I love Blizzard games, but forcing Battle.net upon you is bad. I'll give you an example why: If you're playing solo against computers you can get dropped from your game if their Battle.net is congested. They haven't even written the "reconnect to Battle.net" code, so getting dropped from Battle.net and your game can happen once every 2 hours or so.
If the military used the Internet initially to store all their private information, but are getting cyberattacks now that the internet is public, why doesn't the military make Internet 2.0 where public citizens cannot get on. If they were in an Internet 2.0 that was impossible to get on from China, wouldn't that mean most hacks would stop?
I've contacted them, walked through with a tech support through several emails. I posted in about 50+ different places about it. The Blues won't even acknowledge the problem on the forums. I've been through a lot of beta tests in the past, and almost none of them fix their bugs.
I have a new computer I bought last summer for SC2 beta. They announced beta last summer so I got a computer so I'd be ready to play. When playing the game, I often times get,"You've been dropped from Battle.net" and autolose a game. When I click "Quit game" it crashes me to desktop.
Heres one you "LAN Lovers" will get a kick out of. If I play 1vcpu, I still get dropped against the computer! Yes, if you lose Battle.net connection during LAN or fighting a computer, you get disconnected from your game.
I'm going to get it, but I can't play until they fix bugs that prevent me from playing it.
The XKCD article says how to screw with people who expect floating point errors. What about teenagers who were just learning how to program when the Pentium came out? Without the web, everyone was like isolated if they knew no other programmers. I wrote handling code to deal with it, but still! It took me like 2 weeks to figure out that I wasn't doing anything wrong in my code. Everyone hammers in your mind,"THE COMPUTER IS NEVER WRONG, it is always human error", and then your computer is wrong. It was a mind trip to say the least.
I've seen Baseball games where they put up the Japanese sun(alternating lines emanating from center). Could Japan be planning on making the entire moon look like that eventually? Heh.
You can almost always circumvent Phishing schemes by going to the website to verify. It isn't a case of "LEGIT" or "PHISH". It is assume "ALWAYS PHISH" And many phishing attempts I've received have clues. Clues are normally a hyperlink that says "Login to Paypal", but when you hover over it, it says: www.someplaceelsethanpaypal.com.
Its nice they were thinking of a test, but if someone answers PHISH for all 10 questions, hire them.
In short, playing a "brain training" game repeatedly will make you good at... playing that one single "brain training" game...
I have a theory that if we turn all of human learning into a single piece of software that trains people about it, you could then give this to anyone in the world and they'll become educated with enough time behind it. Of course,"Live tutors" would be necessary. The software could be distributed for free.
I felt that coding is like running a marathon and the manager is like the coach. More often than not the athlete knows his stuff better than the coach does. The athlete needs to constantly exhibit exertion while the coach may do little to nothing.
I knew WOW was the future of gaming when I first heard of the Compuserve game for C64. Although I figured it'd be played like Pool of Radience, Final Fantasy 1, or Wasteland.
There's no real points in life for a guy who predicts the future like that. You almost have to do the whole thing solo. And boy did I try. If you want the years to fly by fruitlessly, try cramming yourself in a room and writing a MMOG solo.
My current game is going to be on the Zynga model, but people getting into the game accept it as the payment. I think mixing subscription play with micropayments is sort of double dipping that players won't appreciate.
AC1 players loved the game. It was my favorite MMORPG ever even though it had imbalances. Yet AC2 was a colossal rush job with the combat system being weak(Level 20 Archer+Tactician could kill level 50 mobs, and armor didn't work well).
Write a video game, make some money. Give your money to the people starving to death. The laws of Supply and Demand basically say that if you make more people with higher demand, supply will be made to reach it. There is enough land on Earth to feed everyone if it was farmed, but it isn't farmed because you can't get rich feeding people with no money.
Poker is a great form of gambling because like the casino, a player can put the odds in their favor.
I am still playing on money that was in there since the first law came out that said,"US citizens can't deposit money to online gambling sites." Yet, the FBI have taken everyone's withdraws from Pokerstars one month last year. What if people were just withdrawing their money they had in their accounts before the bill was past? Isn't the government trying to do ex post facto?
No one ever stands up for gambler's rights because they're like,"Whatever, they're just gamblers", just like how no one stands up against "sin tax" on alcohol and cigs. Depending on how far it is down the shade of gray depends on how much the government will try and abuse their power. It isn't like they even care that they're abusing their power. They're more worried someone will call them out on it. When they try and censor the web, the first things they try to censor are things some people may find immoral.
Nonsense. You don't have 3D models in your head, and neither does AI.
You know where things are in relation to yourself. You know what things look like when you've looked at them before. This is the same data.
Real World to 3d models is a core component on AI. The AI needs to see its world before it can make decisions inside it. Imagine quake, you can make a bot to play inside it because you have all the data in the game. Now if you wanted to make a "Fetch me a beer bot", the thing would have to know what your house looked like to navigate the instruction path.
Obviously you'll need to write software that also "identifies" the 3d objects you're looking at, and that will take some work, but isn't impossible using pattern recognition.
You're totally right, HR people don't know anything when it comes to hiring programmers. I think this is because there's no real way to determine the quality of a programmer by simply interviewing them. One side will tell you to pad your resume with fabulous things like your ability to use Microsoft Word(tm), while the other side care about your "techs". I don't think either side is right. If a man knows how to code, it doesn't really matter what language they use because they'll be up to speed in a week or a month anyway.
It really is awful, if you ask for a low salary for something on your resume, they think you don't know how to code. If you ask for a high salary for your skill, they ask you for your experience(which you have none). Its the state of the union now, no one can get any jobs even though people are skilled. Either go back to school while looking for work, or start a business while looking for work. There is no guarantee you'll ever get a job no matter how much you know.
Its funny how dereferenced pointers can work so well without bugs, then you change something seemingly unrelated like another variable, and then it triggers craziness. I've learned my lessons with pointers and only use them when absolutely necessary.
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I love Blizzard games, but forcing Battle.net upon you is bad. I'll give you an example why: If you're playing solo against computers you can get dropped from your game if their Battle.net is congested. They haven't even written the "reconnect to Battle.net" code, so getting dropped from Battle.net and your game can happen once every 2 hours or so.
If the military used the Internet initially to store all their private information, but are getting cyberattacks now that the internet is public, why doesn't the military make Internet 2.0 where public citizens cannot get on. If they were in an Internet 2.0 that was impossible to get on from China, wouldn't that mean most hacks would stop?
Guy 1: Oh Homer Simpson he's cool.
Guy 2: Are you being sarcastic?
Guy 1: I don't even know anymore.
I downloaded MW4, where is the trojan found so I can remove it?
I've contacted them, walked through with a tech support through several emails. I posted in about 50+ different places about it. The Blues won't even acknowledge the problem on the forums. I've been through a lot of beta tests in the past, and almost none of them fix their bugs.
I have a new computer I bought last summer for SC2 beta. They announced beta last summer so I got a computer so I'd be ready to play. When playing the game, I often times get,"You've been dropped from Battle.net" and autolose a game. When I click "Quit game" it crashes me to desktop.
Heres one you "LAN Lovers" will get a kick out of. If I play 1vcpu, I still get dropped against the computer! Yes, if you lose Battle.net connection during LAN or fighting a computer, you get disconnected from your game.
I'm going to get it, but I can't play until they fix bugs that prevent me from playing it.
The XKCD article says how to screw with people who expect floating point errors. What about teenagers who were just learning how to program when the Pentium came out? Without the web, everyone was like isolated if they knew no other programmers. I wrote handling code to deal with it, but still! It took me like 2 weeks to figure out that I wasn't doing anything wrong in my code. Everyone hammers in your mind,"THE COMPUTER IS NEVER WRONG, it is always human error", and then your computer is wrong. It was a mind trip to say the least.
I've seen Baseball games where they put up the Japanese sun(alternating lines emanating from center). Could Japan be planning on making the entire moon look like that eventually? Heh.
Don't perform cybercrime in the borders of the USA.
You can almost always circumvent Phishing schemes by going to the website to verify. It isn't a case of "LEGIT" or "PHISH". It is assume "ALWAYS PHISH" And many phishing attempts I've received have clues. Clues are normally a hyperlink that says "Login to Paypal", but when you hover over it, it says: www.someplaceelsethanpaypal.com.
Its nice they were thinking of a test, but if someone answers PHISH for all 10 questions, hire them.
In short, playing a "brain training" game repeatedly will make you good at... playing that one single "brain training" game...
I have a theory that if we turn all of human learning into a single piece of software that trains people about it, you could then give this to anyone in the world and they'll become educated with enough time behind it. Of course,"Live tutors" would be necessary. The software could be distributed for free.
I felt that coding is like running a marathon and the manager is like the coach. More often than not the athlete knows his stuff better than the coach does. The athlete needs to constantly exhibit exertion while the coach may do little to nothing.
I knew WOW was the future of gaming when I first heard of the Compuserve game for C64. Although I figured it'd be played like Pool of Radience, Final Fantasy 1, or Wasteland.
There's no real points in life for a guy who predicts the future like that. You almost have to do the whole thing solo. And boy did I try. If you want the years to fly by fruitlessly, try cramming yourself in a room and writing a MMOG solo.
My current game is going to be on the Zynga model, but people getting into the game accept it as the payment. I think mixing subscription play with micropayments is sort of double dipping that players won't appreciate.
AC1 players loved the game. It was my favorite MMORPG ever even though it had imbalances. Yet AC2 was a colossal rush job with the combat system being weak(Level 20 Archer+Tactician could kill level 50 mobs, and armor didn't work well).
AC1 success
AC2 failure
Will we see an AC3? I sure hope so.
Instead of harvesting with their initial drones, they set all their drones to attack the hatchery.
6 Coors are typically enough, unless you throw a small party, then you'd want 48.
I have no problems with evolution while also believing in Creationism. Creationism says how things started. Evolution says how things change.
Write a video game, make some money. Give your money to the people starving to death. The laws of Supply and Demand basically say that if you make more people with higher demand, supply will be made to reach it. There is enough land on Earth to feed everyone if it was farmed, but it isn't farmed because you can't get rich feeding people with no money.
Poker is a great form of gambling because like the casino, a player can put the odds in their favor.
I am still playing on money that was in there since the first law came out that said,"US citizens can't deposit money to online gambling sites." Yet, the FBI have taken everyone's withdraws from Pokerstars one month last year. What if people were just withdrawing their money they had in their accounts before the bill was past? Isn't the government trying to do ex post facto?
No one ever stands up for gambler's rights because they're like,"Whatever, they're just gamblers", just like how no one stands up against "sin tax" on alcohol and cigs. Depending on how far it is down the shade of gray depends on how much the government will try and abuse their power. It isn't like they even care that they're abusing their power. They're more worried someone will call them out on it. When they try and censor the web, the first things they try to censor are things some people may find immoral.
Funnier Blizzard April fools joke
Nonsense. You don't have 3D models in your head, and neither does AI. You know where things are in relation to yourself. You know what things look like when you've looked at them before. This is the same data.
Real World to 3d models is a core component on AI. The AI needs to see its world before it can make decisions inside it. Imagine quake, you can make a bot to play inside it because you have all the data in the game. Now if you wanted to make a "Fetch me a beer bot", the thing would have to know what your house looked like to navigate the instruction path.
Obviously you'll need to write software that also "identifies" the 3d objects you're looking at, and that will take some work, but isn't impossible using pattern recognition.
I have a small page on how I think AI will come about
You're totally right, HR people don't know anything when it comes to hiring programmers. I think this is because there's no real way to determine the quality of a programmer by simply interviewing them. One side will tell you to pad your resume with fabulous things like your ability to use Microsoft Word(tm), while the other side care about your "techs". I don't think either side is right. If a man knows how to code, it doesn't really matter what language they use because they'll be up to speed in a week or a month anyway.
It really is awful, if you ask for a low salary for something on your resume, they think you don't know how to code. If you ask for a high salary for your skill, they ask you for your experience(which you have none). Its the state of the union now, no one can get any jobs even though people are skilled. Either go back to school while looking for work, or start a business while looking for work. There is no guarantee you'll ever get a job no matter how much you know.
Its funny how dereferenced pointers can work so well without bugs, then you change something seemingly unrelated like another variable, and then it triggers craziness. I've learned my lessons with pointers and only use them when absolutely necessary.
I think their governor needs a call, straight from the Whitehouse to fix this mess up.