As you would expect, some people really like leveling, and that is mostly what they do. Others view it as a regrettable grind that comes with the genre, a cockblock before they can get to the part they like.
On live, level 90 is the cap. The for-sale 90s are intended to be brought to the new expansion, which goes up to level 100. Since all the content is at level cap, this move makes some sense. The summary should at least mention that level 100 will be the cap when these things are for sale. Pretending that "the game is the experience of leveling, after which you have won" can be forgiven, but leaving out the actual level cap? Shenanigans.
I love all these studies that constantly come out showing that dogs are, well, loving, loyal, and built to hang around humans. Of COURSE they are. Dogs are domesticated, and like, are the best thing ever.
I would like to see more studies about how flexible these relatively large changes are, and how fast they can occur. We all know about the Russion project to make "dogs out of foxes" by domesticating foxes by choosing them based on friendliness:
Do these little foxes have a section where they are mirroring the dogs? In other words, is this morphological change something that happens when an animal is domesticated into a pet, or are dogs just special because awwwww doggie?
That we like something that other white dudes and asian dudes are into? Fuck no. It's fine. Not everyone has to like every thing. If only white guys like it, that doesn't mean that something must be WRONG with it, or white guys, or that the whole institution is sexist and/or racist.
The NBA isn't very racially diverse, and has 0 sexual diversity. Who gives a fuck?
Played at high level, sports don't really increase fitness beyond a point, they increase your ability to play in your role. Football players shorten their lives in many ways, and no, not all of them are related to head banging injuries. Is that fitness? For a quarterback, likely. But plenty of the team is about fulfilling a role. Sumo wrestlers don't live long either- sustaining that much muscle (and of course the famous fat) is hard for any body.
Played at a casual level, of course sports offer benefits. Play football with your other sedentary buddies and you will all increase health.
Played at a high level, e-sports don't really increase cognition beyond a point, they increase your ability to play in your role. Starcraft players don't go on to make vast maps in their head, or use their extraordinary decision making skills in some manner, because a role for those explicit cognophysical tricks just doesn't exist outside of video games. Is that intelligence?
Played at a casual level, of course e-sports offer other benefits. Play starcraft with your other non-computer aware buddies and you will all get better at computers, reaction time, decision making, planning ability, and other facets of cognitive health.
I just got the "hey go check out beta" alert. I figured it would be the same with with different underhood. WOW this is shit. And sure enough, I had to enable scripting. Bro, it's fucking COMMENTS. It doesn't need java, or script, or javafuckingscript.
This could be the death of this site. Sad. Been browsing this since early college.
Dvorak is unquestionably better. The only folks who tried to show otherwise had a Bone-Ta-Pick- they were free market types trying to show that QWERTY was not a failure of the market, which it is- it selects for short term gains over long term efficiency.
The thing is, unlike the shitpile keyboards demonstrated in TFA, I can walk up to a QWERTY box and make it Dvorak. Modern OSes memorize by user, so it doesn't shit on the other users of the machine. Sure, the keyboard still LOOKS dumb- older, nicer keyboards let me swap letters around, after all, and newer ones are not yet smart enough to have the letters generated by LCD or whatever- but it's still fully functional for me or someone who likes the masochistic QWERTY bullshit. Changing caps lock to some split thing, fucking around with the rest of the layout for no reason, breaking the keyboard for anyone but a tippy-tappy casual, is fucked up. I game, I program, I write, and all of these demand a real fucking keyboard, not some shit show. 100% agree with TFA, and no, Dvorak is not any manner of counterexample.
You know what key I always have to disable in the registry though? Fucking Windows Key. The auto-lose key in any game, and conveniently placed directly between two constantly hit thumb keys. What a debacle.
The google terms for this don't gimme shit, sadly. But there is logic stored on the drive that is executed internally- I'm pretty damned sure. It's not firmware in the classic sense (it is stored on parts of the drive that are not exposed externally), and it's complex enough that you definitely don't want to trust it with your encryption.
Fuck that bro. You want to trust the private little OS that disks have running in them? If you can't audit the source code, it's crap.
I'm sure they would implement fucking 3DES or some shit and call that secure, or a terrible version of AES that is accidentally on purpose super weak, and that's assuming they don't just cache the fucking keys.
Hardware encryption solutions that you can buy? You have no reason to trust them.
The big difference with medical knowledge being used to torture versus, say, design of a weapon, is that weapons have moral use. Defense is inherently moral, and technology makes that safer and better. Technology used to kill is the same as a sword being used to kill, is the same as a rock- if the man behind the tool is working towards good, defending his nation / family / self, then the action, and the weapon is moral.
Torture, on the other hand, is always wrong. But that doesn't make scalpels evil, or handguns, or rockets.
Egyptians shaved most of their hair and only wore wigs. Throughout history, this has been the style many times. Obviously long ago enough, baldness was considered very attractive- or it wouldn't have been selected for, which it was (it offers no inherent advantages physically, so it's a reasonable enough guess).
As recent as a century and a half ago it was still the fashion for many men to go about wearing wigs, which were done in styles that natural hair could never achieve. Today, wearing a wig is seen completely differently.
Ergo, your comment about dating is not relevant. Especially when you consider the more traditional, non "Romeo and Juliet" schemes of mate finding more popular in the past (and still pretty popular outside western culture).
Grey is unfortunate, but it's at least possible to dye your hair convincingly and indefinitely. There's no medical solution for baldness yet- if there was, you know John Travolta would have been all over it, right? So baldness you are just fucked with it, and it needs a solution, and it doesn't need a bunch of jackwads pretending that we shouldn't try to solve it because it isn't fucking cancer, or that it's a trifling matter. Fuck them, and if you agree with them, fuck you too.
You're kidding yourself if you think you have access to the same pool of women you would if you weren't bald. An attractive man with a good head of hair has far more options than an attractive man who is bald. Especially if your baldness happens in your teens. As a freshman in college (when I had just turned 18), people thought I was some old guy returned to the dorms, even though I was younger than all of them. A couple years later as a TA, I asked the students to guess my age- the lowest number was 28, at the time six years older than my actual age. Hiding my hairline with a hat elicited absolute gasps, as the students realized the truth- I was at most two years older than any of them.
Most guys don't deal with hair loss until they are well into adulthood, if not old or middle aged. But it can shit on you in your 20s, and it is absolutely absurd in your teens.
But baldness will fuck over any guy who it happens to in the dating market. There are women who prefer bald men, but there are also women who will only date guys with nice hair. As a bald guy, you are competing exclusively in the first camp. As a guy with a nice head of hair, you have your pick of both fields.
You can disagree with Cheney's politics- I certainly do.
But this is entirely reasonable for him to take. It prevents assassination and blackmail attempts being launched in a potentially trivial fashion. As was said above, why would you want an off switch? And if you or I can personally justify it, we'd probably not be able to as vice president.
If you have to cheat to win, you don't deserve to win. I report every bot I see, and I love it when they get banned and lose everything. Fuck botters. Right in the bot hole.
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As you would expect, some people really like leveling, and that is mostly what they do. Others view it as a regrettable grind that comes with the genre, a cockblock before they can get to the part they like.
On live, level 90 is the cap. The for-sale 90s are intended to be brought to the new expansion, which goes up to level 100. Since all the content is at level cap, this move makes some sense. The summary should at least mention that level 100 will be the cap when these things are for sale. Pretending that "the game is the experience of leveling, after which you have won" can be forgiven, but leaving out the actual level cap? Shenanigans.
I love all these studies that constantly come out showing that dogs are, well, loving, loyal, and built to hang around humans. Of COURSE they are. Dogs are domesticated, and like, are the best thing ever.
I would like to see more studies about how flexible these relatively large changes are, and how fast they can occur. We all know about the Russion project to make "dogs out of foxes" by domesticating foxes by choosing them based on friendliness:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Do these little foxes have a section where they are mirroring the dogs? In other words, is this morphological change something that happens when an animal is domesticated into a pet, or are dogs just special because awwwww doggie?
That we like something that other white dudes and asian dudes are into? Fuck no. It's fine. Not everyone has to like every thing. If only white guys like it, that doesn't mean that something must be WRONG with it, or white guys, or that the whole institution is sexist and/or racist.
The NBA isn't very racially diverse, and has 0 sexual diversity. Who gives a fuck?
Played at high level, sports don't really increase fitness beyond a point, they increase your ability to play in your role. Football players shorten their lives in many ways, and no, not all of them are related to head banging injuries. Is that fitness? For a quarterback, likely. But plenty of the team is about fulfilling a role. Sumo wrestlers don't live long either- sustaining that much muscle (and of course the famous fat) is hard for any body.
Played at a casual level, of course sports offer benefits. Play football with your other sedentary buddies and you will all increase health.
Played at a high level, e-sports don't really increase cognition beyond a point, they increase your ability to play in your role. Starcraft players don't go on to make vast maps in their head, or use their extraordinary decision making skills in some manner, because a role for those explicit cognophysical tricks just doesn't exist outside of video games. Is that intelligence?
Played at a casual level, of course e-sports offer other benefits. Play starcraft with your other non-computer aware buddies and you will all get better at computers, reaction time, decision making, planning ability, and other facets of cognitive health.
I didn't see anything up there about not needing the perpetually insecure javascript to comment. That's a pretty big deal.
I just got the "hey go check out beta" alert. I figured it would be the same with with different underhood. WOW this is shit. And sure enough, I had to enable scripting. Bro, it's fucking COMMENTS. It doesn't need java, or script, or javafuckingscript.
This could be the death of this site. Sad. Been browsing this since early college.
Dvorak is unquestionably better. The only folks who tried to show otherwise had a Bone-Ta-Pick- they were free market types trying to show that QWERTY was not a failure of the market, which it is- it selects for short term gains over long term efficiency.
The thing is, unlike the shitpile keyboards demonstrated in TFA, I can walk up to a QWERTY box and make it Dvorak. Modern OSes memorize by user, so it doesn't shit on the other users of the machine. Sure, the keyboard still LOOKS dumb- older, nicer keyboards let me swap letters around, after all, and newer ones are not yet smart enough to have the letters generated by LCD or whatever- but it's still fully functional for me or someone who likes the masochistic QWERTY bullshit. Changing caps lock to some split thing, fucking around with the rest of the layout for no reason, breaking the keyboard for anyone but a tippy-tappy casual, is fucked up. I game, I program, I write, and all of these demand a real fucking keyboard, not some shit show. 100% agree with TFA, and no, Dvorak is not any manner of counterexample.
You know what key I always have to disable in the registry though? Fucking Windows Key. The auto-lose key in any game, and conveniently placed directly between two constantly hit thumb keys. What a debacle.
Interesting.
I think "attacker" is the better term. The purpose of security is to *work*, we should choose terms that map to that.
No dude, it PROMPTS you for the password. It's not in the "bootup process", that's the whole point.
Truecrypt is used across many platforms. Unlike cryptsetup / loop fun, you can walk it to a windows box, mount and modify, and walk it back.
The google terms for this don't gimme shit, sadly. But there is logic stored on the drive that is executed internally- I'm pretty damned sure. It's not firmware in the classic sense (it is stored on parts of the drive that are not exposed externally), and it's complex enough that you definitely don't want to trust it with your encryption.
On this topic, about a year ago a slashdot was on this topic. You can see people shred the stupid fucking idea of trusting encryption that security experts can't inspect:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/02/27/194234/rsa-self-encrypting-usb-hard-drives-for-all-operating-systems-video
Fuck that bro. You want to trust the private little OS that disks have running in them? If you can't audit the source code, it's crap.
I'm sure they would implement fucking 3DES or some shit and call that secure, or a terrible version of AES that is accidentally on purpose super weak, and that's assuming they don't just cache the fucking keys.
Hardware encryption solutions that you can buy? You have no reason to trust them.
"An armed society is a polite society" - Robert Heinlein
The big difference with medical knowledge being used to torture versus, say, design of a weapon, is that weapons have moral use. Defense is inherently moral, and technology makes that safer and better. Technology used to kill is the same as a sword being used to kill, is the same as a rock- if the man behind the tool is working towards good, defending his nation / family / self, then the action, and the weapon is moral.
Torture, on the other hand, is always wrong. But that doesn't make scalpels evil, or handguns, or rockets.
Sexist assholes hard at work. Ignore the skilled and dedicated boys, we're trying to something something who the fuck knows.
Useless morons. I guess we can write off code.org as being anything but shitsacks.
WHERE ARE MY MOD POINTS
Yo dawg!
Egyptians shaved most of their hair and only wore wigs. Throughout history, this has been the style many times. Obviously long ago enough, baldness was considered very attractive- or it wouldn't have been selected for, which it was (it offers no inherent advantages physically, so it's a reasonable enough guess).
As recent as a century and a half ago it was still the fashion for many men to go about wearing wigs, which were done in styles that natural hair could never achieve. Today, wearing a wig is seen completely differently.
Ergo, your comment about dating is not relevant. Especially when you consider the more traditional, non "Romeo and Juliet" schemes of mate finding more popular in the past (and still pretty popular outside western culture).
Grey is unfortunate, but it's at least possible to dye your hair convincingly and indefinitely. There's no medical solution for baldness yet- if there was, you know John Travolta would have been all over it, right? So baldness you are just fucked with it, and it needs a solution, and it doesn't need a bunch of jackwads pretending that we shouldn't try to solve it because it isn't fucking cancer, or that it's a trifling matter. Fuck them, and if you agree with them, fuck you too.
You're kidding yourself if you think you have access to the same pool of women you would if you weren't bald. An attractive man with a good head of hair has far more options than an attractive man who is bald. Especially if your baldness happens in your teens. As a freshman in college (when I had just turned 18), people thought I was some old guy returned to the dorms, even though I was younger than all of them. A couple years later as a TA, I asked the students to guess my age- the lowest number was 28, at the time six years older than my actual age. Hiding my hairline with a hat elicited absolute gasps, as the students realized the truth- I was at most two years older than any of them.
Most guys don't deal with hair loss until they are well into adulthood, if not old or middle aged. But it can shit on you in your 20s, and it is absolutely absurd in your teens.
But baldness will fuck over any guy who it happens to in the dating market. There are women who prefer bald men, but there are also women who will only date guys with nice hair. As a bald guy, you are competing exclusively in the first camp. As a guy with a nice head of hair, you have your pick of both fields.
Pretty sure women never suffer from male pattern baldness.
Other forms of hair loss can effect them. However, that's much rarer, and those can also effect men. Baldness is almost exclusively a male issue.
I bet you went bald in your teens right bro?
"Imagine if we applied this effort to shit that bothers me. The fact that some men are almost unable to date doesn't bother ME, so fuck you."
Gtfo with your high horse. A fix for baldness will prevent tons of suffering.
Sad thing is, I knew some jackass would get on his high horse the moment that something like this hit slashdot.
You can disagree with Cheney's politics- I certainly do.
But this is entirely reasonable for him to take. It prevents assassination and blackmail attempts being launched in a potentially trivial fashion. As was said above, why would you want an off switch? And if you or I can personally justify it, we'd probably not be able to as vice president.
...at the expense of nonbotters.
If you have to cheat to win, you don't deserve to win. I report every bot I see, and I love it when they get banned and lose everything. Fuck botters. Right in the bot hole.