Diablo 2 had an absolutely fantastic loot system. It's a gold standard even today. I'm not sure what that has to do with storytelling, or even why you would bring it up.
This past week, I turned on a 400 CPU HPC cluster running CentOS 6.6 without systemd. It worked flawlessly! On my desktop with Mageia4, I made *ONE* change to the systemd and had to reinstall the rootfs. I'm a very experienced sysadmin and I can tell you, I hate systemd with a passion! Not only do I have to re-learn a bunch of crap, but it's the most inflexible, inhospitable, terse, bloated, and obnoxious system I've ever had the "pleasure" to work with. What a crash prone evil joke the distros have push on us. Thank god for Slackware and the few sane distros out there.
Why don't you tell us which change it was that made you have to reinstall the rootfs and/or point to the systemd bug report?
The modding here is screwed up. The GP's comment is insightful and probably correct, yet it's at -1. Then there's the parent comment, which is obvious nonsense from top to bottom, at +1, Insightful. The unsubstantiated "agents of Microsoft" jab is particularly pathetic. Come on,/. mods. You can do better.
While he may be correct about most of the squabbling over systemd, accusing systemd detractors of being agents of Microsoft is a pretty quick and easy way to minus-one-land.
Math, for all of its beauty and power, is not a science. Why? Because it does not rely on experimental observations to arrive at conclusions. Instead, it relies on axioms extended by logical reasoning.
Even further than that, the confusion that many lay people have about scientific terms like "theory" comes because they're thinking of science like it was math.
Just say that fine revenue above police administrative costs goes somewhere else
Couldn't that just mean that police administrative costs will find a way to greatly increase?
One thing I've found in government agencies is that expenses approach an approved budget. Unless the budget is slashed, there is no incentive to be more efficient, and plenty of incentive to spend money that didn't need to be spent. Why? Because if you're under budget, next year's budget will be smaller, meaning you won't have any room if you actually do need to spend money on more staff, upgraded/fixed computers, etc.
Because "Revenue Raising" is a popular conspiracy theory used by speeders in order to avoid admitting what they do is wrong.
It's not a conspiracy theory when everyone who does it shrugs and says they have to because that's the way the system works. A conspiracy theory is based on people keeping activities and motives secret. Police Departments are not secretive about the money they get from speeding tickets, and how much they depend on that money to pay for operating expenses.
Even though the newer cars are safer and far less polluting than the clunkers? We should go around disguising the cars we drive for fears of appearing "too rich" to the local constable? I'd rather just not give the local police the power and incentive, instead.
They don't have to sell it, just borrow against it. If you have millions in paid-for assets and are unable to pay $50,000 it's only because you've chosen for it to be that way. Sorry, I'm just not willing to compare someone with millions in assets to someone living in a trailer with no other assets.
Yours is the sort of attitude that so many in the US have fought against for so long: the idea that excess fines and taxes should not force people out of their homes. We're not here to be ruled like peasants by our governments, however you might think of farmers as such.
In most countries, if you frivolously take on a lawsuit and lose, you pay for the court procedure
'Loser pays' has enormous drawbacks as well; a chilling effect where the little guy can't sue the big guy because if they lose, they're completely cleaned out.
In Finland the money from speeding tickets goes to the state, not the local county/city
Even if we did that here there would be a lot of political pressure from the state onto the municipalities to issue a lot of those tickets. If the feds got involved, they would probably find some way, as they always do, of extorting the states by denying them federal highway funds.
"As for the "day scale" for tickets, it won't have much effect on the "rich"."
Really? What's your justification?
Well, for much of time on the road, the "rich" might not be driving their own cars. Their autos might be mobile offices and they'll be working while a driver does the driving. The driver is the one (and should be the one) who gets penalized, and he's unlikely to be rich.
Which is exactly why I would never work for a "startup". They routinely fuck the people who actually do all of the hard work.
I was glad that I was a contractor during the Dot-Com boom. Always work for cash. Stock and stock options are nice, but they should be considered as having absolutely zero value until you convert them into cash.
At times our entire legal system seems to revolve around the idea of "let's find any way to weasel out of punishment for our actions. The truth is the enemy, no one should know the truth. What we really want is a way to get away with it."
Yes, most people think jewish people are white, just like they think Poles are white, or Germans, or Irish, or any number of white groups that have faced discrimination in the past.
Yeah, I know KKK members may not like Jews, but that doesn't make jews non-white.
Dammit, I really should have read through the whole thread before posting.
I thought I was making an insightful point, but turns out that for most people "entitled non-white douchebag? Oh, we're probably talking about Kanye West" was the first thing that came to mind.
Not all white people are douchebags, but all douchebags are white. Acknowledging this is acknowledging that racism exists and is alive and well. It is not a racist statement - it's simply fact, because it's part of what douchebag means.
You're the first person I've ever heard who uses a definition of douchebag that contains race.
Remember when they mailed DVDs? You were supposed to return those.
Remember? They still do that. I'd say that's the useful Netflix service. Thanks to studio shenanigans, their online streaming is often not very useful.
The NES had no hardware for any kind of networking, dial-up modem or otherwise.
Well, the NES had an expansion port that could have accommodated such. The Japanese Famicon did have modem support, but it was pretty primitive, and Nintendo of America dropped support for it after seeing the problems the Japanese console had getting this to work (same thing with the NES disk drive).
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Diablo 2 had an absolutely fantastic loot system. It's a gold standard even today. I'm not sure what that has to do with storytelling, or even why you would bring it up.
Don't break the law then.
Yes, this attitude works perfectly and there are never unintended consequences of such.
No, instead, hard work and ability gets you the ire of society.
Trolling?
No, Objectivism.
This past week, I turned on a 400 CPU HPC cluster running CentOS 6.6 without systemd. It worked flawlessly! On my desktop with Mageia4, I made *ONE* change to the systemd and had to reinstall the rootfs. I'm a very experienced sysadmin and I can tell you, I hate systemd with a passion! Not only do I have to re-learn a bunch of crap, but it's the most inflexible, inhospitable, terse, bloated, and obnoxious system I've ever had the "pleasure" to work with. What a crash prone evil joke the distros have push on us. Thank god for Slackware and the few sane distros out there.
Why don't you tell us which change it was that made you have to reinstall the rootfs and/or point to the systemd bug report?
The modding here is screwed up. The GP's comment is insightful and probably correct, yet it's at -1. Then there's the parent comment, which is obvious nonsense from top to bottom, at +1, Insightful. The unsubstantiated "agents of Microsoft" jab is particularly pathetic. Come on, /. mods. You can do better.
While he may be correct about most of the squabbling over systemd, accusing systemd detractors of being agents of Microsoft is a pretty quick and easy way to minus-one-land.
Math, for all of its beauty and power, is not a science. Why? Because it does not rely on experimental observations to arrive at conclusions. Instead, it relies on axioms extended by logical reasoning.
Even further than that, the confusion that many lay people have about scientific terms like "theory" comes because they're thinking of science like it was math.
Just say that fine revenue above police administrative costs goes somewhere else
Couldn't that just mean that police administrative costs will find a way to greatly increase?
One thing I've found in government agencies is that expenses approach an approved budget. Unless the budget is slashed, there is no incentive to be more efficient, and plenty of incentive to spend money that didn't need to be spent. Why? Because if you're under budget, next year's budget will be smaller, meaning you won't have any room if you actually do need to spend money on more staff, upgraded/fixed computers, etc.
According to the article, police in Ferguson, Missouri wrote fewer tickets. That must be a great place to live!
Because "Revenue Raising" is a popular conspiracy theory used by speeders in order to avoid admitting what they do is wrong.
It's not a conspiracy theory when everyone who does it shrugs and says they have to because that's the way the system works. A conspiracy theory is based on people keeping activities and motives secret. Police Departments are not secretive about the money they get from speeding tickets, and how much they depend on that money to pay for operating expenses.
then don't buy a stupid fucking waste of a car
Even though the newer cars are safer and far less polluting than the clunkers? We should go around disguising the cars we drive for fears of appearing "too rich" to the local constable? I'd rather just not give the local police the power and incentive, instead.
So already the farmer owning the land is suboptimal use of that land. Why should the society bend over backwards to encourage that?
Because we like to eat?
They don't have to sell it, just borrow against it. If you have millions in paid-for assets and are unable to pay $50,000 it's only because you've chosen for it to be that way. Sorry, I'm just not willing to compare someone with millions in assets to someone living in a trailer with no other assets.
Yours is the sort of attitude that so many in the US have fought against for so long: the idea that excess fines and taxes should not force people out of their homes. We're not here to be ruled like peasants by our governments, however you might think of farmers as such.
I buy sports cars because I like to drive fast and have a car that handles turns and braking well.
Nothing wrong with driving fast as long as you're not driving recklessly.
Going 50 in a 30mph zone is usually driving recklessly.
In most countries, if you frivolously take on a lawsuit and lose, you pay for the court procedure
'Loser pays' has enormous drawbacks as well; a chilling effect where the little guy can't sue the big guy because if they lose, they're completely cleaned out.
In Finland the money from speeding tickets goes to the state, not the local county/city
Even if we did that here there would be a lot of political pressure from the state onto the municipalities to issue a lot of those tickets. If the feds got involved, they would probably find some way, as they always do, of extorting the states by denying them federal highway funds.
"As for the "day scale" for tickets, it won't have much effect on the "rich"."
Really? What's your justification?
Well, for much of time on the road, the "rich" might not be driving their own cars. Their autos might be mobile offices and they'll be working while a driver does the driving. The driver is the one (and should be the one) who gets penalized, and he's unlikely to be rich.
... is the last four digits of pi.
Which is exactly why I would never work for a "startup". They routinely fuck the people who actually do all of the hard work.
I was glad that I was a contractor during the Dot-Com boom.
Always work for cash. Stock and stock options are nice, but they should be considered as having absolutely zero value until you convert them into cash.
At times our entire legal system seems to revolve around the idea of "let's find any way to weasel out of punishment for our actions. The truth is the enemy, no one should know the truth. What we really want is a way to get away with it."
lol, you think jewish = white, cute.
Yes, most people think jewish people are white, just like they think Poles are white, or Germans, or Irish, or any number of white groups that have faced discrimination in the past.
Yeah, I know KKK members may not like Jews, but that doesn't make jews non-white.
Dammit, I really should have read through the whole thread before posting.
I thought I was making an insightful point, but turns out that for most people "entitled non-white douchebag? Oh, we're probably talking about Kanye West" was the first thing that came to mind.
Not all white people are douchebags, but all douchebags are white. Acknowledging this is acknowledging that racism exists and is alive and well. It is not a racist statement - it's simply fact, because it's part of what douchebag means.
You're the first person I've ever heard who uses a definition of douchebag that contains race.
Because non-white people don't end up entitled douchebags
Let me introduce you to a man named Kanye West.
Remember when they mailed DVDs? You were supposed to return those.
Remember? They still do that. I'd say that's the useful Netflix service. Thanks to studio shenanigans, their online streaming is often not very useful.
The NES had no hardware for any kind of networking, dial-up modem or otherwise.
Well, the NES had an expansion port that could have accommodated such. The Japanese Famicon did have modem support, but it was pretty primitive, and Nintendo of America dropped support for it after seeing the problems the Japanese console had getting this to work (same thing with the NES disk drive).