Actually the so-called "wild west" was not open carry.
Upon entering town, you surrendered your weapons to the sherriff who would hold the weapon until you left town. If you didn't surrender your weapon, the sherriff would -- and did -- take it from your cold dead hands. The most famous incident was the Shootout at the OK Corral.
Back then, it was considered "common sense" to not carry a gun around in civilization.
I don't know if you've been to Mountainview lately, but prices are just as high as in SF itself when I was looking for a place in the bay area a month ago.
With rents upwards of $2K a month minimum for a modest 2 bedroom, there's ample reason for developers to build more housing...so long as the process isn't a PITA.
I've played a bit of both, so here's the differences. * There's no real way to respond on another player's turn, which lessens the strategy, but also means you're not waiting on your effects to resolve forever. Games generally take much less time (~15 minutes at most) * Not quite as chancy. You just can't win on turn 3. The infinite and quasi-infinite combos of MTG are, as of yet, nonexistant. And there are some *good* combos, but you can't base your deck on channel/fireball as you could during MTG alphas;) * Harder to keep permanents. All permanents are characters or attached to characters which can be damaged directly via attacking them with your creatures. As a result, utility creatures are much harder to keep alive.
Blizzard's done a great job of making a CCG that actually plays well online by designing it to be that way from the ground up. Unless MTG does a redesign, or at least designs cards specifically to be played online, it will always be a cludgy using a Windows Tablet circa 1999 (or a Windows 8 machine circa now).
At the same time, people LIKE tournaments. If you want to be the true world champion, why not have regionals, as the author suggests -- but limit them to residents and let them be "open" (single elimination in round 1). We have brackets in other sports. This would allow people to compete regardless of wealth.
Each "continental champion" (think "North American Champion" or even "East Asian Champion") could face off in a tournament with the other regionals. This would let each population cheer for its hometown star from New York to New Dehli. Sure, maybe the two "best" don't face off in the "World Championship" but it also allows underdogs to win more easily and makes it more competitive.
Flying into Reno just doesn't seem like an option since I can't bring the 3 5-gallon containers I feel I need for the duration of the event
Gerlach may be dead, but Reno has plenty of stores. There's an unwritten rules that if you're flying in, your group stops at the grocery store -- which is filled with other awesome Burners. They're generally pretty easy to identify, but not as easy to identify as the playa-dust encrusted passengers on the flight back. As far as other supplies, many Burners pool their resources and rent a shipping container, at least in NYC and ATX.
Driving is a waste, unless you live close, as some of us have jobs and would rather spend Monday and Tuesday on the playa rather than commuting. YMMV.
You are deluded, there is nothing sociopathic about killing and preparing an animal's flesh for a meal....Eating one is no more evil or wrong than eating the other.
Hannibal Lecter was saying the same thing over dinner at his house. Not quite sure what he meant by it...
What you are missing here is that these files this guy is sharing are essentially just descriptions of shapes and therefore typically would be considered speech. The files then let you make nuclear weapons (though really poor quality ones). He is sharing information though, not nuclear weapons, which is why this has been transmuted from a second amendment issue to a first amendment one.
Arms=small arms and nuclear arms. Free speech famously has limits (falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater) so where do we draw the line here?
I think I'd be a bit traumatized too and probably not like anything with guns in it -- including games.
While I disagree with this specific method, I'm glad Feinstein is trying to address the problem of gun violence with a solution other than "more guns, yehaw!". The GOP seems to think there is no problem that cannot be solved through a combination of tax cuts, guns, and Jesus.
(Disclaimer: I like the guy, I just have a sense of black humor. And he's had numerous long-winded arguments why video games aren't art -- I don't concur.)
Sorry, dork, your tinfoil hat tea party sites may swallow your bullshit, but there are a few here at slashdot who are a little better educated.
You may want to consider adding "culture" to your education. There's a wonderful little film making fun of these tin-foil hats called "Dr. Strangelove" which is arguably the most famous black comedic film of all-time. Type "communism fluoride" into Google and watch General Ripper give a lecture about it. It's supposed to be funny, but you haven't seen the film, so you don't get the joke.
I'm guessing by "music" you mean stuff with lyrics -- hence your comment about human voices. I have ADHD too and here's my advice.
My personal favorite for getting work done is Rodrigo y Gabriela's first album, but if you're not into that sort of thing, there's also classical, post-punk (Godspeed/Turtles), ambient (Brian Eno), orchestral video game music (Nobuo Uematsu) etc etc. If music fails, white noise may work but has the issue of your brain wanting to pay more attention to the noise you're trying to block out since what you're listening to is boring. A friend of mine also with ADHD loved to listen to fast-paced Celtic music when reading during college.
Is it any surprise that Hollywood gets UI wrong in favor of "looking good" when we have: * Bad physics (don't even get me started on the sound explosions make in space) * Bad understanding of current technology (every hacking movie ever -- with the very notable exception of The Social Network) * Bad history (based on a true story!) Etc etc.
Hollywood fundamentally wants to make something that "looks pretty" and to hell with practical applications -- because that pretty picture is ultimately what is being delivered to you. In other news, I'm guessing the food in movies doesn't taste as good as it looks either -- but I sympathize with that are set with the general public and those whose job it is to fulfill them.
So I work at a Fairly Large Company (TM) and we recently downgraded from SVN to TFS. For years, I used the Git-SVN bridge which worked quite well.
The TFS/Git project, I'm sorry to say, so far DOA for an enterprise user like me. Git-SVN would take a many hours to migrate a large repository...but it worked. MS's Git integration has fallen far short. While checking out shallow copies works, deep copies crash on checkout (it runs out of memory, which really shouldn't happen). Even trying to get the latest version (i.e. git rebase in TFS parlance), it manages to flood my 16 GB system and die down in authentication....but I really think this is a good direction. I hat^H^H^H love TFS but being able to use Git is really useful. The lack of locks on all the files are particularly useful when doing large-scale edits with scripts/a good IDE and local branching is killer so I'd really like Git to succeed here.
I'd be curious as to what experience others have had with it in The Real World, rather than the chair-throwing annuls of MS HQ.
Or you could use the PIMPL design approach if you really want to "hide" things as seen here.
Basically, create a pointer to another object and then put the actual private data there. And then, you have the added advantage that you don't have to compile every that includes the.h file every time you add something to the data structure.
It's a bit of indirection, sure, but that's why C++ is so great: some of the stupidest things to do are easy (say calling a destructor explicitly), and the proper things to do are hard (oh, like trying to convert a number to a string. Frameworks make this easier, but this hasn't stopped every single large project I've ever seen from creating their own string class sometime in the distant past, which we keep using.)
They sure left Ahmed Jabari (Hamas military chief) alone. If Israel's "defense" minister was killed, would Israel react any differently?
Isn't killing innocent people just wrong? How can you justify killing scores of innocent people to save a few lives on your own side? How is dropping a bomb and killing an innocent family any different than firing a rocket and doing the same?
There's a passage in the Torah that specifies the limit of reciprocity: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If they are willing to kill ten women and children "accidentally" for every one the Palestinians murder, I cannot see how any Palestinian can take their claims of peace seriously. If the rockets were fired from within their own borders and the terrorism were domestic, I'm sure Israel would find a way to be a bit more careful about stopping them.
As Cohen wrote in his brilliant piece for the NYTimes today, this is sadly a political affair where the objective is not to win peace, but an election.
Why do modern atheists feel the need to talk about God all the time? I don't remember Sagan, Darwin, or for that matter, Einstein feeling the need to dwell on the subject at any length.
There's also an TX/RX Hackerspace in Houston. They've got a bunch of fab equipment, an electron microscope, and a bunch of electrical engineering gear.
Both these places have open houses (go in and say "Howdy;)"), and grats to the folks from there bringing their freaky deaky time machine home.
(Pedantic: You can either say ATX Hackerspace, Hackerspace in Austin TX, or ATX (Austin TX) Hackerspace)
Given some of the information in the article, as well as happening to know people who work there, this sounds like the Houston Galleria Apple store. I have a friend who worked there and would tell me about some of the shady dealings that went on while she worked there. Anyone else want to hazard a guess about which "southwestern state's" "city" that this store was in which "allows for sexual orientation discrimination" in the workplace?
Is killing flash the best thing Steve Jobs ever did?
I would say killing DRMed music was. If Jobs were still alive, DRMed film would be next and we'd have something with a larger movie library than Netflix's pittance to choose from.
From the man's "Thoughts on Music" in February 2007: The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.
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Actually the so-called "wild west" was not open carry.
Upon entering town, you surrendered your weapons to the sherriff who would hold the weapon until you left town. If you didn't surrender your weapon, the sherriff would -- and did -- take it from your cold dead hands. The most famous incident was the Shootout at the OK Corral.
Back then, it was considered "common sense" to not carry a gun around in civilization.
I don't know if you've been to Mountainview lately, but prices are just as high as in SF itself when I was looking for a place in the bay area a month ago.
With rents upwards of $2K a month minimum for a modest 2 bedroom, there's ample reason for developers to build more housing...so long as the process isn't a PITA.
I've played a bit of both, so here's the differences.
* There's no real way to respond on another player's turn, which lessens the strategy, but also means you're not waiting on your effects to resolve forever. Games generally take much less time (~15 minutes at most)
* Not quite as chancy. You just can't win on turn 3. The infinite and quasi-infinite combos of MTG are, as of yet, nonexistant. And there are some *good* combos, but you can't base your deck on channel/fireball as you could during MTG alphas;)
* Harder to keep permanents. All permanents are characters or attached to characters which can be damaged directly via attacking them with your creatures. As a result, utility creatures are much harder to keep alive.
Blizzard's done a great job of making a CCG that actually plays well online by designing it to be that way from the ground up. Unless MTG does a redesign, or at least designs cards specifically to be played online, it will always be a cludgy using a Windows Tablet circa 1999 (or a Windows 8 machine circa now).
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ paraphrased from the great Edsger W. Dijkstra
Nokia has been assimilated by Microsoft. ...why did /. change its icon for MS again? The old one is so appropriate! Who wants to photoshop Elop into it?
http://kaioa.com/b/1102/svgjng/images/microsoft_64.png
Clearly, the current 3-year cycle makes no sense.
At the same time, people LIKE tournaments. If you want to be the true world champion, why not have regionals, as the author suggests -- but limit them to residents and let them be "open" (single elimination in round 1). We have brackets in other sports. This would allow people to compete regardless of wealth.
Each "continental champion" (think "North American Champion" or even "East Asian Champion") could face off in a tournament with the other regionals. This would let each population cheer for its hometown star from New York to New Dehli. Sure, maybe the two "best" don't face off in the "World Championship" but it also allows underdogs to win more easily and makes it more competitive.
Or we could just crown Deep Blue every year.
Flying into Reno just doesn't seem like an option since I can't bring the 3 5-gallon containers I feel I need for the duration of the event
Gerlach may be dead, but Reno has plenty of stores. There's an unwritten rules that if you're flying in, your group stops at the grocery store -- which is filled with other awesome Burners. They're generally pretty easy to identify, but not as easy to identify as the playa-dust encrusted passengers on the flight back. As far as other supplies, many Burners pool their resources and rent a shipping container, at least in NYC and ATX.
Driving is a waste, unless you live close, as some of us have jobs and would rather spend Monday and Tuesday on the playa rather than commuting. YMMV.
And happy burn!;)
There's an unlimited supply, they don't require oxygen or food, and they love going to the mun!
(For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/, yes, it's on Linux;))
You are deluded, there is nothing sociopathic about killing and preparing an animal's flesh for a meal....Eating one is no more evil or wrong than eating the other.
Hannibal Lecter was saying the same thing over dinner at his house. Not quite sure what he meant by it...
s/nuclear bomb/arms/
What you are missing here is that these files this guy is sharing are essentially just descriptions of shapes and therefore typically would be considered speech. The files then let you make nuclear weapons (though really poor quality ones). He is sharing information though, not nuclear weapons, which is why this has been transmuted from a second amendment issue to a first amendment one.
Arms=small arms and nuclear arms. Free speech famously has limits (falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater) so where do we draw the line here?
How many people here have discovered dead civil rights activists riddled with bullets? Hands? Yes Dianne?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassinations
I think I'd be a bit traumatized too and probably not like anything with guns in it -- including games.
While I disagree with this specific method, I'm glad Feinstein is trying to address the problem of gun violence with a solution other than "more guns, yehaw!". The GOP seems to think there is no problem that cannot be solved through a combination of tax cuts, guns, and Jesus.
If we make a video game about him, is it art?
(Disclaimer: I like the guy, I just have a sense of black humor. And he's had numerous long-winded arguments why video games aren't art -- I don't concur.)
Sorry, dork, your tinfoil hat tea party sites may swallow your bullshit, but there are a few here at slashdot who are a little better educated.
You may want to consider adding "culture" to your education. There's a wonderful little film making fun of these tin-foil hats called "Dr. Strangelove" which is arguably the most famous black comedic film of all-time. Type "communism fluoride" into Google and watch General Ripper give a lecture about it. It's supposed to be funny, but you haven't seen the film, so you don't get the joke.
I'm guessing by "music" you mean stuff with lyrics -- hence your comment about human voices. I have ADHD too and here's my advice.
My personal favorite for getting work done is Rodrigo y Gabriela's first album, but if you're not into that sort of thing, there's also classical, post-punk (Godspeed/Turtles), ambient (Brian Eno), orchestral video game music (Nobuo Uematsu) etc etc. If music fails, white noise may work but has the issue of your brain wanting to pay more attention to the noise you're trying to block out since what you're listening to is boring. A friend of mine also with ADHD loved to listen to fast-paced Celtic music when reading during college.
There's also noise-cancelling headphones.
Is it any surprise that Hollywood gets UI wrong in favor of "looking good" when we have:
* Bad physics (don't even get me started on the sound explosions make in space)
* Bad understanding of current technology (every hacking movie ever -- with the very notable exception of The Social Network)
* Bad history (based on a true story!)
Etc etc.
Hollywood fundamentally wants to make something that "looks pretty" and to hell with practical applications -- because that pretty picture is ultimately what is being delivered to you. In other news, I'm guessing the food in movies doesn't taste as good as it looks either -- but I sympathize with that are set with the general public and those whose job it is to fulfill them.
Netcraft confirms it.
So I work at a Fairly Large Company (TM) and we recently downgraded from SVN to TFS. For years, I used the Git-SVN bridge which worked quite well.
The TFS/Git project, I'm sorry to say, so far DOA for an enterprise user like me. Git-SVN would take a many hours to migrate a large repository...but it worked. MS's Git integration has fallen far short. While checking out shallow copies works, deep copies crash on checkout (it runs out of memory, which really shouldn't happen). Even trying to get the latest version (i.e. git rebase in TFS parlance), it manages to flood my 16 GB system and die down in authentication. ...but I really think this is a good direction. I hat^H^H^H love TFS but being able to use Git is really useful. The lack of locks on all the files are particularly useful when doing large-scale edits with scripts/a good IDE and local branching is killer so I'd really like Git to succeed here.
I'd be curious as to what experience others have had with it in The Real World, rather than the chair-throwing annuls of MS HQ.
Or you could use the PIMPL design approach if you really want to "hide" things as seen here.
Basically, create a pointer to another object and then put the actual private data there. And then, you have the added advantage that you don't have to compile every that includes the .h file every time you add something to the data structure.
It's a bit of indirection, sure, but that's why C++ is so great: some of the stupidest things to do are easy (say calling a destructor explicitly), and the proper things to do are hard (oh, like trying to convert a number to a string. Frameworks make this easier, but this hasn't stopped every single large project I've ever seen from creating their own string class sometime in the distant past, which we keep using.)
So what's the difference between a naked guy at a tragic funeral and a WBC member?
Only one of them gets hauled away for public indecency. We should be able to find a middle ground here.
They sure left Ahmed Jabari (Hamas military chief) alone. If Israel's "defense" minister was killed, would Israel react any differently?
Isn't killing innocent people just wrong? How can you justify killing scores of innocent people to save a few lives on your own side? How is dropping a bomb and killing an innocent family any different than firing a rocket and doing the same?
There's a passage in the Torah that specifies the limit of reciprocity: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If they are willing to kill ten women and children "accidentally" for every one the Palestinians murder, I cannot see how any Palestinian can take their claims of peace seriously. If the rockets were fired from within their own borders and the terrorism were domestic, I'm sure Israel would find a way to be a bit more careful about stopping them.
As Cohen wrote in his brilliant piece for the NYTimes today, this is sadly a political affair where the objective is not to win peace, but an election.
Why do modern atheists feel the need to talk about God all the time? I don't remember Sagan, Darwin, or for that matter, Einstein feeling the need to dwell on the subject at any length.
There's also an TX/RX Hackerspace in Houston. They've got a bunch of fab equipment, an electron microscope, and a bunch of electrical engineering gear.
Both these places have open houses (go in and say "Howdy;)"), and grats to the folks from there bringing their freaky deaky time machine home.
(Pedantic: You can either say ATX Hackerspace, Hackerspace in Austin TX, or ATX (Austin TX) Hackerspace)
Given some of the information in the article, as well as happening to know people who work there, this sounds like the Houston Galleria Apple store. I have a friend who worked there and would tell me about some of the shady dealings that went on while she worked there. Anyone else want to hazard a guess about which "southwestern state's" "city" that this store was in which "allows for sexual orientation discrimination" in the workplace?
You do realize that Religion is by definition 'Top Down' right?
You should go visit a Quaker/"friends" meeting sometime and ask what went wrong with Nixon.
Is killing flash the best thing Steve Jobs ever did?
I would say killing DRMed music was. If Jobs were still alive, DRMed film would be next and we'd have something with a larger movie library than Netflix's pittance to choose from.
From the man's "Thoughts on Music" in February 2007:
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.
I'll bring the beer though;)