If so, they may have just lost a sale. I was considering a PlaystationTV, but I don't know if I want to pay that much just to play Vita games and watch Crunchyroll on my TV.
Yes, they should do nothing. This is a case where doing nothing is much better than doing something. They are wasting money better spent on actual educational resources, and they are promoting fear.
So you are saying that your family places pressure on you to vote like them? I've never known a family like that. It strikes me as odd. As for "also asserting that if your boss ordered you to vote in a specific manner, you wouldn't call the authorities on him", now I DO see that a lot, but it's not "ordering", it's more "subtly pressuring" by inviting politicians from one party over to see the plant etc. They make it obvious who they prefer, even going so far as to mention that under a certain parties' rule they would get more funding/projects. In my personal experience management is far more likely to try and influence your vote than family is. I have never seen anyone call the authorities over either.
Of course, my personal experience is worth no more than yours.
Scrameustache has hit on something very important, and all this talk of "security of the cloud" and "hacked accounts" is missing the message by focusing on the technology.
Folks, it's not the technology.
Any famous actress who takes nude pictures, whether with a cell phone or a Polaroid instacam or a 35mm film camera, needs to realize that those photos may become public in the future. Celebrities taking nude photos is a high risk activity, regardless of the technology involved.
I don't recall Reaper bots learning opponent play styles. They did learn to path around new maps (the guy who wrote the AI had a day job writing routing routines for network routers, and he applied concepts from that to game pathing), and they had a simple finite state machine that allowed them to tarck enemies, search for enemies, engage in combat using techniques like circle-strafing, disengage from comat if canditions like health/armour/powerups/weapons were unfavourable, etc. As far as I remember they treated all players the same, though.
The poster you responded to above did not say anything negative about athletes, musicians, actors or models; he just pointed out that you don't necessarily need intelligence to succeed in those fields. Since you couldn't parse the message, it's obvious your strengths lie elsewhere as well, and that's cool, but maybe you don't want to poke a wasp's nest of intellectuals and take them on in their home turf.
This is an announcement from Genetic Control: "It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on humanoid height."
[Extract from conversation of Joe Ordinary in Local Puborama]
"I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold. It's said now that people will be shorter in height, they can fit twice as many in the same building site. (they say it's alright), Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow, in the interest of humanity, they've been told they must go, told they must go-go-go-go."
Much like "The Sheep Look Up", it's one of John Brunner's novels that has stayed fresh and relevant. The guy wrote a lot of "throw-away", thin novels, but his great stuff was prescient and stylish in a way that has not tarnished with time.
Wait a sec, you are a Slashdot reader, but don't concede that Brian Krebs is a respectable journalist specializing in computer security issues? I hereby revoke your nerd card!
Seriously, Brian Krebs is the gold standard of reporting on this stuff. His prominence as an expert who constantly exposes the computer criminal underworld is unparalleled in journalistic circles, and is the reason that he actually has been the target of attacks by the aforementioned underworld denizens. As for dismissing his professional investigative reporting because it's on his "blog", I will point to his previous highly successful 14 years as a tech/security reporter for the Washington Post.
Dismissing Brian Krebs as a hack because he reports via a blog is like dismissing Bruce Schneier's thoughts on some new encryption algorithm because he wrote about it on his blog. Would you feel differently if I had linked to a Fox News video?
Some moved to Pathfinder, for sure, but many of us just kept playing 3.5 with house rules. The DnD sessions I participate in are fast'n'loose and fun as hell.
Almost nobody plays 13Th age (not dissing it, just am unfamiliar with it because...er, nobody plays it).
My wife has multiple certifications in water and wastewater treatment, and she claims that it is only impractical from a P.R. standpoint; in most places, people would raise bloody hell if you told them that they were drinking water straight from the wastewater treatment facility, but it really is no different than drinking water from a municipal watershed. As she puts it, we are all drinking dinosaur pee anyway:)
A break only terminates the innermost loop. Gotos are a perfectly fine way to exit a deeply nested set of loops, or jump to error-handling code. The test for using a goto mostly boils down to this: did it make the code clearer and more readable by using a goto? If not, don't use one.
A goto is just a jmp. There is no reason to be scared of it, just treat it with the proper respect and don't over-use it. Same can be said of inheritance, after all.
There's been more money to be made with Objective-C than most other languages these last few years.
Really? I thought most developers weren't making any money on any of the mobile platforms. Here's an article that states that 60% of iOS developers don't break even: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
NVIDIA didn't seem to think so when it launched the Shield.
And look where that landed them; a product no one buys. I *do* think a Steam handheld device could work, but I am very very leery of the touchpads. I understand that the touchpads are there so that we can play games that need a mouse, but I suspect that the touchpads will be inferior when compared to either a mouse or a twinstick controller. Thumbsticks are damn near perfect for many things.
Slashdot Mirror
/thread with a Hermann Göring quote.
If so, they may have just lost a sale. I was considering a PlaystationTV, but I don't know if I want to pay that much just to play Vita games and watch Crunchyroll on my TV.
Yes, they should do nothing. This is a case where doing nothing is much better than doing something. They are wasting money better spent on actual educational resources, and they are promoting fear.
So you are saying that your family places pressure on you to vote like them? I've never known a family like that. It strikes me as odd. As for "also asserting that if your boss ordered you to vote in a specific manner, you wouldn't call the authorities on him", now I DO see that a lot, but it's not "ordering", it's more "subtly pressuring" by inviting politicians from one party over to see the plant etc. They make it obvious who they prefer, even going so far as to mention that under a certain parties' rule they would get more funding/projects. In my personal experience management is far more likely to try and influence your vote than family is. I have never seen anyone call the authorities over either.
Of course, my personal experience is worth no more than yours.
Scrameustache has hit on something very important, and all this talk of "security of the cloud" and "hacked accounts" is missing the message by focusing on the technology.
Folks, it's not the technology.
Any famous actress who takes nude pictures, whether with a cell phone or a Polaroid instacam or a 35mm film camera, needs to realize that those photos may become public in the future. Celebrities taking nude photos is a high risk activity, regardless of the technology involved.
What, these kits also detect methane?
I don't recall Reaper bots learning opponent play styles. They did learn to path around new maps (the guy who wrote the AI had a day job writing routing routines for network routers, and he applied concepts from that to game pathing), and they had a simple finite state machine that allowed them to tarck enemies, search for enemies, engage in combat using techniques like circle-strafing, disengage from comat if canditions like health/armour/powerups/weapons were unfavourable, etc. As far as I remember they treated all players the same, though.
GALAHAD: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
LANCELOT: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on!
GALAHAD: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
LANCELOT: No. It's unhealthy.
GALAHAD: I bet you're gay.
LANCELOT: No, I'm not.
Best laugh of the day. Thank you, Anonymous Coward.
The poster you responded to above did not say anything negative about athletes, musicians, actors or models; he just pointed out that you don't necessarily need intelligence to succeed in those fields. Since you couldn't parse the message, it's obvious your strengths lie elsewhere as well, and that's cool, but maybe you don't want to poke a wasp's nest of intellectuals and take them on in their home turf.
Just a suggestion.
Are you on Canadian Netflix? There are more Canadian shows on Netflix in Canada, compared to the U.S. Netflix.
At least, there were last time I checked.
This is an announcement from Genetic Control:
"It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on humanoid height."
[Extract from conversation of Joe Ordinary in Local Puborama]
"I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the
properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold.
It's said now that people will be shorter in height,
they can fit twice as many in the same building site.
(they say it's alright),
Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow,
in the interest of humanity, they've been told they must go,
told they must go-go-go-go."
"Stand on Zanzibar", anyone?
Much like "The Sheep Look Up", it's one of John Brunner's novels that has stayed fresh and relevant. The guy wrote a lot of "throw-away", thin novels, but his great stuff was prescient and stylish in a way that has not tarnished with time.
Wait a sec, you are a Slashdot reader, but don't concede that Brian Krebs is a respectable journalist specializing in computer security issues? I hereby revoke your nerd card!
Seriously, Brian Krebs is the gold standard of reporting on this stuff. His prominence as an expert who constantly exposes the computer criminal underworld is unparalleled in journalistic circles, and is the reason that he actually has been the target of attacks by the aforementioned underworld denizens. As for dismissing his professional investigative reporting because it's on his "blog", I will point to his previous highly successful 14 years as a tech/security reporter for the Washington Post.
Dismissing Brian Krebs as a hack because he reports via a blog is like dismissing Bruce Schneier's thoughts on some new encryption algorithm because he wrote about it on his blog. Would you feel differently if I had linked to a Fox News video?
http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...
You're welcome :)
Some moved to Pathfinder, for sure, but many of us just kept playing 3.5 with house rules. The DnD sessions I participate in are fast'n'loose and fun as hell.
Almost nobody plays 13Th age (not dissing it, just am unfamiliar with it because ...er, nobody plays it).
My wife has multiple certifications in water and wastewater treatment, and she claims that it is only impractical from a P.R. standpoint; in most places, people would raise bloody hell if you told them that they were drinking water straight from the wastewater treatment facility, but it really is no different than drinking water from a municipal watershed. As she puts it, we are all drinking dinosaur pee anyway :)
Erotic is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
A break only terminates the innermost loop. Gotos are a perfectly fine way to exit a deeply nested set of loops, or jump to error-handling code. The test for using a goto mostly boils down to this: did it make the code clearer and more readable by using a goto? If not, don't use one.
A goto is just a jmp. There is no reason to be scared of it, just treat it with the proper respect and don't over-use it. Same can be said of inheritance, after all.
There's been more money to be made with Objective-C than most other languages these last few years.
Really? I thought most developers weren't making any money on any of the mobile platforms. Here's an article that states that 60% of iOS developers don't break even:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
NVIDIA didn't seem to think so when it launched the Shield.
And look where that landed them; a product no one buys.
I *do* think a Steam handheld device could work, but I am very very leery of the touchpads. I understand that the touchpads are there so that we can play games that need a mouse, but I suspect that the touchpads will be inferior when compared to either a mouse or a twinstick controller. Thumbsticks are damn near perfect for many things.
Never waste your time on a language with only one deployment target platform if you can help it.
*Older* Canadians understand inches...my 4 kids all have no clue about them, they prefer centimetres.
...and me with no mod points /sigh.
How does not answering that right now make you feel?