Yeah, can't say I've seen incentives on one type of transmission. I smell dealer BS on this one.
On a related side note. When I went to buy my Mazda MX5, they had one 6 speed and about four others with the automatic transmission. Who buys a coupe convertible with an automatic?:p
If a god were to occure to me, and if he were convincing, I would change my stance on the topic of his existance. However, he'd have to be EXTREMELY convincing...:-) If God were... God... he/she/it would be able to present itself to you in a manner which is undeniable because it would be able to manifest itself in a form that complies with your innermost thoughts and on your terms. At least according to every interpretation I've read of "God". If such a being existed, with the powers to dictate right from wrong and be able to determine if you followed those guidelines should also give that being the ability to undeniably prove to everyone on Earth that they exist with little effort. So don't worry. You'll not be seeing that any time soon.
I used to declare myself an Atheist, but mainly for the "non-religious/organized religion" aspect of it, but that put me too quickly in the eyes of everyone proclaiming me a "god hater" of some sort. So, I claim my major agnosticism, with a minor in atheism.;) I also need proof, of which has never been proven.
It always amused me how many US citizens wholeheartedly hate the very notion of Communism as a totalitarian regime, while on the other hand openly endorsing the religion, which is per definitionem a totalitarian regime. I think that falls into the old "comfort" argument. They are comfortable with the government and their religion and anything different is wrong. You get these same debates when someone discussed major changes in Government. As one of the founders put it, the Constitution should never be an eternal document, but the idea should. BTW, I am an Agnostic US Citizen who was a Boy Scout, complying with their rules because I didn't know better. I always felt there was no "God", but it was part of the routine that I just memorized and recited. It held no real meaning for me. I am also a DeMolay which is another highly religion focused organization related to the Masons and "God" is a part of every "ritual" and recital within that organization.
I won't say I'm Atheist because I can't totally be 100% sure that there isn't someone greater than us or that our planet isn't an electron in a greater world of some sort. The 100% total belief that there is no God to me IS a religion and should be protected by the Constitution as a religion. Agnosticism would need a rewording of the Constitution to fall into protection, IMHO. (Freedom FROM Religion, whichever religion that may be.)
I think it's like how Hyperthreading CPUs are counted as two processors if I'm not mistaken. There is one core, but it's seen by the OS as a dual core. Again, I could be totally wrong on this as I haven't had Linux installed on my PS3 in over a year.
I submitted mine.;) I was mainly just curious. The link you posted had no date/time or evidence to point to it being the latest. I wasn't "calling you out." I was just trying to make sure the effort wasn't fruitless.
Nice link.. however... How do I know that's the latest build? Up top there is a link to go to the "Next Build" and it takes me to a new glob of numbers. How do we know we aren't giving them old data?
You'd have to somehow bring trust and anti-trust together at the same time. Microsoft's been trying to do this for the past 10 years. Believe me when I say, they've been trying really hard. You have a ways to go to catch up to their research.
Allakhazam: If you had to give a new player a piece of advice to make their experience the best possible in Vanguard, what would it be?
Thom: Join a Guild!
... and they lost me again. To me, that means get a bunch of friends so no matter how much we screw up, peer pressure will keep you coming back so you don't disappoint your friends. It tells me that Vanguard is turning into another Guild raid fest. It tells me that they ARE NOT going back to the roots of what Vanguard was supposed to be. Fun. Group oriented. Regional commerce/dungeons/progression...
By promoting guilds you pretty much assure that fast travel will stay (and the original pitch was for nothing but mounts and boats) so that guild mates can get together quicker and raid. You promote the social peer pressure to stay in the game longer even if your class is totally screwed up. You promote the idea that you HAVE to hit max level to play with everyone in your guild. You will bypass quests and power level to do it. Content lower than max is pointless since nobody is there to group. Mob mentality quests will be common, guilds will probably take on a role like EQ2 where losing a person hurts the guild. People won't group outside their guild. Isolation for anyone planning on doing a pickup group or quest involving more than one person. Thus, you have to find a serious guild that will hound you to play more even though you hate the direction it's going leading back to my peer pressure argument. They love that re-subbing base who will grin and bear an un-fun game.
I said it before, and I'll say it again, MMOs cannot function (be unique, sell, etc.) with a focus on guilds. MMOs have to promote individualism, pride in one's character, not one's guild, fun stories, dungeons, and interesting quests. They have to promote working with other people to get things you need. Not your guild.
They need to promote regional pride. ("I grew up in such and such an area. We had a griffin that would run rampant and kill noobs if you weren't careful." "Ah, I remember those days. Let's go back there and help someone out a bit... I just picked up this nice weapon, but it doesn't help me." [instead of.. wonder what the auction house can get me for this!]) You'd do what you can for the people that grew up in your area. You know what they went through. They should also reflect an image of your place of raising. Everyone talks about ethnic diversity in real life. Why not in MMOs? In Everquest, barbarians wore skins, painted their faces and you rarely found them in Kelethin unless they were high level. It was cool meeting a Dark Elf in a city that would kill them if they knew they were there. You had to be crafty to get things you want. Take the sewer entrance, carefully invis your way to a spot in the dungeon. Illusion yourself to sneak past the guards...
Ugh, I'm ranting. Either way. Until MMOs stop catering to the WoW crowd who want to max out, raid and PVP, I won't be playing another one anytime soon.
Oh? They are removing teleports, revamping combat to the old Beta2 system, adding in functional and required boats, removing the broker restoring regional economies, turning night dark again, adding helmets, returning Equipment Expertise, restoring the Dreadknight to the AE role it was originally designed, adding more and diverse dungeons, trade caravans, player cities... I could go on for ages.
My first thought was that there are probably 10-15% of the older generation in our society as well. I don't have the numbers, but you could probably conclude, based on the average age of death around 70, that 1/8th (12.5%) of the population is age 60-70+, 12.5% would be in the 50-59, etc. This would mean that the folks living to 80/90+ would factor in to the retired and enjoying their camping, fishing, knitting, and whatever else people do when they retire instead of sitting in front of a PC all day.
Agree. I really like the Playstation controller. The only time I've ever had my hands cramp was when I was in some intense Dynasty Warrior battles and I realized I was actually squeezing so hard on the controller that it was cracking. I don't have small hands (being 6'2") and everyone tells me that the 360 controller is better for bigger hands, but I just don't feel it. Besides, it's too heavy to hold for hours of gaming. I have a PS3 and love how light the new controllers are. It's a minor difference (probably mainly due to the lack of the wire) as the battery seems to offset the weight of the lack of motors, but it is slightly lighter than the PS2 DualShock.
Having a hard connection between the buttons and sticks is also a good thing. I think I'd have more cramps if the controller were split and my hand would be going through a sequence of squeezes using more muscles to hold it and depress buttons or move the sticks. Motion Controls are just not "there" yet for either the Wii or PS3 to replace the stick.
I really wish more Americans had a mentality like they have in Japan. In Japan they're actually proud of their native companies doing well, and the populace is loyal to them. Here in the U.S., we have absolutely no loyalty to our own companies.
Um... how is that bad? The free market has no room for patriotism. Companies should have to compete for my loyalty. I won't by American because we have unions that create shoddy workmanship. It's getting worse every day with the government feeding you the line that everything is going to be A-Okay with their new government run programs. People will be happy and they will be so much more successful if they finally get it through their thick skulls that this is a global market and national loyalty will only go so far. Companies have to be competitive and create competitive things. Your idea sounds more like Communism. Oh no. We can't let "Mother America" look bad. I must buy American made even though it's going to overheat and die in three weeks or need to be replaced because of some greedy release schedule every 5 years and planned obsolescence. My Mazda RX8 has been a better car to me than any domestic made car I've ever owned, and this June, I'm trading it for an MX5. They are both made in Japan, shipped here, and are more reliable for cheaper than any GM or Ford domestically made. And that's a long list.
Or are you suggesting that I accept half ass workmanship so you can file a grievance when your Supervisor tells you to take a bath because you stink and were offended? Maybe you think I should love Microsoft because they are an American company and turn the other cheek when they abuse the 90% market share? Maybe I should smile when I'm being forced to upgrade my operating system because Microsoft needs to update their release "schedule" instead of updating their release "product." It still does everything my old one did, but thanks to creative licensing... my old one is now illegal because I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, GPU and hard drive. Bend over and take it for the team? No way. Maybe if the hopeless bastards in Washington get off their ass and finally do what's right for the country instead of what's right for them personally.
It's honestly too late for the U.S. if we have to rely on nationalism to keep the economy afloat. I guess the cold war was won by Russia. Communism has won and we are living socialists more and more with each passing President. Buy American! Keep me and my 14 tax exemptions form starving!
BTW, I just spend my $600 economic stimulus on a new, more reliable, foreign good. A lot of good that one is going to do here. Here's an economic stimulus: lower taxes, lower government spending, abolish "programs", the IRS, the war on "terrorism", and generally go back and read the Constitution and get the fuck out of world policing. If they want to kill each other for a stupid piece of rock. Fine. Less people need food then. More for me.
Sure, I have National Pride. It's pride in being from a Nation that once praised freedom. The USA lost that a long time ago.
Being a programmer, I find many instances of this type of thing. Your post made me remember the many times I've tried to learn 3D programming (OpenGL or DirectX.) There is a "language" to go with the technology that you have to wrap your head around first. Words like occlusion, voxel, vector (different than a C vector), Stencil Buffer, Tessellation... I could go on. Either way, it would be like telling someone to drive a taxi in Bangladesh if they only spoke English. It might be intuitive to the people living there, but the person you asked to do it wouldn't have a clue where anything was or how to get there.
Not to mention... Who owns the land on the moon? This is the reason I think NASA will always remain under the control of the government. Heaven forbid someone finds a way to live on other planets/moons and sends out a new age Mayflower with enough intelligence to write up a "Constitution" without any loopholes that will be manipulated by greedy "representatives."
Nothing in life is free. It's your time, your life, and your money. If you feel that somehow your karma and my loss of karma is worth your time, then why should I stand in your way? If Slashdot popularity is that important to you, I suggest you step back for a while and contemplate what your life is and what you seek to achieve from "being popular" on a web site.
But you wouldn't mind that at all, would you? As long as I paste a few "informative" links into my comments and repeat the obvious in slightly different ways. Right?
Honestly? I wouldn't mind nor care either way. If you felt hellbent enough to create your own "sockpuppets" and do what you apparently despise the most just to get back at me, that's your prerogative. Just don't spam and troll the site like you have been and you won't have negative moderation karma. Like I said, it's not my time you'd be wasting. Well, maybe a little bit of my time when I drop down that moderation box and select Troll or Offtopic. It's your choice.
Lol, good catch. I can't believe I missed that. Either way, it's not like it's a plain text search. The numbers are delimited and easily partitioned into smaller sets to search.
But letting people "game" certain types of folds permits these folds the ability to be removed from further calculation, right? You would be making progress either way. Personally, I think it would be cool if you could disguise the folding in other games like FPS where shooting certain bots triggers a fold of a certain kind on you, the protein molecule. Make the calculation minute and let some gamer perform it as many times as they want checking to see if it works or not.
Not necessarily this post, but if I'm to believe what these folks (willhill, et al.) are telling me, twitter has had some informative posts and if he feels the need to "sockpuppet", mod the puppets, leave the information. Coming into this war fairly fresh, it looks like someone is trying to discredit a logical poster instead of informing people. Stick it in your signature if it's that important to you and contribute to the site so you get modded up instead of spamming.
At first I thought he same thing. If we were only talking about IPs, there's only ~4 million possible in IPv4 and it would be cake to traverse that. However, he corrected and asked for the host names as well.
I'm not quite sure why you'd block on host names instead of IPs for this purpose, but whatever.
If Slashdot wanted to stop him from creating multiple accounts from the same IP and posting from the same IP, they would have. Ever think of that? Frankly I'm sick of all the people trying to discredit the useful information he posts because they are hellbent on some crusade to "prove" something they cannot actually prove. When I get mod points these days (15+ points per shot) I WILL mod you troll if you continue to harass him for making informative posts. If you want to point it out when he's trolling himself I don't care, but using this "crusade" to discredit relevant information is absurd. What you are doing is trolling. Period. Granted, you are not trolling an idea, but you are actively trolling a person or group of people who are most likely having fun with you. Instead of posting and losing karma, try using your karma to mark his "troll" accounts down if you feel so vigilant, but don't make this a crusade to hide information because it comes from someone you dislike.
Meta-moderators will determine if you are doing the right thing and you will be rewarded or punished. It's quite a simple and elegant system.
Personally, I think you are getting worked up for nothing special, and someone out there has a freaky sense of humor. Otherwise, why would they create accounts similar to your names and use them for their devious purposes? Have you ever worked with children? If you give them attention for doing something wrong, they will continue to crave that attention. Just leave him/them and he/they will eventually get bored and stop.
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Yeah, can't say I've seen incentives on one type of transmission. I smell dealer BS on this one.
:p
On a related side note. When I went to buy my Mazda MX5, they had one 6 speed and about four others with the automatic transmission. Who buys a coupe convertible with an automatic?
I used to declare myself an Atheist, but mainly for the "non-religious/organized religion" aspect of it, but that put me too quickly in the eyes of everyone proclaiming me a "god hater" of some sort. So, I claim my major agnosticism, with a minor in atheism.
I won't say I'm Atheist because I can't totally be 100% sure that there isn't someone greater than us or that our planet isn't an electron in a greater world of some sort. The 100% total belief that there is no God to me IS a religion and should be protected by the Constitution as a religion. Agnosticism would need a rewording of the Constitution to fall into protection, IMHO. (Freedom FROM Religion, whichever religion that may be.)
The government is buying young boys (and girls)?
I think it's like how Hyperthreading CPUs are counted as two processors if I'm not mistaken. There is one core, but it's seen by the OS as a dual core. Again, I could be totally wrong on this as I haven't had Linux installed on my PS3 in over a year.
I submitted mine. ;) I was mainly just curious. The link you posted had no date/time or evidence to point to it being the latest. I wasn't "calling you out." I was just trying to make sure the effort wasn't fruitless.
Why not link to: http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/WRT/CrossBuilt/winetest-latest.exe instead? Isn't that guaranteed to be the latest?
Nice link.. however... How do I know that's the latest build? Up top there is a link to go to the "Next Build" and it takes me to a new glob of numbers. How do we know we aren't giving them old data?
I mean, if you keep going, the last one that has a meaningful date in it is: http://test.winehq.org/data/200805201000/ from 4 days ago, I'm assuming.
You'd have to somehow bring trust and anti-trust together at the same time. Microsoft's been trying to do this for the past 10 years. Believe me when I say, they've been trying really hard. You have a ways to go to catch up to their research.
I'm sure if there was, Microsoft would be paying someone to "keep it truthful."
By promoting guilds you pretty much assure that fast travel will stay (and the original pitch was for nothing but mounts and boats) so that guild mates can get together quicker and raid. You promote the social peer pressure to stay in the game longer even if your class is totally screwed up. You promote the idea that you HAVE to hit max level to play with everyone in your guild. You will bypass quests and power level to do it. Content lower than max is pointless since nobody is there to group. Mob mentality quests will be common, guilds will probably take on a role like EQ2 where losing a person hurts the guild. People won't group outside their guild. Isolation for anyone planning on doing a pickup group or quest involving more than one person. Thus, you have to find a serious guild that will hound you to play more even though you hate the direction it's going leading back to my peer pressure argument. They love that re-subbing base who will grin and bear an un-fun game.
I said it before, and I'll say it again, MMOs cannot function (be unique, sell, etc.) with a focus on guilds. MMOs have to promote individualism, pride in one's character, not one's guild, fun stories, dungeons, and interesting quests. They have to promote working with other people to get things you need. Not your guild.
They need to promote regional pride. ("I grew up in such and such an area. We had a griffin that would run rampant and kill noobs if you weren't careful." "Ah, I remember those days. Let's go back there and help someone out a bit... I just picked up this nice weapon, but it doesn't help me." [instead of.. wonder what the auction house can get me for this!]) You'd do what you can for the people that grew up in your area. You know what they went through. They should also reflect an image of your place of raising. Everyone talks about ethnic diversity in real life. Why not in MMOs? In Everquest, barbarians wore skins, painted their faces and you rarely found them in Kelethin unless they were high level. It was cool meeting a Dark Elf in a city that would kill them if they knew they were there. You had to be crafty to get things you want. Take the sewer entrance, carefully invis your way to a spot in the dungeon. Illusion yourself to sneak past the guards...
Ugh, I'm ranting. Either way. Until MMOs stop catering to the WoW crowd who want to max out, raid and PVP, I won't be playing another one anytime soon.
Oh? They are removing teleports, revamping combat to the old Beta2 system, adding in functional and required boats, removing the broker restoring regional economies, turning night dark again, adding helmets, returning Equipment Expertise, restoring the Dreadknight to the AE role it was originally designed, adding more and diverse dungeons, trade caravans, player cities ... I could go on for ages.
Sure! Although, if you smoke it you won't need a console to travel to a virtual world.
Slightly off topic, but your post reminded me of Dilbert today: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-05-20/
Not saying there's a correlation to be made...
My first thought was that there are probably 10-15% of the older generation in our society as well. I don't have the numbers, but you could probably conclude, based on the average age of death around 70, that 1/8th (12.5%) of the population is age 60-70+, 12.5% would be in the 50-59, etc. This would mean that the folks living to 80/90+ would factor in to the retired and enjoying their camping, fishing, knitting, and whatever else people do when they retire instead of sitting in front of a PC all day.
Agree. I really like the Playstation controller. The only time I've ever had my hands cramp was when I was in some intense Dynasty Warrior battles and I realized I was actually squeezing so hard on the controller that it was cracking. I don't have small hands (being 6'2") and everyone tells me that the 360 controller is better for bigger hands, but I just don't feel it. Besides, it's too heavy to hold for hours of gaming. I have a PS3 and love how light the new controllers are. It's a minor difference (probably mainly due to the lack of the wire) as the battery seems to offset the weight of the lack of motors, but it is slightly lighter than the PS2 DualShock.
Having a hard connection between the buttons and sticks is also a good thing. I think I'd have more cramps if the controller were split and my hand would be going through a sequence of squeezes using more muscles to hold it and depress buttons or move the sticks. Motion Controls are just not "there" yet for either the Wii or PS3 to replace the stick.
Um... how is that bad? The free market has no room for patriotism. Companies should have to compete for my loyalty. I won't by American because we have unions that create shoddy workmanship. It's getting worse every day with the government feeding you the line that everything is going to be A-Okay with their new government run programs. People will be happy and they will be so much more successful if they finally get it through their thick skulls that this is a global market and national loyalty will only go so far. Companies have to be competitive and create competitive things. Your idea sounds more like Communism. Oh no. We can't let "Mother America" look bad. I must buy American made even though it's going to overheat and die in three weeks or need to be replaced because of some greedy release schedule every 5 years and planned obsolescence. My Mazda RX8 has been a better car to me than any domestic made car I've ever owned, and this June, I'm trading it for an MX5. They are both made in Japan, shipped here, and are more reliable for cheaper than any GM or Ford domestically made. And that's a long list.
Or are you suggesting that I accept half ass workmanship so you can file a grievance when your Supervisor tells you to take a bath because you stink and were offended? Maybe you think I should love Microsoft because they are an American company and turn the other cheek when they abuse the 90% market share? Maybe I should smile when I'm being forced to upgrade my operating system because Microsoft needs to update their release "schedule" instead of updating their release "product." It still does everything my old one did, but thanks to creative licensing... my old one is now illegal because I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, GPU and hard drive. Bend over and take it for the team? No way. Maybe if the hopeless bastards in Washington get off their ass and finally do what's right for the country instead of what's right for them personally.
It's honestly too late for the U.S. if we have to rely on nationalism to keep the economy afloat. I guess the cold war was won by Russia. Communism has won and we are living socialists more and more with each passing President. Buy American! Keep me and my 14 tax exemptions form starving!
BTW, I just spend my $600 economic stimulus on a new, more reliable, foreign good. A lot of good that one is going to do here. Here's an economic stimulus: lower taxes, lower government spending, abolish "programs", the IRS, the war on "terrorism", and generally go back and read the Constitution and get the fuck out of world policing. If they want to kill each other for a stupid piece of rock. Fine. Less people need food then. More for me.
Sure, I have National Pride. It's pride in being from a Nation that once praised freedom. The USA lost that a long time ago.
Being a programmer, I find many instances of this type of thing. Your post made me remember the many times I've tried to learn 3D programming (OpenGL or DirectX.) There is a "language" to go with the technology that you have to wrap your head around first. Words like occlusion, voxel, vector (different than a C vector), Stencil Buffer, Tessellation... I could go on. Either way, it would be like telling someone to drive a taxi in Bangladesh if they only spoke English. It might be intuitive to the people living there, but the person you asked to do it wouldn't have a clue where anything was or how to get there.
Not to mention... Who owns the land on the moon? This is the reason I think NASA will always remain under the control of the government. Heaven forbid someone finds a way to live on other planets/moons and sends out a new age Mayflower with enough intelligence to write up a "Constitution" without any loopholes that will be manipulated by greedy "representatives."
Lol, good catch. I can't believe I missed that. Either way, it's not like it's a plain text search. The numbers are delimited and easily partitioned into smaller sets to search.
But letting people "game" certain types of folds permits these folds the ability to be removed from further calculation, right? You would be making progress either way. Personally, I think it would be cool if you could disguise the folding in other games like FPS where shooting certain bots triggers a fold of a certain kind on you, the protein molecule. Make the calculation minute and let some gamer perform it as many times as they want checking to see if it works or not.
At first I thought he same thing. If we were only talking about IPs, there's only ~4 million possible in IPv4 and it would be cake to traverse that. However, he corrected and asked for the host names as well.
I'm not quite sure why you'd block on host names instead of IPs for this purpose, but whatever.
If Slashdot wanted to stop him from creating multiple accounts from the same IP and posting from the same IP, they would have. Ever think of that? Frankly I'm sick of all the people trying to discredit the useful information he posts because they are hellbent on some crusade to "prove" something they cannot actually prove. When I get mod points these days (15+ points per shot) I WILL mod you troll if you continue to harass him for making informative posts. If you want to point it out when he's trolling himself I don't care, but using this "crusade" to discredit relevant information is absurd. What you are doing is trolling. Period. Granted, you are not trolling an idea, but you are actively trolling a person or group of people who are most likely having fun with you. Instead of posting and losing karma, try using your karma to mark his "troll" accounts down if you feel so vigilant, but don't make this a crusade to hide information because it comes from someone you dislike.
Meta-moderators will determine if you are doing the right thing and you will be rewarded or punished. It's quite a simple and elegant system.
Personally, I think you are getting worked up for nothing special, and someone out there has a freaky sense of humor. Otherwise, why would they create accounts similar to your names and use them for their devious purposes? Have you ever worked with children? If you give them attention for doing something wrong, they will continue to crave that attention. Just leave him/them and he/they will eventually get bored and stop.