i'd say go, probably. the rules are more minimal; the state space is larger and more connected with fewer dead-ends and "gotchas"; and it seems just as difficult/competitive. it's not unreasonable to think that games with more rules will tend to produce more specialized skills, and that specialized skills are inferior to general skills as far as "brain development" (whatever that means) is concerned.
also, dual n-back is supposedly shown to increase general intelligence rather than just skill. it's not exactly a lot of fun, but that's not the point.
uh, yeah, i've had extensive elite education in STEM, in the US. it's mostly a sausage fest. statistics will back this up and, no, they're not fabricated by teh feminist conspiracy.
i have to conclude that anyone who's bitterly complaining about women having taken over STEM is just a delusional loser who probably just couldn't hack it.
okay, this seems like it is going to degenerate into a pointless quibble over what an "accomplice" is, since the shit article has no discussion of the evidence or lack thereof. not interested.
at least you seem to have some idea of a general duty of responsibility. for example, it would be disingenuous for a chop shop to continue to accept, daily, a number of cars exceeding the legitimate resale market and of which a large number are later reported stolen. you probably understand that, so i don't really care about the rest.
And a chop shop is just buying huge amounts of car parts for cash. What's wrong with that? Car parts are legal! Cash is legal! Come on, cut my cousin Vinnie a break, he's just a poor kid who grew up in the South Bronx, your honor!
yeah, it's exactly as valid as saying that, as an American, i have a 14.1% chance of being black. that statistic is "simply based" on demographic numbers, and just as good as the overall average of murder numbers.
it's garbage, trying to fill too many roles and full of bloat, though some of this is the publisher's fault.
either dumb it down some more, or use a better book like Apostol. either way, that goddam tome is an anachronistic brick. i fucking hated calculus in high school, yet wound up with a Ph.D. in applied math once i got real teachers and real books.
fuck hell, when did Apostol go up to $220? i thought it was ridiculously expensive when i bought it years ago...
not that i disagree with your point, but note that by claiming that statistic, you are implicitly assuming that i chose (or would choose) my spouse/partner at random from the sampled population and, even further, that i myself was chosen at random from that population. neither of those are even close to true.
* A phone with a slideout keyboard, no matter how shitty the phone is otherwise, because the primary use of a phone is typing huge amounts of text into it and it's impossible to find external keyboards for touchscreen phones. * Donation in recipient's name to the "Association of Tyrants, Prosecutors, and Torturers for Liberty", a non-profit organization dedicated to repealing the Fifth Amendment. * A cooler full of ice for next year's BURNING MAN ! ZOMG so excited!
most restaurants are shit; i can cook much better. there are usually good restaurants, but geeks are notoriously awful (and diverse!) in taste. app downloads? eh, maybe, but you know what's even better? CASH. just get some crisp fresh bills from the bank, maybe a stack of $2s, if you don't give a shit anyway. most people have been conditioned implicitly to get a dopamine rush from counting/sorting money, so that actually makes a better gift than a piece of plastic linked to a rapidly depreciating account. [insert joke about engineered inflation here.]
i'd rather get a silly little puzzle or oddity than a fucking gift card. actually, i'd probably rather just get good wishes or something cute and handmade, like you suggested at the end.
i think we are agreed that bennett should choke on a bag of cocks, though.
and to think that once upon a time we had the naive belief that the arts themselves could spark and inspire thought about these noble purposes, so that your dichotomy would not apply.
fortunately we've gotten over that silly notion; now, get back to your drudge work and be happy to enjoy your optimized video experience.
And if our Slashdot-Asker had actually stated a use, we might be able to advise him better. As it is, we're all just guessing.
Myself, I'd even want Google Fiber just for the latency and reliability; throughput would be a far lesser consideration. I'd also have some idea of what I actually wanted to do with it, and would either know how to achieve that or, at least, have the decency to ask a specific question.
I doubt the Asker is even going to be pirating. I doubt he'll do much of anything really, which is perfectly fine, especially for Google shareholders.
You are paying for a service which you haven't stated an use for, and yet you are worried that you're being ripped off unless you make up some stupid reason to "fully utilize" it (whatever that means; I guess you can always stream/dev/urandom to make sure you get your money's worth). But you can't even come up with a "utilization", so you're fretting about wiring instead.
Again, who gives a shit? Just pay some monkey to wire up cat5. If you and your house are still around when you actually come up with a reason to do something better, pay another monkey to wire up (whatever the fuck).
Mythology is replete with examples of sex changes. Clearly it's been on people's minds for quite a while. It's not surprising that it's happening now that it's possible; even with our crude technology, there are plenty of early adopters. I doubt it's going to go anywhere
You're kind of right, though. The technology will probably improve drastically. In 50 years, you won't even be able to notice it. To follow your analogy, we stopped doing lobotomies because we invented risperdal.
Depression Quest is definitely a game in the sense that it's a really primitive interactive fiction. Zork is generally considered a game, so I don't see why Quinn's shouldn't be. Admittedly, it might not be a good game, but it is a game.
I played Depression Quest a while ago, long before this drama started. it was unpolished and had a lot of typos, but i thought it was a cute idea. iirc, wasn't the original outcry from "gamers" due to DQ being greenlit on Steam despite their not wanting it there? Honestly, I didn't understand that; if you don't like it, don't play it. I haven't been following this silly episode very well; it seems to have drifted onto various groups trying to "own" the incident. (yawn)
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tortious.
i'd say go, probably. the rules are more minimal; the state space is larger and more connected with fewer dead-ends and "gotchas"; and it seems just as difficult/competitive. it's not unreasonable to think that games with more rules will tend to produce more specialized skills, and that specialized skills are inferior to general skills as far as "brain development" (whatever that means) is concerned.
also, dual n-back is supposedly shown to increase general intelligence rather than just skill. it's not exactly a lot of fun, but that's not the point.
no, you don't understand! a real man fucking crushes his enemies. "discussion" is for effeminate white knights!!
of course, this is entirely about how neil degrasse tyson has humiliated himself, and in no way reflects b33rninj4's personal issues.
uh, yeah, i've had extensive elite education in STEM, in the US. it's mostly a sausage fest. statistics will back this up and, no, they're not fabricated by teh feminist conspiracy.
i have to conclude that anyone who's bitterly complaining about women having taken over STEM is just a delusional loser who probably just couldn't hack it.
sure, why not? logical fallacies only apply to logical arguments. when someone is just spewing bullshit, anything goes.
if females are dominating STEM fields by 2:1, i'll eat my shoes.
i agree that "incentive" programs are also bullshit, but why stoop to that level?
okay, this seems like it is going to degenerate into a pointless quibble over what an "accomplice" is, since the shit article has no discussion of the evidence or lack thereof. not interested.
at least you seem to have some idea of a general duty of responsibility. for example, it would be disingenuous for a chop shop to continue to accept, daily, a number of cars exceeding the legitimate resale market and of which a large number are later reported stolen. you probably understand that, so i don't really care about the rest.
And a chop shop is just buying huge amounts of car parts for cash. What's wrong with that? Car parts are legal! Cash is legal! Come on, cut my cousin Vinnie a break, he's just a poor kid who grew up in the South Bronx, your honor!
yeah, Viacom probably didn't want to deal with subpoenas and a federal investigation from the comments of people like you.
pretty wise of them, really.
yeah, it's exactly as valid as saying that, as an American, i have a 14.1% chance of being black. that statistic is "simply based" on demographic numbers, and just as good as the overall average of murder numbers.
you never know if that person could one day suffer from a mental problem
sure but these probabilities are not uniform across all subpopulations.
i wish you the best in recovering from whatever you've experienced that caused you to go on this weird, marginally relevant rant.
you're so sure that people here are merely jealous rather than spiteful at someone profiting off a system they correctly see as bullshit.
there is, actually, a difference between "hey, i want that!" and "hey, i could have had that if i were an amoral asshole. fuck this world."
of course they can both be stupid and counterproductive (particularly, the latter is just wrong), but it's a bit silly to use the same label for both.
it's garbage, trying to fill too many roles and full of bloat, though some of this is the publisher's fault.
either dumb it down some more, or use a better book like Apostol. either way, that goddam tome is an anachronistic brick. i fucking hated calculus in high school, yet wound up with a Ph.D. in applied math once i got real teachers and real books.
fuck hell, when did Apostol go up to $220? i thought it was ridiculously expensive when i bought it years ago...
not that i disagree with your point, but note that by claiming that statistic, you are implicitly assuming that i chose (or would choose) my spouse/partner at random from the sampled population and, even further, that i myself was chosen at random from that population. neither of those are even close to true.
* A phone with a slideout keyboard, no matter how shitty the phone is otherwise, because the primary use of a phone is typing huge amounts of text into it and it's impossible to find external keyboards for touchscreen phones.
* Donation in recipient's name to the "Association of Tyrants, Prosecutors, and Torturers for Liberty", a non-profit organization dedicated to repealing the Fifth Amendment.
* A cooler full of ice for next year's BURNING MAN ! ZOMG so excited!
most restaurants are shit; i can cook much better. there are usually good restaurants, but geeks are notoriously awful (and diverse!) in taste. app downloads? eh, maybe, but you know what's even better? CASH. just get some crisp fresh bills from the bank, maybe a stack of $2s, if you don't give a shit anyway. most people have been conditioned implicitly to get a dopamine rush from counting/sorting money, so that actually makes a better gift than a piece of plastic linked to a rapidly depreciating account. [insert joke about engineered inflation here.]
i'd rather get a silly little puzzle or oddity than a fucking gift card. actually, i'd probably rather just get good wishes or something cute and handmade, like you suggested at the end.
i think we are agreed that bennett should choke on a bag of cocks, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
ah, the inevitable poorly-worded statement of false equivalence.
are definite articles really so fucking difficult to learn?
and to think that once upon a time we had the naive belief that the arts themselves could spark and inspire thought about these noble purposes, so that your dichotomy would not apply.
fortunately we've gotten over that silly notion; now, get back to your drudge work and be happy to enjoy your optimized video experience.
And if our Slashdot-Asker had actually stated a use, we might be able to advise him better. As it is, we're all just guessing.
Myself, I'd even want Google Fiber just for the latency and reliability; throughput would be a far lesser consideration. I'd also have some idea of what I actually wanted to do with it, and would either know how to achieve that or, at least, have the decency to ask a specific question.
I doubt the Asker is even going to be pirating. I doubt he'll do much of anything really, which is perfectly fine, especially for Google shareholders.
You are paying for a service which you haven't stated an use for, and yet you are worried that you're being ripped off unless you make up some stupid reason to "fully utilize" it (whatever that means; I guess you can always stream /dev/urandom to make sure you get your money's worth). But you can't even come up with a "utilization", so you're fretting about wiring instead.
Again, who gives a shit? Just pay some monkey to wire up cat5. If you and your house are still around when you actually come up with a reason to do something better, pay another monkey to wire up (whatever the fuck).
Mythology is replete with examples of sex changes. Clearly it's been on people's minds for quite a while. It's not surprising that it's happening now that it's possible; even with our crude technology, there are plenty of early adopters. I doubt it's going to go anywhere
You're kind of right, though. The technology will probably improve drastically. In 50 years, you won't even be able to notice it. To follow your analogy, we stopped doing lobotomies because we invented risperdal.
this isn't offtopic.
did i offend someone by pointing out that the Quinn-hate started before the accusations of sexual manipulation? lol.
Depression Quest is definitely a game in the sense that it's a really primitive interactive fiction. Zork is generally considered a game, so I don't see why Quinn's shouldn't be. Admittedly, it might not be a good game, but it is a game.
I played Depression Quest a while ago, long before this drama started. it was unpolished and had a lot of typos, but i thought it was a cute idea. iirc, wasn't the original outcry from "gamers" due to DQ being greenlit on Steam despite their not wanting it there? Honestly, I didn't understand that; if you don't like it, don't play it. I haven't been following this silly episode very well; it seems to have drifted onto various groups trying to "own" the incident. (yawn)
Mr. President, we must not allow an anal gap!
good to know.
palm oil is quite expensive, however. i'd be very surprised if they weren't using the much more plentiful petroleum byproduct.