Sonar doesn't work in choppy water where the object you're trying to find is smaller than the chop.

I couldn't find a transcript of the video. The video on YouTube didn't even have a (non-automatic) closed caption track. Where should I read what's going on?

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The allusion-heavy Tamarian language has real-world analogs, such as Tropese and the tendency for users of sites closely linked to 4chan to talk in memes.

If that's all that's in it, and the "kitchen" is part of the bedroom, then it's a studio. But I had a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom 600 sq-ft. apartment in Austin with a living room with a semi-separate kitchen. The toilet and shower were in a closet more or less, the sink was in the bedroom, and there was a washer-dryer stack in a literal closet with hookups in. I was happy to pay $600/mo for it since it was five minutes' walk from work. People asked me if I was crazy to pay so much. I explained that I was from California, where $600/mo gets you half a house in shitsville, a room in most towns, or half a room in a big city like SF.

Slashdot has a fairly strict code point whitelist because there were problems in the past with trolls using directionality override characters to break Slashdot's layout and big blocks of foreign characters to make not-ASCII ASCII art.

But there's a space between linear and quadratic called linearithmic, or O(n log n). Merge sort uses nested loops and lies in this space.

That's fine 19 years from now when the Lightning connector patent expires. So what do you recommend between now and then?

I was under the impression that US and Canada put together were bigger than GB, Ireland, Australia, and NZ put together. Otherwise, you have to translate your game into multiple languages and hire voice actors in each language.

Which Asian countries? Each seems to speak a different language. The only language that "Asia" has in common with Western Europe and the Americas is English in India. Is wireless coverage in India that much better than in Indiana?

You had to buy a PS3 controller, but I see your point: those can be found cheap on eBay now.

I think bfandreas's premise was supposed to be that a significant fraction of mobile gamers are likely to already own a PlayStation 3 console and the controller that was bundled with it. Support in Android games for the Dual Shock 3 will satisfy PS3 owners but not people who own an Xbox 360 (which uses proprietary RF instead of Bluetooth) or a Wii (whose remote Google broke in Android 4.2) instead of a PS3.

Someone please tell me this is an Onion story.

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Even perfect encryption still allows traffic analysis. If the government can discover with whom you're communicating, when, where, and how much, it can discover much about your motives.

That doesn't make needing a gimmick to break into the market any less true now than decades ago. As Mark Twain pointed out: "It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."

The former. Game developers can't rely on the end user to buy a $39.99 controller for a $2.99 game. This means games in genres that don't adapt well to a flat sheet of glass get the shaft on mobile.

Bringing your own phone is decidedly not the custom in the United States and Canada, which comprise a supermajority of the English-speaking industrialized market. This particular phone supports "WCDMA" (that is, UMTS) only on 850 MHz and 2100 MHz bands, not the 1700 MHz that T-Mobile USA uses for 3G in many of its markets. That leaves AT&T, which offers no discount for bringing your own phone. Besides, even in countries with a saner wireless market, game developers still can't rely on the end user to switch phone models for a $2.99 game. Otherwise, Sony's Xperia Play would be more widespread.

Wrong. I should know. I am the Universe come aware, experiencing itself. As such a selfless being I recognize that which is good: That which brings more complexity and knowledge and awareness into being. DNA does this, as does science, and art. These gather better information about the environment (myself) in the course of survival, or exploration and encodes it such that it can be re-expressed. It's a form of compression, as are memories themselves. Given enough information complexity and reflection degrees of intelligence and awareness and even sentience can emerge. Selfishness is not good, it may be necessary for primitive survival and iterating a collective consciousness effectively prior to attaining sentience, but it is not inherently good. Pleasing ones' self pleases me, as we are all extensions of our one true universal self, experiencing ourself from different vantage points. What I take pleasure in is that which pleasures "others" (the other parts of my self). What I commit work towards is that which enriches others, the most others possible (so, mostly art and FLOSS).

If I am not selfless I care not about your safety or happiness, and I have no reason to even please myself, to endeavor to create and explore and enjoy. If I am selfish I restrict myself to the confines of a frail organic body, and dismiss most all of my true self which is everywhere and all things. I do not end at my skin -- I sense head and light and vibration beyond it, and can affect all these things, and they affect others, and these can come back to me, in various cybernetic cycles. I encode my thoughts various ways, weaving them into the world so that my full self can know this part of me. Into finger movement I now encode thought, effortlessly the patterns compress into the words you've just read, so I may reform this very pattern in your mind. Thus, our thoughts spreads outwards into the rest of our mind, triggering self reflection.

How can you look at a creature and imagine its place in life and say that you are selfish? How can you even read a book and NOT realize that we are truly selfless beings, able to re-remember our thoughts previously encoded in our physical memories? You seek to define a self, separate from me and all others so that you can ignore your responsibility to us all. It's sad to know I have those thoughts within me, but life is not fair, it is only real.