That's not true. Developers can sometimes influence their higher-ups. And having a comment like mine from a customer as ammunition could be very helpful in such discussions.
Civ III requires the installation CD be inserted every time you play, even though none of the content on the CD is used by the game after installation. This annoys your customers by making them juggle CDs, unnecessarily wear out their hardware, and shorten their battery life. Consequently, many of your customers install "No-CD Cracks" to fix this flaw in your software. How do you feel about the existence and use of such cracks? Will you include this CD requirement in Civ IV even though it does not prevent copyright infringement but still inconveniences your customers?
Is what you posted the matrix or the perl source code?
Your opinion on game crackers?
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I love playing Civ III on my laptop. It's great for on the plane. But as it is released, the game requires that the installation CD be in the drive every time you play even though none of the data on the CD is needed! This has the effect of annoying your customers by forcing them to search for CDs every time they play, unnecessarily wearing out the CDROM hardware on your customers' computers, and wasting your customers' power/battery life.
Most people I know who play Civ III must resort to downloading a "No-CD Crack" to fix these problems. How do you feel about the use of cracks to fix the flaws in your software? Do you intend to include similar CD restrictions in Civ IV, despite the fact that copyright violators will still be able to get around it, while your customers will continue to be inconvenienced?
If the philosophy of science were a standard part of the HS ciriculum, then politicians of the future might have the basic understanding required to realize that this crap has nothing to do with science.
If posts that complain about Python's indentation syntax are ever moderated as anything but "Redundant," the moderator in question should be shot. Obviously, huge numbers of developers and businesses (like Google and Pixar) don't have problems with it. But there are some people who just plain don't like that syntax. That discussion is decades old. REDUNDANT!
Like the submittor said, IDSs will inform you when something that may be bad has happened. IPSs will block traffic which may be bad. All of these systems have false positives. All of them will eventually block something really important that shouldn't be blocked. And all will eventually lead you to be fired because of that reason. And none of them will detect an intelligent, targeted attack.
Yes, we all have brains. The more skeptical the better. But individual brains make mistakes. The scientific process weeds out those mistakes. Do you know of a better way to do so?
Perhaps you have a different version of the word "truth" than I have. Do you know of some process better than the scientific method for approximating "truth?"
When I talk of science, I'm talking of the real scientific process you will find in higher-level academia and research. I'm not talking about high school text book.
And yes, there are some questions the scientific method won't ever be able to answer. Those are the stupid, pointless questions.
So my question to you is: what non-pointless questions are fundamentally unexaminable by the scientific process? What process do you know of that's better than the scientific one?
What does that make you? The product of absurd fairy tale brainwashing?
Science demonstrably finds the truth--in ever-improving precision. If our understanding of physics isn't the truth, we wouldn't have ever been able to put a man on the moon.
Compare that to religion. Everyone can pray all day long and natural disasters still happen. And no amount of praying would ever put a man on the moon.
Science is about using testable, verifiable evidence to find the truth. Following that principle to the exclusion of believing things for absolutely no good reason ("faith") is absolutely rational, and not at all a religion. Using the scientific method as the only way to find truth is the most noble of values.
BS! I recently saw a history channel show in supersonic flight. Once you pass the sound barier, gasses stop behaving like... gasses. You are going too fast for the air to flow around you. Instead, you have to cut through it. Air becomes a completely different substance at > mach 1.
$20,000 won't buy Ph.Ds in Computer Science on any continent. Your comparison is absurd. Some people really are worth that much more from an economic perspective. It isn't fair, but it is true.
Like me? That's a dumb interpretation. I want the whole world to have the same freedoms I have. The inalienable rights--freedom of speech being the most important. If you think that is a bad thing, you are a morally backward person in the opinions of most of the rest of the world.
"Space isn't all the pressing given the problems we have on Earth"
Earthly problems have no chance of wiping out all life in the entire universe.
But until our space technology is advanced enough that we have colonies on other rocks, that sort of destruction could happen. Life itself (for all we know) could be wiped out entirely if not for OUR SPACE PROGRAM. That is more important than social problems.
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Inner ear? My $300 digital camera has an orientation sensor that can tell if it is vertical, horizontal, or moving. And it's solid state!
That's not true. Developers can sometimes influence their higher-ups. And having a comment like mine from a customer as ammunition could be very helpful in such discussions.
Civ III requires the installation CD be inserted every time you play, even though none of the content on the CD is used by the game after installation. This annoys your customers by making them juggle CDs, unnecessarily wear out their hardware, and shorten their battery life. Consequently, many of your customers install "No-CD Cracks" to fix this flaw in your software.
How do you feel about the existence and use of such cracks? Will you include this CD requirement in Civ IV even though it does not prevent copyright infringement but still inconveniences your customers?
Is what you posted the matrix or the perl source code?
I love playing Civ III on my laptop. It's great for on the plane. But as it is released, the game requires that the installation CD be in the drive every time you play even though none of the data on the CD is needed! This has the effect of annoying your customers by forcing them to search for CDs every time they play, unnecessarily wearing out the CDROM hardware on your customers' computers, and wasting your customers' power/battery life.
Most people I know who play Civ III must resort to downloading a "No-CD Crack" to fix these problems. How do you feel about the use of cracks to fix the flaws in your software? Do you intend to include similar CD restrictions in Civ IV, despite the fact that copyright violators will still be able to get around it, while your customers will continue to be inconvenienced?
If the philosophy of science were a standard part of the HS ciriculum, then politicians of the future might have the basic understanding required to realize that this crap has nothing to do with science.
If posts that complain about Python's indentation syntax are ever moderated as anything but "Redundant," the moderator in question should be shot. Obviously, huge numbers of developers and businesses (like Google and Pixar) don't have problems with it. But there are some people who just plain don't like that syntax. That discussion is decades old. REDUNDANT!
I have one of these devices. It produces lots of nice, pretty graphs and SHIT TONS OF FALSE POSITIVES.
NBAD=worthless for large networks. large networks are too big and too dynamic for any software to decide what is "normal"
Like the submittor said, IDSs will inform you when something that may be bad has happened. IPSs will block traffic which may be bad. All of these systems have false positives. All of them will eventually block something really important that shouldn't be blocked. And all will eventually lead you to be fired because of that reason. And none of them will detect an intelligent, targeted attack.
Actually, nature just doesn't want to be anthropomorphized.
Yes, we all have brains. The more skeptical the better. But individual brains make mistakes. The scientific process weeds out those mistakes. Do you know of a better way to do so?
Perhaps you have a different version of the word "truth" than I have. Do you know of some process better than the scientific method for approximating "truth?"
When I talk of science, I'm talking of the real scientific process you will find in higher-level academia and research. I'm not talking about high school text book.
And yes, there are some questions the scientific method won't ever be able to answer. Those are the stupid, pointless questions.
So my question to you is: what non-pointless questions are fundamentally unexaminable by the scientific process? What process do you know of that's better than the scientific one?
I am a "product" of modern schooling?
What does that make you? The product of absurd fairy tale brainwashing?
Science demonstrably finds the truth--in ever-improving precision. If our understanding of physics isn't the truth, we wouldn't have ever been able to put a man on the moon.
Compare that to religion. Everyone can pray all day long and natural disasters still happen. And no amount of praying would ever put a man on the moon.
Shut up, troll.
Science is about using testable, verifiable evidence to find the truth. Following that principle to the exclusion of believing things for absolutely no good reason ("faith") is absolutely rational, and not at all a religion. Using the scientific method as the only way to find truth is the most noble of values.
Quit highlighting and marking up the Library's books, jackass!!
BS! I recently saw a history channel show in supersonic flight. Once you pass the sound barier, gasses stop behaving like... gasses. You are going too fast for the air to flow around you. Instead, you have to cut through it. Air becomes a completely different substance at > mach 1.
Didn't you ever hear that song by Lover Boy? Elephant and pig DNA just won't splice!
I don't think you realize just how big 128 bits is...
$20,000 won't buy Ph.Ds in Computer Science on any continent. Your comparison is absurd. Some people really are worth that much more from an economic perspective. It isn't fair, but it is true.
Debt?
Proffit?
I, for one, welcome our North American Lion overlords.
On second thought, how is this restoring anything? Did lions ever live in North America? I thought the coolest animal we ever had was the giant sloth.
Like me? That's a dumb interpretation. I want the whole world to have the same freedoms I have. The inalienable rights--freedom of speech being the most important. If you think that is a bad thing, you are a morally backward person in the opinions of most of the rest of the world.
Google should just close down their .au site until Australia respects freedom of speech. To an American, this law seems absurd.
shut up... i came here to try to distract myself from lamenting that the last time i got any was 2 years ago today.
"Space isn't all the pressing given the problems we have on Earth"
Earthly problems have no chance of wiping out all life in the entire universe.
But until our space technology is advanced enough that we have colonies on other rocks, that sort of destruction could happen. Life itself (for all we know) could be wiped out entirely if not for OUR SPACE PROGRAM. That is more important than social problems.