I have the game, and despite being basically okay at math, I found that it was actually noticably tricky to keep up with that much of a stream of quick addition.
Note that when I say I'm okay at math, I really do mean math, not arithmetic.
Have a look at it, and then tell us whether swapping the button controls that are never used in the game would have any impact on its accessibility to lefties.
This is silly. I've seen lots of systems pick various different conventions for naming the Apache configuration file -- or files, as some people split them up.
There's not a standard being violated, you're just having baby duck syndrome. Not that I can blame you too much; I learned on 4.xBSD and I'm still surprised on a pretty much daily basis by Linuxes.
You're forgetting about opportunity cost. Had they put the same amount of money into something useful, it would have provided at least as much employment, plus something useful.
Inertial frames can contradict each other, so clearly they can't all be "preferred". And ultimately, none of them are.
Even the Sun's frame of reference isn't a real inertial frame. After all, it's in orbit too, around the galaxy. It turns out it really doesn't matter which frame of reference you pick. You're always cherry-picking a local set of things you care about and ignoring the larger scale. Get in a car, drive down a straight road at a constant speed. You can describe an inertial frame of reference in which you're moving at that constant speed, and another one in which you're not moving...... and both of them are lies, since they're ignoring the curvature of the earth. But we don't care, because it's too large a scale to matter for our purposes.
The heliocentric model is just as non-inertial as the geocentric model, the only difference is how close the nearest object which proves this is...
It's fun. People will pay a few bucks to have a fun game. If it were currently possible to pay for it, I might well too.
Fraud would be if you lied about what you were giving people. If people are willing to spend money on something you personally don't like, that doesn't make it fraud -- or Brittney Spears would be in a LOT of legal trouble.
Yes, it is totally about Islam being above criticism, and has nothing to do with this guy being sleazy all the way through.
Seriously, this kind of paranoia makes no sense. There is nothing preventing people from criticising Islam, or any other religion. There are criticisms, though, which are sufficiently hyperbolic and unfounded that they don't get much sympathy or protection.
If she formed a definite plan as to her verdict without having heard the other side, that's pretty sleazy, and definitely inappropriate. Also, talking about it, definitely prohibited.
Picked up an ASUS laptop. It burns a three-disk recovery CD set.... which CANNOT BE USED for the exceedingly common task of "reload on an SSD". Because, see, it just copies the exact contents of the first 20GB or so of the drive, including the partition table.
There is hardware in this laptop for which they do not have ANY drivers available by any other means, there's no provided recovery disc, and so on. Supposedly, there is a third-party tool which can back up the activation record, and another that can back up ALL drivers, and between those two and MS's legal-and-supported Windows 7 ISOs, you can actually get a clean install with drivers loaded, but... This is pretty crazy.
If your problem is "our forums are dominated by people who want to hurt the other posters any way they can", the solution is not "give them the real names of those posters".
The trolls are posting stuff in the forums because that's the only way they can get at their victims. If they could harass their victims in real life... Well, sure, they'd stop posting in the forums. They wouldn't need to.
And there is no way anyone thought about this without realizing that.
Monday, Blizzard reps were saying "we understand you may not want to use your real name, but the Real ID system is totally optional, use it only with people you know in real life."
They've said they have been planning the newer announcement for a long time.
In other words, they lied. Flat out, direct, lies.
Everyone I know IRL who played WoW on Monday has cancelled their accounts. This is not a coincidence. It is also the only time most of us have ever cancelled even temporarily.
Who cares whether it connects you to your characters (although most customer service threads do, because you have to identify the affected character)? The question is whether some erstwhile forum troll can now harass you in real life without ever posting under his real name, because he doesn't have to use the forums to get at you.
If you call or email support or customer service, you're usually directed to the forums. So, yes, you need to use the forums for technical support.
The forums have also historically been the best place to ask questions about game mechanics, but most of the people who are expert enough to give useful answers are people who don't want to post under their real names, so the forums just stopped being nearly as important as they used to be.
Instead of posting those flames, they'll just look people up online and harass them directly.
Not sure this is an improvement.
Basically, you're assuming the people who are currently trolling will have to post, but since the only reason they're posting is to get at people they can't reach any other way, that's not a valid assumption; instead, they'll be able to look the people up and call them at home.
Not really strange, 5ish years is normal, but Nintendo's got no real reason to push for an upgrade yet, and Sony probably can't afford to do one for a while yet.
When I was ten, I read fairy stories in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
There's a very easy way to tell whether someone is lying with >50% accuracy:
Assume they are always telling the truth. This usually gets you upwards of 90% accuracy.
Your argument here seems to be "it would be desireable if there were a way to detect liars, so I assume that this is such a way." I don't think that's persuasive. What makes you assume that it's possible to reliably determine whether someone is lying to you? Perhaps it isn't -- in fact, evidence suggests that this is the case.
In which case, falsely believing that you've determined that someone is telling the truth is much worse than realizing that you don't know.
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Can we get refunds on the cost of all the HDCP crap that's been embedded in all this video hardware? :)
I have the game, and despite being basically okay at math, I found that it was actually noticably tricky to keep up with that much of a stream of quick addition.
Note that when I say I'm okay at math, I really do mean math, not arithmetic.
That would be a great idea for solving a problem completely and totally unrelated to the problem at issue.
Here's a review of Base 10:
http://ds.ign.com/articles/100/1004859p1.html
Have a look at it, and then tell us whether swapping the button controls that are never used in the game would have any impact on its accessibility to lefties.
This is silly. I've seen lots of systems pick various different conventions for naming the Apache configuration file -- or files, as some people split them up.
There's not a standard being violated, you're just having baby duck syndrome. Not that I can blame you too much; I learned on 4.xBSD and I'm still surprised on a pretty much daily basis by Linuxes.
You're forgetting about opportunity cost. Had they put the same amount of money into something useful, it would have provided at least as much employment, plus something useful.
Inertial frames can contradict each other, so clearly they can't all be "preferred". And ultimately, none of them are.
Even the Sun's frame of reference isn't a real inertial frame. After all, it's in orbit too, around the galaxy. It turns out it really doesn't matter which frame of reference you pick. You're always cherry-picking a local set of things you care about and ignoring the larger scale. Get in a car, drive down a straight road at a constant speed. You can describe an inertial frame of reference in which you're moving at that constant speed, and another one in which you're not moving... ... and both of them are lies, since they're ignoring the curvature of the earth. But we don't care, because it's too large a scale to matter for our purposes.
The heliocentric model is just as non-inertial as the geocentric model, the only difference is how close the nearest object which proves this is...
Nothing keeps a book from broader publication as effectively as the first printing selling out completely in a matter of days.
It's fun. People will pay a few bucks to have a fun game. If it were currently possible to pay for it, I might well too.
Fraud would be if you lied about what you were giving people. If people are willing to spend money on something you personally don't like, that doesn't make it fraud -- or Brittney Spears would be in a LOT of legal trouble.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/5/893426/-WARNING:-Money-launderers-using-moslems-as-red-herrings
Yes, it is totally about Islam being above criticism, and has nothing to do with this guy being sleazy all the way through.
Seriously, this kind of paranoia makes no sense. There is nothing preventing people from criticising Islam, or any other religion. There are criticisms, though, which are sufficiently hyperbolic and unfounded that they don't get much sympathy or protection.
If she formed a definite plan as to her verdict without having heard the other side, that's pretty sleazy, and definitely inappropriate. Also, talking about it, definitely prohibited.
What violation is that? Have you established yet that SCO would not send you the source to bzip2 if you asked?
Picked up an ASUS laptop. It burns a three-disk recovery CD set. ... which CANNOT BE USED for the exceedingly common task of "reload on an SSD". Because, see, it just copies the exact contents of the
first 20GB or so of the drive, including the partition table.
There is hardware in this laptop for which they do not have ANY drivers available by any other means, there's no provided recovery disc, and so on. Supposedly, there is a third-party tool which can back up the activation record, and another that can back up ALL drivers, and between those two and MS's legal-and-supported Windows 7 ISOs, you can actually get a clean install with drivers loaded, but... This is pretty crazy.
Ironically, part of the monoculture is that you have to think Slashdot sucks.
Ah, well. At least we're consistent.
I do not think a Real ID forum should exist, at all, anywhere. It's too stupid, and too dangerous.
I don't believe it for a minute.
If your problem is "our forums are dominated by people who want to hurt the other posters any way they can", the solution is not "give them the real names of those posters".
The trolls are posting stuff in the forums because that's the only way they can get at their victims. If they could harass their victims in real life... Well, sure, they'd stop posting in the forums. They wouldn't need to.
And there is no way anyone thought about this without realizing that.
This was all about the Facebook deal.
Monday, Blizzard reps were saying "we understand you may not want to use your real name, but the Real ID system is totally optional, use it only with people you know in real life."
They've said they have been planning the newer announcement for a long time.
In other words, they lied. Flat out, direct, lies.
Everyone I know IRL who played WoW on Monday has cancelled their accounts. This is not a coincidence. It is also the only time most of us have ever cancelled even temporarily.
Simple:
Who cares whether it connects you to your characters (although most customer service threads do, because you have to identify the affected character)? The question is whether some erstwhile forum troll can now harass you in real life without ever posting under his real name, because he doesn't have to use the forums to get at you.
No, not everyone does. Before I nuked my facebook account, I had several friends under names that I'm quite sure were not their "real" names.
If you call or email support or customer service, you're usually directed to the forums. So, yes, you need to use the forums for technical support.
The forums have also historically been the best place to ask questions about game mechanics, but most of the people who are expert enough to give useful answers are people who don't want to post under their real names, so the forums just stopped being nearly as important as they used to be.
Instead of posting those flames, they'll just look people up online and harass them directly.
Not sure this is an improvement.
Basically, you're assuming the people who are currently trolling will have to post, but since the only reason they're posting is to get at people they can't reach any other way, that's not a valid assumption; instead, they'll be able to look the people up and call them at home.
I bet he wishes Facebook had taken some kind of minimal steps to offer decent privacy now, huh.
I want a job where I get $27k for a month. ... But not if I have to be an OBVIOUS SPAMMER to do it, like e360, because I have ethics, unlike e360.
Not really strange, 5ish years is normal, but Nintendo's got no real reason to push for an upgrade yet, and Sony probably can't afford to do one for a while yet.
When I was ten, I read fairy stories in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
-C. S. Lewis
There's a very easy way to tell whether someone is lying with >50% accuracy:
Assume they are always telling the truth. This usually gets you upwards of 90% accuracy.
Your argument here seems to be "it would be desireable if there were a way to detect liars, so I assume that this is such a way." I don't think that's persuasive. What makes you assume that it's possible to reliably determine whether someone is lying to you? Perhaps it isn't -- in fact, evidence suggests that this is the case.
In which case, falsely believing that you've determined that someone is telling the truth is much worse than realizing that you don't know.