Certainly they assisted! I mean, clearly they hired a street-weary mercenary to smuggle in a pair of ultralight planes with which the pair of them could escape. Of course, the merc will have to be careful not to let Mr. Lee be killed and have to escape with only his daughter. And that fad of voodoo gods appearing on the 'Net ought to be investigated.
Clearly, they are manipulating the lysine market to prevent the spread of genetically-engineered dinosaur clones! Next thing you know, they'll eat their way north of Costa Rica!
One thing that I found interesting reading on the capital punishment issue was Ernest van der Haag. He discusses "proportional retributivism" -- that is, the worst crime should receive the worst punishment. However, that doesn't necessarily imply that the worst punishment must be death. If the worst punishment that a society feels is appropriate to imply is, say, cleaning PCs of CoolWebSearch, then that should be applied to whatever is deemed the worst crime.
Taking a human life is simply not acceptable in retribution for the taking of money. (Or the destruction of computer systems, which is a proxy for the taking or wasting of money.)
I think Dune, SW, Matrix, etc all share a lot of themes due to use of standard heroic story forms. (The Call, Acceptance, yada yada.)
Don't skip the sociopolitical commentary of Dune. Let's see... valuable substance, used for damn near everything, only found in a desert place, guarded by fierce people with a suspiciously Arabic language... Nope, no idea what he was talking about there.
SW doesn't (or at least, doesn't seem to) try to pull these concepts in. (Phew -- just think, if the dialog is bad NOW....)
Most of your more run-of-the-mill silicon chips are doped with arsenic as well. Phosphorus and arsenic are probably the most common N-type dopants used in semiconductor manufacture.
It will be a paid expansion, and I'd be surprised, given SoE's track record, if it didn't come in a box release.
There will also be a concurrent free upgrade, known as the CURB (Combat Upgrade and Re-Balance), that will radically rework all aspects of the combat system. Beta will be simultaneous for both products.
Absolutely right. They CAN ask. I can also refuse. They have absolutely no right to search and seizure... Agents of the state have laws and regulations that ALLOW this privilege. A retail business does not.
I know, I know, who trusts web sources? But, here's some reading...
ARE DOOR BAG SEARCHES LEGAL?
Yes, as long as the inspection is voluntary. No, if the bag check is involuntary or coerced. This is a rather fine legal distinction that is subject to misunderstanding and abuse. Basically, nothing in the law gives the merchant the right to detain a customer for the purpose of searching a shopping bag unless there is a reasonable suspicion of retail theft. See my web page on Shoplifting: Detention & Arrest for more details.
A customer can refuse to have their bag checked and simply walk out the door past the bag checker. Hopefully the bag checker has been trained to know that they cannot force anyone to submit to a bag search without cause. This is important because the expectation of the bag checker is that all bag contents have been purchased. The worst thing that could happen is that an aggressive bag checker would forcibly detain or threaten a customer who refused to comply with the search.
In more than a few of your strips, you've made references to some games from near the dawn of home videogaming. What are the oldest videogames you remember loving (or hating) and getting hooked on?
Heh. Well, I had the exact same reaction when I show up for what's reputed to be a killer course... and am handed a disk with a label on it saying "WinLOGO"
I disagree. My college Discrete Structures course (data structures, logic, recursion, topics like that) was taught in Logo. Logo is a list-based language, and actually comes across as somewhat of a "LISP Lite" when you start using it for this stuff. After the first day of screwing around, we never used the "Turtle" part of it again -- and it was FANTASTIC for breaking the C/C++/Java mode of thinking, so we could focus on studying the algorithms and the "real" take-away knowledge.
You can certainly break LOGO programs into manageable chunks with procedures, conditionals, and the like... You just have to make yourself comfortable with the "list" aspect of programming.
Not a joke: I still have nightmares of writing a program to parse an arbitrary Boolean expression and print out a truth table... in Logo...
Among all the weaknesses (and as a player since launch, trust me -- there are MANY) of SWG, this is probably what kept me hooked the longest. With a rich player-crafting environment, I've seen all sorts of creative uses of in-game vendors, well-named items, "actors" to roleplay key characters, and some out-of-game (typically Web) content to create mini "adventures." Of course, a lot of that was simply the minds behind them -- I've had the pleasure of working with some really creative folks (even professional game designers in their off time) to build these sorts of events.
Then of course, there's Second Life -- nobody can say that lacks tools!
The ultimate goal of programmers is to eliminate the need for programmers, through intelligent software that reprograms itself according to need
In my former life, I was a programmer, but I have to admit, my ultimate goal wasn't something worth going into here, but involved a bevy of supermodels rather than self-intelligent software. Perhaps I'm just shortsighted.
Of course you do, but what's a couple bananas and a cigarette here and there? You just need to make sure you locate them so that they can't fling poo at visiting customers.
The software license adopted by the GPL is called "copy left " by its authors. This is because the GPL has the effect of requiring free and open access to Linux (and other) software code and prohibits any proprietary use thereof.
So this is wrong on so many levels. Proprietary use of GPL'd software is fine. It's just that redistributing GPL'd software means you have to make your changes available, and anyone else can then modify your stuff. It still doesn't prevent you doing ANYTHING you want with it -- you just can't take someone else's GPL'd work and convert into a proprietary, closed-source item-for-sale. Right?
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Certainly they assisted! I mean, clearly they hired a street-weary mercenary to smuggle in a pair of ultralight planes with which the pair of them could escape. Of course, the merc will have to be careful not to let Mr. Lee be killed and have to escape with only his daughter. And that fad of voodoo gods appearing on the 'Net ought to be investigated.
Clearly, they are manipulating the lysine market to prevent the spread of genetically-engineered dinosaur clones! Next thing you know, they'll eat their way north of Costa Rica!
One thing that I found interesting reading on the capital punishment issue was Ernest van der Haag. He discusses "proportional retributivism" -- that is, the worst crime should receive the worst punishment. However, that doesn't necessarily imply that the worst punishment must be death. If the worst punishment that a society feels is appropriate to imply is, say, cleaning PCs of CoolWebSearch, then that should be applied to whatever is deemed the worst crime.
Taking a human life is simply not acceptable in retribution for the taking of money. (Or the destruction of computer systems, which is a proxy for the taking or wasting of money.)
Er... neat. Then can I borrow your garage?
I don't have a garage, you insensitive clod!
I think Dune, SW, Matrix, etc all share a lot of themes due to use of standard heroic story forms. (The Call, Acceptance, yada yada.)
Don't skip the sociopolitical commentary of Dune. Let's see... valuable substance, used for damn near everything, only found in a desert place, guarded by fierce people with a suspiciously Arabic language... Nope, no idea what he was talking about there.
SW doesn't (or at least, doesn't seem to) try to pull these concepts in. (Phew -- just think, if the dialog is bad NOW....)
I can't imagine why I'm suddenly missing my Vic-20...
Most of your more run-of-the-mill silicon chips are doped with arsenic as well. Phosphorus and arsenic are probably the most common N-type dopants used in semiconductor manufacture.
It will be a paid expansion, and I'd be surprised, given SoE's track record, if it didn't come in a box release.
There will also be a concurrent free upgrade, known as the CURB (Combat Upgrade and Re-Balance), that will radically rework all aspects of the combat system. Beta will be simultaneous for both products.
I know, I know, who trusts web sources? But, here's some reading...
(Source: Crime Doctor)Yes, check for the evil bit being set.
In more than a few of your strips, you've made references to some games from near the dawn of home videogaming. What are the oldest videogames you remember loving (or hating) and getting hooked on?
Heh. Well, I had the exact same reaction when I show up for what's reputed to be a killer course... and am handed a disk with a label on it saying "WinLOGO"
I disagree. My college Discrete Structures course (data structures, logic, recursion, topics like that) was taught in Logo. Logo is a list-based language, and actually comes across as somewhat of a "LISP Lite" when you start using it for this stuff. After the first day of screwing around, we never used the "Turtle" part of it again -- and it was FANTASTIC for breaking the C/C++/Java mode of thinking, so we could focus on studying the algorithms and the "real" take-away knowledge.
You can certainly break LOGO programs into manageable chunks with procedures, conditionals, and the like... You just have to make yourself comfortable with the "list" aspect of programming.
Not a joke: I still have nightmares of writing a program to parse an arbitrary Boolean expression and print out a truth table... in Logo...
I felt the same way in Beta. I was saying "shy of a miracle, JtL will suck."
I was pleasantly surprised. JtL does not suck.
Among all the weaknesses (and as a player since launch, trust me -- there are MANY) of SWG, this is probably what kept me hooked the longest. With a rich player-crafting environment, I've seen all sorts of creative uses of in-game vendors, well-named items, "actors" to roleplay key characters, and some out-of-game (typically Web) content to create mini "adventures." Of course, a lot of that was simply the minds behind them -- I've had the pleasure of working with some really creative folks (even professional game designers in their off time) to build these sorts of events.
Then of course, there's Second Life -- nobody can say that lacks tools!
You had nothingness to plunge into? All I said was, I'd rather reign..
Aw, you know how that worked out.
There's nothing unusual about the disembodied eye. Fnord.
It's that if you have a really fast Java compiler, you have "10 years equivalent" experience.
Just as the RIAA.
So this is wrong on so many levels. Proprietary use of GPL'd software is fine. It's just that redistributing GPL'd software means you have to make your changes available, and anyone else can then modify your stuff. It still doesn't prevent you doing ANYTHING you want with it -- you just can't take someone else's GPL'd work and convert into a proprietary, closed-source item-for-sale. Right?
Frodo uses the Ring? Gollum falls into Mount Doom?
Dammit, now you ruined the next movie! I bet next you'll tell me that Vader was Luke's father.
(OT: I sincerely hope this movie features the "coming-of-age" of the Hobbits ending. I'll feel sorely ripped off if not.)