Pointing out overused "save the damsel" tropes is NOT attacking gamers. If anything it's "attacking" developers.
Attacking a product as immoral is an attack on both the makers and the consumers.
As for overused, want to know what is the most massively overused feature? 3D. Everyone keeps making stupid 3D shit for 2D games, and the result is that the awkward point of view blocks your vision or is generally annoying. Besides this, unnecessary 3D is harder on the graphics card, and therefore uses more electricity, and therefore is evil and should be stopped. And even though I can demonstrate it causes harm, I don't campaign against the evils of unnecessarily 3D games because it is none of my business.
Her interest is games.
Then she should know that gamers like what they like, and developers develop what they like or what they think others will like. And if she wants to go around calling that evil without any proof to back it up, well, she shouldn't be surprised.
This property is guaranteed, assuming that each housemate wishes to maximize the difference between what she thinks her room is worth and how much rent she has to pay.
That's not the objective of most people -- they will value rooms differently depending on which other rooms they own.
And I suspect someone could gain an advantage by dishonestly reporting how much they value each room. Specifically, if you express a value for the rooms as almost the same as your roommate, but slightly lower for the rooms he wants the most and slightly higher for the rooms he likes the least, I suspect their mechanism for overdemanded and underdemanded rooms will give you the slightly inferior rooms at a greatly reduced price.
Can anyone make good suggestions for ways to cut down my dependence on unreliable power supplies?
Get your power from the electrical grid. Buy a surge protector. Buy a reliable uninterruptible power supply. If you're really paranoid, get an electric generator and keep a stockpile of fuel. If you expect country-wide long-term blackouts, move to a different country.
I've found that 3D TV doesn't give me as much of a headache the closer I am to the position where the 3D looks natural, ie along the line perpendicular to the center of the TV and at an appropriate distance. Having the hardware directly attached to my face like with Google Glasses would mean I could be in the ideal position where the two images are correct for where I am.
Besides this, it might be possible to focus the light of different objects differently, so that they come into focus when my eye's lens is set for the appropriate distance. This seems like it should be possible but incredibly obnoxious to implement.
She attacked millions of gamers and threatened to take away some of the features of their games. The threats she made are credible, since there are plenty of game companies that listen to people like her and might actually implement or partly implement her ideas. She is, of course, legally entitled to shame individuals and companies for doing things she considers unethical -- nevertheless, doing so is an attack on many people's social standing and a threat to something they value; such attacks always make people angry and incite a counterattack. In the case of Brianna Wu, some those attacks went beyond acceptable and protected speech and into libel and death threats (somewhat credible ones, with her name and address).
While few of us will miss a couple of angry idiots on the internet should she manage to catch some, if she was surprised by what happened she may get herself in trouble again. When someone's social standing is attacked, they treat it as a physical attack, including activation of the fight-or-flight response. This is because throughout our evolutionary past, an attack on someone's social standing is frequently followed by immediate or delayed physical violence against them. This remains true even today, for example how America verbally attacked Iraq before bombing them, or how Hitler verbally attacked the Jews before executing them. However, most people only know that "she made me angry". And people do stupid things when they're angry. And evolution has killed off anyone who ignores attacks on their social status (this is true in other social animals as well as humans). Long story short, calling a large group of people immoral is and will continue to be a dangerous thing to do.
As to whether her efforts will help women: I don't know. Games could desensitize people, or they could act as a harmless release that would otherwise be applied on real people. Some research shows that immoral behavior in a video game can lead to nicer real-world behavior, although that may only work when the game forces you to act in a way you feel guilty (most games let you choose), and who knows if the long-term effects are similar to the short-term effects. But mostly, I think that games contain sexism because the real world contains sexism.
On that note, why focus on video games? Is there any indication that improving the conditions in video games will lead to better real-world conditions with less effort than directly working to improve real-world conditions? My opinion: go after the fashion and cosmetics industries. These industries thrive on making women sex objects, damage their health (see high heels) and self-esteem, and most importantly almost all their customers are women, so you should have "no trouble" organizing a boycott. Even better, the backlash you will receive from them will greatly improve your opinion of male gamers.
Normally, your convergence and focus operate together.
With 3D imaging your convergence varies but focal point remains the same. No where outside of viewing a 3D image will your eyes ever experience such a scenario.
And it gives me a headache. (Which I took as a cue that it probably doesn't do me any good)
Nah, Facebook is a self-updating contacts list that allows you to be able to contact your old acquaintances even when they move, change their phone number and email, and get married and change their name. And if you don't have an account, Facebook makes a shadow account for you; your old friends can't see it but advertisers can. It doesn't hurt any to make an account, if you take the right precautions against being tracked (see all those websites where it shows your facebook picture and lets you post "without a login").
When God promised to make Abraham's descendents as numerous as the sand on the seashore, Abraham never thought to ask whether that meant he gets lots of descendents or that the sand on the seashore would be gone. As they say, when you assume you make an ass out of you and me.
This is even better than my idea of having everyone file DMCA notices for everything. This is Al Qaeda, fighting to protect our freedoms from the oppressive American government. I hope they can get this law killed off as soon as possible.
Sorry fag, it stopped being capitalism the moment they started lying
Wait, you're saying it stopped being
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
the moment they started lying? This was very much a case of private owners doing something for profit.
I think you're confusing it with the ideal free market, which assumes well-informed decision-makers. Do please try to be accurate when you are correcting others.
I'm sure they monitor every bug they found for abuse, and report it after it is exploited in the wild. Never said they released it immediately did they?
There was a bug with the fish, so they had to be refreshed. They were of the wrong scale. You can check the logs, those are in the forest. Yes, that sounds fishy but that's to be expected given the circumstances.
Eh, about as credible as "my harddrive crashed and all backups are for mysterious reasons unavailable". I have no sympathy for those who destroy evidence because they think it will be better for them at the trial.
I would really like to live underground. That would solve so many problems. You would be immune to aerial surveillance, you would not have to worry about tornadoes or storms. The temperature is a constant. You can expand just by digging more rooms. It would be a lair. However it probably wouldn't get you laid.
Close, very close. Just replace the "expand just by digging more rooms" with "have food brought to you by your mom" and you got a perfect description of the stereotypical Slashdotter.
However the real strength of static strongly typed languages is when it comes to maintenance. The original programmer knows what he's using, but someone inheriting an old code base will need to put down a large amount of time to figure out how it's actually built and what a certain type do.
Spoken like someone who's never looked at his own old code. You'd be surprised at how often the guy inheriting your old code is older you.
I want my smarthome to save me money overall, while also being more comfortable and convenient. And maybe healthier as well. If it can't do that, maybe is isn't as smart as people would have you believe.
If you proposed a $5000 hookup-tax for internet You'd probably have most of the villagers at the town hall with pitchforks and torches. Funny how we want the services and value, but almost nobody is willing to pay what it's worth to get it.
What if you proposed giving millions of dollars and local monopolies to telecommunications companies to improve their infrastructure and all you got in return was shitty service at astronomical prices?
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Pointing out overused "save the damsel" tropes is NOT attacking gamers. If anything it's "attacking" developers.
Attacking a product as immoral is an attack on both the makers and the consumers.
As for overused, want to know what is the most massively overused feature? 3D. Everyone keeps making stupid 3D shit for 2D games, and the result is that the awkward point of view blocks your vision or is generally annoying. Besides this, unnecessary 3D is harder on the graphics card, and therefore uses more electricity, and therefore is evil and should be stopped. And even though I can demonstrate it causes harm, I don't campaign against the evils of unnecessarily 3D games because it is none of my business.
Her interest is games.
Then she should know that gamers like what they like, and developers develop what they like or what they think others will like. And if she wants to go around calling that evil without any proof to back it up, well, she shouldn't be surprised.
It in fact doesn't work:
This property is guaranteed, assuming that each housemate wishes to maximize the difference between what she thinks her room is worth and how much rent she has to pay.
That's not the objective of most people -- they will value rooms differently depending on which other rooms they own.
And I suspect someone could gain an advantage by dishonestly reporting how much they value each room. Specifically, if you express a value for the rooms as almost the same as your roommate, but slightly lower for the rooms he wants the most and slightly higher for the rooms he likes the least, I suspect their mechanism for overdemanded and underdemanded rooms will give you the slightly inferior rooms at a greatly reduced price.
Can anyone make good suggestions for ways to cut down my dependence on unreliable power supplies?
Get your power from the electrical grid. Buy a surge protector. Buy a reliable uninterruptible power supply. If you're really paranoid, get an electric generator and keep a stockpile of fuel. If you expect country-wide long-term blackouts, move to a different country.
Why don't ISPs simply focus on efficiently transferring packets and appropriately charging for the service?
More money to be made by doing it inefficiently and charging you an arm and a leg.
Are the profits generated by "stealth cookies" or "deep packet analysis" enough to pay for the engineering and hardware cost of these "features"?
Yes, it's almost pure profit. Except if it loses them customers. This is another reason why lack of competition is a bad idea.
I've found that 3D TV doesn't give me as much of a headache the closer I am to the position where the 3D looks natural, ie along the line perpendicular to the center of the TV and at an appropriate distance. Having the hardware directly attached to my face like with Google Glasses would mean I could be in the ideal position where the two images are correct for where I am.
Besides this, it might be possible to focus the light of different objects differently, so that they come into focus when my eye's lens is set for the appropriate distance. This seems like it should be possible but incredibly obnoxious to implement.
She attacked millions of gamers and threatened to take away some of the features of their games. The threats she made are credible, since there are plenty of game companies that listen to people like her and might actually implement or partly implement her ideas. She is, of course, legally entitled to shame individuals and companies for doing things she considers unethical -- nevertheless, doing so is an attack on many people's social standing and a threat to something they value; such attacks always make people angry and incite a counterattack. In the case of Brianna Wu, some those attacks went beyond acceptable and protected speech and into libel and death threats (somewhat credible ones, with her name and address).
While few of us will miss a couple of angry idiots on the internet should she manage to catch some, if she was surprised by what happened she may get herself in trouble again. When someone's social standing is attacked, they treat it as a physical attack, including activation of the fight-or-flight response. This is because throughout our evolutionary past, an attack on someone's social standing is frequently followed by immediate or delayed physical violence against them. This remains true even today, for example how America verbally attacked Iraq before bombing them, or how Hitler verbally attacked the Jews before executing them. However, most people only know that "she made me angry". And people do stupid things when they're angry. And evolution has killed off anyone who ignores attacks on their social status (this is true in other social animals as well as humans). Long story short, calling a large group of people immoral is and will continue to be a dangerous thing to do.
As to whether her efforts will help women: I don't know. Games could desensitize people, or they could act as a harmless release that would otherwise be applied on real people. Some research shows that immoral behavior in a video game can lead to nicer real-world behavior, although that may only work when the game forces you to act in a way you feel guilty (most games let you choose), and who knows if the long-term effects are similar to the short-term effects. But mostly, I think that games contain sexism because the real world contains sexism.
On that note, why focus on video games? Is there any indication that improving the conditions in video games will lead to better real-world conditions with less effort than directly working to improve real-world conditions? My opinion: go after the fashion and cosmetics industries. These industries thrive on making women sex objects, damage their health (see high heels) and self-esteem, and most importantly almost all their customers are women, so you should have "no trouble" organizing a boycott. Even better, the backlash you will receive from them will greatly improve your opinion of male gamers.
Normally, your convergence and focus operate together.
With 3D imaging your convergence varies but focal point remains the same. No where outside of viewing a 3D image will your eyes ever experience such a scenario.
And it gives me a headache. (Which I took as a cue that it probably doesn't do me any good)
Nah, Facebook is a self-updating contacts list that allows you to be able to contact your old acquaintances even when they move, change their phone number and email, and get married and change their name. And if you don't have an account, Facebook makes a shadow account for you; your old friends can't see it but advertisers can. It doesn't hurt any to make an account, if you take the right precautions against being tracked (see all those websites where it shows your facebook picture and lets you post "without a login").
When God promised to make Abraham's descendents as numerous as the sand on the seashore, Abraham never thought to ask whether that meant he gets lots of descendents or that the sand on the seashore would be gone. As they say, when you assume you make an ass out of you and me.
I'm just trying to guess what his nickname will be when he comes out the other end of the snake.
(Although I'm guessing that they will be cutting the poor snake open instead)
This is even better than my idea of having everyone file DMCA notices for everything. This is Al Qaeda, fighting to protect our freedoms from the oppressive American government. I hope they can get this law killed off as soon as possible.
To be fair, the guy did have a lot of fans.
Capitalism done right.
Sorry fag, it stopped being capitalism the moment they started lying
Wait, you're saying it stopped being
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
the moment they started lying? This was very much a case of private owners doing something for profit.
I think you're confusing it with the ideal free market, which assumes well-informed decision-makers. Do please try to be accurate when you are correcting others.
I'm sure they monitor every bug they found for abuse, and report it after it is exploited in the wild. Never said they released it immediately did they?
There was a bug with the fish, so they had to be refreshed. They were of the wrong scale. You can check the logs, those are in the forest. Yes, that sounds fishy but that's to be expected given the circumstances.
Eh, about as credible as "my harddrive crashed and all backups are for mysterious reasons unavailable". I have no sympathy for those who destroy evidence because they think it will be better for them at the trial.
I would really like to live underground. That would solve so many problems. You would be immune to aerial surveillance, you would not have to worry about tornadoes or storms. The temperature is a constant. You can expand just by digging more rooms. It would be a lair. However it probably wouldn't get you laid.
Close, very close. Just replace the "expand just by digging more rooms" with "have food brought to you by your mom" and you got a perfect description of the stereotypical Slashdotter.
Size matters. Ask any woman.
Don't need to. She tells me every day that size does not matter.
America is a RINO
It's spelled rhino. Also, how dare you! We're just big-boned.
However the real strength of static strongly typed languages is when it comes to maintenance. The original programmer knows what he's using, but someone inheriting an old code base will need to put down a large amount of time to figure out how it's actually built and what a certain type do.
Spoken like someone who's never looked at his own old code. You'd be surprised at how often the guy inheriting your old code is older you.
I for one would like this sort of research to be public, rather than just being known to politicians and marketers.
Information goes viral when it induces a host to replicate it and spreads to more than 1 additional host.
I've got reason to believe that about half of them are in fact dumber than average.
Sounds to me like your degree didn't add up to much.
I want my smarthome to save me money overall, while also being more comfortable and convenient. And maybe healthier as well. If it can't do that, maybe is isn't as smart as people would have you believe.
If you proposed a $5000 hookup-tax for internet You'd probably have most of the villagers at the town hall with pitchforks and torches. Funny how we want the services and value, but almost nobody is willing to pay what it's worth to get it.
What if you proposed giving millions of dollars and local monopolies to telecommunications companies to improve their infrastructure and all you got in return was shitty service at astronomical prices?