I ain't no brain surgeon, but my understanding of that bundle of nerves is that the relationships grow over time between areas and between cells. They evolve throughout our early childhood and then slowly over time, seem to cement more and more. after these paths have developed, the brain treats them as we treat our limbs - you can't just go cutting them out because it isn't the same as the other brains are.
Actually, I think that an application that monitors your car's battery/fuel/power source and is linked to a GPS with a trip planner saying "Hey, you won't get there with your current battery/fuel/etc level, you need to get more juice" would be fricken useful.
I recently did a trip through Wales with mates in a car with a nice GPS, but when you plan a trip that's longer than your car's fuel tank, having it add a "refuel your car here, take this exit off the freeway" sort of show would be REALLY handy.
Hey hey hey! I am a business analyst, I am out here working hard! No, wait, I am here on slashdot in between meetings. Damn and confound your arguments!
What the hell kind of brainwashing are you talking about?
Scientist 1: I believe we have a winner!
Scientist 2: Yup, no recollection of the brain washing at all.
Business Manager: Right, you two bust out the bubbly while I get that patent form filled in!
Good god, here goes all my Karma in the name of humor:
That's scary, but if you want genuine terror, there's nothing to top God coming back to smite all the evil and villainy, especially if you happen to be an evil villain.
I believe you overlooked SCIENCE. Nothing to stop him coming back eh, you crazy believers... nothing... heh... oh my...
I would doubt that. If anything, maybe someone suggested it as a location for a joke and some dumb bewb fell for it.
It would be like telling some dumb fool to try to set up fake slot machines in the lobby of some Vegas casino for a laugh and watching the tit go ahead and do it...
3 is 50% larger than 2. (3 = 2 + 50% of 2)
2 is 33% smaller than 3. (2 = 3 - 33% of 3)
2 is not generally considered 50% smaller than 3, even though 3/2=1.5. Nor is it considered 66% smaller than 3, even though 2/3=66.6%.
Good god, do you have any idea of how many times I have tried to explain this simple concept to the senior business managers that read the analytical reports that I and my department publish within my company? It's just a joke that so many people who are in senior roles within a business simply don't understand simple mathematical concepts.
If someone takes sports serious, can you still call them people?
Seriously, I can see someone trying to achive something like lifting more weight, running faster or jumping higher. But taking it serious when someone else lifts more, runs faster or jumps higher? Get a life.
In my books, someone who takes it seriously when they lose, learns from their mistakes, strives harder and goes on to win - is AWESOME. On the other hand, someone who takes sport seriously, gets beaten and then becomes a sore loser, whining and whinging, they deserve to lose - and also need to have a good look at their life.
But if you know any MMO where you can push only crafting for less than half a year and produce something that will make your life as a crafter viable, do tell. I'd like to play it.
Actually SW:Galaxies allowed me to become one of the best known crafters on my server within about a month of playing (Being in Aus, it took us about a month after server release to get it out) and then my main character on Flurry (Mmaass) made some good business decisions which ended up over the next four to five months of play to scrape together about 65 million in credits. How much is that you say? Well, they did some interesting stats on the game (released by SOE) and the average around that time was I think 25 thousand per player. I did eventually get a little bored with just the crafting, so I took out a second account and actually did some PvP and tried to see the fight/battle side of the game, but ended up so bored with the broken combat system that I stayed crafting as my main character.
Also, prior to that, in Ultima Online, the majority of my game was spent crafting. This was the early days of UO too btw. Sure, I had my trusty bard for when I had made my stock for my shop, but the majority of time was spent crafting (Mainly with characters called "Human Hands" - which meant that all my GM made gear was subtitled "Made by Human Hands" which I thought was amusing), collecting copious amounts of money and then buying rares/server rares to further deck out and distinguish my shop with as well as basicing bankrolling friends and guilds. Again, in this game (I started with mates on a server probably about 6 months after the first oceanic servers popped up) and within a half year, I was probably in the top five stores on the server, was well known and from memory I had four characters that were crafters compared to just the one combat type and one PvP type.
Both of these games allowed me to make a fortune as a crafter with almost no time played hunting/farming/fighting, which then let me host things like treasure hunts, tournaments and a shitton of other fun player events. Because I was a very successful crafter, I did have a bucket of cash to play with - allowing me to put up cash prizes for example that a "new" or "casual" player might have to spend a month of two farming to get in other means, but that's part of what I like to do.
But painfully explaining the obvious to morons is part of what I love about/.!
You should heed your calling in life and become a kindergarten teacher. You can explain simple things to people who still have no clue about what you just explained all day long.
But you can't really call Wow "hard", as in "difficult", because it's not- if you have the time, it's actually very easy.
O rly? So when you have something like AQ40, which was according to devs only ever accessed by about the top 3% of players, you don't think that would make it a HARD place to get through?
I will go so far as to half agree with the first part of your post. WOW does have a very easy initial learning curve. The low end quests basically teach you how to play your character to a minimum level. However, by the time you level up, and start chasing achievements that involve timers, hard modes etc, I can tell you that the player who can "play to a minimum" doesn't stand a chance.
> In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce
How'd that work out for them, compared to the opposite?
Well I'm going out on a limb here, but I think you're supposed to come away with the idea that it's not much different. It's the "in Soviet Russia" meme version of the old joke "Under Communism, man exploits his fellow man. Under capitalism, it's the other way around."
Explaining all that to someone who missed the rather obvious and simple reference originally has as much point as a fat lady's hindquarters. Sometimes, you just have to let the dumb be dumb. It's less painful.
The sooner you realise this and embrace the world's common tongue -- English -- the better, for you and for Europe.
Yes, cause no-one in Europe speaks that "English" thing you speak of at all. We are all just jabbering away in British most of the time.
As for the release, if you are going to release it in another language, do it properly and do it well. If you want people to like and play it, otherwise don't bloody do it at all. Most people would probably play on an English server if they didn't have a native language client installed and then didn't have to put up with sub standard translations and sound.
Maybe that after... what? 4 years?... they STILL didn't manage to come up with a German translation that doesn't reek like an egg left for a week in an old boot out in the Sahara sun?
Wow, I just always assumed that ALL German speech reeked like an eff left for a week in an old boot out in the Sahara sun. You learn something new every day...
What is this TAVERN you speak of? Have you been watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Star Wars didn't have TAVERNS. It had CANTINAS.
Good god man, please take off your nerd badge, leave your pass at reception and go take a few crash courses to improve yourself back to a respectable nerd level.
Not a trace of it, other than some other people describing the commercial as well. Sorry.
And you think that Big Blue lost... What really happened:
1) BigBlue loses to puny human in some silly challenge.
2) Humans laugh and mock and make a commercial.
3) BigBlue hooks into the inter-ma-web and finds all references, footage and proof that this ever occurred.
4) All mention of this defeat at the hands of the puny humans vanishes overnight.
5).....
6) PROFIT!
Isn't about three billion years when the sun is supposed to be in it's bloated red giant phase anyhow, making whether the solar system is ejected or whether we end up in some inhospitable part of the galaxy a rather moot point?
Looking at it, seems like either outcome means lights out (well, probably more like lights on one hundred million times more powerful) but whatever happens, here is where we don't want to be.
Can I market a quack diet scheme to people by convincing them that if they just get 'brighter' they'll lose weight?
Of course you can! Don't let poor science get in the way of selling some new fab diet. Clearly that's NEVER been an issue in the past with the dieting industry.
If it wasn't for TFA, I don't think I ever would have worked out from the picture that it was a meteorite. It's like taking a picture of a blurred rock and claiming it's the fricken moon or something.
Those amazing astronomer's and there cookey lookey-up-close things...
Slashdot Mirror
I ain't no brain surgeon, but my understanding of that bundle of nerves is that the relationships grow over time between areas and between cells. They evolve throughout our early childhood and then slowly over time, seem to cement more and more. after these paths have developed, the brain treats them as we treat our limbs - you can't just go cutting them out because it isn't the same as the other brains are.
"You aren't going fucking anywhere, dude"
Actually, I think that an application that monitors your car's battery/fuel/power source and is linked to a GPS with a trip planner saying "Hey, you won't get there with your current battery/fuel/etc level, you need to get more juice" would be fricken useful.
I recently did a trip through Wales with mates in a car with a nice GPS, but when you plan a trip that's longer than your car's fuel tank, having it add a "refuel your car here, take this exit off the freeway" sort of show would be REALLY handy.
quicker and cheaper to just replace all televisions with mirrors so we can watch ourselves.
Oohhhh.... the things I have seen with a mirror. You don't want to see these things. I had a hard time accepting them myself.
Hey hey hey! I am a business analyst, I am out here working hard! No, wait, I am here on slashdot in between meetings. Damn and confound your arguments!
The whole point of space travel is to permanently get humans to other places in the Solar System, Galaxy and Universe other than Earth.
Good god, baby steps. Don't even THINK about outside the solar system in your lifetime, or likely your kids lifetime, or their kids.
... other than earth."
Also, from a grammar nazi's perspective, your repeated use of 'other' is redundant in your sentence: "other places
What the hell kind of brainwashing are you talking about?
Scientist 1: I believe we have a winner!
Scientist 2: Yup, no recollection of the brain washing at all.
Business Manager: Right, you two bust out the bubbly while I get that patent form filled in!
Sing it with me:
Jupiter and Venus,
In a Tree!
K I S S
I N G!
Yes, now they BOTH have cold sores.
That's scary, but if you want genuine terror, there's nothing to top God coming back to smite all the evil and villainy, especially if you happen to be an evil villain.
I believe you overlooked SCIENCE. Nothing to stop him coming back eh, you crazy believers... nothing... heh... oh my...
I would doubt that. If anything, maybe someone suggested it as a location for a joke and some dumb bewb fell for it.
It would be like telling some dumb fool to try to set up fake slot machines in the lobby of some Vegas casino for a laugh and watching the tit go ahead and do it...
3 is 50% larger than 2. (3 = 2 + 50% of 2)
2 is 33% smaller than 3. (2 = 3 - 33% of 3)
2 is not generally considered 50% smaller than 3, even though 3/2=1.5. Nor is it considered 66% smaller than 3, even though 2/3=66.6%.
Good god, do you have any idea of how many times I have tried to explain this simple concept to the senior business managers that read the analytical reports that I and my department publish within my company? It's just a joke that so many people who are in senior roles within a business simply don't understand simple mathematical concepts.
If someone takes sports serious, can you still call them people?
Seriously, I can see someone trying to achive something like lifting more weight, running faster or jumping higher. But taking it serious when someone else lifts more, runs faster or jumps higher? Get a life.
In my books, someone who takes it seriously when they lose, learns from their mistakes, strives harder and goes on to win - is AWESOME. On the other hand, someone who takes sport seriously, gets beaten and then becomes a sore loser, whining and whinging, they deserve to lose - and also need to have a good look at their life.
There is no more spoon
There never was.
But if you know any MMO where you can push only crafting for less than half a year and produce something that will make your life as a crafter viable, do tell. I'd like to play it.
Actually SW:Galaxies allowed me to become one of the best known crafters on my server within about a month of playing (Being in Aus, it took us about a month after server release to get it out) and then my main character on Flurry (Mmaass) made some good business decisions which ended up over the next four to five months of play to scrape together about 65 million in credits. How much is that you say? Well, they did some interesting stats on the game (released by SOE) and the average around that time was I think 25 thousand per player. I did eventually get a little bored with just the crafting, so I took out a second account and actually did some PvP and tried to see the fight/battle side of the game, but ended up so bored with the broken combat system that I stayed crafting as my main character.
Also, prior to that, in Ultima Online, the majority of my game was spent crafting. This was the early days of UO too btw. Sure, I had my trusty bard for when I had made my stock for my shop, but the majority of time was spent crafting (Mainly with characters called "Human Hands" - which meant that all my GM made gear was subtitled "Made by Human Hands" which I thought was amusing), collecting copious amounts of money and then buying rares/server rares to further deck out and distinguish my shop with as well as basicing bankrolling friends and guilds. Again, in this game (I started with mates on a server probably about 6 months after the first oceanic servers popped up) and within a half year, I was probably in the top five stores on the server, was well known and from memory I had four characters that were crafters compared to just the one combat type and one PvP type.
Both of these games allowed me to make a fortune as a crafter with almost no time played hunting/farming/fighting, which then let me host things like treasure hunts, tournaments and a shitton of other fun player events. Because I was a very successful crafter, I did have a bucket of cash to play with - allowing me to put up cash prizes for example that a "new" or "casual" player might have to spend a month of two farming to get in other means, but that's part of what I like to do.
But painfully explaining the obvious to morons is part of what I love about /.!
You should heed your calling in life and become a kindergarten teacher. You can explain simple things to people who still have no clue about what you just explained all day long.
Actually wait...
But you can't really call Wow "hard", as in "difficult", because it's not- if you have the time, it's actually very easy.
O rly? So when you have something like AQ40, which was according to devs only ever accessed by about the top 3% of players, you don't think that would make it a HARD place to get through?
I will go so far as to half agree with the first part of your post. WOW does have a very easy initial learning curve. The low end quests basically teach you how to play your character to a minimum level. However, by the time you level up, and start chasing achievements that involve timers, hard modes etc, I can tell you that the player who can "play to a minimum" doesn't stand a chance.
Oh, and regarding your humoro-sarcastic .sig:
> In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce
How'd that work out for them, compared to the opposite?
Well I'm going out on a limb here, but I think you're supposed to come away with the idea that it's not much different. It's the "in Soviet Russia" meme version of the old joke "Under Communism, man exploits his fellow man. Under capitalism, it's the other way around."
Explaining all that to someone who missed the rather obvious and simple reference originally has as much point as a fat lady's hindquarters. Sometimes, you just have to let the dumb be dumb. It's less painful.
The sooner you realise this and embrace the world's common tongue -- English -- the better, for you and for Europe.
Yes, cause no-one in Europe speaks that "English" thing you speak of at all. We are all just jabbering away in British most of the time.
As for the release, if you are going to release it in another language, do it properly and do it well. If you want people to like and play it, otherwise don't bloody do it at all. Most people would probably play on an English server if they didn't have a native language client installed and then didn't have to put up with sub standard translations and sound.
Maybe that after ... what? 4 years? ... they STILL didn't manage to come up with a German translation that doesn't reek like an egg left for a week in an old boot out in the Sahara sun?
Wow, I just always assumed that ALL German speech reeked like an eff left for a week in an old boot out in the Sahara sun. You learn something new every day...
and tavern "music" in the original
What is this TAVERN you speak of? Have you been watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Star Wars didn't have TAVERNS. It had CANTINAS.
Good god man, please take off your nerd badge, leave your pass at reception and go take a few crash courses to improve yourself back to a respectable nerd level.
Not a trace of it, other than some other people describing the commercial as well. Sorry.
And you think that Big Blue lost... What really happened:
.....
1) BigBlue loses to puny human in some silly challenge.
2) Humans laugh and mock and make a commercial.
3) BigBlue hooks into the inter-ma-web and finds all references, footage and proof that this ever occurred.
4) All mention of this defeat at the hands of the puny humans vanishes overnight.
5)
6) PROFIT!
Isn't about three billion years when the sun is supposed to be in it's bloated red giant phase anyhow, making whether the solar system is ejected or whether we end up in some inhospitable part of the galaxy a rather moot point?
Looking at it, seems like either outcome means lights out (well, probably more like lights on one hundred million times more powerful) but whatever happens, here is where we don't want to be.
Call me crazy
Okay, I am making it official.
eln is Crazy.
+1 Informative plzkthxbai.
Can I market a quack diet scheme to people by convincing them that if they just get 'brighter' they'll lose weight?
Of course you can! Don't let poor science get in the way of selling some new fab diet. Clearly that's NEVER been an issue in the past with the dieting industry.
If it wasn't for TFA, I don't think I ever would have worked out from the picture that it was a meteorite. It's like taking a picture of a blurred rock and claiming it's the fricken moon or something.
Those amazing astronomer's and there cookey lookey-up-close things...
Well, you could do it the Australian way. Cash for Comments worked for a while...