There's no such thing as "Game Over" anymore. Its always unlimited tries and if you plug away for enough hours you will eventually see the ending.
It's better to add a "golden ending". Complete the game without continues, and you get a free t-shirt. Or a chance to post something to a speed run archive.
Cars are generally required to abide by speed limits. Cars don't get any safer because of people who don't know how to drive. Cars aren't becoming cheaper, because you have to deal with high fuel costs, and if you enter an accident with someone who doesn't know how to drive, have to do expensive repairs and/or replacement.
Would you boycott a game because it allows the players to virtually sin?
This reminds me of Seven Deadly Sins. If you're going to sin, might as well break all sins in a fortnight. Including the sin of sloth, where you consult a walkthrough.
However, the amount of sin in that game is nothing compared to Real Life. I think we should boycott Real Life instead of focusing on just one game developer.
I suppose there would be no games left to play if you avoided all virtual sin.
There are Bible Games released for the NES. Basically, grab two of each animal, confirm if they are male/female, and send them off in an ark.
For example, instead of developing a syllabus in MS Word, use Wordpress.
Wordpress is a blog, more suitable to writing news articles rather than summaries. I'm not that familiar with Wordpress, but depending on how it's setup, it can range from easy to use, to hard to browse. You want something contained in one place with a syllabus, and that's best done using a word processor, or publisher application. You can still use Wordpress to host it, but not to write it.
Wordpress also makes it harder for those who don't carry around a computer at all times, or for those who don't chain themselves to a computer.
You might as well suggest using MS Access to draw artwork. It's possible, but it's not the right tool.
Randall uses four words, not one. Even if you use a small word list of 5000 words (and TWL has much more words), that's 6.25 *10^14 combinations. It's still a few times stronger than a 8-character random alphanumeric which has ~2.81*10^14 combinations.
And if you go with the full TWL, you need at least 12 characters in the random alphanumberic to even be as strong as the 4-word passphrase.
It's only less secure in the sense that a similarly sized alphanumeric has more possible combinations - which is not being compared.
Basically, any game that doesn't make violence look nice and fluffy receives a 1% tax.
I've seen Descent: Freespace receive an E rating, while Descent II received a T rating. If you take that at face value, then it appears that blowing up robots is a much more serious concept than killing humans.
HOWEVER... I'd need a nice, simple, easy to understand block of text to put up explaining SOPA and why it's bad. No technical words, no fancy terminology. Hell, if I can keep it to 2-syllable words only, all the better.
Collateral damage.
Why those two words? Major carriers and websites are held liable for the content of their users even when one decides to go rogue and abuse their services. This includes sites such as Academic Earth, CosmoLearning, Google, Facebook, Reddit, Slashdot, Sourceforce, Steam, Wikipedia, and Youtube; and removing one of these can make a significant impact on progress.
The only good thing about the law is that they add provisions to prevent abuse. However, that should have been in the DMCA instead of SOPA - or at least within generic set of laws.
If you think computers are bad for teaching, that's perfectly fine. However, students have a wide variety of learning styles that don't work in a one-size-fits-all method; you can see those that need instruction, while others are best handled by reading from a textbook. Some of the students get their best results if they use a computer, while others prefer pen and paper.
In my case, I prefer computer-based learning, since it gets rid of the bad teachers. As long as the computer system isn't too bad, I'll learn something.
I was under the impression that the MinGW package manager application let the user download MinGW and w32api at once.
Most likely, I used an older Mingw (or perhaps Cygwin) install that didn't, or perhaps sped through the install by somehow skipping compiler selection.
But right now, I'm using TakeoffGW, since I had trouble compiling some packages. But given that Cygwin's version of sched.h was mixed with that distribution, I think the author encountered a similar issue.
But still, one of Cygwin/Mingw/MSYS should be enough.
The market is fragmenting so fast its with all these "App" platforms, that there will be a great incentive for the first to create the "write once" , "run everywhere" tool chain. This will of course take a few years, but so many different platforms cannot be sustained.
To start, they should create a distribution like that for Windows. There's more than enough libraries that should make it possible.
The problem is that we already have splintering caused by attempts to create one. As of now, the crossplatform stuff includes Allegro, OpenGL, QT, SDL, SFML, wxWidgets as well as many other libraries. It's quite bad if you want to use Mingw to develop, which is too minimalistic to include even headers to fully use your system (requiring the user to download a w32api package, by then you'd wonder why it isn't in the stock download).
Remember that it's an enterprise deployment of BitLocker. This differs from a personal deployment, where the company may sometimes need access to an encrypted computer if the person originally using it was hit by a bus.
The latest version of Chrome now allows you to run individual plugins if necessary. This is useful for running just one embed and not things on the side.
However, it took a few versions to get that right - almost as if the developers never heard of the flash banners that took 200% CPU.
p.s. this is why anyone with half a clue disables any and all browser plugins.
Wishful thinking.
The common setting you see in browsers is an all-or-nothing deal, which constrains you to visiting text only sites until you open the menu to open a preferences menu to change the setting (that affects all plugins rather than just untrusted ones.)
It took Google Chrome several attempts to get it right. First, they added plugin blocking in some menu. Then they added a button in the address bar that allows unblocking plugins. Then, the bug where that button unblocked plugins for multiple tabs/windows was fixed. Finally, they added a right-click menu to unblock individual plugins (which helped, since that first button only allowed one click).
Firefox support for blocking plugins is miles behind a non-updated version of Opera. In Opera, there's actually a menu item that disables plugins, and it's not too deep either. While the latest version doesn't allow unblocking individual plugins, it's still easy to unblock if necessary.
Oh, and if an extension implements what should be core browser functionality, then maybe it should be added to the browser instead of forcing extension authors to do the work.
Yes, but they could have avoided that by just making it optional from the get go.
But that would be reverting to Netscape Communicator 4, or IE 4, where the URL bar wasn't visible at all. Especially in Popups, where a random advert site tries their scam-de-jour, and you can't tell advert site is doing that.
I'm still waiting for a sleek UI with no buttons, sliders, toggles, or anything else.
Reminds me of Black & White, where actions were all performed by flailing the mouse in patterns. While there reminders at the corner of the screen telling you what the gestures are, clicking on them didn't make them act like a button.
They did ask for user input at one point, but they stopped for some reason. As far as I knew, it was a good way of filtering out search results at least for the short term.
the fact that it's impossible to have a window in-focus without raising it
You can have mouse input on a window (including clicks) without raising it, by catching WM_MOUSEACTIVATE and having it return MA_NOACTIVATE.
If you want keyboard focus to a window without raising it, then you've either mastered blind typing, or probably want to set another window as topmost.
This is Window's fault because they made it impossible to stop a click from raising a window.
Where did you get that information?
I'm interested because I've done that by catching WM_MOUSEACTIVATE and returning MA_NOACTIVATE in response (total of 2 lines of code, 40 colums each). However, there's no reason why I'd do that: if I click a window, I want it in the foreground, and if I want another window in the foreground, I'd make it topmost.
4. If there's a large number of false complaints against a user (whether all at once or spread over time), it becomes harder to complain against that user. For example, you may need minimum community participation (e.g. been around for at least 4 days and made 10 posts, etc.) or otherwise managed to get yourself trusted enough by the community.
To this day I have never needed anything I was taught in calculus.
Technically, I haven't needed anything in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Geology either. However, if you know enough basics in the entire set, you may become more skeptical in some of the claims that are used to manipulate you (e.g. Power Bracelet).
However, overeducation causes problems as well - usually with morale where some people wonder why they had to take all that when the only job they land is a big-box retailer greeter.
I would swap your Calc II requirement for something like "Interpersonal Communication Skills II" in a heartbeat.
The Calc II requirement is actually part of B.A. or B.S., which is well beyond high school. As such, it shouldn't be swapped but complemented.
Of course, you probably want to add basic physical education as well (and not the cheap "shotgun" or "bird" type courses). Allegedly, you're supposed to lift twice your body weight if going for strength, but there's also agility and endurance you need as well.
Of course it doesn't. It predicts that an entity A was created by Intelligent Designer B. It then states that Intelligent Designer B was created by Intelligent Designer C, and so on.
The only exception is if you decide at some point that an entity was either created using natural processes (in which case, you're describing Evolution), or was created by a supernatural entity such as a god (in which case, you're describing Creationism). If you stick to the ID path, you have turtles all the way down.
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How about $100 to get a C compiler, just so that you can write any program that isn't grindingly slow?
Get off my lawn.
There's no such thing as "Game Over" anymore. Its always unlimited tries and if you plug away for enough hours you will eventually see the ending.
It's better to add a "golden ending". Complete the game without continues, and you get a free t-shirt. Or a chance to post something to a speed run archive.
Cars get faster, safer, cheaper.
Cars are generally required to abide by speed limits. Cars don't get any safer because of people who don't know how to drive. Cars aren't becoming cheaper, because you have to deal with high fuel costs, and if you enter an accident with someone who doesn't know how to drive, have to do expensive repairs and/or replacement.
This reminds me of Seven Deadly Sins. If you're going to sin, might as well break all sins in a fortnight. Including the sin of sloth, where you consult a walkthrough.
However, the amount of sin in that game is nothing compared to Real Life. I think we should boycott Real Life instead of focusing on just one game developer.
There are Bible Games released for the NES. Basically, grab two of each animal, confirm if they are male/female, and send them off in an ark.
Wordpress is a blog, more suitable to writing news articles rather than summaries. I'm not that familiar with Wordpress, but depending on how it's setup, it can range from easy to use, to hard to browse. You want something contained in one place with a syllabus, and that's best done using a word processor, or publisher application. You can still use Wordpress to host it, but not to write it.
Wordpress also makes it harder for those who don't carry around a computer at all times, or for those who don't chain themselves to a computer.
You might as well suggest using MS Access to draw artwork. It's possible, but it's not the right tool.
Randall uses four words, not one. Even if you use a small word list of 5000 words (and TWL has much more words), that's 6.25 *10^14 combinations. It's still a few times stronger than a 8-character random alphanumeric which has ~2.81*10^14 combinations.
And if you go with the full TWL, you need at least 12 characters in the random alphanumberic to even be as strong as the 4-word passphrase.
It's only less secure in the sense that a similarly sized alphanumeric has more possible combinations - which is not being compared.
Basically, any game that doesn't make violence look nice and fluffy receives a 1% tax.
I've seen Descent: Freespace receive an E rating, while Descent II received a T rating. If you take that at face value, then it appears that blowing up robots is a much more serious concept than killing humans.
HOWEVER... I'd need a nice, simple, easy to understand block of text to put up explaining SOPA and why it's bad. No technical words, no fancy terminology. Hell, if I can keep it to 2-syllable words only, all the better.
Collateral damage.
Why those two words? Major carriers and websites are held liable for the content of their users even when one decides to go rogue and abuse their services. This includes sites such as Academic Earth, CosmoLearning, Google, Facebook, Reddit, Slashdot, Sourceforce, Steam, Wikipedia, and Youtube; and removing one of these can make a significant impact on progress.
The only good thing about the law is that they add provisions to prevent abuse. However, that should have been in the DMCA instead of SOPA - or at least within generic set of laws.
And to fire teachers who cannot teach.
Just this is sufficient.
If you think computers are bad for teaching, that's perfectly fine. However, students have a wide variety of learning styles that don't work in a one-size-fits-all method; you can see those that need instruction, while others are best handled by reading from a textbook. Some of the students get their best results if they use a computer, while others prefer pen and paper.
In my case, I prefer computer-based learning, since it gets rid of the bad teachers. As long as the computer system isn't too bad, I'll learn something.
I was under the impression that the MinGW package manager application let the user download MinGW and w32api at once.
Most likely, I used an older Mingw (or perhaps Cygwin) install that didn't, or perhaps sped through the install by somehow skipping compiler selection.
But right now, I'm using TakeoffGW, since I had trouble compiling some packages. But given that Cygwin's version of sched.h was mixed with that distribution, I think the author encountered a similar issue.
But still, one of Cygwin/Mingw/MSYS should be enough.
The market is fragmenting so fast its with all these "App" platforms, that there will be a great incentive for the first to create the "write once" , "run everywhere" tool chain. This will of course take a few years, but so many different platforms cannot be sustained.
To start, they should create a distribution like that for Windows. There's more than enough libraries that should make it possible.
The problem is that we already have splintering caused by attempts to create one. As of now, the crossplatform stuff includes Allegro, OpenGL, QT, SDL, SFML, wxWidgets as well as many other libraries. It's quite bad if you want to use Mingw to develop, which is too minimalistic to include even headers to fully use your system (requiring the user to download a w32api package, by then you'd wonder why it isn't in the stock download).
Your sysadmin can decrypt your bitlocker?
Yes.
Remember that it's an enterprise deployment of BitLocker. This differs from a personal deployment, where the company may sometimes need access to an encrypted computer if the person originally using it was hit by a bus.
When I tried to play Asteroids, it took me to my facebook page and asked for permission... I said no.
Didn't get that Facebook prompt. Were you going for Asteroids under Arcade Classics instead of Asteroids Online found on Featured?
The latest version of Chrome now allows you to run individual plugins if necessary. This is useful for running just one embed and not things on the side.
However, it took a few versions to get that right - almost as if the developers never heard of the flash banners that took 200% CPU.
p.s. this is why anyone with half a clue disables any and all browser plugins.
Wishful thinking.
The common setting you see in browsers is an all-or-nothing deal, which constrains you to visiting text only sites until you open the menu to open a preferences menu to change the setting (that affects all plugins rather than just untrusted ones.)
It took Google Chrome several attempts to get it right. First, they added plugin blocking in some menu. Then they added a button in the address bar that allows unblocking plugins. Then, the bug where that button unblocked plugins for multiple tabs/windows was fixed. Finally, they added a right-click menu to unblock individual plugins (which helped, since that first button only allowed one click).
Firefox support for blocking plugins is miles behind a non-updated version of Opera. In Opera, there's actually a menu item that disables plugins, and it's not too deep either. While the latest version doesn't allow unblocking individual plugins, it's still easy to unblock if necessary.
Oh, and if an extension implements what should be core browser functionality, then maybe it should be added to the browser instead of forcing extension authors to do the work.
Yes, but they could have avoided that by just making it optional from the get go.
But that would be reverting to Netscape Communicator 4, or IE 4, where the URL bar wasn't visible at all. Especially in Popups, where a random advert site tries their scam-de-jour, and you can't tell advert site is doing that.
Here's a fun fact: Lots of cities put their cables under ground, now.
It still doesn't prevent "snow days", caused simply because of a sync issue that makes your internet connection worst than dialup.
I'm still waiting for a sleek UI with no buttons, sliders, toggles, or anything else.
Reminds me of Black & White, where actions were all performed by flailing the mouse in patterns. While there reminders at the corner of the screen telling you what the gestures are, clicking on them didn't make them act like a button.
They did ask for user input at one point, but they stopped for some reason. As far as I knew, it was a good way of filtering out search results at least for the short term.
People might not use DDoS from a browser, but that doesn't prevent them from being used.
For example, a certain URL redirection service loads a legit site in the iframe, while constantly reloading another site in an invisible frame.
the fact that it's impossible to have a window in-focus without raising it
You can have mouse input on a window (including clicks) without raising it, by catching WM_MOUSEACTIVATE and having it return MA_NOACTIVATE.
If you want keyboard focus to a window without raising it, then you've either mastered blind typing, or probably want to set another window as topmost.
This is Window's fault because they made it impossible to stop a click from raising a window.
Where did you get that information?
I'm interested because I've done that by catching WM_MOUSEACTIVATE and returning MA_NOACTIVATE in response (total of 2 lines of code, 40 colums each). However, there's no reason why I'd do that: if I click a window, I want it in the foreground, and if I want another window in the foreground, I'd make it topmost.
You missed a step:
4. If there's a large number of false complaints against a user (whether all at once or spread over time), it becomes harder to complain against that user. For example, you may need minimum community participation (e.g. been around for at least 4 days and made 10 posts, etc.) or otherwise managed to get yourself trusted enough by the community.
To this day I have never needed anything I was taught in calculus.
Technically, I haven't needed anything in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Geology either. However, if you know enough basics in the entire set, you may become more skeptical in some of the claims that are used to manipulate you (e.g. Power Bracelet).
However, overeducation causes problems as well - usually with morale where some people wonder why they had to take all that when the only job they land is a big-box retailer greeter.
I would swap your Calc II requirement for something like "Interpersonal Communication Skills II" in a heartbeat.
The Calc II requirement is actually part of B.A. or B.S., which is well beyond high school. As such, it shouldn't be swapped but complemented.
Of course, you probably want to add basic physical education as well (and not the cheap "shotgun" or "bird" type courses). Allegedly, you're supposed to lift twice your body weight if going for strength, but there's also agility and endurance you need as well.
Why are all evolution vs. intelligent design debates always really just deism vs. atheism debates?
Because "Intelligent Design" was a drop-in replacement for "Creation" used in the different editions of the book 'Of Pandas and People'.
Intelligent design does not predicate a deity.
Of course it doesn't. It predicts that an entity A was created by Intelligent Designer B. It then states that Intelligent Designer B was created by Intelligent Designer C, and so on.
The only exception is if you decide at some point that an entity was either created using natural processes (in which case, you're describing Evolution), or was created by a supernatural entity such as a god (in which case, you're describing Creationism). If you stick to the ID path, you have turtles all the way down.