They're making progress with "Matt's Law," making it illegal to do so next year. I don't think they spelled out much for penalties though. I expect this Utah getting theirs passed with harsher penalties will open the floodgates. Or rather I should say "I hope" because the number of idiots on the road with a cell glued to their ear (hands free = attention free and should be banned as such) or in a hand on the wheel is way too high for my tastes.
You ask their cell company, with a judge's order if needed. Trust me they're tracking your texting to bill you. If they aren't, you write a law requiring them to do so. Easy. Done.
The guild leveling stuff, lack of ranked spells, sidekicking... Not straight out of City of Heroes but definitely related. Not that it is a bad thing at all -- sidekicking is the best feature of CoH bar none. Interestingly enough, CoH is making sidekicking better too, so I wonder if we'll see WoW duplicate that or the old sidekick system.
Simplified stats is probably good, too much gear was utter junk due to wrong stats landing on it.
Wolfram Alpha tells me the average age in the US is 36 years old (though it includes kids). Wikipedia tells me 64% of adults (excluding kids) are overweight/obese. I'm having trouble quantifying the tends toward depression. There's about 5% of the population (including kids?) estimated suffering from medically defined major depression disorder(s).
That's not a good base comparison since the base Insight comes with a lot more frills the Fit Base lacks... like cruise. We only do 5k miles a year but curise is a major must-have -- especially as nice as the modern cruise interface they have on both cars is.
You'd do a more even match up with Base Insight to Fit Sport, which closes the gap but only a little. You've still got problems (the Fit Sport, while not really a sports car handles a heck of a lot nicer than the Insight does!)
Use the Civic. Or wait till a year or two down the road when Honda releases the Fit Hybrid. The math is still not in the hybrid's favor unless gas goes way up and you drive quite a lot.
- Someone who recently test drove both and bought the Fit Sport. "Cruise is not an 'option'" as the missus says.
Having just done a CFC buy, we tested the Jetta TDI wagon among other small hatches; the Mazda5, Cube, Fit, Insight, and others. It was plenty peppy after about 10 MPH. The automatic's shift-pattern feel strange compared to a gas engine, but it was fine other than that. The Golf TDI would have been a contender but our local VW dealer A) doesn't have any (may not have existed for 09 model year? Didn't bother researching too hard because of...) and B) sucks so we didn't want to buy/have maintenance done at the local dealer anyway (...that).
Compact, lightweight cars... like the Insight they're talking about? I'm just asking here. The site is down so but google's cache suggests they're using the 1st gen insight, so that's a whopping 2000 lbs before conversion (which may/will? add weight).
Fuel usage (particularly these days and likely going forward) is becoming a bad way to measure road use. That's not my problem to solve as a consumer.
1) You can die 7 times in a row before being ported back to your respawn point. Just find a *really* high cliff. Added side benefit: only on death's worth of death-penalty!
Your fellow ---- has died. Your fellow ---- has died. Your fellow ---- has died.... x4
We even recovered the body!
2) Making mazes out of dropable housing items. Got a nice 2m long oriental-style screen? Build a maze! Sure it degrades in 10 minutes as the items time out, but so what?
Yep, you missed it. We'd planned on driving our EPA 17 MPG 95 Mazda MPV till it died and/or major repairs (probably 2-5 years) and pick up a more fuel efficient car then (wagon or small/hybrid minivan). With CFC we traded it in now and ended up in a 30 MPG Honda Fit.
Now you can debate if, when we only put 5k miles a year on the car, we're really the best place to spend money to increase gas economy, but it does mean the not-yet-rusted, in good condition considering its age MPV won't be going into the used market for someone else to drive.
I'm really glad we were prepared though. We put money down and signed for the car Monday. It took the IL Sec of State till Thursday to verify our registration for the dealer, so we picked the car up then. Looks like it is getting extended, but I'm glad to have beaten the first crash anyway.
Not to mention Jaunty isn't a LTS release, so you can't really compare it to RHEL for long-term stable releases.
I've run most of the top of that list. I liked arch, but at the moment I'm much happier with Ubuntu. Install once, most things I need are there so I don't have to dork around with trying to install the packages I need and make gnome integrate everything, etc...
Most of AC's problem with skills can be traced back to the way the developers originally priced them. Pricing was determined by... popularity of the skill in beta! (or at least so I was told by one of the beta testers) That means you get awkward things like trying to balance the 4-pt dagger skill vs 16-pt sword vs 28-pt war magic.
For a long time magic was the be-all-end-all. Mages didn't need to worry about melee defense or burden issues. They just buffed themselves to the stratosphere and walked around like gods. Everyone else whined and then the mage nerfs and loot inflation started. Now it seems melee defense is the be-all-end-all as the quantity of mobs who ignore magical protections has been rising rapidly to try to keep the challenge in the game.
Still, I've never seem more diverse "classes" in a game than AC. And for added benefit, nobody has to sit back and be the (boring!) healer. Everyone has the capability to heal in combat. There's no such thing as the tank because aggro doesn't work like that. There are positional tactics: players and monsters block travel, though players can co-occupy space. There is a lot more problem solving in the quests in the game too than WoW or similar.
We're not talking CS here, we're talking Engineering. Teaching them a specific language used in their field/is/ teaching them core principles and methods. Think of it like a basic diffeq class, giving them the tools to be able to learn their field, as opposed to more advanced math classes that underly diffeq.
In the three weeks after the release of the MA and before my account lapsed, there were something on the order of 50,000 story arcs created by players.
They can't afford to go through that size of user generated content. Sure, some was just people playing with test arcs. A lot isn't though; friends who are still in the game go through rating unrated missions and most they find are real (stupid, but real).
I can't answer for the 900, but I've got netbook remix loaded off the install key on my 901 and it is doing fine so far. WPA2 wifi connectivity looks a heck of a lot better than in easypeasy or with the older array.org kernel/modules.
I was trying to show a friend the Barackroll video on youtube and discovered it'd gotten the same treatment. To me it screams parody. There really should have been some penalty for harassment via DMCA written into the DMCA, but of course we can't have that.
LEDs still need DC, not AC. Feed AC to an LED and you get a nice 60Hz strobe light (see also: LED christmas lights). Maybe you can't see 60Hz, but I can and it makes me want to get a baseball bat to fix it.
So you still need a power supply("ballast") that has a high PF for converting AC->DC.
Or we need to figure out how to rewire houses to have a single AC->DC conversion point, and pipe DC around to the lighting fixtures. With LEDs, that might be plausible, but I haven't done the math.
If you define presence as "large player base" then EVE itself may not qualify. On the other hand, if you don't, there's still Planetside and Galaxies kicking around. City of Heroes may qualify or not depending on your take (it is theoretically set 'today' but is more like an alternate future history ala Heinlein that we have caught up to).
Or Earth and Beyond. Oh wait, it was almost stillborn. Lasted what, 1 year past release then canned? It was closer to what he describes, because it was a/lot/ less complex than EVE.
Just make sure you stick on eee-control (you'll have to install some of their acpi script stuff, all easy to do with the package manager) and turn off the junk you aren't using.
I had been using stock ubuntu before that, with the array.org (go there, set up his repos) kernel + eee-control. Battery life was better using that than ubuntu-eee, so I may end up back there yet.
Wireless is a bit touchy either way. I've heard that using ndiswrapper fixes that, but wireless has been "good enough" for my use.
You don't need 20 petaflops to do that, you need a few tens of teraflops and a really really huge memory and really really fast IO. You'd do much better with some of the 1/4TB memory systems from Sun or IBM + spending a huge pile of money on SSDs than a real supercomputer.
The cost of the IO interconnect is a huge chunk of cash to sink into a supercomputer that you just don't need for that sort of tin foil hat application.
This is reaching the point of "why bother with a supercomputer?" If your app can make use of those cards, an enthusiast board with 3-way SLI can deliver more performance than a 4 year old, debut at #66 supercomputer (that I manage) can. In one PC, with a hell of a lot less to go wrong.
4 years old is pretty old for a supercomputer, but still that amount of computational power is staggering.
Animals have at least one desirable quality that plants don't have, even if they have a horrible conversion ratio -- animals don't die off when it becomes winter! Oh, sure, many plants don't either, but you're usually not eating said plants then. Harvest season on Bessie is whenever Joe Sixpack Farmer decides he's hungry. This is less of a benefit in modern (refrigeration) society than in the past, but still significant in many parts of the world.
I have to also wonder how different the world would be if all humans were vegan. Utopia or distopia? I'm thinking there are at least a few aspects of the latter -- a lot of the nature preserves in this country where hunting is allowed probably wouldn't exist. Nobody would have a reason to want to preserve them.
You are almost certainly correct. I've got numbers from going from OS X on a large machine to going to Linux on same said large machine and there was a measurable performance gain. I'm expecting another performance gain (quite possibly a significant one again) when we upgrade the kernel to the tickless timer enabled kernels.
It is called "jitter" or "operating system jitter" -- look it up!
Parallel programming, in particular for HPC where you want to be fast, is just hard. Data decomposition is hard. Load balancing is hard. Debugging is even harder.
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They're making progress with "Matt's Law," making it illegal to do so next year. I don't think they spelled out much for penalties though. I expect this Utah getting theirs passed with harsher penalties will open the floodgates. Or rather I should say "I hope" because the number of idiots on the road with a cell glued to their ear (hands free = attention free and should be banned as such) or in a hand on the wheel is way too high for my tastes.
Shut up and drive. Idiots.
You ask their cell company, with a judge's order if needed. Trust me they're tracking your texting to bill you. If they aren't, you write a law requiring them to do so. Easy. Done.
The guild leveling stuff, lack of ranked spells, sidekicking... Not straight out of City of Heroes but definitely related. Not that it is a bad thing at all -- sidekicking is the best feature of CoH bar none. Interestingly enough, CoH is making sidekicking better too, so I wonder if we'll see WoW duplicate that or the old sidekick system.
Simplified stats is probably good, too much gear was utter junk due to wrong stats landing on it.
Wolfram Alpha tells me the average age in the US is 36 years old (though it includes kids). Wikipedia tells me 64% of adults (excluding kids) are overweight/obese. I'm having trouble quantifying the tends toward depression. There's about 5% of the population (including kids?) estimated suffering from medically defined major depression disorder(s).
So yeah, at least in the same ballpark.
That's not a good base comparison since the base Insight comes with a lot more frills the Fit Base lacks... like cruise. We only do 5k miles a year but curise is a major must-have -- especially as nice as the modern cruise interface they have on both cars is.
You'd do a more even match up with Base Insight to Fit Sport, which closes the gap but only a little. You've still got problems (the Fit Sport, while not really a sports car handles a heck of a lot nicer than the Insight does!)
Use the Civic. Or wait till a year or two down the road when Honda releases the Fit Hybrid. The math is still not in the hybrid's favor unless gas goes way up and you drive quite a lot.
- Someone who recently test drove both and bought the Fit Sport. "Cruise is not an 'option'" as the missus says.
Having just done a CFC buy, we tested the Jetta TDI wagon among other small hatches; the Mazda5, Cube, Fit, Insight, and others. It was plenty peppy after about 10 MPH. The automatic's shift-pattern feel strange compared to a gas engine, but it was fine other than that. The Golf TDI would have been a contender but our local VW dealer A) doesn't have any (may not have existed for 09 model year? Didn't bother researching too hard because of...) and B) sucks so we didn't want to buy/have maintenance done at the local dealer anyway (...that).
Compact, lightweight cars... like the Insight they're talking about? I'm just asking here. The site is down so but google's cache suggests they're using the 1st gen insight, so that's a whopping 2000 lbs before conversion (which may/will? add weight).
Fuel usage (particularly these days and likely going forward) is becoming a bad way to measure road use. That's not my problem to solve as a consumer.
1) You can die 7 times in a row before being ported back to your respawn point. Just find a *really* high cliff. Added side benefit: only on death's worth of death-penalty!
Your fellow ---- has died. ... x4
Your fellow ---- has died.
Your fellow ---- has died.
We even recovered the body!
2) Making mazes out of dropable housing items. Got a nice 2m long oriental-style screen? Build a maze! Sure it degrades in 10 minutes as the items time out, but so what?
Yep, you missed it. We'd planned on driving our EPA 17 MPG 95 Mazda MPV till it died and/or major repairs (probably 2-5 years) and pick up a more fuel efficient car then (wagon or small/hybrid minivan). With CFC we traded it in now and ended up in a 30 MPG Honda Fit.
Now you can debate if, when we only put 5k miles a year on the car, we're really the best place to spend money to increase gas economy, but it does mean the not-yet-rusted, in good condition considering its age MPV won't be going into the used market for someone else to drive.
I'm really glad we were prepared though. We put money down and signed for the car Monday. It took the IL Sec of State till Thursday to verify our registration for the dealer, so we picked the car up then. Looks like it is getting extended, but I'm glad to have beaten the first crash anyway.
Not to mention Jaunty isn't a LTS release, so you can't really compare it to RHEL for long-term stable releases.
I've run most of the top of that list. I liked arch, but at the moment I'm much happier with Ubuntu. Install once, most things I need are there so I don't have to dork around with trying to install the packages I need and make gnome integrate everything, etc...
Most of AC's problem with skills can be traced back to the way the developers originally priced them. Pricing was determined by ... popularity of the skill in beta! (or at least so I was told by one of the beta testers) That means you get awkward things like trying to balance the 4-pt dagger skill vs 16-pt sword vs 28-pt war magic.
For a long time magic was the be-all-end-all. Mages didn't need to worry about melee defense or burden issues. They just buffed themselves to the stratosphere and walked around like gods. Everyone else whined and then the mage nerfs and loot inflation started. Now it seems melee defense is the be-all-end-all as the quantity of mobs who ignore magical protections has been rising rapidly to try to keep the challenge in the game.
Still, I've never seem more diverse "classes" in a game than AC. And for added benefit, nobody has to sit back and be the (boring!) healer. Everyone has the capability to heal in combat. There's no such thing as the tank because aggro doesn't work like that. There are positional tactics: players and monsters block travel, though players can co-occupy space. There is a lot more problem solving in the quests in the game too than WoW or similar.
We're not talking CS here, we're talking Engineering. Teaching them a specific language used in their field /is/ teaching them core principles and methods. Think of it like a basic diffeq class, giving them the tools to be able to learn their field, as opposed to more advanced math classes that underly diffeq.
In the three weeks after the release of the MA and before my account lapsed, there were something on the order of 50,000 story arcs created by players.
They can't afford to go through that size of user generated content. Sure, some was just people playing with test arcs. A lot isn't though; friends who are still in the game go through rating unrated missions and most they find are real (stupid, but real).
I can't answer for the 900, but I've got netbook remix loaded off the install key on my 901 and it is doing fine so far. WPA2 wifi connectivity looks a heck of a lot better than in easypeasy or with the older array.org kernel/modules.
The joy of lego bricks is that you don't need a set:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=220541
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=209444
I didn't do either, but it is awesome anyway.
It might be, if A+B=parody. See also: Weird Al.
I was trying to show a friend the Barackroll video on youtube and discovered it'd gotten the same treatment. To me it screams parody. There really should have been some penalty for harassment via DMCA written into the DMCA, but of course we can't have that.
LEDs still need DC, not AC. Feed AC to an LED and you get a nice 60Hz strobe light (see also: LED christmas lights). Maybe you can't see 60Hz, but I can and it makes me want to get a baseball bat to fix it.
So you still need a power supply("ballast") that has a high PF for converting AC->DC.
Or we need to figure out how to rewire houses to have a single AC->DC conversion point, and pipe DC around to the lighting fixtures. With LEDs, that might be plausible, but I haven't done the math.
If you define presence as "large player base" then EVE itself may not qualify. On the other hand, if you don't, there's still Planetside and Galaxies kicking around. City of Heroes may qualify or not depending on your take (it is theoretically set 'today' but is more like an alternate future history ala Heinlein that we have caught up to).
Or Earth and Beyond. Oh wait, it was almost stillborn. Lasted what, 1 year past release then canned? It was closer to what he describes, because it was a /lot/ less complex than EVE.
Just make sure you stick on eee-control (you'll have to install some of their acpi script stuff, all easy to do with the package manager) and turn off the junk you aren't using.
I had been using stock ubuntu before that, with the array.org (go there, set up his repos) kernel + eee-control. Battery life was better using that than ubuntu-eee, so I may end up back there yet.
Wireless is a bit touchy either way. I've heard that using ndiswrapper fixes that, but wireless has been "good enough" for my use.
You don't need 20 petaflops to do that, you need a few tens of teraflops and a really really huge memory and really really fast IO. You'd do much better with some of the 1/4TB memory systems from Sun or IBM + spending a huge pile of money on SSDs than a real supercomputer.
The cost of the IO interconnect is a huge chunk of cash to sink into a supercomputer that you just don't need for that sort of tin foil hat application.
This is reaching the point of "why bother with a supercomputer?" If your app can make use of those cards, an enthusiast board with 3-way SLI can deliver more performance than a 4 year old, debut at #66 supercomputer (that I manage) can. In one PC, with a hell of a lot less to go wrong.
4 years old is pretty old for a supercomputer, but still that amount of computational power is staggering.
Animals have at least one desirable quality that plants don't have, even if they have a horrible conversion ratio -- animals don't die off when it becomes winter! Oh, sure, many plants don't either, but you're usually not eating said plants then. Harvest season on Bessie is whenever Joe Sixpack Farmer decides he's hungry. This is less of a benefit in modern (refrigeration) society than in the past, but still significant in many parts of the world.
I have to also wonder how different the world would be if all humans were vegan. Utopia or distopia? I'm thinking there are at least a few aspects of the latter -- a lot of the nature preserves in this country where hunting is allowed probably wouldn't exist. Nobody would have a reason to want to preserve them.
You are almost certainly correct. I've got numbers from going from OS X on a large machine to going to Linux on same said large machine and there was a measurable performance gain. I'm expecting another performance gain (quite possibly a significant one again) when we upgrade the kernel to the tickless timer enabled kernels.
It is called "jitter" or "operating system jitter" -- look it up!
Doesn't exist. Can't exist. Won't exist.
Someone would have already done it if possible.
Parallel programming, in particular for HPC where you want to be fast, is just hard. Data decomposition is hard. Load balancing is hard. Debugging is even harder.