It wasn't even a stupid mistake on his part. This is like someone blinking just when someone else is taking a picture. Bad timing. Is this truly newsworthy?
If we discounted cold fusion because we have been trying to get it to work for years now and didn't manage, does that really imply a 99.99% chance that we never will?
As our understanding of a matter grows, our chances to accomplish previously impossible things in that field grow as well.
So in essence: You can't discount their existence with any certainty because it's such a vague topic that too little reliable scientific data has been accumulated so far. It's like we were cavemen trying to explain the moon. We do not have the means to even come close to the right answer (well, we do have lucky guesses).
On the other hand, isn't it a character flaw on his part that he has this need to disprove something he clearly cannot disprove for the reasons mentioned above?
Frankly, what is so bad about people believing in ghosts? As long as this belief does not impact others who do not believe in them, let them be happy with it. Where does this feeling of personal affront come from that he needs to prove to them that he knows and always knew better? Lack of self confidence?
Nobody who retains any semblance of sanity and wishes to keep that should ever engage in online discussion. It's usually pointless, annoys people and yourself to no end and you seldom feel you've accomplished anything.
Now if only I had realised this before starting to develop this god-damned need to add my two cents whenever someone is wrong on the internet...
'The outage comes at a time when Skype is starting to ask larger corporations for their business,' writes Om Malik. 'If I am a big business, I would be extremely cautious about adopting Skype for business, especially in the light of this current outage.'
I can't help but wonder why people expect a company like Skype to provide perfect uptime, assuming just because they're an 'internet-company', when local providers can have similar troubles.
Sure, such an impact on a global scale is, err, not very prestigious, But there were enough major outages in the past by standard telcos that had similar debilitating effects (unless you happen to be an international corporation of considerable size. Sure, a company like IBM should now think twice about putting their money on Skype alone, but such companies surely aren't quite the target customer group Skype is aiming at right now). So the above statement, to me, sounds more like someone wanting to say SOMETHING... It doesn't have much value in the real world, though.
Frankly, I've been disappointed with Brotherhood SP and MP. Much more so with MP, but then again, I am not a strong multiplayer gamer. I get competitive, wound up and the whole thing turns into an altogether unenjoyable, teeth grinding, high bloodpressure experience.
I love League of Legends but I just don't deal too well with a game that doesn't go my way (which does not necessarily mean I must be winning! Just... I hate to be steam-rolled).
All in all, I usually prefer the singleplayer mode. With few exceptions, I don't play multiplayer. So either I'm alone with that opinion, or EA is full of shit.
Although I'd appreciate a phone that, for once, did the basic things right first. Like with car stereos, I have yet to find a device that does not have one or more major annoyances.
This quest for immortality seems a bit ironic to me. Isn't it about getting more quality out of life? Now these scientist propose lengthening our lifespan. To what ends? If your life sucks as it is (to whatever degree), why lengthen it?
What I'm proposing is making what we've got more enjoyable so there'll be a SENSE in lengthening it.
Think about it in terms of making code. Biology-wise, we're still on 386 level. What these scientists propose is inventing the 486 and then Pentiums and so on.
What I propose is making the code more efficient, so we get more out of it RIGHT NOW. Don't we all suffer from wasteful and inefficient code, even though we have Core i7 machines now?
You sure? After all, a lot of this so called laziness can stem from not being challenged enough, being unhappy with ones profession or work environment. In turn, lack of resources would be what makes you remain in that position. A vicious circle.
There'll always be lazy people, of course, but I do believe only a small percentage of those we see behaving like that actually do it because that's what they like to do.
On the other hand, if a week of work just powers you out completely, from whence would you take the energy to look after yourself?
You go: Well, a lot of our problems come from lack of excercise and bad diet. So... we need to tweak our bodies to no longer be troubled by that.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a social and economic reevaluation, that just plain leaves you more time and resources to live a more healthy life in the first place.
Being able to take the time to do these things the usual way would mean a proportional decrease in stress on top of the healthier living.
So in short: Instead of fixing what is broken, make it so it doesn't break in the first place.
Heh, I was so overwhelmed by the game that I quit for that reason alone. I'd expect without deep knowledge of game mechanics and the 'lay of the land' so to speak, what you describe would be impossible.
I find it quite easy to answer the question of why I'm not finishing a lot of games.
Perhaps a few isntances of games I did and did not finish:
Finished: Infamous Assassin's Creed 1 & 2 (playing Brotherhood now) Anno 14 something campaign Bioshock Godfather 2 Call of Juarez 2 Star Wars: KotoR God of War 1-3
Not finished Brütal Legend Civ5 (as far as you CAN finish this... Let's jsut say I stopped after two completed civilizations) Star wars: Force unleashed Mass Effect Darksiders
Now, what made me play through the first bunch and not the second? Simple math:
(fun gameplay x entrancing story x cool characters) / (annoying bugs x repetitive gameplay x bad story x no connection to environment or characters)
I am not one of those 100% gamers. I play as long as I'm drawn back to the game, not to complete every single sidequest and get every last item. I will be drawn back by cool style (wild west, star wars, Infamous, Assassin's Creed) and/or if I like the gameplay as such (Infamous, Assassin's Creed). I love collecting stuff that helps you along... like building up the Villa Auditore in AC2 or cleaning out city parts in Infamous. I like to see my accomplishments and profit from them.
What I absolutely hate is repetitive gameplay that does nothing for you. That's the problem with Force Unleashed. You just walk through a predefined path, with bad controls, and slay your way through. The story might be cool, but I'm already fed up. Brütal Legends wasn't intuitive... at one point, I encountered a bug and since I didn't understand what the game wanted from me anyway, I've never gone back, even though I loved the setting of the game.
So it depends on how big the good parts are compared to the bad ones. Godfather 2 was repetitive too and a bit buggy, but the positive side was stronger.
Since this is all very subjective, MY question would be this: Was it any different ten years ago?
Do you have under 10ms when gaming directly from your rig? I don't. Applying my Citrix experience to this idea, though, lets me agree with your expectations about the control issue.
We'll see whether this'll be the next big thing after 3D gaming soon enough, I'd assume. I'll reserve judgement until then.
Of course, you should bringt your Ph.D. in computer science to the table as well. Oh, and if you're older than 24, you've got a lot of splainin' to do about how you wasted all that time.
We're not okay with people infringing on Big Labels' copyrights. We do, however, advocate fair use. And we're also in favor of proportional penalties when copyright violations do happen.
Now, we all remain human and are thus not perfect. After all the bullshit MAFIAA has heaped upon the population, do excuse us for being on David's side per default, just to be sure, until Goliath can prove that his demands are reasonable.
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It wasn't even a stupid mistake on his part. This is like someone blinking just when someone else is taking a picture. Bad timing. Is this truly newsworthy?
That is plain dangerous. Think about it:
If we discounted cold fusion because we have been trying to get it to work for years now and didn't manage, does that really imply a 99.99% chance that we never will?
As our understanding of a matter grows, our chances to accomplish previously impossible things in that field grow as well.
So in essence: You can't discount their existence with any certainty because it's such a vague topic that too little reliable scientific data has been accumulated so far. It's like we were cavemen trying to explain the moon. We do not have the means to even come close to the right answer (well, we do have lucky guesses).
On the other hand, isn't it a character flaw on his part that he has this need to disprove something he clearly cannot disprove for the reasons mentioned above?
Frankly, what is so bad about people believing in ghosts? As long as this belief does not impact others who do not believe in them, let them be happy with it. Where does this feeling of personal affront come from that he needs to prove to them that he knows and always knew better? Lack of self confidence?
The POINT of his post is exactly this: If HIS parent WAS a skeptic, he shouldn't dismiss stuff that isn't proven as unproven and thus false!
Not being able to validate something does NOT equal invalidating it! Only invalidating through scientific method is invalidating!
Nobody who retains any semblance of sanity and wishes to keep that should ever engage in online discussion. It's usually pointless, annoys people and yourself to no end and you seldom feel you've accomplished anything.
Now if only I had realised this before starting to develop this god-damned need to add my two cents whenever someone is wrong on the internet...
'The outage comes at a time when Skype is starting to ask larger corporations for their business,' writes Om Malik. 'If I am a big business, I would be extremely cautious about adopting Skype for business, especially in the light of this current outage.'
I can't help but wonder why people expect a company like Skype to provide perfect uptime, assuming just because they're an 'internet-company', when local providers can have similar troubles.
Sure, such an impact on a global scale is, err, not very prestigious, But there were enough major outages in the past by standard telcos that had similar debilitating effects (unless you happen to be an international corporation of considerable size. Sure, a company like IBM should now think twice about putting their money on Skype alone, but such companies surely aren't quite the target customer group Skype is aiming at right now). So the above statement, to me, sounds more like someone wanting to say SOMETHING... It doesn't have much value in the real world, though.
Couldn't one just get a Bluetooth dongle and use the PS3 pad itself?
Thanks for the links, dude, my Torrent machine will be busy today ;)
Frankly, I've been disappointed with Brotherhood SP and MP. Much more so with MP, but then again, I am not a strong multiplayer gamer. I get competitive, wound up and the whole thing turns into an altogether unenjoyable, teeth grinding, high bloodpressure experience.
I love League of Legends but I just don't deal too well with a game that doesn't go my way (which does not necessarily mean I must be winning! Just... I hate to be steam-rolled).
All in all, I usually prefer the singleplayer mode. With few exceptions, I don't play multiplayer. So either I'm alone with that opinion, or EA is full of shit.
I never have mod points when I freaking need them. This deserves "+10, fucking truth"
Although I'd appreciate a phone that, for once, did the basic things right first. Like with car stereos, I have yet to find a device that does not have one or more major annoyances.
Why is aging in and of itself a problem?
This quest for immortality seems a bit ironic to me. Isn't it about getting more quality out of life? Now these scientist propose lengthening our lifespan. To what ends? If your life sucks as it is (to whatever degree), why lengthen it?
What I'm proposing is making what we've got more enjoyable so there'll be a SENSE in lengthening it.
Think about it in terms of making code. Biology-wise, we're still on 386 level. What these scientists propose is inventing the 486 and then Pentiums and so on.
What I propose is making the code more efficient, so we get more out of it RIGHT NOW. Don't we all suffer from wasteful and inefficient code, even though we have Core i7 machines now?
You sure? After all, a lot of this so called laziness can stem from not being challenged enough, being unhappy with ones profession or work environment. In turn, lack of resources would be what makes you remain in that position. A vicious circle.
There'll always be lazy people, of course, but I do believe only a small percentage of those we see behaving like that actually do it because that's what they like to do.
On the other hand, if a week of work just powers you out completely, from whence would you take the energy to look after yourself?
You're an engineer, aren't you?
You go: Well, a lot of our problems come from lack of excercise and bad diet. So... we need to tweak our bodies to no longer be troubled by that.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a social and economic reevaluation, that just plain leaves you more time and resources to live a more healthy life in the first place.
Being able to take the time to do these things the usual way would mean a proportional decrease in stress on top of the healthier living.
So in short: Instead of fixing what is broken, make it so it doesn't break in the first place.
Heh, I was so overwhelmed by the game that I quit for that reason alone. I'd expect without deep knowledge of game mechanics and the 'lay of the land' so to speak, what you describe would be impossible.
The hell! And I thought my coonies were big...
With so many deer around, I doubt the wolves would EVER run the risk of dealing with humans.
...of those 'calculate your death-date' sites... Never thought anyone would take them seriously, much less corporations...
I'm probably a bit late to receive many answers, but I thought I'd try:
We're thinking about using NetIQ AppManager in our company. Does anyone have experience with the tool? How is its usability and quality?
I find it quite easy to answer the question of why I'm not finishing a lot of games.
Perhaps a few isntances of games I did and did not finish:
Finished:
Infamous
Assassin's Creed 1 & 2 (playing Brotherhood now)
Anno 14 something campaign
Bioshock
Godfather 2
Call of Juarez 2
Star Wars: KotoR
God of War 1-3
Not finished
Brütal Legend
Civ5 (as far as you CAN finish this... Let's jsut say I stopped after two completed civilizations)
Star wars: Force unleashed
Mass Effect
Darksiders
Now, what made me play through the first bunch and not the second? Simple math:
(fun gameplay x entrancing story x cool characters) / (annoying bugs x repetitive gameplay x bad story x no connection to environment or characters)
I am not one of those 100% gamers. I play as long as I'm drawn back to the game, not to complete every single sidequest and get every last item. I will be drawn back by cool style (wild west, star wars, Infamous, Assassin's Creed) and/or if I like the gameplay as such (Infamous, Assassin's Creed). I love collecting stuff that helps you along... like building up the Villa Auditore in AC2 or cleaning out city parts in Infamous. I like to see my accomplishments and profit from them.
What I absolutely hate is repetitive gameplay that does nothing for you. That's the problem with Force Unleashed. You just walk through a predefined path, with bad controls, and slay your way through. The story might be cool, but I'm already fed up. Brütal Legends wasn't intuitive... at one point, I encountered a bug and since I didn't understand what the game wanted from me anyway, I've never gone back, even though I loved the setting of the game.
So it depends on how big the good parts are compared to the bad ones. Godfather 2 was repetitive too and a bit buggy, but the positive side was stronger.
Since this is all very subjective, MY question would be this: Was it any different ten years ago?
Then it was a misunderstanding on my part. I was talking about online games you directly launch on your rig but which connect to the net.
Of course, I might have completely misunderstood how this gaikai thing works in the first place.
Do you have under 10ms when gaming directly from your rig? I don't. Applying my Citrix experience to this idea, though, lets me agree with your expectations about the control issue.
We'll see whether this'll be the next big thing after 3D gaming soon enough, I'd assume. I'll reserve judgement until then.
Of course, you should bringt your Ph.D. in computer science to the table as well. Oh, and if you're older than 24, you've got a lot of splainin' to do about how you wasted all that time.
We're a bit cynical, aren't we?
I think you're confusing something here:
We're not okay with people infringing on Big Labels' copyrights. We do, however, advocate fair use. And we're also in favor of proportional penalties when copyright violations do happen.
Now, we all remain human and are thus not perfect. After all the bullshit MAFIAA has heaped upon the population, do excuse us for being on David's side per default, just to be sure, until Goliath can prove that his demands are reasonable.
Even better: Did she not argue that her magazine's rewrite actually made the article, you know, better and more professional?
If THAT is what this woman calls quality text...