As it turns out its very easy to change a small part of the program, so it does contain pornographic content. However the game is what you can play, and what you can play contains no porn. The game does not contain porn, the game + patch does contain porn. You can't rate a game on what it can almost, but is completely incapable of, doing. You must rate it on what can do.
Sorry, but you're being naive. Do you understand the point of ratings? It's to tell people what's IN THE GAME, even POTENTIALLY. So what if you have to download an unlock? The point is that the content is in the game, and the point of the ratings is to tell you what's in the game.
If a parent can't trust the rating to reflect what a kid will be exposed to (since a lot of kids WILL download the unlock), then the rating is completely meaningless.
Am I the only one completely overwhelmed by the sheer idiocy of this situation?
No, unfortunately. Too many people like you are too busy jerking their knee instead of using their brains.
If all you had to do to beat a rating was release a game with a tiny patch needing to be added as well, then every sleezy porn producer would do that, and get their T rating.
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Please explain to me how you speed up the boot process by parallelizing something on a one cpu - one system disk machine.
What do you think the CPU is doing while a single task is waiting on the hard disk?
Pardon a dumb question, but what about people in the middle? Wouldn't it kind of suck? So, I have to sit either to the left, or the right, but not in the middle? Even if you tune both screens to the same channel, it has to be fuzzy in the middle to eliminate cross-over.
Sounds fine for advertising, but sucky for home entertainment.
I'm fairly convinced that the layout doesn't matter as much as your wrist position. I'm 40, having been typing since I was 12 or so, and have never had RSI injuries. And I've noticed the one thing I differently from a lot of typists is that I hold my wrists straight, at about a 30 degree angle to the keyboard. A lot of typists bend their wrists so that their hands come in straight to the keys (the "home" position). My "home" position is is "q-s-d-v" on the left, and "n-k-o-p" on the right (or pretty close to that, my fingers actually sort of float above it).
The "natural" keyboards that split in the middle try and do that as well, but it's completely unnecessary to split the keyboard. It's just a matter of getting used to your hands at an angle to the keys.
I think tendon stress and inflammation comes from forcing the tendons to bend while using your fingers.
Seriously -- the layout doesn't matter as much as your wrist position (think about it -- it's the pressing of the keys, not the moving of the fingers
I'm sure there are some true fans of the Harry Potter books but the majority of sheeple just let themselves be dragged mindlessly into the craze purely because it's a "cool" thing to do because everyone else does it.
Ah geez, I knew we'd see one of these kind of posts. You are totally wrong. HP is a completely fan-driven phenomenum.
The reality and sadness of the matter is had these people read any Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl or even Terry Pratchett, they'd realise that there's hardly a single iota of an original idea in any one of Rowling's books.
Spoken like someone who has never read the books. The difference between JKR and those authors is that JKR's books are much better.
but those of us with even a little common sense realise it's clever marketting wrapped around a sub-standard product.
You mean, "those of us who think anything popular is automatically bad."
There's nothing more sad than a community without music.:(
Er, I think a community with food is more sad, or a community without clean water, or...
Be that as it may, folk music is fine, in the sense that I can bang a drum and "make music". But that's not the point. The point is elevating these forms of music into something high and mighty is just absurd. I can bang a drum, DJ Fartz can do a remix. It doesn't mean that it ranks up with anything great and lasting, and certainly doesn't deserve place that Gibson seems to be arguing for it.
I don't suppose it occurred to you that there's more to CS than programming.
Perhaps, but they were applying to a programming position, and I would expect a Doctor of Computer Science to, I dunno, be able to actually solve a problem. If he wants to be a researcher, then let him apply to be a researcher.
Did you give these educated people a chance to ask you some questions that require thinking like a PhD?
Wha...? I'm supposed to allow my interview candidate to ask me obscure questions about his narrow field of knowledge to prove that he's more knowledgeable than I am? Well, duh. That still doesn't mean he or she can actually do a job in exchange for money.
What, you think because you have a PhD, your feces doesn't stink? Guess what -- it does.
When I worked for a particular company, we instituted a "programmer intelligence test". It didn't test nonsense like "Define Polymorphism", it had questions where they actually had to think like a programmer. I found that the more educated the person, the worse they did on the test! I had a number of PhD's get all affronted when faced when having to soil their precious fingers with actually proving they could think, rather than regurgitate the stuff they learned in college. My theory is that the really good programmers tended to want to get out into the world and learn practical knowledge, while the less proficient ones continued on to get "educated".
(Example question, since I know you're curious: You have triple redundant storage of certain critical data. Write a subroutine that takes three 32 bit integers and produces a result where each bit is "voted on" by the corresponding bit in the three inputs. This question is designed to see if someone can think in terms of bits. One fool actually wrote, "First convert input to binary")
"The remix" is not some new frontier of creativity, as Gibson seems to arguing, it's a symptom of how little true creativity we see these days. In an era where freaking *DJ'S* gain fame without a shred of musical talent, it's astounding that someone thinks remixes are a good thing.
As I watching Pink Floyd on stage the other night at Live 8, I was struck by how much more musically and lyrically rich they were compared to the other acts that we had seen. That's what music is intended to be. Not a bunch of musical wannabes who have to leech the creativity of others.
Neither CSS nor DVD Audio has been CRACKED, meaning the audio is decoded. CSS was decoded because some idiot DVD player manufacturer let out an unencrypted key. This is being done by re-encoding an output stream. You could do the same thing by sticking a microphone next to your speakers.
As usual, too many people lose sight of the goal of encryption. It's not to be "foolproof" where no one can make copies, it's to make it hard enough that the casual music fan decides it's easier just to buy the music than go through the hassle of installing software.
Or maybe the Go operating system JUST SUCKED?? Naw, that couldn't be it. It has to be that handwriting recognition, which is barely usable even now, was miraculously good back in freaking 1987 and would have taken over the world if mean ol' Microsoft hadn't sent the blue helicopters.
Not to mention that Microsoft didn't hold nearly the power back in '87 that they do now. Windows took over the world because it was better than the DOS-shell alternatives (better meaning "more compatible with DOS", which is Microsoft's big thing the Did Right). I used a lot of these things. They all SUCKED compared to Windows 3.1, which was way, way faster. I even remember an X-based shell. God was that thing bad. HP had a DOS shell that was interesting, but had major problems.
People don't remember that there was a reason Microsoft won. They actually had a better product.
The only thing that came along that was better was OS/2, and IBM made the fatal mistake of making it incompatible with Win32 and Windows drivers (which meant no software). Microsoft learned that compatibility was everything; IBM didn't. I even recall that IBM shipped OS/2 and Win 3.1 as a dual-load for awhile. It defaulted to OS/2, and you actually had to go through some steps to delete OS/2 and install Win 3.1, and people STILL installed Win 3.1.
Sheesh, I already see "greedy bastard" comments and "this proves the economy is in the toilet! Whaaa!"
Why does anyone believe Silicon Valley represents the economy as a whole? SV was unbelievably inefficient during the dot bomb era. It's never going to be like it was.
Quick story: I was involved in a company that got $19 million in VC capital. What did they spend it on? Employees. Lots of employees. What were they supposed to do? The idiots in charge didn't care what they did -- they just wanted to grow as fast as possible, and give the illusion of a large company so they could go public. This was the thinking during that period.
You can't use SV to make ANY predictions about the overall economy. That area is too screwed up and too overpopulated.
Windows users don't have a strong sense of belonging; there's no user community rallying around the platform.
That's a feature, not a bug. I HATE the "belonging" aspect of the Mac community. I just want to own the freaking hammer, I don't want to join a hammer cult.
What features that are currently technically feasable (at any cost) would you put into a "probe" such than 1,000 of them would actually be useful to us?
Only one feature is needed: Modularity.
You design a general probe with all the things that wouldn't generally change (e.g., communication, power, etc), and you make the sensors "modules" that can be plugged into it.
Where would you send them?
If you can't think of anything to see, get out of the way of people who can. There are ENDLESS experiments you can do if you have cheap probes. Have a high risk experiment? Send five or ten of them.
...with a single instruction to "explore everything, follow your whims, and tell us stuff"
Um, I didn't say "intelligent", I said "mass produced".
$600 MILLION dollars to launch a shuttle, down the drain. I wonder how many probes that would buy? I wonder how many probes a year we could launch if all those resources were put toward them?
A hundred probes a year? A thousand, if we mass produced them?
I hate NASA and the culture of "we must put people in space no matter how wasteful and useless it is."
You throw enough hardware at something, anything can be fast. That proves nothing. What has been proven to me, at least, is that every Java application I've encountered has been a slow, memory-hogging pig compared to applications written in other languages.
Sure, it might be possible to write a Java app that doesn't suck. But all the hand waving in the world about Ebay, who can afford massive amounts of hardware, is not going to change everyone's personal experiences with the language. What, do you think everyone is making it up? No -- A LOT of people have sucky experiences with applications written in the language.
I'm looking over
My dead dog Rover
Who I hit with a power mower
One leg is missing, but never fear
I've put him in cryo, next to the beer
No need explaining, life is remaining
I've put saline through his veins!
I'm looking over
My frozen dog rover
A little current will make him roll over.
"Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to show what you can do."
Translation: Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to compensate for being such an empty shell of a person that one must scrape around for any sort of recognition and attention.
Sorry, kid. Despite your delusions, you just ain't that cool.
"Two-income families now commit about three-fourths of their incomes to fixed expenses compared with just over half in the early 1970s."
OK, now look at the average size of a house now, and in 1970. I don't feel like looking for the reference, but houses are much larger now than they were in the 1970s, and especially the 1950s. Why is that?
Just because people spend more on "fixed" expenses doesn't mean that they *have* to spend more, and that's my point. People have unrealistic expectations about their lifestyle.
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Sorry, but you're being naive. Do you understand the point of ratings? It's to tell people what's IN THE GAME, even POTENTIALLY. So what if you have to download an unlock? The point is that the content is in the game, and the point of the ratings is to tell you what's in the game.
If a parent can't trust the rating to reflect what a kid will be exposed to (since a lot of kids WILL download the unlock), then the rating is completely meaningless.
No, unfortunately. Too many people like you are too busy jerking their knee instead of using their brains.
If all you had to do to beat a rating was release a game with a tiny patch needing to be added as well, then every sleezy porn producer would do that, and get their T rating.
What do you think the CPU is doing while a single task is waiting on the hard disk?
Sounds fine for advertising, but sucky for home entertainment.
Oops, that last sentence was meant to be deleted. :)
The "natural" keyboards that split in the middle try and do that as well, but it's completely unnecessary to split the keyboard. It's just a matter of getting used to your hands at an angle to the keys.
I think tendon stress and inflammation comes from forcing the tendons to bend while using your fingers. Seriously -- the layout doesn't matter as much as your wrist position (think about it -- it's the pressing of the keys, not the moving of the fingers
Ah geez, I knew we'd see one of these kind of posts. You are totally wrong. HP is a completely fan-driven phenomenum.
The reality and sadness of the matter is had these people read any Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl or even Terry Pratchett, they'd realise that there's hardly a single iota of an original idea in any one of Rowling's books.
Spoken like someone who has never read the books. The difference between JKR and those authors is that JKR's books are much better.
but those of us with even a little common sense realise it's clever marketting wrapped around a sub-standard product.
You mean, "those of us who think anything popular is automatically bad."
Seeing how you're so careful about forming opinions yourself, I assume you RTFP and realized I was talking about MY candidate?
Er, I think a community with food is more sad, or a community without clean water, or...
Be that as it may, folk music is fine, in the sense that I can bang a drum and "make music". But that's not the point. The point is elevating these forms of music into something high and mighty is just absurd. I can bang a drum, DJ Fartz can do a remix. It doesn't mean that it ranks up with anything great and lasting, and certainly doesn't deserve place that Gibson seems to be arguing for it.
Perhaps, but they were applying to a programming position, and I would expect a Doctor of Computer Science to, I dunno, be able to actually solve a problem. If he wants to be a researcher, then let him apply to be a researcher.
Did you give these educated people a chance to ask you some questions that require thinking like a PhD?
Wha...? I'm supposed to allow my interview candidate to ask me obscure questions about his narrow field of knowledge to prove that he's more knowledgeable than I am? Well, duh. That still doesn't mean he or she can actually do a job in exchange for money.
The right thinking, but... wrong. :)
When I worked for a particular company, we instituted a "programmer intelligence test". It didn't test nonsense like "Define Polymorphism", it had questions where they actually had to think like a programmer. I found that the more educated the person, the worse they did on the test! I had a number of PhD's get all affronted when faced when having to soil their precious fingers with actually proving they could think, rather than regurgitate the stuff they learned in college. My theory is that the really good programmers tended to want to get out into the world and learn practical knowledge, while the less proficient ones continued on to get "educated".
(Example question, since I know you're curious: You have triple redundant storage of certain critical data. Write a subroutine that takes three 32 bit integers and produces a result where each bit is "voted on" by the corresponding bit in the three inputs. This question is designed to see if someone can think in terms of bits. One fool actually wrote, "First convert input to binary")
As I watching Pink Floyd on stage the other night at Live 8, I was struck by how much more musically and lyrically rich they were compared to the other acts that we had seen. That's what music is intended to be. Not a bunch of musical wannabes who have to leech the creativity of others.
Bah.
As usual, too many people lose sight of the goal of encryption. It's not to be "foolproof" where no one can make copies, it's to make it hard enough that the casual music fan decides it's easier just to buy the music than go through the hassle of installing software.
Not to mention that Microsoft didn't hold nearly the power back in '87 that they do now. Windows took over the world because it was better than the DOS-shell alternatives (better meaning "more compatible with DOS", which is Microsoft's big thing the Did Right). I used a lot of these things. They all SUCKED compared to Windows 3.1, which was way, way faster. I even remember an X-based shell. God was that thing bad. HP had a DOS shell that was interesting, but had major problems.
People don't remember that there was a reason Microsoft won. They actually had a better product.
The only thing that came along that was better was OS/2, and IBM made the fatal mistake of making it incompatible with Win32 and Windows drivers (which meant no software). Microsoft learned that compatibility was everything; IBM didn't. I even recall that IBM shipped OS/2 and Win 3.1 as a dual-load for awhile. It defaulted to OS/2, and you actually had to go through some steps to delete OS/2 and install Win 3.1, and people STILL installed Win 3.1.
Why does anyone believe Silicon Valley represents the economy as a whole? SV was unbelievably inefficient during the dot bomb era. It's never going to be like it was.
Quick story: I was involved in a company that got $19 million in VC capital. What did they spend it on? Employees. Lots of employees. What were they supposed to do? The idiots in charge didn't care what they did -- they just wanted to grow as fast as possible, and give the illusion of a large company so they could go public. This was the thinking during that period.
You can't use SV to make ANY predictions about the overall economy. That area is too screwed up and too overpopulated.
That's a feature, not a bug. I HATE the "belonging" aspect of the Mac community. I just want to own the freaking hammer, I don't want to join a hammer cult.
But can he tell me how to build a filter to add distortion so it sounds like the "sweet, sweet" sound of a $20,000 tube amplifier?
Only one feature is needed: Modularity.
You design a general probe with all the things that wouldn't generally change (e.g., communication, power, etc), and you make the sensors "modules" that can be plugged into it.
Where would you send them?
If you can't think of anything to see, get out of the way of people who can. There are ENDLESS experiments you can do if you have cheap probes. Have a high risk experiment? Send five or ten of them.
Um, I didn't say "intelligent", I said "mass produced".
A hundred probes a year? A thousand, if we mass produced them?
I hate NASA and the culture of "we must put people in space no matter how wasteful and useless it is."
You throw enough hardware at something, anything can be fast. That proves nothing. What has been proven to me, at least, is that every Java application I've encountered has been a slow, memory-hogging pig compared to applications written in other languages.
Sure, it might be possible to write a Java app that doesn't suck. But all the hand waving in the world about Ebay, who can afford massive amounts of hardware, is not going to change everyone's personal experiences with the language. What, do you think everyone is making it up? No -- A LOT of people have sucky experiences with applications written in the language.
Eh, the last line is a little weak. I'll take suggestions. :)
I'm looking over
My dead dog Rover
Who I hit with a power mower
One leg is missing, but never fear
I've put him in cryo, next to the beer
No need explaining, life is remaining
I've put saline through his veins!
I'm looking over
My frozen dog rover
A little current will make him roll over.
Translation: Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to compensate for being such an empty shell of a person that one must scrape around for any sort of recognition and attention.
Sorry, kid. Despite your delusions, you just ain't that cool.
OK, now look at the average size of a house now, and in 1970. I don't feel like looking for the reference, but houses are much larger now than they were in the 1970s, and especially the 1950s. Why is that?
Just because people spend more on "fixed" expenses doesn't mean that they *have* to spend more, and that's my point. People have unrealistic expectations about their lifestyle.