Who cares, that's not the point of what I was talking about. I said that GPS localisation imprecision can show you way off track, which is a correct claim. You say that other things can show you off track, which is irrelevant, since it doesn't affect the correctness of my first claim.
So, I was talking about something, you replied and talked about something else no one gives a crap about, so I replied by explaining how what you brought up doesn't invalidate my point. Or if you prefer, you're not wrong, but off topic.
Or maybe all those modders will get fed up with the proprietary controls and just start learning to write their own games.
Are you an idiot? I believe you are. How's anyone gonna write anything like MW2 short of having a few hundred of million dollars and hundreds of people working for you? Did you see the 'best' open source FPS out there? They pale in comparison with decade-old Quake III, and they have the advantage of using a pre-made game engine to begin with. Homebrew gamers have a choice : they can either do something original and novel, or they can try to imitate big studio games and produce utter crap.
And to 4D6963, be careful not to confuse the GPS position data with the map data that it overlays to produce the amusingly inaccurate anomalies you describe. The position data may be far more accurate than the map data.
No, bullshit. Try driving with a GPS in a street entirely surrounded by high buildings, you might find yourself with an unusually high imprecision, mostly on the axis perpendicular to the direction of the street.
No, and allow me to dismiss this as some anti-The Man banter. Radars are standardised, calibrated, designed for the purpose, operated in proper condition by trained operators, etc... The log from someone's GPS is made by the software from some company which won't necessarily disclose how it gathers, processes and stores its data, furthermore those can be imprecise (how many times does your GPS show you as crossing through buildings when you're driving in city centers?), and who's to say that no one tampered with the data (in this case, edit the data in the log to make it seem impossible to have speeded).
So the decision is only common sense. If you really need an analogy, that's as if you provided a court with a written transcript of conversation when they have an audio recording done with their own equipment of the same conversation.
So, if the new trend is to lock PC players into closed matchmaking services, wouldn't it start a trend of disgruntled players moding the game into having a satisfactory multiplayer service with dedicated services? Think about it, PC players have already modded single player games into adding entirely a multiplayer service (and quite successfully at that, I'm thinking about GTA San Andreas' two multiplayer mods, MTA SA and SA-MP).
An hypothetical example : Modern Warfare 2. It has both generated epic levels of interest from players, arguably even historical levels, and simultaneously no less historical and epic levels of discontent from PC players due to the drop of dedicated servers. So imagine the scenario : MW2 is released, discontent hardcore PC gamers boycott it and pirate it en masse, and to get the multiplayer experience they want out of their new favourite game they create their own dedicated servers and the accompanying mod for the original game, resulting in an online community of multiplayer gamers who control entirely the multiplayer aspect.
The net result being everybody pirating the game and running the mod and everybody's happy with it except the game's publishers who lost control of the multiplayer on PC and who lost tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of sales. Could this be a forthcoming counter-trend?
Well somehow I feel that I must be an oddball in the specificity of my tastes, but while my best neighbours listen to a lot of things that I also listen to, the rest of what they listen to I already know and dislike. So in my case it's like the neighbour system can only identify the overlap, but can't find anyone who listens to things I may like but don't know yet. Although I suspect that due to the specificity of my tastes, there's perhaps no such thing as someone who likes what I like and likes what I will like. I can't even find anyone who likes the two main genres of music I like at the same time!
Likewise, most of the suggestions I get are for things I already know but don't like. I think the thing is that it assumes that if you like something in a genre then you'll like mostly anything in the close vicinity, whereas in my case while what I like fits in relatively small areas, what I dislike shares the same area. So it keeps suggesting me things in that same area not knowing I already dislike that. Not only that but since that's a fairly small area I know pretty much all that's worthy of being known there already and could use some suggestions as to what explore next that is in a neighbouring area.
This being said, an artist's neighbours is much better defined, but you'd expect that to be more straightforward to determine and reliable.
Dude's got a point. Yeah, wow, they developed something that's basically a bunch of wheels around a rope powered by solar panels. The cool and novel thing here is the power transmission by laser thing, but the machine itself is something NASA could develop in no fucking time if it wanted to. And there's no scaling problem for that thing, if it can climb at ground level it can climb 80 km above. It's just a goddamn elevator, only powered by a light beam. The entire problem is the cable.
Yeah, some high ranking general in charge of getting the country rid of explosives deciding that using rods to detect these explosives is SOOOOOOO equivalent to charlatans making a living by telling gullible people's future or dumbasses looking for ghost voices in noise on audio tapes.
The only valid American comparison would be abstinence-only programs. They're the only valid comparison because they are sponsored by the government as the only solution to a problem and that's a completely useless solution, or if you prefer a terrible substitute for a solution.
At last my website can be in Futura! (for those who don't know, Futura is a totally awesome font that hardly any OS has by default).
Really though, if this thing catches on, and I don't see why it shouldn't, then the age of the Web entirely in Arial, Verdana, Courier, Times New Roman or whatever else we are limited to will be a thing of the past.
That's a very limited and overly simplistic way to view things. Think about public education. By having a better education paid for with tax money, you eventually obtain more highly educated people who produce more money, contribute more to the economy and avoid being a dead weight to society like criminals and unemployed people. Rich people spending their money on a brand new house or a Ferrari doesn't do any of that.
The vast vast VAST majority of crime in my area is by (and luckily among) illegals.
lol, well you're not that different from Lou Dobbs after all! How do you know most crime is committed by illegals? I mean how the hell would you know? You investigate each crime, find the culprits and determine their legal status? Or do you and your legal buddies see what they want to see?
They also are the largest consumers of public funds, which is strange because they aren't really eligible for them.
Yeah, that makes just SO MUCH sense. Damn illegal immigrants and their welfare checks they can't possibly receive. If only these guys knew English as well as they know how to trick the American government bodies into sending them money...
Yep, problem is, rich people tend to keep a lot of their money. Otherwise they wouldn't be rich anymore. Also, one dollar spent on building a new swimming pool isn't as efficient as one tax dollar.
Nah I don't think you're racist. You just make very dumb assumptions about all that illegal immigration thing.
"there are huge restrictions on how many are admitted because there are huge numbers that are ignoring the system. The illegals are ruining it for everybody else." Don't know who you picked that up from (I doubt you'd even remember, people rarely remember whose opinion their opinion was before they made it theirs) but that's just bullshit.
I care about what you do and what kind of person you are.
Oh yeah? Well, what kind of people are illegal immigrants?
At least click the fucking link, dumbass! It shows the results for the last 3 presidential elections, and all 3 give similar results, that is, few of the poor voted republican, and as the income increased so did the republican vote.
I'm right, you're wrong, and you're an arrogant dumbass. I accept your apology.
The red states (Republicans) are overwhelmingly those with the largest populations of poor people.
lol, so? If Mississippi is a red state that's not thanks to its lower-class Negro population. Cause most of them are Democrats, but they also have the lowest voter turn-outs. And they're also too few to outweight the richer white republicans.
You're gonna need something more direct and compelling than a mere correlation of state poverty level and political orientation to convince me.
Are you saying that the lower classes are overwhelmingly Republican? I'm sorry but I'm afraid I'll have to hit you with a much dreaded [citation needed]!
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Who cares, that's not the point of what I was talking about. I said that GPS localisation imprecision can show you way off track, which is a correct claim. You say that other things can show you off track, which is irrelevant, since it doesn't affect the correctness of my first claim.
So, I was talking about something, you replied and talked about something else no one gives a crap about, so I replied by explaining how what you brought up doesn't invalidate my point. Or if you prefer, you're not wrong, but off topic.
that think a 30,000 pound airplane is a bumble bee.
lol, what?? Are these radars hemp-powered by any chance?
Or maybe all those modders will get fed up with the proprietary controls and just start learning to write their own games.
Are you an idiot? I believe you are. How's anyone gonna write anything like MW2 short of having a few hundred of million dollars and hundreds of people working for you? Did you see the 'best' open source FPS out there? They pale in comparison with decade-old Quake III, and they have the advantage of using a pre-made game engine to begin with. Homebrew gamers have a choice : they can either do something original and novel, or they can try to imitate big studio games and produce utter crap.
And to 4D6963, be careful not to confuse the GPS position data with the map data that it overlays to produce the amusingly inaccurate anomalies you describe. The position data may be far more accurate than the map data.
No, bullshit. Try driving with a GPS in a street entirely surrounded by high buildings, you might find yourself with an unusually high imprecision, mostly on the axis perpendicular to the direction of the street.
No, and allow me to dismiss this as some anti-The Man banter. Radars are standardised, calibrated, designed for the purpose, operated in proper condition by trained operators, etc... The log from someone's GPS is made by the software from some company which won't necessarily disclose how it gathers, processes and stores its data, furthermore those can be imprecise (how many times does your GPS show you as crossing through buildings when you're driving in city centers?), and who's to say that no one tampered with the data (in this case, edit the data in the log to make it seem impossible to have speeded).
So the decision is only common sense. If you really need an analogy, that's as if you provided a court with a written transcript of conversation when they have an audio recording done with their own equipment of the same conversation.
So, if the new trend is to lock PC players into closed matchmaking services, wouldn't it start a trend of disgruntled players moding the game into having a satisfactory multiplayer service with dedicated services? Think about it, PC players have already modded single player games into adding entirely a multiplayer service (and quite successfully at that, I'm thinking about GTA San Andreas' two multiplayer mods, MTA SA and SA-MP).
An hypothetical example : Modern Warfare 2. It has both generated epic levels of interest from players, arguably even historical levels, and simultaneously no less historical and epic levels of discontent from PC players due to the drop of dedicated servers. So imagine the scenario : MW2 is released, discontent hardcore PC gamers boycott it and pirate it en masse, and to get the multiplayer experience they want out of their new favourite game they create their own dedicated servers and the accompanying mod for the original game, resulting in an online community of multiplayer gamers who control entirely the multiplayer aspect.
The net result being everybody pirating the game and running the mod and everybody's happy with it except the game's publishers who lost control of the multiplayer on PC and who lost tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of sales. Could this be a forthcoming counter-trend?
Well somehow I feel that I must be an oddball in the specificity of my tastes, but while my best neighbours listen to a lot of things that I also listen to, the rest of what they listen to I already know and dislike. So in my case it's like the neighbour system can only identify the overlap, but can't find anyone who listens to things I may like but don't know yet. Although I suspect that due to the specificity of my tastes, there's perhaps no such thing as someone who likes what I like and likes what I will like. I can't even find anyone who likes the two main genres of music I like at the same time!
Likewise, most of the suggestions I get are for things I already know but don't like. I think the thing is that it assumes that if you like something in a genre then you'll like mostly anything in the close vicinity, whereas in my case while what I like fits in relatively small areas, what I dislike shares the same area. So it keeps suggesting me things in that same area not knowing I already dislike that. Not only that but since that's a fairly small area I know pretty much all that's worthy of being known there already and could use some suggestions as to what explore next that is in a neighbouring area.
This being said, an artist's neighbours is much better defined, but you'd expect that to be more straightforward to determine and reliable.
Right now we can't even make the damn tether, let alone carry anything of any weight using it.
Dude's got a point. Yeah, wow, they developed something that's basically a bunch of wheels around a rope powered by solar panels. The cool and novel thing here is the power transmission by laser thing, but the machine itself is something NASA could develop in no fucking time if it wanted to. And there's no scaling problem for that thing, if it can climb at ground level it can climb 80 km above. It's just a goddamn elevator, only powered by a light beam. The entire problem is the cable.
Yeah, some high ranking general in charge of getting the country rid of explosives deciding that using rods to detect these explosives is SOOOOOOO equivalent to charlatans making a living by telling gullible people's future or dumbasses looking for ghost voices in noise on audio tapes.
The only valid American comparison would be abstinence-only programs. They're the only valid comparison because they are sponsored by the government as the only solution to a problem and that's a completely useless solution, or if you prefer a terrible substitute for a solution.
People are going hungry and people want to spend money to save the deer, I just can't fathom it.
Wait, are you saying there's a meat shortage where you live and that hungry people there want to eat deer meat?
How can a 'smart' person act foolishly?
Because being smart doesn't make you wise.
At last my website can be in Futura! (for those who don't know, Futura is a totally awesome font that hardly any OS has by default).
Really though, if this thing catches on, and I don't see why it shouldn't, then the age of the Web entirely in Arial, Verdana, Courier, Times New Roman or whatever else we are limited to will be a thing of the past.
That's a very limited and overly simplistic way to view things. Think about public education. By having a better education paid for with tax money, you eventually obtain more highly educated people who produce more money, contribute more to the economy and avoid being a dead weight to society like criminals and unemployed people. Rich people spending their money on a brand new house or a Ferrari doesn't do any of that.
Go ahead and try that in the desert of Atacama.
Allow me to be the first to point out that we already know that some bacteria can survive interplanetary space travel and life on the Moon.
Now the real question is, can these bacterias be formed on Mars?
The vast vast VAST majority of crime in my area is by (and luckily among) illegals.
lol, well you're not that different from Lou Dobbs after all! How do you know most crime is committed by illegals? I mean how the hell would you know? You investigate each crime, find the culprits and determine their legal status? Or do you and your legal buddies see what they want to see?
They also are the largest consumers of public funds, which is strange because they aren't really eligible for them.
Yeah, that makes just SO MUCH sense. Damn illegal immigrants and their welfare checks they can't possibly receive. If only these guys knew English as well as they know how to trick the American government bodies into sending them money...
RTFA, there's DARPA personnel holding each balloon.
Yep, problem is, rich people tend to keep a lot of their money. Otherwise they wouldn't be rich anymore. Also, one dollar spent on building a new swimming pool isn't as efficient as one tax dollar.
Nah I don't think you're racist. You just make very dumb assumptions about all that illegal immigration thing.
"there are huge restrictions on how many are admitted because there are huge numbers that are ignoring the system. The illegals are ruining it for everybody else." Don't know who you picked that up from (I doubt you'd even remember, people rarely remember whose opinion their opinion was before they made it theirs) but that's just bullshit.
I care about what you do and what kind of person you are.
Oh yeah? Well, what kind of people are illegal immigrants?
At least click the fucking link, dumbass! It shows the results for the last 3 presidential elections, and all 3 give similar results, that is, few of the poor voted republican, and as the income increased so did the republican vote.
I'm right, you're wrong, and you're an arrogant dumbass. I accept your apology.
I think it is a better conclusion that people don't have money because they are poor (unintelligent).
Are you saying that people are poor because they're "unintelligent"?
I think so called smart people often confuse poor people with people who don't have money.
I'm afraid I'm not smart enough to figure out what you're trying to say with that.
There you go.
Spoiler alert, I'm right.
The red states (Republicans) are overwhelmingly those with the largest populations of poor people.
lol, so? If Mississippi is a red state that's not thanks to its lower-class Negro population. Cause most of them are Democrats, but they also have the lowest voter turn-outs. And they're also too few to outweight the richer white republicans.
You're gonna need something more direct and compelling than a mere correlation of state poverty level and political orientation to convince me.
Are you saying that the lower classes are overwhelmingly Republican? I'm sorry but I'm afraid I'll have to hit you with a much dreaded [citation needed]!