Thanks for letting everyone know just how out of the loop you are, AC. Not only do most people raid with at least one or two people they know IRL, but a lot of guilds are actually social communities that existed long before WoW. In my guild forums are countless threads of screenshots and discussions about the 'good old days' when it was just a few friends playing Yahoo games together. I know this 'social internet' thing must be new to you since you don't even know how to make a slashdot account, but it's been around for a while.
What's that? Success is subjective, and therefore nobody really cares whether or not he is "somebody [you] would consider to be a resounding success in the real world"?
Oh and I forgot to mention, my level 70 purples did in fact last me until 80, where I replaced them with more purples. I'm sorry you didn't have the elite gear that allowed this and had to replace your welfare epics with quest greens.
Wow what an insightful and reasoned telling of the fucking future. Can I borrow your crystal ball? Pff why do I even ask, you knew I was going to!
The shit you're talking about was not 'elite'. A bug mount is elite, it will not be put back in the game. The amani war bear is elite. It too is gone from the game. Same with the plagued and black protodrakes. When cataclysm is released, I'm sure they'll also remove the rusted and ironbound drakes, along with the new Icecrown drakes.
Ummm, bullshit? They're adding even more elite crap with the next patch. I personally have two mounts you'll never be able to get if you don't already have them.
Yeah, when I grow up I want to run departments and fish! That sounds way more exciting that finding 24 like-minded people and enjoying my time with them while I kill virtual dragons.
Anyone who says 'get a life' here better be Steve fucking Jobs.
Heh, wait 'til eln figures out that everyone dies. Boy will that be a shocker... finding out that that ultimately you'll have nothing of value to show for, well, anything! That CAN be very depressing. Maybe after he finds out he can play some WoW to cheer him up.
Tell me, what great monuments have YOU completed so far that will give you something to 'show for' your life? I take it you've never been to a bar to drink and talk with friends, since all you'd have to show for that is a hangover? Never masturbated either, I'd assume? What would you have to show for that? Is the value of something you do only shown in how you feel about it on your deathbed? In that case, why would you do anything ever? After all, you may regret it, or worse: it could become UNPOPULAR!
And even if this guy IS a shut-in, he's done the 25-man hardmodes. That means he has at least 24 other people that he socializes with daily. I'm sure that's more than some people can claim on this site.
The only reason this guy would ever feel bad about his accomplishments would be because people like YOU decide to shit on him for it. I'll ask you again: what do YOU have to show for your life? It better be fucking impressive.
Yeah, had he not played WoW he would have won the Olympics and the Superbowl, at the same time, whilst successfully campaigning for president of the world. Or, you know, maybe his 'real life' didn't give him all that many opportunities to succeed as easily as this. Let me know when an article about you hits the front page of news sites.
By the time 'Winter Veil' arrives the new patch should be out. This patch includes the new Icecrown boss achievements, and Arthas won't even be unlocked for at least another month or two. So really it will be impossible for him to have all the achievements until he manages to get Arthas hard mode (which will hopefully happen months after NORMAL Arthas is released).
There's a difference between "Here's $10,000 to chop up some trees and tell us how cold it was back then," and "...by the way, we have $100,000 we'll fund you with to tell us the ramifications of this horrible global warming -- if you find evidence of it existing, that is."
I'm not saying the latter is part of some conspiracy or overt bribery... having a confirmation bias doesn't mean you're dishonest. It just means that maybe these scientists all said, on their own, with complete earnest, "Only these 12 trees seem to indicate warming... perhaps these others were affected by humidity, which could be adjusted out by adding X and Y...".
I've admittedly not read the papers, but from my understanding of the situation any scientists who then tried to say "Where is your reasoning for these adjustments? How many trees from back then can you use as a control to ensure that you're adjusting to the actual temperatures?" were ignored.
If anyone with more experience in the field can explain some of that I'd appreciate it. All discussions I've seen so far go something like, "They adjusted the data!" "They had to! Humidity! Errors!" and then... that's it.
Wow, I've seen better arguments with a magic 8 ball. At least you're consistent...?
His claims at least had a bit of that 'logic' and 'fact' stuff thrown in. But I suppose you're right; the guy simply repeating 'NONONONO' has no bias and only truth.
Ah, this is why I come to slashdot: open-minded, reasonable discussions.
I patiently await the day you're able to both bear the pain that reading two words brings you and share with us the obviously infinite knowledge you hold on this topic. Maybe soon after that you'll even be able to analyze other people's thoughts on your own, without requiring that others stamp them with approval. Maybe...
Yeah, MY plans for Web 2.0 had everything grayscale. And it drops the connection if it sees you have a sound card. And you have to be 35 years old with no more than one (1) cat. Any more than that and it's just toooo exciting.
Seriously you're so off topic it fucking hurts. Really now, what EXACTLY is your technical solution the problem of 'teenage girls on the internet'?
And would you really prefer a beeping, screeching, shit-sounding MIDI (which can be hidden without a volume slider JUST AS EASILY AS MP3S)?
I know you must feel bad about being old, but seriously try to consider that we've made some reasonable improvements since the days when you were lucky to get a screen full of green text that let you chat with a few people across the country. Or just stick to using IE5 or something; maybe then you Luddites wouldn't be able to access what so gravely offends you.
Wasting the 4 mod points I've already spent in this thread on this post, because it really does offend me how backwards some people are.
Actually, enabling it's practically cheating. When you're huddled in a corner with three shotguns and a chainsaw going off it's much easier to see *Tank roar* than it is to hear him growling in the distance.
In Vista: Win Key, "C:\source_directory", enter, click 'Type' to sort by extension, drag to select, drag and drop.
Mine is 20 keystrokes, 3 clicks; yours is about 50, maybe 40 if you tab complete. Of course, since you assume you're in the correct root directory anyways I could go ahead and replace my first two steps with "double click 'source_directory'" and bring it down to a simple 5 clicks.
Wow, no wonder you don't like GUIs; you suck at them. If I have my music folder open and I want to move it all to a directory deep in my phone, all I have to do is look to the left of the window where the directory structure is, scroll up to the root drives, click a few plus signs, and then drag and drop. You should also never have to scroll or sort to find a file (though you might want to sort if moving several files by date modified or something). Just start typing it's name, the window will find it for you, or at the very least put you in the right ballpark. And really how many times do you blindly copy things via command line anyways? At least half the time you're going to do an ls and some scrolling and sorting anyways.
So it's either 50-ish keystrokes or a scroll and four clicks. I'd rather not take my hand off the mouse. Probably the MOST work you could do without doing something stupid would be to open up a new window and manually type the directory name. Of course, that's still only about half the work of typing out BOTH directory names.
Where was the debunking? You weren't even on topic there; you just took two sentences from his post, bolded a word, and then went on a tirade about those SINGLE WORDS. I'm sure you felt awfully important though.
His post wasn't about the original 'hockey-stick' or open source, it was about the blatant manipulation of data to serve an agenda (and before you 'debunk' me, yes, I know that the 'corrected' graph wasn't used -- that's not the point).
I've got a bit of spare time, so I'll use the rest to mock your English: "Why should anyone follow your advise" "(some of which I have authoured)" "and it has been thouroughly debunked" "You can apply some self-skepticisim" "some psuedo-skeptical blog"
On that note, what the hell is 'pseudo-skeptical' anyways? They pretend to be skeptical, but they really know you're right? Are you really that sure of yourself, to think that everyone who doesn't agree is just lying?
Funny, I'd say that anyone who dismisses all evidence they see as '[probably] coming from some some jobless person in his underpants, who is very insecure and defensive of the own reality, and has built his happy-place' is probably just some jobless person in his underpants, who is very insecure and defensive of the own reality, and has built his happy-place.
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Thanks for letting everyone know just how out of the loop you are, AC. Not only do most people raid with at least one or two people they know IRL, but a lot of guilds are actually social communities that existed long before WoW. In my guild forums are countless threads of screenshots and discussions about the 'good old days' when it was just a few friends playing Yahoo games together. I know this 'social internet' thing must be new to you since you don't even know how to make a slashdot account, but it's been around for a while.
What's that? Success is subjective, and therefore nobody really cares whether or not he is "somebody [you] would consider to be a resounding success in the real world"?
It's almost like you got my point.
Oh and I forgot to mention, my level 70 purples did in fact last me until 80, where I replaced them with more purples. I'm sorry you didn't have the elite gear that allowed this and had to replace your welfare epics with quest greens.
Wow what an insightful and reasoned telling of the fucking future. Can I borrow your crystal ball? Pff why do I even ask, you knew I was going to!
The shit you're talking about was not 'elite'. A bug mount is elite, it will not be put back in the game. The amani war bear is elite. It too is gone from the game. Same with the plagued and black protodrakes. When cataclysm is released, I'm sure they'll also remove the rusted and ironbound drakes, along with the new Icecrown drakes.
Ummm, bullshit? They're adding even more elite crap with the next patch. I personally have two mounts you'll never be able to get if you don't already have them.
Same thing you do when you beat the Superbowl? Go to Disneyland? Wait for the next one?
Do you only do shit you get a trophy for?
Please tell us, what's YOUR purpose?
Yeah, when I grow up I want to run departments and fish! That sounds way more exciting that finding 24 like-minded people and enjoying my time with them while I kill virtual dragons.
Anyone who says 'get a life' here better be Steve fucking Jobs.
Heh, wait 'til eln figures out that everyone dies. Boy will that be a shocker... finding out that that ultimately you'll have nothing of value to show for, well, anything! That CAN be very depressing. Maybe after he finds out he can play some WoW to cheer him up.
Tell me, what great monuments have YOU completed so far that will give you something to 'show for' your life? I take it you've never been to a bar to drink and talk with friends, since all you'd have to show for that is a hangover? Never masturbated either, I'd assume? What would you have to show for that? Is the value of something you do only shown in how you feel about it on your deathbed? In that case, why would you do anything ever? After all, you may regret it, or worse: it could become UNPOPULAR!
And even if this guy IS a shut-in, he's done the 25-man hardmodes. That means he has at least 24 other people that he socializes with daily. I'm sure that's more than some people can claim on this site.
The only reason this guy would ever feel bad about his accomplishments would be because people like YOU decide to shit on him for it. I'll ask you again: what do YOU have to show for your life? It better be fucking impressive.
Yeah, had he not played WoW he would have won the Olympics and the Superbowl, at the same time, whilst successfully campaigning for president of the world. Or, you know, maybe his 'real life' didn't give him all that many opportunities to succeed as easily as this. Let me know when an article about you hits the front page of news sites.
By the time 'Winter Veil' arrives the new patch should be out. This patch includes the new Icecrown boss achievements, and Arthas won't even be unlocked for at least another month or two. So really it will be impossible for him to have all the achievements until he manages to get Arthas hard mode (which will hopefully happen months after NORMAL Arthas is released).
There's a difference between "Here's $10,000 to chop up some trees and tell us how cold it was back then," and "...by the way, we have $100,000 we'll fund you with to tell us the ramifications of this horrible global warming -- if you find evidence of it existing, that is."
I'm not saying the latter is part of some conspiracy or overt bribery... having a confirmation bias doesn't mean you're dishonest. It just means that maybe these scientists all said, on their own, with complete earnest, "Only these 12 trees seem to indicate warming... perhaps these others were affected by humidity, which could be adjusted out by adding X and Y...".
I've admittedly not read the papers, but from my understanding of the situation any scientists who then tried to say "Where is your reasoning for these adjustments? How many trees from back then can you use as a control to ensure that you're adjusting to the actual temperatures?" were ignored.
If anyone with more experience in the field can explain some of that I'd appreciate it. All discussions I've seen so far go something like, "They adjusted the data!" "They had to! Humidity! Errors!" and then... that's it.
Wow, I've seen better arguments with a magic 8 ball. At least you're consistent...?
His claims at least had a bit of that 'logic' and 'fact' stuff thrown in. But I suppose you're right; the guy simply repeating 'NONONONO' has no bias and only truth.
"7 isn't a valid replacement for any letter in its written word form."
Not very 1337, are we?
Ah, this is why I come to slashdot: open-minded, reasonable discussions.
I patiently await the day you're able to both bear the pain that reading two words brings you and share with us the obviously infinite knowledge you hold on this topic. Maybe soon after that you'll even be able to analyze other people's thoughts on your own, without requiring that others stamp them with approval. Maybe...
Yeah, MY plans for Web 2.0 had everything grayscale. And it drops the connection if it sees you have a sound card. And you have to be 35 years old with no more than one (1) cat. Any more than that and it's just toooo exciting.
Seriously you're so off topic it fucking hurts. Really now, what EXACTLY is your technical solution the problem of 'teenage girls on the internet'?
And would you really prefer a beeping, screeching, shit-sounding MIDI (which can be hidden without a volume slider JUST AS EASILY AS MP3S)?
I know you must feel bad about being old, but seriously try to consider that we've made some reasonable improvements since the days when you were lucky to get a screen full of green text that let you chat with a few people across the country. Or just stick to using IE5 or something; maybe then you Luddites wouldn't be able to access what so gravely offends you.
Wasting the 4 mod points I've already spent in this thread on this post, because it really does offend me how backwards some people are.
Actually, enabling it's practically cheating. When you're huddled in a corner with three shotguns and a chainsaw going off it's much easier to see *Tank roar* than it is to hear him growling in the distance.
"Couldn't use the card reader after that though"
Have you tried plugging it in?
In Vista: Win Key, "C:\source_directory", enter, click 'Type' to sort by extension, drag to select, drag and drop.
Mine is 20 keystrokes, 3 clicks; yours is about 50, maybe 40 if you tab complete. Of course, since you assume you're in the correct root directory anyways I could go ahead and replace my first two steps with "double click 'source_directory'" and bring it down to a simple 5 clicks.
Is this stuff really that hard to figure out?
Wow, no wonder you don't like GUIs; you suck at them. If I have my music folder open and I want to move it all to a directory deep in my phone, all I have to do is look to the left of the window where the directory structure is, scroll up to the root drives, click a few plus signs, and then drag and drop. You should also never have to scroll or sort to find a file (though you might want to sort if moving several files by date modified or something). Just start typing it's name, the window will find it for you, or at the very least put you in the right ballpark. And really how many times do you blindly copy things via command line anyways? At least half the time you're going to do an ls and some scrolling and sorting anyways.
So it's either 50-ish keystrokes or a scroll and four clicks. I'd rather not take my hand off the mouse. Probably the MOST work you could do without doing something stupid would be to open up a new window and manually type the directory name. Of course, that's still only about half the work of typing out BOTH directory names.
Just wait til you find out how this 'internet' thing works!
- dry ice is really cold
- dry ice is made of CO2
= global cooling cause too much CO2
I like your version of science. Much easier.
Where was the debunking? You weren't even on topic there; you just took two sentences from his post, bolded a word, and then went on a tirade about those SINGLE WORDS. I'm sure you felt awfully important though.
His post wasn't about the original 'hockey-stick' or open source, it was about the blatant manipulation of data to serve an agenda (and before you 'debunk' me, yes, I know that the 'corrected' graph wasn't used -- that's not the point).
I've got a bit of spare time, so I'll use the rest to mock your English:
"Why should anyone follow your advise"
"(some of which I have authoured)"
"and it has been thouroughly debunked"
"You can apply some self-skepticisim"
"some psuedo-skeptical blog"
On that note, what the hell is 'pseudo-skeptical' anyways? They pretend to be skeptical, but they really know you're right? Are you really that sure of yourself, to think that everyone who doesn't agree is just lying?
Funny, I'd say that anyone who dismisses all evidence they see as '[probably] coming from some some jobless person in his underpants, who is very insecure and defensive of the own reality, and has built his happy-place' is probably just some jobless person in his underpants, who is very insecure and defensive of the own reality, and has built his happy-place.
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'Flawless framerate' is disingenuous; 'top notch graphics' is a flat out lie.