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Anybody got any good sources of material to read?

There was something cool you could do in older version of counterstrike, you can tweak the ex_interp parameter from 1.0 to something lower like 0.5, in this way you have to aim 'behind' where the person was and hit. The advantage of this is with sniper rifles, when someone moving through a narrow gap the time is so short that your response time is not fast enough to click the instant they move through. But with ex_interp you can fire after they've gone through and still hit, not so fun for the target though, they get to safety then die :D

Sure, when everybody has connections of 20-40ms this prediction is not much of a feature. But back in the days when everybody were on modem connections with 120ms latency, this was important. It means you don't have to physically aim 'in front' of where the target is moving towards, this may not be an issue with automatic or AOE weapons, but if you're trying to use a sniper rifle this can be pretty hard.

Write novels or do something related to history?

I would through in some red meat too for the protein

That's an awfully long article to say his dying and written a book on his 'new found' way of investing.

I always thought of the 'different result' as meaning improvement, and the action in repetition as being suboptimal. Thereby no matter how much you practice you will be at best improving sub-optimally.

This makes particular sense when you're practicing a musical instrument, bad habits will be more and more engraved as you repeat more. The best instrument players are those who have been taught or self-discovered good ways to improve, and put in the hard practice/repetition.

Sure he probably goes through more material per day than 99.99999% of the population, but whether he remembers or understands is another matter.

There's an American warcraft3 player who does around 120apm(as I recall) called Axslav and he was quite good, not a top pro but good enough to beat other pros with good strategy.

On the side note you can actually see how pros are micro-ing by spamming ctrl-c (at a good apm) when watching replays, it centralises the screen on what the player is currently selecting and can be fascinating to watch.

I think the right gear has a lot to do with it, a good mouse/mousepad and keyboard can be the difference between night and day. I had a lot of stress with my old mouse because the movements were not precise, that and the right mouse button was hard to click, my hands had to compensate a great deal and this caused a lot of stress.

I think that with the right gear and proper technique, you can easily avoid RSI, just look at typists they do 300 apm easy :)

There should be a third column with Battle.net 1 and all ticks.

Of course what you say is true, value or worth is subjective - something that you think is worth only the cost of production may be worth a lot more to someone else. Everybody has their own value metric, but funnily if you want to buy or sell at a particularly instance in time you have to pay the market price.

I think they refer to market value or in this case market capitalisation, which is well defined as share price * # of shares. Both prices you listed are just the asking prices, the true market value will be somewhere between the bid and ask prices. The bid ask spread in a liquid market is small under 'normal' circumstances, eg Apple shares bid/ask is currently 243.50 x 400/244.00 x 2600, people willing to buy 400 shares at $243.50 and sell 2600 shares at $244.

Suppose if two people starts changing the same sentence at the same time, and there is latency of say 1 minute - then after 1 minute the result will be a jumbled up sentence?

It might run under wine, I know warcraft 3 did :P

>Okay, my mother worked as a child sweatshop laborer in Taiwan in the 60s, before the country bootstrapped itself out of abject, agrarian poverty, and I take issue with this. It's a straw man; her family was extremely poor, but not in danger of starvation. Without sweatshop labor she wouldn't have starved to death, but she also wouldn't have been able to go to school, get educated, get employed in a white collar job, and eventually move abroad. Anecdotes do not data make, but knee-jerk emotional reactions and weasel words don't help anyone.

Well thats leaps and bounds from what the article is portraying, in China university costs are around 15000 RMB / year minimum, a person working in such a factory would have to work for a whole year and save everything just to be able to afford one year in university. Furthermore, you would have to pass the national university entrance exam, which is very competitive. Finding jobs a white collar job as a university grad is now hard, as grads are a dime a dozen. And to go abroad you will have to be a top notch student, or have substantial capital - an even more preposterous proposition.

So how well can you type on these things, is it possible to do some coding?

The second item is a 4.8" $100 'ipad killer':

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/android-tablet-news/65-1...

We'll have to wait for the sentence to be handed down, if any jail time / execution is handed, that would really be interesting!

>westerners bullying China has been pounded by the CCP for the past 60 years so its very easy to troll that line to great success.

Actually it was 'trolled' long before the CCP came in to power by revolutionaries, and most likely citizens.

The history of China has been miserable for the past two centuries, culminated defeat in opium wars and wars with Japan has resulted in compensation with land and money. Several unsuccessful civil uprisings has also cost many lives and ruined the economy - many people in that time lived in poverty!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#Dynastic_rule

Interestingly, Stern Hu pleaded guilty to bribery recently:

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Stern-Hu-...

>Why should 'laws' decreed anywhere be respected? Punishments!

>Should laws that are counter to one's values be respected? From the individual's point of view, they will have a unique risk-vs-reward threshold value for each 'law', and if its smaller then a corresponding risk-vs-reward ratio such as 'the harshness of punishment x rate of discovery / gains from breaking law', then they will break it.

>Should laws that seek to prevent a full human experience be respected?

I think your question is very general, for example I do not share the values of a psychopath serial killer, even if killing to the killer is their definition of 'full human experience'.

>Should we continue to support the artificial constructs of nation-states? Why?

To the individual from a practical point of view, supporting or non-supporting is a non-issue - its only when a significant or critical mass of people feel disdain for a government or leadership will change occur, and inevitably it will morph in to another nation-state construct, thats how history is like.

'Walnuts are also an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnuts

>Certainly his philosophy was no better than junior-high-school grade.

He was well read and educated, you may disagree with his philosophy, but to say it was 'junior-high-school' grade would be incorrect. From wiki:

'Mao was a prolific writer of political and philosophical literature' 'In China, Mao was considered a master calligrapher during his lifetime' 'Politics aside, Mao is considered one of modern China's most influential literary figures'

'Not to mention the whole thing reeked of plasticy cheapness.'

Aren't Apple keyboards plastic too?

How long was the Apple keynote session? :D

Its not easy to utilise the full 500 GFlops, and this is for single FP precision, double FP precision only exists on the newer 200 series and throughput is much lower.

But certainly CUDA is very exciting :)

You can't, just roll over limp and let the bear have its way with you :-)

What kind of unsound things?

One downside to CUDA is its massively powerful for single FP precision, but double FP precision performance is less than 1/10 of single FP performance.

When precision is needed CUDA is much less useful, say you're running 10^10 simulations then with single FP precision you will only have a result accurate to 5 significant figures.