> and even includes an -- admittedly abbreviated -- introduction to information theory.
Like how some university economics programs require students to take first semester calc, so for the briefest period of time they will, in theory, have understood the derivation of the continuously compounded interest formula.
"Yeah, those Star Wars guys had seventeen Death Star model VIIIs 'fully armed and operational'. Hehe, 'fully armed', what a laugh. Evidently one of these can take out a planet. BFD. So we dephased a genesis device and took out the entire solar system."
And don't even get me started on a Spock vs. Vader melee battle, with or without light sabers. Oh, Vader gets a saber and Spock doesn't? Wide-angle dispersion stun setting, home in time for brunch.
Food is the only addiction you must continue to partake in every day. Smoking, drugs (minus a withdrawel period for some), alcohol, gambling, sex/pr0n, World of Evercrack, none of these do you have to keep doing it every day.
And the worst part: Food "addiction" isn't really addiction. It's normal eating patterns (i.e. quite healthy) coupled with modern, sedentary lifestyles.
Summers during college I had no problem losing weight because I worked in factories. If I truly ate everything I wanted, I wouldn't lose, but I wouldn't gain either. If I restricted a little bit, I'd lose fast. If I ate stupidly little, like a sandwich for lunch and a large salad with tuna and lowfat ranch for dinner, I'd lose over a pound a day.
So what was it? I wasn't a "pig" -- I was eating normally for old-school active lifestyles. I recall that "1600s House" show, where the lawyer dad goes to see the doctor because he's losing too much weight, even though he's eating like a pig -- even spent a big chunk of precious change buying a lot of high-calorie food he was so scared. The doctor's verdict: You're turning into an incredibly healthy guy like those who lived back then. Wirey and tough and lean. All the modern concepts of being in shape are really jack squat.
Hint to the younger here. The exact same things were said about TV 30 years ago. Kids watch 40 million hours before they're 12. By the time they're 18, they've seen 30,000 murders on TV, etc.
But you sit there watching the TV with your friends, gf, wife, whatever. So it's "social".
I used to be a member of The Syndicate, and they don't get much bigger, or older, than that.
I played EQ since the first week, and it still took me over 2 years to get to level 50, hardly a powergamer rate (the first guys to 50 had done so in about a month. IIRC, the guy and his group offed a named unicorn "just to see what it dropped".) By that time I was 50, the cap had moved to 60, then 65. But even this relatively slow pace was more than enough to make my wife mad at me. Left it.
Tried some other games, at a much reduced play pace. Got to "Master Dancer"/pistoleer on SWG (not a big accomplishment by any means, if you've played it). "Dancer" was the only new thing in the game. Once that was done, left it.
Got to level 28 on WoW -- with 50 gold in the bank, I was already ready for a horse with everything but the level, and 100 more gold on my back, all self-earned and not twink. Left it. Nothing new here. Yes, well done, but nothing new.
Got two level 50's, scrappers, in City of Heroes. Lots of new things here. Free high-speed travel (> 60mph), level 14. True 3-dimensional movement (SWG and WoW are highly embarassing in this respect. Even the pre-scripted griffen flights are slow, low, and rude compared to CoH. And 40g for a mount that runs 1.6x your own speed? FTW!) More new things: Nice sliders for body styles, and outfits. Make a girl who'd make that "Baby got back" guy pass out from lack of water after drooling so much.
Best new thing: The scrapper class. Yes, you could be reasonably tough and do very high damage. No more pretending you're The Hulk while swatting with a wiffle bat.
Eventually that got boring. Another 2 years at it, at a much reduced pace (a few hours during the week, 4 hours each early Sat and Sun morning.)
Now what's new? DDO? One new thing: Doing dungeons the first time, nice. Sad: Almost impossible to get a group that isn't lead by someone who's done it 373 times before, making it pointless.
LoTR? Star Trek Online? Yeah, can't wait to see the roleplaying reason as to why Starfleet Academy wants me to go on dangerous, deadly missions but won't let me set my phaser on a level higher than "5 hits to kill a rat".
> and 50 % of all...government jobs , are reservred for the lower castes
I recall when this happened about 15 years ago. Indian college students were on the rampage -- against it. I asked some Indian guys I worked with why this was. After all, aren't college students supposed to be idealistic and liberal?
Well, it turns out that government jobs are the way to wealth due to corruption. If you could get to be the local building permit guy, you had it on easy streat. The "fee" for approval is typically 10% of the cost of construction of the building.
That's right, college students were upset these corrupt jobs were being set aside for the lower castes.
And now you know why India's economy is on the slow growth. Economic freedom does not thrive when the government gets in the way, either legally, via innumerable regulations, or illegally, via demands for kickbacks for everything just to get the government back out of the way.
And, of course, both are in reality the exact same principle. Somebody with a police force behind him wants something they don't get the honest way, so they use the power of government, legally or illegally, to get in the way of business. The rest is just smoke and mirrors to mesmerize the useful idiots.
> The software will apparently monitor web browser and other computer usage; > this information will be used to deliver targeted in-game advertisements.
Great. Now when I surf to lezlovevideo.com, my son will see an ad for Where The Boys Aren't, Vol #47.
> I live in the Midwest and we purchase unpasteurized cream locally. It tastes great, it's healthier,
Healthier? Cream is not healthy whatsoever, and unpasteurized cream is therefore more likely to be contaminated with bacteria.
I recall a European guy who's country had banned US vegetables "because of pesticides", which, of course, was really to protect local markets, claim the non-pesticide vegetables tasted better because they had no pesticides. No, they probably taste better because they're picked closer to being ripe, while the US picks theirs when they are hard little rocks so they can be handled with bulldozers without much damage, and thus be shipped, but are too small to ripen properly.
> But groups opposed to the new technology, including a coalition of powerful > food companies concerned that the public will reject Dolly-the-Lamb chops > and clonal cream in their coffee, have not given up.
Ummm, this makes no sense. Some food companies are opposed because they're concerned the public will reject it?
Methinks they're concerned because the public will accept it and not reject it, hurting their business. And, as usual, they "have not given up" using the government's monopoly on legal violence to put the competition out of business.
> so that tag was barely even funny the first time. It's time to move on.
You've obviously never heard my 14 year old son do a flawless impersonation of the entire "sharks with friggin' laser beams!" routine, complete with "Remind me what I pay you people for. Honestly (slap desk) Throw me a bone here."
"I've got a whole bag of 'shhhhh' with your name on it."
And of course:
"Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy... the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical... summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds... pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it."
Don't forget this little known Middle English verse and refrain. I think it was from an exile living in Paris in the 1200s.
I luve mesalf I wont yoo to luve me Whon I's feeling dawhn I wont yoo ubahve me I serche mesalf I wont yoo to fihnde me I forghete mesalf I wont you to rehmihnde me I want you to find me I forget myself I want you to remind me
I dohn't wont anybodies ehlse Whon I tinks uhbouht yoo I touche mesalf I dohn't wont anybodies ehlse Oh noes, oh noes, oh noes!
> With the desire never to go through another 12 hour install process, the first > thing I did when it was done was image the hard drive to a network store. For > the record, XP Home SP1 takes at least 6 reboots to patch
I just redid this. The process went like this:
1. Put in (bootable) MS install CD
2. Run it, which formats the HDD into partitions, and installing onto the F: one instead of C: for some goddamned reason. I tell it to create a C: with 30 (of 200) Gig, then the other 170 gets assigned F, skipping over the D: DVD and E: CD-RW. Tards. Go watch 2 hours worth of movies.
3. Virgin SP boots native off the HDD. Run patcher. 59 patches install. Go watch 2 hours of movies
4. Reboot, force "automatic update", and get SP2. Go watch 1.5 hours of movies
5. Reboot, force "automatic update", and get 9 more SP2 patches.
6. Reboot, go chase down the latest Radeon 9800 XT drivers
7. Reboot, install the Audigy 2 sound drivers
8. Install World of Warcraft, won't install from the DVD but will from the CD
9. Start WoW to get it's own patches going. Go watch a couple of South Park TiVos. Hehe, damn Carman got seriously fat playing WoW
So as you can see, it can be accomplished over the course of 6 or so hours, although to be honest I spread it over 3 nights because I have a job.
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The lower bold rounds to the upper.
Although it is humerous in a cynical sort of way.
> and even includes an -- admittedly abbreviated -- introduction to information theory.
Like how some university economics programs require students to take first semester calc, so for the briefest period of time they will, in theory, have understood the derivation of the continuously compounded interest formula.
He didn't actually memorize it. He calculates it dynamically as needed in his mind.
Likewise. In a hundred years or so, the entire planet will be disassembled post-Omega point.
I'm betting on the humans, not the planet. We are at the borderline of resurrecting extinct species. Send the disasterbation somewhere else.
It is rather ironic that a post that completely missed the humor of the parent post was modded "insightful".
Now it's up to the meta-moderators to salvage a little respect from this abomination...
> Grammer Nazi: to much of a video game? Oh you're just to much.
Also:
-- Oh comma you're
-- Stylistically, one might want to end the sentence with an exclaimation point, "much!"
The effect of extremely low carb but high fat diets hasn't been evaluated yet, either, with respect to heart disease.
In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Accept it
Two words: Genesis device
Two more words: Phase cloaking
"Yeah, those Star Wars guys had seventeen Death Star model VIIIs 'fully armed and operational'. Hehe, 'fully armed', what a laugh. Evidently one of these can take out a planet. BFD. So we dephased a genesis device and took out the entire solar system."
And don't even get me started on a Spock vs. Vader melee battle, with or without light sabers. Oh, Vader gets a saber and Spock doesn't? Wide-angle dispersion stun setting, home in time for brunch.
Food is the only addiction you must continue to partake in every day. Smoking, drugs (minus a withdrawel period for some), alcohol, gambling, sex/pr0n, World of Evercrack, none of these do you have to keep doing it every day.
And the worst part: Food "addiction" isn't really addiction. It's normal eating patterns (i.e. quite healthy) coupled with modern, sedentary lifestyles.
Summers during college I had no problem losing weight because I worked in factories. If I truly ate everything I wanted, I wouldn't lose, but I wouldn't gain either. If I restricted a little bit, I'd lose fast. If I ate stupidly little, like a sandwich for lunch and a large salad with tuna and lowfat ranch for dinner, I'd lose over a pound a day.
So what was it? I wasn't a "pig" -- I was eating normally for old-school active lifestyles. I recall that "1600s House" show, where the lawyer dad goes to see the doctor because he's losing too much weight, even though he's eating like a pig -- even spent a big chunk of precious change buying a lot of high-calorie food he was so scared. The doctor's verdict: You're turning into an incredibly healthy guy like those who lived back then. Wirey and tough and lean. All the modern concepts of being in shape are really jack squat.
Hint to the younger here. The exact same things were said about TV 30 years ago. Kids watch 40 million hours before they're 12. By the time they're 18, they've seen 30,000 murders on TV, etc.
But you sit there watching the TV with your friends, gf, wife, whatever. So it's "social".
I used to be a member of The Syndicate, and they don't get much bigger, or older, than that.
I played EQ since the first week, and it still took me over 2 years to get to level 50, hardly a powergamer rate (the first guys to 50 had done so in about a month. IIRC, the guy and his group offed a named unicorn "just to see what it dropped".) By that time I was 50, the cap had moved to 60, then 65. But even this relatively slow pace was more than enough to make my wife mad at me. Left it.
Tried some other games, at a much reduced play pace. Got to "Master Dancer"/pistoleer on SWG (not a big accomplishment by any means, if you've played it). "Dancer" was the only new thing in the game. Once that was done, left it.
Got to level 28 on WoW -- with 50 gold in the bank, I was already ready for a horse with everything but the level, and 100 more gold on my back, all self-earned and not twink. Left it. Nothing new here. Yes, well done, but nothing new.
Got two level 50's, scrappers, in City of Heroes. Lots of new things here. Free high-speed travel (> 60mph), level 14. True 3-dimensional movement (SWG and WoW are highly embarassing in this respect. Even the pre-scripted griffen flights are slow, low, and rude compared to CoH. And 40g for a mount that runs 1.6x your own speed? FTW!) More new things: Nice sliders for body styles, and outfits. Make a girl who'd make that "Baby got back" guy pass out from lack of water after drooling so much.
Best new thing: The scrapper class. Yes, you could be reasonably tough and do very high damage. No more pretending you're The Hulk while swatting with a wiffle bat.
Eventually that got boring. Another 2 years at it, at a much reduced pace (a few hours during the week, 4 hours each early Sat and Sun morning.)
Now what's new? DDO? One new thing: Doing dungeons the first time, nice. Sad: Almost impossible to get a group that isn't lead by someone who's done it 373 times before, making it pointless.
LoTR? Star Trek Online? Yeah, can't wait to see the roleplaying reason as to why Starfleet Academy wants me to go on dangerous, deadly missions but won't let me set my phaser on a level higher than "5 hits to kill a rat".
> and 50 % of all...government jobs , are reservred for the lower castes
I recall when this happened about 15 years ago. Indian college students were on the rampage -- against it. I asked some Indian guys I worked with why this was. After all, aren't college students supposed to be idealistic and liberal?
Well, it turns out that government jobs are the way to wealth due to corruption. If you could get to be the local building permit guy, you had it on easy streat. The "fee" for approval is typically 10% of the cost of construction of the building.
That's right, college students were upset these corrupt jobs were being set aside for the lower castes.
And now you know why India's economy is on the slow growth. Economic freedom does not thrive when the government gets in the way, either legally, via innumerable regulations, or illegally, via demands for kickbacks for everything just to get the government back out of the way.
And, of course, both are in reality the exact same principle. Somebody with a police force behind him wants something they don't get the honest way, so they use the power of government, legally or illegally, to get in the way of business. The rest is just smoke and mirrors to mesmerize the useful idiots.
> The software will apparently monitor web browser and other computer usage;
> this information will be used to deliver targeted in-game advertisements.
Great. Now when I surf to lezlovevideo.com, my son will see an ad for Where The Boys Aren't, Vol #47.
[Channeling=Cartman] Should make for some interseting veal. [/Cartman]
> The BIG problem with 0.5g per serving is WHO sets the serving size?
Exactly. Go look on the side of a delicious Marie Calder's pot pie, and see that it has like 800 calories per serving. And a serving is 1/2 a pot pie!
But man they taste good!
> I live in the Midwest and we purchase unpasteurized cream locally. It tastes great, it's healthier,
Healthier? Cream is not healthy whatsoever, and unpasteurized cream is therefore more likely to be contaminated with bacteria.
I recall a European guy who's country had banned US vegetables "because of pesticides", which, of course, was really to protect local markets, claim the non-pesticide vegetables tasted better because they had no pesticides. No, they probably taste better because they're picked closer to being ripe, while the US picks theirs when they are hard little rocks so they can be handled with bulldozers without much damage, and thus be shipped, but are too small to ripen properly.
> But groups opposed to the new technology, including a coalition of powerful
> food companies concerned that the public will reject Dolly-the-Lamb chops
> and clonal cream in their coffee, have not given up.
Ummm, this makes no sense. Some food companies are opposed because they're concerned the public will reject it?
Methinks they're concerned because the public will accept it and not reject it, hurting their business. And, as usual, they "have not given up" using the government's monopoly on legal violence to put the competition out of business.
> so that tag was barely even funny the first time. It's time to move on.
You've obviously never heard my 14 year old son do a flawless impersonation of the entire "sharks with friggin' laser beams!" routine, complete with "Remind me what I pay you people for. Honestly (slap desk) Throw me a bone here."
"I've got a whole bag of 'shhhhh' with your name on it."
And of course:
"Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy... the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical... summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds... pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it."
A light sword would be fairly useless, except perhaps as a construction tool, unless it comes with the correponding Force powers to deflect bullets.
And that's a whole can of worms you don't wanna open. Witness this tragedy:
"You don't want to be in this country."
"I don't want to be in this country."
"These aren't the terrorists you're looking for."
"These aren't the tairrists ah'm lookin' fer."
"You won't find nuclear WMDs here."
"I won't find nucyoolar WMDs here."
With molecular manipulation, I suppose we've got more to fear now from a future like the movie Gottico.
Don't forget this little known Middle English verse and refrain. I think it was from an exile living in Paris in the 1200s.
I luve mesalf
I wont yoo to luve me
Whon I's feeling dawhn
I wont yoo ubahve me
I serche mesalf
I wont yoo to fihnde me
I forghete mesalf
I wont you to rehmihnde me
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me
I dohn't wont anybodies ehlse
Whon I tinks uhbouht yoo I touche mesalf
I dohn't wont anybodies ehlse
Oh noes, oh noes, oh noes!
> and perhaps even perform molecular scale surgery on individual cells.
"Well, that molecule's done. How many more to go?"
"Four hundred seventeen quintillion, three hundred sixty five quadrillion, forty..."
"Sigh"
> With the desire never to go through another 12 hour install process, the first
> thing I did when it was done was image the hard drive to a network store. For
> the record, XP Home SP1 takes at least 6 reboots to patch
I just redid this. The process went like this:
1. Put in (bootable) MS install CD
2. Run it, which formats the HDD into partitions, and installing onto the F: one instead of C: for some goddamned reason. I tell it to create a C: with 30 (of 200) Gig, then the other 170 gets assigned F, skipping over the D: DVD and E: CD-RW. Tards. Go watch 2 hours worth of movies.
3. Virgin SP boots native off the HDD. Run patcher. 59 patches install. Go watch 2 hours of movies
4. Reboot, force "automatic update", and get SP2. Go watch 1.5 hours of movies
5. Reboot, force "automatic update", and get 9 more SP2 patches.
6. Reboot, go chase down the latest Radeon 9800 XT drivers
7. Reboot, install the Audigy 2 sound drivers
8. Install World of Warcraft, won't install from the DVD but will from the CD
9. Start WoW to get it's own patches going. Go watch a couple of South Park TiVos. Hehe, damn Carman got seriously fat playing WoW
So as you can see, it can be accomplished over the course of 6 or so hours, although to be honest I spread it over 3 nights because I have a job.
Flamebait? This is the funniest damned thing I've read on Slashdot in weeks.
I just can't wait for their next product, Microsoft Testicles(R).