The problem with autoscaling is that it can tend to people playing number tricks with levels and abilities to make sure they are as powerful as possible before they level up. I just prefer that an area of the map, or a specific mission be of a set difficulty, and you don't try it until you think you're ready. With autoscaling you really don't need to be 'careful' as you play... the overall difficulty of a mission will be they same if you play it at level 5 or 50.
Perhaps game devs should consider making it optional, with the non-autoscaling version picking what they consider the best difficulty based on location or something.
Of course, I would image none of the 4 could be even romotely considered 'deadwood'. Sadly that ratio can get very high within IT, and drive the total numbers required up, frequently in a non-linear way.
Is't z/OS just a crappy version of Unix installed over their default dinosaur OS (OS390)? Linux would be great, but their default OS is a living nightmare. It's pretty much one step away from still being on punch cards. I can't believe people still use JCL. The whole environment seems to activelu fight change at every opportunity.
It's a pretty obvious gesture after you've seen the frustration it causes people. Still, it is pretty surprising for Sony. Perhaps this is the beginning of a brand new era of Sony not actively annoying their customers.
The latest polls I saw showed that Quebec is actually in favour of the DMCA as it stands, or at least it was in the last opinion poll that I saw. I'm not really sure why this is the case. A couple of (perhaps wildly inaccurate) guesses would be that it's because of poorer media coverage, or Prentice's Quebec connections.
That's actually a great idea, but makes the 360 accomplishments for finishing on various levels difficult to implement. The bonus would be that I don't _ever_ have to suffer through another Rage Against the Machine or Beastie Boys song.
Actually, screw free, I'd actually pay extra for that.
I didn't take the time to check Google maps, but I'm fairly sure that Japan!=Asia. If you look at all of Asia, I would guess that it has quite a ways to go to catch up to Japan as well.
ZoneAlarm has a product called ForceField, that does it within Windows. I haven't tried it, but I think it sandboxes most of the browser, creates a dummy file system, etc. It seems like a good idea that should cover most exploits, at least until it gets popular.
I tend to think they use open source software as a way to sneak high priced consultants in to sell high priced software and support, but I might be being paranoid.
It sure does. That nasty part is that as bad as MS has been, If IBM was still dominant, Personal computing would probably be an order of magnitude more expensive and far more limited. I think if MS hadn't come to prominence, things would be even worse than they are now.
Diffs between source code where the style has been altered will hide any functional changes. It makes it much easier if the style does not change between commits.
It actually takes twice as much space, but as I mentioned in another comment, you can use an IDE that will format code the way _you_ like. The entire team no longer needs to use the same style.
Hopefully this can be one religious war that will actually end.
Overall, the implementation of style standards these days is of waning relevance. With the advent of IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse, etc) that will format the code to any style you like, it's not as important anymore. It only really matters when you check it in.
I've worked where we were supplied a full IDE and a 17" CRT, and the coding standard forced so much white space vertically that you had to basically remember all the code.
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The problem with autoscaling is that it can tend to people playing number tricks with levels and abilities to make sure they are as powerful as possible before they level up. I just prefer that an area of the map, or a specific mission be of a set difficulty, and you don't try it until you think you're ready. With autoscaling you really don't need to be 'careful' as you play ... the overall difficulty of a mission will be they same if you play it at level 5 or 50.
Perhaps game devs should consider making it optional, with the non-autoscaling version picking what they consider the best difficulty based on location or something.
I'd totally trust Silent Bob. The man's a visionary.
Of course, I would image none of the 4 could be even romotely considered 'deadwood'. Sadly that ratio can get very high within IT, and drive the total numbers required up, frequently in a non-linear way.
Is't z/OS just a crappy version of Unix installed over their default dinosaur OS (OS390)? Linux would be great, but their default OS is a living nightmare. It's pretty much one step away from still being on punch cards. I can't believe people still use JCL. The whole environment seems to activelu fight change at every opportunity.
It's a pretty obvious gesture after you've seen the frustration it causes people. Still, it is pretty surprising for Sony. Perhaps this is the beginning of a brand new era of Sony not actively annoying their customers.
The latest polls I saw showed that Quebec is actually in favour of the DMCA as it stands, or at least it was in the last opinion poll that I saw. I'm not really sure why this is the case. A couple of (perhaps wildly inaccurate) guesses would be that it's because of poorer media coverage, or Prentice's Quebec connections.
That's actually a great idea, but makes the 360 accomplishments for finishing on various levels difficult to implement. The bonus would be that I don't _ever_ have to suffer through another Rage Against the Machine or Beastie Boys song.
Actually, screw free, I'd actually pay extra for that.
I didn't take the time to check Google maps, but I'm fairly sure that Japan!=Asia. If you look at all of Asia, I would guess that it has quite a ways to go to catch up to Japan as well.
Thanks to the school system, I don't this this science stuff is going to be a problem in another 10 years or so.
Either one explains why he could generate the bad entries so fast ... he was rushin' ...
Old, obvious, but just so damn neccessary
I can't think of any reason why either of those companies would have anything but the highest regard and respect for Microsoft ...
ZoneAlarm has a product called ForceField, that does it within Windows. I haven't tried it, but I think it sandboxes most of the browser, creates a dummy file system, etc. It seems like a good idea that should cover most exploits, at least until it gets popular.
I tend to think they use open source software as a way to sneak high priced consultants in to sell high priced software and support, but I might be being paranoid.
These machines are primarily used for modeling.
You mean like on a runway across the top of the machines? You may have just thought of a way to re-ignite interest in supercomputing.
It sure does. That nasty part is that as bad as MS has been, If IBM was still dominant, Personal computing would probably be an order of magnitude more expensive and far more limited. I think if MS hadn't come to prominence, things would be even worse than they are now.
They still suck of course.
Of course you can ... it's a service.
A _real_ Star Trek fan would be out there collecting ashes ...
Heh Heh ... Lease to pwn.
I can't believe I haven't heard that before. Maybe it's because I pronounce the P as an O ... I always thought 'pwn' was just the way it was spelled.
Diffs between source code where the style has been altered will hide any functional changes. It makes it much easier if the style does not change between commits.
It actually takes twice as much space, but as I mentioned in another comment, you can use an IDE that will format code the way _you_ like. The entire team no longer needs to use the same style.
Hopefully this can be one religious war that will actually end.
Overall, the implementation of style standards these days is of waning relevance. With the advent of IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse, etc) that will format the code to any style you like, it's not as important anymore. It only really matters when you check it in.
I've worked where we were supplied a full IDE and a 17" CRT, and the coding standard forced so much white space vertically that you had to basically remember all the code.
COBOL developers still seem to be pulling that off.
That's not the type of 'preferences' being referred to in the article.