Considering SQL uses a language you can practically master in 15 minutes, I'll have to disagree. For 99% of applications, Query Analyzer was the only tool I've ever needed for SQL, and for 99% of applications, it will get whatever job you need done.
But now I think I've ran into the problem for your idea that Meier's death was caused by criminal negligence. Given that her death was a suicide, and given that no suicides are accidental, we can conclude that her death was not accidental. But it also seems that all deaths caused by criminal negligence are accidental. So, based on that, if her death was caused by criminal negligence, then her death was accidental. But her death was not accidental, so it seems safe to conclude that her death was not caused by criminal negligence.
This is all symantic quibble. You can tip a glass without attempting to knock it over. If it falls over and breaks, it's you're fault - whether it was your intention or not, you are responsible for it breaking. If this woman harassed this teen, intentionally causing emotional distress, and that becomes the primary factor of the teen's emotional breakdown-leading-to-suicide, then the teen's blood is on this woman's hands, and she is guilty or murder or manslaughter. Murder, if she intended the teen to kill herself, or manslaughter if she intended to have someone stop the teen before the emotional distress so violently manifested itself (a therapist, teacher, parent). It was her negligence to stop the consequences of her own hideous, wretched, horrific actions that caused the girl's death. Criminal negligence is the lightest sentence that justice should present to this monster.
It seems an idiot has modded you down because they don't understand very basic database expressions.
No need to get mad at Slashdot's mod point system, because, after all, if they outlaw giving mod points to stupids, then only stupid outlaws will have mod points... or something like that.
Make a total conversion for Oblivion or make a Quake mod that functions as a dating sim (shamblers love flowers) -- these will get attention. I had a buddy create a 3D rendering engine from scratch, then build a game similar to a cross between SmashTV and Serious Sam. He was hired on that alone.
Then, you get to the fun part: Doing the company's crap work. You get to design "based on the movie!" or "baseball game" that no one else wants to do. Work your fingers to the nub on this one, show them a bit of creativity, do some legwork of your own or get an intern to do it for you ("I had an intern run out and survey 600 people who play videogames, and these are the features they said would bring them back to sports games") Excel in this, and MAYBE you'll get your own project after 3-5 years.
That, or just make an Xbox Live game or iPhone app. Nothing's stopping you from starting on that tonight.
Solar panels are actually very cheap to get. Drive down a freeway with those solar-powered emergency phones, knock down a few of the poles, take the panel from on top, and install it on your home. They're free to anyone who has the gumption to get them, courtesy of your state highway department!
I've tried things like this a few years ago, when my life was spread too thin (between heading a massive non-profit group, earning money with a 9-5 job, balancing a very active social life, commuting 90 minutes a day, working out, and wanting to play a few videogames that had struck me as interesting. I tried to reduce my sleep time to 7 hours (from 8) knowing that is still a healthy dose of sleep. I ended up reducing it to 6 hours (weekends were about 2-4 hours) and after a month or so, the results were not pretty. When going to bed, I would get some crazy, hypnogogic images flying across the room. I'd look up to see trees falling on me, huge wasps the size of cantaloups buzzing in front of my face, frogs jumping on me... and I would usually see shadows darting in my peripheral vision when I was in lighted areas, just before bedtime. It took me another month to get back in the habit of going to bed around midnight to get up at 8:00 in the morning, but it was totally worth it.
Sponsor a $20 Billion, tax-exempt contract for ridable, mechanical dragons/griffons that live entirely off large livestock and I'm sure you'll have them fleet-ready in 15 years (as long as PETA doesn't catch wind of it).
In other words "We want Starcraft 2 to become a glorified chatroom just like WoW has become, and that can't happen if people are having LAN parties with legitimate copies of the game as they have for 10 years with Starcraft... which we now refer to as... 'PIRATED SERVERS!'" and the rest is "The entertainment industry and its programmers deserve to live wealthily while you struggle to find a job to support the nation and its economy. If you disagree with that, you must hate video games!"
I like hamburgers, but that doesn't mean I need to go spend $60 on a burger to "support" the beef industry. I spend $3 on a burger because I want to eat the damn burger.
Not exactly true AFAIK. Starcraft is still peer-to-peer once the game starts, so you'll still be interfacing with your lan buddies over your LAN. I'd imagine if everyone in the game is local, the WAN will see very little, if any, traffic
That won't increase the "quality control" as they're suggesting. That only increases the amount of things that can go wrong. Besides, that's a bloody insult to everyone who bought the game. "Let nanny look in on you and decide whether you've been good enough to play the game you paid for!" and btw, nanny has a 5% downtime for scheduled maintenance, and may be discontinued in 7-10 years.
I don't see the point in hauling all my computer stuff over to a friends house when now I can just hop on Steam and round up a few people and play Left 4 Dead.
Try it; then attempt to make an assessment as to whether it offers the same experience or a better one.
We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better.
How is connecting all the computers in the room to a server across the state going to ever be better than connecting all the computers in the room to each other? This man just told everyone that his bullshit is going to start tasting better than icecream. He just needs a neon sign over his head that says "Do not trust this man or anything he says."
This study was before Countrywide asked for a loan and ended up crashing the entire world economy in the Great Reality Check. It does lend us a window into seeing an alternate reality where the healthcare crisis caused micro-recessions.
Button-mashing mechanics will only be missed by those who had an over-reliance on it for winning.
I don't know what you envision your victory over, here. Button mashers are people who CAN'T complete combos or DON'T know the moves, so they simply mash the buttons and try to beat you that way... like a chimp would. Do you think motion controls make that any different? Instead, they'll be flinging their arms this way and that, rapid-punching and still "button mashing" as far as the input is concerned.
If you were referring to leveling the playing field so a skilled player is just as bad off as a terrible player, then a competitive game is no fun. What possible joy could come when the input is so shoddy that the game shows you no skill progress and winners may as well be picked at random? Yes, the mentally incapable might pull some joy out of "beating someone" because they rolled a higher number than the other person at dice, but such joys are short-lived and the game will end up being played once and then forgotten, because you can't get any better at it than you started.
Incapacitating everyone's avatars in the spirit of "equality" is NOT a step forward in video games.
Being part of the problem or the solution is not a prerequisite of caring. Perhaps you should head on out to Oz to see if the Wizard has any hearts left to give.
Maybe if the floor was made of broken glass and his bed made out of fiberglass insulation, and toilet was heated to 200 degrees, then 150 years might be enough. Fathers have committed suicide as a consequence of his actions. He stole more than California's state deficit! I hope, at the very least, they unleash a thousand silverfish into his cell every night when he tries to go to bed.
The worst part about stories like this is having to skip past the 3 dozen Slashdot posts that all say "I don't see ads because I block them! Hyuk! Hyuk!"
Sounds like you need an AdBlock Ad Blocker. It hides any posts that may be construed as viral advertisements to block advertisements from your browser. It allows those like you and me to learn about new car insurance rates and punch the monkey in peace.
Hell... For all the grief we give about Bill Gates, at least he is doing something for humanity that is good other than spend money on luxuries. The guy is not a hero and we should not look to him for inspiration. Plenty of other people in streets of Iran to look for that.
Michael Jackson won 15 awards for his humanitarian efforts that I could immediately find. Bill Gates has won 2 that I could immediately find. Michael Jackson was 50 when he died, Bill Gates is 52 and has more resources. You have simply been blinded by the jokes and allegations about ole Jacko. Outside of his music, he was a humanitarian, and he had many friends. He was a compulsive buyer, had serious daddy-issues, and was very, very weird -- but for a man his age, he probably changed the world, for the better, more than you, me, and every other current slashdot poster put together.
Which is about what the level of this "bias" is at. It's essentially saying that he's biased because he believes there should be laws (it doesn't really matter what those laws are particularly).
Or the level of bias that he's at because he belongs to an association that stands to profit enormously from a guilty verdict? Seriously... How the F#L$K do you possibly get more biased than that?
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Considering SQL uses a language you can practically master in 15 minutes, I'll have to disagree. For 99% of applications, Query Analyzer was the only tool I've ever needed for SQL, and for 99% of applications, it will get whatever job you need done.
But now I think I've ran into the problem for your idea that Meier's death was caused by criminal negligence. Given that her death was a suicide, and given that no suicides are accidental, we can conclude that her death was not accidental. But it also seems that all deaths caused by criminal negligence are accidental. So, based on that, if her death was caused by criminal negligence, then her death was accidental. But her death was not accidental, so it seems safe to conclude that her death was not caused by criminal negligence.
This is all symantic quibble. You can tip a glass without attempting to knock it over. If it falls over and breaks, it's you're fault - whether it was your intention or not, you are responsible for it breaking. If this woman harassed this teen, intentionally causing emotional distress, and that becomes the primary factor of the teen's emotional breakdown-leading-to-suicide, then the teen's blood is on this woman's hands, and she is guilty or murder or manslaughter. Murder, if she intended the teen to kill herself, or manslaughter if she intended to have someone stop the teen before the emotional distress so violently manifested itself (a therapist, teacher, parent). It was her negligence to stop the consequences of her own hideous, wretched, horrific actions that caused the girl's death. Criminal negligence is the lightest sentence that justice should present to this monster.
It seems an idiot has modded you down because they don't understand very basic database expressions.
No need to get mad at Slashdot's mod point system, because, after all, if they outlaw giving mod points to stupids, then only stupid outlaws will have mod points... or something like that.
This.
Make a total conversion for Oblivion or make a Quake mod that functions as a dating sim (shamblers love flowers) -- these will get attention. I had a buddy create a 3D rendering engine from scratch, then build a game similar to a cross between SmashTV and Serious Sam. He was hired on that alone.
Then, you get to the fun part: Doing the company's crap work. You get to design "based on the movie!" or "baseball game" that no one else wants to do. Work your fingers to the nub on this one, show them a bit of creativity, do some legwork of your own or get an intern to do it for you ("I had an intern run out and survey 600 people who play videogames, and these are the features they said would bring them back to sports games") Excel in this, and MAYBE you'll get your own project after 3-5 years.
That, or just make an Xbox Live game or iPhone app. Nothing's stopping you from starting on that tonight.
Solar panels are actually very cheap to get. Drive down a freeway with those solar-powered emergency phones, knock down a few of the poles, take the panel from on top, and install it on your home. They're free to anyone who has the gumption to get them, courtesy of your state highway department!
I've tried things like this a few years ago, when my life was spread too thin (between heading a massive non-profit group, earning money with a 9-5 job, balancing a very active social life, commuting 90 minutes a day, working out, and wanting to play a few videogames that had struck me as interesting. I tried to reduce my sleep time to 7 hours (from 8) knowing that is still a healthy dose of sleep. I ended up reducing it to 6 hours (weekends were about 2-4 hours) and after a month or so, the results were not pretty. When going to bed, I would get some crazy, hypnogogic images flying across the room. I'd look up to see trees falling on me, huge wasps the size of cantaloups buzzing in front of my face, frogs jumping on me... and I would usually see shadows darting in my peripheral vision when I was in lighted areas, just before bedtime. It took me another month to get back in the habit of going to bed around midnight to get up at 8:00 in the morning, but it was totally worth it.
Mod him +5 funny, I find it hard to believe how many people fell for the troll...
Sponsor a $20 Billion, tax-exempt contract for ridable, mechanical dragons/griffons that live entirely off large livestock and I'm sure you'll have them fleet-ready in 15 years (as long as PETA doesn't catch wind of it).
In other words "We want Starcraft 2 to become a glorified chatroom just like WoW has become, and that can't happen if people are having LAN parties with legitimate copies of the game as they have for 10 years with Starcraft... which we now refer to as... 'PIRATED SERVERS!'" and the rest is "The entertainment industry and its programmers deserve to live wealthily while you struggle to find a job to support the nation and its economy. If you disagree with that, you must hate video games!"
I like hamburgers, but that doesn't mean I need to go spend $60 on a burger to "support" the beef industry. I spend $3 on a burger because I want to eat the damn burger.
Not exactly true AFAIK. Starcraft is still peer-to-peer once the game starts, so you'll still be interfacing with your lan buddies over your LAN. I'd imagine if everyone in the game is local, the WAN will see very little, if any, traffic
That won't increase the "quality control" as they're suggesting. That only increases the amount of things that can go wrong. Besides, that's a bloody insult to everyone who bought the game. "Let nanny look in on you and decide whether you've been good enough to play the game you paid for!" and btw, nanny has a 5% downtime for scheduled maintenance, and may be discontinued in 7-10 years.
Well, if everyone in slashdot was like me, we all wanted to see if it flaps like a vulture or like a hummingbird before posting...
I don't see the point in hauling all my computer stuff over to a friends house when now I can just hop on Steam and round up a few people and play Left 4 Dead.
Try it; then attempt to make an assessment as to whether it offers the same experience or a better one.
We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better.
How is connecting all the computers in the room to a server across the state going to ever be better than connecting all the computers in the room to each other? This man just told everyone that his bullshit is going to start tasting better than icecream. He just needs a neon sign over his head that says "Do not trust this man or anything he says."
Jeeze, all scammers are scum of the earth. Why would you expect them to be any different with 12 yo kids?
hmmm... good question, so good, I think people should mod you up. Where will they get the mod points? Well, the secret Slashdot mod-point-getter! Just log into your slashdot account using their secret admin backend and you'll have all the mod points you want!
This study was before Countrywide asked for a loan and ended up crashing the entire world economy in the Great Reality Check. It does lend us a window into seeing an alternate reality where the healthcare crisis caused micro-recessions.
Button-mashing mechanics will only be missed by those who had an over-reliance on it for winning.
I don't know what you envision your victory over, here. Button mashers are people who CAN'T complete combos or DON'T know the moves, so they simply mash the buttons and try to beat you that way... like a chimp would. Do you think motion controls make that any different? Instead, they'll be flinging their arms this way and that, rapid-punching and still "button mashing" as far as the input is concerned.
If you were referring to leveling the playing field so a skilled player is just as bad off as a terrible player, then a competitive game is no fun. What possible joy could come when the input is so shoddy that the game shows you no skill progress and winners may as well be picked at random? Yes, the mentally incapable might pull some joy out of "beating someone" because they rolled a higher number than the other person at dice, but such joys are short-lived and the game will end up being played once and then forgotten, because you can't get any better at it than you started.
Incapacitating everyone's avatars in the spirit of "equality" is NOT a step forward in video games.
Being part of the problem or the solution is not a prerequisite of caring. Perhaps you should head on out to Oz to see if the Wizard has any hearts left to give.
Maybe if the floor was made of broken glass and his bed made out of fiberglass insulation, and toilet was heated to 200 degrees, then 150 years might be enough. Fathers have committed suicide as a consequence of his actions. He stole more than California's state deficit! I hope, at the very least, they unleash a thousand silverfish into his cell every night when he tries to go to bed.
...A time-lapse video of the night sky on Mars, the stars rolling overhead...
There's a cheap way you can fake it. Just look at a time-lapse video of the night sky on Earth. Same stars. Mars isn't THAT far away.
Would that include things like an online book or some online services?
I was thinking of software licenses... since it's like having bought something, but not really -- so it's virtual property.
The worst part about stories like this is having to skip past the 3 dozen Slashdot posts that all say "I don't see ads because I block them! Hyuk! Hyuk!"
Sounds like you need an AdBlock Ad Blocker. It hides any posts that may be construed as viral advertisements to block advertisements from your browser. It allows those like you and me to learn about new car insurance rates and punch the monkey in peace.
He deserved it. Everyone and their dog knows that mollusks are crustaceans.
And it's called augmented reality. Reinventing the wheel is bad for society but good for egos.
If it weren't for people reinventing the wheel, we wouldn't have rubber tires, tank treads, and chrome spinnaz!
Hell... For all the grief we give about Bill Gates, at least he is doing something for humanity that is good other than spend money on luxuries. The guy is not a hero and we should not look to him for inspiration. Plenty of other people in streets of Iran to look for that.
Michael Jackson won 15 awards for his humanitarian efforts that I could immediately find. Bill Gates has won 2 that I could immediately find. Michael Jackson was 50 when he died, Bill Gates is 52 and has more resources. You have simply been blinded by the jokes and allegations about ole Jacko. Outside of his music, he was a humanitarian, and he had many friends. He was a compulsive buyer, had serious daddy-issues, and was very, very weird -- but for a man his age, he probably changed the world, for the better, more than you, me, and every other current slashdot poster put together.
Which is about what the level of this "bias" is at. It's essentially saying that he's biased because he believes there should be laws (it doesn't really matter what those laws are particularly).
Or the level of bias that he's at because he belongs to an association that stands to profit enormously from a guilty verdict? Seriously... How the F#L$K do you possibly get more biased than that?