The problem is how would we test such a theory? Do we throw a probe into a black hole and wait to see if it returns? (Isn't time ment to pretty much stop at some point in a black hole?)
I'm all for theories and such, but how the hell do we test this?
Did you see Futaba this weekend? 4chan found a proxy and spammed the fuck out of it.
If anyone outside Japan wants to post we have to prove when we find proxies we wish to take part not disrupt. It is that simple. So as long as 4chan keeps being a shit hole Futaba has no interest in other users being there.
Finally a use for my knowledge of useless Japanese image boards!
Number 10 is the OS-Tans which spawned from 2ch (and Futaba, the image board connected to the forms known as 2channel, or 2ch for short). Each edition of windows has a linked character (I haven't seen Vista though) which links to the OS's "quirks". For example XP is a very smart girl who takes care of the rest (a well rounded OS basicly) where as ME is a complete idiot known for weilding leaks and doing the dumbest things she can. The OS-tans became so popular (even to the point of a magazine in Japan stealing their designs and using them without the original authors permission and hence being boycotted by many 2ch users) that other software started to get their own characters.
These range from Norton (who is a perverted old doctor) to the Mac girl (who likes to blow things up). As time goes by these girls all seem to remain popular and have become a solid part of the Japanese image board culture. It's very rarely to check the Futaba art boards (Oekaki and self made) without seeing at least once OS-tan pop up some where.
The author doesn't seem to have much of a clue about the girls and their characters, it's just shooting in the dark at "mascots" when the original author has suggested no such thing. Infact the original character designs are pretty much as open source as you can be with character designs, you can do what you like with them as long as you don't make a profit and don't try to claim you made them/not give credit to the mass community).
People looking for the OS-tans can try Futaba at http://www.2chan.net/ , you are most likely to see them on the random boards, the main 2 of which are on the third row 2 down ( and:P ). Be warned it is NOT work safe and you can see ANYTHING (from dead babies to hentai and a mix of both together). Unless you have a.jp IP or are using a proxy you may not post on the site, this is because when people have been given access people have abused it (4chan/b/ users spam the board with racism and such if they find a proxy), so you can just view not take part to those outside Japan.
I have no idea, I think it must have been 2 or 3 years ago now, since I remember at least 3 (maybe 3) april fools days. If you're a subscriber you could check the crap I've posted from back at the very start, which might help.
You'd think with Digg around Slashdot would attempt to aim at us geeks instead of being a catch all Zonk-whorefest wannabe news outlet that it is:(
Not to atack your post but the battle system has been innovated in 2nd and 3rd generation which you missed and the 4th gen totally shook it up.
2nd : Two new types to balannce psychic. split special into special attack/special defence. 3rd : Limited EVs, so pokemon now have a max stat level instead of in previous games where the more you killed the higher their stats would go even if it was unnatural (killing 3 million geodudes = +400 to defence stat for example). Also added Double battles 4th : Moves are now divided by what they do instead of type. Now we have fire attacks that use attack instead of special attack, completely shakes the boat and crushs a lot of the current cookie cutter builds. On the Wii game there will be 3v3 battles, expanding the 2v2
There are more to it than that but that's the most basic run down and each generation added something new which changed the scene (not to mention new pokemon adds new tactics, as do new moves). But yea, it's not super innovative, but there are quite a few wnehancements if you lift the cover.
I am a complete newbie compared to you, but I've seen my share of slashdot for quite a while in most people's time frames and I think you're on the same level as me.
I enjoy slashdot for the geeky news, for interesting articles, not for "This guy said Windows sucks" or "this guy wrote a song about this and that in Cuba". Geeks are quirky and like hacks as well as news, Slashdot needs more articles aimed to stimulate our minds not our post counts.
But hey you're not the only one who wants a lower ID. I dread to think that I'll be here in ten years and thought of as a low ID, but hey who knows.
Science and entertainment do not play well together, it is mostly true because science requires real thought and watching TV basicly does not. If you attempt to put real science on TV today you will watch the other 6.9 million TV stations each gain 1 more viewer while you get a dust bowl rolling through. Maybe it's time we started to realize what the mass public want are crappy reality shows, cooking and some bullshit made to look information but that is infact 75% CGI or "docudrama".
The above is why I wouldn't trust Mythbusters as far as I could throw them. The entire show screams entertainment rather than Science. Unfortunaely I can't find the name of a program that aired in the UK about 6 months ago. It took a team of 4 people to a deserted island and each week they had a task to complete each, they were only allowed to use what was on the island and what was given to them each week (as well as a tool set because, well no tools = screwed). They had to do things like make fireworks, record a song and various other "minor" things which required them to render down various things to achieve the chemicals they needed to complete each task. What they did and what it resulted in was very clearly labeled, having real science explained behind it.
Saddly as I recall it basicly got replaced with some crappy school based soap opera where the kids say "innit" and the teachers fuck anything with two legs (including the kids as the current trailer at least implies). So after this long rant, I guess we just give up on science and go back to the discoery channel, maybe we can catch the 3 minutes of it that isn't Nazis or some form of sport!
Is it just me or is it a bad idea to advertise this until after it is done with? I mean we have guys with mortars looking for easy targets, mention a bunch of guys are hanging around together in a small space in a set location.. well we know how that goes. Go at your own risk I'd say personally.
Still hope the guys have fun and don't get blown up.
News lives and dies by it's content, if you "don't have access" to something then you can't report on it. In doing so your news is less worth watching and hence less watch, which leads to you losing more and more people until you basicly get run out of the game.
So you cannot claim "limiting access" is not a repercussion when you live in a country based on "The winner takes all" concepts.
Either America is the land of the free and fair or it's dog eat dog. You cannot have a culture of one and claim it is the other.
Communism isn't a bad thing, infact as children as are taught communism ideals. "Play fair and share" is the basis of Communism and we teach this to children from day one. If you think communism is some how a bad thing I suggest you look up what communism is, because it isn't a small group of people hording everything and leaving nothing for everyone under them to share.
what's wrong with a hive mind though? in games like Half life this is exactly what would fit. It would be extremely interesting to see how monsters would react to you if they had a hive mind. Would they rush you after a sniper area or would they figure the best idea is the snipe back? It could be very very interesting..
My parents both wish to learn more but they just don't understand what thinks mean. They think "memory" (RAM) is used to hold data (Hard drive space), so getting more RAM must mean they can store more files. Logically this works, memory = storage in the classic sense and this is why marketing works. Saying "More 255 QUQUTALUU memory!" and "wow a massive 20 gig hard drive" makes it seem like these things are big and impressive, where as people who know see it's complete crap.
Maybe if we stopped calling people lazy and taught them just the basics (what RAM does, what a hard drive does etc.) they would understand marketing for the bullshit it is and see through it. But instead we sit here going "lol idiots, too lazy! idiots!" and end up having to slave over their mistakes.
Okay so we ignore it, in 10 years time we find out cloned meat increases your chances of prostate cancer. Then what?
We label shit because people may wish to avoid it, maybe you should check out people's allergy diets and see just difficult it is for people like that. We already have to work out why the hell ham (yes ham, like pig cooked and cut up) contains 12 types of chemicals and still uses milk protien for some unknown reason, so maybe we'd like to know if that ham had cloned meat in it which may cause us problems too.
You know a common form of "cyber-bullying" is to use a camera phone to take a picture of a girl undressing before Gym/P.E. Class and then put it up on a website. The bullying is commited outside school but would effect someones in-school life majorly.
Should the school go "not our problem, we say no phones allowed" or attempt to control this problem with a 2 pronged assault?
I don't read digg, now do I care what happens there. But even so I did not claim Ubuntu was better, was just pointing out I run Linux so it's not some noob whining from his XP box how Linux sucks etc.
This reads way too much like an advert, can we please stop letting PR people whore shit on slashdot?
(I run Ubuntu, I do know what Linux is and how it is related to Slashdot's theme. I just think these soulless marketing style articles are boring and could be done better.)
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And what if you have a car accident and need that phone but it's disabled it's self for a while?
phones disabling themselves is a bad idea, even if the intent is good.
The problem is how would we test such a theory? Do we throw a probe into a black hole and wait to see if it returns? (Isn't time ment to pretty much stop at some point in a black hole?)
I'm all for theories and such, but how the hell do we test this?
Did you see Futaba this weekend? 4chan found a proxy and spammed the fuck out of it.
If anyone outside Japan wants to post we have to prove when we find proxies we wish to take part not disrupt. It is that simple. So as long as 4chan keeps being a shit hole Futaba has no interest in other users being there.
It's an extremely well done parody of the rock and roll life style.
Finally a use for my knowledge of useless Japanese image boards!
:P ). Be warned it is NOT work safe and you can see ANYTHING (from dead babies to hentai and a mix of both together). Unless you have a .jp IP or are using a proxy you may not post on the site, this is because when people have been given access people have abused it (4chan /b/ users spam the board with racism and such if they find a proxy), so you can just view not take part to those outside Japan.
Number 10 is the OS-Tans which spawned from 2ch (and Futaba, the image board connected to the forms known as 2channel, or 2ch for short). Each edition of windows has a linked character (I haven't seen Vista though) which links to the OS's "quirks". For example XP is a very smart girl who takes care of the rest (a well rounded OS basicly) where as ME is a complete idiot known for weilding leaks and doing the dumbest things she can. The OS-tans became so popular (even to the point of a magazine in Japan stealing their designs and using them without the original authors permission and hence being boycotted by many 2ch users) that other software started to get their own characters.
These range from Norton (who is a perverted old doctor) to the Mac girl (who likes to blow things up). As time goes by these girls all seem to remain popular and have become a solid part of the Japanese image board culture. It's very rarely to check the Futaba art boards (Oekaki and self made) without seeing at least once OS-tan pop up some where.
The author doesn't seem to have much of a clue about the girls and their characters, it's just shooting in the dark at "mascots" when the original author has suggested no such thing. Infact the original character designs are pretty much as open source as you can be with character designs, you can do what you like with them as long as you don't make a profit and don't try to claim you made them/not give credit to the mass community).
People looking for the OS-tans can try Futaba at http://www.2chan.net/ , you are most likely to see them on the random boards, the main 2 of which are on the third row 2 down ( and
Taco are you trying to feed the trolls?
Slashdot : news for nerds, payed fpr by Mozilla and Google.
I have no idea, I think it must have been 2 or 3 years ago now, since I remember at least 3 (maybe 3) april fools days. If you're a subscriber you could check the crap I've posted from back at the very start, which might help.
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You'd think with Digg around Slashdot would attempt to aim at us geeks instead of being a catch all Zonk-whorefest wannabe news outlet that it is
Not to atack your post but the battle system has been innovated in 2nd and 3rd generation which you missed and the 4th gen totally shook it up.
2nd : Two new types to balannce psychic. split special into special attack/special defence.
3rd : Limited EVs, so pokemon now have a max stat level instead of in previous games where the more you killed the higher their stats would go even if it was unnatural (killing 3 million geodudes = +400 to defence stat for example). Also added Double battles
4th : Moves are now divided by what they do instead of type. Now we have fire attacks that use attack instead of special attack, completely shakes the boat and crushs a lot of the current cookie cutter builds. On the Wii game there will be 3v3 battles, expanding the 2v2
There are more to it than that but that's the most basic run down and each generation added something new which changed the scene (not to mention new pokemon adds new tactics, as do new moves). But yea, it's not super innovative, but there are quite a few wnehancements if you lift the cover.
I am a complete newbie compared to you, but I've seen my share of slashdot for quite a while in most people's time frames and I think you're on the same level as me.
I enjoy slashdot for the geeky news, for interesting articles, not for "This guy said Windows sucks" or "this guy wrote a song about this and that in Cuba". Geeks are quirky and like hacks as well as news, Slashdot needs more articles aimed to stimulate our minds not our post counts.
But hey you're not the only one who wants a lower ID. I dread to think that I'll be here in ten years and thought of as a low ID, but hey who knows.
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I'm in the UK, there is like 2 discovery channels here and they all show diy or fishing constantly.
Science and entertainment do not play well together, it is mostly true because science requires real thought and watching TV basicly does not. If you attempt to put real science on TV today you will watch the other 6.9 million TV stations each gain 1 more viewer while you get a dust bowl rolling through. Maybe it's time we started to realize what the mass public want are crappy reality shows, cooking and some bullshit made to look information but that is infact 75% CGI or "docudrama".
The above is why I wouldn't trust Mythbusters as far as I could throw them. The entire show screams entertainment rather than Science. Unfortunaely I can't find the name of a program that aired in the UK about 6 months ago. It took a team of 4 people to a deserted island and each week they had a task to complete each, they were only allowed to use what was on the island and what was given to them each week (as well as a tool set because, well no tools = screwed). They had to do things like make fireworks, record a song and various other "minor" things which required them to render down various things to achieve the chemicals they needed to complete each task. What they did and what it resulted in was very clearly labeled, having real science explained behind it.
Saddly as I recall it basicly got replaced with some crappy school based soap opera where the kids say "innit" and the teachers fuck anything with two legs (including the kids as the current trailer at least implies). So after this long rant, I guess we just give up on science and go back to the discoery channel, maybe we can catch the 3 minutes of it that isn't Nazis or some form of sport!
we mod underated for that, 1 funny + 4 undeated = +5 funny.
I also have funny set to -6. Soviet russia jokes got old.
And slashdot mod this informative?
We're either good at modding stuff and have an okay system, or we're the tribal tribe of digg, where we think our shit don't smell.
Is it just me or is it a bad idea to advertise this until after it is done with? I mean we have guys with mortars looking for easy targets, mention a bunch of guys are hanging around together in a small space in a set location.. well we know how that goes. Go at your own risk I'd say personally.
Still hope the guys have fun and don't get blown up.
News lives and dies by it's content, if you "don't have access" to something then you can't report on it. In doing so your news is less worth watching and hence less watch, which leads to you losing more and more people until you basicly get run out of the game.
So you cannot claim "limiting access" is not a repercussion when you live in a country based on "The winner takes all" concepts.
Either America is the land of the free and fair or it's dog eat dog. You cannot have a culture of one and claim it is the other.
There arn't any communist countries left on Earth, there are just people who want to claim to be.
Got to love American ignorance and brain washing.
Communism isn't a bad thing, infact as children as are taught communism ideals. "Play fair and share" is the basis of Communism and we teach this to children from day one. If you think communism is some how a bad thing I suggest you look up what communism is, because it isn't a small group of people hording everything and leaving nothing for everyone under them to share.
what's wrong with a hive mind though? in games like Half life this is exactly what would fit. It would be extremely interesting to see how monsters would react to you if they had a hive mind. Would they rush you after a sniper area or would they figure the best idea is the snipe back? It could be very very interesting..
So you gotop jail with a bunch of murderers and rapists who think you rape kids.. yea... you do that, enjoy your funeral.
I completely disagree.
My parents both wish to learn more but they just don't understand what thinks mean. They think "memory" (RAM) is used to hold data (Hard drive space), so getting more RAM must mean they can store more files. Logically this works, memory = storage in the classic sense and this is why marketing works. Saying "More 255 QUQUTALUU memory!" and "wow a massive 20 gig hard drive" makes it seem like these things are big and impressive, where as people who know see it's complete crap.
Maybe if we stopped calling people lazy and taught them just the basics (what RAM does, what a hard drive does etc.) they would understand marketing for the bullshit it is and see through it. But instead we sit here going "lol idiots, too lazy! idiots!" and end up having to slave over their mistakes.
Okay so we ignore it, in 10 years time we find out cloned meat increases your chances of prostate cancer. Then what?
We label shit because people may wish to avoid it, maybe you should check out people's allergy diets and see just difficult it is for people like that. We already have to work out why the hell ham (yes ham, like pig cooked and cut up) contains 12 types of chemicals and still uses milk protien for some unknown reason, so maybe we'd like to know if that ham had cloned meat in it which may cause us problems too.
You know a common form of "cyber-bullying" is to use a camera phone to take a picture of a girl undressing before Gym/P.E. Class and then put it up on a website. The bullying is commited outside school but would effect someones in-school life majorly.
Should the school go "not our problem, we say no phones allowed" or attempt to control this problem with a 2 pronged assault?
I don't read digg, now do I care what happens there. But even so I did not claim Ubuntu was better, was just pointing out I run Linux so it's not some noob whining from his XP box how Linux sucks etc.
This reads way too much like an advert, can we please stop letting PR people whore shit on slashdot?
(I run Ubuntu, I do know what Linux is and how it is related to Slashdot's theme. I just think these soulless marketing style articles are boring and could be done better.)