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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
(I know the quote is not really by Socrates)
You could try 0.0.0.0.
If the ruling is upheld by the Federal Court of Justice, that is.
So this only concerns Eyeo and its "pay us, or nobody will see your ads" business model. Adblocking is legal. Even using ABP is legal.
Much ado about nothing, unless you're Eyeo.
Edit: This isn't even about adblocking, but about anti-competitive behavior: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
The lawsuit has been going on since at least 2014. Here are some comments by a German lawyer on it: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A...
But IT helps the company do what it decided to do (not that I think Megaupload did something bad).
My guess (I didn't downvote you) is that your post added nothing to the discussion. Joke posts tend to be frowned upon here.
Only when talking about people as goods, i.e. as human resources. When talking about people as humans, the borders inside EU are closed real quick when there's a G8 summit et.al. and politicians want to keep protestors from other countries out.
Law and Justice, abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing national-conservative political party in Poland.
Such good news/s
(SciHub has the linked Nature article, BTW)
For example, hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago, and the rise of computer hacking via the Internet has changed the public's reasonable expectations of privacy. ... Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion. Indeed, the opposite holds true: in today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can - and eventually will - be hacked.
That's what you get when you combine the doctrine of "expectation of privacy" (which essentially confounds Is and Ought) and the insecurity of today's software.
I did one year earlier in Descent ;-)
That's not true at all. Wolfenstein 3D was a raycasting engine based on cubes. Doom used BSP trees and allowed for much more varied level geometry without right angles everywhere (although there still were no sloped floors).
In some ways Quake started the "real is brown" trend.
That's not to say its visual design isn't really good, though!
And here's the paper for it: http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/02/NPAR07_Illu...
Of course I can (and I do). Apple and various other companies go to great lengths to pay the least amount of taxes they can get away with.
That's what consoles are for :-)
Edit: This isn't supposed to be a snarky "console masterrace" comment, but merely the observation that consoles have fixed specs and a life-cycle of five or more years where you can play current games without having to buy new hardware. (I don't even own any consoles, unless you count emulators.)
I think that's one point of the article: Instead of creating a game not set in the real world where for some arbitrary, unexplained reason there are huge blocks everywhere, developers create games ostensibly set in reality where those same blocks look like buildings. Except that you expect to be able to enter these buildings (like in reality), so when you can't that breaks your immersion.
So keep the blocks, but don't make them look like something that exists in reality, because then players will expect them to behave like the real thing.
I remember reading that a lot of Counterstrike players turn down the visual details in favor of higher frame rate, since the visual details do nothing for gameplay whereas the higher FPS does.
I’m sure there were other true-3D games before it, but I challenge you to name one off the top of your head
Descent was published in 1995, one year before Quake. And it was fully 3D, even moreso than Quake since you could rotate around all three axes.
Before Quake, games couldn’t even simulate a two-story building, which ruled out most realistic architecture.
The Build engine (used e.g. in Duke Nukem 3D) was capable of faking multi-story buildings with the creative use of teleporters.
I don't think it does as I've explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11959074