So, instead of using the name of a God of Love, they changed to the name of a prostitute's rights organization. Do they ever want to be found in a search?
Diplomacy requires at least 5 players to really work, though. With its large player requirement and long playtime is it quite difficult to actually get a game finished. Civilization (the board game) has a similar problem. Still, it is one of the best games ever.
Trivial Pursuit has been ruined. I played the Genus 6 edition a few months back and the game has been dumbed down considerably. If the question was on a president, the answer was Clinton. Every time. Geography has been replaced with People & Places and the entertainment questions often involved the likes of Marilyn Manson.
I won the game pretty easily by just thinking of then-current (late 90s) pop crap most appropriate. And I am NOT talking about the 90s edition, either. You can try a demo at www.trivialpursuit.com and see for yourself.
I-0 is generally included in lists of "Adult" IF, I intended to point out that this one is different, and I see that I didn't make that clear. Jack is particularly creepy.
BAF's Guide to the IF is a great resource for everything IF. To find what you're looking for, use the search by genre on the left. Afterwards, you can use the other buttons to find something really worth playing, as erotic IF is generally really bad. One exception would be I-0 (Jailbait on the Interstate) as its written by Adam Cadre, one of the best IF designers around.
including the skewer of American Greetings characters (which I still have saved somewhere) which brought legal heat. But I was concerned they unwisely were choosing battles they didn't need to, i.e. wtf does lampooning a greeting card company have to do with game reviews?
They were lampooning American McGee's tendency to take things, twist them around and plaster his name on the box. American Greetings threatened a lawsuit because they used the Strawberry Shortcake character. Their lawyer said they couldn't use "parody" as a defense because they were using the character to parody someone else, as opposed to parodying Strawberry Shortcake.
American Greetings was never the target, and that's why it was pulled.
The comic book business has to deal with some of the worst censorships that exist today. Check out Mike Diana who for writing an admittedly crass comic was sentenced to:
three-year probation, during which time his residence is subject to inspection, without warning or warrant, to determine if he is in possession of, or is creating obscene material. He is to have no contact with children under 18, undergo psychological testing, enroll in a journalistic ethics course, pay a $3,000 fine, and perform 1,248 hours of community service
. There are others, but this really stands out. Comics have been targeted for decades, Google for Frederick Wertham and see what happened to EC Comics in the 50's.
Then we're headed for a disaster even bigger than Y2K, what happens when the 8 bit version field in IP rolls over? IPv256 will be indistinguishable from IPv0. It will be end of civilization!
That an NP-complete problem can have more number of possible solutions than the total number of atoms in the entire universe. The implication is that, even if we were to use quantum computers to store states
The whole point of quantum computing is to effectively store all the possible solutions in a small number of bits, then finding the best solution in P time (which is exactly what NP means "non-deterministic polynomial"). There are bigger classes of problems (P-space, Exp-time) which even quantum won't help with, though. Games tend to fall into this category.
Have you seen these emails? They're damned convincing,
Sounds like a good time to try the Phishing IQ test. As for using the exact domain, lots of sites use a different provider for their online commerce, so that won't necessarily work.
But you still haven't proven your broad, sweeping statement.
You do realize I was joking, right?
I can't prove my statement because my statement is a definition, not a provable statement (they tend to be tautologies). My definition of a moral person doesn't include spammers for these reasons: 1) Spammers are effectively destroying email to make a quick buck 2) Spam often is fraudulent and frequently illegal 3) Spammers lie to hide themselves 4) Spammers use "opt-out" buttons to verify email addresses
The old classics: buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Or roughly: bison (which) New York bison fool (in turn) fool (other) New York bison.
If can imagine someone with the unlikely name of Had was taking a quiz in which the answer was either "had" or "had had" then: In the quiz, Joe had had "had", Had had had "had had". Had "had had" had had approval, he might have passed.
If it is sent back to the creator, wouldn't that make it easy to find the creator? It doesn't sound like the brightest idea.
Earlier worms used IRC channels, which could be monitored. A version of Agobot known as Phatbot creates a little P2P network which can be controlled with the correct password. This would be very hard to trace.
The metric system is a misfeature. There are two things one wants to do with numbers, count things and measure things. For counting, thanks to the fingers, 10 is a natural base. For measuring, you often want to break things into equal parts, half, third, quarter, etc. The smallest natural base to make this easier is 12. So, most ancient systems used 10 for counting and 12 for measure.
The metric system was a product of the Age of Reason, which had as its basic premise that they were smarter than everybody before them. They decided to unify the two systems and chose 10 as the unifying base. This is backwards. For measuring, the ability to divide evenly is critical, counting can be done in any base. The logical choice would be to use 12 for everything, but that would really mess things up, so they changed the measure instead.
For its intended use, scientific measure, any base will work since you usually aren't dividing those up and it scales well. For day-to-day stuff, though, metric sucks.
Yes - it's artificial. Now, I can't tell you exactly what clues me off, but I'm about 95% certain that the face in the article is computer generated.
As things get closer to realistic, the response to it suddenly goes very negative. This is called the Uncanny Valley. It is a concern for robot designers as well as Hollywood and other storytellers.
The non-commercial version also puts a big "[Non-commercial]" in the title of every window. What's worse, you have to use Borland (on the book CD) or Microsoft's C compiler, either meaning I need to pay for VC.net or use a compiler which doesn't handle C++ templates correctly and breaks STL/Boost/Loki-type stuff. For just goofing around, it is ok, but it looks like I'll have to move to Linux to get anything decent written.
The non-commercial license is very different from the GPL.
Consider that kiddie porn in itself isn't the real problem, the abuse required for it is. If there were a way to create it without actually harming children (virtual porn?) there probably wouldn't be a problem.
Actually, they passed a law making "virtual" child porn just as bad as the real thing. The original got struck down by the Supreme Court, but it will come back again.
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So, instead of using the name of a God of Love, they changed to the name of a prostitute's rights organization. Do they ever want to be found in a search?
Acutually, I think of it as a differential part of many people's lives.
WarHammer 40K?
Diplomacy requires at least 5 players to really work, though. With its large player requirement and long playtime is it quite difficult to actually get a game finished. Civilization (the board game) has a similar problem. Still, it is one of the best games ever.
Trivial Pursuit has been ruined. I played the Genus 6 edition a few months back and the game has been dumbed down considerably. If the question was on a president, the answer was Clinton. Every time. Geography has been replaced with People & Places and the entertainment questions often involved the likes of Marilyn Manson.
I won the game pretty easily by just thinking of then-current (late 90s) pop crap most appropriate. And I am NOT talking about the 90s edition, either. You can try a demo at www.trivialpursuit.com and see for yourself.
I think they're going to stop building XP chips very soon.
According to a report I saw on Ars Technica, You may be right.
I-0 is generally included in lists of "Adult" IF, I intended to point out that this one is different, and I see that I didn't make that clear. Jack is particularly creepy.
BAF's Guide to the IF is a great resource for everything IF. To find what you're looking for, use the search by genre on the left. Afterwards, you can use the other buttons to find something really worth playing, as erotic IF is generally really bad. One exception would be I-0 (Jailbait on the Interstate) as its written by Adam Cadre, one of the best IF designers around.
there, are a few who are trying. Its just that the ridiculous up-front costs make it hard to attract the money.
They were lampooning American McGee's tendency to take things, twist them around and plaster his name on the box. American Greetings threatened a lawsuit because they used the Strawberry Shortcake character. Their lawyer said they couldn't use "parody" as a defense because they were using the character to parody someone else, as opposed to parodying Strawberry Shortcake.
American Greetings was never the target, and that's why it was pulled.
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There are others, but this really stands out. Comics have been targeted for decades, Google for Frederick Wertham and see what happened to EC Comics in the 50's.
Note: This isn't off topic, really.
Then we're headed for a disaster even bigger than Y2K, what happens when the 8 bit version field in IP rolls over? IPv256 will be indistinguishable from IPv0. It will be end of civilization!
The whole point of quantum computing is to effectively store all the possible solutions in a small number of bits, then finding the best solution in P time (which is exactly what NP means "non-deterministic polynomial"). There are bigger classes of problems (P-space, Exp-time) which even quantum won't help with, though. Games tend to fall into this category.
Sounds like a good time to try the Phishing IQ test. As for using the exact domain, lots of sites use a different provider for their online commerce, so that won't necessarily work.
If you think 2+2=4 is simple, then you haven't seen this!
You do realize I was joking, right?
I can't prove my statement because my statement is a definition, not a provable statement (they tend to be tautologies). My definition of a moral person doesn't include spammers for these reasons:
1) Spammers are effectively destroying email to make a quick buck
2) Spam often is fraudulent and frequently illegal
3) Spammers lie to hide themselves
4) Spammers use "opt-out" buttons to verify email addresses
and so on...
Lets see...
People are animals, and animals can have gills, therefore people can have gills.
Aristotle would not be pleased.
Spammers by definition are people without morals.
The old classics: buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Or roughly:
bison (which) New York bison fool (in turn) fool (other) New York bison.
If can imagine someone with the unlikely name of Had was taking a quiz in which the answer was either "had" or "had had" then:
In the quiz, Joe had had "had", Had had had "had had". Had "had had" had had approval, he might have passed.
that that is is, that that is not is not
Earlier worms used IRC channels, which could be monitored. A version of Agobot known as Phatbot creates a little P2P network which can be controlled with the correct password. This would be very hard to trace.
The metric system is a misfeature. There are two things one wants to do with numbers, count things and measure things. For counting, thanks to the fingers, 10 is a natural base. For measuring, you often want to break things into equal parts, half, third, quarter, etc. The smallest natural base to make this easier is 12. So, most ancient systems used 10 for counting and 12 for measure.
The metric system was a product of the Age of Reason, which had as its basic premise that they were smarter than everybody before them. They decided to unify the two systems and chose 10 as the unifying base. This is backwards. For measuring, the ability to divide evenly is critical, counting can be done in any base. The logical choice would be to use 12 for everything, but that would really mess things up, so they changed the measure instead.
For its intended use, scientific measure, any base will work since you usually aren't dividing those up and it scales well. For day-to-day stuff, though, metric sucks.
As things get closer to realistic, the response to it suddenly goes very negative. This is called the Uncanny Valley. It is a concern for robot designers as well as Hollywood and other storytellers.
The non-commercial version also puts a big "[Non-commercial]" in the title of every window. What's worse, you have to use Borland (on the book CD) or Microsoft's C compiler, either meaning I need to pay for VC.net or use a compiler which doesn't handle C++ templates correctly and breaks STL/Boost/Loki-type stuff. For just goofing around, it is ok, but it looks like I'll have to move to Linux to get anything decent written.
The non-commercial license is very different from the GPL.
They can't possibly do John Varley worse than has already been done. Exhibit #1, Exhibit #2.
Who's up for Steel Beach?
Actually, they passed a law making "virtual" child porn just as bad as the real thing. The original got struck down by the Supreme Court, but it will come back again.