It seems to me that Nintendo leaked small bits of vague information about the DS (2 screens, etc...) and scoured the 'net reading all of the fan speculation regarding it, only to incorporate the most popular ideas. ("Let's say it has TWO screens and see if any of them has an idea about how to use them effectively")
We still have no idea just what the DS -is-. Everything's very vague at first, and it's taking definition pretty-well along the lines of the rumours.
Free market research == teh awesome. /crackpot theory
Oh yea, I heard that the DS has a special feature that steals your credit card number and sends it to some slashdot user named Schezar. ^_~
Now, I still buy books for my liberal arts classes for a number of reasons, but I haven't bought a single text for a class in my major (IT) in over three years. Quite frankly, for any technical question I could have, there's almost always an answer out there on the intarweb just waiting for me.
The text choices of my professors always seemed so arbitrary, and the same information appears in countless forums, web pages, and so forth. Instead of reading pages 110-115 in a $90 text, I google for "Microsoft Active Directory" or "Kernal Hacking," and spend $90 on a giant honking steak dinner;^)
After reading this, I realized that a good 90% of the email I receive is either from someone I've had previous contact with, or else someone 1 or at most 2 degrees of separation from one of those people. I never get mail worth reading from total strangers. Anything important is always linked back to me in some way.
It should be interesting to see how this method plays out. (Now, I don't know why I even bothered with that last sentence. Everyone says that about every new spam-filtery thing. ((Don't know why I bothered with that last sentence either. Work is slow today I suppose.)) )
When my family (6) plays, the games average 4 hours.
Then you're playing the game wrong. There's a funny story about the man who designed Settlers:
In an interview in Germany, he was asked about time issues with the game. Specifically, what to do about people who spend too long thinking before making their moves. His response was something along the lines of:
"Well, we play these games with our friends, and usually in pubs. If someone is taking more than a few seconds to move, we begin chanting "Move, or we will hit you! Move, or we will hit you!" If they continue to dally, we hit them. It's never really a problem." (paraphrased and translated from German)
Basically, these games can be won by whoever thinks hardest and longest. If everyone spends an hour on each turn, they'll play a much cleaner game. Anyone could always make the optimum move given enough thought: the skill is being able to make these moves QUICKLY.
If it takes you 6 hours to play Settlers, I suggest the "Bewegen oder wir schlagen Sie." treatment.
A good rule of thumb is that you shouldn't spend more than 5-10 seconds at MAX without taking some action on the board. This goes for most all German games.
(Check out Puerto Rico, El Grande, Tikal, and Amon Re while you're at it. Right on par with Settlers.)
Back in High School, the teachers didn't necessarily understand the technology. Some profs would ban them altogether to prevent cheating. Others had no idea things like, say, ANSWERS and FORMULAE could be stored in them.
I remember writing little programs that played cute little games. (And happened to have useful test information in the comments of the code.) I remember playing pong over that crappy link cable in the back of Calculus class.
Best of all, I remember when the TI-86 came out. Sure it had more memory, but my parents just didn't understand a geek's needs. ("You already HAVE a calculator.")
Of course, geekery knows no bounds. Scant weeks later I'd overclocked my 85. Sure, it went through a whole set of batteries a week, and the games wouldn't work anymore, but it was FAST! (Faster than everyone else's 86 at least ^_~)
"If I wanted to distinguish pop-up blockers from replay, I would say that pop-up blockers are different because (1) the commercials are not integrated with the rest of the site (they change by user) and therefore they are not a coherent copyrighted work like a TV broadcast...
Cable stations often replace sections of advertisments with their own local ones. Some shows are repeated on different networks with different ads.
The show is a copyrighted work. The commercials are each individual copyrighted works. I'd keep typing, but you see where I'm going with this...
No you haven't. Master/Slave is the industry standard, and it wasn't even an issue until JUST NOW! JUST NOW! JUST NOW!
Furthermore, you can't be offended unless you WANT to be. Language is symbolic: all meaning is decoded by the receiver. There is no intrinsic meaning to any word, only the extrinsic ones we apply ourselves. Thus, if you are offended, it's YOUR fault: not mine.
I reference the following article (Happiness is a Warm Brick: page 7)
Not everybody performs well in the same environments.
Then find a job with an environment that suits your needs. Don't force others to adapt to you, because like it or not, you're the odd man out: not them. (See Darwin.)
And how is discrimination based on social skills any different from discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or right-handedness?
The color of your skin, or the god(s) you believe in will have no effect on your ability to perform a job function. Furthermore, they are things that cannot easily be changed.
Social skills are just that: SKILLS! Learn them! If you can't, you're no better than a coder who can't learn Python or C.
"Unpopular people need not apply"? Will they have you bring your high-school yearbook as references?
Hate to break it to ya, but the world is -just- a giant popularity contest. I'm sorry you didn't have any friends in high school, but that was your problem, not that of everyone else.
Being friendly, charismatic, and relatively good-looking had done far more for me than my IT skills ever have or ever will.
It affects my ability to filter out noisy distractions
Then you are unfit to work in an environment where there are "noisy distractions," because you are disproportionately affected by them.
Factory workers are all affected equally by the slippery floor. The slippery floor is there, and the best person for the job is the one who can do the job effectively despite the conditions.
Wheelchair ramps are a different issue. They help people to get around: they don't allow unfit people to do jobs they shouldn't be doing. Hawking's job was to think: this was not affected by his inability to walk. You don't see wheelchair ramps in nuclear submarines.
Furthermore, paraplegics and the like have physical, real disabilities. I have no sympathy for mental "disorders," because quite frankly, I don't believe in them. It's all in your head, literally. If you believe that your mind is subject to forces beyond your control well, that's just -sad-.
Not to sound mean, but if a disability makes someone less able to do a job, they should not get that job over someone else who is otherwise equally qualified.
ADD, for example, makes someone less able to work in open, group environments, and thus makes one less suitable for certain jobs. A quadraplegic can't be a fighter jet pilot: it would be insane to require the Air Force to implement "adaptive technology" for that.
Some of the best geeks I know are antisocial miscreants
Then I certainly wouldn't want to spend any of -my- time with them, let alone share the workplace with them.
I don't care how productive or geekily intelligent someone is. If they can't communicate effectively or deal with other people, they have no place in most workforces.
A team of 5 interesting, friendly people will ALWAYS outperform a lone social outcast barricaded in his single office.
Those who prove to be unproductive when they have to share space with others risk getting fired
Finally. It's scary just how many otherwise intelligent adults have massive hygene problems or creepy neurosis. (Nuts afraid of germs in the office, nuts who lost their train of though at the slightest unexpected noise...)
Now, with any luck, the smelly ones will be openly ridiculed by their annoyed peers, and the nutty ones will be driven over the edge by the close proximity. Once they're gone, the workplaces of the world should generally become much nicer places.
He's right. To put it bluntly, it's YOUR fault if you're offended by anything, because all meaning in communication is symbolic and interpreted by the receiver.
If something offends you, take a deep breath and pull the stick out of your arse.
Most clients couldn't care less about how the DJ does it. Vinyl, CD, mp3... they want their music.
Don't let the audiophiles trick you into thinking that there's more than a niche interest in the "old-school" ways. If the music comes out, and sounds good, it's good enough for 90% of the people listening/dancing.
Origin (Horatio Hornblower)
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Skittlebrau
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I never even considered that Skittlebrau was actually anything... real? That is, until I read CS Forester's "Horatio Hornblower" series. Nauticle pulp fiction of the worst (best) sort.
Anyway, in one scene Horatio mentions that "life is not always beer and skittles." Now, these are old books, so the reference is, well, old.
Does anyone know the actual, non-Horatio reference?
MP3s are ubiquitous. My computer, DVD player, portable audio player, and car stereo all support it. The same can't be said for other formats.
More to the point, why are all of these competitions at such low bitrates? The differences in quality between various types of audio compression become indistinguishable (and therefore irrelevant) as you raise the bitrate.
I just use good old variable bitrate MP3 and forget about it. Simple and standard.
Slashdot Mirror
RIT has the largest anime club in North America. Some 400 members. 'nuff said.
I hate to do this, but where are my fscking mod points when I need them? -_-
It seems to me that Nintendo leaked small bits of vague information about the DS (2 screens, etc...) and scoured the 'net reading all of the fan speculation regarding it, only to incorporate the most popular ideas. ("Let's say it has TWO screens and see if any of them has an idea about how to use them effectively")
/crackpot theory
We still have no idea just what the DS -is-. Everything's very vague at first, and it's taking definition pretty-well along the lines of the rumours.
Free market research == teh awesome.
Oh yea, I heard that the DS has a special feature that steals your credit card number and sends it to some slashdot user named Schezar. ^_~
Now, I still buy books for my liberal arts classes for a number of reasons, but I haven't bought a single text for a class in my major (IT) in over three years. Quite frankly, for any technical question I could have, there's almost always an answer out there on the intarweb just waiting for me.
;^)
The text choices of my professors always seemed so arbitrary, and the same information appears in countless forums, web pages, and so forth. Instead of reading pages 110-115 in a $90 text, I google for "Microsoft Active Directory" or "Kernal Hacking," and spend $90 on a giant honking steak dinner
After reading this, I realized that a good 90% of the email I receive is either from someone I've had previous contact with, or else someone 1 or at most 2 degrees of separation from one of those people. I never get mail worth reading from total strangers. Anything important is always linked back to me in some way.
It should be interesting to see how this method plays out. (Now, I don't know why I even bothered with that last sentence. Everyone says that about every new spam-filtery thing. ((Don't know why I bothered with that last sentence either. Work is slow today I suppose.)) )
When my family (6) plays, the games average 4 hours.
Then you're playing the game wrong. There's a funny story about the man who designed Settlers:
In an interview in Germany, he was asked about time issues with the game. Specifically, what to do about people who spend too long thinking before making their moves. His response was something along the lines of:
"Well, we play these games with our friends, and usually in pubs. If someone is taking more than a few seconds to move, we begin chanting "Move, or we will hit you! Move, or we will hit you!" If they continue to dally, we hit them. It's never really a problem." (paraphrased and translated from German)
Basically, these games can be won by whoever thinks hardest and longest. If everyone spends an hour on each turn, they'll play a much cleaner game. Anyone could always make the optimum move given enough thought: the skill is being able to make these moves QUICKLY.
If it takes you 6 hours to play Settlers, I suggest the "Bewegen oder wir schlagen Sie." treatment.
A good rule of thumb is that you shouldn't spend more than 5-10 seconds at MAX without taking some action on the board. This goes for most all German games.
(Check out Puerto Rico, El Grande, Tikal, and Amon Re while you're at it. Right on par with Settlers.)
Thank you.
"So please, stop spreading misinformation."
Oh? Now I'll make it my mission to distribute pirated software that collects ccns and profit from the lack of competition. ^_^
Step 2: Leak source to said game.
(Step 1.5: Make deal with Russian hacker types, give them better copy of "leaked" code)
Step 3: Use back doors in said code / existance of said code to
Step 4: Profit!(I'm KIDDING!)
This says it best.
I hate to be one of those people who just posts a link to a relevant comic, but I'm REAL bored at work right now, and I've already read FARK...
Ahh, the good old days...
Back in High School, the teachers didn't necessarily understand the technology. Some profs would ban them altogether to prevent cheating. Others had no idea things like, say, ANSWERS and FORMULAE could be stored in them.
I remember writing little programs that played cute little games. (And happened to have useful test information in the comments of the code.) I remember playing pong over that crappy link cable in the back of Calculus class.
Best of all, I remember when the TI-86 came out. Sure it had more memory, but my parents just didn't understand a geek's needs. ("You already HAVE a calculator.")
Of course, geekery knows no bounds. Scant weeks later I'd overclocked my 85. Sure, it went through a whole set of batteries a week, and the games wouldn't work anymore, but it was FAST! (Faster than everyone else's 86 at least ^_~)
"If I wanted to distinguish pop-up blockers from replay, I would say that pop-up blockers are different because (1) the commercials are not integrated with the rest of the site (they change by user) and therefore they are not a coherent copyrighted work like a TV broadcast...
Cable stations often replace sections of advertisments with their own local ones. Some shows are repeated on different networks with different ads.
The show is a copyrighted work. The commercials are each individual copyrighted works. I'd keep typing, but you see where I'm going with this...
I've been doing this for years, myself.
No you haven't. Master/Slave is the industry standard, and it wasn't even an issue until JUST NOW! JUST NOW! JUST NOW!
Furthermore, you can't be offended unless you WANT to be. Language is symbolic: all meaning is decoded by the receiver. There is no intrinsic meaning to any word, only the extrinsic ones we apply ourselves. Thus, if you are offended, it's YOUR fault: not mine.
I reference the following article (Happiness is a Warm Brick: page 7)
Not everybody performs well in the same environments.
Then find a job with an environment that suits your needs. Don't force others to adapt to you, because like it or not, you're the odd man out: not them. (See Darwin.)
And how is discrimination based on social skills any different from discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or right-handedness?
The color of your skin, or the god(s) you believe in will have no effect on your ability to perform a job function. Furthermore, they are things that cannot easily be changed.
Social skills are just that: SKILLS! Learn them! If you can't, you're no better than a coder who can't learn Python or C.
"Unpopular people need not apply"? Will they have you bring your high-school yearbook as references?
Hate to break it to ya, but the world is -just- a giant popularity contest. I'm sorry you didn't have any friends in high school, but that was your problem, not that of everyone else.
Being friendly, charismatic, and relatively good-looking had done far more for me than my IT skills ever have or ever will.
There's plenty of effective ways to manage a team that don't necessarily require socialization.
True, but there's more to work than productivity. Anti-social people make a dismal work environment and drag down morale.
Everyone likes to crack jokes about people with ADD, don't they?
Yep. Because ADD isn't real.
It affects my ability to filter out noisy distractions
Then you are unfit to work in an environment where there are "noisy distractions," because you are disproportionately affected by them.
Factory workers are all affected equally by the slippery floor. The slippery floor is there, and the best person for the job is the one who can do the job effectively despite the conditions.
Wheelchair ramps are a different issue. They help people to get around: they don't allow unfit people to do jobs they shouldn't be doing. Hawking's job was to think: this was not affected by his inability to walk. You don't see wheelchair ramps in nuclear submarines.
Furthermore, paraplegics and the like have physical, real disabilities. I have no sympathy for mental "disorders," because quite frankly, I don't believe in them. It's all in your head, literally. If you believe that your mind is subject to forces beyond your control well, that's just -sad-.
Not to sound mean, but if a disability makes someone less able to do a job, they should not get that job over someone else who is otherwise equally qualified.
ADD, for example, makes someone less able to work in open, group environments, and thus makes one less suitable for certain jobs. A quadraplegic can't be a fighter jet pilot: it would be insane to require the Air Force to implement "adaptive technology" for that.
Some of the best geeks I know are antisocial miscreants
Then I certainly wouldn't want to spend any of -my- time with them, let alone share the workplace with them.
I don't care how productive or geekily intelligent someone is. If they can't communicate effectively or deal with other people, they have no place in most workforces.
A team of 5 interesting, friendly people will ALWAYS outperform a lone social outcast barricaded in his single office.
Those who prove to be unproductive when they have to share space with others risk getting fired
Finally. It's scary just how many otherwise intelligent adults have massive hygene problems or creepy neurosis. (Nuts afraid of germs in the office, nuts who lost their train of though at the slightest unexpected noise...)
Now, with any luck, the smelly ones will be openly ridiculed by their annoyed peers, and the nutty ones will be driven over the edge by the close proximity. Once they're gone, the workplaces of the world should generally become much nicer places.
He's right. To put it bluntly, it's YOUR fault if you're offended by anything, because all meaning in communication is symbolic and interpreted by the receiver.
If something offends you, take a deep breath and pull the stick out of your arse.
He's right.
Most clients couldn't care less about how the DJ does it. Vinyl, CD, mp3... they want their music.
Don't let the audiophiles trick you into thinking that there's more than a niche interest in the "old-school" ways. If the music comes out, and sounds good, it's good enough for 90% of the people listening/dancing.
I never even considered that Skittlebrau was actually anything... real? That is, until I read CS Forester's "Horatio Hornblower" series. Nauticle pulp fiction of the worst (best) sort.
Anyway, in one scene Horatio mentions that "life is not always beer and skittles." Now, these are old books, so the reference is, well, old.
Does anyone know the actual, non-Horatio reference?
MP3s are ubiquitous. My computer, DVD player, portable audio player, and car stereo all support it. The same can't be said for other formats.
More to the point, why are all of these competitions at such low bitrates? The differences in quality between various types of audio compression become indistinguishable (and therefore irrelevant) as you raise the bitrate.
I just use good old variable bitrate MP3 and forget about it. Simple and standard.
Kefka. Most... dissapointing... fight... EVAR!
....
I was really looking forward to it. I fought my way to the end, the awesome music started, and I was ready to go!
The fight went something like this:
Ultima
Ultima
UltimaUltima (Celes had the Gem Box)
Ultima
Ultima
You get the idea. I held A down until I won. Didn't lose a single person.
Sigh... And I remember when "Nintendo Hard" meant something. Impossible jumps and exploding Hitlers: that was where it was at!