Yes and no. A standard format, even XML, is far better than your own custom one. I don't want to have to write my own parser to be able to script changes to your conf files.
There were no internet filters because there was hardly any internet. The government still had their spy satellites and carnivore systems, just joe public never got to experience the benefits of them. If you look at the right groups you'll see we've grown far more tolerant; the nineties still had pretty rampant homophobia, and transsexuals had barely any recognition at all. There was actually more religion, and probably on a global scale more terrorism; foreign wars I'll grant you, but only from the limited perspective of the US. Super-China is a good thing unless you're a nationalist, the reduction in newspapers is because they've been outcompeted by the internet, and it's never been a better time to be a TV science fiction fan (reimaged BSG, new Dr Who, Stargate Universe, new V, Dollhouse,... not that I like all of those, but there's a lot more out there than there was ten years ago. Seeping out, there's more acceptance of sci-fi elements in more mainstream shows (Flashforward, Heroes, Lost et al) - I remember an interview with the creator of Life on Mars where he said they'd actually pitched the series three years earlier, but it was just unthinkable in the nineties environment).
There's a few things, specifically in America, that've got worse, but on the whole I think you're letting nostalgia get the better of your judgement. In many ways we're a lot better off than we were in the '90s.
But it doesn't help much to just read the book: you've got to practice, and practice, and practice some more. You must make mistakes and learn from them.
Actually no. This assumption is the worst part of much of today's mathematics teaching, and what turns off some of the best people. A lot of the time, smart people really can just read it and understand it. And teachers are unwilling to accept that when it happens.
You mean the one that wasn't actually inserted into the source, but rather the binary was replaced on their server? The one that could never have happened on a system that uses signed packages (as I believe Debian does by default now)?
C++ would be a step backwards. C# or something very like it (possibly even called "Java 9", but even so) will displace Java eventually, simply because it makes one so much more productive, just as Java is displacing C++ and C++ displaced a lot of C. But it'll take a while.
Seems to me the "market solution" would involve selling those games openly to the people who want them. If that's a niche market, then it won't be very large, but it would still exist.
They're sold, just not in the big-name high street stores. If people who complain cared enough, they'd only buy their games from stores who sold AO games, and the market would shift pretty quick. But turns out there's more people willing to boycott a store that sells AO games on principle, than who'll do the same to a store that doesn't.
The free market means our stores are a pretty close reflection of our society. If you want AO games being sold openly, you're going to have to convince the public.
It's been done. E.g. see Fahrenheit (which had its sex scenes cut for the US release, Indigo Prophecy). Of course most sex in games is crude, juvenile, whatever, but that's true of most games full stop.
How's it supposed to check it's a "copied disk"? Don't get me wrong, I don't like this - but I can't see any way for the xbox to tell the difference between actual indie game and knock-off version of MS game. Requiring everything to be signed with the big MS key makes a certain amount of sense.
Java has its advantages as a slightly better C++ with a lot of enterprise infrastructure around it. But so much stuff is just painfully almost right with it (the generics as you mentioned, the separation of primitive types and objects, the handling of null, the way it still doesn't have closures...), I find myself hoping C# pushes it aside soon.
Given the way the wikimedia foundation is organised nowadays, getting money to the actual wikipedia (y'know, the one I'm using, not wikicookbooks or outreach programs or whatever) is just as inefficient - probably worse.
It's good as an encyclopaedia, sure. But five years ago it was something more - you got a (vague internet consensus, but still useful) opinion on things, rather than just a collection of dry facts. I now use other sources to get that, which is maybe the way it should be, but I miss the old wikipedia.
It still runs on my N64. If you can't stand to look after an old console, it works pretty well in emulators - not perfect (the sky looks funny), but more than good enough to play, and probably more faithful than anything using the half-life engine ever can be.
Sometimes you can tell a story better through a game than through a movie; it makes it more immersive, and that can make a big difference when it's a story about the consequences of one's actions. Don't be so quick to dismiss a whole medium.
Then it's not the part they care about. A malicious application installed by a naïve user will always be able to send emails (because the user will demand the ability to do that), and therefore send spam. And it'll still be able to delete the user's files.
The point is that in many terminal emulators (or real terminals) hitting ctrl-V or ctrl-C will actually send that to the program running in the terminal (after all, the program might want to do something with that). And ctrl-C generally interrupts the program, which you probably don't want to do. Wheras ctrl-ins / shift-ins will do the right thing.
So actually the best way to protect children would be for the government to take all the child porn that currently exists and make it freely available, thus removing any possibility to profit from making more. Any time new material is discovered, prosecute its creators but add whatever they've made to the stash.
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It shouldn't, but I suspect child protection statutes let people get away with anything as long as they're thinking of the children.
Not for nuclear weapons. The whole point of nukes is to let other people know you have them; no-one wants to have to actually use the things.
Facts are rarely sufficiently self-aware to be credulous or incredulous.
Not even that. All applications should have their functionality usable from the command line.
Yes and no. A standard format, even XML, is far better than your own custom one. I don't want to have to write my own parser to be able to script changes to your conf files.
There's a few things, specifically in America, that've got worse, but on the whole I think you're letting nostalgia get the better of your judgement. In many ways we're a lot better off than we were in the '90s.
Actually no. This assumption is the worst part of much of today's mathematics teaching, and what turns off some of the best people. A lot of the time, smart people really can just read it and understand it. And teachers are unwilling to accept that when it happens.
You mean the one that wasn't actually inserted into the source, but rather the binary was replaced on their server? The one that could never have happened on a system that uses signed packages (as I believe Debian does by default now)?
C++ would be a step backwards. C# or something very like it (possibly even called "Java 9", but even so) will displace Java eventually, simply because it makes one so much more productive, just as Java is displacing C++ and C++ displaced a lot of C. But it'll take a while.
They're sold, just not in the big-name high street stores. If people who complain cared enough, they'd only buy their games from stores who sold AO games, and the market would shift pretty quick. But turns out there's more people willing to boycott a store that sells AO games on principle, than who'll do the same to a store that doesn't.
The free market means our stores are a pretty close reflection of our society. If you want AO games being sold openly, you're going to have to convince the public.
It's been done. E.g. see Fahrenheit (which had its sex scenes cut for the US release, Indigo Prophecy). Of course most sex in games is crude, juvenile, whatever, but that's true of most games full stop.
How's it supposed to check it's a "copied disk"? Don't get me wrong, I don't like this - but I can't see any way for the xbox to tell the difference between actual indie game and knock-off version of MS game. Requiring everything to be signed with the big MS key makes a certain amount of sense.
Java has its advantages as a slightly better C++ with a lot of enterprise infrastructure around it. But so much stuff is just painfully almost right with it (the generics as you mentioned, the separation of primitive types and objects, the handling of null, the way it still doesn't have closures...), I find myself hoping C# pushes it aside soon.
Given the way the wikimedia foundation is organised nowadays, getting money to the actual wikipedia (y'know, the one I'm using, not wikicookbooks or outreach programs or whatever) is just as inefficient - probably worse.
It's good as an encyclopaedia, sure. But five years ago it was something more - you got a (vague internet consensus, but still useful) opinion on things, rather than just a collection of dry facts. I now use other sources to get that, which is maybe the way it should be, but I miss the old wikipedia.
It still runs on my N64. If you can't stand to look after an old console, it works pretty well in emulators - not perfect (the sky looks funny), but more than good enough to play, and probably more faithful than anything using the half-life engine ever can be.
Like big-name actors?
Sometimes you can tell a story better through a game than through a movie; it makes it more immersive, and that can make a big difference when it's a story about the consequences of one's actions. Don't be so quick to dismiss a whole medium.
Note that the definition says nothing about whether it's true.
You're confusing me, because many of Japan's best swordsmen really did use wooden swords.
It's the Big Society in action.
Then it's not the part they care about. A malicious application installed by a naïve user will always be able to send emails (because the user will demand the ability to do that), and therefore send spam. And it'll still be able to delete the user's files.
The point is that in many terminal emulators (or real terminals) hitting ctrl-V or ctrl-C will actually send that to the program running in the terminal (after all, the program might want to do something with that). And ctrl-C generally interrupts the program, which you probably don't want to do. Wheras ctrl-ins / shift-ins will do the right thing.
Or rather, there's no such thing as a full copy of the game any more, except the one running on their servers.
So actually the best way to protect children would be for the government to take all the child porn that currently exists and make it freely available, thus removing any possibility to profit from making more. Any time new material is discovered, prosecute its creators but add whatever they've made to the stash.