For the sake of argument, let's assume you're right, since I don't feel like arguing that point again. Why do I need any "legitimate development" when there are already tens of thousands of applications and games (native and emulated) that will run out-of-the-box from the debian-arm[el] repositories?
Yet another reason I cannot wait to get my hands on Pandora. My primary gaming handheld is currently a GP2X, but I am starting to outgrow it for non-gaming purposes.
Faulty analogy. I can (and do) filter comments differently than stories, in many different ways. This debunks the "all the same pairs of eyes" portion of your post. Also, there is a distinction in that by segregating the two, I (as a reader/commenter) am able to post a reply to one or the other in a clean way.
An intermittent connection, due to a long term power outage. My laptop worked fine, but without power I had no internet access. I picked up a connection and swapped out my laptop battery for a charged one each morning and evening on the way to refill our propane tanks. I used that short time to load every page that I had queued, and the time in between trips to read all the pages I had loaded (dozens) and queue new ones.
Incredibly slowly? I have surfed the web with latency times measured in *HOURS*. Thank god for tabbed browsing. Waiting 5-10 seconds for the turnaround on an email would hardly be slow at all.
Yeah, they did screw that up royally. The concept of balancing a 3-team game is so phenomenally simple that it defies belief that they failed as spectacularly as they did.
Because it is far easier to get "university degrees, a couple of IT certifications, and over ten years of work experience in the industry, with 2-4 years of verifiable employment with each employer, working with a wide range of technologies" without a shred of competence in our field than in most others.
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Any manager that manages people who [insert job here] and can't [insert task here] himself WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF GOOGLE* is in the wrong job.
The point is that the manager should be familiar enough with the concepts of the job that he can grasp the details when they are put in front of him.
* - assuming the industry in question implies a familiarity with google, for something like woodworking insert the appropriate source of information.
Obviously since no one thought it prudent to mention what game this post is about, it must be about CounterStrike, since those are the only people with the sort of tunnel vision to think that everyone else in the world plays the same and only game as them.
DDO had one nifty difference from its MMORPG competitors... The dungeons often had puzzle rooms, with typical classic small adventure puzzles like "rearrange the tiles on the floor", etc. I found them enjoyable, and sometimes I would even repeat the same dungeon just to play the puzzle again, even though I know I could find a flash version of the puzzle online to play over and over.
Welcome to wrongville, population You, most parents, and most teachers.
Punitive motivation may work, but as you pointed out it is not available for the most part to teachers. Have you ever considered *REWARDS*? Something as trivial as a single class period spent watching a movie can be significant motivation for many students. Do well on a test, get a pass to leave class early. Excel on a project, be exempt from in-class "practice" (read: busy work). These things are within a teacher's power, and most students would strive to achieve them.
And it will go to the owner of last@gmail.com too. There's a lot of accounts with simple names like richards@gmail.com or gonzales@gmail.com which get ALL e-mail sent to owners of a dotted mail, for example: juan.gonzales@gmail.com, john.richards@gmail.com.
Is this unclear in some way? He is claiming that mail to first.last@gmail.com is delivered to last@gmail.com, which is hopefully and almost certainly false.
I am aware of the period-ignoring feature, by which gmail treats Bob.Smith@ and Bo.bS.mith@ and BobSmith@ as the same person. That is not at issue. The parent claims that email sent to Bob.Smith@ is also delivered to [just] Smith@, which I believe to be false.
Note that cars in close proximity tend to roll the same on their dice, and one bad roll can put you in a worse "bracket" for the entire race, or one good roll in a better.
That's just it, the distance is moot. The race could be 2 miles or 200000 miles. If two cars are mostly evenly matched, which at least SOME of the cars in this race will be (although probably not the leaders), then their results will come down to the last (of many) random 30 second event. And the problems will cascade. Imagine the trip is mostly sunny, but with a few minutes of cloud cover that hits the leader on the first day. When the effects of that lost bit of power hit them, they could fall back into last place, and then be subject to future random events that affect the losers, not the leaders, despite having the best car.
I know you said this in jest, but it brings up a valid problem... A race such as this could come down to random luck with regards to the weather. I know cross country racing is so much more attention grabbing, but a 2400 mile circuit on a race track would be far more fair. Say one car is slightly behind the leader, approaching the finish, and both are running on battery reserves under cloud cover after traveling the whole race in virtually identical conditions. A short burst of sunshine on the trailing car could, completely at random, give it the win, despite it being some small amount less efficient/fast than the other car.
It's a matter of statistics. If a naive CAPTCHA stops 99% of spam attempts and your site only gets one spammer a week, it will seem really damn effective. But if you get 1000 spam attempts per week, then 99% will be insufficient. reCAPTCHA bumps that (hypothetical) 99% up to 99.999%, which solves a large number of the remaining problems, but still fails on sites that get millions of spam attempts per week.
Read it yourself. For the type of legislation that it is, it is surprisngly light reading. It is quite illegal for anyone to "robodial" a cell phone number. There isn't even an opt-in clause, when you get the local radio station to call you with school closings, they are breaking the law when their machine calls your cell, whether you asked for it or not.
Which is doubly illegal, at a minimum. Those people are liable for severe civil penalties. I just moved to GA and am familiarizing myself with the legal system here so that I can begin to exact my revenge on companies that autodial my cell phone number. And by "companies" I mean "political advocacy groups".
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For the sake of argument, let's assume you're right, since I don't feel like arguing that point again. Why do I need any "legitimate development" when there are already tens of thousands of applications and games (native and emulated) that will run out-of-the-box from the debian-arm[el] repositories?
Yet another reason I cannot wait to get my hands on Pandora. My primary gaming handheld is currently a GP2X, but I am starting to outgrow it for non-gaming purposes.
Faulty analogy. I can (and do) filter comments differently than stories, in many different ways. This debunks the "all the same pairs of eyes" portion of your post. Also, there is a distinction in that by segregating the two, I (as a reader/commenter) am able to post a reply to one or the other in a clean way.
An intermittent connection, due to a long term power outage. My laptop worked fine, but without power I had no internet access. I picked up a connection and swapped out my laptop battery for a charged one each morning and evening on the way to refill our propane tanks. I used that short time to load every page that I had queued, and the time in between trips to read all the pages I had loaded (dozens) and queue new ones.
Incredibly slowly? I have surfed the web with latency times measured in *HOURS*. Thank god for tabbed browsing. Waiting 5-10 seconds for the turnaround on an email would hardly be slow at all.
Yeah, they did screw that up royally. The concept of balancing a 3-team game is so phenomenally simple that it defies belief that they failed as spectacularly as they did.
why uuencode or mime? exif can contain binary blobs. see jpeg thumbnails.
Because it is far easier to get "university degrees, a couple of IT certifications, and over ten years of work experience in the industry, with 2-4 years of verifiable employment with each employer, working with a wide range of technologies" without a shred of competence in our field than in most others.
Any manager that manages people who [insert job here] and can't [insert task here] himself WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF GOOGLE* is in the wrong job.
The point is that the manager should be familiar enough with the concepts of the job that he can grasp the details when they are put in front of him.
* - assuming the industry in question implies a familiarity with google, for something like woodworking insert the appropriate source of information.
If the company considers salary information "highly confidential", they have bigger problems than their IT staff.
Obviously since no one thought it prudent to mention what game this post is about, it must be about CounterStrike, since those are the only people with the sort of tunnel vision to think that everyone else in the world plays the same and only game as them.
Awesome read. I wish this was required material for any judge presiding over the cases in question. I also wish for a pony.
DDO had one nifty difference from its MMORPG competitors... The dungeons often had puzzle rooms, with typical classic small adventure puzzles like "rearrange the tiles on the floor", etc. I found them enjoyable, and sometimes I would even repeat the same dungeon just to play the puzzle again, even though I know I could find a flash version of the puzzle online to play over and over.
Welcome to wrongville, population You, most parents, and most teachers.
Punitive motivation may work, but as you pointed out it is not available for the most part to teachers. Have you ever considered *REWARDS*? Something as trivial as a single class period spent watching a movie can be significant motivation for many students. Do well on a test, get a pass to leave class early. Excel on a project, be exempt from in-class "practice" (read: busy work). These things are within a teacher's power, and most students would strive to achieve them.
And it will go to the owner of last@gmail.com too. There's a lot of accounts with simple names like richards@gmail.com or gonzales@gmail.com which get ALL e-mail sent to owners of a dotted mail, for example: juan.gonzales@gmail.com, john.richards@gmail.com.
Is this unclear in some way? He is claiming that mail to first.last@gmail.com is delivered to last@gmail.com, which is hopefully and almost certainly false.
I am aware of the period-ignoring feature, by which gmail treats Bob.Smith@ and Bo.bS.mith@ and BobSmith@ as the same person. That is not at issue. The parent claims that email sent to Bob.Smith@ is also delivered to [just] Smith@, which I believe to be false.
Ads in gmail? Even legitimate users don't have those.
citation needed. seriously, what you describe would be a huge security/privacy hole, and I don't believe you.
Note that cars in close proximity tend to roll the same on their dice, and one bad roll can put you in a worse "bracket" for the entire race, or one good roll in a better.
That's just it, the distance is moot. The race could be 2 miles or 200000 miles. If two cars are mostly evenly matched, which at least SOME of the cars in this race will be (although probably not the leaders), then their results will come down to the last (of many) random 30 second event. And the problems will cascade. Imagine the trip is mostly sunny, but with a few minutes of cloud cover that hits the leader on the first day. When the effects of that lost bit of power hit them, they could fall back into last place, and then be subject to future random events that affect the losers, not the leaders, despite having the best car.
I know you said this in jest, but it brings up a valid problem... A race such as this could come down to random luck with regards to the weather. I know cross country racing is so much more attention grabbing, but a 2400 mile circuit on a race track would be far more fair. Say one car is slightly behind the leader, approaching the finish, and both are running on battery reserves under cloud cover after traveling the whole race in virtually identical conditions. A short burst of sunshine on the trailing car could, completely at random, give it the win, despite it being some small amount less efficient/fast than the other car.
It's a matter of statistics. If a naive CAPTCHA stops 99% of spam attempts and your site only gets one spammer a week, it will seem really damn effective. But if you get 1000 spam attempts per week, then 99% will be insufficient. reCAPTCHA bumps that (hypothetical) 99% up to 99.999%, which solves a large number of the remaining problems, but still fails on sites that get millions of spam attempts per week.
Read it yourself. For the type of legislation that it is, it is surprisngly light reading. It is quite illegal for anyone to "robodial" a cell phone number. There isn't even an opt-in clause, when you get the local radio station to call you with school closings, they are breaking the law when their machine calls your cell, whether you asked for it or not.
I am referring to the TCPA, a federal law. State politicians can go suck it.
Which is doubly illegal, at a minimum. Those people are liable for severe civil penalties. I just moved to GA and am familiarizing myself with the legal system here so that I can begin to exact my revenge on companies that autodial my cell phone number. And by "companies" I mean "political advocacy groups".