Hmmmm... think they'd consider one of us colonial cousins?
Maybe a fresh outside look, eh wot? But I might want to bring a sidekick. Perhaps someone Canadian, just to reassure our British cousins a bit?
"I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a toothbrush are, I think, all that we need."
I'm a Vietnam vet, retired with 23 years of active Army service (mostly SF). I love games, and I've played a fair number of military related games (some Vietnam era, and many others).
Bottom line: games are for gamers. They aren't to teach history (although it would be nice, and many gamers prefer an accurate game). They aren't to teach ethics or sociology or psychology or international law. They aren't to benefit the victims or the survivors or the participants or the viewers. They're games.
Had two finally wear out. Both started giving "could not write to device" sort of errors. The system (Windows 2K or XP) would still recognize the drive, would show the files, etc. Indeed, I could still access (read) the files, so the data was there and copyable. But I'd get a file write error every time I read anything, because Windows was trying to update the flash drive's file directory with "last accessed" or some such, and that write would fail.
No biggie; copied the data to a replacement, threw the old ones away, after hitting them several times with a hammer to "clear" the memory:-)
But that doesn't change the fact that the original complaint is a load of crap. Google gains no monopoly: ANYONE (thee and me included) can do exactly the same thing if we want to, scan the same papers and books, create our own database. Google isn't unique; they're just DOING it! So we can get access to papers and books we otherwise would have little prayer of ever seeing.
Good for Google, I say. If the state can take my unattended bank account in a few years, it certainly should be able to take possession (e.g., public domain) of papers and books.
If you've ever seen a bushel of crabs thrown into a huge pot of boiling seasoned water... there's absolutely NO question that they're feeling pain. Those poor suffering bastiges are climbing over each other to get out!
The first time I saw my grandmother make a batch of "steamed" crabs like that, it turned me right off crabs for life.
Same goes with lobsters, probably even oysters and clams.
So either you accept that you're inflicting pain on another creature (so you can eat it or whatever), or you maybe think of a way to prepare them that doesn't involve quite so much pain. We've managed that fairly well for higher order mammals (when we want to); why not for the lower orders?
Or, as mentioned, end up vegan and eating rock stew, yum!
I used your addon, and I was several of the many update downloads. But it's uninstalled now: WAY too huge a hit on throughput and framerate, too many (continued) location errors, too often not giving me any data at all (for no reason). And I resent that nag when it loads.
Nice idea, but I won't be using your addon.
I have no problems with the addon site itself asking for donations, licensing, whatever. (And yes, I visit EVERY addon parent site, not just download from curse or wherever. I'm a programmer too, and enjoy reading background about an addon's development, changes, etc.) But I fully agree with Blizzard: it's their program, these are addons (entirely dependent on the Blizzard parent program), and they set the rules. If they say no nags or no single-button combat or no whatever... hey, so be it.
Didn't take years of design and construction, a crew of thousands, massive engineering, a huge staff, and a subterranean circle beneath miles of peaceful countryside.
Mate, those aren't crop circles. They're the REAL secret: the biggest tank farm in the UK! HUGE oil tanks, partially underground, camouflaged with turf... but now we'll have to shoot you. Because now the UK taxpayers will realize that you don't need huge petroleum tanks when you have nuclear submarines, and it's actually the UK's emergency oil storage facility... and there'll be Minis lined up for bloody miles.
Silly, and a waste of money and resources. When we come up with a warp drive and can actually GO somewhere and DO something... why bother, really? Pure research is fine and dandy, but this is just silly.
There are also questions about exactly what happened at those "tar pits". Ye Olde Idea of critters getting stuck in the tar (maybe beneath a watering hole), predators coming and getting stuck, etc. has been severely questioned. Mainly because of a real lack of complete skeletons, many bones found at the bottom of very narrowly necked holes, etc. And WAY too many predators (and very few birds, especially vulture types).
Interesting place, but the entire concept needs some serious examination.
Tax every single steenking penny that leaves the country 25%.
We can't hit imports with heavy duties; too many international "free trade" agreements for that. But nobody says we can't tax the money when it leaves again, hmmmm?
Confiscate every dollar leaving that is not declared (whether it be via bank transaction, money order, or a shipping container full of Ben Franklins.
Has anyone (other than the repairmen themselves) actually _seen_ one of these broken / damaged cables? It should be pretty obvious how they were damaged, at least discriminating between anchor cuts and crushings, tool marks from big honking cable cutters wielded by evil Special Ops types, and the "stretch until it breaks" scenario (presumably what happens when an earthquake occurs).
So let's see some photos, folks, of the actual damaged cables. Or is someone just making all this crap up?
I'm asking my sources for pointers to the some nice government-paid-for-it-so-we-own-it-right? Space Shuttle source code. Or some nice ICBM or IRBM or ABM firmware, that would do. Cruise missile? Cell phone GPS? Whatever.
Knock out a quick proposal for porting to perl (if it isn't written in perl already, that is), and off we go!
Agreed. Malwarebytes is the only one _I_ could find that would remove that damned AV2009 (and all its clones). Pitiful really, how the otherwise somewhat effective AV and antispyware utilities (Trend, AVG, Avast, Panda) were totally useless for this hugely prevalent infection. Goes without saying, of course, that McAfee and Symantec were useless as well.
We made a lot of money cleaning systems of AV2009 (mostly via wipe and reinstall before Malwarebytes came out); but I don't like making money that way.
That was a prime candidate for the Feds to do something constructive (since there was a very obvious and clear money trail from this Blackmailware), but noooooo...
Absolutely, algorithms, logic, the thought process behind the programming is what you should be teaching. The language grammar is essential, of course, but minor.
Hell, give them perl and turn them loose:-)
Of course then you'll have to deal with perl's classic problem (?) of having a gazillion ways to do the same thing. BASIC and Pascal wouldn't be so bad about that.
None of your examples included regex, tch:-) Give us a _real_ taste of obfuscation (and a hint of the madness therein).
We have tons of acorns. I like the squirrels, and watch their behavior every year as the acorns become available and the squirrels start stashing them away.
There are so many acorns lying about that the squirrels aren't collecting them all; they're busily at work, but not making a real dent in the number of fallen acorns available. Crushed acorns all over the place.
Now what I _am_ worried about are the pecans that should have been profuse this year. The two pecan trees we enjoy every second year (usually) are absolutely empty.
I think you're right. Our Rotary Club supported that Duke University program (it's one of 3 or 4 as I recall). Not sure if Rotary funds it entirely or just supports it. But the concept is that, since so many are being trained on how to conduct and manage conflicts, how about if some smart folks were trained on how to conduct and manage peace and conflict resolution? No idea if it's going to work, but it's worth a shot.
So this "game" is really a simulation, a tool to work with. And the designers and users could really give a damn if it's not much fun, if it doesn't come up to the standards required for a commercially successful game.
I submit that real-world "war games" are not nearly as fun to play as the commercial games making all the money. (I've played both extensively.) But then you aren't going to learn how to manage real battlefield and strategic assets in most (if not all) of the commercial games.
Years ago I used a popular board game (Red Star - White Star) to teach ROTC cadets how to manage battalion-size forces in the defense against the oncoming Commie hordes, actually defending the Connecticut Valley and UMass:-). Right there on their own terrain, and never mind how the hell a Russki combined arms regiment got into Massachusetts in the first place.
Doing it right, following the Army rules, wasn't nearly as much fun as just playing the game. But the cadets learned a lot more.
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What part of "NO G*DD*MNED ADS" do you not understand?
Sheesh
Hmmmm ... think they'd consider one of us colonial cousins?
Maybe a fresh outside look, eh wot? But I might want to bring a sidekick. Perhaps someone Canadian, just to reassure our British cousins a bit?
"I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a toothbrush are, I think, all that we need."
I'm a Vietnam vet, retired with 23 years of active Army service (mostly SF). I love games, and I've played a fair number of military related games (some Vietnam era, and many others).
Bottom line: games are for gamers. They aren't to teach history (although it would be nice, and many gamers prefer an accurate game). They aren't to teach ethics or sociology or psychology or international law. They aren't to benefit the victims or the survivors or the participants or the viewers. They're games.
Don't like the game? Don't play it.
Doh.
Had two finally wear out. Both started giving "could not write to device" sort of errors. The system (Windows 2K or XP) would still recognize the drive, would show the files, etc. Indeed, I could still access (read) the files, so the data was there and copyable. But I'd get a file write error every time I read anything, because Windows was trying to update the flash drive's file directory with "last accessed" or some such, and that write would fail.
No biggie; copied the data to a replacement, threw the old ones away, after hitting them several times with a hammer to "clear" the memory :-)
Agreed.
But that doesn't change the fact that the original complaint is a load of crap. Google gains no monopoly: ANYONE (thee and me included) can do exactly the same thing if we want to, scan the same papers and books, create our own database. Google isn't unique; they're just DOING it! So we can get access to papers and books we otherwise would have little prayer of ever seeing.
Good for Google, I say. If the state can take my unattended bank account in a few years, it certainly should be able to take possession (e.g., public domain) of papers and books.
If you've ever seen a bushel of crabs thrown into a huge pot of boiling seasoned water ... there's absolutely NO question that they're feeling pain. Those poor suffering bastiges are climbing over each other to get out!
The first time I saw my grandmother make a batch of "steamed" crabs like that, it turned me right off crabs for life.
Same goes with lobsters, probably even oysters and clams.
So either you accept that you're inflicting pain on another creature (so you can eat it or whatever), or you maybe think of a way to prepare them that doesn't involve quite so much pain. We've managed that fairly well for higher order mammals (when we want to); why not for the lower orders?
Or, as mentioned, end up vegan and eating rock stew, yum!
Yep, there's just no limit to the truly criminal mind!
Hiding out in a cotton swab factory! Who'd'a thot, eh?
I used your addon, and I was several of the many update downloads. But it's uninstalled now: WAY too huge a hit on throughput and framerate, too many (continued) location errors, too often not giving me any data at all (for no reason). And I resent that nag when it loads.
Nice idea, but I won't be using your addon.
I have no problems with the addon site itself asking for donations, licensing, whatever. (And yes, I visit EVERY addon parent site, not just download from curse or wherever. I'm a programmer too, and enjoy reading background about an addon's development, changes, etc.) But I fully agree with Blizzard: it's their program, these are addons (entirely dependent on the Blizzard parent program), and they set the rules. If they say no nags or no single-button combat or no whatever ... hey, so be it.
Actually has a practical purpose.
No threat of black holes destroying the Earth.
Didn't take years of design and construction, a crew of thousands, massive engineering, a huge staff, and a subterranean circle beneath miles of peaceful countryside.
Didn't destroy itself within a week of startup.
Oh nooooes!
Mate, those aren't crop circles. They're the REAL secret: the biggest tank farm in the UK! HUGE oil tanks, partially underground, camouflaged with turf ... but now we'll have to shoot you. Because now the UK taxpayers will realize that you don't need huge petroleum tanks when you have nuclear submarines, and it's actually the UK's emergency oil storage facility ... and there'll be Minis lined up for bloody miles.
Toad
Silly, and a waste of money and resources. When we come up with a warp drive and can actually GO somewhere and DO something ... why bother, really? Pure research is fine and dandy, but this is just silly.
Battletoad is fine for me. In fact, that even surpasses my own submission, "Helluvaview"
Squire Toad
Wow, man! That is so ... so ... so ...
what were we talking about?
This entire issue rapidly becomes a non-issue.
Be DAMNED if I'm running anything on my computer that some yahoo out there at some web site has decided is gonna run. Momma didn't raise no fool.
And the godz bless Firefox for the NoScripts addon!
I'm not buying into this "Your PC is a web client" concept.
Good point. NOT fossils. Chemically preserved.
There are also questions about exactly what happened at those "tar pits". Ye Olde Idea of critters getting stuck in the tar (maybe beneath a watering hole), predators coming and getting stuck, etc. has been severely questioned. Mainly because of a real lack of complete skeletons, many bones found at the bottom of very narrowly necked holes, etc. And WAY too many predators (and very few birds, especially vulture types).
Interesting place, but the entire concept needs some serious examination.
Heh heh ... after the entire Known Universe jumped on their ass for their bug, the "feature" is turned off.
Or it was my "You silly bastards" message ...
Toad-san
Tax every single steenking penny that leaves the country 25%.
We can't hit imports with heavy duties; too many international "free trade" agreements for that. But nobody says we can't tax the money when it leaves again, hmmmm?
Confiscate every dollar leaving that is not declared (whether it be via bank transaction, money order, or a shipping container full of Ben Franklins.
Simple, eh? But noooo ...
Has anyone (other than the repairmen themselves) actually _seen_ one of these broken / damaged cables? It should be pretty obvious how they were damaged, at least discriminating between anchor cuts and crushings, tool marks from big honking cable cutters wielded by evil Special Ops types, and the "stretch until it breaks" scenario (presumably what happens when an earthquake occurs).
So let's see some photos, folks, of the actual damaged cables. Or is someone just making all this crap up?
I'm asking my sources for pointers to the some nice government-paid-for-it-so-we-own-it-right? Space Shuttle source code. Or some nice ICBM or IRBM or ABM firmware, that would do. Cruise missile? Cell phone GPS? Whatever.
Knock out a quick proposal for porting to perl (if it isn't written in perl already, that is), and off we go!
Agreed. Malwarebytes is the only one _I_ could find that would remove that damned AV2009 (and all its clones). Pitiful really, how the otherwise somewhat effective AV and antispyware utilities (Trend, AVG, Avast, Panda) were totally useless for this hugely prevalent infection. Goes without saying, of course, that McAfee and Symantec were useless as well.
We made a lot of money cleaning systems of AV2009 (mostly via wipe and reinstall before Malwarebytes came out); but I don't like making money that way.
That was a prime candidate for the Feds to do something constructive (since there was a very obvious and clear money trail from this Blackmailware), but noooooo ...
Absolutely, algorithms, logic, the thought process behind the programming is what you should be teaching. The language grammar is essential, of course, but minor.
Hell, give them perl and turn them loose :-)
Of course then you'll have to deal with perl's classic problem (?) of having a gazillion ways to do the same thing. BASIC and Pascal wouldn't be so bad about that.
None of your examples included regex, tch :-) Give us a _real_ taste of obfuscation (and a hint of the madness therein).
We have tons of acorns. I like the squirrels, and watch their behavior every year as the acorns become available and the squirrels start stashing them away.
There are so many acorns lying about that the squirrels aren't collecting them all; they're busily at work, but not making a real dent in the number of fallen acorns available. Crushed acorns all over the place.
Now what I _am_ worried about are the pecans that should have been profuse this year. The two pecan trees we enjoy every second year (usually) are absolutely empty.
I think you're right. Our Rotary Club supported that Duke University program (it's one of 3 or 4 as I recall). Not sure if Rotary funds it entirely or just supports it. But the concept is that, since so many are being trained on how to conduct and manage conflicts, how about if some smart folks were trained on how to conduct and manage peace and conflict resolution? No idea if it's going to work, but it's worth a shot.
So this "game" is really a simulation, a tool to work with. And the designers and users could really give a damn if it's not much fun, if it doesn't come up to the standards required for a commercially successful game.
I submit that real-world "war games" are not nearly as fun to play as the commercial games making all the money. (I've played both extensively.) But then you aren't going to learn how to manage real battlefield and strategic assets in most (if not all) of the commercial games.
Years ago I used a popular board game (Red Star - White Star) to teach ROTC cadets how to manage battalion-size forces in the defense against the oncoming Commie hordes, actually defending the Connecticut Valley and UMass :-). Right there on their own terrain, and never mind how the hell a Russki combined arms regiment got into Massachusetts in the first place.
Doing it right, following the Army rules, wasn't nearly as much fun as just playing the game. But the cadets learned a lot more.
Well naow, 'at's a bit uv aw roight!
Toad
Either society (e.g., your local friendly government) provides laws to enforce these matters, or the mob (e.g., thee and me) shall handle the matter.
Your call.
Meanwhile, you see me shedding no tears over either of these bastige outfits. They can sue and be damned.