Another one would be since they KNOW what form they are supposed to be looking at they can match things up that way. Or more generally match up the top right corner logo or the footer... which are generally on all their forms. If all of this fails then well they control the damn forms! Just stick a big fucking black mark in a corner and be done with it.
Floating on venus takes no energy... It'd be more like building a sub or... a city out of subs. Comparing it to flying things on earth is a little unfair.
Meh though, I think we should triple the space budget (taking out of the military) and go to both.
You say airborne but not reallly...... 'air pressure' is high enough that anything that can float on water would be perfectly happy growing in the upper atmosphere. And we do have things that can take an acid rain pretty easy.
Or.... you could assume they are on windows and access all kinds of standard location files. Exchange every exe for common apps with viruses... seems simple enough.
IE 6 no longer holds the most market share. And late IEs are mostly standards. Or at least coding to standards won't fuck them up. The problem comes when designers code things that ONLY work in IE...
Yeah, nethack is a game of knowledge. While one of my peeves with games is when you die until you figure out w/e they needed you to do as difficulty... Nethack is sort of designed with that in mind from the beginning as it is a knowledge based game rather than one of skill. Like... something a stats major would do well in.
As a side note wow also hasn't figured it out. Mobs from level 1~80 (excluding bosses) have these strats for each time it can attack:
- If humanoid and hp under 20% flee randomly for 7 seconds
- If
- Target highest aggro player (each attack or heal builds agro)
- If in range hit it else run to it
- When picking attack roll die, 1~3 regular hit, 5~6 use a special if available
That is literally it. Bosses are generally scripted to do different things at different percents. They have more of a metroid boss feel though so its ok..... (you kind of solve the boss with a strategy... metroid bosses you learn the boss and work against it). But a tinnnnny bit of intelligence would be nice, mobs would probably need more tools available to them though. I mean... a lvl10 human charging a lvl 80 orc in full epic gear is pretty retarded.
And I'd suggest that makes wc3 a shittier game. Starcraft while being psychic didn't overly abuse it... Also, Starcraft AI was pretty brutally good compared to most games. I mean hell... look at mobs in WoW, they don't even have AI per say more of a roll the dice for which spell otherwise attack. The feeling of competition is comparatively strong in SC/SC2. You feel like you are playing against the computer as an opponent. In Warcraft3 it feels a bit more like you are playing against your arbitrary limitations. But it isn't a HORRIBLE example.
Some of the shooter games on xbox at insane difficulty or w/e. It reduces the game to luck in some levels. This combined with near instant respawns and uber health regen makes the game fairly pointless. You run to cover and you either die or don't. If you die w/e you'll be up in two seconds, just keep holding down the forwards button maybe you'll make it next time.
Or it is a memorization game: if i wait 3 seconds before running here they'll have their backs turned. That isn't skill or even luck at that point. You've just died and re spawned a bunch so you know when to go like some kind of psychic. Trial and error != fun.
Difficulty is different than fake difficulty. I actually hated the xbox360 because all the games were fucking easy. Or they had fake difficulty. And fake difficulty fucking sucks.
What I mean is when they use things like... Computers get psychic powers. Or they can 'cheat'. Like bots in a shooter that know where you are at all times. Or bots that have guns that deal double damage. It is a bit hard to define... but generally speaking, any time the game becomes more about w/e coded in cheats the computer gets than about the goals set out in the game then fake difficulty has been taken too far.
AI can game break in the opposite direction as well. For example... max handicap disadvantage in smash bros melee vs a computer. You are no longer having a match. You are playing a game of fucking with the ai so it falls in a pit (yoshi sucks at this). In many cases, especially games that shoot for some degree of realism this sucks balls. In shooter, base infiltration games higher difficulty should not be merely adjusting their hp level. It should be tightening up their AI, their aim, their placements, hell number of troops and their weaponry. Otherwise the game plays like crap. (Nearly all games do it the crap way)
Pretty sure confronting the break and enter guy with a gun counts as escalation. And a 20 year old with a bat might take a swing at a guy that comes out towards him with a gun. It is human instinct. If you are in a different part of the house, shout that you have a gun, hell, fire it into a floorboard. They will not have that opportunity, even if they have a gun... What in your house could be so valuable to risk (high risk) getting shot for. I'm not saying criminals are smart, but they aren't retarded, so they sure as fuck aren't going in your room.
BTW, statistically speaking. By buying a gun to protect yourself and family you actually put yourself more at risk because of it. That is right, by owning a gun YOU are more likely to die. Most cases you end up in a struggle and shoot yourself. Do all the, 'that wouldn't happen to me' you want, but that's the stats.
I imagine lots of loud warnings, firing a shot telling them to fuck off and that you've called the cops will make ~99.9% of criminals go the hell away. The last.1% that doesn't is clearly mentally deranged and if he's fucked up enough to enter the room then shoot him rambo style. I mean the guy should look like fucking scarface by the time he hits the floor.
Reminds me of AOL advertising search engines and email, as if their product had them as special features. "Now AOL brings you videos at resolutions and speeds never seen before!!!" as they pan past a clip of youtube. Tagging 'i' to everything or sticking product names everywhere is the same kind of horrible branding. Hell I've seen websites that say they support the iPhone... took me a second to realize they meant small browsers.
The best interface setup i've seem is in the field of Optogenetics. It requires a single cut into the skull, and not even all the way through the skull (just light goes inside) so the risks are greatly lowered. Mind you this involves infecting the patient with a virus to mess with their DNA (totally minor haha...) and it is computer to human communication only. I suppose I'd use it in conjunction with an EEG headset for output (they didnt say how precise it had to be >.>...). So the project seems DOABLE. And these contests aren't really meant to be profitable, just encouragement.
That's fine, and yeah I don't have kids my fiance stays in my room and I don't have a gun in any case. So I can see how kids would change things.
GP referred to killing a break and enter' as an "unfortunately necessary action". Which is what threw me. I pictured like terminator in camo body paint whipping out the missile launcher to blow away anything that moved. While hilarious it seemed a tad misguided. Your approach is more reasonable.
But I must ask you.... how many break and enters are violent? How many of those do you think the criminals WANTED? I think it is possible that by pulling a gun on a guy with a gun you increase the chances of getting loved ones and yourself hurt. Most (re. vast majority) enters are there for money, but if you pull a gun on them them they will kill you to protect themselves, I mean they are assholes already if they are robbing you. What good does it do them to shoot people? Now a rapist could easily go somewhere else to rape. And once you've shouted your warning clearly it isn't happening. So the only people left really are insane serial murders that have chosen your house to rape and murder. Does this seem more or less likely than getting robbed by an idiot with a gun?
"Why do you think they grade professional boxers by weight?"
We aren't talking about a match, nor are we talking about trained professionals. In a real fight, the person willing to die will win. Size also matters a lot less outside of a ring, what you are willing to do does.
"Wonderful advice. What happens when you are knocked off your feet by the punch and try to continue and immediately get punched to the ground again? When your adversary gives you time to get up because they are so much stronger and faster than you that they have no need to press an advantage?
It can work out well to fight back and is generally good advice. It does always have the risk of leading to a humiliating defeat."
The next day hit him in the face with a desk put your foot on his neck and tell him he will never harass you again.
"Then why does every fighting organization eventually develop weight classes?"
Children aren't professional fighters. It is quite a lot different.
And ah... In a place where you risk getting shot then I'd call the cops. Repeatedly if I had to. There would be cops to their house daily. And yeah I didn't really think of that. I'd never been in a city where getting stabbed or shot in a middle-school seemed possible until I went to the states. It isn't a concern for most of the world sorry:S. (Though there were a couple stabbings at one of my highschools...) Dunno what to say about that. (I've no idea why people don't just move from ghettos that dangerous anyways, even with no money you could walk to a safer area:S)
"If they violate my house it is reasonable to expect they are willing to kill anyone in it in order to do their will."
Completely completely untrue. I can see breaking into a house for a large number of reasons. I know some people that have broken into houses to steal beer or to hold a party when the owners are on vacation. And I imagine the vast majority of robbers don't want to fucking kill anyone.
As well, my reaction keeps me more safe then yours. So it isn't a fear or safety issue you must admit. Or staying in your room and telling them to fuck off would be a great idea. There must be an ulterior motive.
Perhaps it is a matter of pride, getting robbed while you could possibly stop it seems cowardly. Hell being unwilling to shoot someone seems cowardly generally. Perhaps it is out of entitlement, 'it is my stuff and they can't have it'. Or exercising your constitutional rights like some kind of bible worshiper 'the books says i can so im gunna'. Whatever it is feel free to explain. It seems to be something only commonly believed in the U.S. (amongst 1st world nations) but I've never heard any reasonable explanation for it.
If you aren't willing to take a punch in the face to avoid torment either its not that bad or you are making a poor decision (cowardice).
And it isn't so much about biting back the pain, It is about who wants it more and who needs it more. Unless it is a war (where both sides are quite ready to kill) this is how fights are decided. Nothing to do with who is right at all. Buuuut generally speaking, people being bullied dislike it more than bullies enjoy bullying.
My main point though was that saying the guy is tougher than you is a cop out. Plain and simple. And I was a bit pissed at his cowardice. Not because he was unwilling to fight back, that is his own choice. He said this: "Bullies would always find someone, and if I was just a little cooler, someone else would have been the victim." Which to me reads as 'rather than fight back I found a sly way of having another kid beaten up instead of me'. And that I'm not ok with. I often got beaten up for stepping in on bullying, something I'm proud of (odd that I'm proud of getting beaten up) since I saved other people the fate. This guy is suggesting the opposite which is just lousy.
"your actions do not sound like someone in control. in fact, you were out of control. you say so yourself"
True, true. I guess... It showed me what I was capable of. And that I didn't need to be afraid, it also bought me respect which helped me socially. Had I never stood up for myself I'd have never known I could and would have continued to live fearing things I really needn't.
And yes, I didn't enjoy hurting the guy and certainly avoided fights (I got into lots of fights in grade/middle school but only protecting other nerds or myself). I suppose I had a joy in the vindication of it all but it was outweighed by the unpleasantness. I get the danger. But I think it far better to release or come to the understanding I did early on. If I still didn't understand at my age now I imagine the rage and bitterness built up, self pity, self hatred even would be much more damaging. Perhaps after that then I would start to feel joy in my enemies suffering... better to deal with it early.
Also, I totally don't think it is reasonable to shoot someone breaking and entering. Hell it could be an old friend throwing a surprise, or a drunk gone to the wrong house or... lots of things. Point a gun at him and tell him to fuck off if you are that paranoid. Me, I'd stay in my room, shout down at them to fuck off and that I have a gun. If they come in its fair game. Otherwise I'd rather have them leave with my T.V. / w/e than shoot a person.:S
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Another one would be since they KNOW what form they are supposed to be looking at they can match things up that way. Or more generally match up the top right corner logo or the footer... which are generally on all their forms. If all of this fails then well they control the damn forms! Just stick a big fucking black mark in a corner and be done with it.
Floating on venus takes no energy... It'd be more like building a sub or... a city out of subs. Comparing it to flying things on earth is a little unfair.
Meh though, I think we should triple the space budget (taking out of the military) and go to both.
You say airborne but not reallly...... 'air pressure' is high enough that anything that can float on water would be perfectly happy growing in the upper atmosphere. And we do have things that can take an acid rain pretty easy.
symbolic links still fuck you over so that adds 0 security.
Or.... you could assume they are on windows and access all kinds of standard location files. Exchange every exe for common apps with viruses... seems simple enough.
IE 6 no longer holds the most market share. And late IEs are mostly standards. Or at least coding to standards won't fuck them up. The problem comes when designers code things that ONLY work in IE...
FF is free so... mcgrew's analogy is more accurate.
IEtab https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Yeah, nethack is a game of knowledge. While one of my peeves with games is when you die until you figure out w/e they needed you to do as difficulty... Nethack is sort of designed with that in mind from the beginning as it is a knowledge based game rather than one of skill. Like... something a stats major would do well in.
As a side note wow also hasn't figured it out. Mobs from level 1~80 (excluding bosses) have these strats for each time it can attack:
- If humanoid and hp under 20% flee randomly for 7 seconds
- If - Target highest aggro player (each attack or heal builds agro)
- If in range hit it else run to it
- When picking attack roll die, 1~3 regular hit, 5~6 use a special if available
That is literally it. Bosses are generally scripted to do different things at different percents. They have more of a metroid boss feel though so its ok..... (you kind of solve the boss with a strategy... metroid bosses you learn the boss and work against it). But a tinnnnny bit of intelligence would be nice, mobs would probably need more tools available to them though. I mean... a lvl10 human charging a lvl 80 orc in full epic gear is pretty retarded.
And I'd suggest that makes wc3 a shittier game. Starcraft while being psychic didn't overly abuse it... Also, Starcraft AI was pretty brutally good compared to most games. I mean hell... look at mobs in WoW, they don't even have AI per say more of a roll the dice for which spell otherwise attack. The feeling of competition is comparatively strong in SC/SC2. You feel like you are playing against the computer as an opponent. In Warcraft3 it feels a bit more like you are playing against your arbitrary limitations. But it isn't a HORRIBLE example.
Some of the shooter games on xbox at insane difficulty or w/e. It reduces the game to luck in some levels. This combined with near instant respawns and uber health regen makes the game fairly pointless. You run to cover and you either die or don't. If you die w/e you'll be up in two seconds, just keep holding down the forwards button maybe you'll make it next time.
Or it is a memorization game: if i wait 3 seconds before running here they'll have their backs turned. That isn't skill or even luck at that point. You've just died and re spawned a bunch so you know when to go like some kind of psychic. Trial and error != fun.
Difficulty is different than fake difficulty. I actually hated the xbox360 because all the games were fucking easy. Or they had fake difficulty. And fake difficulty fucking sucks.
What I mean is when they use things like... Computers get psychic powers. Or they can 'cheat'. Like bots in a shooter that know where you are at all times. Or bots that have guns that deal double damage. It is a bit hard to define... but generally speaking, any time the game becomes more about w/e coded in cheats the computer gets than about the goals set out in the game then fake difficulty has been taken too far.
AI can game break in the opposite direction as well. For example... max handicap disadvantage in smash bros melee vs a computer. You are no longer having a match. You are playing a game of fucking with the ai so it falls in a pit (yoshi sucks at this). In many cases, especially games that shoot for some degree of realism this sucks balls. In shooter, base infiltration games higher difficulty should not be merely adjusting their hp level. It should be tightening up their AI, their aim, their placements, hell number of troops and their weaponry. Otherwise the game plays like crap. (Nearly all games do it the crap way)
The bullied doesn't get that option. The advice was directed to them. Obviously punishing the bully would be more helpful.
When is the last time you heard of a grade/middle school kid get beaten to death?? I think your chances are pretty good.
Pretty sure confronting the break and enter guy with a gun counts as escalation. And a 20 year old with a bat might take a swing at a guy that comes out towards him with a gun. It is human instinct. If you are in a different part of the house, shout that you have a gun, hell, fire it into a floorboard. They will not have that opportunity, even if they have a gun... What in your house could be so valuable to risk (high risk) getting shot for. I'm not saying criminals are smart, but they aren't retarded, so they sure as fuck aren't going in your room.
.1% that doesn't is clearly mentally deranged and if he's fucked up enough to enter the room then shoot him rambo style. I mean the guy should look like fucking scarface by the time he hits the floor.
BTW, statistically speaking. By buying a gun to protect yourself and family you actually put yourself more at risk because of it. That is right, by owning a gun YOU are more likely to die. Most cases you end up in a struggle and shoot yourself. Do all the, 'that wouldn't happen to me' you want, but that's the stats.
I imagine lots of loud warnings, firing a shot telling them to fuck off and that you've called the cops will make ~99.9% of criminals go the hell away. The last
Reminds me of AOL advertising search engines and email, as if their product had them as special features. "Now AOL brings you videos at resolutions and speeds never seen before!!!" as they pan past a clip of youtube. Tagging 'i' to everything or sticking product names everywhere is the same kind of horrible branding. Hell I've seen websites that say they support the iPhone... took me a second to realize they meant small browsers.
Having poor memory myself I'd like to report that it really is that awesome :p
The best interface setup i've seem is in the field of Optogenetics. It requires a single cut into the skull, and not even all the way through the skull (just light goes inside) so the risks are greatly lowered. Mind you this involves infecting the patient with a virus to mess with their DNA (totally minor haha...) and it is computer to human communication only. I suppose I'd use it in conjunction with an EEG headset for output (they didnt say how precise it had to be >.>...). So the project seems DOABLE. And these contests aren't really meant to be profitable, just encouragement.
Easy to forgive the dead.
On that last bit about jesus... how do they feel about judas, or satan?
That's fine, and yeah I don't have kids my fiance stays in my room and I don't have a gun in any case. So I can see how kids would change things.
GP referred to killing a break and enter' as an "unfortunately necessary action". Which is what threw me. I pictured like terminator in camo body paint whipping out the missile launcher to blow away anything that moved. While hilarious it seemed a tad misguided. Your approach is more reasonable.
But I must ask you.... how many break and enters are violent? How many of those do you think the criminals WANTED? I think it is possible that by pulling a gun on a guy with a gun you increase the chances of getting loved ones and yourself hurt. Most (re. vast majority) enters are there for money, but if you pull a gun on them them they will kill you to protect themselves, I mean they are assholes already if they are robbing you. What good does it do them to shoot people? Now a rapist could easily go somewhere else to rape. And once you've shouted your warning clearly it isn't happening. So the only people left really are insane serial murders that have chosen your house to rape and murder. Does this seem more or less likely than getting robbed by an idiot with a gun?
"Why do you think they grade professional boxers by weight?"
We aren't talking about a match, nor are we talking about trained professionals. In a real fight, the person willing to die will win. Size also matters a lot less outside of a ring, what you are willing to do does.
"Wonderful advice. What happens when you are knocked off your feet by the punch and try to continue and immediately get punched to the ground again? When your adversary gives you time to get up because they are so much stronger and faster than you that they have no need to press an advantage?
It can work out well to fight back and is generally good advice. It does always have the risk of leading to a humiliating defeat."
The next day hit him in the face with a desk put your foot on his neck and tell him he will never harass you again.
See what I mean about going that extra mile?
"Then why does every fighting organization eventually develop weight classes?"
:S. (Though there were a couple stabbings at one of my highschools...) Dunno what to say about that. (I've no idea why people don't just move from ghettos that dangerous anyways, even with no money you could walk to a safer area :S)
Children aren't professional fighters. It is quite a lot different.
And ah... In a place where you risk getting shot then I'd call the cops. Repeatedly if I had to. There would be cops to their house daily. And yeah I didn't really think of that. I'd never been in a city where getting stabbed or shot in a middle-school seemed possible until I went to the states. It isn't a concern for most of the world sorry
"If they violate my house it is reasonable to expect they are willing to kill anyone in it in order to do their will."
Completely completely untrue. I can see breaking into a house for a large number of reasons. I know some people that have broken into houses to steal beer or to hold a party when the owners are on vacation. And I imagine the vast majority of robbers don't want to fucking kill anyone.
As well, my reaction keeps me more safe then yours. So it isn't a fear or safety issue you must admit. Or staying in your room and telling them to fuck off would be a great idea. There must be an ulterior motive.
Perhaps it is a matter of pride, getting robbed while you could possibly stop it seems cowardly. Hell being unwilling to shoot someone seems cowardly generally. Perhaps it is out of entitlement, 'it is my stuff and they can't have it'. Or exercising your constitutional rights like some kind of bible worshiper 'the books says i can so im gunna'. Whatever it is feel free to explain. It seems to be something only commonly believed in the U.S. (amongst 1st world nations) but I've never heard any reasonable explanation for it.
If you aren't willing to take a punch in the face to avoid torment either its not that bad or you are making a poor decision (cowardice).
And it isn't so much about biting back the pain, It is about who wants it more and who needs it more. Unless it is a war (where both sides are quite ready to kill) this is how fights are decided. Nothing to do with who is right at all. Buuuut generally speaking, people being bullied dislike it more than bullies enjoy bullying.
My main point though was that saying the guy is tougher than you is a cop out. Plain and simple. And I was a bit pissed at his cowardice. Not because he was unwilling to fight back, that is his own choice. He said this:
"Bullies would always find someone, and if I was just a little cooler, someone else would have been the victim."
Which to me reads as 'rather than fight back I found a sly way of having another kid beaten up instead of me'. And that I'm not ok with. I often got beaten up for stepping in on bullying, something I'm proud of (odd that I'm proud of getting beaten up) since I saved other people the fate. This guy is suggesting the opposite which is just lousy.
"your actions do not sound like someone in control. in fact, you were out of control. you say so yourself"
:S
True, true. I guess... It showed me what I was capable of. And that I didn't need to be afraid, it also bought me respect which helped me socially. Had I never stood up for myself I'd have never known I could and would have continued to live fearing things I really needn't.
And yes, I didn't enjoy hurting the guy and certainly avoided fights (I got into lots of fights in grade/middle school but only protecting other nerds or myself). I suppose I had a joy in the vindication of it all but it was outweighed by the unpleasantness. I get the danger. But I think it far better to release or come to the understanding I did early on. If I still didn't understand at my age now I imagine the rage and bitterness built up, self pity, self hatred even would be much more damaging. Perhaps after that then I would start to feel joy in my enemies suffering... better to deal with it early.
Also, I totally don't think it is reasonable to shoot someone breaking and entering. Hell it could be an old friend throwing a surprise, or a drunk gone to the wrong house or... lots of things. Point a gun at him and tell him to fuck off if you are that paranoid. Me, I'd stay in my room, shout down at them to fuck off and that I have a gun. If they come in its fair game. Otherwise I'd rather have them leave with my T.V. / w/e than shoot a person.
geek != sociopath...... Like REALLY REALLY not.