When I said 'tech' I meant a technical person - the antagonist hired a Gargoyle to research the info that lead to brain programming. All the notes that Hiro gets on the subject are from that individual.
No, one of the primary antagonists of the novel had one tech (The one with all the equipment strapped to him. There was a label for individuals like that in the book, but I cannot remember it. Golem? Goblin? Something like that) research methods for preventing programmers from disclosing company secrets.
From this comes all the knowledge pertaining to 'brain programming', which is how the pseudo-religion headed by the same antagonist brainwashed its members.
Or at least that's how I remember it. It's been a little while since I read it.
'Helping' in the context you are using comes down to either directly facilitating survival or pleasure. Pleasure and happiness are nothing more than a set of emotions evolved to facilitate survival.
Knowledge helps us in our search for purpose. Currently we have no reason for existing; we simply have deeply rooted tendencies to take pleasure from mysticism, egoism, and hedonism. Nothing we currently understand offers any direction. The only hope we have of uncovering a purpose comes with understanding our universe.
The fact is that any normal human being would never equate the two, much less demand that the monetary value of the crimes should be their determining factor in how evil they happen to be.
The law exists to preserve order. Monetary damage is a very good indicator of how powerful an effect a crime has had on the order of society.
Rape is hands down a far greater evil than spam - this is obvious to those of us who have our heads on straight. And until recently this is pretty much how the law operated: those crimes which caused actual harm to individual human beings were given stiffer sentences than those which only inflicted monetary damage.
Provide a definition of 'evil'. Provide a logical defense to its existence as more than a primitive emotional classification based on instincts evolved for nothing greater than survival, as logic and evidence would show it.
'Most people' are incapable of making judgement beyond their base instincts and emotions. They are little more than animals in that respect. The ability to look beyond my base knee-jerk reactions and examine events in a more logical light does not come easy, nor is it emotionally gratifying.
To flip the two things is a sociopathic view of the application and enforcement of law.
Your string of thinly veiled personal attacks only serve to highlight the glaring flaws in your own logic.
Millions in damages does indeed affect society - millions that could be better spent on social services and other useful things. This is rather undeniable.
Uh-Oh. Don't try to weigh the intangible, unquantifiable damage to a person's life against the trivial damage done by spammers. Last checked, we don't have a money worth for human life, peace of mind, etc, there is no generally accepted amount or point at which people will agree that a crime against enough property is every bit as bad as a crime against humanity...
The value of the average individual is quite tangible - a person is only worth as much as they provide for society. For the vast majority of individuals this is nothing more than tax money and children. Individually such people are not worth much to society - their deaths pale in comparison to the millions of dollars in damages inflicted by spammers.
When a crime inflicts millions in damages, it is no longer minor. Both death and life imprisonment are too good for such crimes. Forced labour spent helping repay damages is far better.
Oh please. Either provide logic as to why the well being of an individual is more important than the well being of society or keep your emotional rants to yourself.
While your at it, provide logic as to how anything can be inherently wrong.
The handful of lives injured by a rapist pales in comparison to the millions in damages inflicted by a spammer. This is especially true when you take into account the fact that most rape victims remain taxpaying citizens.
Extreme orthagonality makes learning and reading a language easy for the uninitiated, but does naught but limit those already familiar with it.
For example, take tied hashes in Perl. They are certainly not orthagonal by any means, but they provide an unparalleled method for interacting with databases in Perl.
The problem is, a good portion of people who loudly support Perl cite these kinds shortcuts as reasons they can write code quickly (and with as few characters as possible). If that's the case, then they probably use them. If I have to deal with their code, then I'm going to have to remember this stuff, or go look it up. Not every programmer has the luxury of not working with others.
Just about every language out there has little nuances for which understanding will only come when one has a great deal of experience with the language involved. Things like Duff's Device that will catch you completely off guard if you are not expecting them.
If you are maintaining a Perl program, then you really need to know Perl. Not just the basics, but all the little nuances that make it such an incredibly rich language. Rather than trying to learn-as-you-go with maintainance, grab a copy of the Camel book and a handful of good JAPNs, and tinker away.
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Perl is only as obfuscated as you make it. Code readability is entirely up to the developer - it is by no means 'obsfucated by default'.
Still a nice troll though.
to learn on your own time what isn't taught in your CS course, then it's time to consider another career.
Programming is hell if you don't love it.
flash menus*
Ergh. Lose the menus, or add an option for plain HTML.
When I said 'tech' I meant a technical person - the antagonist hired a Gargoyle to research the info that lead to brain programming. All the notes that Hiro gets on the subject are from that individual.
No, one of the primary antagonists of the novel had one tech (The one with all the equipment strapped to him. There was a label for individuals like that in the book, but I cannot remember it. Golem? Goblin? Something like that) research methods for preventing programmers from disclosing company secrets.
From this comes all the knowledge pertaining to 'brain programming', which is how the pseudo-religion headed by the same antagonist brainwashed its members.
Or at least that's how I remember it. It's been a little while since I read it.
If you disable voice then your team suffers.
Voice is there because it is far faster to speak than type. Typing is not an option in fast paced games.
'Helping' in the context you are using comes down to either directly facilitating survival or pleasure. Pleasure and happiness are nothing more than a set of emotions evolved to facilitate survival.
Knowledge helps us in our search for purpose. Currently we have no reason for existing; we simply have deeply rooted tendencies to take pleasure from mysticism, egoism, and hedonism. Nothing we currently understand offers any direction. The only hope we have of uncovering a purpose comes with understanding our universe.
Human comfort is far less important than knowledge.
Apologies for the comma splice.
Configure the 'rate' in DOSBox until the game runs smooth. You'll still need a decent machine.
Get DOSBox or dual boot with FreeDOS.
'Most people' are incapable of making judgement beyond their base instincts and emotions. They are little more than animals in that respect. The ability to look beyond my base knee-jerk reactions and examine events in a more logical light does not come easy, nor is it emotionally gratifying. Your string of thinly veiled personal attacks only serve to highlight the glaring flaws in your own logic.
Why should I be bothered that tax money is my most significant contribution to society?
Millions in damages does indeed affect society - millions that could be better spent on social services and other useful things. This is rather undeniable.
The value of the average individual is quite tangible - a person is only worth as much as they provide for society. For the vast majority of individuals this is nothing more than tax money and children. Individually such people are not worth much to society - their deaths pale in comparison to the millions of dollars in damages inflicted by spammers.
When a crime inflicts millions in damages, it is no longer minor. Both death and life imprisonment are too good for such crimes. Forced labour spent helping repay damages is far better.
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Oh please. Either provide logic as to why the well being of an individual is more important than the well being of society or keep your emotional rants to yourself.
While your at it, provide logic as to how anything can be inherently wrong.
The handful of lives injured by a rapist pales in comparison to the millions in damages inflicted by a spammer. This is especially true when you take into account the fact that most rape victims remain taxpaying citizens.
The act of measuring the momentum to a large degree of accuracy changes the position of the particle.
The same is true for the reverse.
If you want to measure both, then you must accept significant error in both measurements.
There's a formula giving the exact relationship, but unfortunately I don't remember it.
Err, database access is not the only use for ties in Perl.
I just realised my post could be interpreted to mean that.
Apologies.
Extreme orthagonality makes learning and reading a language easy for the uninitiated, but does naught but limit those already familiar with it.
For example, take tied hashes in Perl. They are certainly not orthagonal by any means, but they provide an unparalleled method for interacting with databases in Perl.
Just about every language out there has little nuances for which understanding will only come when one has a great deal of experience with the language involved. Things like Duff's Device that will catch you completely off guard if you are not expecting them.
If you are maintaining a Perl program, then you really need to know Perl. Not just the basics, but all the little nuances that make it such an incredibly rich language. Rather than trying to learn-as-you-go with maintainance, grab a copy of the Camel book and a handful of good JAPNs, and tinker away.
The HL2 FoV is far too narrow by default.
Try the following:
sv_cheats 1
default_fov 90
fov 90