I agree, but any chain is as strong as the weakest link. The safest OS in the world can't handle sheer stupidity or ignorance, or if it does it's basically useless for anything.
The operating system really isn't the issue here, failure to isolate the system is. I've set up several windows systems inside a double firewall which in turn are set up with a VPN to whatever the systems needed to communicate with, and nothing else. Those did exactly what they needed to do because nothing else would get in or out. That a mission critical system gets infected at all points to a serious flaw somewhere, a goddamned alarm system shouldn't need any active usb-ports nor any access to the internet besides an encrypted line to whoever is supposed to receive the alarm and respond. I hope this is viewed as a criminal case, someone did an absolutely horrendous job or didn't do it at all and 154 people lost their lives because of it.
Ya, I've never understood why 1 + 2 = 3 = 4 - 1 isn't okay.
Technically it is as okay as it gets, both sides of each equality operator is equal which is exactly how the symbol works. TFA is about how people don't actually "get" that, if you look at the example in the summary it essentially says 9 = 11 which of course is plain wrong. The reason "double equalities" might be wrong is if you're solving an equation while showing each step.
I disagree, I'd call failure to react properly to changing circumstances something that went wrong. Google didn't hit like a hurricane but grew steadily into a giant. Spending years hiring mediocre developers developing mediocre products and not being sure of the direction to take the company isn't exactly the business equivalent of a flash flood. I don't see any Yahoo executive saying "it all happened so fast, just *WHOOSH* all gone".
The feeling of a weapons weight, and the resulting sway because of that and the act of pulling the trigger, is not transferrable to mouse movement. Hence, randomness is thrown in to compensate for perfect aim and the fact that a 50 gram computer mouse resting on a table doesn't induce much unintended movement compared to a 3-5 kg automatic weapon which you have to keep up and steady using both your arms and shoulders.
Tracking absolutely everybody on the leaderboard also makes it possible to track ones distance to the top and has every bit of progress make a difference. "Yesterday I was 615th, today I'm up to 422nd. Next week and I'll be two-digit.." Secondly, it allows you to compare your relative positions with your friends. It's not about being the best, as long as you beat your neighbor.
OTOH, in much the same way I was able to see how hundreds of thousands of people went past me every day in Modern Warfare 2 in the first few weeks while I still bothered to play that game.
I see your point, but its purpose would be that of a challenge. The game practially asks if you're man anough to pull it off. You can still continue your game after getting said achievement, and by actually being able to do it you're already quite adept and have then amassed a considerable amount of points.
I find achievements the most interesting to hunt when they're asking you to play a game in a new way or try out new and/or interesting things. Geometry Wars 2 had some very interesting achievements, like the ever so hard "Wax on/wax off" where you need to touch every inch of the four walls twice without dying. Like TFA says it's a nice motivator to explore the games or to add replayability ("Pacifist": Mirror's Edge without shooting a gun).
The other side of the coin is of course the ones giving you "achievements" for nothing. There are games giving you "achievements" basically for starting the game. Guitar Hero: World Tour really takes away the prestige involved in getting those achievements: playing the tutorial, completing a song, perform as a drummer/vocalist/guitarist, download a few songs, complete an online match (win or lose). Achievements could hardly get less interesting.
Is there some weird definition of "Alien" that I dont know of?
Usually it means extra-terrestrial, but in this case they mean extra-solar (a word also used in the article). I'll assume the guy who came up with the headline is not the guy who wrote the article.
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I agree, but any chain is as strong as the weakest link. The safest OS in the world can't handle sheer stupidity or ignorance, or if it does it's basically useless for anything.
Disclaimer: rant based solely on the summary and a bit of pure speculation. I, of course, didn't read TFA.
The operating system really isn't the issue here, failure to isolate the system is. I've set up several windows systems inside a double firewall which in turn are set up with a VPN to whatever the systems needed to communicate with, and nothing else. Those did exactly what they needed to do because nothing else would get in or out. That a mission critical system gets infected at all points to a serious flaw somewhere, a goddamned alarm system shouldn't need any active usb-ports nor any access to the internet besides an encrypted line to whoever is supposed to receive the alarm and respond. I hope this is viewed as a criminal case, someone did an absolutely horrendous job or didn't do it at all and 154 people lost their lives because of it.
Indeed it is an unmanned aerial vehicle, but something tells me Infinity Ward has skewed the meaning of the acronym for quite a number of people.
Ya, I've never understood why 1 + 2 = 3 = 4 - 1 isn't okay.
Technically it is as okay as it gets, both sides of each equality operator is equal which is exactly how the symbol works. TFA is about how people don't actually "get" that, if you look at the example in the summary it essentially says 9 = 11 which of course is plain wrong.
The reason "double equalities" might be wrong is if you're solving an equation while showing each step.
I disagree, I'd call failure to react properly to changing circumstances something that went wrong. Google didn't hit like a hurricane but grew steadily into a giant. Spending years hiring mediocre developers developing mediocre products and not being sure of the direction to take the company isn't exactly the business equivalent of a flash flood. I don't see any Yahoo executive saying "it all happened so fast, just *WHOOSH* all gone".
TRWTF is slashdots incönsistent HTML support. No wait, TRWTF is calling HTML entities UTF-8.
Moore's Law v2: the number of digits PI is calculated to will double every 18 months.
The feeling of a weapons weight, and the resulting sway because of that and the act of pulling the trigger, is not transferrable to mouse movement. Hence, randomness is thrown in to compensate for perfect aim and the fact that a 50 gram computer mouse resting on a table doesn't induce much unintended movement compared to a 3-5 kg automatic weapon which you have to keep up and steady using both your arms and shoulders.
Tracking absolutely everybody on the leaderboard also makes it possible to track ones distance to the top and has every bit of progress make a difference. "Yesterday I was 615th, today I'm up to 422nd. Next week and I'll be two-digit.." Secondly, it allows you to compare your relative positions with your friends. It's not about being the best, as long as you beat your neighbor.
OTOH, in much the same way I was able to see how hundreds of thousands of people went past me every day in Modern Warfare 2 in the first few weeks while I still bothered to play that game.
I see your point, but its purpose would be that of a challenge. The game practially asks if you're man anough to pull it off. You can still continue your game after getting said achievement, and by actually being able to do it you're already quite adept and have then amassed a considerable amount of points.
I find achievements the most interesting to hunt when they're asking you to play a game in a new way or try out new and/or interesting things. Geometry Wars 2 had some very interesting achievements, like the ever so hard "Wax on/wax off" where you need to touch every inch of the four walls twice without dying. Like TFA says it's a nice motivator to explore the games or to add replayability ("Pacifist": Mirror's Edge without shooting a gun). The other side of the coin is of course the ones giving you "achievements" for nothing. There are games giving you "achievements" basically for starting the game. Guitar Hero: World Tour really takes away the prestige involved in getting those achievements: playing the tutorial, completing a song, perform as a drummer/vocalist/guitarist, download a few songs, complete an online match (win or lose). Achievements could hardly get less interesting.
Is there some weird definition of "Alien" that I dont know of?
Usually it means extra-terrestrial, but in this case they mean extra-solar (a word also used in the article). I'll assume the guy who came up with the headline is not the guy who wrote the article.