Actually, you can just play on nearby servers. Duh. Multiplayer doesn't have to mean "play with anyone in the world with low latency".
And actually light could travel the distance from Chicago to LA in about 10ms. There are over 500 CS:S servers with 50ms pings from my university connection.
The graphics are good enough already. Latency is too high for proper internet play - at least, I don't like doing really well at BF2 for ages then getting killed at the last minute because 0.1 secs of lag gets my squashed by my own side's tank...
Get a real internet connection.
- Mr. 4ms ping, never leaving campustown
Actually, it can be said that the MIT license is in fact a very conservative license. It truly harkens back to the days of the Founding Fathers, when freedom was the utmost concern.
Back then, they were considered liberals. Even radicals. Very Conservative = monarchy.
I'm making my point clear: even it seems evil to you, and to many others, it's just a point of view, it doesn't matter how logically clear it does seem to you.
I disagree. The statement "I dislike X" is only a point of view because it is only a proposition about the person saying it. Whereas the statment "X is wrong" is a proposition about the universe and must be either true or false.
Truth exists independently of any human perception of it. Some things are wrong regardless of the culture in which they are practiced. If that were not the case, disliking murder would be as arbitrary as disliking spinach.
The #1 thing I would make sure I taught engineers is to separate writing from editing. The most common "I hate to write" problem I find in fellow engineers is that no one ever taught them to do the work in (at least) two phases.
First, do the writing: get all your ideas down as fast as you can without worrying about structure, or complete sentences or anything except putting everything down that you can think of.
Second, do the editing. Now look at your big pile of ideas and think about what the right order for things is, how to start and finish it, what to throw out, what things go best together, and eventually even sentence-level details like grammar.
8 times out of 10 when I have an engineer staring at two sentences on an otherwise blank screen, it's because they think it has to spool out onto the page in linear, perfected form right from the start.
I disagree on the grounds that the only ideas with logical merit are those which can be expressed clearly and succintly on paper. If they can't write it in a fairly reasonable way at first, they're probably not done thinking through the ideas of the paper.
I agree. The the simplistic preference for active over passive voice is without merit. There are many situations where a passive formulation is better than an active one and vice-versa.
I consider myself a good writer and I would take that active/passive simplistic preference with a huge grain of salt. There are many instances in which the object which is acted upon is more important than the actor in a particular context and thus for clarity's sake deserves to be mentioned first. For example:
The White House was almost burned down by British commandos in the war of 1812.
If I were to start out with "In the war of 1812, British commandos almost burned down..." then you would have no idea of the significance of the sentence until the very end.
I wholeheartedly second this. The Elements of Style is superb. In writing, nothing is more important than getting your point across in as precise and concise a way as possible.
most grammar instruction (AKA prescribed grammar) actually does more harm than good, because people replace the unspoken grammar instruction that they learned from their family and friends with incorrect and confused uses of prescribed grammar.
Not if they're smart.
I'm an anomaly, but I learned a great deal about how to write well through online discussion boards.
Through daily participation the boards at http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ I probably wrote in excess of 200 pages and read in excess of 2000 pages in one summer.
Another thing that I considered very useful in my english classes was conferencing every paper. First the teachers would mark everything they found wrong in a paper, and then have a 15 minute conference with me for us to work out the differences and for me to understand my mistakes (or to defend my original decision sucessfully).
Furthermore, in 5th grade I had a spelling textbook. My homework involved copying about 80 words a week with the correct spelling. Over the entire year, that is over 3000 words spelled correctly, with some repetition. Some people will remember this sort of training, and some will forget it promptly. I tend to be of the remembering type. My elementary school also did a thing called "Daily Oral Language (DOL)" to flesh out grammar rules. I didn't forget too much of it.
Anything that gets installed as a non-essential but default bundle with anything else is questionable. I didn't even know that viewpoint was installed when I installed AIM. Anything that makes itself hard to install or attempts to hide its phoning home is spyware. Viewpoint is guilty as charged. If a spyware scanner doesn't nab it, maybe a "useless crap" scanner should.
Whenever two ideas contradict each other, it is not possible that both are valid. Each person has his own system of morality, but not all of those systems can be valid. I was simply stating the unifying the principle which I believe to be the best guide to a moral system (in addition to the golden rule). If you can offer a better principle, please do so.
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Actually, you can just play on nearby servers. Duh. Multiplayer doesn't have to mean "play with anyone in the world with low latency". And actually light could travel the distance from Chicago to LA in about 10ms. There are over 500 CS:S servers with 50ms pings from my university connection.
I'm at uiuc and most of the servers that I get sub-6ms pings on are at other universities or in Chicago.
actually, i never bothered counting before. I have = 6ms pings to FORTY ONE servers.
I'm at UIUC and the servers are all over. Indiana University, for example. I get single-digit pings on at least 20 CS:S servers.
The graphics are good enough already. Latency is too high for proper internet play - at least, I don't like doing really well at BF2 for ages then getting killed at the last minute because 0.1 secs of lag gets my squashed by my own side's tank...
Get a real internet connection.
- Mr. 4ms ping, never leaving campustown
Actually, it can be said that the MIT license is in fact a very conservative license. It truly harkens back to the days of the Founding Fathers, when freedom was the utmost concern. Back then, they were considered liberals. Even radicals. Very Conservative = monarchy.
I'm making my point clear: even it seems evil to you, and to many others, it's just a point of view, it doesn't matter how logically clear it does seem to you.
I disagree. The statement "I dislike X" is only a point of view because it is only a proposition about the person saying it. Whereas the statment "X is wrong" is a proposition about the universe and must be either true or false. Truth exists independently of any human perception of it. Some things are wrong regardless of the culture in which they are practiced. If that were not the case, disliking murder would be as arbitrary as disliking spinach.
This sort of censorship is pure unequivocal evil. The Chinese government has no right to do that under any circumstances.
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I have never heard anyone use "she's" to mean anything other than "she is".
I agree. The the simplistic preference for active over passive voice is without merit. There are many situations where a passive formulation is better than an active one and vice-versa.
I consider myself a good writer and I would take that active/passive simplistic preference with a huge grain of salt. There are many instances in which the object which is acted upon is more important than the actor in a particular context and thus for clarity's sake deserves to be mentioned first. For example:
The White House was almost burned down by British commandos in the war of 1812.
If I were to start out with "In the war of 1812, British commandos almost burned down..." then you would have no idea of the significance of the sentence until the very end.
I wholeheartedly second this. The Elements of Style is superb. In writing, nothing is more important than getting your point across in as precise and concise a way as possible.
most grammar instruction (AKA prescribed grammar) actually does more harm than good, because people replace the unspoken grammar instruction that they learned from their family and friends with incorrect and confused uses of prescribed grammar.
Not if they're smart.
I'm an anomaly, but I learned a great deal about how to write well through online discussion boards.
Through daily participation the boards at http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ I probably wrote in excess of 200 pages and read in excess of 2000 pages in one summer.
Another thing that I considered very useful in my english classes was conferencing every paper. First the teachers would mark everything they found wrong in a paper, and then have a 15 minute conference with me for us to work out the differences and for me to understand my mistakes (or to defend my original decision sucessfully).
Furthermore, in 5th grade I had a spelling textbook. My homework involved copying about 80 words a week with the correct spelling. Over the entire year, that is over 3000 words spelled correctly, with some repetition. Some people will remember this sort of training, and some will forget it promptly. I tend to be of the remembering type. My elementary school also did a thing called "Daily Oral Language (DOL)" to flesh out grammar rules. I didn't forget too much of it.
People routinely drive 160mph on the autobon in Germany. Many cars can do it.
Though dispicable, Wal-mart's actions are not unsual. Manipulating media is par for the course for corporate PR.
Anything that gets installed as a non-essential but default bundle with anything else is questionable. I didn't even know that viewpoint was installed when I installed AIM. Anything that makes itself hard to install or attempts to hide its phoning home is spyware. Viewpoint is guilty as charged. If a spyware scanner doesn't nab it, maybe a "useless crap" scanner should.
Someone ought to firebomb the RIAA ;)
the problem with programming three or fewer legs is the unstable equilibrium during each step. 4 or more legs is trivial.
Whenever two ideas contradict each other, it is not possible that both are valid. Each person has his own system of morality, but not all of those systems can be valid. I was simply stating the unifying the principle which I believe to be the best guide to a moral system (in addition to the golden rule). If you can offer a better principle, please do so.
nah, three is the best number of legs. Then you can be a Tripod