Let me get this:
Step 0. Not too be to harsh, the plug-in would stop casual copying.
It'll also stop casual viewing. I wouldn't install a plug in just to look at a picture, even if some "friend" (person who I haven't seen in 10 years) told me it was really funny lol rofl gotta see it.
Wow, this is awesome! I never got first post before! The only thing that could ruin this is if everyone develops precognition and sees the next five or so hours of posts before mine!
"Forums contain a cacophony of people telling you to do diametrically opposite things, very loudly, often for bad reasons. There will be plenty of good ideas, but picking them out from the bad ones is unreliable and a lot of work. If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad. You have to be very, very careful who you let into your head."
Sounds like plenty of development planning meetings I've attended.
You've attended a development planning meeting for 10,000 people?
Game forums in particular are full of hard headed bitter NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING zealots and headache inducing SKORPION TAHT HOVARS WIHTOUT FLAPPING stupid new ideas. In the middle can be some good ideas. But finding them... god... yeah, don't envy anybody in that position of trying to read them. At least thread (and individual post rating) ratings helps filter out the noise a little bit.
Or my favorite:
"hey (devname), i have a graet idea about ading something to (game) but i dont want to say it in the forum email me plz thx."
What no one seems to have thought about is some of the legal implications. I haven't seen this happen with games but I did see it happen with a well known author. He used to participate regularly in a forum about his works until some fan accused him of stealing his ideas and demanding payment. The fan had no legal leg to stand on aparently but the thing did go to court. Sowered the author on forum participation.
Happens a depressing amount. In a recent episode of Extra Credits, a web series with a game developer co-writing, the non-developers have said that they filter out all incoming email containing "What do you think of my game idea?" before the dev ever sees it because he needs to protect himself against risk of being sued for stealing ideas.
Sadly, a creator HAS to isolate himself from the fans to a great extent because all it takes is one prick with access to a lawyer to claim "You stole my idea!" to cost the creator time, money, and possibly reputation.
Ask an author: One must not only avoid plagiarism, one must avoid the APPEARANCE of plagiarism.
And this is what happens when you let magical thinking get spending power. Buy the magic box, and scare the monsters from the moon cult away. Seen any moon monsters lately? Magic box is working! Wait, scientist said magic box doesn't work? What does he know! Newspaper man proved magic box doesn't work? Nothing to worry about. My shaman/advisor says magic box doesn't work? Time to buy new magic box!
Wow, that's far more than I've done. Closest I can say is that I converted my 5 large disk boxes of 5 1/4 inch disks to D64 images over a weekend using a crudely-assembled X64 cable and... Something Commander, I forget what.
I then burned that to CD using my fancy $700 2x CD burner and marveled at how much space there was left over on the desk.
Since then I've copied the CD to DVD and now those 5 large disk boxes seem very tiny indeed.
I suspect that if that poster had Lego as a kid they where all built to the instruction manual, then put back in the box and stored neatly on the shelf.
Not so bad. I knew a kid who would do that, but with the added step of disassembling methodically and reassembling it using glue to make it permanent. So not only did he not play with the kit any, no one else got to either.:\ Shoulda just upgraded to ships in bottles.
That's the most fun way to get resources, and by far my favorite way to get iron (since iron is relatively common and appears from the waterline down). But for diamonds, I haven't found spelunking to be a reliable source. Not enough of the caves are in the diamond sweet spot. The occasional diamond vein is a nice bonus on top everything else I get, but for serious diamond/redstone mining branch mining is the fastest way.
Granted, spelunking is more fun, so I do more of that than mining.:)
All I do as well, other than building up my base and doing some farming in my rooftop garden. If a cave's got dark spots, I'm not happy. I also don't feel bad about my nigh-infinite use diamond pick and shovel, thank you INVEdit. Did my first map with stone tools I kept remaking, got boring. Like using a no-clip cheat to get past a frustrating spot one surmounted before, I cheat myself something to make my cave trekking go faster.
And then a creeper blows me up.
In the study, they use the detailed interaction data to try various infection parameters, to see how it spreads. There are many interesting graphs, showing how it spreads in the various scenarios, and where there are sudden changes in how it spreads. They look at different vaccination strategies to see which are most effective.
Not much. Did you think the entire result of the study was just that number, and not simply one simple value to throw into the summary?
The summary told me nothing.
The article told me that if you vaccinate a small number it doesn't matter who you vaccinate, popular or unpopular. More informative I'll admit but not really surprising since everyone is forced to walk past everyone else several times a day. Oh, and that they assume sick people remove themselves from the population, an assumption I'd like explained to me since there's a lot of things that can keep sick kids at school.
The actual Stanford article also told me that tracking everyone's movements is kind of scary when you think about it.
I'm three links deep and I've yet to find anything really notable. But fine, I'm an idiot in need of explanation. Tell me what I missed.
"The researchers outfitted an entire high school population.... The devices logged more than 760,000 incidents when two people were within 10 feet of each other...."
So we have successfully determined that a place has a lot of people within 10 feet of each other when:
1) It's designed specifically so 20-40 people sit in small rooms where their "personal space" is made up entirely of a chair and a 2 foot by 3 foot desk.
2) This time is broken up by people, all at the same time, getting up and moving around the halls to other similarly small rooms or to unrelated small social groups.
Wow. I never realized that. I didn't know the kid behind me who used to pull on my hair was less than 10 feet from me, it all makes sense now!
If you're in a school and no one ever gets within 10 feet of you, you're the smelly kid. I'm sorry.
No, but 10,000 more fake Puff Daddy twitter accounts will appear in its place
Hey, now. Don't be mad at P. Diddy. It took so long for Puff to register alternate names that some people got them before Diddy did. Puffy's doing his best, and I'm sure Sean will get the last of them before his next name change.
Here's something that pissed me off beyond words last time I flew.
I stood in line. My photo id and boarding pass were verified. Both my laptops were pulled out of their bags and scanned. My shoes were scanned. I got in the x-ray machine and got to the "secure area".
What's staring me in the face? A fucking TGI Fridays.
Don't worry, I'm sure that, like all franchised eateries, the staff are well-paid, happy, and patriotic, and the turnaround is so low that there is NO WAY that some evil person could get a job there or that the employees would NEVER let a shady character obtain something dangerous.
reading that again it sounds like flamebait, sorry. What I mean is that the internet is an international phenomenon and while Canada or Nicaragua or whoever can decide whatever they want, most web sites and or businesses on the web are not fixed to a physical location. It's like raising corporate taxes. Companies will just go elsewhere or declare that they are doing X thing elsewhere where it is legal/cheaper.
Tell that to the poor sap who gets sued for linking to someone's Facebook page where a picture of a LOLcat was later changed to a comment stating "John Q. Public is an alocholc and a fagg! ROFL!"
People can't run from or change unpleasant laws as easily as corporations do. And dare I say a lot of Slashdotters are Canadian.
Bash.org much?:P Nice quote though, it's a classic. IIRC it was George Carlin's quote.
A more appropriate bash.org quote:
#835030 +(17910)- [X]
<Khassaki> HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!
<Judge-Mental> try pressing the the Caps Lock key
<Khassaki> O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!!
<Judge-Mental> fuck me
I was a medic once upon a time... Have you ever heard of testicular torsion? There are fates worse than death, and in extreme cases they might kill you too!
Thank you, Venture Brothers, for teaching me what's on the other side of the link so I don't have to find out now, and scream in agony while at work.
Wow - now that's what I call asymmetrical economic warfare.
Old briefcase from thrift shop = $5
Bringing entire neighbourhoods of Chicago traffic to a standstill during rush hour = millions in lost productivity
And that's exactly what they want. Bin Laden's apparently quite proud of the money sink Afghanistan was on Russia years back, and wants the same kind of money sink for the US.
But the hell of it? The briefcase wasn't part of some fiendish terrorist plot, but rather something accidental. We're jumping at shadows and spending millions and millions of dollars terrorizing ourselves.
Even when some people take their dogs out to hunting or something the pet actually most often enjoys it, it's not forced to it, it's good for it, and again is not slavery in the least bit.
Considering that I've heard situations where a hunter is done for the day and his dog desperately wants to get free to go get another hunter's kills.... It's just fetch, except instead of throwing a stick there's a loud noise and then the "stick" falls out of the sky.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me get this: Step 0. Not too be to harsh, the plug-in would stop casual copying.
It'll also stop casual viewing. I wouldn't install a plug in just to look at a picture, even if some "friend" (person who I haven't seen in 10 years) told me it was really funny lol rofl gotta see it.
That's nothin'. You want a real Batmobile, you want a completely unmodified '49 Mercury.
Wow, this is awesome! I never got first post before! The only thing that could ruin this is if everyone develops precognition and sees the next five or so hours of posts before mine!
"Forums contain a cacophony of people telling you to do diametrically opposite things, very loudly, often for bad reasons. There will be plenty of good ideas, but picking them out from the bad ones is unreliable and a lot of work. If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad. You have to be very, very careful who you let into your head."
Sounds like plenty of development planning meetings I've attended.
You've attended a development planning meeting for 10,000 people?
This.
Game forums in particular are full of hard headed bitter NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING zealots and headache inducing SKORPION TAHT HOVARS WIHTOUT FLAPPING stupid new ideas. In the middle can be some good ideas. But finding them... god... yeah, don't envy anybody in that position of trying to read them. At least thread (and individual post rating) ratings helps filter out the noise a little bit.
Or my favorite:
"hey (devname), i have a graet idea about ading something to (game) but i dont want to say it in the forum email me plz thx."
What no one seems to have thought about is some of the legal implications. I haven't seen this happen with games but I did see it happen with a well known author. He used to participate regularly in a forum about his works until some fan accused him of stealing his ideas and demanding payment. The fan had no legal leg to stand on aparently but the thing did go to court. Sowered the author on forum participation.
Happens a depressing amount. In a recent episode of Extra Credits, a web series with a game developer co-writing, the non-developers have said that they filter out all incoming email containing "What do you think of my game idea?" before the dev ever sees it because he needs to protect himself against risk of being sued for stealing ideas.
Sadly, a creator HAS to isolate himself from the fans to a great extent because all it takes is one prick with access to a lawyer to claim "You stole my idea!" to cost the creator time, money, and possibly reputation.
Ask an author: One must not only avoid plagiarism, one must avoid the APPEARANCE of plagiarism.
God how I wish this was so.
Send the bloody Quebecor's to ACTUALLY fight for something rather than just complain to goverment all the time to get their way.
Yo Grark
Yeah, that worked out so well at the Plains of Abraham.
And this is what happens when you let magical thinking get spending power. Buy the magic box, and scare the monsters from the moon cult away. Seen any moon monsters lately? Magic box is working! Wait, scientist said magic box doesn't work? What does he know! Newspaper man proved magic box doesn't work? Nothing to worry about. My shaman/advisor says magic box doesn't work? Time to buy new magic box!
Wow, that's far more than I've done. Closest I can say is that I converted my 5 large disk boxes of 5 1/4 inch disks to D64 images over a weekend using a crudely-assembled X64 cable and... Something Commander, I forget what. I then burned that to CD using my fancy $700 2x CD burner and marveled at how much space there was left over on the desk. Since then I've copied the CD to DVD and now those 5 large disk boxes seem very tiny indeed.
I suspect that if that poster had Lego as a kid they where all built to the instruction manual, then put back in the box and stored neatly on the shelf.
Not so bad. I knew a kid who would do that, but with the added step of disassembling methodically and reassembling it using glue to make it permanent. So not only did he not play with the kit any, no one else got to either.:\ Shoulda just upgraded to ships in bottles.
That's the most fun way to get resources, and by far my favorite way to get iron (since iron is relatively common and appears from the waterline down). But for diamonds, I haven't found spelunking to be a reliable source. Not enough of the caves are in the diamond sweet spot. The occasional diamond vein is a nice bonus on top everything else I get, but for serious diamond/redstone mining branch mining is the fastest way.
Granted, spelunking is more fun, so I do more of that than mining. :)
All I do as well, other than building up my base and doing some farming in my rooftop garden. If a cave's got dark spots, I'm not happy. I also don't feel bad about my nigh-infinite use diamond pick and shovel, thank you INVEdit. Did my first map with stone tools I kept remaking, got boring. Like using a no-clip cheat to get past a frustrating spot one surmounted before, I cheat myself something to make my cave trekking go faster. And then a creeper blows me up.
In the study, they use the detailed interaction data to try various infection parameters, to see how it spreads. There are many interesting graphs, showing how it spreads in the various scenarios, and where there are sudden changes in how it spreads. They look at different vaccination strategies to see which are most effective.
Well, thank you. FINALLY something worth reading!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=images&tbs=rl%3A1&q=site%3Asimple.wikipedia.org&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Basic 28% Intermediate 55% Advanced 16% I think someone didn't live up to his claims!
My word, if you made it any simpler you'd be down to words of three letters or less.
(Tries it on own site.)
100% BASIC?!? Oh, hell no. You don't use words like "beset" in basic writing.
I do hereby put on my smartypants crown and declare this b0rken.
Sell books.
I, for one, felt Vreni Schneider: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Winter Olympic Games, Slalom Skiing, Giant Slalom Skiing, Half Man Half Biscuit was quite thought-provoking.
Not much. Did you think the entire result of the study was just that number, and not simply one simple value to throw into the summary?
The summary told me nothing.
The article told me that if you vaccinate a small number it doesn't matter who you vaccinate, popular or unpopular. More informative I'll admit but not really surprising since everyone is forced to walk past everyone else several times a day. Oh, and that they assume sick people remove themselves from the population, an assumption I'd like explained to me since there's a lot of things that can keep sick kids at school.
The actual Stanford article also told me that tracking everyone's movements is kind of scary when you think about it.
I'm three links deep and I've yet to find anything really notable. But fine, I'm an idiot in need of explanation. Tell me what I missed.
no, they determined how many times the come in contact with each other.
Yeah, and it's a big number. What does having the precise number for one school on one day benefit us?
So we have successfully determined that a place has a lot of people within 10 feet of each other when:
1) It's designed specifically so 20-40 people sit in small rooms where their "personal space" is made up entirely of a chair and a 2 foot by 3 foot desk.
2) This time is broken up by people, all at the same time, getting up and moving around the halls to other similarly small rooms or to unrelated small social groups.
Wow. I never realized that. I didn't know the kid behind me who used to pull on my hair was less than 10 feet from me, it all makes sense now!
If you're in a school and no one ever gets within 10 feet of you, you're the smelly kid. I'm sorry.
No, but 10,000 more fake Puff Daddy twitter accounts will appear in its place
Hey, now. Don't be mad at P. Diddy. It took so long for Puff to register alternate names that some people got them before Diddy did. Puffy's doing his best, and I'm sure Sean will get the last of them before his next name change.
Here's something that pissed me off beyond words last time I flew. I stood in line. My photo id and boarding pass were verified. Both my laptops were pulled out of their bags and scanned. My shoes were scanned. I got in the x-ray machine and got to the "secure area".
What's staring me in the face? A fucking TGI Fridays.
Don't worry, I'm sure that, like all franchised eateries, the staff are well-paid, happy, and patriotic, and the turnaround is so low that there is NO WAY that some evil person could get a job there or that the employees would NEVER let a shady character obtain something dangerous.
Not to sound like a [ Buffering.... ]
I didn't realize RealPlayer was popular with the youth of today.
what Canada decides?
reading that again it sounds like flamebait, sorry. What I mean is that the internet is an international phenomenon and while Canada or Nicaragua or whoever can decide whatever they want, most web sites and or businesses on the web are not fixed to a physical location. It's like raising corporate taxes. Companies will just go elsewhere or declare that they are doing X thing elsewhere where it is legal/cheaper.
Tell that to the poor sap who gets sued for linking to someone's Facebook page where a picture of a LOLcat was later changed to a comment stating "John Q. Public is an alocholc and a fagg! ROFL!" People can't run from or change unpleasant laws as easily as corporations do. And dare I say a lot of Slashdotters are Canadian.
Bash.org much? :P Nice quote though, it's a classic. IIRC it was George Carlin's quote.
A more appropriate bash.org quote:
#835030 +(17910)- [X]
<Khassaki> HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!
<Judge-Mental> try pressing the the Caps Lock key
<Khassaki> O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!!
<Judge-Mental> fuck me
I was a medic once upon a time... Have you ever heard of testicular torsion? There are fates worse than death, and in extreme cases they might kill you too!
Thank you, Venture Brothers, for teaching me what's on the other side of the link so I don't have to find out now, and scream in agony while at work.
Wow - now that's what I call asymmetrical economic warfare.
Old briefcase from thrift shop = $5
Bringing entire neighbourhoods of Chicago traffic to a standstill during rush hour = millions in lost productivity
And that's exactly what they want. Bin Laden's apparently quite proud of the money sink Afghanistan was on Russia years back, and wants the same kind of money sink for the US. But the hell of it? The briefcase wasn't part of some fiendish terrorist plot, but rather something accidental. We're jumping at shadows and spending millions and millions of dollars terrorizing ourselves.
Even when some people take their dogs out to hunting or something the pet actually most often enjoys it, it's not forced to it, it's good for it, and again is not slavery in the least bit.
Considering that I've heard situations where a hunter is done for the day and his dog desperately wants to get free to go get another hunter's kills.... It's just fetch, except instead of throwing a stick there's a loud noise and then the "stick" falls out of the sky.