Comment Re:Sadistic (Score 1) 397
Pity some of us haven't evolved more than that.
FTFY
Pity some of us haven't evolved more than that.
FTFY
Because unlike your latest Call of Duty download, hunting doesn't consist of moving a mouse until the crosshairs are over the head. It's an entire process.
Yeah, bad anaolgy/false equivalency. Hunting requires several things, license, gun, ammo, tree stand, location scouting and the ability to sit on your ass for several hours at a time. Yeah, real strenuous "sport". It's not a sport, sorry. It's one of two things: a for-food necessity or a conservation act. To call it a sport is a joke. Hell, most people don't even hike to scout anymore, they use four wheelers, so again, where's the "sport" activity that would qualify hunting? I have been around hunting and hunters all my life. My uncles and cousins all hunt deer and turkey and a lot of my friends and acquaintances hunt. Most of them are athletic but hunting is not how they work out nor would they categorize hunting as a sport (see above). If you're not hunting for food then you are participating in a leisure activity or game--not a sport. That's why it's called "game hunting". Sport fishing is another one of those iffy classifications. I don't have to be in shape to fish either. Sports usually have a physical fitness requirement. Hunting, not so much. If you're breathing and can pull a trigger, you're good.
Actually, you might be surprised how much of the US population still hunts for food. Granted these are generally poor rural people and thus are poorly represented on the internet and media so they are somewhat invisible, but there is a significant number of them spread around the country and they hunt more frequently then the recreational crowd.
Define significant? I was unable to find any data on an estimated number, either. I would guess based on Census data that it's less than 0.1% of the U.S. population, or less than 350,000 people nationwide. That's a conservative estimate based on populations below poverty level in rural areas. It's probably much, much smaller in reality.
It's decentralized. There's no controlling entity that can tell you who you can or cannot pay.
Another thing it allows you to do is change which company you use for payments, and yet still make payments to all the same people you could before. If you want to buy something from somebody that uses Paypal to take payments, then you're kinda stuck with using Paypal. With a Bitcoin-based system, you could pay them via a different company.
This is like asking "what's the point of SMTP when we have Gmail?"
I have a bank account and bill pay. The bank account comes with a Visa debit card that is accepted everywhere Visa is for payment and my bank offers bill pay services via ACH transfer. BitCoin cannot do either without additional hoops or places that could add attack vectors to my finances. You're twisting yourself in knots trying to justify something that just isn't better for payments unless you're buying illegal goods. Cash is also perfectly anonymous.
Classifying something as a Ponzi scheme, usually involves outright fraud. ie someone is claiming that there is a huge pile of cash somewhere that doesn't actually exist.
What, like MtGox? I will say this. BitCoin in and of itself may not be a Ponzi scheme, but it sure is a mighty fine developers kit and sandbox for one. It has way too much in common for it to be used by much of anyone other than as a mechanism to create a Ponzi. Plus, add the fact that it is unregulated and you add a dimension for nefarious activity nonexistent in any other legal financial instrument today. The foundation of this wanna-be currency is flawed and fracturing. It just wasn't as good an idea as it appeared to be in someone's head. Try again.
Sloppy thesis. My thesis had to pass review of my entire committee. They would not sign it until they had a chance to read it. I had to go through several edit cycels *after* I had been through a number of cycles by my primary adviser. Maybe I picked a hard committee, but an adviser or committee member who puts their name to sloppy research is damaging their credibility. At the time I thought it was torture, but now I appreciate the fact they wanted me to produce good research properly written up. Any adviser or committee who does otherwise is cheating the student out of an education.
You didn't pick a hard committee. You studied in a department that cared about the grad students they were sending into the world. The "Insightful" guy above obviously didn't.
OK, so they rely on a spin off project on it's own, and the rest of the world goes on with HTML5 which will continue to be improved and expanded. Which one will provide more use in the long run? So, OpenFL, is a way to avoid learning new technology. Hopefully it doesn't lead people down a one way street.
One way to a known dead end. So, yeah, face palm city.
Which is too bad. Because ActionScript supports object oriented code.
Java supports object oriented code. It's still a bit icky if you ask me. Not as icky as Flash, mind you. Nothing makes a browser go boom like Flash, but Java comes close.
Its not that I don't support the idea of cross-platform and cross-browser HTML5 solutions for tasks previously only accomplished through Flash but I think people often fail to understand it isn't all unicorns and rainbows as its made out to be.
Who writes code and thinks a new standard is going to have unicorns and rainbows? Wait, ok, idiots that don't write code and use WYSIWYG tools. Well, when you set an expectation bar too high or are looking up from the bottom of the pool
Flash was one of the few holdouts of the Plugins era of the Netscape vs. IE Browser War. It came out because There wasn't a standard between the two for vector based graphics.
Bzzzt! Wrong. I was a BETA and ALPHA tester for Macromind/Macromedia when Flash was being developed. It was developed specifically to replace their Director product as it was doomed being a primarily raster graphics animation and multimedia authoring tool. To claim Flash started as anything but shows you weren't there. When Flash began the Internet was still really slow. I think the university had three T-1 lines at the time for the whole campus to use. Flash could create animated interactions (all the rage in the early 1990s) in really small files because they were vector graphics. Perfect for 56k modem users. Anyway, Flash was written as a vector animation package that also had a scripting engine (ActionScript) for controls. It handled audio files at first and eventually got video capabilities. As for HTML5, it's barely out of the blocks as a standard and folks are shooting it down? How about wait for it to mature, as it does have a bit to go. Heck, we just got CSS3 working cross browser within the last two years without gymnastics. Give it some time.
This is a problem that OSM (open street map) has solved. Either use their service, our even create your own clone - their software is likely to be all open source, and their mapping data certainly is.
Nice. I was going to say if everyone is collocated to use a big paper map on a wall. He did say they were "local". Sounds like he's trying to use tech he doesn't really need to solve a problem. But, that's most Ask
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