I don't think I'm allowed at Best Buy anymore.

ColtonLA · 7 days

If they refuse to sell something to you, you don't owe them anything, meaning that they don't have to accept your payment, even if it's legal tender. On the other hand, if you purchased something on credit, they would have to accept your coins, as you're settling a debt that already exists.

jerryconnelly · 16 days

If you play the game right, you rarely ever have to fight. Being in a close-quarters combat situation generally means you aren't keeping up your momentum. It's entirely about running - and that's what's so cool about it. There's pretty much nothing else like it.

jerryconnelly · 16 days

I thought that too...until I played it. If you're in the right mood for it, it's absolutely amazing.

sigpwned · 19 days

That'll make it pretty much impossible to index the map, however - at that point, you might as well use a list of triples or something.

xxhamzxx · 20 days

Networking Administration/Security...game design

You're going to want to learn C and C++. However, those are a terrible choice for a first programming language, so it might be a good idea to start off with C#, Python, or something else that's a bit more beginner-friendly. As for game design, code is only a small part of that...also, with some game engines, such as UDK, game logic is implemented entirely in a proprietary scripting language (e.g. UnrealScript). However, XNA is a pretty nice framework for building 2D and basic 3D games in C#. The only major problem is that C#/XNA limits you to Windows and WP7 without the use of 3rd party clones.

Android = Java, period, though for more advanced apps you can add C/C++ code to do the heavy lifting. Aside from Android, I'd strongly recommend against having anything to do with Java if you can avoid it.

I feel like going to school is a waste of money for things like this?

Programming is definitely something that has to be learned on your own, and if you decide to and get a degree, you should know what you're doing first. However, AFAIK most software engineering jobs require a Bachelor's, so obtaining a CS degree from a proper university is probably inescapable.

rytis · 22 days

...except that the Zune does require an iTunes-like program (whether it's stupid is your call). However, it was definitely one of the only high-end products directly competing with the iPod.

yannisrizos · 24 days

As far as I know, it kicks in whenever both ends of the connection support it. The host system then decides whether it'll allow content to be played depending on whether HDCP is actually active. That would mean that you'd get HDCP-related input lag whenever an HDCP video card and display are used, though I'm not sure said lag is perceptible at all compared to the other delays that add up.

FatherYang · 28 days

One car moving over wouldn't make enough of a difference to be the cause - especially when the speedup/slowdown is happening with the cars in front, not behind.

lho · 1 month

It does - that's what the startCollectors call you're making is doing. However, you should make sure the entropy pool is of a suitable size before allowing the user to upload (see what CRYPTYCH does, though this can get a little annoying sometimes).

lho · 1 month

FYI, this isn't a completely new idea - I launched CRYPTYCH a year or so ago, which is based on the same anchor-as-key concept and even uses the same crypto library (SJCL). This does have some nifty features though, like the "burn after reading" option. :) Syntax highlighting, however, would be desirable (this can be done on the client post-decryption).

It's too bad people get caught up in the whole "x is better" or "browser crypto is evil" bandwagon - crypto pastebins aren't for nuclear secrets, but they are your best bet when it comes to quickly passing some data on a one-off basis. However, entropy acquisition is a real problem, and one of my worries is that SJCL doesn't have enough good entropy inputs to actually generate unpredictable keys. A few browsers now provide secure random APIs, on the other hand, which could solve this problem.

asoap · 1 month

Fragmenting subreddits rarely does anything good - if everyone someone didn't like was booted out into its own subreddit, no one would see anything.

The entire point of posting something is to give it an audience, and segregating categories of content off to somewhere that no one will find is banning that content in all but name.

asoap · 1 month

The problem is that there's an awful lot of people who systematically repost old links (often with downright deceptive headlines), and as long as those posts keep getting upvoted, they'll keep karma farming this way.

Reposting isn't a problem if it's kept to a healthy level - banning reposts altogether doesn't really make sense - but it's way beyond a healthy level. :/

InfiernoDante · 1 month

That's why the quotes are there - what I meant is obvious.

The point is that while both Farmville and Deus Ex fall in the category of "games", there isn't a lot of overlap between who plays them, when they play them, and how they play them. For all intents and purposes, they're completely different things.

Mobile and social games have a broad audience now, but the problem is that said audience isn't very interested in "gaming" in the traditional sense.

InfiernoDante · 1 month

However, a large part of that 58% is people who only play Facebook and Android/iPhone games, which just aren't really the same thing and don't have the same audience as the PC and consoles.

It seems like extraordinarily few women are into "serious" platforms, unfortunately.

tinynf89 · 2 months

Probably MSG (monosodium glutamate).

lemeontop · 3 months

An arithmetic mean is a type of mean - so are geometric means and harmonic means.

Realistically, how often is "average" used to mean anything other than the arithmetic mean? Not exactly a lot.

nibbles200 · 3 months

Well, it's both - it's like how .tv is the national TLD for Tuvalu, but it's marketed as being for TV-related sites (same situation w/ .me and .fm).

savantster · 3 months

Well, the problem is that the admins you have to watch out for the most are the same ones that'll be interested in just what is going through that SSH tunnel.

HoboRobo · 4 months

Well, to be fair, often when the developers of OSS charge for support, the response to bugs isn't so great for non-paying customers.

tvz1 · 4 months

Adding to the Tor point, a lot of payment services, Web stores, etc. will flag any orders from Tor exit node IPs under the assumption that someone is trying to hide their use of a stolen credit card.

Justananomaly · 4 months

Received: from emkei.cz (emkei.cz. [46.167.245.116])

I'm pretty sure Gabe doesn't use Emkei's Fake Mailer to send his e-mail. :)

DouglasYancyFunnie · 5 months

GamePolitics typoed the URL. Have at it! At first glance, I don't seem to see Advance Publications there, fortunately.

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