I was able to connect fine this morning, then for some reason many sites stopped working. After various troubleshooting, I discovered that my computer had been changed from obtaining the DNS automatically to specifying 4.2.2.2
Anyone have any idea what might have happened? I didn't download or install anything in the time frame that this happened.
I was talking about being taxed by the IRS, not in-game.
Do you think virtual income should be taxed?
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Simple question: Do you think that virtual income, ISK, gold, etc, should be taxed? If not, then there should be no punishment for this other than what the game developers decide to do.
Fuck, this is supposed to be one of the draws of EVE! It's a game where the devs don't hold your hand and baby you! Anything can happen.
I know it's a huge mickey mouse and there's probably (scratch that-- definitely) better ways, but when I need to do repetitive, but relatively simple, that can be done via command line, I use JavaScript to automatically create all the commands, copy them into a batch file, and done.
I have a memory like a sieve and couldn't remember which country it was. Wasn't too sure about the vote count, either. Could well have been 20 million for all I know. All I remembered was that Colbert said it was more than the population of the country.
What about the Colbert effect?
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It sounds like a good idea in practice, but it's susceptible to a large-scale conspiracy. And don't go waving that off as some silly paranoid delusion, not only can it happen, it HAS happened.
I submit the Colbert Report. He's got a huge legion of geeks ready to do whatever he says, albeit all in good-natured jest. He overwhelmed an online vote in some European country to name a bridge after him (he got something like 2 million votes, which was significantly more than the population of said country). He's even gone after Wikipedia, suggesting that people edit the page on African elephants to suggest that their population has tripled in the past few years.
Now, imagine if this system were in place. The same legion of Colbert-inspired editors would also flag the page as valid, thus making it the default page and making the harm difficult to repair.
If you beat the game with the true ending *SPOILER WARNING* by solving all cases, making it to the helipad, and then completing overtime mode *END OF SPOILERS*, you unlock inifinite mode where your only goal is to survive (your health slowly ticks down, something like lose 1 health a minute) and EVERYONE is an enemy. In fact, Otis is the first ass you get to kick, and taking a baseball bat to an elderly guy never felt so good.
His girlfriend bought the games, not him, meaning his girlfriend needs to be signed in in order to play them. Note that he can still be signed in on his own account and playing it, just she needs to be signed in as well as, say, second player.
It's more of a hassle than it should be, granted, but it's quite overblown.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I find BASIC very, very confusing. I look at BASIC code and it's like I can't even grok it. I can't see the program's layout or flow or anything...
I think it's the relative lack of parens/brackets/etc. I don't like the whole "similar to English" thing when it comes to programming.
There's nothing wrong with using an analog stick to control movement in "3d" space, since you're usually only moving along two dimensions, with a jump button to access the third.
Old school platformers are really 1-dimensional. All you go is left and right, gimmick levels aside. You're really only using the d-pad to go left and right.
I just wanted to thank everyone for the advice (even the Starbucks/McDonalds crowd). You've all really opened my eyes to the opportunities available, and just after perusing your replies I've got an idea of where I'd be interested in going with my math degree, which is far more than I could ever say about computer sciences. Specifically, some of you mentioned that the NSA/DoD are both big on hiring mathematicians, and I've always thought that cryptography was very interesting.
I haven't made my decision, but I've got strong leanings towards taking the switch. I think that next semester I'm gonna go a lot heavier on the math classes and dip into some of the more advanced stuff to make sure it clicks. Thanks again!
I think it's a good idea. All of the problems that immediately jump out at me-- things getting outdated and such-- would seem to be dealt with very easily by making the internal software updatable, some simple solid-state memory.
As a bonus, there wouldn't be any worries about ever updating drivers more than once. Reinstalling your OS? You already have the latest drivers!
Could make rolling back a bitch, though, but that should be handleable as well. Heck, stick a jumper on there that clears the memory and resets to factory defaults.
Actually, there's been a steady turn AWAY from that. That's how it used to be. In EQ, if you died, you lost a non-trivial amount of experience.
The only other MMOs I've played, both recent ones, sort of did away with that. In City of Heroes, you get a debt that has to be paid off when you die, but it's capped and the fact is even if you're always in debt, you're still always making and never losing progress. WoW pretty much gets rid of that entirely.
Whether it's a good thing or a bad... I can't really say.
Set up WotCbooks.com. Sell books on their at cover price. When you buy the book, you're given an instant PDF download, and the normal off-the-shelf version is shipped out to you.
I defy anyone to find a flaw in that plan which doesn't exist in the current system. No, the fact that you can't double dip customers isn't a flaw.
I worked QA at Atari in Beverly, MA from September to Christmas, 2003.
As a recent high school graduate with no college experience (in college now, though), it paid $10 an hour. On top of that, it was 60 hours a week mininum. Time and a half for over time, so I was making $700 a week, $550 after taxes. Damn good money for a high school student with no job experience whatsoever.
And yeah, it was work. But you know what? It was good work. I enjoyed what I did, even when it was mindless and repetitive. It beat the hell out of flipping burgers or what not. Even on the bad days it was good.
The lack of job security, though, is a definite problem of the gig. The QA department was about 40 "temps" and 20 full timers. When we were hired as temps, it was with the tacit implication that we were temps only for insurance/benefits purposes and would be kept on more or less indefinitely, with the slim possibility of graduating to full time if such positions opened up. Then 6 days before Christmas, they called all the temps into a meeting room and said "We don't need you any more." and that was that. No warning, although it wasn't that much of a surprise, given how slow work had gotten recently. A few weeks later they layed off all the full timers and shortly thereafter shut down the Beverly studio.
So, uh, yeah. QA is a damn good job, and 60 hours a week is nothing if you've got no life. Just meant 8 hours a day, every day, and staying late one weekday.
I'm using Winamp 5, and I'm rather fond of it. I used to be against media jukeboxes, preferring just using a well-structured folder tree and well-labelled files. However, that has its limits. I switched to Winamp 5 a few years ago and haven't looked back. I still keep the folder tree and files up to my stringent standards of naming, but with Winamp if I want to listen to AC/DC's "Big Balls" I can just type in balls and it searches the database in real time as I type, eventually narrowing it down to Great Balls of Fire and Big Balls.
I've got it set so that the winamp window is in the top left, the playlist window fills up all the empty space to the right of that, and the media library takes over all the rest of the space (I prefer maximized windows).
Actually, a pokemon MMO could totally work
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Seriously. I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. A pokemon MMO could totally work. Instead of camping for that Awesome Mallet of DOOMX0RS! you camp out for the super-rare Winsallfightsaquil.
Apply that idea more generally
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I think that idea can and should be applied much more generally. For example, I can't speak for others, but I find file reading and writing to be a pain in the ass in Java (the only non-web based programming language I know at the moment). So what did I do? Made a class for opening and saving text files painlessly as arrays of strings. Maybe not the most efficient thing option, but it's a hell of a lot easier and it's really not that bad.
I think that should apply to pretty much anything. Whenever you encounter a moderately complex piece of programming that doesn't work the way you'd intutively expect it to, make a library so that it DOES work the way you'd intuitively expect it to.
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Nope, Comcast cable.
I thought the same thing. I still can't comprehend how the setting got changed, though.
I was able to connect fine this morning, then for some reason many sites stopped working. After various troubleshooting, I discovered that my computer had been changed from obtaining the DNS automatically to specifying 4.2.2.2
Anyone have any idea what might have happened? I didn't download or install anything in the time frame that this happened.
I was talking about being taxed by the IRS, not in-game.
Simple question: Do you think that virtual income, ISK, gold, etc, should be taxed? If not, then there should be no punishment for this other than what the game developers decide to do.
Fuck, this is supposed to be one of the draws of EVE! It's a game where the devs don't hold your hand and baby you! Anything can happen.
I know it's a huge mickey mouse and there's probably (scratch that-- definitely) better ways, but when I need to do repetitive, but relatively simple, that can be done via command line, I use JavaScript to automatically create all the commands, copy them into a batch file, and done.
I have a memory like a sieve and couldn't remember which country it was. Wasn't too sure about the vote count, either. Could well have been 20 million for all I know. All I remembered was that Colbert said it was more than the population of the country.
It sounds like a good idea in practice, but it's susceptible to a large-scale conspiracy. And don't go waving that off as some silly paranoid delusion, not only can it happen, it HAS happened.
I submit the Colbert Report. He's got a huge legion of geeks ready to do whatever he says, albeit all in good-natured jest. He overwhelmed an online vote in some European country to name a bridge after him (he got something like 2 million votes, which was significantly more than the population of said country). He's even gone after Wikipedia, suggesting that people edit the page on African elephants to suggest that their population has tripled in the past few years.
Now, imagine if this system were in place. The same legion of Colbert-inspired editors would also flag the page as valid, thus making it the default page and making the harm difficult to repair.
If you beat the game with the true ending *SPOILER WARNING* by solving all cases, making it to the helipad, and then completing overtime mode *END OF SPOILERS*, you unlock inifinite mode where your only goal is to survive (your health slowly ticks down, something like lose 1 health a minute) and EVERYONE is an enemy. In fact, Otis is the first ass you get to kick, and taking a baseball bat to an elderly guy never felt so good.
Uhh, that's really not a very big problem.
His girlfriend bought the games, not him, meaning his girlfriend needs to be signed in in order to play them. Note that he can still be signed in on his own account and playing it, just she needs to be signed in as well as, say, second player.
It's more of a hassle than it should be, granted, but it's quite overblown.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I find BASIC very, very confusing. I look at BASIC code and it's like I can't even grok it. I can't see the program's layout or flow or anything...
I think it's the relative lack of parens/brackets/etc. I don't like the whole "similar to English" thing when it comes to programming.
Man, I wish my fiancée would tell me to go to my computer for some T&A.
She's of the "tolerates it but doesn't want to know about it" school.
Except that there's a demo for all arcade games, and I doubt lumines will be any different.
This is greed at best, and honestly I'd call it bait and switch at worst.
There's nothing wrong with using an analog stick to control movement in "3d" space, since you're usually only moving along two dimensions, with a jump button to access the third.
Old school platformers are really 1-dimensional. All you go is left and right, gimmick levels aside. You're really only using the d-pad to go left and right.
I just wanted to thank everyone for the advice (even the Starbucks/McDonalds crowd). You've all really opened my eyes to the opportunities available, and just after perusing your replies I've got an idea of where I'd be interested in going with my math degree, which is far more than I could ever say about computer sciences. Specifically, some of you mentioned that the NSA/DoD are both big on hiring mathematicians, and I've always thought that cryptography was very interesting.
I haven't made my decision, but I've got strong leanings towards taking the switch. I think that next semester I'm gonna go a lot heavier on the math classes and dip into some of the more advanced stuff to make sure it clicks. Thanks again!
I think it's a good idea. All of the problems that immediately jump out at me-- things getting outdated and such-- would seem to be dealt with very easily by making the internal software updatable, some simple solid-state memory.
As a bonus, there wouldn't be any worries about ever updating drivers more than once. Reinstalling your OS? You already have the latest drivers!
Could make rolling back a bitch, though, but that should be handleable as well. Heck, stick a jumper on there that clears the memory and resets to factory defaults.
I don't see any saber-toothed tigers around, do you?
Proof positive!
Does anyone else feel a strong urge to smack those smarmy bastards who are so convinced that drugs and chemicals and such are making us weaker?
"Ooh, but the cavemen didn't have glut--"
"Fuck the cavemen. They were chased by saber-toothed tigers and lucky to live to the age of 20."
I say pump me full of drugs, corporate America!
Actually, there's been a steady turn AWAY from that. That's how it used to be. In EQ, if you died, you lost a non-trivial amount of experience.
The only other MMOs I've played, both recent ones, sort of did away with that. In City of Heroes, you get a debt that has to be paid off when you die, but it's capped and the fact is even if you're always in debt, you're still always making and never losing progress. WoW pretty much gets rid of that entirely.
Whether it's a good thing or a bad... I can't really say.
Here's an idea.
Set up WotCbooks.com. Sell books on their at cover price. When you buy the book, you're given an instant PDF download, and the normal off-the-shelf version is shipped out to you.
I defy anyone to find a flaw in that plan which doesn't exist in the current system. No, the fact that you can't double dip customers isn't a flaw.
I worked QA at Atari in Beverly, MA from September to Christmas, 2003.
As a recent high school graduate with no college experience (in college now, though), it paid $10 an hour. On top of that, it was 60 hours a week mininum. Time and a half for over time, so I was making $700 a week, $550 after taxes. Damn good money for a high school student with no job experience whatsoever.
And yeah, it was work. But you know what? It was good work. I enjoyed what I did, even when it was mindless and repetitive. It beat the hell out of flipping burgers or what not. Even on the bad days it was good.
The lack of job security, though, is a definite problem of the gig. The QA department was about 40 "temps" and 20 full timers. When we were hired as temps, it was with the tacit implication that we were temps only for insurance/benefits purposes and would be kept on more or less indefinitely, with the slim possibility of graduating to full time if such positions opened up. Then 6 days before Christmas, they called all the temps into a meeting room and said "We don't need you any more." and that was that. No warning, although it wasn't that much of a surprise, given how slow work had gotten recently. A few weeks later they layed off all the full timers and shortly thereafter shut down the Beverly studio.
So, uh, yeah. QA is a damn good job, and 60 hours a week is nothing if you've got no life. Just meant 8 hours a day, every day, and staying late one weekday.
NCSoft's not responsible for any of its games any more than EA is of any of its games. NCSoft is the publisher, Cryptic is the creator of CoH.
I'm using Winamp 5, and I'm rather fond of it. I used to be against media jukeboxes, preferring just using a well-structured folder tree and well-labelled files. However, that has its limits. I switched to Winamp 5 a few years ago and haven't looked back. I still keep the folder tree and files up to my stringent standards of naming, but with Winamp if I want to listen to AC/DC's "Big Balls" I can just type in balls and it searches the database in real time as I type, eventually narrowing it down to Great Balls of Fire and Big Balls.
I've got it set so that the winamp window is in the top left, the playlist window fills up all the empty space to the right of that, and the media library takes over all the rest of the space (I prefer maximized windows).
Seriously. I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. A pokemon MMO could totally work. Instead of camping for that Awesome Mallet of DOOMX0RS! you camp out for the super-rare Winsallfightsaquil.
I think that idea can and should be applied much more generally. For example, I can't speak for others, but I find file reading and writing to be a pain in the ass in Java (the only non-web based programming language I know at the moment). So what did I do? Made a class for opening and saving text files painlessly as arrays of strings. Maybe not the most efficient thing option, but it's a hell of a lot easier and it's really not that bad.
I think that should apply to pretty much anything. Whenever you encounter a moderately complex piece of programming that doesn't work the way you'd intutively expect it to, make a library so that it DOES work the way you'd intuitively expect it to.