The funny lies within the fact that it is so immature. You laugh at the person saying it, not the person it is said about. Even then its still not funny, but every once in a while a joke like this would be somewhat amusing:
A marine and a zealot walk in to a bar and take their seats. The marine looks to his left, then looks to his right. Taco has a tiny penis.
Well, you're just wrong. How many TB do you really think the netflix collection is? It's probably pretty small when you consider how cheap storage is, and how much media most nerds have saved locally on their consumer level hardware. Also, if you are streaming something that doesn't exist on the cache server (because it hasn't been played yet in the area being served by that server), it could, you know, get the data and cache it then. Like a cache would normally work. A direct pipe to all of these ISPs would be a massively expensive undertaking. I'm sure they are allowed to have as many digital copies on their own hardware as they want, it would be stupid for licensees to care that netflix works by storing the data it licensed in multiple data centers instead of one.
More to the point, they do effectively charge more for people who have the internet access but not the cable TV access. It's called bundling. When you don't do it, you pay more for internet.
The first tear in my right eye at age 14 I got a buckle (my older brother had the same at age 12), my second tear in that eye happened while I was watching the second LotR in a theater, and I got the vitrectomy. I don't see very well in that eye even still, the oil they put in after the vitrectomy was the cause of the cataract. Things are in focus in that eye but retinal damage prevents me from being able to read very well or recognize faces. I believe the medical term for the type of tear I had was "giant retinal tear", and I have an awesome video of the surgery since my specialist would give lectures with it.
The first tear in my left eye (age 22) was after they removed the cataract in my left eye caused by laser to prevent a retinal detachment.... good plan, right? I got the vitrectomy in that eye first, but then they had to go back in after a flap got dislodged but was mostly being held by the laser.
However, it's hard to feel bad about any of it because of two things. My uncle was blind from age 8 onward because of his retinas detaching (he would be almost 80 today) but went on to be a programmer, so if he could do it completely blind from age 8, I could probably continue if I ever completely lost my vision. Secondly, my sister had detachments in the same places as me about 6 months after the fact except for the last one (the day after my surgery she was in there getting a preventative buckle). While she was recovering from her second surgery in her right eye, her eye actually deflated as the gas they replaced the vitreous with actually leaked out, causing her to lose complete vision in that eye.
I'm 24 and have had retinal detachments in both eyes (4 total! huzzah!) resulting in cataracts which have been removed, so don't feel too old. You better bet your ass I need reading glasses though. How did you get around this? And this damned goatee won't grow though, tug as I might on my sparse stubble.
True, but its still Windows. None of the code needs to change between the two platforms, you don't need compiler directives to switch calls based on if you are targetting windows for ARM or windows for x86 or windows for x64. That is why it is still windows even if things need to be recompiled. Most things are not just a recompile away from running on different OSes. That's why games don't come out for Linux. Sure, some apps may not work, but almost all of the.Net ones will.
It's still windows because the API calls are the same, the code just needs to be compiled properly. Imagine trying to run code compiled for x64 on x86. You can't do it. Its the same difference here..Net applications will still run on the CLR, Visual Studio will get an extra platform option to compile to x86, x64, Itanium, ARM or Any CPU. At most its a quick recompile of source, no reason to brand the OS differently because of that.
Did you miss the part about socialism? There are more poor people than rich people. I guess the rich could have private fleets of robots that supress the human population, but somehow I think the socialism will come between the robot slaves and the robot armies.
When the robots are better than us we adopt socialism and go on vacation. Everybody will command their robots, they won't think for themselves, but we won't have to do any work. At that point socialism makes sense and working is not needed.
Your guess as to what the correlation is caused by seems pretty spot on. However, it really bugs me the way people bitch about cancer research. I know three people who had cancer who do not have cancer now. One breast cancer survivor (at age 22!), one prostate, and one leukemia. There is no silver bullet for cancer, and complaining about the lack of a cure is the same as complaining about a lack of cure for viruses. From what I can tell there is a lot of solid research on cancer, and a lot of health tips to avoid cancer the same way there are health tips to avoid every kind of malady.
Well, also sometimes the only way to get real justice is as a vigilante, and nobody wants to admit that they would go too far with it. Americans tend to view things in absolutes. There is true justice, true good and true evil independent of what society says, thinks or does. If somebody rapes your child it would be true justice to remove that guy's balls and feed them to him, but no court would ever allow that to happen.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps once you get elected to be president, it becomes a little clearer why things are done the way they are done? I can agree that there may not be many large differences of policy based on who is in charge at any given time, but that result could happen from conspiracy or from stalemate.
Um... wow... I tend to not want to scroll horizontally to view code. Have you ever put a web page and code side by side, splitting a wide screen monitor in half? Its fucking terrible. Especially when you consider things like, I don't know, RDP in to a testing machine to use different browsers than you are allowed on your machine, while tweaking code, or having email up on one screen so you can just glance over to check mail, or having IM on the other side, or the code definition window on the second monitor. There are tons of reasons. My screen always feels too small when I am forced to use one.
So Starcraft is the "best" because you really like and are good at it
No, thats not what I said. Can you read? Specifically this part:
Starcraft is the best balanced RTS out there, and other RTSes might be more fun for you to play, but thats because you're bad and haven't found the One True Way that is unbeatable and makes the game boring
What that means is RTSes that are often times called more fun than Starcraft are only fun at the low end of the skill tree. I am also at the low end of skill, but I can at least recognize that starcraft is competitive at very, very high levels, and the professionals play very differently. In most other RTSes, good players will unearth a single good strategy that dwarfs others. Think Tic-Tac-Toe. When you are young and don't understand the game, it may be more fun than chess. However, there is a way to force a tie every single game once you figure it out. Chess does not have this limitation, or at least it is very difficult to reach that point of understanding in the game. Starcraft is more like chess, most other RTSes are like Tic-Tac-Toe. Once you figure out the trick to it, its very boring. Maybe you haven't reached that point with them and its fun for you. Great. There is a reason why the best RTS players in the world play Starcraft though, and that is why Starcraft is the best. It has the most depth and remains coherent and balanced all the way through.
The reason I think the modding of interesting is inappropriate is because it seems a lot like trolling to me. This isn't like WoW where it appeals to casual gamers. People in Korea play to the death (literally). Its hardcore, and an AC comes in here alluding to "more strategic" RTSes without naming names? That smacks of trolling and just being factually incorrect. Not to mention its a very shallow thought process.
Well, isn't everything more popular than watching experts play other RTSes? Honestly, I know you are trolling here but how you got modded +3 interesting is beyond me. Starcraft is the best RTS of all time. Do you think Korea just missed these other "great" RTSes while they devoted their lives to Starcraft? Face it, Starcraft is the best balanced RTS out there, and other RTSes might be more fun for you to play, but thats because you're bad and haven't found the One True Way that is unbeatable and makes the game boring for good players.
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The funny lies within the fact that it is so immature. You laugh at the person saying it, not the person it is said about. Even then its still not funny, but every once in a while a joke like this would be somewhat amusing:
A marine and a zealot walk in to a bar and take their seats. The marine looks to his left, then looks to his right. Taco has a tiny penis.
Just what the hell are you getting at?
Well, you're just wrong. How many TB do you really think the netflix collection is? It's probably pretty small when you consider how cheap storage is, and how much media most nerds have saved locally on their consumer level hardware. Also, if you are streaming something that doesn't exist on the cache server (because it hasn't been played yet in the area being served by that server), it could, you know, get the data and cache it then. Like a cache would normally work. A direct pipe to all of these ISPs would be a massively expensive undertaking. I'm sure they are allowed to have as many digital copies on their own hardware as they want, it would be stupid for licensees to care that netflix works by storing the data it licensed in multiple data centers instead of one.
More to the point, they do effectively charge more for people who have the internet access but not the cable TV access. It's called bundling. When you don't do it, you pay more for internet.
The first tear in my right eye at age 14 I got a buckle (my older brother had the same at age 12), my second tear in that eye happened while I was watching the second LotR in a theater, and I got the vitrectomy. I don't see very well in that eye even still, the oil they put in after the vitrectomy was the cause of the cataract. Things are in focus in that eye but retinal damage prevents me from being able to read very well or recognize faces. I believe the medical term for the type of tear I had was "giant retinal tear", and I have an awesome video of the surgery since my specialist would give lectures with it.
The first tear in my left eye (age 22) was after they removed the cataract in my left eye caused by laser to prevent a retinal detachment.... good plan, right? I got the vitrectomy in that eye first, but then they had to go back in after a flap got dislodged but was mostly being held by the laser.
However, it's hard to feel bad about any of it because of two things. My uncle was blind from age 8 onward because of his retinas detaching (he would be almost 80 today) but went on to be a programmer, so if he could do it completely blind from age 8, I could probably continue if I ever completely lost my vision. Secondly, my sister had detachments in the same places as me about 6 months after the fact except for the last one (the day after my surgery she was in there getting a preventative buckle). While she was recovering from her second surgery in her right eye, her eye actually deflated as the gas they replaced the vitreous with actually leaked out, causing her to lose complete vision in that eye.
I could have it a hell of a lot worse.
I'm sorry your assumptions were wrong.
I'm 24 and have had retinal detachments in both eyes (4 total! huzzah!) resulting in cataracts which have been removed, so don't feel too old. You better bet your ass I need reading glasses though. How did you get around this? And this damned goatee won't grow though, tug as I might on my sparse stubble.
True, but its still Windows. None of the code needs to change between the two platforms, you don't need compiler directives to switch calls based on if you are targetting windows for ARM or windows for x86 or windows for x64. That is why it is still windows even if things need to be recompiled. Most things are not just a recompile away from running on different OSes. That's why games don't come out for Linux. Sure, some apps may not work, but almost all of the .Net ones will.
It's still windows because the API calls are the same, the code just needs to be compiled properly. Imagine trying to run code compiled for x64 on x86. You can't do it. Its the same difference here. .Net applications will still run on the CLR, Visual Studio will get an extra platform option to compile to x86, x64, Itanium, ARM or Any CPU. At most its a quick recompile of source, no reason to brand the OS differently because of that.
Holy shit I'm fashionable now?! I can't wait to inform the ladies.
In all seriousness, technology is fashionable now, nerds are not.
My God, it encompasses earth and land? Fucking reptilians, is nothing safe?
Also I think it very funny that electrocute rhymes with forbidden fruit.
Did you miss the part about socialism? There are more poor people than rich people. I guess the rich could have private fleets of robots that supress the human population, but somehow I think the socialism will come between the robot slaves and the robot armies.
What, you're not in to that sort of thing?
When the robots are better than us we adopt socialism and go on vacation. Everybody will command their robots, they won't think for themselves, but we won't have to do any work. At that point socialism makes sense and working is not needed.
The catch is there is one of her and hundreds of nerds practically rolling their dicks out at her feet.
Your guess as to what the correlation is caused by seems pretty spot on. However, it really bugs me the way people bitch about cancer research. I know three people who had cancer who do not have cancer now. One breast cancer survivor (at age 22!), one prostate, and one leukemia. There is no silver bullet for cancer, and complaining about the lack of a cure is the same as complaining about a lack of cure for viruses. From what I can tell there is a lot of solid research on cancer, and a lot of health tips to avoid cancer the same way there are health tips to avoid every kind of malady.
Yeah, because I want to program with a language that makes my piss smell even more appealing than it already does. Right.
Or vitamin C!
Well, also sometimes the only way to get real justice is as a vigilante, and nobody wants to admit that they would go too far with it. Americans tend to view things in absolutes. There is true justice, true good and true evil independent of what society says, thinks or does. If somebody rapes your child it would be true justice to remove that guy's balls and feed them to him, but no court would ever allow that to happen.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps once you get elected to be president, it becomes a little clearer why things are done the way they are done? I can agree that there may not be many large differences of policy based on who is in charge at any given time, but that result could happen from conspiracy or from stalemate.
Are you trying to start a macro/micro fight with me?
Um... wow... I tend to not want to scroll horizontally to view code. Have you ever put a web page and code side by side, splitting a wide screen monitor in half? Its fucking terrible. Especially when you consider things like, I don't know, RDP in to a testing machine to use different browsers than you are allowed on your machine, while tweaking code, or having email up on one screen so you can just glance over to check mail, or having IM on the other side, or the code definition window on the second monitor. There are tons of reasons. My screen always feels too small when I am forced to use one.
So Starcraft is the "best" because you really like and are good at it
No, thats not what I said. Can you read? Specifically this part:
Starcraft is the best balanced RTS out there, and other RTSes might be more fun for you to play, but thats because you're bad and haven't found the One True Way that is unbeatable and makes the game boring
What that means is RTSes that are often times called more fun than Starcraft are only fun at the low end of the skill tree. I am also at the low end of skill, but I can at least recognize that starcraft is competitive at very, very high levels, and the professionals play very differently. In most other RTSes, good players will unearth a single good strategy that dwarfs others. Think Tic-Tac-Toe. When you are young and don't understand the game, it may be more fun than chess. However, there is a way to force a tie every single game once you figure it out. Chess does not have this limitation, or at least it is very difficult to reach that point of understanding in the game. Starcraft is more like chess, most other RTSes are like Tic-Tac-Toe. Once you figure out the trick to it, its very boring. Maybe you haven't reached that point with them and its fun for you. Great. There is a reason why the best RTS players in the world play Starcraft though, and that is why Starcraft is the best. It has the most depth and remains coherent and balanced all the way through.
The reason I think the modding of interesting is inappropriate is because it seems a lot like trolling to me. This isn't like WoW where it appeals to casual gamers. People in Korea play to the death (literally). Its hardcore, and an AC comes in here alluding to "more strategic" RTSes without naming names? That smacks of trolling and just being factually incorrect. Not to mention its a very shallow thought process.
Well, isn't everything more popular than watching experts play other RTSes? Honestly, I know you are trolling here but how you got modded +3 interesting is beyond me. Starcraft is the best RTS of all time. Do you think Korea just missed these other "great" RTSes while they devoted their lives to Starcraft? Face it, Starcraft is the best balanced RTS out there, and other RTSes might be more fun for you to play, but thats because you're bad and haven't found the One True Way that is unbeatable and makes the game boring for good players.