And there's a TED Presentation for those post apocalyptic net-surfers.
These guys have the blueprints to go from nothing to somewhat modern. The site goes through mining and metal extraction and refining to
building useful machines from plows to 3D printers.
Someone sent me this link today. It looks to be a bit of an advertisement, but it might be handy http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/12/why-your-8-year-old-should-be-coding/ I don't know if it's been localised anywhere but may appeal. The link is a question but the article is about an online product.
When do you think cloning ATHELETES will become legal? That's something I wouldn't put past the old USSR/East European Block. Remember the "women" atheletes they sent?"
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What do you mean when will it become legal ? It may not be legal but you can bet that certain countries *cough*China*cough* are already doing that.
For some regimes the only real definition of illegal involves being caught.
These guys are walking billboards highlighting the value of Steam vs the crap DRM-ware of Ubi, Origin, MS Games, etc.
I don't know if it's changed, but I heard Valve was working on a reputation based discount system. Maybe not quite what we're discussing here, but who knows, maybe if you say "Steam Rocks - buy games there because of X" and people do, at the next sale you'll see a coupon for lunch:)
Well, the difference is that in theory they could have made another sale to the person who entered the secondary market.
In practice though, that person is in the secondary market for a reason; usually price. So in order to capture that sale the company would have to drop the price after a short intro period, and likely keep dropping the price to hit the thresholds of those (in, say, Australia) who don't want to pay $99.99 (~$US104) for a game but are willing to pay, maybe $40 for a used copy of a game that costs $50 in the U.S.
The companies can't be bothered doing this though, so they try DRM. Luckily Steam has a lot of sales and I guess that's good enough for the publishers.
That's a great idea and you should suggest it to them.
I don't think it'd take much work to convert some of their artwork to CD compatible graphics or even to get the original designs and maybe modify them with a GOG logo.
But then how do you distinguish this from a game that's genuinely difficult, like Tetris The Grand Master 3 that gets ungodly fast starting around 3:00, and then turns off the lights around 5:00 and you have to beat the game by sense of feel?
I'm in my mid 40's as of about a week ago. I still play games, single and multiplayer, and I still own the kiddies who think they are hot stuff. Getting older doesn't mean you can't have fun.
This could be just how my brain works, but I figure if I'm 40 and I am still able to own kids in fast-paced multiplayer games, then this is actually a BAD thing because it means I've invested way too much time into the game when I should be doing other things with my life. Not to criticize you in any way, it's just a reason why I feel that sucking at such games as one gets older is nothing to be ashamed of at all. Means you've moved onto other, more important things.
No, being able to own those kiddies means his senses, reactions and eye-hand co-ordination are still good at 40. Maybe even great. Let's hope your next surgeon if you need one kicks ass at video games and that the guy behind you on the highway isn't thinking it's too bad his reactions have gone to heck and he can't see well enough to play games any more. Games are just a choice of outlet as someone said. Different things engage different people. That's what makes us individuals.
While I haven't actually been able to find a free book on this service I have been getting "free ad-sponsored" music from Guvera and all they make you do is visit a sponsored playlist page within their site and the sponsor pays for your unencumbered MP3 music. The mp3s have no ads or DRM.
Apparently this model is working for music so hopefully with books it won't be too much worse.
On the other hand:
"I've discovered the identity of the murderer. His name is....." "...and now a word from our sponsor."
Since when was Facebook breaking privacy news ? It's certainly not news in the GAMES section. Sheesh. Also, just because that's news, it doesn't mean that DIII isn't news for NERDS !
I believe that comment may not - in all truth - have been made in complete seriousness. Maybe you need to check your humour levels. Maybe you need a top-up.
Well, a nice economic fightback tactic would be for the ISPs to say that after 1 "strike" (being caused by the user downloading music) the ISP then demands that since it's music causing the problem, the music companies must now strike that person off their own customer lists.
Therefore the person is no longer allowed into any music stores or to buy music from those companies by any means.
Once the labels can show that they are doing their part of the work, they may go ahead and serve more notices for downloading. Once they have shown all their paperwork proving that their culprit has been turned away from stores and the comprehensive list of "downloaders" is being enforced at every outlet, they may go on to strike two and, eventually, 3.
It is unfair that the ISPs are made to do all the work for the labels in this respect AND to cut off their own paying customers who may have paid for 50GB of bandwidth and used a measly 5MB of that (.1%) in order to infringe on the labels' copyrights.
I have hear this plenty, but not since the early 1970s. Then there was outrage in the 1980s when they passed an open container law for the front seat.
I must admit the reasoning behind open container laws utterly mystify me. What's the point ?
It's that moment just before you crash when you have to decide whether a beer foul because you need two hands to manoeuvre is worse than a fender bender. I guess the cops just said that's it. No more beer fouls.
I also don't think it's unreasonable or all that immoderate for the government to say "when abilities required to drive a car begin to get impaired, you may not drive a car."
So around.05 then where you've lost concentration, depth perception, peripheral vision etc. then.
Now just stop right there, I'll say in fact it is.:-)
One idea I've had for a terminal application on a touch screen device is something where the auto-completion is context sensitive to the commands - so it would complete commands, then arguments within commands and so on. Like you say, kind of like emacs (or even shell) completion but going further down to every possible item you could type.
So pretty much like some kermit versions from back in the '80s. I admit I really liked that functionality.
I wasn't going for it. The troll I replied to, while being a troll was also funny. I wouldn't have modded it anyway since I wanted to refute the vaccinations cause autism strawman.
Agreed. One of the biggest gripes against Obama is his spending. Well, if he hadn't been handed a country on the brink of disaster (actually I think it was over the brink) maybe he wouldn't have had to do all those bailouts. As for all his broken promises, I don't know what the fuck he's thinking though after pushing through his health reform promises maybe he thinks keeping his other promises will make him even more unpopular.
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And there's a TED Presentation for those post apocalyptic net-surfers.
These guys have the blueprints to go from nothing to somewhat modern. The site goes through mining and metal extraction and refining to building useful machines from plows to 3D printers.
See: Coffee can foundry to Casting and so on to the Global Village Costruction Set of 50 machines designed to make modern life possible.
Someone sent me this link today. It looks to be a bit of an advertisement, but it might be handy
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/12/why-your-8-year-old-should-be-coding/
I don't know if it's been localised anywhere but may appeal. The link is a question but the article is about an online product.
When do you think cloning ATHELETES will become legal? That's something I wouldn't put past the old USSR/East European Block. Remember the "women" atheletes they sent?"
Link to Original Source
What do you mean when will it become legal ? It may not be legal but you can bet that certain countries *cough*China*cough* are already doing that.
For some regimes the only real definition of illegal involves being caught.
no more than it's legal to take a book home from the bookstore to review for 24 hours before you decide to buy it.
Where would you get that idea from?
Don't the libraries let you do this ? In fact, I think they let you take it home for long enough to read the whole thing !
1. Generate bitcoins.
2. Hack in and steal bitcoins.
3. Sue for real money.
4. Profit!
These guys are walking billboards highlighting the value of Steam vs the crap DRM-ware of Ubi, Origin, MS Games, etc.
I don't know if it's changed, but I heard Valve was working on a reputation based discount system. Maybe not quite what we're discussing here, but who knows, maybe if you say "Steam Rocks - buy games there because of X" and people do, at the next sale you'll see a coupon for lunch :)
The companies can't be bothered doing this though, so they try DRM. Luckily Steam has a lot of sales and I guess that's good enough for the publishers.
That's a great idea and you should suggest it to them.
I don't think it'd take much work to convert some of their artwork to CD compatible graphics or even to get the original designs and maybe modify them with a GOG logo.
But then how do you distinguish this from a game that's genuinely difficult, like Tetris The Grand Master 3 that gets ungodly fast starting around 3:00, and then turns off the lights around 5:00 and you have to beat the game by sense of feel?
Not by sense of smell ?
This could be just how my brain works, but I figure if I'm 40 and I am still able to own kids in fast-paced multiplayer games, then this is actually a BAD thing because it means I've invested way too much time into the game when I should be doing other things with my life. Not to criticize you in any way, it's just a reason why I feel that sucking at such games as one gets older is nothing to be ashamed of at all. Means you've moved onto other, more important things.
No, being able to own those kiddies means his senses, reactions and eye-hand co-ordination are still good at 40. Maybe even great. Let's hope your next surgeon if you need one kicks ass at video games and that the guy behind you on the highway isn't thinking it's too bad his reactions have gone to heck and he can't see well enough to play games any more. Games are just a choice of outlet as someone said. Different things engage different people. That's what makes us individuals.
Apparently this model is working for music so hopefully with books it won't be too much worse.
On the other hand:
"I've discovered the identity of the murderer. His name is....." "...and now a word from our sponsor."
Sounds a lot like watching TV these days.
Since when was Facebook breaking privacy news ? It's certainly not news in the GAMES section. Sheesh. Also, just because that's news, it doesn't mean that DIII isn't news for NERDS !
Yeah, the smart guys tried this before. And it didn't go so well.
bnetd was a battle.net emulator that was permanently shut down by lawyers.
I think you'll find that comes down to Torchlight
But it's certainly no Diablo III.
I bought it and played it for a while and haven't gone back with the same level of addiction I did with the old Diablos.
I believe that comment may not - in all truth - have been made in complete seriousness. Maybe you need to check your humour levels. Maybe you need a top-up.
Probably a good thing you weren't there. I guess you would have just gunned them all down and then there wouldn't have been any more problems huh.
Well, a nice economic fightback tactic would be for the ISPs to say that after 1 "strike" (being caused by the user downloading music) the ISP then demands that since it's music causing the problem, the music companies must now strike that person off their own customer lists.
Therefore the person is no longer allowed into any music stores or to buy music from those companies by any means.
Once the labels can show that they are doing their part of the work, they may go ahead and serve more notices for downloading. Once they have shown all their paperwork proving that their culprit has been turned away from stores and the comprehensive list of "downloaders" is being enforced at every outlet, they may go on to strike two and, eventually, 3.
It is unfair that the ISPs are made to do all the work for the labels in this respect AND to cut off their own paying customers who may have paid for 50GB of bandwidth and used a measly 5MB of that (.1%) in order to infringe on the labels' copyrights.
Also, all the natural numbers up to 6.7 should include 5 and 6 !
It's called planning ahead. Set aside the cab money while your sober, or plan to have someone pick you up.
That's all great until they have a few drinks and suddenly that spare money could buy MORE DRINKS !
Drinking impairs memory. People who drink often seem to forget things such as that they don't smoke or that the spare money is to get home.
I have hear this plenty, but not since the early 1970s. Then there was outrage in the 1980s when they passed an open container law for the front seat.
I must admit the reasoning behind open container laws utterly mystify me. What's the point ?
It's that moment just before you crash when you have to decide whether a beer foul because you need two hands to manoeuvre is worse than a fender bender. I guess the cops just said that's it. No more beer fouls.
I also don't think it's unreasonable or all that immoderate for the government to say "when abilities required to drive a car begin to get impaired, you may not drive a car."
So around .05 then where you've lost concentration, depth perception, peripheral vision etc. then.
I'm not claiming Emacs is perfect
Now just stop right there, I'll say in fact it is. :-)
One idea I've had for a terminal application on a touch screen device is something where the auto-completion is context sensitive to the commands - so it would complete commands, then arguments within commands and so on. Like you say, kind of like emacs (or even shell) completion but going further down to every possible item you could type.
So pretty much like some kermit versions from back in the '80s. I admit I really liked that functionality.
I wasn't going for it. The troll I replied to, while being a troll was also funny. I wouldn't have modded it anyway since I wanted to refute the vaccinations cause autism strawman.
Agreed. One of the biggest gripes against Obama is his spending. Well, if he hadn't been handed a country on the brink of disaster (actually I think it was over the brink) maybe he wouldn't have had to do all those bailouts. As for all his broken promises, I don't know what the fuck he's thinking though after pushing through his health reform promises maybe he thinks keeping his other promises will make him even more unpopular.
99% of amercians are color blind and don't give a fuck if the president is white, black, or pink-with-yellow poka dots. Color is irrelevant
Damn ! Where do you live ? Somewhere with no blacks I'd assume.