First 10 years or so of online gaming was on a PC, then I switched to PS3. On PS3 it's (relatively) difficult to change your name. On the PC it was trivial.
I used to play a lot of Day of Defeat, and my name usually mocked another player who sounded pretentious. There was a guy named Army Of Darkness, which I made Army of Dorkness. About that time I found a server I liked (coorsbuds), and started playing a lot there. Long story short, I had several names, all starting with Army of. My final name was Army of Silver Bullets, cuz the community wanted all names to relate to coors.
Now, I've had the same name for 4 years, and it's boring.
/ miss my coorsbuds budz
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Seems everytime I see a name like xXFooXx and somesuch, that person is cheating. Dunno why they like the xX*Xx paradigm, but for the PS3 Call of Duty games it seems to hold true in my unscientific survey.
I know they're cheating when they use names like 001l0l1O1l, they don't want to be reported.
I've been happy with my throughput for years. However, my latency seems to rise few ms every year. As I spend more time gaming on-line than watching movies I'd be more willing to pay extra for lower latency.
I'm a COD player. There are 3 types of players I'll report for cheating. Those who zoom in on and follow me while I'm behind a wall, only to shoot as soon as I get to a window/corner (wallhack); those who do a quick spin, quick-shot, and spin again (aimbot); and the invisible assholes.
I may suspect a lot of others as cheating, but without proof I don't report them.
I was in the same boat in the 80s, 7-8 years experience in 8086 assembler and C but no degree. I realized I couldn't even get a job interview without that stupid piece of paper. So I spent 4 years going to college half time, building off an already acquired AS degree (2 year college degree). Figured CS would be a waste of time, math would be useful, so I majored in applied math.
Then I realized the stuff I was interested in was in the Masters/PhD programs, I was seriously burned out, so I never went further.
BTW, in the past several years I've learned degrees from for profit colleges (Chapman, Phoenix, National, et all) never get past HR.
Lets put on our paranoia hats for a minute. How hard would it be to hijack the plane, land it somewhere, lose everyone on board, make some debris from the plane, fly the debris to the Indian Ocean, and drop it off?
I mean, if they've gone through the trouble of getting the plane and losing the people on it, how much harder is it to fake debris?
Someone starts saying BS I mute them. Problem solved. Lets focus on the damned cheaters that seem to infest all online games once said game has been out a few years. Obvious issue are invisible assholes on MW3. Now I realize MW3 is 2 years old, but if you try to play now you'll find an IA about 1 game in 3. Not to mention all the other cheats (wallhacks, aimbots, etc).
I've worked 2 stints at Qualcomm, 4 years as a consultant in the late 90s, and 4 years as an employee in the mid 00's. I've never worked so hard, put in more hours, got more stuff done, cranked out more code, etc, as I have in my QCOM time.
Why?
In meetings my ideas were listened to. I had a ton of freedom in my job to Get Things Done. I was recognized for Stuff I Got Done. I was not bogged down in daily staff meetings, weekly department meetings, etc. I had input on who to hire for my team.
Most of all, I Had A Door I Could Close (but never did).
Treat your employees like intelligent people, give them the tools they need, get out of the way, and they will not only be happy, but productive as fuck.
And why the fuck can't I format this in any way except for 1 paragraph? Cuz that ain't how I wrote it, none of my html tricks are doing squat, and I'm prolly off to Soylent News soon anyway.
Considering it took less than 24 hours to make this law you know it's a heaping pile of garbage. It takes time to craft a good law, more than 24 hours.
So far I've only seen the new face when I go out of my way to see it. It doesn't suck like so many say, but it's much worse than the classic version.
Not getting the butthurt today.... Prefer what I see today, but won't take my ball and go home if the new page takes over.
It's been 20 years, but in '94 I spent 6 months writing something in TCL. I don't remember why I ended up hating it so much, but I seem to recall I was never sure if I wanted to use *foo, foo, or &foo in any given situation.
In my 35 years of professional programming, getting good at dozens of languages, I've only run across 2 I've actively disliked. Javascript is one of them (tcl was the other).
JS is a crap language that IMHO can't be fixed. If they ever add an honest garbage collector to the base language then most programs will delete themselves upon execution.
MW3 is a joke on a PS3, I'm typically 150-250ms behind the action.
Oddly enough, I just put the disc in today for the first time in months. 3 games. 3 different cheaters with a mod that makes them invisible.
Methinks it will be several more months before I try the game, IW doesn't seem to care.
1) The breach was discovered in December, sounds like it's been going on for months.
2) I'd be very surprised if Target is the only entity that got breached. I keep waiting to hear "Oh, hey, 'member that Target thing? It's now a Walmart, Sears, TJ-Maxx, and Nordstroms thing".
Notice how consumers aren't given the choice of buying "pure" gas, as opposed to E10. I'm pretty sure that if we had the choice we'd be buying the good stuff, not the corn crap.
The board cloisters themselves in a conference room. When there is no CE0 it's booking terminal shows a BSOD. When there is a CEO the terminal will boot to metro.
There are other places to get stuff from where you don't have to pay the California extortion. B&H, J&R to name 2 off the top of my head.
I'd rather my money go to UPS and FED-Ex than the bozos in Sacramento.
"a way to use smartphones to protect pedestrians from bad drivers."
More like protect good drivers from bad pedestrians. It always amuses me to see how many people will walk into a street without ever looking for traffic. They just assume a crosswalk provides them some sort of magical protection from the 3,000 lb dragons.
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First 10 years or so of online gaming was on a PC, then I switched to PS3. On PS3 it's (relatively) difficult to change your name. On the PC it was trivial.
I used to play a lot of Day of Defeat, and my name usually mocked another player who sounded pretentious. There was a guy named Army Of Darkness, which I made Army of Dorkness. About that time I found a server I liked (coorsbuds), and started playing a lot there. Long story short, I had several names, all starting with Army of. My final name was Army of Silver Bullets, cuz the community wanted all names to relate to coors.
Now, I've had the same name for 4 years, and it's boring.
/ miss my coorsbuds budz .
Seems everytime I see a name like xXFooXx and somesuch, that person is cheating. Dunno why they like the xX*Xx paradigm, but for the PS3 Call of Duty games it seems to hold true in my unscientific survey. I know they're cheating when they use names like 001l0l1O1l, they don't want to be reported.
I've been happy with my throughput for years. However, my latency seems to rise few ms every year. As I spend more time gaming on-line than watching movies I'd be more willing to pay extra for lower latency.
No, hack it to include names like John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi.
I'm a COD player. There are 3 types of players I'll report for cheating. Those who zoom in on and follow me while I'm behind a wall, only to shoot as soon as I get to a window/corner (wallhack); those who do a quick spin, quick-shot, and spin again (aimbot); and the invisible assholes. I may suspect a lot of others as cheating, but without proof I don't report them.
I was in the same boat in the 80s, 7-8 years experience in 8086 assembler and C but no degree. I realized I couldn't even get a job interview without that stupid piece of paper. So I spent 4 years going to college half time, building off an already acquired AS degree (2 year college degree). Figured CS would be a waste of time, math would be useful, so I majored in applied math.
Then I realized the stuff I was interested in was in the Masters/PhD programs, I was seriously burned out, so I never went further.
BTW, in the past several years I've learned degrees from for profit colleges (Chapman, Phoenix, National, et all) never get past HR.
Lets put on our paranoia hats for a minute. How hard would it be to hijack the plane, land it somewhere, lose everyone on board, make some debris from the plane, fly the debris to the Indian Ocean, and drop it off? I mean, if they've gone through the trouble of getting the plane and losing the people on it, how much harder is it to fake debris?
Someone starts saying BS I mute them. Problem solved. Lets focus on the damned cheaters that seem to infest all online games once said game has been out a few years. Obvious issue are invisible assholes on MW3. Now I realize MW3 is 2 years old, but if you try to play now you'll find an IA about 1 game in 3. Not to mention all the other cheats (wallhacks, aimbots, etc).
I've worked 2 stints at Qualcomm, 4 years as a consultant in the late 90s, and 4 years as an employee in the mid 00's. I've never worked so hard, put in more hours, got more stuff done, cranked out more code, etc, as I have in my QCOM time. Why? In meetings my ideas were listened to. I had a ton of freedom in my job to Get Things Done. I was recognized for Stuff I Got Done. I was not bogged down in daily staff meetings, weekly department meetings, etc. I had input on who to hire for my team. Most of all, I Had A Door I Could Close (but never did). Treat your employees like intelligent people, give them the tools they need, get out of the way, and they will not only be happy, but productive as fuck. And why the fuck can't I format this in any way except for 1 paragraph? Cuz that ain't how I wrote it, none of my html tricks are doing squat, and I'm prolly off to Soylent News soon anyway.
I just wish San Diego wasn't in California.
Considering it took less than 24 hours to make this law you know it's a heaping pile of garbage. It takes time to craft a good law, more than 24 hours.
I spent 8 years working full time and going to school part time. Not a single cent of debt was incurred.
So far I've only seen the new face when I go out of my way to see it. It doesn't suck like so many say, but it's much worse than the classic version. Not getting the butthurt today.... Prefer what I see today, but won't take my ball and go home if the new page takes over.
It's been 20 years, but in '94 I spent 6 months writing something in TCL. I don't remember why I ended up hating it so much, but I seem to recall I was never sure if I wanted to use *foo, foo, or &foo in any given situation.
In my 35 years of professional programming, getting good at dozens of languages, I've only run across 2 I've actively disliked. Javascript is one of them (tcl was the other). JS is a crap language that IMHO can't be fixed. If they ever add an honest garbage collector to the base language then most programs will delete themselves upon execution.
MW3 is a joke on a PS3, I'm typically 150-250ms behind the action. Oddly enough, I just put the disc in today for the first time in months. 3 games. 3 different cheaters with a mod that makes them invisible. Methinks it will be several more months before I try the game, IW doesn't seem to care.
1) The breach was discovered in December, sounds like it's been going on for months. 2) I'd be very surprised if Target is the only entity that got breached. I keep waiting to hear "Oh, hey, 'member that Target thing? It's now a Walmart, Sears, TJ-Maxx, and Nordstroms thing".
How many stones in a metric shitload?
As long as they're OK with me using my taser on them when they do so.
RTFA: "three 6,700-hp thrusters at the rear of the Prelude"
That Honda must go hella fast, unless it has to haul your mom around.
Notice how consumers aren't given the choice of buying "pure" gas, as opposed to E10. I'm pretty sure that if we had the choice we'd be buying the good stuff, not the corn crap.
The board cloisters themselves in a conference room. When there is no CE0 it's booking terminal shows a BSOD. When there is a CEO the terminal will boot to metro.
There are other places to get stuff from where you don't have to pay the California extortion. B&H, J&R to name 2 off the top of my head. I'd rather my money go to UPS and FED-Ex than the bozos in Sacramento.
But only if they're Indian or Chinese women, American women are too lazy.
"a way to use smartphones to protect pedestrians from bad drivers."
More like protect good drivers from bad pedestrians. It always amuses me to see how many people will walk into a street without ever looking for traffic. They just assume a crosswalk provides them some sort of magical protection from the 3,000 lb dragons.