Its like if they would be selling Masters Diplomas for few bucks and they would be as good as these you earned. Wouldn't you think it devaluates your efforts throughout the school?
Yes that would, but this is a game. Paying a little more to get ahead might mean that people would enjoy the damned game. As a rule I don't play RPGs, because you suck for hours before you can do anything cool. I don't have that kind of attention span, and I refuse to play through hours of digital hell just to get some nugget of actual fun.
Oh yeah, lest we forget: THIS IS A GAME. A masters will give you money, respect, and women (real women) in the real world, and that's worth a slight fuckton more. At any rate, judging by the spam I get daily, you CAN just buy a masters. Not that anyone in their right mind would accept that masters.
However, as a longtime cyclist commuter, the 10-15 mile range is easily done on a bicycle. Better for you and the environment than a scooter. Yes, hills suck, but not as much as fighting with cars in traffic.
I'm all for riding bicycles, but fear keeps me from doing it. On a bicycle you don't fight with traffic, traffic simply wins. Do you know how much damage I will do on my bike to an SUV driven by someone who is talking on their cell phone and not paying attention to the road? Not a whole lot. Sure they'll have to pay me money out the ass, but I'd be far too dead to enjoy any of it.
It takes me all day, at a park that has really short lines (Darien Lake c. 1996 on a Wednesday) to even lose my balance a little. But it was different for each person, and I could tell watching my friend stagger to the bathroom after riding with me all day that he had had one too many whereas I had drunk my absolute fill.
Real scientists don't keep their finds secret and expect others to believe them. Science is about putting up or shutting up. This guy talks the talk but has zero to show for it. No working car, no new theories on how to overcome friction, and certainly no proven equations. It is easy to fudge an outcome. Anyone who bought the Ronco GLH ("great looking hair") can of HEAD SPRAY PAINT can attest to that.
If this guy wants money, investors better demand results before they give it to them. Hell this doesn't even look good on paper yet.
three novies were made, and all of them took all the character development of the series and threw them out the window. "End of Evangelion" was a final "Fuck You!" to everyone who didn't like the series. God did the movies suck.
At any rate I don't think Evangelion holds a candle to the likes of Cowboy Bebop.
Let me reiterate. He used the word entropy in quotation marks like it was as mythical as a fucking unicorn.
There is nothing magic about a black hole. Mass is energy. Black holes are a hell of a lot of mass-energy. I have no fucking clue why the word infinity scares anyone.
The truth is that there is no pebbles in mass, and by that I mean no small unit of mass that can't be crushed under the weight of other mass. Find the fucking pebble, and I'll believe the gravitar.
Talk to an astrophysicist, especially an X-Ray or Gamma ray astrophysicist. They will set you straight.
This is one of the worst science articles I have ever read. Anyone who would put the word entropy in quotation marks doesn't know a goddamned thing about how the wolrd works, let alone the universe.
As with any of these pseudo-scientific things...
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Remember that no human has walked on the moon in 25 years, and while they were there, astronauts did "advanced moon things" like picking up rocks and playing golf and not building a habitat that could sustain life for more than 3 days.
I want to see some of these lazy-ass theorists postulate something useful like building a space station that's worth the money we spend. Yipty-freaking-do! You can go to the ISS, live for 6 months, and do science (play with toys)!
Listen up, NASA. If you can't build anything with a space station it is just another Mir or Skylab destioned for "decommissioning" in fireballs over the Pacific. Long-term planning is not pie-in-the-sky postulating, however much slashdot thinks it is.
Here is my plan:
1) Build decent Space Station around Earth with *construction capability*. It doesn't have to be great at first. You could use it to build a better one if it isn't good enough.
2) Build reliable Earth-Moon transport.
3) Build decent Space Station around Moon.
4) Build decent Moon Station.
5) Then (and only then) think about stupid Moon Weapons and Power.
A couple of geeks in a room postulating about moon weapons is not science no matter how much they are paid for it.
That is a very good question. I think that it will moderately hurt nintendo's sales, but I think it will improve their software per system sales. If every system is sold at a loss that may be more important. Also I think you will find more developers siding with the GC if they think it will be less pirateable.
I dunno. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's because I'm older than 12. But do gorwn adults actually enjoy playing all of the damned Mario/Luigi, and Pokemon games that are produced for Nintendo?
YES! Damnit! I'm a 23 year-old male and I love Pokemon, Mario, Luigi, and all these other "little kids" games.
I played the first Resident Evil, and it sucked on toast. Horrible gameplay, awful voice acting, and infurriating cut scenes while opening every fucking door showed me how little graphics mattered. Hell while I'm at it I'll say that I thought most of the games for the PS1 were fucking horrible and unplayable with few, notable exceptions ("Wipeout"). That is the reason I never purchased one.
Yeah, patting yourself on the back in the form of gratutious awards is a super nifty keen way to gain "respectability" when most people won't give you the "Time of Day" award.
I'm not ragging on open source it is just that touting Open Source awards given by Open Source people is like buying yourself a birthday present when no one cares enough to give you one. With all due respect, who outside the "Open Source World" gives a rat's shit?
An article about strange foreign studies with results that match the current common adult sentiment, A few scientific sounding tests with no actual results obtained from them, a radioactive chemical that is supposed to enter your brain AND monitor brain activity, written by someone named T. McVeigh souunds awfully goddamned fishy to me.
Type 1a Supernovae can be used as a error prone standard candle. I have seen them treated well. I have been to conferences. I know their limitations. The fact is that they are the best standard candles observable at anything approaching the distances necessary to determine the structure of the universe.
You can always add a constant, because that constant can be set to zero with no effect. The reasoning behind the cosmological constant might have been a mistake, but I'm not contending that it was bad science.
Type 1a Supernovae are very tricky to work with, but I think they can be used as stancard candles (that term is jargon for a source of light where we can figure out its actual brightness) if the varances between spectra are taken very seriously.
The cosmological constant was a mistake in an equation by Einstein. His equation predicted an expanding universe, and he threw this constant in because he believed that the universe was static and needed a force to compensate.
The best research I have seen on using supernovae to determine structure of the universe, suggested a "flat" universe that expanded forever due to the cosmoligical constant.
6 months in prison for sending you 10 emails per day? Suppose you want the chair for that guy who runs a late yellow in front of you, or that new mother who brings her screaming child to your restaurant.
We live in a free country. One filled with tons of shit I don't like, for instance your personal vendetta with everything that annoys you. But you know, I like it that way. And if the freedom to swing your arm stops at another man's nose, then that spammer missed yours by a good parsec or two. 6 months of jail time for the time it takes you to filter his messages isn't exactly an eye for an eye.
So why don't you shut up, grow up, and start worring about what really matters. Stuff like your obviously hypocritical attitude toward censorship.
6 months in prison for sending you 10 emails per day? Suppose you want the chair for that guy who runs a late yellow in front of you, or that new mother who brings her screaming child to your restaurant.
We live in a free country. One filled with tons of shit I don't like, for instance your personal vendetta with everything that annoys you. But you know, I like it that way. And if the freedom to swing your arm stops at another man's nose, then that spammer missed yours by a good parsec or two. 6 months of jail time for the time it takes you to filter his messages isn't exactly an eye for an eye.
So why don't you shut up, grow up, and start worring about what really matters. Stuff like your obviously hypocritical attitude toward censorship.
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Its like if they would be selling Masters Diplomas for few bucks and they would be as good as these you earned. Wouldn't you think it devaluates your efforts throughout the school?
Yes that would, but this is a game. Paying a little more to get ahead might mean that people would enjoy the damned game. As a rule I don't play RPGs, because you suck for hours before you can do anything cool. I don't have that kind of attention span, and I refuse to play through hours of digital hell just to get some nugget of actual fun.
Oh yeah, lest we forget: THIS IS A GAME. A masters will give you money, respect, and women (real women) in the real world, and that's worth a slight fuckton more. At any rate, judging by the spam I get daily, you CAN just buy a masters. Not that anyone in their right mind would accept that masters.
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However, as a longtime cyclist commuter, the 10-15 mile range is easily done on a bicycle. Better for you and the environment than a scooter. Yes, hills suck, but not as much as fighting with cars in traffic.
I'm all for riding bicycles, but fear keeps me from doing it. On a bicycle you don't fight with traffic, traffic simply wins. Do you know how much damage I will do on my bike to an SUV driven by someone who is talking on their cell phone and not paying attention to the road? Not a whole lot. Sure they'll have to pay me money out the ass, but I'd be far too dead to enjoy any of it.
Not that I'd ride a scooter either.
SW
It takes me all day, at a park that has really short lines (Darien Lake c. 1996 on a Wednesday) to even lose my balance a little. But it was different for each person, and I could tell watching my friend stagger to the bathroom after riding with me all day that he had had one too many whereas I had drunk my absolute fill.
To each his own I guess.
SW
ditto. Holy fuck. I never let that image download for a reason.
With UT 2003 coming out who has time for CmdrTaco's idiotic commentary on what games we should like.
CmdrTaco, I think I loathe you, but I want to know for sure.
So call Windows users stupid, and make another Linux post.
I loathe you.
SW
Real scientists don't keep their finds secret and expect others to believe them. Science is about putting up or shutting up. This guy talks the talk but has zero to show for it. No working car, no new theories on how to overcome friction, and certainly no proven equations. It is easy to fudge an outcome. Anyone who bought the Ronco GLH ("great looking hair") can of HEAD SPRAY PAINT can attest to that.
If this guy wants money, investors better demand results before they give it to them. Hell this doesn't even look good on paper yet.
SetupWeasel
Blah blah blah Windows bad.
Blah blah blah Linux good.
Blah blah blah idiots use Windows.
CmdrTaco posted this? I'm so shocked!
This article is not satire, is not it original, nor is it well written.
I wish I could moderate CmdrTaco down for being a troll just once.
SetupWeasel
three novies were made, and all of them took all the character development of the series and threw them out the window. "End of Evangelion" was a final "Fuck You!" to everyone who didn't like the series. God did the movies suck.
At any rate I don't think Evangelion holds a candle to the likes of Cowboy Bebop.
SW
I mean gravastar instead of gravitar. Excuse me.
SW
Let me reiterate. He used the word entropy in quotation marks like it was as mythical as a fucking unicorn.
There is nothing magic about a black hole. Mass is energy. Black holes are a hell of a lot of mass-energy. I have no fucking clue why the word infinity scares anyone.
The truth is that there is no pebbles in mass, and by that I mean no small unit of mass that can't be crushed under the weight of other mass. Find the fucking pebble, and I'll believe the gravitar.
SetupWeasel
Talk to an astrophysicist, especially an X-Ray or Gamma ray astrophysicist. They will set you straight.
This is one of the worst science articles I have ever read. Anyone who would put the word entropy in quotation marks doesn't know a goddamned thing about how the wolrd works, let alone the universe.
SetupWeasel
unless you are going to kiss the ass of the studio.
Don't you wonder why all of these no-name critics that you see on TV trailers get to review movies before Roger Ebert?
SW
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Remember that no human has walked on the moon in 25 years, and while they were there, astronauts did "advanced moon things" like picking up rocks and playing golf and not building a habitat that could sustain life for more than 3 days.
I want to see some of these lazy-ass theorists postulate something useful like building a space station that's worth the money we spend. Yipty-freaking-do! You can go to the ISS, live for 6 months, and do science (play with toys)!
Listen up, NASA. If you can't build anything with a space station it is just another Mir or Skylab destioned for "decommissioning" in fireballs over the Pacific. Long-term planning is not pie-in-the-sky postulating, however much slashdot thinks it is.
Here is my plan:
1) Build decent Space Station around Earth with *construction capability*. It doesn't have to be great at first. You could use it to build a better one if it isn't good enough.
2) Build reliable Earth-Moon transport.
3) Build decent Space Station around Moon.
4) Build decent Moon Station.
5) Then (and only then) think about stupid Moon Weapons and Power.
A couple of geeks in a room postulating about moon weapons is not science no matter how much they are paid for it.
That is a very good question. I think that it will moderately hurt nintendo's sales, but I think it will improve their software per system sales. If every system is sold at a loss that may be more important. Also I think you will find more developers siding with the GC if they think it will be less pirateable.
I think it will be a give and a take.
And won't buy the PS2.
I dunno. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's because I'm older than 12. But do gorwn adults actually enjoy playing all of the damned Mario/Luigi, and Pokemon games that are produced for Nintendo?
YES! Damnit! I'm a 23 year-old male and I love Pokemon, Mario, Luigi, and all these other "little kids" games.
I played the first Resident Evil, and it sucked on toast. Horrible gameplay, awful voice acting, and infurriating cut scenes while opening every fucking door showed me how little graphics mattered. Hell while I'm at it I'll say that I thought most of the games for the PS1 were fucking horrible and unplayable with few, notable exceptions ("Wipeout"). That is the reason I never purchased one.
Yeah, patting yourself on the back in the form of gratutious awards is a super nifty keen way to gain "respectability" when most people won't give you the "Time of Day" award.
I'm not ragging on open source it is just that touting Open Source awards given by Open Source people is like buying yourself a birthday present when no one cares enough to give you one. With all due respect, who outside the "Open Source World" gives a rat's shit?
An article about strange foreign studies with results that match the current common adult sentiment, A few scientific sounding tests with no actual results obtained from them, a radioactive chemical that is supposed to enter your brain AND monitor brain activity, written by someone named T. McVeigh souunds awfully goddamned fishy to me.
This is a joke. Population: Slashdot!
I could be wrong.
Type 1a Supernovae can be used as a error prone standard candle. I have seen them treated well. I have been to conferences. I know their limitations. The fact is that they are the best standard candles observable at anything approaching the distances necessary to determine the structure of the universe.
You can always add a constant, because that constant can be set to zero with no effect. The reasoning behind the cosmological constant might have been a mistake, but I'm not contending that it was bad science.
Type 1a Supernovae are very tricky to work with, but I think they can be used as stancard candles (that term is jargon for a source of light where we can figure out its actual brightness) if the varances between spectra are taken very seriously.
The cosmological constant was a mistake in an equation by Einstein. His equation predicted an expanding universe, and he threw this constant in because he believed that the universe was static and needed a force to compensate.
Info about it here.
SW
An "open" universe is not one that will expand forever. "Open" refers to the geometry of the universe.
Here is a link to a good website about it. It is a bit technical, but just look at the first graph. It's well labeled.
SW
The best research I have seen on using supernovae to determine structure of the universe, suggested a "flat" universe that expanded forever due to the cosmoligical constant.
I know a student here at Penn state who got a 6.5 out of a 4.0 in high school. I on the other hand got a 91%.
I actually like standardized tests, because it gives kids who are very smart and very bored with high school a chance to prove their GPA wrong.
SetupWeasel
6 months in prison for sending you 10 emails per day? Suppose you want the chair for that guy who runs a late yellow in front of you, or that new mother who brings her screaming child to your restaurant.
We live in a free country. One filled with tons of shit I don't like, for instance your personal vendetta with everything that annoys you. But you know, I like it that way. And if the freedom to swing your arm stops at another man's nose, then that spammer missed yours by a good parsec or two. 6 months of jail time for the time it takes you to filter his messages isn't exactly an eye for an eye.
So why don't you shut up, grow up, and start worring about what really matters. Stuff like your obviously hypocritical attitude toward censorship.
Just a thought
SetupWeasel
6 months in prison for sending you 10 emails per day? Suppose you want the chair for that guy who runs a late yellow in front of you, or that new mother who brings her screaming child to your restaurant.
We live in a free country. One filled with tons of shit I don't like, for instance your personal vendetta with everything that annoys you. But you know, I like it that way. And if the freedom to swing your arm stops at another man's nose, then that spammer missed yours by a good parsec or two. 6 months of jail time for the time it takes you to filter his messages isn't exactly an eye for an eye.
So why don't you shut up, grow up, and start worring about what really matters. Stuff like your obviously hypocritical attitude toward censorship.
Just a thought
SetupWeasel