Check out the story for #1, Mittani is the epitome of douchebaggery, and the best part is he was the chairman of the player council. I predict a very successful career in politics for this young man.
That whole story kind of is exagurated. Mittens isn't really such a bad guy IRL, he just just sort of screwed up an eve fan fest tradition in a *spectacularly* drunken way. Basically pirates reading out angry in-game messages from miners was who had been ganked was sort of a tradition in the fanfests, and so Mittani had a particularly messed up one he had been sent. Problem was with a head full of booze he revealed some personal details about the guy and then made fun of what had sounded like a suicide threat from the dude. It *was* a douchey move, but it wasn't as out of context or unprecedented as it sounded, except for where he went over the line.
The sad part is, Mittani isn't actually a nasty or malevolent guy in real life, he just plays one in game as his role-playing character, and unfortunately drunk he role-played it a bit too hard and broke the magic-circle between eve super-villian and real life villian that most eve players instinctively treat as a bright line in the sand.
Eve online does generate some fairly messed up content, but its almost always role play. Just be careful of that roleplay after a few too many beers!
For what its worth , date time handling is a screwed up mess in almost all languages. Its bad in python, and recently I was dragged kicking and screaming into some PHP/mysql/html work and the combination of mysql,php AND javascripts date handling is some seriously unholy shit. God help me.
Why do americans get so paranoid that letting the world itself control the worlds telecommunications network, instead of the spooky us government is a somehow a threat to freedom.
I'm sorry but as a non american, reading about PRISM doesn't fill me with confidence that letting a foreign power control my communications is "freedom".
It SHOULD be controlled by a democracy of the world, not Obama and the NSA.
Its not even neccesarily the case for it to be the sort of thing that topples popes. It simply needs to be recorded that he was *aware* of specific allegations and refused to act.
In many ways you can abuse a child simply by refusing to intervene when a child is being abused. As adults we have a responsibility to *all* children. I truly believe that.
Whats amazing is some of those problems seem so simple even a child would be convinced they could prove it.
And centuries later grey haired men with decades of post-doctoral experience are still banging their heads on the wall trying to concoct that proof.
I mean it wasn't that long ago ('70s or '80s) that we finally proved the 4 color theorum, something children had been proclaiming "easy".... until they tried it, for centuries.
Im convinced half of these laws that get passed don't get passed through a competent lawyer to validate and check. So many utterly ludicrous laws get passed that completely violate constitutional protections or are so poorly written they practically handball themselves to completely arbitrary interpretation by possibly hostile judges all of which a simple rewording by a competent lawyer could correct.
I mean how many times do laws get passed banning porn only to get bounced by the courts who by now are surely bored silly with conservative (and under obama occasionally progressive) politicians who havent bothered to even glance at the constitution
There is no circumstance where a Goto is the "only possible way". I've been coding for 20+ years, and the last time I used a goto was when as a teenager I graduated from BASIC to Pascal.
Literally, computer science style, *all* possible uses with one exception can be replaced.
And that one exception will never occur in PHP code, as its related to system level assembly programming where the CPUs jump-with-return instructions are not appropriate to the task at hand.
Switching isn't the problem (From a market perspective Frankly they have more to fear from OSX then they do from desktop linux, no disrespect intended to linux intended) , its people staying put and not upgrading.
Consider how much trauma microsoft have had getting people of the decrepid Win XP. Now consider the problems getting them off the still very relevant Win7.
Unless your on a tablet or touchscreen machine, theres literally no reason to upgrade right now, particularly with the general dislike most people have for metro and metro apps.
The magna carta is a wonderful document. More important perhaps in the history of laws than even the US constitution as a statement of rights, simply because the magna carta was the *first*.
But the rights it outlays are fairly simple, and rather indicitive of its times.
[quote]
1. FIRST, We have granted to God, and by this our present Charter have confirmed, for Us and our Heirs for ever, that the Church of England shall be free, and shall have all her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable. We have granted also, and given to all the Freemen of our Realm, for Us and our Heirs for ever, these Liberties under-written, to have and to hold to them and their Heirs, of Us and our Heirs for ever.
9. THE City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been used to have. Moreover We will and grant, that all other Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and the Barons of the Five Ports, as with all other Ports, shall have all their Liberties and free Customs.
29. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.[45] [/quote]
Then theres a bunch of other ones like the king has to stop taking hostages ( a surprisingly common event in medieval europe ) , mercenaries have to gtfo of england, "all evil customs connected with forests were to be abolished" and other assorted medieval jurist things.
But in terms of stop and search, AFAIK your rights are preserved only as far as a right to a fair trial, I'm afraid.
Its an old document, more or less a first attempt at codifying limits on executive power.
Apple is big and rich and dumb and yadayada, but Tim Cook got Job's attention for one thing and one thing alone, the man is considered a God at procurement.
In other words, if Tim thinks its a right move, then theres a bloody good chance that its the right move.
He might have lousy taste compared to his predecessor, and he might have completely ballsed IOS 6 , but the man can procure, as that is his thing.
Its the sad old story. A century of gains to pay and conditions due to the hard work and often militancy of unions. Then everyone gets comfortable in the 80s,decide reagans right and the unions are evil, and its all fine and dandy until the economy crashes and suddenly everyones up shit creek without a paddle because they abandoned the unions and theres no one left to stand up to this crap. Our chickens have come home to roost.
What movie theater do you frequent? I'll make sure to shine a flashlight in your eyes and tell you your attention span sucks and that maybe instead of complaining like a little girl that you should just go back to watching the movie.
Flashlighting most adults who've asked you to shut the fuck up and stop wrecking the film will likely end up with said adult grabbing your pimpled teen ass and hauling you out of the cinema faster than you can blink.
Making that open source would completely undermine the whole idea behind DRM.
How is "Open source" different from "reverse engineered" in this scenario? Even Blueray , the ultimate in security-by-obscurity barely lasted a half beat before people had reverse engineered it.
This is an old and semi-solved (I dont say solved because ultimately DRM doesnt work) problem!
Hell even iLok has been reverse engineered, via an electron microscope.
Yes we did, and academia is not a 'team', nor does it have any stake in a fixed political position (I'm not a liberal, nor am I a conservative).
Statistically theres a mild bias in the media, at least acording to statistical studies, towards conservative viewpoints (You can safely ignore some of the frothing thinktank "studies" that do things like count not being racist or not being a ludite climate denier as "liberal". Science isnt left wing, and racism isnt right wing. The studies are based on time given to reasonable reflections of candidate opinions or clearly demarked positions.) , however MSNBC a few years back found itself on the back foot by Fox's agressive promotion of opinionated news.
So they fairly openly decided to capture the vacancy left by Fox by taking a solid liberal lean on things. (Hence racheal madow, etc).
Theres nothing inherently wrong with bias as long as two conditions are met 1) Opinion is clearly marked as opinion and not news 2) The truth is being told.
Fox fails both of these tests, MSNBC passes the first, and usually passes the second (At least they aren't plain making stuff up like seems to happen regularly on Fox, and they restrict opinion to opinion shows and leave it out of the newsdesk for the MOST part). but its still a liberal biased station and yes academia picked that up when it started to occur too.
I hate to break your conspiracy theory, but its highly unlikely that fox news has a particularly high ratio of humanities students at all. What with the whole [i]liberal[/i] arts thing and all that.
Don't confuse critical thinking with conspiracy thinking. They are opposite phenomena. Humanities thinking on media tends premised around looking at the semiotic content of media producers and noting that the media IS the message.
Heres how it works.
A STEM graduate might look at FOX and say "Hey, this doesn't seem to match my empirical reality. I think this dudes wrong. I'm going to ignore this."
A Pol-sci graduate might look at Fox and say "Hey whats the political agenda here?", and perhaps look into the general connections between Fox News and the GOP lobbyist industry and so on.
A social sciences graduate might then say "Whats the underlying social forces creating this?" and note the class tensions that have given rise to the conspiracy theory wing of the conservative movement and its role in shaping the ideological consensus towards the sub and super structures of society.
And a media graduate might actually look into Rupert murdochs history and work out that the guy has a very long history of political meddling, starting in australia and his campaigns against government cross-media ownership laws that prevented him from pulling over a complete take over of the media there. Then they'd note his primary interest isn't actually politics but his personal tax and historically he's aligned his news interests with ANY force that will lower his tax obligations be they conservative or liberal (usually its conservative, but historically he was actually quite liberal back when liberals tended to be more small state and conservatives tended to claim to be more aboute state control over peoples lives. This changed during the reagan era).
Truth be told, the humanities people have it right, because unlike the non humanities people, its their field of expertise.
So seriously, your actually point-blank wrong to almost a hilarious degree here.
Don't blame the experts for the gloom they report or you just end up as bad as the whackos who get angry at scientists over climate change because sometimes the message aint a fun one to hear.
Skepticism is good for you. But skepticism isn't what Fox does. Not at all.
I agree and this is why we have Fox News. People questioning everything and putting a tin foil hat on everything.
And anyone who's done a humanities course in media knows that, and in fact where probably the first to start pointing out that there is absurd shit coming out of the television right now.
Don't shoot the messenger dude. Fox news was a frigging case study in media abuse in our department long before the wider population started noticing that stuff was not right.
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Check out the story for #1, Mittani is the epitome of douchebaggery, and the best part is he was the chairman of the player council. I predict a very successful career in politics for this young man.
That whole story kind of is exagurated. Mittens isn't really such a bad guy IRL, he just just sort of screwed up an eve fan fest tradition in a *spectacularly* drunken way. Basically pirates reading out angry in-game messages from miners was who had been ganked was sort of a tradition in the fanfests, and so Mittani had a particularly messed up one he had been sent. Problem was with a head full of booze he revealed some personal details about the guy and then made fun of what had sounded like a suicide threat from the dude. It *was* a douchey move, but it wasn't as out of context or unprecedented as it sounded, except for where he went over the line.
The sad part is, Mittani isn't actually a nasty or malevolent guy in real life, he just plays one in game as his role-playing character, and unfortunately drunk he role-played it a bit too hard and broke the magic-circle between eve super-villian and real life villian that most eve players instinctively treat as a bright line in the sand.
Eve online does generate some fairly messed up content, but its almost always role play. Just be careful of that roleplay after a few too many beers!
For what its worth , date time handling is a screwed up mess in almost all languages. Its bad in python, and recently I was dragged kicking and screaming into some PHP/mysql/html work and the combination of mysql,php AND javascripts date handling is some seriously unholy shit. God help me.
I think the implication is that they can recognize each other by the howl.
I guess something like "Hear that? Its Arooooogaaaaahgrumble! , and it sounds like he's found an old sock!"
Do courts charge costs in the US in civil cases?
a) Give away inventory for free at schools etc
b) Bury/dispose of inventory, user base purchases competitors products instead
c) Eliminate customers still deciding if they want to buy your tablet by giving them one free instead.
That said, if they want to do that, well I'm up for it!
Why do americans get so paranoid that letting the world itself control the worlds telecommunications network, instead of the spooky us government is a somehow a threat to freedom.
I'm sorry but as a non american, reading about PRISM doesn't fill me with confidence that letting a foreign power control my communications is "freedom".
It SHOULD be controlled by a democracy of the world, not Obama and the NSA.
Its not even neccesarily the case for it to be the sort of thing that topples popes. It simply needs to be recorded that he was *aware* of specific allegations and refused to act.
In many ways you can abuse a child simply by refusing to intervene when a child is being abused. As adults we have a responsibility to *all* children. I truly believe that.
Whats amazing is some of those problems seem so simple even a child would be convinced they could prove it.
And centuries later grey haired men with decades of post-doctoral experience are still banging their heads on the wall trying to concoct that proof.
I mean it wasn't that long ago ('70s or '80s) that we finally proved the 4 color theorum, something children had been proclaiming "easy" .... until they tried it, for centuries.
Im convinced half of these laws that get passed don't get passed through a competent lawyer to validate and check. So many utterly ludicrous laws get passed that completely violate constitutional protections or are so poorly written they practically handball themselves to completely arbitrary interpretation by possibly hostile judges all of which a simple rewording by a competent lawyer could correct.
I mean how many times do laws get passed banning porn only to get bounced by the courts who by now are surely bored silly with conservative (and under obama occasionally progressive) politicians who havent bothered to even glance at the constitution
They posted it so boring people can have bitter arguments about what irrelevant phone purchase they made is better.
Seriously, its pretty dull.
By "lamebrained" read "actually knows how to code".
Name JUST ONE circumstance where using a Goto in a higher level language isn't the wrong choice.
Just one.
There is no circumstance where a Goto is the "only possible way". I've been coding for 20+ years, and the last time I used a goto was when as a teenager I graduated from BASIC to Pascal.
Literally, computer science style, *all* possible uses with one exception can be replaced.
And that one exception will never occur in PHP code, as its related to system level assembly programming where the CPUs jump-with-return instructions are not appropriate to the task at hand.
Switching isn't the problem (From a market perspective Frankly they have more to fear from OSX then they do from desktop linux, no disrespect intended to linux intended) , its people staying put and not upgrading.
Consider how much trauma microsoft have had getting people of the decrepid Win XP. Now consider the problems getting them off the still very relevant Win7.
Unless your on a tablet or touchscreen machine, theres literally no reason to upgrade right now, particularly with the general dislike most people have for metro and metro apps.
The magna carta is a wonderful document. More important perhaps in the history of laws than even the US constitution as a statement of rights, simply because the magna carta was the *first*.
But the rights it outlays are fairly simple, and rather indicitive of its times.
[quote]
1. FIRST, We have granted to God, and by this our present Charter have confirmed, for Us and our Heirs for ever, that the Church of England shall be free, and shall have all her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable. We have granted also, and given to all the Freemen of our Realm, for Us and our Heirs for ever, these Liberties under-written, to have and to hold to them and their Heirs, of Us and our Heirs for ever.
9. THE City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been used to have. Moreover We will and grant, that all other Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and the Barons of the Five Ports, as with all other Ports, shall have all their Liberties and free Customs.
29. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.[45]
[/quote]
Then theres a bunch of other ones like the king has to stop taking hostages ( a surprisingly common event in medieval europe ) , mercenaries have to gtfo of england, "all evil customs connected with forests were to be abolished" and other assorted medieval jurist things.
But in terms of stop and search, AFAIK your rights are preserved only as far as a right to a fair trial, I'm afraid.
Its an old document, more or less a first attempt at codifying limits on executive power.
"Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" - Baruch Spinoza
Apple is big and rich and dumb and yadayada, but Tim Cook got Job's attention for one thing and one thing alone, the man is considered a God at procurement.
In other words, if Tim thinks its a right move, then theres a bloody good chance that its the right move.
He might have lousy taste compared to his predecessor, and he might have completely ballsed IOS 6 , but the man can procure, as that is his thing.
Ah yes, undercutting local labor markets with third world labor PLUS bitcoins!
Liberty is at hand folks!!!!
Its the sad old story. A century of gains to pay and conditions due to the hard work and often militancy of unions. Then everyone gets comfortable in the 80s ,decide reagans right and the unions are evil, and its all fine and dandy until the economy crashes and suddenly everyones up shit creek without a paddle because they abandoned the unions and theres no one left to stand up to this crap. Our chickens have come home to roost.
Flashlighting most adults who've asked you to shut the fuck up and stop wrecking the film will likely end up with said adult grabbing your pimpled teen ass and hauling you out of the cinema faster than you can blink.
Making that open source would completely undermine the whole idea behind DRM.
How is "Open source" different from "reverse engineered" in this scenario? Even Blueray , the ultimate in security-by-obscurity barely lasted a half beat before people had reverse engineered it.
This is an old and semi-solved (I dont say solved because ultimately DRM doesnt work) problem!
Hell even iLok has been reverse engineered, via an electron microscope.
Yes we did, and academia is not a 'team', nor does it have any stake in a fixed political position (I'm not a liberal, nor am I a conservative).
Statistically theres a mild bias in the media, at least acording to statistical studies, towards conservative viewpoints (You can safely ignore some of the frothing thinktank "studies" that do things like count not being racist or not being a ludite climate denier as "liberal". Science isnt left wing, and racism isnt right wing. The studies are based on time given to reasonable reflections of candidate opinions or clearly demarked positions.) , however MSNBC a few years back found itself on the back foot by Fox's agressive promotion of opinionated news.
So they fairly openly decided to capture the vacancy left by Fox by taking a solid liberal lean on things. (Hence racheal madow, etc).
Theres nothing inherently wrong with bias as long as two conditions are met
1) Opinion is clearly marked as opinion and not news
2) The truth is being told.
Fox fails both of these tests, MSNBC passes the first, and usually passes the second (At least they aren't plain making stuff up like seems to happen regularly on Fox, and they restrict opinion to opinion shows and leave it out of the newsdesk for the MOST part). but its still a liberal biased station and yes academia picked that up when it started to occur too.
I hate to break your conspiracy theory, but its highly unlikely that fox news has a particularly high ratio of humanities students at all. What with the whole [i]liberal[/i] arts thing and all that.
Don't confuse critical thinking with conspiracy thinking. They are opposite phenomena. Humanities thinking on media tends premised around looking at the semiotic content of media producers and noting that the media IS the message.
Heres how it works.
A STEM graduate might look at FOX and say "Hey, this doesn't seem to match my empirical reality. I think this dudes wrong. I'm going to ignore this."
A Pol-sci graduate might look at Fox and say "Hey whats the political agenda here?", and perhaps look into the general connections between Fox News and the GOP lobbyist industry and so on.
A social sciences graduate might then say "Whats the underlying social forces creating this?" and note the class tensions that have given rise to the conspiracy theory wing of the conservative movement and its role in shaping the ideological consensus towards the sub and super structures of society.
And a media graduate might actually look into Rupert murdochs history and work out that the guy has a very long history of political meddling, starting in australia and his campaigns against government cross-media ownership laws that prevented him from pulling over a complete take over of the media there. Then they'd note his primary interest isn't actually politics but his personal tax and historically he's aligned his news interests with ANY force that will lower his tax obligations be they conservative or liberal (usually its conservative, but historically he was actually quite liberal back when liberals tended to be more small state and conservatives tended to claim to be more aboute state control over peoples lives. This changed during the reagan era).
Truth be told, the humanities people have it right, because unlike the non humanities people, its their field of expertise.
So seriously, your actually point-blank wrong to almost a hilarious degree here.
Don't blame the experts for the gloom they report or you just end up as bad as the whackos who get angry at scientists over climate change because sometimes the message aint a fun one to hear.
Skepticism is good for you. But skepticism isn't what Fox does. Not at all.
Word. My mother started to get grey hairs by her late 20s, and I'm getting them now in my late 30s.
And my dad who's in his late 60s hasn't got a grey hair on his head.
Its correlated to old age, but actually only loosely so.
And anyone who's done a humanities course in media knows that, and in fact where probably the first to start pointing out that there is absurd shit coming out of the television right now.
Don't shoot the messenger dude. Fox news was a frigging case study in media abuse in our department long before the wider population started noticing that stuff was not right.
Uh, I do exactly this on my mac mini on a 50" tv set, and its scaled quite nicely.
Don't just make things up to get angry about dude.