And your post proves my point that self-absorbed programmers who think they are smarter than everyone simply because they are proficient with technology will make embarrassingly arrogant posts on Slashdot showing how they "see through the bullshit" of academia and the "scientific establishment".
This paper got accepted for a poster session. This isn't a terribly imaginative prank and it certainly isn't news.
But skeptics who make it part of their identity to shit on "people" and "the old boys network" and "buzzwords" and "the system" will throw around percentages and wax idiotic about efficiency and feel a sense of accomplishment.
You embarass yourself.
Anyone who plays for more than a month is insane. Grind, grind, grind, don't tell me it's not. Even my friends with level 70 accounts just grind all night. And pay for the privilege.
Damn straight! It is an American privilege to compete with other workers for the lowest wage. Borders should be open to capital only, labor should be chained to its country of origin!
I refuse to believe you are actually this unimaginative. "What would a large organization like a government need IT management for? Sounds like despotism to me!" Puh-leeze.
We must all come together and reset society by not organizing or legitimizing candidates who reflect our values in any way with our votes. The more obsequious the populace, the more threatened the ruling class. Am I doing this right?
I wanted to like this game, I really did, but the pacing is excruciatingly slow! You spend most of your time in information-OCD-mode, checking up on things even when you know it will take another 10 minutes until you can....click an upgrade and wait another 10 minutes. Turning up the game speed only makes it choppy and unless you are zoomed in all the way (which makes anything more than spectating impractical) every ship is displayed as a two-dimensional sprite.
Next time, if you're going to make a game that takes so long to play, you should at least make sure there are always fun things you can be doing while you wait for research and resources. 90% of the time I was sitting there "playing" I kept looking around the room, looking for something else to do.
There are projects like CodeIgniter and CakePHP which attempt to take the best practices of projects like Ruby on Rails and Django and reimplement them in PHP.
The problem with this approach is you're still left with all the awkwardness that is PHP. No anonymous functions, no closures, stupid argument lists, etc.
This is stupid. Nobody crawls the web by sniffing traffic. Google and everyone else connects to webservers the same way you do. For your post to make any sense we have to assume that this would make sites using Obfuscated TCP inaccessible by default, which goes against its entire design philosophy.
No, this is absolutely retarded. This is like saying I've uploaded malicious content to slashdot by telling everyone to click here for free porn where "here" is my victim's website.
I can guarantee you that real institutions of higher learning don't give a shit about online "distance" learning, or cheating. My alma mater is among the top in terms of number of graduates who go on to get doctorates in their fields, but does not proctor exams. All exams are take-home, with the obvious exception of your oral thesis defense (if you can call that an exam).
Any institution providing a real education won't care if you cheat on tests because the faculty have more important things to do and it would be insulting to assume you'd cheat yourself out of all the time and money you invested to take the class in the first place.
In The New York Times of June 22, 1971, he verified that rumor, and reported that his experiment had produced results "far exceeding anything expected" but in almost the same breath, he described those results as only "moderately significant."
Mitchell told the Times that he had made arrangements that four persons stationed in different cities would attempt to determine through ESP the order of a home-made deck of standard Zener cards. These are the familiar symbol-cards (circle, plus mark, wavy lines, square, five-pointed star) that are used by parapsychologists. Astronaut Mitchell said that 51 out of 200 of the guesses made by the four subjects, were successful. Chance would call for 40 correct.
In among all the enthusiastic statements made by Mitchell to the reporters, we discover that the experimental conditions through no fault of his had turned out to be less than ideal. He had intended to perform these experiments every day during the Apollo mission, but changes in the schedules meant that he could only work on four of those days, two on the way to the Moon, and two on the way back. But and this is very significant the psychics back on Earth, it turned out, since they were not aware of the schedule change, had written down their impressions of what Edgar Mitchell was thinking about, the40 minutes before he had begun! So, any apparent success in the experiments must be attributed to precognition, not to telepathy.
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And your post proves my point that self-absorbed programmers who think they are smarter than everyone simply because they are proficient with technology will make embarrassingly arrogant posts on Slashdot showing how they "see through the bullshit" of academia and the "scientific establishment". This paper got accepted for a poster session. This isn't a terribly imaginative prank and it certainly isn't news. But skeptics who make it part of their identity to shit on "people" and "the old boys network" and "buzzwords" and "the system" will throw around percentages and wax idiotic about efficiency and feel a sense of accomplishment. You embarass yourself.
Hi Slashdot please tell me how to play with my new toy. Stay tuned for next week's Ask Slashdot where I ask you which of your suggestions is the best.
Boy this serious reply to an obvious joke sure is "Interesting"!
Anyone who plays for more than a month is insane. Grind, grind, grind, don't tell me it's not. Even my friends with level 70 accounts just grind all night. And pay for the privilege.
Damn straight! It is an American privilege to compete with other workers for the lowest wage. Borders should be open to capital only, labor should be chained to its country of origin!
I refuse to believe you are actually this unimaginative. "What would a large organization like a government need IT management for? Sounds like despotism to me!" Puh-leeze.
I'm done. http://thisfuckingelection.com/
http://thisfuckingelection.com/
We must all come together and reset society by not organizing or legitimizing candidates who reflect our values in any way with our votes. The more obsequious the populace, the more threatened the ruling class. Am I doing this right?
This article reads like a Ron Paul supporter griping about the evils of government given the efficacy of the invisible hand.
As I said in my original post, "Turning up the game speed only makes it choppy" but thanks for reading!
I wanted to like this game, I really did, but the pacing is excruciatingly slow! You spend most of your time in information-OCD-mode, checking up on things even when you know it will take another 10 minutes until you can....click an upgrade and wait another 10 minutes. Turning up the game speed only makes it choppy and unless you are zoomed in all the way (which makes anything more than spectating impractical) every ship is displayed as a two-dimensional sprite.
Next time, if you're going to make a game that takes so long to play, you should at least make sure there are always fun things you can be doing while you wait for research and resources. 90% of the time I was sitting there "playing" I kept looking around the room, looking for something else to do.
There are projects like CodeIgniter and CakePHP which attempt to take the best practices of projects like Ruby on Rails and Django and reimplement them in PHP. The problem with this approach is you're still left with all the awkwardness that is PHP. No anonymous functions, no closures, stupid argument lists, etc.
This is stupid. Nobody crawls the web by sniffing traffic. Google and everyone else connects to webservers the same way you do. For your post to make any sense we have to assume that this would make sites using Obfuscated TCP inaccessible by default, which goes against its entire design philosophy.
How silly of everyone! We almost forgot to blame liberals! Thank you Dachannien for bringing us all back to reality.
Really? If your idea of "the web community" is people who rely on the code fragments at php.net to do their jobs, maybe.
Ever watched King of the Hill or Married with Children?
No, this is absolutely retarded. This is like saying I've uploaded malicious content to slashdot by telling everyone to click here for free porn where "here" is my victim's website.
A picture is linked to in the summary: http://www.optofluidics.caltech.edu/projects/nanoparticle/index.html Thanks for reading before posting though!
Oops, I just checked and apparently you can no longer be hellbanned. Oh well.
The Something Awful Forums have had "hellbanning" since at least 2004.
I can guarantee you that real institutions of higher learning don't give a shit about online "distance" learning, or cheating. My alma mater is among the top in terms of number of graduates who go on to get doctorates in their fields, but does not proctor exams. All exams are take-home, with the obvious exception of your oral thesis defense (if you can call that an exam).
Any institution providing a real education won't care if you cheat on tests because the faculty have more important things to do and it would be insulting to assume you'd cheat yourself out of all the time and money you invested to take the class in the first place.
In The New York Times of June 22, 1971, he verified that rumor, and reported that his experiment had produced results "far exceeding anything expected" but in almost the same breath, he described those results as only "moderately significant."
Mitchell told the Times that he had made arrangements that four persons stationed in different cities would attempt to determine through ESP the order of a home-made deck of standard Zener cards. These are the familiar symbol-cards (circle, plus mark, wavy lines, square, five-pointed star) that are used by parapsychologists. Astronaut Mitchell said that 51 out of 200 of the guesses made by the four subjects, were successful. Chance would call for 40 correct.
In among all the enthusiastic statements made by Mitchell to the reporters, we discover that the experimental conditions through no fault of his had turned out to be less than ideal. He had intended to perform these experiments every day during the Apollo mission, but changes in the schedules meant that he could only work on four of those days, two on the way to the Moon, and two on the way back. But and this is very significant the psychics back on Earth, it turned out, since they were not aware of the schedule change, had written down their impressions of what Edgar Mitchell was thinking about, the40 minutes before he had begun! So, any apparent success in the experiments must be attributed to precognition, not to telepathy.
From: http://www.randi.org/jr/05-31-2000.html
You're just the poster child for anonymous cowards aren't you?
Can you generate them algorithmically?