But you'd never see Mario running around with an assortment of laser guns. Why? Because that's not what Mario does.
Super Smash Brothers Melee./I/ think it's one of the most innovative games there's ever been. Wonderful graphics, amazing scores, incredible control, inspiring attention to detail...
And Princess Peach can shoot you with a star wand, chuck the wand at you, then throw a vegetable up into the air in time to stun Ganondorf coming in from overhead while she deflects Mario's laser pistol barrage.
Beautiful game, elegant handicapping, it's the GameCube's first and foremost reason to have four controllers.
And the game is made by mascots. Nobody could've given less of a damn if it had sixteen guys (and girls and persons of color, thank you Fusion Frenzy) nobody had ever heard of before.
It had to be Jigglypuff smashing Donkey Kong with the Hammer, or it just wouldn't work.
And you've still not explained why you think you're qualified to comment.
You could've answered that challenge with facts you've known or witnessed, further explaining your changed perceptions. You also could've chosen to explain why self-improvement seminars are valuable, citing even one insight or anecdote concerning them.
You instead chose to provide... nothing. Answering what could be taken as a question with another question.
You can't argue that it wasn't worth your time because you chose to reply, and you can't tell me I wouldn't learn anything because this is a public forum; hopefully your valuable insights would be well received by those wiser than I.
I'm going to have to stick with my original opinion on this one -- that if you've been to enough "self-improvement seminars" to have experimented with and settled on a drug of choice to imbibe during them, that I'm...
Heck with it. Can you even focus enough to read this far down? I'd lay off the drugs and go see a therapist or something. Go to church. Call your mom -- or your kids, I don't care. Skip your next "seminar" no matter how much the Great One wants you to go.
If you'd like to tell us why/your/ self-improvement seminars are notably different from the sessions run by trendy scam-artists pitching to the desperate and stupid, you're of course welcome to.
But if you're not... Well, don't be surprised if nobody leaps to defend your claims of drug-induced synergistic... hell, I can't even tell what you claim they did... whatevers at Stewart Smalley's boot camp.
As an aside... it seems you're claiming that the drug increases either the frequency or intensity of the sensation of having a good idea. While not directly familiar with them, I'll note that there's lots of things out there that can make you think you just had a really good idea. Many of them come in six-packs.
I wish for once I saw someone have the intelligence to put out a REAL *programming* challange. One that requires you to think about entire systems, about design and IMPLICATIONS of design, about the subtle balance between speed and stability, about the umpteen million things that divides the '1337 h4X0r who is brilliant but considers random crashes to be expected from the professional and vastly underappreciated programmer who's work is so rock solid that he doesn't need a pager for the weekends. THOSE are the people who should be getting the props.
no, its not wrong to vote out the worst of the two. yes, there ARE only two (grow up, ok; this is reality) and so since its not a race of the best man winning, we have to think of stopping the worst man from winning.
Yes. You're forced to make a suboptimal choice due to the nature of the voting process.
Simple majority was the only option two hundred years ago. We now have better voting options, such as Condorcet, which would entirely obviate the concept of "throwing your vote away".
This would not merely weaken, but/shatter/ the two-party system, as previously marginal candidates become credible threats. Therefore, neither party will ever support a move away from the voting method we have now.
It follows, finally, that with the value of my vote so diluted, I and all other voters are denied effective represenation... and I'm being taxed.
Anything taken, copied, downloaded and such without the owners permission is taking something you have no right to.
Their right to it is based on constitutional law that balances their rights and mine.
This balance has been violated. This is wrong. I therefore treat it as I do any other bad law -- it affects me only so far as I can be punished for it. You want to talk/morals/ and "theft", you go fucking fix your law first.
This isn't rocket science.
Not that this has anything to do with the original topic, which is under any reasonable definition theft.
Not that it would have helped me. I put a false name and number on the form when I signed up for my supermarket discount card(s). (Not that they care, as this still probably generates useful demographic data of some kind for them.) Good thing I don't eat meat.
I "browse at +2, and punish Funny, Redundant, and short comments", meaning that I don't see comments that score less than 2, short comments are penalized slightly, and comments marked Funny or Redundant are penalized harshly. Slashdot only showed me seventeen out of... well... lots of comments. And those comments were very helpful.
To be fair, though, my viewing thresholds are set so harshly that my comments frequently don't manage to sqweak through. But it keeps Slashdot nice and tidy.
Okay. I can work with that. Now I shall patent a method to circumvent systems that use visual inspections to detect and block illegal quantities of cocaine from entering national and/or state jurisdictions.
Forget trying to wrest money out of some crummy/spammers/.
Yes, yes, woo, it's sure weird how people get totally shafted by copyright, and then desperately try to make it serve them in/any/ way it can.
Look, if you want to get rid of copyright tomorrow, BE MY GUEST. It's long outlived its usefulness. But if I'm gonna have to live with the goddamned thing, then while I'm about it, I'll try to get some use out of it.
I think the machine is fun for the home-viewing audience, but the ump is necessary for the game. Until you can put in a Johnny-5 to call the game, I'll take my umpires and their strike calls and punch-out flourishes.
I've got this image of Johnny-5 with its mechanical eye-shades up at a forty-five degree angle, eyes shaded to red, that three-fingered hand up above his right shoulder with a thumb to the dugout.
"I said, yerrrrr OUT!" <soft whine of laser powering up>
If I want a window manager to steal keystrokes, I do it on a bucky bit that hardly anyone uses anymore, like "super" or "hyper". Then I rebind my keyboard to make those keys accessible. My caps-lock is now super, kills two birds with one stone.
I should probably note that I never expected Caps Lock to be called "super" on Slashdot.
Consider it a concession to clarity. If it bothers you, -use words-, not acronyms.
I've heard people whine about the matter forever, and I've come to the conclusion that they're simply wrong.
Yes, redundancy is evil, wah wah wah, but I simply -prefer- "ATM machine" to "ATM", and will continue to use it. I don't -need- my speech compressed that far, and I'd prefer it contain more words than letters.
Try jDoom instead, then. Jumping's a server option which you can disable.
Yeah, sure, jumping makes Dead Simple a lot less Dead and a lot more Simple, but you can turn it off if you want and it -does- make the jumping puzzles less annoying.
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Super Smash Brothers Melee.
And Princess Peach can shoot you with a star wand, chuck the wand at you, then throw a vegetable up into the air in time to stun Ganondorf coming in from overhead while she deflects Mario's laser pistol barrage.
Beautiful game, elegant handicapping, it's the GameCube's first and foremost reason to have four controllers.
And the game is made by mascots. Nobody could've given less of a damn if it had sixteen guys (and girls and persons of color, thank you Fusion Frenzy) nobody had ever heard of before.
It had to be Jigglypuff smashing Donkey Kong with the Hammer, or it just wouldn't work.
You could've answered that challenge with facts you've known or witnessed, further explaining your changed perceptions. You also could've chosen to explain why self-improvement seminars are valuable, citing even one insight or anecdote concerning them.
You instead chose to provide... nothing. Answering what could be taken as a question with another question.
You can't argue that it wasn't worth your time because you chose to reply, and you can't tell me I wouldn't learn anything because this is a public forum; hopefully your valuable insights would be well received by those wiser than I.
I'm going to have to stick with my original opinion on this one -- that if you've been to enough "self-improvement seminars" to have experimented with and settled on a drug of choice to imbibe during them, that I'm...
Heck with it. Can you even focus enough to read this far down? I'd lay off the drugs and go see a therapist or something. Go to church. Call your mom -- or your kids, I don't care. Skip your next "seminar" no matter how much the Great One wants you to go.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
If you'd like to tell us why /your/ self-improvement seminars are notably different from the sessions run by trendy scam-artists pitching to the desperate and stupid, you're of course welcome to.
But if you're not... Well, don't be surprised if nobody leaps to defend your claims of drug-induced synergistic... hell, I can't even tell what you claim they did... whatevers at Stewart Smalley's boot camp.
As an aside... it seems you're claiming that the drug increases either the frequency or intensity of the sensation of having a good idea. While not directly familiar with them, I'll note that there's lots of things out there that can make you think you just had a really good idea. Many of them come in six-packs.
A real programming challenge? Fine. You're on.
Go make some money.
So most memory cards are just as powerful, if not more so, than Jesus. Hmm.
Yes. You're forced to make a suboptimal choice due to the nature of the voting process.
Simple majority was the only option two hundred years ago. We now have better voting options, such as Condorcet, which would entirely obviate the concept of "throwing your vote away".
This would not merely weaken, but
It follows, finally, that with the value of my vote so diluted, I and all other voters are denied effective represenation... and I'm being taxed.
Their right to it is based on constitutional law that balances their rights and mine.
This balance has been violated. This is wrong. I therefore treat it as I do any other bad law -- it affects me only so far as I can be punished for it. You want to talk /morals/ and "theft", you go fucking fix your law first.
This isn't rocket science.
Not that this has anything to do with the original topic, which is under any reasonable definition theft.
Well, Google's got this charming habit of making huge piles of cash in ways that -- so far -- have totally failed to offend me.
Google does indeed have one bright, shiny Free Pass to do whatever it is they please. I'll reconsider my stance when they do something I /don't/ like.
Picture: A post-apocalyptic world, now grown lush and green again.
"Father, what kind of animal is that?"
"That's a qwerty, my son. If you know how to skin and prepare one, you can use almost every part of it to make a keyboard."
"Almost? What's left over?"
"The scrowlock and the cisrek. Hell if I know what they're good for."
I just get a new card every single time I go.
Alas, you do have to tweak Slashdot a little...
I "browse at +2, and punish Funny, Redundant, and short comments", meaning that I don't see comments that score less than 2, short comments are penalized slightly, and comments marked Funny or Redundant are penalized harshly. Slashdot only showed me seventeen out of... well... lots of comments. And those comments were very helpful.
To be fair, though, my viewing thresholds are set so harshly that my comments frequently don't manage to sqweak through. But it keeps Slashdot nice and tidy.
... so the tool is at fault because you used it wrong? Jesus.
That's /if/ you compile it in, and if my memory servers there's some cautions against doing that needlessly.
NetHack...
NetHack...
NETHACK!
Okay. I can work with that. Now I shall patent a method to circumvent systems that use visual inspections to detect and block illegal quantities of cocaine from entering national and/or state jurisdictions.
Forget trying to wrest money out of some crummy /spammers/.
Yes, yes, woo, it's sure weird how people get totally shafted by copyright, and then desperately try to make it serve them in /any/ way it can.
Look, if you want to get rid of copyright tomorrow, BE MY GUEST. It's long outlived its usefulness. But if I'm gonna have to live with the goddamned thing, then while I'm about it, I'll try to get some use out of it.
... they may offer /us/ the same service.
You give me (-1, Stupid) or (-1, Wrong) and I'll mark 'em, I assure you.
(-1, The FUCK Is This?) would be handy, too.
I've got this image of Johnny-5 with its mechanical eye-shades up at a forty-five degree angle, eyes shaded to red, that three-fingered hand up above his right shoulder with a thumb to the dugout.
"I said, yerrrrr OUT!" <soft whine of laser powering up>
I should probably note that I never expected Caps Lock to be called "super" on Slashdot.
Yay computers. Sure made his life easier. Trips to the dealer are fun now!
How many computers do you want smashed with a rock?
... wait. Don't answer that.
Consider it a concession to clarity. If it bothers you, -use words-, not acronyms.
I've heard people whine about the matter forever, and I've come to the conclusion that they're simply wrong.
Yes, redundancy is evil, wah wah wah, but I simply -prefer- "ATM machine" to "ATM", and will continue to use it. I don't -need- my speech compressed that far, and I'd prefer it contain more words than letters.
Try jDoom instead, then. Jumping's a server option which you can disable.
Yeah, sure, jumping makes Dead Simple a lot less Dead and a lot more Simple, but you can turn it off if you want and it -does- make the jumping puzzles less annoying.