There have been other games published by Atlus and Nippon Ichi Software that you may like -- La Pucelle, Makai Kingdom, Atelier Iris, and Phantom Brave. I haven't played any of them but from what I have seen and heard they are pretty much awesome, being in the same "feel" as Disgaea.
I agree with much of your post. I did not mean to imply that multitaskig should be avoided, and indeed it is required much of the time.
However I did want to dismiss the idea that multitasking was the only *true* worthwhile use of time. The original parent dismissed single-tasking as a complete waste of time, regardless of focus or depth. This I cannot agree with, and to a certain extent, you do too. You say that if you have the capacity to do multiple things at once you should, but what if you are focused completly on one thing, with no extra capacity? That would not be wasting time either.
Although, in practice that is difficult, if not impossible to acheive.
Poor grammar? Incorrect assumptions? I will take offsense to this as my grammar was sound, and I made no assumptions. Everything that I stated was gleened from your post. Everything else were just questions.
Please show me specific examples.
Also, as for my "uninformed kind", you are grossly mistaken. I have been reading and posting to slashdot much longer than you have. Although I hate to compare UID, I will in do so in this case.
One more thing... How can you doubt that I read the article? I stated very specific information as written in the article, relating it what you wrote in your post, with some +1 Insightful added in for good measure.
RTFA (You Are A Crack Addict)
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If you had RTFA you would know that you are a dellusioned individual. You "WANT to" because you are addicted to the dopamine that is released each time you learn "new stuff" or "expand [your] understanding of the world".
Tell me, do you feel down, or groggy, or in any way sad, when you do not monitor your couple of dozen sites? What happens when you go for a day or two without internet access? These would be withdrawal symptoms.
So, you show a prime example of the problem -- no, in fact your are the very epidome. You think you are using every conceivable second of your life to the fullest. You have this push to experience everything immediately and constantly. But for what reason? Why do they have to all occur simultaneously? More importantly, how did you come about the decision that doing only one thing at a time is "complete waste of precious time"!?
Logically following your views to their conclusion would mean that the moment you focus on anything it becomes a waste of time. This is so absolutely flawed, I am now speechless.
Please take an objective view of yourself, and discover what your motives (if any) are for feeling the way you do. Then please respond and tell me how they are not in any way related to your dopamine addiction.
That's not true. I watched the episode you are referring to, where they redid the test.
They still missed the point, and still froze the water using liquid nitrogen. They did not try numerous speeds or liquids. What they did change, was that they didn't let the ice come in direct contact with the liquid nitrogen, and also let it sit overnight before using the ice bullets.
However, this was a waste as the ice still came out brittle and *very* cloudy the next day (you can see this when they go and load the gun), indicating the prescence of massive air bubbles trapped inside. Leaving the ice sit overnight was worthless as the liquid nitrogen would still have frozen it within a matter of minutes -- after which no amount of time would fix the ice.
Regarding your point about the ice melting... A harder ice without air bubbles would be propelled faster and farther away from the gun blast quicker, making less time for the ice to absorb the heat and melt. Also, the melting may have been caused by the brittle ice disintregating from the force and therefore melting faster due to the higher surface-area to mass ratio (melting as from the outside as one block vs. melting as a fine mist all at once).
I agree with the grandparent post. The two on Mythbusters are capable as far as welding metal and concocting ways to make an entertainig show via blowing things up, but they are almost completely ignorant of any knowledge of real science and physics. Their experiments sometimes are just plain wrong.
Yeah, this development is pretty much unstoppable. I'm looking forward to it, and have pretty much nothing against it.
Except I'm scare for one result: super-massive-gas-guzzling-Hummers-of-the-future.
Think about it. Built-in TVs DVD players, those are just the first step. Once the car is driving itself, you are completely free bring in all of the nicities and freedoms from home. This includes but is not limited too:
sleeping
eating
going to the bathroom
sex, all of the time
window-less cars for the above
cooking
etc
and unfortunately:
work
The result can only be one thing - everyone and their mother is driving around in what is basically a RV. And to those who think otherwise, or say I'm full of it: It's only a matter of time. It's simply the natural progression of people to want everything all of the time.
And to cover the obligatory responses in advance: All famous or rich people alread have the above in the form of a private jet or limo or tour bus. It's just that the rest of us have no idea how nice they are.
Oh well, need to go.
Everybody doesn't drive an RV nowadays already because they are too expensive and Don't drive themselves yet.
This goes directly against the expectations of Wikipedia -- that the lastest version of an article is the "best". Casual readers can not help but assume that subsequent editing to an article has improved it.
So in effect you are perverting the Wikipedia system by ignoring later contributions. Now, that's not to say that what you are doing is bad. But it does show that in this case Wikipedia has failed at what it was meant to do.
Basically he means the i550. It's an upgrade to the i500, but it has a few big changes (some better some worse).
As far as the link not working, Slashdot has a weird way of inserting spaces into the message when it's posted. Remove them from the URL that the grandparent posted and it will work.
Remote desktop doesn't work the same way as VNC -- it requires a separate login and user account. It doesn't actually let you control the session of currently logged in user, which is what I usually do, so I can access programs that I leave running.
I had always thought about this too, with the same reasoning. A short route would imply having to go through asteroid fields or tight ravines, etc. (Isn't the Kessel Run on a desert-like planet, anways? Seem to remember it being a star wars game.) Still it makes me laugh when I read it from other people.
It's like some mass-delusion. I wish Lucas had just done his homework in the first place and saved us all of this schizophrenia of lying to ourselves into believing that Han's statement made sense.
BTW - This isn't a troll. I'm just reflecting on the state of star wars fandom.
Using plants to reduce the atmospheric CO2 levels wouldn't work because eventually all of that carbon would end up back in the atmosphere. With plants decaying or being burnt, CO2 is let off.
But say instead the plants are eaten, by growing fruit and vegetables (which is the obvious choice vs. non-edible plants). However the carbon will still make its way back to the atmosphere by being released by the animals that ate those plants.
This shows clearly what the real problem is. We are mining carbon from underground in the form of crude oil, and have no way of getting it back down there. Therefore we will always have a positive sum of carbon.
Until we find a way to convert CO2 into straight carbon, the carbon that we have released from underground will always be with us up here.
No I think it's the other way around. The black areas on a plasma screen are not being utilized, meaning that the middle 4:3 area is being burnt-out at a faster rate. You would one day turn on your tube to realize that the middle area is dimmer and less colorful than the edges.
I believe the effect of the grey is to help wear out the entire screen at the same rate, so you don't notice it. Very similar to when you run "maintenance mode" on a plasma screen by watching it with inverted colors. You attempt to use up those pixels that were underused before, to even it out.
1) Resources. I'm running Windows XP and from what I understand, there is no way I can remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Call me a space hog, but I don't like having un-used aps on my computer. I figure better to have an inferior browser on my computer, a little extra space, and less confusion then to load both of them. Can anyone solve that problem?
Yes, get your head out of your ass. Would you remove the seatbelts from your car to have "less confusion", or "a little extra space" ??
It's 2004, not 1994. A few megs isn't even worth thinking about on a desktop computer. IE trojans and exploits are real. Deal with it.
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Well Google didn't take the time to figure that people can't perform HIT's while sleeping, eating, etc.
The grandparent arrived at that calculation based off of a 40-hour week, which I think is appropriate.
There have been other games published by Atlus and Nippon Ichi Software that you may like -- La Pucelle, Makai Kingdom, Atelier Iris, and Phantom Brave. I haven't played any of them but from what I have seen and heard they are pretty much awesome, being in the same "feel" as Disgaea.
Cool. I hope I'm not the only other person who appreciates a good reference to old-school Iron Chef. :)
umm...
WHOOSH!
That's why you just make it an animated .gif. As hard as a still image, and as the GP said, no single frame has the entire phrase.
Of course if you need a pretty 60fps you might have to use flash.
Funny... yes. But this is just a case of another misnomer made up for spin. It's just plain old fraud.
Zonk runs slashdot similarly to timothy or Cowboy Neal. You can see him/her post articles occasionally, like here.
They had another target in March of 2001 for the spacestation Mir.
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http://freebies.about.com/cs/foodfreebies/l/bltac
I agree with much of your post. I did not mean to imply that multitaskig should be avoided, and indeed it is required much of the time.
However I did want to dismiss the idea that multitasking was the only *true* worthwhile use of time. The original parent dismissed single-tasking as a complete waste of time, regardless of focus or depth. This I cannot agree with, and to a certain extent, you do too. You say that if you have the capacity to do multiple things at once you should, but what if you are focused completly on one thing, with no extra capacity? That would not be wasting time either.
Although, in practice that is difficult, if not impossible to acheive.
Poor grammar? Incorrect assumptions? I will take offsense to this as my grammar was sound, and I made no assumptions. Everything that I stated was gleened from your post. Everything else were just questions.
Please show me specific examples.
Also, as for my "uninformed kind", you are grossly mistaken. I have been reading and posting to slashdot much longer than you have. Although I hate to compare UID, I will in do so in this case.
One more thing... How can you doubt that I read the article? I stated very specific information as written in the article, relating it what you wrote in your post, with some +1 Insightful added in for good measure.
If you had RTFA you would know that you are a dellusioned individual. You "WANT to" because you are addicted to the dopamine that is released each time you learn "new stuff" or "expand [your] understanding of the world".
Tell me, do you feel down, or groggy, or in any way sad, when you do not monitor your couple of dozen sites? What happens when you go for a day or two without internet access? These would be withdrawal symptoms.
So, you show a prime example of the problem -- no, in fact your are the very epidome. You think you are using every conceivable second of your life to the fullest. You have this push to experience everything immediately and constantly. But for what reason? Why do they have to all occur simultaneously? More importantly, how did you come about the decision that doing only one thing at a time is "complete waste of precious time"!?
Logically following your views to their conclusion would mean that the moment you focus on anything it becomes a waste of time. This is so absolutely flawed, I am now speechless.
Please take an objective view of yourself, and discover what your motives (if any) are for feeling the way you do. Then please respond and tell me how they are not in any way related to your dopamine addiction.
That's not true. I watched the episode you are referring to, where they redid the test.
They still missed the point, and still froze the water using liquid nitrogen. They did not try numerous speeds or liquids. What they did change, was that they didn't let the ice come in direct contact with the liquid nitrogen, and also let it sit overnight before using the ice bullets.
However, this was a waste as the ice still came out brittle and *very* cloudy the next day (you can see this when they go and load the gun), indicating the prescence of massive air bubbles trapped inside. Leaving the ice sit overnight was worthless as the liquid nitrogen would still have frozen it within a matter of minutes -- after which no amount of time would fix the ice.
Regarding your point about the ice melting... A harder ice without air bubbles would be propelled faster and farther away from the gun blast quicker, making less time for the ice to absorb the heat and melt. Also, the melting may have been caused by the brittle ice disintregating from the force and therefore melting faster due to the higher surface-area to mass ratio (melting as from the outside as one block vs. melting as a fine mist all at once).
I agree with the grandparent post. The two on Mythbusters are capable as far as welding metal and concocting ways to make an entertainig show via blowing things up, but they are almost completely ignorant of any knowledge of real science and physics. Their experiments sometimes are just plain wrong.
Except I'm scare for one result: super-massive-gas-guzzling-Hummers-of-the-future.
Think about it. Built-in TVs DVD players, those are just the first step. Once the car is driving itself, you are completely free bring in all of the nicities and freedoms from home.
This includes but is not limited too:
and unfortunately:
The result can only be one thing - everyone and their mother is driving around in what is basically a RV. And to those who think otherwise, or say I'm full of it: It's only a matter of time. It's simply the natural progression of people to want everything all of the time.
And to cover the obligatory responses in advance:
All famous or rich people alread have the above in the form of a private jet or limo or tour bus. It's just that the rest of us have no idea how nice they are.
Oh well, need to go.
Everybody doesn't drive an RV nowadays already because they are too expensive and Don't drive themselves yet.
This goes directly against the expectations of Wikipedia -- that the lastest version of an article is the "best". Casual readers can not help but assume that subsequent editing to an article has improved it.
So in effect you are perverting the Wikipedia system by ignoring later contributions. Now, that's not to say that what you are doing is bad. But it does show that in this case Wikipedia has failed at what it was meant to do.
Mods, please mod parent up. Every good ONTOPIC Simpsons reference deserves some generous karma.
Basically he means the i550. It's an upgrade to the i500, but it has a few big changes (some better some worse).
As far as the link not working, Slashdot has a weird way of inserting spaces into the message when it's posted. Remove them from the URL that the grandparent posted and it will work.
Thanks, I'll have to try that out.
Also, I think in my original post I was confusing Terminal Services with Remote Desktop. I haven't used either one very much.
Remote desktop doesn't work the same way as VNC -- it requires a separate login and user account. It doesn't actually let you control the session of currently logged in user, which is what I usually do, so I can access programs that I leave running.
I had always thought about this too, with the same reasoning. A short route would imply having to go through asteroid fields or tight ravines, etc. (Isn't the Kessel Run on a desert-like planet, anways? Seem to remember it being a star wars game.) Still it makes me laugh when I read it from other people.
It's like some mass-delusion. I wish Lucas had just done his homework in the first place and saved us all of this schizophrenia of lying to ourselves into believing that Han's statement made sense.
BTW - This isn't a troll. I'm just reflecting on the state of star wars fandom.
Using plants to reduce the atmospheric CO2 levels wouldn't work because eventually all of that carbon would end up back in the atmosphere. With plants decaying or being burnt, CO2 is let off.
But say instead the plants are eaten, by growing fruit and vegetables (which is the obvious choice vs. non-edible plants). However the carbon will still make its way back to the atmosphere by being released by the animals that ate those plants.
This shows clearly what the real problem is. We are mining carbon from underground in the form of crude oil, and have no way of getting it back down there. Therefore we will always have a positive sum of carbon.
Until we find a way to convert CO2 into straight carbon, the carbon that we have released from underground will always be with us up here.
No I think it's the other way around. The black areas on a plasma screen are not being utilized, meaning that the middle 4:3 area is being burnt-out at a faster rate. You would one day turn on your tube to realize that the middle area is dimmer and less colorful than the edges.
I believe the effect of the grey is to help wear out the entire screen at the same rate, so you don't notice it. Very similar to when you run "maintenance mode" on a plasma screen by watching it with inverted colors. You attempt to use up those pixels that were underused before, to even it out.
Ugh, this is when you need this kind of mod:
Re:How to they track them? (Score:-1, Reminding me of Star Trek : The Motion Picture)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/
Re:Dog (Score:-1, Tired Political Humor)
Paper Carriage (paper tray) Load Letter (-size paper)
It wants Letter-size paper but maybe it's out or is loaded with legal size, etc.
1) Resources. I'm running Windows XP and from what I understand, there is no way I can remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Call me a space hog, but I don't like having un-used aps on my computer. I figure better to have an inferior browser on my computer, a little extra space, and less confusion then to load both of them. Can anyone solve that problem?
Yes, get your head out of your ass. Would you remove the seatbelts from your car to have "less confusion", or "a little extra space" ??
It's 2004, not 1994. A few megs isn't even worth thinking about on a desktop computer. IE trojans and exploits are real. Deal with it.