1) Assume you're infallible.
2) Anybody disagreeing with you must obviously be wrong.
3) Since they're obviously wrong, it reinforces your infallibility.
4) You never grow, learn, or mature.
5) Goto 1
Using 1,000 samples, won't you get about half of the conditions that occur once in every 2,000 people? For that matter, won't you get 0.1% of those that occur once in a million? There are a lot of conditions out there.
I was going to argue with your assumption that Americans have less disposable income than Europeans... and I still might. However, while searching for stats I came across this link... a presentation about toilet paper drawn up by an eager Russian company eager to crack the Western European market. I love the internet. (Warning... it's a PDF.)
Don't bother with PS2 and Wii comparisons, for many people like myself this is about hi-def gaming, so both of those can be ignored.
Feel free to ignore both. However, the sales indicate that the majority of people could care less about hi-def gaming, as those two are not being ignored in very large quantities.
BTW, I thought the PS2 DVD capabilities were fine, just kind of clunky to control.
The point you miss is that it doesn't have to "win" to be a good product and appreciated by it's owners and future owners.
Agree with you there. If people are happy, why try to discourage them?
I don't get why knock off people can build excellent scrabble online and offline versions, but Hasbro the owner in over 10 years can not make a single one...
All the imitators probably tried to make a decent product to compete. Hasbro doesn't need to; it can cease&desist all other versions off the internet. No need to invest in programmers, when you've got a lawyer on staff...
I think this game undoubtedly appeals to more adults than something like "MANHUNT". It's one of the big releases. Slashdot has every incentive to cover the major gaming releases of the year, and by any sane standard, SSBB is one of them.
Yeah, those methods seem inevitably lossy to me. But what about lasers? How efficient are they? It seems like a microwave laser would transport energy efficiently... but I don't know how efficient the creation of the maser is in the first place.
Fortran, maybe not, unless you're in one of those weird spots where you're forced into it. But assembly is different; even if you don't have to program in it, you will greatly profit from knowing it. It's a fundamental building block of CS that impacts every language.
Maybe like how knowing Greek and Latin will improve your English? Nah, that's a bad analogy. Can somebody give me something better, involving cars?
I've generally voted Republican (and occasionally Libertarian). But if, for instance, Huckabee got the republican nomination, I very well might vote Democrat. Why box yourself in like that? Proclamations like yours just promote zealotry... promote the perception of politics as a type of sporting event, in which you have a 'team' you root for even if they suck this year.
It's like comparing the Wii to the PS3 (well, maybe not that drastic). The PS3 specs blow the Wii apart in all the easily quantifiable ways... but in the difficult-to-objectively-compare metric of 'fun game console', the Wii is competitive, perhaps even better.
One problem with innovation is the difficulty to evaluate overall capability... which is bigger, a hundred cm^2 or one cm^3? New features are like new dimensions, and can make comparisons nonsensical.
Yeah, they can be lacking a lot of polish. I guess that I like them because they're like the type of device _I_ would build. Versatile, but with an interface that makes a Commodore 64 look cool.
My own experience is that the cheaper the electronics, the more off-brand, the more useful it is. Apple? Sony? Microsoft? They do what they can to squeeze you into certain formats, certain online stores, etc...
But the $20 mp3 player from a chinese manufacturer I've never heard of before or after... well, that can play almost everything. Drop files into the drive and it'll play them. Same holds true for DVD players and video formats.
I'm sympathetic to your viewpoint, but I think you are exaggerating somewhat. There are things out there that a reasonable person should fear. There are criminals, there are terrorists. We should be reacting to them. We just need to not overreact.
"One of the US Senators honestly thinks the Interweb is a series of tubes. He might not even be familiar with the concept of electricity."
No, one of our Senators used a clumsy analogy. None of them really think the net is composed of tubes. Yes, they are legislating issues they don't understand... but they aren't retarded. I'm quite sure the majority of congressmen have above average IQs. They may be corrupted or arrogant, ignorant of tech issues, but not stupid.
I'm not really arguing with you, I just think you're passionate and letting some of your rhetoric get a little carried away. Take your own advice: "We survive. The day of judgment will never come."
"This isn't exactly what I meant to say, but I think the power here has become unreliable. There's a lot of wind outside."
I spent a moment trying to figure out what your metaphor meant... is "Wind" our political climate? Then I realized you're literally talking about 'power' and 'wind.':-) Good luck!
Then you download the ROM from any of a thousand slightly suspicious-looking sites. I'm not saying that nobody should use emulators... just, using your example, if Nintendo happened to offer Earthbound: Prototype on the VC for $4.00, buying it there is probably more legitimate than continuing to use the downloaded rom.
And if you've bought the game in the past, I don't see any reason you should have to pay over again for the VC version... although it still might be worth it for the convenience.
He says you've sunk lower, and he's right. Let's put it in terms of spatial relationships, with a little objectivity.
1) Zed wrote stupid things.
2) You wrote things in response that were even more stupid (and followed it up with even more posts of a similar nature).
If you are relating comment quality to height (which was the chosen metaphor), a comment of less quality would be described as lower. Hence, the other poster was correct.
Your primary mistake (outside of making the comment in the first place) was your assumption that your words were not lower, which led to your conclusion that the parent's post evidenced poor spatial skills. You neglected to consider the possibility that you were mistaken, that your post was, indeed, of even poorer quality than Zed's, and that the parent's description of 'lower' was quite apt.
Your chain of reasoning lead to claiming the other poster "couldn't read." Since a casual observer would notice your conclusion is obviously wrong, that selfsame casual observer can conclude that you are in error. It's the type of error that otherwise intelligent people are even more prone to make than idiots... the implicit assumption that they are correct just because they're so damn smart. It aborts the error correction process, because they don't admit error in the first place.
In summary, your initial comment was the sort of thing a eight year old would say.
But paying for the games on the virtual console is the right thing to do.
Yeah, I know, mod me down... I'm kind of speaking out the side of my mouth, because I do have emulators with thousands of roms on my pc. But I still have bought about six or eight VC games, even though I already had the roms, because:
1. A little less hassle. None of my PCs are in the living room.
2. If it's such a great game I'm still playing it a decade later, somebody deserves an extra six bucks.
Amazingly enough, 2008 will be the year in which everything collapses. All economic, social, and political issues will come to their inevitably horrible conclusions.
No, really, it will be this year. All the portents are there. Similar predictions for all previous years were due to misinterpreting the signs.
Of course, if my warning is heeded, we may stave off the collapse for another year. That just reinforces how correct my predictions were.
But simplifying tasks can allow you to spend more time and effort on the truly difficult and profitable parts of your job. If his job was solely deciphering file formats, ODF might make it harder to rake in the bucks. But that leads back to the buggy whip manufacturing analogy.
The others are SD in 700-1.5Mbit, which simply is not good enough.
You are free to set whatever personal standards you wish, but that quality is good enough for the vast majority of people. And I'm not being elitist... it's good enough for me, also. There's a trade-off between perceived quality, storage space, and bandwidth, and the sweet spot is different for different people. I want better quality than youtube, but don't particularly want HD. DVD quality is fine... heck, I'll often settle for VCR quality, if it means I can download it in five minutes.
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Neo-Nazis register? Seriously? Wouldn't the smart ones... not register?
Here is your algorithm:
1) Assume you're infallible.
2) Anybody disagreeing with you must obviously be wrong.
3) Since they're obviously wrong, it reinforces your infallibility.
4) You never grow, learn, or mature.
5) Goto 1
Using 1,000 samples, won't you get about half of the conditions that occur once in every 2,000 people? For that matter, won't you get 0.1% of those that occur once in a million? There are a lot of conditions out there.
If a iPhone can receive an update that unbricks it, then it was never bricked in the first place.
I was going to argue with your assumption that Americans have less disposable income than Europeans... and I still might. However, while searching for stats I came across this link... a presentation about toilet paper drawn up by an eager Russian company eager to crack the Western European market. I love the internet. (Warning... it's a PDF.)
Don't bother with PS2 and Wii comparisons, for many people like myself this is about hi-def gaming, so both of those can be ignored.
Feel free to ignore both. However, the sales indicate that the majority of people could care less about hi-def gaming, as those two are not being ignored in very large quantities.
BTW, I thought the PS2 DVD capabilities were fine, just kind of clunky to control.
The point you miss is that it doesn't have to "win" to be a good product and appreciated by it's owners and future owners.
Agree with you there. If people are happy, why try to discourage them?
I don't get why knock off people can build excellent scrabble online and offline versions, but Hasbro the owner in over 10 years can not make a single one...
All the imitators probably tried to make a decent product to compete. Hasbro doesn't need to; it can cease&desist all other versions off the internet. No need to invest in programmers, when you've got a lawyer on staff...
Hmmm... I think you're the worst person I've encountered on the internet in several days.
This format war is good for everybody but the manufacturers. I hope it lasts another couple years.
I think this game undoubtedly appeals to more adults than something like "MANHUNT". It's one of the big releases. Slashdot has every incentive to cover the major gaming releases of the year, and by any sane standard, SSBB is one of them.
Yeah, those methods seem inevitably lossy to me. But what about lasers? How efficient are they? It seems like a microwave laser would transport energy efficiently... but I don't know how efficient the creation of the maser is in the first place.
Fortran, maybe not, unless you're in one of those weird spots where you're forced into it. But assembly is different; even if you don't have to program in it, you will greatly profit from knowing it. It's a fundamental building block of CS that impacts every language.
Maybe like how knowing Greek and Latin will improve your English? Nah, that's a bad analogy. Can somebody give me something better, involving cars?
I've generally voted Republican (and occasionally Libertarian). But if, for instance, Huckabee got the republican nomination, I very well might vote Democrat. Why box yourself in like that? Proclamations like yours just promote zealotry... promote the perception of politics as a type of sporting event, in which you have a 'team' you root for even if they suck this year.
It's like comparing the Wii to the PS3 (well, maybe not that drastic). The PS3 specs blow the Wii apart in all the easily quantifiable ways... but in the difficult-to-objectively-compare metric of 'fun game console', the Wii is competitive, perhaps even better.
One problem with innovation is the difficulty to evaluate overall capability... which is bigger, a hundred cm^2 or one cm^3? New features are like new dimensions, and can make comparisons nonsensical.
Yeah, they can be lacking a lot of polish. I guess that I like them because they're like the type of device _I_ would build. Versatile, but with an interface that makes a Commodore 64 look cool.
My own experience is that the cheaper the electronics, the more off-brand, the more useful it is. Apple? Sony? Microsoft? They do what they can to squeeze you into certain formats, certain online stores, etc...
But the $20 mp3 player from a chinese manufacturer I've never heard of before or after... well, that can play almost everything. Drop files into the drive and it'll play them. Same holds true for DVD players and video formats.
Well, it may have been idiots that bought the space, but whoever sold it is a genius...
I'm sympathetic to your viewpoint, but I think you are exaggerating somewhat. There are things out there that a reasonable person should fear. There are criminals, there are terrorists. We should be reacting to them. We just need to not overreact.
:-) Good luck!
"One of the US Senators honestly thinks the Interweb is a series of tubes. He might not even be familiar with the concept of electricity."
No, one of our Senators used a clumsy analogy. None of them really think the net is composed of tubes. Yes, they are legislating issues they don't understand... but they aren't retarded. I'm quite sure the majority of congressmen have above average IQs. They may be corrupted or arrogant, ignorant of tech issues, but not stupid.
I'm not really arguing with you, I just think you're passionate and letting some of your rhetoric get a little carried away. Take your own advice: "We survive. The day of judgment will never come."
"This isn't exactly what I meant to say, but I think the power here has become unreliable. There's a lot of wind outside."
I spent a moment trying to figure out what your metaphor meant... is "Wind" our political climate? Then I realized you're literally talking about 'power' and 'wind.'
Then you download the ROM from any of a thousand slightly suspicious-looking sites. I'm not saying that nobody should use emulators... just, using your example, if Nintendo happened to offer Earthbound: Prototype on the VC for $4.00, buying it there is probably more legitimate than continuing to use the downloaded rom.
And if you've bought the game in the past, I don't see any reason you should have to pay over again for the VC version... although it still might be worth it for the convenience.
He says you've sunk lower, and he's right. Let's put it in terms of spatial relationships, with a little objectivity.
1) Zed wrote stupid things.
2) You wrote things in response that were even more stupid (and followed it up with even more posts of a similar nature).
If you are relating comment quality to height (which was the chosen metaphor), a comment of less quality would be described as lower. Hence, the other poster was correct.
Your primary mistake (outside of making the comment in the first place) was your assumption that your words were not lower, which led to your conclusion that the parent's post evidenced poor spatial skills. You neglected to consider the possibility that you were mistaken, that your post was, indeed, of even poorer quality than Zed's, and that the parent's description of 'lower' was quite apt.
Your chain of reasoning lead to claiming the other poster "couldn't read." Since a casual observer would notice your conclusion is obviously wrong, that selfsame casual observer can conclude that you are in error. It's the type of error that otherwise intelligent people are even more prone to make than idiots... the implicit assumption that they are correct just because they're so damn smart. It aborts the error correction process, because they don't admit error in the first place.
In summary, your initial comment was the sort of thing a eight year old would say.
But paying for the games on the virtual console is the right thing to do.
Yeah, I know, mod me down... I'm kind of speaking out the side of my mouth, because I do have emulators with thousands of roms on my pc. But I still have bought about six or eight VC games, even though I already had the roms, because:
1. A little less hassle. None of my PCs are in the living room.
2. If it's such a great game I'm still playing it a decade later, somebody deserves an extra six bucks.
Amazingly enough, 2008 will be the year in which everything collapses. All economic, social, and political issues will come to their inevitably horrible conclusions.
No, really, it will be this year. All the portents are there. Similar predictions for all previous years were due to misinterpreting the signs.
Of course, if my warning is heeded, we may stave off the collapse for another year. That just reinforces how correct my predictions were.
But simplifying tasks can allow you to spend more time and effort on the truly difficult and profitable parts of your job. If his job was solely deciphering file formats, ODF might make it harder to rake in the bucks. But that leads back to the buggy whip manufacturing analogy.
Does Hot Fudge Sundae falls on a Tuesdae that week?
The others are SD in 700-1.5Mbit, which simply is not good enough.
You are free to set whatever personal standards you wish, but that quality is good enough for the vast majority of people. And I'm not being elitist... it's good enough for me, also. There's a trade-off between perceived quality, storage space, and bandwidth, and the sweet spot is different for different people. I want better quality than youtube, but don't particularly want HD. DVD quality is fine... heck, I'll often settle for VCR quality, if it means I can download it in five minutes.