It's honestly getting better... we're seeing book reviews now for.NET stuff, MS product announcements. It's actually becoming a site for real geeks rather than just linux nerds.
Hillary, or any other Congress critter wasn't complaining about the sex or violence in the game.
They were complaining about the fact that this stuff was found in a game that had been rated Mature, when it should have been rated Adults-Only based upon the hidden content. Their complaint is that Rockstar games LIED to the consumers.
Why? Because we put the ratings on the bloody games so that parents knew what their kids were doing.
The question of whether or not kids are exposed to violence, or sex is not what these congress critters are arguing. That's up to the parents. If a parent doesn't care if their kids are exposed to sex or violence, then they can purchase these games, take their kids to movies, etc.
Notice the R rating in the movie theatre? What's the rule... "No children under 17, unless accompanied by a parent."
I suspect it depends on what you mean by "business logic".
Some argue that you shouldn't even put foreign key restraints in your database... the app can handle that for you and it'll make it faster.
Others argue that it is key to maintain the integrity of your data. If this means putting lot's of logic in the database in the form of procs, views, triggers, etc... that's what you need to do. Better to normalize and have accurate data than to denormalize and have speed.
Supposedly the $10 billion applies worldwide. So if there are 4 billion people, that means my share is roughly $2.50.
But let's assume that it's only the US. $10 billion divided by 300 million people is $33.33. That's the price of dinner for two at Perkins.
But I figure that my salary as a developer is roughly double what it otherwise would be as a result of Microsoft's introduction of computers everywhere. That is, if we still had mainframes instead of PCs I'd be making at least half what I do now.
I won't reveal my salary... But I can assure you it's a lot more than $33 per year.
The only reason Microsoft is a monopoly is because those of us back in the 1980s who had to use a dozen different systems got fed up and decided to standardize on one. Microsoft happened to be there at the right time in the right place, and they keep producing stuff that we need/want... therefore we give them our money.
If they didn't meet our need, we'd go someplace else.
My girlfriend is Russian, and we've been dating over a year now. She's introduced me to a variety of Russian foods.
Here's the thing... Russia was/is a very poor country. When the US/Europe was(and the parts that still are) poor, you tend to eat what is available rather than what necessarily tasted the best. And you get used to it in time and kind of like it.
So some of the things my girlfriend will eat, I frankly won't touch. I'm not a big fan of dried fish, or pigs feet, gizzards, parts of a cow I'd never heard of, things like that. She is.
On the other hand... There's some really good food. Obviously the well known ones like Chicken Kiev, or Stroganoff(both of which when done well do not much resemble what is sold in the frozen food section at the grocery store by Stoufers).
Pirozhki is good. They also make wonderful crepes, like Blintze which can come with meat, cheese, caviar... etc. My girlfriend makes a dish with pork ribs and sour cabbage(sort of like sauerkraut but you don't let it ferment so it's not as pungent).
One of her favorite things is Pelmeni, which are like ravioli... pasta stuffed with meat. For a sauce you use vinegar and sour cream, though.
I thought the same thing. I have my cable modem, VOIP and such hooked up to an older 600VA UPS I had. My new 1500VA UPS powers my computer.
Then the power went out one day. My UPS kept my equipment running!
But the cable company doesn't have a UPS on their equipment. They may back in the main office, but they don't at the distribution points.
I used to have DSL in my old house, and the telco maintains power on their lines through battery and generators. So when the power went out, I still had internet.
I don't know what you mean by custom workflow, or processes. I mean what are you really trying to do?
Windows is easily scripted using Windows Scripting Host. You can use Jscript, VBScript, and other third party languages. If all you are trying to do is automate some processing on a directory of files, move some files around, maybe create a directory structure... whatever. That's the way to do it. You can setup little icons to click and it runs the process, or schedule them to run, whatever.
But if you start getting much more complicated, at some point it makes more sense to do the whole thing as an app. In which case, I'd suggest possibly doing a Winforms app using VS.NET. The definition of more complicated depends... You can do a lot with WSH including shared procedures, UI stuff, etc. But it's not the easiest tool to debug with or design a UI with. The'res the scripting debugger, and there are third party editors and such that can help, but still it depends.
It's really all about what you are trying to do.
Remember what you do... you won't be around forever, and you want to make it easy for this guy to find someone else to maintain and modify his stuff. Use commonly accepted tools, document well, and make the system as easy to understand as possible.
You may also want to skip the job if your technical skills aren't up to the task.
The other nice thing is even if you do get a lock on the enemy plane...
If a friendly comes flying by the missile will automagically go for that plane... or heli, or whatever...
Just to mess your with TeamKill score.
I agree, though... the chaff is bogus. It's ok with the helis since they move slow you can wait for it to disperse before firing. But by the time you get a relock usually the chaff recycle time has come again and they can dump more.
The ATV's can toss smoke grenades out... which supposedly makes it harder to hit them. But since you still see the red player indicator when lined up through the smoke... it doesn't really work that way.
The aircraft are just sorely unbalanced in the game. Not when I'm flying, as I can't fly a plane worth shit... but when someone good is flying...
Frankly, my favorite of this genre is still RTCW. It seems like when they started trying to add vehicles to these games, they seriously screwed up the game balance.
The game control is much improved from the old battlefield game. Unfortunately they seem to have a problem with balance. Namely with aircraft. Tanks and ground vehicles, no problem... if anything they're too easy to take out by infantry.
Planes... nearly impossible to kill, unless you're in an AA gun vehicle. The stationary AA missiles don't seem to have the speed or range to nail them, and there's no way to hit them with small arms.
But if you want to win, and you want to get a high score, with all the fame and fortune that goes with it... You have to play the Helicopter right.
The Helicopter has a pilot, two gunners and four passengers.
The pilot and two gunners should be medics. If anybody does get some small arm fire off onto your passengers, they'll get healed. The four passengers... Well there you want engineers. Why? Cause if you get hit by a missile, they'll fix the heli.
With a good pilot, you can come down in on a flag, take the position by hovering for only about 5 seconds, and then move on.
On the ground... it takes about 3 good hits of a bazooka or tank to take out a helicopter.. With the slow reload times, you can't do that in 5 seconds... so you have to have several players targetting the heli. But then you have those four engineers up there repairing...
What this means is, essentially... the only way to take out the helicopter is to hit it with another aircraft like a plane or heli, or completely overwhelm it from the ground. It's hard... real hard... When President Bush said his job was hard, he obviously never tried to take out a heli in BF2.
Meanwhile the guys on the ground are dodging fire from the heli, trying to hit the thing... And those guns are awesomely powerful. and when it leaves taking back the flag.(not always easy, now that it's a spawn point)
Oh, I haven't tried this... but I think having one support player as pilot or gunner may mean the engineers will get rearmed. So when they aren't repairing they can drop mines and grenades all over the place. Fun fun!
Essentially the game is a lot of fun if you're in that helicopter.
Otherwise, the second most fun you can have is to take Special Ops. Find yourself a car... load it up with C4 packs, and then drive around getting all Yassir Arafat on the enemy tanks. That is... you ram 'em and everybody blows up! You, the car, the tank, and the occupant of the tank! Doesn't help much with your score, but it's still fun!
Kind of reminds me of when RTCW was still in beta, and you could run down the hallway with the flame thrower without injuring yourself. Great fun, if you're the guy with the flame thrower.
I'm sorry, but you are arguing technicalities. It's like designing a tax law that nobody can possibly evade. Ain't gonna happen.
As long as the browser allows some form of plug-in which can intercept URL requests... it's going to be vulnerable to spyware. It doesn't matter how you load it, or how you get to it... If you don't think users won't download something and run it because it's too hard, think again.
The point being, Mozilla has a big gaping hole in it resulting from it's design. The only way to stop this is to prevent users from being able to add plug-ins, which rather makes the whole feature obsolete and ridiculous, does it not?
As I said... welcome to the real world. Half of the problems we have with computers today are the direct result of giving users choices and features. But if you don't give the users choices and features... you have an extremely boring product.
So basically... Mozilla is just as much of an insecure platform as IE, because they allow plug-ins.
Yeah, yeah.. It's Greasemonkey... it's some stupid add-in piece that you have to explicitly install.
But that's also the way most spyware get's on IE. People get prompted "Please download and install this, and make sure you say 'Yes' when prompted is that ok?"
and people do it...
why? Because they are promised free porn, free poker, free music, or a free trip to Nigeria to collect their $10 million.
Your post is filled with at least two lies(that Plame authorized on her own, and that Her husband lied that Cheney sent him), and yet you have the nerve to accuse me of being mindless?
Doesn't really matter. Rove shouldn't have been spreading gossip like this as an employee of the Whitehouse.
If Novak did tell him his response should have been "Such inquiries are out of bounds. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's not a subject you ought to be broaching on this story."
That he did not, and instead started passing the gossip off to others, is quite an indictment of the lack of patriotism Karl Rove has.
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Interesting. According to your blog you are a university student... apparently in about your junior year of Computer Engineering.
Yet you think knowledge holds no value?
What are you going to do for a job when you get out of school, since being paid to do engineering work is against your religion?
Maybe you could live with your parents?
It used to be much worse...
.NET stuff, MS product announcements. It's actually becoming a site for real geeks rather than just linux nerds.
It's honestly getting better... we're seeing book reviews now for
You're raving about Apple building the equivalent of DirectX?
Right.
But Bush didn't get a blowjob.
So it's ok.
Right?
But...but...but...
Terrorists hate freedom!
We must fight terrorists!
The only way to fight terrorists is to give up some of our freedom!
Hillary, or any other Congress critter wasn't complaining about the sex or violence in the game.
They were complaining about the fact that this stuff was found in a game that had been rated Mature, when it should have been rated Adults-Only based upon the hidden content. Their complaint is that Rockstar games LIED to the consumers.
Why? Because we put the ratings on the bloody games so that parents knew what their kids were doing.
The question of whether or not kids are exposed to violence, or sex is not what these congress critters are arguing. That's up to the parents. If a parent doesn't care if their kids are exposed to sex or violence, then they can purchase these games, take their kids to movies, etc.
Notice the R rating in the movie theatre? What's the rule... "No children under 17, unless accompanied by a parent."
It's the parents, stupid.
I suspect it depends on what you mean by "business logic".
Some argue that you shouldn't even put foreign key restraints in your database... the app can handle that for you and it'll make it faster.
Others argue that it is key to maintain the integrity of your data. If this means putting lot's of logic in the database in the form of procs, views, triggers, etc... that's what you need to do. Better to normalize and have accurate data than to denormalize and have speed.
It all depends on what your needs are.
Supposedly the $10 billion applies worldwide. So if there are 4 billion people, that means my share is roughly $2.50.
But let's assume that it's only the US. $10 billion divided by 300 million people is $33.33. That's the price of dinner for two at Perkins.
But I figure that my salary as a developer is roughly double what it otherwise would be as a result of Microsoft's introduction of computers everywhere. That is, if we still had mainframes instead of PCs I'd be making at least half what I do now.
I won't reveal my salary... But I can assure you it's a lot more than $33 per year.
The only reason Microsoft is a monopoly is because those of us back in the 1980s who had to use a dozen different systems got fed up and decided to standardize on one. Microsoft happened to be there at the right time in the right place, and they keep producing stuff that we need/want... therefore we give them our money.
If they didn't meet our need, we'd go someplace else.
That's the nature of the market.
It's amazing to me how the anti-Microsoft brigade relies upon making shit up to make their point.
Microsoft forces retailers to sell only Windows PCs.
No... no they don't. I'm not convinced they ever did, they simply made it less economically viable by not giving reduced pricing.
But since the consent decree, they are definately not.
Since 1999... Mac and Mozilla marketshare has increased. Linux has not.
They all have this supposed barrier keeping them down... yet something is different, obviously.
That something is that Mac and Mozilla improved their product offerings substantially. It's as simple as that, people.
My girlfriend is Russian, and we've been dating over a year now. She's introduced me to a variety of Russian foods.
Here's the thing... Russia was/is a very poor country. When the US/Europe was(and the parts that still are) poor, you tend to eat what is available rather than what necessarily tasted the best. And you get used to it in time and kind of like it.
So some of the things my girlfriend will eat, I frankly won't touch. I'm not a big fan of dried fish, or pigs feet, gizzards, parts of a cow I'd never heard of, things like that. She is.
On the other hand... There's some really good food. Obviously the well known ones like Chicken Kiev, or Stroganoff(both of which when done well do not much resemble what is sold in the frozen food section at the grocery store by Stoufers).
Pirozhki is good. They also make wonderful crepes, like Blintze which can come with meat, cheese, caviar... etc. My girlfriend makes a dish with pork ribs and sour cabbage(sort of like sauerkraut but you don't let it ferment so it's not as pungent).
One of her favorite things is Pelmeni, which are like ravioli... pasta stuffed with meat. For a sauce you use vinegar and sour cream, though.
You're right. That's hard work.
Easier just to write up a police report as a suicide.
It's just that the letter H sounds like N. :-)
I thought the same thing. I have my cable modem, VOIP and such hooked up to an older 600VA UPS I had. My new 1500VA UPS powers my computer.
Then the power went out one day. My UPS kept my equipment running!
But the cable company doesn't have a UPS on their equipment. They may back in the main office, but they don't at the distribution points.
I used to have DSL in my old house, and the telco maintains power on their lines through battery and generators. So when the power went out, I still had internet.
The problem isn't the technology. It's a training issue.
If I guy comes to me asking for a solution on a Mac... you know what I tell him?
Go talk to alienw, because it's going to take me longer to get up to speed on how to do it than it will take him to just do it.
I don't know what you mean by custom workflow, or processes. I mean what are you really trying to do?
Windows is easily scripted using Windows Scripting Host. You can use Jscript, VBScript, and other third party languages. If all you are trying to do is automate some processing on a directory of files, move some files around, maybe create a directory structure... whatever. That's the way to do it. You can setup little icons to click and it runs the process, or schedule them to run, whatever.
But if you start getting much more complicated, at some point it makes more sense to do the whole thing as an app. In which case, I'd suggest possibly doing a Winforms app using VS.NET. The definition of more complicated depends... You can do a lot with WSH including shared procedures, UI stuff, etc. But it's not the easiest tool to debug with or design a UI with. The'res the scripting debugger, and there are third party editors and such that can help, but still it depends.
It's really all about what you are trying to do.
Remember what you do... you won't be around forever, and you want to make it easy for this guy to find someone else to maintain and modify his stuff. Use commonly accepted tools, document well, and make the system as easy to understand as possible.
You may also want to skip the job if your technical skills aren't up to the task.
The other nice thing is even if you do get a lock on the enemy plane...
If a friendly comes flying by the missile will automagically go for that plane... or heli, or whatever...
Just to mess your with TeamKill score.
I agree, though... the chaff is bogus. It's ok with the helis since they move slow you can wait for it to disperse before firing. But by the time you get a relock usually the chaff recycle time has come again and they can dump more.
The ATV's can toss smoke grenades out... which supposedly makes it harder to hit them. But since you still see the red player indicator when lined up through the smoke... it doesn't really work that way.
The aircraft are just sorely unbalanced in the game. Not when I'm flying, as I can't fly a plane worth shit... but when someone good is flying...
That is... in order to have an efficient insurance system, you have to insure everybody.
Specifically, the more healhty people you have in the system, the less the overall cost is per capita.
This is why the US system fails, because we only worry about insurance if you aren't healthy.
Sounds to me like he's bashing Linux. Linux is a subset of OSS, not the whole.
In other news, Microsoft said something bad about Apple, Sun and Oracle. Apple said something bad about Microsoft. And Ford still hates Chevy.
Frankly, my favorite of this genre is still RTCW. It seems like when they started trying to add vehicles to these games, they seriously screwed up the game balance.
The game control is much improved from the old battlefield game. Unfortunately they seem to have a problem with balance. Namely with aircraft. Tanks and ground vehicles, no problem... if anything they're too easy to take out by infantry.
Planes... nearly impossible to kill, unless you're in an AA gun vehicle. The stationary AA missiles don't seem to have the speed or range to nail them, and there's no way to hit them with small arms.
But if you want to win, and you want to get a high score, with all the fame and fortune that goes with it... You have to play the Helicopter right.
The Helicopter has a pilot, two gunners and four passengers.
The pilot and two gunners should be medics. If anybody does get some small arm fire off onto your passengers, they'll get healed. The four passengers... Well there you want engineers. Why? Cause if you get hit by a missile, they'll fix the heli.
With a good pilot, you can come down in on a flag, take the position by hovering for only about 5 seconds, and then move on.
On the ground... it takes about 3 good hits of a bazooka or tank to take out a helicopter.. With the slow reload times, you can't do that in 5 seconds... so you have to have several players targetting the heli. But then you have those four engineers up there repairing...
What this means is, essentially... the only way to take out the helicopter is to hit it with another aircraft like a plane or heli, or completely overwhelm it from the ground. It's hard... real hard... When President Bush said his job was hard, he obviously never tried to take out a heli in BF2.
Meanwhile the guys on the ground are dodging fire from the heli, trying to hit the thing... And those guns are awesomely powerful. and when it leaves taking back the flag.(not always easy, now that it's a spawn point)
Oh, I haven't tried this... but I think having one support player as pilot or gunner may mean the engineers will get rearmed. So when they aren't repairing they can drop mines and grenades all over the place. Fun fun!
Essentially the game is a lot of fun if you're in that helicopter.
Otherwise, the second most fun you can have is to take Special Ops. Find yourself a car... load it up with C4 packs, and then drive around getting all Yassir Arafat on the enemy tanks. That is... you ram 'em and everybody blows up! You, the car, the tank, and the occupant of the tank! Doesn't help much with your score, but it's still fun!
Kind of reminds me of when RTCW was still in beta, and you could run down the hallway with the flame thrower without injuring yourself. Great fun, if you're the guy with the flame thrower.
I'm hoping they fix the game with the next patch.
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I'm sorry, but you are arguing technicalities. It's like designing a tax law that nobody can possibly evade. Ain't gonna happen.
As long as the browser allows some form of plug-in which can intercept URL requests... it's going to be vulnerable to spyware. It doesn't matter how you load it, or how you get to it... If you don't think users won't download something and run it because it's too hard, think again.
The point being, Mozilla has a big gaping hole in it resulting from it's design. The only way to stop this is to prevent users from being able to add plug-ins, which rather makes the whole feature obsolete and ridiculous, does it not?
As I said... welcome to the real world. Half of the problems we have with computers today are the direct result of giving users choices and features. But if you don't give the users choices and features... you have an extremely boring product.
I'm gonna get troll rated for this, but whatever.
So basically... Mozilla is just as much of an insecure platform as IE, because they allow plug-ins.
Yeah, yeah.. It's Greasemonkey... it's some stupid add-in piece that you have to explicitly install.
But that's also the way most spyware get's on IE. People get prompted "Please download and install this, and make sure you say 'Yes' when prompted is that ok?"
and people do it...
why? Because they are promised free porn, free poker, free music, or a free trip to Nigeria to collect their $10 million.
Welcome to the real world!
Yes, but does your security clearance give you access to CIA NOC identities?
Hmm... Wouldn't being given access to CIA NOC identities without proper security clearances be a crime in it's own self?
Your post is filled with at least two lies(that Plame authorized on her own, and that Her husband lied that Cheney sent him), and yet you have the nerve to accuse me of being mindless?
Doesn't really matter. Rove shouldn't have been spreading gossip like this as an employee of the Whitehouse.
If Novak did tell him his response should have been "Such inquiries are out of bounds. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's not a subject you ought to be broaching on this story."
That he did not, and instead started passing the gossip off to others, is quite an indictment of the lack of patriotism Karl Rove has.
And by golly, there it is on opensecrets.org.
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