Blizzard implemented a change recently. You can go google it in recent posts, but the net effect was a big drop in latency for most WoW players. The details aren't known, but the effect was to basically triple the amount of game data being sent up and down stream. WoW does not transmit a ludicrous number of bytes per second, so tripling it doesn't break anyone's bandwidth limits or anything- but suddenly, some of our raid (always the same people) started disconnecting hard. They could barely be online- whenever anything was going on in game, sure enough, they would disconnect.
Blizzard made a post about it blaming the ISPs, and reverting the change (until they can implement it if it will help your connection, and not if some Nazi will come along and stamp it). Essentially, it "looks like bittorrent" to the ISPs, and they block it. We've had a LOT of really frustrated raiders who can't raid, and generally the game was impossible for them- and of course, Blizzard had no way of knowing that their legit update would run afoul of really sketchy practices.
You can argue this isn't a net neutrality issue, but it clearly is. The data was always from Blizzard server to your client and back, but suddenly it started getting throttled to the point of no connection.
I'm just grateful that the movie was as true to the comic as it was. I went to see it twice in the theaters, once with my friend and once to an IMAX version.
The nudity was great. It's just glorious to be watching a movie with nudity in it, because I know there's a lot of people who don't want us to, in order to pander. Of course, not being 15, I don't go to watch movies FOR that purpose, but it was nice that the comic book, which had nudity in it, was echoed correctly. The big glowy blue swingy-dong was great! The failed (and successful) sex scenes really told a lot about those characters. Rorschach was also wonderful. I dunno, I really liked this movie, one of the few good ones recently IMO. If it kills the genre for awhile, whatever, at least we finally effing got Watchmen out of it instead of like, the D&D movie.
You are referring to an edge case where there is a traffic light, without a car in front of you, that will turn green if you time it perfectly instead of stopping. In that event, you will make better time by stopping a ways back from the light, and starting just before the light turns green, timed to go through at full speed just as the light turns green.
Sound dangerous? It is, to an extent, because someone trying to make the light going perpedicular can T-Bone you. Sure, they are wronng, but sheesh! The end result is just the same as people who time and sail through at max speed- safe in some places, very dangerous in others.
Speeding is better at getting where you are going for the reasons stated: you have a higher chance of making any and every light, you have a higher chance of not being locked into slower traffic, and of course, you go faster. Failing to time a light so that you are at 0 mph when it turns green is something you can easily work around, and is rare in any event- in most cases, there will be another car in front of you, at that light, at 0 mph, accelerating slowly.
Thank you for posting this. A cat 4-5 hurricane will tear the hell out of all the cost saving crap, from stapled on roofing to this thinking that homes are like Lincoln Logs or something.
For each $NAME in @EXECS $NAMEsucks.com $NAMEblows.com (repeat for org, net, etc)
Ok, whew! I think we got them all!
$NAMEsucksass.com $NAMEsucksshit.com (repeat for anything else to suck: goats, whatever, just stay on the legal side and don't make a claim that could be claimed in court to be slander/libel) $NAME_is_a_fuckwit.com
Honestly, I could keep going. People don't just type names in and add sucks and see what comes up, but if one of these execs is caught doing something illegal you can bet that appropriate domains will be reaching the top of google searches for the name with a quickness.
The whole damned man versus machine thing isn't about, can a man calculate more than a machine? We already know the answer to that. The question is, can a machine beat a man at chess?
The answer was no, unless you have some humans fiddling with stuff behind the curtains. I'm fairly confident that a hybrid/cyborg setup can beat a human, because it's combining both of them.
Anyway, was damned cheesy, mostly in the way it was presented. It was also cheesy because what Kasparov was told was factually incorrect.
He's not disputing that there are good laws, or advocating anarchy. But we've had centuries at this point to get laws like "you can't borrow money and not pay it back" on the books. They are already there. The money in the law making industry is in finding someone to pay you for screwing their competitors or safeguarding their fortune, and that's what he's (rightly) complaining about.
Once we start seeing "bipartisan lobbyists" we are really super screwed. For now, each particular special interest faction has to arbitrarily choose a side and butter their bread- or at least butter their bread *more*.
This will be a nonstarter. The US government isn't going to start attacking "hate websites" or otherwise poop on the first amendment. Companies like Youtube will certainly comply with the British government. Net result: such content won't be on the most popular avenues of the net, but it'll still be out there for those who are "interested" in such things. So you and I won't be able to browse to it on google video, but it'll be hosted on, I dunno, hatetube or something.
He's arguing with someone who is actually correct that games are art. Here's how he handles this debate:
"Santiago now supplies samples of a video game named "Waco Resurrection" (above), in which the player, as David Koresh, defends his Branch Davidian compound against FBI agents. The graphics show the protagonist exchanging gunfire with agents according to the rules of the game. Although the player must don a Koresh mask and inspire his followers to play, the game looks from her samples like one more brainless shooting-gallery."
Ok, note the important thing: because games require you to actually play them to appreciate them, he's essentially describing a painting that *he has never even seen*. He's making the conclusion that the game is not art *based on screenshots*.
Really. Super really. He's as qualified to judge whether or not this game is art as my damned dog is to preside over the works of Michelangelo- meaning, he'll ignore that which is on the ceiling, and he'll pee on whatever he can reach.
"Her next example is a game named "Braid" (above). This is a game "that explores our own relationship with our past...you encounter enemies and collect puzzle pieces, but there's one key difference...you can't die." You can go back in time and correct your mistakes. In chess, this is known as taking back a move, and negates the whole discipline of the game."
Firstly, in chess, if you are practicing or playing by yourself, taking back a move is one of the things you do to explore the gamespace more thoroughly. Only in a competitive multiplayer environment does time manipulation become something different entirely. He's suddenly gone from exploring a world into cheating. Not related. Plus, the game isn't just a regular game that has time manipulation, as he would again discovered *if only he could type it into google*. Seriously, here's from wikipedia:
"Time and Mystery introduces objects surrounded by a green glow that are unaffected by time manipulation; for example, switches will remain flipped even if time is rewound to before the action occurred. Rewinding can thus be used to change the synchronization between objects that can and cannot be rewound, the basis of many puzzles in this section.[15] This theme is also used in later worlds to denote objects unaffected by the player's time manipulation."
Ok, so, he doesn't know what he's talking about. This isn't "taking back a move" at all. This is something he has never heard of and doesn't understand.
And his third:
"We come to Example 3, "Flower" (above). A run-down city apartment has a single flower on the sill, which leads the player into a natural landscape. The game is "about trying to find a balance between elements of urban and the natural." Nothing she shows from this game seemed of more than decorative interest on the level of a greeting card. Is the game scored? She doesn't say. Do you win if you're the first to find the balance between the urban and the natural? Can you control the flower? Does the game know what the ideal balance is? "
I don't know man DO YOU? You haven't even TRIED this game out.
What a tool. Seriously, this is like refusing to acknowledge sculpture as art because all you have seen are pictures, or dismissing photography because you heard someone describe how a camera worked and then you were like, wait, does the exposure speed matter? WHY DO YOU NOT SAY NOT ART LOL. Or as I mentioned before, dismissing paintings having never viewed them.
DRM is Digital Restrictions Management (Digital Rights Management to some). It controls what goes on on YOUR computer, the one YOU own, that is supposed to work for YOU. This is not the case in an MMO, where you have a client that talks to a server, and your client IS working for you. The server, running as Blizzard's property, is not. It's ok to run locally if you mess around with it a bit, but you end up with a vast boring world that isn't interesting like if you had, you know, other people in it.
Not even remotely DRM. The MMO model is actually selling you a SERVICE. These twits are just dillholes whose local code is broken by design unless their shitgobbling servers are up and gobbling shit at the correct rate.
Your use of the word "freeloaders" to describe people who opt out of viewing useless bullshit pretty much betrays you, but briefly- yes, it's fine if people don't view ads. There's no reason that my machine should serve up and assault my eyes and brain with shit shoveled out of some deep dark asshole of manipulation. By definition these ads are there to lie to me, make me feel inadequate, prey upon some mental weakness we all share, or otherwise scare me into giving someone my money.
Fuck that. I have a moral responsibility to NOT look at ads.
There's nothing at all parasitic about that. A website deals up data. There's no implied social contract about how that data will be used, viewed, thought about, or otherwise perceived. Your browser should work for you, filtering out the dross (like ads) completely.
This is *really* stretching for a church/state link. The manufacturers are clearly believers, and they put references to their beliefs in their products. The references aren't even intolerant or violent ones.
Anyone crying about this is just keeping in practice at crying about stuff.
Sure, it's silly. But it's just free expression. You can't tell me with a straight face that this is coercive.
And wouldn't an orc, being more bestial anyway, have like, MORE foreskin? Certainly he couldn't have NONE right? Even if orcs don't have any, humans sure do.
I'm going with, it's easier to keep kosher if you yourself are part pig, so that's probably a Jewish half-orc.
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Blizzard implemented a change recently. You can go google it in recent posts, but the net effect was a big drop in latency for most WoW players. The details aren't known, but the effect was to basically triple the amount of game data being sent up and down stream. WoW does not transmit a ludicrous number of bytes per second, so tripling it doesn't break anyone's bandwidth limits or anything- but suddenly, some of our raid (always the same people) started disconnecting hard. They could barely be online- whenever anything was going on in game, sure enough, they would disconnect.
Blizzard made a post about it blaming the ISPs, and reverting the change (until they can implement it if it will help your connection, and not if some Nazi will come along and stamp it). Essentially, it "looks like bittorrent" to the ISPs, and they block it. We've had a LOT of really frustrated raiders who can't raid, and generally the game was impossible for them- and of course, Blizzard had no way of knowing that their legit update would run afoul of really sketchy practices.
You can argue this isn't a net neutrality issue, but it clearly is. The data was always from Blizzard server to your client and back, but suddenly it started getting throttled to the point of no connection.
I'm just grateful that the movie was as true to the comic as it was. I went to see it twice in the theaters, once with my friend and once to an IMAX version.
The nudity was great. It's just glorious to be watching a movie with nudity in it, because I know there's a lot of people who don't want us to, in order to pander. Of course, not being 15, I don't go to watch movies FOR that purpose, but it was nice that the comic book, which had nudity in it, was echoed correctly. The big glowy blue swingy-dong was great! The failed (and successful) sex scenes really told a lot about those characters. Rorschach was also wonderful. I dunno, I really liked this movie, one of the few good ones recently IMO. If it kills the genre for awhile, whatever, at least we finally effing got Watchmen out of it instead of like, the D&D movie.
Accelerating does not waste time.
You are referring to an edge case where there is a traffic light, without a car in front of you, that will turn green if you time it perfectly instead of stopping. In that event, you will make better time by stopping a ways back from the light, and starting just before the light turns green, timed to go through at full speed just as the light turns green.
Sound dangerous? It is, to an extent, because someone trying to make the light going perpedicular can T-Bone you. Sure, they are wronng, but sheesh! The end result is just the same as people who time and sail through at max speed- safe in some places, very dangerous in others.
Speeding is better at getting where you are going for the reasons stated: you have a higher chance of making any and every light, you have a higher chance of not being locked into slower traffic, and of course, you go faster. Failing to time a light so that you are at 0 mph when it turns green is something you can easily work around, and is rare in any event- in most cases, there will be another car in front of you, at that light, at 0 mph, accelerating slowly.
If you got time to play that many console games, more power to you.
Why would you assume the odds are one in a million and not one in ten? Both ludicrously overvalue the likelihood, and both are totally wrong.
You are better off assuming the odds are zero. Gameboys don't bring down planes, get real kids.
...then they'd be philosophically consistent with their stated beliefs?
Can't you just go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
And delete stuff that way?
Thank you for posting this. A cat 4-5 hurricane will tear the hell out of all the cost saving crap, from stapled on roofing to this thinking that homes are like Lincoln Logs or something.
For each $NAME in @EXECS
$NAMEsucks.com
$NAMEblows.com
(repeat for org, net, etc)
Ok, whew! I think we got them all!
$NAMEsucksass.com
$NAMEsucksshit.com
(repeat for anything else to suck: goats, whatever, just stay on the legal side and don't make a claim that could be claimed in court to be slander/libel)
$NAME_is_a_fuckwit.com
Honestly, I could keep going. People don't just type names in and add sucks and see what comes up, but if one of these execs is caught doing something illegal you can bet that appropriate domains will be reaching the top of google searches for the name with a quickness.
Well, even today, people aren't being afraid of being shot with swords.
Except for Like-Likes and Leevers I guess, but even then they only have to worry about it if you have full hearts.
It's flat out silly what they did.
The whole damned man versus machine thing isn't about, can a man calculate more than a machine? We already know the answer to that. The question is, can a machine beat a man at chess?
The answer was no, unless you have some humans fiddling with stuff behind the curtains. I'm fairly confident that a hybrid/cyborg setup can beat a human, because it's combining both of them.
Anyway, was damned cheesy, mostly in the way it was presented. It was also cheesy because what Kasparov was told was factually incorrect.
He's not disputing that there are good laws, or advocating anarchy. But we've had centuries at this point to get laws like "you can't borrow money and not pay it back" on the books. They are already there. The money in the law making industry is in finding someone to pay you for screwing their competitors or safeguarding their fortune, and that's what he's (rightly) complaining about.
Once we start seeing "bipartisan lobbyists" we are really super screwed. For now, each particular special interest faction has to arbitrarily choose a side and butter their bread- or at least butter their bread *more*.
This will be a nonstarter. The US government isn't going to start attacking "hate websites" or otherwise poop on the first amendment. Companies like Youtube will certainly comply with the British government. Net result: such content won't be on the most popular avenues of the net, but it'll still be out there for those who are "interested" in such things. So you and I won't be able to browse to it on google video, but it'll be hosted on, I dunno, hatetube or something.
Killing someone is not by itself a crime.
Killing someone illegally is murder. That's a crime.
Killing someone in self defense is not a crime at all.
If the package is heat-proof, then I suspect it's breaking some laws of physics.
I'm really glad to see this.
Just because someone lives a shitty life doesn't give them the right to steal from you.
He's arguing with someone who is actually correct that games are art. Here's how he handles this debate:
"Santiago now supplies samples of a video game named "Waco Resurrection" (above), in which the player, as David Koresh, defends his Branch Davidian compound against FBI agents. The graphics show the protagonist exchanging gunfire with agents according to the rules of the game. Although the player must don a Koresh mask and inspire his followers to play, the game looks from her samples like one more brainless shooting-gallery."
Ok, note the important thing: because games require you to actually play them to appreciate them, he's essentially describing a painting that *he has never even seen*. He's making the conclusion that the game is not art *based on screenshots*.
Really. Super really. He's as qualified to judge whether or not this game is art as my damned dog is to preside over the works of Michelangelo- meaning, he'll ignore that which is on the ceiling, and he'll pee on whatever he can reach.
"Her next example is a game named "Braid" (above). This is a game "that explores our own relationship with our past...you encounter enemies and collect puzzle pieces, but there's one key difference...you can't die." You can go back in time and correct your mistakes. In chess, this is known as taking back a move, and negates the whole discipline of the game."
For the unfamiliar, we have " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game) ".
Firstly, in chess, if you are practicing or playing by yourself, taking back a move is one of the things you do to explore the gamespace more thoroughly. Only in a competitive multiplayer environment does time manipulation become something different entirely. He's suddenly gone from exploring a world into cheating. Not related. Plus, the game isn't just a regular game that has time manipulation, as he would again discovered *if only he could type it into google*. Seriously, here's from wikipedia:
"Time and Mystery introduces objects surrounded by a green glow that are unaffected by time manipulation; for example, switches will remain flipped even if time is rewound to before the action occurred. Rewinding can thus be used to change the synchronization between objects that can and cannot be rewound, the basis of many puzzles in this section.[15] This theme is also used in later worlds to denote objects unaffected by the player's time manipulation."
Ok, so, he doesn't know what he's talking about. This isn't "taking back a move" at all. This is something he has never heard of and doesn't understand.
And his third:
"We come to Example 3, "Flower" (above). A run-down city apartment has a single flower on the sill, which leads the player into a natural landscape. The game is "about trying to find a balance between elements of urban and the natural." Nothing she shows from this game seemed of more than decorative interest on the level of a greeting card. Is the game scored? She doesn't say. Do you win if you're the first to find the balance between the urban and the natural? Can you control the flower? Does the game know what the ideal balance is? "
I don't know man DO YOU? You haven't even TRIED this game out.
What a tool. Seriously, this is like refusing to acknowledge sculpture as art because all you have seen are pictures, or dismissing photography because you heard someone describe how a camera worked and then you were like, wait, does the exposure speed matter? WHY DO YOU NOT SAY NOT ART LOL. Or as I mentioned before, dismissing paintings having never viewed them.
Old man is old.
Unix did have their stuff together. Intel didn't. Protection wasn't offered until the 286.
The "whole MMO model is DRM" is a big fat lie.
DRM is Digital Restrictions Management (Digital Rights Management to some). It controls what goes on on YOUR computer, the one YOU own, that is supposed to work for YOU. This is not the case in an MMO, where you have a client that talks to a server, and your client IS working for you. The server, running as Blizzard's property, is not. It's ok to run locally if you mess around with it a bit, but you end up with a vast boring world that isn't interesting like if you had, you know, other people in it.
Not even remotely DRM. The MMO model is actually selling you a SERVICE. These twits are just dillholes whose local code is broken by design unless their shitgobbling servers are up and gobbling shit at the correct rate.
Your use of the word "freeloaders" to describe people who opt out of viewing useless bullshit pretty much betrays you, but briefly- yes, it's fine if people don't view ads. There's no reason that my machine should serve up and assault my eyes and brain with shit shoveled out of some deep dark asshole of manipulation. By definition these ads are there to lie to me, make me feel inadequate, prey upon some mental weakness we all share, or otherwise scare me into giving someone my money.
Fuck that. I have a moral responsibility to NOT look at ads.
There's nothing at all parasitic about that. A website deals up data. There's no implied social contract about how that data will be used, viewed, thought about, or otherwise perceived. Your browser should work for you, filtering out the dross (like ads) completely.
That actually does make sense.
This is *really* stretching for a church/state link. The manufacturers are clearly believers, and they put references to their beliefs in their products. The references aren't even intolerant or violent ones.
Anyone crying about this is just keeping in practice at crying about stuff.
Sure, it's silly. But it's just free expression. You can't tell me with a straight face that this is coercive.
Shouldn't he have at least *half* a foreskin?
And wouldn't an orc, being more bestial anyway, have like, MORE foreskin? Certainly he couldn't have NONE right? Even if orcs don't have any, humans sure do.
I'm going with, it's easier to keep kosher if you yourself are part pig, so that's probably a Jewish half-orc.