Do you still want these? I can probably get them all for you. Post an email address, a temporary one if you'd like, and I'll send you as many as I can get.
Maybe you could be, if you gave things more thought. The GP poster wasn't being lazy, and readability isn't a matter of making it "easy" for someone, it's a matter of making it READABLE. There are things you can do to a group of words that make it much more difficult and slower for the human eye to track them, and for the human brain to comprehend them; you can call people's IQs low and their attention spans short all you want, it doesn't change the fact that most people are going to skip the text, or parts of it, without a second thought. You can argue against human nature, or you can acknowledge it and work with it, it's really up to you.
The GP SHOULD learn the concept of paragraphs if he wants his comments read. That's a simple fact.
I got one - releasing Duke Nukem Forever! There is no bigger hype than releasing the greatest vaporware of all time. Hell, the internet has created hype about it NOT being released - how much more if it were?
Is that a joke? I slept about 1-2 hours a night (in high school, I could do that) for a week straight when I first discovered Quake. The single-player was on par with Deus Ex and Goldeneye, in my opinion.
I'm guessing your only experience with a turntable involved mangled children's records on a battery-operated "record player" adorned with Disney characters.
More likely his experience is with anything other than brand-new vinyl straight out of the shrink wrap. Top-quality new records sound better than top-quality new cassettes for what, maybe 20 play-throughs? Vinyl deteriorates rapidly with both time and usage. I don't know about you, but I never heard surface noise from a dusty cassette.
Man, have you ever _been_ to a university library? The sheer amount of information available in those places can have a comparable effect to the Total Perspective Vortex, if you stop and think about it too much. It's also the most beautiful thing on earth.
So, you should go sometime. Wander around a good university library (I recommend Perkins Library at Duke, if you're anywhere near there) sometime, just marveling at the sheer amount of information available - open a few books and skin them, go to the official documents section and look at random UN subcommittee reports from 1978, check out the journal archives and read organic chemistry papers from 1932... then go home and try to still feel powerful and informed while you wrestle with Google and the Wayback Machine trying to get a newspaper article from 2007 that isn't on the website anymore.
As a group, they are shockingly bad (compared professional writers as a group), and the corpus of fan fiction is terrible compared to the corpus of professional writings. "Most" is implied when talking about general characteristics of a group; only the ignorant (and the faux-ignorant, like you) try to apply a generalization to all the individual members of the generalized group.
It's like if I said the middle class is significantly less wealthy than the upper class. Same objection applies, as there are members of the middle class who are just below the dividing line from the upper class, but the statement is still obviously true and you'll only object if you're looking for a reason to.
Have you ever read fan fiction? Calling most of it "bad" does a disservice to the world by diluting the term. Non-professional writers are SHOCKINGLY bad at it; I know Hollywood writing isn't good, but it's not on the same level of terrible as fan fiction in general.
Writing (like, textual writing) technology is the same for fan fiction as for professional writing. Yet it's still not hard to tell fan fiction from the real thing.
Musicianship is exactly what's required to blend the stylistic elements of '50s rock music with a wide variety of chord changes and song structures, not to mention the various short-lived experimentations that characterized their later years.
If by "musicianship" you mean their instrumental skill, you're right. Ringo in particular was a pretty bad drummer. The fact that he was the best in Liverpool is tragic. But whatever some ignoramuses might say, the Beatles were not good because of George's shredding skills.
FWIW, I think the Beatles are very overrated in terms of musicianship, though not in terms of pop sensibility and as drivers of certain style of music.
Nonsense. The Beatles turned rock and roll into rock. Without the Beatles there'd be no chords in rock music except the I, the IV, and the V. I scoff at your opinion.
Doesn't that just say it all? You'd rather learn while being lonesome than by having a discussion with other people.
Not that I don't agree with you in this specific case, but there are a LOT of things you can learn on your own that I'd certainly never prefer to. There's a reason college classes have a professor, other students, discussion sessions, study groups, etc.
Gosh, it's too bad someone didn't tell you before you said it that building a clock that lasts 3.6 million days isn't a project for the 5 minutes it takes to write a slashdot comment.
I wouldn't say that. Seems like every shot in the video shows someone walking by and stopping to help, not people lounging on park benches and taking some of their leisure time to stand up and tinker with the cute robot. The video does show about 3 of the 42 minutes of the journey, so there's probably selection bias, but there are still obviously plenty of people who took a minute out of traveling time to help it, not just leisure time.
I'm extremely willfully ignorant of the best way to go about sexually abusing another person, because....well, if I have to explain that to you...
It's because you're a virgin, right?
In all seriousness, understanding the best way to go about sexually abusing another person comes naturally from understanding how people think and how social and sexual interactions work. If you don't know what behaviors, actions, and words are most humiliating to a person, or how to harm someone physically and psychologically, you are not only likely not very good at socializing (and don't realize it), but you're likely to harm someone in those ways by accident at some point.
Same goes for racial epithets. If you don't understand the finer points of racial epithets, how can you be sure you'll never accidentally insult an oversensitive Asian?
You seem to have the worst conception of what good live music is of anyone I've ever heard. Led Zeppelin are one of the greatest live bands of all time by most accounts. Dream Theater concerts are ridiculously stupid. I've heard a recording of them live, and they might as well have hooked up a CD player to some big-ass speakers and played that for the audience, because that's all they did (for 3 studio albums in a row, mind you - all songs in order).
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Do you still want these? I can probably get them all for you. Post an email address, a temporary one if you'd like, and I'll send you as many as I can get.
Which typo? There are two.
No, I can assure you that that is NOT the real question. Don't comment on what you don't understand.
Maybe you could be, if you gave things more thought. The GP poster wasn't being lazy, and readability isn't a matter of making it "easy" for someone, it's a matter of making it READABLE. There are things you can do to a group of words that make it much more difficult and slower for the human eye to track them, and for the human brain to comprehend them; you can call people's IQs low and their attention spans short all you want, it doesn't change the fact that most people are going to skip the text, or parts of it, without a second thought. You can argue against human nature, or you can acknowledge it and work with it, it's really up to you.
The GP SHOULD learn the concept of paragraphs if he wants his comments read. That's a simple fact.
"what better way to drum up hype about a game?"
I got one - releasing Duke Nukem Forever! There is no bigger hype than releasing the greatest vaporware of all time. Hell, the internet has created hype about it NOT being released - how much more if it were?
Is that a joke? I slept about 1-2 hours a night (in high school, I could do that) for a week straight when I first discovered Quake. The single-player was on par with Deus Ex and Goldeneye, in my opinion.
More likely his experience is with anything other than brand-new vinyl straight out of the shrink wrap. Top-quality new records sound better than top-quality new cassettes for what, maybe 20 play-throughs? Vinyl deteriorates rapidly with both time and usage. I don't know about you, but I never heard surface noise from a dusty cassette.
Man, have you ever _been_ to a university library? The sheer amount of information available in those places can have a comparable effect to the Total Perspective Vortex, if you stop and think about it too much. It's also the most beautiful thing on earth.
So, you should go sometime. Wander around a good university library (I recommend Perkins Library at Duke, if you're anywhere near there) sometime, just marveling at the sheer amount of information available - open a few books and skin them, go to the official documents section and look at random UN subcommittee reports from 1978, check out the journal archives and read organic chemistry papers from 1932... then go home and try to still feel powerful and informed while you wrestle with Google and the Wayback Machine trying to get a newspaper article from 2007 that isn't on the website anymore.
As a group, they are shockingly bad (compared professional writers as a group), and the corpus of fan fiction is terrible compared to the corpus of professional writings. "Most" is implied when talking about general characteristics of a group; only the ignorant (and the faux-ignorant, like you) try to apply a generalization to all the individual members of the generalized group.
It's like if I said the middle class is significantly less wealthy than the upper class. Same objection applies, as there are members of the middle class who are just below the dividing line from the upper class, but the statement is still obviously true and you'll only object if you're looking for a reason to.
Have you ever read fan fiction? Calling most of it "bad" does a disservice to the world by diluting the term. Non-professional writers are SHOCKINGLY bad at it; I know Hollywood writing isn't good, but it's not on the same level of terrible as fan fiction in general.
Writing (like, textual writing) technology is the same for fan fiction as for professional writing. Yet it's still not hard to tell fan fiction from the real thing.
Musicianship is exactly what's required to blend the stylistic elements of '50s rock music with a wide variety of chord changes and song structures, not to mention the various short-lived experimentations that characterized their later years.
If by "musicianship" you mean their instrumental skill, you're right. Ringo in particular was a pretty bad drummer. The fact that he was the best in Liverpool is tragic. But whatever some ignoramuses might say, the Beatles were not good because of George's shredding skills.
Nonsense. The Beatles turned rock and roll into rock. Without the Beatles there'd be no chords in rock music except the I, the IV, and the V. I scoff at your opinion.
It would be pronounced "shvine", actually.
... because of the copying issue, yes? These books are printed. You can't distribute them digitally.
Boy, you sure are confident, huh? Go on, then, link me one of your articles proposing a better model, huh?
I'm really mystified as to why you feel qualified to comment on climatology. Perhaps you could enlighten me as to the source of your self-confidence?
Doesn't that just say it all? You'd rather learn while being lonesome than by having a discussion with other people.
Not that I don't agree with you in this specific case, but there are a LOT of things you can learn on your own that I'd certainly never prefer to. There's a reason college classes have a professor, other students, discussion sessions, study groups, etc.
Gosh, it's too bad someone didn't tell you before you said it that building a clock that lasts 3.6 million days isn't a project for the 5 minutes it takes to write a slashdot comment.
Maybe this time you'll listen, hmm?
I wouldn't say that. Seems like every shot in the video shows someone walking by and stopping to help, not people lounging on park benches and taking some of their leisure time to stand up and tinker with the cute robot. The video does show about 3 of the 42 minutes of the journey, so there's probably selection bias, but there are still obviously plenty of people who took a minute out of traveling time to help it, not just leisure time.
It's from "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who. Nothing more or less than the single greatest song ever recorded.
You could at least TRY. "Meet the new enemy, same as the old enemy".
I realize you're not quoting, but it's really not difficult to allude to a quote properly.
You brewed ONE PINT of beer?
It's because you're a virgin, right?
In all seriousness, understanding the best way to go about sexually abusing another person comes naturally from understanding how people think and how social and sexual interactions work. If you don't know what behaviors, actions, and words are most humiliating to a person, or how to harm someone physically and psychologically, you are not only likely not very good at socializing (and don't realize it), but you're likely to harm someone in those ways by accident at some point.
Same goes for racial epithets. If you don't understand the finer points of racial epithets, how can you be sure you'll never accidentally insult an oversensitive Asian?
You seem to have the worst conception of what good live music is of anyone I've ever heard. Led Zeppelin are one of the greatest live bands of all time by most accounts. Dream Theater concerts are ridiculously stupid. I've heard a recording of them live, and they might as well have hooked up a CD player to some big-ass speakers and played that for the audience, because that's all they did (for 3 studio albums in a row, mind you - all songs in order).
The song in question was released on Sony and Columbia. MGMT is not independent. One listen to their music should tell you that.