I am not sure if this has been mentioned yet (no time to read all 330+ comments). But how about progress. People want to feel they have progressed in the game. Levels is one way to achieve this feeling.
The same way in a sense, that RPG characters, level up and get stronger, you progress.
So without any levels, you might have an unsatisfied feeling after you finish the entire game.
I was just wondering how it would effect the work place, if everybody was doing this. Wouldn't it cause a major sweat and thus a terrible smell? I am also worried about the noise level, from the machine, but also as a previous poster commented, the puff puff from human beings.
Ok so it creates tensions, however if seems all of you fear your country and your fellow citizens so much that if someone knew how you voted you would immediately be forced to vote otherwise. I have to say that you guys/girl are somewhat fearful in that democracy you call the USA. As a student of American Studies I already knew that Americans have a healthy distrust of the government (that's why it is usually called administration instead of the Bush(or other) government) however I did not know it went this far.
How long did they take to figure that out? It seems a bit of an obvious problem. For the rest I do not understand why people are so afraid of saying who they voted for because you should always be proud of what you voted for. If you are not proud of who you voted for then why vote that way? I would vote democrat and would be proud of it, so why would I care if someone knew that.
(obviously I do understand the tensions it can create if everybody in your line of work votes republican, or in your family)
With this new discovery the Germans have made an incredible jump in technological advancement, so Europe prepare for World War III:)
On a more serious note, wasn't it part of the theory that when you travel faster than lightspeed you travel into the future or past? So if they did succeded in surpassing lightspeed how would they be able to tell? (and how are they able to tell anyways?)
Is it?!:D
hehe.
offtopic: why isnt there a nice article about the simpsons movie on slashdot, I just submitted one for lack thereof. However I think mine will be rejected as usual:)
This woman should in fact be cleared of all charges simply because she used Kazaa. I mean anyone who actually uses Kazaa would be so incredibly stupid that it comes close to retardation. (As seen in Family Guy, this can be used as an excuse for almost everything) I mean there are far better applications out there for p2p use. DC++, Bittorrent, Newsgroups, FTP.
I for one use DC++ and Bittorrent which work perfectly for me. DC++ for everything, but also some rare stuff because Bittorrent largly supports new stuff that just was aired or showed in theatres. Anyways just a thought, use these applications instead of something stupid like Kazaa.
I am sorry but I will only consider it a life form when I can kill it and then eat it. (some exceptions to the rule, I do consider most humans to be a life form)
Being Santa Claus I generally consider shaving to be pointless for 2 reasons.
1. The kids love me with my fuzzy beard, without it I am nothing to them, nothing!!! 2. When I shave my beard it grows back within minutes, as depicted in the awesome succesful funny christmas film Santa Claus featured with Tim Alles as me.
However I do tend to shave my lower regions cause misses santa claus likes it that way.
Seriously, if we ever get as far as a well working quantum computer it would have a huge impact. Imagine IBM super computers that are a hundred times faster then the ones they build now. I wonder what kind of impact it would have on research that needs to calculate lots of huge formulas.
Indeed that is what I meant. That although if rules are set for the game a computer can win. However with luck involved, in theory a computer could never win. I just wanted to point out that many people seem to disregard this when posting about computers that beat humans at poker.
It seems they are not that big, and I do not think one or 2 damaged tiles whould have a massive effect on the safety of the shuttle. However if someone leaked that tiles were damaged (no matter how few tiles) and NASA did not act on it, the public would be outraged. So perhaps NASA thinks its best to mention this in public and fix it, even if it doesnt have to be fixed at all. Or what if the chance is 1 in a million that it has any effect, NASA doesnt act and the thing crashed, people would be outraged as well. Better safe than sorry.
I do not understand why some people compare Chess with games like taxes hold em or poker in general. What people seem to miss in my opinion is that unlike Chess which can be purely calculated, poker besides skill is also based on luck. Since a computer cannot bluff and does not have a pokerface or emotions for that matter, it does not rely on skill but on calculations. Which person has what cards, how big is the chance they have this and this card. The computer can than calculate his chances. However if the pc has bad luck it simply wont win every time. Thus the computer will never be albe to beat humans at poker ever single time simply because sometimes a human will get better cards and eventually win the game.
So in my opinion, no, computers will never beat humans at poker because chance cannot be calculated.
Look the thing was obviously round. So it only needed a couple of guys to push and it went down hill from there:)
On a more serious note, what if they were unable to stop it from rolling, it might come crashing into my house anytime, I am not insured for meteorite incidents of any kind. Should have taken the platinum package...
Only 1TB? What about all my HD porn movies, they will never fit... (Divx re-encoded of course, else it hardly works in Vistasuck)
Seriously though, it is a lot of drive space. It is a great achievement, albeit a bit slow since we are promised large storage dvds/blue rays/hd dvds/hdd's all the time!
However right now I have 6 hdd's which totally make up for 1.6TB. 2 of these disks would cover those. Darn where is my money stash.
Ah typical slashdot, an article about the future of the planet/species/universe and about half of the comments are pessimistic dramatic black re-actions. We dont mean a thing, we suck, we are insignificant we should just kill our selfs, I have no friends... (oh wait I didnt mean to write that there, nobody should know about that) Not that it matters cause you dont have anyone around you who cares.
However for all the other people here, who are a bit more optimistic, believe in human kind and think we are important. Yeahh to them. I for one wont be gloomed into a depression. I like this planet, I like human kind and if possible we should spread out and find new frontiers to conquer. I love music, art, movies, books and whatnot, it is all one damn fine creation by inventive humans who want to better themself, even though it wont go without a war here and there, eventually we will get there.
Goodluck humankind I will be here watching you progress.
Bush/republicans: "Well well, I told you guys those damn liberals with their anti-American good for nature and mother earth crap where lying their god hating asses off."
However, it is interesting to note that such a bug would cause a very different outcome of the same study facts. I wonder how many other bugs might be out there. Still I am and we should not be immediately convinced that the Global warming threat is over. We should not step back into our SUV's for that one mile to the gym. It's gym for g's sake, take the walk and consider it a warming up.
Oh shit I just put my Iphone and the clone next to each other and don't know which one is the original, aargh.
But seriously, although I understand that many chinese inhabitants cannot pay for an original iphone it does not make it right to clone such a product and make money of it. Especially when the original inventor does not get its fair share of the profit. However we do live in the real world and this was to be expected.
Watch the evil companies, dont trust them. They will put tracking software in those non drm songs. Once they are shared on a p2p net, they will track every ip adres and every user. The p2p community will be doomed. Mwhoehahaha.... oh wait I am on the good side of this, so I should be crying. As I said before, watch out. However when I said it, it was rated funny, not interesting or scary...:)
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I am not sure if this has been mentioned yet (no time to read all 330+ comments). But how about progress. People want to feel they have progressed in the game. Levels is one way to achieve this feeling.
The same way in a sense, that RPG characters, level up and get stronger, you progress.
So without any levels, you might have an unsatisfied feeling after you finish the entire game.
I was just wondering how it would effect the work place, if everybody was doing this. Wouldn't it cause a major sweat and thus a terrible smell? I am also worried about the noise level, from the machine, but also as a previous poster commented, the puff puff from human beings.
Why do we need these pictures anyway. Everyone knows that when you get close enough, you will find out the moon is made of cheese.
So euh Patrick fancy a crabby patty
Offtopic: I was modded 5 insightful for my comment, however when I go to my user page, it is shown as modded 1 insightful, how is this possible?
Ok so it creates tensions, however if seems all of you fear your country and your fellow citizens so much that if someone knew how you voted you would immediately be forced to vote otherwise. I have to say that you guys/girl are somewhat fearful in that democracy you call the USA. As a student of American Studies I already knew that Americans have a healthy distrust of the government (that's why it is usually called administration instead of the Bush(or other) government) however I did not know it went this far.
Also, first post, whow didnt think I would ever accomplish that.
How long did they take to figure that out? It seems a bit of an obvious problem. For the rest I do not understand why people are so afraid of saying who they voted for because you should always be proud of what you voted for. If you are not proud of who you voted for then why vote that way? I would vote democrat and would be proud of it, so why would I care if someone knew that.
(obviously I do understand the tensions it can create if everybody in your line of work votes republican, or in your family)
With this new discovery the Germans have made an incredible jump in technological advancement, so Europe prepare for World War III :)
On a more serious note, wasn't it part of the theory that when you travel faster than lightspeed you travel into the future or past? So if they did succeded in surpassing lightspeed how would they be able to tell? (and how are they able to tell anyways?)
Is it?! :D
hehe.
offtopic: why isnt there a nice article about the simpsons movie on slashdot, I just submitted one for lack thereof. However I think mine will be rejected as usual :)
This woman should in fact be cleared of all charges simply because she used Kazaa. I mean anyone who actually uses Kazaa would be so incredibly stupid that it comes close to retardation. (As seen in Family Guy, this can be used as an excuse for almost everything) I mean there are far better applications out there for p2p use. DC++, Bittorrent, Newsgroups, FTP.
I for one use DC++ and Bittorrent which work perfectly for me. DC++ for everything, but also some rare stuff because Bittorrent largly supports new stuff that just was aired or showed in theatres. Anyways just a thought, use these applications instead of something stupid like Kazaa.
I am sorry but I will only consider it a life form when I can kill it and then eat it. (some exceptions to the rule, I do consider most humans to be a life form)
Being Santa Claus I generally consider shaving to be pointless for 2 reasons.
1. The kids love me with my fuzzy beard, without it I am nothing to them, nothing!!!
2. When I shave my beard it grows back within minutes, as depicted in the awesome succesful funny christmas film Santa Claus featured with Tim Alles as me.
However I do tend to shave my lower regions cause misses santa claus likes it that way.
Maybe this will news will turn Einsteins frown upside down.
But seriously though, I dont have anything insightful to say (ever)
But will it run the new 3d engine of Carmack?
Seriously, if we ever get as far as a well working quantum computer it would have a huge impact. Imagine IBM super computers that are a hundred times faster then the ones they build now. I wonder what kind of impact it would have on research that needs to calculate lots of huge formulas.
Indeed that is what I meant. That although if rules are set for the game a computer can win. However with luck involved, in theory a computer could never win. I just wanted to point out that many people seem to disregard this when posting about computers that beat humans at poker.
More information on the size and use of the anti-heat tiles or High-temperature reusable surface insulation (HRSI) can be found in this article on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle_thermal _protection_system
It seems they are not that big, and I do not think one or 2 damaged tiles whould have a massive effect on the safety of the shuttle. However if someone leaked that tiles were damaged (no matter how few tiles) and NASA did not act on it, the public would be outraged. So perhaps NASA thinks its best to mention this in public and fix it, even if it doesnt have to be fixed at all. Or what if the chance is 1 in a million that it has any effect, NASA doesnt act and the thing crashed, people would be outraged as well. Better safe than sorry.
I do not understand why some people compare Chess with games like taxes hold em or poker in general. What people seem to miss in my opinion is that unlike Chess which can be purely calculated, poker besides skill is also based on luck. Since a computer cannot bluff and does not have a pokerface or emotions for that matter, it does not rely on skill but on calculations. Which person has what cards, how big is the chance they have this and this card. The computer can than calculate his chances. However if the pc has bad luck it simply wont win every time. Thus the computer will never be albe to beat humans at poker ever single time simply because sometimes a human will get better cards and eventually win the game.
So in my opinion, no, computers will never beat humans at poker because chance cannot be calculated.
Look the thing was obviously round. So it only needed a couple of guys to push and it went down hill from there :)
On a more serious note, what if they were unable to stop it from rolling, it might come crashing into my house anytime, I am not insured for meteorite incidents of any kind. Should have taken the platinum package...
Only 1TB? What about all my HD porn movies, they will never fit... (Divx re-encoded of course, else it hardly works in Vistasuck)
Seriously though, it is a lot of drive space. It is a great achievement, albeit a bit slow since we are promised large storage dvds/blue rays/hd dvds/hdd's all the time!
However right now I have 6 hdd's which totally make up for 1.6TB. 2 of these disks would cover those. Darn where is my money stash.
Ah typical slashdot, an article about the future of the planet/species/universe and about half of the comments are pessimistic dramatic black re-actions. We dont mean a thing, we suck, we are insignificant we should just kill our selfs, I have no friends... (oh wait I didnt mean to write that there, nobody should know about that) Not that it matters cause you dont have anyone around you who cares.
However for all the other people here, who are a bit more optimistic, believe in human kind and think we are important. Yeahh to them. I for one wont be gloomed into a depression. I like this planet, I like human kind and if possible we should spread out and find new frontiers to conquer. I love music, art, movies, books and whatnot, it is all one damn fine creation by inventive humans who want to better themself, even though it wont go without a war here and there, eventually we will get there.
Goodluck humankind I will be here watching you progress.
Bush/republicans: "Well well, I told you guys those damn liberals with their anti-American good for nature and mother earth crap where lying their god hating asses off."
However, it is interesting to note that such a bug would cause a very different outcome of the same study facts. I wonder how many other bugs might be out there. Still I am and we should not be immediately convinced that the Global warming threat is over. We should not step back into our SUV's for that one mile to the gym. It's gym for g's sake, take the walk and consider it a warming up.
end rant.
Oh shit I just put my Iphone and the clone next to each other and don't know which one is the original, aargh.
But seriously, although I understand that many chinese inhabitants cannot pay for an original iphone it does not make it right to clone such a product and make money of it. Especially when the original inventor does not get its fair share of the profit. However we do live in the real world and this was to be expected.
So this means I can drink as much beer as I want without fearing liver damage, right?!!