It should also be noted that "fixing" this problem should not consist of granting higher rights to the User group.
The "Designed for Windows XX" logo signifies (at least in the NT variants) that a program can be run by anyone in the User group. I read somewhere what this entails (not writing to certain portions of the registry comes to mind), but I'm sure someone will followup with that information.
I can understand VS not running under the User group -- there's a need to develop for users who aren't going to be in the User group. That said, they should make an option to change this, orfailing that, never develop with VS on a computer attached to the Internet. Which might be impossible, depending on what you're developing.
This is hilarious as hell. I used to work for a company in Burlington, Ontario. We had nothing to do with The Renegades. Nothing.
One day, we started receiving hundreds upon thousands of bounce messages, replies, and "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST" messages. Turns out one of our (apparently mutual) service providers broke something on their end, and was sending all their mail to us (in fact, specifically to our Customer Sales Manager).
There was over 600MB of mail, and I saved it to a CD somewhere. We tried for weeks to get in contact with the sales and tech people at the Renegades, and they never returned our phone calls. Clearly they don't really care about their customers.
Of course advertisers know this annoys most people. However, the situation is the same as spam -- someone is clicking on those ads and buying the products. The number of people doing this is enough to make it worthwhile for them to continue doing this.
The item system makes SMK different from realistic driving games, because you're not driving for hours only to never catch up to the leader.
It's very satisfying to shoot a shell at a player in front of you to take the lead and the win. You prepared that shell just for them, they should have prepared a defence (I would run entire races in the SNES original with a banana peel or shell hanging out behind me while in 1st). It's not like you can't just look at the other person's screen and realise they're coming to get you.
Also, don't forget that in SMK, each player has different skills. If you're playing a game like Gran Turismo, or one of the NASCAR games, you're generally playing against competetors with very similar cars. In these situations, winning is entirely dependant on skills.
SMK is different because that's just the way they made the game. Either love it, hate it, or just accept it. The point of these help-the-player-who's-behind programming tricks is that it keeps the game competitive. I know I don't appreciate or enjoy a game if I'm walloped every single time (think SF2 and Mortal Kombat's number-o-wins-meter reaching 50 or 100). It also adds the element of "coming back from behind," which is always a great way to kick ass.
This was also implemented in the original SMK for SNES. When playing with two players, the second player could acheive a higher top speed, though it was minor (this was more apparent it seems, in SMK64 for the N64, and would result in very close races).
Helping players that are behind has it's pros and cons. As you mentioned, it's an arcade-style game, and definately not made for realism.
You either didn't understand what I wrote, or you're being an ass, and I seriously hope it's the former.
The natives are observing (seeing) the animals leaving with their eyes. If they don't see them leave, then they are observing (seeing) the fact that the animals are gone.
This in itself is such an odd occurrance, the only logical thing to think is, "Holy crap, something must be up!" This applies anywhere there are normally animals. Cities, farms, the port, jungles, wherever. When animals suddenly vanish, you know something is wrong.
This is not a sense, but is a process in your brain. YOUR EYES SEE THAT THE ANIMALS ARE GONE. Your brain goes, "Why is that? Perhaps something scared them away. What is big enough to scare an entire ecosystem of animals away? I don't know, but I know one thing: I don't be around to find out."
It should be pointed out that a sixth sense has not been found.
From TFA:
While some scientists discount the existence of a sixth sense for danger, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has identified a brain region that clearly acts as an early warning system -- one that monitors environmental cues, weighs possible consequences and helps us adjust our behavior to avoid dangerous situations.
What they have found is not a sense, but a cognitive module within the brain. Senses provide INPUT to these modules. This module isn't gathering input from external sources, but is processing input from our input detectors (touch, sight, sound, taste, smell).
As the article points out, the aboriginals fled when the animals did. This is not surprising -- they long ago learned that animals may "sense" danger, and flee their habitat. They have identified that when this happens, it's probably in their best interest to flee as well.
When the tsunami hit, there were dozens of news reports saying how the animals left the area. The first thing I said in response to that, was, "Why didn't the people leave as well? Especially if this is a warning sign for danger?"
Being able to interpret input and make a logical and reasonable descision is all this article is about. All the scientists have done is find an area that specialises in determining what input indicates a potential hazard to our lives. I won't knock them for this, but it's certainly not a sixth sense.
Our "free" healthcare is really known as "universal" health care, which means no one is denied health care anywhere in the country, not that they don't have to pay for it. If you want a heart transplant, a large chunk of the cost is coming out of your pocket (or your insurance company's pocket).
Healthcare services are paid for by income tax. This has nothing to do with customs or sales tax.
Not to mention we have to pay it when we buy goods over the Internet (from America) which are shipped here.
We have to pay customs (if applicable, and believe you me, Canada Customs will find any reason to claim so), and I have had to pay GST (Goods and Service Tax, also known as HST, or Harmonized Sales Tax in some provinces, our VAT) on top of the customs bill. Or rather, GST on the item, and then GST for the fantastic service provided to me by Canada Customs of requiring me to pay customs.
Wash, rinse, and repeat if the provincial government wants a take as well, in which case you'll be paying PST. The amount of PST does differ between provinces, but this means nothing to you if you live in the province with the highest rate (well, other than getting the hell out, of course).
Thunderbird certainly has a lot of oddities. I still can't figure out the SMTP settings, as they're not per account, but in a seperate section (how to mach account to server? Bah).
Thunderbird is probably on par to Outlook Express, I wouldn't claim it was anything close to Outlook.
I didn't read the RTFA, but what about Novell's Groupwise as a replacement for Exchange/Outlook? I've found it in general to be better, though you do need to use Netware (unless it runs on Linux too -- I don't know, I've only ever used it in NW).
Uhhhm, yes, the _crackers_ that crack viruses deserve no respect. Uhhhm, yes, the crackers that expose mal/spyware deserve no respect. Yes, the crackers that crack commercial drivers to find out how hardware should be programmed deserve no respect. Etc, to infinity.
Crack viruses? Crackers exposing spyware? Cracking commercial hardware? What are you going on about?
hacker (n): 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
cracker (n): One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8 [above]).... Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life. An easy way for outsiders to spot the difference is that crackers use grandiose screen names that conceal their identities. Hackers never do this; they only rarely use noms de guerre at all, and when they do it is for display rather than concealment.
Globals are simply a first order abstraction when it comes to storing a program's state.
They get unwieldly fairly fast - as soon as you start hitting any complexity.
Yes. That, and the fact that the trouble with Globals, is that anything can use it, and modules (be it procedures, functions, methods, objects, and whatever the else the word of the day is) access variables that aren't declared, making your code an annoyance to use elsewhere -- instead of copying a single module, you now have to copy the module, plus all the global declarations, and if you're not the original author (and sometimes even if you are), you may forget to copy the global variables.
The proper way, that I have always found to work, is to make sure your function (method, etc) is passed the variables it requires to operate with. This is certainly easier said than done, but in the long run, it's a much better way than having global variables hanging about. Also, it shows others that you clearly have a grasp on what is needed and unneeded information. I can't begin to explain how many times I've found a global variable defined, with one one use of it in the entire program (or two uses, one in a method, and another in a method called by the first).
You can pass by reference, or pass by value depending if you need to change the variable.
I just realised that variable can also imply object, or any other sort of passable data.
Then why is it on no less than 6 times a day? I even think on Wednesday nights, TBS has no less than 2 solid hours of Seinfeld.
And let's not forget The Simpsons. I can nearly guarantee I can find an episode on at least every hour. And if you've got a satellite, forget it -- there's literally an episode on every second.
Your numbers are off. And the numbers alone don't tell the whole story. You'd be better off doing a bit more digging before resting with that conclusion. Though, to be honest, I can see the argument being made.
Indeed, that is the very argument Microsoft gives. It seems Microsoft is including new versions of software in their list of bug patches. Granted, part of the new version may in fact be, but there are usually other fun things included.
Keep in mind that Yahoo!'s search is fundamentally different than Google's. Google spiders the web (much like WebCrawler and MetaCrawler did, and still do). Yahoo!'s search has been based on user-submissions and moderators checking each site and adding it into the directories.
This is probably why, as you noted, Yahoo!'s results are more relevant.
It MAY be only be a passing nod to the fact that the Mozilla group is the one that created the original HTML standard, and were the winners of the HTML 4.0 standard from the World Wide Web commission
I find this difficult to believe, considering the Mozilla Foundation didn't exist when the HTML 4.0 standard was passed.
but I've always found the mention of Mozilla in IE code to be rather suspicious.
Perhaps you are confusing Mozilla for NCSA's Mosaic, which IE certainly used code from (Help -> About)
My not reading of the article has little to do with my original post in response to someone claiming they could only play HL2 if they were connected to the Internet.
Once again, this is what Offline Mode is for, and I personally have not had any issue with this at all. It has always worked (I will admit finding the damn option took a very long time, but once registered, and set, it has never failed).
As for messing with the install base, that's a whole other point, which has nothing to do with the fact that the game can still be played offline.
I shouldn't have to point this out, but you only are required to have an Internet connection to log onto Steam when you first install the game. Once properly verified you're not pirating it, you can run the game in Offline Mode.
That said, for some reason I feel that since I had to point out that, I should further point out that if you care to play ONLINE, against people, then yes, you do need to remain connected.
Wal-Mart's employee discount is but a mere 10%. How did you manage to knock another $180 off the price? Was it a display model? Did you switch the UPC with something else?
Idiot cell phone-using drivers, that bitch Mary Thompson and her boyfriend-stealing-skank-ass, the amazingly boring time waiting in line at the bank, finding out that today is actually Thursday, and not Friday, the latest quiz about which coloured monkey hat-flavoured tree stand we are, and of course, about how it's been so long since last posting (24 minutes).
I'm not sure this is an accurate depiction of hell desk workers. Most of the late 20s/early 30s desk jockies I have worked with are in it because they are perfectly alright with knowing how to do something, and then explaining it to people who don't (time and time again).
Obviously they complain a lot, but this is because they love complaining. They secretly wish every day for someone to call up wondering why their computer didn't restart when they turned off the monitor, or for someone to call in because they forgot they had to click the print icon to print.
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Recognising flaws is the first step in fixing them.
It's not uncommon for particular domain names to fetch tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It should also be noted that "fixing" this problem should not consist of granting higher rights to the User group.
The "Designed for Windows XX" logo signifies (at least in the NT variants) that a program can be run by anyone in the User group. I read somewhere what this entails (not writing to certain portions of the registry comes to mind), but I'm sure someone will followup with that information.
I can understand VS not running under the User group -- there's a need to develop for users who aren't going to be in the User group. That said, they should make an option to change this, orfailing that, never develop with VS on a computer attached to the Internet. Which might be impossible, depending on what you're developing.
Eh. Don't use VS I guess.
This is hilarious as hell. I used to work for a company in Burlington, Ontario. We had nothing to do with The Renegades. Nothing.
One day, we started receiving hundreds upon thousands of bounce messages, replies, and "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST" messages. Turns out one of our (apparently mutual) service providers broke something on their end, and was sending all their mail to us (in fact, specifically to our Customer Sales Manager).
There was over 600MB of mail, and I saved it to a CD somewhere. We tried for weeks to get in contact with the sales and tech people at the Renegades, and they never returned our phone calls. Clearly they don't really care about their customers.
Of course advertisers know this annoys most people. However, the situation is the same as spam -- someone is clicking on those ads and buying the products. The number of people doing this is enough to make it worthwhile for them to continue doing this.
The item system makes SMK different from realistic driving games, because you're not driving for hours only to never catch up to the leader.
It's very satisfying to shoot a shell at a player in front of you to take the lead and the win. You prepared that shell just for them, they should have prepared a defence (I would run entire races in the SNES original with a banana peel or shell hanging out behind me while in 1st). It's not like you can't just look at the other person's screen and realise they're coming to get you.
It adds another element into the mix.
Also, don't forget that in SMK, each player has different skills. If you're playing a game like Gran Turismo, or one of the NASCAR games, you're generally playing against competetors with very similar cars. In these situations, winning is entirely dependant on skills.
SMK is different because that's just the way they made the game. Either love it, hate it, or just accept it. The point of these help-the-player-who's-behind programming tricks is that it keeps the game competitive. I know I don't appreciate or enjoy a game if I'm walloped every single time (think SF2 and Mortal Kombat's number-o-wins-meter reaching 50 or 100). It also adds the element of "coming back from behind," which is always a great way to kick ass.
This was also implemented in the original SMK for SNES. When playing with two players, the second player could acheive a higher top speed, though it was minor (this was more apparent it seems, in SMK64 for the N64, and would result in very close races).
Helping players that are behind has it's pros and cons. As you mentioned, it's an arcade-style game, and definately not made for realism.
You either didn't understand what I wrote, or you're being an ass, and I seriously hope it's the former.
The natives are observing (seeing) the animals leaving with their eyes. If they don't see them leave, then they are observing (seeing) the fact that the animals are gone.
This in itself is such an odd occurrance, the only logical thing to think is, "Holy crap, something must be up!" This applies anywhere there are normally animals. Cities, farms, the port, jungles, wherever. When animals suddenly vanish, you know something is wrong.
This is not a sense, but is a process in your brain. YOUR EYES SEE THAT THE ANIMALS ARE GONE. Your brain goes, "Why is that? Perhaps something scared them away. What is big enough to scare an entire ecosystem of animals away? I don't know, but I know one thing: I don't be around to find out."
The natives pack up, and leave.
From TFA: What they have found is not a sense, but a cognitive module within the brain. Senses provide INPUT to these modules. This module isn't gathering input from external sources, but is processing input from our input detectors (touch, sight, sound, taste, smell).
As the article points out, the aboriginals fled when the animals did. This is not surprising -- they long ago learned that animals may "sense" danger, and flee their habitat. They have identified that when this happens, it's probably in their best interest to flee as well.
When the tsunami hit, there were dozens of news reports saying how the animals left the area. The first thing I said in response to that, was, "Why didn't the people leave as well? Especially if this is a warning sign for danger?"
Being able to interpret input and make a logical and reasonable descision is all this article is about. All the scientists have done is find an area that specialises in determining what input indicates a potential hazard to our lives. I won't knock them for this, but it's certainly not a sixth sense.
Our "free" healthcare is really known as "universal" health care, which means no one is denied health care anywhere in the country, not that they don't have to pay for it. If you want a heart transplant, a large chunk of the cost is coming out of your pocket (or your insurance company's pocket).
Healthcare services are paid for by income tax. This has nothing to do with customs or sales tax.
Not to mention we have to pay it when we buy goods over the Internet (from America) which are shipped here.
We have to pay customs (if applicable, and believe you me, Canada Customs will find any reason to claim so), and I have had to pay GST (Goods and Service Tax, also known as HST, or Harmonized Sales Tax in some provinces, our VAT) on top of the customs bill. Or rather, GST on the item, and then GST for the fantastic service provided to me by Canada Customs of requiring me to pay customs.
Wash, rinse, and repeat if the provincial government wants a take as well, in which case you'll be paying PST. The amount of PST does differ between provinces, but this means nothing to you if you live in the province with the highest rate (well, other than getting the hell out, of course).
Thunderbird certainly has a lot of oddities. I still can't figure out the SMTP settings, as they're not per account, but in a seperate section (how to mach account to server? Bah).
Thunderbird is probably on par to Outlook Express, I wouldn't claim it was anything close to Outlook.
I didn't read the RTFA, but what about Novell's Groupwise as a replacement for Exchange/Outlook? I've found it in general to be better, though you do need to use Netware (unless it runs on Linux too -- I don't know, I've only ever used it in NW).
From the Jargon File:
hacker (n): 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
cracker (n): One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8 [above]).
Globals are simply a first order abstraction when it comes to storing a program's state.
They get unwieldly fairly fast - as soon as you start hitting any complexity.
Yes. That, and the fact that the trouble with Globals, is that anything can use it, and modules (be it procedures, functions, methods, objects, and whatever the else the word of the day is) access variables that aren't declared, making your code an annoyance to use elsewhere -- instead of copying a single module, you now have to copy the module, plus all the global declarations, and if you're not the original author (and sometimes even if you are), you may forget to copy the global variables.
The proper way, that I have always found to work, is to make sure your function (method, etc) is passed the variables it requires to operate with. This is certainly easier said than done, but in the long run, it's a much better way than having global variables hanging about. Also, it shows others that you clearly have a grasp on what is needed and unneeded information. I can't begin to explain how many times I've found a global variable defined, with one one use of it in the entire program (or two uses, one in a method, and another in a method called by the first).
You can pass by reference, or pass by value depending if you need to change the variable.
I just realised that variable can also imply object, or any other sort of passable data.
Then why is it on no less than 6 times a day? I even think on Wednesday nights, TBS has no less than 2 solid hours of Seinfeld.
And let's not forget The Simpsons. I can nearly guarantee I can find an episode on at least every hour. And if you've got a satellite, forget it -- there's literally an episode on every second.
Your numbers are off. And the numbers alone don't tell the whole story. You'd be better off doing a bit more digging before resting with that conclusion. Though, to be honest, I can see the argument being made.
Indeed, that is the very argument Microsoft gives. It seems Microsoft is including new versions of software in their list of bug patches. Granted, part of the new version may in fact be, but there are usually other fun things included.
Keep in mind that Yahoo!'s search is fundamentally different than Google's. Google spiders the web (much like WebCrawler and MetaCrawler did, and still do). Yahoo!'s search has been based on user-submissions and moderators checking each site and adding it into the directories.
This is probably why, as you noted, Yahoo!'s results are more relevant.
It MAY be only be a passing nod to the fact that the Mozilla group is the one that created the original HTML standard, and were the winners of the HTML 4.0 standard from the World Wide Web commission
I find this difficult to believe, considering the Mozilla Foundation didn't exist when the HTML 4.0 standard was passed.
but I've always found the mention of Mozilla in IE code to be rather suspicious.
Perhaps you are confusing Mozilla for NCSA's Mosaic, which IE certainly used code from (Help -> About)
My not reading of the article has little to do with my original post in response to someone claiming they could only play HL2 if they were connected to the Internet.
Once again, this is what Offline Mode is for, and I personally have not had any issue with this at all. It has always worked (I will admit finding the damn option took a very long time, but once registered, and set, it has never failed).
As for messing with the install base, that's a whole other point, which has nothing to do with the fact that the game can still be played offline.
I shouldn't have to point this out, but you only are required to have an Internet connection to log onto Steam when you first install the game. Once properly verified you're not pirating it, you can run the game in Offline Mode.
That said, for some reason I feel that since I had to point out that, I should further point out that if you care to play ONLINE, against people, then yes, you do need to remain connected.
Wal-Mart's employee discount is but a mere 10%. How did you manage to knock another $180 off the price? Was it a display model? Did you switch the UPC with something else?
Idiot cell phone-using drivers, that bitch Mary Thompson and her boyfriend-stealing-skank-ass, the amazingly boring time waiting in line at the bank, finding out that today is actually Thursday, and not Friday, the latest quiz about which coloured monkey hat-flavoured tree stand we are, and of course, about how it's been so long since last posting (24 minutes).
I'm not sure this is an accurate depiction of hell desk workers. Most of the late 20s/early 30s desk jockies I have worked with are in it because they are perfectly alright with knowing how to do something, and then explaining it to people who don't (time and time again).
Obviously they complain a lot, but this is because they love complaining. They secretly wish every day for someone to call up wondering why their computer didn't restart when they turned off the monitor, or for someone to call in because they forgot they had to click the print icon to print.
Especially since the U stands for Uniform.