Couple of things.. the domains are still up, the ownership was just transfered pending further action. All the sites were asked to block access to KY citizens and did not. As far as i know, no damage has been done to anyone yet. (other than the gaming sites not paying out winnings?)
I can agree with you that they should act against the offending citizens, but can you imagine what that would take? It's much more efficient to cut it off at the source.
Note to Kentucky residents: There's an election only about 6 weeks from now. Quoted from wikipedia: "Kentucky is a commonwealth, meaning its government is run according to the common consent of its people.... Kentucky is also one of only five states that elects its state officials in odd numbered years... Kentucky holds elections for these offices every 4 years in the years preceding Presidential election years. Thus, the last year when Kentucky elected a Governor was 2007; the next gubernatorial election will occur in 2011."
and.. i'll go ahead and say the whole backwards comment is off the mark. I don't want to argue though.. but if you're curious at all, check out Kentucky. It says things like 46% of the population isn't affiliated with churches and medical stuff like KY did the first artificial heart transplant. It was the only neutral state in the Civil war, which is pretty interesting.
I can't comment on most of what you said.. but "They are guys who sell their freedom and are subordinated, relieved from personal responsibilities they are forced to kill or get killed. It is a burden not a virtue.".. that's just plain silly.
The Army isn't like a million men all led by one man. It's a hierarchy! Even if you are the lowest man you will sign for and be absolutely responsible for all your equipment. Then if you can prove via promotion boards that you aren't an idiot they promote you and you will be responsible for the lives and wellbeing of other soldiers. So on and so forth.
Contrary to the common belief that soldiers routinely kill people. Most soldiers (from Professional militaries of many nations) never see combat.
When Steam first came out it was horrible, hah. I say that with love though. I remember going to a 200+ person lan party a little after converting to Steam. The host didn't think of needing an external connection for Steam auth, let alone Steam downloading updates. Charlie Fox right there.
Also the internet back then wasn't what it is now. Downloading a Gig took forever. So Steam would convert your existing Half-Life install and then patch/update from there.
The Friends thing didn't work.. at all.. ever.
VAC sucked balls at first too. Cheaters everywhere.
But like most things Valve makes.. they fixed their mistakes and listened to customer complaints.
I'm a fan of Valve in general. I bought Half-Life when it was under the Sierra flag and everyone knew it was basically ID's Quake engine. Look how far Valve has come. Steam was a terrible mess in the beginning but they didn't lie about that, they explained why things were broken and told the community what they were fixing/improving. They said they would make TeamFortress 2, which at the time was unbelievable. It took them forever but damn did they do a great job. They honestly seem like a good gaming company.
But you could certainly be right.. it's possible that Valve would collapse before releasing a patch that disables the need to Auth and so forth. But i'd like to think someone would strike up the band as the ship is sinking for one final song.
I remember something about Halo originally being designed for the PC then msft bought it and had it ported to console, which was later changed into a PC game again?
I did enjoy the Dungeon Siege games though.. probably more because of Gas Powered Games than by Microsoft.
I hate litter and I hate to see people litter. They usually do it out of laziness. But i think your remark about plastic bags works against you rather than for you.
There is no real way to know how long plastic bags take to decompose.. as they have only been around like 50 years or something. Also, i think it's childish to assume a man-made material will decompose the same way a bannana peel would. It's fucking man made, man will probably have to unmake it too. That being said, i've seen plastic bags hanging in trees degrade very quickly compared to something you dig up. It might end up that plastic bags that were thrown on the ground will degrade faster under the sun/wind/rain then they will if you throw them away. That's kind of sick:(
My guess is because most of the equipment on the station is so old it's scary. A Serial connection is probably a requirement (i notice it has two serial connectors too, a 3 pin and the rs232). Also it has something else called "Space Wire Port" not sure what the heck that is?
Anyways, I doubt the serial ports are for peripherals. Probably for communicating with sensors and all sorts of random gadgets.
Just wanted to add to this that standard US military binos all have a reticle inside that you can use to mathematically determine distance to an object of known size. Like a tank or person for example. This type of rangefinder needs no batteries and doesn't increase the overall bino complexity by much.
That's one of the things i like about EVE online, people are almost driven together. Especially when traveling/living in dangerous areas.
Very often the populations of a few systems will band together to fight off raiders or to track down and kill a pirate. This sort of event usually spawns a new alliance and friends. Of course a new big alliance will attract a bigger enemy and then things get epic.
I honestly don't know what roads the government has paved, but i don't think very many. They pay civy outfits to do it i'm sure. Also i really think most government programs you have seen are local (city/state) programs. You know, like DMV, police, fire departments, heath inspectors. Also i'm pretty sure the US Army core of engineers is supposed to be really fucking great? They build dams, bridges, all sorts of things for the public. I don't know what kind of health care solutions are on the horizon, but i'm well taken care of. I'd like to share my health care story with you, if you don't mind.
Did some time in the Army and was honorably discharged. After returning from a year in Iraq i slowly became really sick. I was a civy then and didn't know what to do. So i drove up to a VA hospital and asked. They signed me up, took 10 minutes (seriously!). Like 6 blood tests later (mono, HIV, all sorts of cruft), needles in the neck, camera thing in the nose and down the throat, neck & chest X-ray, cat scan (kind of fun, btw), and a lymphnode biopsy, they told me i had Lymphoma. All this cost me $8 (US dollars) for some pain meds after the biopsy surgery. I'll cut the story there.. but the point is the Gov't already provides excellent health care to a percentage of the US people. I don't see why a similar program couldn't be expanded?
The people will obviously have to pay for it with taxes, but that should be optional. A citizen should be able to opt out and see any private doctor/hospital if they choose (and deal with all the insurance shenanigans and overpriced bs.. $5 for surgical gloves! seriously.)
You're looking at this the wrong way. Go start a 3 week trial through steam, join the Minmatar, buy a cheap ship (Rifter!) and cram all the autocannons and speed mods you can onto your frigate. Now head down to lowsec and pirate! kill some defenseless haulers moving ore, tackle yourself a pricey mining barge and ransom them! Sell intel, double deal, kill everyone you can. This is acceptable behavior in the game of eve.
I'd also like to point out that ship and module losses are permanent. This gives true value to combat. Your heart will pump, i promise.
Unless you like games full of meaningless grind, then by all means skip this.
I agree, it's amazing how many people queue up within eye-sight of the empty self-checkouts. It's great if you have tons of coupons or exotic fruit or something too.. there's nobody behind you to sigh absurdly loud or act like an asshat.
I like the self-checkout, it's fast and convenient. Kroger's works great, Walmart's isn't that good (i dislike the store a bit too, tbh).
But the small discount is probably doable if we take the money saved and convert it. Let's say they convert 2 normal lanes into 6 self-checkouts. That removes 1 employee (still need one to oversee the self-checkouts). Let's say 9 US dollars an hour is saved. You could get a discount of 15 cents US per minute. Ah, but wait, there is 6 self-service lanes which means you get 2.5 cents US per minute discount. Hardly worth it, imo.
If you have a spare box to play with (and has a decent processor) give Gentoo a try. A few weeks living with it and you'll be hooked. Great community too
That's just silly. You make it sound like the US owns Mars and all the scientific discoveries associated with the planet. A US citizen of reasonable intelligence and common sense would realize other nations or god willing civilian organizations will probe the planet in the near future. Trying to cover up something like "life on mars" is futile and foolish.
The poker game trojan sounds pretty lame too. The program must be downloaded and run first which pops open a quasi-phishing "error: type your password here to fix" message. Infection vectors seem key to how fast these things spread. Having a file mac users have to manually download first is slow/weak and i doubt the downloaded file would be manually copied to another machine and run.
hate to feed, but i'm really in the mood to argue a bit:)
If a rancher sees a predator on his land and shoots it. Is that an absurd practice? I doubt it.
If a rancher's livestock are grazing in public land and a few go missing from a predator. Would it be absurd for him to protect his stock by shooting the predator? If you said yes, then how about this. If another rancher comes and steals a few of his livestock. Is there not a mechanism in place to punish the offender?
But shooting endangered animals is seriously not cool.
I'll rant now, if you don't mind. You said "things seem to be going my way, long term." You're a fucking consumer. If you get a flat tire, you don't say hey.. let me try to fix this. You call AAA and consume a service. Urbanites typically embody the "use and throw away" culture.. talk about absurd practices. Try repairing your shit, recycle & compost, send a letter to some poor fuck in Iraq on Christmas, learn how to change your own oil/brakes/sparkplugs, help out your neighbors/community, learn a craft and building something useful.. could be repairing drywall, programming and contributing to an opensource project, making a doghouse instead of buying one, all kinds of stuff.
haha, don't you hate it when you get so offtopic and you just want to close the tab and cancel the post? Meh, i'd hate to waste typing all this though
The article doesn't really state that open source isn't documented(commented) very well. Just documented less. Even if their figures are correct, it's still overkill as far as i'm concerned. It's 3 comments in each 10 lines of code on average.
As you said "At least add one line to any function explaining what the function does, what its input is and what it returns." If 30% of your source is directly commented, you've probably done more than enough.
These numbers are probably wrong though.. they say it's 70% undocumented now compared to 30% in 2006? Rarely do i have to time to put comments over 70% of the program. But i admit, i don't even come close to representing a sample of programmers. So i really can't say what's comment overkill and what's minimalist. But that is a huge gap to have crossed from 2006-2007. Not to mention zero of their figures are exact. Especially the "audited between 300M to 500M lines of code" part. That reeks of some figures pulled from someone's ass.
You obviously have never played EVE. Teamwork and coordination are probably the key to pvp success in EVE.
Here is a youtube of some haulers(rather cheap industrial carebear ships) engaging and killing a rather expensive and extremely hard to catch & kill ship, a Vagabond Heavy Assault Cruiser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTn9EASiPMY
Ship price alone, the Vagabond is 100x more than one hauler. Which, i should point out, is gone forever. That particular ship is player created only, but even that doesn't go far enough to describe to complex process needed to construct a T2 ship.
But as to your statement that one class will always be overpowered, that doesn't apply here. There aren't classes as such. Not to mention tactics and how you deploy your weapons/Electronic Warfare will greatly affect the outcome. If you were to buy an old character, sell some GameTimeCards for in-game ISK (money) and bought the best damn faction ship and weapons in the game. Then take a trip to lowsec(i recommend Rancer) or 0.0 to kill lesser people with your uber character and items, i promise you will die horribly and permanently lose the ship, modules, and cargo (some items may survive, but no doubt looted). Real experience is necessary to survive in the game, the size of your wallet doesn't matter that much.
I don't know about any of the newer consoles, but i can believe it. I spent some time in a "3rd world country" and almost all media/content were copies. I think you could find one original disk in a 100. Though that was with movies, audio cds, and computer games. Consoles are bigger, not readily transported, require TVs, and need constant power (no batteries/rechargables), which doesn't make them very popular in a 3rd world country (at least in my view).
But in regards to the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, i don't seriously think anyone in a 3rd world country would even buy it, if there wasn't a source for the games. But if a disk copier wanted to break into that market, you better believe he'll make sure there are modded/hacked consoles available.
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They would probably only need debris from something destroyed. There should be usable residue on it.
Couple of things.. the domains are still up, the ownership was just transfered pending further action. All the sites were asked to block access to KY citizens and did not. As far as i know, no damage has been done to anyone yet. (other than the gaming sites not paying out winnings?)
I can agree with you that they should act against the offending citizens, but can you imagine what that would take? It's much more efficient to cut it off at the source.
Note to Kentucky residents: There's an election only about 6 weeks from now. ... Kentucky is also one of only five states that elects its state officials in odd numbered years ... Kentucky holds elections for these offices every 4 years in the years preceding Presidential election years. Thus, the last year when Kentucky elected a Governor was 2007; the next gubernatorial election will occur in 2011."
Quoted from wikipedia: "Kentucky is a commonwealth, meaning its government is run according to the common consent of its people.
and.. i'll go ahead and say the whole backwards comment is off the mark. I don't want to argue though.. but if you're curious at all, check out Kentucky. It says things like 46% of the population isn't affiliated with churches and medical stuff like KY did the first artificial heart transplant. It was the only neutral state in the Civil war, which is pretty interesting.
I can't comment on most of what you said.. but "They are guys who sell their freedom and are subordinated, relieved from personal responsibilities they are forced to kill or get killed. It is a burden not a virtue." .. that's just plain silly.
The Army isn't like a million men all led by one man. It's a hierarchy! Even if you are the lowest man you will sign for and be absolutely responsible for all your equipment. Then if you can prove via promotion boards that you aren't an idiot they promote you and you will be responsible for the lives and wellbeing of other soldiers. So on and so forth.
Contrary to the common belief that soldiers routinely kill people. Most soldiers (from Professional militaries of many nations) never see combat.
When Steam first came out it was horrible, hah. I say that with love though. I remember going to a 200+ person lan party a little after converting to Steam. The host didn't think of needing an external connection for Steam auth, let alone Steam downloading updates. Charlie Fox right there.
Also the internet back then wasn't what it is now. Downloading a Gig took forever. So Steam would convert your existing Half-Life install and then patch/update from there.
The Friends thing didn't work.. at all.. ever.
VAC sucked balls at first too. Cheaters everywhere.
But like most things Valve makes.. they fixed their mistakes and listened to customer complaints.
I'm a fan of Valve in general. I bought Half-Life when it was under the Sierra flag and everyone knew it was basically ID's Quake engine. Look how far Valve has come. Steam was a terrible mess in the beginning but they didn't lie about that, they explained why things were broken and told the community what they were fixing/improving. They said they would make TeamFortress 2, which at the time was unbelievable. It took them forever but damn did they do a great job. They honestly seem like a good gaming company.
But you could certainly be right.. it's possible that Valve would collapse before releasing a patch that disables the need to Auth and so forth. But i'd like to think someone would strike up the band as the ship is sinking for one final song.
I remember something about Halo originally being designed for the PC then msft bought it and had it ported to console, which was later changed into a PC game again?
I did enjoy the Dungeon Siege games though.. probably more because of Gas Powered Games than by Microsoft.
I hate litter and I hate to see people litter. They usually do it out of laziness. But i think your remark about plastic bags works against you rather than for you.
There is no real way to know how long plastic bags take to decompose.. as they have only been around like 50 years or something. Also, i think it's childish to assume a man-made material will decompose the same way a bannana peel would. It's fucking man made, man will probably have to unmake it too. That being said, i've seen plastic bags hanging in trees degrade very quickly compared to something you dig up. It might end up that plastic bags that were thrown on the ground will degrade faster under the sun/wind/rain then they will if you throw them away. That's kind of sick :(
My guess is because most of the equipment on the station is so old it's scary. A Serial connection is probably a requirement (i notice it has two serial connectors too, a 3 pin and the rs232). Also it has something else called "Space Wire Port" not sure what the heck that is?
Anyways, I doubt the serial ports are for peripherals. Probably for communicating with sensors and all sorts of random gadgets.
I do agree with needing more ram, jeez..
Just wanted to add to this that standard US military binos all have a reticle inside that you can use to mathematically determine distance to an object of known size. Like a tank or person for example. This type of rangefinder needs no batteries and doesn't increase the overall bino complexity by much.
I prefer the flash to bang method myself :)
That's one of the things i like about EVE online, people are almost driven together. Especially when traveling/living in dangerous areas.
Very often the populations of a few systems will band together to fight off raiders or to track down and kill a pirate. This sort of event usually spawns a new alliance and friends. Of course a new big alliance will attract a bigger enemy and then things get epic.
That is an excellent critique of my suggestion, bravo!
I honestly don't know what roads the government has paved, but i don't think very many. They pay civy outfits to do it i'm sure. Also i really think most government programs you have seen are local (city/state) programs. You know, like DMV, police, fire departments, heath inspectors. Also i'm pretty sure the US Army core of engineers is supposed to be really fucking great? They build dams, bridges, all sorts of things for the public. I don't know what kind of health care solutions are on the horizon, but i'm well taken care of. I'd like to share my health care story with you, if you don't mind.
Did some time in the Army and was honorably discharged. After returning from a year in Iraq i slowly became really sick. I was a civy then and didn't know what to do. So i drove up to a VA hospital and asked. They signed me up, took 10 minutes (seriously!). Like 6 blood tests later (mono, HIV, all sorts of cruft), needles in the neck, camera thing in the nose and down the throat, neck & chest X-ray, cat scan (kind of fun, btw), and a lymphnode biopsy, they told me i had Lymphoma. All this cost me $8 (US dollars) for some pain meds after the biopsy surgery. I'll cut the story there.. but the point is the Gov't already provides excellent health care to a percentage of the US people. I don't see why a similar program couldn't be expanded?
The people will obviously have to pay for it with taxes, but that should be optional. A citizen should be able to opt out and see any private doctor/hospital if they choose (and deal with all the insurance shenanigans and overpriced bs.. $5 for surgical gloves! seriously.)
You're looking at this the wrong way. Go start a 3 week trial through steam, join the Minmatar, buy a cheap ship (Rifter!) and cram all the autocannons and speed mods you can onto your frigate. Now head down to lowsec and pirate! kill some defenseless haulers moving ore, tackle yourself a pricey mining barge and ransom them! Sell intel, double deal, kill everyone you can. This is acceptable behavior in the game of eve.
I'd also like to point out that ship and module losses are permanent. This gives true value to combat. Your heart will pump, i promise.
Unless you like games full of meaningless grind, then by all means skip this.
I agree, it's amazing how many people queue up within eye-sight of the empty self-checkouts. It's great if you have tons of coupons or exotic fruit or something too.. there's nobody behind you to sigh absurdly loud or act like an asshat.
I like the self-checkout, it's fast and convenient. Kroger's works great, Walmart's isn't that good (i dislike the store a bit too, tbh).
But the small discount is probably doable if we take the money saved and convert it. Let's say they convert 2 normal lanes into 6 self-checkouts. That removes 1 employee (still need one to oversee the self-checkouts). Let's say 9 US dollars an hour is saved. You could get a discount of 15 cents US per minute. Ah, but wait, there is 6 self-service lanes which means you get 2.5 cents US per minute discount. Hardly worth it, imo.
If you have a spare box to play with (and has a decent processor) give Gentoo a try. A few weeks living with it and you'll be hooked. Great community too
PS: Good luck and have fun!
You don't know many country folk, i'm guessing.
That's just silly. You make it sound like the US owns Mars and all the scientific discoveries associated with the planet. A US citizen of reasonable intelligence and common sense would realize other nations or god willing civilian organizations will probe the planet in the near future. Trying to cover up something like "life on mars" is futile and foolish.
mmm, round like planets, moons, or other bits of mass that gather into spherical shapes in zero-g?
I do get your point though, they had to pick something. But perhaps they should have picked several somethings and gone with a few random shapes?
The poker game trojan sounds pretty lame too. The program must be downloaded and run first which pops open a quasi-phishing "error: type your password here to fix" message. Infection vectors seem key to how fast these things spread. Having a file mac users have to manually download first is slow/weak and i doubt the downloaded file would be manually copied to another machine and run.
http://www.qualityinformationpublishers.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=219
Here is a rather cheap video that will satisfy your search for the truth. Though i'm sure you can find many free sources online as well.
Also, visit a concentration camp in Germany if you can. I've been to several.
As far as factual information about the number dead? Who knows really.. but transcripts like http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Appeal/Appeal-Session-03-07.html seem to give you a glimpse at truely factual information.
hate to feed, but i'm really in the mood to argue a bit :)
If a rancher sees a predator on his land and shoots it. Is that an absurd practice? I doubt it.
If a rancher's livestock are grazing in public land and a few go missing from a predator. Would it be absurd for him to protect his stock by shooting the predator? If you said yes, then how about this. If another rancher comes and steals a few of his livestock. Is there not a mechanism in place to punish the offender?
But shooting endangered animals is seriously not cool.
I'll rant now, if you don't mind. You said "things seem to be going my way, long term." You're a fucking consumer. If you get a flat tire, you don't say hey.. let me try to fix this. You call AAA and consume a service. Urbanites typically embody the "use and throw away" culture.. talk about absurd practices. Try repairing your shit, recycle & compost, send a letter to some poor fuck in Iraq on Christmas, learn how to change your own oil/brakes/sparkplugs, help out your neighbors/community, learn a craft and building something useful.. could be repairing drywall, programming and contributing to an opensource project, making a doghouse instead of buying one, all kinds of stuff.
haha, don't you hate it when you get so offtopic and you just want to close the tab and cancel the post? Meh, i'd hate to waste typing all this though
The article doesn't really state that open source isn't documented(commented) very well. Just documented less. Even if their figures are correct, it's still overkill as far as i'm concerned. It's 3 comments in each 10 lines of code on average.
As you said "At least add one line to any function explaining what the function does, what its input is and what it returns." If 30% of your source is directly commented, you've probably done more than enough.
These numbers are probably wrong though.. they say it's 70% undocumented now compared to 30% in 2006? Rarely do i have to time to put comments over 70% of the program. But i admit, i don't even come close to representing a sample of programmers. So i really can't say what's comment overkill and what's minimalist. But that is a huge gap to have crossed from 2006-2007. Not to mention zero of their figures are exact. Especially the "audited between 300M to 500M lines of code" part. That reeks of some figures pulled from someone's ass.
You obviously have never played EVE. Teamwork and coordination are probably the key to pvp success in EVE.
Here is a youtube of some haulers(rather cheap industrial carebear ships) engaging and killing a rather expensive and extremely hard to catch & kill ship, a Vagabond Heavy Assault Cruiser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTn9EASiPMY
Ship price alone, the Vagabond is 100x more than one hauler. Which, i should point out, is gone forever. That particular ship is player created only, but even that doesn't go far enough to describe to complex process needed to construct a T2 ship.
But as to your statement that one class will always be overpowered, that doesn't apply here. There aren't classes as such. Not to mention tactics and how you deploy your weapons/Electronic Warfare will greatly affect the outcome. If you were to buy an old character, sell some GameTimeCards for in-game ISK (money) and bought the best damn faction ship and weapons in the game. Then take a trip to lowsec(i recommend Rancer) or 0.0 to kill lesser people with your uber character and items, i promise you will die horribly and permanently lose the ship, modules, and cargo (some items may survive, but no doubt looted). Real experience is necessary to survive in the game, the size of your wallet doesn't matter that much.
I don't know about any of the newer consoles, but i can believe it. I spent some time in a "3rd world country" and almost all media/content were copies. I think you could find one original disk in a 100. Though that was with movies, audio cds, and computer games. Consoles are bigger, not readily transported, require TVs, and need constant power (no batteries/rechargables), which doesn't make them very popular in a 3rd world country (at least in my view).
But in regards to the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, i don't seriously think anyone in a 3rd world country would even buy it, if there wasn't a source for the games. But if a disk copier wanted to break into that market, you better believe he'll make sure there are modded/hacked consoles available.