First off, real brute force, not the kind I believe you alluded to in your first post, requires no thought at all, this much is true.
"Of course, sudoku puzzles have their place. They are very popular, and help people to relax. Of course, popular always means, "doesn't make you think." But bonus points for making people think they are thinking. I guess I'm just annoyed by these people who think that they are thinking, and am trying to burst their bubble."
Do you enjoy being condescending and arrogant? Unless you have some very narrow definition of "thinking" then you're talking out of your ass. Recognising patterns, applying logic, keeping track of sometimes complex state information, do they not count as "thinking" because they are relatively simple problems to implement in a computer program?
But then, perhaps the only Sudoku you've ever seen have had a handful of numbers missing (and been printed on circles of paper?), which this certainly implies:
"You look at the first cell and say, "Can the value of this cell be implied by the values of the cells in the same row, column, and square?" If the answer is yes, then you write the value. If no, go onto the next square and ask the same question. Continue throughout all squares, and then start over. Eventually the puzzle is complete."
Ok, so you apply your simplistic "brute-force" strategy to a Sudoku puzzle and you reach the final square, and you've filled in no squares using your ridiculously simple one-level deep attempt to imply the value of a cell from its row, column and 9-cell block. Now what? Perhaps you can agree that this requires some form of "thinking" even using your own inexplicable definition of the word. For further reading, another poster in this discussion showed this link with a number of the more complex sudoku solving strategies.
Because that would be wrong. Electrocution does make it very hard to speak, because electrocution, by definition, results in death. "Usage may vary" indeed.
Of course the BBC is funded by anyone in the UK who has a television, and therefore has bought a television licence, whether they pay tax or not, to the tune of around £3,100,600,000 a year.
A nanny-knows-best, Mary Whitehouse-loving bunch of fucking morons, proving to the rest of the world that the UK will not be found lacking when it comes to the complete abdication of parental responsibility and self-control.
To MediaWatch-UK, you bunch of lack-witted, thumb-sucking buboes...
Point 1:
Just because the sensationalist hacks at the Daily Fail run a story about your latest bout of whining does not lend any credence to your crusade against the right-thinking portion of the British populace and their desire to be able to decide for themselves what is or isn't appropriate entertainment for themselves and their families.
Point 2:
I have a DVD player. When I have children, they can watch Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's back-catalogue, High School Musical and Bambi to their hearts' content. I can use it to watch Oldboy, Battle Royale and Cannibal Holocaust. It is up to me to control who watches what. It is my choice. If someone has the money to purchase a Wii, and then to purchase games for it, and yet is too fucking stupid to make an informed choice about the games they buy then there is no hope for humanity. If things have become *that* bad then "Campaigning for decency and accountability in the media" is just polishing the brass on the Titanic. Seriously, you'd be far better off doing something useful like chemically castrating these bozos.
Point 3:
Following on, Nintendo markets the Wii on its main strength, family-fun and party games. This is not out of some altruistic desire to promote family values, it is because it cannot compete with the 360 or PS3 when it comes to graphical content. Nintendo play to their system's strengths which are a unique and novel control system and a large catalogue of party games. I enjoy playing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz but I also enjoy playing Red Steel and Call Of Duty 3. Both of which were available ON THE DAY OF LAUNCH.
Points 4-8:
This is not the first game to be released for Wii that I would consider inappropriate for the whole family based on violent or sexual content...nor will it be the last. Games already released which
Alone In The Dark - Survival Horror
The entity speaks directly through Anna, demanding the stone, which Edward doesn't have, before attempting to kill him. No matter what Edward throws at the possessed Anna, she merely shrugs it off and keeps coming after him, and he is only able to permanently kill her by setting her on fire. After proceeding to another elevator shaft and jumping down into an elevator, Edward meets Sarah Flores, an art dealer. They are then attacked by more possessed humans...
Jimmy can also kiss certain boys. The ESRB claimed it was fully aware of the homosexual content when they gave it a T rating.Other sexual themes involve a gym teacher who is stated to have hit on the girls in school, dissecting a rat's testicles, and a student reading a men's magazine.
Call of Duty 3 - World War II First Person Shooter
Shooting people, throwing grenades, shooting flammable barrels next to people to incinerate them. While not graphic, this is a war-themed game that was available at UK release, and which I wouldn't let children play.
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I always thought it was "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega". Which more accurately fits the original quote:
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,"
Even though my version beats out yours when googling for your "woman's scorn for sega" (449) vs. my "woman scorned for sega" (2830), we all know that just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it right. Where's Jason Lee or Kevin Smith when you need them?? I bought Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, they owe me.;)
Why not have a Drugged/Whatever-it-takes Olympics? Separate from the Summer Olympics proper. We have separate olympic events for paraplegics, quadraplegics etc. Why not have a separate Games where athletes are able to do whatever it takes to be the best.
If they want to remove their legs just below the knees so they can supplant them with carbon fibre fins, they can.
If they want to get juiced up on steroids 'til they're a quivering mass of muscle, they can.
If they want to have implants in their feet that act as flippers, they can.
That way, the purists can keep the Olympics free of "cheats" and the rest of the world can see what humans are truly capable of, when mankind chooses something different, chooses the impossible. When athletes are not bound by petty morality. When the great are not constrained by the small...
Prrffft. Until you get that set up strung together with decent platinum coated directionally lubricated CAT-5e you can't possibly truly appreciate anything.
I guess they make money on families who can't afford video game systems, or have some sort of moral problem with them (there are a lot of parents who think video games "rot their children's minds," turn them into serial killers, etc.).
Interestingly, more blood-letting occurred in our house over cwms and puls than WWF Wrestlemania or Repton. Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but Scrabble is dangerous.
As an example, I searched for the manpage for cat like so:
man cat
(With no quotes.)
Google has the cat manpage at number three.
I've gone back 10 pages on Cuil and not found a single result that's relevant. On the other hand, every single page has had at least 3 out of the 9 results linking to reviews or shops selling an album called "Dad Man Cat" by Corduroy.
When you're done with that, can I have your e-mail address? I have an e-mail from Bill Gates where he promises to give $20,000 to everyone in the third world if you forward it to 10 people within one hour. But you have to copy and paste your name into the Subject field so they can track it...
SUZIE: How do we get wid of the gweenhouse grasses?
NARRATOR: Fortunately our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063 we drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
SUZIE: Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning! And then he gets mad.
NARRATOR: Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
SUZIE: But...
--EXT: PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD
--INT: PLANE COCKPIT
PILOT #1: Oh wow, I really hope we don't have a crash.
PILOT #2: Me too.
PILOT #1: But they say it's safer than crossing the road!
PILOT #2: Yes, but we have to do that too.
PILOT #1: Best not to think about it.
First, I am not sure that email is really by Gates -- from reading his writing or listening to him in the past, it really does not sound like his style. Also, "I reboot my computer... why should I have to reboot my computer?" I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs. However, maybe I'm giving too much credit here.
I'm no fan of the guy, but I read it as him trying to do something, encountering a problem, scratching his head at all the WTFs, then drafting an e-mail to the people responsible while injecting some everyman hyperbole. If billg is having trouble installing Movie Maker then Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ, how does Joe Sixpack stand a chance? Part of me likes to think that he wants to hold onto customers enough to empathise with them when he encounters something seriously awry with his products...
I can see it now...Her Majesty reclining on the leatherette sofa with a bejewelled micro-switched joystick, playing Dizzy on her Amiga...
Oh, wait. It's not the Queen who picks people for the honours list, it's the honours committee. Truth be told, the Queen will probably have never heard of them, won't know who they are when she confers the honour and won't ever know.
To your more expansive ideas...about why people, through their actions, seek approval from others, and why this is a bad thing: What is it,exactly, that you've been smoking? People have been doing this for centuries, if not millennia.
I realise that mob-style business practice has built MSFT into a giant, but as the public and their representatives catch up with the new paradigms of the digital age, said practices will become increasingly counter-productive. Which is a good thing.
Quite. I was reminded of this story, more specifically this Douglas Adams-esque line:
"The Savior was a self-made billionaire who struck it rich doing the type of business that makes unregulated industries regulated."
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Because sysadmins always give 110%?
Do you enjoy being condescending and arrogant? Unless you have some very narrow definition of "thinking" then you're talking out of your ass. Recognising patterns, applying logic, keeping track of sometimes complex state information, do they not count as "thinking" because they are relatively simple problems to implement in a computer program?
But then, perhaps the only Sudoku you've ever seen have had a handful of numbers missing (and been printed on circles of paper?), which this certainly implies:
Ok, so you apply your simplistic "brute-force" strategy to a Sudoku puzzle and you reach the final square, and you've filled in no squares using your ridiculously simple one-level deep attempt to imply the value of a cell from its row, column and 9-cell block. Now what? Perhaps you can agree that this requires some form of "thinking" even using your own inexplicable definition of the word. For further reading, another poster in this discussion showed this link with a number of the more complex sudoku solving strategies.
Not Prey, Vi.
Because that would be wrong. Electrocution does make it very hard to speak, because electrocution, by definition, results in death. "Usage may vary" indeed.
"Tax payers' money", hah!
Of course the BBC is funded by anyone in the UK who has a television, and therefore has bought a television licence, whether they pay tax or not, to the tune of around £3,100,600,000 a year.
Tracking peoples' IP addresses all across the internets? They're lucky if that's all they have their database poisoned with.
To MediaWatch-UK, you bunch of lack-witted, thumb-sucking buboes...
Point 1:
Just because the sensationalist hacks at the Daily Fail run a story about your latest bout of whining does not lend any credence to your crusade against the right-thinking portion of the British populace and their desire to be able to decide for themselves what is or isn't appropriate entertainment for themselves and their families.
Point 2:
I have a DVD player. When I have children, they can watch Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's back-catalogue, High School Musical and Bambi to their hearts' content. I can use it to watch Oldboy, Battle Royale and Cannibal Holocaust. It is up to me to control who watches what. It is my choice. If someone has the money to purchase a Wii, and then to purchase games for it, and yet is too fucking stupid to make an informed choice about the games they buy then there is no hope for humanity. If things have become *that* bad then "Campaigning for decency and accountability in the media" is just polishing the brass on the Titanic. Seriously, you'd be far better off doing something useful like chemically castrating these bozos.
Point 3:
Following on, Nintendo markets the Wii on its main strength, family-fun and party games. This is not out of some altruistic desire to promote family values, it is because it cannot compete with the 360 or PS3 when it comes to graphical content. Nintendo play to their system's strengths which are a unique and novel control system and a large catalogue of party games. I enjoy playing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz but I also enjoy playing Red Steel and Call Of Duty 3. Both of which were available ON THE DAY OF LAUNCH.
Points 4-8:
This is not the first game to be released for Wii that I would consider inappropriate for the whole family based on violent or sexual content...nor will it be the last. Games already released which Alone In The Dark - Survival Horror
Bully
Call of Duty 3 - World War II First Person Shooter
Shooting people, throwing grenades, shooting flammable barrels next to people to incinerate them. While not graphic, this is a war-themed game that was available at UK release, and which I wouldn't let children play.
- William Congreve's The Mourning Bride.
;)
Even though my version beats out yours when googling for your "woman's scorn for sega" (449) vs. my "woman scorned for sega" (2830), we all know that just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it right. Where's Jason Lee or Kevin Smith when you need them?? I bought Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, they owe me.
Why not have a Drugged/Whatever-it-takes Olympics? Separate from the Summer Olympics proper. We have separate olympic events for paraplegics, quadraplegics etc. Why not have a separate Games where athletes are able to do whatever it takes to be the best.
If they want to remove their legs just below the knees so they can supplant them with carbon fibre fins, they can.
If they want to get juiced up on steroids 'til they're a quivering mass of muscle, they can.
If they want to have implants in their feet that act as flippers, they can.
That way, the purists can keep the Olympics free of "cheats" and the rest of the world can see what humans are truly capable of, when mankind chooses something different, chooses the impossible. When athletes are not bound by petty morality. When the great are not constrained by the small...
Prrffft. Until you get that set up strung together with decent platinum coated directionally lubricated CAT-5e you can't possibly truly appreciate anything.
Unless that's just his morality co-processor.
Interestingly, more blood-letting occurred in our house over cwms and puls than WWF Wrestlemania or Repton. Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but Scrabble is dangerous.
(With no quotes.)
Google has the cat manpage at number three.
I've gone back 10 pages on Cuil and not found a single result that's relevant. On the other hand, every single page has had at least 3 out of the 9 results linking to reviews or shops selling an album called "Dad Man Cat" by Corduroy.
You actually join those groups? Wow. Just wow.
When you're done with that, can I have your e-mail address? I have an e-mail from Bill Gates where he promises to give $20,000 to everyone in the third world if you forward it to 10 people within one hour. But you have to copy and paste your name into the Subject field so they can track it...
SUZIE: How do we get wid of the gweenhouse grasses?
NARRATOR: Fortunately our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063 we drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
SUZIE: Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning! And then he gets mad.
NARRATOR: Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
SUZIE: But...
--EXT: PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD
--INT: PLANE COCKPIT
PILOT #1: Oh wow, I really hope we don't have a crash.
PILOT #2: Me too.
PILOT #1: But they say it's safer than crossing the road!
PILOT #2: Yes, but we have to do that too.
PILOT #1: Best not to think about it.
All my scalpels are called Michael.
Citation needed indeed...
Easy there tiger, do you not have to say it three times in succession for the proceedings to commence? Like Beetlejuice, Candyman or Chuck Norris?
I can see it now...Her Majesty reclining on the leatherette sofa with a bejewelled micro-switched joystick, playing Dizzy on her Amiga...
Oh, wait. It's not the Queen who picks people for the honours list, it's the honours committee. Truth be told, the Queen will probably have never heard of them, won't know who they are when she confers the honour and won't ever know.
To your more expansive ideas...about why people, through their actions, seek approval from others, and why this is a bad thing: What is it,exactly, that you've been smoking? People have been doing this for centuries, if not millennia.
Mod parent up.
Words can have different meanings. Film at 11.
Google > NASA for directions
Mars is roughly 3715 miles from me, as the deepcrow flies.