"Speaking of which, for all those who are so vocal against this but do not have children... this subject does not pertain to you. Please close this tab and go back to watching porn."
What? Since when does having someone else crap out a badly copied, smaller version of you give you magical insight into raising children? If anything, the unreasoned, illogical, over-reactionary response most people have when faced with something that might someday have a small chance of doing even the slightest amount of damage to their children shows that an unbiased observer might have a more valid opinion.
This makes me wonder... could this ever be weaponized? Slap a terahertz radiation gun set to the right resonant frequency into a fake video camera, show up at a press conference for an hour or two, and then three months later whoever you pointed it at inexplicably discovers that they now have four brain tumors...
Does the secret service scan for stuff like this? If not, it's probably a good idea.
This is like the fourth story I've read on the scanning technology and I just now wondered if anyone's tried to put it in goggle form. Who would have thought the X-ray specs came before the flying cars? What a weird future.
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1. Don't be fucking stupid. 2. Obfuscated? Don't. Be. Fucking. Stupid. http://www.waveprotocol.org/ 3. If you're afraid of complex things, you really shouldn't be on the internet. I imagine you'd be happy living in a tent on the side of the mountain, but us societal folk like our technology. 4. In what way is this proprietary? You can make your own server/client RIGHT NOW. The ENTIRE SPEC is online. Even their implementation is OPEN SOURCE. DON'T BE FUCKING STUPID.
5. "The waves are persistent, accessible to anyone who's added to them, and include the ability to track changes, so they ultimately work quite well as a medium for the non-tactical parts of an RPG. A newcomer can jump right in and get up-to-speed on past interactions, and a GM or industrious player can constantly maintain the official record of play by going back and fixing errors, formatting text, adding and deleting material, and reorganizing posts." IDK what IRC client YOU have, but please link me to it so I can take part in these awesome benefits! It can also do video/voice chat, right?
6. Another prejudice! Wooo! Some people would be ashamed to let the world know that they think that one, single word typed by one, single marketing droid determines the overall quality of the finished product... but not you! Fuck in-depth analysis! All you need is ONE WORD!
I know you're so freakishly averse to change that you cry every time the sun comes up, but maybe you should try actually thinking about things with an open mind, or perhaps seeking education about things before making blanket statements about them and showing just how oblivious you are to reality.
I really, really hope I was trolled, because knowing I wasted a bit of my time makes me feel MUCH better than knowing that someone as bitter and backwards as you is allowed to roam the internet.
What a useful, insightful, and entirely correct comment you've made! Google did indeed simply take one old IRC server, two or three Wikipedia backups, and a printed copy of the Winamp plugin API, throw them in a blender, and pour the result into a 'cute little box'!
I'm with you man, I can't believe other people here actually think they did some kind of work on this. If you open a Wave page and view the source it even has all the HTML comments left in from the Wiki template they used!!!
That may be the reality, but the 'pseudo-reality' he's speaking of is the one where burying yourself in debt to get the biggest Hummer and the bling-est grill makes you a respected, popular person.
Why worry about catching up when you can simply appear to be ahead and get all the social benefits anyways?
The flaw in your argument is that BOTH rural and urban areas require modern infrastructure, but since it is neither necessary or desirable for BOTH rural and urban areas to have farming infrastructure, then the price to produce food 'IN YOUR CITY' is essentially ZERO.
You MIGHT have a point if I was able to get some of the farmer's tax money and use it to start a garden on my roof. As it is however, farmers are paid in full every time I buy a meal (and some of my tax money even goes to paying farmers NOT to grow food).
And I guess your parents grew up in Madethefuckupistan where every CEO started out as an orphan in a third world country and made their first billion in profits without any other employees.
I second this... It's not even that the small talk about nothing offends me; it's that the small talk is either about my coworker's wives, children, lawn or fantasy football team. That's hard to relate to for a single guy living in an apartment and playing video games all day.
I can either leave the conversation, make up a story about how I saw some kids on a lawn playing football once, or speak honestly: "Oh, you have two kids? They keep you up all the time? Well that was a dumb choice now then, wasn't it?"
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Yeah, the developers said that they were going to move away from those 'gimmicks' but I didn't think they were gimmicky at all. They added another level of depth to the boss.
Setting it to hard mode increases the boss's health, damage, and number of abilities... but WHY? In Ulduar, it was because you destroyed the bosses 'heart' in a set time period, or raced through the gauntlet in front of them before the evil presence left meaning you fought it too... In Icecrown it will be because you right clicked your portrait and selected 'Hard Mode'. Lame.
What I was trying to point out was that GP's post was nonsensical. C, D, and E all fall under "If not more enemies, then more AI options". He wants some magic option that's not an option.
Maybe I'm not being creative enough and he expects next-gen controllers to cut off a thumb when you do too well.
Hey now, watching video games play themselves can be fun. I recently got access to a WoW honor grinding bot and spent hours just watching it battle in Alterac Valley with no intervention. That's right, HOURS. Turns out it's more fun to think of ways to tweak your combat script and make yourself look human than it is to actually get in there and fight.
And before anyone gives me crap for AFK botting in battlegrounds, keep in mind that my bot still outperforms most actual players...
OK General Human, our troops are losing a battle to the south. Do you: A) Send more troops or B) Modify your attack strategy
(Please note that both A and B are incorrect robot answers)
Seriously, WTF is 'adapt like a human would'? There's only so many things an AI can do, and even less ways to change those things to vary the difficulty.
"Physics - Presented to David Schmidt of the University of Massachusetts, for his partial explanation of the shower-curtain effect: a shower curtain tends to billow inwards while a shower is being taken."
That required research, really? Not going to RTFA, so someone tell me if his 'research' found different/better conclusions than I came up with while showering: Hot air created by contact with steam and hot water rises to the top of your shower and vents through the top of the curtain, while the cooler air in your bathroom is pushed out of the way and forced into your shower via the path of least resistance at the bottom of your shower curtain.
A. You suck at English; please stop trying to give lessons. B. E-mails are not for 'story telling', but for asking short questions or sharing small bits of information. You want these bits of information sorted chronologically and by relevance. Why would it make sense to put the new, relevant parts as far away from the user as possible? Would you prefer your inbox to have the first e-mail you ever received permanently at the top?
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"Speaking of which, for all those who are so vocal against this but do not have children... this subject does not pertain to you. Please close this tab and go back to watching porn."
What? Since when does having someone else crap out a badly copied, smaller version of you give you magical insight into raising children? If anything, the unreasoned, illogical, over-reactionary response most people have when faced with something that might someday have a small chance of doing even the slightest amount of damage to their children shows that an unbiased observer might have a more valid opinion.
"Mess with superman and he'll split your DNA."
This makes me wonder... could this ever be weaponized? Slap a terahertz radiation gun set to the right resonant frequency into a fake video camera, show up at a press conference for an hour or two, and then three months later whoever you pointed it at inexplicably discovers that they now have four brain tumors...
Does the secret service scan for stuff like this? If not, it's probably a good idea.
This is like the fourth story I've read on the scanning technology and I just now wondered if anyone's tried to put it in goggle form. Who would have thought the X-ray specs came before the flying cars? What a weird future.
1. Don't be fucking stupid.
2. Obfuscated? Don't. Be. Fucking. Stupid. http://www.waveprotocol.org/
3. If you're afraid of complex things, you really shouldn't be on the internet. I imagine you'd be happy living in a tent on the side of the mountain, but us societal folk like our technology.
4. In what way is this proprietary? You can make your own server/client RIGHT NOW. The ENTIRE SPEC is online. Even their implementation is OPEN SOURCE. DON'T BE FUCKING STUPID.
5. "The waves are persistent, accessible to anyone who's added to them, and include the ability to track changes, so they ultimately work quite well as a medium for the non-tactical parts of an RPG. A newcomer can jump right in and get up-to-speed on past interactions, and a GM or industrious player can constantly maintain the official record of play by going back and fixing errors, formatting text, adding and deleting material, and reorganizing posts." IDK what IRC client YOU have, but please link me to it so I can take part in these awesome benefits! It can also do video/voice chat, right?
6. Another prejudice! Wooo! Some people would be ashamed to let the world know that they think that one, single word typed by one, single marketing droid determines the overall quality of the finished product... but not you! Fuck in-depth analysis! All you need is ONE WORD!
I know you're so freakishly averse to change that you cry every time the sun comes up, but maybe you should try actually thinking about things with an open mind, or perhaps seeking education about things before making blanket statements about them and showing just how oblivious you are to reality.
I really, really hope I was trolled, because knowing I wasted a bit of my time makes me feel MUCH better than knowing that someone as bitter and backwards as you is allowed to roam the internet.
What a useful, insightful, and entirely correct comment you've made! Google did indeed simply take one old IRC server, two or three Wikipedia backups, and a printed copy of the Winamp plugin API, throw them in a blender, and pour the result into a 'cute little box'!
I'm with you man, I can't believe other people here actually think they did some kind of work on this. If you open a Wave page and view the source it even has all the HTML comments left in from the Wiki template they used!!!
Yeah, same here. I had mixed feeling about receiving the first news of alien life from frickin' /.
That may be the reality, but the 'pseudo-reality' he's speaking of is the one where burying yourself in debt to get the biggest Hummer and the bling-est grill makes you a respected, popular person.
Why worry about catching up when you can simply appear to be ahead and get all the social benefits anyways?
The flaw in your argument is that BOTH rural and urban areas require modern infrastructure, but since it is neither necessary or desirable for BOTH rural and urban areas to have farming infrastructure, then the price to produce food 'IN YOUR CITY' is essentially ZERO.
You MIGHT have a point if I was able to get some of the farmer's tax money and use it to start a garden on my roof. As it is however, farmers are paid in full every time I buy a meal (and some of my tax money even goes to paying farmers NOT to grow food).
"By your logic food should be provided by the government."
Haha, wow bro, have I got some news for you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_stamps
"So, those of us hoping to impress our acquaintances by zooming web pages in and out iPhone-style will probably have to wait until 2.1..."
Or you could find some custom firmware that doesn't suck :)
Been pinch-zooming since like the month after I got my phone thanks to the JF images.
And I guess your parents grew up in Madethefuckupistan where every CEO started out as an orphan in a third world country and made their first billion in profits without any other employees.
I second this... It's not even that the small talk about nothing offends me; it's that the small talk is either about my coworker's wives, children, lawn or fantasy football team. That's hard to relate to for a single guy living in an apartment and playing video games all day.
I can either leave the conversation, make up a story about how I saw some kids on a lawn playing football once, or speak honestly: "Oh, you have two kids? They keep you up all the time? Well that was a dumb choice now then, wasn't it?"
"Lumping all religions together as "laughable pile[s] of dog shit" does not reflect logic or reasoning."
This is correct. If you think they're all shit then you obviously haven't examined Norse mythology.
I'll see you in Valhalla, brother.
I'm sorry to be the first to inform you, but you have been judged as having an imagination which is unfit to be used in conjunction with this website. Please remove this URL from your favorites and hand in your geek card on the way out.
Thank you.
Yeah guys, this DNA stuff is dangerous. I've seen Jurassic Park too, so I can back the parent's story up.
A whole 50mg? Everyone knows the craziest drugs are measured in micrograms.
Banning an entire class of food from your diet does not make you a 'reasonable' person unless you're somehow deathly allergic to meat.
OT @ sig: :: Beethoven : Beethoven's symphonies
T-Pain : I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)
Or do you think he played ALL those instruments at once?
So according to you, the best video game in the world would be the following text adventure:
You are king of the world, everyone loves you, and you have all superpowers ever.
> open door
Yeah, the developers said that they were going to move away from those 'gimmicks' but I didn't think they were gimmicky at all. They added another level of depth to the boss.
Setting it to hard mode increases the boss's health, damage, and number of abilities... but WHY? In Ulduar, it was because you destroyed the bosses 'heart' in a set time period, or raced through the gauntlet in front of them before the evil presence left meaning you fought it too... In Icecrown it will be because you right clicked your portrait and selected 'Hard Mode'. Lame.
What I was trying to point out was that GP's post was nonsensical. C, D, and E all fall under "If not more enemies, then more AI options". He wants some magic option that's not an option.
Maybe I'm not being creative enough and he expects next-gen controllers to cut off a thumb when you do too well.
Hey now, watching video games play themselves can be fun. I recently got access to a WoW honor grinding bot and spent hours just watching it battle in Alterac Valley with no intervention. That's right, HOURS. Turns out it's more fun to think of ways to tweak your combat script and make yourself look human than it is to actually get in there and fight.
And before anyone gives me crap for AFK botting in battlegrounds, keep in mind that my bot still outperforms most actual players...
OK General Human, our troops are losing a battle to the south. Do you:
A) Send more troops
or
B) Modify your attack strategy
(Please note that both A and B are incorrect robot answers)
Seriously, WTF is 'adapt like a human would'? There's only so many things an AI can do, and even less ways to change those things to vary the difficulty.
"Physics - Presented to David Schmidt of the University of Massachusetts, for his partial explanation of the shower-curtain effect: a shower curtain tends to billow inwards while a shower is being taken."
That required research, really? Not going to RTFA, so someone tell me if his 'research' found different/better conclusions than I came up with while showering:
Hot air created by contact with steam and hot water rises to the top of your shower and vents through the top of the curtain, while the cooler air in your bathroom is pushed out of the way and forced into your shower via the path of least resistance at the bottom of your shower curtain.
How difficult is that to understand?
A. You suck at English; please stop trying to give lessons.
B. E-mails are not for 'story telling', but for asking short questions or sharing small bits of information. You want these bits of information sorted chronologically and by relevance. Why would it make sense to put the new, relevant parts as far away from the user as possible? Would you prefer your inbox to have the first e-mail you ever received permanently at the top?