The funny thing about the old computer game box art was that it seemed that the worse the game's graphics the more vivid, detailed, and colorful the box art. Look at Akalabeth or Seven Cities of Gold.
The competent have nothing to fear from formal verification and anyone who is not capable of doing such verification should not be writing software anyway.
This is Slashdot, where everyone just blames management. Because you know, there are no incompetent programmers in existence.
But I do understand what he means. Basically, your +5 insightful post really isn't insightful at all. It is just an insult because you -insert whatever reason you hate WoW here-. While any MMO has a grinding element to it, the end game instances are challenging. It requires skill and coordination since each boss is unique and requires different techniques to defeat.
Right, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, my comment was aimed at the "high end players" the article refers to. I know enough about WoW to know that to get to that level you have to kill those same bosses over and over and over again. I have watched friends lose big chunks of their lives to doing the same thing again and again.
And that is exactly where the UK and the US differ in basic philosophy. The main goal should not be a "stable society." Freedom is the highest good, not stability or security, and your admittedly adhoc system's main flaw is the inclusion of "Hopefully the government will advise the police/CPS not to do this" and "A jury is likely to be more sympathetic to him." A little bit too much uncertainty there, and individual freedoms are meant to apply to all individuals, not just most, and not just those who are sympathetic to juries.
If you really want to know, it's because the US has fairly strong Puritan Christian roots, in which sinful sex (being a root of pleasure, and thus an outlet for the Devil slash Evil slash Getting Along with Infidels), is looked down upon far more than violence and hatred.
That whole puritan thing is actually kind of interesting; I think a lot of it has to do with Christian notions of sin and the state of the soul. Someone walks up to me and punches me in the face, I'm the victim. I can even, from a Christian point of view, turn it to my spiritual advantage by turning the other cheek.
A beautiful woman comes up to me and has sex with me, I'm in danger of being corrupted. I suffer spiritual harm. I want more beautiful women to sleep with me.
From that point of view it makes sense to be harder on sex than violence.
does this continuing trend promise to alienate the high-end players who thrive on new challenges?
The high-end players got to be high-end players through thousands of hours of grinding. They don't thrive on new challenges, they thrive on the same old ones.
Greenpeace is certainly involved in piracy [guardian.co.uk] (the nautical kind) against Japanese whaling ships. If that's not terrorism, then there's a pretty thin line.
Getting in between whalers and whales is neither "piracy" nor anything even remotely close to terrorism.
If you want a good fulfilling life, forget it, become an accountant or lawyer instead, your career will last longer, year on year you'll be paid better, and with a higher social prestige.
Forget about being a lawyer. Average salary for a lawyer is a lot less than people seem to think, and the legal market, unlike the engineering market, has a big surplus of lawyers. And the quality of life is equally as horrible as engineering.
If I could do it all over again? I'd have majored in pharmacy, not law.
So is ATI hardware ready for the desktop? Apparently they cannot write a working driver... and not only they have the specs: they wrote the specs!
Once I tweaked X11 enough the driver worked fine, so I think it's X.org's fault, not ATI's. Or even Compiz's fault, because it got better once I turned Compiz off. And I would not be surprised if Ubuntu was to blame in some way, a lot of things that worked under Ubuntu 7.10 suddenly stopped working in 8.04.
Well: why did you buy hardware from a maker who does not consider making it usable for you important? I do not do that, and have not had trouble in about 10 years.
The hardware manufacturer is ATI, which makes a linux driver available. I also tried the open source fglx driver. Neither one of them worked right when installed. This is the problem, if you buy vanilla hardware and don't really care about performance then yes, graphics usually work out of the box. But if you have any sort of slightly different setup it frequently won't work without significant tweaking, and if you haven't had trouble in about 10 years then you're either very lucky or satisfied with the bare minimum of graphics performance.
In the name of $DEITY, please get a distro which ships a Xorg server less that 5 years old: any such server can run with an empty xorg.conf file on 95% of configurations.
Sure--running a vesa driver. Try an accelerated graphics card over DVI into an LCD TV and suddenly it gets all flakey.
The day I can install Ubuntu (or any flavor of Linux), without having to worry about spending half a week configuring it, or the day I can send a client a presentation, spreadsheet or document without sacrificing features (and without having to explain) will be the day I think it is ready for desktop.
Completely true. My last ubuntu installation took about a week to get working right, and I've been using Linux for 12 years. Running multiple X.org configuration scripts then editing xorg.conf by hand, working with the ridiculous number of overlapping sound drivers, and having to symbolically link devices in order to get certain programs to run.
Being a professional artist is where it's at. You all laugh, but know that automation will replace you all much sooner than it will replace the artist.
If you want a job with no job security, pick "professional artist." Painter, sculptor, web designer, graphics designer, you pick it, you will have hell of a time finding work. Unless you're independently wealthy, I'd do it as a hobby.
I would say at least 30% in the US, you know the people who still say Bush is doing a good job are probably willing to let the government do ANYTHING.
Nope, that 30% are only willing to let the government do anything when it's run by a right-wing fanatical christian chickenhawks like themselves. If anyone else comes into in power they turn back into paranoid anti-government types.
The advantage is that I can carry all my novels with me, on flash drives and on the hard drive of my laptop. Best of all, I can use the whole screen if I want, and I am not limited to a tiny screen. Who needs an extra device when you've got a Mac?
I can't read for pleasure from a glowing, constantly refreshing screen, and I think a lot of people are the same way (which is the whole impetus behind e-ink I think).
I just went to the used bookstore, enjoying the smells, the sight, and the interaction with a person who was able to tell me based on a loose idea of what I told him I liked several books I should read.
Last used bookstore I went to the guy behind the counter hit on my girlfriend. Amazon has never done that.
I disagree. Lawyers will occasionally, and very rarely, delicately 'respectfully take exception' to a ruling or respectfully call to the judge's attention something they feel he or she might have 'overlooked', but I have never seen a brief which simply tells a judge that the decision -- which he himself decided -- was "wrongly decided". Take a look at pages 28-30 of the brief, where they tell Judge Lazzara, that his prior decision was "wrongly decided", and tell me if you've ever seen anything so insulting to a judge.
What, this?:
Plaintiffs respectfully submit that the Court in Del Cid overlooked the recent standard for
motions to dismiss set forth by the Supreme Court in Twombly, 127 S. Ct. at 1965 (see also
Section I, supra). In Twombly, the Supreme Court found that a party's grounds for his or her
entitlement to relief "requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the
elements of a cause of action will not do." Twombly, 127 S. Ct. at 1964-65. In Del Cid, however,
the defendant asserted nothing more than legal conclusions without alleging any underlying facts.
This is also true of the Del Cid defendant's allegations of "sham litigation," which the Del
Cid Court found were sufficient to defeat Plaintiffs' arguments that Defendant's Counterclaims
were barred by both the Noerr-Pennington doctrine and the Florida litigation privilege Contrary
to the Court's holding, while the Del Cid defendant repeatedly referred to the conduct of the
plaintiffs as "sham litigation," the defendant failed to allege any facts establishing that the
plaintiffs' conduct was (1) objectively baseless; or (2) an attempt to interfere with the business of a
competitor. See supra, Section I(B).
I've seen that kind of writing in briefs. Actually, I think I've used similar phrasing in a motion for reconsideration myself (and honestly, just about every motion for reconsideration or rehearing is going to say "you're wrong") I don't think it's that insulting at all, and most judges I've dealt with tend to be thick-skinned about those sorts of things.
How is this news? He sends a rambling, pointless e-mail to Zelnick's lawyers, not his mother. He's not introducing anything new, it doesn't reveal anything about him we already didn't know, so why does this get on slashdot's front page?
Bad analogy: There are exactly zero US citizens held on drug charges without access to courts and lawers. There is exactly one (1) US citizen being held without trial on terrorism charges.
Well, one held without trial on terrorism charges that we know about. I would be surprised if there weren't more.
Instead they put together pieces of work that the OSx86 community had been working on, and put together some hardware that could run it and started selling the combination.
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The funny thing about the old computer game box art was that it seemed that the worse the game's graphics the more vivid, detailed, and colorful the box art. Look at Akalabeth or Seven Cities of Gold.
Don't the GTA games also have "celebrity" voice actors? I wonder how much they get paid...
Really? We've let everyone at Microsoft off the hook? Must of missed that article.
Nah, everyone blames Gates and Ballmer, not the programmers.
The competent have nothing to fear from formal verification and anyone who is not capable of doing such verification should not be writing software anyway.
This is Slashdot, where everyone just blames management. Because you know, there are no incompetent programmers in existence.
But I do understand what he means. Basically, your +5 insightful post really isn't insightful at all. It is just an insult because you -insert whatever reason you hate WoW here-. While any MMO has a grinding element to it, the end game instances are challenging. It requires skill and coordination since each boss is unique and requires different techniques to defeat.
Right, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, my comment was aimed at the "high end players" the article refers to. I know enough about WoW to know that to get to that level you have to kill those same bosses over and over and over again. I have watched friends lose big chunks of their lives to doing the same thing again and again.
And that is exactly where the UK and the US differ in basic philosophy. The main goal should not be a "stable society." Freedom is the highest good, not stability or security, and your admittedly adhoc system's main flaw is the inclusion of "Hopefully the government will advise the police/CPS not to do this" and "A jury is likely to be more sympathetic to him." A little bit too much uncertainty there, and individual freedoms are meant to apply to all individuals, not just most, and not just those who are sympathetic to juries.
Um, hate to break this to you, but everyone already has a gravity field.
Not me, I'm made of photons.
If you really want to know, it's because the US has fairly strong Puritan Christian roots, in which sinful sex (being a root of pleasure, and thus an outlet for the Devil slash Evil slash Getting Along with Infidels), is looked down upon far more than violence and hatred.
That whole puritan thing is actually kind of interesting; I think a lot of it has to do with Christian notions of sin and the state of the soul. Someone walks up to me and punches me in the face, I'm the victim. I can even, from a Christian point of view, turn it to my spiritual advantage by turning the other cheek.
A beautiful woman comes up to me and has sex with me, I'm in danger of being corrupted. I suffer spiritual harm. I want more beautiful women to sleep with me.
From that point of view it makes sense to be harder on sex than violence.
People like you are the reason Scholo and Strat were allowed to be 10 manable for so long.
I've never had an insult leveled at me that I understood so little as this one. It's like you're talking some moon-man gibberish language.
BUt you probably never spent the time.
Since I've never really played WoW your guess is right.
does this continuing trend promise to alienate the high-end players who thrive on new challenges?
The high-end players got to be high-end players through thousands of hours of grinding. They don't thrive on new challenges, they thrive on the same old ones.
Greenpeace is certainly involved in piracy [guardian.co.uk] (the nautical kind) against Japanese whaling ships. If that's not terrorism, then there's a pretty thin line.
Getting in between whalers and whales is neither "piracy" nor anything even remotely close to terrorism.
If you want a good fulfilling life, forget it, become an accountant or lawyer instead, your career will last longer, year on year you'll be paid better, and with a higher social prestige.
Forget about being a lawyer. Average salary for a lawyer is a lot less than people seem to think, and the legal market, unlike the engineering market, has a big surplus of lawyers. And the quality of life is equally as horrible as engineering.
If I could do it all over again? I'd have majored in pharmacy, not law.
So is ATI hardware ready for the desktop? Apparently they cannot write a working driver... and not only they have the specs: they wrote the specs!
Once I tweaked X11 enough the driver worked fine, so I think it's X.org's fault, not ATI's. Or even Compiz's fault, because it got better once I turned Compiz off. And I would not be surprised if Ubuntu was to blame in some way, a lot of things that worked under Ubuntu 7.10 suddenly stopped working in 8.04.
Well: why did you buy hardware from a maker who does not consider making it usable for you important? I do not do that, and have not had trouble in about 10 years.
The hardware manufacturer is ATI, which makes a linux driver available. I also tried the open source fglx driver. Neither one of them worked right when installed. This is the problem, if you buy vanilla hardware and don't really care about performance then yes, graphics usually work out of the box. But if you have any sort of slightly different setup it frequently won't work without significant tweaking, and if you haven't had trouble in about 10 years then you're either very lucky or satisfied with the bare minimum of graphics performance.
Sure--running a vesa driver. Try an accelerated graphics card over DVI into an LCD TV and suddenly it gets all flakey.
The day I can install Ubuntu (or any flavor of Linux), without having to worry about spending half a week configuring it, or the day I can send a client a presentation, spreadsheet or document without sacrificing features (and without having to explain) will be the day I think it is ready for desktop.
Completely true. My last ubuntu installation took about a week to get working right, and I've been using Linux for 12 years. Running multiple X.org configuration scripts then editing xorg.conf by hand, working with the ridiculous number of overlapping sound drivers, and having to symbolically link devices in order to get certain programs to run.
This is bad. I mean, sure it's only Texas now, but if they spread they could threaten a state that doesn't deserve swarms of attacking insects.
Being a professional artist is where it's at. You all laugh, but know that automation will replace you all much sooner than it will replace the artist.
If you want a job with no job security, pick "professional artist." Painter, sculptor, web designer, graphics designer, you pick it, you will have hell of a time finding work. Unless you're independently wealthy, I'd do it as a hobby.
I would say at least 30% in the US, you know the people who still say Bush is doing a good job are probably willing to let the government do ANYTHING.
Nope, that 30% are only willing to let the government do anything when it's run by a right-wing fanatical christian chickenhawks like themselves. If anyone else comes into in power they turn back into paranoid anti-government types.
The advantage is that I can carry all my novels with me, on flash drives and on the hard drive of my laptop. Best of all, I can use the whole screen if I want, and I am not limited to a tiny screen. Who needs an extra device when you've got a Mac?
I can't read for pleasure from a glowing, constantly refreshing screen, and I think a lot of people are the same way (which is the whole impetus behind e-ink I think).
I just went to the used bookstore, enjoying the smells, the sight, and the interaction with a person who was able to tell me based on a loose idea of what I told him I liked several books I should read.
Last used bookstore I went to the guy behind the counter hit on my girlfriend. Amazon has never done that.
What, this?:
I've seen that kind of writing in briefs. Actually, I think I've used similar phrasing in a motion for reconsideration myself (and honestly, just about every motion for reconsideration or rehearing is going to say "you're wrong") I don't think it's that insulting at all, and most judges I've dealt with tend to be thick-skinned about those sorts of things.
How is this news? He sends a rambling, pointless e-mail to Zelnick's lawyers, not his mother. He's not introducing anything new, it doesn't reveal anything about him we already didn't know, so why does this get on slashdot's front page?
Bad analogy: There are exactly zero US citizens held on drug charges without access to courts and lawers. There is exactly one (1) US citizen being held without trial on terrorism charges.
Well, one held without trial on terrorism charges that we know about. I would be surprised if there weren't more.
Instead they put together pieces of work that the OSx86 community had been working on, and put together some hardware that could run it and started selling the combination.
Are you talking about Psystar or Apple?