In any case Blizzard doesn't intend to [totally irrelevant shit]
Blizzard can ask for what they like, but if they accept code that doesn't belong to the contractor then they're misbehaving. Why are you struggling to comprehend that the reason they want the code does not alter that simple fact?
You've agreed with him. The game includes the fun competitive part and the bullshit boring repetitive waste of life farming to acquire the resources needed for the competitive part.
It's all the same game. You're arguing that bots enable it to be fun, he's pointing out that if it was fun to start with they wouldn't be required. So you lose the argument, as you've acknowledged that the game isn't fun, because the bots are needed.
Better still due to oversampling you have the ability to apply noise reduction techniques without damaging detail
If you're using a tracking camera that's taking 18 minute exposures then yes, you can oversample, and yes, you want pixel resolution.
Me, I take photographs in 0.0005 seconds. I can oversample the entire fucking sensor, it still won't be able to invent detail that never came through the fucking lens.
Please go and read a statistics and image processing textbook before replying again
Go look at fast exposure low light photography and tell me where I can buy a sensibly priced camera that can capture high quality images of moving objects in dark rooms. Because that's what I need, and being able to eliminate the noise from a lot of sensor pixels that didn't get the photons hitting them doesn't help me.
i dont see anything wrong with this as long as they arent using the source code to do its intended purpose.
So you think that fences should never be prosecuted for handling stolen goods?
The contractor had no rights to the code, and so could not legally hand it to Blizzard. Blizzard will have known this. As a result they may be guilty of coercing someone into breaking the law.
What they use the code for is utterly fucking irrelevant.
Sensor with a a given surface area will capture the same light overall.
No fucking shit. Which is why sharing that light over more light sensitive areas results in less light per light sensitive area, which means more light is required to properly confirm the relative light levels between the multiple light sensitive areas.
Distribution across pixels combined with random quantised noise is easily processed out.
No, it's not, or we wouldn't have an issue with noise on digital sensors.
Every successive camera released by all majors captures "better fucking photographs" despite the fact you feel cheated on quality.
Not true at all, but yes, sensor quality continually increases. However light sensitivity and pixel count are a definite, real and measurable trade off and your pixel fetish is damaging my ability to take low light photographs.
RAWs from my camera: 20MB each. JPGs from my camera: 5MB each.
USB2 transfer rate: 480Mbps
Photographs from a single event: 1500
So your 10 seconds now becomes a six minute difference while we wait for the files to transfer so that you can pick out the one you need to share.
Except photographers will be shooting RAW+JPG so it's actually over 8 minutes difference. Shit, I'm also assuming USB2 is the rate limiter not the storage on either end.
You're also requiring that something can interpret the RAW image, so now the photographer needs specialist software rather than .
Personally I'm firmly in the 'Reuters are talking total bollocks' camp but the time argument is not bogus.
Give me a sensor that doesn't fucking have noise. I'll happily take half the resolution, most of my images are displayed at well under 4K screen sizes but all of them need to capture light hitting the sensor.
Simple physics: Two sensors, same size, same era, same technology, different number of pixels. One will capture more light per pixel. As long as I'm above around 12 megapixels I'll take the one that captures more light. It's just more useful. It's just more usable. It just captures better fucking photographs.
I'm a shit photographer, I need all the help I can get. Noisy high megapixel images are still shite.
That makes a grand accumulated total difference of jack multiplied by shit.
JPG from camera or JPG from RAW is still JPG and has the same Reuters processing time.
Meanwhile taking the photographs is quicker if I take RAW not RAW+JPG and I _like_ my photographs, I'm not crippling them by shooting only JPG. So I'm saving my own time at the point it matters most - when I'm shooting - by shooting the higher quality format and outputting to JPG later when my time is less precious.
It still makes fuck all difference to the Reuters operational efficiency.
Example: I realized that over the past years, every really valuable contribution that I've made has come from the projects I get into from curiosity or personal passion or hobby development.
One reason I really like my current job is that I'm picking and choosing where I spend my time. This means I'm getting a metric fuckload of stuff done, and there's a fortunate coincidence that the stuff I'm interested in has value to the company.
Of course, my manager occasionally wants shit done, so I choose to help him. He knows it's a favour, and I get extra credit for that so it works out well for me too.
Work/life balance isn't ideal. I do too many hours - usually 45-60 a week. I also get home before 4pm most days. I can sustain this.
That doesn't resolve the mid-coitus change of mind that requires immediate disentanglement or it's rape. Or sexual assault, in the UK, if it's the man that changed his mind.
Trial? Under Title IX? There's an entire fucking injustice system out there doing its best to assure that there is no trial, as that would actually look at evidence, establish facts and potentially find an innocent man 'Not Guilty'.
Can't be having that. Not in American colleges. Oh, no.
Slashdot Mirror
In any case Blizzard doesn't intend to [totally irrelevant shit]
Blizzard can ask for what they like, but if they accept code that doesn't belong to the contractor then they're misbehaving. Why are you struggling to comprehend that the reason they want the code does not alter that simple fact?
You've agreed with him. The game includes the fun competitive part and the bullshit boring repetitive waste of life farming to acquire the resources needed for the competitive part.
It's all the same game. You're arguing that bots enable it to be fun, he's pointing out that if it was fun to start with they wouldn't be required. So you lose the argument, as you've acknowledged that the game isn't fun, because the bots are needed.
Better still due to oversampling you have the ability to apply noise reduction techniques without damaging detail
If you're using a tracking camera that's taking 18 minute exposures then yes, you can oversample, and yes, you want pixel resolution.
Me, I take photographs in 0.0005 seconds. I can oversample the entire fucking sensor, it still won't be able to invent detail that never came through the fucking lens.
Please go and read a statistics and image processing textbook before replying again
Go look at fast exposure low light photography and tell me where I can buy a sensibly priced camera that can capture high quality images of moving objects in dark rooms. Because that's what I need, and being able to eliminate the noise from a lot of sensor pixels that didn't get the photons hitting them doesn't help me.
i dont see anything wrong with this as long as they arent using the source code to do its intended purpose.
So you think that fences should never be prosecuted for handling stolen goods?
The contractor had no rights to the code, and so could not legally hand it to Blizzard. Blizzard will have known this. As a result they may be guilty of coercing someone into breaking the law.
What they use the code for is utterly fucking irrelevant.
Sorry, are you replying to the AC or to Woolsey?
Clearly your version of Google works differently to mine, as I'm spotting nothing that contradicts what I've stated.
Of course, if you'd actually articulate why you think I'm wrong instead of merely asserting it then you wouldn't come across as a complete twat.
Maybe you don't work in a country that speaks English.
https://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/j...
https://sjobs.brassring.com/TG...
http://acre.com/jobs/internati...
https://jobs.royalmailgroup.co...
https://www.london.edu/about/j...
https://www.london.edu/about/j...
Sensor with a a given surface area will capture the same light overall.
No fucking shit. Which is why sharing that light over more light sensitive areas results in less light per light sensitive area, which means more light is required to properly confirm the relative light levels between the multiple light sensitive areas.
Distribution across pixels combined with random quantised noise is easily processed out.
No, it's not, or we wouldn't have an issue with noise on digital sensors.
Every successive camera released by all majors captures "better fucking photographs" despite the fact you feel cheated on quality.
Not true at all, but yes, sensor quality continually increases. However light sensitivity and pixel count are a definite, real and measurable trade off and your pixel fetish is damaging my ability to take low light photographs.
Too right. Fucking parasites, endangering the health of the hosts.
RAWs from my camera: 20MB each.
JPGs from my camera: 5MB each.
USB2 transfer rate: 480Mbps
Photographs from a single event: 1500
So your 10 seconds now becomes a six minute difference while we wait for the files to transfer so that you can pick out the one you need to share.
Except photographers will be shooting RAW+JPG so it's actually over 8 minutes difference. Shit, I'm also assuming USB2 is the rate limiter not the storage on either end.
You're also requiring that something can interpret the RAW image, so now the photographer needs specialist software rather than .
Personally I'm firmly in the 'Reuters are talking total bollocks' camp but the time argument is not bogus.
Give me a sensor that doesn't fucking have noise. I'll happily take half the resolution, most of my images are displayed at well under 4K screen sizes but all of them need to capture light hitting the sensor.
Simple physics: Two sensors, same size, same era, same technology, different number of pixels. One will capture more light per pixel. As long as I'm above around 12 megapixels I'll take the one that captures more light. It's just more useful. It's just more usable. It just captures better fucking photographs.
I'm a shit photographer, I need all the help I can get. Noisy high megapixel images are still shite.
That makes a grand accumulated total difference of jack multiplied by shit.
JPG from camera or JPG from RAW is still JPG and has the same Reuters processing time.
Meanwhile taking the photographs is quicker if I take RAW not RAW+JPG and I _like_ my photographs, I'm not crippling them by shooting only JPG. So I'm saving my own time at the point it matters most - when I'm shooting - by shooting the higher quality format and outputting to JPG later when my time is less precious.
It still makes fuck all difference to the Reuters operational efficiency.
In the real world photographers use RAW. Or do you only use cameras in video games?
Example: I realized that over the past years, every really valuable contribution that I've made has come from the projects I get into from curiosity or personal passion or hobby development.
One reason I really like my current job is that I'm picking and choosing where I spend my time. This means I'm getting a metric fuckload of stuff done, and there's a fortunate coincidence that the stuff I'm interested in has value to the company.
Of course, my manager occasionally wants shit done, so I choose to help him. He knows it's a favour, and I get extra credit for that so it works out well for me too.
Work/life balance isn't ideal. I do too many hours - usually 45-60 a week. I also get home before 4pm most days. I can sustain this.
or he could continue to take years off his life working too hard.
Is it too much to expect people to take ownership of their own lives?
Curious justice system, in which an innocent person has to pay to prove their innocence.
You can't sue the police for the costs? Surely the person making the mistake should be liable for the administrative fees.
No, yes, and no.
No. Programme is the English spelling of program. Yes, programme is the spelling of program used in Britain. No, programme is different to program.
There is no language called British.
The content's even worse.
found a way to create the functional equivalent of programs that had been shut down
In English a program is a software application, which makes the statement above sound seriously fucking impressive.
Turns out the article is talking about programmes, at which point it's merely just another aspect of the Police States of America.
what's wrong with adopting a more colloquially informal conversational style on a message forum
Some subjects the feminists seem curiously quiet about.
http://www.autostraddle.com/wh...
That doesn't resolve the mid-coitus change of mind that requires immediate disentanglement or it's rape. Or sexual assault, in the UK, if it's the man that changed his mind.
Violence against men is a larger health issue for men. It's also far more prevalent than violence against women.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/...
Not saying that matches the reaction indicated, but at least gives you enough info to dig further.
Trial? Under Title IX? There's an entire fucking injustice system out there doing its best to assure that there is no trial, as that would actually look at evidence, establish facts and potentially find an innocent man 'Not Guilty'.
Can't be having that. Not in American colleges. Oh, no.