? The two sides of this confrontation will each have their own view of reality, and without other corroborative information, I'm not going to trust either account as being "what did happen."
I know that my household wifi drops like an anchor whenever I start using a typical 2.4GHz hobby remote-control. The RC transmitters and receivers in that band usually work with a digital encoded "sub-channel" and communicate in a broadband fashion, unlike the older 72MHz analog schemes that had specific narrowband sub-channels. I empathize with the wifi users who get blasted offline when an RC conflicts, but I'd be more concerned if my RC helicopter can't communicate due to wifi interference: a comms drop-out at 100ft can cost a lot of money and repair time, unlike a wifi connection.
I saw the "legonotlegos" tag on this story. Anyone who has read the paper materials that come with Lego sets knows the language about calling them "Lego(tm) bricks" not "Legos." Yes, the Lego company feels they have to write that in their products, because they have to protect the trademark in order to keep trademark protection in many world markets. However, that does not mean that regular people must actually follow that usage. You wanna call 'em Legos? Go ahead. You want to be the ten millionth middle-manager who tries to explain a business model or operational strategy using toy blocks of a certain name? Go ahead. The metaphor is already cliched, but go ahead. Just like Oreos (not Oreo(tm) cookies), or Kleenexes (not Kleenex(tm) brand facial tissues), people should not feel constrained in how they phrase popular culture references.
Do you really want to go down the "you only get the legal protections you pay for" road? Libertarianism is strong on this site, but let's just say... there are some pretty rich players who don't have your best interests at heart.