Wear and tear. Under the table leasing of cars to employees. Lost time wondering where their car was. Shade for their parking lot. Lots of ways to identify what you deprived them of.
There's no free market in governments any more. They're all colluding to enforce things like WIPO and virtually all have heavy restrictions on legal immigration and emigration.
I think most people can see the difference between embezzlement and copyright infringement. In the one case, the victim hasn't lost any bits, in the other he has. Now if you had a bank employee artificially creating new accounts with money in them without taking that money from anyone else, I think that would be about the same, in that the only loss that occurs is in depreciating the value of the bits held by a third party.
Survival is still all that exists. It's just that it's a convenient mental shorthand to understand the law in order to avoid having gangs of people come and prevent you from procreating.
Having worked for blizzard, I can assure you we shipped at least diablo, diablo II, starcraft, broodwar, lord of destruction, warcraft III, frozen throne, and wow with lots of software bugs.
Not many fatal bugs, but plenty of bugs. I personally fixed about 300 non play balance bugs that went into various patches.
Bugs are unavoidable in large software projects. Avoiding serious bugs that will make your customers unhappy is mostly about devoting sufficient testing resources to finding that class of bugs before shipping, and planning for extended work hours right after release to quickly fix the most serious bugs that escaped your testing.
When I give you something that belongs to me with no expectation of return, that's gifting. If I expect it back, that's sharing. Very little rape, pillage, or seagoing vessels are involved, so piracy is clearly incorrect.
If you are going to work for a multinational, speaking more than a language helps a lot, even if you never travel outside your country
I speak a smattering of French and German and surprisingly enough I have used the knowledge atleast once each when customers send me emails about products. Chinese/Japanese is useful too since almost all of electronic manufacturing happens in China, Taiwan or Japan and only Taiwan is really English speaking. Knowing enough Japanese to say Arigato is appreciated a lot by Japanese and knowing Chinese is useful in many eastern countries.
There are relatively few multinational universities, particularly ones with good CS/CE research programs.
There are publications in basically every language in CS/CE. If you really want to learn one, pick from Japanese, German, French, Russian, Chinese.
But it won't do you much good, and in reality, you'll never have time to read foreign journals (or looked at another way, it would be a comparative waste of your time given the quantity of good material you could be reading in English).
You're assuming none of the hands belongs to the house while playing online poker. How would you know if one of the players belonged to the house and was dealt a guaranteed win every hundredth hand?
Note that you specified a scenario involving all in at the beginning of the tournament, while the article specifies a perfect poker bot for limit games only.
Honestly, the last time I considered taking a job up there, that was one of the things that scared me away. I visited a couple of (one borders, one something local) bookstores, and both had large depression coping sections in prominent displays.
No doubt that's why the bookstores all have huge sections on 'dealing with depression' and great titles like 'bad weather, good mood' and 'gray skies aren't the end'.
That's all true, except for the part about Bill Roper not having an office at Blizzard North. He definitely did (as much as anyone had an office... we all shared offices). Not that he contributed a lot beyond ideas to d2 or d2x, but he was definitely physically there. His desk was in one of the offices on the north side of the main hall past the receptionist.
I think you meant pandering to wine and cheese conservatives. The liberals are the ones who want to let you do whatever you want in this area. The conservatives have 3 sections: 1) don't care 2) opposed to anything 3) middle position that makes no sense (wine and cheese)
Half-life was sufficiently low polygon that it looked quite angular, which clearly wasn't the goal of the art direction. Artists mostly just need more tris to make their art look better, so for the next few generations at least there will be continuing improvements in the ability of games to deliver on the artist's intentions. Games are not just about game mechanics, they also involve story, and for delivering story, suspension of disbelief is key. As long as the technology is getting in the way of delivering the artist's vision, games won't have reached their peak. Imagine if comic book artists were limited to 20 lines when drawing super heroes. Would we say that they can't really get any better, because really, the story is what matters, and the art is good enough?
Slashdot Mirror
Wear and tear. Under the table leasing of cars to employees. Lost time wondering where their car was. Shade for their parking lot. Lots of ways to identify what you deprived them of.
There's no free market in governments any more. They're all colluding to enforce things like WIPO and virtually all have heavy restrictions on legal immigration and emigration.
I think most people can see the difference between embezzlement and copyright infringement. In the one case, the victim hasn't lost any bits, in the other he has. Now if you had a bank employee artificially creating new accounts with money in them without taking that money from anyone else, I think that would be about the same, in that the only loss that occurs is in depreciating the value of the bits held by a third party.
Survival is still all that exists. It's just that it's a convenient mental shorthand to understand the law in order to avoid having gangs of people come and prevent you from procreating.
Having worked for blizzard, I can assure you we shipped at least diablo, diablo II, starcraft, broodwar, lord of destruction, warcraft III, frozen throne, and wow with lots of software bugs.
Not many fatal bugs, but plenty of bugs. I personally fixed about 300 non play balance bugs that went into various patches.
Bugs are unavoidable in large software projects. Avoiding serious bugs that will make your customers unhappy is mostly about devoting sufficient testing resources to finding that class of bugs before shipping, and planning for extended work hours right after release to quickly fix the most serious bugs that escaped your testing.
When I give you something that belongs to me with no expectation of return, that's gifting. If I expect it back, that's sharing.
Very little rape, pillage, or seagoing vessels are involved, so piracy is clearly incorrect.
If you are going to work for a multinational, speaking more than a language helps a lot, even if you never travel outside your country
I speak a smattering of French and German and surprisingly enough I have used the knowledge atleast once each when customers send me emails about products. Chinese/Japanese is useful too since almost all of electronic manufacturing happens in China, Taiwan or Japan and only Taiwan is really English speaking. Knowing enough Japanese to say Arigato is appreciated a lot by Japanese and knowing Chinese is useful in many eastern countries.
There are relatively few multinational universities, particularly ones with good CS/CE research programs.
There are publications in basically every language in CS/CE. If you really want to learn one, pick from Japanese, German, French, Russian, Chinese.
But it won't do you much good, and in reality, you'll never have time to read foreign journals (or looked at another way, it would be a comparative waste of your time given the quantity of good material you could be reading in English).
You can't do everything on the server side and be scalable. There's a lot more cpu/memory on 100,000 clients than there is on any server.
Mine too!
You're assuming none of the hands belongs to the house while playing online poker. How would you know if one of the players belonged to the house and was dealt a guaranteed win every hundredth hand?
Note that you specified a scenario involving all in at the beginning of the tournament, while the article specifies a perfect poker bot for limit games only.
rare earth elements not rare earth elements.
I call BS on that. There's no way you've actually met multiple smart accenture consultants.
food, foodapples, foodapplesreddelicious.
problem solved.
Honestly, the last time I considered taking a job up there, that was one of the things that scared me away. I visited a couple of (one borders, one something local) bookstores, and both had large depression coping sections in prominent displays.
No doubt that's why the bookstores all have huge sections on 'dealing with depression' and great titles like 'bad weather, good mood' and 'gray skies aren't the end'.
That's all true, except for the part about Bill Roper not having an office at Blizzard North. He definitely did (as much as anyone had an office ... we all shared offices). Not that he contributed a lot beyond ideas to d2 or d2x, but he was definitely physically there. His desk was in one of the offices on the north side of the main hall past the receptionist.
Yes ... it will be the people storing and exchanging the URL's who will be in trouble.
The slightly amusing part of that is that it was always true (you just needed to copy the music mpqs to get away from needing the disk in the drive).
Yes, it's already been announced, Starcraft 3.
Right... so what happens if being born female happens to be treated like a genetic defect in your country?
You become the world's next great superpower?
I think you meant pandering to wine and cheese conservatives. The liberals are the ones who want to let you do whatever you want in this area. The conservatives have 3 sections:
1) don't care
2) opposed to anything
3) middle position that makes no sense (wine and cheese)
Human progress is a sum process not an individual process.
Or so argue the non-progressors.
Half-life was sufficiently low polygon that it looked quite angular, which clearly wasn't the goal of the art direction. Artists mostly just need more tris to make their art look better, so for the next few generations at least there will be continuing improvements in the ability of games to deliver on the artist's intentions. Games are not just about game mechanics, they also involve story, and for delivering story, suspension of disbelief is key. As long as the technology is getting in the way of delivering the artist's vision, games won't have reached their peak. Imagine if comic book artists were limited to 20 lines when drawing super heroes. Would we say that they can't really get any better, because really, the story is what matters, and the art is good enough?