I don't know if I should be happy for the fact that a product out there fixes a Microsoft Mistake (IMHO) or upset that I'd have to pay extra to get features that used to be part of the product.
I still don't understand why light and matter cannot be made of the same stuff. "at rest" matter being a particle not moving at the speed of light and light being matter traveling at this speed. "at rest" matter would be bumping into each other causing it to slow down and not emit energy from striking something else at speed and light being emitted at speed until it collides with something causing an expense of energy. It would mean that light could be so minuscule that it flies between some particles, reflects and refracts through others. The idea that light (aka: really fast matter in this case) has infinite mass to me means that we just don't have the tools to measure it's mass and speculate with an approximated formula/number. Light at rest in my mind would just be matter.
I don't know. The hard rule never made sense to me.
Or is the mass of a light particle.000~001 where "~" replaces so many 0s that we cannot measure and would so minuscule that the formula appears to work? (Kind of like using PI in Math. You can get pretty close, but not quite accurate.)
If you switch to MS Office, you'd have less competition, but the using GoogleDocs or AbiWord would give you the same effect. The more players the better. Heck, just download the applications and give them a tick on the counter, even if you don't use them. Done enough, it's usually enough to bring in ad revenue and donations to expand the project.
Though AbiWord really isn't an Office replacement as much as a Word alternative, so making that comparison I think you are reaching for straws to try to make some point and be clever.
You'd have descriptive generation something like the following. You wouldn't send the models and textures for the area, but you'd have pre-made assets locally. You tell the client to draw two triangles with texture 34987 at positions {(x1, y1, z1), (x2, y2, z2), (x3, y3, z3)} Then just tell the client to draw item 5632 at x/y/z/pitch/yaw/roll. You could do grass, trees, houses... In rare occasions (or maybe the first initial "patch") you can have the client download a new asset, dungeon section, tree, etc. You could even give users the option to torrent download the entire asset library for a "better gameplay experience" while they are playing or overnight.
Apparently it's not just Word. I've been having that experience with Windows 7 since the beta was released. I installed it in VirtualBox and have spent the last two days trying to find a way to:
Remove the "Organize" bar
Remove the back/forward/location/search bar that's attached to all windows (I think this was in Vista as well, but I skipped Vista)
Show services in the list of executables running so I can see at a glance how much CPU/Memory they are using
Add lines back to the tree view
Keep the plus/minus icons from disappearing in the tree view
Remove the "All Programs" and subsequent "search" list in the Start Menu
Avoid Library foldering methods
Essentially make it like Windows 2000 used to be. Easy, simple, minimal, and out of your way.
I also despise the Ribbon the more I work with it. Luckily my work hasn't upgraded to the latest Office yet and are still using Office 2003.
Players request data about their surroundings. Index "new" change data on nearest integer coordinate and when a player requests an update, send them what changed near them.
Split the world into cubic environments that are small enough to download in chunks. (If you played Vanguard, or seen it... Think about 100 times smaller than their chunks.) You'd have hundreds of zone chunks nearby a character. If the world changed in one of these chunks and the player is nearby, send them updated chunk data. You can send the player a small hash array for the version of the chunk data near them and the client can tell you it needs x chunks back after checking the version data. You would need to structure the game like GW where you download the world data as needed, so you might need a content server of some type but this would make the initial download small and only explorers would download all the content. If a miner opens a mine in the side of a mountain... everyone in the area is sent a new cubic chunk of that opening. Keep this download manager in it's own process/thread to allow them continue playing without load bars.
I thought about doing this for a multiplayer dungeon crawler of sorts that the enemies would dig tunnels looking for ore. They may intersect the dungeons or other tunnels and make the underworld dynamic. If they mined out too much, it would cave in separating them from supplies and/or killing them.
Make a localized voting system. If a person is being an ass, someone votes to "rate" then negatively. Enough negative ratings and you forbid them from certain cities. You can have the opposite and positive ratings allow people into certain cities. This would have to be localized to alleviate guild/zone griefing. Just vote that a person is being bad and everyone cooperating (having the option turned on) in a certain radius is prompted (politely, off to the side of the screen or something) to vote. If the person gets enough votes, they are negatively rated. You could limit the votes to 3 per day or something with good/bad combined.
If they reduced the price of the OS, they couldn't abuse their market share to try to pimp their wares (XBox, Zune, etc.) to everyone else while taking a big hit on said ventures. Last time I heard, Windows and Office were their only profitable divisions. They are essentially gouging the PC market to expand the company in other areas.
I generally agree with you though. One version and cheaper cost would sell it in spades and keep Microsoft in the OS market for a little while yet. Unfortunately, with their OEM agreements and market share, they make their own rules.
In the same lacking sense of logic, you've equated sales to popularity. In today's computer market if you buy a PC it will have Vista, like it or not. You actually have to go out of your way to get something else installed. Sales do not reflect popularity.
Will someone create 4to6? (or have they already) The router would map IPV6 external addresses to v4 addresses internally? Not that I can think of a reason for it besides some kind of convoluted security or remapping or ports to specific internal addresses.
Probably not, but I'd love to see the pages on MySpace for that. Animated gifs of cartoon bombs with the fuses getting shorter, wall shouts of them planning the next hit, profiles listing their likes and dislikes. that one terrorist in the friends list that likes Hello Kitty so much he uses it for a picture...
Because inevitably, the person buying the "wasteful" TV is paying above and beyond what everyone else is paying for that right. So why artificially cap everyone's usage because some spoiled brat bought a TV that requires it's own nuclear plant to operate. They are paying the bill, and a greater portion of the infrastructure and upgrade costs.
What you should be looking for is a way to shut off/cap people that are using excessive amounts of energy first in a brownout so the person that looked at efficiency has a more reliable service. This would also prompt that energy hog to go out and spend some of the excess they have on their own form of power generation if needed and feed it back into the grid. They will maintain their excess, get a check from the power company for helping generate and the community will benefit from fewer brownouts. If they choose not to spend in that way, they can start looking for the energy consumption specs and turn the A/C down a notch if needed.
Then find a site that lists the operating specs and buy from them. Make sure you tell them you like that feature and that's why they got your business if it means that much to you.
Heck, a simple Google search of "KDL-32M4000 power consumption" tells me you should be shopping at: shopping.msn, Crutchfield, or I'm sure many other locations.
How does the site know your machine is tied to that public key?
You'd have to have the browser or a local app upload a public key from your machine to the anyserver.com account, right? If your public key changed, or you tried to log into the same site from a friend's house or work... how would you verify that your ID belongs to you? Log into a local app that updates the public key? (or log into the public key hosting server) That's the only way I see that it would work.
Or why not let the blackouts happen so people will figure it out themselves and maybe by decentralized power production devices like solar panels and home wind turbines to supplement their energy usage.
You could also raise the cost of electricity to push that incentive... since it's going to cost more to generate that power.
The free market works... if the government doesn't keep feeding it money in subsidies and welfare.
Also, why not spend that money on the efficiency of the energy production and distribution instead? It would benefit us more than just TV usage restrictions.
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I hope you're being sarcastic. ;)
(quick Google: http://www.okstate.edu/osu_orgs/tbp/index.html )
I don't know if I should be happy for the fact that a product out there fixes a Microsoft Mistake (IMHO) or upset that I'd have to pay extra to get features that used to be part of the product.
I still don't understand why light and matter cannot be made of the same stuff. "at rest" matter being a particle not moving at the speed of light and light being matter traveling at this speed. "at rest" matter would be bumping into each other causing it to slow down and not emit energy from striking something else at speed and light being emitted at speed until it collides with something causing an expense of energy. It would mean that light could be so minuscule that it flies between some particles, reflects and refracts through others. The idea that light (aka: really fast matter in this case) has infinite mass to me means that we just don't have the tools to measure it's mass and speculate with an approximated formula/number. Light at rest in my mind would just be matter.
I don't know. The hard rule never made sense to me.
That's the beauty! Neither! They get some intern to do it for them.
It's like a philosopher and a politician.
Theorists don't actually do anything. they just sit around and make up stuff. The Experimentalists actually try to make it work for their benefit.
Or is the mass of a light particle .000~001 where "~" replaces so many 0s that we cannot measure and would so minuscule that the formula appears to work? (Kind of like using PI in Math. You can get pretty close, but not quite accurate.)
But 0 times anything is 0, so doesn't that mean that Light has a very minuscule mass? (ie: lower than we could measure?)
If you switch to MS Office, you'd have less competition, but the using GoogleDocs or AbiWord would give you the same effect. The more players the better. Heck, just download the applications and give them a tick on the counter, even if you don't use them. Done enough, it's usually enough to bring in ad revenue and donations to expand the project.
Though AbiWord really isn't an Office replacement as much as a Word alternative, so making that comparison I think you are reaching for straws to try to make some point and be clever.
You'd have descriptive generation something like the following. You wouldn't send the models and textures for the area, but you'd have pre-made assets locally. You tell the client to draw two triangles with texture 34987 at positions {(x1, y1, z1), (x2, y2, z2), (x3, y3, z3)} Then just tell the client to draw item 5632 at x/y/z/pitch/yaw/roll. You could do grass, trees, houses... In rare occasions (or maybe the first initial "patch") you can have the client download a new asset, dungeon section, tree, etc. You could even give users the option to torrent download the entire asset library for a "better gameplay experience" while they are playing or overnight.
Competition. So they can make the product better and you'll get EVEN more for your money.
Apparently it's not just Word. I've been having that experience with Windows 7 since the beta was released. I installed it in VirtualBox and have spent the last two days trying to find a way to:
I also despise the Ribbon the more I work with it. Luckily my work hasn't upgraded to the latest Office yet and are still using Office 2003.
Players request data about their surroundings. Index "new" change data on nearest integer coordinate and when a player requests an update, send them what changed near them.
Split the world into cubic environments that are small enough to download in chunks. (If you played Vanguard, or seen it... Think about 100 times smaller than their chunks.) You'd have hundreds of zone chunks nearby a character. If the world changed in one of these chunks and the player is nearby, send them updated chunk data. You can send the player a small hash array for the version of the chunk data near them and the client can tell you it needs x chunks back after checking the version data. You would need to structure the game like GW where you download the world data as needed, so you might need a content server of some type but this would make the initial download small and only explorers would download all the content. If a miner opens a mine in the side of a mountain... everyone in the area is sent a new cubic chunk of that opening. Keep this download manager in it's own process/thread to allow them continue playing without load bars.
I thought about doing this for a multiplayer dungeon crawler of sorts that the enemies would dig tunnels looking for ore. They may intersect the dungeons or other tunnels and make the underworld dynamic. If they mined out too much, it would cave in separating them from supplies and/or killing them.
Make a localized voting system. If a person is being an ass, someone votes to "rate" then negatively. Enough negative ratings and you forbid them from certain cities. You can have the opposite and positive ratings allow people into certain cities. This would have to be localized to alleviate guild/zone griefing. Just vote that a person is being bad and everyone cooperating (having the option turned on) in a certain radius is prompted (politely, off to the side of the screen or something) to vote. If the person gets enough votes, they are negatively rated. You could limit the votes to 3 per day or something with good/bad combined.
Just a brain dump. I haven't run the numbers.
That's alright, the proxy at my work has the Chrome home page blocked.
Some men get a new "monk card" after the honeymoon.
If they reduced the price of the OS, they couldn't abuse their market share to try to pimp their wares (XBox, Zune, etc.) to everyone else while taking a big hit on said ventures. Last time I heard, Windows and Office were their only profitable divisions. They are essentially gouging the PC market to expand the company in other areas.
I generally agree with you though. One version and cheaper cost would sell it in spades and keep Microsoft in the OS market for a little while yet. Unfortunately, with their OEM agreements and market share, they make their own rules.
In the same lacking sense of logic, you've equated sales to popularity. In today's computer market if you buy a PC it will have Vista, like it or not. You actually have to go out of your way to get something else installed. Sales do not reflect popularity.
Kind of related, but I wonder...
Will someone create 4to6? (or have they already) The router would map IPV6 external addresses to v4 addresses internally? Not that I can think of a reason for it besides some kind of convoluted security or remapping or ports to specific internal addresses.
Probably not, but I'd love to see the pages on MySpace for that. Animated gifs of cartoon bombs with the fuses getting shorter, wall shouts of them planning the next hit, profiles listing their likes and dislikes. that one terrorist in the friends list that likes Hello Kitty so much he uses it for a picture...
It's just asking to be parodied.
Because inevitably, the person buying the "wasteful" TV is paying above and beyond what everyone else is paying for that right. So why artificially cap everyone's usage because some spoiled brat bought a TV that requires it's own nuclear plant to operate. They are paying the bill, and a greater portion of the infrastructure and upgrade costs.
What you should be looking for is a way to shut off/cap people that are using excessive amounts of energy first in a brownout so the person that looked at efficiency has a more reliable service. This would also prompt that energy hog to go out and spend some of the excess they have on their own form of power generation if needed and feed it back into the grid. They will maintain their excess, get a check from the power company for helping generate and the community will benefit from fewer brownouts. If they choose not to spend in that way, they can start looking for the energy consumption specs and turn the A/C down a notch if needed.
Then find a site that lists the operating specs and buy from them. Make sure you tell them you like that feature and that's why they got your business if it means that much to you.
Heck, a simple Google search of "KDL-32M4000 power consumption" tells me you should be shopping at:
shopping.msn, Crutchfield, or I'm sure many other locations.
How does the site know your machine is tied to that public key?
You'd have to have the browser or a local app upload a public key from your machine to the anyserver.com account, right? If your public key changed, or you tried to log into the same site from a friend's house or work... how would you verify that your ID belongs to you? Log into a local app that updates the public key? (or log into the public key hosting server) That's the only way I see that it would work.
...keep your passwords on a keychain USB drive so anyone can steal it! :p
Or why not let the blackouts happen so people will figure it out themselves and maybe by decentralized power production devices like solar panels and home wind turbines to supplement their energy usage.
You could also raise the cost of electricity to push that incentive... since it's going to cost more to generate that power.
The free market works... if the government doesn't keep feeding it money in subsidies and welfare.
Natural selection.
Also, why not spend that money on the efficiency of the energy production and distribution instead? It would benefit us more than just TV usage restrictions.