It's not that I can't. Here's the calculation: 1.5 Mbit connection to Internet (don't laugh - that's about as good as it gets here). 6 friends. Each one gets 250 kbits of the pipe (more or less). Now - have you tried playing recent multiplayer games over a pipe that small? It gets ugly, especially if there are a number of people in the area.
The point is that the "local" play will be worse and more laggy than if each one of us would be sitting at home. One of the advantages of LAN play is that it is blazing fast - no lag. Now, we're being exposed to worse connections than if we'd be playing by ourselves. And for what reason? DRM? The point is that the multiplayer experience is not the best that it could be, which is the stated goal of this approach.
What made you take out LAN play? To me, playing with a bunch of friends in the same room is by far the best multi-player experience. No battle-net can touch it.
I suspect it's their way of implementing DRM. It's still going to cost them a sale. Before, I was excited about D3. Now, it's gonna take a discussion with my buddies to see if we're going to spring for D3. My suspicion is that we're going to go with some hacked version that allows for LAN play.
To be exact - the trip to 70 is fun the first time around. But by the time I started my second character, the fun was dead. Especially since I was playing on a PvP server, where the Elf lands were nothing more than a horde gank fest.
I'm just curious - are you saying you are for a crash on the scale of the great depression? Because that's essentially why the Great Depression happened. If not, I'd be curious what your suggested course of action would have been.
But the question is - is that portrayed as good? The short answer is that in both, it isn't. Ultimately, it all falls apart, with the message that humanity has to stand on its own.
What books are you exactly referring to? I've read pretty much all of them, and none of them qualify as an Utopia ruled by robots. The part where the robots have discarded the laws of robotics is indeed true - but that was there as a point to demonstrate that the laws were not perfect, and could not prevent the kind of stuff that they were designed to prevent.
True dat. I'm still wearing my Warlord shoulders, with everything else Kara or PvP gear. I'd say the solution is to get to level 80. Not a surprise, considering that the real WoW has always started at max level.
Are they on crack? I was excited about the game, as everything screamed D2, but better. Better graphics, better skill system, more interactivity, better rune system... but I primarily play D3 with friends, or as a single player. We occasionally can get 6 people together for some Diablo 2 bash fests, and I really don't want to squeeze that over some DSL connection to a far-off server.
Finally, the entire discussion of "monetizing" battle.net by doing something WoW-like, but not going the subscription route is non-sensical. I'm not paying more money for a time-sink, and I have no interest in paying for a matching service.
Seriously, it seems like someone at Blizzard looked at the WoW revenue, and decided to apply it across the board to all games. To which I can only say - "Fuck off". I can afford one subscription game (the limited resource here being time, not money), and I will not get into another money sink. Free LAN play or bust!
There is another twist to the Prius thing: some used Priuses have a HOV sticker attached to them that allows them to be driven in the HOV lane by a single occupant. There's a quota on those stickers which has been reached, so you can grab about 5K extra if you're selling a Prius with one of those stickers.
Troll, uh? Truth must hurt. Seriously. There is no country in the world that is as anti-intellectual as the US. Sorry, scratch that. That's an exaggeration. Yemen, Zimbabwe, Lesotho heap similar scorn on education and knowledge. I might also add Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a few other theocracies to it if we discount respect for religious scholars. That's one hell of a company to keep.
Instead, try comparing the respect that intellectuals get in the US with what they get in the other G8 countries, or in any of the Eastern European states. Heck, even China values its scholars more - as long as they don't tread into politics.
Unless the moderator was referring to the specific link to the Republican Party? Sorry, I'd have to agree there, too. The Republican Party is the only party where ignorance and being average is actually sold as a presidential trait.
And, despite your "MSM hasn't been mainstream in about 2 years" assertion, I'll need a citation before I believe that the bulk of Americans are getting their news or placing their trust more in blogs/talk shows rather than "mainstream" news outlets.
Fox News is the most popular cable news network. Considering that that's where the ranting against the MSM pretty much started, that should be citation enough.
The membranes??? In actuality Neutron, what you are hearing is the wires connecting to the speaker are receiving harmonics being broadcast from the phone, not membranes reacting to EM fields.
You're probably right that that's the bigger force. Changing in the magnetic field around the coil will not to produce changes in force that are greater than changes in the current carried by the speaker wire.
On aircraft, there are transmitters that broadcast everything from Mode-S transmissions (1090 MHz @ 125-500 Watts) as well as VHF/UHF transmitters and on long range overseas aircraft HF Radio Transmissions that are in the hundreds of Watts category.
We're not talking long-range overseas aircraft. We're talking puddle jumpers. Have you been on one? Looked at the cockpit? I'm surprised they don't still hand-start some of these things.
If you know that the wires are essentially acting as antennae picking up EM waves, which result in current flowing down the wires, you ought to know that the resonant frequency is dependent on the length of the wire. In other words, if the display shows direct current changes and if the unshielded wire is that is near the phone is of the right length, it is entire possible that the display will be affected. Is it possible to design the electrical system so that there is no interference? Of course. However, I'm pretty sure that not all puddle jumpers are equipped to deal with cell phone interference.
Of course, if you want to argue that they are, I'd expect some evidence for that.
What makes you think that the NYT has more credibility than Ars? Personally, I see it the other way around: I'm far less prone to double-checking Ars figures than NYT figures. That's because when I did so in the past, Ars figures were a lot more accurate than NYT figures - at least when it came to tech issues.
Unless you mean that it would be nice for the MSM to pick it up. In which case I have news for you - the MSM hasn't been mainstream in about 2 years. Reader- and viewership numbers are down across the board for these entities, while numbers for blogs and radio talk shows are through the roof.
Are you on conference calls? Put your cellphone next to it. The interference is ear-splitting, depending on what kind of cell-phone it is. If I put the phone next to my speakers, I can actually tell by the interference chatter what's coming in: email or phone call. In speakers, these things are all happening because the membranes react to EM fields. The same thing applies to any kind of display or receiver that works off of EM fields. Twitching and loopy things is exactly what I'd expect interference to look like.
I'm amazed at how often people mistake their ignorance for knowledge.
I'll repeat what I said above, but I'll be more obnoxious this time: you do not get to decide what is appropriate when it comes to fair use. Same that you don't get to decide what is good speech, and then ban it.
Or would you agree with the DHS official from yesterday who thinks that free speech is only allowed when it doesn't interfere with government?
No, fair use was created so that overzealous copyright lawyers wouldn't kill the public's ability to use the art.
There's nothing in fair use clauses that says anything about the use having to be useful or good - whatever that means. You don't get to define that - no one can, or at least is supposed to.
Interesting set up for detecting a machine. Here's another wrinkle to it: am I allowed to use Google to answer any questions? If so, what does that make me? A human-machine agglomeration? A human with a machine interface?
Further - what role does knowledge play in making one human?
I've seen them a few times. Now, I've also seen the "noshititsastory" tag. I'd have to agree with that. So for anyone who tags these things stories - why? Unless it's some new form of complaint about lack of newsworthiness, I don't get it.
So, by your reasoning, white people and Christians should have the majority of power and make all of the laws?
Really? White, rural voters from a handful of states determined the last 2 elections. Old, white, protestant men are the majority in Congress - the vast majority. How do they not have the majority of the power and make all of the laws?
Not to mention that your link basically says that democracy and republic are functionally the same thing, as there are virtually no direct democracies in place today.
As opposed to what's going on right now? I fail to see the difference. If you can point to me where the current politicians are not voting what gets them reelected, I'd appreciate that.
As for your sig - it's the kind of person who has been beaten up, arrested and insulted because they were a particular skin color.
I think you're missing links to someone's myspace page and an article on geocities.com. Then you'd have the trifecta of inane blathering masquerading as insight.
You lost that battle a long time ago. Not to mention that there are plenty of ways to have National Healthcare without running afoul of the wording of the 10th Amendment. How do you think the Interstate Highway system was built?
And with the EC, the opposite is true. I don't think I've seen either Obama or McCain anywhere close to where I live - CA. However, I get to hear how they spend all their time in Indiana, Nevada, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia....
As it stands, the people in the rural areas decide the direction of this country. Is that better? Really?
As for Democrats controlling Congress... I'd say that's a vast exaggeration. As is your assessment of their share of responsibility. Democrats have a 1 vote majority in the Senate, and that's because 2 independents are still listed as caucusing with Democrats - which includes Lieberman. They have a bigger share of the House of Representatives, but the majority is not remotely filibuster proof. Not to mention that if you think this crisis is two years, you're delusional. Same if you think that the people who took on these insane mortgages aren't a significant part of the problem.
Notice that it is a rewrite of "Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998". Notice that there isn't mass rioting, and that the government is still functioning.
I'm pretty sure that somewhere, there's a plan for dealing with Martian invaders. Doesn't mean it's likely.
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It's not that I can't. Here's the calculation: 1.5 Mbit connection to Internet (don't laugh - that's about as good as it gets here). 6 friends. Each one gets 250 kbits of the pipe (more or less). Now - have you tried playing recent multiplayer games over a pipe that small? It gets ugly, especially if there are a number of people in the area.
The point is that the "local" play will be worse and more laggy than if each one of us would be sitting at home. One of the advantages of LAN play is that it is blazing fast - no lag. Now, we're being exposed to worse connections than if we'd be playing by ourselves. And for what reason? DRM? The point is that the multiplayer experience is not the best that it could be, which is the stated goal of this approach.
What made you take out LAN play? To me, playing with a bunch of friends in the same room is by far the best multi-player experience. No battle-net can touch it.
I suspect it's their way of implementing DRM. It's still going to cost them a sale. Before, I was excited about D3. Now, it's gonna take a discussion with my buddies to see if we're going to spring for D3. My suspicion is that we're going to go with some hacked version that allows for LAN play.
To be exact - the trip to 70 is fun the first time around. But by the time I started my second character, the fun was dead. Especially since I was playing on a PvP server, where the Elf lands were nothing more than a horde gank fest.
I'm just curious - are you saying you are for a crash on the scale of the great depression? Because that's essentially why the Great Depression happened. If not, I'd be curious what your suggested course of action would have been.
But the question is - is that portrayed as good? The short answer is that in both, it isn't. Ultimately, it all falls apart, with the message that humanity has to stand on its own.
What books are you exactly referring to? I've read pretty much all of them, and none of them qualify as an Utopia ruled by robots. The part where the robots have discarded the laws of robotics is indeed true - but that was there as a point to demonstrate that the laws were not perfect, and could not prevent the kind of stuff that they were designed to prevent.
Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
True dat. I'm still wearing my Warlord shoulders, with everything else Kara or PvP gear. I'd say the solution is to get to level 80. Not a surprise, considering that the real WoW has always started at max level.
Are they on crack? I was excited about the game, as everything screamed D2, but better. Better graphics, better skill system, more interactivity, better rune system... but I primarily play D3 with friends, or as a single player. We occasionally can get 6 people together for some Diablo 2 bash fests, and I really don't want to squeeze that over some DSL connection to a far-off server.
Finally, the entire discussion of "monetizing" battle.net by doing something WoW-like, but not going the subscription route is non-sensical. I'm not paying more money for a time-sink, and I have no interest in paying for a matching service.
Seriously, it seems like someone at Blizzard looked at the WoW revenue, and decided to apply it across the board to all games. To which I can only say - "Fuck off". I can afford one subscription game (the limited resource here being time, not money), and I will not get into another money sink. Free LAN play or bust!
There is another twist to the Prius thing: some used Priuses have a HOV sticker attached to them that allows them to be driven in the HOV lane by a single occupant. There's a quota on those stickers which has been reached, so you can grab about 5K extra if you're selling a Prius with one of those stickers.
Troll, uh? Truth must hurt. Seriously. There is no country in the world that is as anti-intellectual as the US. Sorry, scratch that. That's an exaggeration. Yemen, Zimbabwe, Lesotho heap similar scorn on education and knowledge. I might also add Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a few other theocracies to it if we discount respect for religious scholars. That's one hell of a company to keep.
Instead, try comparing the respect that intellectuals get in the US with what they get in the other G8 countries, or in any of the Eastern European states. Heck, even China values its scholars more - as long as they don't tread into politics.
Unless the moderator was referring to the specific link to the Republican Party? Sorry, I'd have to agree there, too. The Republican Party is the only party where ignorance and being average is actually sold as a presidential trait.
Fox News is the most popular cable news network. Considering that that's where the ranting against the MSM pretty much started, that should be citation enough.
You're probably right that that's the bigger force. Changing in the magnetic field around the coil will not to produce changes in force that are greater than changes in the current carried by the speaker wire.
We're not talking long-range overseas aircraft. We're talking puddle jumpers. Have you been on one? Looked at the cockpit? I'm surprised they don't still hand-start some of these things.
If you know that the wires are essentially acting as antennae picking up EM waves, which result in current flowing down the wires, you ought to know that the resonant frequency is dependent on the length of the wire. In other words, if the display shows direct current changes and if the unshielded wire is that is near the phone is of the right length, it is entire possible that the display will be affected. Is it possible to design the electrical system so that there is no interference? Of course. However, I'm pretty sure that not all puddle jumpers are equipped to deal with cell phone interference.
Of course, if you want to argue that they are, I'd expect some evidence for that.
What makes you think that the NYT has more credibility than Ars? Personally, I see it the other way around: I'm far less prone to double-checking Ars figures than NYT figures. That's because when I did so in the past, Ars figures were a lot more accurate than NYT figures - at least when it came to tech issues.
Unless you mean that it would be nice for the MSM to pick it up. In which case I have news for you - the MSM hasn't been mainstream in about 2 years. Reader- and viewership numbers are down across the board for these entities, while numbers for blogs and radio talk shows are through the roof.
Are you on conference calls? Put your cellphone next to it. The interference is ear-splitting, depending on what kind of cell-phone it is. If I put the phone next to my speakers, I can actually tell by the interference chatter what's coming in: email or phone call. In speakers, these things are all happening because the membranes react to EM fields. The same thing applies to any kind of display or receiver that works off of EM fields. Twitching and loopy things is exactly what I'd expect interference to look like.
I'm amazed at how often people mistake their ignorance for knowledge.
I'll repeat what I said above, but I'll be more obnoxious this time: you do not get to decide what is appropriate when it comes to fair use. Same that you don't get to decide what is good speech, and then ban it.
Or would you agree with the DHS official from yesterday who thinks that free speech is only allowed when it doesn't interfere with government?
No, fair use was created so that overzealous copyright lawyers wouldn't kill the public's ability to use the art.
There's nothing in fair use clauses that says anything about the use having to be useful or good - whatever that means. You don't get to define that - no one can, or at least is supposed to.
Interesting set up for detecting a machine. Here's another wrinkle to it: am I allowed to use Google to answer any questions? If so, what does that make me? A human-machine agglomeration? A human with a machine interface?
Further - what role does knowledge play in making one human?
I've seen them a few times. Now, I've also seen the "noshititsastory" tag. I'd have to agree with that. So for anyone who tags these things stories - why? Unless it's some new form of complaint about lack of newsworthiness, I don't get it.
Really? White, rural voters from a handful of states determined the last 2 elections. Old, white, protestant men are the majority in Congress - the vast majority. How do they not have the majority of the power and make all of the laws?
Not to mention that your link basically says that democracy and republic are functionally the same thing, as there are virtually no direct democracies in place today.
As opposed to what's going on right now? I fail to see the difference. If you can point to me where the current politicians are not voting what gets them reelected, I'd appreciate that.
As for your sig - it's the kind of person who has been beaten up, arrested and insulted because they were a particular skin color.
I think you're missing links to someone's myspace page and an article on geocities.com. Then you'd have the trifecta of inane blathering masquerading as insight.
You lost that battle a long time ago. Not to mention that there are plenty of ways to have National Healthcare without running afoul of the wording of the 10th Amendment. How do you think the Interstate Highway system was built?
That's a very astute assessment of the situation here. Considering that you're half a world away, that's pretty impressive.
Wanna come vote? :)
And with the EC, the opposite is true. I don't think I've seen either Obama or McCain anywhere close to where I live - CA. However, I get to hear how they spend all their time in Indiana, Nevada, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia....
As it stands, the people in the rural areas decide the direction of this country. Is that better? Really?
As for Democrats controlling Congress... I'd say that's a vast exaggeration. As is your assessment of their share of responsibility. Democrats have a 1 vote majority in the Senate, and that's because 2 independents are still listed as caucusing with Democrats - which includes Lieberman. They have a bigger share of the House of Representatives, but the majority is not remotely filibuster proof. Not to mention that if you think this crisis is two years, you're delusional. Same if you think that the people who took on these insane mortgages aren't a significant part of the problem.
Notice that it is a rewrite of "Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998". Notice that there isn't mass rioting, and that the government is still functioning.
I'm pretty sure that somewhere, there's a plan for dealing with Martian invaders. Doesn't mean it's likely.