Isn't it, though? Games are made to entertain their customers and sustain their backers. WoW has done both to a degree that no other MMO ever has before - for years and years running. If your image of the 'ultimate game' doesn't include success then I humbly submit that your game wouldn't live very long.
By this reasoning, McDonalds must make the best hamburgers in the world, based on their corporate success.
Roger & Me: A documentary portraying the financial devastation caused to a small Michigan town by GM's layoffs in 1986. This is presented with a "Big corporation squishes the little guy because of a heartless profit motive" slant.
The problem is that Moore played very fast & slippery with the timelines in most of the footage used. Many of the clips that showed the devestation to Flint were shot *before* GM's layoffs. And the very premise of the movie, that Roger Smith (Chairman & CEO of GM at the time) was hard to get in touch with, was false; Moore was granted several opportunities to question Mr. Smith, including at a GM shareholder's meeting.
As with many of his entertainment documentaries, cold hard facts are often twisted and interpreted for the sole purpose of proving a point, not documenting objective truth.
I agreed with many points in the conclusion of this movie, but Moore took many shady paths on the road towards that conclusion. This is common in his films.
He (Michael Moore, or MM below) comes to several conclusions that I agree 100% with, but his road to those conclusions often make me cringe. I'll pick an abstract example of how this works for me (sorry, not a car analogy):
Conclusion that MM and I agree on: "Killing babys is bad."
MM Point 1: Because Democrats have 1.24 times the number of babies as Rebublicons...
Me: What? WTF does political affiliation have to do with killing babies?
MM Point 2: We interviewed 15 people outside of a retirement home, and they all said they weren't going to have any more babies. Therefore, babies are in short supply...
Me: Um, they're too old to have babies, pal.
MM Point 3: Nazis and KKK members are reported to eat aborted babies in their secret rituals. We interviewed 3 people who said they saw these rituals themselves...
Me: Ummm... sure, pal.
MM Point 4: Here we have a report of a doctor who took a baby off of life support and killed it! Doctors everywhere are doing this!
Me: Yeah, there are some valid situations where killing babies is medically necessary and humane, but those are extreme cases. And you know that. Stop pretending that you don't.
See, we can agree about the same conclusion, but the road to a shared conclusion can often take many different paths.
...Suppose you post a mentally-handicapped guard at your castle gate. When you are gone, your enemy hands him a scroll with instructions and says "These are from your boss. He wants you to do them right away." The instructions tell him to ransack your bed-chamber and run your underwear up the flag-pole. The guard obeys. Who is to blame?
This is actually a brilliant strategic move on Intel's part.
1) Buy McAfee
2) Give McAfee Antivirus away free with every AMD based system sold
3) Wait for masses of users to start complaining how slow and unstable the new (McAfee bundled) AMD based systems are.
4) PROFIT!
And nothing shows a complete lack of respect for previous non-disclosure agreements than showing off previous work (code) in an interview. Code that you created for any project that you worked on outside of work (outside of any non-disclosure agreement) is great. Code from a recent employer is generally bad.
...Then again, I don't have a degree in physics, so maybe someone else on/. can explain to me how in fact accelerating full-tilt into a solid object is in fact a good thing.
After seeing that amazing picture and realizing that it wasn't a really bad Photoshop job, I almost expected the headline to read "Higgs Boson Found!".
There is an emoticon for how you are feeling, but we all know how ALAX (Asynchronous Logo and XML) lacks many of the most basic features necessary to do that sort of emoticon effectively.
Actually, if it's that big of a problem, everyone affected *will* do just this because they don't know any better. No need for you to be a hero and trek to Wallyworld 5 times just to make a point...
I thought I was only kidding when I said the security on Blackboard was so bad a 9 year old could hack it.
Yeah, they took your advice into consideration when they implemented a "Please enter your age" pre-login screen to block out those nefarious 9 year olds. Looks like the wiley bastard must have lied about his age too.
We don't know when this defect was introduced into the code. It could have been a recently introduced defect or one that has been around for awhile; we have no way of knowing.
Bottom line is this is a BETA release. Sometimes the simplest defect can cause very nasty looking symptoms and look like a giant problem even though it has a very simple solution. And the most harmless looking defect can really be the tip of the iceberg, a huge design defect (or whatever) that is extremely difficult to resolve. It is pretty pointless to speculate about the state of a product just by looking at defects it has at any point on the pre-release stages of the product's lifecycle, because we just don't have enough information to make a meaningful conclusion.
That's all it takes to essentially opt out of these trolling expeditions. If they decide to focus on you specifically, then you've got other problems.
Call me a cynic, but I'd think that anyone who is encrypting emails would not only get an automatic "opt in" to any and all trolling activity, but also get a free pass to the front of the line.
Anyone who uses Google when they already know what website they want to go to deserves a boot to the head.
Oh really? So you know that your local bank, let's say "Farmer's Bank of East Texas", has "FarmersBankOfEastTexas.com" as their business website, and not "FarmersBankOfTexas.com", "FarmersBankEastTexas.com", or FarmerBankOfEastTexas.com", correct? Because if you're not sure, you are *begging* some phisherman to clean you out at some point due to a simple misspelling or typo on your part.
The easier solution is to 'google' the name of your bank; it's a pretty safe bet that the "real" bank will be the top root level domain to show up, due to it's Google authority. It's a hell of a lot easier for a thief to get typo domains of banks and mirror the real sites than it is for them to gain Google authority for the banks' names.
Slashdot Mirror
She thinks that she saw 'Antarctica' from her back yard, of course.
Isn't it, though? Games are made to entertain their customers and sustain their backers. WoW has done both to a degree that no other MMO ever has before - for years and years running. If your image of the 'ultimate game' doesn't include success then I humbly submit that your game wouldn't live very long.
By this reasoning, McDonalds must make the best hamburgers in the world, based on their corporate success.
"The "best" anything is always subjective.
Heh, and I was just going to comment that the space station looked like a Tie Fighter...
But... but... I thought Java was "write once, run anywhere!"
That's the short version. I've found that sometimes the more verbose version is applicable:
1) Write Once
2) ??
3) ??
4) Run Anywhere!
Roger & Me: A documentary portraying the financial devastation caused to a small Michigan town by GM's layoffs in 1986. This is presented with a "Big corporation squishes the little guy because of a heartless profit motive" slant.
The problem is that Moore played very fast & slippery with the timelines in most of the footage used. Many of the clips that showed the devestation to Flint were shot *before* GM's layoffs. And the very premise of the movie, that Roger Smith (Chairman & CEO of GM at the time) was hard to get in touch with, was false; Moore was granted several opportunities to question Mr. Smith, including at a GM shareholder's meeting.
As with many of his entertainment documentaries, cold hard facts are often twisted and interpreted for the sole purpose of proving a point, not documenting objective truth.
I agreed with many points in the conclusion of this movie, but Moore took many shady paths on the road towards that conclusion. This is common in his films.
Analogies are useful illustrating concepts and ideas while not getting hung up on irrelevant details, as you did above.
He (Michael Moore, or MM below) comes to several conclusions that I agree 100% with, but his road to those conclusions often make me cringe. I'll pick an abstract example of how this works for me (sorry, not a car analogy):
Conclusion that MM and I agree on: "Killing babys is bad."
MM Point 1: Because Democrats have 1.24 times the number of babies as Rebublicons...
Me: What? WTF does political affiliation have to do with killing babies?
MM Point 2: We interviewed 15 people outside of a retirement home, and they all said they weren't going to have any more babies. Therefore, babies are in short supply...
Me: Um, they're too old to have babies, pal.
MM Point 3: Nazis and KKK members are reported to eat aborted babies in their secret rituals. We interviewed 3 people who said they saw these rituals themselves...
Me: Ummm... sure, pal.
MM Point 4: Here we have a report of a doctor who took a baby off of life support and killed it! Doctors everywhere are doing this!
Me: Yeah, there are some valid situations where killing babies is medically necessary and humane, but those are extreme cases. And you know that. Stop pretending that you don't.
See, we can agree about the same conclusion, but the road to a shared conclusion can often take many different paths.
Nobody has mentioned a Tesla coil. *Every* true hackerspace must have a Tesla coil; the bigger the better. Just because.
...Suppose you post a mentally-handicapped guard at your castle gate. When you are gone, your enemy hands him a scroll with instructions and says "These are from your boss. He wants you to do them right away." The instructions tell him to ransack your bed-chamber and run your underwear up the flag-pole. The guard obeys. Who is to blame?
Twitter.
Oh wait, Microsoft.
No... Google.
Ooooh, Terrorists. Almost had me there.
This is actually a brilliant strategic move on Intel's part. 1) Buy McAfee
2) Give McAfee Antivirus away free with every AMD based system sold 3) Wait for masses of users to start complaining how slow and unstable the new (McAfee bundled) AMD based systems are. 4) PROFIT!
And nothing shows a complete lack of respect for previous non-disclosure agreements than showing off previous work (code) in an interview. Code that you created for any project that you worked on outside of work (outside of any non-disclosure agreement) is great. Code from a recent employer is generally bad.
...Then again, I don't have a degree in physics, so maybe someone else on /. can explain to me how in fact accelerating full-tilt into a solid object is in fact a good thing.
It's a law degree that you need for that one.
After seeing that amazing picture and realizing that it wasn't a really bad Photoshop job, I almost expected the headline to read "Higgs Boson Found!".
There is an emoticon for how you are feeling, but we all know how ALAX (Asynchronous Logo and XML) lacks many of the most basic features necessary to do that sort of emoticon effectively.
Actually, if it's that big of a problem, everyone affected *will* do just this because they don't know any better. No need for you to be a hero and trek to Wallyworld 5 times just to make a point...
In this case, one could say "The devil is in the indentation."
Wanna pay $20 to see my boxed Atari pong system?
Fixed that for ya.
I thought I was only kidding when I said the security on Blackboard was so bad a 9 year old could hack it.
Yeah, they took your advice into consideration when they implemented a "Please enter your age" pre-login screen to block out those nefarious 9 year olds.
Looks like the wiley bastard must have lied about his age too.
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The other 19 were thinking: "With Dimitar gone, who will fertilize my crops"?
We don't know when this defect was introduced into the code. It could have been a recently introduced defect or one that has been around for awhile; we have no way of knowing.
Bottom line is this is a BETA release. Sometimes the simplest defect can cause very nasty looking symptoms and look like a giant problem even though it has a very simple solution. And the most harmless looking defect can really be the tip of the iceberg, a huge design defect (or whatever) that is extremely difficult to resolve. It is pretty pointless to speculate about the state of a product just by looking at defects it has at any point on the pre-release stages of the product's lifecycle, because we just don't have enough information to make a meaningful conclusion.
All they need to solve this (or any) problem is some Mighty Putty (TM) and a Slap Chop (TM). You know the Germans make good stuff!
I'm glad they x-rayed your guns; who knows how many weapons you could have hidden in them!
That's all it takes to essentially opt out of these trolling expeditions.
If they decide to focus on you specifically, then you've got other problems.
Call me a cynic, but I'd think that anyone who is encrypting emails would not only get an automatic "opt in" to any and all trolling activity, but also get a free pass to the front of the line.
Anyone who uses Google when they already know what website they want to go to deserves a boot to the head.
Oh really? So you know that your local bank, let's say "Farmer's Bank of East Texas", has "FarmersBankOfEastTexas.com" as their business website, and not "FarmersBankOfTexas.com", "FarmersBankEastTexas.com", or FarmerBankOfEastTexas.com", correct? Because if you're not sure, you are *begging* some phisherman to clean you out at some point due to a simple misspelling or typo on your part.
The easier solution is to 'google' the name of your bank; it's a pretty safe bet that the "real" bank will be the top root level domain to show up, due to it's Google authority. It's a hell of a lot easier for a thief to get typo domains of banks and mirror the real sites than it is for them to gain Google authority for the banks' names.
Man, if only I had one of these as a kid... I would have been the undisputed champion at hide-and-go-seek!!!
I'll bet you would be. And you'd always happen to be "hiding" in the girl's locker room.
Yeah... so would I.