Agreed. It's time for all those female LFS'ers to come out of the closet. Power, sisters!
It's not wasted time. Loving yourself is the greatest love of all, they say.
Where did you find those figures? I heard that the DNA of chimpanzees is 98% identical to ours. (BTW, does this mean that halibuts can climb trees? Or that a chimp eating a banana is almost committing cannibalism?
)More seriously, you shouldn't be surprised if we share a large part of our DNA with plants and bacteria. Most genes seem to encode for the basic chemistry of the cell. Add to that the fact that 95% is junk DNA that doesn't seem to encode for anything, and the differences become very small indeed. (Alternatively, you might also say that these similarity figures are bloody useless. :razz
Another interesting hole in DNA fingerprinting is chimerism, as in the case of Lydia Fairchild. She appeared to have differents sets of DNA in her tissues, and tests indicated that she was not the mother of her children.
Not really. Communicating state changes of the environment is done in many online games. LFS already does it, to some extent: moving track objects like cones and tire stacks. Your car can collide with a loose tire that was moved by another car.
The most difficult part is probably integrating all those influences into a believable physics model.
In most cases, the changes will be fairly slow: rain, marbles and dust build up and disperse slowly. It may also be feasible to spin out on oil spilled by the car that is right in front of you. The only case that seems too hard (computationally) is hitting flying debris.
Beats George Michael hands down.
(But then, what record wouldn't?)
Next: See if you can stand Nick Cave's best song (IMHO)
And: Holland's gift to the world
:vomit:That is why I argued for a better interface between sim and driver. You need to see small objects on the track: bumps, oil, debris, puddles, etc. The human eye has a small part -- the area of focus -- where you can see in good detail, and the rest is peripheral vision with a wide FOV. Compare that to an LCD monitor, which has constant detail on a smallish FOV, and non-stereoscopic. This difference could become a pain if the ability to see track details becomes crucial. (With nondynamic tracks it's not so important, because you can drive by memory: you don't so much see where the bumps are, you remember them.)
I agree that a dynamic environment would be the best way to improve immersion, but I feel that the current interface between driver and sim is far too limited.
Suppose LFS could simulate a dynamic track: marbles, oil, weather, rubber buildup, etc. What good would it be if you can hardly see, hear, or feel what it does to the car? I expect most drivers would only spin out more often, and many spins would come unexpected because the driver never saw it coming. That would not increase immersion, it would raise irritation.
The average simracing rig consists of a decent FF wheel, a single 22" monitor and stereo sound. That's it. No force feedback system on the seat, because it's either affordable-but-botched or good-but-bloody-expensive. Pedals: ditto. Directional sound is not available in any sim, and most sims are sample-based. And a 3-monitor setup is considered top-notch, but is still far below the capabilities of your 2 retinas.
Until there are more ways to get feedback from the sim, I think I'll prefer a monotonously perfect track.
Suppose LFS could simulate a dynamic track: marbles, oil, weather, rubber buildup, etc. What good would it be if you can hardly see, hear, or feel what it does to the car? I expect most drivers would only spin out more often, and many spins would come unexpected because the driver never saw it coming. That would not increase immersion, it would raise irritation.
The average simracing rig consists of a decent FF wheel, a single 22" monitor and stereo sound. That's it. No force feedback system on the seat, because it's either affordable-but-botched or good-but-bloody-expensive. Pedals: ditto. Directional sound is not available in any sim, and most sims are sample-based. And a 3-monitor setup is considered top-notch, but is still far below the capabilities of your 2 retinas.
Until there are more ways to get feedback from the sim, I think I'll prefer a monotonously perfect track.
How is a Republican press conference not a stupid PR stunt?
(Ah, I see, it's a cunning PR stunt.)
Sorry, I didn't want to bash you. I tried to point out that the fact that someone's working hard doesn't necessarily make him/her more entitled to be promoted. And that, from the position of management, it may even be a reason not to promote them.
I know about crunch mode. I work in software too. (Although, thankfully, not in places where crunch mode is customary.)
I've done some reading. Even though I can see the attraction of the heroism behind it, I think that crunch mode is a sign of bad management, detrimental to the company and to the employees.
Indeed, bad management.
I'd like people to remember their chants about "world peace" and "feed the poor" the day after Christmas, and the other 363.25 days of the year too.
Failing that, I'll have a slice of Rudolf, with cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes on the side.
Failing that, I'll have a slice of Rudolf, with cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes on the side.
So? It's a promotional picture. It's got nothing to do with the actual work in that company. The people in the pic probably work for a modeling agency. The sole aim is to create a "feelgood" effect among the audience. (With folks like andybarsblade it fails miserably, but it's the average that counts.)
If you really did the things you just mentioned above, you should also be fired. Being half-sick but still going to work in a safety-critical environment... It's madness.
This may sound cynical, but someone who works to the point of ill health is probably less eligible for promotion. Working habits like that may be an indication that you
- Might burn out if you are given more responsibility, which is a risk to yourself as well as a financial risk to the company.
- Are bad at relegating tasks to others, which is an important skill for people in a senior position.
- Are bad at estimating/planning your own work.
- Are naive enough to work your a** off for a low salary, so there's no reason for the company to give you a raise.
Strange story. Aren't MPs given immunity in the UK for cases like these? I could understand they'd prosecute a policeman (or any other public servant) who leaked confidential information, but not an MP. Can't risk MPs being intimidated by arrest, or even by questioning.
And if the arrest was based on some law, I wonder how the Tories voted when it was passed...
And if the arrest was based on some law, I wonder how the Tories voted when it was passed...
So, Bladerunner, please tell us about your childhood. Was it unhappy?
Why don't you provide some details about these PC cases? That'll be a better contribution to the debate than hypothesizing about other people's minds.
You can't really compare these countries. Norway and Switzerland don't have former colonies, or neighbouring countries that are much poorer. Norway isn't at a crossroads of international traffic, and its wealth is fairly recent. And Switzerland has been neutral and isolationist for centuries. If these two have few problems with minorities (which may or may not be the case), you can't conclude it's purely because of their current immigration policies.
The rule isn't interpreted equally strictly by all Muslims. Morocco and Turkey produce wine, Turkey has it's Raki liquor, Indonesia has arak, etc. Even the word "alcohol" itself has Arabic roots.
But I doubt you'll see binge drinking in Muslim countries.If the BNP and other anti-immigration folks are so convinced of the ill effects of immigration, then they'd also want to recall all UK citizens living abroad, and publicly apologise to the former colonies for harm done. Somehow I can't see them doing that.
Um, you were being ironic there, weren't you?
If not, would you mind being called xenophobic?
So that means that Gordon Brown isn't an idiot.
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... and suddenly the UK isn't a democracy anymore, and an entire city agrees with you.
That's more likely the result of whites moving away ("white flight"), rather than non-whites moving in to form a majority. We've seen that in the Netherlands, too. When the proportion of foreign kids reaches a certain level, many indigenous parents send their kids to "white" schools, because they fear the quality of education will deteriorate -- a fear that often isn't supported by fact.
"Them foreigners steal our jobs. And they sit on their lazy bums and collect welfare."
Ironically, the Asians that you think are overrunning your country, are there because their country was once overrun by Britons. So stop whining, it was your own stupid mistake. Buy a boat to navigate the rivers of blood.
But... but... that's an animal corpse, put inside another corpse? Gross.
And it looks like it's waiting to assault Sigourney Weaver in some episode of Alien.
And it looks like it's waiting to assault Sigourney Weaver in some episode of Alien.
Do you mean a murder where the victim happened to be gay, or a murder that was committed because the victim was gay? It does make a difference, you know.
Right. That means that the person who executes a death sentence should be put to death himself. We'll quickly run out of executioners.
True, but acting out your racist opinion is illegal. It's silly if a political party would hold racist views, but would never turn them into policy because it's against the law.
It depends. Is it democratic if parliament decides to abolish democracy (hint: March 23, 1933)? Is it democratic if the Hutu majority decides to murder the Tutsi minority? I believe democracy is more than just the dictate of the majority.
You mean they should be slaughtered, skinned, grilled and eaten?
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