He is stepfather, and as such, not prone to be exactly unhappy from it. He can easily see this as win-situation for him as he got rid of having to raise someone elses child (his genes and his blood prevail, his vallet stays full, we could even stretch it as a f-u to real dad with whom he can have issues). People are sick and complicated.
You do not know complete circumstances and neither do i, but i is fairly safe to assume that loaded, chamber-ready gun put next to toy gun is not exactly likely to happen even by accident.
Who knows... dun, dun dun,... who actually pulled trigger?
More likely, people will simply say "uhuh, it is broken, lets get new one", will go out and buy new one. This bug could end up being quite profitable: people will either come to service center and get software update (or just do get it done by friend) or they will buy new hardware.
Which is same reason why DRM scheme issues are never issue for average consumer because it either works just fine or end up not being big enough deal. It is customers who never learn.
No matter how you set up looting/xp losse from death/whatever, you need to have sheep ready to be killed. You need to convince prey to play game so that predators can hunt them down.
Many players join theese games with visions of being on top of food chain (because, they, like, rox and have leet skillz), but reality pans out differently and they end up being much lower than they would expect - they will get frustrated and eventually leave. And same repeats with those that were just a bit above them in food-chain, and with those aove them, etc. You just do not hang out in game that you keep loosing at unless you enjoy loosing. Only chance of retaining them is to have constant influx on newbies to slaughter.
Only reason why UO worked was because back thne people did not have option of playing in Non-PvP server, so anyone playing had to suck up being target practice, and since carebear population was huge, it did not happen as often. Only reason why it works in EvE is because it has safe zones that you never have to leave but which you can
No, the gimp UI was trainwreck. Gimped. Totally unworkable if you ever wanted to edit few images. while having some other application running. It was hiding ui elements/features (learging curve being awfull thanks to it). Several highly illogical user flow choices (if you want brush of certain width, you have to define new one!?).
I ended up buying actual application where ui was designed with intent to help user, not to make developers job easy.
Besides... tiling windows? Is that magical thing that helps? Oh come on, that just leads to more mess as it resizes window you want to work in into something unuseable. Focus follows mouse? Eww, that is only good as eye candy. You should not need wondow manager to pick slack for bad ui anyway...
Your font list is reported by flash and java. Your browser is innocent of this. Disabling flash & java goes long way to make your system information less accessible.
Sniffing history is basic feature of xhtml/css, price you pay for selectors. a:visited (background-image:"slashdotorg.png") && boo! - if you go to my site, you will request specific image and i can see it in logs, boom, i know you were to slashdot.
I would say, several decades in hitech society can also show you bad side of technology and, and this is most important, show you where technology is not apropriate. Tabletop gaming is situation where technology is not apropriate. There it becomes distracting toy.
Anyhow
1&2) Space is not a inssue. You are not going to play dozens of different games, and you can easily spread different games across whole group. You can end up with party where there are half a dozen games and where noone owns more than one.
3) Setup/Teardown times is good. When you sit down with friends you are going to have smallchat while you sort pieces and setup board. If you are new to some group, it is time to get at ease. It is social activity that is not easily replaced by just starting program. Same goes for teardown.
4) Animations schmanimations, pointless and distracting. Pieces and tokens are bet off being abstract.
Blindly applying tech is not always an answer, especially when you deal with social stuff. You should learn that.
Opera is supposed to follow standarts. They do exist for reason.
Not writing "cross browser" code is browsers fault: If browsers did not each implement their own version of standarts, it would not even be necesary.
In fact, it should not be standart to write "cross browser" (ever noticed for buzz-wordy this sounds?) code, users of broser that does make it pain to develop for should end up with link to download browser that actually works. No-one should ever have to use jungle of css and javascript hacks to pick slack for bad browser.
"Weird how people can't seem to write standart following even today."
This is story about Tomá Baas town, Zlín. And designer did not wait year, only through winter (to see paths in snow).
I think designer though obvious: People are bound to figure out thier shortcuts and stick to them.
You can see this all over the place: is there is sharp corner somewhere, people will not follow it and tip of L will be eventually muddy, grassless ground. It is not so huge step to say "what about building sidewalk on this spot too?"
This also makes you wonder about people who design grass square surrounded by sidewalk are suprised that people are walking throught it. It raises even more questions when they decide it is good idea to block this way by short fence (this eventually leads to setup similar to river delta) isntead of making sidewalk there. I see this right obbisce building comple near my work: there are "S" shaped paths. People, of course, walk across grass on inner edge of curve. Reaction? Not to straighten it, but rather to patch bare sports with grass growing carpet and adding 0.5m tall fence around that spots. This is kind of sad...
(because airplanes drop left and right because boeing wanted to save costs on wind materials... not)
Faced with how much dead astronauts would cost em, they would definitelly not cut every possible corner.
One thing is saving few bucks by using X instead of Y, another having crash-reputation and having to pay-off families of deceased and/or cost of cargo.
Anyhow, being you, I would really reconsider "All that money that nasa is spending is invested in making things as safe as possible" statement anyway. They most certainly are not spending those money on that, that is given by fact that is is goverment agency responsible for quite nice funds, funds that friends of people who are in charge of them could do with even if they offer slightly wrose product.
... but you never see the movie about people starving to death or succumbing to preventable/curable diseases because the scientists didn't do the research?...
There are.
But usually, people who die to preventable diseases are displayed as heroes for sticking with their belief system. Martyrdom meme is strong.
Google is advertizing company. Google business model only works when:
a) people pay then to advertize product. b) people buy product as advertized and make money to a) people.
This does not work for China: Chinese company will pay to Baidu to advertize because it has highest market coverage. China does not import much, so Google can not make business with anyone else than Chinese companies (which will rather make business with Baidu which can actually give em customers.).
Simply, Google business model breaks when they have no customers (duh.). Their usual business partners have no *chance* making good deal in china with help of internet ads, and new ones will not work with them because they already have better option.
The fact that it has 1/6th world of population and market ripe for exploitation is irrelevant if you are not the one that can exploit it. I am that tampax would LOVE to sell their product to 1/2 of world population (men), but it is simply impossible.
(Leftist party is kind of expected to make such draconian laws in order to "protect" public: it is the very essence of being nanny state.)
You know what is actually depressing about this?
People do nothing about it. Chances are, joe sixpack is not going to be bothered by it because chances are he is not going to be bitten by such law. Because as long as you sheep your way throught life and spend evening watching telly, you are safe. All it takes is to simply allow some freedom taken away - freedoms which ordinary people rarely make uses of it is not surprising they are not bothered by disappearance of them.
Operating in china does not bring google profit. Add Baidou, a govt-subsidied competition and being routinelly hacked, they have reasons leave market. Saying they leave market makes them look weak and stock price would drop.
Making chinese goverment kick them out makes for quite nice PR stunt and will not really to much about stock price. And it actually makes them look strong.
They are still happy to censor in many other countries.
It is opensource project, anyone and everyone, especially businesses that use that software, is candidate for those "other means". That is kind of OS gimmick.
Well, nowadays, you can argue that families with some members on spectrum have advantage; I am quite sure that some autistics are more than responsible for getting people laid (By taking care of communication chanells that allow hookups, yay for explaining how to use im and for setting up accounts!).
You'd also have "a bit better factor" - simply put, easiest way to pick up opposite sex is to be accompanied by someone who is similar to you but slightly less attractive (Ever noticed that girl on boyfriend hunt is usually accompanied by slightly fatter friend?). Sibling that is a bit socially akward is perfect "wingman". And while he might have less tham optimal change of getting laid, part of genes will still get around through his siblings he helped.
1) People have life outside work. And noone is going to just hang on friends/family with "can't talk, i am at work". That would be way too porr social skills. People also need to take care of other business, i.e. phone to bank or support of some sort.
Expect people to have private conversation on phone
2) Making friends in workplace is a must, if only because you need to cooperate with people and workign with friends is easier than working with bunch of robots.
Expect people to have conversations about 'nothing' and gossip.
Crushades were generally started by pope, and pretty much any holy book says it is ok to kill people who are not of same faith and that it is basically 'divine plan' for them to eventually suffer as much as possible.
They were pretty much about gaining power. All of organized religion is about gaining power: either by good (convince people to do what you say) or bad (destroy those who do not agree to do what you say).
You are right that people would still commit violence and they would still be those who seek power, even without religion. But it would at least be without fairytale bullshit attached.
Not only that, time you spend playing has also intristic value for yourself, as you could be doing something profitable. If you transalte time needed to get those ships to dollar/per hour of, say, fast food dummy, you get quite impressive numbers too.
You can choose not to play and insted use money you gain by working isntead to actually buy ingame credits (players can buy one monst subscription for real currency and resell it for ingame gold.).
So yeah, You could very well have literally bought those shiny ships for your real hard earned dollars. Or, you could have not played game and earned those thousands of $ instead.
From another POV, you can see that Goverments everywhere welcome any possiblity of increasing their power, and censorship/media control is quite powerhouse.
The fact that someone else (entertainment industry) will take all the blame for it is icing on cake, especially as entertainment industry can run its own propaganda campaign to justify it.
Is it goverment allowing themseles to be maneuvred or media moguls being played to be white horses?
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So you end up with censorship infrastructure for your use and with someone else taking blame for all of it happening. Its quite a victory!
Adding more realism does not equal to making game better.
Especially when it is "mind jerk" where you use realism to make game harder to play - it feels and sounds awesome because person who suggests it also imagines himself pwning in that game and getting to top of things using his innate "realistic combat skills".
It is somewhat similar to, say, people wanting hardcore pvp in mmos with full loot. You only suggest something like this if you can imagine yourself always on the winning side. Because otherwise, theese mechanics suck.
In some rare idealistic cases, people want challenge to be added to game (and of course, imagine themselves besting challenge while being awesome enough to get style points). That is, however, not something you automatically get if you make game harder and leargning curve steeper that eve.
Give him realistic fps with one-hit-kill bullet and he will not play it for long. You do not keep playing game you suck at, and adding some mechanics means that pretty much everyone ends up sucking.
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Dropping connections that want to hanshake encryptions / look encrypted.
IP-bans of proxies; general useleness of open proxies; ease of proxy detections.
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Do not solve social problem with technical means, it will never work (see: drm).
He is stepfather, and as such, not prone to be exactly unhappy from it. He can easily see this as win-situation for him as he got rid of having to raise someone elses child (his genes and his blood prevail, his vallet stays full, we could even stretch it as a f-u to real dad with whom he can have issues). People are sick and complicated.
You do not know complete circumstances and neither do i, but i is fairly safe to assume that loaded, chamber-ready gun put next to toy gun is not exactly likely to happen even by accident.
Who knows ... dun, dun dun, ... who actually pulled trigger?
Indeed.
And even in wireless data transmitions: http://ronja.twibright.com/about.php
More likely, people will simply say "uhuh, it is broken, lets get new one", will go out and buy new one. This bug could end up being quite profitable: people will either come to service center and get software update (or just do get it done by friend) or they will buy new hardware.
Which is same reason why DRM scheme issues are never issue for average consumer because it either works just fine or end up not being big enough deal. It is customers who never learn.
Ballance is also about playerbase.
No matter how you set up looting/xp losse from death/whatever, you need to have sheep ready to be killed. You need to convince prey to play game so that predators can hunt them down.
Many players join theese games with visions of being on top of food chain (because, they, like, rox and have leet skillz), but reality pans out differently and they end up being much lower than they would expect - they will get frustrated and eventually leave. And same repeats with those that were just a bit above them in food-chain, and with those aove them, etc. You just do not hang out in game that you keep loosing at unless you enjoy loosing. Only chance of retaining them is to have constant influx on newbies to slaughter.
Only reason why UO worked was because back thne people did not have option of playing in Non-PvP server, so anyone playing had to suck up being target practice, and since carebear population was huge, it did not happen as often. Only reason why it works in EvE is because it has safe zones that you never have to leave but which you can
A computer can't even pick a (truly) random number without being hooked up to a device feeding it random noise.
Neither can you or any other human being, ever.
No, the gimp UI was trainwreck. Gimped. Totally unworkable if you ever wanted to edit few images. while having some other application running. It was hiding ui elements/features (learging curve being awfull thanks to it). Several highly illogical user flow choices (if you want brush of certain width, you have to define new one!?).
I ended up buying actual application where ui was designed with intent to help user, not to make developers job easy.
Besides ... tiling windows? Is that magical thing that helps? Oh come on, that just leads to more mess as it resizes window you want to work in into something unuseable. Focus follows mouse? Eww, that is only good as eye candy. You should not need wondow manager to pick slack for bad ui anyway...
Your font list is reported by flash and java. Your browser is innocent of this. Disabling flash & java goes long way to make your system information less accessible.
Sniffing history is basic feature of xhtml/css, price you pay for selectors. a:visited (background-image:"slashdotorg.png") && boo! - if you go to my site, you will request specific image and i can see it in logs, boom, i know you were to slashdot.
What is it with Slashdot and Technophiles?
I would say, several decades in hitech society can also show you bad side of technology and, and this is most important, show you where technology is not apropriate. Tabletop gaming is situation where technology is not apropriate. There it becomes distracting toy.
Anyhow
1&2) Space is not a inssue. You are not going to play dozens of different games, and you can easily spread different games across whole group. You can end up with party where there are half a dozen games and where noone owns more than one.
3) Setup/Teardown times is good. When you sit down with friends you are going to have smallchat while you sort pieces and setup board. If you are new to some group, it is time to get at ease. It is social activity that is not easily replaced by just starting program. Same goes for teardown.
4) Animations schmanimations, pointless and distracting. Pieces and tokens are bet off being abstract.
Blindly applying tech is not always an answer, especially when you deal with social stuff. You should learn that.
In this case, It is IEs fault (sigh, again)
My apologies to Opera devs.
Not at all. It IS Operas fault.
Opera is supposed to follow standarts. They do exist for reason.
Not writing "cross browser" code is browsers fault: If browsers did not each implement their own version of standarts, it would not even be necesary.
In fact, it should not be standart to write "cross browser" (ever noticed for buzz-wordy this sounds?) code, users of broser that does make it pain to develop for should end up with link to download browser that actually works. No-one should ever have to use jungle of css and javascript hacks to pick slack for bad browser.
"Weird how people can't seem to write standart following even today."
I'd expect them to help out.
It is kind of bad for pr when performance test of all popular browsers do not include yours because it won't run in it (and in it alone)...
This is story about Tomá Baas town, Zlín. And designer did not wait year, only through winter (to see paths in snow).
I think designer though obvious: People are bound to figure out thier shortcuts and stick to them.
You can see this all over the place: is there is sharp corner somewhere, people will not follow it and tip of L will be eventually muddy, grassless ground. It is not so huge step to say "what about building sidewalk on this spot too?"
This also makes you wonder about people who design grass square surrounded by sidewalk are suprised that people are walking throught it. It raises even more questions when they decide it is good idea to block this way by short fence (this eventually leads to setup similar to river delta) isntead of making sidewalk there. I see this right obbisce building comple near my work: there are "S" shaped paths. People, of course, walk across grass on inner edge of curve. Reaction? Not to straighten it, but rather to patch bare sports with grass growing carpet and adding 0.5m tall fence around that spots. This is kind of sad...
(because airplanes drop left and right because boeing wanted to save costs on wind materials ... not)
Faced with how much dead astronauts would cost em, they would definitelly not cut every possible corner.
One thing is saving few bucks by using X instead of Y, another having crash-reputation and having to pay-off families of deceased and/or cost of cargo.
Anyhow, being you, I would really reconsider "All that money that nasa is spending is invested in making things as safe as possible" statement anyway. They most certainly are not spending those money on that, that is given by fact that is is goverment agency responsible for quite nice funds, funds that friends of people who are in charge of them could do with even if they offer slightly wrose product.
... but you never see the movie about people starving to death or succumbing to preventable/curable diseases because the scientists didn't do the research? ...
There are.
But usually, people who die to preventable diseases are displayed as heroes for sticking with their belief system. Martyrdom meme is strong.
Google is advertizing company. Google business model only works when:
a) people pay then to advertize product.
b) people buy product as advertized and make money to a) people.
This does not work for China: Chinese company will pay to Baidu to advertize because it has highest market coverage. China does not import much, so Google can not make business with anyone else than Chinese companies (which will rather make business with Baidu which can actually give em customers.).
Simply, Google business model breaks when they have no customers (duh.). Their usual business partners have no *chance* making good deal in china with help of internet ads, and new ones will not work with them because they already have better option.
The fact that it has 1/6th world of population and market ripe for exploitation is irrelevant if you are not the one that can exploit it. I am that tampax would LOVE to sell their product to 1/2 of world population (men), but it is simply impossible.
(Leftist party is kind of expected to make such draconian laws in order to "protect" public: it is the very essence of being nanny state.)
You know what is actually depressing about this?
People do nothing about it. Chances are, joe sixpack is not going to be bothered by it because chances are he is not going to be bitten by such law. Because as long as you sheep your way throught life and spend evening watching telly, you are safe. All it takes is to simply allow some freedom taken away - freedoms which ordinary people rarely make uses of it is not surprising they are not bothered by disappearance of them.
Not politic, business.
Operating in china does not bring google profit. Add Baidou, a govt-subsidied competition and being routinelly hacked, they have reasons leave market. Saying they leave market makes them look weak and stock price would drop.
Making chinese goverment kick them out makes for quite nice PR stunt and will not really to much about stock price. And it actually makes them look strong.
They are still happy to censor in many other countries.
It is opensource project, anyone and everyone, especially businesses that use that software, is candidate for those "other means". That is kind of OS gimmick.
Well, nowadays, you can argue that families with some members on spectrum have advantage; I am quite sure that some autistics are more than responsible for getting people laid (By taking care of communication chanells that allow hookups, yay for explaining how to use im and for setting up accounts!).
You'd also have "a bit better factor" - simply put, easiest way to pick up opposite sex is to be accompanied by someone who is similar to you but slightly less attractive (Ever noticed that girl on boyfriend hunt is usually accompanied by slightly fatter friend?). Sibling that is a bit socially akward is perfect "wingman". And while he might have less tham optimal change of getting laid, part of genes will still get around through his siblings he helped.
Things of note:
1) People have life outside work. And noone is going to just hang on friends/family with "can't talk, i am at work". That would be way too porr social skills. People also need to take care of other business, i.e. phone to bank or support of some sort.
Expect people to have private conversation on phone
2) Making friends in workplace is a must, if only because you need to cooperate with people and workign with friends is easier than working with bunch of robots.
Expect people to have conversations about 'nothing' and gossip.
Crushades were generally started by pope, and pretty much any holy book says it is ok to kill people who are not of same faith and that it is basically 'divine plan' for them to eventually suffer as much as possible.
They were pretty much about gaining power. All of organized religion is about gaining power: either by good (convince people to do what you say) or bad (destroy those who do not agree to do what you say).
You are right that people would still commit violence and they would still be those who seek power, even without religion. But it would at least be without fairytale bullshit attached.
Not only that, time you spend playing has also intristic value for yourself, as you could be doing something profitable. If you transalte time needed to get those ships to dollar/per hour of, say, fast food dummy, you get quite impressive numbers too.
You can choose not to play and insted use money you gain by working isntead to actually buy ingame credits (players can buy one monst subscription for real currency and resell it for ingame gold.).
So yeah, You could very well have literally bought those shiny ships for your real hard earned dollars. Or, you could have not played game and earned those thousands of $ instead.
From another POV, you can see that Goverments everywhere welcome any possiblity of increasing their power, and censorship/media control is quite powerhouse.
The fact that someone else (entertainment industry) will take all the blame for it is icing on cake, especially as entertainment industry can run its own propaganda campaign to justify it.
Is it goverment allowing themseles to be maneuvred or media moguls being played to be white horses?
---
So you end up with censorship infrastructure for your use and with someone else taking blame for all of it happening. Its quite a victory!
Adding more realism does not equal to making game better.
Especially when it is "mind jerk" where you use realism to make game harder to play - it feels and sounds awesome because person who suggests it also imagines himself pwning in that game and getting to top of things using his innate "realistic combat skills".
It is somewhat similar to, say, people wanting hardcore pvp in mmos with full loot. You only suggest something like this if you can imagine yourself always on the winning side. Because otherwise, theese mechanics suck.
In some rare idealistic cases, people want challenge to be added to game (and of course, imagine themselves besting challenge while being awesome enough to get style points). That is, however, not something you automatically get if you make game harder and leargning curve steeper that eve.
Give him realistic fps with one-hit-kill bullet and he will not play it for long. You do not keep playing game you suck at, and adding some mechanics means that pretty much everyone ends up sucking.