> And it only took many many years to remove what would have been obvious to the most incompetent web developer.
And this is a truly embarassing, sad development.
The fact remains that it was not obvious to sell a thing without a confirmation popup. Oh, now it is. Because of efforts like that.
But back then, no programmer would ever sell a thing with one click for fear the user accidently clicked the button. That this fear is, perhaps, unfounded, and in any case is a slightly different business model is the innovation that was not obvious.
I don't understand why it's so hard to "get" this.
It's just the latest in a long list of poorly-implemented file operations that includes these gems:
1. Shift-drag, which moves directories, but if there's not enough room, it stops halfway through, leaving two half-complete, completely now un-re-mergeable directory half-trees.
2. The famed (File) Explorer bug where Explorer starts doing things such that, once it starts, you can't delete a folder without a reboot because it gives you a "file is in use" error -- along with the highly offensive suggestion to "please close the application in order to delete the file", which you can't do because it's Explorer. Ok, you can kill Explorer and (from the Task Manager window, do Run->explorer, but that's hardly obvious.)
3. The attempts to keep idiot users from deleting files in use prevents people from being able to delete virus files and the like. In the olden days, you could do option-drag the file to the trash and clobber it even if it was open, but MS changed that to "help" the situation.
AOL can die like pigs in Hell. I cancelled them a year ago spring, and by August they were calling me up demanding about $60 in back payment for a service I hadn't actually used in over a year. Seems they didn't actually cancel me for god only knows what reason (other than clerical errors that, like pricing inaccuracies in stores, probably benefit them mostly.)
> technologically enhanced agent Nathan Spencer is framed for a number of crimes by his > superiors and sentenced for execution. Fate intervenes, as an experimental terrorist > weapon is detonated in Ascension City on the day Spencer is to be executed. With the > city in ruins and Spencer uniquely equipped to handle the many skyscrapers, monorails, > and suspended roadways, the government reluctantly turns to its imprisoned bionic commando for help.
"Unfortunately," the story continues, "Nathan is nowhere to be found, having taken full advantage of the wide-open, non-linear sandbox-like nature of the game. All the agent sent to retrieve Nathan can find is 'pwn3d, suxxorz!' scrawled on a partially collapsed wall of the prision."
Exactly. If I were the companies, I'd say, look, laws you, Congress, created, allows the president to define things as secret for national security reasons. If you want to crack open one of them, clarify the laws such that Congress may interrogate into said secrets at its whim. Otherwise, get lost.
> marking the first time this type of advanced encryption will be used for > election protection purposes. "We would like to provide optimal security > conditions for the work of counting the ballots..."
Frank: Pssst! Got our moles in position?
Joe: Yep.
Election Official: Let the undefeatable election system counting commence!
> The Korea-based sites...are responsible for most of the country's estimated $1bn annual trade in virtual gold
What
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> A computer will never beat a kid possessed by the ghost of an Edo period Spirit! [wikipedia.org]
That in and of itself is an important philosophical development because it indicates the physical substrate underlying the spirit, whatever it is, supports computations in excess of those proposed by the Church-Turing thesis. That further indicates reality itself (at least the larger reality which includes that spirit world and this one) involves transfinite computational processes that we currently believe impossible.
Can't prove it? Oh come on! There's 14 of these for sale on eBay already!
Anyone who's developed electronics know beta crap you give to the customer (generals, in this case) gets onto eBay long before it's actually put into production.
> Grey goes on to point out that this is less true of 2D titles; he's primarily talking about 3D games here.
Not necessarily. While this may be true of things like tetris or a block-bustout or pong type game, neither Lode Runner nor Pitfall seemed too good in their more modern reincarnations. They had lost their charm somehow.
And things like Quake also lost their charm in versions II, to say nothing of III and IV.
I have my own ideas on Quake -> Quake II. The management went the wrong way in many decisions.
- They got rid of rocket jumping as an abomination, then added it back in, as a hack, rather than as a natural result of a good physics.
- The rocket launcher's launch was whiney instead of a good powerful pop.
- The grenade launcher launched a glowing sweet potato, rather than a cool grenade with dual glowing red rings around it.
- Furthermore, they, wrongly, listened to some whiney players who, get this, didn't want it bouncing around so they could have more accurate placement. Great. Instead of launching a wild metal thing bouncing around g'donk-g'donk-g'donk-g'donk, now it ejected a cross between a sweet potato and a turd that plopped there.
- The cool grappling hook was now a motorized, mechanical monstrosity with a whiney motor.
- Evil witch symbol pentagram of protection changed to a shield to, presumably, avoid complaints by Christian groups. The less said about this bastardization the better.
Half of that's sound effects. What part of Trent Reznor-knew-what-he-was-doing didn't you guys get?!?!?
Redo the game's core mechanics? Come on, how hard is it to implement big meat bags with taunt, healers, blasters, and retarded AI that recognizes none of this?
...because I was just thinking the other day, if there's anything that'll improve Leave Britney Alone, it's Leave Britney Alone with an ad for vaginal hygiene products scrolling across the bottom.
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> And it only took many many years to remove what would have been obvious to the most incompetent web developer.
And this is a truly embarassing, sad development.
The fact remains that it was not obvious to sell a thing without a confirmation popup. Oh, now it is. Because of efforts like that.
But back then, no programmer would ever sell a thing with one click for fear the user accidently clicked the button. That this fear is, perhaps, unfounded, and in any case is a slightly different business model is the innovation that was not obvious .
I don't understand why it's so hard to "get" this.
It's just the latest in a long list of poorly-implemented file operations that includes these gems:
1. Shift-drag, which moves directories, but if there's not enough room, it stops halfway through, leaving two half-complete, completely now un-re-mergeable directory half-trees.
2. The famed (File) Explorer bug where Explorer starts doing things such that, once it starts, you can't delete a folder without a reboot because it gives you a "file is in use" error -- along with the highly offensive suggestion to "please close the application in order to delete the file", which you can't do because it's Explorer. Ok, you can kill Explorer and (from the Task Manager window, do Run->explorer, but that's hardly obvious.)
3. The attempts to keep idiot users from deleting files in use prevents people from being able to delete virus files and the like. In the olden days, you could do option-drag the file to the trash and clobber it even if it was open, but MS changed that to "help" the situation.
AOL can die like pigs in Hell. I cancelled them a year ago spring, and by August they were calling me up demanding about $60 in back payment for a service I hadn't actually used in over a year. Seems they didn't actually cancel me for god only knows what reason (other than clerical errors that, like pricing inaccuracies in stores, probably benefit them mostly.)
> technologically enhanced agent Nathan Spencer is framed for a number of crimes by his
> superiors and sentenced for execution. Fate intervenes, as an experimental terrorist
> weapon is detonated in Ascension City on the day Spencer is to be executed. With the
> city in ruins and Spencer uniquely equipped to handle the many skyscrapers, monorails,
> and suspended roadways, the government reluctantly turns to its imprisoned bionic commando for help.
"Unfortunately," the story continues, "Nathan is nowhere to be found, having taken full advantage of the wide-open, non-linear sandbox-like nature of the game. All the agent sent to retrieve Nathan can find is 'pwn3d, suxxorz!' scrawled on a partially collapsed wall of the prision."
Exactly. If I were the companies, I'd say, look, laws you, Congress, created, allows the president to define things as secret for national security reasons. If you want to crack open one of them, clarify the laws such that Congress may interrogate into said secrets at its whim. Otherwise, get lost.
> marking the first time this type of advanced encryption will be used for
> election protection purposes. "We would like to provide optimal security
> conditions for the work of counting the ballots..."
Frank: Pssst! Got our moles in position?
Joe: Yep.
Election Official: Let the undefeatable election system counting commence!
> The patent apparently has to do with "dissipative ceramic bonding tips",
Oh, come on! They'll let people patent any stupid, brutally obvious thing nowadays. Patent pending silverware icon! Patent pending silverware icon!
>:(
> Bethesda Rolls Out Final Oblivion Content Addition
In the new content, one cutscent flashback has Captain Picard relating how he "really, really hates them velveteen robe thingies".
As usual, you people are missing the forest for the trees. If you play their game, you have already lost:
> what would make Manhunt 2 acceptable to the BBFC?
How about electing different politicians?
> The Korea-based sites...are responsible for most of the country's estimated $1bn annual trade in virtual gold
What
The
Fuck
!!!!!!!!!11!1!1eleventyone!!1!
> A computer will never beat a kid possessed by the ghost of an Edo period Spirit! [wikipedia.org]
That in and of itself is an important philosophical development because it indicates the physical substrate underlying the spirit, whatever it is, supports computations in excess of those proposed by the Church-Turing thesis. That further indicates reality itself (at least the larger reality which includes that spirit world and this one) involves transfinite computational processes that we currently believe impossible.
Bewb.
If it's built-in, it may be using a chunk of normal RAM as video RAM, in which case it would be faster to use a normal RAM virtual disc.
Can't prove it? Oh come on! There's 14 of these for sale on eBay already!
Anyone who's developed electronics know beta crap you give to the customer (generals, in this case) gets onto eBay long before it's actually put into production.
Come on, there's work to be done yet!
There's always translating the Marvel character Juggernaut's page into Klingon...
What part of cut the antenna cord to OnStar don't you guys think the thieves will be including in 4.2 of the 60 seconds?
> Grey goes on to point out that this is less true of 2D titles; he's primarily talking about 3D games here.
Not necessarily. While this may be true of things like tetris or a block-bustout or pong type game, neither Lode Runner nor Pitfall seemed too good in their more modern reincarnations. They had lost their charm somehow.
And things like Quake also lost their charm in versions II, to say nothing of III and IV.
I have my own ideas on Quake -> Quake II. The management went the wrong way in many decisions.
- They got rid of rocket jumping as an abomination, then added it back in, as a hack, rather than as a natural result of a good physics.
- The rocket launcher's launch was whiney instead of a good powerful pop.
- The grenade launcher launched a glowing sweet potato, rather than a cool grenade with dual glowing red rings around it.
- Furthermore, they, wrongly, listened to some whiney players who, get this, didn't want it bouncing around so they could have more accurate placement. Great. Instead of launching a wild metal thing bouncing around g'donk-g'donk-g'donk-g'donk, now it ejected a cross between a sweet potato and a turd that plopped there.
- The cool grappling hook was now a motorized, mechanical monstrosity with a whiney motor.
- Evil witch symbol pentagram of protection changed to a shield to, presumably, avoid complaints by Christian groups. The less said about this bastardization the better.
Half of that's sound effects. What part of Trent Reznor-knew-what-he-was-doing didn't you guys get?!?!?
Redo the game's core mechanics? Come on, how hard is it to implement big meat bags with taunt, healers, blasters, and retarded AI that recognizes none of this?
Ok, I'm going to risk a massive Troll slam, but my trigger finger's just too itchy.
> Nominate SysAdmin of the Year
With real programmers around, isn't this kind of like the NIT tournament, the battle to be the 65th best college basketball team in the country?
> UK Moves To Allow Human Hybrid Experiments
Ha! Contrary to America-haters' bitchin' about George W. Bush, rural America has been engaged in human animal hybrid experiments for generations.
Yeah! "Tar" and feather him! Slay! Kill! Exec him! Stick a fork in it, he's done!
...because I was just thinking the other day, if there's anything that'll improve Leave Britney Alone, it's Leave Britney Alone with an ad for vaginal hygiene products scrolling across the bottom.
I wonder where the Bible predicts this will happen.
Update: 10/09 18:08 GMT by Impy: Oh, wait. That wasn't peer reviewed, either.
"Hmmmm...maybe those wings were designed to look cool, but aren't actually very aerodynamic."
"Ya. I'm sure we'll have better luck with the Tie fighters."
Hey, Hymenless Mary Carpenter, how ya doin'?
God is the ultimate Anonymous Coward -- he has infinite ability, but uses it to hide from our scientific tests with mathematical certitude.