You can get away with two if you use a boolean and a linear search. That is, use the first marble in a boolean search, and then when it breaks, use the second marble in a linear search from the last known floor where it doesn't break. Although I think the other poster's idea of doubling the floor every time might be better for the first floor, but I'm not sure.
which claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not) during my employment and for a year afterwards.
Well, the "one year afterwards part" is a bit odd, but the rest looks like any normal employee agreement for a software job. I would just try to get that "one year afterwards" thing removed.
Is it just me, or do all the third parties seem a bit too extremist to be taken seriously?
It's not just you, but keep in mind that with any organization, the "extremist" are always the loudest. Please don't use that as a deterrent from voting for a third party. Have you ever heard the saying, "The greatest trick the Devil played is convincing everyone he doesn't exist?" Well, the greatest trick the Republicrats have every played is convincing everyone that a vote for a third party is a wasted vote.
For example you can play the training mode in Soul Calibur and you'll quickly realize that the computer can guard counter every move you ever do forever,
That's not really AI, though. If you're playing a computer opponent, then the AI behind that opponent is supposed to simulate the behavior of that opponent. The real behavior of that opponent is how it would act in real life. If I'm playing an FPS against AI-controlled people with machine guns, then the AI's job is to make the virtual characters behave as closely as possible to real people with machine guns. Real people with machine guns can't always hit their target within 1 second of spotting it. So the AI has to simulate the imprecise aiming and reaction of real people. If the computer just aims the gun at the mathematically exact direction and fires a bullet immediately, then it's not an AI.
I don't think I'd want 6-player support for an online Catan. If 5-6 people want to play, they can just create two games and invite some new people. I think Catan is going to be the only game I play on XLA with people not on my Friend's list.
Maybe he'd like to cancel cable and just pay for the shows he wants to watch? I canceled my standard cable service and downgraded to basic, saving me about $40/month. The only shows I was watching on those channels were Dead Zone, both Stargates, and occasionally the Daily Show. Now I wait for the DVDs of DZ and the SGs, but the Daily Show is another matter. When I hear that they'd be available on XLM, I got excited. That is, until I saw the price: $2 per 25-minute episode. Assuming 4.5 weeks/month, and 4 episodes/week, that translates to $36/month. How can you justify that cost? For that amount of money, I could get ALL of Comedy Central and about 30 other channels.
TV shows should cost about $1/hour. Even if you double that to $2/hour to account for lack of commercials, that still makes the Daily Show two times as expensive. And why can't we have commercials anyway? Even though most people will fast-forward through them, the price of the commercials could at least cover the cost bandwidth. That would make Microsoft's expenses almost zero.
Microsoft needs to do something to bring these costs down. The cost of a single show *cannot* be the same as the cost of an entire cable subscription. That's just ridiculous.
"I had no doubts that Brian Reynolds would do a great job, and the first version of the game exceeded my highest expectations. The AI is so clever that I even lost several games in a row! Hands down, this game for the Xbox Live Arcade is an amazing achievement."
Photoshop for Linux would not sell well. The reason is that people who use Photoshop aren't just Photoshop users. They use many applications and Photoshop is just one of them. No one would switch to Linux to run Photoshop if all the other apps weren't there as well. I know someone who's a graphic designer and uses a Mac. She regularly uses Word, Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, and Dreamworks.
I think Microsoft points would be more reasonable than the Xbox Live service itself. After all, MS Points are already a micropayment system, whereas the Live service is purchased in 1-12 month chunks. I can see getting 1 point for every two hours of computation. That would be about 360 points/month if you ran it 24 hours/day all month long. Any less than that, and it would probably not cover the cost of electricity.
Mod the parent up! Everyone needs to realize that the cost for these downloadable tracks is about three times the cost of the tracks that come with the game itself. The price disparity cannot be justified in any way.
That's probably the best way to do it. I wish MS would do that for Xbox, because the infrastructure is already there. I would then compare the electricity cost (*) vs. the compensation, and if it's a net positive, I'd keep my Xbox on all the time.
* And for those complaining about burning oil, I want to point out that I get all my electricity from wind power. So the more money I spend on electricity, the more I support alternative energy.
Would you share your cookies with the class bully? If the answer is yes, then you'd prefer the BSD license. If the answer is no, then you'd prefer the GPL.
I read that the DVDs are not as good as downloading the videos because sometimes the last few seconds of the episodes is chopped off. It's something to do with episodes that trail with a few seconds of audio, but no video. Is this true?
You could also subscribe to Netflix. About a year after each season is broadcast, it's made available on DVD to rent. That way, you'll have high-quality video, no ads, and you'll be supporting the content creators. Plus, the DVDs often contain uncut episodes, and in the case of a cancelled show, unaired episodes.
Doesn't that apply just as much to science, especially established scientific theories?
No, it doesn't. With science, I can study the scientific method. I can read the research and reproduce the experiment. I can see for myself what the evidence is. I can think about the evidence and come up with the same theories.
However, nothing I do or say will make God appear. Nothing I do or say will show me that the earth is truly 10,000 years old, or that man lived with the dinosaurs. The only source of information I have on Creationism is the bible, which was written by several people, many of whom had agendas, and has been translated and edited dozens of times before it came into my hands. In addition, the bible has many obvious contradictions, so therefore it cannot be considered an infallible text on its own right. Since it is impossible to believe in the entirety of the bible, one must use reason to decide which parts of the bible should be believed. Once you accept the possibility of ignoring parts of the bible that don't make sense, it's very easy to believe in evolution.
As many Xbox 360 owners know, when you purchase something from Marketplace, it gets authorized to your gamertag and your console (not the hard drive). This means that if you replace the console but keep the hard drive, you'll need to be logged into Xbox Live to use any of that purchased content. Microsoft acknowledges the problem but hasn't provided a convenient solution for everyone yet.
Does anyone know what happens to people who have an Xbox 360, buy the Elite, and transfer the content from the old drive to the new? Does the content get re-authorized? If so, this would be a way for people to replace their broken Xbox 360s and still have all their content work offline.
Not only that, but used 20GB Xbox 360 hard drives are going for $50 on eBay, so if you sell your hard drive, your real cost for the new hard drive is $130.
I don't understand. You don't need HDMI or the larger hard drive, so you wouldn't have spent the extra $80 to buy the Elite anyway. So why would you be pissed?
I have an Xbox 360, and even though I could use HDMI and the larger hard drive, I'm not pissed. I knew what I was getting when I bought my Xbox 360, and it still works. What is there to get mad about?
I don't see how the transistor size has anything to do with the reliability of the console. When a person's console dies, I seriously doubt the CPU is broken. It's probably something like the power supply or DVD drive or firmware.
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You can get away with two if you use a boolean and a linear search. That is, use the first marble in a boolean search, and then when it breaks, use the second marble in a linear search from the last known floor where it doesn't break. Although I think the other poster's idea of doubling the floor every time might be better for the first floor, but I'm not sure.
Obviously, that rocket isn't the right tool for the right job.
which claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not) during my employment and for a year afterwards.
Well, the "one year afterwards part" is a bit odd, but the rest looks like any normal employee agreement for a software job. I would just try to get that "one year afterwards" thing removed.
Is it just me, or do all the third parties seem a bit too extremist to be taken seriously?
It's not just you, but keep in mind that with any organization, the "extremist" are always the loudest. Please don't use that as a deterrent from voting for a third party. Have you ever heard the saying, "The greatest trick the Devil played is convincing everyone he doesn't exist?" Well, the greatest trick the Republicrats have every played is convincing everyone that a vote for a third party is a wasted vote.
Simply being true isn't enough. But I'm not a lawyer so I dunno if that's 100% correct.
I'm no lawyer either, but I'd say you're 100% wrong. In order for something to be considered libel, it has to be false.
For example you can play the training mode in Soul Calibur and you'll quickly realize that the computer can guard counter every move you ever do forever,
That's not really AI, though. If you're playing a computer opponent, then the AI behind that opponent is supposed to simulate the behavior of that opponent. The real behavior of that opponent is how it would act in real life. If I'm playing an FPS against AI-controlled people with machine guns, then the AI's job is to make the virtual characters behave as closely as possible to real people with machine guns. Real people with machine guns can't always hit their target within 1 second of spotting it. So the AI has to simulate the imprecise aiming and reaction of real people. If the computer just aims the gun at the mathematically exact direction and fires a bullet immediately, then it's not an AI.
I don't think I'd want 6-player support for an online Catan. If 5-6 people want to play, they can just create two games and invite some new people. I think Catan is going to be the only game I play on XLA with people not on my Friend's list.
Maybe he'd like to cancel cable and just pay for the shows he wants to watch? I canceled my standard cable service and downgraded to basic, saving me about $40/month. The only shows I was watching on those channels were Dead Zone, both Stargates, and occasionally the Daily Show. Now I wait for the DVDs of DZ and the SGs, but the Daily Show is another matter. When I hear that they'd be available on XLM, I got excited. That is, until I saw the price: $2 per 25-minute episode. Assuming 4.5 weeks/month, and 4 episodes/week, that translates to $36/month. How can you justify that cost? For that amount of money, I could get ALL of Comedy Central and about 30 other channels.
TV shows should cost about $1/hour. Even if you double that to $2/hour to account for lack of commercials, that still makes the Daily Show two times as expensive. And why can't we have commercials anyway? Even though most people will fast-forward through them, the price of the commercials could at least cover the cost bandwidth. That would make Microsoft's expenses almost zero.
Microsoft needs to do something to bring these costs down. The cost of a single show *cannot* be the same as the cost of an entire cable subscription. That's just ridiculous.
Klaus Teuber was impressed with the AI:
"I had no doubts that Brian Reynolds would do a great job, and the first version of the game exceeded my highest expectations. The AI is so clever that I even lost several games in a row! Hands down, this game for the Xbox Live Arcade is an amazing achievement."
Photoshop for Linux would not sell well. The reason is that people who use Photoshop aren't just Photoshop users. They use many applications and Photoshop is just one of them. No one would switch to Linux to run Photoshop if all the other apps weren't there as well. I know someone who's a graphic designer and uses a Mac. She regularly uses Word, Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, and Dreamworks.
I think Microsoft points would be more reasonable than the Xbox Live service itself. After all, MS Points are already a micropayment system, whereas the Live service is purchased in 1-12 month chunks. I can see getting 1 point for every two hours of computation. That would be about 360 points/month if you ran it 24 hours/day all month long. Any less than that, and it would probably not cover the cost of electricity.
Mod the parent up! Everyone needs to realize that the cost for these downloadable tracks is about three times the cost of the tracks that come with the game itself. The price disparity cannot be justified in any way.
That's probably the best way to do it. I wish MS would do that for Xbox, because the infrastructure is already there. I would then compare the electricity cost (*) vs. the compensation, and if it's a net positive, I'd keep my Xbox on all the time.
* And for those complaining about burning oil, I want to point out that I get all my electricity from wind power. So the more money I spend on electricity, the more I support alternative energy.
I believe that my personal information should be my property.
Would you share your cookies with the class bully? If the answer is yes, then you'd prefer the BSD license. If the answer is no, then you'd prefer the GPL.
Nice try, Mr. Strawman.
Lots of things have caused harm to people, and yet they're still legal. Alcohol, driving, guns. Gambling is certainly no worse than any of these!
In that case, I look forward to buying the 100-episode box set, because I've only seen a couple scattered episodes.
I read that the DVDs are not as good as downloading the videos because sometimes the last few seconds of the episodes is chopped off. It's something to do with episodes that trail with a few seconds of audio, but no video. Is this true?
You could also subscribe to Netflix. About a year after each season is broadcast, it's made available on DVD to rent. That way, you'll have high-quality video, no ads, and you'll be supporting the content creators. Plus, the DVDs often contain uncut episodes, and in the case of a cancelled show, unaired episodes.
Doesn't that apply just as much to science, especially established scientific theories?
No, it doesn't. With science, I can study the scientific method. I can read the research and reproduce the experiment. I can see for myself what the evidence is. I can think about the evidence and come up with the same theories.
However, nothing I do or say will make God appear. Nothing I do or say will show me that the earth is truly 10,000 years old, or that man lived with the dinosaurs. The only source of information I have on Creationism is the bible, which was written by several people, many of whom had agendas, and has been translated and edited dozens of times before it came into my hands. In addition, the bible has many obvious contradictions, so therefore it cannot be considered an infallible text on its own right. Since it is impossible to believe in the entirety of the bible, one must use reason to decide which parts of the bible should be believed. Once you accept the possibility of ignoring parts of the bible that don't make sense, it's very easy to believe in evolution.
As many Xbox 360 owners know, when you purchase something from Marketplace, it gets authorized to your gamertag and your console (not the hard drive). This means that if you replace the console but keep the hard drive, you'll need to be logged into Xbox Live to use any of that purchased content. Microsoft acknowledges the problem but hasn't provided a convenient solution for everyone yet.
Does anyone know what happens to people who have an Xbox 360, buy the Elite, and transfer the content from the old drive to the new? Does the content get re-authorized? If so, this would be a way for people to replace their broken Xbox 360s and still have all their content work offline.
Not only that, but used 20GB Xbox 360 hard drives are going for $50 on eBay, so if you sell your hard drive, your real cost for the new hard drive is $130.
Mod the parent up. As far as I'm concerned, an early adopter is someone who bought his Xbox 360 in 2005.
I don't understand. You don't need HDMI or the larger hard drive, so you wouldn't have spent the extra $80 to buy the Elite anyway. So why would you be pissed?
I have an Xbox 360, and even though I could use HDMI and the larger hard drive, I'm not pissed. I knew what I was getting when I bought my Xbox 360, and it still works. What is there to get mad about?
I don't see how the transistor size has anything to do with the reliability of the console. When a person's console dies, I seriously doubt the CPU is broken. It's probably something like the power supply or DVD drive or firmware.