This is probably a good alternative to banning people right out of a game. Instead of doing it for a certain period of time though, they should be given a task and have to perform it. In this case, they should use the tractor to plough the land or pick corn or something and after a certain amount of work is done they will be teleported back to the real world. People can always just sit around and wait to be unbanned in a game, but giving them some kind of boring chore to perform to teach them a lesson would be nice. I hope to see something like this in more MMORPGs.
You reminded me of the email that was heavily sent around a couple of years ago about baby eaters which ended up being a hoax.
As far as And what's worse, it's highly popular among the "alternative" OS / FOSS crowd... who're also the ones least likely to pay for anything goes, I think the statement is wrong. It should be rephrased to "...who're also the ones least likely to pay for software that doesn't suit them". I think the original comment was way too strong.
In Canada, keep it more than 30 days past the due date, and it's yours - you can't return it to the store, and the store can't put it back into their inventory.
I just want to point out that while in the US, they are franchised, they aren't in Canada. And as far as I know, Canada doesn't plan on dropping their "no late charges" policy (at least anytime soon). They seem to be grabbing a lot of customers from Rogers Video.
it's not any worse than the attention they're currently getting though. they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. the only difference is that if they do, they'll end up with better software.
It would be more acceptable to leave out COUNT(*) functionality than to do it wrong. (Yes, if it gives an number other than the number of rows committed to a table it is wrong. "Weird" is what you call LISP.)
or leave it in and give lots of documentation about why it does what it does for developers to be aware of it... this was news to me.
I don't know exactly what the consequences would be, and I have never studied it to know exactly what would happen. However, it seems that if the Indian government were to enforce these laws, then corporations wouldn't be running there in the first place. i think that's a big incentive for them to go overseas - cheap labor, poor to no health laws, etc...
I think your comment is especially true when it comes to PHP and MySQL. The websites for PHP and MySQL have a massive amount of information and documentation which could replace several books written for them already. The comments in their documentation on the two websites posted by users is even more useful:
I need to disagree with your comment. Hundreds of adults die on freeways out of MILLIONS. If the same begins to be true for gamers (from poor nutrition, hygiene, etc), then it certainly is a crisis. From TFA, someone who plays games for 20 days straight in a net cafe, REALLY does have a problem. If cases like this grow around the world, then it is a problem.
This goes along the lines of what you said. We'll only see 3D desktops when the peripherals for such software goes mainstream. While people are still using their regular mice or wacoms, demand or a need for standard 2D desktops and software will be high. Get the hardware out there and known to people, and eventually developers will start coding for such hardware.
That article didn't seem so "expert" to me; it just seemed like every other article. So yes I agree with you, I don't know why some people are claiming to be "experts" in this field when it's really not a field but rather a combination of different fields. Most articles that are coming out about AJAX seem to be saying the same thing though. I have to say also, that these articles are teaching me a lot about what AJAX means, how to use it, and what to use it for. The basic code they show with explanations is nice.
I agree with you somewhat. Ever since I started using CSS, my layouts have been cleaner and I like using them a lot more than tables. However, I think there is a problem. I can't do everything I used to be able to do with tables... or at least I can, but they're a lot less intuitive to code up and I just haven't had the time to sit down and learn all the ins and outs of CSS.
I think a lot of the blame here should go towards browser developers who seem to like to pick and choose how to implement these features. Everywhere I read about this, a majority of the people blame their problems on the browser and not their code. If it displays correctly in one browser and not another, then clearly the problem is with one of the browsers. A simple work-around for this during the Netscape vs. IE "feud" was that people would simply write somewhere on their page that their site was meant to be used with either one or the other. I don't see that anymore because people are more focused on making their sites cross-browser compatible.
Most people here seem to be blaming IE for their site woes. Just put a disclaimer somewhere that you're site needs to be viewed with IE/FF/Opera or some other browser... or make 3 or 4 different versions of your site, because I don't think this problem will fix itself anytime soon. You can't make your site work perfectly unless it's simple...
Sorry to rant on, just wanted to get my opinions out there.
I agree with this. Since MSN Messenger blocked all the "bad" extensions, everyone I know who isn't too computer-savvy has learned to either zip their files or change the file extensions. Teaching someone to check a box seems a lot easier than the hell I had to go through to teach a friend how to zip a file.
I'm aware that they exist on the box, but I'd like an explanation, not just point form notes on what's in there. If it was so clearcut, parents wouldn't be renting the material. I think that's where the problem is. "Intense Violence", "Blood and Gore" is a lot less clear than "Players use guns to hunt down and kill people in a city, with semi-realistic blood effects". I'm sorry, I just thought it wasn't clear enough that parents were still getting these sorts of games for their children. But you've got your opinions, and I respect that.
The other problem is that parents don't get the original box for the game when renting games. That's also a problem, especially when the content from behind the original box isn't rewritten on the box parents rent.
Why do they just have to have generic rating. These companies should be obligated to print exactly what kind of material is in the game and let parents decide. I work in a video/game rental store, and I've seen mothers pick up M rated games for their 10 year old kids (I'm not joking) and I have to explain to them exactly why M doesn't just mean "blood". I have shocked more parents than I'd like to believe I have. An M game can have a hundred different things in it. I'd rather have a new system with more explanations.
A lot of people recommend this very player for anime playback. Anime tends to come in a lot of formats (avi, mpeg, mkv, ogm) with a lot of codec requirements, and this player seems to have become a favorite in the anime circles. This is one of my favorite players and it's completely replaced most of the other media players I used to use.
I honestly would like your opinion on what Microsoft should do about the MILLIONS of people bashing their software everyday? Microsoft is a company, and people all over the world insult their company and use slanderous words against their software. Should Microsoft find out who these people are online and go after all of them?
A company is a company, big or small. If this guy gets to find out who is talking shit (pardon my language) about his company online, eventually Microsoft will get to as well, and they have A LOT MORE money to take you to court with and ruin your life...
Can you imagine this situation: - you show someone translated text on your PSP - they ask if they can hold it to read it closer because they are nearsighted - they run away with your PSP
Which person wouldn't run away with a PSP if you gave it to them to look at. Afterall, you're on foreign land, and they figure there is only so much you can do without your translator. I think a good phrase to memorize in different languages would be "someone stole my translator".
I'll write that it's an impressive system, and that the games look good. I have nothing against the system itself, but what I do have a problem with is the marketing behind the system. Several people I know are just plain angry that they couldn't get their hands on one because it sold out and they have to wait a long while to even get one. They hyped a system, and then didn't have enough to sell (intentionally), that's what's so upsettting to me.
I just want to say that I think that's the best game-related articles I've ever seen, and I couldn't agree more. It was short and nailed what needed to be said. Whether it was meant as a joke or not, it was great. I would have liked to see more examples with happy and sad faces though;)
This seems like a reasonable feature, but what parent have you ever seen pick up a controller for a console to do anything with it. The problem is that parents aren't monitoring their children when they play games, or that they just aren't tech-savvy enough to try to utilize a feature like this (IMO). Even with such a feature, I'm sure kids will somehow outsmart parents or bypass it one way or another.
I understood what you were getting at, but as stated, the example was just a weak one to justify your point. I think the above threads were just saying that over-commenting (such as an intuitive if-statement) or obvious commenting, is a poor thing to do and just takes up extra space and may clutter up code.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is how to insert comments into code. In-line comments and comments can also be poorly written. For example, if you use an in-line comment but it drags too far out, it may make code look ugly. Then there are people that do these:
if (x) {//this is code ........//that will do perform some ........//task if x is set
Which I think also tends to look terribly ugly when it's done too much. I'm curious how people comment (not what they comment).
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This is probably a good alternative to banning people right out of a game. Instead of doing it for a certain period of time though, they should be given a task and have to perform it. In this case, they should use the tractor to plough the land or pick corn or something and after a certain amount of work is done they will be teleported back to the real world. People can always just sit around and wait to be unbanned in a game, but giving them some kind of boring chore to perform to teach them a lesson would be nice. I hope to see something like this in more MMORPGs.
You reminded me of the email that was heavily sent around a couple of years ago about baby eaters which ended up being a hoax.
As far as And what's worse, it's highly popular among the "alternative" OS / FOSS crowd... who're also the ones least likely to pay for anything goes, I think the statement is wrong. It should be rephrased to "...who're also the ones least likely to pay for software that doesn't suit them". I think the original comment was way too strong.
That's what "meta moderating" is for ^^;
In Canada, keep it more than 30 days past the due date, and it's yours - you can't return it to the store, and the store can't put it back into their inventory.
I just want to point out that while in the US, they are franchised, they aren't in Canada. And as far as I know, Canada doesn't plan on dropping their "no late charges" policy (at least anytime soon). They seem to be grabbing a lot of customers from Rogers Video.
Not exactly positive PR...
it's not any worse than the attention they're currently getting though. they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. the only difference is that if they do, they'll end up with better software.
It would be more acceptable to leave out COUNT(*) functionality than to do it wrong. (Yes, if it gives an number other than the number of rows committed to a table it is wrong. "Weird" is what you call LISP.)
or leave it in and give lots of documentation about why it does what it does for developers to be aware of it... this was news to me.
I don't know exactly what the consequences would be, and I have never studied it to know exactly what would happen. However, it seems that if the Indian government were to enforce these laws, then corporations wouldn't be running there in the first place. i think that's a big incentive for them to go overseas - cheap labor, poor to no health laws, etc...
Correct me if i'm wrong.
I think your comment is especially true when it comes to PHP and MySQL. The websites for PHP and MySQL have a massive amount of information and documentation which could replace several books written for them already. The comments in their documentation on the two websites posted by users is even more useful:
MySQL documentation
PHP documentation
Books have fairly sharp edges, and don't forget those evil paper cuts...
I need to disagree with your comment. Hundreds of adults die on freeways out of MILLIONS. If the same begins to be true for gamers (from poor nutrition, hygiene, etc), then it certainly is a crisis. From TFA, someone who plays games for 20 days straight in a net cafe, REALLY does have a problem. If cases like this grow around the world, then it is a problem.
This goes along the lines of what you said. We'll only see 3D desktops when the peripherals for such software goes mainstream. While people are still using their regular mice or wacoms, demand or a need for standard 2D desktops and software will be high. Get the hardware out there and known to people, and eventually developers will start coding for such hardware.
That article didn't seem so "expert" to me; it just seemed like every other article. So yes I agree with you, I don't know why some people are claiming to be "experts" in this field when it's really not a field but rather a combination of different fields. Most articles that are coming out about AJAX seem to be saying the same thing though. I have to say also, that these articles are teaching me a lot about what AJAX means, how to use it, and what to use it for. The basic code they show with explanations is nice.
I agree with you somewhat. Ever since I started using CSS, my layouts have been cleaner and I like using them a lot more than tables. However, I think there is a problem. I can't do everything I used to be able to do with tables... or at least I can, but they're a lot less intuitive to code up and I just haven't had the time to sit down and learn all the ins and outs of CSS.
I think a lot of the blame here should go towards browser developers who seem to like to pick and choose how to implement these features. Everywhere I read about this, a majority of the people blame their problems on the browser and not their code. If it displays correctly in one browser and not another, then clearly the problem is with one of the browsers. A simple work-around for this during the Netscape vs. IE "feud" was that people would simply write somewhere on their page that their site was meant to be used with either one or the other. I don't see that anymore because people are more focused on making their sites cross-browser compatible.
Most people here seem to be blaming IE for their site woes. Just put a disclaimer somewhere that you're site needs to be viewed with IE/FF/Opera or some other browser... or make 3 or 4 different versions of your site, because I don't think this problem will fix itself anytime soon. You can't make your site work perfectly unless it's simple...
Sorry to rant on, just wanted to get my opinions out there.
I agree with this. Since MSN Messenger blocked all the "bad" extensions, everyone I know who isn't too computer-savvy has learned to either zip their files or change the file extensions. Teaching someone to check a box seems a lot easier than the hell I had to go through to teach a friend how to zip a file.
I'm aware that they exist on the box, but I'd like an explanation, not just point form notes on what's in there. If it was so clearcut, parents wouldn't be renting the material. I think that's where the problem is. "Intense Violence", "Blood and Gore" is a lot less clear than "Players use guns to hunt down and kill people in a city, with semi-realistic blood effects". I'm sorry, I just thought it wasn't clear enough that parents were still getting these sorts of games for their children. But you've got your opinions, and I respect that.
The other problem is that parents don't get the original box for the game when renting games. That's also a problem, especially when the content from behind the original box isn't rewritten on the box parents rent.
Why do they just have to have generic rating. These companies should be obligated to print exactly what kind of material is in the game and let parents decide. I work in a video/game rental store, and I've seen mothers pick up M rated games for their 10 year old kids (I'm not joking) and I have to explain to them exactly why M doesn't just mean "blood". I have shocked more parents than I'd like to believe I have. An M game can have a hundred different things in it. I'd rather have a new system with more explanations.
A lot of people recommend this very player for anime playback. Anime tends to come in a lot of formats (avi, mpeg, mkv, ogm) with a lot of codec requirements, and this player seems to have become a favorite in the anime circles. This is one of my favorite players and it's completely replaced most of the other media players I used to use.
That would solve this!!
I honestly would like your opinion on what Microsoft should do about the MILLIONS of people bashing their software everyday? Microsoft is a company, and people all over the world insult their company and use slanderous words against their software. Should Microsoft find out who these people are online and go after all of them?
A company is a company, big or small. If this guy gets to find out who is talking shit (pardon my language) about his company online, eventually Microsoft will get to as well, and they have A LOT MORE money to take you to court with and ruin your life...
Can you imagine this situation:
- you show someone translated text on your PSP
- they ask if they can hold it to read it closer because they are nearsighted
- they run away with your PSP
Which person wouldn't run away with a PSP if you gave it to them to look at. Afterall, you're on foreign land, and they figure there is only so much you can do without your translator. I think a good phrase to memorize in different languages would be "someone stole my translator".
I'll write that it's an impressive system, and that the games look good. I have nothing against the system itself, but what I do have a problem with is the marketing behind the system. Several people I know are just plain angry that they couldn't get their hands on one because it sold out and they have to wait a long while to even get one. They hyped a system, and then didn't have enough to sell (intentionally), that's what's so upsettting to me.
I just want to say that I think that's the best game-related articles I've ever seen, and I couldn't agree more. It was short and nailed what needed to be said. Whether it was meant as a joke or not, it was great. I would have liked to see more examples with happy and sad faces though ;)
This seems like a reasonable feature, but what parent have you ever seen pick up a controller for a console to do anything with it. The problem is that parents aren't monitoring their children when they play games, or that they just aren't tech-savvy enough to try to utilize a feature like this (IMO). Even with such a feature, I'm sure kids will somehow outsmart parents or bypass it one way or another.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is how to insert comments into code. In-line comments and comments can also be poorly written. For example, if you use an in-line comment but it drags too far out, it may make code look ugly. Then there are people that do these:Which I think also tends to look terribly ugly when it's done too much. I'm curious how people comment (not what they comment).