Clearly you've never played D&D. I've had gaming sessions that had more plot, depth, and character development than anything you're going to read in a book or see on the big screen. There are a lot of immersive games based on the idea of a lone adventurer, or a party, saving the world. Look at Skyrim for example.
Skyrim is an excellent example of a trite, derivative, unimaginative pile of genre clichés (beginning with the "lone adventurer... saving the world"), just liike D&D. Getting to lvl 30 isn't character development, it's just game mechanics. There's not much depth to it, just complexity, and a vast open world to explore.
Tom Bissell writes about the video game as an artistic medium for storytelling. What you're talking about is something else entirely. Clearly, you have never experienced art.
Well, I've got those, but mainly on the way home. The worst hill is approximately 650 ft vertical over 1.2 miles, and I wouldn't claim to do that without breaking a sweat. It's easy on the way down, though.
Walk/Run/Bike to or from work - only works if you have access to a shower facility or public transit for one-way commutes at work
Cycling doesn't need to be that strenuous (if the commute isn't long), and is good exercise even if you don't sweat all that much. Considering that the cost of transport is included in the cost of exercise, and how efficient cycling is for both, it's really ridiculous how few people actually commute by bike.
Yeah, I know most of you'll say: it's cold and it rains, the traffic is dangerous, and it's just not practical for me. Some of you will be right, and many of you will be wrong.
Yeah, what's up with that? One would expect to hear from the ACLU, which one does. Perhaps the Huffington Post would have a bunch of murdered children covering their front page, like this. One would not, however, expect the Democrats themselves to attack their own presiden, which they don't. That's just not how party politics work.
Same here. Debian Sid is great when Testing isn't frozen, but then it stops being fun for far too long. If I wanted to run Stable, I'd run Stable, and if I want to run a rolling distro, I'd rather not run some slow-moving, semi-stable slush. So after Squeeze was frozen, I moved to Arch for some time, but quickly jumped back again when Sid got moving again. Repeat for Wheezy, but this time I'm so happy with Arch that I'm not sure I'll be moving back. Things work, and I've got all the packages I want.
If games are on the edge of AI, then Kurzweil's AI singularity must still be a few millennia off. But yeah, I guess Angry Birds has shown that computer simulation of physics is close to perfection.
Not trying to, but it's certainly what I do imply, right or wrong. But note that I don't consider big money titles like GTA 3 when they're ported to a new arch 10 years later, or the dumbed-down version of id's Rage for iOS for that matter. Those are just toys cobbled together from the leftovers of the real game development.
Bullshit. Or, rather, it's the right-wing extremist's fantasy in which they need to protect themselves -- through violence if necessary, or hopefully -- from some imagined enemy. The need for protection is conjured from thin air to justify threats and violent actions, from Hitler and his all-powerful Jews to Anders Behring Breivik and his Muslims.
As for the idea that "[t]he only reason to see that as a threat is if you plan on pulling a gun on them": Bullshit. Seriously. That's some retarded nonsense right there. It's probably the dumbest thing I've read today, perhaps all week, and I'm almost constantly on the internet, reading all sorts of things. I can't imagine you really believe that, so excuse me for thinking your intentions aren't all that honest.
The Occupy movement is certainly not chock-full of anything (except maybe itself), but as diverse as it is, it does have a number of extremists. Far from all violence that happens in a political context is political, however. There are plenty of rapists in many moderate political organisations, for example.
As someone from outside of the US, I certainly wouldn't call your average American hippie as part of the 'extreme right'. I think there's no agreement whatsoever on what constitutes the 'left' or 'right', as it's mostly determined by your own political position. However, I reserve the term 'extremist' for people who believe in violence as a political tool. And no, this does not include all kinds of armed security, nor even Obama's drones (even though they're likely to be illegal); hell, even GWB's war for Big Oil was more corrupt than politically extreme (he killed all those people for money, not for political change). Tea party activists showing up armed to political rallies, though, threatening others because it's their 'constitutional right'. Yeah, they are extreme.
Perhaps, but more likely it was modded down for being painfully obvious. Redundant would be better than off topic, of course, as the point is already made as the story is posted to Slashdot, but this tiresome meme regurgitation has to be struck down.
Incorrect. Only a few idiots insist on being unpaid freelance marketing agents. Personally, I despise the Apple zealots more than anyone else, mainly because all you ever do is sell, sell, sell. You hardly ever give out any useful information.
Why would I argue against his point? He's right, of course: Google is not in the privacy business, at least not with you as their customer. I'm just pointing out that BasilBrush is first and foremost an Apple shill, which is the truth. Another truth is that if you care about your privacy all that much, you're not carrying a mobile phone at all (carriers constantly track your location), especially not one using a popular smartphone OS (I'm not sure my Nokia N9 leaks much personal information; the user base is tiny).
Actually, you never cared that much about privacy either, but since you're a massive Apple fanboi, you feel the need to rip into their main competitor for whatever reason.
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Is this some kind of parody?
For me, it helps imagining the tune as sung a capella by the Swedish chef from the Muppet Show.
Clearly you've never played D&D. I've had gaming sessions that had more plot, depth, and character development than anything you're going to read in a book or see on the big screen. There are a lot of immersive games based on the idea of a lone adventurer, or a party, saving the world. Look at Skyrim for example.
Skyrim is an excellent example of a trite, derivative, unimaginative pile of genre clichés (beginning with the "lone adventurer ... saving the world"), just liike D&D. Getting to lvl 30 isn't character development, it's just game mechanics. There's not much depth to it, just complexity, and a vast open world to explore.
Tom Bissell writes about the video game as an artistic medium for storytelling. What you're talking about is something else entirely. Clearly, you have never experienced art.
Well, I've got those, but mainly on the way home. The worst hill is approximately 650 ft vertical over 1.2 miles, and I wouldn't claim to do that without breaking a sweat. It's easy on the way down, though.
Walk/Run/Bike to or from work - only works if you have access to a shower facility or public transit for one-way commutes at work
Cycling doesn't need to be that strenuous (if the commute isn't long), and is good exercise even if you don't sweat all that much. Considering that the cost of transport is included in the cost of exercise, and how efficient cycling is for both, it's really ridiculous how few people actually commute by bike.
Yeah, I know most of you'll say: it's cold and it rains, the traffic is dangerous, and it's just not practical for me. Some of you will be right, and many of you will be wrong.
Yeah, what's up with that? One would expect to hear from the ACLU, which one does. Perhaps the Huffington Post would have a bunch of murdered children covering their front page, like this. One would not, however, expect the Democrats themselves to attack their own presiden, which they don't. That's just not how party politics work.
To be fair to XKCD, most people on Slashdot (and elsewhere on the internet) who don't quote them are equally clueless.
Same here. Debian Sid is great when Testing isn't frozen, but then it stops being fun for far too long. If I wanted to run Stable, I'd run Stable, and if I want to run a rolling distro, I'd rather not run some slow-moving, semi-stable slush. So after Squeeze was frozen, I moved to Arch for some time, but quickly jumped back again when Sid got moving again. Repeat for Wheezy, but this time I'm so happy with Arch that I'm not sure I'll be moving back. Things work, and I've got all the packages I want.
Well, what do you expect. It's not a story, it's an ad.
News? This is a slashvertisement.
If games are on the edge of AI, then Kurzweil's AI singularity must still be a few millennia off. But yeah, I guess Angry Birds has shown that computer simulation of physics is close to perfection.
Not trying to, but it's certainly what I do imply, right or wrong. But note that I don't consider big money titles like GTA 3 when they're ported to a new arch 10 years later, or the dumbed-down version of id's Rage for iOS for that matter. Those are just toys cobbled together from the leftovers of the real game development.
AAA games are supposedly the class of Skyrim and GTA V, not Angry Birds and remakes of GTA III. There is no AAA game compiled for ARM so far.
Bullshit. Or, rather, it's the right-wing extremist's fantasy in which they need to protect themselves -- through violence if necessary, or hopefully -- from some imagined enemy. The need for protection is conjured from thin air to justify threats and violent actions, from Hitler and his all-powerful Jews to Anders Behring Breivik and his Muslims.
As for the idea that "[t]he only reason to see that as a threat is if you plan on pulling a gun on them": Bullshit. Seriously. That's some retarded nonsense right there. It's probably the dumbest thing I've read today, perhaps all week, and I'm almost constantly on the internet, reading all sorts of things. I can't imagine you really believe that, so excuse me for thinking your intentions aren't all that honest.
The Occupy movement is certainly not chock-full of anything (except maybe itself), but as diverse as it is, it does have a number of extremists. Far from all violence that happens in a political context is political, however. There are plenty of rapists in many moderate political organisations, for example.
As someone from outside of the US, I certainly wouldn't call your average American hippie as part of the 'extreme right'. I think there's no agreement whatsoever on what constitutes the 'left' or 'right', as it's mostly determined by your own political position. However, I reserve the term 'extremist' for people who believe in violence as a political tool. And no, this does not include all kinds of armed security, nor even Obama's drones (even though they're likely to be illegal); hell, even GWB's war for Big Oil was more corrupt than politically extreme (he killed all those people for money, not for political change). Tea party activists showing up armed to political rallies, though, threatening others because it's their 'constitutional right'. Yeah, they are extreme.
Yes. It's an exaggeration, of course.
Well, cultural anthropology is at least in part an empirical study, whereas economics is pure abstract idealism.
A lot of people died because of that release of raw information [...]
AFAIK, that's untrue.
You're an idiot if you think the subject matter of a book is what determines its quality.
Perhaps, but more likely it was modded down for being painfully obvious. Redundant would be better than off topic, of course, as the point is already made as the story is posted to Slashdot, but this tiresome meme regurgitation has to be struck down.
Arch uses pre-compiled packages, just like Ubuntu.
Incorrect. Only a few idiots insist on being unpaid freelance marketing agents. Personally, I despise the Apple zealots more than anyone else, mainly because all you ever do is sell, sell, sell. You hardly ever give out any useful information.
Why would I argue against his point? He's right, of course: Google is not in the privacy business, at least not with you as their customer. I'm just pointing out that BasilBrush is first and foremost an Apple shill, which is the truth. Another truth is that if you care about your privacy all that much, you're not carrying a mobile phone at all (carriers constantly track your location), especially not one using a popular smartphone OS (I'm not sure my Nokia N9 leaks much personal information; the user base is tiny).
Also, my ad hominem doesn't prove his point.
Actually, you never cared that much about privacy either, but since you're a massive Apple fanboi, you feel the need to rip into their main competitor for whatever reason.