how far is the nearest black hole? i mean, they would have to shoot the "laser"(read as dr Evil) and wait how long for the laser to reach the black hole? It should be some years. then, another years to receive the data from that black hole. is that correct?
Sssssh! You'll spoil their proposal for a research grant!
If you had read my post, you'd know that I mentioned:
1) The AH being killed off 1 week ago. The effects of the AH on the overall design of the game are still in effect.
2) The loot system being tweaked repeatedly. Not only have none of the tweaks failed to solve the core problem with loot (it's boring and takes forever to get) the constant changes make any time invested a complete waste.
1. Everything sucks 2. I will not pay for anything, no matter what the quality to cost ratio is. Any game with a price tag is the man trying to keep me down. In fact, if daily raging taser-sex with a different college's cheerleaders followed by a 29-foot roast beef buffet were priced at $0.02 and I had a half-off coupon, I'd still bitch like the entitled little fuck I am. 3. Everything sucks
Seems to me that sex with an entire cheerleading squad and a 29-foot roast beef buffet are the same thing. Not sure how the taser is involved.
The loot system is shit - everything from the drops themselves to their rarity to the auction house was designed to extract time and money from players. Yes, the auction house was removed last week but the drops still suck. The auction house (and the design choices made in order to push players to use it) ruined the game for nearly 2 full years.
The gameplay, story, combat etc. is uninspired. It's generally not any worse than DII but it's not any better. There's nothing substantively new here to keep people experimenting with different character classes and builds. Everything is easily power gamed and the game is nothing but grind if you want to play past a single play through to beat the higher difficulty levels. Run through the campaign once, then grind away using a build you found on the forums until you can do it again at the next difficulty. Yawn.
The art is horrid. Being too bright/colorful isn't my main issue (though I agree it's worse than the original, darker look we saw earlier). The worst thing about the art is the god damned World of Warcraft art team shitting up everything. I'll never get over WoW's art team shitting up SC2 (compare a WoW felhound to an SC2 zergling for starters), and I'll never get over that same shitty style infesting DIII.
The meta is a joke. 2 years in and we've still got an unstable game with regards to balance, loot, etc. Blizzard's idea of balance is results-based. If X % of players are using a certain class they balance it to adjust X up or down accordingly. They don't actually bother to balance mechanics, abilities, or class attributes, they're just balancing against popularity. It's SC2 balance all over again. Nerf Terran, buff Zerg, buff Protoss specifically against Terran, all based on 1v1 rock paper scissor matches. The loot similarly is unstable. There's no point in griding for the flavor-of-the-month item if it's going to be B-tier next month.
Diablo III doesn't have the staying power that its predecessor had. The expansion won't change that. The game is shit from the ground up.
Seriously? The % variance from election to election is about 2-5%. Has been for years. Our country pretty votes 50/50 for the two parties. The only exception was the 92 election in which periot got a significant amount. It has been this way since the 60s. Even the 'landslide' of Regan vs Mondale was by ~2%.
Accept it. Both dudes lost by a narrow margin. You are clinging to conspiracies because your dude lost. Even the 'crushing victory' in the last two was by ~1%. Voter fraud does exist. However, statistically it is negligible. Even Nate Silver accepts that...
Successful voter fraud is undetectable, and thus immeasurable. You cannot quantify it without verifying individual votes, and you can't do that without tracking each individual vote and removing voter's anonymity.
I am not claiming that it is rampant. I am merely stating the fact that you cannot know how much of a problem it is. Saying it's very rare is as much bullshit as saying it's very frequent.
So all he's doing is a boring experiment and live-blogging it?
Sure, that kind of link-bait would have been fine back in 2002 when "blogs" were all cool.
If Slahdot's standards hadn't dropped so much recently he would have had to do the following things to get on the front page: 1. Print the rats with a a 3D printer. 2. Put the rats ON A DRONE. 3. Use the rat-drone to uncover a secret NSA program that has already produced the stem cells to INVADE OUR PRIVACY. 4. Prove that stem cells create global warming. 5. Write a lengthy academic paper that has nothing whatsoever to do with points 1-4 but instead states.. without coming to a firm conclusion.. that Christians* are inferior forms of life because jargon.
* But not muslims, because even though we talk the big talk we're really a bunch of sniveling cowards. Hey, tomorrow is Sharia tuesday!
No Tesla or Bitcoin? Good luck hitting the front page.
Toyota flooring cover were sticking the pedals down when pushed down hard by the user. That's quite different, in this case he took his feet off and the car didn't start accelerating as if there was no tomorrow.
It wasn't the floor mats, that was bogus shit they concocted to suppress the real issue with their control software.
Hey look, some idiot hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal and it's "news" because it was a Tesla.
It was "news" when it happened to Toyota, too.
Your sacred cow, eh, eets not so sacred.
Hey dumbass:
1: I don't like Tesla. They're overpriced, flashy, and catch fire a lot. 2: I hate Elon Musk. he's a douche with a douchey track record. 3: Toyota's shit was newsworthy because it was a fucking serious issue (that they knew about and tried to cover up repeatedly) that resulted in people dying.
I wonder, who gets to decide? Does this mean that all game avatars will be wearing grey coveralls like THX1138?
.And how do you resolve the "it's misogynist to have women avatars in combat" and "it's misogynist *not* to have women avatars in combat" groups?
You ignore them. Making a decision based on sex is sexist. It's just as sexist to create a game where all the enemies you kill are women as it is to create a game where all the enemies you kill are men. It doesn't matter if you made them all men because you didn't want to show violence against women (and get bitched at because of it), the decision was sexist. The decision was also fucking stupid because violence against men is just as bad as violence against women. Your life shouldn't be more or less valuable based on your gender. And of course the whole fucking fiasco is absurd to begin with since it's a fucking video game - none of this shit is real and no one who shouldn't be in a rubber room thinks it is.
Stop listening to people who cry about this pointless fucking shit and get back to making your games worth my money. Your DRM, $60 + $30 for DLC, buggy releases that are never fully fixed, shitty fucking netcode, lack of offline play and LAN play, and uninspired gameplay in general could use a bit of attention.
Not true at all. The current generations is excellent, to the point that only nVidia's highest end 750m and above mobile graphics chips are actually faster than it. Each successive iteration of the last 3 has got them step by step closer. It's entirely reasonable to expect that broad well will basically be on a par with the current best mobile chips of AMD and nVidia.
Every generation idiots spout off "Intel graphics are good now!" and every generation it's a complete joke. This shit has been going on for 2 fucking decades.
No vulnerabilities were exploited on the Linux servers; only stolen credentials were leveraged. We conclude that password-authentication on servers should be a thing of the past
What other fucking form of authentication is there? Certs? Those are just strings - like a password. Encrypted certs? What are you encrypting them with?
It all comes down to a secret someone has too know. Call it a key, a cert, a token, whatever, it's a fucking password at the end of the day.
I have tons of tabs open, because bookmarks suck. EG if I'm working on a project with a new framework I might need to reference 3-4 APIs, and 5 classes in each, and 2-3 methods per class in a given hour or two. I want a tab for each method, with a tree of the parent classes and APIs. Tree-Style tabs lets me have that, but Firefox's bookmarks don't. So I leave tabs open. That results in 50-60 tabs or so. Sure, I close the tab group when the project is done, and subsets when I'm done with them, and use different windows to separate different projects/activities, but it results in lots of tabs. "Normal" people use tabs for current pages, I like to have both the current pages and a herarchical history of how I got to those pages. I also open all links in tabs. Tab hierarchies provide a combined history (with list of what lead where,) bookmarks, and tabs, all in one convenient interface. If bookmarks supported this nicely it would be great, but they don't.
That's a terrible way to work. Here's how to do it.
1: Look up what you need. 2: Do what you need. 3: Close the tab when you're done with it.
The URL bar will automatically populate shit. Need to look up a method or class again? Type that shit in and your browser will autocomplete that shit from history. But you'd rather paw through a hierarchical list of 60 tabs. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. You might as well just crawl the docs and index every link. That's not how the modern internet works. It's akin to putting one of those Post-It flags on the front of a dictionary, then one on the first page for the letter D, then another on the 2nd to last page for D, then another on that same page on the word "dumbass". You're literally rebuilding an index that already exists for no damned reason.
Is it just me or does the screen/UI on the Moto 360 watch (in the video) look completely fake? Watching this video brings back memories of my Motorola Xoom purchase several years ago (spoiler alert: the feeling was not good).
Of course it's fake. You can see obvious aliasing on the edges. Expect the real thing to be semi-functional, slow, and impossible to see under any amount of sunlight. Welcome to the future!
executed? Violence breeds violence. They should either learn to deal with events that happen on the road appropriately, or not be allowed to drive.
Executed is a solution thought up by stupid short sighted people.
Violence does not breed violence. If that were true we would have gone extinct ages ago.
Fact: All major conflicts in human history have been solved with violence. Fact: Killing a violent person prevents them from being violent in the future. Fact: Letting violent people run loose lets them commit more violence, Fact: Rehabilitation doesn't work. The vast majority of offenders recidivate.
In almost all cases, people are violent not because of a lack of coping skills, a mental illness, etc, but because they simply want to be violent. Some people are just jerks, and other people shouldn't have to put up with that shit.
Not just lies, perjury. Those lies were told under oath.
If we had a functioning justice system in this country, those perps would be in jail awaiting trial right now.
-jcr
If we had a functioning justice system, they would have been rounded up, tried for treason, and executed as traitors. They are levying war against the entire populace and are aiding our enemies with spy-back agreements. The banksters, the clowns at BP, the Enron dicks, etc. all knowingly, willingly, and intentionally fucked shit up on such a grand scale that I would consider them to be waging war on Americans as well, thus making them traitors and earning them the death penalty.
But the law doesn't apply to the rich and powerful in this nation.
The real dangers,besides frying your brain,will be the ultimate of addictions.Called Wireheading,with electrodes implanted into the pleasure center of the brain,you could possibly "Pleasure "yourself until you die of neglect.I first heard of this via the Known Space series of books by Larry Niven.(Louis Wu was a wirehead in The Ringworld Engineers)
Take your time,think it through(Something else from those books)
People already kill themselves with drugs in very unpleasurable ways. Dying during orgasm with electrodes on your scalp sounds a lot better than dying after your everything rots off from krokodil.
Slashdot Mirror
how far is the nearest black hole? i mean, they would have to shoot the "laser"(read as dr Evil) and wait how long for the laser to reach the black hole? It should be some years. then, another years to receive the data from that black hole. is that correct?
Sssssh! You'll spoil their proposal for a research grant!
If you had read my post, you'd know that I mentioned:
1) The AH being killed off 1 week ago. The effects of the AH on the overall design of the game are still in effect.
2) The loot system being tweaked repeatedly. Not only have none of the tweaks failed to solve the core problem with loot (it's boring and takes forever to get) the constant changes make any time invested a complete waste.
Here's how I see the world:
1. Everything sucks
2. I will not pay for anything, no matter what the quality to cost ratio is. Any game with a price tag is the man trying to keep me down. In fact, if daily raging taser-sex with a different college's cheerleaders followed by a 29-foot roast beef buffet were priced at $0.02 and I had a half-off coupon, I'd still bitch like the entitled little fuck I am.
3. Everything sucks
Seems to me that sex with an entire cheerleading squad and a 29-foot roast beef buffet are the same thing.
Not sure how the taser is involved.
How about on expanding your comments as to why?
I'd be interested in why you made that choice.
Where to start?
The loot system is shit - everything from the drops themselves to their rarity to the auction house was designed to extract time and money from players. Yes, the auction house was removed last week but the drops still suck. The auction house (and the design choices made in order to push players to use it) ruined the game for nearly 2 full years.
The gameplay, story, combat etc. is uninspired. It's generally not any worse than DII but it's not any better. There's nothing substantively new here to keep people experimenting with different character classes and builds. Everything is easily power gamed and the game is nothing but grind if you want to play past a single play through to beat the higher difficulty levels. Run through the campaign once, then grind away using a build you found on the forums until you can do it again at the next difficulty. Yawn.
The art is horrid. Being too bright/colorful isn't my main issue (though I agree it's worse than the original, darker look we saw earlier). The worst thing about the art is the god damned World of Warcraft art team shitting up everything. I'll never get over WoW's art team shitting up SC2 (compare a WoW felhound to an SC2 zergling for starters), and I'll never get over that same shitty style infesting DIII.
The meta is a joke. 2 years in and we've still got an unstable game with regards to balance, loot, etc. Blizzard's idea of balance is results-based. If X % of players are using a certain class they balance it to adjust X up or down accordingly. They don't actually bother to balance mechanics, abilities, or class attributes, they're just balancing against popularity. It's SC2 balance all over again. Nerf Terran, buff Zerg, buff Protoss specifically against Terran, all based on 1v1 rock paper scissor matches. The loot similarly is unstable. There's no point in griding for the flavor-of-the-month item if it's going to be B-tier next month.
Diablo III doesn't have the staying power that its predecessor had. The expansion won't change that. The game is shit from the ground up.
Physical access IS root access!
Physical access is far, far greater than root access.
Seriously? The % variance from election to election is about 2-5%. Has been for years. Our country pretty votes 50/50 for the two parties. The only exception was the 92 election in which periot got a significant amount. It has been this way since the 60s. Even the 'landslide' of Regan vs Mondale was by ~2%.
Accept it. Both dudes lost by a narrow margin. You are clinging to conspiracies because your dude lost. Even the 'crushing victory' in the last two was by ~1%. Voter fraud does exist. However, statistically it is negligible. Even Nate Silver accepts that...
Successful voter fraud is undetectable, and thus immeasurable.
You cannot quantify it without verifying individual votes, and you can't do that without tracking each individual vote and removing voter's anonymity.
I am not claiming that it is rampant. I am merely stating the fact that you cannot know how much of a problem it is. Saying it's very rare is as much bullshit as saying it's very frequent.
I'm more into Dodgecoin myself. Much more trustworthy.
Many Doge
Such coin
Very trust
Much worthy
So all he's doing is a boring experiment and live-blogging it?
Sure, that kind of link-bait would have been fine back in 2002 when "blogs" were all cool.
If Slahdot's standards hadn't dropped so much recently he would have had to do the following things to get on the front page:
1. Print the rats with a a 3D printer.
2. Put the rats ON A DRONE.
3. Use the rat-drone to uncover a secret NSA program that has already produced the stem cells to INVADE OUR PRIVACY.
4. Prove that stem cells create global warming.
5. Write a lengthy academic paper that has nothing whatsoever to do with points 1-4 but instead states.. without coming to a firm conclusion.. that Christians* are inferior forms of life because jargon.
* But not muslims, because even though we talk the big talk we're really a bunch of sniveling cowards. Hey, tomorrow is Sharia tuesday!
No Tesla or Bitcoin? Good luck hitting the front page.
Toyota flooring cover were sticking the pedals down when pushed down hard by the user. That's quite different, in this case he took his feet off and the car didn't start accelerating as if there was no tomorrow.
It wasn't the floor mats, that was bogus shit they concocted to suppress the real issue with their control software.
Hey look, some idiot hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal and it's "news" because it was a Tesla.
It was "news" when it happened to Toyota, too.
Your sacred cow, eh, eets not so sacred.
Hey dumbass:
1: I don't like Tesla. They're overpriced, flashy, and catch fire a lot.
2: I hate Elon Musk. he's a douche with a douchey track record.
3: Toyota's shit was newsworthy because it was a fucking serious issue (that they knew about and tried to cover up repeatedly) that resulted in people dying.
Hey look, some idiot hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal and it's "news" because it was a Tesla.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Intruder is saying he already had the right to break into the house. No need to ask for permission.
That's right. He owns the house. And guess what. A landlord can go into your apartment without your permission also.
A landlord cannot enter your apartment without consent, written notice in advance, or an emergent issue (fire, ruptured plumbing, etc.).
+10 enchanted undergarments
Mormons.
I wonder, who gets to decide? Does this mean that all game avatars will be wearing grey coveralls like THX1138?
You ignore them. Making a decision based on sex is sexist.
It's just as sexist to create a game where all the enemies you kill are women as it is to create a game where all the enemies you kill are men.
It doesn't matter if you made them all men because you didn't want to show violence against women (and get bitched at because of it), the decision was sexist. The decision was also fucking stupid because violence against men is just as bad as violence against women. Your life shouldn't be more or less valuable based on your gender. And of course the whole fucking fiasco is absurd to begin with since it's a fucking video game - none of this shit is real and no one who shouldn't be in a rubber room thinks it is.
Stop listening to people who cry about this pointless fucking shit and get back to making your games worth my money. Your DRM, $60 + $30 for DLC, buggy releases that are never fully fixed, shitty fucking netcode, lack of offline play and LAN play, and uninspired gameplay in general could use a bit of attention.
In the US it's legal to age discriminate against anyone under 40.
I've always found it ridiculous that our anti-ageist laws were themselves ageist.
Not true at all. The current generations is excellent, to the point that only nVidia's highest end 750m and above mobile graphics chips are actually faster than it. Each successive iteration of the last 3 has got them step by step closer. It's entirely reasonable to expect that broad well will basically be on a par with the current best mobile chips of AMD and nVidia.
Every generation idiots spout off "Intel graphics are good now!" and every generation it's a complete joke.
This shit has been going on for 2 fucking decades.
From the Article
No vulnerabilities were exploited on the Linux servers; only stolen credentials were leveraged.
We conclude that password-authentication on servers should be a thing of the past
http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/operation_windigo.pdf
Nuff said.
What other fucking form of authentication is there? Certs? Those are just strings - like a password. Encrypted certs? What are you encrypting them with?
It all comes down to a secret someone has too know. Call it a key, a cert, a token, whatever, it's a fucking password at the end of the day.
I have tons of tabs open, because bookmarks suck. EG if I'm working on a project with a new framework I might need to reference 3-4 APIs, and 5 classes in each, and 2-3 methods per class in a given hour or two. I want a tab for each method, with a tree of the parent classes and APIs. Tree-Style tabs lets me have that, but Firefox's bookmarks don't. So I leave tabs open. That results in 50-60 tabs or so. Sure, I close the tab group when the project is done, and subsets when I'm done with them, and use different windows to separate different projects/activities, but it results in lots of tabs. "Normal" people use tabs for current pages, I like to have both the current pages and a herarchical history of how I got to those pages. I also open all links in tabs. Tab hierarchies provide a combined history (with list of what lead where,) bookmarks, and tabs, all in one convenient interface. If bookmarks supported this nicely it would be great, but they don't.
That's a terrible way to work. Here's how to do it.
1: Look up what you need.
2: Do what you need.
3: Close the tab when you're done with it.
The URL bar will automatically populate shit. Need to look up a method or class again? Type that shit in and your browser will autocomplete that shit from history. But you'd rather paw through a hierarchical list of 60 tabs. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. You might as well just crawl the docs and index every link. That's not how the modern internet works. It's akin to putting one of those Post-It flags on the front of a dictionary, then one on the first page for the letter D, then another on the 2nd to last page for D, then another on that same page on the word "dumbass". You're literally rebuilding an index that already exists for no damned reason.
In this thread: people who never have to work on more than one thing on any given day.
In this thread: Assmunch dipshits. No one works with 150 tabs at once, and no one believes anyone who claims to.
Slashdot finally crossed the streams.
Is it just me or does the screen/UI on the Moto 360 watch (in the video) look completely fake? Watching this video brings back memories of my Motorola Xoom purchase several years ago (spoiler alert: the feeling was not good).
Of course it's fake. You can see obvious aliasing on the edges.
Expect the real thing to be semi-functional, slow, and impossible to see under any amount of sunlight. Welcome to the future!
executed?
Violence breeds violence. They should either learn to deal with events that happen on the road appropriately, or not be allowed to drive.
Executed is a solution thought up by stupid short sighted people.
Violence does not breed violence. If that were true we would have gone extinct ages ago.
Fact: All major conflicts in human history have been solved with violence.
Fact: Killing a violent person prevents them from being violent in the future.
Fact: Letting violent people run loose lets them commit more violence,
Fact: Rehabilitation doesn't work. The vast majority of offenders recidivate.
In almost all cases, people are violent not because of a lack of coping skills, a mental illness, etc, but because they simply want to be violent. Some people are just jerks, and other people shouldn't have to put up with that shit.
Not just lies, perjury. Those lies were told under oath.
If we had a functioning justice system in this country, those perps would be in jail awaiting trial right now.
-jcr
If we had a functioning justice system, they would have been rounded up, tried for treason, and executed as traitors. They are levying war against the entire populace and are aiding our enemies with spy-back agreements. The banksters, the clowns at BP, the Enron dicks, etc. all knowingly, willingly, and intentionally fucked shit up on such a grand scale that I would consider them to be waging war on Americans as well, thus making them traitors and earning them the death penalty.
But the law doesn't apply to the rich and powerful in this nation.
The real dangers,besides frying your brain,will be the ultimate of addictions.Called Wireheading,with electrodes implanted into the pleasure center of the brain,you could possibly "Pleasure "yourself until you die of neglect.I first heard of this via the Known Space series of books by Larry Niven.(Louis Wu was a wirehead in The Ringworld Engineers)
Take your time,think it through(Something else from those books)
People already kill themselves with drugs in very unpleasurable ways. Dying during orgasm with electrodes on your scalp sounds a lot better than dying after your everything rots off from krokodil.