While I don't disagree on the anti-social behavior conclusion, I am curious to know if you really think that the people you describe as idiots online and rational in real life actually are rational?
To me anyways, it seems like these people would [and do] continue with their lack of empathy whenever there's no consiquence for doing so. The internet provides such a lack of consiquence, as does certain other 'asshat heavy' areas like freeways and sporting events.
Once again imo, it doesn't matter if people can behave politely in real life if they still hold such prejudices.
I'm honored that a professional games journalist would take so much time and effort to write a formal essay which states the obvious fact that something like Penny Arcade casually talking about the games they play is far far more useful to me a consumer than slock ign/gamespy/gamespot reviews.
Hell, most tech saavy [and security savvy] people I know won't deal with 7 seperate passwords. If they do, it's because they've generated the passwords somehow, meaning that all of the passwords are compromised if someone figures out the pattern.
Anyone have the over/under on the time it takes someone to edit the new AOL commercials with the swarms of customers asking for change into swarms of fired employees burning the place down?
I've seen some pretty dreadful writing in my time, but even with typoes and grammatical errors it still manages to get the idea across. Some of the examples in the article though don't even achieve that...
I wonder if that's another problem with employees who have English as a second language [though in my experience, those who learn formal English later in life tend to use formal English more].
I assume that by 'global warming' and 'climate change' the articles are referring to the current climate as compared to years ago. A beefy computer and [now] commonly available weather data, and it's pretty clear.
I'm more interested on a consensus that the climate change will continue changing. From what I understand, that is the area under more debate, and frankly the area which will influence humanity more.
Oddly enough, I find one of the most common missing abilities in American adults is the ability to round numbers. I mean certainly, ask them to round 8 and you'll get 10 [probably once you remind them what the term means], but the problem comes that calculators don't exist everywhere. The simple ability to round numbers to nice even estimates makes doing simple math without paper or calculator feasible. I've seen far far too often when people go to the store and are suprised by how much things cost, or at the end of the month how they're suddenly down a lot more than the expected.
I wonder how much of Americans' rampant credit problems are caused by their simple inability to estimate and total the sum cost of things...
Like most everything in the world, the rich will get it followed by everyone else.
And yes, unless birthrates decline in proportion to the increased longevity, people will need to be sent off planet.
Which conveniently enough is now possible due to increased life span.
In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if astronaughts or voulenteer colonists wouldn't be some of the first to recieve such longevity; eventually becoming jaded with humanity and rebelling against the homeworld...
But I already know that "enterprise" software is going to require me to do far too much work to get something not exactly what I need for far far far more than it's worth.
In my experience, the only way a 'less prestegious' program hurts you, is if the company has interviewed other candidates from the program and they turned out to be dumb as rocks.
If your classmates are below average programmers, and you'll likely be applying to the same jobs [generally, CS jobs around the college] then yes; I'd say it'll make a significant impact.
While the actual explinations are better, most of the shape terminology is still foreign in the english go books I've seen.
Personally, I found that my experience playing American style turn/tile based wargames [such as the * General series of games by SSI, and pretty much anything published by Avalon Hill] helped a lot when learning go. Both styles of games involve 'lines' of units, and get the player to understand how different shaped lines are strong, how they are weak, and tactics to break the lines.
So mr coward, instead of being able to round me up because their database says I took Literature of Fishing, they'll just have to look in the Dept. of Education's database [since I had a federal college loan] to see where I went to school to request the transcript.
Like I said, I don't see the invasion of privacy concerns on data which is already readily available to the US government.
What percentage of college students didn't use federally subsidized loans as part of their package to pay tuition? The government already has all of this data. Hell, are you saying that the social security, census or internal revenue services don't already have this data?
Sure, tracking the actual education aspects are new, but perhaps I'm missing how the government knowing I dropped out of college is a gross invasion of my privacy.
I wouldn't be so sure that it will be the most modded engine in history. The original half life used a highly modified q2 engine itself. The id engines have always lent themselves to modification [and I wouldn't be suprised if the original quake engine has more mods anyways]. Personally, I will be a little skeptical that the folks at Valve can reproduce that versitility.
I doubt it. At least for me, spending the time to coordinate and setup the 6-36hr lan party so I can use my own machine is much more reasonable than spending $30-190. Especially when I make my friends by the food:]
And hopefully one day copy protection will be seen as companies stealing the lawful right of customers to do what they damned well please with what they buy.
If Valve [oops, Vivendi] wants to recoup their losses due to copyright infringement, then they should use the recourse available to them, small claims court. Some guy pirated your game, sue him for $50.
Pardon if I disagree. The opening sequence to Half Life was indeed impressive. And then you were presented with a pretty jumping puzzle, reminding you that no matter the story, games are about gameplay.
I disagree. At least as far as 'important' only applies to my lifetime. While the prospect of voter fraud and election buying is certainly a dreadful prospect, the possibility of multiple Bush appointed Supreme Justices ruling on my civil rights for a decade or two seems to be something which will have a far greater impact over the next 60 expected years of my life.
Oddly the only person I've known with glaucoma is my father, who of course has been a cobol programmer all his career. I doubt though monitors had a great effect, as he developed the condition before computer terminals were common.
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While I don't disagree on the anti-social behavior conclusion, I am curious to know if you really think that the people you describe as idiots online and rational in real life actually are rational?
To me anyways, it seems like these people would [and do] continue with their lack of empathy whenever there's no consiquence for doing so. The internet provides such a lack of consiquence, as does certain other 'asshat heavy' areas like freeways and sporting events.
Once again imo, it doesn't matter if people can behave politely in real life if they still hold such prejudices.
I'm honored that a professional games journalist would take so much time and effort to write a formal essay which states the obvious fact that something like Penny Arcade casually talking about the games they play is far far more useful to me a consumer than slock ign/gamespy/gamespot reviews.
I never would've figured that out.
Hell, most tech saavy [and security savvy] people I know won't deal with 7 seperate passwords. If they do, it's because they've generated the passwords somehow, meaning that all of the passwords are compromised if someone figures out the pattern.
They still do not know what came first.
I'd rather get fired Dec 1 with 2 months pay than on Feb 1 with nothing.
Anyone have the over/under on the time it takes someone to edit the new AOL commercials with the swarms of customers asking for change into swarms of fired employees burning the place down?
I've seen some pretty dreadful writing in my time, but even with typoes and grammatical errors it still manages to get the idea across. Some of the examples in the article though don't even achieve that...
I wonder if that's another problem with employees who have English as a second language [though in my experience, those who learn formal English later in life tend to use formal English more].
I assume that by 'global warming' and 'climate change' the articles are referring to the current climate as compared to years ago. A beefy computer and [now] commonly available weather data, and it's pretty clear.
I'm more interested on a consensus that the climate change will continue changing. From what I understand, that is the area under more debate, and frankly the area which will influence humanity more.
Oddly enough, I find one of the most common missing abilities in American adults is the ability to round numbers. I mean certainly, ask them to round 8 and you'll get 10 [probably once you remind them what the term means], but the problem comes that calculators don't exist everywhere. The simple ability to round numbers to nice even estimates makes doing simple math without paper or calculator feasible. I've seen far far too often when people go to the store and are suprised by how much things cost, or at the end of the month how they're suddenly down a lot more than the expected.
I wonder how much of Americans' rampant credit problems are caused by their simple inability to estimate and total the sum cost of things...
Like most everything in the world, the rich will get it followed by everyone else.
And yes, unless birthrates decline in proportion to the increased longevity, people will need to be sent off planet.
Which conveniently enough is now possible due to increased life span.
In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if astronaughts or voulenteer colonists wouldn't be some of the first to recieve such longevity; eventually becoming jaded with humanity and rebelling against the homeworld...
But I already know that "enterprise" software is going to require me to do far too much work to get something not exactly what I need for far far far more than it's worth.
If the surveilance system will determine who fired before it ceases to function due to gunshot damage.
In my experience, the only way a 'less prestegious' program hurts you, is if the company has interviewed other candidates from the program and they turned out to be dumb as rocks.
If your classmates are below average programmers, and you'll likely be applying to the same jobs [generally, CS jobs around the college] then yes; I'd say it'll make a significant impact.
While the actual explinations are better, most of the shape terminology is still foreign in the english go books I've seen.
Personally, I found that my experience playing American style turn/tile based wargames [such as the * General series of games by SSI, and pretty much anything published by Avalon Hill] helped a lot when learning go. Both styles of games involve 'lines' of units, and get the player to understand how different shaped lines are strong, how they are weak, and tactics to break the lines.
So mr coward, instead of being able to round me up because their database says I took Literature of Fishing, they'll just have to look in the Dept. of Education's database [since I had a federal college loan] to see where I went to school to request the transcript.
Like I said, I don't see the invasion of privacy concerns on data which is already readily available to the US government.
What percentage of college students didn't use federally subsidized loans as part of their package to pay tuition? The government already has all of this data. Hell, are you saying that the social security, census or internal revenue services don't already have this data?
Sure, tracking the actual education aspects are new, but perhaps I'm missing how the government knowing I dropped out of college is a gross invasion of my privacy.
I wouldn't be so sure that it will be the most modded engine in history. The original half life used a highly modified q2 engine itself. The id engines have always lent themselves to modification [and I wouldn't be suprised if the original quake engine has more mods anyways]. Personally, I will be a little skeptical that the folks at Valve can reproduce that versitility.
Let's see, a thinktank orginized to combat the corruption of minors by video games and other media finds that video games corrupt minors...
Thanks slashdot. Maybe next you can post an article about greenpeace saying that everything isn't hunky dory with the environment...
You mean beyond downloading a free SDK and compiler and doodling up a game? Seriously, making tetris takes 1 guy in his basement an hour.
Movies still cost a prohibitive amount to most people. Clerks cost what? $27k. Recreating... Bejeweled and posting it for download costs peanuts.
I doubt it. At least for me, spending the time to coordinate and setup the 6-36hr lan party so I can use my own machine is much more reasonable than spending $30-190. Especially when I make my friends by the food :]
And hopefully one day copy protection will be seen as companies stealing the lawful right of customers to do what they damned well please with what they buy.
If Valve [oops, Vivendi] wants to recoup their losses due to copyright infringement, then they should use the recourse available to them, small claims court. Some guy pirated your game, sue him for $50.
Pardon if I disagree. The opening sequence to Half Life was indeed impressive. And then you were presented with a pretty jumping puzzle, reminding you that no matter the story, games are about gameplay.
As opposed to his other appointments, which are stalwarts of libertarian ideals...
I disagree. At least as far as 'important' only applies to my lifetime. While the prospect of voter fraud and election buying is certainly a dreadful prospect, the possibility of multiple Bush appointed Supreme Justices ruling on my civil rights for a decade or two seems to be something which will have a far greater impact over the next 60 expected years of my life.
Oddly the only person I've known with glaucoma is my father, who of course has been a cobol programmer all his career. I doubt though monitors had a great effect, as he developed the condition before computer terminals were common.