Then there's the somewhat intricate (for minds like yours) "I could care less", meaning that although it is possible that I could care less for this thing, it would require more effort than I'm willing to put forth, so I'm happy to stick with the current amount of caring I have for this thing.
Welcome to fifth grade English.
That's like when I visit my family for vacation. Mom keeps asking me if I want more mashed potatoes, more roast beef, more salad... and at the end of the meal I say "I could eat more". She looks all puzzled for a while until I explain to her that while it's possible that I could eat more, I'm so full that it would likely rupture my stomach if I did, so I'm happy to stick with the current amount of food that I've consumed.
If the game was designed for left-handed people and didn't accomodate righties right handed people would play it for 5 minutes call it a shit game with lousy controls... and they would be CORRECT!
But apparently if its designed for righties but not lefties, "you are longer surprised that there are those who lack the ability/will to adapt to a different setup." instead of recognizing that the controls are lousy.
My comment was about recognizing how some are unable to adapt (applies equally to either handedness). Of course the controls are lousy, thus the frustration felt by those who can't/won't adapt to them. I can imagine the same would be felt by a die-hard right-hander driving a manual transmission vehicle in the UK, which requires the left hand to shift gears.
"I wonder if they store our passwords plain text as well"
You think they can't decrypt these of they want to?
Anybody who does password storage correctly stores it as a one-way hash. By definition, it's not possible to decrypt. The hashed password can be brute-forced, or the plaintext password can be read as you submit a login form, but the hash stored in the database cannot be decrypted any more than scrambled eggs can be reverted back to a viable chicken embryo.
Last time I checked they also pretend to not make any money. They may report huge gross income and brag about biggest box office sales ever, but somehow they never make a net profit (even before the days of internet piracy).
Yeah, it's too bad that Titanic, which cost $200M to make and grossed over $2B worldwide ended up losing $200M. A shame indeed.
That seems like a bizarre definition of the word impossible. It may be impossible for someone who doesn't have a right hand, but it is possible to build dexterity in your off hand.
I've known left-handers whose right hand might as well have been a withered stump flapping in the breeze. I'm no longer surprised that there are those who lack the ability/will to adapt to a different setup.
If you bought it without the knowledge that it was stolen, then yes. Any other system is kinda retarded... it's not fair to penalise the legitimate and honest purchaser of property of their purchase if they bought it in good faith and without any reason to believe it was stolen.
The retarded part is that someone can sell a priceless family heirloom to someone else and, as long as the buyer thinks it's legit, there's nothing anybody can do to get their priceless family heirloom back other than try to re-purchase it from the buyer. However, now that they know it's priceless...
I'm seeing a fairly generic fantasy world and a bunch of nice rendering techniques that by now have pretty much all appeared in released games, on consoles even. Am I missing something?
Keep in mind that these demo videos were released in 2005 by a three person team working out of an apartment. It was met with pretty much universal acclaim back then and still holds up extremely well against any engine today.
About the only thing you can argue is that Boiler Room made more of a focus on the term "whale" than Casino did since Boiler Room's story was all about going after whales, whereas in Casino going after the whale was only mentioned in the opening of the film. That aside, don't argue about how many times a movie uses a word. That's a stupid argument:
It means nothing. You open your argument up to whether or not Martin Scorsese is more capable of bringing "the term to the masses" than some unknown called Ben Younger. Judging by the box office success of each film, I would have to conclude that more people heard the term "whale" from Casino than they did from Boiler Room even despite the latter film's heavier emphasis within the story.
So far, Zynga has been smart enough to avoid that particular trap...
Have they? Mafia Wars copied Mob Wars. FarmVille copied Farm Town. Those are pretty damned closed to the original name, certainly enough to argue before a judge that it causes confusion in the marketplace.
Thanks for the Wikipedia quotes, though I noticed you censored yourself from sharing where they came from. You are, of course, correct. People censor themselves hundreds of times every day because they "censor" information they deem "inappropriate" for the people they interact with. If they didn't, we'd have a society of sociopaths... people telling others to "hurry the fuck up" or "damn you're ugly" or "put down the pizza, you're far too fat already" or "I want to fuck your brains out". Censorship is necessary for society to function smoothly.
I manage dozens of domain names all with GoDaddy as the registrar. I have never seen this once. The only exception is if you choose their privacy service, in which case it uses a GoDaddy contact so as to hide your information... but that's not required and every registrar that offers whois privacy services does exactly the same thing.
You also can't read my private diary, because I consulted with people that I wrote about and we mutually agreed not to publish it. OMG CENSORSHIP!!1!1!!one
This is so easy. All you need to do is roll out a point to point Faraday cage between the two parties that wish to communicate. To build the Faraday cage, go to your local hardware store and purchase all the rolls of chicken wire they have in stock. Now take the chicken wire and form a loop about 5 meters in diameter. Keep on doing this and stitch the loops together until you have a big enough tunnel to reach from your source to the destination. Remember! There must be line of sight for your wireless to properly function. I recommend getting wooden pallets to smooth out any hills and valleys so that you can see clear through.
Now the fun part. To make a proper Faraday cage you need to run current through the chicken wire. Experiment with the right voltage, but I find that running a chainsaw through a local wooden power pole will score you a big fat power cable capable of delivering the right amount of juice. Strip the power cable and attach the positive and negative wires to the chicken wire. CAREFUL!!! Make sure you're wearing latex gloves to protect your hands against the current. If you don't have latex gloves, fashion your own gloves out of banana peels.
Once the power is hooked up, you have now created an impenetrable electromagnetically shielded tunnel through which your wireless transmissions can propagate. Place the transmitter at one end and the receiver at the other and enjoy your interruption free communications!
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Then there's the somewhat intricate (for minds like yours) "I could care less", meaning that although it is possible that I could care less for this thing, it would require more effort than I'm willing to put forth, so I'm happy to stick with the current amount of caring I have for this thing.
Welcome to fifth grade English.
That's like when I visit my family for vacation. Mom keeps asking me if I want more mashed potatoes, more roast beef, more salad... and at the end of the meal I say "I could eat more". She looks all puzzled for a while until I explain to her that while it's possible that I could eat more, I'm so full that it would likely rupture my stomach if I did, so I'm happy to stick with the current amount of food that I've consumed.
I guess Mom didn't finish fifth grade.
FAKE.
This isn't true 3D, just like the special edition of Nightmare Before Christmas was not true 3D.
Unfortunately they didn't have the budget to place the cameras 500 light years apart to get a true stereoscopic image of the Large Megallanic Cloud.
But what if I am a sociopath, you sensitive clod?!
Then you don't really care about being called a sociopath, duh.
Hey, you're not a very sensitive clod!
SMAs have been well known about for decades, well written about for decades, just what is the point if this article?!
I remember reading this in Popular Science (from Jan 1988):
http://books.google.com/books?id=dQEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78&ots=kS_1AvijAF
There's a name for people who play people's emotions like a piano. It's not "young and brave". It's "sociopath" :p
But what if I am a sociopath, you sensitive clod?!
If the game was designed for left-handed people and didn't accomodate righties right handed people would play it for 5 minutes call it a shit game with lousy controls... and they would be CORRECT!
But apparently if its designed for righties but not lefties, "you are longer surprised that there are those who lack the ability/will to adapt to a different setup." instead of recognizing that the controls are lousy.
My comment was about recognizing how some are unable to adapt (applies equally to either handedness). Of course the controls are lousy, thus the frustration felt by those who can't/won't adapt to them. I can imagine the same would be felt by a die-hard right-hander driving a manual transmission vehicle in the UK, which requires the left hand to shift gears.
"I wonder if they store our passwords plain text as well"
You think they can't decrypt these of they want to?
Anybody who does password storage correctly stores it as a one-way hash. By definition, it's not possible to decrypt. The hashed password can be brute-forced, or the plaintext password can be read as you submit a login form, but the hash stored in the database cannot be decrypted any more than scrambled eggs can be reverted back to a viable chicken embryo.
Last time I checked they also pretend to not make any money. They may report huge gross income and brag about biggest box office sales ever, but somehow they never make a net profit (even before the days of internet piracy).
Yeah, it's too bad that Titanic, which cost $200M to make and grossed over $2B worldwide ended up losing $200M. A shame indeed.
That seems like a bizarre definition of the word impossible. It may be impossible for someone who doesn't have a right hand, but it is possible to build dexterity in your off hand.
I've known left-handers whose right hand might as well have been a withered stump flapping in the breeze. I'm no longer surprised that there are those who lack the ability/will to adapt to a different setup.
Does that mean we can have windows running on a window?
What a pane.
would have posted earlier, but slashdot was down.
Slashdot was just faking its own death for a while.
It's actually his hip-hop name.
I thought "Big Data" was his Italian Gangsta name from when he played Furio on The Sopranos: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm597203712/nm0144843
There's no "Post Humously" option, you liar.
Go die in a fire, then I might listen to you.
http://www.atheistsearch.net/
Search: creationism
[Click "I'm Feeling Lucky"]
Error: there's no such thing as luck!
If you bought it without the knowledge that it was stolen, then yes. Any other system is kinda retarded ... it's not fair to penalise the legitimate and honest purchaser of property of their purchase if they bought it in good faith and without any reason to believe it was stolen.
The retarded part is that someone can sell a priceless family heirloom to someone else and, as long as the buyer thinks it's legit, there's nothing anybody can do to get their priceless family heirloom back other than try to re-purchase it from the buyer. However, now that they know it's priceless...
I'm seeing a fairly generic fantasy world and a bunch of nice rendering techniques that by now have pretty much all appeared in released games, on consoles even. Am I missing something?
Keep in mind that these demo videos were released in 2005 by a three person team working out of an apartment. It was met with pretty much universal acclaim back then and still holds up extremely well against any engine today.
Of course... Google is my friend:
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/02/project-offset-team-disbanded-at-intel-offset-software-founders/
Anybody know what happened to http://www.projectoffset.com/ ? They released tons of killer videos showing an amazing game concept, outstanding real-time effects... then Intel buys them and... nothing!
And that's the only time it's said in that entire movie, in that huge paragraph. It's emphasized at least 3 times in Boiler Room.
About the only thing you can argue is that Boiler Room made more of a focus on the term "whale" than Casino did since Boiler Room's story was all about going after whales, whereas in Casino going after the whale was only mentioned in the opening of the film. That aside, don't argue about how many times a movie uses a word. That's a stupid argument:
Casino uses "whale" three times in the voiceover: http://sfy.ru/?script=casino_1995
Boiler Room uses "whale" four times in conversation: http://sfy.ru/?script=boiler_room
It means nothing. You open your argument up to whether or not Martin Scorsese is more capable of bringing "the term to the masses" than some unknown called Ben Younger. Judging by the box office success of each film, I would have to conclude that more people heard the term "whale" from Casino than they did from Boiler Room even despite the latter film's heavier emphasis within the story.
...and make sure the name is nowhere close to the original's name. See also The game formerly known as Scrabulous
So far, Zynga has been smart enough to avoid that particular trap...
Have they? Mafia Wars copied Mob Wars. FarmVille copied Farm Town. Those are pretty damned closed to the original name, certainly enough to argue before a judge that it causes confusion in the marketplace.
Thanks for the Wikipedia quotes, though I noticed you censored yourself from sharing where they came from. You are, of course, correct. People censor themselves hundreds of times every day because they "censor" information they deem "inappropriate" for the people they interact with. If they didn't, we'd have a society of sociopaths... people telling others to "hurry the fuck up" or "damn you're ugly" or "put down the pizza, you're far too fat already" or "I want to fuck your brains out". Censorship is necessary for society to function smoothly.
I manage dozens of domain names all with GoDaddy as the registrar. I have never seen this once. The only exception is if you choose their privacy service, in which case it uses a GoDaddy contact so as to hide your information... but that's not required and every registrar that offers whois privacy services does exactly the same thing.
Because you can't read the damned book. God.
You also can't read my private diary, because I consulted with people that I wrote about and we mutually agreed not to publish it. OMG CENSORSHIP!!1!1!!one
For advanced interference, you might want this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Weasel
This is so easy. All you need to do is roll out a point to point Faraday cage between the two parties that wish to communicate. To build the Faraday cage, go to your local hardware store and purchase all the rolls of chicken wire they have in stock. Now take the chicken wire and form a loop about 5 meters in diameter. Keep on doing this and stitch the loops together until you have a big enough tunnel to reach from your source to the destination. Remember! There must be line of sight for your wireless to properly function. I recommend getting wooden pallets to smooth out any hills and valleys so that you can see clear through.
Now the fun part. To make a proper Faraday cage you need to run current through the chicken wire. Experiment with the right voltage, but I find that running a chainsaw through a local wooden power pole will score you a big fat power cable capable of delivering the right amount of juice. Strip the power cable and attach the positive and negative wires to the chicken wire. CAREFUL!!! Make sure you're wearing latex gloves to protect your hands against the current. If you don't have latex gloves, fashion your own gloves out of banana peels.
Once the power is hooked up, you have now created an impenetrable electromagnetically shielded tunnel through which your wireless transmissions can propagate. Place the transmitter at one end and the receiver at the other and enjoy your interruption free communications!