You get warning of battery death many days in advance, no need to carry some around. Proprietary wireless generally don't need LOS. And you take an extra few grams of weight in exchange for no cord.
I don't see the problem so many people are having. In XP+ when you put in a CD/flash/w/e you get a windows menu popup saying do you want to open in the browser or play in your media player or w/e. This seems perfectly reasonable. No code is being executed off the disk so no security hole. If you want the CD to run a splash or w/e it is one click. If you want to browse it one click. And it can be set to remember your answer for different devices. I completely fail to see the problem with that.
If this does mean that they are breaking U3 drives I'm happy for the change mind you.
I think while this is fairly useless for landing on earth. It could be more useful for landing on other planets. If we are landing on a planet without much atmosphere or some harsh environment parachutes could be rendered useless. Ignoring that repacking parachutes outside of a cleanroom using robots is not really done. So parachute re usability is down. As well parachutes do not allow you to chose a very specific landing point even here on earth where we know pretty much everything about the wind. As well most of the parts involved in retrorockets are already in the spacecraft or would be in a good future design. The only lost space/additional mass is in the fuel itself (which IS a lot).
I don't think it is a very useful idea NOW. But in future spacecraft or more likely with future propulsion systems it could be. As odd as this sounds firing your rockets at insanely precise amounts and angles with thousands of recalculations a second could be simpler than using a parachute.
As well, the downside many people mention of noplanb is silly. If parachutes don't deploy sure you have more time to think about it but you are still going to impact the earth fast enough to liquefy your body. I don't see why it matters if your death is decided at 10km in the air or 1km. The pieces of ship remaining would be slightly larger that is about it.
Also this is old tech. I played lunar lander yearrrrs ago.
I always wondered about this. Not so much from a player's POV that is sort of simple it can go a few ways. But from the game companies POV. They could support transfers by 'undoing' the tax by increasing the money during transfer. If it is counted as real wealth then is it a currency or a good? And then who owns it? If the players in the game own their gold fine. Then does the company own the rest of the gold (which would be really haard to determine at any given point). If gold is spawned on mob death vs spawned on mob creation. Do the mobs themselves take ownership over their own money.
Taxing then can only occur when e$ is traded for $$. I guess it would work the same way as paying for a service. Ignore the fact there is a virtual good and say you paid for the guy to play the game for you for so many hours. Then this is the same as ANY transaction. Anytime you buy a game from a friend and don't declare the purchase for taxation it is a black-market transaction. Or if you pay 5$ for a friend to go to the store and get you a beer it is a black-market transaction. The taxman will come after the Businesses. Just like if you set up a business where you would run to the store for people and have a clientele of 5000people. This won't stop people from selling on small scales. Also US law likely won't effect the CHINESE farmers in anycase. If a chinese law was implemented to tax 50% of $ made w/ gaming then you would have a problem. I doubt there will be any international agreements on this type of taxation for many years to come. So its not really a big deal.
People believe movies too much. I have complete faith that the government is 15years behind the ball. We are talking about people that use fax still. I certainly don't expect them to be doing crazy high end cutting edge hacks.
Yeah it is a shift that has already happened. 6years ago you were expected to spend more on a video card to properly game than you are now. I'd say the average amount a gamer spends on his video card has halved in that time.
That is NOT what he's saying at all. He's saying that 'high end' will be reasonably priced. We will surely continue to move forwards but the market is targeting a 100$ video card group and will continue to do so in future. Less games like crysis will be released that require you to spend 300$ on a video card.
Personally I think this is true. And I think most game companies have targeted 100$ or less video cards for a while now. But there will always be games like crysis that will allow you to make use of your cutting edge 500$ card. Games can easily be built to 'work' on a 50$ card and still with a few settings tax a 500$ card. There is minimal coding investment compared to other features so people will always want it.
The AVERAGE IP case costs 800,000$. I think you are the one that doesn't realize how expensive this is. Nothing is decided in one hearing. And even if it was it there is lots of stuff that goes on aside from hearings. Even if it cost them a mere 300k that would doom most people. I know I can't afford a loss equivalent to a decent sized house.
Hell most people would need balls of steel to risk even 30,000$... That is a year's wage for most people (after taxes...). I'd honestly be nervous risking a few thousand dollars on this. And I'm sure many people would feel the same.
That is the goal. Culling the crappy cheaters is the same as culling the crappy students. So long as you are failing a high enough quota you will ensure a high enough quality of students make it through. This isn't new at all. Just make it so that to cheat and succeed it requires you to be as smart or smarter than someone doing the work legitimately.
I assumed for some reason that he meant government budget not GDP. Because then we are talking apples and oranges. Also the war on terror puts us past that mark anyways like 900B. And 900B is much more than what the government spends on science.
We get many innovations from war toys sure. War toys get a budget that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than 3%. So much more that we get side effects coming from it that are as significant as investments we are currently making in tech. Trust me investing in tech instead of investing in war and getting offshoot tech will be way more cost effective.
That's sad:(... Don't get me wrong, I don't care that you are dead and all. It's just that your setup still has typos in it. And you will be saying 'algorythm' for hundreds of years.:(
Trying to use logic on something that makes no sense always amuses me.
Visiting a home is kind of odd since other people will live there. And if someone was on my front lawn crying and putting flowers on it I'd be freaked the fuck out.
Anyways visiting graves is more of a social obligation. It serves no purpose other than to prove to yourself and others that you are fulfilling your duty of grief. Or it can serve as a triggering mechanism. When you make yourself emotional and visit the grave which is a VISCERAL memory it can bring back memories more strongly. Also that visceral memory of the burial (grave) fulfills obligation no1, to grieve. A website could not really provide either of these.
On-topic: I think a notice to people I speak to online would be good. Just so that they know. I would like to know if someone I spoke to died as well. A site seems a bit silly but then everyone wants to leave something behind. That is the purpose of the grave from the deceased's pov.
"english as its not my first language" I had noooo idea haha.
Give it a week or so and post something specific like the 'also reccomend' idea (after doing some research). Getting articles on/. isn't as hard as you might think:P
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Have the options be set by windows not the disk?
That just means they are doin it wrong. That clearly could be fixed without killing the autoplay menu.
Does this mean there is an expansion coming out?
The logitech dongles stick out of your laptop like 2mm. So it has become less of an issue, you just leave it plugged in all the time.
You get warning of battery death many days in advance, no need to carry some around.
Proprietary wireless generally don't need LOS.
And you take an extra few grams of weight in exchange for no cord.
I don't see the problem so many people are having. In XP+ when you put in a CD/flash/w/e you get a windows menu popup saying do you want to open in the browser or play in your media player or w/e. This seems perfectly reasonable. No code is being executed off the disk so no security hole. If you want the CD to run a splash or w/e it is one click. If you want to browse it one click. And it can be set to remember your answer for different devices. I completely fail to see the problem with that.
If this does mean that they are breaking U3 drives I'm happy for the change mind you.
I think while this is fairly useless for landing on earth. It could be more useful for landing on other planets. If we are landing on a planet without much atmosphere or some harsh environment parachutes could be rendered useless. Ignoring that repacking parachutes outside of a cleanroom using robots is not really done. So parachute re usability is down. As well parachutes do not allow you to chose a very specific landing point even here on earth where we know pretty much everything about the wind. As well most of the parts involved in retrorockets are already in the spacecraft or would be in a good future design. The only lost space/additional mass is in the fuel itself (which IS a lot).
I don't think it is a very useful idea NOW. But in future spacecraft or more likely with future propulsion systems it could be. As odd as this sounds firing your rockets at insanely precise amounts and angles with thousands of recalculations a second could be simpler than using a parachute.
As well, the downside many people mention of noplanb is silly. If parachutes don't deploy sure you have more time to think about it but you are still going to impact the earth fast enough to liquefy your body. I don't see why it matters if your death is decided at 10km in the air or 1km. The pieces of ship remaining would be slightly larger that is about it.
Also this is old tech. I played lunar lander yearrrrs ago.
I always wondered about this. Not so much from a player's POV that is sort of simple it can go a few ways. But from the game companies POV. They could support transfers by 'undoing' the tax by increasing the money during transfer. If it is counted as real wealth then is it a currency or a good? And then who owns it? If the players in the game own their gold fine. Then does the company own the rest of the gold (which would be really haard to determine at any given point). If gold is spawned on mob death vs spawned on mob creation. Do the mobs themselves take ownership over their own money.
Taxing then can only occur when e$ is traded for $$. I guess it would work the same way as paying for a service. Ignore the fact there is a virtual good and say you paid for the guy to play the game for you for so many hours. Then this is the same as ANY transaction. Anytime you buy a game from a friend and don't declare the purchase for taxation it is a black-market transaction. Or if you pay 5$ for a friend to go to the store and get you a beer it is a black-market transaction. The taxman will come after the Businesses. Just like if you set up a business where you would run to the store for people and have a clientele of 5000people. This won't stop people from selling on small scales. Also US law likely won't effect the CHINESE farmers in anycase. If a chinese law was implemented to tax 50% of $ made w/ gaming then you would have a problem. I doubt there will be any international agreements on this type of taxation for many years to come. So its not really a big deal.
That isn't funny, that's just sick.
Only if you are Israel and bombing brown people :/
People believe movies too much. I have complete faith that the government is 15years behind the ball. We are talking about people that use fax still. I certainly don't expect them to be doing crazy high end cutting edge hacks.
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Yeah it is a shift that has already happened. 6years ago you were expected to spend more on a video card to properly game than you are now. I'd say the average amount a gamer spends on his video card has halved in that time.
Just wow...
That is NOT what he's saying at all. He's saying that 'high end' will be reasonably priced. We will surely continue to move forwards but the market is targeting a 100$ video card group and will continue to do so in future. Less games like crysis will be released that require you to spend 300$ on a video card.
Personally I think this is true. And I think most game companies have targeted 100$ or less video cards for a while now. But there will always be games like crysis that will allow you to make use of your cutting edge 500$ card. Games can easily be built to 'work' on a 50$ card and still with a few settings tax a 500$ card. There is minimal coding investment compared to other features so people will always want it.
Theremin not Theramin ... :/
The AVERAGE IP case costs 800,000$. I think you are the one that doesn't realize how expensive this is. Nothing is decided in one hearing. And even if it was it there is lots of stuff that goes on aside from hearings. Even if it cost them a mere 300k that would doom most people. I know I can't afford a loss equivalent to a decent sized house.
... That is a year's wage for most people (after taxes...). I'd honestly be nervous risking a few thousand dollars on this. And I'm sure many people would feel the same.
Hell most people would need balls of steel to risk even 30,000$
That is the goal. Culling the crappy cheaters is the same as culling the crappy students. So long as you are failing a high enough quota you will ensure a high enough quality of students make it through. This isn't new at all. Just make it so that to cheat and succeed it requires you to be as smart or smarter than someone doing the work legitimately.
I assumed for some reason that he meant government budget not GDP. Because then we are talking apples and oranges. Also the war on terror puts us past that mark anyways like 900B. And 900B is much more than what the government spends on science.
They have cables up to 1800$ I think it was more than 6' though...
Those numbers were on crack just so you know. (The cost to run youtube #s)
We get many innovations from war toys sure. War toys get a budget that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than 3%. So much more that we get side effects coming from it that are as significant as investments we are currently making in tech. Trust me investing in tech instead of investing in war and getting offshoot tech will be way more cost effective.
That's sad :( ... Don't get me wrong, I don't care that you are dead and all. It's just that your setup still has typos in it. And you will be saying 'algorythm' for hundreds of years. :(
Trying to use logic on something that makes no sense always amuses me.
Visiting a home is kind of odd since other people will live there. And if someone was on my front lawn crying and putting flowers on it I'd be freaked the fuck out.
Anyways visiting graves is more of a social obligation. It serves no purpose other than to prove to yourself and others that you are fulfilling your duty of grief. Or it can serve as a triggering mechanism. When you make yourself emotional and visit the grave which is a VISCERAL memory it can bring back memories more strongly. Also that visceral memory of the burial (grave) fulfills obligation no1, to grieve. A website could not really provide either of these.
On-topic: I think a notice to people I speak to online would be good. Just so that they know. I would like to know if someone I spoke to died as well. A site seems a bit silly but then everyone wants to leave something behind. That is the purpose of the grave from the deceased's pov.
"english as its not my first language"
/. isn't as hard as you might think :P
I had noooo idea haha.
Give it a week or so and post something specific like the 'also reccomend' idea (after doing some research). Getting articles on