It's as stupid as when you have a conference *in Germany* with 1000 *German* attendants, and *one non-German* comes into the room: They all start to talk english.
My guess is that they still are ashamed of their own country, language and so on. You know... someone could call them Nazis for even thinking of the possibility of liking your own country. Normally that someone is a German too. Go figure...
Do you even realize that real databases have composite constraints, allowing arbitrary constraining and checking of all ingoing data, to a level where the problem of bad input data goes nearly completely away? That way you can keep your logic layer free from data layer checks.
I am a game developer, and in my eyes the most successful games platform out there is... Kongregate. Seriously. Those games make more fun than the graphical hailstorm of PC and console games with crappy mechanics and non-existant gameplay ideas. xkcd said is best, but I don't have the link handy. With the new donation model on Kongregate, I see a bright future for them. If only they would allow other platforms than Flash. Small executables for the desktop PC and consoles. Of course, there are homebrew channels for every console and on the PC you can do what you like anyway. But it's not far as round, well-working and organized.
If I could, I would invest in Kongregate. (I'm already investing in myself.:)
Well, who stops you from submitting a Greasemonkey script that replaces the CSS files to userscripts.org? It's actually very very easy to do. (As long as you know how to use a CSS editor, the CSS docs and maybe a bit of JS.)
I think keyboard bindings and some useful dynamics are nice. But there still are many ways to read the site without any JavaScript. One of them is the RSS reader included in Thunderbird. The whole "I want to have the highest rated comment on the top, and the rest cascading (not flat)" is not working anymore since that crappy new system. Even on links from Thunderbird that open in Firefox. I still get old input boxes in old styles.
When will you finally create a way to detect what comments are on the same depth level, without having to open the thing in Firefox?
Hey, I heard Slashdot is a write-only forum. So I thought I write something completely unrelated to the article, summary, title and comments I'm replying to.
I even tried to not relate it to the site and reality on/in which I am, but it's kinda hard.
In the spring and summer, just change them to "rising flowers". In autumn, to blown leaves.
Oh, and for slowing down pages, just create an infinite stream of plug-ins with giant dimensions. Something like this: applet, flash, image, applet, flash, image, applet, flash, image, etc. With 16k * 16k pixels size each.
Of course my elinks still would kick that site's ass, so be sure to add at least a terabyte of pure-text-compatible styled HTML entities and content late in the page that requests re-layouting.
You have never been to a real cruel war, have you? Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Nazis instantly come to mind. I would give you the phone number of that old Yugoslavian grandma that lived above me, who cried about exactly such situations. Amongst horrible things like roasting children on a spit, like pigs, or leading a whole village up to a hill, and letting them lie in the sun until they died from drying out. Women, children, even the dogs. But unfortunately she died last year.:(
If you think something like that can't happen, you haven't seen shit.
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It totally makes sense. The polticians are not stupid. They are very very good. Just not for you. Look at who profits from this, and you know why they did it.
Same as Obama getting most of his spendings from banks and the media industry. (Or so I heard. Don't rip me apart if you got contradicting facts.)
I think most people. Especially most men, just lost the ability to be real figures of respect. I don't mean figures of "do this or I'll kick your ass". I mean the "Obama effect"... and later real respect like you would have for a wise leader.
If you are good, you can even keep this respect when they get into puberty. Of course most parents fail epically an that moment. Old tribes have rituals for exactly this "becoming a man/women" thing. And I think it would be very cool if I would have had to prove myself in a challenge when I was 13, to become accepted as a grown up when proven. Maybe even more than one challenge. One at puberty. One at 16. One at 18. Something like that. For different parts of acceptance.
If talented children would get the right to take on a challenge earlier, and with government support (so that if you win the challenge you get the right to drink beer, watch X-rated movies and things like that)... man would they work hard to grow up and win that challenge.
Of course the most important aspect would be to be 100% totally fair. Which I can's see many parents doing, because of missing competences in themselves.
Also, the challenges should take a long time to complete, so that cheating does not help much. Done right, this could be the most fun, children ever had.:)
It is scientifically well known, that every form of entertainment is in fact a subset of what games are. And it always will be. So your arguments are right.
I think you can say that this is, because theoretically, a game can perfectly simulate the whole reality. Including watching movies, listening to music/radio, reading books/magazines, sitting in a rollercoaster, having sex, and so on, and so forth. (If they do this better or worse right now, is irrelevant to the point.)
You can't. And that is why you should state something like "I did not notice any virus-like behavior. And I do/run X, Y and Z." and never "I did not get viruses."
Same thing as the difference between "This program has no bugs." (impossible to prove) and "There are no known bugs in this program." (Suffices, if you or your users actually searched for them for some time.)
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It's as stupid as when you have a conference *in Germany* with 1000 *German* attendants, and *one non-German* comes into the room: They all start to talk english.
My guess is that they still are ashamed of their own country, language and so on. You know... someone could call them Nazis for even thinking of the possibility of liking your own country. Normally that someone is a German too. Go figure...
I again recommend Rhabarberbarbara as a funny example of this. ^^
Don't you realize it? Then it would relate to Slashdot! Now we wouldn't want that, would we? ^^
So you must be new here, to not realize, that your list, is the definition of what Slashdot really is. ;)
Do you even realize that real databases have composite constraints, allowing arbitrary constraining and checking of all ingoing data, to a level where the problem of bad input data goes nearly completely away?
That way you can keep your logic layer free from data layer checks.
I am a game developer, and in my eyes the most successful games platform out there is... Kongregate.
Seriously. Those games make more fun than the graphical hailstorm of PC and console games with crappy mechanics and non-existant gameplay ideas.
xkcd said is best, but I don't have the link handy. With the new donation model on Kongregate, I see a bright future for them.
If only they would allow other platforms than Flash. Small executables for the desktop PC and consoles.
Of course, there are homebrew channels for every console and on the PC you can do what you like anyway. But it's not far as round, well-working and organized.
If I could, I would invest in Kongregate. (I'm already investing in myself. :)
Well, who stops you from submitting a Greasemonkey script that replaces the CSS files to userscripts.org?
It's actually very very easy to do. (As long as you know how to use a CSS editor, the CSS docs and maybe a bit of JS.)
Exactly. I use the German NEO 2.0 layout. Which is much much better than Dvorak. With 6 shift levels. (Seriously!) And my QWERTY-line goes XVLCWK.
Well. We can always create the "F.U. Malda, this is my web, and I will have it my way" Greasemonkey/Firefox extension. ^^
I think keyboard bindings and some useful dynamics are nice. But there still are many ways to read the site without any JavaScript.
One of them is the RSS reader included in Thunderbird. The whole "I want to have the highest rated comment on the top, and the rest cascading (not flat)" is not working anymore since that crappy new system. Even on links from Thunderbird that open in Firefox. I still get old input boxes in old styles.
When will you finally create a way to detect what comments are on the same depth level, without having to open the thing in Firefox?
Oh yeah, and e tokk my ablity to speel korektily, two...
And evalNum("googol"++plexes) sides, where
plexes = "plex" ++ plexes
as ++ bs = string concatenation
Oh yeah. he can count to infinite. And beyond!
YES! NO!
Mmmmhh... Romans...
-- Obelix Simpson
Hey, I heard Slashdot is a write-only forum. So I thought I write something completely unrelated to the article, summary, title and comments I'm replying to.
I even tried to not relate it to the site and reality on/in which I am, but it's kinda hard.
Am I doing well in blending in?
Whoooosh...
You simply aren't creative enough.
In the spring and summer, just change them to "rising flowers". In autumn, to blown leaves.
Oh, and for slowing down pages, just create an infinite stream of plug-ins with giant dimensions. Something like this: applet, flash, image, applet, flash, image, applet, flash, image, etc.
With 16k * 16k pixels size each.
Of course my elinks still would kick that site's ass, so be sure to add at least a terabyte of pure-text-compatible styled HTML entities and content late in the page that requests re-layouting.
You have never been to a real cruel war, have you? Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Nazis instantly come to mind. :(
I would give you the phone number of that old Yugoslavian grandma that lived above me, who cried about exactly such situations. Amongst horrible things like roasting children on a spit, like pigs, or leading a whole village up to a hill, and letting them lie in the sun until they died from drying out. Women, children, even the dogs.
But unfortunately she died last year.
If you think something like that can't happen, you haven't seen shit.
TSCHOOO TSCHOOOOOOOOOOOOO *SPLAT* OOOOOOOOOOOOO...........
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It totally makes sense. The polticians are not stupid. They are very very good. Just not for you.
Look at who profits from this, and you know why they did it.
Same as Obama getting most of his spendings from banks and the media industry. (Or so I heard. Don't rip me apart if you got contradicting facts.)
Same as with children.
-- Hannibal
<ducks/>
Jackets? Bah. When was the last time you saw a toddler wear his whole house on his back?
Although to be fair, some satchels are not much lighter. (And they wonder why their children get back problems.)
I think most people. Especially most men, just lost the ability to be real figures of respect. I don't mean figures of "do this or I'll kick your ass". I mean the "Obama effect"... and later real respect like you would have for a wise leader.
If you are good, you can even keep this respect when they get into puberty. Of course most parents fail epically an that moment.
Old tribes have rituals for exactly this "becoming a man/women" thing. And I think it would be very cool if I would have had to prove myself in a challenge when I was 13, to become accepted as a grown up when proven. Maybe even more than one challenge. One at puberty. One at 16. One at 18. Something like that. For different parts of acceptance.
If talented children would get the right to take on a challenge earlier, and with government support (so that if you win the challenge you get the right to drink beer, watch X-rated movies and things like that)... man would they work hard to grow up and win that challenge.
Of course the most important aspect would be to be 100% totally fair. Which I can's see many parents doing, because of missing competences in themselves.
Also, the challenges should take a long time to complete, so that cheating does not help much. :)
Done right, this could be the most fun, children ever had.
And if your partner infects you, you will get sued for copyright violation.
Just as with their (eg wheat) grains. 10 years prison. Minimum.
It is scientifically well known, that every form of entertainment is in fact a subset of what games are. And it always will be. So your arguments are right.
I think you can say that this is, because theoretically, a game can perfectly simulate the whole reality. Including watching movies, listening to music/radio, reading books/magazines, sitting in a rollercoaster, having sex, and so on, and so forth. (If they do this better or worse right now, is irrelevant to the point.)
You can't. And that is why you should state something like "I did not notice any virus-like behavior. And I do/run X, Y and Z." and never "I did not get viruses."
Same thing as the difference between "This program has no bugs." (impossible to prove) and "There are no known bugs in this program." (Suffices, if you or your users actually searched for them for some time.)