Years ago, I read an article about a study in which women were asked to chose mens by smelling tshirt they wore for a couple of days. The conclusion was that there was no real winner but rather that most whomen chosed the man who had the most different immune pattern from their own.
Of course, in modern civilization, it is far from being the most important mating choice reason.
That kind of game does not even need client-side anti-cheat. -You don't need to keep a character sheet with caracteristics, gold & items, everyone start the game with a generic soldier. -You can do every action resolution on the server. If a client tells the server it is doing something he shouldn't be able to do (like still moving after being killed), just kick it away.
Yes, the USA has a lot of unused space, even if you don't count deserts & national parks and produce far enough food, and in most places, water is not a problem either. I think the only potential problem would be energy, if they reduce their usage to west european level, they have the potential to grow even more. Anyway, I don't really worry, we'll simply all adapt to what is available, it might be less confortable, but it will be mostly OK with a couple of billion more people.
But of course, after buying that much high def textures and videos, there is no money left for the scenario (and don't tell me a DVD wasn't enough to put decent interactions, some of my favorite games only required a couple of 3"1/2)
If you tell them you managed to have an information on powerful bad guys they really don't want anyone to know about them, they won't turn good by magic and make the world a better place for everyone. If you are smart/lucky, they will steal your evidences and give you a very bad reputation. In the other cases, they will really make your life a hell.
Although it seems cool to "Show them what it's like to live in their own mousetrap", you just can't play in their league (going from individual to small business won't change anything, it would be like exchanging a knive for a handgun when facing an armored division), so it's unfortunately unwise to even try.
Should Myspace be required to have people who manually confirm all users aren't sex offenders?
How do you plan to do that? Show every users illegal explicit photos and ask them if they want more? require all users to have a webcam and randomly monitor them? Except requiring a credit card number (IMHO, the only quite reliable proof of identity) and lose 99% of their user base, I don't see how they could do that without risking jail themself.
Are you the kind of people who believe GM food will save the world from starvation? It's all about who set the rules, and so who benefits from them.
DRM purpose is to keep the control over what you think you bought from them. They spend a lot of money to devel^Hbuy them, so they want their money back, from you, poor little slav^Hconsumer. If they can get away with this, they will soon try the next step.
ICBM is one thing, but both sides also had some nuclear bombers waiting near the ennemy borders 24*7 to either back up a first strike ICBM launch or retaliate if the homeland was destroyed. I don't have the details, but I think Spain was just on their route from an US base to the waiting point when they had that accident.
Have you ever seen Dr Strangelove? Of course, it is a comedy, but it is based on a real situation: during cold war, there were constantly dozens of nuclear warheads flying around with the risk of something going wrong. That accident was fortunately in the lower range of possible consequences.
Strange, it looks like these are the places that would most likely face the risk of regional nuclear war within 20 years. Maybe Intel plan is to save on retirement packages.
Intel is unfortunately already used to turnover. If a corp fires ten thousands experienced people because they are too expensive, I don't think they really care getting even F grade ex web developers instead as long as they are dirt cheap.
Moreover, the teens who overuse MP3 players are somehow immune to that system since their ears are already damaged, so it mostly targets teens that do not have that particular self-destructing habit (I don't know if there is a correlation with being a shoplifter, but I would bet for a negative one) and kids. I just hope a mother sues that guy into bankruptcy for having hurt her baby, that would refrain others to invent even nastier way to hurt their potential clients.
It's not exactly promotion, but my brother is experimenting the same thing in the administration he works for. He is a IT worker currently in an administrative role, working with a lazy beanworker and recently, an real IT job opened in the next service so they both asked to move to that position. Guess which one their boss proposed to go to that other service (hint: guess which one he wanted to keep in his team): the guy who knows computers and is doing decently on his job although it is not the one he learned during school or the lazy one?
There is a big difference between a politician who want to so things and then is confronted to the hard reality (most politicians have almost as much power as average joe) and one who is saying bullshit on purpose and doesn't even try to act accordingly to what he proposed before the election.
Form the rest of the article (us instead of ms to display and image), that "100 us" switch time is likely to be wrong by at least 6 orders of magnitude (or else the tech is pointless since it couldn't be scalled down in the future).
I see two possible reasons to use the MP3 player in the abstract: 1- it is a non-volatile RAM. Flash is OK, but it has some drawbacks, in particular with the need to erase a full block to revert a 0 into a 1, which is quite long (several ms with the one I worked with). Of course, for a MP3 player, it's not a big problem since the data dosn't change that often. 2- the author can't tell the difference.
So I would tend to agree with you. Either way, MP3 player is very unlikely to be the initial target for any kind of new memory, in particular fast one since what they need is more on the line of something cheap with low power needs (the evolution I saw in telephones was the introduction of mirror bit technology: a slightly slower flash that had twice the capacity for the same price).
Maybe you should buy as much as you can in those areas as a saving for your old days. When the global warming would have caused the sea level to rise a few meters, the rust belt will be far more attractive than Florida or Mississipi.
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Of course, but I still want genetics to explain Liv Tyler.
Years ago, I read an article about a study in which women were asked to chose mens by smelling tshirt they wore for a couple of days.
The conclusion was that there was no real winner but rather that most whomen chosed the man who had the most different immune pattern from their own.
Of course, in modern civilization, it is far from being the most important mating choice reason.
I was just trying to be funny and got my first (+5, Insightfull), THAT's funny.
That kind of game does not even need client-side anti-cheat.
-You don't need to keep a character sheet with caracteristics, gold & items, everyone start the game with a generic soldier.
-You can do every action resolution on the server. If a client tells the server it is doing something he shouldn't be able to do (like still moving after being killed), just kick it away.
Now, it will have to be rated 18+
You're ruining the myth that low ID get all the girls. What next, Santa is a chinese 8yo slave?
Yes, the USA has a lot of unused space, even if you don't count deserts & national parks and produce far enough food, and in most places, water is not a problem either.
I think the only potential problem would be energy, if they reduce their usage to west european level, they have the potential to grow even more. Anyway, I don't really worry, we'll simply all adapt to what is available, it might be less confortable, but it will be mostly OK with a couple of billion more people.
But of course, after buying that much high def textures and videos, there is no money left for the scenario (and don't tell me a DVD wasn't enough to put decent interactions, some of my favorite games only required a couple of 3"1/2)
No it doesn't.
If you tell them you managed to have an information on powerful bad guys they really don't want anyone to know about them, they won't turn good by magic and make the world a better place for everyone.
If you are smart/lucky, they will steal your evidences and give you a very bad reputation.
In the other cases, they will really make your life a hell.
Although it seems cool to "Show them what it's like to live in their own mousetrap", you just can't play in their league (going from individual to small business won't change anything, it would be like exchanging a knive for a handgun when facing an armored division), so it's unfortunately unwise to even try.
Don't worry, nothing can survive very long from that kind of food.
Should Myspace be required to have people who manually confirm all users aren't sex offenders?
How do you plan to do that? Show every users illegal explicit photos and ask them if they want more? require all users to have a webcam and randomly monitor them?
Except requiring a credit card number (IMHO, the only quite reliable proof of identity) and lose 99% of their user base, I don't see how they could do that without risking jail themself.
Are you the kind of people who believe GM food will save the world from starvation? It's all about who set the rules, and so who benefits from them.
DRM purpose is to keep the control over what you think you bought from them. They spend a lot of money to devel^Hbuy them, so they want their money back, from you, poor little slav^Hconsumer. If they can get away with this, they will soon try the next step.
ICBM is one thing, but both sides also had some nuclear bombers waiting near the ennemy borders 24*7 to either back up a first strike ICBM launch or retaliate if the homeland was destroyed. I don't have the details, but I think Spain was just on their route from an US base to the waiting point when they had that accident.
Have you ever seen Dr Strangelove? Of course, it is a comedy, but it is based on a real situation: during cold war, there were constantly dozens of nuclear warheads flying around with the risk of something going wrong. That accident was fortunately in the lower range of possible consequences.
Strange, it looks like these are the places that would most likely face the risk of regional nuclear war within 20 years. Maybe Intel plan is to save on retirement packages.
Intel is unfortunately already used to turnover.
If a corp fires ten thousands experienced people because they are too expensive, I don't think they really care getting even F grade ex web developers instead as long as they are dirt cheap.
No, not just you.
I just read TFI and your comment is a far more accurate than the post.
Lucky they did not study associal networks like /..
ADSL?
11Mb/s.
Moreover, the teens who overuse MP3 players are somehow immune to that system since their ears are already damaged, so it mostly targets teens that do not have that particular self-destructing habit (I don't know if there is a correlation with being a shoplifter, but I would bet for a negative one) and kids.
I just hope a mother sues that guy into bankruptcy for having hurt her baby, that would refrain others to invent even nastier way to hurt their potential clients.
It's not exactly promotion, but my brother is experimenting the same thing in the administration he works for.
He is a IT worker currently in an administrative role, working with a lazy beanworker and recently, an real IT job opened in the next service so they both asked to move to that position.
Guess which one their boss proposed to go to that other service (hint: guess which one he wanted to keep in his team): the guy who knows computers and is doing decently on his job although it is not the one he learned during school or the lazy one?
If we forget the illegal aspect of this, it will sure be a great demonstration if they go from 0.5% in polls to 100.000000% in the electronic ballot.
There is a big difference between a politician who want to so things and then is confronted to the hard reality (most politicians have almost as much power as average joe) and one who is saying bullshit on purpose and doesn't even try to act accordingly to what he proposed before the election.
Form the rest of the article (us instead of ms to display and image), that "100 us" switch time is likely to be wrong by at least 6 orders of magnitude (or else the tech is pointless since it couldn't be scalled down in the future).
I see two possible reasons to use the MP3 player in the abstract:
1- it is a non-volatile RAM. Flash is OK, but it has some drawbacks, in particular with the need to erase a full block to revert a 0 into a 1, which is quite long (several ms with the one I worked with). Of course, for a MP3 player, it's not a big problem since the data dosn't change that often.
2- the author can't tell the difference.
So I would tend to agree with you. Either way, MP3 player is very unlikely to be the initial target for any kind of new memory, in particular fast one since what they need is more on the line of something cheap with low power needs (the evolution I saw in telephones was the introduction of mirror bit technology: a slightly slower flash that had twice the capacity for the same price).
Maybe you should buy as much as you can in those areas as a saving for your old days.
When the global warming would have caused the sea level to rise a few meters, the rust belt will be far more attractive than Florida or Mississipi.
European population massively increased over the last few years, of course, including 10 new countries in the EU helped a lot.