Aye, we've taken a strong slide to the right lately. Historically the PvdA was very vocally against the whole identification thing, but since the last couple of VVD-CDA coalitions things have taken a turn for the worse. Now we've got the total morons following mr Wilders, so things are really looking up...
Not sure where it's coming from tbh. I mean, things over here are pretty much as good as they have ever been, and the only people I really see complaining about all the things that are supposedly wrong with society are the people that cause most of them themselves but prefer to blame others. Oh well, must be the Telegraaf reading, SBS6 watching demographic we love so much.
Some people love the rigid structure of a Python, the massive infrastructure available to Java, the exposure of the bare metal of C, the total control of Assembly, the flexibility and rapid development of Perl, or whatever suits you
Or, for fun, write a small project in different languages just to see how it turns out.
Heck, it's not uncommon for me to write a proof of concept for something in perl and then do a complete rewrite in bare metal C to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it. Seeing the same code side by side on dual monitors is fun:-)
The "spyware" is something you can opt for (not sure if it's opt-in or op-tout) during the installation. It's not like they're not being upfront about what it is and what it does.
Been using daemon tools for ages, never seen anything unexpected from the app or the stuff it installs.
Matter of fact, considering how long I've been using it I should probably pay for it anyway:/
Maybe it's time to compile a list of answers to the standard Slashdot idiocies we see passing through every day.
1. CO2 generated by a process that involves no stuff dug up from the ground but only stuff that grows by (in)direct means of the sun does not increase the total amount of CO2 in circulation.
2. People involved in a CIVIL trial in an american court, such as a dispute over copyright, are never found guilty or not guilty. These terms only apply to criminal proceedings and using them in an article posted by NYCL or anything else related to the **AA and their friends makes you look like a retard.
On second thought....wouldn't this just be a how to for the current generation of trolls?:P
When you find a way to do a job cheaper or faster, or that brings in more revenue, do you tell your employer it's OK to lower your salary a corresponding amount?
No, I tell him I that I can now do the same job in 8 instead of 16 hours so he can give me 8 hours more work each week..
1, Preach on media the harm of "Internet Addiction" on children. 2, Tell irresponsible parents that it's not their fault (which actually is). 3, Open an "Internet Addition" rehab. 4, Charge rediculous fees. 5, Abuse his patients untill they promise (or pretend to promise) they will never play World of Warcraft (or whatever their parents deem as harmful) again. 6, Parents get pleased and more parents send their kids to his rehab. 7, PROFIT!
8. Kids go back to playing WoW 9. Parents confront kids, threaten to send them back to camp 10. Kids use newly acquired martial arts skills to kick parents' asses till they shut up. 11. Bankruptcy!
If that's the kind of mech game you want, there are other ones out there that cater to you (ZoE). Please don't try to change MechWarrior into something it's not.
The IGN article mentions pilots becoming more adept at piloting specific (types of?) mechs as they spend more time in them, so I guess the GP could just opt for becoming a master of the light scout mech. iirc those moved, turned and jumped around at pretty high speeds.
There's an argument to be made that if you know you have a given genetic trait that would be detrimental to your offspring, and you choose to have offspring, and those offspring inherit your trait, that you could be held liable for doing so. I don't know if we as a society want to go down that road, as it means that children would have to sue their parents for giving them life (and a court is unlikely to find the child has standing to do so, since the alternative means the child never would've existed in the first place), but it is an interesting intellectual exercise, regardless.
Actually, I'd like to argue that the moment we see a child suing his or her parents for knowingly passing on a genetic disease, that we should remove both the parents and the child from the gene pool, just to be sure.
If someone released a good turn-based strategy like x-com today, and it would have graphics compared to the original, sure, why not?
I even reinstall X-Com Apocalypse from time to time to get my dose of turn-based lovin' and that game looks absolutely horrendous compared to the the first 2;-)
If you don't mind I'll still keep a "book of the road" around and retain my skills reading it when I serve as navigator on a road trip.
GPS is nice, but technology can break down, and when there's road construction going on that you don't know about you're pretty much screwed. Some "skills" are worth hanging on to. Would you go into a big forest for a week-long hike without a compass and a map, blindly trusting your gps unit?
Playing a game well is definitely a skill. But you also need to define "well". Just about anyone can pick up an MMO and play reasonably well, with limited skills and knowledge. Those that go the extra mile, who learn to use every aspect of the game to their advantage, who strive to always have the best stats and gear; these are the "skilled" players.
For a lot of MMO's, I'd agree.
In EVE Online however, there's a massive gap between the average player and the top pilots in terms of knowledge and ability, independant of actual ingame skill level. For every 100 industrialists barely scraping by there's 1 or 2 making massive profits, simply by having better knowledge and connections. For every 100 self proclaimed PvP pilots there's 1 or 2 who are so far above the rest in terms of knowledge, ability to assess risks and evaluate situations that they can go out and take on as many as 5 players at the same time and still come out victorious. And for every 100 spammers trying to scam people there's 1 guy that infiltrates a player run corporation and manages to make off with enough assets to fund a medium sized war by himself;-)
Playing "well" definitely requires a set of brains and the willingness to read up on things and check out how other people do them. The majority, in my opinion at least, plays rather poorly.
So you're saying that until they have both been broken into and their car radio's removed, there's no way to prove that it's easier to lock up a tank than it is to lock up a convertible with a cotton roof?
Judging from the comments so far, if he played Eve he'd be canbaiting outside Jita 4-4 with 3 logistic ships and 2 neutral bumpers on backup, or ganking people 5v1 with ECM support. Allowed within the rules? Yes. Extremely lame and a way for people who suck to pretend they're real tough ass PvP pilots? Hell yeah.
News to me. Afaik a first time isk buyer will have the bought isk deleted and will receive a stern warning or a temporary ban. Their wallets go in the red because they bought that isk for a reason, which is to spend it, so by the time it gets deleted they'll have less isk left than what they originally bought.
And the best part is...they tend to buy shiny expensive ships that they don't know how to fly, until some jackass (read: yours truly) comes along in a cheaper, smaller ship and blows the crap out of them;-)
A quick look on the dutch version of Wikipedia tells me that it was in fact translated and published under the title "Zenumagiër" in 1989.
But yeah, there's no way I'd go for anything but the original flavor;-)
And as much as your willingness and ability to absorb foreign languages is impressive and commendable...don't bother with Dutch...it's horrible, inconsistent, sounds awful and like you mentioned we all speak english to some degree anyway.
-Yes. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". Someone should have asked the judge if was familiar with that saying. Someone should rub his face in his own ignorance. MySpace *DOES* give sufficient notice, and you have to make the conscious effort to click a small box stating affirming that you agree. Wheather or not someone actually reads the whole thing is the responsibility of the user, NOT the provider.
Ehmm, if you don't mind I'm not going to treat stuff like the myspace TOS or the Windows EULA on the same level as written law...
They're both a bit wrong. Info on the net isn't free. I pay for an internet connection.
If a shop is giving away free stuff downtown, does the fact that you need some form of transport to get there stop it from being free?
Your connection is just a form of transport, only the bytes are coming to you instead of you having to drive to the store at the corner to get a newspaper.
Well, at least in your experience they were polite while they were invading your privacy, wasting your time and money, and messing up the contents of your bags. A friendly hello and thank-you while being subjected to pointless security theater makes it all better. I'll bet your glad they didn't decide to exercise the knowledge they learned over their 1 week training course to become a TSA agent to harass you for having the wrong book in your luggage, or a pair of fingernail clippers. I'm glad they stress courtesy while they train them to abuse and violate your rights in ways the much better trained cops would get suspended for. It's kind of like the post office or DMV, most of them are competent and pleasant, but there is the occasional one who is rude, incompetent, and bent on exercising his power to hinder you as much as possible. Except instead of having the option to say fuck it and walk out of their little fiefdom, they have the power to detain you and strip search you.
Ah, you must have an easy time going through life with that kind of attitude. Just because you don't like the system doesn't mean you have to take it out on the people that happen to work in said system to put food on the table. And if you act like an ass...you're gonna get treated like one.
Slashdot Mirror
4) Florida State government
For writing a law that requires a bank to sue itself.
For some reason the most important part keeps falling off these lists...
0) The good people of Florida, for electing the kind of people that form said government.
That'll be all folks, keep blaming the boogeyman!
Aye, we've taken a strong slide to the right lately. Historically the PvdA was very vocally against the whole identification thing, but since the last couple of VVD-CDA coalitions things have taken a turn for the worse. Now we've got the total morons following mr Wilders, so things are really looking up...
Not sure where it's coming from tbh. I mean, things over here are pretty much as good as they have ever been, and the only people I really see complaining about all the things that are supposedly wrong with society are the people that cause most of them themselves but prefer to blame others. Oh well, must be the Telegraaf reading, SBS6 watching demographic we love so much.
Some people love the rigid structure of a Python, the massive infrastructure available to Java, the exposure of the bare metal of C, the total control of Assembly, the flexibility and rapid development of Perl, or whatever suits you
Or, for fun, write a small project in different languages just to see how it turns out.
Heck, it's not uncommon for me to write a proof of concept for something in perl and then do a complete rewrite in bare metal C to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it. Seeing the same code side by side on dual monitors is fun :-)
(God, I'm such a fracking nerd)
The "spyware" is something you can opt for (not sure if it's opt-in or op-tout) during the installation. It's not like they're not being upfront about what it is and what it does.
Been using daemon tools for ages, never seen anything unexpected from the app or the stuff it installs.
Matter of fact, considering how long I've been using it I should probably pay for it anyway :/
Maybe it's time to compile a list of answers to the standard Slashdot idiocies we see passing through every day.
1. CO2 generated by a process that involves no stuff dug up from the ground but only stuff that grows by (in)direct means of the sun does not increase the total amount of CO2 in circulation.
2. People involved in a CIVIL trial in an american court, such as a dispute over copyright, are never found guilty or not guilty. These terms only apply to criminal proceedings and using them in an article posted by NYCL or anything else related to the **AA and their friends makes you look like a retard.
On second thought....wouldn't this just be a how to for the current generation of trolls? :P
When you find a way to do a job cheaper or faster, or that brings in more revenue, do you tell your employer it's OK to lower your salary a corresponding amount?
No, I tell him I that I can now do the same job in 8 instead of 16 hours so he can give me 8 hours more work each week..
1, Preach on media the harm of "Internet Addiction" on children.
2, Tell irresponsible parents that it's not their fault (which actually is).
3, Open an "Internet Addition" rehab.
4, Charge rediculous fees.
5, Abuse his patients untill they promise (or pretend to promise) they will never play World of Warcraft (or whatever their parents deem as harmful) again.
6, Parents get pleased and more parents send their kids to his rehab.
7, PROFIT!
8. Kids go back to playing WoW
9. Parents confront kids, threaten to send them back to camp
10. Kids use newly acquired martial arts skills to kick parents' asses till they shut up.
11. Bankruptcy!
If that's the kind of mech game you want, there are other ones out there that cater to you (ZoE). Please don't try to change MechWarrior into something it's not.
The IGN article mentions pilots becoming more adept at piloting specific (types of?) mechs as they spend more time in them, so I guess the GP could just opt for becoming a master of the light scout mech. iirc those moved, turned and jumped around at pretty high speeds.
There's an argument to be made that if you know you have a given genetic trait that would be detrimental to your offspring, and you choose to have offspring, and those offspring inherit your trait, that you could be held liable for doing so. I don't know if we as a society want to go down that road, as it means that children would have to sue their parents for giving them life (and a court is unlikely to find the child has standing to do so, since the alternative means the child never would've existed in the first place), but it is an interesting intellectual exercise, regardless.
Actually, I'd like to argue that the moment we see a child suing his or her parents for knowingly passing on a genetic disease, that we should remove both the parents and the child from the gene pool, just to be sure.
Last thing we need is more lawyers :/
If someone released a good turn-based strategy like x-com today, and it would have graphics compared to the original, sure, why not?
I even reinstall X-Com Apocalypse from time to time to get my dose of turn-based lovin' and that game looks absolutely horrendous compared to the the first 2 ;-)
Dune II? You barbarian!
I replay the original Dune about once every 2 years, just for the heck of it.
"I am Duke Leto Atreides, your father". Gee, thanks dad for finally coming clean, I never would have guessed!
If you don't mind I'll still keep a "book of the road" around and retain my skills reading it when I serve as navigator on a road trip.
GPS is nice, but technology can break down, and when there's road construction going on that you don't know about you're pretty much screwed. Some "skills" are worth hanging on to. Would you go into a big forest for a week-long hike without a compass and a map, blindly trusting your gps unit?
Aura: Skill Training Completed
* Starts new skill
38 days left till completion of Amarr Battleship V
Welcome to Eve Online ;-)
Playing a game well is definitely a skill. But you also need to define "well". Just about anyone can pick up an MMO and play reasonably well, with limited skills and knowledge. Those that go the extra mile, who learn to use every aspect of the game to their advantage, who strive to always have the best stats and gear; these are the "skilled" players.
For a lot of MMO's, I'd agree.
In EVE Online however, there's a massive gap between the average player and the top pilots in terms of knowledge and ability, independant of actual ingame skill level. For every 100 industrialists barely scraping by there's 1 or 2 making massive profits, simply by having better knowledge and connections. For every 100 self proclaimed PvP pilots there's 1 or 2 who are so far above the rest in terms of knowledge, ability to assess risks and evaluate situations that they can go out and take on as many as 5 players at the same time and still come out victorious. And for every 100 spammers trying to scam people there's 1 guy that infiltrates a player run corporation and manages to make off with enough assets to fund a medium sized war by himself ;-)
Playing "well" definitely requires a set of brains and the willingness to read up on things and check out how other people do them. The majority, in my opinion at least, plays rather poorly.
Wow...that's quite something.
So you're saying that until they have both been broken into and their car radio's removed, there's no way to prove that it's easier to lock up a tank than it is to lock up a convertible with a cotton roof?
Judging from the comments so far, if he played Eve he'd be canbaiting outside Jita 4-4 with 3 logistic ships and 2 neutral bumpers on backup, or ganking people 5v1 with ECM support. Allowed within the rules? Yes. Extremely lame and a way for people who suck to pretend they're real tough ass PvP pilots? Hell yeah.
News to me. Afaik a first time isk buyer will have the bought isk deleted and will receive a stern warning or a temporary ban. Their wallets go in the red because they bought that isk for a reason, which is to spend it, so by the time it gets deleted they'll have less isk left than what they originally bought.
And the best part is...they tend to buy shiny expensive ships that they don't know how to fly, until some jackass (read: yours truly) comes along in a cheaper, smaller ship and blows the crap out of them ;-)
And all of them are in Germany, I take it? ;-)
A quick look on the dutch version of Wikipedia tells me that it was in fact translated and published under the title "Zenumagiër" in 1989.
But yeah, there's no way I'd go for anything but the original flavor ;-)
And as much as your willingness and ability to absorb foreign languages is impressive and commendable...don't bother with Dutch...it's horrible, inconsistent, sounds awful and like you mentioned we all speak english to some degree anyway.
-Yes. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". Someone should have asked the judge if was familiar with that saying. Someone should rub his face in his own ignorance. MySpace *DOES* give sufficient notice, and you have to make the conscious effort to click a small box stating affirming that you agree. Wheather or not someone actually reads the whole thing is the responsibility of the user, NOT the provider.
Ehmm, if you don't mind I'm not going to treat stuff like the myspace TOS or the Windows EULA on the same level as written law...
"All problems start with treating people as things"
Granny Weatherwax
They're both a bit wrong. Info on the net isn't free. I pay for an internet connection.
If a shop is giving away free stuff downtown, does the fact that you need some form of transport to get there stop it from being free?
Your connection is just a form of transport, only the bytes are coming to you instead of you having to drive to the store at the corner to get a newspaper.
Actually, if we get holodecks I'll be far too busy with...ehmmm, other stuff to spend time playing violence simulators ffs.
Well, at least in your experience they were polite while they were invading your privacy, wasting your time and money, and messing up the contents of your bags. A friendly hello and thank-you while being subjected to pointless security theater makes it all better. I'll bet your glad they didn't decide to exercise the knowledge they learned over their 1 week training course to become a TSA agent to harass you for having the wrong book in your luggage, or a pair of fingernail clippers. I'm glad they stress courtesy while they train them to abuse and violate your rights in ways the much better trained cops would get suspended for. It's kind of like the post office or DMV, most of them are competent and pleasant, but there is the occasional one who is rude, incompetent, and bent on exercising his power to hinder you as much as possible. Except instead of having the option to say fuck it and walk out of their little fiefdom, they have the power to detain you and strip search you.
Ah, you must have an easy time going through life with that kind of attitude. Just because you don't like the system doesn't mean you have to take it out on the people that happen to work in said system to put food on the table. And if you act like an ass...you're gonna get treated like one.
You realize that tanks have a nasty habit of having several machineguns in addition to the main cannon, right?