If it's stated somewhere, sure. There is nothing wrong with it. If you tell people "hey install this if you want to get into our network but we won't tell you what it does" I take issue with it. It's fine to monitor and filter traffic at school. It's NOT fine to do it without letting your students know. It's NOT fine to deny it. Specially because you will find a student that can notice and/or get by it, and you want them on your side, playing by the rules (or not being to obvious about not following them).
Indeed. This is one of those things that should be very clear without any room for error. Either the person tried taking the photo (success irrelevant) and is guilty, or didn't try and is innocent. There shouldn't be a middle ground.
I can't really say the ruling is wrong or bad. Instead, and quoting from TFA, "If the statute as written doesn't protect that privacy, then I'm urging the Legislature to act rapidly and adjust it so it does."
Now, question to slashdotters who are not a lawyer but know the law better than me: wouldn't there be any other way the victims would be able to convict the photographer? Couldn't they claim that amounted to harassment or something? Or... well... anything?
I could give you a few reason it might not work: LAN speeds/latency. If the buildings are next to each other, you probably can get away with opening a few holes and putting some cables. If they don't happen to be next to each other, you're going to have to talk to somebody about it (or perhaps you can get away with a wireless solution, don't know). If you want buildings in completely different places, then you limit one workplace to not have the resource availability from the other (using a rendering farm doesn't seem practical if it's on the other side of the country and you are bandwidth limited by business connections). You will also need to have dedicated tech support on each of the locations (not everything can be solved through the Internet or phones). It also generates more overhead (you will need at least a manager working at the other place, which you might already have if you are big enough, but the manager's boss won't be able to move there quickly if a situation arises).
On the other hand, it could certainly work. I mean, multiple companies already have various offices around the world. I do think that they tend to be independent in terms of what they do.
It prepares you for jobs because it's not uncommon you will have to deal with people who don't speak your native language. It's also not uncommon for people to move somewhere else because of a job. In non-english countries, it's in your best interest to teach your students english because a lot of information is available in that language.
What do you think of the situation? Do you think that this time protesters will finally justify the lives lost or will they walk away with nothing (or worse)? Do you think the government will further escalate the arms race? Do you think the protesters will match the use of force?
I think it's more related to art/plot/story direction than gameplay itself, although I'll admit that you are right in stating that men tend more towards violence (from young males tend to be encouraged to do that. Just notice how people give toy guns and action figures that everything around them is violence [yes, superheros ARE about violence. How many superheros do you see solving problems through argumentation, for example?]). And yes, we probably need more females in the video game industry (not just coders) because it's damned hard to make something for a group you know nothing about (which is covered by knowing people from the other gender, but still. There is a difference between "I think that $DemographicGroup will like x and y" and "I'll like x and y, and $DemographicGroup will probably too, since I'm part of it".
You could always play Team-based e-sports, though.
Now, back to the topic at hand... I think that some of the high-profile games tend to have a plot/story and/or serveral characters that may not appeal to women. Thus, they do not try video games. Those that do then have to go through Internet (it isn't pretty, and it isn't just related to video games) on their way to tournaments/professional playing (because even if they don't really go online, people will find their info and bring it outside the Internet). Important: it doesn't take many to make the Internet a scary place. A few will look like many and feel like many.
That, however, is probably changing. Just as it becomes more common and less strange for girls to play games from a young age, and just as a few of them join the industry, there will be more games that will appeal to more women in general and the end result is that we will probably have more female professional players.
A very important factor in how we behave is how we are educated. Women tend to want to cooperate more because that's the way we teach them (it was until a while a go that you would have the girl learn how to do chores around the house and have them take care of the children while young, while this didn't happen as much with boys). It all seems like so far away, but it really was just now.
Don't use VAC. AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong), it should only be activated if you join VAC-enabled servers. VAC is specifically Valve's Anti-Cheat System and it does what it says on the tin. Although I guess I do agree on the whole sandboxing thing. But you still have the problems of cheating in online games.
It should only trigger the dns check if VAC believes you are cheating.
VAC checked for the presence of these cheats. If they were detected VAC then checked to see which cheat DRM server was being contacted. This second check was done by looking for a partial match to those (non-web) cheat DRM servers in the DNS cache. If found, then hashes of the matching DNS entries were sent to the VAC servers. The match was double checked on our servers and then that client was marked for a future ban.
Well, if *we* can make ourselves from scratch, and we can conclude that, taking into account of what we know of the universe, it's possible that another life form smart enough to create us existed, it would be a valid theory as any other. I mean, why not?
But of course, by then you might as well just have the city/town provide the drones themselves instead of having thousand drones from a thousand drivers. I think.
Give a cookie to whoever introduced you to technology as a career.
I understand what you mean with math becoming something more than high school text book work. My biggest complain with it is that the exercises are rather... repetitive and kind of useless. To make an analogy with guitars: you can train your shapes and your technique all you want, but it's going to be a lot more fun if you do it playing a song you like. All I can tell you is to enjoy finding math enjoyable and as something that has a purpose. Many face it without it. I think that's one of the main problems with education nowadays, but that's another can of worms.
Well, have fun in whatever you choose. That's the most important part!
So what you are saying is... that just about anything in life... if you present it in an interesting and engaging way... people will be interested?
*cough* And how is that way? To be honest I'm interested in computers/programming/IT because a) home is my pc for various reasons, b) the time spent fixing a car was fixing computers (it's mostly a family thing), c) I like math, d) I like solving puzzles/figuring out solutions to a problem. So, what is yours?
I can't point out to a single girl I know that wants to follow IT (but there is one that wants to follow something related with computers, but I don't think it's really programming*). The ones that are good at math (and god they put in the effort) want to follow medicine related fields while most of the males in my class will follow engineering. I can't help but think that what I'm seeing is this: healers, helping others, community for the girls who want to follow medicine (no, I'm not talking about their motivations. I'm talking about what I perceive is why they tended towards that) while males going for engineering... I don't know. My guess is the whole "help me with this, son" (as opposed to daughter) that gets them interested in building things and they see it as a career choice (as opposed to a passion). Then again, I barely interact with the males in my class. So there is that.
What about you? What was your experience growing up? How did you take interest in IT to begin with? I'd like to know.
Thus, we should say basic knowledge or advanced knowledge (basic maintenance vs full-blown mechanic). Everyone would probably benefit from basic knowledge on a number of things in today's world/civilization. Not everyone will benefit from advanced knowledge.
About the same obsession teenagers have with the way their room looks: they are probably going to spend a lot of time in it (YMMV), it's the equivalent of home (the rest of the house is the parent's territory, and thus hostile) and it's also an extension of who they are.
If it is for work, you just deal with it. It might be "wrong" enough that you need to try to cause change, but ultimately it's not about you, it's about getting the work done. You'll notice that offices are usually slightly personalized. You don't get to paint the walls, probably won't pick the desk nor the chair, but you'll be able to put a photo or something to make it feel more personal, more you. Now... your own house, your own room (whether it's where you sleep or spend most of your time awake... whatever lets you feel at home), that needs to be something you like. You'll want it personal and pleasing.
Well, I guess saying it's a teenager obsession isn't fair after all... We all like to personalize the space we use and the things we value.
Different devices, different expectations. Then again, I haven't really made much use with metro. What I saw from Unity (briefly interacted with it at school) is that it works well enough for using one or two applications at a time. It seemed confusing, though. Specially trying to find some things.
Ah, that. Yes. The adaptive difficulty. Maybe it's because I wasn't a complete beginner to bass, or that I've spend some time playing DDR games to the point that I got used to following serial instructions so playing "learning a song" is usually something I can get to a fairly high percentage on the first try (and, sadly, enable master mode during the first play-through).
There have been some parts where I honestly couldn't wait until the game would give me a higher difficulty simply because my hands complained there was a few missing notes they couldn't help but want to play. On others, I simply try to hit as many notes as I can, playing as closely as I can, never mind I failed half of the notes. I'll get used to it (just like I got used to tracks in DDR). And others I slow down in the Riff repeater, set it up to auto-speed up with no tolerance, and play until 100%. Or mess with the difficulty.
My experience and POV is this: the first play-through is experiencing the song and seeing what it does and how hard it is. I know that it is not giving me the final difficulty so I don't bother learning the notes, but instead the way the notes behave. It plays this section of notes here in this string. It plays that other thing. Here is a thing it hasn't show me yet. If I so insist in keeping a single difficulty, I just pick up the rift repeater, select whole song, set difficulty.
It's very nice to play with, though. The most satisfying mode is Score Attack, because it rewards being tight in terms of timing more than in learn a song (which is about learning a song, mind you, not playing it).
You want a hackerspace instead. To me, a library is the place I go to learn the theory. It's a repository of knowledge. I go there to gather knowledge. Maybe even think on the knowledge. A library is not a place for experiments and manual work, which is the kind of thing that tends to be innovative or foster it (get kids interested in doing stuff). Unless, of course, you want innovations in mathematics or perhaps some kind of theoretical advance, in which case you want giant drawing boards, markers (or chalks) and put them all in a relatively private space (quieter than the library itself, and preferably without people looking at what you are doing unless you want them to).
Dammit, I should have phrased the first sentence better: replace "I don't think anyone who is intelligent and reflective will be uncomfortable" with "I don't think that everyone who is intelligent and reflective will be uncomfortable".
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If it's stated somewhere, sure. There is nothing wrong with it. If you tell people "hey install this if you want to get into our network but we won't tell you what it does" I take issue with it. It's fine to monitor and filter traffic at school. It's NOT fine to do it without letting your students know. It's NOT fine to deny it. Specially because you will find a student that can notice and/or get by it, and you want them on your side, playing by the rules (or not being to obvious about not following them).
Indeed. This is one of those things that should be very clear without any room for error. Either the person tried taking the photo (success irrelevant) and is guilty, or didn't try and is innocent. There shouldn't be a middle ground.
I can't really say the ruling is wrong or bad. Instead, and quoting from TFA, "If the statute as written doesn't protect that privacy, then I'm urging the Legislature to act rapidly and adjust it so it does."
Now, question to slashdotters who are not a lawyer but know the law better than me: wouldn't there be any other way the victims would be able to convict the photographer? Couldn't they claim that amounted to harassment or something? Or... well... anything?
I could give you a few reason it might not work: LAN speeds/latency. If the buildings are next to each other, you probably can get away with opening a few holes and putting some cables. If they don't happen to be next to each other, you're going to have to talk to somebody about it (or perhaps you can get away with a wireless solution, don't know). If you want buildings in completely different places, then you limit one workplace to not have the resource availability from the other (using a rendering farm doesn't seem practical if it's on the other side of the country and you are bandwidth limited by business connections). You will also need to have dedicated tech support on each of the locations (not everything can be solved through the Internet or phones). It also generates more overhead (you will need at least a manager working at the other place, which you might already have if you are big enough, but the manager's boss won't be able to move there quickly if a situation arises).
On the other hand, it could certainly work. I mean, multiple companies already have various offices around the world. I do think that they tend to be independent in terms of what they do.
Do please correct me if I'm wrong, though.
It prepares you for jobs because it's not uncommon you will have to deal with people who don't speak your native language. It's also not uncommon for people to move somewhere else because of a job. In non-english countries, it's in your best interest to teach your students english because a lot of information is available in that language.
What do you think of the situation? Do you think that this time protesters will finally justify the lives lost or will they walk away with nothing (or worse)? Do you think the government will further escalate the arms race? Do you think the protesters will match the use of force?
I think it's more related to art/plot/story direction than gameplay itself, although I'll admit that you are right in stating that men tend more towards violence (from young males tend to be encouraged to do that. Just notice how people give toy guns and action figures that everything around them is violence [yes, superheros ARE about violence. How many superheros do you see solving problems through argumentation, for example?]). And yes, we probably need more females in the video game industry (not just coders) because it's damned hard to make something for a group you know nothing about (which is covered by knowing people from the other gender, but still. There is a difference between "I think that $DemographicGroup will like x and y" and "I'll like x and y, and $DemographicGroup will probably too, since I'm part of it".
You could always play Team-based e-sports, though.
Now, back to the topic at hand... I think that some of the high-profile games tend to have a plot/story and/or serveral characters that may not appeal to women. Thus, they do not try video games. Those that do then have to go through Internet (it isn't pretty, and it isn't just related to video games) on their way to tournaments/professional playing (because even if they don't really go online, people will find their info and bring it outside the Internet). Important: it doesn't take many to make the Internet a scary place. A few will look like many and feel like many.
That, however, is probably changing. Just as it becomes more common and less strange for girls to play games from a young age, and just as a few of them join the industry, there will be more games that will appeal to more women in general and the end result is that we will probably have more female professional players.
A very important factor in how we behave is how we are educated. Women tend to want to cooperate more because that's the way we teach them (it was until a while a go that you would have the girl learn how to do chores around the house and have them take care of the children while young, while this didn't happen as much with boys). It all seems like so far away, but it really was just now.
Don't use VAC. AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong), it should only be activated if you join VAC-enabled servers. VAC is specifically Valve's Anti-Cheat System and it does what it says on the tin. Although I guess I do agree on the whole sandboxing thing. But you still have the problems of cheating in online games.
It should only trigger the dns check if VAC believes you are cheating.
VAC checked for the presence of these cheats. If they were detected VAC then checked to see which cheat DRM server was being contacted. This second check was done by looking for a partial match to those (non-web) cheat DRM servers in the DNS cache. If found, then hashes of the matching DNS entries were sent to the VAC servers. The match was double checked on our servers and then that client was marked for a future ban.
Emphasis mine.
You'd do fine in the onion.
Here, have your cookie. You deserve it.
I'd give you a cookie, except I'm not sure you deserve it.
Can you please calibrate my sarcasm detector?
Well, if *we* can make ourselves from scratch, and we can conclude that, taking into account of what we know of the universe, it's possible that another life form smart enough to create us existed, it would be a valid theory as any other. I mean, why not?
But of course, by then you might as well just have the city/town provide the drones themselves instead of having thousand drones from a thousand drivers. I think.
Give a cookie to whoever introduced you to technology as a career.
I understand what you mean with math becoming something more than high school text book work. My biggest complain with it is that the exercises are rather... repetitive and kind of useless. To make an analogy with guitars: you can train your shapes and your technique all you want, but it's going to be a lot more fun if you do it playing a song you like. All I can tell you is to enjoy finding math enjoyable and as something that has a purpose. Many face it without it. I think that's one of the main problems with education nowadays, but that's another can of worms.
Well, have fun in whatever you choose. That's the most important part!
It honestly still looks to clean with too much white and empty space. Honest. Besides that, I have minor complaints about the beta.
So what you are saying is... that just about anything in life... if you present it in an interesting and engaging way... people will be interested?
*cough* And how is that way? To be honest I'm interested in computers/programming/IT because a) home is my pc for various reasons, b) the time spent fixing a car was fixing computers (it's mostly a family thing), c) I like math, d) I like solving puzzles/figuring out solutions to a problem. So, what is yours?
I can't point out to a single girl I know that wants to follow IT (but there is one that wants to follow something related with computers, but I don't think it's really programming*). The ones that are good at math (and god they put in the effort) want to follow medicine related fields while most of the males in my class will follow engineering. I can't help but think that what I'm seeing is this: healers, helping others, community for the girls who want to follow medicine (no, I'm not talking about their motivations. I'm talking about what I perceive is why they tended towards that) while males going for engineering... I don't know. My guess is the whole "help me with this, son" (as opposed to daughter) that gets them interested in building things and they see it as a career choice (as opposed to a passion). Then again, I barely interact with the males in my class. So there is that.
What about you? What was your experience growing up? How did you take interest in IT to begin with? I'd like to know.
* I realize this might be bias talking.
Thus, we should say basic knowledge or advanced knowledge (basic maintenance vs full-blown mechanic). Everyone would probably benefit from basic knowledge on a number of things in today's world/civilization. Not everyone will benefit from advanced knowledge.
About the same obsession teenagers have with the way their room looks: they are probably going to spend a lot of time in it (YMMV), it's the equivalent of home (the rest of the house is the parent's territory, and thus hostile) and it's also an extension of who they are.
If it is for work, you just deal with it. It might be "wrong" enough that you need to try to cause change, but ultimately it's not about you, it's about getting the work done. You'll notice that offices are usually slightly personalized. You don't get to paint the walls, probably won't pick the desk nor the chair, but you'll be able to put a photo or something to make it feel more personal, more you. Now... your own house, your own room (whether it's where you sleep or spend most of your time awake... whatever lets you feel at home), that needs to be something you like. You'll want it personal and pleasing.
Well, I guess saying it's a teenager obsession isn't fair after all... We all like to personalize the space we use and the things we value.
Different devices, different expectations. Then again, I haven't really made much use with metro. What I saw from Unity (briefly interacted with it at school) is that it works well enough for using one or two applications at a time. It seemed confusing, though. Specially trying to find some things.
Ah, that. Yes. The adaptive difficulty. Maybe it's because I wasn't a complete beginner to bass, or that I've spend some time playing DDR games to the point that I got used to following serial instructions so playing "learning a song" is usually something I can get to a fairly high percentage on the first try (and, sadly, enable master mode during the first play-through).
There have been some parts where I honestly couldn't wait until the game would give me a higher difficulty simply because my hands complained there was a few missing notes they couldn't help but want to play. On others, I simply try to hit as many notes as I can, playing as closely as I can, never mind I failed half of the notes. I'll get used to it (just like I got used to tracks in DDR). And others I slow down in the Riff repeater, set it up to auto-speed up with no tolerance, and play until 100%. Or mess with the difficulty.
My experience and POV is this: the first play-through is experiencing the song and seeing what it does and how hard it is. I know that it is not giving me the final difficulty so I don't bother learning the notes, but instead the way the notes behave. It plays this section of notes here in this string. It plays that other thing. Here is a thing it hasn't show me yet. If I so insist in keeping a single difficulty, I just pick up the rift repeater, select whole song, set difficulty.
It's very nice to play with, though. The most satisfying mode is Score Attack, because it rewards being tight in terms of timing more than in learn a song (which is about learning a song, mind you, not playing it).
Rocksmith 2014
You want a hackerspace instead. To me, a library is the place I go to learn the theory. It's a repository of knowledge. I go there to gather knowledge. Maybe even think on the knowledge. A library is not a place for experiments and manual work, which is the kind of thing that tends to be innovative or foster it (get kids interested in doing stuff). Unless, of course, you want innovations in mathematics or perhaps some kind of theoretical advance, in which case you want giant drawing boards, markers (or chalks) and put them all in a relatively private space (quieter than the library itself, and preferably without people looking at what you are doing unless you want them to).
Have you tried asking them politely to tone it down a bit? Or maybe talk to your boss about why it is reducing your productivity?
Dammit, I should have phrased the first sentence better: replace "I don't think anyone who is intelligent and reflective will be uncomfortable" with "I don't think that everyone who is intelligent and reflective will be uncomfortable".