frankly, they're both rather similar imo... first to release in a public released build does sound better, but what is a "public released build"? opeara could just release what they have now, and it'll probably be fairly buggy. is the first who makes a public release with 100/100 score really the best, or the one who is willing to release more buggy code just to be first there?
i mean, abusing something, and then HIDING it???? are they serious? not like every other abuse, in plain sight for everyone to see and know?
seriously... what's the news value here? you know that such things will be abused, and those that do the abuse will ofcourse hide it -_-. will we next get an article about terrorists hiding their identity?
you ofcourse have a point, but frankly, you know things like this happened. the only reason these guys got caught was because they used something like facebook, rather than using an instand messenger/irc channel/phone/meet eachother somewhere... things like this are hardly enforcable, and then coming down so hard on people who happened to have done it in some way you can trace seems rather stupid to me... i don't think such rules are supposed to work like a russian roulette, good chance you'll get away with it, and if you get caught you're screwed....
i'm rather wondering why such archaic and unenforcable things are in the rules... even before the age of telecommunication, just meeting with your fellow students to work together was enough to get around this, and in this age we've got so many untracable ways to get around this that it makes little sense...
where does it say they had twelve days to fix it?
i just read tfa, and see that
a.they didn't expend much effort complaining about it, there's a link to a post on an opera blog where they complain about it, that's about it it seems...
b.apparantly they just expected from mozilla for them to have a chance to reply on it, or to agree with mozilla on how to disclose it if they would disclose the bug before opera had a chance to fix it.
i don't see anything outrageous or cover up going on here. it may be lame that they complain, that's about it...
okay, i use opera, so i'm biased, but it seems the bias against opera is far worse here -_-
no offence, maybe opera overreacted, but where does it say opera covers up things?
opera apparently expected to get a bit more time to fix the bug before mozilla disclosed it to the world... although it appears they didn't really say opera was also affected, so it's an overreaction
but saying that they cover up things -_-. i think it's fairly normal not to spread around that there's a vulnurability until it's either fixed, or is obviously in the wild...
what's your problem?? the joke obviously was that it would only be intelligent design if the player was intelligent. it wasn't a stab at the creationist people
do you always go on a rant when people who believe in creationism might be insulted in some far fetched interpretation of a sentence?
well, it's not as if they have much choice... it's basically a lose-lose situation for microsoft. For IE8 they can choose to - perfectly obey the standards, and break tons of webpages with special IE hacks - do this little hack, and make it possible for them to make the switch to a standards compliant browser - (or the easiest solution, leave it as it is, and 90% of the world wouldn't notice or care)
the first option would be suicidal, so they're going for option 2. yes, they brought themselves into this mess, and yes it's not standards compliant, but they have no choice, and i think we can all agree it's a huge improvement... they're doing an effort to comply to the standards, but they simply cannot break all the pages made for IE because of that, they still have some common sense...
these kind of stories are so stupid... make some simple interactive robots, make it possible to have them do something "human" at random, and then declare you've got something incredible.... if you make it possible for them to lie, and not possible for others to defend against the lie, then yes, lieing bots will appear, and since the others are defenceless, they will have an advantage, but somehow this doesn't shock or surprise me... at least here they had to "learn" it (more like randomly mutate to it, but still). even wore are the stories like this where these features were obviously completely preprogrammed... no simulation or so what so ever, just a program that more or less mimics something human, and it's supposed to be incredible...
are you serious??? recently i helped a friend of mine who was doing an introductory java course. they had to work in bluej, an environment that makes it very easy to test your java classes, but with no coding support what so ever (except highlighting the primitive types i think). the avarage student needed an hour on even the simplest exercise, just because they weren't used to working in java yet, and made lots of small mistakes, and the for the beginners cryptic messages from the compiler weren't helpful either... why not give beginners a good IDE that helps them find their simple mistakes easily, and helps them discover methods of the built in classes they are using...
i've had a basic course on UI design, and one of the basic points was to test it with users, look at the results, and correct things you saw went wrong, and start over again... basically you just make a mockup (or in the beginning even a simple paper prototype) and ask the test subjects to do certain things, and make use of think aloud (aks them to as much as possible say what they're thinking, doing, and thinking they're doing. a random/weird action may suddenly become clear when you realise your users are understanding certain things completely differently than you). and besides that, look at other interfaces for similar purposes, it's useless to try and reinvent the wheel (depending on the application, ofcourse make sure you don't run into legal trouble for exactly copying something existing).
i'm on an azerty keyboard, so the wasd keylayout is unusable... are you guys planning on letting the players configure the keys so it's playable, or am i supposed to temprarily change my keyboard settings just to play your game?
well, then try it yourself
i've played it a bit, and can see how it can be just as hard as DDR
the main issue is that with the way you hold the guitar, that you've got 5 buttons and 4 fingers...
also, having to tap the strings at the right moment als adds a challenge etc...
it looks very easy, but is hard to master, like most games that are a lot of fun to play:)
have you ever flown a kite? there are things like kite surfing and kite buggying, and they can all move upwind, good kites also still have a good pull near the "edge of the wind". i've got quite some kites, and a kitebuggy, and driving upwind is perfectly possible, so i don't see why it would be different from a boat like this.
don't forget that these kites are steerable (also, because a moving kite pulls a lot more than one resting at a position)
well, if they solely (can) use that wind turbine, you would have a point. they'll make a profit because they have free power when there is wind (and can maybe even sell some of it back), and when there is no power, they can fall back on the powergrid. i don't see anything in your post that dismisses the AC's post, nor the original paper, that apparantly even with very widespread windfarms, they're still not anywhere near reliable enough, and will still need something to fill in during off moments...
but i wonder why the fixation of having to put wind energy onto the powergrid? i don't see any reason to make it less reliable by putting such intermittend sources on it. we'll sometime run out of fossil fuels, so we'll probably have to switch to hydrogen fueled cars. now that's where windmills can shine. put at every "gas"station a windmill, have it make hydrogen whenever there is some wind (build some reserves when there is wind, use them when there isn't), and you've got a self providing gasstation that only needs a steady supply of water(shouldn't be hard).
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frankly, they're both rather similar imo...
first to release in a public released build does sound better, but what is a "public released build"? opeara could just release what they have now, and it'll probably be fairly buggy. is the first who makes a public release with 100/100 score really the best, or the one who is willing to release more buggy code just to be first there?
i mean, abusing something, and then HIDING it????
are they serious? not like every other abuse, in plain sight for everyone to see and know?
seriously... what's the news value here? you know that such things will be abused, and those that do the abuse will ofcourse hide it -_-. will we next get an article about terrorists hiding their identity?
you ofcourse have a point, but frankly, you know things like this happened. the only reason these guys got caught was because they used something like facebook, rather than using an instand messenger/irc channel/phone/meet eachother somewhere...
things like this are hardly enforcable, and then coming down so hard on people who happened to have done it in some way you can trace seems rather stupid to me... i don't think such rules are supposed to work like a russian roulette, good chance you'll get away with it, and if you get caught you're screwed....
i'm rather wondering why such archaic and unenforcable things are in the rules... even before the age of telecommunication, just meeting with your fellow students to work together was enough to get around this, and in this age we've got so many untracable ways to get around this that it makes little sense...
where does it say they had twelve days to fix it? i just read tfa, and see that a.they didn't expend much effort complaining about it, there's a link to a post on an opera blog where they complain about it, that's about it it seems... b.apparantly they just expected from mozilla for them to have a chance to reply on it, or to agree with mozilla on how to disclose it if they would disclose the bug before opera had a chance to fix it. i don't see anything outrageous or cover up going on here. it may be lame that they complain, that's about it... okay, i use opera, so i'm biased, but it seems the bias against opera is far worse here -_-
no offence, maybe opera overreacted, but where does it say opera covers up things? opera apparently expected to get a bit more time to fix the bug before mozilla disclosed it to the world... although it appears they didn't really say opera was also affected, so it's an overreaction but saying that they cover up things -_-. i think it's fairly normal not to spread around that there's a vulnurability until it's either fixed, or is obviously in the wild...
what's your problem??
the joke obviously was that it would only be intelligent design if the player was intelligent.
it wasn't a stab at the creationist people
do you always go on a rant when people who believe in creationism might be insulted in some far fetched interpretation of a sentence?
haven't you noticed? just about every single story is being tagged "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" these days... some people seem to find it funny or so...
well, it's not as if they have much choice... it's basically a lose-lose situation for microsoft.
For IE8 they can choose to
- perfectly obey the standards, and break tons of webpages with special IE hacks
- do this little hack, and make it possible for them to make the switch to a standards compliant browser
- (or the easiest solution, leave it as it is, and 90% of the world wouldn't notice or care)
the first option would be suicidal, so they're going for option 2. yes, they brought themselves into this mess, and yes it's not standards compliant, but they have no choice, and i think we can all agree it's a huge improvement... they're doing an effort to comply to the standards, but they simply cannot break all the pages made for IE because of that, they still have some common sense...
these kind of stories are so stupid... make some simple interactive robots, make it possible to have them do something "human" at random, and then declare you've got something incredible....
if you make it possible for them to lie, and not possible for others to defend against the lie, then yes, lieing bots will appear, and since the others are defenceless, they will have an advantage, but somehow this doesn't shock or surprise me...
at least here they had to "learn" it (more like randomly mutate to it, but still). even wore are the stories like this where these features were obviously completely preprogrammed... no simulation or so what so ever, just a program that more or less mimics something human, and it's supposed to be incredible...
or 5: lubrication, most condoms these days are lubricated, so it's a simple way of providing it...
are you serious???
recently i helped a friend of mine who was doing an introductory java course. they had to work in bluej, an environment that makes it very easy to test your java classes, but with no coding support what so ever (except highlighting the primitive types i think).
the avarage student needed an hour on even the simplest exercise, just because they weren't used to working in java yet, and made lots of small mistakes, and the for the beginners cryptic messages from the compiler weren't helpful either...
why not give beginners a good IDE that helps them find their simple mistakes easily, and helps them discover methods of the built in classes they are using...
he's probably just trying to trick everybody in going over all the comics searching for hidden messages (and it's working -_-)
that's the brilliant part of their invention i assume. adding a network part to a game you can only play alone. it's pure genius!
i've had a basic course on UI design, and one of the basic points was to test it with users, look at the results, and correct things you saw went wrong, and start over again...
basically you just make a mockup (or in the beginning even a simple paper prototype) and ask the test subjects to do certain things, and make use of think aloud (aks them to as much as possible say what they're thinking, doing, and thinking they're doing. a random/weird action may suddenly become clear when you realise your users are understanding certain things completely differently than you).
and besides that, look at other interfaces for similar purposes, it's useless to try and reinvent the wheel (depending on the application, ofcourse make sure you don't run into legal trouble for exactly copying something existing).
well, that's exactly what the headline and summary told me ^^
maybe you're not so good at getting hints or so, but it was quite clear to me...
and if the headline didn't make things clear, the summary should be...
yup, it is indeed a serious problem. i'm always happy to see games that simply use the arrows, or allow players to actually configure the keys :)
i'm on an azerty keyboard, so the wasd keylayout is unusable... are you guys planning on letting the players configure the keys so it's playable, or am i supposed to temprarily change my keyboard settings just to play your game?
"has disproving"
is it that hard to write a summary without such huge errors??
i'm not a native english speaker, and it even pokes out my eyes...
well, then try it yourself i've played it a bit, and can see how it can be just as hard as DDR the main issue is that with the way you hold the guitar, that you've got 5 buttons and 4 fingers... also, having to tap the strings at the right moment als adds a challenge etc... it looks very easy, but is hard to master, like most games that are a lot of fun to play :)
oooh, i know that joke "isn't it hot there?" "don't worry, we'll go by night!"
hurray for short term thinking...
at the current pace, there won't be any money to be made there for a long long time...
have you ever flown a kite?
there are things like kite surfing and kite buggying, and they can all move upwind, good kites also still have a good pull near the "edge of the wind".
i've got quite some kites, and a kitebuggy, and driving upwind is perfectly possible, so i don't see why it would be different from a boat like this.
don't forget that these kites are steerable (also, because a moving kite pulls a lot more than one resting at a position)
well, if they solely (can) use that wind turbine, you would have a point.
they'll make a profit because they have free power when there is wind (and can maybe even sell some of it back), and when there is no power, they can fall back on the powergrid.
i don't see anything in your post that dismisses the AC's post, nor the original paper, that apparantly even with very widespread windfarms, they're still not anywhere near reliable enough, and will still need something to fill in during off moments...
but i wonder why the fixation of having to put wind energy onto the powergrid? i don't see any reason to make it less reliable by putting such intermittend sources on it. we'll sometime run out of fossil fuels, so we'll probably have to switch to hydrogen fueled cars. now that's where windmills can shine. put at every "gas"station a windmill, have it make hydrogen whenever there is some wind (build some reserves when there is wind, use them when there isn't), and you've got a self providing gasstation that only needs a steady supply of water(shouldn't be hard).
and the reason these better quality comics won't be on bittorrent within an hour is....
depends on how long they know it
the 0day doesn't specify how long the bug has existed, but since how long they know how to exploit it