I remember text adventure games from my early teenage years. No, they weren't roleplaying games, but instead textbased sex games just made by someone with qbasic. You would have a basic scenario and along the way you got to choose what you did and how to continue from there. Damn it was hot in '95.
You cant compare it to Last.FM or Pandora. Its more like itunes store or your local mp3 files, just that when you search for something you can just click on it and it starts playing. The great thing is that they've managed to do it so that it *does start playing right away*, no lag and no buffering even tho that its streaming. It just feels like those are on your own computer and the quality is good.
Advertisement amount varies by country. I heard my german and uk friends get more advertisements, but I get maybe 1-2 per day. And if those short adverts bother, its just 9.99e per month for premium without adverts.
I really hope they get the contracts worked out to move to us soon too; spotify has changed lots in europe.
It's no surprise MS is going for this. Summary states its popular in UK, but it's really popular everywhere in Europe, despite needing invites to get account. Even "pro-piracy" forum users are saying in news comments how spotify has changed their listening habits and they dont pirate music anymore because spofity is just so convenient. I also am in long-distance relationship with my gf currently (was necessary for her school program) and we've always had similar music taste, so now we paste spotify links to each other in facebook or im to listen to something newly discovered good music.
This *IS* what music industry needed and its great they've understood it now. Now just bring the same for movies and games, I'm even happy to pay monthly subscriptions for it. Just make it convenient and easy for me.
I think this is just usual bullshit. Yes, in my young age there were *great* games. Settlers 2, Civ2, Megarace 2, Populous, Operation Flashpoint. They were great, but they wouldn't be on today's scale. Age goldens things and so on. However I do still enjoy playing them, because they were so large part of my younghood. If they were new titles and something I wouldn't know, I wouldn't really be impressed by them.
And there are great games that dont rape it for 3D graphics now a days too. Just recent games include World of Goo and Braid. They're fully 2D and contain great gameplay. I also love LittleBigPlanet on PS3, which is 2D like platform but with stunning 3D graphics. The fact it has great graphics doesn't reduce it great gameplay mechanism.
Just because we're used to greater graphics now doesn't mean the gameplay is shit and only great gameplay is in 2D ASCII games we're you have to have good imagination to go with things. Graphics are there to make the immersion; gameplay is there to make it fun. When done correctly, those two *DO* work together.
I must admit that my first thought was why and that its gonna lost all the interest in ascii mode where it would just teleport from one place to other. However after seeing the video, it seems to be a lot more than that and has very neat portal like effects. I loved how it creates the landscape on the "empty" space instead of just teleporting, which makes it seem continuous.
In an indirect way this also showed me that current games aren't just about graphics and innovative gameplay would had been forgotten. Portal could had been done years ago the same way its done here. However it was new kind of game and had good and fitting graphics, so the usual thought that new games aren't innovative doesn't really cut.
I hope this gets converted to linux aswell so I can play it over ssh:)
Thankfully I use KeePass myself, so I have everywhere *different* ~20 chars totally random password. If you also use keyfile to protect the container, a trojan getting your master password doesn't matter. Some of them might also be stupid enough not to monitor the clipboard when you're pasting the password. And even if they do, you wont give out password to bunch of websites, services, email, servers etc at once and you're protected against malicious admins or people hacking servers to get passwords because you have different password everywhere.
I dont see why more people dont use KeePass or some other such software, it makes your passwords and accounts a lot more secure. And yes, stong passwords are better than short and easily guessed ones, specially in this case.
Those metabolic problems are really, really minotiry. Maybe 0.001% of people. And those who have them probably know not to take the usual weight losing tips personally to them. But the fact is, its just math for most people. Burn more calories than you eat daily. If you feel hungry, eat meat or something that makes you feel full for longer time. If you just eat hotdog or hamburger you'll probably will be hungry in 2 hours again. After a few days getting used to it, one chicken leg and water was enough to keep me full. Stomach will get used to it really quickly, even tho that is somewhat extreme example and not good in long run. But the point is; choose your food by proteins and fat, not by fast burning carbs.
Yes, there are 3 separate body types, some are a bit heavier than others and muscle mass counts in body index too. But BMI 40 *is not right*.
So, in other words, you have a complete lack of self control and are unable to motivate yourself to keep yourself healthy.
Not at all.
Losing weight is stupidly easy: eat less, exercise more.
That completely ignores the fact that people feel hunger differently, people lose weight differently, and that even those that have the ability to lose weight can work their arses off and still lose nothing in a week. If weight loss were as easy for everyone as you make it out to be we wouldn't have a problem.
You do understand that the different hunger feeling comes from the fact how much people have got used to eat, right? And also from what kind of food you eat. Carbs burn *fast* in your body, so stay off from bread, rice, potatoes and such. Eat high-protein and high-fat foods like meat, fish and chicken. They often also contain way less calories than the high-carb foods. Start by eating when you feel like so, as you're quite possible taking way less calories in that way anyways. Lower your amounts a bit all the time and you'll notice you dont really need that much food.
I feel you in that theres sometimes reasons people cant get their motivation up for that, being it work or anything else. I'm myself around the ~30 in charts. But I know the reasons for it and I know that I could make it better, instead of lying to myself that it's somehow not possible.
The only couple of times I have lost weight in my life I lived on salad and lean meat/chicken in tiny portions and did AT LEAST 2 hours of heavy excercise a day. Anything short of that doesn't cut it.
See this? That is the answer that I've already said and you've even noticed yourself. Hamburgers, bread and other such high-carb food is bad. Meat and chicken and fish is good. It's there by nature. Google for "low carb diet", go by that atleats 2 weeks and you'll notice how great it is. Then make that your lifestyle.
"That usually (YMMV) means you're eating the wrong food. Your body tends to stay hungry until it has got what it needs. Eat something else and the craving remains."
Thanks for the old wives tale, AC.
Eh? Thats the truth really. If you havent tried yet, try eating just foods with low amounts of carbs. Instead eat meat, fish and chicken. *without something that comes with carbs*. You'll notice how much longer you stay full. You can start by googling for "low carb diet". But dont just keep it as diet, keep it as a lifestyle. You'll notice the difference.
Obesity is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.
After reading the syllabi, all the higher level classes appear to teach concepts rather than work to develop advanced techniques in a specific language.
It's great that you have it like that. Its the concepts that matter more than just teaching some language dependant pack of tricks. Languages can always be learnt afterwards and quickly, and they also tend to change during years. Concept stay somewhat the same, and those are what you need to understand. I wish I would had the same kind of program in school.
I also feel that I am going to come out of school not having the expertise required in a single language to land a good job.
Usually programmers are quite self-taught. Schools can teach you concepts and languages, but the real knowledge comes from when you're interested in it and try out and do stuff. Yes, this means you should have some interest in coding at home for your pleasure too, as a hobby. I would think that programming would being really really boring if you dont have the interest to learn yourself or even program your own stuff at home.
You didn't mention if you do programming yourself, but if you dont you should start to. Start coding some games yourself or stuff you think are useful to you. Or learn PHP and start coding websites. You can even start to make some cash out of it, either by selling your software/game, running websites or coding as a freelancer. Try out things.
However the most stupid approach is to think you should be awesome in one language and lack everything else. Usually you need combination of different languages and better understanding generally. Read some programmer job listings and you see how they always contain lots of different thingies and qualities they're looking for. Programming languages used at work will most likely change aswell (Java was hot in some apps programming years ago, but C# and other languages have been stealing position from it). This is why you want to have the general understanding instead of just knowing tricks&tips of one language.
This is actually quite interesting. First time I came across state machines was in Max Payne level editor, which was something fantastic for a creator-minded / "lets try out what this shit can do" person like me. Now I'm mainly a programmer / game developer, but I always love to mess around with things and create fun things quickly just to see what they can do.
Too bad its mainly made for kids, there's not enough such toys for us adults:) However just out of the interest I guess I'll be getting this anyways (yeah, obviously for my kids that will born in ~5 years)
Eh, has Linux server administration really come into this? Hire knowledgeable admins that can script stuff. Linux is perfect for scripting such configuring and set up. You just need to do those scripts once and you're ready to deploy them on all systems after minimum installation.
If you're a large company, just develop your own solutions, its far better than using someones elses. Just look at google or any other succesfull company.
What about if the hotspot doesn't actually give the user the real page, but instead phishing page? I doubt many normal users notice that HTTPS isn't on. Or like in the above The Real Hustle video, "for $1 you can get one hour of surfing time, just enter your credit card details" and you probably can guess what happens from there.
Isn't this quite old story? Already years ago I read that people have been setting their own hotspots near crowded places, and it works good because if you get better signal than the official hotspot the computers usually pick your hotspot first. This was even covered in The Real Hustle many seasons ago.
And for that matter, you're in a insecure place connecting via some random network. Its just stupid.
I've actually done some research on this aswell. On majority of times when I found a good clip, I had to clean my monitor. This didn't happen when the clip was bad or the women on it unattractive. Hmm, wonder where they sell speedometers...
Slashdot Mirror
'Our goal was really to come up with a system where, through a property of nature, the message, or the data, disappears,'
And yet after a copypaste or screenshot it wont disappear anywhere.
I remember text adventure games from my early teenage years. No, they weren't roleplaying games, but instead textbased sex games just made by someone with qbasic. You would have a basic scenario and along the way you got to choose what you did and how to continue from there. Damn it was hot in '95.
You cant compare it to Last.FM or Pandora. Its more like itunes store or your local mp3 files, just that when you search for something you can just click on it and it starts playing. The great thing is that they've managed to do it so that it *does start playing right away*, no lag and no buffering even tho that its streaming. It just feels like those are on your own computer and the quality is good.
Advertisement amount varies by country. I heard my german and uk friends get more advertisements, but I get maybe 1-2 per day. And if those short adverts bother, its just 9.99e per month for premium without adverts.
I really hope they get the contracts worked out to move to us soon too; spotify has changed lots in europe.
Sorry, I took some fast response early in the morning. I see what you mean now :)
If you've read it correctly, I actually meant that the original Portal was innovative. Its nice however that someone has transferred it to ascii.
It's no surprise MS is going for this. Summary states its popular in UK, but it's really popular everywhere in Europe, despite needing invites to get account. Even "pro-piracy" forum users are saying in news comments how spotify has changed their listening habits and they dont pirate music anymore because spofity is just so convenient. I also am in long-distance relationship with my gf currently (was necessary for her school program) and we've always had similar music taste, so now we paste spotify links to each other in facebook or im to listen to something newly discovered good music.
This *IS* what music industry needed and its great they've understood it now. Now just bring the same for movies and games, I'm even happy to pay monthly subscriptions for it. Just make it convenient and easy for me.
I think this is just usual bullshit. Yes, in my young age there were *great* games. Settlers 2, Civ2, Megarace 2, Populous, Operation Flashpoint. They were great, but they wouldn't be on today's scale. Age goldens things and so on. However I do still enjoy playing them, because they were so large part of my younghood. If they were new titles and something I wouldn't know, I wouldn't really be impressed by them.
And there are great games that dont rape it for 3D graphics now a days too. Just recent games include World of Goo and Braid. They're fully 2D and contain great gameplay. I also love LittleBigPlanet on PS3, which is 2D like platform but with stunning 3D graphics. The fact it has great graphics doesn't reduce it great gameplay mechanism.
Just because we're used to greater graphics now doesn't mean the gameplay is shit and only great gameplay is in 2D ASCII games we're you have to have good imagination to go with things. Graphics are there to make the immersion; gameplay is there to make it fun. When done correctly, those two *DO* work together.
I must admit that my first thought was why and that its gonna lost all the interest in ascii mode where it would just teleport from one place to other. However after seeing the video, it seems to be a lot more than that and has very neat portal like effects. I loved how it creates the landscape on the "empty" space instead of just teleporting, which makes it seem continuous.
In an indirect way this also showed me that current games aren't just about graphics and innovative gameplay would had been forgotten. Portal could had been done years ago the same way its done here. However it was new kind of game and had good and fitting graphics, so the usual thought that new games aren't innovative doesn't really cut.
I hope this gets converted to linux aswell so I can play it over ssh :)
Have others noticed how slashdot now reverses thread start order? What is the reason, and what good is in that?
Thankfully I use KeePass myself, so I have everywhere *different* ~20 chars totally random password. If you also use keyfile to protect the container, a trojan getting your master password doesn't matter. Some of them might also be stupid enough not to monitor the clipboard when you're pasting the password. And even if they do, you wont give out password to bunch of websites, services, email, servers etc at once and you're protected against malicious admins or people hacking servers to get passwords because you have different password everywhere.
I dont see why more people dont use KeePass or some other such software, it makes your passwords and accounts a lot more secure. And yes, stong passwords are better than short and easily guessed ones, specially in this case.
Those metabolic problems are really, really minotiry. Maybe 0.001% of people. And those who have them probably know not to take the usual weight losing tips personally to them. But the fact is, its just math for most people. Burn more calories than you eat daily. If you feel hungry, eat meat or something that makes you feel full for longer time. If you just eat hotdog or hamburger you'll probably will be hungry in 2 hours again. After a few days getting used to it, one chicken leg and water was enough to keep me full. Stomach will get used to it really quickly, even tho that is somewhat extreme example and not good in long run. But the point is; choose your food by proteins and fat, not by fast burning carbs.
Yes, there are 3 separate body types, some are a bit heavier than others and muscle mass counts in body index too. But BMI 40 *is not right*.
So, in other words, you have a complete lack of self control and are unable to motivate yourself to keep yourself healthy.
Not at all.
Losing weight is stupidly easy: eat less, exercise more.
That completely ignores the fact that people feel hunger differently, people lose weight differently, and that even those that have the ability to lose weight can work their arses off and still lose nothing in a week. If weight loss were as easy for everyone as you make it out to be we wouldn't have a problem.
You do understand that the different hunger feeling comes from the fact how much people have got used to eat, right? And also from what kind of food you eat. Carbs burn *fast* in your body, so stay off from bread, rice, potatoes and such. Eat high-protein and high-fat foods like meat, fish and chicken. They often also contain way less calories than the high-carb foods. Start by eating when you feel like so, as you're quite possible taking way less calories in that way anyways. Lower your amounts a bit all the time and you'll notice you dont really need that much food.
I feel you in that theres sometimes reasons people cant get their motivation up for that, being it work or anything else. I'm myself around the ~30 in charts. But I know the reasons for it and I know that I could make it better, instead of lying to myself that it's somehow not possible.
The only couple of times I have lost weight in my life I lived on salad and lean meat/chicken in tiny portions and did AT LEAST 2 hours of heavy excercise a day. Anything short of that doesn't cut it.
See this? That is the answer that I've already said and you've even noticed yourself. Hamburgers, bread and other such high-carb food is bad. Meat and chicken and fish is good. It's there by nature. Google for "low carb diet", go by that atleats 2 weeks and you'll notice how great it is. Then make that your lifestyle.
"That usually (YMMV) means you're eating the wrong food. Your body tends to stay hungry until it has got what it needs. Eat something else and the craving remains."
Thanks for the old wives tale, AC.
Eh? Thats the truth really. If you havent tried yet, try eating just foods with low amounts of carbs. Instead eat meat, fish and chicken. *without something that comes with carbs*. You'll notice how much longer you stay full. You can start by googling for "low carb diet". But dont just keep it as diet, keep it as a lifestyle. You'll notice the difference.
Obesity is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.
Pig flu affects fat persons.. I didn't see that one coming!
I like it how this got modded down as troll and flamebait :)
fyi, i'm somewhat fat myself. but atleast I see the reality and admit its not good, instead of modding down :)
Pig flu affects fat persons.. I didn't see that one coming!
After reading the syllabi, all the higher level classes appear to teach concepts rather than work to develop advanced techniques in a specific language.
It's great that you have it like that. Its the concepts that matter more than just teaching some language dependant pack of tricks. Languages can always be learnt afterwards and quickly, and they also tend to change during years. Concept stay somewhat the same, and those are what you need to understand. I wish I would had the same kind of program in school.
I also feel that I am going to come out of school not having the expertise required in a single language to land a good job.
Usually programmers are quite self-taught. Schools can teach you concepts and languages, but the real knowledge comes from when you're interested in it and try out and do stuff. Yes, this means you should have some interest in coding at home for your pleasure too, as a hobby. I would think that programming would being really really boring if you dont have the interest to learn yourself or even program your own stuff at home.
You didn't mention if you do programming yourself, but if you dont you should start to. Start coding some games yourself or stuff you think are useful to you. Or learn PHP and start coding websites. You can even start to make some cash out of it, either by selling your software/game, running websites or coding as a freelancer. Try out things.
However the most stupid approach is to think you should be awesome in one language and lack everything else. Usually you need combination of different languages and better understanding generally. Read some programmer job listings and you see how they always contain lots of different thingies and qualities they're looking for. Programming languages used at work will most likely change aswell (Java was hot in some apps programming years ago, but C# and other languages have been stealing position from it). This is why you want to have the general understanding instead of just knowing tricks&tips of one language.
Getting out of your fucking apartment and in to the real world.
So what do you suggest I do there? Stand on the street?
You might even find some +12 Real Pussy...
What if I already get this, despite sitting at computer almost 24/7? :)
This is actually quite interesting. First time I came across state machines was in Max Payne level editor, which was something fantastic for a creator-minded / "lets try out what this shit can do" person like me. Now I'm mainly a programmer / game developer, but I always love to mess around with things and create fun things quickly just to see what they can do.
Too bad its mainly made for kids, there's not enough such toys for us adults :) However just out of the interest I guess I'll be getting this anyways (yeah, obviously for my kids that will born in ~5 years)
Eh, has Linux server administration really come into this? Hire knowledgeable admins that can script stuff. Linux is perfect for scripting such configuring and set up. You just need to do those scripts once and you're ready to deploy them on all systems after minimum installation.
If you're a large company, just develop your own solutions, its far better than using someones elses. Just look at google or any other succesfull company.
What about if the hotspot doesn't actually give the user the real page, but instead phishing page? I doubt many normal users notice that HTTPS isn't on. Or like in the above The Real Hustle video, "for $1 you can get one hour of surfing time, just enter your credit card details" and you probably can guess what happens from there.
Isn't this quite old story? Already years ago I read that people have been setting their own hotspots near crowded places, and it works good because if you get better signal than the official hotspot the computers usually pick your hotspot first. This was even covered in The Real Hustle many seasons ago.
And for that matter, you're in a insecure place connecting via some random network. Its just stupid.
For those of us who dont want to pay for it, dont worry! Next year the goverment will install it to your phone for free!
You would think so, considering thats only what the sperm sees.
I've actually done some research on this aswell. On majority of times when I found a good clip, I had to clean my monitor. This didn't happen when the clip was bad or the women on it unattractive. Hmm, wonder where they sell speedometers...