So then, regarding the many tribes that have no qualms about cannibalism: are they not human? Or is it possible that you're full of crap, and that there's nothing 'written on our hearts' and certainly no 'soul' to be embedding things in?
Yeah and for chess you can just build a table with all possible states in it and look up the best move (in fact I know people who've done this and beaten grandmasters). Face it, the rules for chess are simpler than the rules for WoW.
Your point about the stats was way off base. I wasn't trying to impress you with the big numbers or anything; I don't know why you're still caught on the 'levelling up' aspect of it. To mock your post: "Whether or not your pawn can move two spaces has nothing to do with YOU, the person playing the game. It's not a skill you have acquired at all. It's just something the game ALLOWS you to do since you haven't moved that piece yet. Knowing HOW to move your pieces, that is knowledge or skills you have picked up. But the movement capabilities of your pieces, size of the board, which side goes first...none of that is the same as learning how to play chess." So, yeah, your player is more powerful if you put on the right gear. No shit. So too is a queen more powerful than a rook.
So how is your magical chess-learnin' of whcich move is best any different from the learning required to know which spec is best, or which rotation is best, or which gear is best?
If you were to take my character in WoW and attempt to raid with my guild you would be kicked in a matter of seconds, despite my character having 'learned everything'. It's painfully obvious who knows what they're doing in the game and who doesn't. I don't know if you've ever played an RPG before, but they involve a shitton of numbers. You learn more about math from theorycrafting than you do about moving in L-shapes or whatever from chess. If you regenerate mana at a rate of 300 mana per five seconds (mp5) while casting, and you have 20,000 mana, and your primary spell costs 700 mana with a 1.5 second cooldown, and your regen while not casting (five seconds after your last spell) is 1,000 mp5, and the boss you're fighting lasts 5 minutes, how often should you stop healing to avoid running out of mana?
So who else laughed when they saw "all I can say is one day we will all Die and stand before GOD and trust me you will regret this deeply but it will to late" right next to "your ignorance and disrespect to other people's views really says alot about you;)"
The third comma in the second sentence is unnecessary. Also, do you spend all day thinking about things like this, or do you only daydream about such things while on/.?
You'll never understand because you'll never undertake the effort. Try taking a good look around the very page you're on; you'll find several explanations as to why this isn't really as bad as what you're thinking in your knee-jerk response.
Actually no, don't. Go ahead and keep whatever worldview you have that makes you think all them there scientists are just beatin' up dolphins all day.
Calling it a technicality makes it seem trivial. Imagine, after surgery: "Oh, you were the tonsil removal, not the sex change? Oh well, just a technicality."
On the flip side: would you sacrifice yourself to save all the dolphins? I don't doubt that you would; I don't believe yours is a widely held opinion, however.
I found a guy on myspace who makes professional sounding tracks that are, by most objective measures, better than the stuff that gets played daily on the radio around here at the behest of the record companies. He makes them using 'Fruity Loops', on his home computer, and in his spare time. He has not invested millions in anything; in fact the most I believe he's spent on his music is the time it took to write it and the various keyboards/synthesizers/samples he used. When I offered to pay him so I could download his tracks (he has no CD, label, or any of that nonsense), he denied me and instead sent me a link to a rar containing all the music of his that he liked. In return, I'll be keeping a close eye on him and his music. If he ever does decide to sell it I'll be the first to buy, and if he ever does a live show I'll be the first in line. Heck, I'll even bring my friends.
This type of thing is the future of music. Copyrights and other means of forced scarcity are unnecessary; people will make music not because it may make them famous or rich, but because they love music. And, if millions upon millions of people ACTUALLY like your music without needing a profiteering executive to spend millions on marketing, then you still DO have a chance at being famous and even rich, if you can perform live well enough.
So then, what does the current music industry bring to the table? Marketing? Do we really need the uber-rich to tell us what we like? Production? This used to require large studios, expensive equipment, and professionally trained people. These days most of the hardware has turned into software, and finding a good producer is about as difficult as finding a good guitar player. Distribution? Helloooo internet.
Anyone still in this mega-business of over-producing crappy music and then forcing it down everyone's throats by throwing money at marketing is a fool, and while they may not deserve to have their product stolen, the people doing such things are doing them a favor by smacking then with the clue bat.
The artist was 'The Plain Ensemble', by the way. I'm sure he'll appreciate a visit on myspace (don't have a link 'cause I'm at work, sorry).
128 kbps = 0.367370969 petabits per century [Google '128kbps in petabits per century'. How cool is THAT?]
So, according to that calculation, if you listened to 128kbps mp3s from the second you were born until the day you died, you would fail to fill up half a petabyte's worth of storage. I have no doubt that there already exists this much music in digital form. Thus, our supply of digital entertainment (not necessarily GOOD entertainment...) is, for all reasonable intents and purposes, infinite.
Yeah, it's well implemented... unless of course your WoW toon has unicode characters in his name. This lack of support just isn't funny anymore. It's 2009 for christ's sake.
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So then, regarding the many tribes that have no qualms about cannibalism: are they not human? Or is it possible that you're full of crap, and that there's nothing 'written on our hearts' and certainly no 'soul' to be embedding things in?
Yeah and for chess you can just build a table with all possible states in it and look up the best move (in fact I know people who've done this and beaten grandmasters). Face it, the rules for chess are simpler than the rules for WoW.
Your point about the stats was way off base. I wasn't trying to impress you with the big numbers or anything; I don't know why you're still caught on the 'levelling up' aspect of it. To mock your post: "Whether or not your pawn can move two spaces has nothing to do with YOU, the person playing the game. It's not a skill you have acquired at all. It's just something the game ALLOWS you to do since you haven't moved that piece yet. Knowing HOW to move your pieces, that is knowledge or skills you have picked up. But the movement capabilities of your pieces, size of the board, which side goes first...none of that is the same as learning how to play chess." So, yeah, your player is more powerful if you put on the right gear. No shit. So too is a queen more powerful than a rook.
So how is your magical chess-learnin' of whcich move is best any different from the learning required to know which spec is best, or which rotation is best, or which gear is best?
If you were to take my character in WoW and attempt to raid with my guild you would be kicked in a matter of seconds, despite my character having 'learned everything'. It's painfully obvious who knows what they're doing in the game and who doesn't. I don't know if you've ever played an RPG before, but they involve a shitton of numbers. You learn more about math from theorycrafting than you do about moving in L-shapes or whatever from chess. If you regenerate mana at a rate of 300 mana per five seconds (mp5) while casting, and you have 20,000 mana, and your primary spell costs 700 mana with a 1.5 second cooldown, and your regen while not casting (five seconds after your last spell) is 1,000 mp5, and the boss you're fighting lasts 5 minutes, how often should you stop healing to avoid running out of mana?
You get the point.
What you just described is the reason you never roll a Tauren, ever. Ever ever ever. Try a blood elf, that starting area's pretty easy/awesome.
So who else laughed when they saw "all I can say is one day we will all Die and stand before GOD and trust me you will regret this deeply but it will to late" right next to "your ignorance and disrespect to other people's views really says alot about you ;)"
Classic.
But but but it's tainted with lieeesssss!!!!!11
The third comma in the second sentence is unnecessary. /.?
Also, do you spend all day thinking about things like this, or do you only daydream about such things while on
"That may tell you something."
It tells me you have way too much free time?
(Yeah, yeah, says the guy on slashdot...)
Kike, not kyke.
Yes, I just grammar Nazi'd the race Nazi (Nazi Nazi?).
You'll never understand because you'll never undertake the effort. Try taking a good look around the very page you're on; you'll find several explanations as to why this isn't really as bad as what you're thinking in your knee-jerk response.
Actually no, don't. Go ahead and keep whatever worldview you have that makes you think all them there scientists are just beatin' up dolphins all day.
Calling it a technicality makes it seem trivial. Imagine, after surgery: "Oh, you were the tonsil removal, not the sex change? Oh well, just a technicality."
180db is about what a blue whale can do. I say we slaughter all whales. Y'know, for the dolphins.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sound_pressure_and_sound_pressure_levels
On the flip side: would you sacrifice yourself to save all the dolphins? I don't doubt that you would; I don't believe yours is a widely held opinion, however.
Underwater sound uses a different reference for their decibels. Remember, decibel is not a unit.
See the two tables at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sound_pressure_and_sound_pressure_levels
I found a guy on myspace who makes professional sounding tracks that are, by most objective measures, better than the stuff that gets played daily on the radio around here at the behest of the record companies. He makes them using 'Fruity Loops', on his home computer, and in his spare time. He has not invested millions in anything; in fact the most I believe he's spent on his music is the time it took to write it and the various keyboards/synthesizers/samples he used. When I offered to pay him so I could download his tracks (he has no CD, label, or any of that nonsense), he denied me and instead sent me a link to a rar containing all the music of his that he liked. In return, I'll be keeping a close eye on him and his music. If he ever does decide to sell it I'll be the first to buy, and if he ever does a live show I'll be the first in line. Heck, I'll even bring my friends.
This type of thing is the future of music. Copyrights and other means of forced scarcity are unnecessary; people will make music not because it may make them famous or rich, but because they love music. And, if millions upon millions of people ACTUALLY like your music without needing a profiteering executive to spend millions on marketing, then you still DO have a chance at being famous and even rich, if you can perform live well enough.
So then, what does the current music industry bring to the table?
Marketing? Do we really need the uber-rich to tell us what we like?
Production? This used to require large studios, expensive equipment, and professionally trained people. These days most of the hardware has turned into software, and finding a good producer is about as difficult as finding a good guitar player.
Distribution? Helloooo internet.
Anyone still in this mega-business of over-producing crappy music and then forcing it down everyone's throats by throwing money at marketing is a fool, and while they may not deserve to have their product stolen, the people doing such things are doing them a favor by smacking then with the clue bat.
The artist was 'The Plain Ensemble', by the way. I'm sure he'll appreciate a visit on myspace (don't have a link 'cause I'm at work, sorry).
128 kbps = 0.367370969 petabits per century [Google '128kbps in petabits per century'. How cool is THAT?]
So, according to that calculation, if you listened to 128kbps mp3s from the second you were born until the day you died, you would fail to fill up half a petabyte's worth of storage. I have no doubt that there already exists this much music in digital form. Thus, our supply of digital entertainment (not necessarily GOOD entertainment...) is, for all reasonable intents and purposes, infinite.
The what?
Protip: most workplaces don't have showers, and you're really not supposed to put deodorants/antiperspirants on your back. Read the package, man.
Could I combine an antenna with said stones and take out all the cars within a mile? No? Then it's not the same thing.
Nice try.
Not even close, man. Not even close.
Well I sure hope it was a clean break. It'd suck to have to break it again just to set it correctly before the cast goes on.
http://code.google.com/p/cadie/
Also:
http://cadie.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/INTERCAL-style-guide.html
Sooo who wants to write up a compiler real fast?
Yeah, it's well implemented... unless of course your WoW toon has unicode characters in his name. This lack of support just isn't funny anymore. It's 2009 for christ's sake.
Yes, folks, it really is smug replies all the way down. Even this one! Morons.