Seriously, without the huge surplus lawyer-mountain in the US, crazy shit like this wouldnt be an option. Why fire a perfectly good space probe at a comet when we could propel a bunch of lawyers instead, preferably shackled to their brain-dead clients.
Shh, we've almost finished the next space vehicle Golgafrincham Ark B.
So, let's apply Occams Razor. Either there are people in this world who can 'speak to spirits', 'read minds', and have other paranormal powers (but choose to eke out a living reading palms instead of, say, getting the winnign lottery numbers). OR, there are people in this world who are frauds. Fakers. Con men.
WHich is more likely?
I'll believe people can see the future when 50,000+ psychics split a 5 Million dollar lottery and then commence suing each other.
Keep in mind that they have a special "Celebrity" branch whose members are treated to a completely different experience than the regular rank & file...
It's a very large branch and I think they've been smacking it over Tom Cruise's head lately.
On a side note, I have to leave Texas before my children get in to school. I already had my "linux" fish ripped off my car once since I moved here.
Well, they're just trying to show you Christian values. You know, thou shall not murder, thou shall not covet, and thou shall not steal...oh, wait, nevermind.
Meanwhile, back in America, a Mr. Spackler of the entity Slashdot is suing some stupid Russian woman for $.65, which is the cost of the can of Pepsi I just spat out my nose.
The Stupid Russian Woman replies In Soviet Russia your nose spats out of a can of Pepsi for free
Actually, no. It's the people who drive too fast that create the congestion on busy highways.
They catch up with a group of drivers who are observing the speed limit, and then the brake lights start up and you've suddenly got a mix of fast and normal drivers all crammed together.
Guess who wins? No one. Now that everyone is applying their brakes in the confusion it's a big mess.
Why should someone have to code a webpage in order to have a blog?
Should a user need to know how to install their operating system in order to use one?
As slashdot geeks we sometimes get narrow minded, but there are different types of intelligence. Just because someone isn't a computer scientist doesnt mean they don't have something interesting to say.
Why reply to my post with something that has nothing to do with what I said?
Did I say that someone needs to know how to code HTML to post a blog? No.
Did I say that someone needs to know how to install an operating system to know how to use it? No.
Did I say that someone has to be a computer scientist to have something interesting to say? No.
Please bother to read and absorb a post before replying in a way that has nothing at all to do with what you are replying to.
You don't have to actually read what you reply to, but it would help in the future.
As much as I'd like to believe that learning to code HTML will somehow improve the quality of websites, I know this to be false. Take a look at the old geocities, tripod and angelfire pages. True, many of them were made with the integrated editor, but there are as equally many that were hard coded
That was and is mostly copy and paste.
If a person goes through the trouble of learning to code in a computer language, the likely-hood that their content will be higher quality is better regardless of the hosting company that they use compared to a person who uses a front end or copies other content.
99.9% of blogs are crap by people who can't bother to code an web page.
If they spent the time to learn how to create a web page, they'd also learn the value of CONTENT, not blabbering about whatever they ate for breakfast or how someone's opinion effected their enjoyment of that breakfast.
We won't be purchasing it for our LAN games if that's the case.
I run several NWN servers on a LAN and haven't had to have internet access turned on in the past really don't want it for numerous reasons...mostly security.
As an aside, when I've run LANs and HAVE turned on internet access to do something, anyone who shows up with a pirated copy cannot connect to the different running dedicated servers on that box.
I run a lot of different games so I tell the offender to either buy the game or play one of the games that he's actually purchased.
I thought it was an Apple II game but then again, that was 23 years of gaming ago.
You should be able find information about it by searching the google USENET groups rather than a web search.
Why do companies always feel the need to start work on planning on an expansion before their current product is finished or to a point that can be considered mostly finished?
Mostly because the majority of the gamers are getting what they deserve.
For instance, Valve has launched HL2 & Counter-Strike for it. They are patching these new games AND still fixing/optimizing HL1/CS which is over 6 years old.
What does Valve get for still doing work on that extremely old game? A HUGE punch in the face from gamers screaming that Valve should be only updating it's new games and should completely abandon their old ones.
Valve's newest games may be buggy, but at least they are working on it and older issues instead of being like Blizzard and abandoning people every time they come up with a new release.
You do know that access points have MAC addresses, don't you? Every single MAC address is globally unique. They have a database of those, _not_ of the names.
MAC addresses can be changed rather easily.
For example, Netgear configuration often allows MAC address changes.
FTA: He cites the complex, inaccessible, and time-consuming nature of today's most popular games.
If they are so inaccessible, etc... then why are they the most popular?
This is a non-issue. The sky is not falling. There are games for all types of people. Also, o one should feel left out or need to contact their Governmental representatives to enact legislation to stop this sort of thing.
18 men returned to Seville with the Victoria in 1522
I'm glad that those 18 men aren't here to witness our present stance towards exploration - IF THERE'S MUCH OF A CHANCE PEOPLE WILL DIE DON'T DO IT, INSTEAD WATCH THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL!
You know that they'd be jeering 'hey ya pussies, why aren't you on Mars yet?'.
replying to every one of his troll bullet points with a detail explanation as to why his troll is wrong sure shut him up
No, the moderation system took care of that.
Correcting misinformation from Trolls is a good idea, especially when it is disguised as 'very informative' on a user moderated web forum.
By highlighting such information from a Troll (at least on Slashdot), you give moderators much more of an idea of what to do even if they aren't experts on the matter being discussed. Moderators didn't even need to be gamers at all to see the stark contrast of that post compared to the replies.
The Troll was not moderated down as one until a while after others posted a general disagreement with what the Troll said.
BTW: Welcome to Slashdot where the Trolls are pistol-whipped into submission.
Keyboards and 5,6,7-button mice leave you wishing you had extra fingers to issue more commands.
That's why shifting over to the right one key feeds that wish. With WASD, your pinky can move to the left without you moving your whole hand. And, that pinky is then hanging over empty space when it could be used for more key presses (informational binds to alert teammates about {whatever} for example).
Come on. A good piano player doesn't need a "divit" to find keys on the piano.
Yes, but if you changed the notes that played when he hit keys he'd have a slight hinderance to his playing. People who type very well do so because they use the home row position. To then have them switch to something else for playing games doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
The default WASD is a throw-back to DOOM when many keys were not necessary. It won't go away in the foreseeable future.
Also, I was not implying that WASD players weren't as good. OTOH, those WASD players could open up more possibilities if they shifted one key to the right and used the extra keys they'd then have readily available.
To play devils advocate - do you have statistics on "out of the box" thinking for different periods in history?
There aren't any statistics except for hard to prove information that intelligence in general has been losing ground.
A large reason for not being able to prove it is because there isn't a control group to compare all of us against. If the Earth's magnetic field and it's shielding do effect the human brain in any way, it's a world-wide phenomenon. (There are many other factors that effect the human brain of course. I do realize this.)
I would throw the question back at you and ask what close group of people in the last few decades have been able to do what (for example) a single person like Leonardo DaVinci was able to do in his time? There should be countless examples because our population is MUCH higher than in that time and there is more readily accessible data for us to grow up with and learn from.
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Seriously, without the huge surplus lawyer-mountain in the US, crazy shit like this wouldnt be an option. Why fire a perfectly good space probe at a comet when we could propel a bunch of lawyers instead, preferably shackled to their brain-dead clients.
Shh, we've almost finished the next space vehicle Golgafrincham Ark B.
They're going to name it "Urectum" to avoid all the silly jokes.
Oh, you must have been have been at my 3rd grade Show&Tell where I told my 'I saw a dog get hit by a a car and it ran over his asshole' story.
Oh, and she didn't see this coming?
Of course not.
Slashdot has much better mediums than she is.
For instance, I'm currently visualizing a duplicate of this story coming in the near future.
So, let's apply Occams Razor. Either there are people in this world who can 'speak to spirits', 'read minds', and have other paranormal powers (but choose to eke out a living reading palms instead of, say, getting the winnign lottery numbers). OR, there are people in this world who are frauds. Fakers. Con men.
WHich is more likely?
I'll believe people can see the future when 50,000+ psychics split a 5 Million dollar lottery and then commence suing each other.
Keep in mind that they have a special "Celebrity" branch whose members are treated to a completely different experience than the regular rank & file...
It's a very large branch and I think they've been smacking it over Tom Cruise's head lately.
On a side note, I have to leave Texas before my children get in to school. I already had my "linux" fish ripped off my car once since I moved here.
Well, they're just trying to show you Christian values. You know, thou shall not murder, thou shall not covet, and thou shall not steal...oh, wait, nevermind.
Meanwhile, back in America, a Mr. Spackler of the entity Slashdot is suing some stupid Russian woman for $.65, which is the cost of the can of Pepsi I just spat out my nose.
The Stupid Russian Woman replies In Soviet Russia your nose spats out of a can of Pepsi for free
Probably just some script kiddie looking for a phpMyAdmin install not behind a password.
And, the phpmyadmin documentation for as long as I can remember has said DONT USE PHPMYADMIN for the directory.
Even a directory called admin is a very bad idea.
Seems pretty obvious.
Actually, no. It's the people who drive too fast that create the congestion on busy highways.
They catch up with a group of drivers who are observing the speed limit, and then the brake lights start up and you've suddenly got a mix of fast and normal drivers all crammed together.
Guess who wins? No one. Now that everyone is applying their brakes in the confusion it's a big mess.
Why should someone have to code a webpage in order to have a blog? Should a user need to know how to install their operating system in order to use one? As slashdot geeks we sometimes get narrow minded, but there are different types of intelligence. Just because someone isn't a computer scientist doesnt mean they don't have something interesting to say.
Why reply to my post with something that has nothing to do with what I said?
Did I say that someone needs to know how to code HTML to post a blog? No.
Did I say that someone needs to know how to install an operating system to know how to use it? No.
Did I say that someone has to be a computer scientist to have something interesting to say? No.
Please bother to read and absorb a post before replying in a way that has nothing at all to do with what you are replying to.
You don't have to actually read what you reply to, but it would help in the future.
As much as I'd like to believe that learning to code HTML will somehow improve the quality of websites, I know this to be false. Take a look at the old geocities, tripod and angelfire pages. True, many of them were made with the integrated editor, but there are as equally many that were hard coded
That was and is mostly copy and paste.
If a person goes through the trouble of learning to code in a computer language, the likely-hood that their content will be higher quality is better regardless of the hosting company that they use compared to a person who uses a front end or copies other content.
99.9% of blogs are crap by people who can't bother to code an web page.
If they spent the time to learn how to create a web page, they'd also learn the value of CONTENT, not blabbering about whatever they ate for breakfast or how someone's opinion effected their enjoyment of that breakfast.
We won't be purchasing it for our LAN games if that's the case.
I run several NWN servers on a LAN and haven't had to have internet access turned on in the past really don't want it for numerous reasons...mostly security.
As an aside, when I've run LANs and HAVE turned on internet access to do something, anyone who shows up with a pirated copy cannot connect to the different running dedicated servers on that box.
I run a lot of different games so I tell the offender to either buy the game or play one of the games that he's actually purchased.
There are no enemy lines in a guerrila war
+1 Captain Obvious
I guess this would fill in the gaps and really make sure 'no child is left behind'.
Unless they happen to get left behind enemy lines.
Yes, several years went by and this update fixes...drum roll please...the Korean language problem.
Simply amazing!
I thought it was an Apple II game but then again, that was 23 years of gaming ago. You should be able find information about it by searching the google USENET groups rather than a web search.
Why do companies always feel the need to start work on planning on an expansion before their current product is finished or to a point that can be considered mostly finished?
Mostly because the majority of the gamers are getting what they deserve.
For instance, Valve has launched HL2 & Counter-Strike for it. They are patching these new games AND still fixing/optimizing HL1/CS which is over 6 years old.
What does Valve get for still doing work on that extremely old game? A HUGE punch in the face from gamers screaming that Valve should be only updating it's new games and should completely abandon their old ones.
Valve's newest games may be buggy, but at least they are working on it and older issues instead of being like Blizzard and abandoning people every time they come up with a new release.
You do know that access points have MAC addresses, don't you? Every single MAC address is globally unique. They have a database of those, _not_ of the names.
MAC addresses can be changed rather easily.
For example, Netgear configuration often allows MAC address changes.
FTA: He cites the complex, inaccessible, and time-consuming nature of today's most popular games.
If they are so inaccessible, etc... then why are they the most popular?
This is a non-issue. The sky is not falling. There are games for all types of people. Also, o one should feel left out or need to contact their Governmental representatives to enact legislation to stop this sort of thing.
Why exactly isn't Mars that interesting anymore?
Mostly because we've recently discovered that the sand traps will make golfing pure hell on Mars so we need investigate elsewhere.
18 men returned to Seville with the Victoria in 1522
I'm glad that those 18 men aren't here to witness our present stance towards exploration - IF THERE'S MUCH OF A CHANCE PEOPLE WILL DIE DON'T DO IT, INSTEAD WATCH THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL!
You know that they'd be jeering 'hey ya pussies, why aren't you on Mars yet?'.
replying to every one of his troll bullet points with a detail explanation as to why his troll is wrong sure shut him up
No, the moderation system took care of that.
Correcting misinformation from Trolls is a good idea, especially when it is disguised as 'very informative' on a user moderated web forum.
By highlighting such information from a Troll (at least on Slashdot), you give moderators much more of an idea of what to do even if they aren't experts on the matter being discussed. Moderators didn't even need to be gamers at all to see the stark contrast of that post compared to the replies.
The Troll was not moderated down as one until a while after others posted a general disagreement with what the Troll said.
BTW: Welcome to Slashdot where the Trolls are pistol-whipped into submission.
Keyboards and 5,6,7-button mice leave you wishing you had extra fingers to issue more commands.
That's why shifting over to the right one key feeds that wish. With WASD, your pinky can move to the left without you moving your whole hand. And, that pinky is then hanging over empty space when it could be used for more key presses (informational binds to alert teammates about {whatever} for example).
Come on. A good piano player doesn't need a "divit" to find keys on the piano.
Yes, but if you changed the notes that played when he hit keys he'd have a slight hinderance to his playing. People who type very well do so because they use the home row position. To then have them switch to something else for playing games doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
The default WASD is a throw-back to DOOM when many keys were not necessary. It won't go away in the foreseeable future.
Also, I was not implying that WASD players weren't as good. OTOH, those WASD players could open up more possibilities if they shifted one key to the right and used the extra keys they'd then have readily available.
To play devils advocate - do you have statistics on "out of the box" thinking for different periods in history?
There aren't any statistics except for hard to prove information that intelligence in general has been losing ground.
A large reason for not being able to prove it is because there isn't a control group to compare all of us against. If the Earth's magnetic field and it's shielding do effect the human brain in any way, it's a world-wide phenomenon. (There are many other factors that effect the human brain of course. I do realize this.)
I would throw the question back at you and ask what close group of people in the last few decades have been able to do what (for example) a single person like Leonardo DaVinci was able to do in his time? There should be countless examples because our population is MUCH higher than in that time and there is more readily accessible data for us to grow up with and learn from.