Comment dilbert reference (Score 1) 117
from S1E11 animated series episode:
boss:
"Everybody who donates will get one of these colorful, stylish I-get-to-keep-my-job T-shirts. Of course participation is completely 100% voluntary."
from S1E11 animated series episode:
boss:
"Everybody who donates will get one of these colorful, stylish I-get-to-keep-my-job T-shirts. Of course participation is completely 100% voluntary."
I guess it may help some people that crash in some remote place in the night (so basically where none would report it anyway).
Unfortunately it solves pretty much the wrong problem. The biggest issue with help is not that it is not notified in time, but that it cant arrive in time. There is not enough ambulances and they often have to travel vast distance to help. Adding new source of calls wont help.
Whats more they will now get more distracting calls from accidents that are resolved by participants or cops (no serious injuries - sensors cant tell about this) or even completely bogus from defective cars, so the ambulances will move around needlessly at some times (likely failing to help some extra people due to extra distance).
From the Rockstar announcement:
"In the event we decide to absolve any of these cheaters for their past transgressions they may re-enter play with the general public, however a second offense will result in their indefinite banishment."
So:
1. it only applies to those that get moved back to normal servers
2. word "banishment" may mean ban, but may also mean just being poot in cheaters pool without chance of returning to normal game (and I think second interpretation is the correct one)
Interesting... Mine is 13 MB while in tray, 20 - 25MB in library. Entering shop I get ~60MB. Seems like switching between html tabs (shop, community, news) wastes some memory (steam uses more after each switch). But after putting steam back in tray all that memory is released and it goes back to 13MB.
And does it finally have proper support for MS docx format? I rarely write anything in Writer and it works good enough in that aspect. Unfortunately my main use for such application is reading docs (specification etc) send by someone else and docx support is just abysmal - I had to install MS Word Viewer for this. And no, getting them to send it in some normal format is not always an option.
Everyone here is bitching about privacy breach, algorithm complexity etc. Actually it has nothing to do with this experiment. From TFA
"Anyone with a Facebook account can participate to verify if everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. You’ll be asked to select one of your Facebook friends whom you believe is most likely to know the “target person” that has been assigned to you. A message will then be sent from friend to friend until you get it to the “target person.” The goal is to do this in as few steps as possible. "
Basically they are just repeating the old mail experiment, but with a new way of passing messages
- unless you (or one of your friends) participates nothing happens to your privacy
- no computer algorithm is involved
- no problem with celebrity profiles linking thousands of people that now nothing about each other
"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"