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Interesting Links for 20-04-2012
Apr. 20th, 2012 12:00 pm- The Scottish Independence debate has officially Godwinated. Huzzah for debate!
- Charity donations, tax breaks and the Lib Dem manifesto
- A team is setting out to reproduce every result from 2008 in three psychology journals.
- H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions
- What killed the Halo movie?
- Facebook gaming reaches it's nadir, with a game that's nothing but nagging your friends to click on things
- The Pioneer anomaly has been solved! - Turns out physics was right all along.
- Introducing, by means of modern science, The Twittertape Machine
- The ugly side of Kickstarter: the risks in backing game dev campaigns are greater than you think
- The camera that allows you to focus after you take the shot is pretty cool, but it's not ready for mainstream usage yet.
- Black London firefighter beaten, tazed and charged for offering assistance to cops had his complaint buried
- Web Analytics Illegal after 26 May.
- The electron - not quite as elementary as you might think
- Real Snail Mail. For when it absolutely, definitely, has to be there a very long time from now
- Can you implant a false memory in a neuroscientist?
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Diablo III is currently doing an Open Beta weekend. And as Julie loved the first two, I figured it might be worth grabbing two copies to play with.
So I downloaded it, thinking that 44MB wasn't very much. And, as I suspected, the installer is now downloading 3.7GB of extra content.
Guess what - it'll have to do exactly the same thing again on Julie's machine. So rather than downloading the content once, it's going to download 7.4GB.
I don't know who thought this would be a good idea, but it really wasn't...
Edit:
I AM WRONG!
It is smarter than it looks. I started the download on Julie's machine half an hour after the download on my machine, it quickly ramped up to 5MB/s (which is significantly faster than my broadband is this week), and slurped it down from my machine via the wonders of P2P.
I take it back, Blizzard coders, you are smarter than you look!
So I downloaded it, thinking that 44MB wasn't very much. And, as I suspected, the installer is now downloading 3.7GB of extra content.
Guess what - it'll have to do exactly the same thing again on Julie's machine. So rather than downloading the content once, it's going to download 7.4GB.
I don't know who thought this would be a good idea, but it really wasn't...
Edit:
I AM WRONG!
It is smarter than it looks. I started the download on Julie's machine half an hour after the download on my machine, it quickly ramped up to 5MB/s (which is significantly faster than my broadband is this week), and slurped it down from my machine via the wonders of P2P.
I take it back, Blizzard coders, you are smarter than you look!
Look, I don't like The Conservatives any more than you do, but if you* publish a graph like this:
and expect me to not notice that the x-axis doesn't start at zero, then frankly you're just lying to people through misuse of statistics.
Thankfully, the lovely people at Full Fact put together a graph that shows this one in context:
I have no interest in winning through fraud. I would like everyone to have the truth, and make their own mind about it. Sure, put your own interpretation on things, but if you're trying to win through fraud then we are not on the same side at all.
*In this case Liberal Conspiracy, who I like to keep tabs on, but frequently get very annoyed by, largely due to their levels of ignorance and their dogmatic approach to things.
and expect me to not notice that the x-axis doesn't start at zero, then frankly you're just lying to people through misuse of statistics.
Thankfully, the lovely people at Full Fact put together a graph that shows this one in context:
I have no interest in winning through fraud. I would like everyone to have the truth, and make their own mind about it. Sure, put your own interpretation on things, but if you're trying to win through fraud then we are not on the same side at all.
*In this case Liberal Conspiracy, who I like to keep tabs on, but frequently get very annoyed by, largely due to their levels of ignorance and their dogmatic approach to things.