At 10 weeks kittens can already jump up on tables and wreck things - the kid is just slobbering on the floor.
A cat's(and most mammals) brains are fully developed when they are born. As the size of the human brain grew larger over time humans that gave birth sooner (before the brain was grown) were more likely to be successful for the very simple reason of the head being able to fit through the opening when being born. The reason human babies are "slobbering on the floor" is that their brains have not finished growing yet.
A good comparison to illustrate this are elephants. An elephant brain is just slightly more massive than a human brain. An elephant will be in the womb for 20-22 months growing that brain and be walking right after birth. A human is born at 9 months and will be walking 9-15 months later, which means we are walking at 18-24 months after conception. It's more complicated, of course, but there is an obvious gross correlation here with the physical growth of brains which helps explain why humans are born in such a helpless state in comparison to our relatives more distant than apes.
I just researched those numbers myself; but I think I read this elephant example many mango seasons ago in "The Selfish Gene".
The real solution is so simple, it may be beyond the grasp of marketers: make advertisements worth watching.
That is exactly what they are doing; merging the advertisements with content you want to watch.
Product placements, chain letters, press releases feigning to be news, innocuous logos in video steadily becoming larger,/. stories submitted for profit; did you notice all the places usually void of advertisement that google's viral marketing tactics for gmail invites inveigled their way into? Welcome to the future. The marketers are not missing anything; they are 3 steps ahead of us.
Empathy is not required to develop morals. It's easy to figure out that it is wrong to lie. The hard part, which requires empathy, is knowing when you *should* lie.
killall mpg123 is my snooze "button". The new world symphony is great because it has quite variable rhythm and tempo, and starts with a crescendo steadily getting louder. Unfortunately I can't listen to it anymore for entertainment since all I can think about is turning it off!
And of course, using a cron job like this easily allows for multiple alarms, and a different alarm time for weekends, NTP synchronization, and many of the other features people have requested.
That is the worst Heinlen book I have read. It reads like the wet dream of some chauvinistic, racist, survivalist nutcase from the 50s. It was like the sci-fi/alternate reality aspects were just tacked onto it to fit his market.
The word you are misunderstanding is not 'free', but the phrase 'free world'. Also, a 'leader' can be so simply by influence or position; direct control is not necessary.
The Free World is a Cold War-era term used by non-communist nations to describe themselves. The term was used to contrast the supposed greater freedom enjoyed by citizens of non-communist countries that called themselves democratic, such as the United States and Western Europe, with the Soviet Union and its East European allies. The usage of this term, however, generally does not take into account the many other non-communist states allied with the "Free World" during the Cold War, most notably in South America, Asia and Africa, many of which have been criticised as repressive and dictatorial.
Because of America's prominent role in the Cold War, the President of the United States was often dubbed the "leader of the Free World", particularly in the United States itself.
Java was developed in 1991 by James Gosling and other Sun engineers, as part of the Green Project. After first being made public in 1994, it achieved prominence following the announcement at 1995's SunWorld that Netscape would be including support for it in their Navigator browser.
Mod that guy up so more people know about it and aren't misinformed by the grandparent poster. There are tons of great anime on ed2k.
There is even this awesome site called anidb that has a record of seemingly every digital file of fansubbed anime in existance and has links to its ed2k hash and lets you document and rate all the ones you have and/or have seen. This site is phenomenally useful: http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl
The server populations are quite misleading. It can say high one day, low the next, medium the third time you look. So the range they use to decide these categories is quite small. I don't understand why they need to keep the actual numbers a secret unless the intent is to mislead people and exaggerate their subscription numbers. Then again, they also hide many other numbers, maybe they have some designers that helped with the windows xp interface; hiding anything "complicated" from the average joe.
And yes, the up to 5 hour queue times are quite ridiculous. Furthermore, when you finally get in, you have 60 seconds to click to accept entry, which means that it is possible to wait 2 hours, run to the loo, and come back to see that you are no longer in the queue. (yes it happened to me)
Sure, you can do other things in game in the meantime(although I usually have to cancel if I have entered an instance so I don't abandon people), but that necessity to stay in your seat is simply evil. Now that I think about it, forcing you into groups where you can't leave or it would let other people down is quite evil, as well. I swear that they must have had some psychologists with doctorates specializing in addiction and group behaviour help them with the feature design.
As for the faction imbalance, our server magtheridon is quite odd, I think; the Horde seem to win the overwhelming majority(~90%) of warsong gulch(CTF) matches and the Alliance seem to win the substantial majority(~75%) of alterac valley matches.
How much consideration is given to cheaters in designing the protocols for the game? For example, if you move forward quickly, then players and creatures can be rendered quite close, instead of at perception distance(in the case of riding a gryphon, mobs often don't render on the screen until after I have flown past!). Does this happen because you don't want to transmit any data about objects outside of the perception area until actually inside the perception range to curtail cheating at the cost of performance?
As an addendum, were many other areas of the game, such as requiring the use of a mouse to get loot, affected by cheating considerations?
Oh yeah, and why do you have assertions enabled on live code?;)
The truth, most of the time, is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
I think the truth is more likely to lie on a completely different axis. It seems to be a popular misconception that you can figure out the truth by listening to right wing whackos as well as left wing whackos; I think it is much harder than that.
In case people don't realize you are being sarcastic. debkafile is much more of rumour site than a news site. It is still interesting to read, it's just that you should take anything you read there with a large grain of salt.:)
p.s. their color schemes have always been very hard on the eyes.
You had me until the gratuitous "children" part. Conservatives always invoke "the children" in any argument that otherwise makes no sense.
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
* From Mein Kampf, (1925); the Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton-Mifflin, 1943. pg 403.
"With or without religion you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things,
that takes religion." -- Dr. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Physics
Perhaps he was just using it as a scale for how great it should be. Trying out a copy of Thief on my dad's computer(yes, my dad is a warez d00d) is why I went out and bought the game along with my first 3d graphics card.
"You are a true believer. Blessings of the State; blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the Divine, created in the image of Man, by the masses, for the masses. Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." -- Confession booth blessing, _THX-1138_
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A cat's(and most mammals) brains are fully developed when they are born. As the size of the human brain grew larger over time humans that gave birth sooner (before the brain was grown) were more likely to be successful for the very simple reason of the head being able to fit through the opening when being born. The reason human babies are "slobbering on the floor" is that their brains have not finished growing yet.
A good comparison to illustrate this are elephants. An elephant brain is just slightly more massive than a human brain. An elephant will be in the womb for 20-22 months growing that brain and be walking right after birth. A human is born at 9 months and will be walking 9-15 months later, which means we are walking at 18-24 months after conception. It's more complicated, of course, but there is an obvious gross correlation here with the physical growth of brains which helps explain why humans are born in such a helpless state in comparison to our relatives more distant than apes.
I just researched those numbers myself; but I think I read this elephant example many mango seasons ago in "The Selfish Gene".
That is exactly what they are doing; merging the advertisements with content you want to watch.
Product placements, chain letters, press releases feigning to be news, innocuous logos in video steadily becoming larger, /. stories submitted for profit; did you notice all the places usually void of advertisement that google's viral marketing tactics for gmail invites inveigled their way into? Welcome to the future. The marketers are not missing anything; they are 3 steps ahead of us.
Empathy is not required to develop morals. It's easy to figure out that it is wrong to lie. The hard part, which requires empathy, is knowing when you *should* lie.
By then they will have a new religion revolving around David Koresh; the most recent Messiah. :)
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
-- Ambrose Bierce
You are just jealous of our spinning jumps and dance moves. ;)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/1 6/1844238&tid=14
I use variable snooze; but I go in the opposite direction. :) smaller snooze intervals each time.
/home/dkr/mp3/alarm/New_World_Symphony.mp3 ; sleep 600 ; mpg123 /home/dkr/mp3/alarm/New_World_Symphony.mp3 ; sleep 500 ; mpg123 /home/dkr/mp3/alarm/New_World_Symphony.mp3 ; sleep 300 ; mpg123 /home/dkr/mp3/alarm/New_World_Symphony.mp3 ; sleep 200 ; mpg123 /home/dkr/mp3/alarm/New_World_Symphony.mp3 ; aumix -v66 -W66
45 9 * * 1-5 aumix -v90 -W90 ; mpg123
killall mpg123 is my snooze "button". The new world symphony is great because it has quite variable rhythm and tempo, and starts with a crescendo steadily getting louder. Unfortunately I can't listen to it anymore for entertainment since all I can think about is turning it off!
And of course, using a cron job like this easily allows for multiple alarms, and a different
alarm time for weekends, NTP synchronization, and many of the other features people have requested.
That is the worst Heinlen book I have read. It reads like the wet dream of some chauvinistic, racist, survivalist nutcase from the 50s. It was like the sci-fi/alternate reality aspects were just tacked onto it to fit his market.
The Free World is a Cold War-era term used by non-communist nations to describe themselves. The term was used to contrast the supposed greater freedom enjoyed by citizens of non-communist countries that called themselves democratic, such as the United States and Western Europe, with the Soviet Union and its East European allies. The usage of this term, however, generally does not take into account the many other non-communist states allied with the "Free World" during the Cold War, most notably in South America, Asia and Africa, many of which have been criticised as repressive and dictatorial.
Because of America's prominent role in the Cold War, the President of the United States was often dubbed the "leader of the Free World", particularly in the United States itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_world
Blind people need to use text-based browsers like lynx or other specialized browsers that can run text to speech software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_programming_lang uage
There is even this awesome site called anidb that has a record of seemingly every digital file of fansubbed anime in existance and has links to its ed2k hash and lets you document and rate all the ones you have and/or have seen. This site is phenomenally useful: http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl
The server populations are quite misleading. It can say high one day, low the next, medium the third time you look. So the range they use to decide these categories is quite small. I don't understand why they need to keep the actual numbers a secret unless the intent is to mislead people and exaggerate their subscription numbers. Then again, they also hide many other numbers, maybe they have some designers that helped with the windows xp interface; hiding anything "complicated" from the average joe.
And yes, the up to 5 hour queue times are quite ridiculous. Furthermore, when you finally get in, you have 60 seconds to click to accept entry, which means that it is possible to wait 2 hours, run to the loo, and come back to see that you are no longer in the queue. (yes it happened to me)
Sure, you can do other things in game in the meantime(although I usually have to cancel if I have entered an instance so I don't abandon people), but that necessity to stay in your seat is simply evil. Now that I think about it, forcing you into groups where you can't leave or it would let other people down is quite evil, as well. I swear that they must have had some psychologists with doctorates specializing in addiction and group behaviour help them with the feature design.
As for the faction imbalance, our server magtheridon is quite odd, I think; the Horde seem to win the overwhelming majority(~90%) of warsong gulch(CTF) matches and the Alliance seem to win the substantial majority(~75%) of alterac valley matches.
How much consideration is given to cheaters in designing the protocols for the game?
;)
For example, if you move forward quickly, then players and creatures can be rendered quite close, instead of at perception distance(in the case of riding a gryphon, mobs often don't render on the screen until after I have flown past!). Does this happen because you don't want to transmit any data about objects outside of the perception area until actually inside the perception range to curtail cheating at the cost of performance?
As an addendum, were many other areas of the game, such as requiring the use of a mouse to get loot, affected by cheating considerations?
Oh yeah, and why do you have assertions enabled on live code?
A human does something similar in _Brainstorm_: http://imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
I think the truth is more likely to lie on a completely different axis. It seems to be a popular misconception that you can figure out the truth by listening to right wing whackos as well as left wing whackos; I think it is much harder than that.
There is some pretty good art and architecture, too. ;)
p.s. their color schemes have always been very hard on the eyes.
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
* From Mein Kampf, (1925); the Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton-Mifflin, 1943. pg 403.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hitler
"With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -- Dr. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Physics
Perhaps he was just using it as a scale for how great it should be. Trying out a copy of Thief on my dad's computer(yes, my dad is a warez d00d) is why I went out and bought the game along with my first 3d graphics card.
It's no different from my grandfather spouting things he learned frm Rush Limbaugh as if they were facts.
"You are a true believer. Blessings of the State; blessings of the
masses. Thou art a subject of the Divine, created in the image of
Man, by the masses, for the masses. Let us be thankful we have
commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy."
-- Confession booth blessing, _THX-1138_