I've got to agree with this, and another of the posts above: the linear levels are a real treat in mario games. New Super Mario was the last one that I played, and like Super Mario World, it's got exploration of the overworld map, and very linear pace once you are in a level proper. That's the great mario formula, and one of the reasons I'm not as big a fan of Mario 64. The reason being, if I am going to run around that much, I want to have some big cool thing to unlock to come back and do nifty stuff with the old environment. If I want non-linear, give me Zelda or Metroid. Mario should be all about platform jumping and twitch fingers:)
Yes, but that's old news. Or, at least the strong possibility that this is true is old news. Then again, the same is true of nearly all 'native' cultures: they are only native the from the point of view of Anglophiles, unless you are talking about some possible descendants of a group of early humans that spawned the rest of us didn't bother going far from home.
Last Friday, 2 hours turnaround time on a minor defect fix. But then, it's for a data delivery platform, not a shrinkwrap product, and it was blocking a large client's use of the system, and the fix was simple. It passed through support reporting it, a developer and QA person each testing it, the developer fixing it, the QA person regressing it to verify it was fixed, and it was deployed, all in that two hour time frame.
So, yeah 48 hours? No, that's not unreasonable, depending on the difficulty vs. if it's a blocking defect. 48 hours turnaround for a new feature? Yeah, that's not reasonable.
I'm sorry, but I have to take your geek license away. Link went from a 3/4 overhead Action/RPG to a side scroller, and then back. It did not start as a side scroller. Even the one with side scrolling action sequences had a 3/4 overhead overland map.
I would love to see the original System Shock remade. It really deserves it, the game was way before it's time. System Shock 2 was good, but nowhere near as interesting as Bioshock.
Just to be clear, the 'No Child Left Behind' nonsense has no additional funding for schools, and just additional requirements. Specifically, testing, testing, and more testing. That's it. Really. It requires a great deal more testing of students than ever before, and a certain pass rate for a school to get existing federal funding.
The end result is that children who are just below the pass rate on the 'pre-tests' (really, just more tests, but the results only get examined by the teacher or the school faculty) get the most attention. Those above it, especially well above it and those well below it, are more or less shafted by the way it's designed.
Alternately, several school districts have simply changed the rules for what constitutes a pass, and what a failure, on their tests, so that they have a high enough pass rate to continue to get full federal funding.
They've done a lot to undermine their fans for years. That they are now buggering this up surprises me not at all.
They have many creative individuals working for them that I respect, but as a company, they have basically sucked to be a fan of for YEARS.
And really, their background material is largely 'borrowed' from other fantasy and sci-fi sources anyway, so that they should be so very protective, when the movie will just bring them more exposure and act as a huge advert for them, seems utterly ridiculous.
Seriously here folks. The level of paranoia over the whole IP issue is really getting out of hand. It's an as yet unsolved problem, yes, but why in the heck is it more important than the practical, useful application of such a shift in a new(ish), exciting technology?
Rapid prototyping/3d fabrication is becoming cheaper. You know what that will allow, more than anything? It'll allow competition by the little guy, to produce their own items and test them without the expense of the full production process for a lot of different things. That will mean that skill at design and meeting the real needs of customers will become more attainable by more people, and overall costs will go down.
It's like the commoditization of computer hardware that happened in the late 80's for the consumer sector, and late 90's for the mid-range server sector, and what's happening to the software sector right now. Who's allowed to feasibly compete for customer's money will become a more level playing field, which will cut into the biggest producers profits somewhat, as more people compete, but the big players that adopt the technology will ultimately win out over the big players who don't, and the little guys will generally stay little, with either have a few breakthrough big boom companies, or the few big growers get squashed/eaten if enough of the big players catch a clue fast enough. The latter happened with the hardware market, the former is happening with the software market (google).
Seconded. Widely available, high quality over previous generations with little to none of the degridation issues. I don't know a single person with the setup, or interest in the setup, to do HD video anyway. Why is this even relevant? We've got a depressed economy, now is a stupid time to launch a new media type so soon after DVD has been around. Let alone two compeating ones that have little real technical merit over the other (compaired to DVD). *AND* they've managed to burn the early adopters over the whole HDMI bull crap.
I don't disagree, really. I'm not saying this is a healthy outlet, just that it's healthier than some of the alternatives, such as taking out these destructive tendancies on people who *didn't* ask to be involved. TFA didn't provide much detail.
As for techies being smarter than the majority? Not really. They are more capable of more focused, dedicated tasks. They are able to expend all their energies concentrating on a singular task. This makes them ideal for jobs where this is required. Coding is one of them. Design in general, really. You've got to be completely dedicated to truely get something right. Or even half right. That doesn't, inherantly, make someone smarter. I've met some brick stupid techies.
As far as the 'evil' bit? I agree. It's why I'm not involved in corporate americ (or any other nation's version of same) any longer, and why I personally find this rather needless, mindless, and sad. But I can't just step in and say 'that person is doing something stupid' without justification, because frankly, I tell people who do that to me off, and go on with my life. And I'm not really intrested in posting such justification on, ya know, slashdot. I mean, c'mon. Slashdot. The majority of the people reading this have already made up their minds anyway.
Ok, as someone who *has* been in more than my fair share of fights, studied martial arts, etc, I'm confused by this to a certain degree. Not by the fight clubs, just the news story. I haven't had to use my martial arts skills in anger or self defense, because my insturctor taught self respect and that first rule: the best way to not get hurt by a punch is to not get hit by it. That means he focused on avoiding blows, not blocking them, but it also means he focused on avoiding fights in the first place. Anyway.
The reporter is making these folks out to sound like crazies.... They aren't. They are men frustrated by their daily lives. I can understand this desire to vent physical frustration in a very real way. I learned that I don't need to hit anyone in order to do that, just pratice the martial arts forms I have learned. That is either not something these guys have tried, or found to be satisfactory. That's fine, and as long as they all agree to what they are doing, have at.
He focuses on one guy at the end who is making... questionable choices, certainly from how they where presented. Married later in life (than social norms, mind, for all that's worth), choosing to go to this fight club instead of taking the time out to be with his wife, on their first anniversary, for a very important event in her life. Talking about how tough it makes him feel... sounds like he's got other issues to me. Sounds like the writer is trying to focus on that.
Oh, and the trying to link teen violence to this stuff, and childhood media exposure? That's just poor reporting, and poor taste.
My preference is to use Mason, a perl... well, it's a development framework to some, but it works as a pure templating engine as well. It allows embedding of perl snippets (and blocks, but that's best to avoid) in content documents. I prefer that balance. Occasionally you need display logic that can only be accomplished in code, it's unavoidable. So, my breakdown is: prepare data-structures the display will use, as shallowly as is reasonable for the display code, and then pass that along. Put a small chunk of logic into the content. That way, if a designer needs to come along later and change things, the place, if not how exactly, is much more transperent to them. If they realize they need help, they can ask for it or try it themselves. You keep the project in a revision control system, right?;)
Bwahahahaha! Compatriets. That's a good one! As if there is some sort of battle going on. Perhaps only in the minds of folks who feel the need to pick a side when there aren't any. These are products. You pick the best one to suit your needs. Windows is that for a lot of people, from my experience, because they are MOST USED TO IT. It's troubling, frustrating, to switch to something else just to read email, send photos, write up the latest marketing proposal, etc. If they can try something out and still switch back to something familure with an all to comfortable reboot, then why is a bad thing if they find that OS X is a better fit for their needs, without the lack of familure old Windows getting in the way of their day to day while they learn to use it at their own pace, without needing to buy or opperate two computers?
Agreed. If you are starting out new, rather than maintaining old repositories, go subversion. I switched recently for a new project, and it's just plain better.
The real point of my above comment was: This system is effectively worthless until the fundimental security issues surrounding general use computers is resolved to a better state. It is likely an unsolveable problem as long as 'computers' remain general use computational tools, as general use includes all of the abilities needed to circomvent even the best security. Perhaps not in a timely fasion, which is what has generally been relied on.
Implimenting this in hardware means that it's inherintly less adaptable than software. Which means software will be able to adapt around it. Perhaps not in the machine itself, but it's just data out. It should be trivially easy to man in the middle your own outgoing datastream to be able to incorporate any TMP data you want, likely possible even without additional hardware.
Or the 3117 haxor who used the latest TMP chip crack to change their TMP ID to be the same as yours, which they got from the worm that still can get installed on your machine...
Lets see: How about we describe the chapter titles, and use big words? Yeah! That'll work.
Examples of the content, especially what they chose to exemplify as risks, would make for a much better review. As it stands, I have no idea if the content rambles for pages and pages about things that I consider to be trivial, or if they really do a good job at covering risk assesment areas I don't know about or want more detail than I have about.
The anti-vid people say: violence in GAMES makes kids desensitiezed to VIOLENCE
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Violent media does desensitize someone who is still highly impressionable by media to whatever that media is throwing at them. Video games are not all centered around violence. Even the ones that are are very frequently not centered around anything even remotely like realistic violence. Take RPGs. Fighting. Cartoonlike generally, so, who's going to associate that with reality? Right then. Move along.
Also, parents need to fucking watch what their children play. Hello, parenting? My mother wouldn't have let me play GTA of any form, if it was around, until I was at least 16. Good on her. She was paying attention. That doesn't mean she thought I should be banned from all video games, or that video games like GTA shouldn't exists at all. She didn't let me play Duke Nukem 3D until I was 16, for example (by then it was slightly dated, but still). She didn't care that it existed. Just not in her house.
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I've got to agree with this, and another of the posts above: the linear levels are a real treat in mario games. New Super Mario was the last one that I played, and like Super Mario World, it's got exploration of the overworld map, and very linear pace once you are in a level proper. That's the great mario formula, and one of the reasons I'm not as big a fan of Mario 64. The reason being, if I am going to run around that much, I want to have some big cool thing to unlock to come back and do nifty stuff with the old environment. If I want non-linear, give me Zelda or Metroid. Mario should be all about platform jumping and twitch fingers :)
Yes, but that's old news. Or, at least the strong possibility that this is true is old news. Then again, the same is true of nearly all 'native' cultures: they are only native the from the point of view of Anglophiles, unless you are talking about some possible descendants of a group of early humans that spawned the rest of us didn't bother going far from home.
Last Friday, 2 hours turnaround time on a minor defect fix. But then, it's for a data delivery platform, not a shrinkwrap product, and it was blocking a large client's use of the system, and the fix was simple. It passed through support reporting it, a developer and QA person each testing it, the developer fixing it, the QA person regressing it to verify it was fixed, and it was deployed, all in that two hour time frame.
So, yeah 48 hours? No, that's not unreasonable, depending on the difficulty vs. if it's a blocking defect. 48 hours turnaround for a new feature? Yeah, that's not reasonable.
I'm sorry, but I have to take your geek license away. Link went from a 3/4 overhead Action/RPG to a side scroller, and then back. It did not start as a side scroller. Even the one with side scrolling action sequences had a 3/4 overhead overland map.
Because he played it on the XBox360, from his review. It doesn't have the same problems, for obvious reasons.
I would love to see the original System Shock remade. It really deserves it, the game was way before it's time. System Shock 2 was good, but nowhere near as interesting as Bioshock.
Just to be clear, the 'No Child Left Behind' nonsense has no additional funding for schools, and just additional requirements. Specifically, testing, testing, and more testing. That's it. Really. It requires a great deal more testing of students than ever before, and a certain pass rate for a school to get existing federal funding.
The end result is that children who are just below the pass rate on the 'pre-tests' (really, just more tests, but the results only get examined by the teacher or the school faculty) get the most attention. Those above it, especially well above it and those well below it, are more or less shafted by the way it's designed.
Alternately, several school districts have simply changed the rules for what constitutes a pass, and what a failure, on their tests, so that they have a high enough pass rate to continue to get full federal funding.
They've done a lot to undermine their fans for years. That they are now buggering this up surprises me not at all.
They have many creative individuals working for them that I respect, but as a company, they have basically sucked to be a fan of for YEARS.
And really, their background material is largely 'borrowed' from other fantasy and sci-fi sources anyway, so that they should be so very protective, when the movie will just bring them more exposure and act as a huge advert for them, seems utterly ridiculous.
Seriously here folks. The level of paranoia over the whole IP issue is really getting out of hand. It's an as yet unsolved problem, yes, but why in the heck is it more important than the practical, useful application of such a shift in a new(ish), exciting technology?
Rapid prototyping/3d fabrication is becoming cheaper. You know what that will allow, more than anything? It'll allow competition by the little guy, to produce their own items and test them without the expense of the full production process for a lot of different things. That will mean that skill at design and meeting the real needs of customers will become more attainable by more people, and overall costs will go down.
It's like the commoditization of computer hardware that happened in the late 80's for the consumer sector, and late 90's for the mid-range server sector, and what's happening to the software sector right now. Who's allowed to feasibly compete for customer's money will become a more level playing field, which will cut into the biggest producers profits somewhat, as more people compete, but the big players that adopt the technology will ultimately win out over the big players who don't, and the little guys will generally stay little, with either have a few breakthrough big boom companies, or the few big growers get squashed/eaten if enough of the big players catch a clue fast enough. The latter happened with the hardware market, the former is happening with the software market (google).
Seconded. Widely available, high quality over previous generations with little to none of the degridation issues. I don't know a single person with the setup, or interest in the setup, to do HD video anyway. Why is this even relevant? We've got a depressed economy, now is a stupid time to launch a new media type so soon after DVD has been around. Let alone two compeating ones that have little real technical merit over the other (compaired to DVD). *AND* they've managed to burn the early adopters over the whole HDMI bull crap.
DVD FTW.
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Don't forget TortoiseSVN, for more ease of use for the windows people.
I guess it should be changed to:
Sufficiently backward education makes technology indistinguishable from magic?
I don't disagree, really. I'm not saying this is a healthy outlet, just that it's healthier than some of the alternatives, such as taking out these destructive tendancies on people who *didn't* ask to be involved. TFA didn't provide much detail.
As for techies being smarter than the majority? Not really. They are more capable of more focused, dedicated tasks. They are able to expend all their energies concentrating on a singular task. This makes them ideal for jobs where this is required. Coding is one of them. Design in general, really. You've got to be completely dedicated to truely get something right. Or even half right. That doesn't, inherantly, make someone smarter. I've met some brick stupid techies.
As far as the 'evil' bit? I agree. It's why I'm not involved in corporate americ (or any other nation's version of same) any longer, and why I personally find this rather needless, mindless, and sad. But I can't just step in and say 'that person is doing something stupid' without justification, because frankly, I tell people who do that to me off, and go on with my life. And I'm not really intrested in posting such justification on, ya know, slashdot. I mean, c'mon. Slashdot. The majority of the people reading this have already made up their minds anyway.
Ok, as someone who *has* been in more than my fair share of fights, studied martial arts, etc, I'm confused by this to a certain degree. Not by the fight clubs, just the news story. I haven't had to use my martial arts skills in anger or self defense, because my insturctor taught self respect and that first rule: the best way to not get hurt by a punch is to not get hit by it. That means he focused on avoiding blows, not blocking them, but it also means he focused on avoiding fights in the first place. Anyway.
The reporter is making these folks out to sound like crazies.... They aren't. They are men frustrated by their daily lives. I can understand this desire to vent physical frustration in a very real way. I learned that I don't need to hit anyone in order to do that, just pratice the martial arts forms I have learned. That is either not something these guys have tried, or found to be satisfactory. That's fine, and as long as they all agree to what they are doing, have at.
He focuses on one guy at the end who is making... questionable choices, certainly from how they where presented. Married later in life (than social norms, mind, for all that's worth), choosing to go to this fight club instead of taking the time out to be with his wife, on their first anniversary, for a very important event in her life. Talking about how tough it makes him feel... sounds like he's got other issues to me. Sounds like the writer is trying to focus on that.
Oh, and the trying to link teen violence to this stuff, and childhood media exposure? That's just poor reporting, and poor taste.
I'm modding this story -3 troll.
whitelisting, not blacklisting, is a good idea. Stop trying to define a set of 'wrong' data. Define a set of good data.
My preference is to use Mason, a perl... well, it's a development framework to some, but it works as a pure templating engine as well. It allows embedding of perl snippets (and blocks, but that's best to avoid) in content documents. I prefer that balance. Occasionally you need display logic that can only be accomplished in code, it's unavoidable. So, my breakdown is: prepare data-structures the display will use, as shallowly as is reasonable for the display code, and then pass that along. Put a small chunk of logic into the content. That way, if a designer needs to come along later and change things, the place, if not how exactly, is much more transperent to them. If they realize they need help, they can ask for it or try it themselves. You keep the project in a revision control system, right? ;)
welcome our new lava overlord.
Bwahahahaha! Compatriets. That's a good one! As if there is some sort of battle going on. Perhaps only in the minds of folks who feel the need to pick a side when there aren't any. These are products. You pick the best one to suit your needs. Windows is that for a lot of people, from my experience, because they are MOST USED TO IT. It's troubling, frustrating, to switch to something else just to read email, send photos, write up the latest marketing proposal, etc. If they can try something out and still switch back to something familure with an all to comfortable reboot, then why is a bad thing if they find that OS X is a better fit for their needs, without the lack of familure old Windows getting in the way of their day to day while they learn to use it at their own pace, without needing to buy or opperate two computers?
You've never worked in tech support, have you?
Agreed. If you are starting out new, rather than maintaining old repositories, go subversion. I switched recently for a new project, and it's just plain better.
The real point of my above comment was: This system is effectively worthless until the fundimental security issues surrounding general use computers is resolved to a better state. It is likely an unsolveable problem as long as 'computers' remain general use computational tools, as general use includes all of the abilities needed to circomvent even the best security. Perhaps not in a timely fasion, which is what has generally been relied on.
Implimenting this in hardware means that it's inherintly less adaptable than software. Which means software will be able to adapt around it. Perhaps not in the machine itself, but it's just data out. It should be trivially easy to man in the middle your own outgoing datastream to be able to incorporate any TMP data you want, likely possible even without additional hardware.
Or the 3117 haxor who used the latest TMP chip crack to change their TMP ID to be the same as yours, which they got from the worm that still can get installed on your machine...
Lets see: How about we describe the chapter titles, and use big words? Yeah! That'll work.
Examples of the content, especially what they chose to exemplify as risks, would make for a much better review. As it stands, I have no idea if the content rambles for pages and pages about things that I consider to be trivial, or if they really do a good job at covering risk assesment areas I don't know about or want more detail than I have about.
The gamers say: Video games are good!
The anti-vid people say: violence in GAMES makes kids desensitiezed to VIOLENCE
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Violent media does desensitize someone who is still highly impressionable by media to whatever that media is throwing at them. Video games are not all centered around violence. Even the ones that are are very frequently not centered around anything even remotely like realistic violence. Take RPGs. Fighting. Cartoonlike generally, so, who's going to associate that with reality? Right then. Move along.
Also, parents need to fucking watch what their children play. Hello, parenting? My mother wouldn't have let me play GTA of any form, if it was around, until I was at least 16. Good on her. She was paying attention. That doesn't mean she thought I should be banned from all video games, or that video games like GTA shouldn't exists at all. She didn't let me play Duke Nukem 3D until I was 16, for example (by then it was slightly dated, but still). She didn't care that it existed. Just not in her house.
The argument needs some loud moderates.