Actually, AIs are kind of bad at micro certain types of micro. More specifically, they're bad at dancing. You can get AIs to focus fire really well, you can get AIs to spell cast retardedly well, but within the constraints of SC, its very hard to get AIs to dance their units properly (which is crucial during early game). That's one reason why all the previous 'super AI' built for SC have some cheating element involved (basically, free resources), because on average, given two equal forces, a skilled human player could always beat the AI controlled army.
Not only is there a bunch of helium in the upper atmosphere, helium's mass means that most helium molecules end up achieving escape velocity and just leave the atmosphere completely. There were some 'omgs running out of helium' articles a bit ago on slashdot.
If you really wanted to be tricky, you could rot13, or any simple sub cipher it and then right it down. For example, I have to keep track of a lot of locker combinations, so I just keep them all written down with all the numbers shifted the same way.
Or if you wanted to be really tricky, just have a lot of sticky notes full of mundane stuff (like meeting at x time with whoever). And hide your passwords in there somehow. First letter in sentences or something. Have fun with it.
The VTOL version is being exported. The carrier version has the USN has its sole user (probably something about not many other countries having full size carriers). And I don't get what you mean by not getting into the F22. It's already being phased into actual service with a few squadrons already converted. And as an air superiority fighter, I don't think its possible to argue that the F22 is worse than the F16.
Yeah. But in most cases, Lockheed Martin is off selling F16s with more advanced avionics than USAF F16s to some foreign countries. The F-16IN as well as the ones exported to UAE are probably more advance in every way to USAF planes, with the exception that whatever block 30/32 F16s the USAF has can probably out maneuver the hell out of the exports (as well as whatever block 40/42 and 50/52s the USAF uses).
The US once tried the whole 'selling downgraded' planes to allies thing. It wasn't really popular with their allies given there are plenty of other western vendors that they can buy uncrippled airplanes from. And thats ignoring that the fact that the new Russian exports are actually pretty nice. I mean seriously. Why buy crippled F16s when you can go pick up some top of the line Grippens.
If New York lost power for more than a week (especially in the middle of winter or summer), there would be real terror. By day four, you'll have fucking retarded amounts of looting. Plus all the deaths from exposure. Maybe the thought of it won't induce terror in us now. But if it did happen, the very idea of shit like that happening in your city would very much induce a terror response. Seriously.
The last paragraph is worse. It just appears out of no where. For all its worth, I've read essays for similar questions that are all perfectly readable without the pukage.
There are only so many people to read applications. I've recently (last winter) written a number of applications for engineering programs, and they all involved some non-trivial (more than a couple sentences) writing. Some of them (Cornell for example) asked for 500 word chunks. Others (like University of Toronto) had me answer a bunch of different questions with a paragraph, working out to roughly 500 words, and a whole mix in between. In my opinion, it really doesn't matter how the writing is broken up. If the applicant dislikes writing, it'll be annoying no matter what, because if you want to give a meaningful application, you usually have to do a lot of thinking (these questions usually revolved around why I wanted to be an engineer, or what I believed engineering to be/entail, or just writing about myself) and trying to magic these thoughts into the word limit.
In the end, as annoying as this writing is, I can see their utility. Just like how people yak on about how learning is more than just marks, judging if a person is qualified for a program is not just marks either. And as poor as written components are to determine a person's ability to communicate, character, or whatever, it's better than nothing.
On an aside, I was given the advice to make the writing as concise as possible. You don't need florid prose of any of that crap. Even if you're shit at at writing, if you can state your thoughts in a logical manner and give a defense to it, then you're probably golden. If you can write a catchy hook, even better. That example essay? That's just great. You don't even need anything close to that. Hell, the conclusion to that essay is shit. Country fair and funnel cake just appears out of no where. Shit like that happens whenever you try to 'concisely' make your experiences seem meaningful/standout. I can't blame her, most people's experiences are 'mundane' enough on average that you have to resort to 'fancy' writing to make it seem special (because when your applying for MIT, all you're trying to do is standout from the crowd). Ok, so I might have contradicted myself somewhere here. Oh well.
Zebra mussels are the reason why Lake Ontario is even close to being clean. They sucked up most of our shit. There's even 'fish' in the lake now because of those suckers.
While Kevlar is the 'standard', we are kind of moving away from it. The new vests used by the US Army and Marine Corp both incorporate ceramic plates to resist rifle rounds. The new (since 90s) French helmets have been made out of Spectra (or Dyneema... stuff is really confusing to read). But you're right. It has to be a lot better to replace the current standard. Part of the thing with Spectra vs Kevlar is that either on it's on in a vest cannot resist rifle rounds. In both cases, you'll need the added ceramic plates. So the advantage of Spectra and other 'better' fibers shrink even more. The article makes it clear that there's a lot of work left to do. For example, the previous generation Interceptor Body Armor (the one that Bush and Rumsfield got in shit for for not having enough of) is rated to stop all 9mm rounds at 1400 feet/second. The sheets made were able to stop rounds (they don't tell us what rounds which is silly) a little below half of time. So there's some work left to do. But it seems like lots of promise. For example, if four were breached, but three showed no damage, and (assuming that these were the only 7 tested), it suggests that the problem is manufacturing quality and consistency, something we can safely assume will improve with time.
You can set preset actions and bind them to shortcuts. So some of the best graphics professionals do end up doing some of the more mundane tasks with like ctrl-shift-n or something. And the probable reason why is because photoshop is so feature rich, that keeping track of shortcuts is a nightmare. For example, ctrl-shift-n is already a shortcut for create new layer. There just so many, that I think it really is easier to let individuals chain actions and have them set their own shortcuts.
People generally don't want to spend their money saving some worm. As it's been suggested before, the focus on megafauna partly exists just because they are charismatic. Panda bears are fricking cute. And people will donate money to save panda bears, their habitat, and everything else living there. It's unfortunate, but it's just facing the reality of the situation. Being able to identity the real keystone species would be great for the actual scientists, conservationists, and policy makers. But when its time to get funding, donations and support especially from the public, you can bet it'll be some megafauna. I mean, look at that cute widdy tiger cub. Worm eggs? UGH.
To be fair, they weren't looking for the New World. They were looking for a shorter sea route to India and China. That has nothing to do with the profitably of exploring Mars... but just setting things straight.
Spotify is working on North American licensing rights. It's the same up here in Canada. Basically, our licensing is sufficiently different from European models and such that its just extra work that takes more time. Their a Europe based service, makes sense Europe gets all their shit first.
Of course, you can spoof it's location detection right now by using a UK (or other suitable) based proxy.
And don't bitch about it. Fucking Hulu still hasn't reached Canada. And I can't watch all of Colbert Report and Daily Show on their websites either.
One of the things about nitrous oxide as a anesthetic is that it's barley metabolized by the body at all. So like 99% of the nitrous you breath in, you end up breathing back out (which is why you gotta use it in a well ventilated room... can't have your operating staff getting woosy can we?). On the other hand, nitrous is almost totally consumed when used in racing. But, it's also used as a propellant in aerosols, as well as an gas to displace oxygen/air in sealed food containers. Those will just let the gas go nillywilly when used.
It didn't say if it lost control or was planned. But the dribbling period was only 100ms. But given how fast it dribbles, it would be like some kid dribbling for like 10 seconds before losing it. well, that's just a guess
Toronto completely switched over to this type of parking meter a few years ago. Maybe Chicago utterly screwed up their implementation, but it seems to work out fairly well here. At least downtown, the entire time it takes to do the parking is just a minute or two. Honestly, not that much. Ok, it is longer than the 10 seconds of whatever from before. But as a plus side, the sidewalk is now effectively wider, which I think is great. It's clearly not ideal, but honestly, its not that bad.
I read an article or blog post somewhere about what to do with your email and other accounts when you die. The writer pointed out that when his father died, having access to his email account was great help cause they had all of his old contacts, as well as on going billing and other stuff. As he said, as more and more stuff moves to email and online, a service like this would might be ideal. You could save your password to various accounts and this thing, and have it sent when you kick the bucket. Less hassle than changing paper versions (including in your will) whenever you change passwords or accounts, and potentially safer than writing it down and sticking it in a box you hope no one ever loses.
Venus SPINS opposite of the rest of planets. It orbits in the same direction. Uranus' axis of rotation is rotated 90 degrees, so it lies nearly in the solar plane. But it orbits like the rest of the planets. Pluto has a retarded orbit (no, that's not a scientific term), but its still going in the same direction. You mixed up orbit and rotation.
That analogy doesn't make sense. Lithographs vs photographs, and 16mm film vs video are cases of the technical medium being replaced, while the basic art form remains the same. Lithographs and photographs both serve the same purpose, to visually capture a moment in time (approximately), while film and video both serve to capture some interval in time.
Film, like physical film might all but disappear in 2020, but I bet that there will always be something analogous to it, even something as 'mundane' as digital video. To predict that gaming as a form of entertainment (or even artistic creation?) will completely replace film/movies is just silly. They are fundamentally different. One is active, one is passive. They give completely different levels of control to the creator(s). And it goes on and on. It's really like saying, now that we invented ways to record sound on wax, books will disappear in 60 years! And this is ignoring the ridiculousness of capturing moments in history (news and such) in GAME form, as a primary reference.
It's a fair prediction to say that films may recede in their... scale might be the right word. But for them to disappear? No way.
You're thinking about sword flying. Halo series in general (especially Halo 1) was full of just trying to get to random 'disallowed' places. Nothing quite like blowing a hog (with you on it) across the map and over the canyon walls.
Maybe there are some camps that are gulags. But I think the majority of the cases are 'legit'. My family is Chinese (from Taiwan, pretty much same culture) and we live in Canada, so I got a relatively watered down version of the 'Asian/Chinese Parents' thing. And I can really see parents sending off their kids for spending too much time playing video games. Among my circle of friends, I know a lot of kids who just utterly fucked up school from gaming too much (this is before alcohol and drugs... and forget about girls), and I know a lot of their parents would try to do more. But really, a motivated teenager is going to somehow get around nearly everything their parents will try. I remember when my parents locked up the TV behind a cabinet so my brother and I would spend less time watching TV/playing SNES (yeah, that was a while ago). We just took the cabinet doors off its hinges whenever they were gone (even the best parents can't be there all the time).
So, given conditions in China (those parents are bound to be away working more than the typical parents here), as well as how addicting those games really are, and that Chinese parents generally really do want their kids to 'succeed', I really can see parents sending kids off to Internet (or Gaming) addiction camp. I mean hell, we have Fat Camps in North America to deal with our problem with obese kids, they have Internet Addiction Camps to deal with their problem with kids gaming way too much. This is no excuse for abuse and killing the poor kid. That shit's fucking horrible. Fuckers should be put in jail. And I think they will be. China might be a totalitarian government, but they still have to pretend to care.
You need more than just a few ships. This thing is actually larger than Alaska. It's surface area, depending on estimates as well as ocean current variations can be as large as continental United States.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, but you vastly underestimate the scale of the problem. You'll need a hundred skimmer ships, and probably a bunch factory platforms on the edges and spread throughout the patch to process all this crap. We really fucked up on this crap.
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Actually, AIs are kind of bad at micro certain types of micro. More specifically, they're bad at dancing. You can get AIs to focus fire really well, you can get AIs to spell cast retardedly well, but within the constraints of SC, its very hard to get AIs to dance their units properly (which is crucial during early game). That's one reason why all the previous 'super AI' built for SC have some cheating element involved (basically, free resources), because on average, given two equal forces, a skilled human player could always beat the AI controlled army.
Not only is there a bunch of helium in the upper atmosphere, helium's mass means that most helium molecules end up achieving escape velocity and just leave the atmosphere completely. There were some 'omgs running out of helium' articles a bit ago on slashdot.
If you really wanted to be tricky, you could rot13, or any simple sub cipher it and then right it down. For example, I have to keep track of a lot of locker combinations, so I just keep them all written down with all the numbers shifted the same way.
Or if you wanted to be really tricky, just have a lot of sticky notes full of mundane stuff (like meeting at x time with whoever). And hide your passwords in there somehow. First letter in sentences or something. Have fun with it.
The VTOL version is being exported. The carrier version has the USN has its sole user (probably something about not many other countries having full size carriers). And I don't get what you mean by not getting into the F22. It's already being phased into actual service with a few squadrons already converted. And as an air superiority fighter, I don't think its possible to argue that the F22 is worse than the F16.
Yeah. But in most cases, Lockheed Martin is off selling F16s with more advanced avionics than USAF F16s to some foreign countries. The F-16IN as well as the ones exported to UAE are probably more advance in every way to USAF planes, with the exception that whatever block 30/32 F16s the USAF has can probably out maneuver the hell out of the exports (as well as whatever block 40/42 and 50/52s the USAF uses).
The US once tried the whole 'selling downgraded' planes to allies thing. It wasn't really popular with their allies given there are plenty of other western vendors that they can buy uncrippled airplanes from. And thats ignoring that the fact that the new Russian exports are actually pretty nice. I mean seriously. Why buy crippled F16s when you can go pick up some top of the line Grippens.
If New York lost power for more than a week (especially in the middle of winter or summer), there would be real terror. By day four, you'll have fucking retarded amounts of looting. Plus all the deaths from exposure. Maybe the thought of it won't induce terror in us now. But if it did happen, the very idea of shit like that happening in your city would very much induce a terror response. Seriously.
The last paragraph is worse. It just appears out of no where. For all its worth, I've read essays for similar questions that are all perfectly readable without the pukage.
There are only so many people to read applications. I've recently (last winter) written a number of applications for engineering programs, and they all involved some non-trivial (more than a couple sentences) writing. Some of them (Cornell for example) asked for 500 word chunks. Others (like University of Toronto) had me answer a bunch of different questions with a paragraph, working out to roughly 500 words, and a whole mix in between. In my opinion, it really doesn't matter how the writing is broken up. If the applicant dislikes writing, it'll be annoying no matter what, because if you want to give a meaningful application, you usually have to do a lot of thinking (these questions usually revolved around why I wanted to be an engineer, or what I believed engineering to be/entail, or just writing about myself) and trying to magic these thoughts into the word limit.
In the end, as annoying as this writing is, I can see their utility. Just like how people yak on about how learning is more than just marks, judging if a person is qualified for a program is not just marks either. And as poor as written components are to determine a person's ability to communicate, character, or whatever, it's better than nothing.
On an aside, I was given the advice to make the writing as concise as possible. You don't need florid prose of any of that crap. Even if you're shit at at writing, if you can state your thoughts in a logical manner and give a defense to it, then you're probably golden. If you can write a catchy hook, even better. That example essay? That's just great. You don't even need anything close to that. Hell, the conclusion to that essay is shit. Country fair and funnel cake just appears out of no where. Shit like that happens whenever you try to 'concisely' make your experiences seem meaningful/standout. I can't blame her, most people's experiences are 'mundane' enough on average that you have to resort to 'fancy' writing to make it seem special (because when your applying for MIT, all you're trying to do is standout from the crowd). Ok, so I might have contradicted myself somewhere here. Oh well.
Yeah. But that's the price you pay for having monitors that use half the energy, and use a tenth of the space.
Zebra mussels are the reason why Lake Ontario is even close to being clean. They sucked up most of our shit. There's even 'fish' in the lake now because of those suckers.
While Kevlar is the 'standard', we are kind of moving away from it. The new vests used by the US Army and Marine Corp both incorporate ceramic plates to resist rifle rounds. The new (since 90s) French helmets have been made out of Spectra (or Dyneema... stuff is really confusing to read). But you're right. It has to be a lot better to replace the current standard. Part of the thing with Spectra vs Kevlar is that either on it's on in a vest cannot resist rifle rounds. In both cases, you'll need the added ceramic plates. So the advantage of Spectra and other 'better' fibers shrink even more. The article makes it clear that there's a lot of work left to do. For example, the previous generation Interceptor Body Armor (the one that Bush and Rumsfield got in shit for for not having enough of) is rated to stop all 9mm rounds at 1400 feet/second. The sheets made were able to stop rounds (they don't tell us what rounds which is silly) a little below half of time. So there's some work left to do. But it seems like lots of promise. For example, if four were breached, but three showed no damage, and (assuming that these were the only 7 tested), it suggests that the problem is manufacturing quality and consistency, something we can safely assume will improve with time.
You can set preset actions and bind them to shortcuts. So some of the best graphics professionals do end up doing some of the more mundane tasks with like ctrl-shift-n or something. And the probable reason why is because photoshop is so feature rich, that keeping track of shortcuts is a nightmare. For example, ctrl-shift-n is already a shortcut for create new layer. There just so many, that I think it really is easier to let individuals chain actions and have them set their own shortcuts.
People generally don't want to spend their money saving some worm. As it's been suggested before, the focus on megafauna partly exists just because they are charismatic. Panda bears are fricking cute. And people will donate money to save panda bears, their habitat, and everything else living there. It's unfortunate, but it's just facing the reality of the situation. Being able to identity the real keystone species would be great for the actual scientists, conservationists, and policy makers. But when its time to get funding, donations and support especially from the public, you can bet it'll be some megafauna. I mean, look at that cute widdy tiger cub. Worm eggs? UGH.
To be fair, they weren't looking for the New World. They were looking for a shorter sea route to India and China. That has nothing to do with the profitably of exploring Mars... but just setting things straight.
Spotify is working on North American licensing rights. It's the same up here in Canada. Basically, our licensing is sufficiently different from European models and such that its just extra work that takes more time. Their a Europe based service, makes sense Europe gets all their shit first.
Of course, you can spoof it's location detection right now by using a UK (or other suitable) based proxy.
And don't bitch about it. Fucking Hulu still hasn't reached Canada. And I can't watch all of Colbert Report and Daily Show on their websites either.
One of the things about nitrous oxide as a anesthetic is that it's barley metabolized by the body at all. So like 99% of the nitrous you breath in, you end up breathing back out (which is why you gotta use it in a well ventilated room... can't have your operating staff getting woosy can we?). On the other hand, nitrous is almost totally consumed when used in racing. But, it's also used as a propellant in aerosols, as well as an gas to displace oxygen/air in sealed food containers. Those will just let the gas go nillywilly when used.
It didn't say if it lost control or was planned. But the dribbling period was only 100ms. But given how fast it dribbles, it would be like some kid dribbling for like 10 seconds before losing it. well, that's just a guess
Toronto completely switched over to this type of parking meter a few years ago. Maybe Chicago utterly screwed up their implementation, but it seems to work out fairly well here. At least downtown, the entire time it takes to do the parking is just a minute or two. Honestly, not that much. Ok, it is longer than the 10 seconds of whatever from before. But as a plus side, the sidewalk is now effectively wider, which I think is great. It's clearly not ideal, but honestly, its not that bad.
I read an article or blog post somewhere about what to do with your email and other accounts when you die. The writer pointed out that when his father died, having access to his email account was great help cause they had all of his old contacts, as well as on going billing and other stuff. As he said, as more and more stuff moves to email and online, a service like this would might be ideal. You could save your password to various accounts and this thing, and have it sent when you kick the bucket. Less hassle than changing paper versions (including in your will) whenever you change passwords or accounts, and potentially safer than writing it down and sticking it in a box you hope no one ever loses.
Unless you don't want those two people to know the contents of that mail.
Venus SPINS opposite of the rest of planets. It orbits in the same direction. Uranus' axis of rotation is rotated 90 degrees, so it lies nearly in the solar plane. But it orbits like the rest of the planets. Pluto has a retarded orbit (no, that's not a scientific term), but its still going in the same direction. You mixed up orbit and rotation.
That analogy doesn't make sense. Lithographs vs photographs, and 16mm film vs video are cases of the technical medium being replaced, while the basic art form remains the same. Lithographs and photographs both serve the same purpose, to visually capture a moment in time (approximately), while film and video both serve to capture some interval in time.
Film, like physical film might all but disappear in 2020, but I bet that there will always be something analogous to it, even something as 'mundane' as digital video. To predict that gaming as a form of entertainment (or even artistic creation?) will completely replace film/movies is just silly. They are fundamentally different. One is active, one is passive. They give completely different levels of control to the creator(s). And it goes on and on. It's really like saying, now that we invented ways to record sound on wax, books will disappear in 60 years! And this is ignoring the ridiculousness of capturing moments in history (news and such) in GAME form, as a primary reference.
It's a fair prediction to say that films may recede in their... scale might be the right word. But for them to disappear? No way.
You're thinking about sword flying. Halo series in general (especially Halo 1) was full of just trying to get to random 'disallowed' places. Nothing quite like blowing a hog (with you on it) across the map and over the canyon walls.
Maybe there are some camps that are gulags. But I think the majority of the cases are 'legit'. My family is Chinese (from Taiwan, pretty much same culture) and we live in Canada, so I got a relatively watered down version of the 'Asian/Chinese Parents' thing. And I can really see parents sending off their kids for spending too much time playing video games. Among my circle of friends, I know a lot of kids who just utterly fucked up school from gaming too much (this is before alcohol and drugs... and forget about girls), and I know a lot of their parents would try to do more. But really, a motivated teenager is going to somehow get around nearly everything their parents will try. I remember when my parents locked up the TV behind a cabinet so my brother and I would spend less time watching TV/playing SNES (yeah, that was a while ago). We just took the cabinet doors off its hinges whenever they were gone (even the best parents can't be there all the time).
So, given conditions in China (those parents are bound to be away working more than the typical parents here), as well as how addicting those games really are, and that Chinese parents generally really do want their kids to 'succeed', I really can see parents sending kids off to Internet (or Gaming) addiction camp. I mean hell, we have Fat Camps in North America to deal with our problem with obese kids, they have Internet Addiction Camps to deal with their problem with kids gaming way too much. This is no excuse for abuse and killing the poor kid. That shit's fucking horrible. Fuckers should be put in jail. And I think they will be. China might be a totalitarian government, but they still have to pretend to care.
You need more than just a few ships. This thing is actually larger than Alaska. It's surface area, depending on estimates as well as ocean current variations can be as large as continental United States.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, but you vastly underestimate the scale of the problem. You'll need a hundred skimmer ships, and probably a bunch factory platforms on the edges and spread throughout the patch to process all this crap. We really fucked up on this crap.