That's true. Knowledgeable customers often end up lying to the clueless helpdesk when trying to get past their stupid checklists and actually get the specific task done.
I think that, in general, any services that measure unhealthy {air/water/radiation/mold/building materials} are also in the business of selling expensive solutions to the problems they report.
Don't speak so confidently; you're no more certain of your facts than those claiming it IS DRM.
I suspect the bug itself has nothing to do with DRM, but that the consequences of the bug are numerous, including tripping some DRM checks (therefore preventing downloaded PSN games from playing). Regardless, I'm kind of glad this happened... shine more light on the issue.
I'm not completely sure Activision can do that without paying some sort of penalty. If you reach an agreement, and then the other party reverses itself, causing you expense even though you behaved at all time in good faith, you're generally due compensation.
It may be more complicated because this is a fan project, and hence was going to be free, and expense is hard to calculate... but in general, if you are left in a lurch because the other party reneges on an agreement that you BOTH reached and which YOU'VE been abiding by, you're in a pretty favorable legal position.
Waste resources? This would be a quick, inexpensive routine done right OR wrong. This isn't something you need to be smart, well-educated, and highly-paid to get right. Halfway-intelligent fresh-faced Kids writing games in Gamemaker shouldn't make this mistake. It wasn't an uneducated programmer; it was a dumb programmer. There's ways to get a real random distribution, and they're SIMPLER and EASIER to write.
It's not a huge deal, and not that critical of a mistake... but I'm looking at the code, and geez. Who writes like this? This looks like code from somebody that's studied their textbook enough to get through some sort of certification, but who doesn't really understand programming at all.
Well, why don't we drop the science part entirely and study god, or the great purple space goat? Time is not a "thing" you can study, just like "space" is not a thing you can study. Space is a place for the universe to exist. It's the distance between things - molecules, galaxies. Time is simply something for the universe to exist in.
You use too much hyperbole. You think studying "time" is the same as studying unicorns and god? We know time exists. It is one of the fundamental attributes of the universe, but you compare it to Santa Claus.
You're right in that studying 'time' is similar to studying 'space'. However, you seem to think studying 'space' is wasted effort as well. I disagree; I certainly HOPE there are people studying space as we speak. Ditto for entropy and other such ideas.
Of course if you're a particle physicist you can invent any theory you want, and invent mysterious new particles to explain away your ideas. However I see billions of dollars being poured into detecting (not actually "doing anything with") neutrinos and Higgs bosons and frankly not much of an ROI. Governments and academia gamble on it because they buy the thing about "what if you could cash in and get a head start on something that produces as much energy as the sun itself!" and say "yeah we don't want to be left out, count me in for $300 million!". But we're paying for all this. And so far projects like the LHC have consumed far more energy than they have produced. I remember hearing that sustainable fusion was "just around the corner in the next 20 years or so". Well that was over 20 years ago. You know Jesus is coming soon, too, right?
Kind of a strange tangent. If he was proposing a billion dollar project to study time, we'd have to debate the value, but I don't think he's doing that. Right now, I think the cost is mainly covered by the salary negotiation between a scientist and their academic institution.
Now someone wants to study time. OK, I would like to study distance, please. I only charge $2 million a year and I find that distance can best be studied at a bar by the beach. That way I can study the distance between myself and breasts, between breasts and breasts, between myself and the ocean, etc. It will be much more practical to humanity than time because at least I will benefit.
This is an irrelevant tangent as well. Since your statement could apply to ANY research, you either think ALL research is a waste, or you have self-contradictory ideas. I imagine it's the latter.
You're not very intellectually curious. Studying time doesn't mean your goal is to make a time machine, any more than studying gravity means you want to create an antigravity gun.
Why do you think time shouldn't be studied, when so many other fundamental attributes of our universe should be? It seems you think time possesses some magically unknowable characteristics. Defining it as distance over velocity is as simplistic as defining mass as density times volume, and thinking that explains anything.
I think that is part of the issue, but there's more problems:
Change is measured over time. An accelerating change means that more change is happening per time; that means that time is somehow independent of change.
Also... change happens go forward through time, going backward through time. If you see two atoms collide, the process works forward and backward... but time only seems to go forward. Why does time seem to only exist in one direction?
It seems to tie heavily into thermodynamics (and, hence, evolution). Individual particles behave almost independently of time, but large systems seem to statistically indicate a strong temporal directionality.
Time is an artificial construct of the Human mind that allows us to mark our pitiful existence in an uncaring universe.
Not far from the truth, but I'd say it is an "amazing creation of evolution" that allows us to "experience the unfurling glory of our life in a rich universe."
Testimony from the kids that their laptop cameras had been activated repeatedly over the last several years? That it was punishable to deactivate or cover them? That wasn't part of the original story.
Normally, when I come across stories like this, I figure that there are two sides to the story, that the school or business didn't really behave as ridiculously as the accuser is describing. There's usually a certain amount of sensationalism to such stories.
But in this case... the school really seems to be as stupid and as criminal as they first seemed, or MORE so. Every new piece of evidence is making it seem more and more like not only a screw-up, but that there should be some mass firings, if not jail time.
I don't think they really did. They just didn't do anything vastly different than the first game. Slight bump in graphics, tweaking mechanics a bit... disappointing, I suppose, if you are expecting massive improvements between games. Maybe more disappointing if multiplayer is your focus, instead of the story and campaign.
Sometimes I think the industry is to quick to rebuild a game from scratch for the sequel, when the players really would be happy with just more story, more levels, more characters. We didn't need the special effects in the Empire Strikes Back to be better than Star Wars; we just wanted to see what would happen next.
The procedure involved planting electrodes in the spine and using electrical pulses to modify pain signals passing along the nerves; the patient was conscious to help the surgeon find the best position for the electrodes. Dr Meloy said: "I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically. I asked her what was up and she said, 'You're going to have to teach my husband to do that'."
You see, the hotels are "pre-judging" people under 25, with no real basis for judgement.
No, they're pre-judging people under 25, with a vast and accurate accumulated basis for judgment. That's why the issue is more complicated. Kids aged 18-24 are generally more annoying, obnoxious, and cause more trouble than people over 25.
The trouble is that it's applying a general perception to an individual person, which is troubling even if it's statistically valid. A good 21 year old might be far better behaved than an immature 30 year old. A more relevant analogy might be racially profiling terrorists at airports. Arabic males are far more likely to be a threat, but most Arabic males aren't a threat. How does one treat Arabic males? It's not completely obvious.
(Just replace "Arabic Male" with "young people" and "terrorism" with "goddamn rap music and empty beer cans.")
I have one Mad Catz controller, and I love it... although it does seem a bit flimsy, and probably won't last much longer. I ran out one day because I needed another PS2 controller for a multiplayer game, and so I bought the cheapest one I could find. I think I paid $8 for it, new. It was styled to look and feel like a 360 controller, but with PS2 button layout, and felt MUCH better than the pretty terrible standard PS2 dualshock.
I think what I admire most about you is that you manage to create the impression that you're saying something useful, while writing vague, fluffy nothingness.
My experience with Chinese knockoff products is that they're half the quality, more versatile, and ten percent the price. Often a better overall deal than the original.
I occasionally post a negative comment about Apple. Worse, I sometimes post a politically conservative comment. And, yet, my Karma has been excellent for years.
It may have something to do with (1) sometimes posting worthwhile comments and (2) not being a vulgar idiot.
Please consider doing either or both in the future.
I'd probably do nothing because I always assume my coworkers are honest and if he/she put it into the customer's cart, it was probably already paid. But of course walmart thinks we should rat out our coworkers/customers and create an atmosphere of suspicion, rather than a friendly environment.
Interesting. My choice would be to confront the employee, and second to call a manager. I guess we have different psychological profiles.
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Fortunately, indies are the only gaming worth doing on the PC. That and emulation.
That's true. Knowledgeable customers often end up lying to the clueless helpdesk when trying to get past their stupid checklists and actually get the specific task done.
It cuts both ways.
I think that, in general, any services that measure unhealthy {air/water/radiation/mold/building materials} are also in the business of selling expensive solutions to the problems they report.
Don't speak so confidently; you're no more certain of your facts than those claiming it IS DRM.
I suspect the bug itself has nothing to do with DRM, but that the consequences of the bug are numerous, including tripping some DRM checks (therefore preventing downloaded PSN games from playing). Regardless, I'm kind of glad this happened... shine more light on the issue.
I'm not completely sure Activision can do that without paying some sort of penalty. If you reach an agreement, and then the other party reverses itself, causing you expense even though you behaved at all time in good faith, you're generally due compensation.
It may be more complicated because this is a fan project, and hence was going to be free, and expense is hard to calculate... but in general, if you are left in a lurch because the other party reneges on an agreement that you BOTH reached and which YOU'VE been abiding by, you're in a pretty favorable legal position.
Waste resources? This would be a quick, inexpensive routine done right OR wrong. This isn't something you need to be smart, well-educated, and highly-paid to get right. Halfway-intelligent fresh-faced Kids writing games in Gamemaker shouldn't make this mistake. It wasn't an uneducated programmer; it was a dumb programmer. There's ways to get a real random distribution, and they're SIMPLER and EASIER to write.
It's not a huge deal, and not that critical of a mistake... but I'm looking at the code, and geez. Who writes like this? This looks like code from somebody that's studied their textbook enough to get through some sort of certification, but who doesn't really understand programming at all.
Well, why don't we drop the science part entirely and study god, or the great purple space goat? Time is not a "thing" you can study, just like "space" is not a thing you can study. Space is a place for the universe to exist. It's the distance between things - molecules, galaxies. Time is simply something for the universe to exist in.
You use too much hyperbole. You think studying "time" is the same as studying unicorns and god? We know time exists. It is one of the fundamental attributes of the universe, but you compare it to Santa Claus.
You're right in that studying 'time' is similar to studying 'space'. However, you seem to think studying 'space' is wasted effort as well. I disagree; I certainly HOPE there are people studying space as we speak. Ditto for entropy and other such ideas.
Of course if you're a particle physicist you can invent any theory you want, and invent mysterious new particles to explain away your ideas. However I see billions of dollars being poured into detecting (not actually "doing anything with") neutrinos and Higgs bosons and frankly not much of an ROI. Governments and academia gamble on it because they buy the thing about "what if you could cash in and get a head start on something that produces as much energy as the sun itself!" and say "yeah we don't want to be left out, count me in for $300 million!". But we're paying for all this. And so far projects like the LHC have consumed far more energy than they have produced. I remember hearing that sustainable fusion was "just around the corner in the next 20 years or so". Well that was over 20 years ago. You know Jesus is coming soon, too, right?
Kind of a strange tangent. If he was proposing a billion dollar project to study time, we'd have to debate the value, but I don't think he's doing that. Right now, I think the cost is mainly covered by the salary negotiation between a scientist and their academic institution.
Now someone wants to study time. OK, I would like to study distance, please. I only charge $2 million a year and I find that distance can best be studied at a bar by the beach. That way I can study the distance between myself and breasts, between breasts and breasts, between myself and the ocean, etc. It will be much more practical to humanity than time because at least I will benefit.
This is an irrelevant tangent as well. Since your statement could apply to ANY research, you either think ALL research is a waste, or you have self-contradictory ideas. I imagine it's the latter.
You're not very intellectually curious. Studying time doesn't mean your goal is to make a time machine, any more than studying gravity means you want to create an antigravity gun.
Why do you think time shouldn't be studied, when so many other fundamental attributes of our universe should be? It seems you think time possesses some magically unknowable characteristics. Defining it as distance over velocity is as simplistic as defining mass as density times volume, and thinking that explains anything.
I think that is part of the issue, but there's more problems:
Change is measured over time. An accelerating change means that more change is happening per time; that means that time is somehow independent of change.
Also... change happens go forward through time, going backward through time. If you see two atoms collide, the process works forward and backward... but time only seems to go forward. Why does time seem to only exist in one direction?
It seems to tie heavily into thermodynamics (and, hence, evolution). Individual particles behave almost independently of time, but large systems seem to statistically indicate a strong temporal directionality.
Time is an artificial construct of the Human mind that allows us to mark our pitiful existence in an uncaring universe.
Not far from the truth, but I'd say it is an "amazing creation of evolution" that allows us to "experience the unfurling glory of our life in a rich universe."
In a way you can "remember" future, it's called deja vu. The few times I've had it, everything matched perfectly what I already knew.
You think the simplest explanation for the feeling of deja vu is some sort of psychic echoes from future events?
Hmm... I feel like I've had this conversation before... in high school...
Testimony from the kids that their laptop cameras had been activated repeatedly over the last several years? That it was punishable to deactivate or cover them? That wasn't part of the original story.
Normally, when I come across stories like this, I figure that there are two sides to the story, that the school or business didn't really behave as ridiculously as the accuser is describing. There's usually a certain amount of sensationalism to such stories.
But in this case... the school really seems to be as stupid and as criminal as they first seemed, or MORE so. Every new piece of evidence is making it seem more and more like not only a screw-up, but that there should be some mass firings, if not jail time.
I don't think they really did. They just didn't do anything vastly different than the first game. Slight bump in graphics, tweaking mechanics a bit... disappointing, I suppose, if you are expecting massive improvements between games. Maybe more disappointing if multiplayer is your focus, instead of the story and campaign.
Sometimes I think the industry is to quick to rebuild a game from scratch for the sequel, when the players really would be happy with just more story, more levels, more characters. We didn't need the special effects in the Empire Strikes Back to be better than Star Wars; we just wanted to see what would happen next.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1321746/A-female-orgasm-at-the-touch-of-a-button.html
The procedure involved planting electrodes in the spine and using electrical pulses to modify pain signals passing along the nerves; the patient was conscious to help the surgeon find the best position for the electrodes. Dr Meloy said: "I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically. I asked her what was up and she said, 'You're going to have to teach my husband to do that'."
You see, the hotels are "pre-judging" people under 25, with no real basis for judgement.
No, they're pre-judging people under 25, with a vast and accurate accumulated basis for judgment. That's why the issue is more complicated. Kids aged 18-24 are generally more annoying, obnoxious, and cause more trouble than people over 25.
The trouble is that it's applying a general perception to an individual person, which is troubling even if it's statistically valid. A good 21 year old might be far better behaved than an immature 30 year old. A more relevant analogy might be racially profiling terrorists at airports. Arabic males are far more likely to be a threat, but most Arabic males aren't a threat. How does one treat Arabic males? It's not completely obvious.
(Just replace "Arabic Male" with "young people" and "terrorism" with "goddamn rap music and empty beer cans.")
"This code is free to redistribute, so long as no mention of the author is made. Leaving the credits attached will revoke the license."
Are you actually looking for an answer?
It's an abbreviated phrase. People write "This" instead of "This is true."
English has many shortened terms like that. Now you don't need to be bothered in the future when you run across this. Glad to help. Bye.*
*"Bye" is an abbreviation of "Goodbye", which is a corrupted form of "God be with ye."
I have one Mad Catz controller, and I love it... although it does seem a bit flimsy, and probably won't last much longer. I ran out one day because I needed another PS2 controller for a multiplayer game, and so I bought the cheapest one I could find. I think I paid $8 for it, new. It was styled to look and feel like a 360 controller, but with PS2 button layout, and felt MUCH better than the pretty terrible standard PS2 dualshock.
You're not supposed to turn the iPhone on if the ambient temperature is over 95 F? That seems laughably restrictive.
I think what I admire most about you is that you manage to create the impression that you're saying something useful, while writing vague, fluffy nothingness.
You couldn't understand what he wrote?
My experience with Chinese knockoff products is that they're half the quality, more versatile, and ten percent the price. Often a better overall deal than the original.
The socialists have labeled you troll for being pro-freedom.
I occasionally post a negative comment about Apple. Worse, I sometimes post a politically conservative comment. And, yet, my Karma has been excellent for years.
It may have something to do with (1) sometimes posting worthwhile comments and (2) not being a vulgar idiot.
Please consider doing either or both in the future.
I'd probably do nothing because I always assume my coworkers are honest and if he/she put it into the customer's cart, it was probably already paid. But of course walmart thinks we should rat out our coworkers/customers and create an atmosphere of suspicion, rather than a friendly environment.
Interesting. My choice would be to confront the employee, and second to call a manager. I guess we have different psychological profiles.