Functional input controls like knobs, buttons, switches and sliders are all careful duplicates of the ones on the original physical device being emulated.
Ya know, I tend to opt-out of such knobs and manually provide a specific value if given the option. This isn't because of any basic objection to the whole concept, but rather because these knobs and sliders can be so poorly tuned and overly sensitive at times that coaxing the damned thing to land where you want it to can be difficult at times.
That is, I KNOW I want the value to be 40 but I spend more than several seconds trying to not get it to land on 39 or 41.
They kind of did. The one link in the summary is to the relevant wikipedia page. A perfunctory glance sort of vindicates them for not trying to shove a somewhat long winded explanation into the summary, instead favoring to link to an outside definition.
Thank you. This. Things like Descarte's Evil Genius are age old and simply flacid. There tends to be one of two responses. 1) The kid gets all wide-eyed and is in awe as they think that they just freed themselves from the Matrix or 2) the kid recognizes "how can you confirm the perfectly unconfirmable" as the bullshit dead-end it is and moves on.
In my experience the people who bring this line of thinking up use it as a win/win cop-out. Don't have faith in your memories? HA! Then how can you trust your evidence? You DO have faith in your memories? See, I told you that you had faith! Let us not tarry lest we be late for church! Alternatively they may try to say that your faith in memory is just as weak as their faith in the sky daddy and thus therefore just as valid.
I always fancied trying something like this on religious folk:
"What if Satan sent us the Bible to turn us away from the natural beauty and wonderfully complex Truths of His creation?"
As I tend to shy away from religious confrontation I haven't gotten to use it (although if you come to MY door and are overly pushy you may get an earful, though I haven't those visitors in some time). May be a bit strawman but I always pictured that the response would be something along the lines of, "Nuh uh! The Bible doesn't say that!"
8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.
Now that we've all had a good chuckle at this it turns out that these awarded damages ARE taxable. From irs.gov:
Court awards and damages. To determine if settlement amounts you receive by compromise or judgment must be included in your income, you must consider the item that the settlement replaces. The character of the income as ordinary income or capital gain depends on the nature of the underlying claim. Include the following as ordinary income.
......
5. Damages for:
Patent or copyright infringement
So I suppose the US government is getting SOMETHING out of it, though relatively paltry. I also reckon this tax can't be passed down to the paying party much like sales tax is, which just makes me want to imagine some corporate peon somewhere getting absolutely burned up over it.
Last year we were getting free vaccinations from our work place but you had to sign up for them. One of my co-workers op-ed out stating that he didn't "believe in vaccines". I responded, "Vaccines aren't ghosts. You don't get to NOT believe in them.".
Ah, well, neither are preferable for the mere crime of downloading thirty songs. When I said that I understand what you're going for what I meant is that a small mark of shame deterring people from continuing such behavior is adequate. When you stole that small bit from that store the shame given to you was adequate to deter you from future actions - banning from ALL stores was not necessary.
I was simply stating that such a preferable action is not readily available in today's internet environment ("banning from one store" is not entirely possible). Not to mention that banning complete internet access for several years can be completely damning to an individual. Almost all job applications and communications are done online these days.
I agree with your sentiment, it's just that I don't think it translates particularly well to our modern internet life (unfortunately...or fortunately, depending who you talk to).
It's sort of a cross section of Civ, SimCity and to a lesser extent Starcraft. You basically construct a city on your main island while you branch off to other islands to provide supply chains for the needs of your citizens (setting up complicated automated supply chains is actually one of my favorite parts of the game). Once the needs for your current class of citizens are met they begin to "level up" to the next class (worker > employee > engineer > executive). Each class adds new needs to your citizenry (eco workers only need fish and tea while eco employees need fish, tea, health food and communicators). The need to occupy multiple islands stems from each island being able to provide only certain raw materials (i.e. an island that can produce corn, wine and truffles is no good for a health food production chain which requires vegetables and rice).
That's the city building SimCity part of it. The Civ and Starcraft parts come in when there are other factions present on the map. You can play multiplayer or you can add hostile factions to a single player game if you want to pursue combat gameplay. I personally stick to the city building "Continuous" mode.
Ah sorry I've taken this long to respond. I doubt you'll ever see this but here I go.
I am a life long southern-mid California inhabitant. I started in the Mojave Desert, moved my way to Pismo Beach, back down to LA, and then back up to the Bay Area. Now I can explain to you my reasoning.
It typically has to do with the VERY high level volume that is seen on California highways. And more than that, it has to do with the mergers onto the highway. That is, you see someone merging onto the highway from a metered ramp. There is no room in your lane to allow them to merge. There IS however a relatively small amount of space available in lane to your left. You can either A) Stay where you are and damn that person and the other mergers behind them, causing not only traffic jams thus potentially more accidents, or you can B) Do a short, yet quick, acceleration and merge into the lane into your left thus allowing the other party to join traffic safely.
Hiram Mightor: We're going to have to take you into custody. Mentok: Ha ha. That's outrageous. What am I charged with? Hiram Mightor: Don't have to tell you anymore. Clearly you haven't been reading your Scalia.
The pie chart given for the bundle doesn't include Android, though buyers can select Android as their demographic alongside Mac, Windows and Linux. I don't know if Android not being included in the pie chart is just an oversight or if people just aren't clicking the Android checkbox enough for it to show.
I doubt Android is rolled together with the Linux stat.
Certainly this did occur to me as well (somehow knew it would be the first response). My point is simply that it does add an extra thought whereas previously the driver would just default to "don't get in a fucking accident". Just a possible extra thought latency.
I'm not too sure this is a universally good idea. Sometimes traffic gives you a tricky situation and you need to accelerate or do a quick lane change to avoid a potential accident. In those moments I'm not too sure it's good to introduce the thought, "Oh, but wait, that may increase my premium".
Thank you very much for the advice and the link (bookmarked)! I've begun crafting my resume to try to get through HR's filters. The majority of my resume is real material but you'll find the occasional sentence that is obviously intended just to get past HR.
Here's hoping someone with two firing neurons actually reads my resume and gets to talk with to me soon!
I know and that is exactly what is so frustrating. All of these positions that do not require a CS degree and the companies claim it DOES require it. I don't NEED a CS degree to analyze and troubleshoot a network or to provide technical support to customers. If they were demanding some more coding or scripting from the job I may understand but that's just not the case.
"People without CS degrees who are amazing is another one-- they end up going to school simply because they don't even get seen by HR due to the pre-filtering process."
This. I am experiencing this first hand right now. I'm sending out resume after resume for various entry level help desk and sysadmin positions where I match the job requirements and can do the job perfectly well. But no. My degree wasn't in CS.
I feel like I'm wasting so much time crafting and tweaking each individual resume to show how I can work for them when I know their filtering system doesn't see "Bachelors in Computer Science" anywhere and instantly throws it away.
I was planning on eventually returning to school for CS anyways, but this is so frustrating.
All valid, but I'd like to make one observation about the willingness to spend money. Somewhat anecdotal but on EVERY Indie Humble, even the current bundle that has no games but music instead, the Linux community invariably have a much higher average amount payed than any other platform (it being Linux, Mac OS X, Windows - in that order).
One explanation is the willingness of Linux users to show that they will pay if only supported. Others may be that all the little kids that only payed in 1cent are on Windows thus skewing it. However, I don't there's a general lack of willing to pay for games in the OSS community.
That MAY be on a back burner but so far they've only announced official support for Ubuntu with plans to extend official support to other distros at later times.
You know, I worked at a game publishing company for a time and we had one game in particular which featured regular full frontal nudity. It was a part of our job but it was always SUPER awkward to work on in the office.
Indeed, I remember playing SSBB with a friend when it first came out and we would round robin using the Gamecube controller we had on hand. Whoever was using the Gamecube controller would win and whoever was using the Wiimote lost. SSBB doesn't use the motion controls but even just using the Wiimote as a regular controller was wonky at best. The sideways NES style just didn't work as well.
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Ya know, I tend to opt-out of such knobs and manually provide a specific value if given the option. This isn't because of any basic objection to the whole concept, but rather because these knobs and sliders can be so poorly tuned and overly sensitive at times that coaxing the damned thing to land where you want it to can be difficult at times.
That is, I KNOW I want the value to be 40 but I spend more than several seconds trying to not get it to land on 39 or 41.
They kind of did. The one link in the summary is to the relevant wikipedia page. A perfunctory glance sort of vindicates them for not trying to shove a somewhat long winded explanation into the summary, instead favoring to link to an outside definition.
Thank you. This. Things like Descarte's Evil Genius are age old and simply flacid. There tends to be one of two responses. 1) The kid gets all wide-eyed and is in awe as they think that they just freed themselves from the Matrix or 2) the kid recognizes "how can you confirm the perfectly unconfirmable" as the bullshit dead-end it is and moves on.
In my experience the people who bring this line of thinking up use it as a win/win cop-out. Don't have faith in your memories? HA! Then how can you trust your evidence? You DO have faith in your memories? See, I told you that you had faith! Let us not tarry lest we be late for church! Alternatively they may try to say that your faith in memory is just as weak as their faith in the sky daddy and thus therefore just as valid.
I always fancied trying something like this on religious folk:
"What if Satan sent us the Bible to turn us away from the natural beauty and wonderfully complex Truths of His creation?"
As I tend to shy away from religious confrontation I haven't gotten to use it (although if you come to MY door and are overly pushy you may get an earful, though I haven't those visitors in some time). May be a bit strawman but I always pictured that the response would be something along the lines of, "Nuh uh! The Bible doesn't say that!"
Wait...err...*goes crosside*
Wow, just served them up like pudding.
Now that we've all had a good chuckle at this it turns out that these awarded damages ARE taxable. From irs.gov:
So I suppose the US government is getting SOMETHING out of it, though relatively paltry. I also reckon this tax can't be passed down to the paying party much like sales tax is, which just makes me want to imagine some corporate peon somewhere getting absolutely burned up over it.
Last year we were getting free vaccinations from our work place but you had to sign up for them. One of my co-workers op-ed out stating that he didn't "believe in vaccines". I responded, "Vaccines aren't ghosts. You don't get to NOT believe in them.".
Ah, well, neither are preferable for the mere crime of downloading thirty songs. When I said that I understand what you're going for what I meant is that a small mark of shame deterring people from continuing such behavior is adequate. When you stole that small bit from that store the shame given to you was adequate to deter you from future actions - banning from ALL stores was not necessary.
I was simply stating that such a preferable action is not readily available in today's internet environment ("banning from one store" is not entirely possible). Not to mention that banning complete internet access for several years can be completely damning to an individual. Almost all job applications and communications are done online these days.
I agree with your sentiment, it's just that I don't think it translates particularly well to our modern internet life (unfortunately...or fortunately, depending who you talk to).
I can understand what you're going for but to use your analogy that would be like if you were banned from ALL stores when you were a child.
It's sort of a cross section of Civ, SimCity and to a lesser extent Starcraft. You basically construct a city on your main island while you branch off to other islands to provide supply chains for the needs of your citizens (setting up complicated automated supply chains is actually one of my favorite parts of the game). Once the needs for your current class of citizens are met they begin to "level up" to the next class (worker > employee > engineer > executive). Each class adds new needs to your citizenry (eco workers only need fish and tea while eco employees need fish, tea, health food and communicators). The need to occupy multiple islands stems from each island being able to provide only certain raw materials (i.e. an island that can produce corn, wine and truffles is no good for a health food production chain which requires vegetables and rice).
That's the city building SimCity part of it. The Civ and Starcraft parts come in when there are other factions present on the map. You can play multiplayer or you can add hostile factions to a single player game if you want to pursue combat gameplay. I personally stick to the city building "Continuous" mode.
Ah sorry I've taken this long to respond. I doubt you'll ever see this but here I go.
I am a life long southern-mid California inhabitant. I started in the Mojave Desert, moved my way to Pismo Beach, back down to LA, and then back up to the Bay Area. Now I can explain to you my reasoning.
It typically has to do with the VERY high level volume that is seen on California highways. And more than that, it has to do with the mergers onto the highway. That is, you see someone merging onto the highway from a metered ramp. There is no room in your lane to allow them to merge. There IS however a relatively small amount of space available in lane to your left. You can either A) Stay where you are and damn that person and the other mergers behind them, causing not only traffic jams thus potentially more accidents, or you can B) Do a short, yet quick, acceleration and merge into the lane into your left thus allowing the other party to join traffic safely.
Hiram Mightor: We're going to have to take you into custody.
Mentok: Ha ha. That's outrageous. What am I charged with?
Hiram Mightor: Don't have to tell you anymore. Clearly you haven't been reading your Scalia.
The pie chart given for the bundle doesn't include Android, though buyers can select Android as their demographic alongside Mac, Windows and Linux. I don't know if Android not being included in the pie chart is just an oversight or if people just aren't clicking the Android checkbox enough for it to show.
I doubt Android is rolled together with the Linux stat.
Certainly this did occur to me as well (somehow knew it would be the first response). My point is simply that it does add an extra thought whereas previously the driver would just default to "don't get in a fucking accident". Just a possible extra thought latency.
I'm not too sure this is a universally good idea. Sometimes traffic gives you a tricky situation and you need to accelerate or do a quick lane change to avoid a potential accident. In those moments I'm not too sure it's good to introduce the thought, "Oh, but wait, that may increase my premium".
Thank you very much for the advice and the link (bookmarked)! I've begun crafting my resume to try to get through HR's filters. The majority of my resume is real material but you'll find the occasional sentence that is obviously intended just to get past HR.
Here's hoping someone with two firing neurons actually reads my resume and gets to talk with to me soon!
I know and that is exactly what is so frustrating. All of these positions that do not require a CS degree and the companies claim it DOES require it. I don't NEED a CS degree to analyze and troubleshoot a network or to provide technical support to customers. If they were demanding some more coding or scripting from the job I may understand but that's just not the case.
"People without CS degrees who are amazing is another one-- they end up going to school simply because they don't even get seen by HR due to the pre-filtering process."
This. I am experiencing this first hand right now. I'm sending out resume after resume for various entry level help desk and sysadmin positions where I match the job requirements and can do the job perfectly well. But no. My degree wasn't in CS.
I feel like I'm wasting so much time crafting and tweaking each individual resume to show how I can work for them when I know their filtering system doesn't see "Bachelors in Computer Science" anywhere and instantly throws it away.
I was planning on eventually returning to school for CS anyways, but this is so frustrating.
All valid, but I'd like to make one observation about the willingness to spend money. Somewhat anecdotal but on EVERY Indie Humble, even the current bundle that has no games but music instead, the Linux community invariably have a much higher average amount payed than any other platform (it being Linux, Mac OS X, Windows - in that order).
One explanation is the willingness of Linux users to show that they will pay if only supported. Others may be that all the little kids that only payed in 1cent are on Windows thus skewing it. However, I don't there's a general lack of willing to pay for games in the OSS community.
That MAY be on a back burner but so far they've only announced official support for Ubuntu with plans to extend official support to other distros at later times.
You know, I worked at a game publishing company for a time and we had one game in particular which featured regular full frontal nudity. It was a part of our job but it was always SUPER awkward to work on in the office.
It would be like Republicans bombing the White House because Obama won the election.
Well...
The Prime Minister, however, simply CANNOT resist the earthquake button.
Indeed, I remember playing SSBB with a friend when it first came out and we would round robin using the Gamecube controller we had on hand. Whoever was using the Gamecube controller would win and whoever was using the Wiimote lost. SSBB doesn't use the motion controls but even just using the Wiimote as a regular controller was wonky at best. The sideways NES style just didn't work as well.
Ah! And THERE'S the obligatory XKCD