The Chicken/Egg situation doesn't work at all. You have a pseudo-valid argument and prepended an arbitrary wikipedia link in order to get modded up. Someone should write a book about the subtle triggers that make the difference between -1 and +5 mods.
But, gamers are getting smarter and more tuned in to what makes a system good
I appologize if this seems OT, This rant has been building up for a while.
Gamers are getting stupid. The average gamer these days is hardly a 'gamer' by the traditional definition. Video games become more mainstream, but Gamers don't. I cede you that when talking about system sales we can assume that the average 'gamer' these days will see the better specs as the better system. I disagree, however, that this is a result of "gamers getting smarter".
The average gamer is the kind of guy that walks into compUSA and thinks they're really going to notice a difference upgrading their 3ghz proc. to 3.3ghz.
The gaming subculture is still thriving, if that is what you were refering to. I still have gamer friends that I can play P&P RPGs with. I have friends that I can compare MUD stories with. I have friends that don't own a console or processor above 1ghz and are the most avid gamers in the world!
I guess my point is please don't write off the "gamers" as the people who go around arguing over whose computer is faster or which console has more RAM. If you think that they're getting smarter by looking at specs so much, then you can believe that; but, by all means don't call it a step forward for gamers as a whole. The average gamer today doesn't enjoy games, but enjoys winning and flaunting their hardware, like alot of athletes.
well, if you read a little more closely, I said some rediculous things, note the sarcasm.
I think that we should run the entire world in fiber. I think we polute the airwaves alot as is, this is going to about double it from the looks of it.
the next time you're stuck in a collapsed building like at the WTC towers.
I don't think that anyone will be stuck in the collapsed WTC towers again.
And if you were REALLY in an emergency, you could simply drive away from the city, into the mountains where there is less interference from BPL and contact emergency personelle. It's not like you are in a rush, or anything.
It wil be able to understand 1,000 (Japanese) words, dance, and allow the owner to contact the robot via 3G phones
For some reason that doesn't seem like a lot of functionality to me...
So basically, if you don't speak japanese, all it does is dance, and allow you to contact it. Doesn't say that you can DO anything once you've contacted it, just that you can contact it with a phone. I can touch my cell phone to my furby, who happens to be an excellent dancer, and my friend.
Welcome to the slashdot infomercial network, does this mean that I too can spam slashdot with advertisements phrased as articles?! I don't see any "news" here, there isn't anything significant about a "8000+ mark".
Again why should I care about a *ANY* girl (pretty or not) which get her idea from the media, and is completly close-minded to recognize that *I* am different than how the media portray me ? Why should I care about about any girl which judge on the outside apparence and media portraying and do not bother revisionning it when she meets me ? Is such girl even worth bothering, if she can't make her own opinion different than what the media sprout ?
We are all influenced by society in one way or annother, looks like you'll be lonely for a while.
My rule of thumb is that the jocks mature early, the nerds mature late.
Maybe it's just me, but I haven't met a jock that has "matured early", in fact I know a few that are 30 and haven't matured.
I guess the issue here is defining maturity. I consider maturity to be directly proportional to creativity, The ability to create somthing novel. Human minds are more matured than our ape predescessors because we have the ability to create, have novel thoughts, etc. I think that people use the term "maturity" to say "grow up and conform to society", which is wrong. I see geeks, although lacking social creativity, as the most advanced innovaters of the day.
The the greatest genius of the framers of the Constitution is that they founded our country upon powerful general principles of freedom and equality. In many cases they themselves were not ready to face the full implications of those principles, yet in a truly subversive act, they gave those principles the ultimate power of law.
Once upon a time the people demanding freedom were the christians wanting to support christian morals. They wrote a constitution based upon their freedom. It worked fine until recently, when being free and being christian were different ideas.
1: The next publish (what UO calls updates) is mostly (90%) about the ability to move characters between shards (seperate UO worlds)
2: The event moderaters have been removed and will,more than likely, not be back.
1 and 2 are alrgely wrong too: first off, UO does call them publishes, updates are client patches. Secondly, you're disagreeing with yourself there, UO is adding the character shard transfer service to attract customers (old and new) and bring in some cash on the side. Lastly, EMs have been gone for years, I don't know what you've been doing since then, but they've been gone, and apart from the occasional lagfest geared around giving away artifacts, there hasn't been any content developed within UO. Know what that means? OSI/EA (I will forever call them that) is creating new content. Give them some credit, they're not going to say "Hey... this game is lacking... let's rob our 6-year playerbase of all of their money and... stop supporting the game!" trust me, they would have done that 3 years ago.
"In the movie, she's able to carry it with one hand."
Well... I'm pretty sure I don't recall it being powered by a jet engine in the movie. I'd cut these guys some slack for being completely obsessed with somthing so insignificant. What true geeks. *Green*
Are you going to be showing this off at the "Georgia Tech Innovations" panel on wednesday? If you are, Can I come? If you're not, can I come? I'm not a student, still in high school actually, but would really like to see what's going on at georgia tech, as i'm pretty-much set on going there.
I need to be a student or "guest of a student", if you could help me out that would be very nice of you. drop me a line at MC_Cancer_Pants@yahoo.de
Not asking to hang out or anything, though, if you wanted to, that would be fine, so long as you don't like raping helpless 17 year old boys.
I don't understand where you're coming from with the "expiration" front. There is a constant supply of people visiting pr0n sites, every time they generate a signup page, the server can run their set-up-an-account script, and get a fresh decryption. No one is saying that these images will be stored on a table, to be decrypted later. this can all happen within the matter of a minute or less, so long as the catchup was generated when the pr0n subscription was generated, which isn't THAT hard to do. This is a beautiful technique, I wouldn't criticize it. IMHO that this would increase accuracy and decrease server processing, optical processing on a large scale isn't exactly CPU friendly. So why not put the world's largest accessable neural network to work? I wish more people could come up with innovative techniques like this. Hopefully not just spammers;)
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Chicken or Egg situation (Score:5, Insightful)
The Chicken/Egg situation doesn't work at all. You have a pseudo-valid argument and prepended an arbitrary wikipedia link in order to get modded up. Someone should write a book about the subtle triggers that make the difference between -1 and +5 mods.
But, gamers are getting smarter and more tuned in to what makes a system good
I appologize if this seems OT, This rant has been building up for a while.
Gamers are getting stupid. The average gamer these days is hardly a 'gamer' by the traditional definition. Video games become more mainstream, but Gamers don't. I cede you that when talking about system sales we can assume that the average 'gamer' these days will see the better specs as the better system. I disagree, however, that this is a result of "gamers getting smarter".
The average gamer is the kind of guy that walks into compUSA and thinks they're really going to notice a difference upgrading their 3ghz proc. to 3.3ghz.
The gaming subculture is still thriving, if that is what you were refering to. I still have gamer friends that I can play P&P RPGs with. I have friends that I can compare MUD stories with. I have friends that don't own a console or processor above 1ghz and are the most avid gamers in the world!
I guess my point is please don't write off the "gamers" as the people who go around arguing over whose computer is faster or which console has more RAM. If you think that they're getting smarter by looking at specs so much, then you can believe that; but, by all means don't call it a step forward for gamers as a whole. The average gamer today doesn't enjoy games, but enjoys winning and flaunting their hardware, like alot of athletes.
I'm as good as fired when my boss sees my childpr0n conviction!
Honestly, how many people lie to their employers? Kinda bugs me.
My ninja clan has had those pants (and the matching shirts that you guys don't even know about yet) for years.
I am extremely stupid. ;)
I have to learn never to try correcting people ever again.
Apart from the numerous typos and incoherent thoughts, reading through this I found blatantly simple misspellings!
"The next deal we
should be able to get from $16-20, but it will be brutial as it is for
go to makerket work and some licences."
For those of you that don't see my point, brutial is not a word, makerket is not a ward, and licences is a misspelled word.
This is just one sentence from the memo. I understand that typos are inherent in any memo, but Jesus, misspelling the word "licenses" or "brutal"?
I'm not one to yell at someone for their grammar or spelling, but it was hard to find exactly what he was saying!
You'd think that they could find some opensource spellchecker for sendmail to pretend that they wrote!
I've been doing XXX movieoke in bars for years. What's cool is that I won't get arrested this time.
The windows filesystem is by definition a hierarchical database, *copyrights all of the windows filenames*
well, if you read a little more closely, I said some rediculous things, note the sarcasm.
I think that we should run the entire world in fiber. I think we polute the airwaves alot as is, this is going to about double it from the looks of it.
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" - Ambrose Bierce
You mean "Puto cogitem ergo puto sim"
Obligatory Monty Python Reference:
"Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!"
the next time you're stuck in a collapsed building like at the WTC towers.
I don't think that anyone will be stuck in the collapsed WTC towers again.
And if you were REALLY in an emergency, you could simply drive away from the city, into the mountains where there is less interference from BPL and contact emergency personelle. It's not like you are in a rush, or anything.
It wil be able to understand 1,000 (Japanese) words, dance, and allow the owner to contact the robot via 3G phones
For some reason that doesn't seem like a lot of functionality to me... So basically, if you don't speak japanese, all it does is dance, and allow you to contact it. Doesn't say that you can DO anything once you've contacted it, just that you can contact it with a phone. I can touch my cell phone to my furby, who happens to be an excellent dancer, and my friend.
The SCO won't ever give up. Get used to it.
Welcome to the slashdot infomercial network, does this mean that I too can spam slashdot with advertisements phrased as articles?! I don't see any "news" here, there isn't anything significant about a "8000+ mark".
Again why should I care about a *ANY* girl (pretty or not) which get her idea from the media, and is completly close-minded to recognize that *I* am different than how the media portray me ? Why should I care about about any girl which judge on the outside apparence and media portraying and do not bother revisionning it when she meets me ? Is such girl even worth bothering, if she can't make her own opinion different than what the media sprout ?
We are all influenced by society in one way or annother, looks like you'll be lonely for a while.
My rule of thumb is that the jocks mature early, the nerds mature late.
Maybe it's just me, but I haven't met a jock that has "matured early", in fact I know a few that are 30 and haven't matured.
I guess the issue here is defining maturity. I consider maturity to be directly proportional to creativity, The ability to create somthing novel. Human minds are more matured than our ape predescessors because we have the ability to create, have novel thoughts, etc. I think that people use the term "maturity" to say "grow up and conform to society", which is wrong. I see geeks, although lacking social creativity, as the most advanced innovaters of the day.
The the greatest genius of the framers of the Constitution is that they founded our country upon powerful general principles of freedom and equality. In many cases they themselves were not ready to face the full implications of those principles, yet in a truly subversive act, they gave those principles the ultimate power of law.
Once upon a time the people demanding freedom were the christians wanting to support christian morals. They wrote a constitution based upon their freedom. It worked fine until recently, when being free and being christian were different ideas.
1: The next publish (what UO calls updates) is mostly (90%) about the ability to move characters between shards (seperate UO worlds) 2: The event moderaters have been removed and will ,more than likely, not be back.
1 and 2 are alrgely wrong too: first off, UO does call them publishes, updates are client patches. Secondly, you're disagreeing with yourself there, UO is adding the character shard transfer service to attract customers (old and new) and bring in some cash on the side. Lastly, EMs have been gone for years, I don't know what you've been doing since then, but they've been gone, and apart from the occasional lagfest geared around giving away artifacts, there hasn't been any content developed within UO. Know what that means? OSI/EA (I will forever call them that) is creating new content. Give them some credit, they're not going to say "Hey... this game is lacking... let's rob our 6-year playerbase of all of their money and... stop supporting the game!" trust me, they would have done that 3 years ago.
"In the movie, she's able to carry it with one hand."
Well... I'm pretty sure I don't recall it being powered by a jet engine in the movie. I'd cut these guys some slack for being completely obsessed with somthing so insignificant. What true geeks. *Green*
Totoro died, I have no reason to live anymore.
I don't think that IT employers hire anyone at all. But then again I'm just your average disgruntled programmer.
Why don't they just prepend everything copyrighted with "Don't copy that floppy!" everyone would finally understand.
*Turns down di.fm* your music broke? that sucks. *Turns it back up*
Are you going to be showing this off at the "Georgia Tech Innovations" panel on wednesday? If you are, Can I come? If you're not, can I come? I'm not a student, still in high school actually, but would really like to see what's going on at georgia tech, as i'm pretty-much set on going there. I need to be a student or "guest of a student", if you could help me out that would be very nice of you. drop me a line at MC_Cancer_Pants@yahoo.de Not asking to hang out or anything, though, if you wanted to, that would be fine, so long as you don't like raping helpless 17 year old boys.
I don't understand where you're coming from with the "expiration" front. There is a constant supply of people visiting pr0n sites, every time they generate a signup page, the server can run their set-up-an-account script, and get a fresh decryption. No one is saying that these images will be stored on a table, to be decrypted later. this can all happen within the matter of a minute or less, so long as the catchup was generated when the pr0n subscription was generated, which isn't THAT hard to do. This is a beautiful technique, I wouldn't criticize it. IMHO that this would increase accuracy and decrease server processing, optical processing on a large scale isn't exactly CPU friendly. So why not put the world's largest accessable neural network to work? I wish more people could come up with innovative techniques like this. Hopefully not just spammers ;)