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History of DRM & Copy Protection in Computer Games(youtube.com)
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It's certainly true in statistics and machine learning that adding variables with unreliable estimates lowers the whole model's accuracy after some point.
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I would not consider Psychonauts a worthy successor, nor do a wide section of people who have tried it. A good deal of the issue seems to be exactly because it's not a point and click - it's actually a 3D platformer with a number of playabi
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It's noteworthy indeed that a lot of these kinds of games are now out or upcoming, but it's equally notable that a year ago this conversation would have ended rather differently.
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> you can't claim innocence If you read very carefully, you'll notice that person you're replying to was delineating between evil and culpable.
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Query version of the Twitter link: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/261513897134141440
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Who?
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I timed it, and it was about a minute, so right in line with the 7k pixels/s. That does translate to about 3 billion km/h, or about 250,000 mh/s².
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http://wtop.com/52/3270431/Teens-shying-away-from-Facebook
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Chances are that's just because your data is insufficient or non-independent, but I do agree that intuition isn't the be-all. A big problem with multivariate testing is explaining your results, which is a huge time sink for low or negative
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It comes naturally to a lot of people.
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Or to simply use a selection algorithm instead of a sort, since they are asymptotically faster.
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And architecture is more than just arts. Perhaps more relevant than the existence of multidisciplinary fields is the low employment of monodisciplinary fields?
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Paper moneys have received haircuts too. To deduct from a balance, all you need is someone with read and write access to said balance, be it physical or virtual.
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There have been schemes with cards that you can load digital currency to and off of, that to my understanding remove the server from the transaction. They still don't let you give ¤5 to your kid, but they're a step in that direction. It's j
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While you're right in that the person doing the shooting is far more important than the weapon, it's pretty clear that some weapons, like fully-automatic shotguns, are designed for specific use cases. You wouldn't use a .50 Barret to hunt d
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Ads appeared in the late 90's. That's a far cry from even being the foundation of the web. Ads are very important to the web as it exists, but to claim anything foundational is just ignorant. Formative could be argued, though.
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As I recall, Wave suffered from a poor reference implementation and such complexity that amateurs were unwilling to create their own. It also received a lot of bad publicity from branding and people who were unsure about what to make of it,
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Here's a link for those of us outside of the US: http://www.aeduniverse.com/ADSafe_CPR_Barrier_Mask_4053_p/40...
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Technically, the Antipope is Catholic. Inconsistent systems prove everything.
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A good argument against the short scale is that it has a confusing offset. A quad rillion (short scale) is 1000^(4+1)=10^15.
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The way I was taught it, though, is that ratios are rather different from fractions. You might say 2:1 of tea and honey, but ⅔ tea and ⅓ honey. However, when describing only one quantity, some people will say 1:2 of honey while others might
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For Finnish, you may have missed the now deprecated word for summation, "ynnä", meaning "as one". It's not from Latin or Chinese, though - at least not recognizably so.
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Fair enough. I was basing my comment on the other article, which claimed the opposite.
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This post doesn't seem to be very concerned with turn-based games beyond multiplayer. I'll concede that turn-based has never been a good fit for multiplayer, but I was hoping for some analysis on single-player failings. There are reasons wh
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You would have a point if they found living specimens in the meteorite. As it stands, they found organisms that have died a long time ago and that greatly resemble organisms that have died a long time ago. Dead things don't evolve, so placi
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> The standard combination lock interface is well-known, not intuitive. Indeed. Over in this part of the world, I have never actually seen one. I once looked them up on the Internet just to figure out how to use one, but had by now forg
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It uses low broadband levels of bandwidth, from what I've heard. So it's pretty iffy for a lot of people.
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Considering how vastly pirated copies usually outnumber purchased copies, I hope you don't consider "a moderate percentage" to be something high, like 30% would be.
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Deliberate corruption is still corruption. As for your comparison to MPEG audio, I feel that's symptomatic - high-frequency components are perceptually negligible in audio, but stand out in video (until the stroboscopic effect). You wouldn'

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