Shit, that came out wrong. I meant to say that it's sad that people whore for karma that they won't even get, and do so regarding something so serious. I agree with the (now) GP, really a shame.
I quit counterstrike partly because of this. I got tired of hearing people bitch, and I wasn't even good enough to be accused of it...often, anyway:)
I saw a few aimbots and people who would "glitch" in maps but I never saw any other kind of "cheating." Aimbots are easy to notice since the people playing are very twitchy in that the software has to scan a given area around the reticule for a target. Glitching of course is when some asshole literally walks through walls.
But the other kinds of cheating are harder to detect, like changing game files to provide easier targets, turning off any kind of distance fog, going wireframe, changing object opacity et cetera. PunkBuster deals with this by doing MD5 hashes against random files in the game's installation directory. "Trainers" or memory cracks/patches are found via memory scanning.
I don't think many who say "cheater" have any clue what cheating actually looks like. They just hear someone else yell it out and then they copy them.
Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up
[chorus:] Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A.
I got in a little hometown jam And so they put a rifle in my hands Sent me off to Vietnam To go and kill the yellow man
[chorus]
Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me" I go down to see the V.A. man He said "Son don't you understand"
[chorus]
I had a buddy at Khe Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there, he's all gone He had a little girl in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years down the road Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A.
AwesomeBar is not search. AwesomeBar is made so you can make shortcuts that don't require you to enter the URL. It gets smarter over time. Just use it some.
I can't understand why people are so pissed over it, I love it. It really did change the way I use the browser.
I think what's really fucked up about this is that Microsoft is just now deciding to do something. FAT has existed for almost two decades, and the FS driver in Linux for quite some time as well. They waited for their FS to become a de facto standard so they could drop the hammer on people.
If you own a trademark you have to actively defend it, lest it become a standard term for the product type. Shouldn't technology and patents be the same way? If you allow entire industries to adopt your patented method without defending it you should lose the patent. Coming in after the fact just so you can grab your competitors by the balls is just crooked.
Except its the same hardware...well no, that's not true. You can get a Dell with actual hardware RAID when you're stuck with software RAID on an Xserve.
Furthermore Dell also has a 4-hour onsite 24/7 support package if I'm not mistaken.
I love my MacBook and the OS X desktop experience but you simply can't use an Xserve on business critical operations.
Not moot at all. When a P&S camera can achieve this or this, with the same subject distance and perspective compression (due to focal length) please let me know.
First shot was taken with a Canon 5D and a manual focus 58mm f/1.2 lens, the second with a film Nikon F3 with a 35mm f/2 lens. Both at wide-open apertures.
Only that combination of focal length, film/sensor area (36*24), focus point and subject distance would render an image with that kind of perspective and out of focus blur (called bokeh). Perspective and subject isolation are important in the artistic side of photography.
These images are not possible with point and shoot cameras.
Well, it's more an urban planning issue really. Where I live we have a "suburban sprawl" problem. I live in an area that has lots of light industrial (read: farms), residential and then the commercial that supports it. For all intents and purposes our entire county is an extended suburban area of a large(ish) city (Portland, OR). We have some self-supporting industry but we still don't produce enough to cover ourselves.
Currently the Clark County (WA) public transit bus system loses a metric shit ton of money every year. Not only do they exceed their budget but roughly a third of their income comes from federal, state and county grants. In addition they receive another 55% of their income from state sales taxes and the rest from actual bus fare revenue. The main issue comes down the fact that no one rides the buses. Medium sized buses generally only have 2-7 people riding them.
I blame much of this on little or no urban planning, which lets residential developments go in willy-nilly. Cars are quicker and easier so most folks choose that, leaving the buses to ultra-low income families and individuals.
To make it worse making the connection between Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA on public transit can be difficult and/or time consuming.
I think more realism in metaphor implementation would definitely help people crossover to computers easier. File organization, menus and multiple windows are a tough one for most folks. Being able to understand how three dimensional physics affects pieces of paper (documents), photographs, application windows (needs a good metaphor that doesn't conflict with paper documents) and folders for keeping it all in will help a lot of people who can't grok it as is.
A lot of people bitch and moan about "terrible eye-candy". It might slow you down some, but for a lot of people visual hints and metaphors are the only way to understand this stuff.
Work in any kind of design field for a while and you start to appreciate how simple visual hints help or hinder people. Being able to intuitively grok the way anything from a toaster to a can opener to an operating system works without having to really think about it is a Good Thing.
I agree though, you shouldn't be able to patent a metaphor, an algorithm or an analogy. It's just dumb.
They may "lead" in bringing something like this to the market quicker (like they did with desktop composition) but they didn't invent this stuff. Certainly not patent worthy.
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[mage] what should I give sister for unzipping?
[Kevyn] Um. Ten bucks?
[mage] no I mean like, WinZip?
-Bash.org
Quite possibly the best Slashdot quote I've seen in quite some time. That sums up our entire political process in America.
John Romero is about to make you his bitch.
Shit, that came out wrong. I meant to say that it's sad that people whore for karma that they won't even get, and do so regarding something so serious. I agree with the (now) GP, really a shame.
What's sad is the fact that +1 funny has no effect on karma at all.
I quit counterstrike partly because of this. I got tired of hearing people bitch, and I wasn't even good enough to be accused of it...often, anyway :)
I saw a few aimbots and people who would "glitch" in maps but I never saw any other kind of "cheating." Aimbots are easy to notice since the people playing are very twitchy in that the software has to scan a given area around the reticule for a target. Glitching of course is when some asshole literally walks through walls.
But the other kinds of cheating are harder to detect, like changing game files to provide easier targets, turning off any kind of distance fog, going wireframe, changing object opacity et cetera. PunkBuster deals with this by doing MD5 hashes against random files in the game's installation directory. "Trainers" or memory cracks/patches are found via memory scanning.
I don't think many who say "cheater" have any clue what cheating actually looks like. They just hear someone else yell it out and then they copy them.
Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The USA' Lyrics:
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up
[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man
[chorus]
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"
[chorus]
I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
AwesomeBar is not search. AwesomeBar is made so you can make shortcuts that don't require you to enter the URL. It gets smarter over time. Just use it some.
I can't understand why people are so pissed over it, I love it. It really did change the way I use the browser.
That's no spoon. It's a french press.
I think what's really fucked up about this is that Microsoft is just now deciding to do something. FAT has existed for almost two decades, and the FS driver in Linux for quite some time as well. They waited for their FS to become a de facto standard so they could drop the hammer on people.
If you own a trademark you have to actively defend it, lest it become a standard term for the product type. Shouldn't technology and patents be the same way? If you allow entire industries to adopt your patented method without defending it you should lose the patent. Coming in after the fact just so you can grab your competitors by the balls is just crooked.
Except its the same hardware...well no, that's not true. You can get a Dell with actual hardware RAID when you're stuck with software RAID on an Xserve.
Furthermore Dell also has a 4-hour onsite 24/7 support package if I'm not mistaken.
I love my MacBook and the OS X desktop experience but you simply can't use an Xserve on business critical operations.
No. Zombies are undead. Please hand in your geek card.
If you want whore for Karma, include a link!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/30/
With such memorable phrases as:
"See these stickers? They make my computer go faster!"
"With this giant wing on the back of my front-wheel drive computer I get the down force I need to go fast"
What sort of "irritating facts" do you have to backup the notion that privately-run charities are not effective?
Matt Bors has it right!
What does 2+2 equal, Winston?
Not moot at all. When a P&S camera can achieve this or this, with the same subject distance and perspective compression (due to focal length) please let me know.
First shot was taken with a Canon 5D and a manual focus 58mm f/1.2 lens, the second with a film Nikon F3 with a 35mm f/2 lens. Both at wide-open apertures.
Only that combination of focal length, film/sensor area (36*24), focus point and subject distance would render an image with that kind of perspective and out of focus blur (called bokeh). Perspective and subject isolation are important in the artistic side of photography.
These images are not possible with point and shoot cameras.
Depth of field manipulation, high-ISO quality, RAW, better exposure latitude, better build quality, more precise manual focus, easier to manipulate manual controls, higher quality optics, prime lenses, battery grips (vertical shooting), wide-angle/fish-eye lenses (below 28mm equiv. focal length), long telephoto lenses (above 300mm focal length), dual memory card support, higher frames per second count (10+ on newer models) and interchangeable lenses.
Maybe I've missed a few things.
Take off, eh! Ya hoser!
Well, it's more an urban planning issue really. Where I live we have a "suburban sprawl" problem. I live in an area that has lots of light industrial (read: farms), residential and then the commercial that supports it. For all intents and purposes our entire county is an extended suburban area of a large(ish) city (Portland, OR). We have some self-supporting industry but we still don't produce enough to cover ourselves.
Currently the Clark County (WA) public transit bus system loses a metric shit ton of money every year. Not only do they exceed their budget but roughly a third of their income comes from federal, state and county grants. In addition they receive another 55% of their income from state sales taxes and the rest from actual bus fare revenue. The main issue comes down the fact that no one rides the buses. Medium sized buses generally only have 2-7 people riding them.
I blame much of this on little or no urban planning, which lets residential developments go in willy-nilly. Cars are quicker and easier so most folks choose that, leaving the buses to ultra-low income families and individuals.
To make it worse making the connection between Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA on public transit can be difficult and/or time consuming.
Public transit is only one part of the solution.
I don't want to have to use a plush voodoo keyboard to get to it though.
Yes but the people in charge today will be dead when nature/Gaia/God-Almighty/FSM decides to smite them for abusive assholes.
It's their children—and quite possibly ours—that are getting shafted by it.
I think more realism in metaphor implementation would definitely help people crossover to computers easier. File organization, menus and multiple windows are a tough one for most folks. Being able to understand how three dimensional physics affects pieces of paper (documents), photographs, application windows (needs a good metaphor that doesn't conflict with paper documents) and folders for keeping it all in will help a lot of people who can't grok it as is.
A lot of people bitch and moan about "terrible eye-candy". It might slow you down some, but for a lot of people visual hints and metaphors are the only way to understand this stuff.
Work in any kind of design field for a while and you start to appreciate how simple visual hints help or hinder people. Being able to intuitively grok the way anything from a toaster to a can opener to an operating system works without having to really think about it is a Good Thing.
I agree though, you shouldn't be able to patent a metaphor, an algorithm or an analogy. It's just dumb.
I agree with your post for the most part but Apple isn't leading here:
http://bumptop.com/
http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/
They may "lead" in bringing something like this to the market quicker (like they did with desktop composition) but they didn't invent this stuff. Certainly not patent worthy.