With an experienced HR dept. you'll usually see a severability clause wherein, invalidating a contract in part does not invalidate the contract. Most of the time a company silly enough to want you to sign a non-compete IN CALIFORNIA is either too big to have a different process for every state, or too small (read: naive) to include severability, or has lumped it in with your employment contract (which will contain a severability clause). However, it's unenforceable in any case IN CALIFORNIA (probably some other states too).
This was nowhere near alpha or AoC quality. This was definitely a poor game (in the abstract). It is a weak guild wars clone, but most of the assets and the mechanics worked correctly from release. PvP (for the borefest it is) worked from the start and most of the game mechanics worked perfectly (level scaling, keeps worked correctly when the instance wasn't pwnd, quests, crafting, etc).
Q. What's worse than DAOC mez? A. WAR knockback.
This didn't make the game fun and it was obviously unfinished in a couple areas (crafting still is, lolleriffic), which is not the same as saying "partly broken". The balance problems seemed horrendous, but that's not really a pure development problem. Some things you just aren't going to see clearly until production (like how many of the "features" are aggravating, not fun, how many people gravitate toward what % classing). All in all, there's nothing alpha about it. It was just overhyped. How many people like FusionFall? Is that alpha because it doesn't span a huge demographic? I think FusionFall is a better game than WAR, but not necessarily for the WOW demographic either.
None of those arguments are ethical arguments, they are hedonistics based on meta-ethical assumptions and ignorance of US law. Do you think that when the IRS comes in that he needs do anything but say "I didn't know?" - oh except for that email that shows he did.
What's more, China is the obviously the ethically progressive country in an acceptance of pirating, as the issue of copyright is ethically unsound. This will probably change as China becomes the dominant technological country. The greater good has nothing to do with it.
Even Open Source is seen (rightly) as an attack on copyright, with the caveat that using the rules of an unethical system to advance to an ethical state is optimal for the community (not everyone is a purist) and results in an inevitable (moral) good. Talk to RMS, I don't care about the greater good and I don't believe in OS, as a stopgap. Your morals may vary.
Ask yourself, if the only way that an obscure subsystem (that your job depended on) would work, is if you used an old pirated version of 3rd party software, would you quit or do nothing (if given no other choice)?
It's a fundamental question that obviates most people's relativism. In large, you will see a whole lot of nothing. Everyone's moral fiber is STRONG in what they actually believe, they just don't have the morals they say they do on forums.
"destabilize" is pejorative without qualification. "change" or "influence" is accurate. Perhaps that was not the point you were trying to make. Causing and preventing extinctions are inevitable, amoral events (we damn near exterminate diseases, both animal and human, without much complaint). It's interesting to see how many tree-huggers are on/. Implying that the genetic code of certain fluffy/swimmy organisms, by extension their species, are sancrosanct is disturbingly ignorant. Your Morals May Vary.
Even Wikipedia repeats that it is, over and over. That's beside the point, but calls into question the veracity of your beliefs.
Wikipedia proposes to be a an enlightened collection of facts, when it only relies on the materials is espouses to encapsulate and make obsolete. The best way to get something inserted into Wikipedia is to get a paper or book published. This is a glaring circular flaw that Wikipedia hopes will be made irrelevant over time, as much of the early cyberspace knowledge simply had no papertrail and a large number of paperbacks themselves have vanished. Since Wikipedia won't allow online resources as citation and paperbacks are full of inaccuracy and misinformation, Wikipedia's gone and created a terrible context for fact that you have bought into. It's a serious leap in faith and logic that fails on both accounts.
In california it's perfectly legal if the student is in high school. The explicit rights of free speech are suspended on campus, there's no good argument that search and seizure would stand. If the student is an adult in college, the words "fuck no it's not legal" would apply.
"floaters" in your eyeballs (you'll get 'em when you're older)
Some people have always had them. As I have been told by an optical surgeon, they are a result of a weak lining that has released a number of particles into the cornea. That being said, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I cannot conceive of a scenario where this is true.
Really? I wonder what your experiences have been, to expect you're going to have familiar expectations. Off the top of my head, what about people who want to be able to review your commits (anywhere) over time (many commercial settinga)? DCVS speaks to end results, but tosses individual process. That's fine for certain endeavors, not all.
It is not so very clear what you are doing there either. Most centralized systems have heaps of scripts running server-side which might actually recast any command you are issuing into something completely different.
You are speaking to the concept of SVN "hooks" (which which is wanted in Git although I don't think anyone's gotten them to work) or just plain FUD. Triggers are used to spawn other processes for alerts, snapshots, builds, or whatever your heart desires. To what purpose would you write "heaps" of scripts to avoid simple version tracking for some alternate purpose? Validation? And who the hell is allowed to checkout or commit, but doesn't know how their versioning works? It defeats the purpose. If you try to use Git/SVN/CVS as your build tool, it won't work, so please enlighten me to who is doing it (checkouts to a web directory is not a build).
I *have* seen hooks that modify the commit message with a timestamp, committer and sourcemachine, send out emails, but nothing more complicated is worth it.
The article is extremely technical in nature but it seems to be suggesting ways to take the load off the client, possibly lowering system requirements for people to take part in dynamic virtual worlds.
Not only did it NOT suggest this, but it was not technical. You randomly ranted about something unrelated to the topic, then implied there must be a more applicable virtual world for a topic on scaling strategies, than the all-time most popular virtual world. You must be retarded. A retard who managed +1 karma for trolling. *facepalm*
P.S. If you want to hear from people who actually program for various commercial games, engines, and MMOs, see f13.net's forums.
Compared to XP, 2000, and 98 (adjusted for reality) I would think. Also, it's only 10 million because they dont sell (or support to varying degress) the others anymore. What's worse, the vista marketshare is horrid. This means they record sales for people who remove it, aka the vast majority.//work and friends combined, 2 copies of vista still running, but also have XP. Rest of the 200-odd people run XP solely.
How does that make sense to you? Are you implying people, born into relative privilege, are inherently more capable, responsible, and morally superior to those that were not? Enlighten me.
I am interested in your views and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Luckily English is a high-context language and you can infer meaning from hybridized concepts. You recognize what "4th world" means immediately in context, but choose to ignore it from a sense of self-importance. A need to be noticed as being correct on some level due to your own inadequacies is sublimation, that leads to the Internet Fuckwad Theory.
But what do I know, you may be a genious instead of a random kidiot.
While I suffer some shame at resorting to wikipedia, no other sources are given as much credit, on/., to being impartial and correct. Neither of which, wikipedia, deserves. If you could point out somewhere this is contradicted, I would be very interested.
Everything at thinkgeek is relatively low quality or just plain junk (everyone's definition varies*). However, the fact that there are crappy appliances, for cheap, at such a "hip" online shop illustrates an existing market, imo.
*I have been consistently disappointed with ThinkChina's product quality.
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There is no more evidence of that, than carbon emissions affecting pirate population.
I played from release until days before the Shattered Sun Offensive (or whatever) nonsense came out. I remember the loot lock now. Classic.
With an experienced HR dept. you'll usually see a severability clause wherein, invalidating a contract in part does not invalidate the contract. Most of the time a company silly enough to want you to sign a non-compete IN CALIFORNIA is either too big to have a different process for every state, or too small (read: naive) to include severability, or has lumped it in with your employment contract (which will contain a severability clause). However, it's unenforceable in any case IN CALIFORNIA (probably some other states too).
This was nowhere near alpha or AoC quality. This was definitely a poor game (in the abstract). It is a weak guild wars clone, but most of the assets and the mechanics worked correctly from release. PvP (for the borefest it is) worked from the start and most of the game mechanics worked perfectly (level scaling, keeps worked correctly when the instance wasn't pwnd, quests, crafting, etc).
Q. What's worse than DAOC mez?
A. WAR knockback.
This didn't make the game fun and it was obviously unfinished in a couple areas (crafting still is, lolleriffic), which is not the same as saying "partly broken". The balance problems seemed horrendous, but that's not really a pure development problem. Some things you just aren't going to see clearly until production (like how many of the "features" are aggravating, not fun, how many people gravitate toward what % classing). All in all, there's nothing alpha about it. It was just overhyped. How many people like FusionFall? Is that alpha because it doesn't span a huge demographic? I think FusionFall is a better game than WAR, but not necessarily for the WOW demographic either.
None of those arguments are ethical arguments, they are hedonistics based on meta-ethical assumptions and ignorance of US law. Do you think that when the IRS comes in that he needs do anything but say "I didn't know?" - oh except for that email that shows he did.
What's more, China is the obviously the ethically progressive country in an acceptance of pirating, as the issue of copyright is ethically unsound. This will probably change as China becomes the dominant technological country. The greater good has nothing to do with it.
Even Open Source is seen (rightly) as an attack on copyright, with the caveat that using the rules of an unethical system to advance to an ethical state is optimal for the community (not everyone is a purist) and results in an inevitable (moral) good. Talk to RMS, I don't care about the greater good and I don't believe in OS, as a stopgap. Your morals may vary.
Ask yourself, if the only way that an obscure subsystem (that your job depended on) would work, is if you used an old pirated version of 3rd party software, would you quit or do nothing (if given no other choice)?
It's a fundamental question that obviates most people's relativism. In large, you will see a whole lot of nothing. Everyone's moral fiber is STRONG in what they actually believe, they just don't have the morals they say they do on forums.
"destabilize" is pejorative without qualification. "change" or "influence" is accurate. Perhaps that was not the point you were trying to make. Causing and preventing extinctions are inevitable, amoral events (we damn near exterminate diseases, both animal and human, without much complaint). It's interesting to see how many tree-huggers are on /. Implying that the genetic code of certain fluffy/swimmy organisms, by extension their species, are sancrosanct is disturbingly ignorant. Your Morals May Vary.
"engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like"
aka ""
I know it's a little dated but...how about just writing down what you want to keep?
Even Wikipedia repeats that it is, over and over. That's beside the point, but calls into question the veracity of your beliefs.
Wikipedia proposes to be a an enlightened collection of facts, when it only relies on the materials is espouses to encapsulate and make obsolete. The best way to get something inserted into Wikipedia is to get a paper or book published. This is a glaring circular flaw that Wikipedia hopes will be made irrelevant over time, as much of the early cyberspace knowledge simply had no papertrail and a large number of paperbacks themselves have vanished. Since Wikipedia won't allow online resources as citation and paperbacks are full of inaccuracy and misinformation, Wikipedia's gone and created a terrible context for fact that you have bought into. It's a serious leap in faith and logic that fails on both accounts.
In california it's perfectly legal if the student is in high school. The explicit rights of free speech are suspended on campus, there's no good argument that search and seizure would stand. If the student is an adult in college, the words "fuck no it's not legal" would apply.
Security:
* Focus on widgets, while omitting to consider the importance of maintaining accountability.
Can someone clarify?
Some people have always had them. As I have been told by an optical surgeon, they are a result of a weak lining that has released a number of particles into the cornea. That being said, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
Really? I wonder what your experiences have been, to expect you're going to have familiar expectations. Off the top of my head, what about people who want to be able to review your commits (anywhere) over time (many commercial settinga)? DCVS speaks to end results, but tosses individual process. That's fine for certain endeavors, not all.
You are speaking to the concept of SVN "hooks" (which which is wanted in Git although I don't think anyone's gotten them to work) or just plain FUD. Triggers are used to spawn other processes for alerts, snapshots, builds, or whatever your heart desires. To what purpose would you write "heaps" of scripts to avoid simple version tracking for some alternate purpose? Validation? And who the hell is allowed to checkout or commit, but doesn't know how their versioning works? It defeats the purpose. If you try to use Git/SVN/CVS as your build tool, it won't work, so please enlighten me to who is doing it (checkouts to a web directory is not a build).
I *have* seen hooks that modify the commit message with a timestamp, committer and sourcemachine, send out emails, but nothing more complicated is worth it.
Not only did it NOT suggest this, but it was not technical. You randomly ranted about something unrelated to the topic, then implied there must be a more applicable virtual world for a topic on scaling strategies, than the all-time most popular virtual world. You must be retarded. A retard who managed +1 karma for trolling. *facepalm*
P.S.
If you want to hear from people who actually program for various commercial games, engines, and MMOs, see f13.net's forums.
Compared to XP, 2000, and 98 (adjusted for reality) I would think. Also, it's only 10 million because they dont sell (or support to varying degress) the others anymore. What's worse, the vista marketshare is horrid. This means they record sales for people who remove it, aka the vast majority. //work and friends combined, 2 copies of vista still running, but also have XP. Rest of the 200-odd people run XP solely.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
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The comedy of corrective replies are discovering the original intent.
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/
Tobold: January 02, 10:40am
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Ancient Gaming Noob's 2009 prediction of the Tobold Cult are on target!
The Might Makes Right Association.
How does that make sense to you? Are you implying people, born into relative privilege, are inherently more capable, responsible, and morally superior to those that were not? Enlighten me.
I am interested in your views and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I was of the same mind, till I tried OSX. Maybe you should try more OS's?
Luckily English is a high-context language and you can infer meaning from hybridized concepts. You recognize what "4th world" means immediately in context, but choose to ignore it from a sense of self-importance. A need to be noticed as being correct on some level due to your own inadequacies is sublimation, that leads to the Internet Fuckwad Theory.
But what do I know, you may be a genious instead of a random kidiot.
Just because you border the sea, doesn't mean FedEx delivers. Be serious.
It's widely known Palestine is considered slightly more than a 4th world nation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza (just look for the words "import materials")
While I suffer some shame at resorting to wikipedia, no other sources are given as much credit, on /., to being impartial and correct. Neither of which, wikipedia, deserves. If you could point out somewhere this is contradicted, I would be very interested.
Everything at thinkgeek is relatively low quality or just plain junk (everyone's definition varies*). However, the fact that there are crappy appliances, for cheap, at such a "hip" online shop illustrates an existing market, imo.
*I have been consistently disappointed with ThinkChina's product quality.