And here I thought we had seen every way in which they could make pirates have a better experience than customers.
But no, they went and invented a new way.
See, pirates use flash carts and have full access to wipe save data at any time... Or back it up, or alter it... But a normal customer usually has to rely on the game to provide any of those functions.
They may have destroyed the aftermarket for this game, but I think they may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
At my previous job, we had a CSR that we found had an aptitude for testing. So we made him a tester. He soon started to feel like you do: that he wanted to be coding.
He started learning to code on his own time, in the language we were using at work. He found someone in an IRC chatroom that needed some coding done in that language, and he helped them. A couple times. And a few other people.
And most importantly, he told the other programmers he was doing this. We cheered him on, and we told the bosses. He was eventually tried in-house as a programmer, and turned out to have a good aptitude for it.
In just a few years, he was just one of the team and not 'the guy that came from CS, can you believe it?'.
In short, start learning and using the language on your own time, and tell people at work about it.
Like 2 weeks was enough to cause the massive problems Sony had. Hah.
No, more like, Sony found out they were incompetent and was firing them for that. Too little too late, obviously.
And what should have Sony done, when they realized they weren't secure? Shut down their entire business for months until they could hopefully secure things?
I'm not pulling 'months' from nowhere, either. Sony's Japanese PSN is still down while they secure it because the government won't let them bring it back up.
OMG Thank you. I'm definitely trying that next time. Refreshed a story for like 10 minutes earlier and never got to it. This one took a few minutes and finally worked.
How poorly executed and overly expensive does something have to be for the government to think that about it?:D
I suspect it's no worse than anything else right now and they're just trying to make it look like they didn't waste time and money on a useless investigation.
I mean, 'disregarded solutions'... You mean, they didn't think they'd be the right direction to go? Isn't it part of their job to determine that kind of thing?
I think that makes this a perfect analogy then, because holding the individual examiners responsible would have exactly the same effect. Their insurance would cover them and everything would continue as normal.
It has been my experience that walking a student through making something simple will widen their eyes considerably. This usually means something like an easy game where they can visually see the results of their work. Games that can be modified easily are even better, because they -will- play with the code and try to improve it for their own tastes.
On the other hand, teaching them to write a linked list is mind-numbingly boring for someone who can't imagine why they'd want such a thing.
Getting people interested in programmer is mostly about giving them the right exposure at the start.
This course sounds like it at least is headed the right direction.
You're the same kind of person that railed against the circular saw in the first place, I bet. Normal saws were plenty good enough and inventing new things was pointless, eh?
Tools change all the time for ALL professions and crafts. It just so happens that programming is new and as such hasn't been solidified yet.
Feel free not to use anything we make. It won't hurt our feelings.
Doctors get paid a lot more money. Doctors are virtually forced to buy insurance to cover those liabilities, too.
If we made the patent examiners individually liable, they would have to also buy insurance, which would mean we'd have to pay them more to cover it. In the end, it doesn't help -us-. It just costs us money.
Correct, but in this case, does 'the organization' operate at a profit? I think they operate at a loss, which means the taxpayer will be covering the costs.
I was shocked to realize while I was watching that, that I probably could do it. If I had the skills and drive he did at that point.
It was mainly shocking because it's such a DUMB thing to do.
Oh well, fore-warned is fore-armed, as they say. Now I know I'm dumb enough to do that, so I can prepare ahead to prevent it.
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The trading site only allows so many bitcoins to be removed from an account per day. (And money, too.) As such, most of the coins and money are still there, and they just shuffle it back to where it came from. The thief got away with $1000 apparently. (The max $ withdrawal per day.)
I saw something similar on the Android market... I was looking for a certain app, and I found it... But I also found like 20 other apps that were nearly identical. (Source is GPL.) The other apps had names like 'Bear App' and 'Tiger App' and had a picture of the animal, but the actual app and description were identical, except the name. And they did the same thing as the one I was looking for. I searched for another similar app and found the same thing there, too!
So they flood the market with apps in an attempt to be the one that gets bought. When there's 20 choices and you published 19 of them, it sounds like a good bet. (In reality, I avoided it because it looked scammy.)
Actually, that's pretty accurate. Since it isn't a state-sanctioned currency, it doesn't really have any precedence in law, just like other virtual currencies. There really are thieves and conmen (aka hackers and phishers) trying to get your bitcoins.
Actually, there are certain situations where it's legal to run a red light because of safety concerns. The summary even mentions one: When slamming on your brakes (to stop in time for the light) would cause an accident.
But of course, the camera doesn't capture the scenario, just the fact that you ran a red light.
Some places have even been accused of shortening the yellow light to catch more people running reds. I don't know if these allegations were proven, but I do know that I've seen some ridiculously short yellows.
"the effect of cameras in courtrooms"... That's something that seems pretty simple, until you start think about it.
Look at the OJ trial. If that hadn't been covered by the media, would it have been such a circus? Would the same result have happened? We don't know, but it's quite possible things would be quite different. For one thing, those lawyers suddenly knew their careers could be made or broken on that case, and that's going to change their strategy. The whole glove-trying thing was supposed to be a huge visual shocker (and it was!) and turned out horribly wrong for the prosecutor. If there had been no cameras, would he have still done it?
The jurors also knew their every in-court action would be up for public scrutiny, not the least of which was the final verdict. It's nearly impossible to determine how that affected each of them.
If you haven't guessed already, I don't think trials should be publicized until they are over. The media shouldn't get to cover the trial while in progress. It's not entertainment, it's justice. And it's being warped.
I wouldn't even go that far. I'm sure MS thought they could take over the console market completely. So far, they haven't managed that, though they have got an impressive standing.
I'm sad about how true this is. They couldn't possibly actually stress test them, because if they fail, they have the accident they are trying to prevent.
I suppose they could totally decommission the plant, run crazy stress tests, fix the problems, and then bring the plant back up... But I can't see something that expensive (and painful for those relying on the power) happening once, let alone 143 times.
I gave my niece Myst as her first true "adventure" game and she loves it.
I realized she'd like it when one of her Hidden Object games was half adventure game and she really liked that aspect, so it wasn't just out of the blue.
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And here I thought we had seen every way in which they could make pirates have a better experience than customers.
But no, they went and invented a new way.
See, pirates use flash carts and have full access to wipe save data at any time... Or back it up, or alter it... But a normal customer usually has to rely on the game to provide any of those functions.
They may have destroyed the aftermarket for this game, but I think they may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
At my previous job, we had a CSR that we found had an aptitude for testing. So we made him a tester. He soon started to feel like you do: that he wanted to be coding.
He started learning to code on his own time, in the language we were using at work. He found someone in an IRC chatroom that needed some coding done in that language, and he helped them. A couple times. And a few other people.
And most importantly, he told the other programmers he was doing this. We cheered him on, and we told the bosses. He was eventually tried in-house as a programmer, and turned out to have a good aptitude for it.
In just a few years, he was just one of the team and not 'the guy that came from CS, can you believe it?'.
In short, start learning and using the language on your own time, and tell people at work about it.
Like 2 weeks was enough to cause the massive problems Sony had. Hah.
No, more like, Sony found out they were incompetent and was firing them for that. Too little too late, obviously.
And what should have Sony done, when they realized they weren't secure? Shut down their entire business for months until they could hopefully secure things?
I'm not pulling 'months' from nowhere, either. Sony's Japanese PSN is still down while they secure it because the government won't let them bring it back up.
OMG Thank you. I'm definitely trying that next time. Refreshed a story for like 10 minutes earlier and never got to it. This one took a few minutes and finally worked.
How poorly executed and overly expensive does something have to be for the government to think that about it? :D
I suspect it's no worse than anything else right now and they're just trying to make it look like they didn't waste time and money on a useless investigation.
I mean, 'disregarded solutions' ... You mean, they didn't think they'd be the right direction to go? Isn't it part of their job to determine that kind of thing?
So you admit the lawbreakers will be driving dangerously. Hello!
I think that makes this a perfect analogy then, because holding the individual examiners responsible would have exactly the same effect. Their insurance would cover them and everything would continue as normal.
It has been my experience that walking a student through making something simple will widen their eyes considerably. This usually means something like an easy game where they can visually see the results of their work. Games that can be modified easily are even better, because they -will- play with the code and try to improve it for their own tastes.
On the other hand, teaching them to write a linked list is mind-numbingly boring for someone who can't imagine why they'd want such a thing.
Getting people interested in programmer is mostly about giving them the right exposure at the start.
This course sounds like it at least is headed the right direction.
You're the same kind of person that railed against the circular saw in the first place, I bet. Normal saws were plenty good enough and inventing new things was pointless, eh?
Tools change all the time for ALL professions and crafts. It just so happens that programming is new and as such hasn't been solidified yet.
Feel free not to use anything we make. It won't hurt our feelings.
Doctors get paid a lot more money. Doctors are virtually forced to buy insurance to cover those liabilities, too.
If we made the patent examiners individually liable, they would have to also buy insurance, which would mean we'd have to pay them more to cover it. In the end, it doesn't help -us-. It just costs us money.
Correct, but in this case, does 'the organization' operate at a profit? I think they operate at a loss, which means the taxpayer will be covering the costs.
That found that MP3.com wasn't allowed to copy CDs to their server, not that users weren't allowed to download MP3s they already owned.
Oh, "Can make". I thought he was averaging that at first.
No, sometimes he almost makes $1000 (in the video, that's "over $800")... Other times, maybe he makes nothing? We don't know.
I was shocked to realize while I was watching that, that I probably could do it. If I had the skills and drive he did at that point.
It was mainly shocking because it's such a DUMB thing to do.
Oh well, fore-warned is fore-armed, as they say. Now I know I'm dumb enough to do that, so I can prepare ahead to prevent it.
The trading site only allows so many bitcoins to be removed from an account per day. (And money, too.) As such, most of the coins and money are still there, and they just shuffle it back to where it came from. The thief got away with $1000 apparently. (The max $ withdrawal per day.)
I saw something similar on the Android market... I was looking for a certain app, and I found it... But I also found like 20 other apps that were nearly identical. (Source is GPL.) The other apps had names like 'Bear App' and 'Tiger App' and had a picture of the animal, but the actual app and description were identical, except the name. And they did the same thing as the one I was looking for. I searched for another similar app and found the same thing there, too!
So they flood the market with apps in an attempt to be the one that gets bought. When there's 20 choices and you published 19 of them, it sounds like a good bet. (In reality, I avoided it because it looked scammy.)
Technically, you're both right. They are supposed to be used for the reasons you state, but many end up being used as he states.
Actually, that's pretty accurate. Since it isn't a state-sanctioned currency, it doesn't really have any precedence in law, just like other virtual currencies. There really are thieves and conmen (aka hackers and phishers) trying to get your bitcoins.
It is very much Wild West/Outer Rim/etc.
It spells LOVE on the keypad.
If you could tap into the 3d with this, it would be -awesome-.
As just a small screen with javascript and no sound, it's merely meh. On the level of 'weekend project'.
Actually, there are certain situations where it's legal to run a red light because of safety concerns. The summary even mentions one: When slamming on your brakes (to stop in time for the light) would cause an accident.
But of course, the camera doesn't capture the scenario, just the fact that you ran a red light.
Some places have even been accused of shortening the yellow light to catch more people running reds. I don't know if these allegations were proven, but I do know that I've seen some ridiculously short yellows.
"the effect of cameras in courtrooms" ... That's something that seems pretty simple, until you start think about it.
Look at the OJ trial. If that hadn't been covered by the media, would it have been such a circus? Would the same result have happened? We don't know, but it's quite possible things would be quite different. For one thing, those lawyers suddenly knew their careers could be made or broken on that case, and that's going to change their strategy. The whole glove-trying thing was supposed to be a huge visual shocker (and it was!) and turned out horribly wrong for the prosecutor. If there had been no cameras, would he have still done it?
The jurors also knew their every in-court action would be up for public scrutiny, not the least of which was the final verdict. It's nearly impossible to determine how that affected each of them.
If you haven't guessed already, I don't think trials should be publicized until they are over. The media shouldn't get to cover the trial while in progress. It's not entertainment, it's justice. And it's being warped.
I wouldn't even go that far. I'm sure MS thought they could take over the console market completely. So far, they haven't managed that, though they have got an impressive standing.
I'm sad about how true this is. They couldn't possibly actually stress test them, because if they fail, they have the accident they are trying to prevent.
I suppose they could totally decommission the plant, run crazy stress tests, fix the problems, and then bring the plant back up... But I can't see something that expensive (and painful for those relying on the power) happening once, let alone 143 times.
I gave my niece Myst as her first true "adventure" game and she loves it.
I realized she'd like it when one of her Hidden Object games was half adventure game and she really liked that aspect, so it wasn't just out of the blue.