Stupid (multiple) copy-paste summaries never mention source. Hell they don't even get the title right. The article is: "Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults" with the link at Oxford Journals. Basically, they looked at men and women ages ~50-70 and found an increased rate in death for those who sat around like lumps vs those that got exercise. It looks like 20% of the men died and 10% of the women (though I don't have the values give those that answered yes/no for sitting on the questionnaire).
To loosely quote Russell Brand (British comedian):
I'm not liking this. I'm REALY not liking this.
Instead of turning off this offensive material I think I'll write an angry letter!
I think (good) rpg's are a tricky thing to get multiplayer right because there are a number of features which need to be turned on their head for balancing and story telling. I've found that unless people are in the same room, story-telling goes out the door in favor with just going on a quest romp with your friends.The reason being that in-game conversation can stray outside the bounds of the story to comments about game mechanics or life in general. This kind of breaks the suspension of disbelief, otherwise had in single player, when you start discussing skill-trees, min-maxing dps, etc. It becomes a problem for NWN team because their strength is in telling good stories more so than gameplay. The diablo series did it right for multiplayer more emphasis is on the gameplay.
The facets which made diablo a good multiplayer and baulder's gate/nwn less so were:
- Easy to hop into a pub with friends. Many coop games don't really have levels or stats (gear maybe). This allows a character who has been around for 40 game hours to pair up with a newly minted one.
- Swapping out teammates has little to no impact on story. I remember, and perhaps wrongly, having to coordinate quests in Baulder's Gate. Basically if you're at some point in the quest, other players need to have some pre-requisite quests done. After all, it would be awkward to defeat the final boss if you haven't even left your home town yet.
- Gaming session can scale from 15 minutes to several hours. Not everyone has the same amount of time so it can be important that they're not forced to trudge through an epic quest ferrying a chain of items or information between npcs all over the map. A good quest might have to be simple, like whaking a few monsters, killing a respawnable boss and moving on.
The underlying problem is that the features which make a single player rpg good are quite the opposite of what make a multiplayer game good. So, when they produce the next neverwinter game, I suspect it'll either be an rpg or multiplayer, rather than both.
Sounds like a sci-fi movie where we grow clones for replacement parts. And then the clones escape and swap places with the primary who in-turn gets harvested because no one can tell the difference. Ya, I know we're only talking about embryos at the moment, but that's what sci-fi is for: messing with your head and making you think.
For that matter, Johnson & Johnson have owned the Ky trademark for their Ky-lube product since 1904. Though I think Rupert needs it more for the stick up his ass.
Or when the audio is out of sync by half a second. That drives me crazy more so than moderate resolution video. Nothing like watching a drama become a romantic comedy when the timbre of the guy's and girl's voices are swapped.
That's certainly a possibility, but tweeting a hyperlink seems like adding a superfluous layer of indirection when google and google scholar already do a pretty good job of looking up people by topic. But, to be fair, I wouldn't know if useful information can be extracted from tweets until it's done.
The problem I see with this, is that twitter twitter seems like a constrained information channel that would limit how much an expert could convey. Imagine if we tried cramming Knuth's collected works down a 140 character channel: and for the proof of why this sorting algorithm is O(n log n) see tweets 234 - 702. Tweets, because of their brevity are more suited to spontaneously commenting like: meet at mvies 2pm or omg I have bellybutton lint lol.
The question isn't just whether it can collide with and bring down space junk, but whether it can avoid legitimate satellites as well. I guess if anyone has any secret spy satellites floating around they better speak up or lose them to an uncoordinated balloon collision : ).
Ah, wouldn't it be ironic if, instead wikipedia set the image's html source as the logo from the fbi's site. That way, wikipedia's response could be: no you take it down.
I do think, however, it depends on your task. It helps to know whether you're going to do application programming (java, c++) or web programming (php, javascript, ruby, html) or academic programming (perl, python, R) if you just want some surface level knowledge to accomplish a one-time task. Otherwise I'd recommend a few courses, books, and practice to establish a reasonable foundation for coding. The former is quick but you'll be limited in your ability to complete tasks quickly and the latter has a steeper, more time-consuming learning curve but you'll be more capable at solving a wider variety of (automated) problems. Just a cautionary note, computers won't be able to solve all the problems a PR team can dream up within the constraints specified by management.
So sdfgsdhgehaveadgsrgh I!
I wonder what happens when you want to type garbage or inane abbreviations: e.g. lol omgwtfbbq brb afk QQ.
A virtual hand probably materializes and slaps you.
It's quite possible that the China government will loosen its restrictions to allow for capitalist growth while trying to maintain political power, as their behavior seems mostly geared towards cultivating economic power. I think it'll be more likely to see their population have a higher standard of living, but their explosive growth will slow down as they reach the gdp of other industrialized nations. Mostly because manufacturers will start to look for other sources of cheap labor or transportation resources, e.g. gas becomes prohibitively too expensive to transport cheap goods a long distance (maybe 50-100 years down the line).
Would it be sufficient to teleport a 3d image of yourself and vice-versa? Yes, I know the tech is expensive, but it's there and will probably get cheaper and portable eventually.
I think an important element to this debate (the thing people get fussy about) is the cause. If humans are the cause, then it means we can do something about it, and it'll probably come out of everyone's wallet. If there are larger forces causing the warming, e.g. the sun, natural epoch-scaled cycles, that means there's less we can do about it, short of large-scale, unproven tera forming to fix the problem, which again will come out of everyone's wallet. Since there are a lot of cheap bastards out there, those with good reasons to be cheap and those with not-so good reasons, this conversation will naturally trend towards a flame war. I'd prefer if, the discussion was more on the order of: is global warming occurring, and if so, what is a meaningful response to mitigate it for our (human) comfort. Because, let's face it, we're selfish and like to have a nice place to live.
Actually, the link you provided in item 2 indicates that software is only patentable in conjunction with a physical invention. In this case, grabbing context out of some emails is purely software and shouldn't be patentable.
Perhaps, but the patent in question doesn't even go into that depth of detail. It simply says it stores the emails context in a db, which it'd use later for some form of classification.The two problems I see with this is: 1) I thought patents were supposed to disclose some sort of detail regarding implementation and 2) are algorithms, even ones as loosely described as this, patentable?
Java/C++ are attractive because they have the momentum of a large community behind them. Newer, more friendly languages like ruby or c# may not have the same libraries available as some of the more well-entrenched languages do. Or, they might have similar functionality that does not perform as well due to some overhead of the language itself. Another reason we deal with these languages is legacy code. Once upon a time, coders of old wrote a massive system, spanning millions of lines. At that point, it's cheaper to maintain the system then rewrite it from scratch. It all comes down to how much work your language of choice incurs. At first glance, java and c++ are curmudgeon-y to deal with because you have to write more lines to implement function XYZ, but developers still use them because there are libraries and frameworks that implement functions A-W.
That might work if the ip addresses were dynamic (most are nowadays) and retrieved content through a TOR network. Otherwise the host that you got the actual data could still be used to track you down if they kept a visitor's log. I wonder how much weight an ip address carries in court nowadays. Yes, I know it's not a unique identifier, but against most naive users, it's probably good enough.
In most of these digital rights doctrines that are popping up, ISPs receive a safe harbor status provided they actually respond to DMCA takedown notices. If some DRM law does get passed, how much do you want to bet that the pirate ISP will be drowned in litigation for not complying to it? Even if they don't take logs of their customers, they'll just be disbanded for not complying.
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Stupid (multiple) copy-paste summaries never mention source. Hell they don't even get the title right. The article is: "Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults" with the link at Oxford Journals. Basically, they looked at men and women ages ~50-70 and found an increased rate in death for those who sat around like lumps vs those that got exercise. It looks like 20% of the men died and 10% of the women (though I don't have the values give those that answered yes/no for sitting on the questionnaire).
To loosely quote Russell Brand (British comedian):
I'm not liking this. I'm REALY not liking this.
Instead of turning off this offensive material I think I'll write an angry letter!
I think (good) rpg's are a tricky thing to get multiplayer right because there are a number of features which need to be turned on their head for balancing and story telling. I've found that unless people are in the same room, story-telling goes out the door in favor with just going on a quest romp with your friends.The reason being that in-game conversation can stray outside the bounds of the story to comments about game mechanics or life in general. This kind of breaks the suspension of disbelief, otherwise had in single player, when you start discussing skill-trees, min-maxing dps, etc. It becomes a problem for NWN team because their strength is in telling good stories more so than gameplay. The diablo series did it right for multiplayer more emphasis is on the gameplay.
The facets which made diablo a good multiplayer and baulder's gate/nwn less so were:
- Easy to hop into a pub with friends. Many coop games don't really have levels or stats (gear maybe). This allows a character who has been around for 40 game hours to pair up with a newly minted one.
- Swapping out teammates has little to no impact on story. I remember, and perhaps wrongly, having to coordinate quests in Baulder's Gate. Basically if you're at some point in the quest, other players need to have some pre-requisite quests done. After all, it would be awkward to defeat the final boss if you haven't even left your home town yet.
- Gaming session can scale from 15 minutes to several hours. Not everyone has the same amount of time so it can be important that they're not forced to trudge through an epic quest ferrying a chain of items or information between npcs all over the map. A good quest might have to be simple, like whaking a few monsters, killing a respawnable boss and moving on.
The underlying problem is that the features which make a single player rpg good are quite the opposite of what make a multiplayer game good. So, when they produce the next neverwinter game, I suspect it'll either be an rpg or multiplayer, rather than both.
Sounds like a sci-fi movie where we grow clones for replacement parts. And then the clones escape and swap places with the primary who in-turn gets harvested because no one can tell the difference. Ya, I know we're only talking about embryos at the moment, but that's what sci-fi is for: messing with your head and making you think.
You'll have to forgive them, they are only human and need to incite their tannin molecules.
So easy, a caveman can do it.
For that matter, Johnson & Johnson have owned the Ky trademark for their Ky-lube product since 1904. Though I think Rupert needs it more for the stick up his ass.
Or when the audio is out of sync by half a second. That drives me crazy more so than moderate resolution video. Nothing like watching a drama become a romantic comedy when the timbre of the guy's and girl's voices are swapped.
That's certainly a possibility, but tweeting a hyperlink seems like adding a superfluous layer of indirection when google and google scholar already do a pretty good job of looking up people by topic. But, to be fair, I wouldn't know if useful information can be extracted from tweets until it's done.
The problem I see with this, is that twitter twitter seems like a constrained information channel that would limit how much an expert could convey. Imagine if we tried cramming Knuth's collected works down a 140 character channel: and for the proof of why this sorting algorithm is O(n log n) see tweets 234 - 702. Tweets, because of their brevity are more suited to spontaneously commenting like: meet at mvies 2pm or omg I have bellybutton lint lol.
Ah that reminds me of one of my favorite signs: "Warning: prosecutors will be violated."
The question isn't just whether it can collide with and bring down space junk, but whether it can avoid legitimate satellites as well. I guess if anyone has any secret spy satellites floating around they better speak up or lose them to an uncoordinated balloon collision : ).
Ah, wouldn't it be ironic if, instead wikipedia set the image's html source as the logo from the fbi's site. That way, wikipedia's response could be: no you take it down.
I do think, however, it depends on your task. It helps to know whether you're going to do application programming (java, c++) or web programming (php, javascript, ruby, html) or academic programming (perl, python, R) if you just want some surface level knowledge to accomplish a one-time task. Otherwise I'd recommend a few courses, books, and practice to establish a reasonable foundation for coding. The former is quick but you'll be limited in your ability to complete tasks quickly and the latter has a steeper, more time-consuming learning curve but you'll be more capable at solving a wider variety of (automated) problems. Just a cautionary note, computers won't be able to solve all the problems a PR team can dream up within the constraints specified by management.
So sdfgsdhgehaveadgsrgh I!
I wonder what happens when you want to type garbage or inane abbreviations: e.g. lol omgwtfbbq brb afk QQ.
A virtual hand probably materializes and slaps you.
It's quite possible that the China government will loosen its restrictions to allow for capitalist growth while trying to maintain political power, as their behavior seems mostly geared towards cultivating economic power. I think it'll be more likely to see their population have a higher standard of living, but their explosive growth will slow down as they reach the gdp of other industrialized nations. Mostly because manufacturers will start to look for other sources of cheap labor or transportation resources, e.g. gas becomes prohibitively too expensive to transport cheap goods a long distance (maybe 50-100 years down the line).
Would it be sufficient to teleport a 3d image of yourself and vice-versa? Yes, I know the tech is expensive, but it's there and will probably get cheaper and portable eventually.
I think an important element to this debate (the thing people get fussy about) is the cause. If humans are the cause, then it means we can do something about it, and it'll probably come out of everyone's wallet. If there are larger forces causing the warming, e.g. the sun, natural epoch-scaled cycles, that means there's less we can do about it, short of large-scale, unproven tera forming to fix the problem, which again will come out of everyone's wallet. Since there are a lot of cheap bastards out there, those with good reasons to be cheap and those with not-so good reasons, this conversation will naturally trend towards a flame war. I'd prefer if, the discussion was more on the order of: is global warming occurring, and if so, what is a meaningful response to mitigate it for our (human) comfort. Because, let's face it, we're selfish and like to have a nice place to live.
Or $40,000,000/s by RIAA standards.
Actually, the link you provided in item 2 indicates that software is only patentable in conjunction with a physical invention. In this case, grabbing context out of some emails is purely software and shouldn't be patentable.
Perhaps, but the patent in question doesn't even go into that depth of detail. It simply says it stores the emails context in a db, which it'd use later for some form of classification.The two problems I see with this is: 1) I thought patents were supposed to disclose some sort of detail regarding implementation and 2) are algorithms, even ones as loosely described as this, patentable?
Java/C++ are attractive because they have the momentum of a large community behind them. Newer, more friendly languages like ruby or c# may not have the same libraries available as some of the more well-entrenched languages do. Or, they might have similar functionality that does not perform as well due to some overhead of the language itself. Another reason we deal with these languages is legacy code. Once upon a time, coders of old wrote a massive system, spanning millions of lines. At that point, it's cheaper to maintain the system then rewrite it from scratch. It all comes down to how much work your language of choice incurs. At first glance, java and c++ are curmudgeon-y to deal with because you have to write more lines to implement function XYZ, but developers still use them because there are libraries and frameworks that implement functions A-W.
That might work if the ip addresses were dynamic (most are nowadays) and retrieved content through a TOR network. Otherwise the host that you got the actual data could still be used to track you down if they kept a visitor's log. I wonder how much weight an ip address carries in court nowadays. Yes, I know it's not a unique identifier, but against most naive users, it's probably good enough.
In most of these digital rights doctrines that are popping up, ISPs receive a safe harbor status provided they actually respond to DMCA takedown notices. If some DRM law does get passed, how much do you want to bet that the pirate ISP will be drowned in litigation for not complying to it? Even if they don't take logs of their customers, they'll just be disbanded for not complying.
You are travelling down a long, dark corridor.
You have been eaten by a grue.