Well yes, but that really isn't a server problem and shouldn't be used as an excuse to limit games to smaller shards. If the client hardware isn't up to it just don't render all the player characters and if the network connection isn't fast enough tell the server to send less/smaller updates. Still much preferable to limiting the design of the game world itself.
And then turned into a way of sueing other farmers because their fields where next to someone who had the terminator corn - also causing that person to not have enough for the next year.
That makes no sense. How can infertile terminator crop spread to neighboring fields? Are the moderators completely lacking in reading comprehension?
Having an armored transport car cracking open and leaking in the middle of the city would make the city uninhabitable for a quarter of a million years.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. Is your definition of a city 10x10 meters or something? Even so, with a city that small, you could just dig up all the polluted land and shove it in another barrel.
And why the hell would an "armored transport car" even a) transport nuclear waste and b) transport nuclear waste through a city!
And to top it off, if the American "documentaries" (with periodic action sequences, scary narrator and annoying background music) that I've accidentally been exposed to are any indicator, I'd say you're better off reading wikipedia or something. Hell, I'll even copy paste a section for you:
In the United States, the acceptability of the design of each cask is judged against Title 10, Part 71, of the Code of Federal Regulations (other nations' shipping casks, possibly excluding Russia's, are designed and tested to similar standards (International Atomic Energency Agency "Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material" No. TS-R-1)). The designs must demonstrate (possibly by computer modelling) protection against radiological release to the environment under all four of the following hypothetical accident conditions, designed to encompass 99% of all accidents.:
* A 9 meter (30 ft) free fall on to an unyielding surface
* A puncture test allowing the container to free-fall 1 meter (about 39 inches) onto a steel rod 15 centimeters (about 6 inches) in diameter
* A 30-minute, all-engulfing fire at 800 degrees Celsius (1475 degrees Fahrenheit)
* An 8-hour immersion under 0.9 meter (3 ft) of water.
* Further, an undamaged package must be subjected to a one-hour immersion under 200 meters (655 ft) of water.
So in the future, please refrain from opposing/supporting something just based on what you've seen on some television show. It's called the boob tube for a reason and that reason is not because they have female breasts on it.
Radiolinja was a Finnish GSM operator founded on September 19, 1988. On March 27, 1991, the world's first GSM phone call was made in Radiolinja's network. The network was opened for commercial use on July 1, 1991.
When Radiolinja launched, Finland's incumbent mobile operator, Telecom Finland (later changed to Sonera, now part of Swedish TeliaSonera) operated a first generation mobile network on the NMT technology. Thus Radiolinja's launch was also the start of mobile telecoms competition in Europe. Several global firsts happened on the Radiolinja network, including the world's first person-to-person SMS text message, sent in 1993; the world's first fixed-mobile service bundle, launched in 1996; and the world's first paid downloadable mobile content, a ringtone, in 1998.
Radiolinja's original investors included a broad scale of Finnish corporations and local telephone companies that were known collectively as the Finnet Group. In the mid 90s Elisa (known then as Helsinki Telephone Company) started acquiring more and more of Radiolinja's stock which ultimately lead to merger of Radiolinja, Radiolinja Origo and Elisa. At this point Elisa had also acquired some other major stake holders of Radiolinja such as Soon Communications (earlier Tampere Telephone Plc and even earlier Tampere Telephone Co-operative).
...Except for the fact that if we ever get plunged into a state of war and chaos, a shiny piece of metal that is gold won't be worth anything. Lets see, if I'm barely surviving in the radioactive wasteland, which is going to be worth more, a huge can of food that would allow me to store it for later and not have to spend hours looking for my next meal, or a shiny piece of metal that looks cool, but doesn't help me survive, nor has the pleasures of drugs, etc.
What a pleasant "fact". I'd say it's fairly obvious that gold is useless in a real doomsday scenario, but so is everything else. Having some food & guns might bring some comfort when you're one of the 0.1% survivors, but I suspect most would use the last bullet on themselves.
Now for any survivable "end of the world" like the world wars, hyperinflation, pandemics etc, gold is one good way of storing wealth through turbulent times.
While I agree that too much space is not very useful, I can't say the same about speed. Many games take tens of seconds to load, so anything that reduces loading times is a Good Thing.:)
Actually the limit is 300MB/s which some of the new drives are very close to reaching. One more generation of SSDs and they'll be bottlenecked by SATA 2.0.
Where are we being screwed? In the auto sector, where US problems flow across the border; in our softwood, paper, and logging sector, where both US protectionism and flagging demand flow across the border; in our tourism sector, as US visitors (by far the majority) can no longer afford to take vacations anywhere, let alone Canada, so your problems again flow across the border.
Wait. Are you blaming the US for lower demand? That's a bit like getting upset at your customer that he has reached his credit limit and can't buy more of your stuff. Had the US bubble not occured, that demand you lost would not have existed in the first place! That said, bubbles are a retarded way to "grow" an economy.
I consider this preference for animal over human life to be strongly misguided, even as someone who is strongly for the protection of animal life when it is reasonable.
There are almost 7 billion of us. Can the same be said of other animal species in the wild?
There is also a strange element of faith that has developed around the government.
The credit problems and the various bubbles are rooted in a few generic problems: 1. People taking part in the markets are often poorly informed and irrational. 2. Over a short period some people can cheat a market for higher profits and often escape the consequences of doing so.
The credit problem and the various bubbles are rooted in one thing: the federal reserve. As long as our money is based on the ridiculous joke of fractional reserve banking (i.e. banks are allowed to lend out more money than they have in cash deposits) the existence of the boom-bust cycle is guaranteed. Faith belongs in religion, not in our banking system!
How would you feel if you were resurrected by some other primates as one of a handful of your kind 50,000 years hence? Be just a little alienated, don't you think?
Alienated, sure. But it would beat the alternative.
His answer presupposes that there is no such thing as a soul, no creative spark, only emerging properties of complex systems.
Not really. The "soul" is just a cheap cop out by those who have no creativity. Nobody is born creative, it's something that comes from the right combination of experiences and memories, i.e. it is a feature of personality, not some magical soul.
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Well yes, but that really isn't a server problem and shouldn't be used as an excuse to limit games to smaller shards. If the client hardware isn't up to it just don't render all the player characters and if the network connection isn't fast enough tell the server to send less/smaller updates. Still much preferable to limiting the design of the game world itself.
Well, you replied to his post so you didn't actually mod him up at all... :P
That makes no sense. How can infertile terminator crop spread to neighboring fields? Are the moderators completely lacking in reading comprehension?
After re-reading my post it comes off as overly hostile. Apologies, but the points it makes should still be valid.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. Is your definition of a city 10x10 meters or something? Even so, with a city that small, you could just dig up all the polluted land and shove it in another barrel.
And why the hell would an "armored transport car" even a) transport nuclear waste and b) transport nuclear waste through a city!
And to top it off, if the American "documentaries" (with periodic action sequences, scary narrator and annoying background music) that I've accidentally been exposed to are any indicator, I'd say you're better off reading wikipedia or something. Hell, I'll even copy paste a section for you:
So in the future, please refrain from opposing/supporting something just based on what you've seen on some television show. It's called the boob tube for a reason and that reason is not because they have female breasts on it.
Quoted from wikipedia:
What a pleasant "fact". I'd say it's fairly obvious that gold is useless in a real doomsday scenario, but so is everything else. Having some food & guns might bring some comfort when you're one of the 0.1% survivors, but I suspect most would use the last bullet on themselves.
Now for any survivable "end of the world" like the world wars, hyperinflation, pandemics etc, gold is one good way of storing wealth through turbulent times.
Artificial usually means man-made, not unnatural.
Did you log out? It used to be that I couldn't mod in a thread where I posted as a logged in anonymous coward. Could have been changed.
Then those who say we live in glorious freedom will finally shut up.
I thought 3drealms going bankrupt would end the DNF meme. Guess I was wrong.
While I agree that too much space is not very useful, I can't say the same about speed. Many games take tens of seconds to load, so anything that reduces loading times is a Good Thing. :)
I don't think they mean falling literally, but more like falling from grace and turning to the dark side.
Actually, they believe in the same god as the christians. They just worship one of its fallen angels.
Actually the limit is 300MB/s which some of the new drives are very close to reaching. One more generation of SSDs and they'll be bottlenecked by SATA 2.0.
Wait. Are you blaming the US for lower demand? That's a bit like getting upset at your customer that he has reached his credit limit and can't buy more of your stuff. Had the US bubble not occured, that demand you lost would not have existed in the first place! That said, bubbles are a retarded way to "grow" an economy.
I think you must have mistyped, because 4 hours seems more like the norm than 40 hours.
We think alike, you and I.
I have to agree. When setting a price on human life, there are those one cares about and those one doesn't.
There are almost 7 billion of us. Can the same be said of other animal species in the wild?
The credit problem and the various bubbles are rooted in one thing: the federal reserve. As long as our money is based on the ridiculous joke of fractional reserve banking (i.e. banks are allowed to lend out more money than they have in cash deposits) the existence of the boom-bust cycle is guaranteed. Faith belongs in religion, not in our banking system!
Alienated, sure. But it would beat the alternative.
Well, humans are still around so the answer to your question would be no. But at least we now have the chance to make up for our mistakes.
Not really. The "soul" is just a cheap cop out by those who have no creativity. Nobody is born creative, it's something that comes from the right combination of experiences and memories, i.e. it is a feature of personality, not some magical soul.
Well, if we get QM involved in this then everything is deterministic. Even though it isn't.