Milwaukee's downtown is in a process of revivication and gentrification. If GenCon had stayed another five years, it'd be entirely different. On top of that, I never had any problems finding a place to go when I wanted food or drink. Goolsby's and the Safe House were open late enough for me. I suppose I never saw the 'con actually outgrow the city and it seemed to me that the lack was exagreated. But I was a native, so, there you go.
Agreed on that. I only attended three while it was still in the MECA (Too young.) But those were easily the best conventions I'd ever been to. Though, every single character I ran in every single game those three years died. Poor magic-users.
But, the fracturing will occur well after launch, over the course of five years. That's longer than the current generational turn over for consoles, unless I'm mistaken. They're just announcing what everyone knows has been true about every system since the orignal Nintendo 8-Bit; there will be multiple versions of this system.
How is releasing multiple versions of the same system a hurdle of any kind? Were the X million iterations of the Game Boy hurdles for Nintendo? They looked like a considerable revenue stream to me.
IANAL, but I was a Mock one. I'm pretty sure that trying to ram a case through the legal system, having it rejected (i.e. having the judge find against you) actually makes it less likely you'll be able to ram it through, ever. This'd be owing to the fact that your first loss sets a precedent for cases of that type.
It isn't whether they search for prior works or not that torques me off; its the sense that they're not following any coherent set of procedures. This is manifested both by the behaviour of not putting any scrutiny on a patent application and approving it, despite it being ludicrous. It can also be seen in rejecting a patent several times, one of them a supposed final rejection, but eventually granting it after enough tenacity. It just doesn't make a lick of sense to me, and that is what pisses me off.
I agree with everything you said, except your response to the second point. Whether or not other countries would follow the example, a good example is still better than a bad example. Justifying an action by saying that we must do it, because They will do also it, just doesn't cut it for me.
Beyond that, I'm personally in favor of any renewed military interest in space. They've always been the biggest pushers on any technology envelope, and its been too long since space was considered a serious national priority.
It depends on the activity, doesn't it? If its detrimental to the people that are doing it, then social darwinism will take effect and remove them from the society, or at least any place of importance within it. If instead, it is harmfull to others, the guv'ment locks you up.
Being not beneficial isn't really a big things. Lots of things people do aren't beneficial. I'm chewing sugar-free gum right now. It is doing absolutely nothing good. Does that make it bad?
And now a post about a Slashdot article that links to a cut-and-paste article on an obscure gaming website that links to Sabertooth's homepage that links to a post about the new cards that links to the original press release.
It makes the falsifiable prediction," If you combine non-living matter and zap it, beat it, burn it, cajole it, Fiat Homo (eventually)." You can test that. You can create experiments to try it out.
You can try setting up an experiment for ID. But shouting "Why?" over and over at night sky may get you locked up.
Quicksilver did a similiar thing when they were creating Master of Orion 3. The devs drew comments, concepts and mechanics from the community at large through their forum. A not insignificant number of people became honorary, and unpaid, designers. I don't know how much of their design was fan generated, but there was no shortage of intelligent and creative sci-fi buffs helping them make the game.
Of course, then they threw the Elephant out, and it all went to heck. But thats neither here nor there. Point being, a community of fans that has access to a creative work can dramatically aid in its creation.
Added mass is only a problem if you continue to think of constructing a traditional spacecraft, along the lines of the shuttle or an Apollo pod. If you start from scratch, and design based on the needs for the mission, you get something that will work.
For the moment, the only problem we're talking about is cosmic radiation. There are other problems (You'd need a much, much larger habital section than anything we have right now, long term life support system etc.) but those are actually also solved by adopting an ORION drive. The amount of thrust, and therefore the amount of mass you can shove around, is very, very large. Strap as much shielding onto it as you want. Gives you a lot of space to stick in a hydroponics garden and ample living quarters so that the astronauts don't go insane.
I prefer the original, actually. Felt a little more like Nethack, but with graphics. Also, it didn't give me the same urge to tape down my mouse button.
This is a nice chicken/egg problem, here. How do you create good government without an educated populace? How do you create an educated populace without a good government? A government run by thugs (i.e. people without an education) will tend towards thuggery. It will spend money on arming itself, harming others, and subjugating its own people. So how do you get an enlightened, well ordered government without education? Education, self-improvement, and a well ordered family lead to a healthy government in the aggregate, and without those you only have an anomlous calm before a collapse of civil order.
Coming from a family of teachers, I'd say that the place to start is education. Personal bias, maybe. But I see the education more as a groundwork, a needed first step. "If you set the foundation straight, the house will have to try to be crooked. With a crooked foundation, the house will have a very hard time being straight."
Feeding the head is as important as feeding the body. Greater education leads to greater abilities and self esteem, which leads not only to employability but the self-awareness to demand fair wages. When this happens, it (hopefully) leads to a cascade effect across the society, increasing standards of living.
If I recall my African Studies classes correctly, hunger in sub-Saharan Africa is due to poor transportation infrastructure, and also is used as a weapon. Famine, created by regimes to control a discontent populace, or kill rivals. So maybe open-source trains, or open-source revolutionaries. The food exists; it is getting it there, and making sure it gets to the hungry.
Sure. But that is a poor metaphor. The wireless network is not a house, it is a bunch of radio waves being transmitted. There is no door, there are no walls and there is no demarcation of private property. What this wireless 'hijacker' did is very similiar to using a radio, and using it to listen to a radio station. If you do not want someone listening to your radio broadcast, then do something to obfuscate it. Otherwise you are transmitting data across a public forum, and really have to abide as if your broadcast were for the public to access. The spectrum belongs to the people.
It seems to be a fear of control. When you have complete co-operation between every single layer of a machine, the ability of those in co-operation to dictate terms increases dramatically. If the new CPUs and Mobos only work with EFI, and EFI only lets you boot into DRMed material, and they refuse to license their DRM methods for reasonable amounts, then they can functionally decide what can be done with the computers they create and sell.
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That sure was a lot of fancy words. I'm sold.
It is okay. Some of us like lots and lots of lines of text.
Milwaukee's downtown is in a process of revivication and gentrification. If GenCon had stayed another five years, it'd be entirely different. On top of that, I never had any problems finding a place to go when I wanted food or drink. Goolsby's and the Safe House were open late enough for me. I suppose I never saw the 'con actually outgrow the city and it seemed to me that the lack was exagreated. But I was a native, so, there you go.
Agreed on that. I only attended three while it was still in the MECA (Too young.) But those were easily the best conventions I'd ever been to. Though, every single character I ran in every single game those three years died. Poor magic-users.
Indeed. I'd say the biggest mistake was moving it from Milwaukee. A GenCon without the Safe House is no GenCon at all.
But, the fracturing will occur well after launch, over the course of five years. That's longer than the current generational turn over for consoles, unless I'm mistaken. They're just announcing what everyone knows has been true about every system since the orignal Nintendo 8-Bit; there will be multiple versions of this system.
How is releasing multiple versions of the same system a hurdle of any kind? Were the X million iterations of the Game Boy hurdles for Nintendo? They looked like a considerable revenue stream to me.
IANAL, but I was a Mock one. I'm pretty sure that trying to ram a case through the legal system, having it rejected (i.e. having the judge find against you) actually makes it less likely you'll be able to ram it through, ever. This'd be owing to the fact that your first loss sets a precedent for cases of that type.
It isn't whether they search for prior works or not that torques me off; its the sense that they're not following any coherent set of procedures. This is manifested both by the behaviour of not putting any scrutiny on a patent application and approving it, despite it being ludicrous. It can also be seen in rejecting a patent several times, one of them a supposed final rejection, but eventually granting it after enough tenacity. It just doesn't make a lick of sense to me, and that is what pisses me off.
I agree with everything you said, except your response to the second point. Whether or not other countries would follow the example, a good example is still better than a bad example. Justifying an action by saying that we must do it, because They will do also it, just doesn't cut it for me.
Beyond that, I'm personally in favor of any renewed military interest in space. They've always been the biggest pushers on any technology envelope, and its been too long since space was considered a serious national priority.
It depends on the activity, doesn't it? If its detrimental to the people that are doing it, then social darwinism will take effect and remove them from the society, or at least any place of importance within it. If instead, it is harmfull to others, the guv'ment locks you up.
Being not beneficial isn't really a big things. Lots of things people do aren't beneficial. I'm chewing sugar-free gum right now. It is doing absolutely nothing good. Does that make it bad?
This AC must be Arthur C. Clarke, mad that The Hammer of God wasn't as cool as Lucifer's Hammer.
And now a post about a Slashdot article that links to a cut-and-paste article on an obscure gaming website that links to Sabertooth's homepage that links to a post about the new cards that links to the original press release.
It makes the falsifiable prediction," If you combine non-living matter and zap it, beat it, burn it, cajole it, Fiat Homo (eventually)." You can test that. You can create experiments to try it out.
You can try setting up an experiment for ID. But shouting "Why?" over and over at night sky may get you locked up.
Quicksilver did a similiar thing when they were creating Master of Orion 3. The devs drew comments, concepts and mechanics from the community at large through their forum. A not insignificant number of people became honorary, and unpaid, designers. I don't know how much of their design was fan generated, but there was no shortage of intelligent and creative sci-fi buffs helping them make the game.
Of course, then they threw the Elephant out, and it all went to heck. But thats neither here nor there. Point being, a community of fans that has access to a creative work can dramatically aid in its creation.
And by working long hours, you mean posting on Slashdot?
2. Conforming to one principle, standard, or rule; consistent.
You mean, like the rule of "business casual"?
While in their work uniforms? What, so those of in a business casual office can't fraternize with our coworkers while wearing clothes?
Huh, I never knew those NRLB guys were so free spirited.
Added mass is only a problem if you continue to think of constructing a traditional spacecraft, along the lines of the shuttle or an Apollo pod. If you start from scratch, and design based on the needs for the mission, you get something that will work.
For the moment, the only problem we're talking about is cosmic radiation. There are other problems (You'd need a much, much larger habital section than anything we have right now, long term life support system etc.) but those are actually also solved by adopting an ORION drive. The amount of thrust, and therefore the amount of mass you can shove around, is very, very large. Strap as much shielding onto it as you want. Gives you a lot of space to stick in a hydroponics garden and ample living quarters so that the astronauts don't go insane.
I prefer the original, actually. Felt a little more like Nethack, but with graphics. Also, it didn't give me the same urge to tape down my mouse button.
$359.98. I guess they'll have to rename the console, won't they? "They XBox 359.98; because we can't just make something cost an even dollar amount!"
This is a nice chicken/egg problem, here. How do you create good government without an educated populace? How do you create an educated populace without a good government? A government run by thugs (i.e. people without an education) will tend towards thuggery. It will spend money on arming itself, harming others, and subjugating its own people. So how do you get an enlightened, well ordered government without education? Education, self-improvement, and a well ordered family lead to a healthy government in the aggregate, and without those you only have an anomlous calm before a collapse of civil order.
Coming from a family of teachers, I'd say that the place to start is education. Personal bias, maybe. But I see the education more as a groundwork, a needed first step. "If you set the foundation straight, the house will have to try to be crooked. With a crooked foundation, the house will have a very hard time being straight."
Feeding the head is as important as feeding the body. Greater education leads to greater abilities and self esteem, which leads not only to employability but the self-awareness to demand fair wages. When this happens, it (hopefully) leads to a cascade effect across the society, increasing standards of living.
If I recall my African Studies classes correctly, hunger in sub-Saharan Africa is due to poor transportation infrastructure, and also is used as a weapon. Famine, created by regimes to control a discontent populace, or kill rivals. So maybe open-source trains, or open-source revolutionaries. The food exists; it is getting it there, and making sure it gets to the hungry.
Sure. But that is a poor metaphor. The wireless network is not a house, it is a bunch of radio waves being transmitted. There is no door, there are no walls and there is no demarcation of private property. What this wireless 'hijacker' did is very similiar to using a radio, and using it to listen to a radio station. If you do not want someone listening to your radio broadcast, then do something to obfuscate it. Otherwise you are transmitting data across a public forum, and really have to abide as if your broadcast were for the public to access. The spectrum belongs to the people.
It seems to be a fear of control. When you have complete co-operation between every single layer of a machine, the ability of those in co-operation to dictate terms increases dramatically. If the new CPUs and Mobos only work with EFI, and EFI only lets you boot into DRMed material, and they refuse to license their DRM methods for reasonable amounts, then they can functionally decide what can be done with the computers they create and sell.