Check out Directory Opus. Download the trial, spend time configuring and customizing it (a weekend might be enough, if you don't have family ^^), and see if you can resist buying it. Consider it a challenge:)
(this ad was brought to you by my love for DO going back to Amiga days; it ruled back then and still does)
There's making a bad multiplayer (not so shameful, making a good one isn't trivial), and there is trusting the client with data, much less data such as health points. That, just like what Rockstar seems to be doing, is just fan-fucking-tastically stupid... there's shareware games that wouldn't be caught doing that. Just lol.
Invoking Nineteen Eighty-Four should be counted alongside Godwinning.
Sure! Observe: As an online discussion goes on, the probability of a comparison with Nineteen-Eightyfour approaches one.
Which has fuck all to do with the "making a comparison with Nazis or Nineteen-Eightyfour is a logical fallacy and means loosing the argument" wannabe-law nameless people seem to be dreaming up again and again, just because they saw someone else do it, and thereby painting Godwin as a dumb fuck he probably isn't, through no fault of his own. People just smugly say "Godwin's law", as if that means anything -- instead of, oh I don't know, reading the thing, which would clear it up real quick.
And no, this doesn't take away from your other points, they stand on their own. Though I would say that by now, there is a telescreen in every home. Just because it doesn't watch you making breakfast, too, instead of just monitoring the stuff that you need to learn, communicate and organize, doesn't make it anything else.
I also learned a lot of stuff because I "had to" (that is, it was a side-effect of getting to what I actually wanted)... but other things, I learned because I was curious and enjoyed creatively misusing things, and many games today are very open to modding, surely more so than in the past. So not everything got worse IMHO. I would have had such a ball with Javascript or LUA... instead of buying a fucking C compiler for the Amiga, for a lot of money (certainly for a kid), and then realizing I'm totally out of my depths, without anyone to ask for help because a.) nobody speaks English and b.) no internet... I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, maybe more so, but there is also a lot I don't miss:)
Stealing passwords? Really? Sounds like an excuse someone would come up with to justify what they would do anyway.
Especially when those who you're stealing from are insured against it, and the actual damage is done to people who have done zero to you. I'm not against revenge, but there's revenge and there's being silly. And as always, the best revenge is not having time for it because you're too busy enjoying the new opportunities that opened up for you. It sure is horrible to be mistreated and powerless; but at the same time, being able to "make them feel sorry", and not doing it, is great. So strive for that always, it sure beats being petty.
In case you're unaware, the way this tracking works is by the tracking party embedding an image on a third party page (for Google, this is usually adwords, for Facebook, it's the like buttons). When a user hits that image, they send a request to the tracking party's server to fetch the image. Along with that request, it sends the cookies for that domain. The tracking party can then determine that the user with that cookie, visited third-party page X.
And here's how it works via ETag (and referrer info; which, even though it's voluntary, is a fact of life for regular users, and even required for some sites to work properly)
The first time the resource is requested, there's obviously no ETag. So you simply generate a unique ID, encode that into an ETag which you send back. You write the hit ("user [FRESHLY GENERATED ID] browsed [REFERRER]"), and wait. The next time the user requests that same resource, *if* their browser cache isn't cleared (I know that's a big if, but who cares? Spammers, viruses, marketers go for the weak links; and if that ends the discussion for you, you're just not part of it.), the browser will send that ETag (along with the referrer hopefully). Of course you don't implement 304 not modified, but instead re-encode the ID, so you get a new ETag with the same info in it, and send that back with the response. Then you merrily take not that ID #23189428931 visited again, this time coming from page X.
Sure, it's brittle, but so are cookies, and ETags plus other things like browser fingerprints*, can bridge the gap for each other (say, you clear cookies, but not the cache, or the other way around).
* https://panopticlick.eff.org/ ---> mine is unique:/ Be honest, how about yours, not changing any settings before doing the test?
### This post was intended to educate people, not to give poopy asshats ideas. "If you're a poopy asshat, kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks ###
Based on the fallacy that cookies are required to track people (and I sure hope the legislation you mentioned includes that, and is not just a "cookie ban" as you call it). Ever heard of an ETag, or browser fingerprints? Does "IP address" ring a bell at all? It's fucking trivial to track people without cookies.
Uhm yeah, and? You and the mods seem to be all excited that this is some new insight? Almost as if it's not a clinical test made on animals, huh.
The point is, people are also weak and needy and selfish and shortsighted, and medicine ultimately cares who pays, not so much about what is sensible. Animals never pay. The end.. at which all die anyway, some with a better conscience, some with none.
Also, red eyes would be a positive result. The chance of permanent eye damage is why these tests exist.
Oh, but it's not medication!!!eleven
PETA and it's kin are free to volunteer as replacement for these animals.
Awww, isn't that most generous of you. It leaves a kind of dumb feeling seeing how your post contains nothing, but at least it's a generous kind of stupid.
"You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. It is a subject which makes me sick with horror, so I will not say another word about it, else I shall not sleep to-night."
You mean the risk of getting red eyes because I'm too fucking stupid to close my eyes while washing my hair? That sort of risk? Tell you what, even a million humans being inconvienced like that doesn't justify trapping and killing a single animal for it.
I'm not saying everybody is just testing random stuff on animals randomly, I just strongly disagree with medicine being some kind of holy thing, and not *ever* fucking random, or based on the greed and weaknesses of humans. Especially having worked in a hospital for a bit: what you seem to believe about the status and treatment of animals, isn't even true for humans.
"People have been genetically modifying crops for ten thousand years."
Yeah. And people have also been "modifying the lifespan of money grubbers and the status of their property" for longer than that. Your point? Oother than not being aware in how many ways word games can be played?
Banning genetic research makes about as much sense as banning motorcycle repair, because the motorcycles might escape and survive in the wild.
And that analogy isn't even one. WTF did my eyes just see? It's not an argument, so what is it?
It works great for websites though: make all dimensions (font-sizes, borders widths, padding etc.) relative to the font-size, then scale the font size of the document by using media queries triggered by screen widths -- use.svg for icons, done! The higher your resolution is, the nicer it looks.
So why can't GUI toolkits have units that are relative to viewport and window size? Not saying they don't have those "somewhere in there", but they obviously aren't used if they exist. So why can't they "just" allow user configuration of what a "legacy pixel" is, and *force* legacy apps to use relative units instead? As another benefit, this would allow you to scale all apps, or each individually, depending on usage, monitor and eyesight quality.
Anyone remember stuff like "Magic User Interface" on the Amiga, which made everything nice and pretty, in a super configurable way, by hooking into system calls for GUI widgets? It still had pixels but those were different times, the principle would be the same, and maybe even old windows apps could be retrofitted that way, even more so Qt or GTK. Just hook into everything before it draws.
I won't claim it would be trivial, but come on, you know you want this...
"Why should I care?" I hear you ask: well if the fool that had bad passwords discovered that way had access to some power or public resource and was further daft enough to use similar (it doesn't have to be the same) passwords for said resource/access, then a leak of unsalted passwords could very much affect you or people you care about even if you purge from your life anyone who ever dares to use a simple password.
Being able to just pour sugar into gasoline tanks would actually be a pretty sweet capability... yeah, you could even say that explosives are used mostly against armoured targets because the gasoline tanks can't be reached, and you can't get close enough to screw a lid on the barrel of the gun etc. If you could just stop stuff from moving and firing, why bomb to bits what you could keep for intelligence and spare parts?
Besides, if you take down the enemy network, you end up with soldiers you can see, who can't see you... *then* violence ensues, and something could never be considered hardly mere vandalism when it's designed to enhance combat.
Slashdot Mirror
Ohhh... another vampire afraid of garlic, trying to act all tough.
Who the fuck are you clown to tell anyone what is a non-story? Hahaha. The nerve.
Skyrim and Windows 7, in 128 MB? Must be the warez and text versions respectively, I say... :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI
Bill Gates, the inventor of punk rock, shaking hands with a goon while both smirk in agreement? Not possible.
De nada. Oh, and it's even prettier on the inside :)
Check out Directory Opus. Download the trial, spend time configuring and customizing it (a weekend might be enough, if you don't have family ^^), and see if you can resist buying it. Consider it a challenge :)
(this ad was brought to you by my love for DO going back to Amiga days; it ruled back then and still does)
There's making a bad multiplayer (not so shameful, making a good one isn't trivial), and there is trusting the client with data, much less data such as health points. That, just like what Rockstar seems to be doing, is just fan-fucking-tastically stupid... there's shareware games that wouldn't be caught doing that. Just lol.
Sure! Observe: As an online discussion goes on, the probability of a comparison with Nineteen-Eightyfour approaches one.
Which has fuck all to do with the "making a comparison with Nazis or Nineteen-Eightyfour is a logical fallacy and means loosing the argument" wannabe-law nameless people seem to be dreaming up again and again, just because they saw someone else do it, and thereby painting Godwin as a dumb fuck he probably isn't, through no fault of his own. People just smugly say "Godwin's law", as if that means anything -- instead of, oh I don't know, reading the thing, which would clear it up real quick.
And no, this doesn't take away from your other points, they stand on their own. Though I would say that by now, there is a telescreen in every home. Just because it doesn't watch you making breakfast, too, instead of just monitoring the stuff that you need to learn, communicate and organize, doesn't make it anything else.
Who includes a multiplayer mode that is so useless it is actually *worse* than not having one? That's the real question.
I also learned a lot of stuff because I "had to" (that is, it was a side-effect of getting to what I actually wanted)... but other things, I learned because I was curious and enjoyed creatively misusing things, and many games today are very open to modding, surely more so than in the past. So not everything got worse IMHO. I would have had such a ball with Javascript or LUA... instead of buying a fucking C compiler for the Amiga, for a lot of money (certainly for a kid), and then realizing I'm totally out of my depths, without anyone to ask for help because a.) nobody speaks English and b.) no internet... I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, maybe more so, but there is also a lot I don't miss :)
Yet you post anonymously.
Also, talented at what? At having a spine? At paying attention? What kind of monkey talent, exactly, are we talking about?
He represents all that is soulless and wrong! And you slept with him!
Stealing passwords? Really? Sounds like an excuse someone would come up with to justify what they would do anyway.
Especially when those who you're stealing from are insured against it, and the actual damage is done to people who have done zero to you. I'm not against revenge, but there's revenge and there's being silly. And as always, the best revenge is not having time for it because you're too busy enjoying the new opportunities that opened up for you. It sure is horrible to be mistreated and powerless; but at the same time, being able to "make them feel sorry", and not doing it, is great. So strive for that always, it sure beats being petty.
And here's how it works via ETag (and referrer info; which, even though it's voluntary, is a fact of life for regular users, and even required for some sites to work properly)
The first time the resource is requested, there's obviously no ETag. So you simply generate a unique ID, encode that into an ETag which you send back. You write the hit ("user [FRESHLY GENERATED ID] browsed [REFERRER]"), and wait. The next time the user requests that same resource, *if* their browser cache isn't cleared (I know that's a big if, but who cares? Spammers, viruses, marketers go for the weak links; and if that ends the discussion for you, you're just not part of it.), the browser will send that ETag (along with the referrer hopefully). Of course you don't implement 304 not modified, but instead re-encode the ID, so you get a new ETag with the same info in it, and send that back with the response. Then you merrily take not that ID #23189428931 visited again, this time coming from page X.
Sure, it's brittle, but so are cookies, and ETags plus other things like browser fingerprints*, can bridge the gap for each other (say, you clear cookies, but not the cache, or the other way around).
* https://panopticlick.eff.org/ ---> mine is unique :/ Be honest, how about yours, not changing any settings before doing the test?
### This post was intended to educate people, not to give poopy asshats ideas. "If you're a poopy asshat, kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks ###
Yeah yeah nice rant.
Based on the fallacy that cookies are required to track people (and I sure hope the legislation you mentioned includes that, and is not just a "cookie ban" as you call it). Ever heard of an ETag, or browser fingerprints? Does "IP address" ring a bell at all? It's fucking trivial to track people without cookies.
Uhm yeah, and? You and the mods seem to be all excited that this is some new insight? Almost as if it's not a clinical test made on animals, huh.
The point is, people are also weak and needy and selfish and shortsighted, and medicine ultimately cares who pays, not so much about what is sensible. Animals never pay. The end.. at which all die anyway, some with a better conscience, some with none.
Oh, but it's not medication!!!eleven
Awww, isn't that most generous of you. It leaves a kind of dumb feeling seeing how your post contains nothing, but at least it's a generous kind of stupid.
"You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. It is a subject which makes me sick with horror, so I will not say another word about it, else I shall not sleep to-night."
-- Charles Darwin
seen on hackernews:
http://www.whatwherewhy.me/blog/2012/06/11/the-male-gaze/
another mystery solved :)
You say that like it's a bad thing ^_^
Yeah yeah; your mother.
You mean the risk of getting red eyes because I'm too fucking stupid to close my eyes while washing my hair? That sort of risk? Tell you what, even a million humans being inconvienced like that doesn't justify trapping and killing a single animal for it.
I'm not saying everybody is just testing random stuff on animals randomly, I just strongly disagree with medicine being some kind of holy thing, and not *ever* fucking random, or based on the greed and weaknesses of humans. Especially having worked in a hospital for a bit: what you seem to believe about the status and treatment of animals, isn't even true for humans.
Yeah. And people have also been "modifying the lifespan of money grubbers and the status of their property" for longer than that. Your point? Oother than not being aware in how many ways word games can be played?
And that analogy isn't even one. WTF did my eyes just see? It's not an argument, so what is it?
"I totally could do that, I just don't wanna." .. ?
Sir, it seems you are confusing MorphOS and your own mother! I must protest.
It works great for websites though: make all dimensions (font-sizes, borders widths, padding etc.) relative to the font-size, then scale the font size of the document by using media queries triggered by screen widths -- use .svg for icons, done! The higher your resolution is, the nicer it looks.
So why can't GUI toolkits have units that are relative to viewport and window size? Not saying they don't have those "somewhere in there", but they obviously aren't used if they exist. So why can't they "just" allow user configuration of what a "legacy pixel" is, and *force* legacy apps to use relative units instead? As another benefit, this would allow you to scale all apps, or each individually, depending on usage, monitor and eyesight quality.
Anyone remember stuff like "Magic User Interface" on the Amiga, which made everything nice and pretty, in a super configurable way, by hooking into system calls for GUI widgets? It still had pixels but those were different times, the principle would be the same, and maybe even old windows apps could be retrofitted that way, even more so Qt or GTK. Just hook into everything before it draws.
I won't claim it would be trivial, but come on, you know you want this...
Quoted just for the sheer truth of it.
Being able to just pour sugar into gasoline tanks would actually be a pretty sweet capability... yeah, you could even say that explosives are used mostly against armoured targets because the gasoline tanks can't be reached, and you can't get close enough to screw a lid on the barrel of the gun etc. If you could just stop stuff from moving and firing, why bomb to bits what you could keep for intelligence and spare parts?
Besides, if you take down the enemy network, you end up with soldiers you can see, who can't see you... *then* violence ensues, and something could never be considered hardly mere vandalism when it's designed to enhance combat.