Vat-grown meat sounds like it could be interesting: no animals would suffer, etc etc. it'd probably be hard to prevent a disease from spoiling huge portions of batches, though... and people that are all over Organic Food would oppose it.
Would it be essential to have mastered the tech, though, if we want long term space living?
I believe that this is less about malicious intent of those participating in the system (poilice, lawyers, judges, lawmakers), and more about Perceived Effectiveness. It's not that they don't want justice, but they need measurable numbers. They need to show that they're Being Effective at deterring crimes, stopping pedophiles, stopping hackers, winning the war on drugs, etc.
Police are there to make arrests and get the DA a case good enough to go to trial. It's not about "justice", or even your guilt: If something you say can be interpreted as implication, you're dealing with a DA.
DA's care about looking good to constituents (and/bosses). They can't NOT prosecute cases that the police give them. (Perhaps they CAN, but it looks bad, so I doubt it happens unless they feel they can't win it... and even then they'll try to plea bargain you out.)
Judges care about... who knows what.:) They don't like to have things overturned, as that makes them look bad, but at the same time they tend to be very keen on interpreting the letter of the law. It's generally the higher appeals courts that seem to care about the "spirit" of the law, and even then the letter's pretty strong.
I jest, but I rarely close Opera. It sits on my desktop, with ~40-60 tabs open (yes, I can't read the names). Periodically I close it and reopen it, and am thankful that it automagically remembers all of my tabs and history. Sometimes, very rarely, it crashes and I lose my saved tabs, and have to go back to a "session" i've saved explicitly. The rarity of this is enough that my last explicitly saved session (usually made shortly after the *last* crash) is months old.
I love the way Opera handles many tabs open... and dislike how Firefox does it.
Culture and ethnicity are NOT the same thing. Yes, often an ethnicity is considered to have an associated culture, but the implication does not go the other way.
Surfers, D&D nerds, Skateboarders, cheerleaders: all of these are sets of people often considered to have a shared "culture". This culture, whether it's people in wetsuits freezing their toes off in water, or a bunch of teens jumping and dancing in front of a stadium, are orthogonal to an ethnicity. It's unrelated.
We have black surfers, white surfers, and presumably could imagine Romani surfers. We have D&D nerds who are boys, some who are girls, some who are asian, some who are white, etc. If you go to a Rocky Horror Picture Show, you'll find a fairly diverse group (or, I did when I went), and it's hard to argue that the set of regular attendees are not part of a shared culture.
Functions that resume where they left off... wow. It makes me want to cuddle up in a corner with a nice cozy functional language and try to forget I read that completely.;)
I exaggerate... but it pretty much seems to be comlpetely counter to functional programming principles. When would you consider it a good idea to use such a construction? Why would you want a function do that? What is the alternative, less-clever way of doing it?
My time with my son is priceless. I don't know that I could deal with not seeing him except after he'd already gone to sleep. On the other hand, being able to be financially stable for the rest of my life, my wife's life, and being able to comfortably fund my kids' education has a certain appeal, too. Being able to work less later in life, when my kids want to go backpacking, or play soccer, or go to museums, that is pretty valuable time too.
I don't know WHAT they aredoing; I merely said it was something they could. Not being at blizzcon, I can't really add new info to this. Sorry for the confusion.
Speaking of talents, does anyone know of a talent calculator that lets you un-cap the max level? Wowhead's and MMO-champion's both were capped at 80 when I looked earlier today.
- Good gear: Your T8-grade gear, which many seem to have access to now, will make great leveling gear. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do l85 dungeons in a lot of them. (except as a tank, I imagine)
- Alternate rewards: While leveling, they can give rewards in terms of things other than gear and XP. They could give Marks of Whatever to let you BUY good gear (rather than receiving 15 different pieces of crap that you sell to a vendor), or give you plain money, or consumables, etc. (That reminds me... make flasks for leveling.;)) They could give you things/points/etc that would help you on this mysterious alternate leveling system, which I suspect will reflect role (healer, tank, melee dps, ranged dps) rather than class.
Talent trees, and the role of individual talents, seem to be changing, so I expect it won't be as simple as taking your current talents and adding 5 points to them. (In some cases, that makes for effects like "5% more damage", but other times it's something powerful like being able to get two powerful cooldowns or talented abilities which were previously separated by a lack of points.
Perhaps browsers, in their current incarnation, are very well suited to representing a web of hyperlinked documents in a way that humans can easily read and relate to. Are there any shortcomings (aside from lack of originality/innovation) that you can elaborate on?
- Part of it is a code for a location: places with large numbers of people born therein will have more people having to share the same initial 3 digits. - Area numbers cannot be > 772. - zero groups are not allowed
The important part, though, is that it's not a random number, nor a centrally allocated one (that can avoid conflicts), and that there have been many people who have had others using the same SSN. (e.g., http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/17/national/main1726397.shtml )
How odd. External links are only valid if they are globally accessible? Wikipedia's external links on articles (whether on a particular piece of software, or on a scientific concept) are often an easier venue of finding information than a web search.
I realize that they don't/want/ to do this, but... how sad. It could be much more useful, even if some of the external references were only accessible to Chinese, or New Zealanders.
Sometimes you don't know what the magic number is supposed to represent. It's sitting there, uncommented in some code that you're trying to troubleshoot, and you don't know (a) why, (b) what units it's in, and (c) whether it's an important constant or just an engineer's SWAG.
I was once working on some code which had the number 3443.9 in it. What does that represent? The variable name "a", or something similarly inscrutable. Googling for 3443, I found nothing. I knew it was a distance, and so I decided to start assuming it was in units. Google is awesome, as I can google for 3443 X:
3443 miles: Nothing of significance 3443 kilometers: Nothing 3443 nautical miles: The radius of the earth. Awesome!
So, being able to easily find what a number represents is great, especially when you don't always know what the units are or what role that value plays in an equation.
So, why not have two pricing tiers: one which is cheaper and that treats you as a "subscriber" -- details to Murdoch, etc -- and another slightly more expensive that shares no info with him?
Most people likely don't care whether he knows about them -- if it's a $0.50 transaction vs a $0.99 one, enough will go on price to satisfy him, I suspect.
While the ballistics of a 10m shot vs a 100m or 500m shot are very different, in that you have noticeable bullet drop, the key is that in most close quarters combat (which most video games simulate), the encounter distance is short. The distance between your aiming point for a 50m target and where it would hit glass 10m away is relatively small. So, this project is a great representation of a close quarters fight, and is not so good for sniping or long distance shooting... which is not all that surprising.
The entire -point- of netbooks is that they are small. The whole netbook industry seems to be grappling with its product identity, and reviewers aren't helping by routinely grading them on how close to a laptop they are.
Netbooks should be graded on size, favoring SMALL. Performance is important, but secondary to battery life.
I disagree on size. Screen resolution is very important to me, and is (aside from budget) the main reason I have not bought a netbook yet. I love the idea of a small, light, cheap, low-performance, long-battery-life machine, as long as the keyboard and screen are big enough not to cause me grief
It can handle very long documents just fine if you use the program appropriately.
What do you consider "long"? 100 pages? 200 pages? 500 pages? 800 pages?
I know a technical editor for a team of engineers. All of their reports are written (and edited) in Word. The several-hundred-page documents fail frequently enough to be a problem. When I say "fail", I mean that either Word crashes, or the document is corrupted and effectively unrecoverable enough to have wasted dozens of man-hours of labor on the document. Laying that at the feet of the users is NOT acceptible: it's a sign of program failure. Why is a 500-page document less stable than most 30-page documents? Why is it POSSIBLE for a user to "do it wrong"?
Word sucks much more often for Large Documents than a real document editing system.
Wouldn't threatening leading scientists with heresy or witchcraft charges, crusades against a technologically advanced (and supportive of science!) civilization, and a general discouragement of literacy outside the clergy count as "holding back scientific research"? I think it does.
That's great when you're only dealing with files, but if you are running a REPL, being able to remotely access the same development environment (sources+REPL) is pretty freaking cool.
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Vat-grown meat sounds like it could be interesting: no animals would suffer, etc etc. it'd probably be hard to prevent a disease from spoiling huge portions of batches, though... and people that are all over Organic Food would oppose it.
Would it be essential to have mastered the tech, though, if we want long term space living?
I believe that this is less about malicious intent of those participating in the system (poilice, lawyers, judges, lawmakers), and more about Perceived Effectiveness. It's not that they don't want justice, but they need measurable numbers. They need to show that they're Being Effective at deterring crimes, stopping pedophiles, stopping hackers, winning the war on drugs, etc.
Police are there to make arrests and get the DA a case good enough to go to trial. It's not about "justice", or even your guilt: If something you say can be interpreted as implication, you're dealing with a DA.
DA's care about looking good to constituents (and/bosses). They can't NOT prosecute cases that the police give them. (Perhaps they CAN, but it looks bad, so I doubt it happens unless they feel they can't win it ... and even then they'll try to plea bargain you out.)
Judges care about ... who knows what. :) They don't like to have things overturned, as that makes them look bad, but at the same time they tend to be very keen on interpreting the letter of the law. It's generally the higher appeals courts that seem to care about the "spirit" of the law, and even then the letter's pretty strong.
People exit Opera??
I jest, but I rarely close Opera. It sits on my desktop, with ~40-60 tabs open (yes, I can't read the names). Periodically I close it and reopen it, and am thankful that it automagically remembers all of my tabs and history. Sometimes, very rarely, it crashes and I lose my saved tabs, and have to go back to a "session" i've saved explicitly. The rarity of this is enough that my last explicitly saved session (usually made shortly after the *last* crash) is months old.
I love the way Opera handles many tabs open... and dislike how Firefox does it.
Culture and ethnicity are NOT the same thing. Yes, often an ethnicity is considered to have an associated culture, but the implication does not go the other way.
Surfers, D&D nerds, Skateboarders, cheerleaders: all of these are sets of people often considered to have a shared "culture". This culture, whether it's people in wetsuits freezing their toes off in water, or a bunch of teens jumping and dancing in front of a stadium, are orthogonal to an ethnicity. It's unrelated.
We have black surfers, white surfers, and presumably could imagine Romani surfers. We have D&D nerds who are boys, some who are girls, some who are asian, some who are white, etc. If you go to a Rocky Horror Picture Show, you'll find a fairly diverse group (or, I did when I went), and it's hard to argue that the set of regular attendees are not part of a shared culture.
Functions that resume where they left off ... wow. It makes me want to cuddle up in a corner with a nice cozy functional language and try to forget I read that completely. ;)
I exaggerate ... but it pretty much seems to be comlpetely counter to functional programming principles. When would you consider it a good idea to use such a construction? Why would you want a function do that? What is the alternative, less-clever way of doing it?
"Ballistic toro"? Flying cows? flying bull[shit]? I confess I don't quite understand the phrase.
That's an interesting question.
My time with my son is priceless. I don't know that I could deal with not seeing him except after he'd already gone to sleep. On the other hand, being able to be financially stable for the rest of my life, my wife's life, and being able to comfortably fund my kids' education has a certain appeal, too. Being able to work less later in life, when my kids want to go backpacking, or play soccer, or go to museums, that is pretty valuable time too.
I don't know WHAT they aredoing; I merely said it was something they could. Not being at blizzcon, I can't really add new info to this. Sorry for the confusion.
Speaking of talents, does anyone know of a talent calculator that lets you un-cap the max level? Wowhead's and MMO-champion's both were capped at 80 when I looked earlier today.
Some of the nice effects:
- Good gear: Your T8-grade gear, which many seem to have access to now, will make great leveling gear. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do l85 dungeons in a lot of them. (except as a tank, I imagine)
- Alternate rewards: While leveling, they can give rewards in terms of things other than gear and XP. They could give Marks of Whatever to let you BUY good gear (rather than receiving 15 different pieces of crap that you sell to a vendor), or give you plain money, or consumables, etc. (That reminds me ... make flasks for leveling. ;)) They could give you things/points/etc that would help you on this mysterious alternate leveling system, which I suspect will reflect role (healer, tank, melee dps, ranged dps) rather than class.
Talent trees, and the role of individual talents, seem to be changing, so I expect it won't be as simple as taking your current talents and adding 5 points to them. (In some cases, that makes for effects like "5% more damage", but other times it's something powerful like being able to get two powerful cooldowns or talented abilities which were previously separated by a lack of points.
Perhaps browsers, in their current incarnation, are very well suited to representing a web of hyperlinked documents in a way that humans can easily read and relate to. Are there any shortcomings (aside from lack of originality/innovation) that you can elaborate on?
There are substantial swaths of the "keyspace" of an SSN which are unused by design.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structure
- Part of it is a code for a location: places with large numbers of people born therein will have more people having to share the same initial 3 digits.
- Area numbers cannot be > 772.
- zero groups are not allowed
The important part, though, is that it's not a random number, nor a centrally allocated one (that can avoid conflicts), and that there have been many people who have had others using the same SSN. (e.g., http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/17/national/main1726397.shtml )
How odd. External links are only valid if they are globally accessible? Wikipedia's external links on articles (whether on a particular piece of software, or on a scientific concept) are often an easier venue of finding information than a web search.
I realize that they don't /want/ to do this, but ... how sad. It could be much more useful, even if some of the external references were only accessible to Chinese, or New Zealanders.
"Unique Enough" isn't.
If your blog app only reads from a database, and never writes to it, what needs securing? You can write other tools to write to the db.
Sometimes you don't know what the magic number is supposed to represent. It's sitting there, uncommented in some code that you're trying to troubleshoot, and you don't know (a) why, (b) what units it's in, and (c) whether it's an important constant or just an engineer's SWAG.
I was once working on some code which had the number 3443.9 in it. What does that represent? The variable name "a", or something similarly inscrutable. Googling for 3443, I found nothing. I knew it was a distance, and so I decided to start assuming it was in units. Google is awesome, as I can google for 3443 X:
3443 miles: Nothing of significance
3443 kilometers: Nothing
3443 nautical miles: The radius of the earth. Awesome!
So, being able to easily find what a number represents is great, especially when you don't always know what the units are or what role that value plays in an equation.
So, why not have two pricing tiers: one which is cheaper and that treats you as a "subscriber" -- details to Murdoch, etc -- and another slightly more expensive that shares no info with him?
Most people likely don't care whether he knows about them -- if it's a $0.50 transaction vs a $0.99 one, enough will go on price to satisfy him, I suspect.
I think it would actually be kinda neat for implementing accuracy drills for fencing. :D
That, and playing a zombie game with real shovels/bats/etc would lend a certain degree of realism and physicality that would likely be very cathartic.
While the ballistics of a 10m shot vs a 100m or 500m shot are very different, in that you have noticeable bullet drop, the key is that in most close quarters combat (which most video games simulate), the encounter distance is short. The distance between your aiming point for a 50m target and where it would hit glass 10m away is relatively small. So, this project is a great representation of a close quarters fight, and is not so good for sniping or long distance shooting... which is not all that surprising.
I disagree on size. Screen resolution is very important to me, and is (aside from budget) the main reason I have not bought a netbook yet. I love the idea of a small, light, cheap, low-performance, long-battery-life machine, as long as the keyboard and screen are big enough not to cause me grief
What do you consider "long"? 100 pages? 200 pages? 500 pages? 800 pages?
I know a technical editor for a team of engineers. All of their reports are written (and edited) in Word. The several-hundred-page documents fail frequently enough to be a problem. When I say "fail", I mean that either Word crashes, or the document is corrupted and effectively unrecoverable enough to have wasted dozens of man-hours of labor on the document. Laying that at the feet of the users is NOT acceptible: it's a sign of program failure. Why is a 500-page document less stable than most 30-page documents? Why is it POSSIBLE for a user to "do it wrong"?
Word sucks much more often for Large Documents than a real document editing system.
Perhaps this is why Vulcans take such care to suppress fears and desires. ;)
Wouldn't threatening leading scientists with heresy or witchcraft charges, crusades against a technologically advanced (and supportive of science!) civilization, and a general discouragement of literacy outside the clergy count as "holding back scientific research"? I think it does.
If they suddenly lose the deaths toll from malaria, and do not stop fighting, they won't have the infrastructure to support the extra mouths.
If they stopped fighting, they could support it relatively easily, assuming they don't have to worry about things like gov't corruption.
Now, the key question: How likely are they to stop fighting each other?
That's great when you're only dealing with files, but if you are running a REPL, being able to remotely access the same development environment (sources+REPL) is pretty freaking cool.