Here are a few rules to live by, to keep the cheaters from bothering you:
1) It's a game. The point of playing a game is to have fun. If you're not having fun, stop playing.
2) You're not the greatest player in the world. Someone better will always come along. If your goal is to be the best, stop playing.
3) If you're playing a game against a better player(see 2), and it's frustrating you, stop playing against them, play against someone else. Games are supposed to be fun (see 1).
4) There will always be cheaters. Combine a love of games with a love of cracking systems, and you have a cheater. It's a mentality that will always be around in computer games. If you want an ideal world without cheaters, stop playing.
5) Playing against someone beating you by cheating is similar to playing against someone better than you. If you're not having fun, stop playing. (See 2)
6) Multiplayer games are all about trust, whether it's Monopoly or Poker or Quake. If you don't trust the people you're playing against, stop playing. If you want to make sure everyone is playing by the same rules, only play against trusted friends.
7) Alternatively, forget the real game, play the cheating metagame. Try to outcheat the other cheaters. Again, all the other rules apply. You're not the greatest cheater in the world, either. (see 2) If you're not having fun cheating, stop playing.
8) If you're not having any fun playing to win, play to lose. Try to die more than the other guy, try to get the lowest score, be creative. Do your best to be the worst. Now the cheaters are helping you. If you're not having fun playing to lose, stop playing.
9) If you're playing computer games for higher stakes than "Loser buys the pizza," play in a controlled environment, where everyone has identical systems configured and installed by a trustworthy party. If you can't afford to buy the pizza, don't play.
10) At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Being the greatest player in the universe (which is impossible; see 2) won't do you any good whatsoever in the real world. It won't pay the rent, it won't get you a girlfriend, it won't put food on your table, except maybe a free pizza. (see 9)
Relax, it's just a game. (see 1) Repeat as needed.
I am a comic book geek. I've been reading XMen for years.
I thought it was a fun movie. Yes, there were a lot of differences between the comics and the movie, but it didn't bug me too much.
You yourself hinted on the way to watch the movie when you pointed to the Age of Apocalypse as a good storyline. One of the central ideas that is used over and over again in comics, particularly XMen, is the idea of multiple timelines: tweak the universe a little, and familiar characters and situations come out differently. XMen the movie is just another timeline, a What If on the big screen. (That big bald guy sitting behind you was the Watcher) Dig into your archives and re-read AoA or Days of Future Past, or go down to your comic shop and pick up an issue of Mutant X or Children of the Atom and remember that not all stories are set in the same continuity.
(Note that this method doesn't always make a comic movie enjoyable; it just makes the continuity discrepencies go away)
I was under the impression that such labeling was used because they didn't want to put the required nutrition information on every single stick of gum, or maybe couldn't fit it onto the individual packaging. Sort of an behind-covering move by the manufacturer of the product.
You can go to a candy store where there's a big bin of gummy bears and scoop them into a plastic bag and pay by the pound. Even if you squint, I don't think you'll be able to find a label on each gummy bear. I believe I've seen also seen bins with those "bite-size" miniature candy bars.
To get back on topic, it would still be in MS's best interest to offer a volume discount to OEMs. Besides the reduction in packaging costs, it would encourage the OEM to buy more copies if they come at a lower price. If the OEM then decides to sell those copies at a loss, why should MS worry?
Since C++ has a bunch of stuff that C doesn't have, I'd interpret "hybrid of C and C++" to mean "between C and C++," which could describe Visual C++, since it's still not yet ANSI compliant.
This Supreme Court should, I think, agree with Jackson, but if this lasts into a (shudder) "dubyah" term, I think the Silver Spoon Boy will try his hardest to politicize the case and influence it in MS's favor.
Whatever happened to separation of Executive and Judicial brances??
Well, since one of the parties in this case is the Dept of Justice, the new head of the Executive branch could simply order his Attorney General to settle the case, in terms that favor Microsoft.
Sure eBay pages have advertising, you just don't recognize it. It's not third-party ads; it's internal. Go browsing through eBay and every category will have some "Featured Auctions." What makes these auctions featured? The sellers pay extra to have them listed, and also to have little icons listed with the items. If you go through someone else's search engine, you'll miss eBay's biased search results.
...is if that's the size of the bow tie, how big is the dinner jacket to go with it?
Even just the cummerbund would be the size of Jupiter!
I can see it now. The Great Red Spot will be revealed to be a wine stain.
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>from the never-loose-it-again dept.
ARRRRGH!
From the pet peeve department:
"Loose" rhymes with "goose" and "noose" and means the opposite of "tight".
That's when "loose" is an adjective. When used as a transitive verb, as it is in "Never loose it again," it can mean to detach or release. Since the article mentioned handcuffing the laptop to your wrist, it could mean "attach yourself to your laptop and never unfasten it again" either physically with a chain, or metaphorically with a LoJack transmitter.
I looked around on their web page, and couldn't see how it is possible for a student to anonymously report someone, and still receive WAVE merchandise or cash as an incentive? If WAVE knows where to send the prize it's not very anonymous, is it?
Ok, so maybe they mean "anonymous" in that WAVE won't tell anyone who tipped them off. Then why are they giving away prizes with the WAVE logo on them? Suppose some scrawny kid reports a bully to WAVE, and WAVE sends him a T-shirt. Wouldn't wearing the shirt serve to point out to the bully who it was that turned him in? What's the point in giving out prizes that you'd have to hide?
I don't get a newspaper every day, or even every week. When I do buy a paper, it's usually a Sunday.
Sometimes I get one because I want to know what's on sale at the local retailers.
I have a friend who gets a paper just for the coupons.
But most of the time, I'm getting it just for the paper itself. It's a relatively inexpensive dropcloth, and a recylclable packing material. And how else could you teach a little kid about paper mache?
If I recall correctly, that's what SNL did in their "Mac PostIt" parody ad. It was also striped in the other direction, but they don't stripe the logo anymore so you can't use that.
I'd suggest getting rid of the bite, implying that your version is in some way more complete than Apple's.
Actually, that is exactly what it is - accurate. In some form or another, everything *human* is already set into EXACTLY that- categories. Person of colour X is part of religion Y, or person Y doesn't eat meat (vegetarian) whereas person Z doesn't eat one type of meat but will eat another type, etc..etc. What else would you call things like dietary or religious preferences if not categories of some form?
However, into which single category do you put a black Catholic vegetarian?
The problem is not with the categorization, but with the attempt to refer to the categories as "continents," which implies that they are separate and isolated. You can only be on one continent at once, unless you're straddling a border. The internet as it currently stands has far more border-straddlers than a continental model can handle. Where would you put a religious website (GodNet) that sees its mission as presenting information to the general public about religious issues (InfoNet), that also sells bibles and bumper stickers (BuyNet)?
They outnumbered the "geeks" by a lot and did their best to make the geeks feel alienated.
At the end of the movie "Revenge of the Nerds," there's a scene where the head nerd gives a speech (which I wish I could accurately quote here) asking everyone in the stands at a pep rally to stand up if they were ever picked on for being different or ever felt like an outsider or ever had the "cool" guys look down on them or were ever insecure, and by the end of his speech most of his audience was standing, admitting they they, too were "nerds." While this is a nice sentiment, it hides the fact that there are gray shades between the "cool" group and the "nerds."
We might like to think that it's us (geeks) against them (popular bunch) but most people fall somewhere in between.
When I was in high school, the "popular" bunch was really fairly small, but were so active they seemed like a much more important group. I could go dig out my yearbook and I'm fairly sure the same 12 or so kids would be on every page. I'd be willing to guess that it's a standard distribution: there's a few really cool kids, and a few really geeky kids, and a whole lot of average kids who think the cool kids are cool and the geeky kids are geeky, but know they themselves are neither.
The only cool part about it is that it makes the disk change colors. I wonder if they could make a coating that would change, but leave the disk usable, kind of like a freshness seal.
I think the real problem is that subtle emotional content is difficult to communicate electronically. The reaction to this is to use stronger words than necessary, in order to give the message some personality. So a post that supports someone's point will say "You rule, dude! You should be in charge," instead of something bland like "I agree with your point." Similarly, instead of saying "I think you are wrong, here's why:" becomes "You clueless loser! Don't you know:" and comes across as a flame.
Just like we have to use:-) to mean "I'm joking," the convention is to use "Die, you moron!" to mean "I disagree."
The UDP - Refusing to go to a restraunt that you don't like.
A DOS attack - Throwing a molotov cocktail in the window of a restraunt you don't like.
No, a DOS attack is less destructive than disruptive. It's more like a mass of people parking their cars in the restaurant's parking lot, and eating somewhere else. Or maybe more like sitting at all their tables but refusing to order anything.
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Here are a few rules to live by, to keep the cheaters from bothering you:
1) It's a game. The point of playing a game is to have fun. If you're not having fun, stop playing.
2) You're not the greatest player in the world. Someone better will always come along. If your goal is to be the best, stop playing.
3) If you're playing a game against a better player(see 2), and it's frustrating you, stop playing against them, play against someone else. Games are supposed to be fun (see 1).
4) There will always be cheaters. Combine a love of games with a love of cracking systems, and you have a cheater. It's a mentality that will always be around in computer games. If you want an ideal world without cheaters, stop playing.
5) Playing against someone beating you by cheating is similar to playing against someone better than you. If you're not having fun, stop playing. (See 2)
6) Multiplayer games are all about trust, whether it's Monopoly or Poker or Quake. If you don't trust the people you're playing against, stop playing. If you want to make sure everyone is playing by the same rules, only play against trusted friends.
7) Alternatively, forget the real game, play the cheating metagame. Try to outcheat the other cheaters. Again, all the other rules apply. You're not the greatest cheater in the world, either. (see 2) If you're not having fun cheating, stop playing.
8) If you're not having any fun playing to win, play to lose. Try to die more than the other guy, try to get the lowest score, be creative. Do your best to be the worst. Now the cheaters are helping you. If you're not having fun playing to lose, stop playing.
9) If you're playing computer games for higher stakes than "Loser buys the pizza," play in a controlled environment, where everyone has identical systems configured and installed by a trustworthy party. If you can't afford to buy the pizza, don't play.
10) At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. Being the greatest player in the universe (which is impossible; see 2) won't do you any good whatsoever in the real world. It won't pay the rent, it won't get you a girlfriend, it won't put food on your table, except maybe a free pizza. (see 9)
Relax, it's just a game. (see 1) Repeat as needed.
I am a comic book geek. I've been reading XMen for years.
I thought it was a fun movie. Yes, there were a lot of differences between the comics and the movie, but it didn't bug me too much.
You yourself hinted on the way to watch the movie when you pointed to the Age of Apocalypse as a good storyline. One of the central ideas that is used over and over again in comics, particularly XMen, is the idea of multiple timelines: tweak the universe a little, and familiar characters and situations come out differently. XMen the movie is just another timeline, a What If on the big screen. (That big bald guy sitting behind you was the Watcher) Dig into your archives and re-read AoA or Days of Future Past, or go down to your comic shop and pick up an issue of Mutant X or Children of the Atom and remember that not all stories are set in the same continuity.
(Note that this method doesn't always make a comic movie enjoyable; it just makes the continuity discrepencies go away)
You can go to a candy store where there's a big bin of gummy bears and scoop them into a plastic bag and pay by the pound. Even if you squint, I don't think you'll be able to find a label on each gummy bear. I believe I've seen also seen bins with those "bite-size" miniature candy bars.
To get back on topic, it would still be in MS's best interest to offer a volume discount to OEMs.
Besides the reduction in packaging costs, it would encourage the OEM to buy more copies if they come at a lower price. If the OEM then decides to sell those copies at a loss, why should MS worry?
Since C++ has a bunch of stuff that C doesn't have, I'd interpret "hybrid of C and C++" to mean "between C and C++," which could describe Visual C++, since it's still not yet ANSI compliant.
If they did name a life-seeking mission to Mars after Darwin's trip to the Galapagos, some day we could hear the sound bite:
"The Beagle has landed."
Well, since one of the parties in this case is the Dept of Justice, the new head of the Executive branch could simply order his Attorney General to settle the case, in terms that favor Microsoft.
Have you ever read the source code for the Micrsoft implementation of the STL?
I thought that MS just licensed the STL from Dinkumware. You can hardly blame them for the format of third-party source code.
This when the continental US has never been attacked i[n] the last 250 years
The War of 1812 was less than 250 years ago.
Sure eBay pages have advertising, you just don't recognize it. It's not third-party ads; it's internal. Go browsing through eBay and every category will have some "Featured Auctions." What makes these auctions featured? The sellers pay extra to have them listed, and also to have little icons listed with the items. If you go through someone else's search engine, you'll miss eBay's biased search results.
I can see it now. The Great Red Spot will be revealed to be a wine stain.
That's when "loose" is an adjective. When used as a transitive verb, as it is in "Never loose it again," it can mean to detach or release.
Since the article mentioned handcuffing the laptop to your wrist, it could mean "attach yourself to your laptop and never unfasten it again" either physically with a chain, or metaphorically with a LoJack transmitter.
No e-mail address given
Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
If the guy doesn't even have email, of course he has no clue what the internet is all about.
Isn't it ironic that the first private commercial manned launch is russian?
No, it's not ironic. It's symmetric. The first man in space was Russian, so it's only fair.
I looked around on their web page, and couldn't see how it is possible for a student to anonymously report someone, and still receive WAVE merchandise or cash as an incentive? If WAVE knows where to send the prize it's not very anonymous, is it?
Ok, so maybe they mean "anonymous" in that WAVE won't tell anyone who tipped them off. Then why are they giving away prizes with the WAVE logo on them? Suppose some scrawny kid reports a bully to WAVE, and WAVE sends him a T-shirt. Wouldn't wearing the shirt serve to point out to the bully who it was that turned him in? What's the point in giving out prizes that you'd have to hide?
A robotic penguin wouldn't be hard.
Stan Winston made a bunch of them for Batman Returns.
I don't get a newspaper every day, or even every week. When I do buy a paper, it's usually a Sunday.
Sometimes I get one because I want to know what's on sale at the local retailers.
I have a friend who gets a paper just for the coupons.
But most of the time, I'm getting it just for the paper itself. It's a relatively inexpensive dropcloth, and a recylclable packing material. And how else could you teach a little kid about paper mache?
Didn't Nabisco sue them once over the term "Apple Newton"?
Turn the apple backwards.
If I recall correctly, that's what SNL did in their "Mac PostIt" parody ad. It was also striped in the other direction, but they don't stripe the logo anymore so you can't use that.
I'd suggest getting rid of the bite, implying that your version is in some way more complete than Apple's.
Actually, that is exactly what it is - accurate. In some form or another, everything *human* is already set into EXACTLY that- categories. Person of colour X is part of religion Y, or person Y doesn't eat meat (vegetarian) whereas person Z doesn't eat one type of meat but will eat another type, etc..etc. What else would you call things like dietary or religious preferences if not categories of some form?
However, into which single category do you put a black Catholic vegetarian?
The problem is not with the categorization, but with the attempt to refer to the categories as "continents," which implies that they are separate and isolated. You can only be on one continent at once, unless you're straddling a border. The internet as it currently stands has far more border-straddlers than a continental model can handle. Where would you put a religious website (GodNet) that sees its mission as presenting information to the general public about religious issues (InfoNet), that also sells bibles and bumper stickers (BuyNet)?
Maybe they should have got Neuman to play Arthur.
Not that he'd take the part, but George would make a better Arthur.
They outnumbered the "geeks" by a lot and did their best to make the geeks feel alienated.
At the end of the movie "Revenge of the Nerds," there's a scene where the head nerd gives a speech (which I wish I could accurately quote here) asking everyone in the stands at a pep rally to stand up if they were ever picked on for being different or ever felt like an outsider or ever had the "cool" guys look down on them or were ever insecure, and by the end of his speech most of his audience was standing, admitting they they, too were "nerds." While this is a nice sentiment, it hides the fact that there are gray shades between the "cool" group and the "nerds."
We might like to think that it's us (geeks) against them (popular bunch) but most people fall somewhere in between.
When I was in high school, the "popular" bunch was really fairly small, but were so active they seemed like a much more important group. I could go dig out my yearbook and I'm fairly sure the same 12 or so kids would be on every page. I'd be willing to guess that it's a standard distribution: there's a few really cool kids, and a few really geeky kids, and a whole lot of average kids who think the cool kids are cool and the geeky kids are geeky, but know they themselves are neither.
Does LEGO stand for anything?
It's an ancient word meaning "Thou shan't have my toaster waffle! Begone!"
The only cool part about it is that it makes the disk change colors. I wonder if they could make a coating that would change, but leave the disk usable, kind of like a freshness seal.
I think the real problem is that subtle emotional content is difficult to communicate electronically. The reaction to this is to use stronger words than necessary, in order to give the message some personality. So a post that supports someone's point will say "You rule, dude! You should be in charge," instead of something bland like "I agree with your point." Similarly, instead of saying "I think you are wrong, here's why:" becomes "You clueless loser! Don't you know:" and comes across as a flame.
:-) to mean "I'm joking," the convention is to use "Die, you moron!" to mean "I disagree."
Just like we have to use
Using the restraunt analogy...
The UDP - Refusing to go to a restraunt that you don't like.
A DOS attack - Throwing a molotov cocktail in the window of a restraunt you don't like.
No, a DOS attack is less destructive than disruptive. It's more like a mass of people parking their cars in the restaurant's parking lot, and eating somewhere else. Or maybe more like sitting at all their tables but refusing to order anything.