My wife had written "Eat. Sleep. Run. Repeat." On our whiteboard while we were training for our last marathon. Obviously it was not to be taken literally and was only for motivation.
More accurately, NPR reports on topics of interest to a broad swath of consumers in a factual and thorough way, without making pains to appeal to the emotions of a specific subgroup. That this method of journalism does not well-align itself with conservatives, Republicans, or their agendas is not an indictment of NPR's supposed biases. Rather, it is a reflection of just how insulated from the facts and others' viewpoints some groups of media consumers have become.
And guests of their shows frequently express leanings toward or away from specific ideologies, both left and right. While the guests may be pressed in ways that make them uncomfortable, in no way are they intentionally offended or denigrated by the hosts.
The firing of Juan Williams was a gaffe. While I do agree that some statements he had made did make it difficult to see him as a credible and objective reporter on some topics, I do not think that it is correct to fire a journalist or any employee for personal viewpoints unless they are expressed in such a way as to be harmful or disruptive to the business.
NPR is not state-run. They receive some (diminishing) state funding, but that's all. And if you actually listen to it you'll realize that any single journalist on NPR has more integrity than all of the "journalists" on for-profit cable and radio news combined. NPR has no qualms with reporting uncomfortable facts and asking tough questions of public figures and politicians, regardless of any party affiliation, from local politicians all the way up to President Obama. And they are the only news media I regularly consume which explicitly informs consumers of any affiliation NPR has with a subject of their reporting so that you can decide yourself whether or not that is a factor in how the story was reported.
One needs only to spend sixty seconds scrolling the typical Facebook newsfeed to know that this behavior is not strictly limited to fucking liberals. (I'd argue it's prone more to older conservatives who grew up trusting their news sources, rather than my generation who more often know better.)
Do you really think Trump will be some incorruptible president? Trump will use his presidency to increase his wealth. Whether if be during his presidency or set up for a payday after his term is over, Trump will be as corrupt as the next.
Said me yesterday, about this unnecessarily complex software project I'm trying to rescue from a long and expensive death march...
Code reviews, people. Do them.
A few years ago my sister was shopping. For a vacuum and had her eyes on a Dyson. Being the helpful brother that I am, and also having a subscription to consumer reports, I looked up the ratings on upright vacuum cleaners and shared them with her. The Dyson she was interested in wasn't even near the top of the best performing vacuums. The best performing vacuum scored over 20 points higher on a 100 point scale, and was 25% the cost.
After taking a look at the reviews, her response was somethin like but not verbatim: "Yeah... I think I just want the Dyson."
First world problems. Obviously AC lives in a region of the country where money grows on trees.
Maybe it doesn't make munch sense to buy a kid a $600 dollar phone that she will probably lose or break in six months anyway?
Sir (or ma'am) I do understand a thing or two about how the cmangos server that Nostalrius is based off of, and yes it absolutely does require many hundreds of megabytes of client data. This data is extracted from the WoW MPQ files and placed alongside the game server daemon. some may argue that, because it's actually a transformed version of the pack files that somehow it does not violate copyright. That argument will fall flat.
The next issue is that - and if you knew anything about how cmangos worked you would know this - the quest text is stored on the server in a SQL database. This text is in nearly every case a verbatim copy of the original created by Blizzard.
In fact, the cmangos server is so highly specialized to run WoW that I doubt there would be any way to bring it into compliance without a great deal of work as there are many hard-coded elements in the C++ source code for individual locations, NPCs, events, etc.
I had been a frequent player on Nostalrius. I did play on Nostalrius because I wanted to save a few bucks on the monthly fee; I just prefer the game as it was before the expansions.
That being said, I think you are oversimplifying just what the game server does. Blizzard's copywriter extends to more than the game art, object models and audio. There is also lots of copy (quest dialog, NPC dialog etc.), as well as world geometry that is indeed stored on the game server. At times this information may be sent to the client. Much of this information is extracted and generated from the WoW client data, but much of it has also been reproduced, copied verbatim from various sources. Nostalrius are violating the copyrights held by Blizzard, and that's a fact.
It's a shame, though. I was really enjoying the vanilla WoW experience that I had loved when the game was in its infancy and shortly after the first expansion was released.
Transpiling to JavaScript is a decent crutch for those who prefer another language over JavaScript, but even with transpiling you cannot escape the semantics of the JavaScipt environment (barring writing a VM in JavaScript).
The one major benefit that I have experienced in using TypeScript is that it enables some common mistakes to be caught at compile time, as well as better support for refactoring tools.
The one drawback to working with Typescript that I've experienced is.d.ts files. DefinitelyTyped helps a lot, but I've found that they are typically just wrong enough that they cause more headache than they're worth for all but he most well-supported libraries.
I have no problems running VS2015 on my Dell tablet with an Atom CPU and 2Gb RAM.
That being said... I won't be attempting to build any serious C++ apps on this thing. And I definitely will not install that monstrosity that goes by the name of Resharper.
Wishful thinking. The trademark owner has the exclusive right to the IP. That being said, it would be perfectly legal to create a game in the spirit of Metal Gear without using any trademarks, assets, or source code that played very similarly.
So says every C programmer, just after they commit another heartbleed to the repo...
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Don't get me started on Resharper. Just a massive waste of CPU cycles and my clients' money on licensing and billable hours due to me waiting for it to yield back control of my IDE.
And before you lambaste me for havig not just disabled it: I'm required to use it.
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My wife had written "Eat. Sleep. Run. Repeat." On our whiteboard while we were training for our last marathon. Obviously it was not to be taken literally and was only for motivation.
More accurately, NPR reports on topics of interest to a broad swath of consumers in a factual and thorough way, without making pains to appeal to the emotions of a specific subgroup. That this method of journalism does not well-align itself with conservatives, Republicans, or their agendas is not an indictment of NPR's supposed biases. Rather, it is a reflection of just how insulated from the facts and others' viewpoints some groups of media consumers have become. And guests of their shows frequently express leanings toward or away from specific ideologies, both left and right. While the guests may be pressed in ways that make them uncomfortable, in no way are they intentionally offended or denigrated by the hosts. The firing of Juan Williams was a gaffe. While I do agree that some statements he had made did make it difficult to see him as a credible and objective reporter on some topics, I do not think that it is correct to fire a journalist or any employee for personal viewpoints unless they are expressed in such a way as to be harmful or disruptive to the business.
NPR is not state-run. They receive some (diminishing) state funding, but that's all. And if you actually listen to it you'll realize that any single journalist on NPR has more integrity than all of the "journalists" on for-profit cable and radio news combined. NPR has no qualms with reporting uncomfortable facts and asking tough questions of public figures and politicians, regardless of any party affiliation, from local politicians all the way up to President Obama. And they are the only news media I regularly consume which explicitly informs consumers of any affiliation NPR has with a subject of their reporting so that you can decide yourself whether or not that is a factor in how the story was reported.
One needs only to spend sixty seconds scrolling the typical Facebook newsfeed to know that this behavior is not strictly limited to fucking liberals. (I'd argue it's prone more to older conservatives who grew up trusting their news sources, rather than my generation who more often know better.)
Do you really think Trump will be some incorruptible president? Trump will use his presidency to increase his wealth. Whether if be during his presidency or set up for a payday after his term is over, Trump will be as corrupt as the next.
Said me yesterday, about this unnecessarily complex software project I'm trying to rescue from a long and expensive death march... Code reviews, people. Do them.
A few years ago my sister was shopping. For a vacuum and had her eyes on a Dyson. Being the helpful brother that I am, and also having a subscription to consumer reports, I looked up the ratings on upright vacuum cleaners and shared them with her. The Dyson she was interested in wasn't even near the top of the best performing vacuums. The best performing vacuum scored over 20 points higher on a 100 point scale, and was 25% the cost. After taking a look at the reviews, her response was somethin like but not verbatim: "Yeah... I think I just want the Dyson."
I am looking forward to a day when my cellphone will have no jacks whatsoever and will be entirely sealed against any moisture entering the chassis.
"You are a bad parent and an awful person. If your daughter needs a new phone, then get her a NEW PHONE you fucking cheapskate."
First world problems. Obviously AC lives in a region of the country where money grows on trees. Maybe it doesn't make munch sense to buy a kid a $600 dollar phone that she will probably lose or break in six months anyway?
But... But... It's the "world's most hygienic hand dryer!" It says it right on the thing!
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Sir (or ma'am) I do understand a thing or two about how the cmangos server that Nostalrius is based off of, and yes it absolutely does require many hundreds of megabytes of client data. This data is extracted from the WoW MPQ files and placed alongside the game server daemon. some may argue that, because it's actually a transformed version of the pack files that somehow it does not violate copyright. That argument will fall flat. The next issue is that - and if you knew anything about how cmangos worked you would know this - the quest text is stored on the server in a SQL database. This text is in nearly every case a verbatim copy of the original created by Blizzard. In fact, the cmangos server is so highly specialized to run WoW that I doubt there would be any way to bring it into compliance without a great deal of work as there are many hard-coded elements in the C++ source code for individual locations, NPCs, events, etc.
*didn't want to save a few bucks on the monthly fee. Oops. To clarify I'd gladly pay the 18 bucks to Blizzard to play a version of WoW that I enjoy.
I had been a frequent player on Nostalrius. I did play on Nostalrius because I wanted to save a few bucks on the monthly fee; I just prefer the game as it was before the expansions. That being said, I think you are oversimplifying just what the game server does. Blizzard's copywriter extends to more than the game art, object models and audio. There is also lots of copy (quest dialog, NPC dialog etc.), as well as world geometry that is indeed stored on the game server. At times this information may be sent to the client. Much of this information is extracted and generated from the WoW client data, but much of it has also been reproduced, copied verbatim from various sources. Nostalrius are violating the copyrights held by Blizzard, and that's a fact. It's a shame, though. I was really enjoying the vanilla WoW experience that I had loved when the game was in its infancy and shortly after the first expansion was released.
Transpiling to JavaScript is a decent crutch for those who prefer another language over JavaScript, but even with transpiling you cannot escape the semantics of the JavaScipt environment (barring writing a VM in JavaScript). The one major benefit that I have experienced in using TypeScript is that it enables some common mistakes to be caught at compile time, as well as better support for refactoring tools. The one drawback to working with Typescript that I've experienced is .d.ts files. DefinitelyTyped helps a lot, but I've found that they are typically just wrong enough that they cause more headache than they're worth for all but he most well-supported libraries.
Hmm... I'm going to out on a limb here and assume that you've never actually listened to NPR...
I have no problems running VS2015 on my Dell tablet with an Atom CPU and 2Gb RAM. That being said... I won't be attempting to build any serious C++ apps on this thing. And I definitely will not install that monstrosity that goes by the name of Resharper.
Wishful thinking. The trademark owner has the exclusive right to the IP. That being said, it would be perfectly legal to create a game in the spirit of Metal Gear without using any trademarks, assets, or source code that played very similarly.
And the "VOTING VIOLATION" mailers he sent out.
Apparently a lot of people still use Java: http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...
So says every C programmer, just after they commit another heartbleed to the repo...
Don't get me started on Resharper. Just a massive waste of CPU cycles and my clients' money on licensing and billable hours due to me waiting for it to yield back control of my IDE. And before you lambaste me for havig not just disabled it: I'm required to use it.
Kotlin is yet another language to be run in the JVM. It is not a competitor to the JVM as the description suggests.