Rather than developing expensive DRM solutions, publishers can cut piracy rates tremendously by ensuring their games get low review scores. Everyone knows that game sales are based mostly on hype, and ever pirated copy is a Lost Sale, so it follows that a game with a high hype to review score ratio will actually outsell a hyped game that also has high review scores.
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This entire debt crisis is a blatant attack on the working class. Our legislators knew what was coming back when they were busy cutting taxes for the rich and funneling billions into banks. Things will only get worse from here!
If you read the PDF article, it says it works like an air-hockey puck or hard-drive platter, there's an extremely thin layer of air between the spinning surface which is under high shear which is conducive to heat conductivity. The PDF goes on to explain that this dramatically reduces the size of the boundary layer, not eliminate it as the summary says (since this isn't even logical what I remember of my fluids class). I didn't read the whole thing but I think it's the fact that the heat sink blades themselves are spinning at very high speeds, rather than having dirty air blown on them, that prevents dust build-up.
The blogs are my biggest problem with Google. If I'm searching for something technology or video game related and my search query happens to resemble an old news headline or phrase, I end up with thousands of blogs repeating the exact same story with slightly rearranged headlines. And god help you if your search phrase is part of some song lyric. Why do that many lyrics websites even exist?
"How about automated steering, or some kind of ‘fly-by-wire’ computer stabilisation? No – the rules do not allow it, and quite right too in my opinion. In order to be a land vehicle in LSR terms, the FIA rules require that the vehicle is ‘wholly and continuously controlled by the driver’. Even if the rules did allow for a computer system, should we really be running a car that needs a computer (which will be untested in this prototype vehicle) to keep it safe?"
Kind of crazy that a team developing an open-source supersonic car is afraid of using computer control assistance methods that have been around for decades!
Because we need more UI changes for the sake of UI changes. In Firefox 6/Chrome 14 tabs on the side will be the new "thing". Firefox 7 will move the URL window onto the scroll bar to gain another 12 pixels of vertical space, since nobody actually uses the URL bar. By January 2012 Firefox 14 will have moved the Firefox button on top of the minimize/maximize/close buttons since Steve Jobs says nobody runs programs in windows anyway. By March 2014, we will have come in a full circle and both Firefox 65536 and Chrome infinity will both have tabs back below the address bar and old school square IE6 navigation buttons.
"...felt so much pressure that she decided to rejoin Facebook, and is glad she did. "It makes me feel like I'm a part of something bigger and more grand than just my life as a stay-at-home mother."
And there's the root of the problem right there, what I like to call "Hollywood Syndrome". Sure, there's probably another word or term for it, but it basically stems around the popularity of such things as Facebook, Twitter, Warcraft, MMORPGs in general
Most of us just call it "socializing" and being part of a "community"
I'd guess that most of the edits at this point are on user talk pages and other partially hidden areas supporting the wiki-bureaucracy. Just based on looking at highly active users' contributions, there tends to be a few article edits for hundreds of edits to talk pages and arbitration pages and user pages that almost nobody ever sees.
And of course, userboxes. Userbox edits probably make up the rest of them
I realize slashdot is into the whole libertarian dog eat dog business thing, but it's really in Groupon's best interest to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen, in particular when they're dealing with so many smaller businesses that might not have all that much expertise and probably aren't totally familiar with the business model. Yeah, the guy shouldn't have done the deal in the first place, but he didn't know what he was getting into and it looks really bad for Groupon to be running their own customers out of business (and it's a pretty terrible long term strategy)
'This will affect how enterprises plan their services... whether they host their own services or whether they use cloud vendors,' Labovitz says. 'The enterprise needs to shift its thinking in terms of [service level agreements] and the way it measures, monitors and secures its networks. That all used to be focused on connectivity, but now it needs to be focused on content.'"
I read this through 3 times and I'm still pretty sure it doesn't mean anything at all
I feel like this would totally destroy rhythm based games and fighting games where even 30 or 40 ms lag is noticeable to the average player because of the way the timing works. Aiming in shooting games would probably feel too weird to be very enjoyable.
Imagine some sort of cloud gaming future in like 2050 where vast swaths of game genres have been killed off by the lag inherent to the game systems, and people play nothing but slow paced adventure and puzzle games!
The way units are generally written out "10 pounds kilograms" sounds like you are stating 10 lbs*kg which doesn't make any sense. The problem with these search engine comparisons is that the people reviewing htem usually have extremely narrow ideas of the results they want while these search engines are built for a very wide audience. I remember when there was an article about Cuil and the reviewer was pissed because the first result was about the United States mint and not the leaf.
You can do some totally awesome things with smoke rings if you rig up a smoke ring maker to a signal generator or a computer and then define various smoke ring generating waveforms/pulses. You end up mixing fluids and electrical/circuits and smoking into one project.
I have no idea what smoke rings are relevant to however.
It's been a while since I have used these equations, but a basic equation for the mechanical energy of an orbit is:
E = v^2/2 - mu/r
where mu is the gravitational parameter of the earth (3.986 * 10^5 km^3/s^2).
So looking at the energy of something sitting on earth...
The radius of the earth is around 6378 kilometers, and the tallest mountain in Colorado I believe is around 14,000 feet or 4.3 kilometers above see level. So you'd get an extremely small increase in energy by launching higher and reducing the r term by less than one percent, while you'd be reducing your initial velocity by quite a bit since you have to launch at an angle to the earth's rotation or spend more energy changing the plane of the orbit.
This doesn't take into account that you will have less drag at the top of the mountain, but that won't save enough energy to make it worthwhile.
I think the dude who invented Haskell had a pretty good insight in this interview where he was asked about teaching functional programming for a first programming class:
I don't know - I don't actually have a very strong opinion on that. I think there are a lot of related factors, such as what the students will put up with! I think student motivation is very important, so teaching students a language they have heard of as their first language has a powerful motivational factor.
On the other hand, since students come with such diverse experiences (some of them have done heaps of programming and some of them have done none) teaching them a language which all of them aren't familiar with can be a great leveler. So if I was in a university now I'd be arguing the case for teaching functional programming as a first year language, but I don't think itâ(TM)s a sort of unequivocal, "only an idiot would think anything else" kind of thing!
Teach new students some sort of bizarro language so the ones who have been programming for years will be on the same level as everyone else.
In America, trousers are basically a more comical version of pants. If you're just wearing them, then they're probably pants. If they catch on fire or try to walk off by themselves, then you have a pair of trousers.
Within the next 2-3 years (if it hasn't happened already) we should be seeing plenty of 20 year olds with at least 10,000 hours of World of Warcrafting under their belt before their birthday.
I guess there are going to be a lot of highly successful World of Warcraft experts in society.
Gamers? Why would they pay this much over the odds for a system that's at best 10% faster than a commodity system? Again, this group will be put off by the lack of a decent upgrade path.
PC Gamers will buy a lot of stupid things. The people who will buy this thing are the sames ones who are right now buying Alienwares with liquid cooled Nvidia 8600's in SLI configuration (which is even more bizarre than an oil cooled PC in my opinion).
Too bad I just ran out of mod points. This would be my best guess as to why they're trying to recreate space smells. Particularly onboard the ISS, it's a really big deal if something inside the station ends up leaking or burning. And if you're operating something critical like an airlock and you start smelling something funny, that's definitely something to worry about. Here's an article from a couple years ago where the crew smelled something strange and ended up shutting down the entire ventilation system until they identified the odor: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/ISS_Goes_Into_Emergency_Mode_After_Chemical_Leak_999.html
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Rather than developing expensive DRM solutions, publishers can cut piracy rates tremendously by ensuring their games get low review scores. Everyone knows that game sales are based mostly on hype, and ever pirated copy is a Lost Sale, so it follows that a game with a high hype to review score ratio will actually outsell a hyped game that also has high review scores.
This entire debt crisis is a blatant attack on the working class. Our legislators knew what was coming back when they were busy cutting taxes for the rich and funneling billions into banks. Things will only get worse from here!
More to the point, the boundary layer shear is what enables this concept to work at all
If you read the PDF article, it says it works like an air-hockey puck or hard-drive platter, there's an extremely thin layer of air between the spinning surface which is under high shear which is conducive to heat conductivity. The PDF goes on to explain that this dramatically reduces the size of the boundary layer, not eliminate it as the summary says (since this isn't even logical what I remember of my fluids class). I didn't read the whole thing but I think it's the fact that the heat sink blades themselves are spinning at very high speeds, rather than having dirty air blown on them, that prevents dust build-up.
I logged into facebook recently and it took me like 10 minutes to find my list of friends. At some point they literally hid the friends list
The blogs are my biggest problem with Google. If I'm searching for something technology or video game related and my search query happens to resemble an old news headline or phrase, I end up with thousands of blogs repeating the exact same story with slightly rearranged headlines. And god help you if your search phrase is part of some song lyric. Why do that many lyrics websites even exist?
"How about automated steering, or some kind of ‘fly-by-wire’ computer stabilisation? No – the rules do not allow it, and quite right too in my opinion. In order to be a land vehicle in LSR terms, the FIA rules require that the vehicle is ‘wholly and continuously controlled by the driver’. Even if the rules did allow for a computer system, should we really be running a car that needs a computer (which will be untested in this prototype vehicle) to keep it safe?"
Kind of crazy that a team developing an open-source supersonic car is afraid of using computer control assistance methods that have been around for decades!
Because we need more UI changes for the sake of UI changes. In Firefox 6/Chrome 14 tabs on the side will be the new "thing". Firefox 7 will move the URL window onto the scroll bar to gain another 12 pixels of vertical space, since nobody actually uses the URL bar. By January 2012 Firefox 14 will have moved the Firefox button on top of the minimize/maximize/close buttons since Steve Jobs says nobody runs programs in windows anyway. By March 2014, we will have come in a full circle and both Firefox 65536 and Chrome infinity will both have tabs back below the address bar and old school square IE6 navigation buttons.
"...felt so much pressure that she decided to rejoin Facebook, and is glad she did. "It makes me feel like I'm a part of something bigger and more grand than just my life as a stay-at-home mother."
And there's the root of the problem right there, what I like to call "Hollywood Syndrome". Sure, there's probably another word or term for it, but it basically stems around the popularity of such things as Facebook, Twitter, Warcraft, MMORPGs in general
Most of us just call it "socializing" and being part of a "community"
I'd guess that most of the edits at this point are on user talk pages and other partially hidden areas supporting the wiki-bureaucracy. Just based on looking at highly active users' contributions, there tends to be a few article edits for hundreds of edits to talk pages and arbitration pages and user pages that almost nobody ever sees.
And of course, userboxes. Userbox edits probably make up the rest of them
I realize slashdot is into the whole libertarian dog eat dog business thing, but it's really in Groupon's best interest to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen, in particular when they're dealing with so many smaller businesses that might not have all that much expertise and probably aren't totally familiar with the business model. Yeah, the guy shouldn't have done the deal in the first place, but he didn't know what he was getting into and it looks really bad for Groupon to be running their own customers out of business (and it's a pretty terrible long term strategy)
It was deleted by some halfwit called Ben Schumin who appears to have a grudge against OMM.
He should be permanently removed from Wiki staff for being an absolute butt devastated ass of a manchild.
Oh, also, Delete This Ben. Oh wait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SchuminWeb
Goddamn. Maybe he should try deleting some donuts from his diet before he goes off deleting everyone's video games articles.
'This will affect how enterprises plan their services... whether they host their own services or whether they use cloud vendors,' Labovitz says. 'The enterprise needs to shift its thinking in terms of [service level agreements] and the way it measures, monitors and secures its networks. That all used to be focused on connectivity, but now it needs to be focused on content.'"
I read this through 3 times and I'm still pretty sure it doesn't mean anything at all
I feel like this would totally destroy rhythm based games and fighting games where even 30 or 40 ms lag is noticeable to the average player because of the way the timing works. Aiming in shooting games would probably feel too weird to be very enjoyable.
Imagine some sort of cloud gaming future in like 2050 where vast swaths of game genres have been killed off by the lag inherent to the game systems, and people play nothing but slow paced adventure and puzzle games!
The way units are generally written out "10 pounds kilograms" sounds like you are stating 10 lbs*kg which doesn't make any sense. The problem with these search engine comparisons is that the people reviewing htem usually have extremely narrow ideas of the results they want while these search engines are built for a very wide audience. I remember when there was an article about Cuil and the reviewer was pissed because the first result was about the United States mint and not the leaf.
You can do some totally awesome things with smoke rings if you rig up a smoke ring maker to a signal generator or a computer and then define various smoke ring generating waveforms/pulses. You end up mixing fluids and electrical/circuits and smoking into one project.
I have no idea what smoke rings are relevant to however.
It's been a while since I have used these equations, but a basic equation for the mechanical energy of an orbit is:
E = v^2/2 - mu/r
where mu is the gravitational parameter of the earth (3.986 * 10^5 km^3/s^2).
So looking at the energy of something sitting on earth...
The radius of the earth is around 6378 kilometers, and the tallest mountain in Colorado I believe is around 14,000 feet or 4.3 kilometers above see level. So you'd get an extremely small increase in energy by launching higher and reducing the r term by less than one percent, while you'd be reducing your initial velocity by quite a bit since you have to launch at an angle to the earth's rotation or spend more energy changing the plane of the orbit.
This doesn't take into account that you will have less drag at the top of the mountain, but that won't save enough energy to make it worthwhile.
Does this have anything to do with their third test flight where they apparently didn't take into account residual thrust in a vacuum, or is it something different?
I think the dude who invented Haskell had a pretty good insight in this interview where he was asked about teaching functional programming for a first programming class:
I don't know - I don't actually have a very strong opinion on that. I think there are a lot of related factors, such as what the students will put up with! I think student motivation is very important, so teaching students a language they have heard of as their first language has a powerful motivational factor. On the other hand, since students come with such diverse experiences (some of them have done heaps of programming and some of them have done none) teaching them a language which all of them aren't familiar with can be a great leveler. So if I was in a university now I'd be arguing the case for teaching functional programming as a first year language, but I don't think itâ(TM)s a sort of unequivocal, "only an idiot would think anything else" kind of thing!
Teach new students some sort of bizarro language so the ones who have been programming for years will be on the same level as everyone else.
It was from this interview: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1974033854;fp;;fpid;;pf;1
In America, trousers are basically a more comical version of pants. If you're just wearing them, then they're probably pants. If they catch on fire or try to walk off by themselves, then you have a pair of trousers.
I feel like domain security should be a much larger concern for banks than it probably is for newspapers.
Within the next 2-3 years (if it hasn't happened already) we should be seeing plenty of 20 year olds with at least 10,000 hours of World of Warcrafting under their belt before their birthday.
I guess there are going to be a lot of highly successful World of Warcraft experts in society.
There's an "add folder to library" option which is how I manage my library. Keeping track of what files are in those folders would fit in with this.
Gamers? Why would they pay this much over the odds for a system that's at best 10% faster than a commodity system? Again, this group will be put off by the lack of a decent upgrade path.
PC Gamers will buy a lot of stupid things. The people who will buy this thing are the sames ones who are right now buying Alienwares with liquid cooled Nvidia 8600's in SLI configuration (which is even more bizarre than an oil cooled PC in my opinion).
Too bad I just ran out of mod points. This would be my best guess as to why they're trying to recreate space smells. Particularly onboard the ISS, it's a really big deal if something inside the station ends up leaking or burning. And if you're operating something critical like an airlock and you start smelling something funny, that's definitely something to worry about. Here's an article from a couple years ago where the crew smelled something strange and ended up shutting down the entire ventilation system until they identified the odor: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/ISS_Goes_Into_Emergency_Mode_After_Chemical_Leak_999.html