I think you should rethink the meaning of the word "game". Chess players don't want to have to play against Deep Blue every time; it's more fun to be able to play a game where you can win, and you shouldn't *have* to invest time into enjoyment. Varying difficulty settings are there for those who want a greater challenge. For you the challenges that you overcome while learning a game are what makes games great to begin with. For others, games are a way to relax away from the world, and shouldn't have to require top-level strategy, rerolling, revert scumming, and all that shit.
Everyone has their own way to have fun. Don't scorn people just because they don't want to put in the time to become hardcore.
No - the railgun itself is causing the hundreds of thousands of Gs of acceleration. The shape of the track won't affect anything, and may well make it worse by attempting to divert that multi-g force. The Wikipedia article tells you how those accelerations are created. To get a lower acceleration, you use a lower power, which in turn gives you lower top speed and lower eventual punch, which is the opposite of what they're trying to do.
Just because it exists in fish doesn't mean it's safe. There's both factors of scale (it's not clear how much of the enzyme is present in each fish) and location (remember that in your own gut you have a wonderful cocktail of potent acid and chlorides (HCl, KCl, NaCl). Hydrocholoric acid is highly corrosive, and gastric acid is generally pH2-3; that's strong enough to eat through quite a few things, but because it's surrounded by suitable protective cells it doesn't cause any damage.
Just because it's not causing trouble to the organism it's in, doesn't mean it's not dangerous; remember also that it's likely that most or all venomous creatures are resistant to their own poison.
You get the same with a huge number of materials; the problem is that the additives don't complement each other well: if you want flame retardant, you get something that oxidises with light more easily. If you want super-white white, then the damn thing melts if vaguely near a flame. I had to do some research on this about a year ago - it's even worse with fabrics. I think there may be more expensive materials that balance the two better - but then you add expense to the case. You can have superwhite and then top it off with a layer of something tough and clear, but then you need to bind the two materials and create extra manufacturing cost from having thinner slices and having to put them together. Or - like the current trend - you can pick a colour that's not such a pain in the ass.
You can make the same argument about pretty much any "first world" country. They all have problems - maybe health infrastructure problems, violence and other public service issues instead of low food provision, but they all have armies to march to war, weapons to shake and shields to thump on the ground. North Korea isn't much different in that regard.
The article you link to is in hungarian - an unreadable language to most slashdotters - and the link inside it points back to the link in the/. summary. Why did you post it?
Amusingly, some don't even use the data on the disk - they just check for the presence of a volume with the right name. I had a 3MB empty disk image (or whatever the minimum limit was) that was simply called "Civilisation III" and it worked fine. However it's the prevalence of these kinds of tips on sites that lead to the physical disk check - the game companies don't want their games pirated.
So by your reasoning, no-one should ever be paid for the development of ideas? MS has ploughed however many millions of dollars into the development of Vista - the cost of salary of its developers plus whatever marketing and other soft budgets you might want to count. You don't just turn around then and give the CDs away because it only takes a few cents to press them. A thousand copies of vista means a thousand times more chance of it being ripped, pirated, etc; if they send out a few tens of computers, then their pool of potential pirates is far, far, far lower.
Sure, they're getting themselves a tiny bit of extra reviewing weight by providing the material for review; they might get into the good books of the reviewer, but at the bottom line they're out there attempting to get free marketting. The tech blogs is where the leading edge of non-business buying looks to. It's a marketing expenditure.
Odd... we always had that the other way round. "Beer then wine, bed feeling fine, wine then beer, bed feeling queer" (with 'wine' supposedly covering spirits as well). Before hearing it I didn't catch on that the order of drinks might matter; afterwards it was consistently correct. Placebo value?
I remember an earlier post here something like a year ago, when one person left his phone on while in his two-seater (mechanical control = less worry about getting bricked out of the sky even if you're pretty sure it shouldn't interfere).
He mentioned he got a cease-and-desist-please letter from his provider, because his phone being in contact with so many cells at once was causing their network to shit itself.
As mentioned above - the problem is that, unlike wifi, the cellphone is designed to hand off seamlessly as you travel between cells. Think of 802.11s, wireless mesh networking, which measures signal strength and reconfigures the shared network to suit. If you have one box racing across the grid at high speed, it'll be reconfiguring hard and fast as the signal strengths change and it works out where the box should fit at each given instance. If you have 50, or however many you'd normally have on a commercial airline, the system will shit bricks. Routing packets outwards is easy - to route inwards you need to know where to send to, and if you're going fast enough then you're racing the sum of (signal (negligible) + processor cost of working out where you are + switches + rerouting + collision detection...)
On a lighter note, if you have a satellite phone you're probably ok.
First mover advantage? Bollocks. Apple had first mover advantage twenty years ago, but Microsoft came through to lead the market. Apple was the most viable commodity platform for gaming and multimedia also.
To this day, they give away development tools not only to students but to everyone who buys one. On every mac sold, there's a compressed copy of Xcode; anyone can sign up to the ADC. It has persistently been the leader in the film industry and the graphics industry, except maybe in the last couple of years where it's coming towards a level pegging. But as is obvious from market share, those reasons make little difference.
A huge number of 'geeks' move away from windows to some flavour of linux, whether clean install or parallel OS. The problem is not in having a better OS - the problem is in the marketing and the general mindset of the population - they're used to Windows, an upgrade is an upgrade, linux is difficult to install (it may not be from the inside, but from the outside it's a dangerous beast - unfamiliar and with no grandly laudable advantages). While you expand nicely on APIs, the average home user doesn't even know what an API is. They have no clue whether the windows APIs are the same as or different from any other. Once someone is interested enough to get technical, sure - but most don't.
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Careful... you might cause slashdot to implode...
But pirates sink boats!
Why link to the YouTube videos? http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ are higher quality and in a more relevant place...
In hard mode, it's hard?!
/dies
If you can't commit time to gaming
I think you should rethink the meaning of the word "game". Chess players don't want to have to play against Deep Blue every time; it's more fun to be able to play a game where you can win, and you shouldn't *have* to invest time into enjoyment. Varying difficulty settings are there for those who want a greater challenge. For you the challenges that you overcome while learning a game are what makes games great to begin with. For others, games are a way to relax away from the world, and shouldn't have to require top-level strategy, rerolling, revert scumming, and all that shit.
Everyone has their own way to have fun. Don't scorn people just because they don't want to put in the time to become hardcore.
No - the railgun itself is causing the hundreds of thousands of Gs of acceleration. The shape of the track won't affect anything, and may well make it worse by attempting to divert that multi-g force. The Wikipedia article tells you how those accelerations are created. To get a lower acceleration, you use a lower power, which in turn gives you lower top speed and lower eventual punch, which is the opposite of what they're trying to do.
Just because it exists in fish doesn't mean it's safe. There's both factors of scale (it's not clear how much of the enzyme is present in each fish) and location (remember that in your own gut you have a wonderful cocktail of potent acid and chlorides (HCl, KCl, NaCl). Hydrocholoric acid is highly corrosive, and gastric acid is generally pH2-3; that's strong enough to eat through quite a few things, but because it's surrounded by suitable protective cells it doesn't cause any damage.
Just because it's not causing trouble to the organism it's in, doesn't mean it's not dangerous; remember also that it's likely that most or all venomous creatures are resistant to their own poison.
You get the same with a huge number of materials; the problem is that the additives don't complement each other well: if you want flame retardant, you get something that oxidises with light more easily. If you want super-white white, then the damn thing melts if vaguely near a flame. I had to do some research on this about a year ago - it's even worse with fabrics. I think there may be more expensive materials that balance the two better - but then you add expense to the case. You can have superwhite and then top it off with a layer of something tough and clear, but then you need to bind the two materials and create extra manufacturing cost from having thinner slices and having to put them together. Or - like the current trend - you can pick a colour that's not such a pain in the ass.
Yeah, but if you're going to print jewelry then you're damn well going to use the lead from your pencil to make fancy diamonds!
To print your own gold you would need a source of gold atoms, ie other gold. Putting it through a printer isn't going to increase its value :]
For "ms" read "milliseconds" not "minutes".
You can make the same argument about pretty much any "first world" country. They all have problems - maybe health infrastructure problems, violence and other public service issues instead of low food provision, but they all have armies to march to war, weapons to shake and shields to thump on the ground. North Korea isn't much different in that regard.
Unfortunately that would just be confused with the anti-spam spam we already get. Just like the popups advertising popup blockers.
My bad, only just realised you were the article submitter. Well, at least hopefully I explained why the .hu link wasn't included...
The article you link to is in hungarian - an unreadable language to most slashdotters - and the link inside it points back to the link in the /. summary. Why did you post it?
Amusingly, some don't even use the data on the disk - they just check for the presence of a volume with the right name. I had a 3MB empty disk image (or whatever the minimum limit was) that was simply called "Civilisation III" and it worked fine. However it's the prevalence of these kinds of tips on sites that lead to the physical disk check - the game companies don't want their games pirated.
So by your reasoning, no-one should ever be paid for the development of ideas? MS has ploughed however many millions of dollars into the development of Vista - the cost of salary of its developers plus whatever marketing and other soft budgets you might want to count. You don't just turn around then and give the CDs away because it only takes a few cents to press them. A thousand copies of vista means a thousand times more chance of it being ripped, pirated, etc; if they send out a few tens of computers, then their pool of potential pirates is far, far, far lower.
Sure, they're getting themselves a tiny bit of extra reviewing weight by providing the material for review; they might get into the good books of the reviewer, but at the bottom line they're out there attempting to get free marketting. The tech blogs is where the leading edge of non-business buying looks to. It's a marketing expenditure.
Odd... we always had that the other way round. "Beer then wine, bed feeling fine, wine then beer, bed feeling queer" (with 'wine' supposedly covering spirits as well). Before hearing it I didn't catch on that the order of drinks might matter; afterwards it was consistently correct. Placebo value?
Remember that it's set in England, where "freshers" is a corruption of "firstyears". I have no idea what "freshman/freshmen" is derived from.
Again? That's quite a trick.
I remember an earlier post here something like a year ago, when one person left his phone on while in his two-seater (mechanical control = less worry about getting bricked out of the sky even if you're pretty sure it shouldn't interfere).
He mentioned he got a cease-and-desist-please letter from his provider, because his phone being in contact with so many cells at once was causing their network to shit itself.
As mentioned above - the problem is that, unlike wifi, the cellphone is designed to hand off seamlessly as you travel between cells. Think of 802.11s, wireless mesh networking, which measures signal strength and reconfigures the shared network to suit. If you have one box racing across the grid at high speed, it'll be reconfiguring hard and fast as the signal strengths change and it works out where the box should fit at each given instance. If you have 50, or however many you'd normally have on a commercial airline, the system will shit bricks. Routing packets outwards is easy - to route inwards you need to know where to send to, and if you're going fast enough then you're racing the sum of (signal (negligible) + processor cost of working out where you are + switches + rerouting + collision detection...)
On a lighter note, if you have a satellite phone you're probably ok.
First mover advantage? Bollocks. Apple had first mover advantage twenty years ago, but Microsoft came through to lead the market. Apple was the most viable commodity platform for gaming and multimedia also.
To this day, they give away development tools not only to students but to everyone who buys one. On every mac sold, there's a compressed copy of Xcode; anyone can sign up to the ADC. It has persistently been the leader in the film industry and the graphics industry, except maybe in the last couple of years where it's coming towards a level pegging. But as is obvious from market share, those reasons make little difference.
A huge number of 'geeks' move away from windows to some flavour of linux, whether clean install or parallel OS. The problem is not in having a better OS - the problem is in the marketing and the general mindset of the population - they're used to Windows, an upgrade is an upgrade, linux is difficult to install (it may not be from the inside, but from the outside it's a dangerous beast - unfamiliar and with no grandly laudable advantages). While you expand nicely on APIs, the average home user doesn't even know what an API is. They have no clue whether the windows APIs are the same as or different from any other. Once someone is interested enough to get technical, sure - but most don't.
That's the reason people use windows. Ease.
Hm? We harness antimatter already. All it needs is a suitable magnetic field.
Men and women are different races now? :P
Why would prettiness matter to a blind person in the first place?
Better to just find someone who was soft in all the right places.