People have been saying this since day one.
The argument on both sides is still the same:
If this kind of app store is ok with you, buy it. If not, don't.
I don't like the comparison of apple's control of their appstore to censorship. This would be like buying a buying a house in a neighborhood with a very active Homeowner's Association, agreeing to a contract, and complaining when down the road they don't approve what you're doing. It's stupid and counter-productive but you agreed to this.
mod parent up! the links i've found for doing research on wikipedia are invaluable, and during college I impressed my senior thesis advisor by digging up some really cool early 20th century avant-garde journal archives
I enjoy all 3 of the comics mentioned in the summary, but why does XKCD get so great of reviews? I mean I understand that it makes some really good science/math/computer/nerd puns, but there is no artistic direction, and the way it deals with love/relationships reminds me a high school Thespian Club.
That being said, Achewood has some of the best writing in (ha ha funny) comics in any medium, and Penny-Arcade has created a massive charity from donations from people who are supposed to care about society.
Cougar is an American idiomatic term for a sexually active older woman who actively looks for younger males.
"Toy-boy" is usually written as boy-toy, and refers to those young males who are selected spefically for sexual fun.
i got a mild introduction to programming from learning LOGO and LOGO for legos (that may be deprecated by now).
anyways, the first 'big' project i did was a Mastermind clone. it taught me the basics of looping, random number application, and how to make use of the mouse.
For what it's worth, drinking laws aren't a national mandate: a state could set it to 18 or whatever they want. The way the Federal Government enforces 21+ drinking is through only appropriating federal funds for road construction when the state has 21+ laws in effect.
Same result, different means.
after RingTFA, my questions are the same as the article writers: how is any of this stuff more than changing the name of common MMORPG elements? Like, you get "code" that "alters the fundemental reality of the world" from killing monsters, doing quests, trading, balhblah. Maybe I am being skeptical (along with the author of TFA), but it sounds a lot like other games where, say, you have to grind monsters to drop spell components, or gear, balhblah. I like the sounds of "leveling up" changing into "learning how to modify the code" but if it does the same thing in the end...
That being said, the grapics look cool, and hopefully the wide range of areas actually feels like a wide range of areas, not just cyberglacier, cyberruins, cybervolcano, etc.
Actually, I would like to disagree with you. The end-game raid content (like many MUDs/MMORPGs before WoW) is quite a bit different than the solo game. Yea, it's still just "some people vs. some mobs" but there is a huge focus on using different classes together. After moving from my MUD (which had a similar end-game system as WoW) to WoW, the most annoying part is how long the grind to the top takes.
I also understand that you *can* group up and do lower level instances and experience this kind of gameplay early, but unless you're in a guild or have some way of getting a group of people who understand things like "class roles" and "tanks need to build up fury (or threat or whatever it's called)" the experience sucks and is a huge time waste/frustration station.
those haven't been modded up in general for awhile there is still the occasional really good one that deserves to be modded honestly why do you worry? just don't mod it, or metamod it UNFUNNY
Whee, it doesn't matter what the earth's CO2 levels were doing eras before human existence, the question of global warming is not if the earth is going to survive, but if the humans will.
the RAM upgrade onthe N64 worked really well, but it was a pack-in with Donkey Kong 64, which was popular.
A good number of later games supported it, in the sense that it added functionality to the games without being required.
Unless Indiana is vastly different then Ohio, then majority of the use of these computers will come in the form of students typing up papers and researching on the web.
Those skills translate well from OS to OS, especially as there is no demand for using any of MS Word's unique features.
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People have been saying this since day one. The argument on both sides is still the same: If this kind of app store is ok with you, buy it. If not, don't. I don't like the comparison of apple's control of their appstore to censorship. This would be like buying a buying a house in a neighborhood with a very active Homeowner's Association, agreeing to a contract, and complaining when down the road they don't approve what you're doing. It's stupid and counter-productive but you agreed to this.
mod parent up! the links i've found for doing research on wikipedia are invaluable, and during college I impressed my senior thesis advisor by digging up some really cool early 20th century avant-garde journal archives
it's called maxim or blender or sports illustrated swim suit edition or victoria's secret or frederick's of hollywood...
I enjoy all 3 of the comics mentioned in the summary, but why does XKCD get so great of reviews? I mean I understand that it makes some really good science/math/computer/nerd puns, but there is no artistic direction, and the way it deals with love/relationships reminds me a high school Thespian Club. That being said, Achewood has some of the best writing in (ha ha funny) comics in any medium, and Penny-Arcade has created a massive charity from donations from people who are supposed to care about society.
Cougar is an American idiomatic term for a sexually active older woman who actively looks for younger males. "Toy-boy" is usually written as boy-toy, and refers to those young males who are selected spefically for sexual fun.
i got a mild introduction to programming from learning LOGO and LOGO for legos (that may be deprecated by now). anyways, the first 'big' project i did was a Mastermind clone. it taught me the basics of looping, random number application, and how to make use of the mouse.
Are you saying that random comments on /. about the most obvious of security problems aren't intelligent?
How dare you.
For what it's worth, drinking laws aren't a national mandate: a state could set it to 18 or whatever they want. The way the Federal Government enforces 21+ drinking is through only appropriating federal funds for road construction when the state has 21+ laws in effect. Same result, different means.
becuase if you forget your seat belt, it doesn't hurt other people on the road when you crash
well i think it was supposed to imply that "this is like the matrix, but we can't say just say that"
after RingTFA, my questions are the same as the article writers: how is any of this stuff more than changing the name of common MMORPG elements? Like, you get "code" that "alters the fundemental reality of the world" from killing monsters, doing quests, trading, balhblah. Maybe I am being skeptical (along with the author of TFA), but it sounds a lot like other games where, say, you have to grind monsters to drop spell components, or gear, balhblah. I like the sounds of "leveling up" changing into "learning how to modify the code" but if it does the same thing in the end... That being said, the grapics look cool, and hopefully the wide range of areas actually feels like a wide range of areas, not just cyberglacier, cyberruins, cybervolcano, etc.
Actually, I would like to disagree with you. The end-game raid content (like many MUDs/MMORPGs before WoW) is quite a bit different than the solo game. Yea, it's still just "some people vs. some mobs" but there is a huge focus on using different classes together. After moving from my MUD (which had a similar end-game system as WoW) to WoW, the most annoying part is how long the grind to the top takes. I also understand that you *can* group up and do lower level instances and experience this kind of gameplay early, but unless you're in a guild or have some way of getting a group of people who understand things like "class roles" and "tanks need to build up fury (or threat or whatever it's called)" the experience sucks and is a huge time waste/frustration station.
those haven't been modded up in general for awhile
there is still the occasional really good one that deserves to be modded
honestly why do you worry? just don't mod it, or metamod it UNFUNNY
jesus christ
the only people who know about this are a few "highups" who aren't "in the in crowd"
The average wikipedia user has no idea of any of this, and doesn't care, they're still getting the quick reference they want
the dates are still the same, even if the 24 hour period they refer to is a different amount of time before the present
Whee, it doesn't matter what the earth's CO2 levels were doing eras before human existence, the question of global warming is not if the earth is going to survive, but if the humans will.
the RAM upgrade onthe N64 worked really well, but it was a pack-in with Donkey Kong 64, which was popular. A good number of later games supported it, in the sense that it added functionality to the games without being required.
Doesn't anyone remember when the Starr report was made available? The internet slowed to a crawl that afternoon.
Very well.
Unless Indiana is vastly different then Ohio, then majority of the use of these computers will come in the form of students typing up papers and researching on the web.
Those skills translate well from OS to OS, especially as there is no demand for using any of MS Word's unique features.