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Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

/me hats off to another game dev :-)

If you don't already read this sub-reddit: /r/gamedev ... you should :-) You'll find me hanging out there too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphon...

Yeah, no kidding. The one bit of useful information and they don't goddamned include it.

Thankfully reddit has us covered. I know some Apptards that are going to be receiving texts from me this afternoon. Go ahead, tell me how your iPhone is superior to Android, I dare you.

Spotted on Reddit :

"In the (excellent) book 'Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual' (Haynes), the caption for this photo is 'Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton with a pile of print-out results from simulations, circa 1969 (MIT Library)'"
"So..probably not code. The book actually details the simulation process (and associated printouts) with some good detail."

https://www.reddit.com/r/badbi...

there you are

There was an AMA (ask my anything) on reddit a couple days ago from the devs of city skylines, and someone asked this very question

  "What would you do if EA tried to buy you?"
They responded with "Something like this".

Nice strawman. Here's what MRAs actually advocate for. And yes, I agree with the majority sentiment here that the person in the article is an overreacting child.

While I'm relatively certain you won't care because you are either (a) a troll or (b) biased to the point where any message coming from someone you or your hivemind disagree with in general is "not worthwhile," this page is a relatively extensive FAQ about the MRA movement and what it is about.

The men's rights crowd do have some valid arguments but frankly they could be a lot better presented and they could be a lot more careful about the company they keep.

Also the sonic boom issue was more FUD by Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed than the real issue. Back in the 80s, before the oil crisis, these companies wanted to stop British Aerospace and Aerospatiale from establishing a bridgehead at the luxury travel sector using Corcorde and its derivatives. But thankfully the Arab oil shock stopped Concorde.

Out of curiosity, how old are you? I was a kid in the 1970s. 1970s jet engines were LOUD. When we were playing during recess and a jet plane passed overhead at 30,000 ft at the right orientations (certain directions were noisier), we basically couldn't hold a conversation without yelling. That's how loud they were. They were a great way to demonstrate that sound was slower than light because it was so damn loud it was obvious exactly where the sound was coming from. Your ears could indisputably pinpoint the sound as coming from several hands-breadths behind the plane.

The concerns about the Concorde's sonic boom being even louder were very real. The planes we have today where you often don't even notice they're passing overhead are a poor point of reference, and a testament to how great a job the engine manufacturers have done at reducing noise.

Compare that to 54 kilowatt, total maximum possible power output of those two turbojet engines. 100,000 kW for 10 mph wind vs 54 kW for Concorde. Our eardrums and instruments are sensitive enough to pick up the sonic boom over 10mph wind, but thats about it.

Total energy isn't as important as the spectrum. If all that energy is directed into a narrow low-frequency band, it'll be a lot noisier even at a lower energy level, moreso at the lower frequencies (the atmosphere absorbs higher frequencies more rapidly). In fact that's mostly what the engineers have done to make today's jet engines quieter - changed their noise profile to spread that acoustic energy over a broader spectrum of frequencies and into higher frequencies. The scalloped cutouts on the trailing edge of newer engine cowlings does exactly this.

I would have thought the same too, not long ago. I don't think I've ever seen a woman being cat-called or made to feel uncomfortable by men simply because she's a woman. After all, I live in decent parts of Ontario.

Then a thread on Reddit asked women when they became aware that they were being seen/treated sexually. Most of them were 10-14 years old, and they were being verbally and physically harassed by much older men (sometimes 4-5 times older). Someone compiled the women's ages.

I asked my SO about it. She also grew up in a quiet, relatively safe Ontario town. She confirmed that the same thing happened to her starting around age 12. When she was working in a market, around age 15, middle-aged men would wait until she was walking with big trays of food (and therefore couldn't protect herself) and grope her breasts and ass. This was common, and none of the other people around would say or do anything to help.

So just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. It usually happens specifically when the girls have no one around to stand up for them. Talk to some of the women around you, and get their stories. Maybe things have changed, but I thought they had already changed in the '70s and '80s and I was wrong.

I would have thought the same too, not long ago. I don't think I've ever seen a woman being cat-called or made to feel uncomfortable by men simply because she's a woman. After all, I live in decent parts of Ontario.

Then a thread on Reddit asked women when they became aware that they were being seen/treated sexually. Most of them were 10-14 years old, and they were being verbally and physically harassed by much older men (sometimes 4-5 times older). Someone compiled the women's ages.

I asked my SO about it. She also grew up in a quiet, relatively safe Ontario town. She confirmed that the same thing happened to her starting around age 12. When she was working in a market, around age 15, middle-aged men would wait until she was walking with big trays of food (and therefore couldn't protect herself) and grope her breasts and ass. This was common, and none of the other people around would say or do anything to help.

So just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. It usually happens specifically when the girls have no one around to stand up for them. Talk to some of the women around you, and get their stories. Maybe things have changed, but I thought they had already changed in the '70s and '80s and I was wrong.

A good number of people at http://www.reddit.com/r/thered... are exactly that. There's a bunch of other subs that are more focused on MGTOW, but TRP is one of the most well rounded manosphere subs out there.

Remember that "Snowden" guy who got this ball rolling, and is now in exile because of it?

Too bad there isn't anything we can do to help him out....

You can do a lot of things to help him out, except they're all as "treasonous" as his disclosures.
Donating to Snowden is now illegal

You wouldn't have to read the paper, you're too good for that obviously. But even if you had read a decent summary. Or the countless comments here telling you your interpretation of the bad summary (that you have put so much faith into) was incorrect you would realise how idiotic you are.

It's pointless showing you relevent facts, others have tried and you still insist you know better. It's a feedback loop with you people, 1 idiot misunderstands and writes a stupid comment and then the rest of you pile on. None of you had the slightest clue, but of course that never stops any of you.

Some background that you will also not read, because it may interfere with your delicate sensibilities. https://www.reddit.com/r/Futur...
Other people will see it and realise the errors in your 'analysis'
But I'm sure, not you.

I've seen people reporting that the memleak of Lollipop that was supposed to be fixed in 5.1 already, and in 5.1.1 is still not fixed, and I experience my Nexus 7 being really slow.
I can see this new post on Reddit but also this post on a much more reliable source, xda-developers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futuro...
We've a few things wrong in these threads. Two different (three, really) drives, two inventors. Interesting summation.

Less weapons, less deaths.

Really? Or do you want to ignore the fact of the low murder rate in easy to legally get a gun Plano, Texas (.4 per 100,000) and the highest murder rate in the hard to legally get a gun city of Detroit (54.6 per 100,000)?

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2tghp5/the_truth_about_guns_in_america_number_one_with_a/

I actually live a few miles from plano texas and i can say that the main reason why it is such a low number is because it is an upper middle to upper class suburban type city. it has nothing to do with the amount of guns it has to do with the amount of poverty because poverty usually equals more crime. More to the point, he makes it sound like plano is the biggest gun central in the nation, sure texas is probably the state with the most guns but i dont see plano as being the city that has more guns than any other suburban areas of the like in the south.

The people at NASA have been doing this with a very small budget since this whole thing is still within crackpot territory. They have only been able to use equipment which can operate / measure over small ranges, so that's what they've been doing. They hope to eventually have other labs with better equipment will test at even greater powers (after getting above 100 micronewtons, they plan to have Glenn Research Center, Jet Propulsion Lab, and John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab take over).

There's a nice thread on Reddit summarizing what we know so far.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:

* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free

There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:

- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!

and

- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.

You might want to look at this nice summary from Reddit of all the experiments performed in China and at NASA about these drives:

The FACTS as we currently know them about the EmDrive and Cannae Drive

Yep.

That's why it's so important that people document this sort of thing w/ open licenses which can't be taken back.

I've been working on that sort of thing for the Shapeko: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/i...

Anyone know of any similar wikis / resources?

  - http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Rep... --- I've tried to help out on this, but simply didn't get any help when I expressed how mystifying I found the structure / hierarchy --- finally just did a link dump of 3D printing stuff here: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/i...
  - http://www.reddit.com/r/hobbyc... --- this subreddit has a single page, which addresses the big thing which the Shapeoko wiki can't have, a list / comparison of other machines

Makerspace == workshop for geeks who missed shop class and don't understand the basics of craftsmanship

Reddit is over here

But, in typical Squad fashion, they gave us the ability to overheat - but failed to give us the ability to cool off.

Parts act as blackbody radiators and will cool off just like any object would.

Solar panels also now act as passive radiators (source) so they now have dual functionality.

They also gave us a more advanced (and accurate) aerodynamics and engine performance model - but at the cost of the game's much vaunted simplicity and user friendliness.

I dare say the new model makes it *easier* to get a rocket or space plane flying. Too easy, actually... my rockets and planes from 0.90 are all way too fast and destroy themselves much faster than they used to. I haven't had time to really dig into the new mechanics but so far it's promising that my 2000+ ton rockets might actually fair better than before!
=Smidge=

I hear that due to some KMS changes, AGP on SMP is currently broken.

"Take your conclusions, if you are too busy insulting people and making up stuff." eh? i'm not sure what you are on about with that statement.

systemd will not work on FreeBSD because of linux kernel features so they will probably design their own implementation. read this http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/... or watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And from the linked-to Code.org PowerPoint slide: "We CAN make this an issue like climate change." Btw, in a Reddit AMA at the time of Microsoft-backed Code.org's launch, CEO and Founder Hadi Partovi noted that his next-door-neighbor is Microsoft General Counsel and Code.org Board member Brad Smith, whose FWD.us bio notes is also responsible for Microsoft's philanthropic work.

Phone screens are no fun because a disturbingly high percentage of applicants can't write a simple program. See:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cscare...

and search for "muppet"

It is common for conference rooms at many companies to lack a phone handset. Just a single Polycom on the table.

... just forward all the unwanted calls to Lenny?

https://www.reddit.com/r/tight...

https://www.reddit.com/r/tight...

https://www.reddit.com/r/tight...

Nice try. "Thanks to gamergate", three women have been forced from their homes from threats that law enforcement officers found credible enough to suggest that. Trying to pretend that gamergate has done anything but abuse people defines you as - at best - an imbecile.

It causes you physical pain that few here buy into the "mysogyny and harrassment" narrative, doesn't it?

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and ongoing user comment/forum censorship (in former free-speech strongholds such as 4chan and Reddit, no less) didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
The SVU episode . . . hahaahhahaha WOW, where do I even begin . . . it is progapanda that couldn't be more precisely crafted to the corrupt press's specifications (i.e. "narrative"), and broadcast to a national non-gamer audience, much of which likely accepted it as reality. It was a wake-up call to quite a few previously unaware or neutral parties, especially game devs*.

Eurogamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining PC Gamer, IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC).

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.


* like Mark Kern and Ken Levine, who had nothing to do with Gamergate, but were so disgusted by the SVU episode that they publically called on the gaming press to stop slandering gamers. Both were instantly swarmed by anti-GG on twitter, and VG24/7 ran a hit piece on Kern without even getting his side of the story, and refused even after he specifically asked them. I think Eurogamer saw exactly what happened to Kern, and it's no accident that tha

Thanks to the 4chan IRC logs we know that this is the standard tactic of the GamerGate crowd. Accuse the "SJWs" of everything they themselves are actually doing, using a vast array of puppet accounts. The most damning thing is that if any of this were true you would be welcoming it, since you could effortlessly get all the SJWs banned from Twitter. Just go and report their old posts right now. In fact, if you link to a few right now I'll do it for you.

Come on, I'm calling your bluff. Let's see your hand.

Gamergate actually tracked down an alleged harasser of Zoe Quinn and gave the information to her and the FBI, imploring them to investigate alleged harassment of both Quinn and Brianna Wu. Gamergate is not a harassment campaign, and it's not a small group of "cis white male nerds" with a ton of sock-puppet accounts. Look up #NotYourShield. Again, you claim to require evidence for your beliefs but do not require any evidence for the sock-puppet claims while ignoring any evidence to the contrary. Just as you have said, there's been no evidence that gamergate has harassed or "doxed" anyone either. There's also PLENTY of evidence in the twitter streams of various SJWs, indeed here's a thread whereby gamergate screencapped hateful shit SJWs say and made it into a meme: "Actually it's about equality." Checkout reddit's TumblrInAction for more SJW hypocrisy, or just search the phrase. (gee, it's like you're willfully ignorant, like you have some ulterior motive other than representing reality)

Even the articles written by SJW journalists provide copious amounts of evidence that these SJW journalists are (sometimes literally) in-bed with developers, and not disclosing their personal relationships. So, if the evidence is out there why aren't mainstream news sources covering gamergate as anything but a harassment campaign? (gee, it's like they're willfully ignorant, like they have some ulterior motive other than representing reality). Recently we've become aware that the GDC / IGDA awards have been essentially rigged, the judges don't play the games they downvote, and frequent judges vote on games except in years they submit a game, and then those games win awards as they're judged by their friends. Meanwhile the little guy who created equal or better quality content is bilked for his $100 entry fee without ever having a chance of winning, as it will be the clique-made SJW pandering walking simulator that win awards.

So, what's the deal? We have tons of evidence that you refuse to look at, with more happenings almost every day. We even have alternative and neutral game journalists we're supporting, as well as charities which we fund (even ones to help get girls into gamedev)... But no, it's somehow all just hateful troll sockpuppets who hate women so much that they sponsor a female only gamejam? The cognitive dissonance hurts, I get it. You don't want to believe that the media is colluding to push a narrative, but we have proof that's sadly what is happening.

In case you haven't noticed the average slashdaughter knows the SJW jig is up. That divide and conquer bullshit is just a tool by the media and state to control the populace. Re-evaluate your world view, because it's not based in reality -- it's based in unevidenced ideology, outright lies, and propaganda. Women's rights needs a divorce from Feminism. There never was a pay gap, not since at least the 70's.

Watch this: How to stop screwing yourself over (Mel Robbins).

For habit-building, gold stars on a calendar can work surprisingly well. (I use an Android app called Routinely.)

Finally /r/GetMotivated has the occasional gem that's worth reading.

is why it is turned off

if the question were "why should a phone add all this expensive hardware for negligible benefit" then the answer should obviously screw FM radio

but if the functionality is already there, why isn't anyone angry that you are being denied something for free simply so your phone carrier can squeeze more cash out of you?

i look at the other posts here and their priorities and their rationale, and i can't understand why this thought doesn't rank higher

and while we're at it, get us a tv tuner too, like in japan:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Androi...

why aren't television and fm radio industries banding together to demand inclusion on smartphones? nevermind as a safety feature, you can make arguments for that, but even if you think that's a contrived concern, do it simply because it's a fucking industry of content, that you can get FOR FREE

You're probably a good candidate for answering this. Why doesn't a decent Ragone chart exists for rocket propulsion? I looked for ages in Google, an only found a few diagrams. It'd be amazing to see where new propulsion technologies fit on a single unified graph.