When you are asked to do serious work, it's about the most efficient way which has inevitably been worked out by someone else with a bigger budget and more time. The rest of the people claiming that a good programmer already knows how, have been solving the trivial for so long they can't imagine the larger problems that experienced programmers face.
Unfortunately the different forms of ID, including Social Security are too disconnected and easy to forge, to be useful. I can bury my grandfather but still find he managed to get a new Driver's License a month later. We do not have a uniform ID in place and we should, since almost every facet of the government relies on it. I can appreciate someone who disagrees with something like income tax, but it's a part of life and fair accounting is considered a GIVEN in society. Normalize the data, put everyone in a single DB. That's the way it has to be if you want a more efficient government and a lot less injustice. Lots of people would rather there be shadows to hide in, until you get hit with someone else's income tax bill or worse, felony conviction, and there's no recourse since they are in the shadows and your aren't. I don't care about party affiliation, I care about the concept of justice.
P.S. In the US, Nothing's more sobering than going to court with a passport and SS card, where you state you are a home owner who has never even been to Georgia (GA), but the court finds that you are still liable for income tax unpaid by someone who used your SS #.
StarCraft was arguably the best multiplayer game I have ever encountered. Extensible/Upgradeable, very high replay value, pretty/finished look, cheap to develop, networked with a matchmaking system. That being said, it's not eligible as being important. Nothing was done differently or brilliantly. It was a managerial milestone.
Herzog Zwei/Dune 2 were the most important of the multiplayer RTS genre as Herzog Zwei paved the way for Total Annihilation. Physics based projectiles, unit behaviors (seek out and repair drones!), and the default control scheme every RTS uses to an extent. Dune 2 defined the networking methodologies used over and over by blizzard and others.
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A good example of this (my own, not the book's) is near the end of the original Half-Life game, which sees Gordon Freeman captured, stripped of all his gear, and dumped in a trash compactor, with the player unable to do anything but watch. Yet Half-Life won numerous Game of the Year awards, and is still considered by many to be one of the best games of all time. The point is not that Half-Life is a bad game for using 'forced failure', but rather that it could have been a a better game if it hadn't resorted to that tactic.
A story has a beginning and an end and sometimes a sequel. The game would not have been better, but different. Stories and games have one commonality that they are banking on; people prefer certain styles more than others and he is in that minority that can't appreciate the original HL storyline. I wonder how he feels about Zelda now.
Actually the link describes the distances you need to take into account (as well as the general idea that any missile that can "catch" another missile has to be much more sophisticated, expensive, and reliable). His claim that boost phase interception is the only realistic methodology is interesting to me, but ultimately outside the point I couched the link in.
Technology isn't good or bad, it just is.
Vaporware isn't. The worst kind is saftey technology that's completely made up, to justify classic overspending, as I indicated. I'm sure that this will protect us from missiles about the time that the space elevator is finished.
There is no question as the technology is perhaps the worst kind. A lucrative defense contract that produced a system that doesnt work in real world scenarios. Are you so misled by a defense contractor's press release to ask a followup question or are you being sarcastic?
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/about_us/Dr_David_Suzuk i/Article_Archives/weekly07250301.asp to give you a high school primer on the physics of distance vs speed, which is noticeably independent of the targetting concerns. We wont hear about this until the system " unfortunately fails to counter" a simple rocket launched from a truck somewhere near Washington D.C.
"If you build a missile defense that is so fragile almost anything an adversary does will cause it to collapse, then you invite a weak adversary to (attack)" - Theodore A. Postol
I went to GenCon religiously UNTIL it was aquired and turned into the crappy circus it last was. The entire blog outlines how he aquired it and ran it into the ground with an unproven model. Never once did he go back to a traditional small Westin Hotel convention like Orccon and Strategicon still are.
I'm sure I read it in a book somewhere. Was it the Bible...no that's not it, oh yea the Dictionary. Not sure how you don't understand the terms we're using.
If you really believe that we live in a democracy here
I'm not sure why YOU think I said that, but for clarification, I didn't.
The point being made was not that I'm some crazy hippie that believes that everyone is equal and political utopia is an easy thing. I thought I was quite clear. Let's start again!
We don't do that to avoid the potential for two things: Mob Rule, in which people decide not to bother to go make their voice heard when it appears [to them] that it would be unheard anyway, or they jump on the bandwagon to go join the winning team, and to avoid premature calling of the vote leading to same.
Something about how the populace needs to be protected from the natural results of full accountability in a true republic, which is more than ridiculous. There's nothing wrong about letting the American political system kill itself or people feeling bad that their vote doesn't count. Not everyone wins in a political system no matter how you play with it. People who choose not to vote because they are depondent is not a political problem. Try to stay objective.
A better solution than trying to hide results from a populace that needs to be able to audit those results (to ensure a legitimate outcome), is to make voting MANDATORY (via law), keep specific individual records, and mandate election results be shown on the top media channels all day. The fact that it's not CURRENTLY feasible (for socio-economic and political reasons) is irrelevant. The quality of candidates and strength of the American political system would be measureably, less corrupt.
That's honestly, what I think, in regards to your opinions.
The fact that most people dont understand that true democracy is mob rule makes most of your statement moot. The public, for the most part, don't even have access to accurate facts (for an informed decision). Welcome to America. Try to keep your crazy ideas of protecting the public from itself to the EMPLOYED politicians.
I've written code in both PHP and C, and writing secure code in PHP is harder, because you have to work around the insecure C code it's written in.
I wrote my first DB abstraction in PHP/FI in 1997. I've never ever used PHP for anything other than web development as it's not explicitly designed for anything else. The previous quote is from someone doing what any professional PHP programmer knows not to do. Trying to program non-web applications in PHP (forgive me if you mean you arent experienced enough to make non-exploitable webscripts, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt). Yes, it's possible to make full blown PHP applications. You can also intentionally insult your company's president at a corporate-sponsored party. A programmer acting irresponsibly is not the fault of a language.
Thanks for your opinion. You're wrong to say that the game "should" be pulled when it's already been deemed a finalist. Next time, come back at me with some facts backing up your zealotry.
who cannot legally practice in our country due to draconian immigration policies.
You misspelled adequate education and training. You know what, screw qualifications and background checks for doctors and nurses in the emergency room. I miss the Dark Ages too!
Imagine that cow also has a hereditary problem that, when eaten, causes health problems in humans.
The cow by itself would affect a very small portion of the population. Cloned, and undetected, it will affect many many more people.
This scares me a lot.
How about you imagine that research into cloning has possibly deterred us from detecting an asteroid that could kill so many people as to make the current world famines seem like a minor annoyances.
Some people would _claim_ to shy away from picking up a hundred dollar bill for fear of hurting their back. In reality, they are just spouting nonsense because they have nothing to add. How this crap gets marked insightful, is more frightening than the premise.
However, the apporach to server management is dreadful and starkly contrasts with this
It's a common refrain that the server makes 90% of the MMORPG. This does not necessarily mean that the server management has been dreadful, given the popularity.
It's just lazy programming or bad management
Given the results, I cannot agree with your conclusions. Less efficient than the optimal result, yes. Awful, no.
Servers do not need to be taken down to do backups,
I'm sure you're aware of the granularity that WoW records through logging/xaction records. I'm of the belief that the maintenance is to audit the system, analyze patterns (to look for exploitation), and do optimization. Everyone knows that they were also doing cleanup of memory leaks and AI hangups that they have eventually been able to snuff out. Their Bug Tracking is efficient and extensive.
Sadly, the customer support bad too : unlike in Soth Park:WoW you can't *really* phone support
I conceded there is no phone support. You can say it. It's true. The in-game ticket system is a joke. On the other hand, the customer support in-game is very very extensive. Blizzard supports those who can run the game, divorcing them from the deluge of inane 3rd party technical questions that they aren't necessarily interested in providing support for. This is a GOOD tactic and I cannot fault them for it. While it's misleading to pretend to give support through tickets or phone, remember that any CSR you talk to online can dig out the ENTIRE list of items your character has ever held, by timestamp, original source, and eventual destination. The maintenance was always worth it once you learned to navigate the "Blizzard CSR system"
/Quit playing June 2006
//I could ask the Blizzard employees I know, but it is Christmas:p I dont expect their answers to be surprising, tomorrow.
The point is that downtime at ANY time of the day is inappropriate in a global service
If you would characterize WoW as a global service, which is a stretch, WoW would be one of the definitive examples that it is a standard. MySpace, Second Life and yes, even Digg have have maintenance. I don't see where appropriate fits into it.
This is clearly a hedge fund pump and dump move. Sales up profits down? Heck, there hasn't been a single newsworthy item that justifies the massive spike. As any money manager would tell you, this is how big money makes more money for free. Pump it up on speculative news with a massive buy, wait, wait, dump it.
I am an admitted MySQL fan, however this "unbiased review" is dripping with subjective statements favoring MySQL. When you have PostgreSQL criticisms IN MySQL feature sets, it's clearly biased.
That's not relevant to *most* predicaments suffered by victims of identity theft. The problem is not about human behavior, but government behavior. I certainly never lost anything to 3rd parties that I could not recover...other than Tax leins, which is the problem that Real ID solves. The rest of this banter about "what about this situation" belies the misinformation (fed to and fed by) of the opposition, to any coherent system for the government. Everyone ADMITS it doesnt verify identity in any meaningful way. Didn't you notice that there is no SINGLE identification that you can use for every government agency. You can be denied a Driver's License because you're believed dead, but can still get a passport, given the current system. The first thing you do with a database is fucking normalize it. Any discussion beyond that simply results in harmful changes.
Rectification. Currently, there is no "unified proof" because the SS and IRS do not communicate. Being able to dispute the problem from a singular point as opposed to an infinite loop of "not my problem, talk to them" is simply sane. Not the best, but a tenable solution. Specifically, my problems are about taxation of income that I did not receive, not buying products (which I can rectify via CC company more easily than the US Gov).
I don't think it would, unless implemented correctly. As it's still up in the air to be implemented, this question is a lot like asking "how do you know that the sun will rise tomorrow?". I'll wait and see, with a hopeful outlook.
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When you are asked to do serious work, it's about the most efficient way which has inevitably been worked out by someone else with a bigger budget and more time. The rest of the people claiming that a good programmer already knows how, have been solving the trivial for so long they can't imagine the larger problems that experienced programmers face.
Unfortunately the different forms of ID, including Social Security are too disconnected and easy to forge, to be useful. I can bury my grandfather but still find he managed to get a new Driver's License a month later. We do not have a uniform ID in place and we should, since almost every facet of the government relies on it. I can appreciate someone who disagrees with something like income tax, but it's a part of life and fair accounting is considered a GIVEN in society. Normalize the data, put everyone in a single DB. That's the way it has to be if you want a more efficient government and a lot less injustice. Lots of people would rather there be shadows to hide in, until you get hit with someone else's income tax bill or worse, felony conviction, and there's no recourse since they are in the shadows and your aren't. I don't care about party affiliation, I care about the concept of justice.
P.S.
In the US, Nothing's more sobering than going to court with a passport and SS card, where you state you are a home owner who has never even been to Georgia (GA), but the court finds that you are still liable for income tax unpaid by someone who used your SS #.
StarCraft was arguably the best multiplayer game I have ever encountered. Extensible/Upgradeable, very high replay value, pretty/finished look, cheap to develop, networked with a matchmaking system. That being said, it's not eligible as being important. Nothing was done differently or brilliantly. It was a managerial milestone.
Herzog Zwei/Dune 2 were the most important of the multiplayer RTS genre as Herzog Zwei paved the way for Total Annihilation. Physics based projectiles, unit behaviors (seek out and repair drones!), and the default control scheme every RTS uses to an extent. Dune 2 defined the networking methodologies used over and over by blizzard and others.
There is no question as the technology is perhaps the worst kind. A lucrative defense contract that produced a system that doesnt work in real world scenarios. Are you so misled by a defense contractor's press release to ask a followup question or are you being sarcastic?
k i/Article_Archives/weekly07250301.asp to give you a high school primer on the physics of distance vs speed, which is noticeably independent of the targetting concerns. We wont hear about this until the system " unfortunately fails to counter" a simple rocket launched from a truck somewhere near Washington D.C.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/about_us/Dr_David_Suzu
"If you build a missile defense that is so fragile almost anything an adversary does will cause it to collapse, then you invite a weak adversary to (attack)" - Theodore A. Postol
I went to GenCon religiously UNTIL it was aquired and turned into the crappy circus it last was. The entire blog outlines how he aquired it and ran it into the ground with an unproven model. Never once did he go back to a traditional small Westin Hotel convention like Orccon and Strategicon still are.
Digg and Fark cover general stupidity.
I'm not sure why YOU think I said that, but for clarification, I didn't.
The point being made was not that I'm some crazy hippie that believes that everyone is equal and political utopia is an easy thing. I thought I was quite clear. Let's start again!
Something about how the populace needs to be protected from the natural results of full accountability in a true republic, which is more than ridiculous. There's nothing wrong about letting the American political system kill itself or people feeling bad that their vote doesn't count. Not everyone wins in a political system no matter how you play with it. People who choose not to vote because they are depondent is not a political problem. Try to stay objective.
A better solution than trying to hide results from a populace that needs to be able to audit those results (to ensure a legitimate outcome), is to make voting MANDATORY (via law), keep specific individual records, and mandate election results be shown on the top media channels all day. The fact that it's not CURRENTLY feasible (for socio-economic and political reasons) is irrelevant. The quality of candidates and strength of the American political system would be measureably, less corrupt.
That's honestly, what I think, in regards to your opinions.
The fact that most people dont understand that true democracy is mob rule makes most of your statement moot. The public, for the most part, don't even have access to accurate facts (for an informed decision). Welcome to America. Try to keep your crazy ideas of protecting the public from itself to the EMPLOYED politicians.
the game should be pulled out.
Thanks for your opinion. You're wrong to say that the game "should" be pulled when it's already been deemed a finalist. Next time, come back at me with some facts backing up your zealotry.
who cannot legally practice in our country due to draconian immigration policies.
You misspelled adequate education and training. You know what, screw qualifications and background checks for doctors and nurses in the emergency room. I miss the Dark Ages too!
Some people would _claim_ to shy away from picking up a hundred dollar bill for fear of hurting their back. In reality, they are just spouting nonsense because they have nothing to add. How this crap gets marked insightful, is more frightening than the premise.
The results showed a number of things. One of them was that a majority would harm others.
The fact that you do the "final" (fatal) harm or the "initial" (non lethal) harm is rather inconsequential, in my experience.
Given the results, I cannot agree with your conclusions. Less efficient than the optimal result, yes. Awful, no.
I'm sure you're aware of the granularity that WoW records through logging/xaction records. I'm of the belief that the maintenance is to audit the system, analyze patterns (to look for exploitation), and do optimization. Everyone knows that they were also doing cleanup of memory leaks and AI hangups that they have eventually been able to snuff out. Their Bug Tracking is efficient and extensive.
I conceded there is no phone support. You can say it. It's true. The in-game ticket system is a joke. On the other hand, the customer support in-game is very very extensive. Blizzard supports those who can run the game, divorcing them from the deluge of inane 3rd party technical questions that they aren't necessarily interested in providing support for. This is a GOOD tactic and I cannot fault them for it. While it's misleading to pretend to give support through tickets or phone, remember that any CSR you talk to online can dig out the ENTIRE list of items your character has ever held, by timestamp, original source, and eventual destination. The maintenance was always worth it once you learned to navigate the "Blizzard CSR system"
This is clearly a hedge fund pump and dump move. Sales up profits down? Heck, there hasn't been a single newsworthy item that justifies the massive spike. As any money manager would tell you, this is how big money makes more money for free. Pump it up on speculative news with a massive buy, wait, wait, dump it.
I am an admitted MySQL fan, however this "unbiased review" is dripping with subjective statements favoring MySQL.
When you have PostgreSQL criticisms IN MySQL feature sets, it's clearly biased.
This is not news for nerds. This certainly does not matter.
That's not relevant to *most* predicaments suffered by victims of identity theft. The problem is not about human behavior, but government behavior. I certainly never lost anything to 3rd parties that I could not recover...other than Tax leins, which is the problem that Real ID solves. The rest of this banter about "what about this situation" belies the misinformation (fed to and fed by) of the opposition, to any coherent system for the government. Everyone ADMITS it doesnt verify identity in any meaningful way. Didn't you notice that there is no SINGLE identification that you can use for every government agency. You can be denied a Driver's License because you're believed dead, but can still get a passport, given the current system. The first thing you do with a database is fucking normalize it. Any discussion beyond that simply results in harmful changes.
Rectification. Currently, there is no "unified proof" because the SS and IRS do not communicate. Being able to dispute the problem from a singular point as opposed to an infinite loop of "not my problem, talk to them" is simply sane. Not the best, but a tenable solution. Specifically, my problems are about taxation of income that I did not receive, not buying products (which I can rectify via CC company more easily than the US Gov).
As an AC posted, it's not just about trying to stop theft, it's about rectification which is currently impossible.
I don't think it would, unless implemented correctly. As it's still up in the air to be implemented, this question is a lot like asking "how do you know that the sun will rise tomorrow?". I'll wait and see, with a hopeful outlook.
When I was younger, I rejected the need to track who I was. I was clinging to an ideology that felt natural.
/opinion
Now that I'm older and I've been damaged by identity theft ($1k and counting, not to mention the credit damage and IRS audit)
I can't wait.