Exhaustion is not an appropriate mechanic for a pulp/space opera setting as it violates the genre's style conventions on heroic action. Exhaustion mechanics belong in "grittier" settings such as noir or low fantasy.
The one scene I can think of is when Luke is hanging upside down in the ice cave in Hoth. His exhaustion makes it extremely difficult to even summon his light saber from a few feet away. George Lucas's inability to deal with human limitations except in the rarest plot points doesn't have to limit my imagining of how the Star Wars universe works. This is probably also why I like the Knigts of the Old Republic, it is much 'grittier' than the movies. In fiction, it is generally when the character's are at their limit that things are the most interesting, and setting that limit too high results in games that are dull soap operas.
I'm not suggesting that the balance in Star Wars needs to be set at the same place as it was in Shadowrun. A low level power would result in little to no fatigue. It is only when the character is pushed to its limits that significant fatigue happens. The also allow the damage received to affect how difficult it is to initiate a power. But this is why all gaming groups have house rules, everyone sees things differently.
The one thing the WEG version was missing was limits on using Jedi Powers. The ideal Star Wars, to me, combines the west end games version with Shadowrun. Fatigue for using special powers, useful cybernetics. The Knights of the Old Republic expansion would be particularly well suited to this.
Except that if he had installed Vista on his laptop with 512MB of RAM, his side by side comparison would be very short. Feisty: Ohh, pretty. Everything I need in a 30 minute install. Vista: I've been waiting 2 weeks for it to finish opening wordpad.
IEEE requests documents as PDF. They provide a.doc template to help you get the formatting correct, as well as guidelines for tex.
The main incompatibility between ODF and Word for technical writting is equations. Word completely fails on equations in documents exported from OpenOffice.
I don't see how privacy and the freedom to innovate are less important than abortion, gun control, and the politicians religion or marital status. And yet candidates seem to win or loss on those issues more often than any of the ones you mentioned.
At the detector level, most of this separation makes perfect sense. Although I think it has more to do with redundancy in case of failure than avoiding false positives. But all of the infrastructure and effort around the experiment is being doubled also. Well, good luck to them both.
Another thing to point out is that, at least for ATLAS, researchers don't get their data directly from CERN. CERN has fat dedicated pipes to what are called Tier-1 data centers, which are spread around the world. I think these centers build the raw data into structured events. Then there are smaller Tier-2 data centers (I worked for one of the Universities hosting a Tier-2 center) which get these structured events and that is where Joe physicist gets his data from. Also, these data centers have processing power on site to run programs submitted by physicists, so most of this data will never touch the everyday internet.
For some reason, ATLAS and CMS don't use the same techniques and technologies for just about anything from detector design down to the style of pen carried in their pocket protectors. So anything said for ATLAS does not necessarily hold true for CMS (the other big detector on the LHC).
For me it was an English teacher ridiculing me in front of the class when I objected to her statement that the seasons are due to the Earth moving closer and farther from the sun.
I'm an adult, I've had all kinds of bad things happen to me. I'd still cry if I dropped my ice cream cone. Just thinking about it makes me a little teary eyed.
I don't let little things get me done, but damn it, ice cream is important!
You're certainly right in suggesting that no company is going to do this out of the goodness of their cold black hearts, however these same corporations donate millions of dollars each year. If the donated patents could count as a charitable donation, it would be much more appealing. Start-ups get the legal protection a patent offers without spending a ton of money, large corporations get a tax write off without giving away actual capital.
There would have to be some legislation that says the write-off value of a patent has to be reasonable, but this is similar to whenever physical goods are donated for a monetary write-off.
According to the article, the higher selectivity was one of the advantages over traditional proton irradiation (I suspect because you could use lower energy particles but the article is light on details and I'm just guessing). That said, I worked at CERN for a few years, and I certainly wouldn't put it past people there to aggrandize some experiment to bring in more funds. But this happens in every research field, even medicine.
CERN, the birthplace of the web, also has a department of industry liaison which is responsible for selling spin-off technologies to companies, to get some return on the publics investment.
I configured identical Windows and FreeDOS machines on the Dell website a few weeks ago and the price difference came out to $35. That is a reasonable number for the cost to Dell for windows minus the money they get for pre-installing crapware. Oh and I guess it includes MS Works too, but I think that falls under the crapware category.
If they offered a no windows option on more than 3 systems however, it would be much more attractive. Or offer to install a licensed copy of RHEL and let RH handle the support.
If the software was just multiple choice, then you're right. It would suck. But if the software gave only open ended questions where you had to show each step (for example, filling in the bits of long division) and hinting to you as you made mistakes then I think one could develop a deeper understanding much more quickly than by listening to a lecture for 45 minutes, where at most only a few kids give any kind of feedback. In another example, when I learned to read in 1st grade, we would sit around in a circle and take turns reading a sentence so that the teacher could correct us or help us. So only about 1/20th of the time was really useful to any 1 kid. On the other hand, software that I read aloud to could easily give constant feedback or even read the word if necessary.
I did say it would take significant investment in software development.
Where I live (midwest America), a teachers salary isn't great but it is enough to live on. I'd be very happy to have that salary and 3 months off. I'd use that time to educate myself, write books, do art, perform science experiments, or persue whatever other interests I develop. If teachers stopped whining about the money they got and instead looked at the opportunities their lives gives them, schools would be much better places.
As a side note, my mom started and still runs a k-5 latch-key program that actually makes money for the school. She has a college degree, works all year round, has been doing it for 20 years and makes about what a first year teacher makes because the school administration won't give her a raise. I think she could quit, but she's proud of what she has accomplished and so keeps at it.
I've been thinking about how to build an education environment around the OLPC. One effect would be that fewer teachers would be required, but they would need to be more highly skilled. If you only have 1 teacher per 100 children, paying them twice as much is easy.
Here's how I think education will work 10 years from now:
1 teacher, 1 assistant, 100 kids.
Most 'teaching' is done by software programs that interactively teach kids and give instant feedback. Problems are tailored and different for each kid, improving learning and reducing cheating by copying. Progress is tracked on a central server to identify when kids are having trouble. Instant feed back is significantly more effective and limits the need for teachers to spend time grading simple 'practice' work.
Kids can discuss what they are learning by breaking up into groups.
Science experiments can be done 'hands on' and then explored in greater detail on the computer (things that would be unsafe to do 'live' could be done easily). Each computer would be a physics, chemistry and biology lab. Physical labs could be shared between many more children (they don't all have to do it at the same time) and so physical costs are reduced.
More advanced programs are earned. For instance, you can't earn the right to use a calculator until you've mastered basic arithmetic. Can't use symbolic calculator until mastering basic algebra.
Teachers give in depth oral exams/evaluations to serval kids each day, at 5 kids a day, all 100 could be done in a month. This helps establish a relationship and ensure the kids aren't cheating.
Kids are free to help each other or explore topics they are interested in in more detail.
Practice and edutainment programs can be mixed to balance speed of learning and childrens attention levels.
At higher levels, exploring arbitrary topics is very easy.
Reading and speaking taught with headphones and direct feedback.
The primary purpose of teachers is to foster the creativity and curiosity of the children.
Scientific method of questioning and exploring is central to the education system.
Punishment can be exacted by restricting computer rights in addition to more traditional methods.
Updates to social science and scientific 'texts' can be instantaneous. If a child has already done a lesson, they could be advised of updates to that lesson.
This would required significant investment in software, but that investment could be shared nationwide. Physical infrastructure investments could be reduced. Teachers could be paid much more and elevated to a professional level (it takes special skills to manage so many kids and that investment in training should be rewarded).
There are several dupes of "install free software" too.
Ofcourse, anyone who expects Dell to install software for free is naive to say the least. Nothing installed on a Dell is free (either you pay for it or the publisher pays for it for the advertising). The price of Windows is subsidized by all of the annoying-ware that comes preinstalled.
What would be really nice is to have 5 options: Ubuntu LTS +$20, Windows Home +$30, Red Hat WS +$50, Windows Vista Pro +$100, no OS installed +$0.
Its not like Dell is afraid to add options to their order menu (there are about 1000 for 'accessories').
When I was living in France I could have bought, as a healthy young man, medical insurance for something like 40 euro a month (I was still covered by my parents insurance back then, so I didn't buy any). In the US, similar health insurance is $400 a month. Of course, going to the doctor was so inexpensive there that I could have afforded normal visits out of pocket, where as a single visit to the doctors in the US would set me back one weeks salary.
Nuh uh! See, the article says "His mechanism traps molecular-sized particles as they move. As Maxwell had predicted long ago, it does not need energy because it is powered by light." So light isn't energy and we all know the article is already right.
What preschool do they get these science writers from?
And you thought keeping your overclocked P4 cool was difficult... Liquid nitrogen cooling is so passé, you're nobody without a femtosecond pulsed laser these days.
I've traveled a lot in France, Switzerland, and Italy and I often had to leave my passport at the Hotel desk. The upside of this is that I've never had my passport stolen unlike some yahoos who carried them arround for pickpockets to nab or left them in hostel rooms for anyone to grab.
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The one scene I can think of is when Luke is hanging upside down in the ice cave in Hoth. His exhaustion makes it extremely difficult to even summon his light saber from a few feet away. George Lucas's inability to deal with human limitations except in the rarest plot points doesn't have to limit my imagining of how the Star Wars universe works. This is probably also why I like the Knigts of the Old Republic, it is much 'grittier' than the movies. In fiction, it is generally when the character's are at their limit that things are the most interesting, and setting that limit too high results in games that are dull soap operas.
I'm not suggesting that the balance in Star Wars needs to be set at the same place as it was in Shadowrun. A low level power would result in little to no fatigue. It is only when the character is pushed to its limits that significant fatigue happens. The also allow the damage received to affect how difficult it is to initiate a power. But this is why all gaming groups have house rules, everyone sees things differently.
The one thing the WEG version was missing was limits on using Jedi Powers. The ideal Star Wars, to me, combines the west end games version with Shadowrun. Fatigue for using special powers, useful cybernetics. The Knights of the Old Republic expansion would be particularly well suited to this.
Except that if he had installed Vista on his laptop with 512MB of RAM, his side by side comparison would be very short.
Feisty: Ohh, pretty. Everything I need in a 30 minute install.
Vista: I've been waiting 2 weeks for it to finish opening wordpad.
IEEE requests documents as PDF. They provide a .doc template to help you get the formatting correct, as well as guidelines for tex.
The main incompatibility between ODF and Word for technical writting is equations. Word completely fails on equations in documents exported from OpenOffice.
I don't see how privacy and the freedom to innovate are less important than abortion, gun control, and the politicians religion or marital status. And yet candidates seem to win or loss on those issues more often than any of the ones you mentioned.
At the detector level, most of this separation makes perfect sense. Although I think it has more to do with redundancy in case of failure than avoiding false positives. But all of the infrastructure and effort around the experiment is being doubled also. Well, good luck to them both.
Another thing to point out is that, at least for ATLAS, researchers don't get their data directly from CERN. CERN has fat dedicated pipes to what are called Tier-1 data centers, which are spread around the world. I think these centers build the raw data into structured events. Then there are smaller Tier-2 data centers (I worked for one of the Universities hosting a Tier-2 center) which get these structured events and that is where Joe physicist gets his data from. Also, these data centers have processing power on site to run programs submitted by physicists, so most of this data will never touch the everyday internet.
For some reason, ATLAS and CMS don't use the same techniques and technologies for just about anything from detector design down to the style of pen carried in their pocket protectors. So anything said for ATLAS does not necessarily hold true for CMS (the other big detector on the LHC).
For me it was an English teacher ridiculing me in front of the class when I objected to her statement that the seasons are due to the Earth moving closer and farther from the sun.
I'm an adult, I've had all kinds of bad things happen to me. I'd still cry if I dropped my ice cream cone. Just thinking about it makes me a little teary eyed.
I don't let little things get me done, but damn it, ice cream is important!
You're certainly right in suggesting that no company is going to do this out of the goodness of their cold black hearts, however these same corporations donate millions of dollars each year. If the donated patents could count as a charitable donation, it would be much more appealing. Start-ups get the legal protection a patent offers without spending a ton of money, large corporations get a tax write off without giving away actual capital.
There would have to be some legislation that says the write-off value of a patent has to be reasonable, but this is similar to whenever physical goods are donated for a monetary write-off.
Better yet, show the liberals the articles that the conservatives rated highly and vice versa. People need to know what the other side is thinking.
According to the article, the higher selectivity was one of the advantages over traditional proton irradiation (I suspect because you could use lower energy particles but the article is light on details and I'm just guessing). That said, I worked at CERN for a few years, and I certainly wouldn't put it past people there to aggrandize some experiment to bring in more funds. But this happens in every research field, even medicine. CERN, the birthplace of the web, also has a department of industry liaison which is responsible for selling spin-off technologies to companies, to get some return on the publics investment.
I configured identical Windows and FreeDOS machines on the Dell website a few weeks ago and the price difference came out to $35. That is a reasonable number for the cost to Dell for windows minus the money they get for pre-installing crapware. Oh and I guess it includes MS Works too, but I think that falls under the crapware category.
If they offered a no windows option on more than 3 systems however, it would be much more attractive. Or offer to install a licensed copy of RHEL and let RH handle the support.
I did say it would take significant investment in software development.
As a side note, my mom started and still runs a k-5 latch-key program that actually makes money for the school. She has a college degree, works all year round, has been doing it for 20 years and makes about what a first year teacher makes because the school administration won't give her a raise. I think she could quit, but she's proud of what she has accomplished and so keeps at it.
Here's how I think education will work 10 years from now:
This would required significant investment in software, but that investment could be shared nationwide. Physical infrastructure investments could be reduced. Teachers could be paid much more and elevated to a professional level (it takes special skills to manage so many kids and that investment in training should be rewarded).
There are several dupes of "install free software" too.
Ofcourse, anyone who expects Dell to install software for free is naive to say the least. Nothing installed on a Dell is free (either you pay for it or the publisher pays for it for the advertising). The price of Windows is subsidized by all of the annoying-ware that comes preinstalled.
What would be really nice is to have 5 options: Ubuntu LTS +$20, Windows Home +$30, Red Hat WS +$50, Windows Vista Pro +$100, no OS installed +$0.
Its not like Dell is afraid to add options to their order menu (there are about 1000 for 'accessories').
When I was living in France I could have bought, as a healthy young man, medical insurance for something like 40 euro a month (I was still covered by my parents insurance back then, so I didn't buy any). In the US, similar health insurance is $400 a month. Of course, going to the doctor was so inexpensive there that I could have afforded normal visits out of pocket, where as a single visit to the doctors in the US would set me back one weeks salary.
Nuh uh! See, the article says "His mechanism traps molecular-sized particles as they move. As Maxwell had predicted long ago, it does not need energy because it is powered by light." So light isn't energy and we all know the article is already right. What preschool do they get these science writers from?
And you thought keeping your overclocked P4 cool was difficult ... Liquid nitrogen cooling is so passé, you're nobody without a femtosecond pulsed laser these days.
I've traveled a lot in France, Switzerland, and Italy and I often had to leave my passport at the Hotel desk. The upside of this is that I've never had my passport stolen unlike some yahoos who carried them arround for pickpockets to nab or left them in hostel rooms for anyone to grab.