There's no monthly fee. They take a percentage of things sold within the game (cutting out the middle man of Ebay), I only wish I could remember the name of that game.
There are many rights you cannot sign away. You cannot sign to become a slave for life. You cannot sign away sex with underage people. Similarly, companies are not protected through whatever rules they have printed - they are not above the law, for example: valid ID in many banks is said to be certain forms of ID when the national/state law is almost always many more forms; the government/state law overrides it and the bank cannot legally refuse certain ID.
Now, this isn't even a contract, it's a fucking EULA - known for it's 'one size fits all' 'give the consumers no rights' mentality. Courts take this into account and these type of one-sided "contracts" rarely stand up. That's why people can sue power-companies for blackouts too - even when they've signed away the right.
Terminating someone's game account because a EULA or Terms of Use hasn't gone to court in most counties - certainly not in the US - and IMO these people stand a good chance of winning.
Look, I love Linus, I want his babies, and he's doing a good enough job IMO. Sure he rejects a few too many patch features from unknowns - but he's just one (sexy) guy. It's not his fault.
Really, just fork it and see if you do a better job. The reason there hasn't much forking (there has been a little) is because people are generally happy with the results.
It's not entirely a salvage show. They plant many things throughout the heap. It's rather obvious though, you can tell they've found a planted item when the presenters talk about how they've found the smaller 2000rpm model; heavy emphasis on comparasons.
Now as to whether it's a bad thing. They do supply them with tools, and things like scotch-tape and glue which aren't salvaged. They use these in what they make. Welding gunk too.
If they wanted to do rockets there's no way they could have done impressive rockets without some planted items, but I would prefer that they choose not to do rockets and keep the show untainted from plants.
Don't give them anything by Sierra. Knowing that you have to erase the video tape before you can record isn't a measure of intelligence by any means.
Similarly games in which you can learn patterns (remember there's a storm-trooper round the corner) isn't a good measure. Starcraft is a good strategic game, although not random enough if you know where the enemy is. You should definately make a map.
Unreal, or Quake - same thing. Find an obscure map. Avoid beat-em-ups like street fighter or mortal kombat as people can learn those off by heart.
If I were to do it though I would test them with: Head over Heels, Tetris, which ever the game was in which you sectioned off area by drawing boxes to avoid the spinning lines, generic Pinball, and.. hell, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 1.
But in all normal circumstances, obfuscated code in any language is bad code
Well.. the debatable bit is what you define as normal. When I'm knocking out a ten line perl script I can use something I saw in an obfuscated contest because it's got such simple syntax and saves me time.
Not every bit of code is made to be inherited or worked on as a team. Many times it's just a ten line perl script that's required and these contests are great for learning shortcuts in those little bits of code (or what we type into the command line actually - obfuscation is wonderful there).
You may either spend thirty seconds typing out an obfuscated and elegant piece of code - or spend two minutes to achieve the same ends but in a well formatted easily understood way.
The first and obfuscated way is good for personal projects - putting together shoddy perl scripts. Especially projects that are too short to bother about maintainability. So far as short bits of code go they require the most skill also.
The second is mostly for large projects or ones that require several programmers at the same time or the future.
Obfuscated code contests are about wank factor and showing off how well one knows a language. But as I say in the second paragraph they have their uses.
Lovely TRoLL BTW, the little tacked on MS jab, neato.
Understanding obfuscated code is difficult - that's the whole point - therefore those who understand it (especially those that write it) have a firm grasp of the language - moreso than programmers that don't.
Also obfuscated code is usually about short snippets of well crafted code rather than worrying about a greater architecture. Competitions like this let people show off clever algorithms, or just clever syntax. Useful, as programmers can use the obfuscated code rather than typing a dozen lines.
Perl has been called the obfuscated programming language because of it's many short-hand syntaxes that reward those that know the language by not forcing them to be verbose - this can show off similar techniques.
...and Jem. Who, now that you mention it, is truly outrageous. Truly truly truly outrageous.
(ooh wo-Jem, the music's contaegous-outrageous.. jem is my name no one else is the same, jem is my name... WE ARE THE MISFITS our songs are are better something something WE'RE GONNA GET HER).
People posted requests for stuff and filled the boards with tripe after tripe. Sometimes trades, too. He asked many times for people to change their ways but everyone decided to post their wishlist
The site sucked arse though - and appeared to enjoying doing so. It needed location searching. It wasn't much better than a newsgroup.
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These black bashers are really quite awful at putting their case forward. I have little respect for them.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
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You broke my heart, baybee.
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Still, at least it's better than the game the lets you cook
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
There are many rights you cannot sign away. You cannot sign to become a slave for life. You cannot sign away sex with underage people. Similarly, companies are not protected through whatever rules they have printed - they are not above the law, for example: valid ID in many banks is said to be certain forms of ID when the national/state law is almost always many more forms; the government/state law overrides it and the bank cannot legally refuse certain ID.
Now, this isn't even a contract, it's a fucking EULA - known for it's 'one size fits all' 'give the consumers no rights' mentality. Courts take this into account and these type of one-sided "contracts" rarely stand up. That's why people can sue power-companies for blackouts too - even when they've signed away the right.
Terminating someone's game account because a EULA or Terms of Use hasn't gone to court in most counties - certainly not in the US - and IMO these people stand a good chance of winning.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
Look, I love Linus, I want his babies, and he's doing a good enough job IMO. Sure he rejects a few too many patch features from unknowns - but he's just one (sexy) guy. It's not his fault.
Really, just fork it and see if you do a better job. The reason there hasn't much forking (there has been a little) is because people are generally happy with the results.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
Now as to whether it's a bad thing. They do supply them with tools, and things like scotch-tape and glue which aren't salvaged. They use these in what they make. Welding gunk too.
If they wanted to do rockets there's no way they could have done impressive rockets without some planted items, but I would prefer that they choose not to do rockets and keep the show untainted from plants.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
(you know, sometimes I make it too easy for trolls)
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
Similarly games in which you can learn patterns (remember there's a storm-trooper round the corner) isn't a good measure. Starcraft is a good strategic game, although not random enough if you know where the enemy is. You should definately make a map.
Unreal, or Quake - same thing. Find an obscure map. Avoid beat-em-ups like street fighter or mortal kombat as people can learn those off by heart.
If I were to do it though I would test them with: Head over Heels, Tetris, which ever the game was in which you sectioned off area by drawing boxes to avoid the spinning lines, generic Pinball, and.. hell, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 1.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
But it's not. That the whole point. Re-read your statement and discover the flaw in your logic.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
But in all normal circumstances, obfuscated code in any language is bad code
Well.. the debatable bit is what you define as normal. When I'm knocking out a ten line perl script I can use something I saw in an obfuscated contest because it's got such simple syntax and saves me time.
Not every bit of code is made to be inherited or worked on as a team. Many times it's just a ten line perl script that's required and these contests are great for learning shortcuts in those little bits of code (or what we type into the command line actually - obfuscation is wonderful there).
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
The first and obfuscated way is good for personal projects - putting together shoddy perl scripts. Especially projects that are too short to bother about maintainability. So far as short bits of code go they require the most skill also.
The second is mostly for large projects or ones that require several programmers at the same time or the future.
Obfuscated code contests are about wank factor and showing off how well one knows a language. But as I say in the second paragraph they have their uses.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
Understanding obfuscated code is difficult - that's the whole point - therefore those who understand it (especially those that write it) have a firm grasp of the language - moreso than programmers that don't.
Also obfuscated code is usually about short snippets of well crafted code rather than worrying about a greater architecture. Competitions like this let people show off clever algorithms, or just clever syntax. Useful, as programmers can use the obfuscated code rather than typing a dozen lines.
Perl has been called the obfuscated programming language because of it's many short-hand syntaxes that reward those that know the language by not forcing them to be verbose - this can show off similar techniques.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
Optimus died.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
> damn governments insist on
> taxing everybody to death?!!!
Because they can. And when a person can do something to get more money they will.
There's little resistance anymore to excessive taxes so they may as well... rape your arse over a cheesegrater.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
(ooh wo-Jem, the music's contaegous-outrageous.. jem is my name no one else is the same, jem is my name ... WE ARE THE MISFITS our songs are are better something something WE'RE GONNA GET HER).
You can download the Jem title sequence from the Transformers Archive (clever avoidance of offtopicness, I know. Cheers!).
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http://goatse.cx
Thank you,
Aunt Mable... awww yeah!
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>in New Zealand
No you don't.
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-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
People posted requests for stuff and filled the boards with tripe after tripe. Sometimes trades, too. He asked many times for people to change their ways but everyone decided to post their wishlist
The site sucked arse though - and appeared to enjoying doing so. It needed location searching. It wasn't much better than a newsgroup.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!