What the absolute fuck has this site come to? If someone went back in time and told cmdrtaco what was to become of his beloved tech news aggregator after his departure, I wonder if he would have believed them? This place might as well not exist anymore; it is nothing more than a cash cow to grab ad revenue by posting the most obviously inflammatory bollocks its moderators can think of. Whoever posted this must have cum in their pants at just the mere thought of all those ad impressions. Fuck me, what a travesty. I'd say the new owners ought to be ashamed of themselves but they either don't know what shame is, or it's something they enjoy feeling. I've half a feeling that they even own those dopey nazi ascii posting bots as well; anything to make a dollar, the dirty cunts.
I bet those dirty Chinese are absolutely shaking in their boots right now. Oh goodness, someone is telling them that they're not being fair! Quick, take to twatter oh ye warriors of feminism, shame those industrious bastards back to the rice fields! Oh, what's that, they don't care? Better call the wambulance.
Whatever it is, you can rest assured that it will be some puerile pop culture joke about how geeks are unable to communicate with women. That show died several seasons ago.
The University I worked at used them for the purposes of restricting access to certain areas, depending on what you were studying or who you worked for. For example, Comp-Sci students got access to some of the more specialized computer labs. IT guys had access to server rooms etc. (can you guess what I was?:) It was also, apparently, possible to tell who was in the building during a fire, but I don't know how easily that information could be obtained during an actual blaze...
Possible, but the SJW's will have to dream up a way to fit all of their gender pronouns onto the disc first, and even how many there are in the first place.
I suppose it is to those men who wish to use virtue signalling as some sort of attempt to win the hearts of the opposite sex. Unfortunately they will gladly be exploited and led on, and never realise that "nice guys aren't".
Not being an expert in this area I do find it puzzling. The Australian article was paywalled, but reading the other two did not set off any "troll" bells in my head. I don't know if they're completely *correct*, but they do seem like honest bits of research and at the very least, worthy of a rebuttal instead of a down vote. If I had mod points, I'd pop them back up. Alas I do not.
Oh yeah man, that'd be sick! Some mechanics I've thought of just off the top of my head:
A Sanity bar - you have to maintain your sanity by looking away from your dying friend's mutilated bodies, especially the eyes. Hearing their screams also decreases your sanity, so you need to quickly zip passed people who are suffering (or end it with your trusty shovel) to get through levels.
Savior Points - You accrue points by putting people out of their misery, and you get a bonus combo multiplier that counts up if you save people within one second of each other, again with your trusty shovel or one of several savior's items, such as crow bars, wrenches, wooden crates or your foot.
World-wide Locales - There are so many awesome environments this could take place in, including deserts, cities, the countryside and even soon, the border between China and North Korea.
Achievements - This would tie into how you save people, whose models would have many different hit locations (think Soldier of Fortune). You could save someone by stoving their head in, or by crushing their arms off (so that they stop thrashing, which would give you a thrasher bonus). Blood and entrails would obviously be realistically modelled using PhysX.
I dunno man, I think you're really onto something here. You should probably create it, you'll want a suitably fucked up game engine for such a fucked up idea. Say, Amazon's Lumberyard?
No doubt the research was initiated by the theory that all things, even suns, are able to fluidly assume their own gender.
In what possible way could a star do this then, other than to be born as two stars that later collapse into a single stellar identity?
The question remains however, if the stars as have checked their privelege. #Killallreddwarfs.
I'm going to get rated down for this but fuck it. What the fuck is up with this site? Who thought THIS would be a good question to ask? Isn't it blindingly obvious that progress bars lie because in almost all cases the task at hand cannot be accurately measured? Could the submitter not have googled this? It's stories like this one that make me not want to know what other humans are doing with their lives. Better to just pretend they're not completely fucking brain dead.
Almost all my friends left due to class homogenization and the general compression / "dumbing down" of stuff to do. I personally began to doubt the direction of the game when they added recuperate to the Rogue skill tree - they needed a way to stop Rogues from going down in fights that didn't involve lots of escape skills (because those would be 'un-fun' to their enemies) so what did they do? They added a blanket x% heal every couple of seconds. Bloody terrible. I didn't even get to 85 in Cata. In my opinion they had class balance pretty much perfect in the final patch right before Burning Crusade, then we saw how broken class stats became passed 60 (e.g. MASSSSIVE health ramp up) and they've been literally chasing that problem ever since.
The first part there chimes with my point - exporting your slides from PowerPoint to html would give you the worst of both worlds. I once tried exporting some notes to html and PowerPoint made a complete mess of them and didn't even use the entirety of the horizontal screen space. The notes didn't even require images, it was just some text. Ouch.
What relevance does exporting from PowerPoint to html have with what I have said? The argument is producing your presentation in html vs producing it in PowerPoint. If you exported your slides to html you would satisfy neither my argument that PowerPoint is a more efficient and exact method of creating presentations, nor the GP's argument that you ought to build your slides in html and avoid design atrocities committed by typical PowerPoint presentations.
Sure you do, it's another way of conveying information. For instance, how many people would rather see a map as plain text vs an image of the map itself? What about a graph plotting statistics that show progression? Maybe you want to show a screenshot or photograph of something significant, again text won't do. There are plenty of frivolous things that images aren't required for, like clipart to "pretty" (ha) up a presentation, but the reverse is also true.
"The issue you have with HTML versus powerpoint means you're doing it wrong in the first place, not that HTML is the issue."
I take exception to this, you see I believe in making something clean, simple and *precise*. If I have an image being rendered somewhere, I want it to render there and ONLY there, and I want it to be precisely positioned.
Perhaps you don't care about the layout of your work, but I do. And just because I do, doesn't mean that I spend more time on the look of a presentation than on its content. In fact, I'd rather NOT spend forever and a day making sure my presentation looks right, which is exactly why I'd choose PowerPoint over making a website, because I don't HAVE to test it at different resolutions on different browsers to make sure it'll function correctly, I can design it once and be done with it! I'm not arguing that PowerPoint isn't capable of funnelling the user into some God awful design choices regarding their presentation layout and its information, but it sure as shit is faster at creating something visually accurate than building a site in html5. That is, unless you want to do something beyond the (admittedly strict) limits of PowerPoint such as complex animation. But then you'd be spending more time on the visual look than on the content itself, which you seem to be against.
Being worried about the exact spot a graphic is in means you give two shits about how your presentation looks. It's a presentation, so like, visuals are sort of key. Who can stand to look at a PRESENTATION that has graphics all offset by a couple of pixels and nasty borders showing through. I suppose if you have no fucking clue of how to visually convey an idea then having your graphics appear differently depending upon the browser you're running won't make you neurotic with rage. PowerPoint isn't exactly exceptional at letting the designer loose with their ideas, but for God's sake it's faster and more accurate than plopping together a nasty web-site that won't even look right half the time, especially if you're showing it on a projector with a different aspect ratio to what the site was designed in.
I think we ought to introduce classes in school that focus specifically on online security, seeing as so much of our lives are now spent online and archived in The Cloud. Mind you, this might be horseshit as for all I know they already exist.
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What the absolute fuck has this site come to? If someone went back in time and told cmdrtaco what was to become of his beloved tech news aggregator after his departure, I wonder if he would have believed them? This place might as well not exist anymore; it is nothing more than a cash cow to grab ad revenue by posting the most obviously inflammatory bollocks its moderators can think of. Whoever posted this must have cum in their pants at just the mere thought of all those ad impressions. Fuck me, what a travesty. I'd say the new owners ought to be ashamed of themselves but they either don't know what shame is, or it's something they enjoy feeling. I've half a feeling that they even own those dopey nazi ascii posting bots as well; anything to make a dollar, the dirty cunts.
Darn it! If only there had been one of those new FOSS style codes of conduct in force to stop this guy from going off the rails.
It's almost as if they're all cunts...
I bet those dirty Chinese are absolutely shaking in their boots right now. Oh goodness, someone is telling them that they're not being fair! Quick, take to twatter oh ye warriors of feminism, shame those industrious bastards back to the rice fields! Oh, what's that, they don't care? Better call the wambulance.
Or train...
Whatever it is, you can rest assured that it will be some puerile pop culture joke about how geeks are unable to communicate with women. That show died several seasons ago.
The University I worked at used them for the purposes of restricting access to certain areas, depending on what you were studying or who you worked for. For example, Comp-Sci students got access to some of the more specialized computer labs. IT guys had access to server rooms etc. (can you guess what I was? :) It was also, apparently, possible to tell who was in the building during a fire, but I don't know how easily that information could be obtained during an actual blaze...
Possible, but the SJW's will have to dream up a way to fit all of their gender pronouns onto the disc first, and even how many there are in the first place.
Deus Ex had a pretty clever method for population control, perhaps we could look into that?
I suppose it is to those men who wish to use virtue signalling as some sort of attempt to win the hearts of the opposite sex. Unfortunately they will gladly be exploited and led on, and never realise that "nice guys aren't".
Not being an expert in this area I do find it puzzling. The Australian article was paywalled, but reading the other two did not set off any "troll" bells in my head. I don't know if they're completely *correct*, but they do seem like honest bits of research and at the very least, worthy of a rebuttal instead of a down vote. If I had mod points, I'd pop them back up. Alas I do not.
Oh yeah man, that'd be sick! Some mechanics I've thought of just off the top of my head:
A Sanity bar - you have to maintain your sanity by looking away from your dying friend's mutilated bodies, especially the eyes. Hearing their screams also decreases your sanity, so you need to quickly zip passed people who are suffering (or end it with your trusty shovel) to get through levels.
Savior Points - You accrue points by putting people out of their misery, and you get a bonus combo multiplier that counts up if you save people within one second of each other, again with your trusty shovel or one of several savior's items, such as crow bars, wrenches, wooden crates or your foot.
World-wide Locales - There are so many awesome environments this could take place in, including deserts, cities, the countryside and even soon, the border between China and North Korea.
Achievements - This would tie into how you save people, whose models would have many different hit locations (think Soldier of Fortune). You could save someone by stoving their head in, or by crushing their arms off (so that they stop thrashing, which would give you a thrasher bonus). Blood and entrails would obviously be realistically modelled using PhysX.
I dunno man, I think you're really onto something here. You should probably create it, you'll want a suitably fucked up game engine for such a fucked up idea. Say, Amazon's Lumberyard?
No doubt the research was initiated by the theory that all things, even suns, are able to fluidly assume their own gender. In what possible way could a star do this then, other than to be born as two stars that later collapse into a single stellar identity? The question remains however, if the stars as have checked their privelege. #Killallreddwarfs.
Darn! The one time a Slashdot article could benefit from the wisdom of a good Chiropractor!
I'm going to get rated down for this but fuck it. What the fuck is up with this site? Who thought THIS would be a good question to ask? Isn't it blindingly obvious that progress bars lie because in almost all cases the task at hand cannot be accurately measured? Could the submitter not have googled this? It's stories like this one that make me not want to know what other humans are doing with their lives. Better to just pretend they're not completely fucking brain dead.
One likes to be ridden while high, the other likes to ride while high, and the third is just a skank.
Oops I meant the final class balance patch before they added the 40 point talents, as those blew absolute chunks.
Almost all my friends left due to class homogenization and the general compression / "dumbing down" of stuff to do. I personally began to doubt the direction of the game when they added recuperate to the Rogue skill tree - they needed a way to stop Rogues from going down in fights that didn't involve lots of escape skills (because those would be 'un-fun' to their enemies) so what did they do? They added a blanket x% heal every couple of seconds. Bloody terrible. I didn't even get to 85 in Cata. In my opinion they had class balance pretty much perfect in the final patch right before Burning Crusade, then we saw how broken class stats became passed 60 (e.g. MASSSSIVE health ramp up) and they've been literally chasing that problem ever since.
Because they're cheap and cheerful, and the record companies need something to stock HMV with.
The first part there chimes with my point - exporting your slides from PowerPoint to html would give you the worst of both worlds. I once tried exporting some notes to html and PowerPoint made a complete mess of them and didn't even use the entirety of the horizontal screen space. The notes didn't even require images, it was just some text. Ouch.
What relevance does exporting from PowerPoint to html have with what I have said? The argument is producing your presentation in html vs producing it in PowerPoint. If you exported your slides to html you would satisfy neither my argument that PowerPoint is a more efficient and exact method of creating presentations, nor the GP's argument that you ought to build your slides in html and avoid design atrocities committed by typical PowerPoint presentations.
Sure you do, it's another way of conveying information. For instance, how many people would rather see a map as plain text vs an image of the map itself? What about a graph plotting statistics that show progression? Maybe you want to show a screenshot or photograph of something significant, again text won't do. There are plenty of frivolous things that images aren't required for, like clipart to "pretty" (ha) up a presentation, but the reverse is also true.
"The issue you have with HTML versus powerpoint means you're doing it wrong in the first place, not that HTML is the issue."
I take exception to this, you see I believe in making something clean, simple and *precise*. If I have an image being rendered somewhere, I want it to render there and ONLY there, and I want it to be precisely positioned.
Perhaps you don't care about the layout of your work, but I do. And just because I do, doesn't mean that I spend more time on the look of a presentation than on its content. In fact, I'd rather NOT spend forever and a day making sure my presentation looks right, which is exactly why I'd choose PowerPoint over making a website, because I don't HAVE to test it at different resolutions on different browsers to make sure it'll function correctly, I can design it once and be done with it! I'm not arguing that PowerPoint isn't capable of funnelling the user into some God awful design choices regarding their presentation layout and its information, but it sure as shit is faster at creating something visually accurate than building a site in html5. That is, unless you want to do something beyond the (admittedly strict) limits of PowerPoint such as complex animation. But then you'd be spending more time on the visual look than on the content itself, which you seem to be against.
Being worried about the exact spot a graphic is in means you give two shits about how your presentation looks. It's a presentation, so like, visuals are sort of key. Who can stand to look at a PRESENTATION that has graphics all offset by a couple of pixels and nasty borders showing through. I suppose if you have no fucking clue of how to visually convey an idea then having your graphics appear differently depending upon the browser you're running won't make you neurotic with rage. PowerPoint isn't exactly exceptional at letting the designer loose with their ideas, but for God's sake it's faster and more accurate than plopping together a nasty web-site that won't even look right half the time, especially if you're showing it on a projector with a different aspect ratio to what the site was designed in.
I think we ought to introduce classes in school that focus specifically on online security, seeing as so much of our lives are now spent online and archived in The Cloud. Mind you, this might be horseshit as for all I know they already exist.