I actually am stuck with such a version right now. And yeah, I feel your pain. On the other hand, I'd still rather use it (inconsistency and warts and all) than PHP for pretty much everything that doesn't involve lots of passing off to other processes (everything I do, pretty much).
You don't *have* to use global vars for custom tags, by the way, although the loathsome crap which is fusebox has people doing that.
Of course it's reasonable. It's just like pointing out that the true convition of your beliefs is how you behave under duress, rather than how you behave when it doesn't matter.
The depth of a belief is how far you are willing to go to defend it. What does it take for your government to reduce your personal freedoms and liberties? More importantly, what does it take for them to *want* to? Going with the US example, nothing in the Patriot Act is new. The movers & shakers behind law enforcement have wanted those powers for decades. Ask a cop to talk about law enforcement and he won't give you a speech on how the preservation of personal freedom is his sacred trust, and the protection and defense of the constitution, etc. Cops aren't interested in that, not even good ones. Thats why we need to have things like judicial oversight, and transparency of complaints and disputes, so that the checks and balances designed to keep our government stable remain that way. The very *idea* of secret courts hearing secret evidence and issuing secret rulings should repulse anyone with any interest in a moral society.
Don't be a fucking retard. Iraq was one of the most prosperous nations in the Middle East before 10 years of sanctions destroyed it's economy. Right or wrong, a lot of Iraqi lay the blame for that at the feet of America.
There are a lot of people who're more comfortable with the monster we know. Hell, look at US foreign policy.
Islamic extremists are hardly the only people killing anyone in Iraq. Iraq was *not* a misogynist medieval theocracy under Saddam! Get your blind prejudice out of your ass and actually take a look around!
The US are not the good guys here. There aren't any good guys here. Especially when ignorant fucks like you spread this same diseased prejudice about the state of Iraq before the war, and especially before the sanctions. I half expect to start hearing people talking about the White Mans Burden. Current US policy is to play legal games so that we can torture and hold people in ways that should be illegal, but duck out through loopholes (gitmo, civilian (read: mercenary) "interrogation specialists", shipping suspects to Syria).
History will show whether or not the Iraqi invasion was better or worse for the country as a whole. I'm not prepared to make that judgement, and I'd pity our president for having made it if I thought the import of it actually touched him. The average Iraqi is substantially worse off today than he was before the invasion. Some (Kurds, most obviously) are much better off. Some are worse off but believe it's for the better and move on. A great many are just pissed off.
Are you seriously going to tell people that the US is better because we don't kill and torture as many people? Thats our big claim to fame as the moral guiding light who will bring true democracy to Iraq?
It'd be nice if it allowed a little more control over the built in session management though. The cookie it writes is persistent, not per session, and theres no built in way to change that.
URL session variables suck, though. Any time you can't reliably and safely cut & paste or bookmark a URL, your website is sucking.
The pleasure button has been a staple of sci-fi and cyberpunk for pretty much as long as both genres have existed. I think they don't even let you in the club unless you've written a story based on one.
This works, but only if your customer is either stupid or beholden to you. The smart customer, in that situation, would have said something like, "That's nice. We'll give you a call after we discuss that", and called someone who wasn't going to lie to them. Of course, the need for the Mac port should have been specified up front, too.
Exactly whats being created here isn't perfectly clear, of course, but based on the description of the OPs preferred solution, I see no reason anyone competent couldn't implement this on a PC for no more cost than the Mac.
In batch processing like this Pythons speed is extremely unlikely to be an issue. Use PIL or ImageMagik for the image processing.
And if you provide a GUI, for gods sake don't do it with Tkinter, or anything that builds on top of it. It's like stabbing yourself in the balls. Use wxPython, or PythonCard, or Wax, or (if you can pay the license fees) PyQt. Not Tkinter. Ever.
I don't believe those items to be duped (at least not by the Chinese farm houses) because:
a) Farmers don't care about in-game cash per se. They care about it because they can sell it for real money. Therefore, they would dupe gold in preference to items, because they get a lot more product faster.
b) Gold is much easier to launder than an item, especially items you're selling on the AH.
If the dupe bug truly works as described, then it should be trivial for Blizzard to capture, assuming they aren't totally retared when it comes to systems design (something I am not convinced of, but whatever). It supposedly works because you managed to fault the instance server and are rolled back to slightly before you entered. Faulting the instance server should produce a logfile of some kind, and a character rollback *absolutely* should. Especially because exploiting rollback for duping is so obvious.
It should be simple to produce a list of character s who were repeatedly rolled back and investigate them manually.
There is nobody who can "jump right in" without a learning process. The myth that there is some sort of "easy to use" computer for people who don't know how to use a computer is a lie. It becomes even more of a lie as time goes by and more and more people grow up around (Windows) computers. There's some decent stuff in Apples HIG. But this particular one is stupid and useless. Almost as much as thier totally fucking retarded brushed metal theme.
If you're doing business in a state, then that state has jurisdiction over you, even if you're located in another state. So if a telemarketer calls someone in Ohio, that call comes under Ohio legislation, and they can be sued in Ohio court over it.
No, it proves that the ESRB, in response to a massive PR attack by politically motivated third parties, caved and changed the rating in an attempt to protect itself. Did you really think they were going to take a stand to protect Rockstar?
I'll bet you $100 dollars that Rockstar could have shipped the game, with the sex, and it would have sold, and it would have cleared the ESRB. They may have hidden it as a marketing technique, or it may have been a design decision, or any number of other reasons. God of War contains a sex mini-game and it passed ESRB just fine. Rockstar has not been 100% forthright on this issue, but I doubt that this was an attempt to bypass the ESRB - they could have gotten this on shelves perfectly legitimately.
Seriously. My 4 year old can right click. He picked it up in about a week, tops.
A context menu is direct manipulation. It's simple, intuitive, and obvious. It's rarely if ever overloaded. Right clicking on something gives you a list of things you can do with it. It's that simple. OS X, due to Jobs hard-on for the right mouse button, intentionally makes the context menu weak, in violation of well known and (almost) universally respected UI constraints. Eliminating double click would be a far better idea, and much more comforting to older and beginner users.
Assuming that the user is familiar with the underlying concept of the platform, in this case "You can right click on something to get a list of things you can do with it", there is *no* difference between things being in a context menu and things being in a global menu. In fact, the context menu is an example of the much-beloved Direct Manipulation. Apples guidelines are outright wrong here, and they're inconsistent as well - Apple would rather that you change (which involves hiding, mind) the menu bar rather than allow direct manipulation. This is at least as bad as "hiding" information in a context menu.
a) FPS AI is often not much more advanced than what you're describing.
b) The resource contraints of an MMO are *vastly* higher than an FPS - Try getting UT2k4 to play with 7000 bots. I've read reports that pathfinding alone eats something like 30% of the CPU in an MMO server.
Speedtrapping serves *no* public interest other than raising revenue for the county/state/whatever. Especially because you can't effectively speedtrap in areas where the road is actually legitimately dangerous - too many people actually slow down by themselves.
Didn't RTFA, did you? Actually, he was issued a citation by a cop who was a moron. *Or*, the cop was right, Google Maps is wrong, and he got off on the sly. Nothing to do with speeding - the ticket was for turning the wrong way down a one-way street, which Google showed to be a two-way.
As for speeding - speeding tickets are an informal tax. They're treated as revenue by pretty much every police department and local government in the US, and they plan techniques to increase that revenue. Some go overboard with downright deceptive speed trapping, but they *all* treat it as revenue.
The 55 mph speed limit had exactly jack shit to do with safety - the idea that it ever did was revisionist history. The 65mph speed limit has even less. I've never seen a convincing study that showed that speed, in and of itself, was (the|a) major contributing factor to accident rates.
No, they got the M rating based on the game as shipped. I can make my desktop background tiled pictures of enourmous penises with less effort than it would take anyone to unlock this content in GTA. Where the hell is the AO rating on Windows?
In fairness, Tycho has a point. We let a lot of crap slide. By all rights, GTA as shipped should have had an AO. Halo should have had an AO. The difference between the M rating and the AO rating is *one year* and a bunch of sales - it's stupid. It's exactly the same with movies, too. But as a culture we're hypocrites and every so often we need to sacrifice someone up the "think of the children" gods, and Rockstar certainly has put themselves out there to be the goat.
If you, as parent, approved of GTA for your child last week, and now don't because a patch downloaded from the internet can show you non-explicit sex, then you're a shitty excuse for a parent and a worse one for a human, and regardless what Rockstar did or didn't do, and regardless of they hypocritical bullshit pandering that the ESRB and our politicians do, you shouldn't have any say in what *any* child does. To anyone with half a brain, this is a non-issue.
The image of 11 year old pushers with stacks of CDs carefully hidden from the teacher is far too absurd for me to contemplate. It's far more likely this would spread via AIM/MSN and email, and mainly amongst teens who are more than capable of finding all the pornography they want otherwise. At least 80% of the places you'd get this patch from have pornographic advertisments.
It's certainly possible Rockstar planned this, and thier media statements have not been exactly forthright, but the argument that this somehow makes the game racier than it was before is bullshit, and, more importantly, any argument based on the idea that this is somehow dangerous to children, or that it exposes them to pornography, is an outright lie.
Due largely to the popularity of Windows, almost every signifigant Linux application is ported to Windows. The exceptions are when it requires low-level systems knowledge or integration thats harder or impossible on windows (stuff like efence), or when the Linux software was addressing a need that had been fulfilled in Windows (KDE/Gnome, for example).
The *vast* majority of the software I use runs on at least 2 platforms, one of which is Windows. The exceptions are almost always Windows only.
I was just bitching about this the other day. Now, as a Win32 programmer, I know why it does that. But I don't care. It's dumb and it's user-antagonizing, and it's a classic, perfect example of shitty UI design.
For what it's worth, there's something like 200 million MMO players in Asia. It's quite a bit bigger there than in the US.
Griefing is a problem in MMOs. But it's not related to the "no-life" issue, except tangentally. Gameplay balance to prevent griefing has nothing to do with balancing the percieved inequality between casual and hardcore players.
In the interests of full disclosure - I've been playing online games for more than 10 years now, most of them in the same game. I don't play nearly the hours I did when I was a teenager, but I still play a lot more than the "casual" player does (but still less than most people watch TV). I've been through a lot of discussions about griefing, and how casual players can't compete, and omg you must have no life because you're the highest level. Casual players absolutely *do* focus on that. The kind of griefing you're talking about is actually fairly rare and doesn't exist in well designed games - WoW doesn't suffer from it, for example. An important thing for the casual gamer is to avoid the PVP focus- almost everything I said goes out the window there. In a PVP environment, you're competing directly with other players and if you can't muster the resources to play on thier level they can and will stomp you. Whining about it is still useless, just like complaining that Arnold Palmer kicked your ass at golf, and thats why games that care about the casual user provide a non-PvP experience.
It is extremely common for Python code to pass callables about. It's just not done with blocks and lamdas - it's a different style of programming. I prefer the Pythonic way, I think it's more readable and it lends itself better to maintainability and refactoring. I have no problem with people who prefer the more classic Ruby functional approach, but to claim that Pythons functional programming or HOF abilities are weaker because of the second class lambda is false. Functional programing is simply *different* in Python than it is in Ruby.
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You don't *have* to use global vars for custom tags, by the way, although the loathsome crap which is fusebox has people doing that.
Of course it's reasonable. It's just like pointing out that the true convition of your beliefs is how you behave under duress, rather than how you behave when it doesn't matter.
The depth of a belief is how far you are willing to go to defend it. What does it take for your government to reduce your personal freedoms and liberties? More importantly, what does it take for them to *want* to? Going with the US example, nothing in the Patriot Act is new. The movers & shakers behind law enforcement have wanted those powers for decades. Ask a cop to talk about law enforcement and he won't give you a speech on how the preservation of personal freedom is his sacred trust, and the protection and defense of the constitution, etc. Cops aren't interested in that, not even good ones. Thats why we need to have things like judicial oversight, and transparency of complaints and disputes, so that the checks and balances designed to keep our government stable remain that way. The very *idea* of secret courts hearing secret evidence and issuing secret rulings should repulse anyone with any interest in a moral society.
There are a lot of people who're more comfortable with the monster we know. Hell, look at US foreign policy.
Islamic extremists are hardly the only people killing anyone in Iraq. Iraq was *not* a misogynist medieval theocracy under Saddam! Get your blind prejudice out of your ass and actually take a look around!
The US are not the good guys here. There aren't any good guys here. Especially when ignorant fucks like you spread this same diseased prejudice about the state of Iraq before the war, and especially before the sanctions. I half expect to start hearing people talking about the White Mans Burden. Current US policy is to play legal games so that we can torture and hold people in ways that should be illegal, but duck out through loopholes (gitmo, civilian (read: mercenary) "interrogation specialists", shipping suspects to Syria).
History will show whether or not the Iraqi invasion was better or worse for the country as a whole. I'm not prepared to make that judgement, and I'd pity our president for having made it if I thought the import of it actually touched him. The average Iraqi is substantially worse off today than he was before the invasion. Some (Kurds, most obviously) are much better off. Some are worse off but believe it's for the better and move on. A great many are just pissed off.
Are you seriously going to tell people that the US is better because we don't kill and torture as many people? Thats our big claim to fame as the moral guiding light who will bring true democracy to Iraq?
It'd be nice if it allowed a little more control over the built in session management though. The cookie it writes is persistent, not per session, and theres no built in way to change that.
URL session variables suck, though. Any time you can't reliably and safely cut & paste or bookmark a URL, your website is sucking.
The pleasure button has been a staple of sci-fi and cyberpunk for pretty much as long as both genres have existed. I think they don't even let you in the club unless you've written a story based on one.
Exactly whats being created here isn't perfectly clear, of course, but based on the description of the OPs preferred solution, I see no reason anyone competent couldn't implement this on a PC for no more cost than the Mac.
And if you provide a GUI, for gods sake don't do it with Tkinter, or anything that builds on top of it. It's like stabbing yourself in the balls. Use wxPython, or PythonCard, or Wax, or (if you can pay the license fees) PyQt. Not Tkinter. Ever.
b) Gold is much easier to launder than an item, especially items you're selling on the AH.
It should be simple to produce a list of character s who were repeatedly rolled back and investigate them manually.
There is nobody who can "jump right in" without a learning process. The myth that there is some sort of "easy to use" computer for people who don't know how to use a computer is a lie. It becomes even more of a lie as time goes by and more and more people grow up around (Windows) computers. There's some decent stuff in Apples HIG. But this particular one is stupid and useless. Almost as much as thier totally fucking retarded brushed metal theme.
If you're doing business in a state, then that state has jurisdiction over you, even if you're located in another state. So if a telemarketer calls someone in Ohio, that call comes under Ohio legislation, and they can be sued in Ohio court over it.
No, it proves that the ESRB, in response to a massive PR attack by politically motivated third parties, caved and changed the rating in an attempt to protect itself. Did you really think they were going to take a stand to protect Rockstar?
Oh, and the ratings system, as with movies, is 100% voluntary. There is no legality involved here.
I'll bet you $100 dollars that Rockstar could have shipped the game, with the sex, and it would have sold, and it would have cleared the ESRB. They may have hidden it as a marketing technique, or it may have been a design decision, or any number of other reasons. God of War contains a sex mini-game and it passed ESRB just fine. Rockstar has not been 100% forthright on this issue, but I doubt that this was an attempt to bypass the ESRB - they could have gotten this on shelves perfectly legitimately.
Seriously. My 4 year old can right click. He picked it up in about a week, tops.
A context menu is direct manipulation. It's simple, intuitive, and obvious. It's rarely if ever overloaded. Right clicking on something gives you a list of things you can do with it. It's that simple. OS X, due to Jobs hard-on for the right mouse button, intentionally makes the context menu weak, in violation of well known and (almost) universally respected UI constraints. Eliminating double click would be a far better idea, and much more comforting to older and beginner users.
Assuming that the user is familiar with the underlying concept of the platform, in this case "You can right click on something to get a list of things you can do with it", there is *no* difference between things being in a context menu and things being in a global menu. In fact, the context menu is an example of the much-beloved Direct Manipulation. Apples guidelines are outright wrong here, and they're inconsistent as well - Apple would rather that you change (which involves hiding, mind) the menu bar rather than allow direct manipulation. This is at least as bad as "hiding" information in a context menu.
a) FPS AI is often not much more advanced than what you're describing.
b) The resource contraints of an MMO are *vastly* higher than an FPS - Try getting UT2k4 to play with 7000 bots. I've read reports that pathfinding alone eats something like 30% of the CPU in an MMO server.
Speedtrapping serves *no* public interest other than raising revenue for the county/state/whatever. Especially because you can't effectively speedtrap in areas where the road is actually legitimately dangerous - too many people actually slow down by themselves.
As for speeding - speeding tickets are an informal tax. They're treated as revenue by pretty much every police department and local government in the US, and they plan techniques to increase that revenue. Some go overboard with downright deceptive speed trapping, but they *all* treat it as revenue.
The 55 mph speed limit had exactly jack shit to do with safety - the idea that it ever did was revisionist history. The 65mph speed limit has even less. I've never seen a convincing study that showed that speed, in and of itself, was (the|a) major contributing factor to accident rates.
In fairness, Tycho has a point. We let a lot of crap slide. By all rights, GTA as shipped should have had an AO. Halo should have had an AO. The difference between the M rating and the AO rating is *one year* and a bunch of sales - it's stupid. It's exactly the same with movies, too. But as a culture we're hypocrites and every so often we need to sacrifice someone up the "think of the children" gods, and Rockstar certainly has put themselves out there to be the goat.
If you, as parent, approved of GTA for your child last week, and now don't because a patch downloaded from the internet can show you non-explicit sex, then you're a shitty excuse for a parent and a worse one for a human, and regardless what Rockstar did or didn't do, and regardless of they hypocritical bullshit pandering that the ESRB and our politicians do, you shouldn't have any say in what *any* child does. To anyone with half a brain, this is a non-issue.
It's certainly possible Rockstar planned this, and thier media statements have not been exactly forthright, but the argument that this somehow makes the game racier than it was before is bullshit, and, more importantly, any argument based on the idea that this is somehow dangerous to children, or that it exposes them to pornography, is an outright lie.
The *vast* majority of the software I use runs on at least 2 platforms, one of which is Windows. The exceptions are almost always Windows only.
I was just bitching about this the other day. Now, as a Win32 programmer, I know why it does that. But I don't care. It's dumb and it's user-antagonizing, and it's a classic, perfect example of shitty UI design.
Griefing is a problem in MMOs. But it's not related to the "no-life" issue, except tangentally. Gameplay balance to prevent griefing has nothing to do with balancing the percieved inequality between casual and hardcore players.
In the interests of full disclosure - I've been playing online games for more than 10 years now, most of them in the same game. I don't play nearly the hours I did when I was a teenager, but I still play a lot more than the "casual" player does (but still less than most people watch TV). I've been through a lot of discussions about griefing, and how casual players can't compete, and omg you must have no life because you're the highest level. Casual players absolutely *do* focus on that. The kind of griefing you're talking about is actually fairly rare and doesn't exist in well designed games - WoW doesn't suffer from it, for example. An important thing for the casual gamer is to avoid the PVP focus- almost everything I said goes out the window there. In a PVP environment, you're competing directly with other players and if you can't muster the resources to play on thier level they can and will stomp you. Whining about it is still useless, just like complaining that Arnold Palmer kicked your ass at golf, and thats why games that care about the casual user provide a non-PvP experience.
It is extremely common for Python code to pass callables about. It's just not done with blocks and lamdas - it's a different style of programming. I prefer the Pythonic way, I think it's more readable and it lends itself better to maintainability and refactoring. I have no problem with people who prefer the more classic Ruby functional approach, but to claim that Pythons functional programming or HOF abilities are weaker because of the second class lambda is false. Functional programing is simply *different* in Python than it is in Ruby.