This same legit company however OWNS that computer, so it is not illegal for them to log in as root.
Dunno. I'd compare that to you renting a house. The landlord can't simply waltz in unannounced, even if he owns the house (with some caveats, of course). The same base concept should pretty much apply.
thats not world pvp. what you are talking about 1-2 people jumping on each other. you dont need a fucking massively multiplayer game for it. you can just log into any counterstrike server and get the exact same thing.
Except you do need an MMO behind it. Organised PvP like battlegrounds are comparable to Counterstrike: they're isolated matches over abstract objectives. The sort of PvP you're saying is the same as Counterstrike is in fact the only sort that's fundamentally different from the FPS experience: It's spontaneous, it crops up as one single element of a bigger experience, and it is often fought over much more concrete rewards (as concrete as virtual goods in an RPG can be, at any rate).
A JIT compiler produces compiled native code. So how can native code run faster than.... native code?
Think of how long it takes to compile an average piece of software. Now think of the time the JIT compiler can afford to spend on compiling the intermediate representation. Sure, the IR makes life much easier, but you still can't afford to go all-out with optimisations that your average stand-alone compiler can (and will) do.
We're impressed that you figured that out by the third frame, seeing as there was blatant mention of DOS in the first frame and DOS references were in all three frames.
We're unimpressed that you didn't realise that inodes are a feature of UNIX-like filesystems, and are not present in the FAT filesystem. Please hand in your geek card.
The question is -- given the above -- were they really?
While you make a good point, there's one detail you missed: Even if they didn't "materially misrepresent" in any one particular instance, they may very well know the decision process to be systematically making bogus claims.
We agree there's a process in place that guesses whether a certain piece of media infringes copyright. Those that are considered as infringing get a DMCA takedown notice thrown at them. So far so good. Shit hits the fan when some people start complaining that the supposedly infringing media doesn't actually infringe all that much. From that point on, they've been informed that the system is potentially overreaching. Take one single overturned takedown notice and they know for a fact the system is flawed. If the system isn't adjusted, then they are pretty much knowingly making claims they know are potentially wrong, and in any particular case where they're proven wrong, this should amount to the same as misrepresentation.
Are you sure that WoW EULA does not have some conditions that prohibit scripting?
It might prohibit cyber-stalking, and repeated status requests on a player might be considered as such, but the reason why the OP mentioned Lua is because WoW supports Lua as a user scripting language to make interface addons. (And except for bug exploits, by definition anything done with the Lua API can't be a ban-worthy offence)
Apart from internet cafes, which are blanketed with CCTV cameras, all users in Western nations also need to register to use the internet. Registration is with a third party, but the government has access to all third party information, so effectively the same thing. This is simply "the east" catching up with "the west".
So you're saying belorussian ISPs don't require registration? Or how is this "catching up"?
I see three big NOs there... Would the music industry please step forward and enlighten me as to the creativeness involved here?
Strawman argument. The (supposed) creativity of the music/movie industry is focused on producing music and films. Whether the industry as a whole is all that creative is a different matter, but don't pretend the two points are related.
Well, everyone's welcome to their opinion, but it's pretty well proven after decades of software engineering that code should be commented. The price of maintaining comment-free code is well known.
Except the article doesn't say comments are bad. It says bad comments are bad -- about as bad as no comments at all.
No. clon53421... 0x10 is 10000 in binary which is 16 in DECIMAL
the "0x" part means hexadecimal. You cannot have "16 in binary" because binary only has ones and zeros.
0x10 is hexadecimal and is a common representation for the byte 0001 0000. This byte can either represent 16 (if you assume binary encoding) or 10 (if you assume BCD encoding), or even the DLE character if you assume ASCII encoding. Why is it so hard to separate internal representation from encoding, folks?
That's your opinion (and mine as well, actually). But what are we when faced with the sheer amount of people who do play it, and when enough of those play it hardcore enough that they'll pay for virtual property to keep a company afloat?
Dead's dead, I agree. It doesn't matter whether someone dies through an act of war, or through an accident, disease, or whatever else. The question you need to ask is the same in both cases: "how much would it cost me to prevent that from happening again?" and ultimately, there is no first order difference in preventing a death from cold-blooded murder or a death from a car accident. I fully agree with you this far.
Where I disagree is that, of course, first order effects aren't the only factor at hand. Acts of war have much bigger morale effects than random isolated deaths. One death per month in random killings doesn't nearly amount to the damage an annual 12 casualty spree does to the public opinion -- even without accounting for media hype. Plus, as callous as it might sound, property damages matter. The damage of 9/11 wasn't nearly just the deaths involved. The World freaking-Trade Center collapsed. That also matters. The public lost way more that day than if that many people had died in car crashes, so preventing those deaths is more valuable than preventing car crash deaths.
(Note, please, that I do not in any support some of the... less democratic measures enacted in response to those events, but the point that the effect is different than isolated events with the same net damage still stands)
Not to get too far off-topic, but they're extremely good, in some ways better than Firebug (not that I expect a newbie to need a script profiler). Syntax highlighting, breakpoints, debugging, immediate console, stack traces and locals windows, profiler, etc - just about everything you could want for scripting.
As someone who uses firebug and chrome's developer tools every day at work... You have to be kidding me. You're saying that IE8's developer tools are better than firebug, and then you enumerate... Syntax highlighting, breakpoints and debugging (really? two items?), console, stack traces (does this go with the debugger as well?). That's the basics, mate, the things you have to have before you're even allowed to play the game. If you want to argue that IE8 is a better development browser than Firefox or Webkit-based browsers (Chrome and Safari share the debugger interface, at least), which it might be, you need to give actual reasons for it.
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This same legit company however OWNS that computer, so it is not illegal for them to log in as root.
Dunno. I'd compare that to you renting a house. The landlord can't simply waltz in unannounced, even if he owns the house (with some caveats, of course). The same base concept should pretty much apply.
Well, there are "bear hugs" as well, but I guess wresting doesn't happen in nature...
thats not world pvp. what you are talking about 1-2 people jumping on each other. you dont need a fucking massively multiplayer game for it. you can just log into any counterstrike server and get the exact same thing.
Except you do need an MMO behind it. Organised PvP like battlegrounds are comparable to Counterstrike: they're isolated matches over abstract objectives. The sort of PvP you're saying is the same as Counterstrike is in fact the only sort that's fundamentally different from the FPS experience: It's spontaneous, it crops up as one single element of a bigger experience, and it is often fought over much more concrete rewards (as concrete as virtual goods in an RPG can be, at any rate).
A game has to be pretty lame if you're spending time in your virtual "house."
Yet The Sims is one of the most successful franchises ever. Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean there isn't a market for it.
*Another* piece? Care to name some recent ones? Like in this decade?
WinFS. But then again, the OP was begging the question: Microsoft isn't really all that bad in the vaporware department.
Then only the word "back" would have required time travel
The obvious solution is that he bought the laptop in '92, but only started using it after Win98 came out!
A JIT compiler produces compiled native code. So how can native code run faster than.... native code?
Think of how long it takes to compile an average piece of software. Now think of the time the JIT compiler can afford to spend on compiling the intermediate representation. Sure, the IR makes life much easier, but you still can't afford to go all-out with optimisations that your average stand-alone compiler can (and will) do.
We're impressed that you figured that out by the third frame, seeing as there was blatant mention of DOS in the first frame and DOS references were in all three frames.
We're unimpressed that you didn't realise that inodes are a feature of UNIX-like filesystems, and are not present in the FAT filesystem. Please hand in your geek card.
And me thinking that, counting from the sun, all countries were third world countries.
The question is -- given the above -- were they really?
While you make a good point, there's one detail you missed: Even if they didn't "materially misrepresent" in any one particular instance, they may very well know the decision process to be systematically making bogus claims.
We agree there's a process in place that guesses whether a certain piece of media infringes copyright. Those that are considered as infringing get a DMCA takedown notice thrown at them. So far so good. Shit hits the fan when some people start complaining that the supposedly infringing media doesn't actually infringe all that much. From that point on, they've been informed that the system is potentially overreaching. Take one single overturned takedown notice and they know for a fact the system is flawed. If the system isn't adjusted, then they are pretty much knowingly making claims they know are potentially wrong, and in any particular case where they're proven wrong, this should amount to the same as misrepresentation.
I mean, the whole race started from just two people, right?
More like from a guy having sex with his rib.
But is the game itself really that cerebral, or the fact that the game was designed to allow politics
Is chess all that cerebral, then? What makes EVE cerebral isn't that it allows politics. It's that it promotes politics as a game element.
Are you sure that WoW EULA does not have some conditions that prohibit scripting?
It might prohibit cyber-stalking, and repeated status requests on a player might be considered as such, but the reason why the OP mentioned Lua is because WoW supports Lua as a user scripting language to make interface addons. (And except for bug exploits, by definition anything done with the Lua API can't be a ban-worthy offence)
Is there a term for when you make a joke on /., someone responds by making the joke more obvious, and then they get the funny mod instead of you?
In case you didn't notice, he grabbed your joke, and made a different one.
And religious nerds are way cooler than science nerds. And the girls are hotter...
That's what you think.
Actually, God's BSOD is actually a "Black Sky of Death", as per the standard Deluge myth.
Uh, no...he did not say that reality is perception, which is a debatable philosophical position. You're putting that statement in his mouth.
In fact, in countering "Perception is blurry" with "no, it's reality that's blurry", he pretty much assumed quite the opposite!
Apart from internet cafes, which are blanketed with CCTV cameras, all users in Western nations also need to register to use the internet. Registration is with a third party, but the government has access to all third party information, so effectively the same thing. This is simply "the east" catching up with "the west".
So you're saying belorussian ISPs don't require registration? Or how is this "catching up"?
I see three big NOs there... Would the music industry please step forward and enlighten me as to the creativeness involved here?
Strawman argument. The (supposed) creativity of the music/movie industry is focused on producing music and films. Whether the industry as a whole is all that creative is a different matter, but don't pretend the two points are related.
Well, everyone's welcome to their opinion, but it's pretty well proven after decades of software engineering that code should be commented. The price of maintaining comment-free code is well known.
Except the article doesn't say comments are bad. It says bad comments are bad -- about as bad as no comments at all.
No. clon53421... 0x10 is 10000 in binary which is 16 in DECIMAL the "0x" part means hexadecimal. You cannot have "16 in binary" because binary only has ones and zeros.
0x10 is hexadecimal and is a common representation for the byte 0001 0000. This byte can either represent 16 (if you assume binary encoding) or 10 (if you assume BCD encoding), or even the DLE character if you assume ASCII encoding. Why is it so hard to separate internal representation from encoding, folks?
and a crap game to boot.
That's your opinion (and mine as well, actually). But what are we when faced with the sheer amount of people who do play it, and when enough of those play it hardcore enough that they'll pay for virtual property to keep a company afloat?
Dead's dead, I agree. It doesn't matter whether someone dies through an act of war, or through an accident, disease, or whatever else. The question you need to ask is the same in both cases: "how much would it cost me to prevent that from happening again?" and ultimately, there is no first order difference in preventing a death from cold-blooded murder or a death from a car accident. I fully agree with you this far.
Where I disagree is that, of course, first order effects aren't the only factor at hand. Acts of war have much bigger morale effects than random isolated deaths. One death per month in random killings doesn't nearly amount to the damage an annual 12 casualty spree does to the public opinion -- even without accounting for media hype. Plus, as callous as it might sound, property damages matter. The damage of 9/11 wasn't nearly just the deaths involved. The World freaking-Trade Center collapsed. That also matters. The public lost way more that day than if that many people had died in car crashes, so preventing those deaths is more valuable than preventing car crash deaths.
(Note, please, that I do not in any support some of the... less democratic measures enacted in response to those events, but the point that the effect is different than isolated events with the same net damage still stands)
Not to get too far off-topic, but they're extremely good, in some ways better than Firebug (not that I expect a newbie to need a script profiler). Syntax highlighting, breakpoints, debugging, immediate console, stack traces and locals windows, profiler, etc - just about everything you could want for scripting.
As someone who uses firebug and chrome's developer tools every day at work... You have to be kidding me. You're saying that IE8's developer tools are better than firebug, and then you enumerate... Syntax highlighting, breakpoints and debugging (really? two items?), console, stack traces (does this go with the debugger as well?). That's the basics, mate, the things you have to have before you're even allowed to play the game. If you want to argue that IE8 is a better development browser than Firefox or Webkit-based browsers (Chrome and Safari share the debugger interface, at least), which it might be, you need to give actual reasons for it.
I have the mod points, but can't seem to find the option to mod you "trolltech" :)