I never quite understood this mindset. This is true of all human advances. In your car, is it any worse that your ECU fails than, say, a piston? Or a tire? Or the axel on your local Amish's wagon? Is it worse that your spinal cord breaks or your leg is severed?
The point being that every step forward represents something that could go wrong. Computers are just young enough that their likely-hood for fault is a bit higher than more traditional tech.
As far as the "don't quickly exit from everything" rule, I think that's a bit unfair... there are plenty of legitimate reasons they might want to (emails, IMs, etc.), and even the naughtiest of children should feel they have SOME privacy.
Do you see no middle ground? They don't close down what they are looking at, you don't read what they are looking at. Their privacy is saved and you know they aren't looking at the wrong things.
When I have kids, I might even plant some easily findable playboys. But I would not want my kids on the internet pornography. If they start fantasizing about the wrong things (underage, animals, S&M), it will scare their sexuality for life. This is what you have to watch out for. Don't read their IM's, don't let them look at goatse.cx
Will Harvey of There Inc. discusses potential problems with more exotic player-created features: "If third-party developers [A.K.A., gamers playing the game] write games for an MMPG, will the code for those games also run on the servers? What if it crashes?"
This is a simple matter of programming. Your MMOG is a platform, just like any computer, and you should be able to allow user-space code to run and crash without affecting the underlying system.
I worked on a mud in college that allowed user specific code. The head programmer had written a light VM that ran most of the actual mud code. It sandboxed the user land stuff and your code could do whatever you wanted within the context of the syntax and you weren't bringing the MUD down. However, the VM was very memory hungry and really needed to be re-written by someone who knows VM's. He made it all up as he went.
Next they are going to tell me that there is a character named Cid! Or the money is called Gil?!!! Magic with names like Fire and Firaga?!!!!!!!! Bombs as... monsters???
Seriously, this is a one page age that tells us teh characters names, and gives us an idea of their costumes...
I always wonder why we don't see more content targeted for the GBA? This is the arena of the side-scrollers and the 2d sprites. The handheld itself has an extremely large user base and the games sell for a respectable $30. A 2 or 3 man team of average skill could put out an above average game in 6 months. They could leverage those profits to build home console games.
If you want to ignore the big publishers, you have to work for your due. There are places where small teams can put out an excellent game. Certainly, we don't see this. The GBA has less than 20 original games. The rest are sequels, franchises and Olsen Twins games.
The real mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is why it's a mystery at all. Modern record keeping shows there haven't been more lost ships then one should expect for an area that large (500,000 square miles) with as much traffic as it gets (which is a lot, though no figures for you today!)
It's just one of those weird cultural meme's that people shouldn't waste time trying to explain.
Maybe engrish video games are just english people who have bad grammar. From the interview:
"I had never met Mr. Miyamoto before so we go down to San Jose on a Monday and I meet him, and the speech is on Wednesday night and I was really nervous meeting him, and he was really nervous because he had his first speech in front of a large US audience and we go the night of the speech and rehearse and people had been standing in line for a very long time to get into this arena in San Jose to hear him speak and we're trying to sneak in these back doors and there's a line of people waiting to get in, and we get back stage and we're all nervous and the thing filled up almost instantaneously will about 3000 plus people and it was standing room only and he was really worried because he had to go out and speak in English at first without me, and I felt really uncomfortable because I was just this translator guy and he's going to go out and speak in English and then he's going to introduce me, and I'm like, "I shouldn't be introduced by Shigeru Miyamoto!"
I don't know your circumstances, but number one sounds ridiculous.
If you don't have enough time, money, or interest with a console, then fine. They aren't for everyone, or even the majority of people. If you've tried a controller for more than a minute and found that it truly is uncomfortable, fine.
But if you want to play the games that are exclusive to consoles, but aren't because you are afraid of changing to a controller, then, I fear for your future. If you can't manage this small a change, what else in your life are you passing by, because you don't think you can adapt.
Sorry if I'm too preachy, I just really hate that attitude. I'm not even sure if it's yours. You didn't really give enough info. Enough from me;)
Or, they could just add a button to turn the wireless on or off. Then all you need to do is make sure there are no 1337 hackers within ~30 feet of where you're actually using it.
1) An operating system designed by a committee is going to fail
Why is it going to fail? Has a committee never worked? Isn't this what happens more or less in large companies, ones that build large software systems? For every Linus, there is probably hundreds of incredibly complex pieces of code designed by committees of programmers and managers.
2) An operating system controlled by a government is eventually going to be oppressive and restrictive.
WHY?! Please, take off your tinfoil for a while and go out for some air. not everyone is out to get you. Maybe they just want to offer their citizens, and especially the companies in their country a compelling alternative to American made products with poor support for their languages.
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Hmm... where have I heard this before?
Oh yeah, the internet
The beginning of a true Mesh network?
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Could this be the start of a true nationwide mesh network?
I could imagine this spreading out farther and farther across Boston. The other colleges could add in some of their fat pipes. And with the way the east coast has become some kind of giant megalopolis, it could spread down into Providence, Hartford, New York, Philly, Baltimore, DC.
It'd be interesting to see how far we can grow a wireless grid network. What kind of latency would this kind of network have? Probably too high for gaming..
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Well, since this is an offical project and NOT students just stealing 'net access from the the campus, I think they'll at least give you warning. I mean, the equipment is offical university property. I doubt they'll just cut the cord on unsuspecting users....
No, they make gobs of money by investing all that cash. However, despite being "greedy, amoral, heartless, wankers", which for the rest of this post will be refered to as "humans", the free market keeps their costs low.
Of course they are amoral. How can a corporation have morals? All corporations are greedy, heartless. This is how our economy works. This is why America works. You didn't think it was actually democracy did you? While we have to fight to maintain some accountability, greedy corps are good for the free market. That's the way it is. Don't like it? Move.
Where does it say they will refuse your claim based on teh results of the lie detector? This isn't even really a standard lie detector. Just some voice analyzer that looks for patterns. Could it read false positives? Almost certainly. Will they deny your claim? No, you'll be transfered to someone who's job it is to sniff out fraudsters.
To us this may seem like a bad idea, but fraudulent claims are a HUGE problem in the insurance industry, and they are trying to fight these people any way they can. One thing most people don't realize, is that the insurance industry pays out more in claims than it takes in by premiums. If they didn't have large cash reserves to make interest and invest, we'd be paying quite a bit more. This may be a way to lower our premiums. I say, give it a try.
More and more I've been getting spam that advertises various unscrupulous things, usually the offer of pornographic pictures, but offers no links and has a bad return email address. There is literally no way to contact the the sender without email header hackery.
What is the point? They can't gain anything from this and leaves me completely baffled..
Okay, Nintendo would be making a grave mistake to end development on the Super Smash Brothers line. This is THE fighting game for the Nintendo platform. From my personal anecdotes, SSB:M gets more play on the Gamecube then any other game. Period. It's just one of those games that anyone can sit down in front of and have fun. Kirby is fun, but it's no SSB...
Re:Former perl, python, java geek gone to Ruby
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I admit only a superficial knowledge of ruby, but I believe what you are talking about are Proc objects. You can store blocks of code, pass them around, execute them, do anything you could do with any other object. Is this what you mean by "functions-as-data"?
I just noticed this is also available to windows users of Premiere. Might be enough to switch to a 2x2 G5 and FCP.... (okay, I just really want a G5.. mmm)
Well, then explain why I recieve no spam? In 6 months, my Mail.app junk folder has accumlated 8 pieces of "junk mail" and ever single one can be attributed to online purchases. Very few places have my email, the NYT is one of them and they aren't selling it..
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I never quite understood this mindset. This is true of all human advances. In your car, is it any worse that your ECU fails than, say, a piston? Or a tire? Or the axel on your local Amish's wagon? Is it worse that your spinal cord breaks or your leg is severed?
The point being that every step forward represents something that could go wrong. Computers are just young enough that their likely-hood for fault is a bit higher than more traditional tech.
As far as the "don't quickly exit from everything" rule, I think that's a bit unfair... there are plenty of legitimate reasons they might want to (emails, IMs, etc.), and even the naughtiest of children should feel they have SOME privacy.
Do you see no middle ground? They don't close down what they are looking at, you don't read what they are looking at. Their privacy is saved and you know they aren't looking at the wrong things.
When I have kids, I might even plant some easily findable playboys. But I would not want my kids on the internet pornography. If they start fantasizing about the wrong things (underage, animals, S&M), it will scare their sexuality for life. This is what you have to watch out for. Don't read their IM's, don't let them look at goatse.cx
From the article:
Will Harvey of There Inc. discusses potential problems with more exotic player-created features: "If third-party developers [A.K.A., gamers playing the game] write games for an MMPG, will the code for those games also run on the servers? What if it crashes?"
This is a simple matter of programming. Your MMOG is a platform, just like any computer, and you should be able to allow user-space code to run and crash without affecting the underlying system.
I worked on a mud in college that allowed user specific code. The head programmer had written a light VM that ran most of the actual mud code. It sandboxed the user land stuff and your code could do whatever you wanted within the context of the syntax and you weren't bringing the MUD down. However, the VM was very memory hungry and really needed to be re-written by someone who knows VM's. He made it all up as he went.
Next they are going to tell me that there is a character named Cid! Or the money is called Gil?!!! Magic with names like Fire and Firaga?!!!!!!!! Bombs as... monsters??? Seriously, this is a one page age that tells us teh characters names, and gives us an idea of their costumes...
I always wonder why we don't see more content targeted for the GBA? This is the arena of the side-scrollers and the 2d sprites. The handheld itself has an extremely large user base and the games sell for a respectable $30. A 2 or 3 man team of average skill could put out an above average game in 6 months. They could leverage those profits to build home console games.
If you want to ignore the big publishers, you have to work for your due. There are places where small teams can put out an excellent game. Certainly, we don't see this. The GBA has less than 20 original games. The rest are sequels, franchises and Olsen Twins games.
The real mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is why it's a mystery at all. Modern record keeping shows there haven't been more lost ships then one should expect for an area that large (500,000 square miles) with as much traffic as it gets (which is a lot, though no figures for you today!)
It's just one of those weird cultural meme's that people shouldn't waste time trying to explain.
Maybe engrish video games are just english people who have bad grammar. From the interview:
"I had never met Mr. Miyamoto before so we go down to San Jose on a Monday and I meet him, and the speech is on Wednesday night and I was really nervous meeting him, and he was really nervous because he had his first speech in front of a large US audience and we go the night of the speech and rehearse and people had been standing in line for a very long time to get into this arena in San Jose to hear him speak and we're trying to sneak in these back doors and there's a line of people waiting to get in, and we get back stage and we're all nervous and the thing filled up almost instantaneously will about 3000 plus people and it was standing room only and he was really worried because he had to go out and speak in English at first without me, and I felt really uncomfortable because I was just this translator guy and he's going to go out and speak in English and then he's going to introduce me, and I'm like, "I shouldn't be introduced by Shigeru Miyamoto!"
Holy run-on batman!
I don't know your circumstances, but number one sounds ridiculous.
;)
If you don't have enough time, money, or interest with a console, then fine. They aren't for everyone, or even the majority of people. If you've tried a controller for more than a minute and found that it truly is uncomfortable, fine.
But if you want to play the games that are exclusive to consoles, but aren't because you are afraid of changing to a controller, then, I fear for your future. If you can't manage this small a change, what else in your life are you passing by, because you don't think you can adapt.
Sorry if I'm too preachy, I just really hate that attitude. I'm not even sure if it's yours. You didn't really give enough info. Enough from me
Obviously not an english teacher....
Or, they could just add a button to turn the wireless on or off. Then all you need to do is make sure there are no 1337 hackers within ~30 feet of where you're actually using it.
1) An operating system designed by a committee is going to fail
Why is it going to fail? Has a committee never worked? Isn't this what happens more or less in large companies, ones that build large software systems? For every Linus, there is probably hundreds of incredibly complex pieces of code designed by committees of programmers and managers.
2) An operating system controlled by a government is eventually going to be oppressive and restrictive.
WHY?! Please, take off your tinfoil for a while and go out for some air. not everyone is out to get you. Maybe they just want to offer their citizens, and especially the companies in their country a compelling alternative to American made products with poor support for their languages.
Hmm... where have I heard this before?
Oh yeah, the internet
Could this be the start of a true nationwide mesh network?
I could imagine this spreading out farther and farther across Boston. The other colleges could add in some of their fat pipes. And with the way the east coast has become some kind of giant megalopolis, it could spread down into Providence, Hartford, New York, Philly, Baltimore, DC.
It'd be interesting to see how far we can grow a wireless grid network. What kind of latency would this kind of network have? Probably too high for gaming..
Well, since this is an offical project and NOT students just stealing 'net access from the the campus, I think they'll at least give you warning. I mean, the equipment is offical university property. I doubt they'll just cut the cord on unsuspecting users....
No, they make gobs of money by investing all that cash. However, despite being "greedy, amoral, heartless, wankers", which for the rest of this post will be refered to as "humans", the free market keeps their costs low.
Of course they are amoral. How can a corporation have morals? All corporations are greedy, heartless. This is how our economy works. This is why America works. You didn't think it was actually democracy did you? While we have to fight to maintain some accountability, greedy corps are good for the free market. That's the way it is. Don't like it? Move.
Where does it say they will refuse your claim based on teh results of the lie detector? This isn't even really a standard lie detector. Just some voice analyzer that looks for patterns. Could it read false positives? Almost certainly. Will they deny your claim? No, you'll be transfered to someone who's job it is to sniff out fraudsters.
To us this may seem like a bad idea, but fraudulent claims are a HUGE problem in the insurance industry, and they are trying to fight these people any way they can. One thing most people don't realize, is that the insurance industry pays out more in claims than it takes in by premiums. If they didn't have large cash reserves to make interest and invest, we'd be paying quite a bit more. This may be a way to lower our premiums. I say, give it a try.
mmm.. no.
Gallium Arsenide is the combination of Gallium and arsenic. This is a real compound. Really, if you're not qualified to comment... oh well.
You could just do the same thing that you apparently do with your hardware.
Don't update!
More and more I've been getting spam that advertises various unscrupulous things, usually the offer of pornographic pictures, but offers no links and has a bad return email address. There is literally no way to contact the the sender without email header hackery.
What is the point? They can't gain anything from this and leaves me completely baffled..
Okay, Nintendo would be making a grave mistake to end development on the Super Smash Brothers line. This is THE fighting game for the Nintendo platform. From my personal anecdotes, SSB:M gets more play on the Gamecube then any other game. Period. It's just one of those games that anyone can sit down in front of and have fun. Kirby is fun, but it's no SSB...
I admit only a superficial knowledge of ruby, but I believe what you are talking about are Proc objects. You can store blocks of code, pass them around, execute them, do anything you could do with any other object. Is this what you mean by "functions-as-data"?
Just kidding!
I just noticed this is also available to windows users of Premiere. Might be enough to switch to a 2x2 G5 and FCP.... (okay, I just really want a G5.. mmm)
He turned me into a newt! I got better....
Well, then explain why I recieve no spam? In 6 months, my Mail.app junk folder has accumlated 8 pieces of "junk mail" and ever single one can be attributed to online purchases. Very few places have my email, the NYT is one of them and they aren't selling it..