I'm about 99% certain you were doing that for the lolz and you're not some bible-thumping-hick, but regardless I'm going to go ahead and troll a response that is related to the article.
First and foremost, I'm going to have to say that the Royal Tyrrell Museum is quite possibly the most badass museum on the face of the planet. Let me go ahead and also go out on a limb and say that Drumheller (the city/town in which the Royal Tyrell Museum resides) would probably be the best place for a kid to grow up. Do a google image search if you don't believe me, but the town is literally littered with dinosaur tourist traps. Dinosaurs everywhere. It's not uncommon for people to go on random excursions and find a dinosaur bone or two sticking out of the hills, which have ever-shifting mud and dirt being in the badlands region that they are. I grew up in Calgary so I was about an hour and a half away from Drumheller, but I still don't think I go there often enough, even though I go at least once a summer.
So, to say that the biggest cache of dinosaur bones found in Alberta does not at all strike me surprised. I think we probably held the previous 3 records as well. Even in the mountain ranges people find dinosaur bones, which always kind of struck me as odd, but I guess it suggests how young some mountains really are. You may have heard of these fossilized things called ammonites - they are pretty common in mountain ranges all over the world. Old reminents of ancient sea life. However, only in this certain region in Alberta do they get this rainbowy colour. I found it kind of interesting. Alberta is also known for its Oilsands, one of Canada's sources for oil nowawdays, and if I had to venture a guess, its because we had lots and lots of dinosaurs.
In response to the whole "test our faith" - anyone who believes that HAS to go to the Tyrell Museum. They have set up an amazing display of how we've actually linked the timeline. Aside from the first exhibit, which is sort of their "Prize displays" - everything is in chronological order. You go back hundreds of millions of years and see some of the marine life fossils, then you work your way into dinosaurs, mix in marine reptiles every now and then, then you get a mix of neanderthals and ice age and tribal stages of life, working into today.
All in all, by the end of it, if you don't believe in dinosaurs, you've managed to ignore rock solid (pun intended) evidence presented to you before your eyes.
There are tons of web-based games out there, aimed at little kids. The best ones manage to integrate some form of competitive nature. I remember way back in the day, when I was a young'n, there was this little site called neopets.
Some of you might be familiar with this child-attracting monstrosity. It is full of minigames which give them points which they can spend on a variety of stuff. Stuff for your Neopet, as your Neopet is kind of like your avatar, or about as close as you're going to get. I find that they did well in attracting to the "Cool & Cute", the two fields that attract younger kids, however in retaining their audience that had to make it fun enough to keep playing. The best way to do this is to make it competitive with other players.
You could open a shop, and little kids would start playing the market like the stock market (despite neopets actually having its own built in stock market) - kids would understand the investment skills of buy low sell high. There was also a combat arena where you could face off your neopet against other people's neopets. A leveling system I can't remember, weapons, gear, all that stuff.
I'm sure its still like that somehow today, but thats about all I remember.
So, if there is any tip I can give to anyone making a web-game for kids: it's appeal to that social interaction and competitiveness that keeps kids playing webgames, keeps jocks playing football, and keeps nerds playing WoW.
You cannot go to BestBuy, buy a laptop, turn it on and walk down the street and record what google did.
You can do 90% of what google did. You CAN go to BestBuy, buy a laptop, download a program, turn it on, walk down teh street, and record what Google Did. Google did it with their own proprietary stuff to help integrate it with Google maps, but the information they recorded is by and large VERY easily obtained. Like, for under $250, easy.
Yeah you know, "Opt-in", so you are free to decline and accept a boot on your face when you download something outside of their guidelines.
If they make it opt in, than any amount of people opting in will be seen as support for the filter and it won't be long before they say "If its good enough for your Grandmother its good enough for you"
You are correct. The fact that you spelled all those words properly instantly gave you away as someone who didn't go through the American public school system;)
I mean, go ahead and call me a troll, but I just want to know what government programs started with good intentions (besides perhaps, wars) have made things worse.
I'm sure there are some, I'm just ignorant to what they are.
No new MMO is going to be compared by its customers to the ORIGINAL wow, but rather to what they could be playing Right Now, the current version, and all the polish and content that implies. I know, it's not fair.
It's entirely unfair - because Wow came out in what, 2004, 2005? So it's had a solid 5 years of development time going into it, and no other new MMO can compare. Along with the way Wow developed - it makes it a unique experience.
I had enjoyed how WoW was ever changing dependant on its environment. You could make an identical World of Warcraft Clone, so that they are equal in every aspect, but it won't fly at all, and not just because WoW has the player base, but because it doesn't have the same experience that WoW players would have actually experienced.
If I had an option to play Wow 1.0 through 1.2 again I would. But I stopped playing a few months for WotLK - I just didn't like where it was going (things getting easier, all that).
Sadly, that isn't an option. There are private servers, but they are so buggy, things like the talent trees never work properly.
I think that if 20% of your electricity was generated in a green manner you wouldn't have such a dependancy on oil, so you could pull out of the middle east, and you wouldn't have such a bad political position.
I'm just waiting for some Calamity to hit. I mean, Offshore drilling is an entirely different ballpark, but we've put a lot of research into that and we still mess it up.
I mean, how do these platforms cope with hurricanes? I've always wondered. I have a feeling that since a windmill will have most of its machinery above water level, it'll be more susceptible to high winds (which is the idea I know, but I mean twisting metal high winds)
I don't see whats impressive about it at all - but then again, I don't really see whats going on.
I mean, we've programmed robots that can build themselves if you give them the materials. I figured that was self replicating, and that was done a couple years ago.
So whats going on exactly thats impressive in this simulation?
So - at what point did you start playing WoW? Burning Crusade? Maybe a year before that?
Wow, in it's early stages, was much like any other MMO. It took a long time to level to the max level, making it a grand achievement. The only end-game content was PvP at one point, there was a time when even Onyxia wasn't available. There was certain gear you could only get from a 45 minute Baron run, and THAT was considered the hardest thing in the game, a 5 man rush.
Also, Gold was harder to get without Dailies, and so was Rep. If you were a gnome riding an epic Cat, that "meant something". It was like, not only have you played enough to reach this level but you've also farmed enough runecloth to donate for really high rep with a faction that gives you direct bonus.
So the only point at which "End game" really mattered was when WoW was already bustling with users and it needed to retain it's subscriptions. New content kind of stuff. So it has the precedence long before it had the end-game. It KEPT its precedence by focusing on the endgame. Then the MC/BWL/AQ/Naxx pattern was starting to get old, people wanted a whole new area, not just new instances. And so now they are using the Expansion pack cycle, who knows how long this'll last (when its $120 to get into the game they'll see new subscriptions slow down quite a bit).
As for Difficulty in WoW - there was a time when people didn't have strategy guides. Wow has become A LOT easier. Of the 5 Percentile that HAVE done the bosses, the rest of the masses just have to look up the video, make sure they've got the gear, and do it. WoW was much more difficult when nobody had downed a boss yet, and it had effects that weren't seen before, so the strategy on how to handle them wasn't yet defined. But now, anytime a new boss is made, expect a guide within a week. (And thats just focusing on the raid element of WoW, getting Gold is so easy its a joke, getting good gear is easy with badges or whatever they're on now. PvP went to hell when anyone could get full Gladiator by playing enough Arena games a week to maintain a 1500 rating).
Other MMO's have focused heavily on the endgame, the first one off the top of my head: Warhammer. Warhammer isn't doing as well as WoW, even though its polished to the same degree (graphic wise anyways). Warhammer had a complex end-game in the sense that the two factions would actually battle over realm control, and eventually sieging the capital cities. It was very well built but it had a tough time getting to that phase. I only played until about level 30 before going "meh". The PVP wasn't balanced while leveling, though this happens in almost all MMO's. I mean rogues are pretty over powered in the 10-29 bracket of PvP of WoW, but WoW has more content that isn't PvP oriented.
All in all, I think the Parent was correct in saying WoW has dumbed things down, and made it about making it to max level really easily, because now that HALF the game is end-game content, no one even bothers to read quests to level up.
Eh, don't be so sure. Along with simple monitoring some of these devices can come with remote controls, and I don't mean like... a remote control like a Wii mote... I mean... like controlling it remotely... English needs more words. Anyways.
So my Uncle is a tech Savvy programmer who made his millions working on the code that stitches pictures from multiple cameras together and lets you pan it around. So, doing well when virtual tours came along, made a ton when Google Street view came along, he's pretty much retired. (I think actually Google contacts him to go around and drive the street view car around the world occaisonally. Just a while ago they asked him to go to Prague or somewhere. All expenses paid, all you have to do is drive a car around town like 7 hours a day. If you weren't jealous of Google employees before you might be now).
Anyways, so almost a decade ago he liked the idea of being able to remotely control the settings in your house. Like you are on your way home from work and its snowing so you turn the heater on about 10 minutes out, get it nice and toasty inside for you. Or you are in a rush but you wanted to have a romantic dinner, you can call your house from your cell phone and go "CD Player, Disc 3, Track 11" and it'll start playing that throughout the house. He had a bunch of these ideas that he was able to implement, but of course - he would be the only one who has it since he set it up himself (See XKCD: I like being the only person with a hovercar).
Anyways, I'm sure there is a market for these kinds of applications. Put something in the oven before you head to work, turn on the oven on your way back (a dangerous idea but you could build in some failsafes). That kind of stuff. The fact that you can monitor your electricity would be a side bonus.
Really? So when some idiot steals a bunch of your personal information, posts it on the web or sells it and claims it he was a journalist, and your bank accounts end up empty... you're okay with that?
So you're okay when some idiot steals your personal information, uses it to better himself, but you have no proof because everything regarding it becomes censored material?
Or when someone steals some internal memos detailing the troop movements that also happen to include your brothers sqad in Iraq... which promptly gets him killed... you're okay with that?
So when your brother gets killed by intentional friendly fire in Iraq and instead of dealing with the matter, the government sweeps it under the rug and no one hears about it?
Censorship is a fact of life. Not everyone needs to know everything about everyone else. If you disagree, please post all your credit cards and any identification numbers you have.
If you think Censorship is good, then please stop talking, because it will inevitably be deleted by a mod in a little while anyways. There is no point in even posting an opinion since it'll just get censored. Now we're wasting bandwidth
In my experience those who scream loudest about how censorship is bad are those that are the most ignorant of the meaning of the word.
censorship/snsrp/ –noun 1.the act or practice of censoring. 2.the office or power of a censor. 3.the time during which a censor holds office. 4.the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.
You wouldn't last very long in the world if you didn't censor yourself. You'd be unemployed, lonely, and have no support from anyone around you ever.
I'm so sick of idiotic morons such as yourself who think things like Wikileaks are good.
You wouldn't last very long in the world if you censored everything either. You'd be uneducated, ignorant, and have no where to turn for support on anything. You'd probably live a life of slavery because you wouldn't know any better.
Journalists can not be trusted any more than politicians, they have an agenda as well. They don't care about what will happen when they 'spread the news' only that they get credit for doing so and just completely ignore all the consequences and side effects of the stupid shit they do.
So if we agree that all journalists and politicians are corrupt, what does it matter what they do? Censor or not, its journalism?
This isn't about getting the information to the people, this is about letting journalists do whatever they want under the guise of providing useful information to the people.
Which would be like how letting things go completely censored would be like letting politicians do what they want under the guise that its for your own good, but you can't know what they're doing.
Again I say, if you think this is a good idea, then start posting all your personal information and identity numbers/photos, please make sure to include your cell phone sim card info, credit/bank cards, home address, work schedule so I know when to rob you, passwords to your email accounts and any other security feature you may have.
Wait, I forget how this is related. how about, if you think Censorship is a good idea, you give ME all your info, and we'll see if anyone comes along to censor it. After all, censoring yourself is completely different from censoring someone else.
Allowing our programming languages, libraries, and frameworks to do the heavy lifting so we humans can focus on the real problems we want to solve pretty much describes the history of real progress in software development.
If you can find a way to shorten that, just a bit, to 140 characters, that will be the best tweet ever made.
In my limitted experience, threads are one of the more difficult things for... people to understand. I find it difficult to describe their position, which I think Matt Jadud had a tough time too, (See how he said "an artist or a tinkerer or a hacker"). In my situation, I have a friend who is taking an engineering major at the local university. Now, a little background information; I don't know how it is in other cities across the world, but here, Engineering at the university is considered one of the hardest courses. You know, really ridiculously high drop out rates, cause most people can't handle it. Opening orientation, they say look to your left, look to your right. 2 out of the 3 of you won't make it past second year. So anyone who manages to make it through the first 2 years of Engineering gets this perception that they know to do stats as well as a stats major or know how to program as good as a programming major.
Anyways, so my buddy is in engineering, and he knows enough C++ to essentially do any calculation he wants through the command line. He hasn't had to work with GUI's or anything like that. The most he did was a turn based Star Trek game where the command prompt simply reprints the "game board" everytime you make a move or perform an attack, prompting the player what to do at the end of each turn.
So he tends to be the kind of user that they target with these kinds of ports. He's already loaded with a bunch of information in some other field. Be it engineering, arts, hacking, radio signals, whatever. They don't have a whole lot of time to run through the tutorials to learn threading and how its supposed to be done properly. There's no telling how long it'll be before they get into an issue with threading and they won't have enough knowledge on how to fix it and it'll be a big headache if they went and built their entire code that revolves around this segfault they created.
So thats where these other languages come in. They are similar enough to a common language like C that anyone who does a beginner course can pick them up. They offer the features that users WANT without all the complications that come with learning how its done.
I know, I know, teach a man to fish, right? But what if he only ever needs 1 fish in his entire lifetime?
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I'm about 99% certain you were doing that for the lolz and you're not some bible-thumping-hick, but regardless I'm going to go ahead and troll a response that is related to the article.
First and foremost, I'm going to have to say that the Royal Tyrrell Museum is quite possibly the most badass museum on the face of the planet. Let me go ahead and also go out on a limb and say that Drumheller (the city/town in which the Royal Tyrell Museum resides) would probably be the best place for a kid to grow up. Do a google image search if you don't believe me, but the town is literally littered with dinosaur tourist traps. Dinosaurs everywhere. It's not uncommon for people to go on random excursions and find a dinosaur bone or two sticking out of the hills, which have ever-shifting mud and dirt being in the badlands region that they are. I grew up in Calgary so I was about an hour and a half away from Drumheller, but I still don't think I go there often enough, even though I go at least once a summer.
So, to say that the biggest cache of dinosaur bones found in Alberta does not at all strike me surprised. I think we probably held the previous 3 records as well. Even in the mountain ranges people find dinosaur bones, which always kind of struck me as odd, but I guess it suggests how young some mountains really are. You may have heard of these fossilized things called ammonites - they are pretty common in mountain ranges all over the world. Old reminents of ancient sea life. However, only in this certain region in Alberta do they get this rainbowy colour. I found it kind of interesting. Alberta is also known for its Oilsands, one of Canada's sources for oil nowawdays, and if I had to venture a guess, its because we had lots and lots of dinosaurs.
In response to the whole "test our faith" - anyone who believes that HAS to go to the Tyrell Museum. They have set up an amazing display of how we've actually linked the timeline. Aside from the first exhibit, which is sort of their "Prize displays" - everything is in chronological order. You go back hundreds of millions of years and see some of the marine life fossils, then you work your way into dinosaurs, mix in marine reptiles every now and then, then you get a mix of neanderthals and ice age and tribal stages of life, working into today.
All in all, by the end of it, if you don't believe in dinosaurs, you've managed to ignore rock solid (pun intended) evidence presented to you before your eyes.
It's not cute and cuddly and aimed towards kids though.
There are tons of web-based games out there, aimed at little kids. The best ones manage to integrate some form of competitive nature. I remember way back in the day, when I was a young'n, there was this little site called neopets.
Some of you might be familiar with this child-attracting monstrosity. It is full of minigames which give them points which they can spend on a variety of stuff. Stuff for your Neopet, as your Neopet is kind of like your avatar, or about as close as you're going to get. I find that they did well in attracting to the "Cool & Cute", the two fields that attract younger kids, however in retaining their audience that had to make it fun enough to keep playing. The best way to do this is to make it competitive with other players.
You could open a shop, and little kids would start playing the market like the stock market (despite neopets actually having its own built in stock market) - kids would understand the investment skills of buy low sell high. There was also a combat arena where you could face off your neopet against other people's neopets. A leveling system I can't remember, weapons, gear, all that stuff.
I'm sure its still like that somehow today, but thats about all I remember.
So, if there is any tip I can give to anyone making a web-game for kids: it's appeal to that social interaction and competitiveness that keeps kids playing webgames, keeps jocks playing football, and keeps nerds playing WoW.
You cannot go to BestBuy, buy a laptop, turn it on and walk down the street and record what google did.
You can do 90% of what google did. You CAN go to BestBuy, buy a laptop, download a program, turn it on, walk down teh street, and record what Google Did. Google did it with their own proprietary stuff to help integrate it with Google maps, but the information they recorded is by and large VERY easily obtained. Like, for under $250, easy.
Much, if not most, of polite human society throughout history is based on pretending you didn't overhear coversations between people.
And Google pretended they didn't have that information for a while. So what was not polite about what Google Did?
Interactive Goatse?
I will never look at the zoom in gesture the same way again.
Yeah you know, "Opt-in", so you are free to decline and accept a boot on your face when you download something outside of their guidelines.
If they make it opt in, than any amount of people opting in will be seen as support for the filter and it won't be long before they say "If its good enough for your Grandmother its good enough for you"
You are correct. The fact that you spelled all those words properly instantly gave you away as someone who didn't go through the American public school system ;)
Zzzzzzzzing!
Because metal wreckage in the ocean isn't polluting at all either.
You know, I hear this a lot.
Name... Five.
I mean, go ahead and call me a troll, but I just want to know what government programs started with good intentions (besides perhaps, wars) have made things worse.
I'm sure there are some, I'm just ignorant to what they are.
No new MMO is going to be compared by its customers to the ORIGINAL wow, but rather to what they could be playing Right Now, the current version, and all the polish and content that implies. I know, it's not fair.
It's entirely unfair - because Wow came out in what, 2004, 2005? So it's had a solid 5 years of development time going into it, and no other new MMO can compare. Along with the way Wow developed - it makes it a unique experience.
I had enjoyed how WoW was ever changing dependant on its environment. You could make an identical World of Warcraft Clone, so that they are equal in every aspect, but it won't fly at all, and not just because WoW has the player base, but because it doesn't have the same experience that WoW players would have actually experienced.
If I had an option to play Wow 1.0 through 1.2 again I would. But I stopped playing a few months for WotLK - I just didn't like where it was going (things getting easier, all that).
Sadly, that isn't an option. There are private servers, but they are so buggy, things like the talent trees never work properly.
You get an Apple article on their sales? Its super easy to troll. These tech articles are a little more difficult.
Well played, good sir.
I think that if 20% of your electricity was generated in a green manner you wouldn't have such a dependancy on oil, so you could pull out of the middle east, and you wouldn't have such a bad political position.
I'm just waiting for some Calamity to hit. I mean, Offshore drilling is an entirely different ballpark, but we've put a lot of research into that and we still mess it up.
I mean, how do these platforms cope with hurricanes? I've always wondered. I have a feeling that since a windmill will have most of its machinery above water level, it'll be more susceptible to high winds (which is the idea I know, but I mean twisting metal high winds)
Yo, I'ma let you finish, but Braveheart had one of the best speeches on freedom of all time! One of the best speeches of all time!
I don't see whats impressive about it at all - but then again, I don't really see whats going on.
I mean, we've programmed robots that can build themselves if you give them the materials. I figured that was self replicating, and that was done a couple years ago.
So whats going on exactly thats impressive in this simulation?
So - at what point did you start playing WoW? Burning Crusade? Maybe a year before that?
Wow, in it's early stages, was much like any other MMO. It took a long time to level to the max level, making it a grand achievement. The only end-game content was PvP at one point, there was a time when even Onyxia wasn't available. There was certain gear you could only get from a 45 minute Baron run, and THAT was considered the hardest thing in the game, a 5 man rush.
Also, Gold was harder to get without Dailies, and so was Rep. If you were a gnome riding an epic Cat, that "meant something". It was like, not only have you played enough to reach this level but you've also farmed enough runecloth to donate for really high rep with a faction that gives you direct bonus.
So the only point at which "End game" really mattered was when WoW was already bustling with users and it needed to retain it's subscriptions. New content kind of stuff. So it has the precedence long before it had the end-game. It KEPT its precedence by focusing on the endgame. Then the MC/BWL/AQ/Naxx pattern was starting to get old, people wanted a whole new area, not just new instances. And so now they are using the Expansion pack cycle, who knows how long this'll last (when its $120 to get into the game they'll see new subscriptions slow down quite a bit).
As for Difficulty in WoW - there was a time when people didn't have strategy guides. Wow has become A LOT easier. Of the 5 Percentile that HAVE done the bosses, the rest of the masses just have to look up the video, make sure they've got the gear, and do it. WoW was much more difficult when nobody had downed a boss yet, and it had effects that weren't seen before, so the strategy on how to handle them wasn't yet defined. But now, anytime a new boss is made, expect a guide within a week. (And thats just focusing on the raid element of WoW, getting Gold is so easy its a joke, getting good gear is easy with badges or whatever they're on now. PvP went to hell when anyone could get full Gladiator by playing enough Arena games a week to maintain a 1500 rating).
Other MMO's have focused heavily on the endgame, the first one off the top of my head: Warhammer. Warhammer isn't doing as well as WoW, even though its polished to the same degree (graphic wise anyways). Warhammer had a complex end-game in the sense that the two factions would actually battle over realm control, and eventually sieging the capital cities. It was very well built but it had a tough time getting to that phase. I only played until about level 30 before going "meh". The PVP wasn't balanced while leveling, though this happens in almost all MMO's. I mean rogues are pretty over powered in the 10-29 bracket of PvP of WoW, but WoW has more content that isn't PvP oriented.
All in all, I think the Parent was correct in saying WoW has dumbed things down, and made it about making it to max level really easily, because now that HALF the game is end-game content, no one even bothers to read quests to level up.
Not even the greatest song in the world?
Not even as just a tribute to the greatest song in the world?
Eh, don't be so sure. Along with simple monitoring some of these devices can come with remote controls, and I don't mean like... a remote control like a Wii mote... I mean... like controlling it remotely... English needs more words. Anyways.
So my Uncle is a tech Savvy programmer who made his millions working on the code that stitches pictures from multiple cameras together and lets you pan it around. So, doing well when virtual tours came along, made a ton when Google Street view came along, he's pretty much retired. (I think actually Google contacts him to go around and drive the street view car around the world occaisonally. Just a while ago they asked him to go to Prague or somewhere. All expenses paid, all you have to do is drive a car around town like 7 hours a day. If you weren't jealous of Google employees before you might be now).
Anyways, so almost a decade ago he liked the idea of being able to remotely control the settings in your house. Like you are on your way home from work and its snowing so you turn the heater on about 10 minutes out, get it nice and toasty inside for you. Or you are in a rush but you wanted to have a romantic dinner, you can call your house from your cell phone and go "CD Player, Disc 3, Track 11" and it'll start playing that throughout the house. He had a bunch of these ideas that he was able to implement, but of course - he would be the only one who has it since he set it up himself (See XKCD: I like being the only person with a hovercar).
Anyways, I'm sure there is a market for these kinds of applications. Put something in the oven before you head to work, turn on the oven on your way back (a dangerous idea but you could build in some failsafes). That kind of stuff. The fact that you can monitor your electricity would be a side bonus.
Also, make it a WC3 standard to have at least 3 Marquee's on each page.
Oh I've tried, but it blew my mind.
God I love feeding the trolls some days.
Really? So when some idiot steals a bunch of your personal information, posts it on the web or sells it and claims it he was a journalist, and your bank accounts end up empty ... you're okay with that?
So you're okay when some idiot steals your personal information, uses it to better himself, but you have no proof because everything regarding it becomes censored material?
Or when someone steals some internal memos detailing the troop movements that also happen to include your brothers sqad in Iraq ... which promptly gets him killed ... you're okay with that?
So when your brother gets killed by intentional friendly fire in Iraq and instead of dealing with the matter, the government sweeps it under the rug and no one hears about it?
Censorship is a fact of life. Not everyone needs to know everything about everyone else. If you disagree, please post all your credit cards and any identification numbers you have.
If you think Censorship is good, then please stop talking, because it will inevitably be deleted by a mod in a little while anyways. There is no point in even posting an opinion since it'll just get censored. Now we're wasting bandwidth
In my experience those who scream loudest about how censorship is bad are those that are the most ignorant of the meaning of the word.
censorship /snsrp/ –noun
1.the act or practice of censoring.
2.the office or power of a censor.
3.the time during which a censor holds office.
4.the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.
You wouldn't last very long in the world if you didn't censor yourself. You'd be unemployed, lonely, and have no support from anyone around you ever.
I'm so sick of idiotic morons such as yourself who think things like Wikileaks are good.
You wouldn't last very long in the world if you censored everything either. You'd be uneducated, ignorant, and have no where to turn for support on anything. You'd probably live a life of slavery because you wouldn't know any better.
Journalists can not be trusted any more than politicians, they have an agenda as well. They don't care about what will happen when they 'spread the news' only that they get credit for doing so and just completely ignore all the consequences and side effects of the stupid shit they do.
So if we agree that all journalists and politicians are corrupt, what does it matter what they do? Censor or not, its journalism?
This isn't about getting the information to the people, this is about letting journalists do whatever they want under the guise of providing useful information to the people.
Which would be like how letting things go completely censored would be like letting politicians do what they want under the guise that its for your own good, but you can't know what they're doing.
Again I say, if you think this is a good idea, then start posting all your personal information and identity numbers/photos, please make sure to include your cell phone sim card info, credit/bank cards, home address, work schedule so I know when to rob you, passwords to your email accounts and any other security feature you may have.
Wait, I forget how this is related. how about, if you think Censorship is a good idea, you give ME all your info, and we'll see if anyone comes along to censor it. After all, censoring yourself is completely different from censoring someone else.
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
Allowing our programming languages, libraries, and frameworks to do the heavy lifting so we humans can focus on the real problems we want to solve pretty much describes the history of real progress in software development.
If you can find a way to shorten that, just a bit, to 140 characters, that will be the best tweet ever made.
In my limitted experience, threads are one of the more difficult things for... people to understand. I find it difficult to describe their position, which I think Matt Jadud had a tough time too, (See how he said "an artist or a tinkerer or a hacker"). In my situation, I have a friend who is taking an engineering major at the local university. Now, a little background information; I don't know how it is in other cities across the world, but here, Engineering at the university is considered one of the hardest courses. You know, really ridiculously high drop out rates, cause most people can't handle it. Opening orientation, they say look to your left, look to your right. 2 out of the 3 of you won't make it past second year. So anyone who manages to make it through the first 2 years of Engineering gets this perception that they know to do stats as well as a stats major or know how to program as good as a programming major.
Anyways, so my buddy is in engineering, and he knows enough C++ to essentially do any calculation he wants through the command line. He hasn't had to work with GUI's or anything like that. The most he did was a turn based Star Trek game where the command prompt simply reprints the "game board" everytime you make a move or perform an attack, prompting the player what to do at the end of each turn.
So he tends to be the kind of user that they target with these kinds of ports. He's already loaded with a bunch of information in some other field. Be it engineering, arts, hacking, radio signals, whatever. They don't have a whole lot of time to run through the tutorials to learn threading and how its supposed to be done properly. There's no telling how long it'll be before they get into an issue with threading and they won't have enough knowledge on how to fix it and it'll be a big headache if they went and built their entire code that revolves around this segfault they created.
So thats where these other languages come in. They are similar enough to a common language like C that anyone who does a beginner course can pick them up. They offer the features that users WANT without all the complications that come with learning how its done.
I know, I know, teach a man to fish, right? But what if he only ever needs 1 fish in his entire lifetime?