I've been reading up on it and use as a quick solution finder. I have already used it for things like file manipulation/creation using regex and simple I/O. Sure, I could code up something in another language, but it's so simple and quick in Ruby.
That is, if it remains in that sandbox. Each sandbox would require devices that drivers could be written for and disk drives could be linked to folders or disks by the plug-in. Video could be a virtual device that translates calls to a "window" and sound could be mapped to the OS audio device. In other words, a virtual machine.
Boy, you really got them now! Don't like the Microsoft bashing? You have some money on them or something? I don't understand why someone would dedicate so much time to making all this stuff up or tracking all this down to discredit a few accounts unless they had a financial stake in it. It's simply not worth the time.
But go on, waste your time, hide behind the coward's mark... Eventually (we hope) you'll get sick and tired of it and grow up.
Did you pay your weekly dues to the twitter conspiracy fan club yet?
If you get your dues in, they'll send you the Real Action Sock Puppet with a knife in his back figurine. These are the high quality ones with Kung Fu Grip and Chop action arms that all twitter conspiracy trolls get upon joining.
(So, why don't you post under your real account anymore? Trolling twitter finally got to your karma rating? The mods trying to keep you down? Still feel like your crusade remains uncared for?)
The last line in your post seems so fitting here as well.
Power is money. Money is not power, but it helps you attain power. Fearful citizens pay their taxes because if they don't, the police will come and raid their house... just like they do to drug dealers. (According to the media, which is where the general populace gets their ideas.)
Article 1 - Section 8: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
Technically, it IS their job to regulate commerce between the states. However, I always read into it that they should promote trade until the commerce becomes harmful to the free market. (Monopolies, mega-corps, etc.)
So you argue to keep them illegal so we can have better music or do you hope to keep it illegal because you like the Good vs. Evil "stories" to be told?
I've debated over this many times and it sort of bugs me. People seem to think that we need a placebo evil to attack. There must be a good side to align with and EVERYONE must comply. People think that to have a God, you must have a Devil. To have a moral compass, you have to agree on a moral enemy. They want the world to be black and white. It's not.
Sure, but it's not so much about money as it is about power. Wars on anything incite fear in the populace. Fear of the Police. Fear of the Military. Fear of the FBI. By declaring a war on a product being used by the citizens, the government makes those people afraid and complacent. The people who are innocent bystanders in the whole mess see publicized raids, busts, and other things and they see the full extents that the law will take to hold their word. The innocent see the power and they feel as though they can do nothing about it. They turn into model citizens who fear government and those in charge instead of vice versa (what our country was founded on.)
Because we live in a world where multiple OSes exist? Because there are more than just one kind of processor? Because there are 32-bit, 64-bit, 128...? Because programmers make assumptions...
To be fair, I like to use blocks for everything because (to me) it's easier and clearer to read. I also keep the opening block on the same line as the if/case/for and close it indented to the first character of the block statement. (Java style)
Now, you may use indentation to clarify your code, but I use block endings to stop my train of thought in the same manner. It doesn't mean I know less about programming or the language than you do. That's pretty arrogant. By blocking everything it makes the intent VERY clear. It takes two more strokes of the finger and it doesn't take up that much more space. Also, as the GP mentioned in reply, it doesn't hurt to keep the program functioning correctly IF someone with less talent happens to put another line of code in there.
I understand the idea of placing as much code on the screen at one time. That's why I religiously place single function blocks on the same line as the if as the GP stated. [ if(something) { doSomething(); } ] I do the same for switch statements as well. If I can get a simple case to align with the ones above it for readability, I will do so. I also make the intention known that I want to do nothing if no cases are true. switch (something) {
case (1): { run(blah); break; }
case (2): { runother(blah); break; }
default: {/* do nothing */ } } Contrary to your statement, it's not because I don't understand the code. It's because it clarifies to anyone else reading it that I didn't forget or overlook something. (It's like my own N/A, or "This page intentionally left blank")
Therein is YOUR problem, not mine. Tabs are evil only if the programming language makes them evil. Tabs are a highly efficient way to program and keep indentation. It allows developers to view the code a bit more in their preferred style so it's easier for them to read (2 spaces, 3 spaces, 4 spaces or I've even seen 8 spaces.) Not using tabs makes it more difficult to edit the code or share code. If you create a template of code that's indented using spaces, you pass me a piece of code that doesn't look right with my code and is harder to read in the overall scope of things. Also, if you use formatting to show your intentions in the program you probably need to rework your program to better make sense or make use of the language constructs.
When I get a source file indented with spaces, I then waste time converting these spaces (and the alignment specific readability) you made. I say alignment specific readability because you thought it would be more readable to put all your arguments on a line of their own and hit just enough spaces to line them all up just right so it's readable for YOU on YOUR screen. Now I get your code and it only uses up 25% of my screen width and I now have to scroll up and down more because of your style.
By using spaces (and according to your post "tone"), you are essentially telling me that you are an arrogant programmer only thinking of your own stylistic ways and methods and that you will never work well with other people unless they do it your way. Even then, you will likely criticize that person for spacing something wrong. You strike me as a micro management type person.
Ideally, my perfect language/editor would format the file as it was loaded. Source code would not rely on indentation to function properly and line feeds would be meaningless. Each source file would be saved compressed without formatting. Each developer could open that file and it would format to their style.
It's not really a "programming language" as much as it is a scripting language right now, but I've been digging into Ruby (not rails) and I like what I see so far.
Can you be sure of that? Maybe he has a valid account that never replies to the same topics and posts insightful comments then uses that account to mod himself up...
You'd never know it. For all you know, twitter and those other accounts are burning up your mod points on his posts so you can't use them on truly deserving posts.
You'd have to spend an extreme amount of time on the meta-moderate page hoping to get a twitter story to "unmod" it. That is, if you even see a twitter post that gets modded up. You'd have to open each one and look for the author.
There are so many different scenarios that could be playing out and you'd have no clue without being able to see the IP trail.
Obviously Slashdot doesn't care about it as much as you do because they haven't started filtering the number of accounts permitted by IP. They wouldn't do that because of firewall banning concerns. Even if they did, there are anonymous relays all over the web that they could use if they REALLY wanted to.
So really, is it worth burning mod points/posts/time on something you aren't sure about and has such a little impact to your life?
That's alright, I'm still trying to figure out which way is 'North' in space... Does North always point to the magnetic pole of Earth even on Mars? Has someone studied the Milky Way and determined that there's a magnetic ring perpendicular to the dish?
Yes, that's currently how I do it... but you still have to give out the Gmail address. If you ever wanted to get away from Google for some reason, you'd have to send out a new email to all your friends. I was talking about a non-postbox redirector like bigfoot used to be. You could hand out your@bigfoot email and their servers would simply redirect your mail to the provider you specify. It was great for when I went to college since I could just hand out my bigfoot address and go on their website and change my real address to the email provider of the week without having to alert everyone I knew of my new address.
Also, Google doesn't provide a proprietary service by any means. You don't NEED www.google.com to do your job, open your documents, or run your applications. At least, not right now.
At any point in time, someone else could create a better search algorithm and steal users away from Google's search, ads, and possibly email. (Though I kind of wish some free services like Bigfoot.com would have stayed around as a mail redirector so you could change mail providers on a whim. [Disclaimer: I haven't checked in a while.])
Open your sound files in the game folder \sound\player\survivor\voice\Manager
Listen to CoverMe07, 08, 09, 10.. the L in heal sounds like a W.
Dying04: "I need hewp right the helw now."
FriendlyFire06: "Hey man, that's not coo'."
GenericResponses25: "Teww me you aint serious." GenericResponses39: "Oh no. Aint no damn way."
Hurrah05: "We gon' be ok." Hurrah07: "Man, I think we gon' make it."
ImWithYou02: "Right behin' you."
KillConfirmation05: "Keewd it."
NiceJob07: "Oh, that was off the chain!" (whatever that means...)
RadioUsedTruck01: "...now we just got ta ho-don..."
ReviveFriend18/19: "I never saw nobody take that much abuse and live..."
ReviveFriendB14: "You be fine girl."
Swears16: "That's some country ass bullshit."
TakePills02: "Grabbing Piws" (this is the one I was referring to)
Thanks12: "Thanks dawg" Thanks14: "Thanks playa"
WaitHere05: ".. ho dup."
WarnCareful07: "We gotta be careful."
WitchGettingAngry02: "...witch aint gon' sit still..."
WorldFarmHouseNPC01: "Ya-i betcha country ass does like this trailer."
WorldSmallTown0408: "Church still got it's lights on."
I didn't include all the "Jesus", "Bro", and "Man" phrases.
Granted... He's not the only one with some questionable sounds and he DOES have some very clear sound files. It's just that these have played a lot for me, or they seem to stand out more for some reason.
You're projecting racism from the individual to the media. You're trying to protect some novel projection of equal distribution that simply isn't true in order to "protect the children." In doing so, you're only setting them up for a very vivid wakeup call when they find out it's not true and they'll likely retaliate further or harsher if they do end up going there on vacation or military assignment.
But you shouldn't have to change movies like Black Hawk Down just because you think it might be racist. That's like advocating the rewriting of history to make it sound better or to try to wipe out wrongs in the past.
The same really applies to this game. If it's based in a part of Africa that's predominantly African Males, you shouldn't have to place other races/sexes in there to make it even. If you were to do that, and teach children that the world is perfectly diverse in some magical way, it only sets them up for a rude or startling awakening if they travel to said location later in life.
I'm trying to figure that out myself. It's no more racist than Black Hawk Down was. (And I didn't consider the coverage of real life battles to be a racist action.) I assume that games can no longer take place in tropical climates because you'd have to shoot at Black people?
Disclaimer: I'm making assumptions as to the racist nature of this video. I may be incorrect as to what exactly offended someone.
When can we consider games to be completely non-racist? Would you consider a similar game like Left4Dead racist? They included a somewhat generic Caucasian woman, a Caucasian man, a Black man, an old pale skinned man, but no Asians, Eskimos, Latinos, or Native Islanders of any sort that I could identify. Can we consider a game non-racist when every character is purple and pink or when every race in the world is properly represented as a playable character with every race properly distributed equally throughout the game?
Is it also racist (or accurate) that the Black man in Left 4 Dead speaks in broken English and pronounces Pills like "Piws"? This is an honest question here. If someone is portrayed in game speaking and acting like their real life model in real life... is that racist? I really want to know. Maybe we should start monotone only recording of perfect dialog voices for games from now on to strip out anything that can be perceived as racist tone.
As with every US Government run institution, program and the like... it costs more an more each year with less and less of a return. Government money is best spent on projects that get turned over to the private sector to run in competition. Sure, the government might have to spend some money now and then to make improvements, but don't let them run it. It's an inroad to corrupt politics and overspending because there is no competition to them.
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Why would this only affect people named Ramen?
I've been reading up on it and use as a quick solution finder. I have already used it for things like file manipulation/creation using regex and simple I/O. Sure, I could code up something in another language, but it's so simple and quick in Ruby.
That is, if it remains in that sandbox. Each sandbox would require devices that drivers could be written for and disk drives could be linked to folders or disks by the plug-in. Video could be a virtual device that translates calls to a "window" and sound could be mapped to the OS audio device. In other words, a virtual machine.
That's actually an interesting question. :p could you compile Linux to run in this? What would the kernel/drivers detect for hardware?
Yeah, I can fabricate a few IRC logs as well...
Boy, you really got them now! Don't like the Microsoft bashing? You have some money on them or something? I don't understand why someone would dedicate so much time to making all this stuff up or tracking all this down to discredit a few accounts unless they had a financial stake in it. It's simply not worth the time.
But go on, waste your time, hide behind the coward's mark... Eventually (we hope) you'll get sick and tired of it and grow up.
Did you pay your weekly dues to the twitter conspiracy fan club yet?
If you get your dues in, they'll send you the Real Action Sock Puppet with a knife in his back figurine. These are the high quality ones with Kung Fu Grip and Chop action arms that all twitter conspiracy trolls get upon joining.
(So, why don't you post under your real account anymore? Trolling twitter finally got to your karma rating? The mods trying to keep you down? Still feel like your crusade remains uncared for?)
The last line in your post seems so fitting here as well.
Power is money. Money is not power, but it helps you attain power. Fearful citizens pay their taxes because if they don't, the police will come and raid their house... just like they do to drug dealers. (According to the media, which is where the general populace gets their ideas.)
Article 1 - Section 8:
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
Technically, it IS their job to regulate commerce between the states. However, I always read into it that they should promote trade until the commerce becomes harmful to the free market. (Monopolies, mega-corps, etc.)
So you argue to keep them illegal so we can have better music or do you hope to keep it illegal because you like the Good vs. Evil "stories" to be told?
I've debated over this many times and it sort of bugs me. People seem to think that we need a placebo evil to attack. There must be a good side to align with and EVERYONE must comply. People think that to have a God, you must have a Devil. To have a moral compass, you have to agree on a moral enemy. They want the world to be black and white. It's not.
Sure, but it's not so much about money as it is about power. Wars on anything incite fear in the populace. Fear of the Police. Fear of the Military. Fear of the FBI. By declaring a war on a product being used by the citizens, the government makes those people afraid and complacent. The people who are innocent bystanders in the whole mess see publicized raids, busts, and other things and they see the full extents that the law will take to hold their word. The innocent see the power and they feel as though they can do nothing about it. They turn into model citizens who fear government and those in charge instead of vice versa (what our country was founded on.)
Because we live in a world where multiple OSes exist? Because there are more than just one kind of processor? Because there are 32-bit, 64-bit, 128 ...? Because programmers make assumptions ...
To be fair, I like to use blocks for everything because (to me) it's easier and clearer to read. I also keep the opening block on the same line as the if/case/for and close it indented to the first character of the block statement. (Java style)
Now, you may use indentation to clarify your code, but I use block endings to stop my train of thought in the same manner. It doesn't mean I know less about programming or the language than you do. That's pretty arrogant. By blocking everything it makes the intent VERY clear. It takes two more strokes of the finger and it doesn't take up that much more space. Also, as the GP mentioned in reply, it doesn't hurt to keep the program functioning correctly IF someone with less talent happens to put another line of code in there.
I understand the idea of placing as much code on the screen at one time. That's why I religiously place single function blocks on the same line as the if as the GP stated. [ if(something) { doSomething(); } ] I do the same for switch statements as well. If I can get a simple case to align with the ones above it for readability, I will do so. I also make the intention known that I want to do nothing if no cases are true. /* do nothing */ }
switch (something) {
case (1): { run(blah); break; }
case (2): { runother(blah); break; }
default: {
}
Contrary to your statement, it's not because I don't understand the code. It's because it clarifies to anyone else reading it that I didn't forget or overlook something. (It's like my own N/A, or "This page intentionally left blank")
Therein is YOUR problem, not mine. Tabs are evil only if the programming language makes them evil. Tabs are a highly efficient way to program and keep indentation. It allows developers to view the code a bit more in their preferred style so it's easier for them to read (2 spaces, 3 spaces, 4 spaces or I've even seen 8 spaces.) Not using tabs makes it more difficult to edit the code or share code. If you create a template of code that's indented using spaces, you pass me a piece of code that doesn't look right with my code and is harder to read in the overall scope of things. Also, if you use formatting to show your intentions in the program you probably need to rework your program to better make sense or make use of the language constructs.
When I get a source file indented with spaces, I then waste time converting these spaces (and the alignment specific readability) you made. I say alignment specific readability because you thought it would be more readable to put all your arguments on a line of their own and hit just enough spaces to line them all up just right so it's readable for YOU on YOUR screen. Now I get your code and it only uses up 25% of my screen width and I now have to scroll up and down more because of your style.
By using spaces (and according to your post "tone"), you are essentially telling me that you are an arrogant programmer only thinking of your own stylistic ways and methods and that you will never work well with other people unless they do it your way. Even then, you will likely criticize that person for spacing something wrong. You strike me as a micro management type person.
Ideally, my perfect language/editor would format the file as it was loaded. Source code would not rely on indentation to function properly and line feeds would be meaningless. Each source file would be saved compressed without formatting. Each developer could open that file and it would format to their style.
It's not really a "programming language" as much as it is a scripting language right now, but I've been digging into Ruby (not rails) and I like what I see so far.
Noticed and thanks!
Can you be sure of that? Maybe he has a valid account that never replies to the same topics and posts insightful comments then uses that account to mod himself up...
You'd never know it. For all you know, twitter and those other accounts are burning up your mod points on his posts so you can't use them on truly deserving posts.
You'd have to spend an extreme amount of time on the meta-moderate page hoping to get a twitter story to "unmod" it. That is, if you even see a twitter post that gets modded up. You'd have to open each one and look for the author.
There are so many different scenarios that could be playing out and you'd have no clue without being able to see the IP trail.
Obviously Slashdot doesn't care about it as much as you do because they haven't started filtering the number of accounts permitted by IP. They wouldn't do that because of firewall banning concerns. Even if they did, there are anonymous relays all over the web that they could use if they REALLY wanted to.
So really, is it worth burning mod points/posts/time on something you aren't sure about and has such a little impact to your life?
That's alright, I'm still trying to figure out which way is 'North' in space... Does North always point to the magnetic pole of Earth even on Mars? Has someone studied the Milky Way and determined that there's a magnetic ring perpendicular to the dish?
Yes, that's currently how I do it... but you still have to give out the Gmail address. If you ever wanted to get away from Google for some reason, you'd have to send out a new email to all your friends. I was talking about a non-postbox redirector like bigfoot used to be. You could hand out your@bigfoot email and their servers would simply redirect your mail to the provider you specify. It was great for when I went to college since I could just hand out my bigfoot address and go on their website and change my real address to the email provider of the week without having to alert everyone I knew of my new address.
Also, Google doesn't provide a proprietary service by any means. You don't NEED www.google.com to do your job, open your documents, or run your applications. At least, not right now.
At any point in time, someone else could create a better search algorithm and steal users away from Google's search, ads, and possibly email. (Though I kind of wish some free services like Bigfoot.com would have stayed around as a mail redirector so you could change mail providers on a whim. [Disclaimer: I haven't checked in a while.])
Open your sound files in the game folder \sound\player\survivor\voice\Manager
Listen to CoverMe07, 08, 09, 10 .. the L in heal sounds like a W.
Dying04: "I need hewp right the helw now."
FriendlyFire06: "Hey man, that's not coo'."
GenericResponses25: "Teww me you aint serious."
GenericResponses39: "Oh no. Aint no damn way."
Hurrah05: "We gon' be ok."
Hurrah07: "Man, I think we gon' make it."
ImWithYou02: "Right behin' you."
KillConfirmation05: "Keewd it."
NiceJob07: "Oh, that was off the chain!" (whatever that means...)
RadioUsedTruck01: "...now we just got ta ho-don..."
ReviveFriend18/19: "I never saw nobody take that much abuse and live..."
ReviveFriendB14: "You be fine girl."
Swears16: "That's some country ass bullshit."
TakePills02: "Grabbing Piws" (this is the one I was referring to)
Thanks12: "Thanks dawg"
Thanks14: "Thanks playa"
WaitHere05: ".. ho dup."
WarnCareful07: "We gotta be careful."
WitchGettingAngry02: "...witch aint gon' sit still..."
WorldFarmHouseNPC01: "Ya-i betcha country ass does like this trailer."
WorldSmallTown0408: "Church still got it's lights on."
I didn't include all the "Jesus", "Bro", and "Man" phrases.
Granted... He's not the only one with some questionable sounds and he DOES have some very clear sound files. It's just that these have played a lot for me, or they seem to stand out more for some reason.
Sorry for the extra post. I meant to add:
You're projecting racism from the individual to the media. You're trying to protect some novel projection of equal distribution that simply isn't true in order to "protect the children." In doing so, you're only setting them up for a very vivid wakeup call when they find out it's not true and they'll likely retaliate further or harsher if they do end up going there on vacation or military assignment.
But you shouldn't have to change movies like Black Hawk Down just because you think it might be racist. That's like advocating the rewriting of history to make it sound better or to try to wipe out wrongs in the past.
The same really applies to this game. If it's based in a part of Africa that's predominantly African Males, you shouldn't have to place other races/sexes in there to make it even. If you were to do that, and teach children that the world is perfectly diverse in some magical way, it only sets them up for a rude or startling awakening if they travel to said location later in life.
I'm trying to figure that out myself. It's no more racist than Black Hawk Down was. (And I didn't consider the coverage of real life battles to be a racist action.) I assume that games can no longer take place in tropical climates because you'd have to shoot at Black people?
Disclaimer: I'm making assumptions as to the racist nature of this video. I may be incorrect as to what exactly offended someone.
When can we consider games to be completely non-racist? Would you consider a similar game like Left4Dead racist? They included a somewhat generic Caucasian woman, a Caucasian man, a Black man, an old pale skinned man, but no Asians, Eskimos, Latinos, or Native Islanders of any sort that I could identify. Can we consider a game non-racist when every character is purple and pink or when every race in the world is properly represented as a playable character with every race properly distributed equally throughout the game?
Is it also racist (or accurate) that the Black man in Left 4 Dead speaks in broken English and pronounces Pills like "Piws"? This is an honest question here. If someone is portrayed in game speaking and acting like their real life model in real life... is that racist? I really want to know. Maybe we should start monotone only recording of perfect dialog voices for games from now on to strip out anything that can be perceived as racist tone.
Apparently you've never filled a 100mL container with a penis... ;)
(I couldn't resist, sorry)
As with every US Government run institution, program and the like... it costs more an more each year with less and less of a return. Government money is best spent on projects that get turned over to the private sector to run in competition. Sure, the government might have to spend some money now and then to make improvements, but don't let them run it. It's an inroad to corrupt politics and overspending because there is no competition to them.