Do you have any idea how exrcuiatingly painful those commericals are? ( I think it's the first commercial since that "Can you hear me now?" guy to actually cause me to leap across my room for the remote )
They are't even porting this new game to PC, and it looks so cool!
Talk about letting down their PC audience/fans. What a bunch of dicks.
Games are more fun to run on PC...the graphics are better, the controls are simpler, among other things. I've pissed off everyone is moving to console and leaving PC behind.
I'm very annoyed the two are often meshed together. Netspeak (acronyms like lol, afk, brb) have been around LONG before IM or any of these lamer wanna-be morons started inventing their own language. They also make sense (turning like 15-20 commonly used characters into 3 seems practical). Stuff like wuz, ur, and the capital/lowercase variants of words are simply stupid and makes me wish online chatting had stayed in the hands of the techies instead of the masses. Instead of adapating to netculture and netetiquette, these bastards simply took it over and are trying to craft it however they want. I still curse at any of my friends I see using one of these brand new "words."
Hell, one day a friend of mine spit out some 7-8 character long slew of characters to me. I go "huh?" and then they explained what all the characters meant. I was like "where the hell you hear that?" and they said they just made it up, so I go "how the hell am I supposed to know what you're saying then?". From that point on, I continue continue speaking. It's an insult and a travesty that net chat is at this point.
I'm tired of people parading and commercializing this damn event as if it's something to be sensationalized. Accept it and move on. If you want to remember or grieve in your own way, so be it, but honestly, they're going too far. My favorite TV station cancelled all programming and ran some 9/11 special ALL DAY LONG. I honestly feel bad for people who have birthdays on this day and now have to live with this crap.
Similar to the way we tune out the crowd when batting in baseball, or ignore virtually everything around us during intense debugging of code, or are oblivious to the real world while absorbed in an intense game...
Certain activities utilize more of our concentration than others. Cell phones are one of these things. Maybe it is because the communication is happening from a centralized location, but communication over a cell phone differs from normal social interaction. It takes alot of controlled thought to use one. This absorbtion into the cell phone makes it a huge distraction when doing other tasks (which is why I hate drivers who use them)
Heh, when Red Hat has a single year of _positive_ net income, maybe I'll validate that statement. (and i'll probly also be going "yippy yippy" with my hands full of shareholder cash).
Question 1:
Perl 6 has introduced a whole slew of new features and capabilities that go hand-in-hand with Perl's nature as a "swiss-army chainsaw" of programming. Needless to say, I love having MTOWTDI, but what I'm curious about is: have you taken any steps towards a more performance-oriented focus? Most complaints I hear from my friends abuot Perl is that it's slow, and that almost any other language will beat it hands-down in terms of speed. I know there's only so much you can do with an interpretted language, but I was wondering if any steps were being taken or any special focus being made towards making Perl faster, possibly even making it a competitor for "standard" programming languages such as C. Understandably, this was never the original purpose for Perl, but I must say it's quickly developing into a pretty impressive general-purpose programming tool.
Question 2:
Perl 6 has drastically changed the way we know and love regexes. What I want to know is that, at least from the examples I've seen (in the Exegenesis(sp?) and such), practically _every_ regex example is longer and more obfuscated in Perl 6 than it is in Perl 5. Is this true, or am I just seeing things?
Bah fools...
If I buy something, they can put it in as many safes with as many locks as they want, but since I bought it, I should have all the keys. Aka, I'll take it out and use it whenever I want. And once it's out of the safe, I can do whatever the hell I want with it, such as giving it to someone else.
Of course, I tend to not put a whole lot of stock in what I read online...if I did I'd be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of hot teen bitches who want to get naked for me right now,
Oh but there's quite a few I'm sure, if not from that post alone;)
I've little doubt that the equation "guy + fame = many hot chicks" is very flawed, even if such fame is minimal;)
Bah, high speeds aren't the cause of most accidents. I'm sure if you did a study of accidents, I'm sure at least one slow moving vehicle was involved in many of them. The faster moving driver simply always takes the wrap, because its easier to place the blame.
I've noticed the most dangerous drivers are slower ones, people that go the speed limit or below. They normally sit in the fast lane directly next to someone else at the same speed and dangerous backup traffic for several miles back. They are also either too ignorant or simply too unaware of the cars around them to move out of the way or accept the knowledge that the left lane is a passing lane (THIS kind of dangerous driving leads people to "pass on the right", but should an accident occur, who is blamed? The faster driver of course.)
These slow drivers normally pay little attention to the road around them (and virtually NO attention to the cars behind them). Their reactions times are sluggish, their demenaor is normally far from aggressive (even the driving school recognizes aggressive driving as a SAFE necessity). I've had these morons turn on there signals and start merging into my lane like a couple FEET in front of me (while i'm accelerating too) without paying any attention at all as to what they're doing.
I've ALSO sat behind complete morons that randomly decide to apply their brakes every 5 seconds or so for NO REASON AT ALL. There's no one in front of them, no cop, no emergency, no merging traffic...NOTHING...they just sit in the fast lane, and every now and then hit their brakes. So I of course as a defensive driver behind them must be ready to slam on my brakes as well (who knows how hard they're hitting their brakes?) So my nerves eventually hit a state of fever-pitched readiness (not to mention the fact that when you get used to these people constantly flashing their brake lights for no reason, when they actually _DO_ slam on their brakes, you're screwed).
As for traffic fines, they're useless...people will speed anyways. They do nothing more than serve to distract people's attention from the road (as well as add an unhealthy amount of quick braking when cops are seen). In fact, the very purpose of the fine is merely to fatten the purses of the Police Treasury anyways. If speed was really the problem, places like the Autobahn, etc would have many more accidents.
I agree driving tests should be MUCH more intensive, and should involve actual driving rather than stupid stuff like parking, turning, and backing up. In fact, i believe all roads should be given "driving ratings" and you should be given a class depending on how well you drive. And frankly, those that know what they're doing, can handle high speeds safely, and show common road courtesy should be allowed on the highway, and all those slow, dumb mother-&*&* should be regulated to stay on other roads. Will such things ever happen? Hell no, we will always have high-speed drivers to blame for all traffic problems (obvious solution being more traffic tickets, which means more revenue for police)
Oh, and people that do that last-minute merge crap just to pass by all of traffic instead of waiting their turn like everyone else should be beaten and fined up the a$$.
Now here's a good hypothetical question: Suppose someone illegally downloads a copy of Warcraft III just to "try it out", with the intention of buying it if they like it. They play it and don't like it because
of the 90 food limit, or something like that. They delete the game and never play it again. Do they owe Blizzard $55 because they should have bought the game in the first place to "try it out"?
It is also claimed that this effect can cause behavioural changes, such as lack of concentration, difficulty with social association, and short temper.
Short temper? I'll be damned if they're taking away my games just because a bunch of stupid...ummmmm, errr....umumm, people...yeah, people are developing problems. Why am I talking to you people anyways?
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( I think it's the first commercial since that "Can you hear me now?" guy to actually cause me to leap across my room for the remote )
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Talk about letting down their PC audience/fans. What a bunch of dicks.
Games are more fun to run on PC...the graphics are better, the controls are simpler, among other things. I've pissed off everyone is moving to console and leaving PC behind.
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Hell, one day a friend of mine spit out some 7-8 character long slew of characters to me. I go "huh?" and then they explained what all the characters meant. I was like "where the hell you hear that?" and they said they just made it up, so I go "how the hell am I supposed to know what you're saying then?". From that point on, I continue continue speaking. It's an insult and a travesty that net chat is at this point.
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This movie just happeend to have BOTH.
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Heh, then you'd have 2 people refusing to a 3-some :)
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Anyone else gawk at that line?
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They're called "body kits"
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As legal systems have attacked and all-but-destroyed such systems, we take what we can get.
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I'm tired of people parading and commercializing this damn event as if it's something to be sensationalized. Accept it and move on. If you want to remember or grieve in your own way, so be it, but honestly, they're going too far. My favorite TV station cancelled all programming and ran some 9/11 special ALL DAY LONG. I honestly feel bad for people who have birthdays on this day and now have to live with this crap.
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Certain activities utilize more of our concentration than others. Cell phones are one of these things. Maybe it is because the communication is happening from a centralized location, but communication over a cell phone differs from normal social interaction. It takes alot of controlled thought to use one. This absorbtion into the cell phone makes it a huge distraction when doing other tasks (which is why I hate drivers who use them)
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(and i'll probly also be going "yippy yippy" with my hands full of shareholder cash).
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Question 1:
Perl 6 has introduced a whole slew of new features and capabilities that go hand-in-hand with Perl's nature as a "swiss-army chainsaw" of programming. Needless to say, I love having MTOWTDI, but what I'm curious about is: have you taken any steps towards a more performance-oriented focus? Most complaints I hear from my friends abuot Perl is that it's slow, and that almost any other language will beat it hands-down in terms of speed. I know there's only so much you can do with an interpretted language, but I was wondering if any steps were being taken or any special focus being made towards making Perl faster, possibly even making it a competitor for "standard" programming languages such as C. Understandably, this was never the original purpose for Perl, but I must say it's quickly developing into a pretty impressive general-purpose programming tool.
Question 2:
Perl 6 has drastically changed the way we know and love regexes. What I want to know is that, at least from the examples I've seen (in the Exegenesis(sp?) and such), practically _every_ regex example is longer and more obfuscated in Perl 6 than it is in Perl 5. Is this true, or am I just seeing things?
Magius_AR
If I buy something, they can put it in as many safes with as many locks as they want, but since I bought it, I should have all the keys. Aka, I'll take it out and use it whenever I want. And once it's out of the safe, I can do whatever the hell I want with it, such as giving it to someone else.
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I've little doubt that the equation "guy + fame = many hot chicks" is very flawed, even if such fame is minimal
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I've noticed the most dangerous drivers are slower ones, people that go the speed limit or below. They normally sit in the fast lane directly next to someone else at the same speed and dangerous backup traffic for several miles back. They are also either too ignorant or simply too unaware of the cars around them to move out of the way or accept the knowledge that the left lane is a passing lane (THIS kind of dangerous driving leads people to "pass on the right", but should an accident occur, who is blamed? The faster driver of course.)
These slow drivers normally pay little attention to the road around them (and virtually NO attention to the cars behind them). Their reactions times are sluggish, their demenaor is normally far from aggressive (even the driving school recognizes aggressive driving as a SAFE necessity). I've had these morons turn on there signals and start merging into my lane like a couple FEET in front of me (while i'm accelerating too) without paying any attention at all as to what they're doing.
I've ALSO sat behind complete morons that randomly decide to apply their brakes every 5 seconds or so for NO REASON AT ALL. There's no one in front of them, no cop, no emergency, no merging traffic...NOTHING...they just sit in the fast lane, and every now and then hit their brakes. So I of course as a defensive driver behind them must be ready to slam on my brakes as well (who knows how hard they're hitting their brakes?) So my nerves eventually hit a state of fever-pitched readiness (not to mention the fact that when you get used to these people constantly flashing their brake lights for no reason, when they actually _DO_ slam on their brakes, you're screwed).
As for traffic fines, they're useless...people will speed anyways. They do nothing more than serve to distract people's attention from the road (as well as add an unhealthy amount of quick braking when cops are seen). In fact, the very purpose of the fine is merely to fatten the purses of the Police Treasury anyways. If speed was really the problem, places like the Autobahn, etc would have many more accidents.
I agree driving tests should be MUCH more intensive, and should involve actual driving rather than stupid stuff like parking, turning, and backing up. In fact, i believe all roads should be given "driving ratings" and you should be given a class depending on how well you drive. And frankly, those that know what they're doing, can handle high speeds safely, and show common road courtesy should be allowed on the highway, and all those slow, dumb mother-&*&* should be regulated to stay on other roads. Will such things ever happen? Hell no, we will always have high-speed drivers to blame for all traffic problems (obvious solution being more traffic tickets, which means more revenue for police)
Oh, and people that do that last-minute merge crap just to pass by all of traffic instead of waiting their turn like everyone else should be beaten and fined up the a$$.
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Short temper?
I'll be damned if they're taking away my games just because a bunch of stupid...ummmmm, errr....umumm, people...yeah, people are developing problems.
Why am I talking to you people anyways?
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My PYPL stock went up!