A lot of people are complaining that HL2 EP1 wasn't "new enough", but I'm not quite sure what they expected from a game that continues from the last point they played. What, in the 15 minutes between part 0 and part 1, brand new tech is invented?
HL2 EP1 contains the same scenery and same graphics because it takes place in the exact same timeframe in the story. They are still at City 17, they are still at the citadel, and they are still fighting the combine, who are still using the same technology they did 15 minutes ago.
And this is what you should expect from episodic content. They are chapters in a story, not seperate different stories.
Is $20 too much? Depends on the game.
I wouldn't pay $20 for salmon, but if its wrapped up in wine soaked rice and seaweed with cucumber and avacado, thats a different story.
But then, in another part of your code, you generate the $customers array from a database, and shove that array into your template.
To speed things up, you can use a database that supports views like MySQL 5 or SQL Server (does PosGreSQL support views? think it does and it is open source). Also, you can cache the templates and simply clear the cache or rebuild the template every time the contents of a view have changed.
Using proper HTML and CSS can make things even easier. As someone else pointed out in this discussion, with the right skills, you can setup your site to be completely CSS driven, and simply adjust CSS files as necessary.
your templates shouldn't contain much logic other than rudementary iterations and echoing of variables.
It's been my experience that Perl sucks at this and PHP excels. I've never tried ruby so I can't say, but lots of people seem to swear by it.
What do you think was at the heart of adscam? Promoting federalism. The biggest problem with adscam is that certain liberal members pocketed money, but the real problem was that Jean Chretien led an almost clandestine advertisement campaign to promote canadian unity.
Governments worldwide need to spread propaganda. Canada did it to fight the seperatist movement, the US did it to fight the war in Iraq, and look at China/Russia.
What better place to wage a propaganda war than Wikipedia. Yeah fine, mod me as flamebait to conceal the truth of the matter, but everyone knows Wikipedia's content is trusted by millions of people. I don't see why it wouldn't become a major battleground in information warfare.
I single out wikipedia because of its importance yet ease of use for editing its content. Most countries can manipulate that information and probably already do. Only SOME countries would have the resources and will power to go further and manipulate real encylopedias and other "fact checked" sources of information.
...through PR agents. Thats mainly because he is a VP and has to do PR all on his own.
I have to admit, the answers were very slick. He has doubletalk capabilities that far surpass that of any politician. I was looking forward to the responses, as most of the questions that were picked were the ones I wanted to see anwers to.
In the end, it sounds like inconsequential rhetoric. As the very first comment says, Microsoft still doesn't get it.
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Well, if American Porn Company #1 hired China Spammer #1 to "advertise" without explicitly detailing what that advertising is, America isn't going to be able use any existing legislation to stop it, unless they prosecute American Porn Company #1.
I might be mistaken, but don't gun shops have to run criminal records on people who purchase guns? That could be in Canada only, but I believe it exists in the US too. You can apply that here, gotta check up on the advertiser and not be ignorant of his/her/their practices.
Where does the majority of spam start off from? Aren't the majority of spammers outside of the US? Would US companies be held responsbile for the action that spammers take to spread said company's name?
If this comes to court, how successful would the arguement "I said to advertise me, I did not indicate how, and I was not aware of this man's actions. We wanted people to come in and we paid him based on how many people came in. He was solely responsible for the unsolicited emails, as we did not explicitly authorize it."
...forest fires, ice storms, lightning strikes, and the over all impact on the enviroment? I would love to know how birds and squirrels and ewoks are supposed to live in trees that are being tapped for electricity. This would probably do more damage to the enviroment, AND as far as infrastructure safety goes, it's horrible. Trees are not immortal. I would love to see how British Columbia or Quebec will survive, when someone chucks a lit cigarette out of a car and it sparks a massive forest fire and suddenly no one has power left?
Trees are going to be targets of nature more and more as time progresses since weather is quite obviously becoming more severe. Bigger storms, more snow, more ice, more extremes, essentially, more conditions where forests are at risk of being destroyed. Yes, I know, that can be a benefit, but not when you rely on a forest as an energy resource.
If you think SLASHDOT is fucked by this law, can you imagine what LiveJournal will have to go through? I'm sorry, but Slashdot comments are just stupid. Anonymous posts, pixels on a screen. LiveJournal is different, everyone knows each other personally. There are faces behind the fonts.
The filthy dramabombs that explode all over that site will now be handled in a court of law. I love it. I can just see a mighty judge, a symbol of american might and power, succumb to dealing with two gothy emo kids who insulted each other on LiveJournal.
Infact, watch a precedent get set thats not in our collective favour, and soon blogging becomes illegal because it helps propogate internet harrasment the way Grokster propogates copyright infringement. Don't say it won't happen. Don't say that the courts aren't that stupid. We all know that the US legal system has done some very, how should we say it, interesting things (before american patriots accuse me of singling out the US, we are talking about the US. Has Canada's legal system done some interesting things? Of course, but this is an american law, not a canadian or european one).
Oh, and heaven forbid that law enforcement officials ever dare look at Fark's or Something Awful's photoshop contests too.
I'm a star trek fan. I really like all the series. Even voyager was fun to watch despite its cheeseballness. But I wouldn't call myself a diehard trekkie. I've never been to a star trek convention nor do I know how to speak klingon.
As such, I also loved Enterprise, especially season 3. Enterprise was a mature star trek. Cynical, sexy, scary, and occaisonally bizarre. When Season 3 came out, I watched that season over and over again. It was thrilling, had a fluid story line throughout the whole season, and seemed to be very high in production value. Point is, I loved having this show. Scifi TV that I loved. I had something to look forward too. When enterprise was cancelled, I had nothing.
Then I found BSG.
BSG is a well planned show. It has that same fluidic story line, not very, episodic per se. While the constant zooming of the camera was a little bit disorienting at first, I came to appreciate it. The acting is top notch, the special effects are better than most shows, the concept and over all storyline is intense, and the way the show is done, it's a story that is very well told.
But I have a feeling that this show will soon fall into the depths of the "niche" and eventually get cancelled prematurely.
a beaver will chew through a wire, a moose will get electrocuted, and the scientists will take pictures of their asses after drinking ultra cheap but ultra strong canadian beer.
On a side note, You know, they are building a new atom smasher in Canada as well. Perhaps, with all this science going on in my great country, maybe, JUST maybe, we could actually figure out what is in poutine gravy? I'm afraid of the answer mind you, but insanely curious at the same time.
the Canadians and the Russians own most of the artic. Why do you think Canada and Denmark are having a bit of a spat over a piece of rock that is about 1km in length?
The implications of the melting ice caps are ENOURMOUS and it's going to be Canada and Russia that reap in the benefits. Russia has a lot of methane buried under that ice that it just can't mine untill some of that ice melts. Russia will be able to export it to Canada for quite cheap since shipping costs will be incredibly smaller. Canada will then have yet another source of cheap fuel. Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec will reap in millions from energy exports, which will just make Quebec stronger since it already exports a fair amount of electricity to the US. Ontario will just get stronger since it is already the economic centre of the country, and Manitoba can join the ranks of prosperous provinces.
Russia will have a field day exporting all this gas across to Canada and Europe. It will boost their economy tremendously and has the potential of making them a super power once more. Meanwhile, the US economy will fail unless something radical happens. And don't talk to me about the "military might" of the US. A military with no money is not much of a military at all.
Every great empire will fall, and we are seeing the tables turn right now.
We have a government for it: ICANN We have an infrastructure for it. We even have our own unique language. Monthly bills to our ISPs would just turn into taxes instead. We would all become dual citizens.
And whats nice about this, is that the Internet can then become a pseudo democracy. For example, instead of TLDs being stopped by special interest groups (.xxx for example), the internet community can vote on them with a few clicks of the mouse.
Who cares who invented what, the internet at this point is an amalgamation of different concepts and ideas invisioned and created by different people of different ethnicity. It's used around the world, by hundreds of millions of people. The internet shouldn't be handled by America, it shouldn't be handled by EU, it shouldn't be handled by the UN. It should be handled by ITSELF.
R rated movies will be a thing of the past. Porn movies won't have to be hidden in video stores anymore. Alchohol should be sold to 14 year olds for their "my parents are gone" house parties. And one could argue that driving is a form of expression, so driver licenses should be awarded to everyone! Oh, and, age restrictions on bars should be removed as well. Yes, let darwinism take its effect on humanity. So what if a few kids get raped, killed, beaten, or damaged in some sort of way? After all, if they had good parents, none of it would've happened right?
You are never, ever going to have a society full of perfect parents. It just will not happen, and this is why the government has to step in. This is not going to affect game companies in the least, and no one should worry about Rockstar making a bland and boring GTA as a result.
It hasn't harmed the movie industry has it? Give it up...
If the US decides to nuke arab nations because as we all know, the source of 2/3rds of evil come from the middle east, and all those nukes turn sand into glass thus making oil extremely difficult to aquire.
I'm amazed at how surprised some people are at the fact that Firefox has serious exploit. They think, "oh well, it's an alternative to microsoft, it's therefore immune to everything!". Then something bad happens and these same people act like they no longer have anywhere to turn to. They act like their faith was completely misguided and now they have no one to put said faith into.
The same thing applied to other people as well, as we saw in a previous slash dot article about macs. While not impossible, it's extremely difficult to make software that is in a constant state of development completely exploit proof. Firefox is ultimately a better browser than IE for numerous reasons, but it is not 100% perfect, nor is OSX, nor is Linux or FreeBSD or Windows, or anything else on this planet and it's silly to expect otherwise.
Nature doesn't operate on 100% uptime, only 99.9%.
So uhm, some nerds still like to party you know. Small towns only offer teenager parties in the woods, and you know 99% of those teenagers will not go further in life than assembly lines or mining coal.
And after blue collar towns turn expensive, then what? export human resources to trailer parks? Will Bubbles turn into a hacker? And after that start rehiring bums off the street that were put there by the same companies that laid them off in 2000 in the first place? And when that gets too expensive, come back full circle and hire all of us back again?
I swear, cheap talent should be a contradiction in terms. No matter how you achieved your talent, if you developed it well, you should be rewarded for it. That does not just apply to corporations, but to people who sell their talent for pennies.
You can't hide from stupid people, so have them send tickets. This might even be a good way for this manager to come to some sort of realization of whats important and whats not.
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A lot of people are complaining that HL2 EP1 wasn't "new enough", but I'm not quite sure what they expected from a game that continues from the last point they played. What, in the 15 minutes between part 0 and part 1, brand new tech is invented?
HL2 EP1 contains the same scenery and same graphics because it takes place in the exact same timeframe in the story. They are still at City 17, they are still at the citadel, and they are still fighting the combine, who are still using the same technology they did 15 minutes ago.
And this is what you should expect from episodic content. They are chapters in a story, not seperate different stories.
Is $20 too much? Depends on the game.
I wouldn't pay $20 for salmon, but if its wrapped up in wine soaked rice and seaweed with cucumber and avacado, thats a different story.
you don't seperate code from markup, you seperate different types of logic.
eg:
<?php foreach ($customers as $c): ?>
<tr>
<td>
<?=$c['id'];?>
</td>
<td>
<?=$c['name'];?>
</td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
But then, in another part of your code, you generate the $customers array from a database, and shove that array into your template.
To speed things up, you can use a database that supports views like MySQL 5 or SQL Server (does PosGreSQL support views? think it does and it is open source). Also, you can cache the templates and simply clear the cache or rebuild the template every time the contents of a view have changed.
Using proper HTML and CSS can make things even easier. As someone else pointed out in this discussion, with the right skills, you can setup your site to be completely CSS driven, and simply adjust CSS files as necessary.
your templates shouldn't contain much logic other than rudementary iterations and echoing of variables.
It's been my experience that Perl sucks at this and PHP excels. I've never tried ruby so I can't say, but lots of people seem to swear by it.
the dialtone on your phone is 220hz, which is A
well, to be fair, in the US you just get sued and ruined financially.
At least on the internet, you can decern the difference between
"I helped Jack off a horse"
and
"I helped jack off a horse"
See, in the "real world", that would've caused quite the commotion.
What do you think was at the heart of adscam? Promoting federalism. The biggest problem with adscam is that certain liberal members pocketed money, but the real problem was that Jean Chretien led an almost clandestine advertisement campaign to promote canadian unity.
Governments worldwide need to spread propaganda. Canada did it to fight the seperatist movement, the US did it to fight the war in Iraq, and look at China/Russia.
What better place to wage a propaganda war than Wikipedia. Yeah fine, mod me as flamebait to conceal the truth of the matter, but everyone knows Wikipedia's content is trusted by millions of people. I don't see why it wouldn't become a major battleground in information warfare.
I single out wikipedia because of its importance yet ease of use for editing its content. Most countries can manipulate that information and probably already do. Only SOME countries would have the resources and will power to go further and manipulate real encylopedias and other "fact checked" sources of information.
...through PR agents. Thats mainly because he is a VP and has to do PR all on his own.
I have to admit, the answers were very slick. He has doubletalk capabilities that far surpass that of any politician. I was looking forward to the responses, as most of the questions that were picked were the ones I wanted to see anwers to.
In the end, it sounds like inconsequential rhetoric. As the very first comment says, Microsoft still doesn't get it.
Spam filters are getting smarter.
Well, if American Porn Company #1 hired China Spammer #1 to "advertise" without explicitly detailing what that advertising is, America isn't going to be able use any existing legislation to stop it, unless they prosecute American Porn Company #1.
I might be mistaken, but don't gun shops have to run criminal records on people who purchase guns? That could be in Canada only, but I believe it exists in the US too. You can apply that here, gotta check up on the advertiser and not be ignorant of his/her/their practices.
Where does the majority of spam start off from? Aren't the majority of spammers outside of the US? Would US companies be held responsbile for the action that spammers take to spread said company's name?
If this comes to court, how successful would the arguement "I said to advertise me, I did not indicate how, and I was not aware of this man's actions. We wanted people to come in and we paid him based on how many people came in. He was solely responsible for the unsolicited emails, as we did not explicitly authorize it."
...forest fires, ice storms, lightning strikes, and the over all impact on the enviroment? I would love to know how birds and squirrels and ewoks are supposed to live in trees that are being tapped for electricity. This would probably do more damage to the enviroment, AND as far as infrastructure safety goes, it's horrible. Trees are not immortal. I would love to see how British Columbia or Quebec will survive, when someone chucks a lit cigarette out of a car and it sparks a massive forest fire and suddenly no one has power left?
Trees are going to be targets of nature more and more as time progresses since weather is quite obviously becoming more severe. Bigger storms, more snow, more ice, more extremes, essentially, more conditions where forests are at risk of being destroyed. Yes, I know, that can be a benefit, but not when you rely on a forest as an energy resource.
If you think SLASHDOT is fucked by this law, can you imagine what LiveJournal will have to go through? I'm sorry, but Slashdot comments are just stupid. Anonymous posts, pixels on a screen. LiveJournal is different, everyone knows each other personally. There are faces behind the fonts.
The filthy dramabombs that explode all over that site will now be handled in a court of law. I love it. I can just see a mighty judge, a symbol of american might and power, succumb to dealing with two gothy emo kids who insulted each other on LiveJournal.
Infact, watch a precedent get set thats not in our collective favour, and soon blogging becomes illegal because it helps propogate internet harrasment the way Grokster propogates copyright infringement. Don't say it won't happen. Don't say that the courts aren't that stupid. We all know that the US legal system has done some very, how should we say it, interesting things (before american patriots accuse me of singling out the US, we are talking about the US. Has Canada's legal system done some interesting things? Of course, but this is an american law, not a canadian or european one).
Oh, and heaven forbid that law enforcement officials ever dare look at Fark's or Something Awful's photoshop contests too.
I'm a star trek fan. I really like all the series. Even voyager was fun to watch despite its cheeseballness. But I wouldn't call myself a diehard trekkie. I've never been to a star trek convention nor do I know how to speak klingon.
As such, I also loved Enterprise, especially season 3. Enterprise was a mature star trek. Cynical, sexy, scary, and occaisonally bizarre. When Season 3 came out, I watched that season over and over again. It was thrilling, had a fluid story line throughout the whole season, and seemed to be very high in production value. Point is, I loved having this show. Scifi TV that I loved. I had something to look forward too. When enterprise was cancelled, I had nothing.
Then I found BSG.
BSG is a well planned show. It has that same fluidic story line, not very, episodic per se. While the constant zooming of the camera was a little bit disorienting at first, I came to appreciate it. The acting is top notch, the special effects are better than most shows, the concept and over all storyline is intense, and the way the show is done, it's a story that is very well told.
But I have a feeling that this show will soon fall into the depths of the "niche" and eventually get cancelled prematurely.
a beaver will chew through a wire, a moose will get electrocuted, and the scientists will take pictures of their asses after drinking ultra cheap but ultra strong canadian beer.
On a side note,
You know, they are building a new atom smasher in Canada as well. Perhaps, with all this science going on in my great country, maybe, JUST maybe, we could actually figure out what is in poutine gravy? I'm afraid of the answer mind you, but insanely curious at the same time.
the Canadians and the Russians own most of the artic. Why do you think Canada and Denmark are having a bit of a spat over a piece of rock that is about 1km in length?
The implications of the melting ice caps are ENOURMOUS and it's going to be Canada and Russia that reap in the benefits. Russia has a lot of methane buried under that ice that it just can't mine untill some of that ice melts. Russia will be able to export it to Canada for quite cheap since shipping costs will be incredibly smaller. Canada will then have yet another source of cheap fuel. Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec will reap in millions from energy exports, which will just make Quebec stronger since it already exports a fair amount of electricity to the US. Ontario will just get stronger since it is already the economic centre of the country, and Manitoba can join the ranks of prosperous provinces.
Russia will have a field day exporting all this gas across to Canada and Europe. It will boost their economy tremendously and has the potential of making them a super power once more. Meanwhile, the US economy will fail unless something radical happens. And don't talk to me about the "military might" of the US. A military with no money is not much of a military at all.
Every great empire will fall, and we are seeing the tables turn right now.
We have a government for it: ICANN
We have an infrastructure for it.
We even have our own unique language.
Monthly bills to our ISPs would just turn into taxes instead.
We would all become dual citizens.
And whats nice about this, is that the Internet can then become a pseudo democracy. For example, instead of TLDs being stopped by special interest groups (.xxx for example), the internet community can vote on them with a few clicks of the mouse.
Who cares who invented what, the internet at this point is an amalgamation of different concepts and ideas invisioned and created by different people of different ethnicity. It's used around the world, by hundreds of millions of people. The internet shouldn't be handled by America, it shouldn't be handled by EU, it shouldn't be handled by the UN. It should be handled by ITSELF.
Point taken, however Mario Brothers was his first real debut, not donkey kong. So I disagree with nintendo's timing.
His first real adventure was his first real game named after him and his loyal brother Luigi.
Lets fight against age restrictions of all kinds.
R rated movies will be a thing of the past. Porn movies won't have to be hidden in video stores anymore. Alchohol should be sold to 14 year olds for their "my parents are gone" house parties. And one could argue that driving is a form of expression, so driver licenses should be awarded to everyone! Oh, and, age restrictions on bars should be removed as well. Yes, let darwinism take its effect on humanity. So what if a few kids get raped, killed, beaten, or damaged in some sort of way? After all, if they had good parents, none of it would've happened right?
You are never, ever going to have a society full of perfect parents. It just will not happen, and this is why the government has to step in. This is not going to affect game companies in the least, and no one should worry about Rockstar making a bland and boring GTA as a result.
It hasn't harmed the movie industry has it? Give it up...
hahahahaa
2005 - 1983 = 22
Yes, this means that nintendo is off by two years. It explains why they came out with the N64 while Sony was kicking their ass.
If the US decides to nuke arab nations because as we all know, the source of 2/3rds of evil come from the middle east, and all those nukes turn sand into glass thus making oil extremely difficult to aquire.
Yeah, I'd sit back and laugh at the irony
I dunno, I went down with it.
I'm amazed at how surprised some people are at the fact that Firefox has serious exploit. They think, "oh well, it's an alternative to microsoft, it's therefore immune to everything!". Then something bad happens and these same people act like they no longer have anywhere to turn to. They act like their faith was completely misguided and now they have no one to put said faith into.
The same thing applied to other people as well, as we saw in a previous slash dot article about macs. While not impossible, it's extremely difficult to make software that is in a constant state of development completely exploit proof. Firefox is ultimately a better browser than IE for numerous reasons, but it is not 100% perfect, nor is OSX, nor is Linux or FreeBSD or Windows, or anything else on this planet and it's silly to expect otherwise.
Nature doesn't operate on 100% uptime, only 99.9%.
So uhm, some nerds still like to party you know. Small towns only offer teenager parties in the woods, and you know 99% of those teenagers will not go further in life than assembly lines or mining coal.
And after blue collar towns turn expensive, then what? export human resources to trailer parks? Will Bubbles turn into a hacker? And after that start rehiring bums off the street that were put there by the same companies that laid them off in 2000 in the first place? And when that gets too expensive, come back full circle and hire all of us back again?
I swear, cheap talent should be a contradiction in terms. No matter how you achieved your talent, if you developed it well, you should be rewarded for it. That does not just apply to corporations, but to people who sell their talent for pennies.
You can't hide from stupid people, so have them send tickets. This might even be a good way for this manager to come to some sort of realization of whats important and whats not.