"They also asked about their attitudes to sexual relationships and about their sex lives, including how many partners they'd had and whether they were seeking brief affairs."
and...
"The study found that those who scored higher on the dark triad personality traits tended to have more partners and more desire for short-term relationships"
Could it be that they were using those exploitative Machiavellian traits against the interviewers to make their sexual escapades sound more prolific than they really were?
That's not what a conspiracy is! I just checked Wikipedia and this is the real definition:
"In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreemony between natural persons and chickens to break the law and take over the world at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherancity of that agreementary."
Please, check your source correctly before posting bogus facts you made up.
I found this within a piece of code written by a girl:
strcpy(bunny, bunny, count) register char *bunny, *pony; register count; { /* * Move the bunnies to the ponies! They all start as * cute but lose their cuteness during the move. We * know we're done when they are not cure anymore. =( */ register cute = (count + 7) / 8; switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *bunny = *pony++; case 7: *bunny = *pony++; case 6: *bunny = *pony++; case 5: *bunny = *pony++; case 4: *bunny = *pony++; case 3: *bunny = *pony++; case 2: *bunny = *pony++; case 1: *bunny = *pony++; } while (--cute > 0);// are they still cute? }
// No more cute bunnies, but we got lots // of ponies, yay! =) }
(_) Allow resizing of chat input area (_) Automaticaly control chat input window size (_) Neither (_) Both (_) One but not the other (_) The other but not one (X) All of the above (_) Some of the above (_) Potato
What kind of moron goes $2K in the hole to AT&T just so he can have a second test device?
I have around 30 grand in hardware, but I only own one Touch. Why would I need a second one? None of the other mobile companies have ever bricked my devices before.
Wow! You sound just like my old boss: Who needs separate dev, qa, staging, and production environments? We'll just install the compiler and the debugger on the production server and you're good to go.
Though I trully hope you don't work for a financial institution as well.
I think he was right, he just missed the head, er, target of the pill. But who can blame him? It would have been impossible 40 years ago to predict how much more important to our future society would be getting an erection rather than being intelligent.
Actually, if you read the article (no, not the one in Ars Technica, but the original opinion piece by Wardell, linked to from there) you'll notice that he indeed covers those topics. His point is not necessarily that piracy is irrelevant, but that it is *not* the absolute reason why games are not sold. He mentions, along with the piracy bit, that designing games for a specific market -- that is, making games that actual buying customers want to play -- is another big factor. And that a profitable market it should be, as opposed to attempting to design a rock-star-cool game to the (probably) mythical uber-gamer who owns a machine with unbelievably souped-up specs, just to get "street-cred" in the magazines and blogs.
So, those two additional factors that you said create a lot of good will, in Wardell's view, do in fact contribute to the bottom line. And indeed, the Ars Technica article touches slightly on this, though it focuses more on his radical departure from traditional anti-piracy schemes.
Wardell's point is that the game development industry should act like any other grown-up sector of the general software industry: it should think like a business: to make money, and not like a rock-star: to be cool. As he says at the end of his piece: "I just want to play cool games and make a profit on games that I work on."
>> Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system?
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but, as someone who has worked in the financial industry in the recent past, I have seen first hand that those trillions of dollars of electronic business transactions conducted daily aren't really all that accurate all the time, nor *gasp* secure.
>> Mathematically speaking, proving a program correct from the source code is in generaly impossible
Although this is certainly true for many applications, I would posit that the software for a vote counting machine must necessarily be deterministic in nature, and that all possible execution paths should be known. Therefore, mathematically speaking, the program should be written in a way that is provably correct. If it cannot be proven correct, then by necessity, it is wrong, as it's output cannot be trusted.
The best way to understand a Primary Election is that it is a party-specific mechanism, governed mostly by party's rules (with certain exceptions), to choose their own candidate. Currently, only the two major parties -- the Republican and Democratic parties -- hold primaries to choose their candidates. If you are a registered voter of either of these parties, you get to participate in the primaries. If you are not, then you get to participate in whatever mechanism your party has in place to choose it's candidate, provided it has an open method.
To compound matters even more, some states have "open primaries", which in essence allows anybody to participate in choosing the candidates of the major parties. This is due to regulations these states impose on the political parties (to make it seem "more fair" -- for some custom definition of fair). But again, at the end of the day, the party gets to choose its candidate in the best way it sees fit.
Now, the reason I mention this is because there is a clear difference between the General Election and the Primary Election, which some people do not seem to understand. The primaries are not intended to be "democratic", they are intended to allow the party to choose its candidate in any way they deem necessary. This is why there are Caucases and Super-Delegates, and other weird things that do not seem entirely fair to those who think of it as a General Election.
>> Sometimes 5-year-old kids just have too much energy and need to be disciplined or otherwise taught to control or focus their bad, disruptive, silly, destructive, or otherwise inappropriate behavior, and taught to understand when a certain behavior is acceptable and when it isn't. It's that simple and doesn't need weekly psychotherapy sessions.
I agree: some of the most innovative viruses that were created back in the day, the ones experts collect and study for their brilliant and elegant design, were done basically for "fun", not profit.
This MBR infector could very well have been written by "professionals" with a specific agenda, but to reach that conclusion based solely on the apparent quality of the code is wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
If I remember correctly, Emacs has a keyboard macro for it.
-dZ.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
-dZ.
The article says:
and...
Could it be that they were using those exploitative Machiavellian traits against the interviewers to make their sexual escapades sound more prolific than they really were?
-dZ.
That's not what a conspiracy is! I just checked Wikipedia and this is the real definition:
"In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreemony between natural persons and chickens to break the law and take over the world at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherancity of that agreementary."
Please, check your source correctly before posting bogus facts you made up.
And beware of chickens.
-dZ.
I found this within a piece of code written by a girl:
/* // are they still cute?
// No more cute bunnies, but we got lots
// of ponies, yay! =)
strcpy(bunny, bunny, count)
register char *bunny, *pony;
register count;
{
* Move the bunnies to the ponies! They all start as
* cute but lose their cuteness during the move. We
* know we're done when they are not cure anymore. =(
*/
register cute = (count + 7) / 8;
switch (count % 8) {
case 0: do { *bunny = *pony++;
case 7: *bunny = *pony++;
case 6: *bunny = *pony++;
case 5: *bunny = *pony++;
case 4: *bunny = *pony++;
case 3: *bunny = *pony++;
case 2: *bunny = *pony++;
case 1: *bunny = *pony++;
} while (--cute > 0);
}
}
>> No trolling intended, but...
No, indeed! Now sit in your corner and think about what you've done.
-dZ.
>> Visiting people who don't have Sky Plus is really annoying!
You may want to try talking with them next time, instead of just sitting down at your host's couch to watch their TV.
-dZ.
You mispelld grammer.
-dZ.
But if it pretty much sucked, then I guess it fulfilled its purpose. I'd say that's a good vaccuum cleaner.
-dZ.
>> J.K. Rowling is the 2nd Richest woman in entertainment, beat out only by Opera
I read somewhere that Firefox is gaining up!
-dZ.
(_) Allow resizing of chat input area
(_) Automaticaly control chat input window size
(_) Neither
(_) Both
(_) One but not the other
(_) The other but not one
(X) All of the above
(_) Some of the above
(_) Potato
There, completed it for you.
-dZ.
True, but that wouldn't be the electromagnetic ether. It would be the mechanical-atmospheric ether.
-dZ.
Damn you, Apple! Why do you keep turning my subway cars into bricks after every other update?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
-dZ.
Wow! You sound just like my old boss: Who needs separate dev, qa, staging, and production environments? We'll just install the compiler and the debugger on the production server and you're good to go.
Though I trully hope you don't work for a financial institution as well.
-dZ.
Someone give this guy some mod points: Mod +1 funneh!
:)
Thank you sir, you've made my morning.
-dZ.
>> That depends on how educated and literate the persons you conduct everyday conversations with are.
That depends on how educated and literate the persons with which you conduct everyday conversations are.
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." -- W. Churchill
-dZ.
I think he was right, he just missed the head, er, target of the pill. But who can blame him? It would have been impossible 40 years ago to predict how much more important to our future society would be getting an erection rather than being intelligent.
-dZ.
>> There are some things the article leaves out.
Actually, if you read the article (no, not the one in Ars Technica, but the original opinion piece by Wardell, linked to from there) you'll notice that he indeed covers those topics. His point is not necessarily that piracy is irrelevant, but that it is *not* the absolute reason why games are not sold. He mentions, along with the piracy bit, that designing games for a specific market -- that is, making games that actual buying customers want to play -- is another big factor. And that a profitable market it should be, as opposed to attempting to design a rock-star-cool game to the (probably) mythical uber-gamer who owns a machine with unbelievably souped-up specs, just to get "street-cred" in the magazines and blogs.
So, those two additional factors that you said create a lot of good will, in Wardell's view, do in fact contribute to the bottom line. And indeed, the Ars Technica article touches slightly on this, though it focuses more on his radical departure from traditional anti-piracy schemes.
Wardell's point is that the game development industry should act like any other grown-up sector of the general software industry: it should think like a business: to make money, and not like a rock-star: to be cool. As he says at the end of his piece: "I just want to play cool games and make a profit on games that I work on."
-dZ.
>> Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system?
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but, as someone who has worked in the financial industry in the recent past, I have seen first hand that those trillions of dollars of electronic business transactions conducted daily aren't really all that accurate all the time, nor *gasp* secure.
It's true. Sorry.
-dZ.
>> Mathematically speaking, proving a program correct from the source code is in generaly impossible
Although this is certainly true for many applications, I would posit that the software for a vote counting machine must necessarily be deterministic in nature, and that all possible execution paths should be known. Therefore, mathematically speaking, the program should be written in a way that is provably correct. If it cannot be proven correct, then by necessity, it is wrong, as it's output cannot be trusted.
-dZ.
The best way to understand a Primary Election is that it is a party-specific mechanism, governed mostly by party's rules (with certain exceptions), to choose their own candidate. Currently, only the two major parties -- the Republican and Democratic parties -- hold primaries to choose their candidates. If you are a registered voter of either of these parties, you get to participate in the primaries. If you are not, then you get to participate in whatever mechanism your party has in place to choose it's candidate, provided it has an open method.
To compound matters even more, some states have "open primaries", which in essence allows anybody to participate in choosing the candidates of the major parties. This is due to regulations these states impose on the political parties (to make it seem "more fair" -- for some custom definition of fair). But again, at the end of the day, the party gets to choose its candidate in the best way it sees fit.
Now, the reason I mention this is because there is a clear difference between the General Election and the Primary Election, which some people do not seem to understand. The primaries are not intended to be "democratic", they are intended to allow the party to choose its candidate in any way they deem necessary. This is why there are Caucases and Super-Delegates, and other weird things that do not seem entirely fair to those who think of it as a General Election.
-dZ.
>> Sometimes 5-year-old kids just have too much energy and need to be disciplined or otherwise taught to control or focus their bad, disruptive, silly, destructive, or otherwise inappropriate behavior, and taught to understand when a certain behavior is acceptable and when it isn't. It's that simple and doesn't need weekly psychotherapy sessions.
That's precisely what I bad parent would say.
I say we should take your DNA!
-dZ.
Ok, it's over now. Everyone go home.
Admins, you can shutdown this thread now: by Godwin's law, this discussion has terminated.
-dZ.
Sounds better coming from Andrew "Dice" Clay:
un-fuckin'-believable!
-dZ.
I agree: some of the most innovative viruses that were created back in the day, the ones experts collect and study for their brilliant and elegant design, were done basically for "fun", not profit.
This MBR infector could very well have been written by "professionals" with a specific agenda, but to reach that conclusion based solely on the apparent quality of the code is wrong.
-dZ.