Perhaps the serenity of being next to your significant other results in perfect code. If any friskiness starts up, then maybe itâ(TM)s time to go back out to the couch.
I'm sure it was only intended as a joke, but if any friskiness starts up while you're coding in bed, and you choose to move to the couch, then maybe it's time to rethink your priorities.
You won't have to, because you'll never be getting anything from that particular significant other ever again once you chose to go play with your laptop instead of them.
If you break into someone's house because you think they stole your things, and you find your things there, you can use that as evidence of the theft, especially if you document your break-in. You could sue the person for stealing your things in the first place, and probably win.
At the same time, it was illegal for you to break into the thief's house, and the police may well charge you for B&E. But that doesn't mean we all have to pretend that you didn't find your things there.
Yeah, just ask O.J. Simpson. I'm sure he understands the law around this exact scenario a lot better now than he used to.
Yes, the game still has its flaws, but the parkour interface is very innovative (and fun) and will likely be copied by other games. Assassin's Creed attempted something similar, but ME shows how it can be done right.
Also consider Portal. At heart a very simple concept that was quite difficult to figure out how to implement, but in gameplay led to really interesting and innovative puzzles.
On the other hand, there are failures. For instance, setting the grass on fire and needing to take the prevailing wind into consideration in Far Cry 2 was an interesting novelty that probably took a lot of time and effort to develop, but didn't really add much to the game.
Yeah, I'm with you. Even though Saddam engaged in the genocidal slaughter of more than 100,000 people, making him watch a badly animated cartoon is really fucked up.
P.S. Please attempt to gain some perspective. It will help you deal. P.P.S. For the sarcasm impaired, I mean the opposite of what I wrote.
That's what cheeses you off? How about I just paid $20 to take my wife out rather than stay in and the guy two rows forward is on his phone the whole time, the teens in the seat next to you are blabbering about how the lead actor is so dreamy, the guy behind you is kicking your seat, and the idiot three rows back is throwing popcorn at someone in front of you and isn't a good shot. And the manager of the "upscale" theater doesn't care any more than the manager of any other theater in town. The only plus is they clean the seats between performances so you aren't sitting in who knows what to save $3.
The fact that you believe it only costs $20 for two people to go to the movies shows that you haven't actually been to a movie in a long, long time (I haven't, either).
Really? I could have sworn the ATM I saw a while back sitting in an "altered" state was running a customized version of OS2.
A while back = a couple years though, so I could see it...
Nearly all ATMs ran OS/2 for quite some time, but most have now transitioned to Windows OS. This coincided with (1) transition from legacy IBM protocols to TCP/IP and (2) end of manufacturer support for OS/2.
There may still be some around running something other than a relatively modern Windows OS, but it's a small number.
If it make test users' workflows more efficient by Microsoft's measures and causes positive reactions in test users, then the design is used.
Except that they can only expect their test subjects to spend a limited amount of time with the product.
Research has shown (don't ask me to cite, Google for it) that users start out with the GUI and all the little helpers turned on. As time goes by and they gain more experience, they turn off the animated paperclips, the help pop-ups and rely more on keyboard shortcuts. Autocad is an example of this (one I use occasionally). Inexperienced users (like me) tend to rely on the point and click interface. But the experienced users rarely touch the mouse, doing the bulk of their work with the CLI. This isn't something that would be revealed by a few days of testing. These changes occur with months (or years) of experience.
It depends on the task being performed. Folks working with relatively advanced applications, like CAD, will learn the keyboard shortcuts.
Your standard office worker, though, often does not know even the most basic keyboard shortcuts, like cut/copy/paste, even though these shortcuts are identical across all the applications they use daily.
No offense, but I found the moralizing tiresome and contrived. Too many dumb moral lessons like "racism == bad" or "there are no good guys in the world". A lot of random garbage apparently intended to confuse the audience and/or inject a simulation of moral ambiguity, eg, the five hidden cylons.
A common subplot is the cardboard character that has a surprising revelation and turns into a different cardboard character.
My take is that while the new series does have a little more moral depth to it than the old series does, it's not that impressive. Your talk about Hobbesian/Calvinist viewpoint on human nature and "sin" underscores that. This is obsolete morality. People aren't really like that and fundamentally it is a stereotype just as misdirected and limited as the white hat/black hat story you decry.
Mod parent up please. I hate it when Hollywood preaches at me, and no longer watch BG as a result.
every innocent person convicted for a crime means a guilty person not convicted for that crime.
Except for victimless crimes. In those cases (drugs, speeding, etc), the only positive of punishing an innocent is monetary fines.
Why else are most victimless crimes punished with fines instead of jail time?
That's a pretty shallow argument. The reason speeding laws exist and are enforced is not to generate revenue, although that is a side effect that the government very much enjoys. It's to stop people from driving so fast that they endanger other drivers. So yeah, speeding is a victimless crime right up to the point where some asshole pushes the envelope, loses control and slams into a bus filled with nuns and puppies.
We rarely see the cop that lets small infractions slide.
Correct me if I am wrong but an infraction is still an infraction. The law was setup with punishments for every infraction that are suitable for the crime.
I'm sorry that crime has become so common place that we think that a "small infraction" deserves no punishment. Its like a child who pushes the limits of your patience day after day until you give in. Then you can no longer punish the child since you have set a poor example in the past.
As far as this particular case, possession of a weapon is a very serious issue and is by no means a "small infraction."
You know what, I would have loved to see what you would have said if you were arrested for getting a blow job from your wife in Utah or one of the other 8 states where it was illegal until 2003.
Well, I did say from your wife, so obviously that's a purely hypothetical scenario with little bearing on reality... but still, my point is that there are so many laws that (1) cops can't possibly understand them all and (2) some laws are so archaic that they aren't relevant.
Basically, software licenses aimed at individuals that require consumers to read pages of smallprint prior to purchase are not valid.
That's an interesting statement, which unfortunately has only a small basis in reality.
I believe you are thinking of shrinkwrap license agreements which essentially try to say that you agreed to the license before you opened the box, even the the license was inside the box and unavailable until the box was already opened. Those agreements have been found invalid since the consumer did not have an opportunity to examine them prior to their "consent".
This isn't the same thing.
Further, replying to several posts above, whether or not you are purchasing software or just a license to use that software depends on where you live. Check your local laws.
CUPS has a PFD driver that works great. You just print to it and it creates ~/PDF/yourdocument.pdf. Not any extra features, but if you just need to create watermark-free PDF docs from any application, it works very well.
I remember finishing the game and thinking "This? This is my big payoff? Seriously?"
Most damningly, and unlike every other game I know of, once you finish FC2 you really finish FC2. There is no way to continue playing SP unless you load up an old savegame from before you embark on your final missions. WTF?
Where is my wide-open map with enemies that run from my awesomeness? Where are my free and all unlocked weapons that don't wear out?
Where are my fucking rewards for finishing the game?
I paid for the game, I shouldn't have to also see ads to support the game, no matter how unobtrusive they are.
Then a good question might be, would you pay more for games without ads in them?
I actually get where you're coming from, though. I feel the same way about subscription gaming as you do about games with ads. I won't buy something like WoW. Why should I pay $20 for the game and then continue to pay more than $150 a year to actually play it? Then buy expansions on top of that? Forget it.
But ultimately game producers need a profit margin to produce games. Usually, but not always, the greater the profit margin, the better the game. If they can get margin from unobtrusive ads instead of directly out my wallet, I'm for it.
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Seriously. Kids start doing things you don't want to "let" them do as soon as they can walk. Sometimes sooner.
No parent should ever be subjected to what these guys have gone through, regardless of the stupid choices their kid makes.
And where the fuck are all the people who whined here on /. last week about poor Saddam being "tortured" by forcing him to watch a cartoon?
Free speech != speech without consequences. Any real Libertarian understands this.
Perhaps the serenity of being next to your significant other results in perfect code. If any friskiness starts up, then maybe itâ(TM)s time to go back out to the couch.
I'm sure it was only intended as a joke, but if any friskiness starts up while you're coding in bed, and you choose to move to the couch, then maybe it's time to rethink your priorities.
You won't have to, because you'll never be getting anything from that particular significant other ever again once you chose to go play with your laptop instead of them.
If you break into someone's house because you think they stole your things, and you find your things there, you can use that as evidence of the theft, especially if you document your break-in. You could sue the person for stealing your things in the first place, and probably win.
At the same time, it was illegal for you to break into the thief's house, and the police may well charge you for B&E. But that doesn't mean we all have to pretend that you didn't find your things there.
Yeah, just ask O.J. Simpson. I'm sure he understands the law around this exact scenario a lot better now than he used to.
Yes, the game still has its flaws, but the parkour interface is very innovative (and fun) and will likely be copied by other games. Assassin's Creed attempted something similar, but ME shows how it can be done right.
Also consider Portal. At heart a very simple concept that was quite difficult to figure out how to implement, but in gameplay led to really interesting and innovative puzzles.
On the other hand, there are failures. For instance, setting the grass on fire and needing to take the prevailing wind into consideration in Far Cry 2 was an interesting novelty that probably took a lot of time and effort to develop, but didn't really add much to the game.
It would be legally considered torture. Deliberate and repeated humiliation.
By your standard, we've been torturing Bush for years. Will Ferrell is a criminal. Right?
Yeah, I'm with you. Even though Saddam engaged in the genocidal slaughter of more than 100,000 people, making him watch a badly animated cartoon is really fucked up.
P.S. Please attempt to gain some perspective. It will help you deal.
P.P.S. For the sarcasm impaired, I mean the opposite of what I wrote.
Patents don't cover concepts. They only cover implementations. So the question is moot.
Close. Patents aren't supposed to cover concepts. Rampant abuse of the patent system has been a problem in this area for some time now.
and this got modded informative?
I know, should have been insightful, right? Stupid moderators.
That's what cheeses you off? How about I just paid $20 to take my wife out rather than stay in and the guy two rows forward is on his phone the whole time, the teens in the seat next to you are blabbering about how the lead actor is so dreamy, the guy behind you is kicking your seat, and the idiot three rows back is throwing popcorn at someone in front of you and isn't a good shot. And the manager of the "upscale" theater doesn't care any more than the manager of any other theater in town. The only plus is they clean the seats between performances so you aren't sitting in who knows what to save $3.
The fact that you believe it only costs $20 for two people to go to the movies shows that you haven't actually been to a movie in a long, long time (I haven't, either).
Really? I could have sworn the ATM I saw a while back sitting in an "altered" state was running a customized version of OS2.
A while back = a couple years though, so I could see it...
Nearly all ATMs ran OS/2 for quite some time, but most have now transitioned to Windows OS. This coincided with (1) transition from legacy IBM protocols to TCP/IP and (2) end of manufacturer support for OS/2.
There may still be some around running something other than a relatively modern Windows OS, but it's a small number.
The degree of bias from Fox/CNN/MSNBC is subjectively scored based on how much you agree with whatever slop they're dishing out.
In other words, if you believe MSNBC has no bias, then you will also believe that Fox has an extreme bias. The reverse is also true.
You know he actually was quoted saying "I am not going to let science get in the way"...
Googling 'gore "I am not going to let science get in the way"' returns 0 results.
If it make test users' workflows more efficient by Microsoft's measures and causes positive reactions in test users, then the design is used.
Except that they can only expect their test subjects to spend a limited amount of time with the product.
Research has shown (don't ask me to cite, Google for it) that users start out with the GUI and all the little helpers turned on. As time goes by and they gain more experience, they turn off the animated paperclips, the help pop-ups and rely more on keyboard shortcuts. Autocad is an example of this (one I use occasionally). Inexperienced users (like me) tend to rely on the point and click interface. But the experienced users rarely touch the mouse, doing the bulk of their work with the CLI. This isn't something that would be revealed by a few days of testing. These changes occur with months (or years) of experience.
It depends on the task being performed. Folks working with relatively advanced applications, like CAD, will learn the keyboard shortcuts.
Your standard office worker, though, often does not know even the most basic keyboard shortcuts, like cut/copy/paste, even though these shortcuts are identical across all the applications they use daily.
No offense, but I found the moralizing tiresome and contrived. Too many dumb moral lessons like "racism == bad" or "there are no good guys in the world". A lot of random garbage apparently intended to confuse the audience and/or inject a simulation of moral ambiguity, eg, the five hidden cylons.
A common subplot is the cardboard character that has a surprising revelation and turns into a different cardboard character.
My take is that while the new series does have a little more moral depth to it than the old series does, it's not that impressive. Your talk about Hobbesian/Calvinist viewpoint on human nature and "sin" underscores that. This is obsolete morality. People aren't really like that and fundamentally it is a stereotype just as misdirected and limited as the white hat/black hat story you decry.
Mod parent up please. I hate it when Hollywood preaches at me, and no longer watch BG as a result.
Nope, not involved in law enforcement in any way, other than the occasional normal interactions with cops.
every innocent person convicted for a crime means a guilty person not convicted for that crime.
Except for victimless crimes. In those cases (drugs, speeding, etc), the only positive of punishing an innocent is monetary fines.
Why else are most victimless crimes punished with fines instead of jail time?
That's a pretty shallow argument. The reason speeding laws exist and are enforced is not to generate revenue, although that is a side effect that the government very much enjoys. It's to stop people from driving so fast that they endanger other drivers. So yeah, speeding is a victimless crime right up to the point where some asshole pushes the envelope, loses control and slams into a bus filled with nuns and puppies.
Maybe so, but nobody with proper psychological functioning becomes a cop.
Yeah, the 836,787 sworn officers in the USA are all nutjobs, right? /me rolls eyes
We rarely see the cop that lets small infractions slide.
Correct me if I am wrong but an infraction is still an infraction. The law was setup with punishments for every infraction that are suitable for the crime.
I'm sorry that crime has become so common place that we think that a "small infraction" deserves no punishment. Its like a child who pushes the limits of your patience day after day until you give in. Then you can no longer punish the child since you have set a poor example in the past.
As far as this particular case, possession of a weapon is a very serious issue and is by no means a "small infraction."
You know what, I would have loved to see what you would have said if you were arrested for getting a blow job from your wife in Utah or one of the other 8 states where it was illegal until 2003.
Well, I did say from your wife, so obviously that's a purely hypothetical scenario with little bearing on reality... but still, my point is that there are so many laws that (1) cops can't possibly understand them all and (2) some laws are so archaic that they aren't relevant.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
http://www.pornfortheblind.org/
Basically, software licenses aimed at individuals that require consumers to read pages of smallprint prior to purchase are not valid.
That's an interesting statement, which unfortunately has only a small basis in reality.
I believe you are thinking of shrinkwrap license agreements which essentially try to say that you agreed to the license before you opened the box, even the the license was inside the box and unavailable until the box was already opened. Those agreements have been found invalid since the consumer did not have an opportunity to examine them prior to their "consent".
This isn't the same thing.
Further, replying to several posts above, whether or not you are purchasing software or just a license to use that software depends on where you live. Check your local laws.
CUPS has a PFD driver that works great. You just print to it and it creates ~/PDF/yourdocument.pdf. Not any extra features, but if you just need to create watermark-free PDF docs from any application, it works very well.
And it's GPL.
http://www.cups-pdf.de/
I remember finishing the game and thinking "This? This is my big payoff? Seriously?"
Most damningly, and unlike every other game I know of, once you finish FC2 you really finish FC2. There is no way to continue playing SP unless you load up an old savegame from before you embark on your final missions. WTF?
Where is my wide-open map with enemies that run from my awesomeness? Where are my free and all unlocked weapons that don't wear out?
Where are my fucking rewards for finishing the game?
The devs were dicks.
Sending food is good, but it only addresses the symptoms of poverty and does not provide a solution. Education does.
Provide food and education. Sending only food guarantees they will never be self-sufficient. Education at least gives them a shot at it.
And if you really want to help, send them food, computer and guns.
I paid for the game, I shouldn't have to also see ads to support the game, no matter how unobtrusive they are.
Then a good question might be, would you pay more for games without ads in them?
I actually get where you're coming from, though. I feel the same way about subscription gaming as you do about games with ads. I won't buy something like WoW. Why should I pay $20 for the game and then continue to pay more than $150 a year to actually play it? Then buy expansions on top of that? Forget it.
But ultimately game producers need a profit margin to produce games. Usually, but not always, the greater the profit margin, the better the game. If they can get margin from unobtrusive ads instead of directly out my wallet, I'm for it.
And strangely enough, nobody seems to get worked about the Mercury in the CCFL or CCFL's of a laptop LCD screen.
Probably because there aren't any politicians creating laws forcing us to buy them.