With thatsolution I think you're actually more likely to encounter this same problem, as you could far more easily be pushing your foot to the right (accelerate) and down (brake) at the same time.
I don't get why the obviously loyal Ukrainian military didn't defend their bases with firepower against the invading Russians? Were they just too scared?
>> You include a scene where the gay guy gets beat up because he is gay. A successful artist would establish empathy between the character and the player, causing the player to question the moral implications of the scenario....and others might actually mistake the intent and interpret the message differently, that gay guys _should_ be beaten up. Think of the "kill a ho" message that so many kids came away from GTA with that it became an overnight meme.
>> The stories that resonate the deepest with us are the stories that hit the closest to home.
Perhaps, but not being gay is why I for one would not enjoy a game that has an overtly gay protagonist. I actually don't give a shit about the everyday life issues other people face (especially gay issues) as its usually clear to me at least, that many if not most are actually logical outcomes of obviously bad decision-making, so don't actually deserve much pity, I also avoid reality TV shows for the same reason, their blatant low-brow stupidity just annoys the crap out of me, which is an experience that I personally don't find even slightly entertaining or pleasant.
I usually play computer games for the exact opposite reason, as a form of escapism and to experience the dynamics of possible alternative realities.
So why would I want to spend good money to experience the equivalent of a crap version of reality TV show that even worse, has been hijacked by some outspoken developer who is using it as a platform to brainwash people into thinking their view is somehow a self-evidently correct moral message?
Hunters with high-velocity rifles/sniper scopes/drones/helicopters vs. an unarmed animal? When one side has such a massively asymmetric advantage it is ridiculous to label the activity as a sport. I laugh at those pathetic people. They should be embarrassed to even admit that they are mentally stunted enough to even want to do it.
Hunting will only be a sport when the hunted animal gains an equal ability to locate and kill its hunters, including taking out their vehicles and helicopters.
Until then, hunting is just a predetermined and terminal (therefore the worst) form of sadistic bullying and/or an unnecessarily inefficient form of food gathering. Apparently those that spend thousands on hunting then claim they do it just for food aren't capable of even basic economics or understanding that there's a good reason why hunter-gatherer societies got completely superseded by agrarianism.
>> H-1B guest workers are a much better choice. 'It's not easy to retrain people,' Corley said. '
In my experience most H1B guest workers are exactly the ones who need the most training, even just in order to properly perform the job they are already coming in for. Learning valuable skills appears to be exactly the reason many come to the US in the first place.
There is no lack of IT workers in the US, just a lack of IT workers who will work for minimum wage. The only reason companies claim they need more H1Bs is because H1B workers will work for cheap.
I dislike games that feel the need to insult the payers intelligence by just showing unfeasably big breasted women or the "kill the ho with a baseball bat" type of thing, however I will refuse to buy a game that starts pushing some PeeCee political agenda at me too, especially one that is advocating LGBT as an intrinsically socially acceptable attribute or even one to be admired.
He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.
>> It is no more self-determination than a stadium of people held hostage by terrorists are practicing self-determination.
Well they actually are practicisng self-determination, given that a whole stadium full of unarmed people could (admittedly with high losses) still overwhelm a bunch of armed guys. It all comes down to perceived vs. actual risk/reward and the innate nature of people to prefer to act like sheep rather than do anything in the event of a threat.
So she emailed a list of passwords to herself, didn't bother encrypting it, and kept it in her on-line email account for 9 months, then she's actually surprised when she gets hacked?
I look forward to the day when America gets back to the point where people start taking responsibility for their own actions again, instead of always looking for someone else to blame (and sue) for their own stupidity.
>>> However, the fact that the company is involved with the DX12 standard could mean that the handset and tablet developer is serious about the Windows market in the long term."...Or it could mean that even though they already know Windows phone is almost certainly dead, being seen to be playing nice with Microsoft is worth the relatively small cost of 1 developer who is only actually working on this in any otherwise slack time.
Most hiring is by or at least through people who have absolutely no clue about the technology of the job they are hiring for. Consequently, the only way they have of judging your ability is by a piece of paper that says you can do something. The good news is that there are many 2 or 3 day seminars/certification courses that you basically just have to pay one or two grand and basically as long as you show up and demonstrate a level of intellegence that puts you anywhere above clinically braindead you will get a credible-looking piece of paper saying you are certified in something or the other, that will impress the know-nothing employment agents and HR clowns every time.
Yes, I've long wondered what they think their market is.
I gave up with RS after several times of going there for some straightforward thing only to find they normally carried it but they're always out of stock because they had a tiny space to stock the most popular items and they apparently only restocked once a month.
Yet they went bizarrely overboard on many pointless things. I remember the one that used to be near me wasted a whole big area that displayed about 10 each of maybe 5 different brands of otherwise identical 6' USB cables.
Not at all. Digital currencies do have the potential to completely undermine the dollar (and any other fiat currency). Its exactly why China has already made trading currency for Bitcoin illegal, and Russia has made trading Bitcoin at all illegal.
The root of literally all the power governments have comes from their control of a currency and that only they can make as much as they want out of thin air while everyone else have to trade something for it. Take away a government's power/control of their countries money/economy (i.e. everyone just starts using digital currency instead) and the government becomes immediately and completely powerless and redundant.
>>> I also fully expect that there are people who would do anything for another lab scientist or engineer on staff in a company located in Omaha, Nebraska.
You're right these companies will do anything.....except pay a salary that attracts the right people to relocate, or even consider allowing remote working.
See the real problem is that these same companies won't be at all flexible, but expect us all to be.
Pretty much anything written by William Gibson. The guy is a visionary. He seems to be able to unerringly look 10-15 years ahead and predict the future culture and what tech will be most relevant.
So much of what he writes about seems unlikely at the time, but yet comes true just a few years later.
Most people already know that In his 1984 book "Neuromancer" he basically predicted the future importance and uses of the internet and the existence of portable devices to access it (It was he that coined the term Cyberspace). he also emphasised virtual reality, which back then was somewhat of a niche fad but even now is about to become more mainstream with the imminent release of Occulus Rift, off the back of which there is already a series of similar devices being leaked/advertised.
In 2003 his book Pattern Recognition correctly predicted the forthcoming cultural shift in advertising and new emphasis on marketing and product placement.
More recently in his 2007 book "Spook Country" he not only correctly predicted/emphasised the forthcoming importance of personal GPS/geolocation to the culture, but also what kinds of associated services would arise. he also described devices startlingly like Google Glass, 7 years ahead of their actual invention.
Nope you should buy the wheel I invented... its powered by an interocitor for infinite free energy so you never need to pedal or recharge it...and just like the Copenhagen wheel it isn't actually available yet either.
...Why this impact apparently emitted so much light?
I get that the asteroid probably had a LOT of kinetic energy, but isn't it only in "Hollywood physics" that when two inert things collide you get a fiery explosion?.... and I'm even more surprised as it took place in a vacuum where my limetd understanding of conventional physics says fire cant happen...
>> Why in gods name people would leave a significant holding in a foreign web site...because for a long time prior to their crash MT Gox weren't allowing any transfers out.
When bitcoins dropped below $200 and even knowing no-one could transfer anything out of Mt Gox, I transferred in some money to my Mt. Gox account (about $1500).
I knew it was a massive risk but the potential gain was correspondingly high too. The money should have hit my Mt.Gox account about 8 days ago but never did. Of course I went through the formality of filing a support ticket but pretty much had already figured the money was gone.
Since I saw MtGox website is now just a message that clearly translates to "Goodbye and thanks for all the fish" I will waste nothing on guessing if I will ever see the money again, as losing it is OK too. I went in with my eyes open, knowing this was a massive risk and therefore only spending some play money that I could afford to miss.
Perhaps the most surprising thing to others may be that this won't change my positive view of Bitcoin itself one little bit, nor will I stop making other high-risk investments with amounts of money that I can easily afford to lose.
You all probably think I'm nuts, especially for even sending that money to Mt.Gox in the first place, but Grestsky said it best: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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With thatsolution I think you're actually more likely to encounter this same problem, as you could far more easily be pushing your foot to the right (accelerate) and down (brake) at the same time.
..grats for showing the world how you can totally miss the point bud.
I don't get why the obviously loyal Ukrainian military didn't defend their bases with firepower against the invading Russians?
Were they just too scared?
>> You include a scene where the gay guy gets beat up because he is gay. A successful artist would establish empathy between the character and the player, causing the player to question the moral implications of the scenario. ...and others might actually mistake the intent and interpret the message differently, that gay guys _should_ be beaten up. Think of the "kill a ho" message that so many kids came away from GTA with that it became an overnight meme.
>> The stories that resonate the deepest with us are the stories that hit the closest to home.
Perhaps, but not being gay is why I for one would not enjoy a game that has an overtly gay protagonist. I actually don't give a shit about the everyday life issues other people face (especially gay issues) as its usually clear to me at least, that many if not most are actually logical outcomes of obviously bad decision-making, so don't actually deserve much pity, I also avoid reality TV shows for the same reason, their blatant low-brow stupidity just annoys the crap out of me, which is an experience that I personally don't find even slightly entertaining or pleasant.
I usually play computer games for the exact opposite reason, as a form of escapism and to experience the dynamics of possible alternative realities.
So why would I want to spend good money to experience the equivalent of a crap version of reality TV show that even worse, has been hijacked by some outspoken developer who is using it as a platform to brainwash people into thinking their view is somehow a self-evidently correct moral message?
Hunters with high-velocity rifles/sniper scopes/drones/helicopters vs. an unarmed animal? When one side has such a massively asymmetric advantage it is ridiculous to label the activity as a sport. I laugh at those pathetic people. They should be embarrassed to even admit that they are mentally stunted enough to even want to do it.
Hunting will only be a sport when the hunted animal gains an equal ability to locate and kill its hunters, including taking out their vehicles and helicopters.
Until then, hunting is just a predetermined and terminal (therefore the worst) form of sadistic bullying and/or an unnecessarily inefficient form of food gathering. Apparently those that spend thousands on hunting then claim they do it just for food aren't capable of even basic economics or understanding that there's a good reason why hunter-gatherer societies got completely superseded by agrarianism.
Yeah OK you got me, I only accidentally included the B there.
That said, there are some of us that legitimately think that being gay is not something to to teach kids to aspire to.
>> H-1B guest workers are a much better choice. 'It's not easy to retrain people,' Corley said. '
In my experience most H1B guest workers are exactly the ones who need the most training, even just in order to properly perform the job they are already coming in for. Learning valuable skills appears to be exactly the reason many come to the US in the first place.
There is no lack of IT workers in the US, just a lack of IT workers who will work for minimum wage. The only reason companies claim they need more H1Bs is because H1B workers will work for cheap.
I dislike games that feel the need to insult the payers intelligence by just showing unfeasably big breasted women or the "kill the ho with a baseball bat" type of thing, however I will refuse to buy a game that starts pushing some PeeCee political agenda at me too, especially one that is advocating LGBT as an intrinsically socially acceptable attribute or even one to be admired.
He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.
I could imagine Ballmer both saying it and getting away with it.
>> It is no more self-determination than a stadium of people held hostage by terrorists are practicing self-determination.
Well they actually are practicisng self-determination, given that a whole stadium full of unarmed people could (admittedly with high losses) still overwhelm a bunch of armed guys.
It all comes down to perceived vs. actual risk/reward and the innate nature of people to prefer to act like sheep rather than do anything in the event of a threat.
So she emailed a list of passwords to herself, didn't bother encrypting it, and kept it in her on-line email account for 9 months, then she's actually surprised when she gets hacked?
I look forward to the day when America gets back to the point where people start taking responsibility for their own actions again, instead of always looking for someone else to blame (and sue) for their own stupidity.
>> it will focus on giving developers "close-to-metal" GPU resource access and reducing CPU overhead.
Translation: ...its finally been gutted of a lot of heavy Microsoft crapware and is now just a thin wrapper over the GPU vendor's own driver.
I wish the rest of Windows would go that way too.
>>> However, the fact that the company is involved with the DX12 standard could mean that the handset and tablet developer is serious about the Windows market in the long term." ...Or it could mean that even though they already know Windows phone is almost certainly dead, being seen to be playing nice with Microsoft is worth the relatively small cost of 1 developer who is only actually working on this in any otherwise slack time.
Most hiring is by or at least through people who have absolutely no clue about the technology of the job they are hiring for.
Consequently, the only way they have of judging your ability is by a piece of paper that says you can do something.
The good news is that there are many 2 or 3 day seminars/certification courses that you basically just have to pay one or two grand and basically as long as you show up and demonstrate a level of intellegence that puts you anywhere above clinically braindead you will get a credible-looking piece of paper saying you are certified in something or the other, that will impress the know-nothing employment agents and HR clowns every time.
Yes, I've long wondered what they think their market is.
I gave up with RS after several times of going there for some straightforward thing only to find they normally carried it but they're always out of stock because they had a tiny space to stock the most popular items and they apparently only restocked once a month.
Yet they went bizarrely overboard on many pointless things. I remember the one that used to be near me wasted a whole big area that displayed about 10 each of maybe 5 different brands of otherwise identical 6' USB cables.
>> This is incredibly small potatoes for them.
Not at all.
Digital currencies do have the potential to completely undermine the dollar (and any other fiat currency). Its exactly why China has already made trading currency for Bitcoin illegal, and Russia has made trading Bitcoin at all illegal.
The root of literally all the power governments have comes from their control of a currency and that only they can make as much as they want out of thin air while everyone else have to trade something for it. Take away a government's power/control of their countries money/economy (i.e. everyone just starts using digital currency instead) and the government becomes immediately and completely powerless and redundant.
Yep that too. Even more reason why Gibson should be in the list.
>>> I also fully expect that there are people who would do anything for another lab scientist or engineer on staff in a company located in Omaha, Nebraska.
You're right these companies will do anything.....except pay a salary that attracts the right people to relocate, or even consider allowing remote working.
See the real problem is that these same companies won't be at all flexible, but expect us all to be.
Pretty much anything written by William Gibson.
The guy is a visionary. He seems to be able to unerringly look 10-15 years ahead and predict the future culture and what tech will be most relevant.
So much of what he writes about seems unlikely at the time, but yet comes true just a few years later.
Most people already know that In his 1984 book "Neuromancer" he basically predicted the future importance and uses of the internet and the existence of portable devices to access it (It was he that coined the term Cyberspace). he also emphasised virtual reality, which back then was somewhat of a niche fad but even now is about to become more mainstream with the imminent release of Occulus Rift, off the back of which there is already a series of similar devices being leaked/advertised.
In 2003 his book Pattern Recognition correctly predicted the forthcoming cultural shift in advertising and new emphasis on marketing and product placement.
More recently in his 2007 book "Spook Country" he not only correctly predicted/emphasised the forthcoming importance of personal GPS/geolocation to the culture, but also what kinds of associated services would arise. he also described devices startlingly like Google Glass, 7 years ahead of their actual invention.
Nope you should buy the wheel I invented... its powered by an interocitor for infinite free energy so you never need to pedal or recharge it...and just like the Copenhagen wheel it isn't actually available yet either.
I hope they do, and I hope it has a big brother that comes looking for its namesake.
...Why this impact apparently emitted so much light?
I get that the asteroid probably had a LOT of kinetic energy, but isn't it only in "Hollywood physics" that when two inert things collide you get a fiery explosion? .... and I'm even more surprised as it took place in a vacuum where my limetd understanding of conventional physics says fire cant happen...
>> Why in gods name people would leave a significant holding in a foreign web site ...because for a long time prior to their crash MT Gox weren't allowing any transfers out.
When bitcoins dropped below $200 and even knowing no-one could transfer anything out of Mt Gox, I transferred in some money to my Mt. Gox account (about $1500).
I knew it was a massive risk but the potential gain was correspondingly high too.
The money should have hit my Mt.Gox account about 8 days ago but never did. Of course I went through the formality of filing a support ticket but pretty much had already figured the money was gone.
Since I saw MtGox website is now just a message that clearly translates to "Goodbye and thanks for all the fish" I will waste nothing on guessing if I will ever see the money again, as losing it is OK too. I went in with my eyes open, knowing this was a massive risk and therefore only spending some play money that I could afford to miss.
Perhaps the most surprising thing to others may be that this won't change my positive view of Bitcoin itself one little bit, nor will I stop making other high-risk investments with amounts of money that I can easily afford to lose.
You all probably think I'm nuts, especially for even sending that money to Mt.Gox in the first place, but Grestsky said it best: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.