I think it's a great idea (although I don't play it). It's called an open system, where you have difficulties going beyond the practical (and maybe conceivable) just so that you can have a better understanding of what practical is.
An analogy would be a combat training dummy that has a difficulty score, let's say a number starting at 1 and going up. Suppose no human could beat it past 9, most would say "make it go up to 9". By the open system logic, you would still make it go as high as you want (even if for example at 20 the thing breaks or something).
The simplest argument for this is that since it's combat _training_ dummy, it is possible humans will evolve past the "impossible" 9 so this would enable people to push their boundaries as they wish, or at least convince yourself that they exist: some might think that since they beat the dummy at 9 they could attempt the 10 too, trying and failing would give them a clear notion of their limitations.
I think EVE does this too, they show the grinding maniacs the impossible so that they understand their limits and value their capabilities and achievements more. If you know that nobody can beat the (above) dummy at 10, you'll feel better for being amongst the ones who win at 9.
took me about 20seconds to copy paste and look at all of them. some times just do the thing, it's not worth it trying to find a simpler or better way of doing it.
Nah, look at the other comment. Even if that guy really does give the order to launch a nuclear attack, I'm not sure his people would actually do it (unless he will pull the trigger himself).
Look, I don't think anyone, no matter how crazy and indoctrinated they are would start a nuclear holocaust just to make a point. When the time comes the most basic of instincts -making sure your species survives- will kick in. I think that if a nuclear holocaust does happen it will be because of human error like in that movie with Dr. Strangelove.
Well, that's good because the UN has such a powerful influence on all the countries...
But really, I say fuck it, let everyone have nukes. That way no-one would actually use them against anyone because that anyone can retaliate. Considering how the countries from the Middle East keep getting harassed by the Western countries I think they are entitled to at least not being afraid of getting nuked.
Uhm, yes it is a patent troll, it describes the way most online registrations work. It also doesn't describe the way the applications gets locked out of the full version is implemented. This is just another example of common sense put into a patent.
If you know your algorithms you can do whatever the fuck you want in informatics (or computer science if you like that term better). All that mambo jumbo about teamwork, architecture and design is something to make people who can't code feel like they know something. I know this sounds like a troll but that's how I feel about this subject.
This must be a way of making people respond to your comment, resulting in offtopic mods for them too which will make others be in the same bucket as you. It reminds me of a quote "If only people would desire happiness for themselves more than sadness for others, the world would be a better place".
Disclaimer: I currently have no mod points and as you can see my karma is pretty good, so yeah, burn it down...
Well they say samurais could march while asleep so they would get to their destination faster. This seems similar, especially since he's asian and dressed in army clothes, maybe they borrowed some of those training methods from samurais.
I'm all for standing up for free speech and freedom in general but this is not the fight you should take it to. Don't defend some fucked up porn stars for their 'freedom of speech'. If there is a case where free speech really matters, stand up for it then and there. (for example, the events in Iran, btw what's going in there now?).
True, I'd like to believe that a world where common sense and morality prevail can exist but I know that's not going to happen. Whenever an environment gathers enough individuals that rely on cooperation and mutual compromise there will appear individuals that will have a lot to gain by betraying all those "values" (read: social contracts).
Still, that doesn't mean people that do have principles and high moral standards shouldn't uphold them, just that they shouldn't expect the world to be fair and good if they do.
The "kiss my karma goodbye" line transforms the post in an anti-troll. Everyone who tries to mod it down gets his/hers karma burned and gives a +inf insightful/informative/funny/totally kickass mod to the OP.
And wait for the Macs to have the major market share or what?:P If you make a successful trojan, you'll probably try to get something out of it and at some point people will find out about it.
I had to rescan his post 3 times before I found the missing "y"s, they didn't bother me at all when reading it... Good for you for noticing them but who the hell cares he missed them?
"Never attribute to malice what could more easily be attributed to stupidity."
I'd go for "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" since if they get so many complaints but still don't know how to handle them, they obviously don't care enough about customers to try to understand what's going on.
Allow me a car analogy:P: if you go in the wrong gear in a parking lot and run over someone (because you went in the wrong way) you might say it's not your fault, you're just not that good at thinking. But if you do that 10 times then you may be retarded but you are also not trying to better your driving such that you won't run over people. At that point we're talking about malice.
Huh? Why is it pretentious wanting to preserve knowledge and history? If the people in the future choose to be ignorant and do the same mistakes over and over, fine by me, by we should at least try to give them a chance at having a better world than we do. And I'm not saying ours is that bad, but if it can be better, why not try do it so?
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I think it's a great idea (although I don't play it). It's called an open system, where you have difficulties going beyond the practical (and maybe conceivable) just so that you can have a better understanding of what practical is.
An analogy would be a combat training dummy that has a difficulty score, let's say a number starting at 1 and going up. Suppose no human could beat it past 9, most would say "make it go up to 9". By the open system logic, you would still make it go as high as you want (even if for example at 20 the thing breaks or something).
The simplest argument for this is that since it's combat _training_ dummy, it is possible humans will evolve past the "impossible" 9 so this would enable people to push their boundaries as they wish, or at least convince yourself that they exist: some might think that since they beat the dummy at 9 they could attempt the 10 too, trying and failing would give them a clear notion of their limitations.
I think EVE does this too, they show the grinding maniacs the impossible so that they understand their limits and value their capabilities and achievements more. If you know that nobody can beat the (above) dummy at 10, you'll feel better for being amongst the ones who win at 9.
200 months=16+ years The game wasn't on for that long
No, clearly you have no idea how idiots work
in short... yes
took me about 20seconds to copy paste and look at all of them. some times just do the thing, it's not worth it trying to find a simpler or better way of doing it.
score: 2, troll :P
so I guess that's a successful troll?
yeah but it's not a term, it's an expression. You're welcome
Nah, look at the other comment. Even if that guy really does give the order to launch a nuclear attack, I'm not sure his people would actually do it (unless he will pull the trigger himself).
Look, I don't think anyone, no matter how crazy and indoctrinated they are would start a nuclear holocaust just to make a point. When the time comes the most basic of instincts -making sure your species survives- will kick in. I think that if a nuclear holocaust does happen it will be because of human error like in that movie with Dr. Strangelove.
Well, that's good because the UN has such a powerful influence on all the countries...
But really, I say fuck it, let everyone have nukes. That way no-one would actually use them against anyone because that anyone can retaliate. Considering how the countries from the Middle East keep getting harassed by the Western countries I think they are entitled to at least not being afraid of getting nuked.
Uhm, yes it is a patent troll, it describes the way most online registrations work. It also doesn't describe the way the applications gets locked out of the full version is implemented. This is just another example of common sense put into a patent.
If you know your algorithms you can do whatever the fuck you want in informatics (or computer science if you like that term better). All that mambo jumbo about teamwork, architecture and design is something to make people who can't code feel like they know something. I know this sounds like a troll but that's how I feel about this subject.
This must be a way of making people respond to your comment, resulting in offtopic mods for them too which will make others be in the same bucket as you. It reminds me of a quote "If only people would desire happiness for themselves more than sadness for others, the world would be a better place".
Disclaimer: I currently have no mod points and as you can see my karma is pretty good, so yeah, burn it down...
Well they say samurais could march while asleep so they would get to their destination faster. This seems similar, especially since he's asian and dressed in army clothes, maybe they borrowed some of those training methods from samurais.
I'm all for standing up for free speech and freedom in general but this is not the fight you should take it to. Don't defend some fucked up porn stars for their 'freedom of speech'. If there is a case where free speech really matters, stand up for it then and there. (for example, the events in Iran, btw what's going in there now?).
I can't, I got banned while trying to over 9000...
...hmm?
Dammit, slashdot too?!
Zing!
:D
Mods, this one deserves it
True, I'd like to believe that a world where common sense and morality prevail can exist but I know that's not going to happen. Whenever an environment gathers enough individuals that rely on cooperation and mutual compromise there will appear individuals that will have a lot to gain by betraying all those "values" (read: social contracts).
Still, that doesn't mean people that do have principles and high moral standards shouldn't uphold them, just that they shouldn't expect the world to be fair and good if they do.
The "kiss my karma goodbye" line transforms the post in an anti-troll. Everyone who tries to mod it down gets his/hers karma burned and gives a +inf insightful/informative/funny/totally kickass mod to the OP.
And wait for the Macs to have the major market share or what? :P If you make a successful trojan, you'll probably try to get something out of it and at some point people will find out about it.
I had to rescan his post 3 times before I found the missing "y"s, they didn't bother me at all when reading it... Good for you for noticing them but who the hell cares he missed them?
"Never attribute to malice what could more easily be attributed to stupidity."
:P: if you go in the wrong gear in a parking lot and run over someone (because you went in the wrong way) you might say it's not your fault, you're just not that good at thinking. But if you do that 10 times then you may be retarded but you are also not trying to better your driving such that you won't run over people. At that point we're talking about malice.
I'd go for "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" since if they get so many complaints but still don't know how to handle them, they obviously don't care enough about customers to try to understand what's going on.
Allow me a car analogy
Huh? Why is it pretentious wanting to preserve knowledge and history? If the people in the future choose to be ignorant and do the same mistakes over and over, fine by me, by we should at least try to give them a chance at having a better world than we do. And I'm not saying ours is that bad, but if it can be better, why not try do it so?
Thanks, I am :D
Can you please explain how is your post related to mine?