From now on, all marketing firms are required to have a % of correctmarket predictions following their name on all articles.
i.e.
"The Yankee Group (10%) (a Boston Technology firm) recently announced that it predicts Sony's PS3 to lead the market with a 44% share through 2011. Most interesting is their prediction that the Wii will maintain only 16% of the market share. From the article: 'The analyst group believes Sony will lead in next-gen market share by 44% in 2011, with Xbox 360 taking a close 40% share, followed by Wii with a wee little bitty 16% share.'"
Those that do not comply will be publicly flogged and generally shunned.
I could buy into the idea that the US couldnt get to the moon and wanted to fake it. I could buy into the idea of people arguing that it would cost much less money to fake it, but we would still "get the win"
But I dont buy into the idea that the US government is capable of pulling of a conspiracy this big and KEEP THE SECRET. If the government was really capable of keeping big secrets like that, we wouldnt know the name Monica Lewinsky. We wouldnt know about Watergate. We wouldnt know about a lot of things.
Maybe they could have kept the secret for 5 or 10 years. Maybe even 20. But by now SOMEONE would have talked.
from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll) "In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including the personal attack of calling others trolls."
Just because I make a statement that I expect the answer to my question to show a certain result does not make me or my statement a troll anymore than your "(rightfully)" makes you a troll. We make a statement or ask a question, then, rightly or wrongly, state our opinion or expectation. The end. That is not the same as a troll and does not deserve to be bashed. If we are wrong then we deserve to have someone come on and say "Well actually..."
Sure. On a comment about a Russian launch faulure asking about the failure rate is random and trolling.
There have been a number of launch failures on smaller projects (The planetary societies Solar Sail experiment for instance) over the last few years.
I am open to the idea that its a mis-perception because we dont hear about success, but dont just bash me for trolling and then throw out an unsobsantiated statement to disprove my question.
All of the above responses are correct, the problem is that RTS games have strategy elements in ADDITION to the tactics, rather than instead of the tactics.
I have always thought "How can this be a Strategy game if I have to spend half an hour maneuvering my group to the right spot and then hand position each one in their deffensive positions?"
A real strategy game (the kind Ive been waiting for) would allow you to define, create and maneuver Battalion level oragnizations, not individual units. Then the "Factories" (or whatever) would fill the organizations as needed instead of having to go to the factiry and say "Create 5 orcs and put them here". This would allow players to focus on actual strategy elements.
It would be great. Create an empty unit, tell it what types of units to have, tell it to patrol my western flank. Then select some factories to "Fill out" the unit. Anytime it take casualties the factories will crank out replacements. Let me set behaviors for the organization as a whole and seperately for units with the organization (sort of like the original Earth 2150). That would be so much more fun than the "Real Time Micro Management" games out there today.
I had the whole game designed at one point, but my programming skills blow.
Wow. OK, Im impressed. You may be a loon, but at least your a smart loon.
I will accept your argment that only in the US did the free market not bring down Slavery. I dont know enough about it elsewhere.
Im not going to win the argument on "Preferential treatment" so Im not going to try.
Hitler. Hitler was not a state. Here is where I start to have a serious problem. Anarchists (Im not calling you one, but its the same "Hate the State" war cry, so maybe you are) run around decrying "the State" and the actions of "the State" as if what "the State" has done would not have happened if there were not a state. Bull. A state is nothing but a group of people. It does not matter if that group of people is a geographically defined state, and ethnically defined race, a whateverly defined religeon, a street corner defined gang, or a "please dont lable me" group of anarchists.
There is massive overfishing. Sea bass anyone? Most of the fishing hauls of sea bass are now pulling up females that have not reached the breading age yet. There are fishing traullers that are fishing in the "sanctuaries" and meeting the bigger traulers from free fishing areas at sea to transfer cargos.
YES!! Thank God for the Free Market! After all, it is the free market that abolished slavery when "the people" had enough and decided it was a bad thing. Its the free market that finnaly integrated the United States in the 60s. Its the free market that surpressed Hitler before he was able to slaughter millions.
Even today we are seeing the benifits of the free market. There is no overfishing of threatened fish spiecies. The free market has put a complete stop to the selling of Ivory, so the elephants are safe. Im quite sure that without the free market the government would have trashed the eccosystem by now.
This reminds me of all of those English classes in high school where the teachers would tell us all of these subtle things that were represented in writers works. I would always wonder if the authors would laugh themselves silly over all of it.
Why does all of this mean Van Gogh new that he was painting turbulence? Why can this not just be a byproduct of the way that he holds the brush and moves the brush on the canvas?
I bet that somewhere out there is a cave drawing where the patterns on the rock are a perfect representation of something in Quantumm Physics. When we find that is it proof that cave men understood Quantum Physics?
I thought of it first!! My idea! Stay away! This is perfect. If I had a legitamatley good idea for a movie, Sci-Fi would warp it beyond recognition, but with something like this I bet they would take it word for word!
And yet the church (any church) talks about how declining membership is a sign of degraded moral and family values.
Churches that only want paying members....
Wow. I had no idea this was happening. How can this not be a death sentence for religeon in these places?
Younger (and thus poorer) people will opt out because they cant afford it.
Later in life when they are more stable and have disposable income they will not have any ties to the church, so why would they rejoin? So the church is loosing out on people who have success later in their life and otherwise might have contributed.
"Hey Wally. Weve got these beetles that are eating our sugar crops. What are we going to do?"
"Well Jess, weve got this toad from South America that would eat them, although hes a bit poisonous"
"Well isnt that going to be a problem once the beetles are taken care of?"
"Sure, but then we can import this Wild Jaguar from South America that eats the toads. Course they are kind of dangerous to people to. So then we could...."
My first thought is that it could be related to the fluctuating magnetic fields (if I werent lazy I would link to some article on the upcomming pole reversal, but I am lazy, so deal with it).
But surely these people are a lot smarter than I am and would have considered this?
Huh. Interesting. Either somebody ported it to the Apple or its a retroactive delusion from a 1986 binge. I am certain that I got detention for playing Pitfall in the school library.
But again, in ISUs cave the 3d perspective changes on the fly depending on your position in the room.
For a planitarium the 3d can be calculated once for a fixed perspective.
The projected image has to change for a 3d image to work depending on whether you are in the North West Corner of the room standing on your toes or the South East corner of the room laying down.
Yes, you could generate a nice 3d image from your home PC from a FIXED PERSPECTIVE.
Its in 3d. Doing 3d is no big deal for a small screen when the viewer is in a fixed perspective, but when you ware walking around the room the images have to change to keep the proper 3d perspective. Doing all of that for a 6 sided room in high deffinition and on-the-fly takes some serious horse power.
(BTW, I was in it in 1999 when it was 4 sided (floor and 3 walls))
If user changes can cause a rating change, then doesnt every game with chat or VOIP now have a requirement to find a way to stop profane language unless they want a Mature rating?
Are you people that seriously freaked out by this?
Have any of you heard of something called a (forgive the technical jargon) "Web Cam"? What are you people smoking?
There is nothing new here except combining 2 existing and widely used technologies.
How will this detract from your privacy in ways that cant be done now? You think that somehow your boss will sneak this new monitor in without you knowing? Well Ive got news for you: If you really think he might do that, then he probably already has a much cheaper web cam hidden in your cube and right this very moment hes watching you blather on Slashdot and laughing his a$$ off.
Slashdot Mirror
i.e.
Those that do not comply will be publicly flogged and generally shunned.
Of all of the old games I played, Robosport is the one I most want to see redone.
It could be fantastic!
I agree completely.
I could buy into the idea that the US couldnt get to the moon and wanted to fake it.
I could buy into the idea of people arguing that it would cost much less money to fake it, but we would still "get the win"
But I dont buy into the idea that the US government is capable of pulling of a conspiracy this big and KEEP THE SECRET.
If the government was really capable of keeping big secrets like that, we wouldnt know the name Monica Lewinsky. We wouldnt know about Watergate. We wouldnt know about a lot of things.
Maybe they could have kept the secret for 5 or 10 years. Maybe even 20. But by now SOMEONE would have talked.
Oh for crying out loud.
from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll) "In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including the personal attack of calling others trolls."
Just because I make a statement that I expect the answer to my question to show a certain result does not make me or my statement a troll anymore than your "(rightfully)" makes you a troll.
We make a statement or ask a question, then, rightly or wrongly, state our opinion or expectation. The end. That is not the same as a troll and does not deserve to be bashed. If we are wrong then we deserve to have someone come on and say "Well actually..."
I dont even know why I am pursuing this. Done.
Sure.
On a comment about a Russian launch faulure asking about the failure rate is random and trolling.
There have been a number of launch failures on smaller projects (The planetary societies Solar Sail experiment for instance) over the last few years.
I am open to the idea that its a mis-perception because we dont hear about success, but dont just bash me for trolling and then throw out an unsobsantiated statement to disprove my question.
Point me to a source that has the numbers.
Anyone know what the Russian launch failure rate is over the last 5 years?
Its got to be pretty damned high.
All of the above responses are correct, the problem is that RTS games have strategy elements in ADDITION to the tactics, rather than instead of the tactics.
I have always thought "How can this be a Strategy game if I have to spend half an hour maneuvering my group to the right spot and then hand position each one in their deffensive positions?"
A real strategy game (the kind Ive been waiting for) would allow you to define, create and maneuver Battalion level oragnizations, not individual units. Then the "Factories" (or whatever) would fill the organizations as needed instead of having to go to the factiry and say "Create 5 orcs and put them here".
This would allow players to focus on actual strategy elements.
It would be great. Create an empty unit, tell it what types of units to have, tell it to patrol my western flank. Then select some factories to "Fill out" the unit. Anytime it take casualties the factories will crank out replacements. Let me set behaviors for the organization as a whole and seperately for units with the organization (sort of like the original Earth 2150).
That would be so much more fun than the "Real Time Micro Management" games out there today.
I had the whole game designed at one point, but my programming skills blow.
I, for one, welcome our self-replicating weather-computer over lords.
Sorry, I cant help myself. I need therapy.
Wow. OK, Im impressed. You may be a loon, but at least your a smart loon.
I will accept your argment that only in the US did the free market not bring down Slavery. I dont know enough about it elsewhere.
Im not going to win the argument on "Preferential treatment" so Im not going to try.
Hitler. Hitler was not a state. Here is where I start to have a serious problem. Anarchists (Im not calling you one, but its the same "Hate the State" war cry, so maybe you are) run around decrying "the State" and the actions of "the State" as if what "the State" has done would not have happened if there were not a state. Bull. A state is nothing but a group of people. It does not matter if that group of people is a geographically defined state, and ethnically defined race, a whateverly defined religeon, a street corner defined gang, or a "please dont lable me" group of anarchists.
There is massive overfishing. Sea bass anyone? Most of the fishing hauls of sea bass are now pulling up females that have not reached the breading age yet. There are fishing traullers that are fishing in the "sanctuaries" and meeting the bigger traulers from free fishing areas at sea to transfer cargos.
YES!! Thank God for the Free Market! After all, it is the free market that abolished slavery when "the people" had enough and decided it was a bad thing. Its the free market that finnaly integrated the United States in the 60s. Its the free market that surpressed Hitler before he was able to slaughter millions.
Even today we are seeing the benifits of the free market. There is no overfishing of threatened fish spiecies. The free market has put a complete stop to the selling of Ivory, so the elephants are safe. Im quite sure that without the free market the government would have trashed the eccosystem by now.
All hail the free market.
This reminds me of all of those English classes in high school where the teachers would tell us all of these subtle things that were represented in writers works. I would always wonder if the authors would laugh themselves silly over all of it.
Why does all of this mean Van Gogh new that he was painting turbulence? Why can this not just be a byproduct of the way that he holds the brush and moves the brush on the canvas?
I bet that somewhere out there is a cave drawing where the patterns on the rock are a perfect representation of something in Quantumm Physics. When we find that is it proof that cave men understood Quantum Physics?
I thought of it first!!
My idea! Stay away!
This is perfect. If I had a legitamatley good idea for a movie, Sci-Fi would warp it beyond recognition, but with something like this I bet they would take it word for word!
And yet the church (any church) talks about how declining membership is a sign of degraded moral and family values.
Churches that only want paying members....
Wow. I had no idea this was happening. How can this not be a death sentence for religeon in these places?
Younger (and thus poorer) people will opt out because they cant afford it.
Later in life when they are more stable and have disposable income they will not have any ties to the church, so why would they rejoin? So the church is loosing out on people who have success later in their life and otherwise might have contributed.
Wow.
"Hey Wally. Weve got these beetles that are eating our sugar crops. What are we going to do?"
"Well Jess, weve got this toad from South America that would eat them, although hes a bit poisonous"
"Well isnt that going to be a problem once the beetles are taken care of?"
"Sure, but then we can import this Wild Jaguar from South America that eats the toads. Course they are kind of dangerous to people to. So then we could...."
My first thought is that it could be related to the fluctuating magnetic fields (if I werent lazy I would link to some article on the upcomming pole reversal, but I am lazy, so deal with it).
But surely these people are a lot smarter than I am and would have considered this?
Boy. Theres a shocker headline.
Right up there with "A new study shows that Men like to have sex" and "The sun is expected to rise in the morning"
Wait. Im being handed a piece of paper. Holy Cow! Breaking news! "Companys like free publicity!"
Huh. Interesting.
Either somebody ported it to the Apple or its a retroactive delusion from a 1986 binge.
I am certain that I got detention for playing Pitfall in the school library.
Oh My God!
Just looking at the screen shots gave me a series of traumatic flashbacks to illicitly playing Pitfall in the library at my Junior high.
They should have attached warning labels to this posting.
Any lawyers here? Can I sue?
Wow.
I had the same thought. In this country (the US) they would have just pretended they didnt notice so they wouldnt get thrown off schedule.
Sad but true.
But again, in ISUs cave the 3d perspective changes on the fly depending on your position in the room.
For a planitarium the 3d can be calculated once for a fixed perspective.
The projected image has to change for a 3d image to work depending on whether you are in the North West Corner of the room standing on your toes or the South East corner of the room laying down.
Yes, you could generate a nice 3d image from your home PC from a FIXED PERSPECTIVE.
Your missing a piece of this though.
Its in 3d.
Doing 3d is no big deal for a small screen when the viewer is in a fixed perspective, but when you ware walking around the room the images have to change to keep the proper 3d perspective. Doing all of that for a 6 sided room in high deffinition and on-the-fly takes some serious horse power.
(BTW, I was in it in 1999 when it was 4 sided (floor and 3 walls))
I think you have been reading too much Yahoo! news.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/index.html
If user changes can cause a rating change, then doesnt every game with chat or VOIP now have a requirement to find a way to stop profane language unless they want a Mature rating?
If not, where is the difference?
Yes, lets forget Tamiflu. Obviously saving half of many millions of people is not worth the effort.
Are you people that seriously freaked out by this?
Have any of you heard of something called a (forgive the technical jargon) "Web Cam"?
What are you people smoking?
There is nothing new here except combining 2 existing and widely used technologies.
How will this detract from your privacy in ways that cant be done now? You think that somehow your boss will sneak this new monitor in without you knowing? Well Ive got news for you: If you really think he might do that, then he probably already has a much cheaper web cam hidden in your cube and right this very moment hes watching you blather on Slashdot and laughing his a$$ off.
Get a grip.