Probably, though I've never understood that convention. Given that PC stands for personal computer, and Macs are personal computers, would that not imply that both the Mac and PC guys are PC guys? (Well, unless that conspiracy theory about macs being group computers is right...dun dun dun!)
Since when is impulsive stupid? It's certainly not the best way to handle things, but neither is an impulsive person an idiot. There are benefits (my friends who are impulse buyers tend to be happier than those who plan their purchases) and disadvantages (the impulse buyers do tend to have less money on hand at any time, although in my group of friends they're also the ones with the highest incomes so it really balances it).
[quote]Rich people impulse buys cars, middle class people fancy clothes and poor people tickets to the movies.[/quote]
If anyone needs to cite a source and stop spreading degrading myths it would seem to be you, the guy implying that poor people can't afford anything besides tickets to a movie (seriously? That's like $7 per person, you can get some nice clothes for the same price as 2-3 trips).
What people buy depends more on who they are than their economic status (though not being able to afford something is an impedance, credit cards have made it possible to impulse buy things you can't afford). One of the factors (ONE!) in economic status, however, is how many impulse purchases you make (I'll repeat so I don't get flamed for saying that poor people aren't good with money, that's only ONE reason).
However it is only in the age of the internet that you can easily gain access to something that is supposedly banned, at least in the EuroAmerican world (countries behind firewalls are a different story). Banning a book removes it from all bookstores and libraries and so makes it hard to acquire. Banning an internet site (or at least blackholing it like was done here) removes it from all government regulated areas of the internet, which is very small. It's like trying to ban a book without the power to stop importation or monitor smaller bookstores, you can get it removed from the big stores (the main DNS servers) but that will only serve to advertise the book and make it more popular in the smaller shops and to be imported.
Not to sound pessimistic but I highly doubt they'd win, what with the modern definition of cyber-terrorism (I'm fairly certain I heard that Anonymous had hacked the Scientology site or something) and, with the power Scientology wields in the political and judicial areas, it wouldn't be too hard for them to convince a judge that Anonymous had commited acts of cyber-terrorism.
Not to mention that would completely mess up there name, they'd have to be Anonymous (except Tim who filed a law suit on our behalf against the Scientologists) and that would make recruitment much harder:P.
Yep, welcome to backlash. It's the same reason that Caucasians are always portrayed as racist, when that, in and of itself, is a racist statement. It's an inevitable part of human nature that the oppressed will almost always become the oppressor when allowed.
This is not to say there are racist Caucasians, or that oppression is a good thing, merely that humans can never swing to the center when then lash out against one side. How many staunch Democrats (to use one side as an example) who have lost faith in their party go to independent vs republican do you think? Much fewer, the moment you become angry or powerful enough to put an end to one group's oppression you will almost always begin to oppress them, whether you want to or not.
Welcome to modern day America, where White Men are simultaneously racist evil corporate rulers who don't care about their companies, are hidden members of the KKK, and misogynist and redneck slobs who can't take care of themselves and only care about beer and football...:P.
Precisely. Most modern games are written for men, because men were the big audience when they came out, because men were the ones writing them when they came out.
Can't really study something so heavily biased and expect the bias to go away.
Try them on a game like Animal Crossing or Nintendogs or something and if guys are still more likely to get addicted than I'll buy the verdict.
For some anecdotal evidence one of my relatives is a total anti-gamer except for 3 games, Diner Dash, Animal Crossing, and Guitar Hero. If you were to test her addictedness on, say, Team Fortress 2 or Galactic Civilizations 2 vs. my own addiction I have no doubt you'd find these exact results. Try it on one of the aforementioned games, especially Animal Crossing as both of us were addicted to that for a while (it was a good game), and I bet you'd find the opposite to be true...
As opposed to the hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces of space junk that are already passing over their country.
There's a lot of junk up there in pretty regular orbits. Most of it's not low enough for a standard spy satellite but it's not like space is a pristine clean area where only designated satellites are flying around and there's nothing else up there...
That's also ignoring the fact that some people can't adapt as well as others. I, for one, have an extremely difficult time tuning out outside sounds. If someone near me says something my brain will immediately focus on that and I'll lose my train of thought, every time.
People are all different. Some have no problem tuning out outside noises, others can't ignore them if they can hear them (yay for music played just loud enough to drown out others, but not loud enough for them to hear!)
Technically a 1 two's complemented would be a -255, or larger if you're using more bits.
00000001 in two's complement is 00000001.
That is one thing about java that irks me, however. The command Integer.toBinaryString() returns a 2's complement version of the number, if it's negative it'll be complemented. The Integer.parseInt() command, however, cannot handle 2's complement numbers to the best of my understanding. That's irritating.
As for the subject of the article, I guess that makes me ruined eh? I learned BASIC first (there's some quote out there about how BASIC ruins programmers) then Java, so I guess I shouldn't be able to do any programming right? It's really quite silly, oh sure, my knowledge of pointers could be better, but I don't see any real use to learning them beyond what I understand now. IMHO it's more important that I know lots of different programming languages and what the important concepts are rather than learning how to use pointers, or how to save 3 KB of ram by using 17 layers of abstraction.
I read an article not too long ago about how the determining factor in programming languages has, up until recently, been speed. With recent innovations, however, it's become development time, and Java wins over C in that anyday (and of course loses to other languages like python and ruby and, for 2D games, Actionscript).
I also don't understand his interface comment, is my school just weird or something? They haven't taught me how to use Java's GUI, I had to learn that myself. All my java programs thusfar have been command-line apps, is that not normal for a public college?
If you'll excuse me and my damaged self I've got to go finish one of my Python programs, then tidy up my Actionscript game by delegating repeated runs through an array to a function.
Not at all, I was actually trying to imply that their method is superior but slower, Testing and QA are important, but slow, which is why hackers can get things out much faster than companies.
The return of the N-Gage? Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse? Along with Microsoft giving away a good piece of software and 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes going out of style on/.?
Sony: An idea you say? Internet phone on a PSP? Why I do say old chap, that is a good idea! Let us put it in testing and quality assurance and then announce it's release a little before we put it out. Let us also make it available only on our latest devices, to encourage purchasing.
Hackers: Internet phone on a PSP? Good Idea! I'll have a quick-build later tonight, should be able to get this done in a couple of days...hey look, the original's compatible too! That'll save a few bucks...
A TV as old as you? I'm not sure whether you or me are in the majority but I can't imagine having a TV that old. The oldest TV in our house (besides one we just got from one of my grandparents whose age is unknown and which sits unplugged waiting for a purpose) is about half as old as me, and that one's not used to watch TV but just as a backup in case we need 2 large TVs for playing console games. Our primary TV is only 4 years old and starting to look somewhat replaceable.
I'm no TVplile either, no HD, Blu-ray, just DVDs and cable, but I couldn't stand to have a TV as old as myself...I mean, it would probably be smaller than our current one (42 inch) and very low res, even I couldn't put up with that...
Well as far as I know (not being a seizure expert) there is no rate which will cause seizures in everyone, and besides that would probably be deemed illegal somewhere along the way. Much better to program in some moving image so that the police look like they're moving when they're standing still, that would make the primary threat to bullet proof armor (high caliber long range rifle) hard to use.
There are way to many interesting applications for something like this...
Okay...next time I see one of those billboards on a building thing I am so going to report it and justify my actions with that excuse.
And of course MIT the school agreed with the police, it would be extremely surprising if they hadn't. The people who made that decision were not the smart ones if MIT is anything like every other college in the world.
Last time I checked batteries and LED did not make for good IEDs, especially if you're trying to be secretive. The situation was a joke, some people saw some lights advertising something they didn't recognize, overreacted, and then the police didn't even bother to check one of the devices before going insane but instead trusted some citizens who have 0 experience identifying explosives beyond what they've been fed by Hollywood movies to know what they were talking about. If you can't tell the difference between real weapons and light displays (here's a hint, unless they're using reverse psychology, highly unlikely, real weapons are meant to be stealthy, not bright and obvious) then that's fine, but police should be better trained than that.
Come on people. It's a damned game. Get a life. Come back to planet earth where you originated from. What on earth are these people thinking???:-) Tell that to Korea and Starcraft. A game is nothing more than an interactive event, would you disparage those who get caught up in the emotion of a good football game? Watching someone do something incredible is always enjoyable, whether it be a great Hail Mary pass or playing the hardest song on Guitar Hero. Had I been there I would have stopped to watch as well, I've seen that song, it's not something anyone can do, even with practice (I doubt I could ever, even with tons of practice, hit more than half the notes).
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Probably, though I've never understood that convention. Given that PC stands for personal computer, and Macs are personal computers, would that not imply that both the Mac and PC guys are PC guys? (Well, unless that conspiracy theory about macs being group computers is right...dun dun dun!)
Since when is impulsive stupid? It's certainly not the best way to handle things, but neither is an impulsive person an idiot. There are benefits (my friends who are impulse buyers tend to be happier than those who plan their purchases) and disadvantages (the impulse buyers do tend to have less money on hand at any time, although in my group of friends they're also the ones with the highest incomes so it really balances it).
[quote]Rich people impulse buys cars, middle class people fancy clothes and poor people tickets to the movies.[/quote]
If anyone needs to cite a source and stop spreading degrading myths it would seem to be you, the guy implying that poor people can't afford anything besides tickets to a movie (seriously? That's like $7 per person, you can get some nice clothes for the same price as 2-3 trips).
What people buy depends more on who they are than their economic status (though not being able to afford something is an impedance, credit cards have made it possible to impulse buy things you can't afford). One of the factors (ONE!) in economic status, however, is how many impulse purchases you make (I'll repeat so I don't get flamed for saying that poor people aren't good with money, that's only ONE reason).
However it is only in the age of the internet that you can easily gain access to something that is supposedly banned, at least in the EuroAmerican world (countries behind firewalls are a different story). Banning a book removes it from all bookstores and libraries and so makes it hard to acquire. Banning an internet site (or at least blackholing it like was done here) removes it from all government regulated areas of the internet, which is very small. It's like trying to ban a book without the power to stop importation or monitor smaller bookstores, you can get it removed from the big stores (the main DNS servers) but that will only serve to advertise the book and make it more popular in the smaller shops and to be imported.
As a sidenote, OpenDNS for the win.
Not to sound pessimistic but I highly doubt they'd win, what with the modern definition of cyber-terrorism (I'm fairly certain I heard that Anonymous had hacked the Scientology site or something) and, with the power Scientology wields in the political and judicial areas, it wouldn't be too hard for them to convince a judge that Anonymous had commited acts of cyber-terrorism.
:P.
Not to mention that would completely mess up there name, they'd have to be Anonymous (except Tim who filed a law suit on our behalf against the Scientologists) and that would make recruitment much harder
Yep, welcome to backlash. It's the same reason that Caucasians are always portrayed as racist, when that, in and of itself, is a racist statement. It's an inevitable part of human nature that the oppressed will almost always become the oppressor when allowed.
:P.
This is not to say there are racist Caucasians, or that oppression is a good thing, merely that humans can never swing to the center when then lash out against one side. How many staunch Democrats (to use one side as an example) who have lost faith in their party go to independent vs republican do you think? Much fewer, the moment you become angry or powerful enough to put an end to one group's oppression you will almost always begin to oppress them, whether you want to or not.
Welcome to modern day America, where White Men are simultaneously racist evil corporate rulers who don't care about their companies, are hidden members of the KKK, and misogynist and redneck slobs who can't take care of themselves and only care about beer and football...
Precisely. Most modern games are written for men, because men were the big audience when they came out, because men were the ones writing them when they came out.
Can't really study something so heavily biased and expect the bias to go away.
Try them on a game like Animal Crossing or Nintendogs or something and if guys are still more likely to get addicted than I'll buy the verdict.
For some anecdotal evidence one of my relatives is a total anti-gamer except for 3 games, Diner Dash, Animal Crossing, and Guitar Hero. If you were to test her addictedness on, say, Team Fortress 2 or Galactic Civilizations 2 vs. my own addiction I have no doubt you'd find these exact results. Try it on one of the aforementioned games, especially Animal Crossing as both of us were addicted to that for a while (it was a good game), and I bet you'd find the opposite to be true...
As opposed to the hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces of space junk that are already passing over their country.
There's a lot of junk up there in pretty regular orbits. Most of it's not low enough for a standard spy satellite but it's not like space is a pristine clean area where only designated satellites are flying around and there's nothing else up there...
Exactly. I visit snopes regularly but had no idea they used ads, much less adware pushing ones, thanks to Adblock and Noscript
Mod Parent Up for best use of a humorous sad but probably true prediction :P.
"What would you do if a terrorist bombed Microsoft headquarters tomorrow?"
???
Profit?
Conspiracy theory was never a good label, the mainstream media has simply applied it to more groups of people than it used to be used on.
*Deafening roar followed by wave of flames as I calmly reload my Redeemer and wander off to end another fight with the magic of Nuclear Technology*
That's also ignoring the fact that some people can't adapt as well as others. I, for one, have an extremely difficult time tuning out outside sounds. If someone near me says something my brain will immediately focus on that and I'll lose my train of thought, every time.
People are all different. Some have no problem tuning out outside noises, others can't ignore them if they can hear them (yay for music played just loud enough to drown out others, but not loud enough for them to hear!)
I find your lack of red sauce disturbing...
Technically a 1 two's complemented would be a -255, or larger if you're using more bits.
00000001 in two's complement is 00000001.
That is one thing about java that irks me, however. The command Integer.toBinaryString() returns a 2's complement version of the number, if it's negative it'll be complemented. The Integer.parseInt() command, however, cannot handle 2's complement numbers to the best of my understanding. That's irritating.
As for the subject of the article, I guess that makes me ruined eh? I learned BASIC first (there's some quote out there about how BASIC ruins programmers) then Java, so I guess I shouldn't be able to do any programming right? It's really quite silly, oh sure, my knowledge of pointers could be better, but I don't see any real use to learning them beyond what I understand now. IMHO it's more important that I know lots of different programming languages and what the important concepts are rather than learning how to use pointers, or how to save 3 KB of ram by using 17 layers of abstraction.
I read an article not too long ago about how the determining factor in programming languages has, up until recently, been speed. With recent innovations, however, it's become development time, and Java wins over C in that anyday (and of course loses to other languages like python and ruby and, for 2D games, Actionscript).
I also don't understand his interface comment, is my school just weird or something? They haven't taught me how to use Java's GUI, I had to learn that myself. All my java programs thusfar have been command-line apps, is that not normal for a public college?
If you'll excuse me and my damaged self I've got to go finish one of my Python programs, then tidy up my Actionscript game by delegating repeated runs through an array to a function.
Not at all, I was actually trying to imply that their method is superior but slower, Testing and QA are important, but slow, which is why hackers can get things out much faster than companies.
The return of the N-Gage? Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse? Along with Microsoft giving away a good piece of software and 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes going out of style on /.?
Sony: An idea you say? Internet phone on a PSP? Why I do say old chap, that is a good idea! Let us put it in testing and quality assurance and then announce it's release a little before we put it out. Let us also make it available only on our latest devices, to encourage purchasing.
Hackers: Internet phone on a PSP? Good Idea! I'll have a quick-build later tonight, should be able to get this done in a couple of days...hey look, the original's compatible too! That'll save a few bucks...
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Actually I've seen a few of those already. What we really need is a Top Ten 'Top Ten' "Top Ten lists".
A TV as old as you? I'm not sure whether you or me are in the majority but I can't imagine having a TV that old. The oldest TV in our house (besides one we just got from one of my grandparents whose age is unknown and which sits unplugged waiting for a purpose) is about half as old as me, and that one's not used to watch TV but just as a backup in case we need 2 large TVs for playing console games. Our primary TV is only 4 years old and starting to look somewhat replaceable.
I'm no TVplile either, no HD, Blu-ray, just DVDs and cable, but I couldn't stand to have a TV as old as myself...I mean, it would probably be smaller than our current one (42 inch) and very low res, even I couldn't put up with that...
Well as far as I know (not being a seizure expert) there is no rate which will cause seizures in everyone, and besides that would probably be deemed illegal somewhere along the way. Much better to program in some moving image so that the police look like they're moving when they're standing still, that would make the primary threat to bullet proof armor (high caliber long range rifle) hard to use.
There are way to many interesting applications for something like this...
Okay...next time I see one of those billboards on a building thing I am so going to report it and justify my actions with that excuse.
And of course MIT the school agreed with the police, it would be extremely surprising if they hadn't. The people who made that decision were not the smart ones if MIT is anything like every other college in the world.
Last time I checked batteries and LED did not make for good IEDs, especially if you're trying to be secretive. The situation was a joke, some people saw some lights advertising something they didn't recognize, overreacted, and then the police didn't even bother to check one of the devices before going insane but instead trusted some citizens who have 0 experience identifying explosives beyond what they've been fed by Hollywood movies to know what they were talking about. If you can't tell the difference between real weapons and light displays (here's a hint, unless they're using reverse psychology, highly unlikely, real weapons are meant to be stealthy, not bright and obvious) then that's fine, but police should be better trained than that.
Or DDR with it's pads? Or the new Wii Zapper (sold out at every store near me, and they had lots of stock when it first came out too).
There are plenty of examples of high selling peripherals so I don't know what the GGP was talking about.