I'm getting 31ms average ping from my wired computer. I'm on Videotron cable, in Canada. Wireless system is a bit slower.

Just for fun, I tried with cell phone connection (Bell 3G), and got 121ms average.

It's doable to ensure a program does exactly what its specs say it should do. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification.

It's not often done because it's extraordinarily time-consuming; the time it takes to do goes up exponentially with program length/complexity, I believe.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/03/27/we-were-all-wrong-the-true-god-is-polynesian/

That would be illegal and probably unconstitutional in most western countries.

ID is religion disguised as pseudo-science, it has nothing to do with skepticism.

I came here to say the same thing. He's a crook. Shame that he gets money for his elucubrations.

People like him have been telling us we'll have a True AI(r) in 10 years. The problem is they've been telling us the same thing for 50 years.

He's no better at predicting the future as any bad science-fiction writer, and his "theories" are unscientific and based on his peculiar views of the nature of reality, not on reality itself.

What's the point of a protest if it doesn't impact anything or anyone?

You probably mean the FAA. I don't think the FCC has anything to do with regulating airplanes or batteries.

Betteridge's law of headlines says no.

I concur.

What, the earth has gone around the sun ONE MORE TIME? Tell me what's new!

The same thing was done in Canada.

I saw it in IMAX 3D @48fps yesterday evening. I enjoyed the movie a lot, and the 48fps didn't bother me much after the first few minutes. It made 3D seem much better, I think.

My only problem was what it did to the light in the movie. Although in soft light areas, it seemed a lot more realistic, in brighter areas (like the sun on the landscape or the braziers in Goblin Town for example), the light seem too harsh. Especially since I was expecting a digitally graded movie like LotR was to offer perfect coloring. It also made a few special effects seem a bit fake.

The first is probably an editing and a filming issue. With better lenses, filters, and adjustments to lighting conditions it will help, and with better adjustments of the color values in editing it can be fixed. The second will get better as digital technology improves.

I'm going to go see it @24fps this weekend if I can to compare.

I am a Costco member and haven't put a foot in a Walmart in years. Their respective corporate practices have been an important factor in those choices. If only more people did the same.

One of the major problems of capitalism is how it assumes people will act reasonably in their self-interest, but a lot of consumers are misled as to where their own interests actually lie.

"Everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother"

They're killing characters and npcs, not deleting them. Death is only a short-lived inconvenience in wow.

Killing npcs is more annoying actually since some can take a while to respawn.

The issue appears to be a combination of a teleport/wall-hack and the ability to kill any creature, npc or character with a single hit which obviously trivializes the whole game and enables griefing on this kind of epic scale. The hack was apparently found a couple weeks ago but only fixed today with a server restart.