I don't think either of you are qualified to make that assertation. A year of Bio/Physical Anthropology for extra credit is not enough.
You need to explain why its more likely that they adapted from solar sourced ancestors as opposed to thermal heat vents. I think that form of adaptation would be quite rare, as evolution takes a long time. And you can't expect a solar sourced species to survive in a non-solar environment very long.
It really depends on the game and the end goal in mind, and how you want to achieve getting there.
I've just started this past week with my room mate the idea of a web based RPG. Think Dungeons and dragons with a Pokemon style interface. Anyways, for something like that, there are a lot of aspects to it, basically everything world of warcraft would have, minus the engine.
So what I have in mind is a mostly agile development. It will initially be released as a stand alone combat system, you have your character and your stats and you get experience for fighting other characters. While I don't expect it to "Take off" just on that alone, it'll be public to start growing in fan base and get the word around. Then each module will be added on. Marketplace, Crafting, Locations and movement, Dungeons, etc etc.
Agile development will basically be giving everyone a public beta testing of modules I complete, allowing me to address bugs while working on other modules.
It might eventually come in to play that we integrate this with some form of flash game, we have discussed the possibilities. If all goes well, we may have to build one using the Source engine from Valve.
I was going to write a post about that as well, and wondering why it would matter for an AUS release, as they actually have laws (or had, I assume they still exist) making region locking illegal,
That sounds odd, since they have laws regarding violent videogames and such. Certain games get banned. Wouldn't it make sense for them to condone regional banning and then just get game developers to comply with government regulation?
Speech to text can be so perfectly on the mark sometimes (when you expect it to be way off) and it can be way off on something so simple.
My girlfriend is a history major and she always handwrites her papers - and because I can get 70 WPM (bursts, not constant) I usually end up typing them up for her. I decided we'd try the Speech to text service on my laptop, with the USB microphone that came with Rockband.
The paper was on Women in Ancient Rome, so you can imagine that there would be a ton of errors when it comes to names and such. Octavia, Caesar, Antony, not things in common language.
Anyways, 95% of the paper was bang on perfect. The voice recognition technology makes you go through about a dozen test sentences to help analyze your speech, something I figure Google voice recognition doesn't do when you leave a voicemail.
It was pretty funny though, it went from a perfectly and completely comprehensive sentence explaining the heirarchy of women in the Roman Culture and how the noble women were an influence, to a sentence that read (to the best of my knowledge; Oh Octavio, on two they could sparse a little brain and then some. I believe the sentence had to do with a library that Octavia had started (though I can't remember its exact wording).
I disagree. Life is what you make of it, and if you appreciate romantic comedies than there is no reason you can't try to make one of your own.
If you haven't been able to approach a girl because of awkward shyness (which as I understand is quite common in geeks and nerds) - than what better day than Valentines day to make -some- form of contact? On the odd chance you know where she lives, (say she is an old friend) than you can write a personalized letter and leave it in the mailbox. Girls love getting mail that isn't bills or coupons.
Say you know her name but you don't really know her, you can place a Valentine's card in her hand and say something small or you can leave it somewhere you know she'll find it. Even if it doesn't take off, it lets her know that you think of her.
Or if it is some random stranger you see on the bus everyday, you won't ever find a better day to hand out a card.
And I pulled off one of those a while ago. Actually its been like 2 years. Anyways. Yeah - its pretty easy to do, once you know your girl well enough to get her to play along - and a car definately helps. The idea is simple, place letters along a path, each one giving clues to the next one. Given todays technology, just about everyone has a web enabled phone, which lets you take things a bit further than just a hunt. I had converted the clues into binary... ascii values... Hex... knowing not to do anything complex like public key encryption, lol, but she can recognize what is what and can look it up if she needs help. She eventually made her way down the street to my car, the previous letter informed her to look under the trunk, where an envelope with a spare car key was taped up. She opened the car to find a subjective question of who would win in a fight, 2 raptors or a t-rex - in a very crowded jungle. (We'll leave that open to debate). One envelope said Raptors, and the other said T-rex. It didn't really have any bearing on the actual hunt, but it kind of goes along with this inside joke that we have. We personally think that -EVERYONE- secretly still loves dinosaurs, just when they get older they are too afraid to admit it. Anyways, so it leads her into this park where I'm sitting there, reading my book, with a nice picnic set up. We both agreed earlier that week that Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwhiches are totally still delicious, it seems odd that you stop eating them completely as soon as you are out of junior high. So we had a picnic with sandwhiches.
Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
History has no evidence of any organism managing to evolve away from a lethal or maladaptive feature.
Well, you're more right than you know. Baby seals haven't evolved to withstand harder clubs. Cows haven't managed to evolve into anything other than steak. Us humans haven't manage evolve away from war.
The answer is the PC games model we already had, where the platform is open
If only that were the case with -ALL- PC Games. Sadly, it is not. If Blizzard were to drop off the grid, not only would WoW become unplayable (obviously) but also their other titles, such as Starcraft and Diablo 2. And it happens to everyone. Sierra got bought out and now half their game hosting servers are shut down. A handful of games from the 90's no longer have any server support. Some Ubisoft titles come to mind as well.
It's easy to bash a console - especially one operated by Microsoft, but you aren't really looking at the big picture. The thing was launched in 2002, so thats 7 to 8 years of solid support. Thats automatic matchmaking, ranking systems, communications with friends, shopping, etc etc. The only system to have even come close to that is Steam, which in of itself is no more open than XboxLive. If Valve decided to shutdown their steam servers, you are just as tied into their locked in model as Microsofts.
So yes - if you want to escape from this model, you need to find open standards and open platforms, (though I don't think Linux and opengl particularily effect a games lifelength). Its about finding games that aren't dependant on the publisher's/developer's servers, which is tough now-a-days. And you probably don't know if there is the option to host a server dedicated or not until you buy and play the game, so you're pretty much screwed either way.
Of course you can't.
In fact, if you're anything like me, you can't even trust the code that you wrote yourself.
A night filled with browsing old Russian Propoganda, Some Vodka, and Rufilin... You wake up the next morning and you have no idea whether that Tax Financer is just a Tax Financer.
Making a clear cut law won't stop it either, they'll work around a loophole, probably something similar to;
Buy something through Ticketmaster, TM site has a pop up to Acme Company Inc, and when you click the pop up, Ticketmaster charges you an extra $100 for that, they send $70 to Acme. Nothing they did was considered illegal, as the information you entered was with Ticketmaster, and processed through them.
I've come across these (I was on Ticketmaster the other day) and its a good thing popup blockers are standard now, otherwise I might have accidentally clicked on this ploy.
Are they using the interwebs to hack the mainframe, or crack the mainframe? You need to consider if they are after your Datasheets or your Hard-Diskette. Theres so many factors to consider. Perhaps they just want to plant a worm that will grow into a virus which will grow into a trojan, if you don't stop it in its Larval stages. You can use cyber worms and cyber Larva in some advanced Phishing techniques, so don't waste them if you come across them.
I suppose the only way to be sure 100% secure is to encrypt your entire house on the molecular level. Before you head off to work, you should arrange each everything into 8 mol groups and hash into some kind of cipher, its the only way to be both virtually and physically secure.
Agreed. I think it is actually the one thing that ties all Telus employees together - is their unified unhappiness towards the ads. Some people hate them, others don't mind them, but no one I ever worked with enjoyed them.
I worked at Telus (Canadian based Telco) for a while and I can safely say that they foster creativity and innovation. It's actually in their motto type creedo thing, which they bash you over the head with during training.
Anyways, every 2 weeks during a regular team meeting they would constantly ask for criticism or feedback of the system, any improvements to be made or new ideas to be tested. Even my short summer as a 411 operator showed that they took suggestions and applied them regularily. For example, when looking through directories that deal with Taxi Agencies, sometimes a number will pop up that isn't the actual line for the taxi cabs, but actually the corporate office. Since you don't want to give them the wrong number listings will sometimes have notes attached. Seemingly ridiculous in hindsight, the notes are only ever surrounded in !!'s or **'s and have no other differentiation. One of my co-workers suggest we use a different font colour for notes. This suggestion was taken up and implemented within the month, much to everyone's delight.
Its true that duels did exist however, even pistol duels. Their cliche-ness is why they became so popular in a spaghetti western. However, I don't see what the second part has to do at all with high noon duels being a myth. The idea of the duel was not for the intent or purpose of killing a man (though an intended side effect) but to show honour while trying to get what you want. Give the man a fair chance to see if he can sling his gun faster than you. And yes, it is usually less than a second. Thats why they made dueling pistols with only 1 bullet in them.
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I don't think either of you are qualified to make that assertation. A year of Bio/Physical Anthropology for extra credit is not enough.
You need to explain why its more likely that they adapted from solar sourced ancestors as opposed to thermal heat vents. I think that form of adaptation would be quite rare, as evolution takes a long time. And you can't expect a solar sourced species to survive in a non-solar environment very long.
It really depends on the game and the end goal in mind, and how you want to achieve getting there.
I've just started this past week with my room mate the idea of a web based RPG. Think Dungeons and dragons with a Pokemon style interface. Anyways, for something like that, there are a lot of aspects to it, basically everything world of warcraft would have, minus the engine.
So what I have in mind is a mostly agile development. It will initially be released as a stand alone combat system, you have your character and your stats and you get experience for fighting other characters. While I don't expect it to "Take off" just on that alone, it'll be public to start growing in fan base and get the word around. Then each module will be added on. Marketplace, Crafting, Locations and movement, Dungeons, etc etc.
Agile development will basically be giving everyone a public beta testing of modules I complete, allowing me to address bugs while working on other modules.
It might eventually come in to play that we integrate this with some form of flash game, we have discussed the possibilities. If all goes well, we may have to build one using the Source engine from Valve.
I was going to write a post about that as well, and wondering why it would matter for an AUS release, as they actually have laws (or had, I assume they still exist) making region locking illegal,
That sounds odd, since they have laws regarding violent videogames and such. Certain games get banned. Wouldn't it make sense for them to condone regional banning and then just get game developers to comply with government regulation?
I think we learned that trick from the Russians
Yeah, as a Canadian, this made my day.
I read the whole summary twice thinking this had to do with computer viruses.
They even mention words like "Medicine" and "Proteins".
Oracle> INSERT "Monkeedude1212" INTO dual
AKA the Dummy table
You push it more into the public eye, the public critiques, investors spend money to make a better product, a better product gets made.
You didn't think there are any actual entrepreneurial software developers out there who worked for free did you?
Speech to text can be so perfectly on the mark sometimes (when you expect it to be way off) and it can be way off on something so simple.
My girlfriend is a history major and she always handwrites her papers - and because I can get 70 WPM (bursts, not constant) I usually end up typing them up for her. I decided we'd try the Speech to text service on my laptop, with the USB microphone that came with Rockband.
The paper was on Women in Ancient Rome, so you can imagine that there would be a ton of errors when it comes to names and such. Octavia, Caesar, Antony, not things in common language.
Anyways, 95% of the paper was bang on perfect. The voice recognition technology makes you go through about a dozen test sentences to help analyze your speech, something I figure Google voice recognition doesn't do when you leave a voicemail.
It was pretty funny though, it went from a perfectly and completely comprehensive sentence explaining the heirarchy of women in the Roman Culture and how the noble women were an influence, to a sentence that read (to the best of my knowledge; Oh Octavio, on two they could sparse a little brain and then some. I believe the sentence had to do with a library that Octavia had started (though I can't remember its exact wording).
Is there nothing we can't do?
Find a date for Valentines day?
V day would be the day you can get away with that kinda stuff =P
Is it silly when it makes the prices of romance items drop?
I'll tell you, rose petals any other month, a bit pricey. Come Jan and February, they're at the dollar store!
I disagree. Life is what you make of it, and if you appreciate romantic comedies than there is no reason you can't try to make one of your own.
If you haven't been able to approach a girl because of awkward shyness (which as I understand is quite common in geeks and nerds) - than what better day than Valentines day to make -some- form of contact? On the odd chance you know where she lives, (say she is an old friend) than you can write a personalized letter and leave it in the mailbox. Girls love getting mail that isn't bills or coupons.
Say you know her name but you don't really know her, you can place a Valentine's card in her hand and say something small or you can leave it somewhere you know she'll find it. Even if it doesn't take off, it lets her know that you think of her.
Or if it is some random stranger you see on the bus everyday, you won't ever find a better day to hand out a card.
And I pulled off one of those a while ago. Actually its been like 2 years. Anyways. Yeah - its pretty easy to do, once you know your girl well enough to get her to play along - and a car definately helps. The idea is simple, place letters along a path, each one giving clues to the next one. Given todays technology, just about everyone has a web enabled phone, which lets you take things a bit further than just a hunt. I had converted the clues into binary... ascii values... Hex... knowing not to do anything complex like public key encryption, lol, but she can recognize what is what and can look it up if she needs help. She eventually made her way down the street to my car, the previous letter informed her to look under the trunk, where an envelope with a spare car key was taped up. She opened the car to find a subjective question of who would win in a fight, 2 raptors or a t-rex - in a very crowded jungle. (We'll leave that open to debate). One envelope said Raptors, and the other said T-rex. It didn't really have any bearing on the actual hunt, but it kind of goes along with this inside joke that we have. We personally think that -EVERYONE- secretly still loves dinosaurs, just when they get older they are too afraid to admit it. Anyways, so it leads her into this park where I'm sitting there, reading my book, with a nice picnic set up. We both agreed earlier that week that Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwhiches are totally still delicious, it seems odd that you stop eating them completely as soon as you are out of junior high. So we had a picnic with sandwhiches.
Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
They can argue that keeping their methods secret increases their chances of catching criminals.
Its a beautiful world we live in where the FBI can ask for more power without having to prove that it won't be abused.
I think the government should no longer be able to tax me, to help combat child pornography and other serious crimes.
Modern cows are the result of HUMANS selecting for traits
Which is exactly what DARPA is aiming to do here, so whats the difference?
History has no evidence of any organism managing to evolve away from a lethal or maladaptive feature.
Well, you're more right than you know. Baby seals haven't evolved to withstand harder clubs. Cows haven't managed to evolve into anything other than steak. Us humans haven't manage evolve away from war.
So yeah, I don't see why a killswitch would fail.
The answer is the PC games model we already had, where the platform is open
If only that were the case with -ALL- PC Games. Sadly, it is not. If Blizzard were to drop off the grid, not only would WoW become unplayable (obviously) but also their other titles, such as Starcraft and Diablo 2. And it happens to everyone. Sierra got bought out and now half their game hosting servers are shut down. A handful of games from the 90's no longer have any server support. Some Ubisoft titles come to mind as well.
It's easy to bash a console - especially one operated by Microsoft, but you aren't really looking at the big picture. The thing was launched in 2002, so thats 7 to 8 years of solid support. Thats automatic matchmaking, ranking systems, communications with friends, shopping, etc etc. The only system to have even come close to that is Steam, which in of itself is no more open than XboxLive. If Valve decided to shutdown their steam servers, you are just as tied into their locked in model as Microsofts.
So yes - if you want to escape from this model, you need to find open standards and open platforms, (though I don't think Linux and opengl particularily effect a games lifelength). Its about finding games that aren't dependant on the publisher's/developer's servers, which is tough now-a-days. And you probably don't know if there is the option to host a server dedicated or not until you buy and play the game, so you're pretty much screwed either way.
Of course you can't. In fact, if you're anything like me, you can't even trust the code that you wrote yourself. A night filled with browsing old Russian Propoganda, Some Vodka, and Rufilin... You wake up the next morning and you have no idea whether that Tax Financer is just a Tax Financer.
Making a clear cut law won't stop it either, they'll work around a loophole, probably something similar to; Buy something through Ticketmaster, TM site has a pop up to Acme Company Inc, and when you click the pop up, Ticketmaster charges you an extra $100 for that, they send $70 to Acme. Nothing they did was considered illegal, as the information you entered was with Ticketmaster, and processed through them. I've come across these (I was on Ticketmaster the other day) and its a good thing popup blockers are standard now, otherwise I might have accidentally clicked on this ploy.
Are they using the interwebs to hack the mainframe, or crack the mainframe? You need to consider if they are after your Datasheets or your Hard-Diskette. Theres so many factors to consider. Perhaps they just want to plant a worm that will grow into a virus which will grow into a trojan, if you don't stop it in its Larval stages. You can use cyber worms and cyber Larva in some advanced Phishing techniques, so don't waste them if you come across them. I suppose the only way to be sure 100% secure is to encrypt your entire house on the molecular level. Before you head off to work, you should arrange each everything into 8 mol groups and hash into some kind of cipher, its the only way to be both virtually and physically secure.
Agreed. I think it is actually the one thing that ties all Telus employees together - is their unified unhappiness towards the ads. Some people hate them, others don't mind them, but no one I ever worked with enjoyed them.
I worked at Telus (Canadian based Telco) for a while and I can safely say that they foster creativity and innovation. It's actually in their motto type creedo thing, which they bash you over the head with during training. Anyways, every 2 weeks during a regular team meeting they would constantly ask for criticism or feedback of the system, any improvements to be made or new ideas to be tested. Even my short summer as a 411 operator showed that they took suggestions and applied them regularily. For example, when looking through directories that deal with Taxi Agencies, sometimes a number will pop up that isn't the actual line for the taxi cabs, but actually the corporate office. Since you don't want to give them the wrong number listings will sometimes have notes attached. Seemingly ridiculous in hindsight, the notes are only ever surrounded in !!'s or **'s and have no other differentiation. One of my co-workers suggest we use a different font colour for notes. This suggestion was taken up and implemented within the month, much to everyone's delight.
I have. It was gross, but I certainly had no attachment to anything in that video.
Its true that duels did exist however, even pistol duels. Their cliche-ness is why they became so popular in a spaghetti western. However, I don't see what the second part has to do at all with high noon duels being a myth. The idea of the duel was not for the intent or purpose of killing a man (though an intended side effect) but to show honour while trying to get what you want. Give the man a fair chance to see if he can sling his gun faster than you. And yes, it is usually less than a second. Thats why they made dueling pistols with only 1 bullet in them.