Complexity means how many factors there are to keep track of and how complex the interactions are, not how hard the game is. Ninja Five-O is hard and gives a sense of accomplishment when you succeed but the mechanics are fairly simple. Meanwhile Pokemon (first example I could think of) games have very complicated stats systems but you can practically beat the singleplayer part just by bashing everything with brute force, not even bothering with elemental attributes.
Puzzle solving is fine provided it's in a game where puzzles are actually part of what you want, I wouldn't want to solve a puzzle in, say, a Serious Sam game. When puzzles are involved they should also be more than just box pushing or throwing object X on point of interest Y (where Ys are fairly common and the response to seeing one is always to throw X at it, like grapple points in a 3D Zelda game).
As for saving rare ammo, sure but it tends to lead to more hoarding than makes sense just because the path ahead is unknown and you never know if it's okay to use all your resources on a tight spot or if that'll just screw you over later.
I've seen quite a difference between knowing how to code and knowing computer science, a self-learner rarely knows the non-coding parts of computer science and ends up stumped when they come up.
The difference is that in university they foot the bill, on the job their employer does. Even if it's only a few days to find out the guy's a dud that's still money wasted on him.
That and the realtime nature, in Bridge Builder you can leisurely build what you want, in WoG it has to be stable on every step along the way and the gameplay varies a LOT throughout the game, not everything is about building structures.
That's why most democracies come with a set of immutable laws enshrined in their constitutions that make sure the majority can't abuse its position to persecute the minorities.
The vast majority of that overpopulation is in poor areas of the world where the CO2 output is fairly low, the western nations that produce all that pollution have very low growth or even declining populations.
Because they want to have CoDs coming out yearly (ask Kotick why) but they couldn't make Infinity Ward make one per year? Of course now IW isn't going to make any more CoD games (well, a company by that name might but almost none of the MW2 staff remains) so it doesn't really matter.
Expensive? Our freaking wall clock can sync to an atomic clock via RF. Sure, there's maybe a bit of signal travel delay involved but the distance from sender to receiver shouldn't change much so you could calculate it and automatically compensate.
It seems to me that with all the intermediate systems and variable delays the internet isn't the right medium for clock synchronization, you'd be better off following the RF time signals broadcast by stations running atomic clocks. Much easier to synchronize those and the signal travels a known time to the receiver instead of going through a heterogeneous wire network.
I don't know about the US but here in Germany cereals with toys inside are the exception, not the rule (and I heard Kinder Surprise can't be sold in the US anyway) so it wouldn't have a big impact. Sometimes they print some worthless nonsense on the box (like a crappy maze or something you're supposed to cut out and fold but really, nobody ever bothers with that) but even as a kid I didn't care about that.
Hey parents, your kids wouldn't be so fat if you didn't feed them crap food
Well yeah and this legislation is supposed to prevent children from begging for that crap food just to get some cheap plastic crap that's packed in and advertised. IMO it's good for children, back when I was a kid I wanted to have those toys (probably because it's toys and I don't have to pay for them with my allowance) but they usually ended up in a box, never to be used again the next day simply because they're crap.
Now, you know, and I know, that this was just some idiot in technical support trying to close his ticket as fast as possible.
That's a trade secret, tech support has no business knowing about it and even if they did they wouldn't be allowed to admit it to outsiders. The dude could have contacted the previous owner of the device or looked around for someone who might be able to contact him (the bartender, the police) but instead he calls the completely wrong department of a giant corporation and acts like that gives him legal immunity, then goes around trying to fence it to the highest bidder. A judge and jury with even the slightest amount of common sense will see through that immediately.
Programmers need specs because they don't know how your field of expertise works. Otherwise you get something geared for programmers, not for the kind of person that's supposed to use the software. There are ways to research it but they take a lot of time and can still fail.
I don't see how good and evil are related to this story, the dude was stupid and did something obviously illegal and unethical so now he gets in trouble for it. Apple is completely within its rights to slam the dude and nobody short of a saint would really have mercy here.
Supposedly you were allowed to opt out of the execution squads, of course all the other positions in the concentration camps were still available then.
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Complexity means how many factors there are to keep track of and how complex the interactions are, not how hard the game is. Ninja Five-O is hard and gives a sense of accomplishment when you succeed but the mechanics are fairly simple. Meanwhile Pokemon (first example I could think of) games have very complicated stats systems but you can practically beat the singleplayer part just by bashing everything with brute force, not even bothering with elemental attributes.
Puzzle solving is fine provided it's in a game where puzzles are actually part of what you want, I wouldn't want to solve a puzzle in, say, a Serious Sam game. When puzzles are involved they should also be more than just box pushing or throwing object X on point of interest Y (where Ys are fairly common and the response to seeing one is always to throw X at it, like grapple points in a 3D Zelda game).
As for saving rare ammo, sure but it tends to lead to more hoarding than makes sense just because the path ahead is unknown and you never know if it's okay to use all your resources on a tight spot or if that'll just screw you over later.
I've seen quite a difference between knowing how to code and knowing computer science, a self-learner rarely knows the non-coding parts of computer science and ends up stumped when they come up.
The difference is that in university they foot the bill, on the job their employer does. Even if it's only a few days to find out the guy's a dud that's still money wasted on him.
To be fair there's no way Gish could come in anything but a tarball.
That and the realtime nature, in Bridge Builder you can leisurely build what you want, in WoG it has to be stable on every step along the way and the gameplay varies a LOT throughout the game, not everything is about building structures.
Freedom allows us to fulfill our desires, not just our basic needs. Food and shelter alone are not enough for happiness.
That's why most democracies come with a set of immutable laws enshrined in their constitutions that make sure the majority can't abuse its position to persecute the minorities.
The vast majority of that overpopulation is in poor areas of the world where the CO2 output is fairly low, the western nations that produce all that pollution have very low growth or even declining populations.
The pope counts as a liberal by US standards.
Because they want to have CoDs coming out yearly (ask Kotick why) but they couldn't make Infinity Ward make one per year? Of course now IW isn't going to make any more CoD games (well, a company by that name might but almost none of the MW2 staff remains) so it doesn't really matter.
Actually you didn't have to shoot in that scene, I know because in the German version it gives you an instant game over if you kill any civilian.
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The article only mentions microsecond scales so those nanoseconds are probably not important.
Expensive? Our freaking wall clock can sync to an atomic clock via RF. Sure, there's maybe a bit of signal travel delay involved but the distance from sender to receiver shouldn't change much so you could calculate it and automatically compensate.
Cut him some slack, the double chin is bad enough, no need to make fun of it.
It seems to me that with all the intermediate systems and variable delays the internet isn't the right medium for clock synchronization, you'd be better off following the RF time signals broadcast by stations running atomic clocks. Much easier to synchronize those and the signal travels a known time to the receiver instead of going through a heterogeneous wire network.
I don't know about the US but here in Germany cereals with toys inside are the exception, not the rule (and I heard Kinder Surprise can't be sold in the US anyway) so it wouldn't have a big impact. Sometimes they print some worthless nonsense on the box (like a crappy maze or something you're supposed to cut out and fold but really, nobody ever bothers with that) but even as a kid I didn't care about that.
Hey parents, your kids wouldn't be so fat if you didn't feed them crap food
Well yeah and this legislation is supposed to prevent children from begging for that crap food just to get some cheap plastic crap that's packed in and advertised. IMO it's good for children, back when I was a kid I wanted to have those toys (probably because it's toys and I don't have to pay for them with my allowance) but they usually ended up in a box, never to be used again the next day simply because they're crap.
I don't think they're trying to get that information hidden again, they're more likely looking to discourage others from stealing prototypes again.
Now, you know, and I know, that this was just some idiot in technical support trying to close his ticket as fast as possible.
That's a trade secret, tech support has no business knowing about it and even if they did they wouldn't be allowed to admit it to outsiders. The dude could have contacted the previous owner of the device or looked around for someone who might be able to contact him (the bartender, the police) but instead he calls the completely wrong department of a giant corporation and acts like that gives him legal immunity, then goes around trying to fence it to the highest bidder. A judge and jury with even the slightest amount of common sense will see through that immediately.
What about "beta testing" agreements that supply doctors with drugs for a low price and come with a few other rules attached?
Programmers need specs because they don't know how your field of expertise works. Otherwise you get something geared for programmers, not for the kind of person that's supposed to use the software. There are ways to research it but they take a lot of time and can still fail.
We're talking about copyrights, not drugs here.
I don't see how good and evil are related to this story, the dude was stupid and did something obviously illegal and unethical so now he gets in trouble for it. Apple is completely within its rights to slam the dude and nobody short of a saint would really have mercy here.
Supposedly you were allowed to opt out of the execution squads, of course all the other positions in the concentration camps were still available then.