It's a respectable, legal, necessary, and even sometime helpful occupation. They aren't responsible for criminals that break the law with their product. I'd have no guilt if I was in his role.
"We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices."
That is the proper response. Good Job, Rebellion. I hope other developers follow your lead. I have a hunch there will be a lot of piracy of the game in Australia... but I guess it really won't be hurting their sales, will it? I wonder if they'll allow online play from Australia?
The point is that the overwhelming majority of people don't care enough to look. They just leave, and never come back. Unless Salon is streaming lesbians, nobody's going to go even minimal effort to get around a paywall.
Keep everything tied to a particular seed, and replicable; that way, you can create an infinite number of random worlds, but always return to one that was previously created. I use that in a space game to generate random sectors of the galaxy... the seed is the sector coordinates, which is used for generating the stars... the coordinate of the stars is the seed for generating the planets, planets are used for generating the cities, etc. That way I have every planet in the galaxy, reproducible at will, but don't have to store a bit of permanent data. (Idea is pretty much shamelessly stolen from Elite.)
For terrain... you can use these generation techniques for much more than height. I would suggest, for instance, that you create a similar grid for vegetation... maybe start it off with values based on attitude and proximity to water, and randomly tweak it a bit, then overlay it.
One feature that fractal generation WON'T get you is erosion, and things like river paths. If you want that, you'll have to do some post-processing work. I think you could trace potential river courses by just analyzing heights, maybe simulation of simple water flow.
Nah, the whole C&D thing was pretty much a fabrication on the part of the creators who had either lost interest in the project or were unable to finish it, because they wanted to be remembered in a positive way.
Not true. They finished the beta, and were at the 99% mark... completely playable, and were at the point of just final proofing and stripping out debugging code. If not for the C&D from S-E, it would have been out within the month. I suspect that it was the fault of S-E America; S-E Japan probably wouldn't have cared at all. An acquaintance I know spent time talking to S-E over the issue, but was never able to get anybody to say anything. I think the lawyers have the employees as scared as the modders.
Yes, it is a failed idea. You childish identification with the ego is unreal. Get the fuck over it.
The only way to have anything is to share it. What you try to keep to yourself is lost.
Pseudo-intellectual blathering. That you posted anonymously is the wisest thing about you.
The larger point is that the user cannot do this at all with Windows.
The windows installation I'm at has: "Start -> Programs -> Burn CDs & DVDs with Roxio". If I needed more help, I'd start the program, and press F1. Just like every program. I've never used it, don't even remember installing it... but it's there. Granted, I have no idea how I'd do it from the command line...
I've never actually met or talked to somebody that thought carbon offsets weren't a scam, except for those trying to sell them. I get your point about derailing the thread, but have to ask... do you actually think carbon offsets are legitimate?
How exactly does this follow? Their careers and livelihoods are only improved if they are right
In the long term. In the short term, wrong but loud can get you a lot of rewards... not necessarily money, but something even more seductive: Ego gratification.
Whether global climate change is happening or not, whether it's primarily man-cause or not, is irrelevant: There was a lot of non-science being done at a supposedly scientific institution. Not, I think, out of a desire to deceive... but out of punch-drunk eagerness and sudden, frenzied, self-importance. They may be RIGHT, but it doesn't mean that they don't deserve some severe reprimands.
Most disturbing are the people who agree with the institute's findings, and so find excuses to justify their poor behavior. That's politics, not science.
I don't believe you're correct. A straight rip of an ISO from a DVD will be encrypted and unplayable, and won't include the keys. You certainly can't recompress the video without decrypting it first. I think, most likely, whatever backup tool you used did the decryption automatically and invisibly.
But equilibrium for this sales model may be LESS profit for the publisher than equilibrium under the old model... in fact, there may not be an equilibrium point that even makes enough money to keep the game alive.
She provided a couple pages of proof, and is asking for help to get more. It's not conclusive, but it's evidence. She may be wrong; she probably is. At this point, though, she has more credibility than you.
Coding games in Flash basically IS coding in Javascript. The languages are nearly identical. Is it the proprietary plug-in nature of Flash that you don't like? I can see that it would be nice to have that functionality built into the browser, but that also seems like it might cause even MORE annoyances than we already get with Flash.
Read up about Korean belief in 'fan death'. It is absolutely insane what intelligent people may unquestioningly believe because of the culture they grew up in.
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common seasonal summer accidents or injuries, according to data they collected.[11] Also included among the five hazards were air conditioner explosions and sanitation issues, including food poisoning and opportunistic pathogens harbored in air conditioners. The KCPB actually published the following:
If bodies are exposed to electric fans or air conditioners for too long, it causes [the] bodies to lose water and [causes] hypothermia. If directly in contact with [air current from] a fan, this could lead to death from [an] increase of carbon dioxide saturation concentration [sic] and decrease of oxygen concentration. The risks are higher for the elderly and patients with respiratory problems. From 2003 [to] 2005, a total of 20 cases were reported through the CISS involving asphyxiations caused by leaving electric fans and air conditioners on while sleeping. To prevent asphyxiation, timers should be set, wind direction should be rotated and doors should be left open.
There's a tendency for scientists to concern themselves only with the traits of objects that they can reliably measure. It's understandable, but can cause problems, and inconsistent definitions of terms. If a gene contributes 10% to a behavior, and "parental involvement and love" contributes 90%... well, crap. They'll measure the gene.
One example is neurology. Neurologists can identify patterns in the brain that correspond to interest, arousal, anger, and so forth... but it's a mistake for them to define the emotion AS the pattern. They can't be confident in stating that they detect a pattern, so the person is feeling a certain way. That's like defining an object AS the shadow it casts, because that's all YOU can see.
Gays and anyone who visits Africa cannot give blood. This is far more serious.
Why? That's a sensible reaction to the fact that they're more likely to have communicable blood diseases (AIDs specifically, of course). At least, that's the reasoning... are you arguing that isn't true? Honestly, I haven't paid much attention... has the incidence of AIDs leveled out between the homosexual and heterosexual communities?
Ok, explain to us why you think this is NOT harmless.
I had a friend who had a really stupid sister. His sister had a young toddler, and she was discussing him with another really stupid woman. Her stupid friend asked what sign the kid was. She answered (I don't remember what sign). Her stupid friend clucked, and said "Oh... I'm sorry" and she stupidly nodded and said "yeah, I know, it's hard..."
Belief in magic personality-determining preordination is harmful. You think that kid wasn't harmed by his mother's regret over what she KNEW his personality was going to turn out to be?
People all over the world take age/maturity serious.
How come the amount of revolutions the earth gives around the sun can determine if you are eligible for drinking, having sex or driving?
Because age correlates pretty well with experience, which has at least a moderate correlation with judgment. While it's not exact, age-based discrimination is FAR more rational than astrological-based discrimination.
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It's a respectable, legal, necessary, and even sometime helpful occupation. They aren't responsible for criminals that break the law with their product. I'd have no guilt if I was in his role.
'Cause your cool American friends are playing it, and you're stuck in Australia...
I'm pretty sure Australians will be aware of the game. There isn't a TOTAL information firewall around Australia; they're not China, not yet.
(I think I wrote about five things in this post that are likely to result in troll mods... Ah, well, damn the torpedoes and click the submit button.)
"We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices."
That is the proper response. Good Job, Rebellion. I hope other developers follow your lead. I have a hunch there will be a lot of piracy of the game in Australia... but I guess it really won't be hurting their sales, will it? I wonder if they'll allow online play from Australia?
The point is that the overwhelming majority of people don't care enough to look. They just leave, and never come back. Unless Salon is streaming lesbians, nobody's going to go even minimal effort to get around a paywall.
A couple more notes:
Keep everything tied to a particular seed, and replicable; that way, you can create an infinite number of random worlds, but always return to one that was previously created. I use that in a space game to generate random sectors of the galaxy... the seed is the sector coordinates, which is used for generating the stars... the coordinate of the stars is the seed for generating the planets, planets are used for generating the cities, etc. That way I have every planet in the galaxy, reproducible at will, but don't have to store a bit of permanent data. (Idea is pretty much shamelessly stolen from Elite.)
For terrain... you can use these generation techniques for much more than height. I would suggest, for instance, that you create a similar grid for vegetation... maybe start it off with values based on attitude and proximity to water, and randomly tweak it a bit, then overlay it.
One feature that fractal generation WON'T get you is erosion, and things like river paths. If you want that, you'll have to do some post-processing work. I think you could trace potential river courses by just analyzing heights, maybe simulation of simple water flow.
Nah, the whole C&D thing was pretty much a fabrication on the part of the creators who had either lost interest in the project or were unable to finish it, because they wanted to be remembered in a positive way.
Not true. They finished the beta, and were at the 99% mark... completely playable, and were at the point of just final proofing and stripping out debugging code. If not for the C&D from S-E, it would have been out within the month. I suspect that it was the fault of S-E America; S-E Japan probably wouldn't have cared at all. An acquaintance I know spent time talking to S-E over the issue, but was never able to get anybody to say anything. I think the lawyers have the employees as scared as the modders.
Yes, it is a failed idea. You childish identification with the ego is unreal. Get the fuck over it.
The only way to have anything is to share it. What you try to keep to yourself is lost.
Pseudo-intellectual blathering. That you posted anonymously is the wisest thing about you.
The larger point is that the user cannot do this at all with Windows.
The windows installation I'm at has: "Start -> Programs -> Burn CDs & DVDs with Roxio". If I needed more help, I'd start the program, and press F1. Just like every program. I've never used it, don't even remember installing it... but it's there. Granted, I have no idea how I'd do it from the command line...
I've never actually met or talked to somebody that thought carbon offsets weren't a scam, except for those trying to sell them. I get your point about derailing the thread, but have to ask... do you actually think carbon offsets are legitimate?
Propaganda at its finest.
Propaganda... like highly selective quoting?
How exactly does this follow? Their careers and livelihoods are only improved if they are right
In the long term. In the short term, wrong but loud can get you a lot of rewards... not necessarily money, but something even more seductive: Ego gratification.
Whether global climate change is happening or not, whether it's primarily man-cause or not, is irrelevant: There was a lot of non-science being done at a supposedly scientific institution. Not, I think, out of a desire to deceive... but out of punch-drunk eagerness and sudden, frenzied, self-importance. They may be RIGHT, but it doesn't mean that they don't deserve some severe reprimands.
Most disturbing are the people who agree with the institute's findings, and so find excuses to justify their poor behavior. That's politics, not science.
You calling them "denialists" does as much to hurt reasonable debate as anything they do.
I don't believe you're correct. A straight rip of an ISO from a DVD will be encrypted and unplayable, and won't include the keys. You certainly can't recompress the video without decrypting it first. I think, most likely, whatever backup tool you used did the decryption automatically and invisibly.
But equilibrium for this sales model may be LESS profit for the publisher than equilibrium under the old model... in fact, there may not be an equilibrium point that even makes enough money to keep the game alive.
Start a movement. Get everybody to always gang up on the guy with expensive equipment. Their blood is worth more on the end of your bayonet....
I call bullshit on you.
She provided a couple pages of proof, and is asking for help to get more. It's not conclusive, but it's evidence. She may be wrong; she probably is. At this point, though, she has more credibility than you.
So the company sticks with XP for as long as humanly possible. That does seem to be what's happening...
Coding games in Flash basically IS coding in Javascript. The languages are nearly identical. Is it the proprietary plug-in nature of Flash that you don't like? I can see that it would be nice to have that functionality built into the browser, but that also seems like it might cause even MORE annoyances than we already get with Flash.
I am suspicious. I don't think your error was an error at all.
Wow, you just exude Tom Cruise level craziness.
Read up about Korean belief in 'fan death'. It is absolutely insane what intelligent people may unquestioningly believe because of the culture they grew up in.
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common seasonal summer accidents or injuries, according to data they collected.[11] Also included among the five hazards were air conditioner explosions and sanitation issues, including food poisoning and opportunistic pathogens harbored in air conditioners. The KCPB actually published the following:
If bodies are exposed to electric fans or air conditioners for too long, it causes [the] bodies to lose water and [causes] hypothermia. If directly in contact with [air current from] a fan, this could lead to death from [an] increase of carbon dioxide saturation concentration [sic] and decrease of oxygen concentration. The risks are higher for the elderly and patients with respiratory problems. From 2003 [to] 2005, a total of 20 cases were reported through the CISS involving asphyxiations caused by leaving electric fans and air conditioners on while sleeping. To prevent asphyxiation, timers should be set, wind direction should be rotated and doors should be left open.
There's a tendency for scientists to concern themselves only with the traits of objects that they can reliably measure. It's understandable, but can cause problems, and inconsistent definitions of terms. If a gene contributes 10% to a behavior, and "parental involvement and love" contributes 90%... well, crap. They'll measure the gene.
One example is neurology. Neurologists can identify patterns in the brain that correspond to interest, arousal, anger, and so forth... but it's a mistake for them to define the emotion AS the pattern. They can't be confident in stating that they detect a pattern, so the person is feeling a certain way. That's like defining an object AS the shadow it casts, because that's all YOU can see.
Gays and anyone who visits Africa cannot give blood. This is far more serious.
Why? That's a sensible reaction to the fact that they're more likely to have communicable blood diseases (AIDs specifically, of course). At least, that's the reasoning... are you arguing that isn't true? Honestly, I haven't paid much attention... has the incidence of AIDs leveled out between the homosexual and heterosexual communities?
Ok, explain to us why you think this is NOT harmless.
I had a friend who had a really stupid sister. His sister had a young toddler, and she was discussing him with another really stupid woman. Her stupid friend asked what sign the kid was. She answered (I don't remember what sign). Her stupid friend clucked, and said "Oh... I'm sorry" and she stupidly nodded and said "yeah, I know, it's hard..."
Belief in magic personality-determining preordination is harmful. You think that kid wasn't harmed by his mother's regret over what she KNEW his personality was going to turn out to be?
People all over the world take age/maturity serious.
How come the amount of revolutions the earth gives around the sun can determine if you are eligible for drinking, having sex or driving?
Because age correlates pretty well with experience, which has at least a moderate correlation with judgment. While it's not exact, age-based discrimination is FAR more rational than astrological-based discrimination.
I'm a Libra, and Libras don't believe in astrology.