Felt it here in northern New Jersey. Just kind of a gentle back-and-forth swaying. I've lived through quakes in Alaska so this was a pretty mild one by comparison.
Indeed. I remember running some WWWBoards back in the '90s, and even those salted the password. I believe they just grabbed a particular substring of each password and fed it as the salt into the crypt function, so you had a (more or less) unique salt for every password. And that was a simple perl script from the '90s. I would hope everyone is doing at least a little more than that today.
No kidding. Either s/he works in an organization where no one ever breaks existing functionality (extremely unlikely) or their regression testing methodology is garbage. I'll go with the latter.
I would rather have 10 hours of quality over 30 hours of crap. Ideally, you would get 30 hours of quality.
Either way, length itself is not the problem. I enjoy short games and I enjoy long ones. I just don't enjoy ones that are too boring, too difficult, or too repetitive.
Not gonna happen. Video games are a hugely competitive industry. Like it or not, marketing works. Game publishers could definitely be smarter about how they spend their marketing money, but I wouldn't expect the budgets to go down much, if at all. The problem is, the publishers have to drown each other out with their marketing, so it's an ever-escalating arms race. I don't think it will stop unless and until the budgets are so out of control sales suffer horribly and they're forced to reevaluate how they do things. Unfortunately, businesses almost never change their strategies unless forced to by external circumstances.
True, but DA also shows "plot helpers" on the map, so just by dumb luck arbitrary exploration you'll find whatever you need to find, be it an item or an enemy or something else. It is kind of an "idiot proof" game, I've noticed.
The key word being "admit." I would suspect at least 90% of people don't actually look for ATM tampering, but in having it brought up are too embarrassed to admit to it.
Mod parent up! And fuck the GP. I have never driven drunk (nor would I) and I support harsh punishments for drunk drivers as much as the next guy, but to call it first degree murder betrays such an ignorance of even basic criminal law that I question Dog-Cow's competence to do much of anything.
I would find it acceptable to treat drunk driving thusly:
1. Your first offense is a misdemeanor, assuming no one gets hurt. This is your one and only "freebie." You will also have to go to AA or a similar substance abuse group. 2. If anyone got hurt or this is not your first offense, you lose your license. Period. For good. Enjoy using public transit. (Fines and jail time can go on top of this, too, depending on severity of the incident.) 3. Caught driving drunk yet again, even having had your license revoked? Time for much harsher jail sentences. I would say if you've killed someone by this stage then you should never be let out of prison as you are clearly too dangerous to be allowed among decent folk.
I think the above is a pretty reasonable balance between giving people a chance to rehabilitate themselves and just writing them off immediately. Right now, it seems to me that people get too many chances as it is, and nothing serious is done until someone gets killed.
But to treat it like first degree murder is just beyond the pale.
Free sound editor with built-in ASIO and VST support? SOLD!
I've been using Audacity for a while now but I'll at least give Wavosaur a shot! I normally use a separate VST host, but if Wavosaur can do both then I can cut out Audacity altogether.
I have Verizon FiOS, the 15/5 plan. It's not bad--and cheaper than DSL since I signed up with a promotional price. I have noticed the throughput goes up and down throughout the day for no apparent reason. When I run speed tests it always confirms the 15/5 speed, but "real world" conditions will have downloads vary in speed. For instance, I've had things downloading via Steam that were just blazing fast at first, then slowed down halfway through to a trickle (almost dial-up speed), then ramped up again later. Up and down, up and down. Don't know if this is a congestion issue or what. I've never had the connection actually drop in any way. I couldn't say the same for my DSL, which dropped all the damn time. It just seems to slow down sometimes.
I had Comcast once upon a time. They were absolutely awful. Service was too expensive and pathetically unreliable. Customer support was utterly unhelpful.
Google's bought tons of unused fiber, maybe that's part of what it's for? There's also nothing stopping them from leasing capacity from an existing network as various mobile carriers already do.
If Google were to buy a carrier they might want to look at Sprint. It would be the cheapest and already has a pretty fast and broad network. Not quite the coverage of Verizon or AT&T but they could work on that. Not like Sprint is doing so hot right now anyway. Google could get them for a steal. (They would have to deal with the iDEN Nextel network, though, and nobody seems to want that.)
A key factor in reaction times is also whether or not the human driver has encountered a particular driving situation before. Do most people know how to properly recover from a loss of traction and avoid an accident? I would suspect not.
One of the positive aspects I can see with driverless cars is that they would have far more information on hand to make a good decision in a split second. They would know exactly how fast each tire is rotating, be able to judge immediately if any tires are losing or have lost grip, sense not just the car right in front of you but all vehicles and roadways surrounding you, and decide instantly the best way to avoid an accident or result in the least-harmful accident possible.
Essentially, people learn by doing and often by making mistakes. In driving, that sort of "learning" can get people hurt or killed, as it's difficult to train people on those rare situations where an instantaneous, instinctive judgment must be made and applied in order to avert disaster. Over time, driverless cars could actually get smarter as they encounter more and more situations and learn to make the right decisions--and share that knowledge across all such vehicles, a distinct advantage over the status quo.
Personally, I would love to be able to sit back and read a book while my car drives me to work.
Rectal cancer is not worse than (or even as bad as) pancreatic cancer.
For one thing, rectal cancer is a lot more survivable and treatable. The comedy value of calling it "ass cancer" hardly puts it in the same league as a cancer that kills almost everyone who gets it.
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Felt it here in northern New Jersey. Just kind of a gentle back-and-forth swaying. I've lived through quakes in Alaska so this was a pretty mild one by comparison.
Indeed. I remember running some WWWBoards back in the '90s, and even those salted the password. I believe they just grabbed a particular substring of each password and fed it as the salt into the crypt function, so you had a (more or less) unique salt for every password. And that was a simple perl script from the '90s. I would hope everyone is doing at least a little more than that today.
No kidding. Either s/he works in an organization where no one ever breaks existing functionality (extremely unlikely) or their regression testing methodology is garbage. I'll go with the latter.
I have yet to see a hairyfeet post that wasn't hysterical ranting with almost no basis in reality.
I'm with everyone else: what the hell is the submitter talking about??
Phone technology also advanced very slowly at the time, at least in terms of how it worked on the customer end, so it made sense.
Is it really that bad? I got DA (Ultimate Edition) recently and am enjoying it a lot. If the sequel is shit, I won't waste my money.
I would rather have 10 hours of quality over 30 hours of crap. Ideally, you would get 30 hours of quality.
Either way, length itself is not the problem. I enjoy short games and I enjoy long ones. I just don't enjoy ones that are too boring, too difficult, or too repetitive.
Not gonna happen. Video games are a hugely competitive industry. Like it or not, marketing works. Game publishers could definitely be smarter about how they spend their marketing money, but I wouldn't expect the budgets to go down much, if at all. The problem is, the publishers have to drown each other out with their marketing, so it's an ever-escalating arms race. I don't think it will stop unless and until the budgets are so out of control sales suffer horribly and they're forced to reevaluate how they do things. Unfortunately, businesses almost never change their strategies unless forced to by external circumstances.
True, but DA also shows "plot helpers" on the map, so just by dumb luck arbitrary exploration you'll find whatever you need to find, be it an item or an enemy or something else. It is kind of an "idiot proof" game, I've noticed.
Yes. And then a brown dwarf.
The key word being "admit." I would suspect at least 90% of people don't actually look for ATM tampering, but in having it brought up are too embarrassed to admit to it.
Where do you live, Mogadishu?
I must taken issue with the "no hot chicks" criticism. I've found plenty. :-p
Mod parent up! And fuck the GP. I have never driven drunk (nor would I) and I support harsh punishments for drunk drivers as much as the next guy, but to call it first degree murder betrays such an ignorance of even basic criminal law that I question Dog-Cow's competence to do much of anything.
I would find it acceptable to treat drunk driving thusly:
1. Your first offense is a misdemeanor, assuming no one gets hurt. This is your one and only "freebie." You will also have to go to AA or a similar substance abuse group.
2. If anyone got hurt or this is not your first offense, you lose your license. Period. For good. Enjoy using public transit. (Fines and jail time can go on top of this, too, depending on severity of the incident.)
3. Caught driving drunk yet again, even having had your license revoked? Time for much harsher jail sentences. I would say if you've killed someone by this stage then you should never be let out of prison as you are clearly too dangerous to be allowed among decent folk.
I think the above is a pretty reasonable balance between giving people a chance to rehabilitate themselves and just writing them off immediately. Right now, it seems to me that people get too many chances as it is, and nothing serious is done until someone gets killed.
But to treat it like first degree murder is just beyond the pale.
Really? Leveling charges against people for "corrupting" others?
You know, Socrates was also charged with "corruption of the young."
Guess we should start handing out hemlock to politicians and activists, eh?
Free sound editor with built-in ASIO and VST support? SOLD!
I've been using Audacity for a while now but I'll at least give Wavosaur a shot! I normally use a separate VST host, but if Wavosaur can do both then I can cut out Audacity altogether.
I'll give you the lack of AdBlock+ in Chrome, however there is a suitable NoScript equivalent for Chrome, and I use it myself: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
Works more or less like NoScript (at least from what I remember of NoScript, it's been a while.)
I have Verizon FiOS, the 15/5 plan. It's not bad--and cheaper than DSL since I signed up with a promotional price. I have noticed the throughput goes up and down throughout the day for no apparent reason. When I run speed tests it always confirms the 15/5 speed, but "real world" conditions will have downloads vary in speed. For instance, I've had things downloading via Steam that were just blazing fast at first, then slowed down halfway through to a trickle (almost dial-up speed), then ramped up again later. Up and down, up and down. Don't know if this is a congestion issue or what. I've never had the connection actually drop in any way. I couldn't say the same for my DSL, which dropped all the damn time. It just seems to slow down sometimes.
I had Comcast once upon a time. They were absolutely awful. Service was too expensive and pathetically unreliable. Customer support was utterly unhelpful.
In closing, fuck Comcast.
Hell, it can be hard to get a drug recalled even with empirical evidence that it's harmful!
Google's bought tons of unused fiber, maybe that's part of what it's for? There's also nothing stopping them from leasing capacity from an existing network as various mobile carriers already do.
If Google were to buy a carrier they might want to look at Sprint. It would be the cheapest and already has a pretty fast and broad network. Not quite the coverage of Verizon or AT&T but they could work on that. Not like Sprint is doing so hot right now anyway. Google could get them for a steal. (They would have to deal with the iDEN Nextel network, though, and nobody seems to want that.)
In short, it was the commoditization of the hardware that made personal computing an affordable reality for most people.
A key factor in reaction times is also whether or not the human driver has encountered a particular driving situation before. Do most people know how to properly recover from a loss of traction and avoid an accident? I would suspect not.
One of the positive aspects I can see with driverless cars is that they would have far more information on hand to make a good decision in a split second. They would know exactly how fast each tire is rotating, be able to judge immediately if any tires are losing or have lost grip, sense not just the car right in front of you but all vehicles and roadways surrounding you, and decide instantly the best way to avoid an accident or result in the least-harmful accident possible.
Essentially, people learn by doing and often by making mistakes. In driving, that sort of "learning" can get people hurt or killed, as it's difficult to train people on those rare situations where an instantaneous, instinctive judgment must be made and applied in order to avert disaster. Over time, driverless cars could actually get smarter as they encounter more and more situations and learn to make the right decisions--and share that knowledge across all such vehicles, a distinct advantage over the status quo.
Personally, I would love to be able to sit back and read a book while my car drives me to work.
Rectal cancer is not worse than (or even as bad as) pancreatic cancer.
For one thing, rectal cancer is a lot more survivable and treatable. The comedy value of calling it "ass cancer" hardly puts it in the same league as a cancer that kills almost everyone who gets it.