I agree completely. But what if you're both drunk? Limits / restraints blur on both sides. As a guy you just have to be very careful, but not everyone is the same in this regard. Unfortunately.
My take: He did go to her room. There was some sort of skirmish and both got wounded. The rest is unclear. BUT, if I were invited to someones room, and things started to get out of hand, with fighting and violence and whatnot in the air, I'd GET THE F OUT! Even if there's no attempted rape involved, you don't fight with a woman in her hotel room, even if it's just to avoid accusations. Okay, so that doesn't prove anything, I know, but you know, it is a little weird.
Now, that is funny. See, one can find jokes about rape funny (albeit not very often), while still finding rape itself horrible. I never get when people fail to see the distinction.
Why is this modded down, when obviously sarcastic? +1 insightful.
Why do peoply get angry about women wearing burqas when that's really exactly what we seem to want. We want to be able to live in freedom but when someone is nearly raped she always asked for it.
if he did what she said she should have been on the phone to the cops not 10 minutes later, why wasn't she?
Well:
1. She lost her phone
2. The hotel's front desk didn't speak english and wouldn't connect her to the police
3. She did go to the police, but they weren't at all susceptible to her case
Have you even read TFA? She seems to be a reasonable, well thinking person. Not someone that shouts rape at the slightest glance in the wrong direction. She isn't the slightest bit misandric, talking just about this specific case in which a man (allegedly, before everyone gets all up-ins) tried to rape her.
I agree, this is what the cops are for, but since when are we on./ such big fans of the police?
Because you only need a little of a *specific* drug to be able to detect that drug. If you want to create some sort of sensor that detects *all* drugs in general, you need small quantities of *every* drug, to be able to discover similarities. This is impossible, probably, because 'drugs' is to broad a concept. Similarly, with child porn, you'd need only one sample of every instance of child porn. There's no use keeping 20 copies of the same image. But because the smallest amount of each instance is that instance itself, you need to keep 1 copy of as much instances as possible.
This is really common sense, so I actually don't even know why I'm explaining such a simple concept.
And besides that, you'd really need to calculate energy cost per rendered page. I might be able to make a browser that uses half the energy competing browsers use, but renders 2.5 times slower. But yeah, productivity loss is probably even more significant.
However, when my testers bitch about stutter in Java / Android No matter how badly I want Java or JavaScript to give me control of the damn garbage collector, so it doesn't run in the middle of the rendering loop or intense action sequence, I can't have it. I have to implement an object cache atop Java and pre-allocate everything, try my hardest not to give the GC a chance to run, and if I slip up once and let that fucker have control, it's game over, literally, when the enemy attacks and the game lags for half a second.
You could write your own garbage collector for the JVM, which gives you 100% control over when, where and how to GC.
Remember Americans, you might not like your two party system but are you ready for a system in which EVERYONE must be kept happy/miserable?
Yes, I think EVERYONE slightly miserable is the better alternative, opposed to a few people happy and the rest utterly miserable. The poldermodel (sorry for teh dutch) has its merits.
Exactly. When governments give themselves freedoms while taking the same freedoms away from their citizens, something is wrong. Unfortunately this seems to be de rigueur, lately.
the player is doing things he wouldn't be able to do in real life
Unable, or impossible. You see, while I might be able to shoot people in real life, I choose not to. A game like paintball solves this by making sure you can't actually hurt someone (provided bla bla). A computer simulation does the same.
Some of the solutions that you mention that work for FPSs on consoles would also work for realistic controls like this. If you're bad at something in real life (because you can't jump high enough, for example), then the game can solve this by having you jump a lot higher. Can't aim properly? Snap-to aim! You'd probably have to design your games specifically for this type of input device, so that you don't have to run for hours on end, but can reach everything by walking and teleports and segways and superman-like flight. Realistic input doesn't necessarily mean realistic games.
It needs to be precise
If anything, real life is really precise. The precisest!
True. This is exactly the same way I began, on a ZX-81. Times were different then, and just the fact that we had 'this strange device that connects to your TV' was motivation enough to explore. My dad helped a lot though, because he had hand-written sheets (stacks of them) with code for things like learning the tables of multiplication. So I could just type them in and change stuff, or begin anew with something simple like your program above. This is a different age though, and that coolness factor (of a ZX-81) is not easy to come by anymore. Lego Mindstorms would probably do the trick, but I'm currently unable to churn up the cash needed. My daughter loves to play with GCompris, so I'd thought a visual programming language would just fit in neatly.
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3..2..1... Phew! I might otherwise have replied even before you commented. That worked out well!
You're confused. Science has always been by consensus. It's the thruth that isn't (on which I have nothing to say).
I like how you cencored 'hole' from 'asshole' and how you mistyped 'smarter' (amongst other fuck-*ps) :)
A true clown database. Clown storage and clown computing is all the rage these days.
Speak for yourself.
I agree completely. But what if you're both drunk? Limits / restraints blur on both sides. As a guy you just have to be very careful, but not everyone is the same in this regard. Unfortunately.
His take is on his blog: http://blog.gont.com.ar/2013/06/lies-nuts-and-quest-for-attention.html. Offering no insights on what happened (he's entitled to that stance).
My take: He did go to her room. There was some sort of skirmish and both got wounded. The rest is unclear. BUT, if I were invited to someones room, and things started to get out of hand, with fighting and violence and whatnot in the air, I'd GET THE F OUT! Even if there's no attempted rape involved, you don't fight with a woman in her hotel room, even if it's just to avoid accusations. Okay, so that doesn't prove anything, I know, but you know, it is a little weird.
Now, that is funny. See, one can find jokes about rape funny (albeit not very often), while still finding rape itself horrible. I never get when people fail to see the distinction.
Why is this modded down, when obviously sarcastic? +1 insightful.
Why do peoply get angry about women wearing burqas when that's really exactly what we seem to want. We want to be able to live in freedom but when someone is nearly raped she always asked for it.
Well:
./ such big fans of the police?
1. She lost her phone
2. The hotel's front desk didn't speak english and wouldn't connect her to the police
3. She did go to the police, but they weren't at all susceptible to her case
Have you even read TFA? She seems to be a reasonable, well thinking person. Not someone that shouts rape at the slightest glance in the wrong direction. She isn't the slightest bit misandric, talking just about this specific case in which a man (allegedly, before everyone gets all up-ins) tried to rape her.
I agree, this is what the cops are for, but since when are we on
Because you only need a little of a *specific* drug to be able to detect that drug. If you want to create some sort of sensor that detects *all* drugs in general, you need small quantities of *every* drug, to be able to discover similarities. This is impossible, probably, because 'drugs' is to broad a concept.
Similarly, with child porn, you'd need only one sample of every instance of child porn. There's no use keeping 20 copies of the same image. But because the smallest amount of each instance is that instance itself, you need to keep 1 copy of as much instances as possible.
This is really common sense, so I actually don't even know why I'm explaining such a simple concept.
Ah, yes. Reading comprehension fail on my part. Thanks for pointing it out. Silly me.
Well, then stop complaining.
He never said he grew up behind the iron curtain.
And besides that, you'd really need to calculate energy cost per rendered page. I might be able to make a browser that uses half the energy competing browsers use, but renders 2.5 times slower. But yeah, productivity loss is probably even more significant.
You could write your own garbage collector for the JVM, which gives you 100% control over when, where and how to GC.
I predict flying slaves! http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-thought-wed-have-flying-slaves-by-now,27000/
Nerds are into wigs?
Yes, I think EVERYONE slightly miserable is the better alternative, opposed to a few people happy and the rest utterly miserable. The poldermodel (sorry for teh dutch) has its merits.
Exactly. When governments give themselves freedoms while taking the same freedoms away from their citizens, something is wrong. Unfortunately this seems to be de rigueur, lately.
That's the guy with the almost rubbed-of eyebrow, right? Yeah, we know he's lying...
Unable, or impossible. You see, while I might be able to shoot people in real life, I choose not to. A game like paintball solves this by making sure you can't actually hurt someone (provided bla bla). A computer simulation does the same.
Some of the solutions that you mention that work for FPSs on consoles would also work for realistic controls like this. If you're bad at something in real life (because you can't jump high enough, for example), then the game can solve this by having you jump a lot higher. Can't aim properly? Snap-to aim! You'd probably have to design your games specifically for this type of input device, so that you don't have to run for hours on end, but can reach everything by walking and teleports and segways and superman-like flight. Realistic input doesn't necessarily mean realistic games.
If anything, real life is really precise. The precisest!
Winter Sale? Just team up with a few friends and start playing Left4Dead!
True. This is exactly the same way I began, on a ZX-81. Times were different then, and just the fact that we had 'this strange device that connects to your TV' was motivation enough to explore. My dad helped a lot though, because he had hand-written sheets (stacks of them) with code for things like learning the tables of multiplication. So I could just type them in and change stuff, or begin anew with something simple like your program above.
This is a different age though, and that coolness factor (of a ZX-81) is not easy to come by anymore. Lego Mindstorms would probably do the trick, but I'm currently unable to churn up the cash needed.
My daughter loves to play with GCompris, so I'd thought a visual programming language would just fit in neatly.
Minibloq looks cool. I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks!