Think of it like this: You give me your creditcardnumber for some transaction or another.
Someone says he's Dutch law enforcement (which is what I fall under), and asks me for the information. I can do that, because it doesn't cost me anything. And voila, someone you don't know has your private information, without your knowing about it.
The problem is not with law enforcement getting the information, it's eBay *giving away* information that doesn't belong to them.
Regardless of what you may or may not have signed, it's sleazy at best, illegal at worst.
Actually, he seems biased towards "Fix this feature that most people always use during development quickly now, so it at least works, instead of fixing it five months down the line."
I would have to heartily support that.
For a critical feature in a large project, having that feature in a workable state is more important during on-the-fly development and testing than having it in a perfect state. Perfection can be achieved later with a little discipline. Having it non-functional is just time-consuming.
The fact that it's considered a crude hack is all the more motivation to fix the code so you can remove it.
CDRom drives were there, and affordable, around '92 to '94ish. But prices dropped very rapidly in that time, so I don't doubt that a '90 drive cost you hundreds more.
I have a game magazine from '94, which had a few CD-Rom games reviewed (and even had a demo-CD! Wow!).
One of the games required 20MB harddrive space. Paraphrase the reviewer: "And that really defeats the whole purpose of owning a CD-Rom in the first place, doesn't it?".
Racist? No, actually, his post wasn't. All he suggested was removing foreign working from the job market, leaving more room for domestic workers. Whether domestic workers would be able to fill the gap that would arise would be a question up for debate.
However, you cannot seem to debate it. All you seem to be doing is twisting his words and injecting 'racist' terms, not to mention a whole shitload of prejudice against Americans, and a bit of good faith in the educational system of a country that, for all intents and purposes, is flat on its ass, economically.
curry eating geeks [...] Brown faced little bastards [...]
Whose words were that, precisely? Do you even realize that not all H1B visa owners are Indian?
Now, this is of course a grossly broad brush to apply to an entire country
No shit. And that invalidates your entire point.
The whole goal of offering a work visa (instead of making them naturalized citizens) is to keep it temporary.
Beta means that pretty much all the functionality has been implemented, it has been put together more or less cohesively, and that you're on a bughunt.
That means that basic things, like how the game looks and behaves, should be implemented and functional (though not guaranteed bug-free).
Hell, walk routines for characters should be mostly functional by alpha stage.
'Simply' no self-esteem? And alcoholics are just stupid fucking slobs who need to lay off the sauce, eh? Talk about insulting, you insensitive clod.
Having had a mean active presence of 10+ hours a day on a MUD, displacing sleep until 4-5am while still participating in school, I still wouldn't call it an addiction. But it did displace regular activities, upsetting my sleep rhythm, and partially ruining my first year in university.
Was it an addiction, though? I logged on first thing in the morning, between classes, and when I got home. You call it.
"You have a message waiting" (or similar) leading to Bonzi Buddy installation differs much from a commercial merely implying something that is obviously false.
If you see "You have a message waiting", it is to be expected that there is, indeed, a message waiting for you.
Except for my gaming needs, I'd like a small (physically), extensible, *low-noise* little PC, with a comfortable screen and a decent keyboard.
It seems to me like the low-noise requirement is starting to appeal to more and more people. Hell, else the Via C3 would have been laughed at in *every* review it's gotten.
I'm currently thinking of getting an (otherwise worthless) Epia C3 933MHz box for server duties, provided I can hang my harddrives in there and keep those silent a bit.
Oh, where are you, Transmeta, with halfway decent performance low-noise/heat solutions?
Paraphrased: For every desired result of any action you take, there will be ten more results which you do not predict.
Anyway, one of the problems with this is that more icebergs will break off and start floating down into the Atlantic during late summer that will still be there come winter. Part of the Atlantic is the Gulf Stream, which is what provides European coastal nations with moderate winters, despite our latitude. Many icebergs in a warm flow of water will cause that flow of water to cool down, giving us Europeans colder winters.
Given that we're on the same latitude as southern parts of Canada (and therefore northern parts of the US), it may be an indication of things to come.
Hell, can't we just dig a canal through the middle east, the Afghanistan area, and India? I mean, it's only a few thousand kilometers, and doesn't require screwing with our weather.
Maybe not for long -- still good
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It's on Slashdot, so everyone does a few pages, find out it's actually fairly tedious, and only a few will remain of the initial burst. They're at about 7000 for today right now, which is about 1000 more than what they've done so far, this month. Don't build your site based on these estimates.
Check back there in a few weeks to see how the site is doing. Hopefully quite well, since it is a splendid and worthwhile[1] effort.
[1]: And only in the preview did I realize I sounded like that woman in the HHGTTG.
A while (year or so) back on Discovery Channel I saw a documentary that had an item about sniper detection. It appeared to use a continuous feed of, I assume, stereoscopically arranged cameras, and was able to see a bullet whizzing past. Very quickly afterward, it could give a guesstimate of where the bullet was fired from.
This is obviously somewhat limited, in that you do need to know roughly from where the round is going to come. Ballistic weapons do have the benefit of generally being slower and bigger than bullets.
Does anyone know any more about this? Links, and all that? Or was I dreaming?
You're wrong. Part of the Games Industry are games like Europa Universalis 2 (drastically improved version of Europa Universalis 1), and the Total War series. These are not level based, these are not fragfests. These are true strategy and tactics (respectively) games, requiring thought and planning. So much so that I've heard rumour that most stores in the US won't carry it because it is too complex for most of the audience.
There are games like Tribes and Tribes 2, which are not totally fragfests, since they are improved if you use in-the-field tactics. You have objectives to take care of in a continuous game lasting until the score or time limit is reached.
These are games I like, and they are part of the same industry you're so callously slagging.
A large portion of the games business means catering to people's whims with stupid games, like Deer Hunter et al. But not everything. Discard the sewage, savor the gems.
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There's a difference between 'one guy' and a qualified expert in the field, if that was what it was.
If he gave actual warning (as opposed to a general disaster scenario), he should have been listened to.
If it was a general warning scenario, it is probably forgiveable.
Think of it like this: You give me your creditcardnumber for some transaction or another.
Someone says he's Dutch law enforcement (which is what I fall under), and asks me for the information. I can do that, because it doesn't cost me anything. And voila, someone you don't know has your private information, without your knowing about it.
The problem is not with law enforcement getting the information, it's eBay *giving away* information that doesn't belong to them.
Regardless of what you may or may not have signed, it's sleazy at best, illegal at worst.
Wouldn't that be 'impersonating a police officer', or federal agent, or something?
Or have I been watching too much TV again?
Actually, he seems biased towards "Fix this feature that most people always use during development quickly now, so it at least works, instead of fixing it five months down the line."
I would have to heartily support that.
For a critical feature in a large project, having that feature in a workable state is more important during on-the-fly development and testing than having it in a perfect state. Perfection can be achieved later with a little discipline. Having it non-functional is just time-consuming.
The fact that it's considered a crude hack is all the more motivation to fix the code so you can remove it.
CDRom drives were there, and affordable, around '92 to '94ish. But prices dropped very rapidly in that time, so I don't doubt that a '90 drive cost you hundreds more.
I have a game magazine from '94, which had a few CD-Rom games reviewed (and even had a demo-CD! Wow!).
One of the games required 20MB harddrive space. Paraphrase the reviewer: "And that really defeats the whole purpose of owning a CD-Rom in the first place, doesn't it?".
Ha. Haha. *snicker*
How many millions of kilometers away are the Voyager probes right now?
It ain't broadband, but data has been sent over their wireless connection.
I deperately wonder why such a useful device has remained unknown to me.
*scratches balls*
Do you see the problem there?
Anyway, the point is that your privacy should be secure enough not to require such draconian measures.
If done in the 'tradition' of Peter Jackson's movies, it certainly could be much worse. Much, much worse.
However, you cannot seem to debate it. All you seem to be doing is twisting his words and injecting 'racist' terms, not to mention a whole shitload of prejudice against Americans, and a bit of good faith in the educational system of a country that, for all intents and purposes, is flat on its ass, economically.
Whose words were that, precisely? Do you even realize that not all H1B visa owners are Indian? No shit. And that invalidates your entire point. The whole goal of offering a work visa (instead of making them naturalized citizens) is to keep it temporary.Beta means that pretty much all the functionality has been implemented, it has been put together more or less cohesively, and that you're on a bughunt.
That means that basic things, like how the game looks and behaves, should be implemented and functional (though not guaranteed bug-free).
Hell, walk routines for characters should be mostly functional by alpha stage.
I hereby request a domain for enthusiastic New Zealand golf fanatics: Tee.nz
I hope http://tee.nz/ will encourage more people to swing their clubs and go for a hole in one. Or even a birdy.
'Simply' no self-esteem? And alcoholics are just stupid fucking slobs who need to lay off the sauce, eh?
Talk about insulting, you insensitive clod.
Having had a mean active presence of 10+ hours a day on a MUD, displacing sleep until 4-5am while still participating in school, I still wouldn't call it an addiction. But it did displace regular activities, upsetting my sleep rhythm, and partially ruining my first year in university.
Was it an addiction, though? I logged on first thing in the morning, between classes, and when I got home. You call it.
Being a furriner to the US myself (Dutch), I am quite used to seeing USD, CAD and AUD, mainly because CAD and AUD is what I buy my DVDs in.
Though for the US I tend to use $, or US$ if the type of dollar could be in doubt. Can't we just settle on US$, CA$ and AU$?
"You have a message waiting" (or similar) leading to Bonzi Buddy installation differs much from a commercial merely implying something that is obviously false.
If you see "You have a message waiting", it is to be expected that there is, indeed, a message waiting for you.
Yeah, parsers died. Tragic.
> Pull lever.
Nope.
> Push lever.
Nope.
> Yank lever.
Nope.
> Twist lever.
Nope.
> Kick lever.
Nope.
> Yell obscenely at lever.
Nope.
> Wave chicken over lever.
You push the lever. Congratulations.
I'm currently considering a downgrade.
Except for my gaming needs, I'd like a small (physically), extensible, *low-noise* little PC, with a comfortable screen and a decent keyboard.
It seems to me like the low-noise requirement is starting to appeal to more and more people. Hell, else the Via C3 would have been laughed at in *every* review it's gotten.
I'm currently thinking of getting an (otherwise worthless) Epia C3 933MHz box for server duties, provided I can hang my harddrives in there and keep those silent a bit.
Oh, where are you, Transmeta, with halfway decent performance low-noise/heat solutions?
The police is not responsible for getting me reinforced windows either, but they'd be the ones to call if people were throwing bricks at my windows.
Paraphrased: For every desired result of any action you take, there will be ten more results which you do not predict.
Anyway, one of the problems with this is that more icebergs will break off and start floating down into the Atlantic during late summer that will still be there come winter. Part of the Atlantic is the Gulf Stream, which is what provides European coastal nations with moderate winters, despite our latitude. Many icebergs in a warm flow of water will cause that flow of water to cool down, giving us Europeans colder winters.
Given that we're on the same latitude as southern parts of Canada (and therefore northern parts of the US), it may be an indication of things to come.
Hell, can't we just dig a canal through the middle east, the Afghanistan area, and India? I mean, it's only a few thousand kilometers, and doesn't require screwing with our weather.
It's on Slashdot, so everyone does a few pages, find out it's actually fairly tedious, and only a few will remain of the initial burst. They're at about 7000 for today right now, which is about 1000 more than what they've done so far, this month. Don't build your site based on these estimates.
Check back there in a few weeks to see how the site is doing. Hopefully quite well, since it is a splendid and worthwhile[1] effort.
[1]: And only in the preview did I realize I sounded like that woman in the HHGTTG.
A while (year or so) back on Discovery Channel I saw a documentary that had an item about sniper detection. It appeared to use a continuous feed of, I assume, stereoscopically arranged cameras, and was able to see a bullet whizzing past. Very quickly afterward, it could give a guesstimate of where the bullet was fired from.
This is obviously somewhat limited, in that you do need to know roughly from where the round is going to come. Ballistic weapons do have the benefit of generally being slower and bigger than bullets.
Does anyone know any more about this? Links, and all that? Or was I dreaming?
You're wrong. Part of the Games Industry are games like Europa Universalis 2 (drastically improved version of Europa Universalis 1), and the Total War series. These are not level based, these are not fragfests. These are true strategy and tactics (respectively) games, requiring thought and planning. So much so that I've heard rumour that most stores in the US won't carry it because it is too complex for most of the audience.
There are games like Tribes and Tribes 2, which are not totally fragfests, since they are improved if you use in-the-field tactics. You have objectives to take care of in a continuous game lasting until the score or time limit is reached.
These are games I like, and they are part of the same industry you're so callously slagging.
A large portion of the games business means catering to people's whims with stupid games, like Deer Hunter et al. But not everything. Discard the sewage, savor the gems.
Not a problem, getting people to switch. All we need is Ellen Feiss to speak on our behalf.
Did he say "Robert Jordan, a second semester junior, requesting a second extension on his term paper..."?
Damn, that guy Jordan just can't finish anything on time, can he?