But the 10 commandments gives you a father, perhaps a better father than you had.
I'm not so sure about that. I mean, my father wasn't perfect, but at least he never threatened to have me tortured eternally if I didn't worship him. I'm pretty sure he never committed genocide, either. Also, he was nice enough to talk directly to me rather than having old men in robes tell me their interpretations of what he said.
On the other hand, "free speech" does not mean you can say whatever you want in any situation an expect there to be no repercussions for it.
If an employee publicly embarrasses their employer, should the employer be legally required to retain them? Or is it acceptable to fire an employee who has misrepresented you and damaged your public image? Because that's what happened here. This isn't a free speech issue -- the government is doing nothing to restrict what people are saying. This is a corporation deciding that a couple of employees have embarrassed them, and so they're getting rid of them.
I am pro-free speech, and I am also pro-employers being allowed to fire employees who screw up. While this is a more extreme reaction than I would've had in the same situation, I have no problem with the company being allowed to do it.
Attitudes like yours -- that it's ok to make sexual jokes when you are on the job, working around other people, and anybody who has a problem with it is a horrible, humorless person -- are exactly what's wrong in the industry.
These guys lost their jobs because of joking about the word dongle, something that every geek on the face of the planet has joked about.
Believe it or not, I haven't! At least, not when I'm in public or representing my employer in any fashion. I am capable of controlling the words that come out of my mouth, and so I refrain from making sexual jokes. I am still capable of having fun and making jokes in other ways. Restraining myself does not turn my life into a miserable pit of boredom, it just means that I'm not offending or alienating people while simultaneously giving my employer a bad name.
Don't think men with families they struggle to pay to feed their kids, and keep medical insurance don't secretly wonder if the female next to one of these females, and leave them out of the loop because of it. This is what causes the truly nasty life changing, paycheck shrinking discrimination, not stupid jokes.
Well, maybe they should learn to act professional when they're in a professional environment. The IT world does not need people who can't work unless they act like they're still in high school or like their job is some sort of good old boys' club.
I wouldn't hire this wretch in a million years, I don't care if she is the most brilliant python developer in the world.
And you can look forward to an employment discrimination lawsuit for that.
I couldn't believe it until I looked it up, and I see a lot of reviews saying that it's a shoddy port that doesn't have gamepad support and it crashes on a number of devices, including the Nexus 7. On top of that, the file size is large enough that unless you've got a pretty fast internet connection you may not even be able to download the game before the refund period expires, so you might be stuck spending $9 on something you can't even play. Meh.
rape noun 1. the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. 2. any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. 3. statutory rape. 4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside. 5. Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
The dictionary disagrees with you. You don't get to redefine words just because you want something to sound exceedingly awful. If there's no intercourse, it's not rape. That doesn't mean it's not terrible and wrong, but it does mean you have to find a different word if you want to be taken seriously.
802.11g can handle 54 Mbit/s, which is far faster than your average home internet connection. It's certainly good enough for streaming movies. Way more than is necessary for just using wireless network services. If you really need more than that, 802.11n can go up to 600 Mbit/s. With Bluetooth you're likely to get more like 2 Mbit/s, but that's still plenty fast for peripherals like keyboards and headsets. What are you doing regularly that needs more bandwidth than that, making ghost images of your media server's hard drives?
You really have no taste. Throwing money around doesn't give you taste or class.
You seem to have some sort of grudge. The parent's statement that "Android is crap" is right out of nowhere and a bit of a non-sequitur, but what's so wrong about not having much use for USB nowadays?
The Super NES was capable of 480i, but I don't know if any games used it.
Off the top of my head, Seiken Densetsu 3 used the SNES's high-res 512x384 mode. In fact, the game is effectively unplayable at lower resolutions; it used the high resolution to render complex kanji that were unreadable at lower resolutions.
Actually, even if your company doesn't have a sexual harassment policy, you can go to your boss' boss or higher or get a lawyer if you get harassed. Sexual harassment is illegal whether the company has a policy or not (even in brothels, assuming they're being legally operated).
I've both played and worked on enough games to know that creating an AI that follows a set of rules perfectly is easy. You have to go out of your way to make an AI that can fool players into thinking it's stupid.
And besides that, how many game AIs have had thousands of people spend several years working competitively on developing them?
First of all, that would be a technical nightmare -- aside from having to set up a transmitter in the school and receivers in all of the guns, it would be trivial to make a gun unable to receive the signal by doing something as simple as wrapping it in a wire mesh. Also, assuming that this is some sort of universal signal that would affect any gun in the country, what's to stop any potential burgler from bringing their own transmitter with them when breaking into your house in order to prevent you from using your legal, unmodified firearms?
The second problem here is when you say "all registered firearms"; very few places in the USA require that you register firearms at all, and gun nuts will go crazy if you start trying to mandate gun registration.
How would that accomplish anything? I'm pretty sure that somebody who is taking a gun to a school with the intent to murder people is not going to care that they're not allowed to take that firearm within 1,000 feet of the school.
People who intend to murder don't really care about breaking the law.
Megaman was very close to being part of the genre known as Metroidvania, with exploration, upgrades, and platforming action, but for a variety of reasons, Mega-metroidvania never came to pass. I think part of the problem is that a lot of what originally worked in Megaman and our memories of the game, do not translate well to the modern style.
Not at all. The Mega Man Zero series leaned strongly in that direction, and Mega Man ZX and ZX Advent were full-on Metroidvanias. Also see the Mega Man Legends and Battle Network series, although they borrowed more from traditional adventure games and RPGs.
But a simple side scrolling shooter with marginally situational upgrades isn't going to hold modern gamers' attentions.
Maybe what you mean is that they don't hold your attention? I think the success of Mega Man 9 and 10 has shown that there's still a significant portion of the gaming community that is just fine with linear stage progression.
Shining that nasty light right up into your retinas will give you eye cancer.
[citation needed]
But seriously, sunlight is a hell of a lot more intense than any tablet screen. If using a tablet is going to cause eye cancer, why isn't spending time outside even more dangerous?
JDBC is an API for connecting to databases; Hibernate is a specific implementation of JPA, which is a persistence framework that provides object-relational mapping. The two are not incompatible at all; in fact, Hibernate uses JDBC under the hood.
In addition to what other people have said, Square-Enix has made mobile versions of several of their games, including Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, and they've produced some original games for Android, like Chaos Rings and Crystal Defenders.
I dislike Romney just as much as everybody else on Slashdot, but why should the company get hit with the highest possible penalties because the owner supports a politician you don't like? Isn't that basically the opposite of free speech?
This is not really a comment, more of a question: wasn't the biggest complain about Diablo 2 the fact that it was wide open to cheating/hacking due to the fact that you could bring online the stuff you acquired offline?
That is a complaint, but not really a big one. There's a vocal minority that complains about it, but most people don't really care what other people do as long as it's not affecting their own game.
What is gonna prevent my neighbor's kid from hacking the sandworm-slaying-axe-of-madness and bringing it online to cut me in half?
For one, PVP is not only entirely consensual, you also have to enable the console and know the right command to enable it. It's impossible for somebody to attack you unless you both know how and consent to it.
But that aside, if somebody jumps into your game with a level 100 character and starts one-shotting everything and you don't want them to, the solution is pretty easy: kick them out of your game and ban them. Problem solved.
So, I teach an intro-level class at a community college on software project development. It covers stuff like version control, issue tracking, continuous integration, unit testing, and so on. We use both Subversion in Git in class for exercises, but I try to talk about general concepts and describe how other VCSes do things, too. With that in mind, my intro to version control speech usually goes something like:
The first thing I'm going to talk about is what's called a version control repository. The repository is a lot like a normal folder on a computer; it holds files and folders inside it. The thing that makes it special is that it remembers every change ever made to it. Every time a file is added, deleted, moved, or changed, it remembers what time the change happened, what was changed in the file, and who changed it. The repository exists on a server on the network, so whenever anybody changes a file in it, their changes are shared with everybody else. (note: I know distributed VCSes are different, that's a topic for a few weeks later)
What kind of things can you do with that? Any ideas? (wait for suggestions from the class) The most important thing is that you have a backup of every version of your files that has ever existed. If your hard drive catches on fire, you can get your files back from the repository. If you make a mistake in a file and need to undo your changes, you can always get the previous version of the file. As long as you're using the repository, you never have to worry about losing any data or making any mistakes that can't be undone.
It also makes it easy to coordinate changes to files with other people. If multiple people are working on the same file at once, the repository can show you the differences between the files and indicate who changed what. If a bug is introduced into your program, you can get the files from a previous version where the bug didn't exist, and you can easily see what has changed in the files since then and who made the changes.
So, to recap: version control is like an unlimited "undo" button that is backed up to the network, shared with other people, and can tell you who changed what. It can be used for a lot of different applications, but you can probably imagine how this is really important for software development.
Have you read the legal codes of 33 states of the United States? Those books are filled with various reasons for which people you should kill. Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Exodus were presenting a legal system that included capital punishment, not encouraging vigilatism. Shock horror, modern law in the US does the same thing.
Not sure I get what your point is here. Are you saying that killing is ok as long as a legal authority tells you to do it? I'm sure the Muslims who committed the murders in question here would tell you that the Quran is their ultimate legal authority. They don't see this as vigilantism, they see it as doing what the law tells them to do.
Have you read Leviticus, Deuteronomy, or Exodus? Those books are filled with various reasons for which you should kill people (see here), among others.
Of course, most modern Christians choose to ignore those parts of the bible, aside from the occasional abortion clinic bomber. The only real difference is that there are a significant number of Muslims who haven't figured out that they should ignore the parts of their holy text that say to kill people.
Just in case you don't know this, Answers in Genesis is considered a joke by everybody who isn't a Young Earth Creationist. Seriously, we've all seen the site, and we all laughed for a few minutes before we started cringing at the thought of how many people actually believe that. You will never convince anybody of anything by posting a link to AIG; it's equivalent to just saying, "I don't know what I'm talking about and am going to ignore everything you say."
Evolution is to sporadic for me to accept it as anything more than a funny Idea, to me it equates to putting all the ingredients for spaghetti into a bag and shaking it around, plating it, and saying "look spaghetti!" without cooking it. You cannot make something without first knowing all of the ingredients.
The funny thing is that's a terrible example. Sure, you can't make something without knowing the ingredients -- but if I show somebody a bag of uncooked spaghetti, then show them a plate of cooked spaghetti, they can pretty easily guess that somehow the uncooked spaghetti got cooked, even if they don't know how. They might even be able to figure out how if they study it enough.
However, you seem to be arguing about abiogenesis rather than evolution, which are related but distinct topics. Similar to the spaghetti, we know what kind of materials living creatures are made from and have an idea of how the might get there. We haven't recreated it yet, but that's no reason to throw our hands up in the air and declare that an omnipotent supernatural force did it.
On the other hand, evolution explains how early forms of life diversified into modern life, and there is a staggering amount of evidence for it. The fact that you're confusing it with abiogenesis and call it "sporadic" just says to me that you haven't actually gone researching the subject.
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But the 10 commandments gives you a father, perhaps a better father than you had.
I'm not so sure about that. I mean, my father wasn't perfect, but at least he never threatened to have me tortured eternally if I didn't worship him. I'm pretty sure he never committed genocide, either. Also, he was nice enough to talk directly to me rather than having old men in robes tell me their interpretations of what he said.
On the other hand, "free speech" does not mean you can say whatever you want in any situation an expect there to be no repercussions for it.
If an employee publicly embarrasses their employer, should the employer be legally required to retain them? Or is it acceptable to fire an employee who has misrepresented you and damaged your public image? Because that's what happened here. This isn't a free speech issue -- the government is doing nothing to restrict what people are saying. This is a corporation deciding that a couple of employees have embarrassed them, and so they're getting rid of them.
I am pro-free speech, and I am also pro-employers being allowed to fire employees who screw up. While this is a more extreme reaction than I would've had in the same situation, I have no problem with the company being allowed to do it.
Attitudes like yours -- that it's ok to make sexual jokes when you are on the job, working around other people, and anybody who has a problem with it is a horrible, humorless person -- are exactly what's wrong in the industry.
These guys lost their jobs because of joking about the word dongle, something that every geek on the face of the planet has joked about.
Believe it or not, I haven't! At least, not when I'm in public or representing my employer in any fashion. I am capable of controlling the words that come out of my mouth, and so I refrain from making sexual jokes. I am still capable of having fun and making jokes in other ways. Restraining myself does not turn my life into a miserable pit of boredom, it just means that I'm not offending or alienating people while simultaneously giving my employer a bad name.
Don't think men with families they struggle to pay to feed their kids, and keep medical insurance don't secretly wonder if the female next to one of these females, and leave them out of the loop because of it. This is what causes the truly nasty life changing, paycheck shrinking discrimination, not stupid jokes.
Well, maybe they should learn to act professional when they're in a professional environment. The IT world does not need people who can't work unless they act like they're still in high school or like their job is some sort of good old boys' club.
I wouldn't hire this wretch in a million years, I don't care if she is the most brilliant python developer in the world.
And you can look forward to an employment discrimination lawsuit for that.
It's a tool aimed at professionals like myself ... to run Diablo 3 on maximum settings
I'm curious, what sort of environment do you work in that you need a professional tool for playing Diablo 3?
Ikaruga has been ported(can you believe it?)
I couldn't believe it until I looked it up, and I see a lot of reviews saying that it's a shoddy port that doesn't have gamepad support and it crashes on a number of devices, including the Nexus 7. On top of that, the file size is large enough that unless you've got a pretty fast internet connection you may not even be able to download the game before the refund period expires, so you might be stuck spending $9 on something you can't even play. Meh.
rape
noun
1. the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.
2. any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
3. statutory rape.
4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.
5. Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
The dictionary disagrees with you. You don't get to redefine words just because you want something to sound exceedingly awful. If there's no intercourse, it's not rape. That doesn't mean it's not terrible and wrong, but it does mean you have to find a different word if you want to be taken seriously.
Wireless is SLOW.
802.11g can handle 54 Mbit/s, which is far faster than your average home internet connection. It's certainly good enough for streaming movies. Way more than is necessary for just using wireless network services. If you really need more than that, 802.11n can go up to 600 Mbit/s. With Bluetooth you're likely to get more like 2 Mbit/s, but that's still plenty fast for peripherals like keyboards and headsets. What are you doing regularly that needs more bandwidth than that, making ghost images of your media server's hard drives?
You really have no taste. Throwing money around doesn't give you taste or class.
You seem to have some sort of grudge. The parent's statement that "Android is crap" is right out of nowhere and a bit of a non-sequitur, but what's so wrong about not having much use for USB nowadays?
The Super NES was capable of 480i, but I don't know if any games used it.
Off the top of my head, Seiken Densetsu 3 used the SNES's high-res 512x384 mode. In fact, the game is effectively unplayable at lower resolutions; it used the high resolution to render complex kanji that were unreadable at lower resolutions.
Actually, even if your company doesn't have a sexual harassment policy, you can go to your boss' boss or higher or get a lawyer if you get harassed. Sexual harassment is illegal whether the company has a policy or not (even in brothels, assuming they're being legally operated).
You must never have played a game with AI.
I've both played and worked on enough games to know that creating an AI that follows a set of rules perfectly is easy. You have to go out of your way to make an AI that can fool players into thinking it's stupid.
And besides that, how many game AIs have had thousands of people spend several years working competitively on developing them?
First of all, that would be a technical nightmare -- aside from having to set up a transmitter in the school and receivers in all of the guns, it would be trivial to make a gun unable to receive the signal by doing something as simple as wrapping it in a wire mesh. Also, assuming that this is some sort of universal signal that would affect any gun in the country, what's to stop any potential burgler from bringing their own transmitter with them when breaking into your house in order to prevent you from using your legal, unmodified firearms?
The second problem here is when you say "all registered firearms"; very few places in the USA require that you register firearms at all, and gun nuts will go crazy if you start trying to mandate gun registration.
How would that accomplish anything? I'm pretty sure that somebody who is taking a gun to a school with the intent to murder people is not going to care that they're not allowed to take that firearm within 1,000 feet of the school.
People who intend to murder don't really care about breaking the law.
Megaman was very close to being part of the genre known as Metroidvania, with exploration, upgrades, and platforming action, but for a variety of reasons, Mega-metroidvania never came to pass. I think part of the problem is that a lot of what originally worked in Megaman and our memories of the game, do not translate well to the modern style.
Not at all. The Mega Man Zero series leaned strongly in that direction, and Mega Man ZX and ZX Advent were full-on Metroidvanias. Also see the Mega Man Legends and Battle Network series, although they borrowed more from traditional adventure games and RPGs.
But a simple side scrolling shooter with marginally situational upgrades isn't going to hold modern gamers' attentions.
Maybe what you mean is that they don't hold your attention? I think the success of Mega Man 9 and 10 has shown that there's still a significant portion of the gaming community that is just fine with linear stage progression.
Shining that nasty light right up into your retinas will give you eye cancer.
[citation needed]
But seriously, sunlight is a hell of a lot more intense than any tablet screen. If using a tablet is going to cause eye cancer, why isn't spending time outside even more dangerous?
JDBC is an API for connecting to databases; Hibernate is a specific implementation of JPA, which is a persistence framework that provides object-relational mapping. The two are not incompatible at all; in fact, Hibernate uses JDBC under the hood.
In addition to what other people have said, Square-Enix has made mobile versions of several of their games, including Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, and they've produced some original games for Android, like Chaos Rings and Crystal Defenders.
As it turns out, however, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." Here are some actual statistics about the correlations between education, political affiliation, and religion: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2012/02/why-america-keeps-getting-more-conservative/1162/
I dislike Romney just as much as everybody else on Slashdot, but why should the company get hit with the highest possible penalties because the owner supports a politician you don't like? Isn't that basically the opposite of free speech?
Human eyes either can't see that many pixels crammed onto such a tiny screen, or will eventually ruin their eyesight trying.
Wow, that's quite a stretch. Do you have any kind of evidence that looking at high-resolution screens actually damages your eyesight?
Reality is way higher-resolution than any screen, and my eyes are still doing fine.
This is not really a comment, more of a question: wasn't the biggest complain about Diablo 2 the fact that it was wide open to cheating/hacking due to the fact that you could bring online the stuff you acquired offline?
That is a complaint, but not really a big one. There's a vocal minority that complains about it, but most people don't really care what other people do as long as it's not affecting their own game.
What is gonna prevent my neighbor's kid from hacking the sandworm-slaying-axe-of-madness and bringing it online to cut me in half?
For one, PVP is not only entirely consensual, you also have to enable the console and know the right command to enable it. It's impossible for somebody to attack you unless you both know how and consent to it.
But that aside, if somebody jumps into your game with a level 100 character and starts one-shotting everything and you don't want them to, the solution is pretty easy: kick them out of your game and ban them. Problem solved.
So, I teach an intro-level class at a community college on software project development. It covers stuff like version control, issue tracking, continuous integration, unit testing, and so on. We use both Subversion in Git in class for exercises, but I try to talk about general concepts and describe how other VCSes do things, too. With that in mind, my intro to version control speech usually goes something like:
The first thing I'm going to talk about is what's called a version control repository. The repository is a lot like a normal folder on a computer; it holds files and folders inside it. The thing that makes it special is that it remembers every change ever made to it. Every time a file is added, deleted, moved, or changed, it remembers what time the change happened, what was changed in the file, and who changed it. The repository exists on a server on the network, so whenever anybody changes a file in it, their changes are shared with everybody else. (note: I know distributed VCSes are different, that's a topic for a few weeks later)
What kind of things can you do with that? Any ideas? (wait for suggestions from the class) The most important thing is that you have a backup of every version of your files that has ever existed. If your hard drive catches on fire, you can get your files back from the repository. If you make a mistake in a file and need to undo your changes, you can always get the previous version of the file. As long as you're using the repository, you never have to worry about losing any data or making any mistakes that can't be undone.
It also makes it easy to coordinate changes to files with other people. If multiple people are working on the same file at once, the repository can show you the differences between the files and indicate who changed what. If a bug is introduced into your program, you can get the files from a previous version where the bug didn't exist, and you can easily see what has changed in the files since then and who made the changes.
So, to recap: version control is like an unlimited "undo" button that is backed up to the network, shared with other people, and can tell you who changed what. It can be used for a lot of different applications, but you can probably imagine how this is really important for software development.
(and that's how I explain to newbie coders)
Have you read the legal codes of 33 states of the United States? Those books are filled with various reasons for which people you should kill. Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Exodus were presenting a legal system that included capital punishment, not encouraging vigilatism. Shock horror, modern law in the US does the same thing.
Not sure I get what your point is here. Are you saying that killing is ok as long as a legal authority tells you to do it? I'm sure the Muslims who committed the murders in question here would tell you that the Quran is their ultimate legal authority. They don't see this as vigilantism, they see it as doing what the law tells them to do.
Have you read Leviticus, Deuteronomy, or Exodus? Those books are filled with various reasons for which you should kill people (see here), among others.
Of course, most modern Christians choose to ignore those parts of the bible, aside from the occasional abortion clinic bomber. The only real difference is that there are a significant number of Muslims who haven't figured out that they should ignore the parts of their holy text that say to kill people.
Just in case you don't know this, Answers in Genesis is considered a joke by everybody who isn't a Young Earth Creationist. Seriously, we've all seen the site, and we all laughed for a few minutes before we started cringing at the thought of how many people actually believe that. You will never convince anybody of anything by posting a link to AIG; it's equivalent to just saying, "I don't know what I'm talking about and am going to ignore everything you say."
Evolution is to sporadic for me to accept it as anything more than a funny Idea, to me it equates to putting all the ingredients for spaghetti into a bag and shaking it around, plating it, and saying "look spaghetti!" without cooking it. You cannot make something without first knowing all of the ingredients.
The funny thing is that's a terrible example. Sure, you can't make something without knowing the ingredients -- but if I show somebody a bag of uncooked spaghetti, then show them a plate of cooked spaghetti, they can pretty easily guess that somehow the uncooked spaghetti got cooked, even if they don't know how. They might even be able to figure out how if they study it enough.
However, you seem to be arguing about abiogenesis rather than evolution, which are related but distinct topics. Similar to the spaghetti, we know what kind of materials living creatures are made from and have an idea of how the might get there. We haven't recreated it yet, but that's no reason to throw our hands up in the air and declare that an omnipotent supernatural force did it.
On the other hand, evolution explains how early forms of life diversified into modern life, and there is a staggering amount of evidence for it. The fact that you're confusing it with abiogenesis and call it "sporadic" just says to me that you haven't actually gone researching the subject.