It was made into a blog article. That means, someone claims it to be "intresting", or at least "new". And - what's worse - it was made into a frontpage article on/.. So someone else believes that claim and even adds "relevant" and "newsworthy" to that claim.
Whats next? "Bubblesort explained" on hardcoresoftwaredevelopersblog.wordpress.com ? I think blogs are about creating content, but rehashing stuff that should be in every beginners textbook is nontent.
I AM a developer but I know how important good design is.
But TFA is as helpfull for designers as a "How to improve your code? - Just program less bugs!" article would be for software developers. (along with a few examples from thedailywtf.com, but without any hints on how to avoid them)
The article would make perfect sense as a part of "10 design commandments", "What every non-designer should know about UI-Design" or "GUIs for dummies", but here it's an obvious case of "Look at me, I'm ruminating obvious stuff - Hooray I'm a blogger"
* That one sounds easy for an IT-pro who knows that the concept of a "home directory" is older than icons - but that only makes this meaning of "home" an old one, and not an intuitive one.
That guy is 100% right, but there isn't anything new, let alone newsworthy in that post. But it has a few nice examples.
On the other hand, that guy completly misses the intresting points: How did we end up with a "house" as an icon for your personal files* or a "cog" as a symbol for additional commands in the first place? A Leaf for a Web-Editor? A Trumpet for Network Connection? Lighthouse for a webbrowser?
* That one sounds easy for an IT-pro who knows that the concept of a "home directory" is older than icons - but that only makes this meaning of "home" an old one, and not an intuitive one.
But then coded phone call AFTER the attack would have been enough. But I guess doing that BEFORE the bombs exploded had two beneficial (for the terrorists!) effects:
1) Increase Panic, spread fear. (And bring more "military" targets closer to the bomb)
2) Actually save "civilians" or at least give the terroists themselves the illusion of trying to save civilians.
From what I remember from interviews and documentaries I saw about that, they had the self-image of an army in a war against another gouvernment and its military, and to a lesser extent against the people of that country.
And don't forget the image. Thats even important to terrorists. It's much easier to convince an unsuspecting young guy when you can say "He, we're the good guys! We're at war, but we try to avoid civilian casualties". And it may help yourself to justify your feelings of guilt.
Never meant to imply that. (One of my things that left the strongest impact on me was a day trip to Belfast during my holidays in Ireland. I never imagined that hate could manifest itself as a city - it was almost absurd)
But I'd stick to my point that killing people isn't the goal of terrorists, but rather a means.
Sometimes, ending a show can be the best thing that's ever happened to it.
See "Life on Mars". I only picked up the DVDs cause I knew it would end after ca. 20 episodes (read: deliver a good ending before it bores me to death) The spin of (Ashes to Ashes) was similar enough to be considered season 3&4, but different enough to stand on its own.
As I said in my other reply, Windows installs make up 90%+ of the desktop and laptop user space.
And everybody complains about that their computers don't do what they want and are so complicated and whatelse.
But still everyone sucks it up and is happy beeing *** in ** ******** my Microsoft and willingly pay for each new round of windows crap cause it's the only way to play $FAVOURITE_MMO
So I doubt there will be any change until game publishers finally start offering clients for alternative OS. (Or at least support cedega)
There are a few missions where you don't have to kill things, but they all are still based off the three MMORG principles for quests:
1. Collect X Items from the ground and/or other NPC's 2. Collect X Items from dead NPC's you have killed. 3. Kill Boss/Unique NPC
It's that I have wanted to kill Arthas ever since the end of Frozen Throne off WC3.
Thats the biggest problem in MMOs.
Telling a story is about change. Free a princess, learn the true meaning of friendship, overturn an evil overlord.
What good is killing (e.g.) Arthas, if that guy respanws 10mins later? (perhaps in an other instance but still...) what ever you do, whatever you accomplish, it has to be torn down again for the next batch of players to accomplish it again.
What I like most about ST is that there's room for everything. From "Measure of a man", via "troubles with tribbles" up to O'Brian in the trenches agains some Jem'Hadar, "Year of hell", classic "Locked room" murder stories....
Watching a new episode was like picking something from Forrest Gumps chocolate box.
I doubt there is anything, that has nothing to do with Star Trek.
And I enjoyed Elite Force. Still a Star-Trekky-Story, but in a kind of story (FPS) that simply works better in a game than on screen.
I liked that too. That finaly pulled ST out of the "moral dilemma of the week" junk. But with still one main story per episode. And still far from that soap opera tangled mess of story threads.
My Nickname has a first and last name! (you insensitive clod?) "Bickerdyke" is the last name. (and of course entered the full name in my Email-From...)
12 years ago when I did an internship, it took my 2-lvls-up-manager a few days to realize that I'm NOT Mr Bickerdyke:-)
"Germany's economics minister, Rainer Brüderle, urged banks to 'ensure that credit and bank cards function without problem as soon as possible, or to replace them immediately'."
With almost the same words as the german secretary of consumer protection.
If I were working in IT for a bank, my answer would be a press release "What exactly is it this stupid tart thinks we're busy with right now?"
All you have is a blob of bytes. It's about how you interpret them. Even if you store Unix epoch in your Datastore: Who prevents 3rd party software to mis-interpret it as windows-timestamp? Or Bitmap?And thats what happened here. A byte wasn't interpreted as integer, but as BCD number. (or other way round) And no one noticed, as it worked well as long as 0x03 = 00000011 = (BCD)03 = 0000 0011
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Wrong. Beeing in prison is about BOTH of it. And in addition, it's also about receiving training on how to fit into a mainly non-criminal society.
You know... some three pillars -stuff..... the thing you would present with three overlapping circles in a powerpoint-slideshow.
Goog Idea. But will end up with "Give discount for anyone who installs a closed-source, windows-only Punkbuster-lookalike"
It was made into a blog article. That means, someone claims it to be "intresting", or at least "new". And - what's worse - it was made into a frontpage article on /.. So someone else believes that claim and even adds "relevant" and "newsworthy" to that claim.
Whats next? "Bubblesort explained" on hardcoresoftwaredevelopersblog.wordpress.com ? I think blogs are about creating content, but rehashing stuff that should be in every beginners textbook is nontent.
I AM a developer but I know how important good design is.
But TFA is as helpfull for designers as a "How to improve your code? - Just program less bugs!" article would be for software developers. (along with a few examples from thedailywtf.com, but without any hints on how to avoid them)
The article would make perfect sense as a part of "10 design commandments", "What every non-designer should know about UI-Design" or "GUIs for dummies", but here it's an obvious case of "Look at me, I'm ruminating obvious stuff - Hooray I'm a blogger"
* That one sounds easy for an IT-pro who knows that the concept of a "home directory" is older than icons - but that only makes this meaning of "home" an old one, and not an intuitive one.
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
That guy is 100% right, but there isn't anything new, let alone newsworthy in that post.
But it has a few nice examples.
On the other hand, that guy completly misses the intresting points: How did we end up with a "house" as an icon for your personal files* or a "cog" as a symbol for additional commands in the first place? A Leaf for a Web-Editor? A Trumpet for Network Connection? Lighthouse for a webbrowser?
* That one sounds easy for an IT-pro who knows that the concept of a "home directory" is older than icons - but that only makes this meaning of "home" an old one, and not an intuitive one.
Hi Majik!
I'd like to inform you that the energy of a wave also depends on the frequency.
But then coded phone call AFTER the attack would have been enough. But I guess doing that BEFORE the bombs exploded had two beneficial (for the terrorists!) effects:
1) Increase Panic, spread fear. (And bring more "military" targets closer to the bomb)
2) Actually save "civilians" or at least give the terroists themselves the illusion of trying to save civilians.
From what I remember from interviews and documentaries I saw about that, they had the self-image of an army in a war against another gouvernment and its military, and to a lesser extent against the people of that country.
And don't forget the image. Thats even important to terrorists. It's much easier to convince an unsuspecting young guy when you can say "He, we're the good guys! We're at war, but we try to avoid civilian casualties". And it may help yourself to justify your feelings of guilt.
Never meant to imply that. (One of my things that left the strongest impact on me was a day trip to Belfast during my holidays in Ireland. I never imagined that hate could manifest itself as a city - it was almost absurd)
But I'd stick to my point that killing people isn't the goal of terrorists, but rather a means.
Anyone who wants to blow up an airport is going to have more f*cking sense than to announce their intentions to the world on Twitter first.
IIRC the IRA used to give warnings to the police a few minutes before a bomb was set to explode.
I guess they found out that "terrorism" is not identical with "killing people".
Terrorists want to spread fear. Ironically, thats what most gouvernments do in their "fight against terrorism".
Sometimes, ending a show can be the best thing that's ever happened to it.
See "Life on Mars". I only picked up the DVDs cause I knew it would end after ca. 20 episodes (read: deliver a good ending before it bores me to death) The spin of (Ashes to Ashes) was similar enough to be considered season 3&4, but different enough to stand on its own.
or have a Windows partition to boot into.
Hell yeah. But only because thats the only way to get their favourite game running!
BTW: just got myself an xbox to get out of this viscous circle.
Any information if STO will be available for it?
As I said in my other reply, Windows installs make up 90%+ of the desktop and laptop user space.
And everybody complains about that their computers don't do what they want and are so complicated and whatelse.
But still everyone sucks it up and is happy beeing *** in ** ******** my Microsoft and willingly pay for each new round of windows crap cause it's the only way to play $FAVOURITE_MMO
So I doubt there will be any change until game publishers finally start offering clients for alternative OS. (Or at least support cedega)
Perhaps that problem is that many people see MMOs as competetive activity?
There are a few missions where you don't have to kill things, but they all are still based off the three MMORG principles for quests:
1. Collect X Items from the ground and/or other NPC's
2. Collect X Items from dead NPC's you have killed.
3. Kill Boss/Unique NPC
It's that I have wanted to kill Arthas ever since the end of Frozen Throne off WC3.
Thats the biggest problem in MMOs.
Telling a story is about change. Free a princess, learn the true meaning of friendship, overturn an evil overlord.
What good is killing (e.g.) Arthas, if that guy respanws 10mins later? (perhaps in an other instance but still...) what ever you do, whatever you accomplish, it has to be torn down again for the next batch of players to accomplish it again.
You're answering your own question.
What I like most about ST is that there's room for everything. From "Measure of a man", via "troubles with tribbles" up to O'Brian in the trenches agains some Jem'Hadar, "Year of hell", classic "Locked room" murder stories....
Watching a new episode was like picking something from Forrest Gumps chocolate box.
I doubt there is anything, that has nothing to do with Star Trek.
And I enjoyed Elite Force. Still a Star-Trekky-Story, but in a kind of story (FPS) that simply works better in a game than on screen.
And I couldn't even stand watching Enterprise!
I liked that too. That finaly pulled ST out of the "moral dilemma of the week" junk. But with still one main story per episode. And still far from that soap opera tangled mess of story threads.
Perhaps story arcs spanning up to three episodes?
My Nickname has a first and last name! (you insensitive clod?) "Bickerdyke" is the last name. (and of course entered the full name in my Email-From...)
12 years ago when I did an internship, it took my 2-lvls-up-manager a few days to realize that I'm NOT Mr Bickerdyke :-)
My lastname.tld is already taken, you insensitive clod!
He should utter the words "theft and spam protection" while scratching out the s.
Mine is even more exiting!
Espescially for people who enjoy music and are willing to wait 30sec until the redirect kicks in... www.bickerdyke.de
"Germany's economics minister, Rainer Brüderle, urged banks to 'ensure that credit and bank cards function without problem as soon as possible, or to replace them immediately'."
With almost the same words as the german secretary of consumer protection.
If I were working in IT for a bank, my answer would be a press release "What exactly is it this stupid tart thinks we're busy with right now?"
it's a freakin' integer
How would you know?
All you have is a blob of bytes. It's about how you interpret them. Even if you store Unix epoch in your Datastore: Who prevents 3rd party software to mis-interpret it as windows-timestamp? Or Bitmap?And thats what happened here. A byte wasn't interpreted as integer, but as BCD number. (or other way round) And no one noticed, as it worked well as long as 0x03 = 00000011 = (BCD)03 = 0000 0011