Will she then have to live with horrific details of her attack being public knowledge?
Basically.. yes. The necessity for court proceedings means too many people know, and if it happened to a public figure it is too profitable for media outlets to ignore. Sad reality of the world we live in.
The trouble is - Valve have a history of putting out really really awesome games. They do this by meticulously honing every single detail to perfection. By forcing them to change the game, our censors have forced us to play a game that isn't as good as Valve tried to make it.
The sheer fucking ARROGANCE of the concept of a ratings board playing a game and then banning it is what I find the most disgusting. I don't want to play a 95% version of L4D2 because some people in my country decided that, while THEY weren't harmed from playing it, would DEFINITELY cause harm to others who can't help themselves.
It's not just bloodthirst - purely from a gameplay perspective, to have a good FPS you NEED a good visual response to a hit in order to be able to move to the next target. It's all part of that large bag of things that make a FPS "feel" right, along with things like acceleration speed and jump height. If you get the little details wrong, everything feels wrong.
Though, even if it WAS pure bloodthirst that made me want the game left as-is, why would that mean anyone in the country stop me from playing whatever the fuck I want? Leave me the fuck alone.
keep ramping up until you kind of level off at getting 50/50 right, which is where it decides you belong.
Once the machine has pegged you at the lower half, say, there is no way for you to break out of that, because it's never going to give you those harder questions.
It seems like you're contradicting yourself here - if you're getting more than 50/50 right, why won't it give you harder questions?
But they aren't tracking criminals, they are tracking their own car - if a criminal happens to steal it, well, that's really nothing to do with the police is it
From my training, you regulate your BREATHING but not your pulse rate - I find it hard to believe that it would even register, compared to your normal error.
Maybe instead of having to use one of those ridiculous child leashes, they could now be replaced by a watch? When you take your kid to a crowded festival, you could enjoy the whole day rather than spending it panicking for 2 hours when your kid follows some other parent by mistake? I'm sure I can imagine other non-ridiculous benefits of this
The best thing I find about touch typing is not the speed, it's that you don't have to look away! Lots of the time I'll find myself not even reading what I'm writing, but looking ahead, thinking of the next part of the code or whatever. Not to mention, it's so much easier to be able to pick up errors and just ^H them straightaway - I can't stand watching my friends who have to write a whole sentence (slowly) and then go back and fix up typos! It's ridiculously frustrating.
I don't know about you, but the one thing I'm scared of more than death is slowly rotting, shitting and pissing my dignity away while all my loved ones watch and cry.
I just hope I have the courage to do the same as he did if it comes to it.
With a good compiler, you shouldn't really even have to do that!
I try to write all my code as readable as possible, then, IF it proves to be slow (in a release build as well - so many people I know infer release speed from debug speed), I'll go investigate further.
It's the application of the 80/20 rule - 80% of the time is spent in 20% of the code (in my experience, it could even be a 90/10 rule). Why do people try to optimise 100% of their code?!
2 problems with this - the cable/satellite box generally has no way to identify if the TV is even on, and you don't know who's watching the TV at a given time - just knowing the household demographic isn't going to be enough
Write a seperate lookup function, and in that use a return statement. As an added bonus, this makes your original function much easier to follow - you don't have to work out that the nested loop is performing a lookup, the function's name TELLS you that!
I've never seen a good reason to use goto - maybe when optimising a REALLY critical bit of code - though I can't think of any examples offhand where using better control structures wouldn't generate the same assembler.
I don't have a solution to the problem; I wish I did.
Uhh... legalise all drugs
Why can the government mandate what I put in my body? Who CARES if other people take drugs! I couldn't give a shit if you or anyone else took drugs to relax/have fun/whatever.
And looking at the massive negative aspects of drug criminalisation, I'm hard pressed to work out how ANYONE can think it's a good idea. What positive benefits does drug prohibition have? The only one I can think of is that it will reduce demand - but why is even this positive? Why do we need/want to discourage drug use? I feel like there is some missing benefit that is somehow obvious to lawmakers but imperceptible to me.
On the other side of the coin, they have been saying that a lot of the new content relies on each other. I can easily see how it could - new weapons would obviously make the survivors more powerful, so to keep the experience balanced the infected have to get more powerful - so which of the new features balances out which new weapons? What map changes would need altering with the new area-denial boss infected? I think this would very be hard to co-ordinate in individual patches - seperating and pairing up buffs to both sides in an even fashion would take a LOT longer than bundling them all up in a sequel and releasing that. Think of all the playtesting required to balance each DLC patch if nothing else!
This expectation of major content updates to a game from the game developer after release seems a little peculiar to me - I know I get many more hours worth of playtime from multiplayer than singleplayer in my games WITHOUT content patches, yet for some reason there exists this expectation of content after release in multiplayer games. This is a recent phenomenon - how many content patches were there for Counter-Strike? Starcraft/Warcraft 3/Diablo 2? All the remaining multiplayer classics? I think there were 2 new weapons released in like 4 years of Counter-Strike (the new low-cost rifles), and they were very niche and not widely used - probably deliberately so, as then it presents no real balancing issues. Warcraft 3 added a few neutral heroes - again, not very widely used. Adding any of the new features slated for L4D2 would alter the gameplay to a large degree - adding new boss infected would really change up the gameplay dynamics, rendering *many* current strategies obsolete.
I see DLC as a relatively recent expectation, and not one I expect the developers to really embrace. TF2 is about the only major non-MMO game I can recall that has done this - it's had lots of new weapons and achievements added after release. While this obviously helps the longevity of TF2, would TF2 sales increase? How many people are still undecided about TF2 and think "You know, it's not quite there yet, but if they just add a few more weapons and achievements, that'll be enough!". My guess is very few - and the steady players aren't giving Valve any more money to develop new games. Obviously, you can say that investing in DLC for TF2 could be seen as increasing the potential sales of the NEXT Valve game - I guess we'll see how many people are relying on that incentive to buy Valve games with the sales of L4D2. My prediction - absolutely everyone playing L4D currently will fork out for L4D2. Games (especially multiplayer games) are really absurdly cheap in $/hr of enjoyment compared to basically ANYTHING else even without DLC.
You can call Valve greedy corporate whores, but in the end they're still just a company and have to focus the majority of their efforst on those activities likely to generate revenue. I can't believe ANY succesful company could afford to give away a years worth of development time just so.. what? The people who've already paid can keep playing?
If you want a great modern concept-album making band, try Coheed & Cambria - all the albums are actually based off a science-fiction comic series that the band founder wrote. The music is really good if you're into - I guess progressive rock probably best describes it.
There are plenty of concept albums going around - an obvious popular example is My Chemical Romance's "The Black Parade"if you're into that, and many Metal bands still release concept albums frequently. It depends what genre's you're into.
If you're nostalgic for the classic rock bands of old, I'd say it's wishful thinking to expect that kind of music now - music is shaped by culture as much as it shapes it, and our culture is very different to that of Led Zeppelin's and The Beatle's. Enjoy the albums, and find some modern genre's that you can enjoy. I felt the same way ("all modern music is crap!"), until I started listening to punk, hardcore and metal and realised that there is still great music being made, it's just not the same as the older classics.
Definitely. When I was 14 or so, I was a fan of the one-hit wonders, but as I've gotten older I've started appreciating whole albums a LOT more. I barely ever listen to just one song anymore - it's cover-to-cover now!
You'd sell millions of copies on the free press alone.
Otherwise, one of my favourite series was the Quest For Glory series - RPG + adventure-style puzzles was so awesome, and games since have tended to focus on one aspect in favour of the other.
People who donate some of their bandwidth to passing surfers probably lose nothing.
Surely the police should be concentrating on the cases where there is a more significant danger of loss.
Where is this Australian ISP which offers unlimited traffic... I understand other countries have uncapped internet, but Australian's will almost always be losing by giving away their traffic.
The biggest problem with it is that, in the english language, certain letters are unlikely to ever start a word, so it reduces the frequency a bit, and also, there aren't many numbers, even if you transliterate words like "to" to "2".
As far as I understand cryptanalysis, that would only help if the attacker knew that you generated your password that way, which they shouldn't (except, obviously, for those trying to crack your/. password!). I'd guess most brute force attacks are based off dictionary words, with l33tsp33k variations (eg. try password, passw0rd, p@$$w0rd, etc.) as I'd guess the majority of non-savvy users do this. To that end, your non-/. password should be ok!
Taking the GGP's example - he has to change it every 4 months
If your password gets cracked with an average of 2 months remaining on it, you're screwed either way. It's a closing-the-gate-after-horse-has-bolted - it might seem right, but it doesn't DO anything!
Pick one good password, don't let it get cracked, and you'll be fine, and your users/co-workeres will be much happier
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Will she then have to live with horrific details of her attack being public knowledge?
Basically .. yes. The necessity for court proceedings means too many people know, and if it happened to a public figure it is too profitable for media outlets to ignore. Sad reality of the world we live in.
Because, when they're outside the kids are under direct supervision of said parent. Not necessarily the same for online experiences.
The trouble is - Valve have a history of putting out really really awesome games. They do this by meticulously honing every single detail to perfection. By forcing them to change the game, our censors have forced us to play a game that isn't as good as Valve tried to make it.
The sheer fucking ARROGANCE of the concept of a ratings board playing a game and then banning it is what I find the most disgusting. I don't want to play a 95% version of L4D2 because some people in my country decided that, while THEY weren't harmed from playing it, would DEFINITELY cause harm to others who can't help themselves.
It's not just bloodthirst - purely from a gameplay perspective, to have a good FPS you NEED a good visual response to a hit in order to be able to move to the next target. It's all part of that large bag of things that make a FPS "feel" right, along with things like acceleration speed and jump height. If you get the little details wrong, everything feels wrong.
Though, even if it WAS pure bloodthirst that made me want the game left as-is, why would that mean anyone in the country stop me from playing whatever the fuck I want? Leave me the fuck alone.
keep ramping up until you kind of level off at getting 50/50 right, which is where it decides you belong.
Once the machine has pegged you at the lower half, say, there is no way for you to break out of that, because it's never going to give you those harder questions.
It seems like you're contradicting yourself here - if you're getting more than 50/50 right, why won't it give you harder questions?
But they aren't tracking criminals, they are tracking their own car - if a criminal happens to steal it, well, that's really nothing to do with the police is it
From my training, you regulate your BREATHING but not your pulse rate - I find it hard to believe that it would even register, compared to your normal error.
Maybe instead of having to use one of those ridiculous child leashes, they could now be replaced by a watch? When you take your kid to a crowded festival, you could enjoy the whole day rather than spending it panicking for 2 hours when your kid follows some other parent by mistake? I'm sure I can imagine other non-ridiculous benefits of this
Does this mean that ... FINALLY ... we too will know what it is like to have uncapped internet?!
If only we could do that in Australia
The best thing I find about touch typing is not the speed, it's that you don't have to look away! Lots of the time I'll find myself not even reading what I'm writing, but looking ahead, thinking of the next part of the code or whatever. Not to mention, it's so much easier to be able to pick up errors and just ^H them straightaway - I can't stand watching my friends who have to write a whole sentence (slowly) and then go back and fix up typos! It's ridiculously frustrating.
If it hurts you, just don't watch/listen to it!
Fundamentally, I believe there are 2 basic human rights
The right to free speech
The right not to listen
Any laws that infringe on either on them are fundamentally corrupt.
I don't know about you, but the one thing I'm scared of more than death is slowly rotting, shitting and pissing my dignity away while all my loved ones watch and cry. I just hope I have the courage to do the same as he did if it comes to it.
With a good compiler, you shouldn't really even have to do that!
I try to write all my code as readable as possible, then, IF it proves to be slow (in a release build as well - so many people I know infer release speed from debug speed), I'll go investigate further.
It's the application of the 80/20 rule - 80% of the time is spent in 20% of the code (in my experience, it could even be a 90/10 rule). Why do people try to optimise 100% of their code?!
2 problems with this - the cable/satellite box generally has no way to identify if the TV is even on, and you don't know who's watching the TV at a given time - just knowing the household demographic isn't going to be enough
Write a seperate lookup function, and in that use a return statement. As an added bonus, this makes your original function much easier to follow - you don't have to work out that the nested loop is performing a lookup, the function's name TELLS you that!
I've never seen a good reason to use goto - maybe when optimising a REALLY critical bit of code - though I can't think of any examples offhand where using better control structures wouldn't generate the same assembler.
I don't have a solution to the problem; I wish I did.
Uhh ... legalise all drugs
Why can the government mandate what I put in my body? Who CARES if other people take drugs! I couldn't give a shit if you or anyone else took drugs to relax/have fun/whatever.
And looking at the massive negative aspects of drug criminalisation, I'm hard pressed to work out how ANYONE can think it's a good idea. What positive benefits does drug prohibition have? The only one I can think of is that it will reduce demand - but why is even this positive? Why do we need/want to discourage drug use? I feel like there is some missing benefit that is somehow obvious to lawmakers but imperceptible to me.
On the other side of the coin, they have been saying that a lot of the new content relies on each other. I can easily see how it could - new weapons would obviously make the survivors more powerful, so to keep the experience balanced the infected have to get more powerful - so which of the new features balances out which new weapons? What map changes would need altering with the new area-denial boss infected? I think this would very be hard to co-ordinate in individual patches - seperating and pairing up buffs to both sides in an even fashion would take a LOT longer than bundling them all up in a sequel and releasing that. Think of all the playtesting required to balance each DLC patch if nothing else!
This expectation of major content updates to a game from the game developer after release seems a little peculiar to me - I know I get many more hours worth of playtime from multiplayer than singleplayer in my games WITHOUT content patches, yet for some reason there exists this expectation of content after release in multiplayer games. This is a recent phenomenon - how many content patches were there for Counter-Strike? Starcraft/Warcraft 3/Diablo 2? All the remaining multiplayer classics? I think there were 2 new weapons released in like 4 years of Counter-Strike (the new low-cost rifles), and they were very niche and not widely used - probably deliberately so, as then it presents no real balancing issues. Warcraft 3 added a few neutral heroes - again, not very widely used. Adding any of the new features slated for L4D2 would alter the gameplay to a large degree - adding new boss infected would really change up the gameplay dynamics, rendering *many* current strategies obsolete.
I see DLC as a relatively recent expectation, and not one I expect the developers to really embrace. TF2 is about the only major non-MMO game I can recall that has done this - it's had lots of new weapons and achievements added after release. While this obviously helps the longevity of TF2, would TF2 sales increase? How many people are still undecided about TF2 and think "You know, it's not quite there yet, but if they just add a few more weapons and achievements, that'll be enough!". My guess is very few - and the steady players aren't giving Valve any more money to develop new games. Obviously, you can say that investing in DLC for TF2 could be seen as increasing the potential sales of the NEXT Valve game - I guess we'll see how many people are relying on that incentive to buy Valve games with the sales of L4D2. My prediction - absolutely everyone playing L4D currently will fork out for L4D2. Games (especially multiplayer games) are really absurdly cheap in $/hr of enjoyment compared to basically ANYTHING else even without DLC.
You can call Valve greedy corporate whores, but in the end they're still just a company and have to focus the majority of their efforst on those activities likely to generate revenue. I can't believe ANY succesful company could afford to give away a years worth of development time just so .. what? The people who've already paid can keep playing?
If you want a great modern concept-album making band, try Coheed & Cambria - all the albums are actually based off a science-fiction comic series that the band founder wrote. The music is really good if you're into - I guess progressive rock probably best describes it.
There are plenty of concept albums going around - an obvious popular example is My Chemical Romance's "The Black Parade"if you're into that, and many Metal bands still release concept albums frequently. It depends what genre's you're into.
If you're nostalgic for the classic rock bands of old, I'd say it's wishful thinking to expect that kind of music now - music is shaped by culture as much as it shapes it, and our culture is very different to that of Led Zeppelin's and The Beatle's. Enjoy the albums, and find some modern genre's that you can enjoy. I felt the same way ("all modern music is crap!"), until I started listening to punk, hardcore and metal and realised that there is still great music being made, it's just not the same as the older classics.
Definitely. When I was 14 or so, I was a fan of the one-hit wonders, but as I've gotten older I've started appreciating whole albums a LOT more. I barely ever listen to just one song anymore - it's cover-to-cover now!
I'm intentionally child free
It's OK, this is slashdot, you don't have to lie
You'd sell millions of copies on the free press alone. Otherwise, one of my favourite series was the Quest For Glory series - RPG + adventure-style puzzles was so awesome, and games since have tended to focus on one aspect in favour of the other.
People who donate some of their bandwidth to passing surfers probably lose nothing.
Surely the police should be concentrating on the cases where there is a more significant danger of loss.
Where is this Australian ISP which offers unlimited traffic... I understand other countries have uncapped internet, but Australian's will almost always be losing by giving away their traffic.
The biggest problem with it is that, in the english language, certain letters are unlikely to ever start a word, so it reduces the frequency a bit, and also, there aren't many numbers, even if you transliterate words like "to" to "2".
As far as I understand cryptanalysis, that would only help if the attacker knew that you generated your password that way, which they shouldn't (except, obviously, for those trying to crack your /. password!). I'd guess most brute force attacks are based off dictionary words, with l33tsp33k variations (eg. try password, passw0rd, p@$$w0rd, etc.) as I'd guess the majority of non-savvy users do this. To that end, your non-/. password should be ok!
But ... why?
Taking the GGP's example - he has to change it every 4 months
If your password gets cracked with an average of 2 months remaining on it, you're screwed either way. It's a closing-the-gate-after-horse-has-bolted - it might seem right, but it doesn't DO anything!
Pick one good password, don't let it get cracked, and you'll be fine, and your users/co-workeres will be much happier
if you are lost it's impossible to work out how to get to where you want to be - as you don't know where you are to start with.
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