This is just my thoughts(I could be wrong), but I think if you want more money for disaster relief: Document the change your nonprofit did. Show videos of before and after of housing built. Show happy faces getting food. Talk about how many people your doctors helped.
People who donate like two things. #1 They like to see you have a track record so their money will be used for good. #2 They like to meditate, dwell, and think about your charity daily if it is a positive attitude instead of a defeatist attitude.
Play up donators as people who are heroes, rather than defenders of the Alamo.
Right now you could have the choice between a 20,000$ electric vehicle or a 11,000$ gas vehicle. Lets say the gas vehicle gets 33 mpg, and gasoline costs 3$. Then for 9,000$, you get 3000 gallons of gasoline, and at 33mpg, you get nearly 100,000 miles of free fuel. The price point where electric vehicles start to even make sense for an economical sense is somewhere around $15,000.
This is a nice visualization. If I was young and aimless, I might see some value in learning new techs I don't actually need right now. Learning new techs could help you land jobs in today's age of clueless HR people judging you by your tech list vs your ability.
However, I'm getting older and I learn another tech only if I actually need to use it for something I'm working on. So I'll be happily deficient in lots of languages I don't need. I'm certain I could be at least of average skill after about two weeks of most languages as that is my past experience with new languages. But don't tell HR. Today's software engineering world is so averse to training people it rarely considers searching for a veteran software engineer and letting him come up to speed on random techs.
If I spent a couple weeks on every tech I hear about for the sake of toying with it, I'd never get anything done.
I understand all that. What got me is that I thought I was clicking on the top search result for an official site, but it was an advertisement. I simply couldn't tell the top search result from the advertisements. Bing didn't do enough to categorize it as an ad. I think they want you to misclick ads thinking they're legit sites to gain more money.
I was planning on writing something about the indie game scene, but changed it to something more relevant to Steve's experience. If I could rewrite the title, I'd say,"How do you publish a P&P RPG system?"
If I have an old school RPG system that is a good system, and has several adventures, what is the best way to publish it? I play tested it through several years in highschool, and its a very fun system, but I have no idea how to publish an old school pencil and paper and make even a single literal dime.
The top results in Bing are typically ads which can sometimes link to a virus just by clicking on them. Microsoft has to know the ads link to a virus, but leave them up there because they're getting ad money coming in.
I'm perfectly fine with Google linking their own products and services. The only qualm I have with Google is how much they try and force you into Google+ everywhere you turn.
Rarely do people do fact checking. Propaganda is really easy to push on social media if you know how to do it right, causing people to stand up for causes, buy products or to make someone public enemy #1. This is the downside of popular opinion social media sites, if its wrong, yet a popular opinion, everyone gets a wrong popular opinion. Fortunately not all astroturfers understand how to pull on heart strings yet.
Facts you probably didn't know: Lucky Charms has been marketed as a health food in the past. They said paraphrased,"Science has shown a link between oats and a healthy heart. Lucky Charms has oat pieces. So Lucky Charms should be healthy for your heart because of science."
You've heard that it is good to invest your money in many placements. It also helps to invest in different ways of helping others. Help your family until they're secure for some time is a good way. Donate to a homeless shelter and homeless directly. If you don't believe in NGO charities and you want to reach the poorest of the poor in the world, consider taking a trip to a poor nation on vacation security and help the locals out. Giving directly to the poorest of the poor goes further than someone who might turn around and buy drugs in the first world countries. If you're spiritual, many churches do a pretty good job helping the poor. Again, it is important to invest in many places because something somewhere will probably help the world.
Don't forget to be the change yourself in addition to donating. You can try to research diseases, increase farming techniques, make educational materials on apps and websites. In all you do, be good and loving.
Centralized drivers who think they're playing video games are actually driving cabs. Since they only pick from the top ladder players, the odds of a player driving off a bridge is less than 2%! Just watch out for some bad lag, that's been known for some problems. If you're lucky enough to get No Carrier though, you pay no fare!
Look if your phone gets malware or MITM and skims the logon normally, you're boned. You're boned in many ways since if you have malware you probably have a keystroke logger too. Yet this passwordless style won't ever let them know how to log onto your account. This is no different since your login/password phase of authentication is the same. In fact with the server giving you a quite long randomized password its better than someone's recycled password they use on every site.
If you don't enter an email and verify it, yes, you lose everything! This is why you enter your email and verify it, gain some virtual currency for completing the task. The thing is, it won't prompt you for this for about 10-30 minutes in since you don't have anything worth saving anyway, and no one wants detracted from seeing if the game is cool or not.
If a log off button is required, simple one could be put there if they really want to log off, but by default it is off unless they registered with email. Since the only way to log back on would require you to register in the first place. I think most people would love to just go straight to playing the game without registering anything to waste their time.
You're right if their email gets hacked, they lose everything. But that's no different than how the web operates now...
In the app, you're always logged in once you register. Yes, I know it is a security breach, but so is losing your stupid phone.
You enter your email to register. And if you ever change phones, you simply do what is commonly known as a "password recovery", but don't actually get a password, you just get perma logged in.
Here's a secret for people who deal with hackers: Have the app generate a keygen unique to the phone: Time stamp it, time stamp it again on the first click, get the X/Y position, and you have a pretty unique code. Keep that code permanently with the installed app, so if they're banned and forget to uninstall your app, they're banned again. Also this key could be used to login automatically without even registering! But if they ever want to recover their account if they lose their phone, they should enter their email in the settings.
Back in the day, we'd play Quake using a keyboard, and the button between ctrl(shoot) and alt(strafe) was that dumb windows key. On all my keyboards I get for home use, the windows key rapidly meets the fate of being pried off by a screw driver.
If you're trying to get me to code in a new language that only works for your company, my first thoughts are,"Why you trying to make me exclusive?" Exclusive code helps every company because that means more people buy their hardware and OS if some good software is written on it. This is why I didn't pick up C# initially because it was only for Windows(though Unity today is multiplatform). I'm not going to pick up a Google only language or an Apple only language either. And you know what, even if Linux takes off as the platform of the future, I'm not going to pick up a Linux only language.
For what I use now, its either Java or Flash(AS3). Some may laugh at Flash, but it compiles to Web/iPhone/iPad/Android all without editing your code base for porting.
I have been addicted to Video Games since 1980 with PacMan. In 1987 I played a majority of the quality games out. I said,"Hey, I'm bored, and I want to make games since they don't have action RPG, and no big online RPGs." So I was right with the future of gaming, started coding a MMORPG somewhere around 1992, and got a lot done, but I couldn't figure out the networking. Video games most definitely got me interested in coding.
Back in the early 90s, I discovered the magic of seed based procedural generation to make a MMORPG world the size of an actual planet. The problem I had with a 2d based tile game is that its okay if you wrap around the edges east-west, but when if you go so far north. My solution which I never implemented was to translate you to the top of the map where you'd be translated to, but it had problems too because a player would be disoriented,"Why am I going down now?" So I was thinking you'd need to maybe flip the whole map upside down, but then that makes problems making sprites that would have to be flippable and such. This was not an easy problem to think of, but today I stick with KISS. I'd probably put them where they should be, 'maybe leave them where they're at', not flip the map, and say,"Congratulations, you just reached the top of the planet, now start going back down"
Third type of website is a public service. Maybe you're not making money off it, but people like it. An example of this would be: Capgeek. Its owner got sick and passed away. No one runs it anymore because he put a lot of work into it, and no one could maintain it.
If the Internet is full of public service websites, maybe we should try and see them go forward even if we die. This like a mutual favor that people could do.
Slashdot Mirror
This is just my thoughts(I could be wrong), but I think if you want more money for disaster relief: Document the change your nonprofit did. Show videos of before and after of housing built. Show happy faces getting food. Talk about how many people your doctors helped.
People who donate like two things. #1 They like to see you have a track record so their money will be used for good. #2 They like to meditate, dwell, and think about your charity daily if it is a positive attitude instead of a defeatist attitude.
Play up donators as people who are heroes, rather than defenders of the Alamo.
There needs to be a paper trail a person verifies. Voting machines are abused everywhere.
Right now you could have the choice between a 20,000$ electric vehicle or a 11,000$ gas vehicle. Lets say the gas vehicle gets 33 mpg, and gasoline costs 3$. Then for 9,000$, you get 3000 gallons of gasoline, and at 33mpg, you get nearly 100,000 miles of free fuel. The price point where electric vehicles start to even make sense for an economical sense is somewhere around $15,000.
This is a nice visualization. If I was young and aimless, I might see some value in learning new techs I don't actually need right now. Learning new techs could help you land jobs in today's age of clueless HR people judging you by your tech list vs your ability.
However, I'm getting older and I learn another tech only if I actually need to use it for something I'm working on. So I'll be happily deficient in lots of languages I don't need. I'm certain I could be at least of average skill after about two weeks of most languages as that is my past experience with new languages. But don't tell HR. Today's software engineering world is so averse to training people it rarely considers searching for a veteran software engineer and letting him come up to speed on random techs.
If I spent a couple weeks on every tech I hear about for the sake of toying with it, I'd never get anything done.
I understand all that. What got me is that I thought I was clicking on the top search result for an official site, but it was an advertisement. I simply couldn't tell the top search result from the advertisements. Bing didn't do enough to categorize it as an ad. I think they want you to misclick ads thinking they're legit sites to gain more money.
I was planning on writing something about the indie game scene, but changed it to something more relevant to Steve's experience. If I could rewrite the title, I'd say,"How do you publish a P&P RPG system?"
If I have an old school RPG system that is a good system, and has several adventures, what is the best way to publish it? I play tested it through several years in highschool, and its a very fun system, but I have no idea how to publish an old school pencil and paper and make even a single literal dime.
The top results in Bing are typically ads which can sometimes link to a virus just by clicking on them. Microsoft has to know the ads link to a virus, but leave them up there because they're getting ad money coming in.
I'm perfectly fine with Google linking their own products and services. The only qualm I have with Google is how much they try and force you into Google+ everywhere you turn.
Rarely do people do fact checking. Propaganda is really easy to push on social media if you know how to do it right, causing people to stand up for causes, buy products or to make someone public enemy #1. This is the downside of popular opinion social media sites, if its wrong, yet a popular opinion, everyone gets a wrong popular opinion. Fortunately not all astroturfers understand how to pull on heart strings yet.
It's like acid rain on your wedding day.
Facts you probably didn't know: Lucky Charms has been marketed as a health food in the past. They said paraphrased,"Science has shown a link between oats and a healthy heart. Lucky Charms has oat pieces. So Lucky Charms should be healthy for your heart because of science."
You've heard that it is good to invest your money in many placements. It also helps to invest in different ways of helping others. Help your family until they're secure for some time is a good way. Donate to a homeless shelter and homeless directly. If you don't believe in NGO charities and you want to reach the poorest of the poor in the world, consider taking a trip to a poor nation on vacation security and help the locals out. Giving directly to the poorest of the poor goes further than someone who might turn around and buy drugs in the first world countries. If you're spiritual, many churches do a pretty good job helping the poor. Again, it is important to invest in many places because something somewhere will probably help the world.
Don't forget to be the change yourself in addition to donating. You can try to research diseases, increase farming techniques, make educational materials on apps and websites. In all you do, be good and loving.
Centralized drivers who think they're playing video games are actually driving cabs. Since they only pick from the top ladder players, the odds of a player driving off a bridge is less than 2%! Just watch out for some bad lag, that's been known for some problems. If you're lucky enough to get No Carrier though, you pay no fare!
I thought Slashdot was dead. I thought they killed the comments until someone told me where to look.
Look if your phone gets malware or MITM and skims the logon normally, you're boned. You're boned in many ways since if you have malware you probably have a keystroke logger too. Yet this passwordless style won't ever let them know how to log onto your account. This is no different since your login/password phase of authentication is the same. In fact with the server giving you a quite long randomized password its better than someone's recycled password they use on every site.
If you don't enter an email and verify it, yes, you lose everything! This is why you enter your email and verify it, gain some virtual currency for completing the task. The thing is, it won't prompt you for this for about 10-30 minutes in since you don't have anything worth saving anyway, and no one wants detracted from seeing if the game is cool or not.
If a log off button is required, simple one could be put there if they really want to log off, but by default it is off unless they registered with email. Since the only way to log back on would require you to register in the first place. I think most people would love to just go straight to playing the game without registering anything to waste their time.
You're right if their email gets hacked, they lose everything. But that's no different than how the web operates now...
In the app, you're always logged in once you register. Yes, I know it is a security breach, but so is losing your stupid phone.
You enter your email to register. And if you ever change phones, you simply do what is commonly known as a "password recovery", but don't actually get a password, you just get perma logged in.
Here's a secret for people who deal with hackers: Have the app generate a keygen unique to the phone: Time stamp it, time stamp it again on the first click, get the X/Y position, and you have a pretty unique code. Keep that code permanently with the installed app, so if they're banned and forget to uninstall your app, they're banned again. Also this key could be used to login automatically without even registering! But if they ever want to recover their account if they lose their phone, they should enter their email in the settings.
Ebay: Hey we're not an auction site. (Dodges county by county laws against auctions)
Paypal: We're not a bank either. (Dodges many laws about banks everywhere).
Uber: Hey we're just doing what everyone else has in terms of dodging laws.
Back in the day, we'd play Quake using a keyboard, and the button between ctrl(shoot) and alt(strafe) was that dumb windows key. On all my keyboards I get for home use, the windows key rapidly meets the fate of being pried off by a screw driver.
If you're trying to get me to code in a new language that only works for your company, my first thoughts are,"Why you trying to make me exclusive?" Exclusive code helps every company because that means more people buy their hardware and OS if some good software is written on it. This is why I didn't pick up C# initially because it was only for Windows(though Unity today is multiplatform). I'm not going to pick up a Google only language or an Apple only language either. And you know what, even if Linux takes off as the platform of the future, I'm not going to pick up a Linux only language.
For what I use now, its either Java or Flash(AS3). Some may laugh at Flash, but it compiles to Web/iPhone/iPad/Android all without editing your code base for porting.
How can you tell how old your iPhone is? Call it and count the rings.
Landscapers are becoming in demand because of their ability to provide wood chips.
Play Nintendogs, now with more bark.
Search functionality vastly improved for native binary trees.
I have been addicted to Video Games since 1980 with PacMan. In 1987 I played a majority of the quality games out. I said,"Hey, I'm bored, and I want to make games since they don't have action RPG, and no big online RPGs." So I was right with the future of gaming, started coding a MMORPG somewhere around 1992, and got a lot done, but I couldn't figure out the networking. Video games most definitely got me interested in coding.
Back in the early 90s, I discovered the magic of seed based procedural generation to make a MMORPG world the size of an actual planet. The problem I had with a 2d based tile game is that its okay if you wrap around the edges east-west, but when if you go so far north. My solution which I never implemented was to translate you to the top of the map where you'd be translated to, but it had problems too because a player would be disoriented,"Why am I going down now?" So I was thinking you'd need to maybe flip the whole map upside down, but then that makes problems making sprites that would have to be flippable and such. This was not an easy problem to think of, but today I stick with KISS. I'd probably put them where they should be, 'maybe leave them where they're at', not flip the map, and say,"Congratulations, you just reached the top of the planet, now start going back down"
Ground control to major Tom...
Third type of website is a public service. Maybe you're not making money off it, but people like it. An example of this would be: Capgeek. Its owner got sick and passed away. No one runs it anymore because he put a lot of work into it, and no one could maintain it.
If the Internet is full of public service websites, maybe we should try and see them go forward even if we die. This like a mutual favor that people could do.