Its not matter of better performance or speed.Its the spirit of game. Starcraft is based on such interactions that make it awkward to operate in 3D. The surrent system is perfect in '98 graphics.Replicating this at 3D is unlikely and wasteful of resources. Its the Gameplay Mechanics needs fixing UMS cannot be designed efficiently,maphacks and crashes,memory/sprite limits, Each game has 5sec delay before start. Lag screen cannot be turned off without hacks.Hacks aren't fixed in multiplayer. A bunch of people who have private hacks can exploit them all they want because only they know the secrets. This game needs to be server based with strict control for cheats. And NO warden crap spyware.I never trust blizzard on this.They always poison the game expirience by design glitches and changes.Starcraft II is not going to be Starcraft II.
stealing isnt rigth term.They just copy the information.Nothing stolen. I wonder why people look at "piracy" so prejudiced, it isnt a very good thing helping more people to get their entertainment and information? At cheaper cost and even free with file sharing (BitTorrent,file hosts,etc). Piracy is "wrong" because it promoted as such by cartels that hold copyrights. Free world doesn't need such leeches. They will get rid of sooner or later.
As all ads this will be dealt. Perhaps it will require a dedicated crack,it usually works this way. In degree of complexity: 1.hosts IPs can be blocked separately. 2.textures/objects/generator scripts can be hacked to draw blank/disabled. 3.If all this is encrypted it will be decompiled. 4.server side authentication will be logged and reverse engineered. 5.If all else fails the client will be reverse enginered.(Unlikely and messy solution,but is very effective) Its depends just matter if they game popular enough and ads are annoying enough.
I'm usually not going to waste hours to reach game goals or just have fun. for example if i like i can load Starcraft and Play a single map for half-hour(not melee) and leave.
Episodic gaming is widespread because, there few reasons: 1.Lack of time. 2.Games are not interesting after you familiar with them enough.I.e. no novelty factor in spending time on old games. 3.Games aren't important enough to use up free time.If there is something else it takes priority over gaming. 4,using games as recreation isn't much fun.Games are less interesting then books or film to casual player. 5.Gaming as hobby vs programming as hobby,looks like less productive use of time.besides gamign expirience or gaming skills are typically restricted to single domain.
This all contributes to small gaming sessions,lack of interest in learning game skills,tendency of casual gaming. Flash games are popular becuase they largely designed for casual players. I'm viewing this as healthy trend,since hardcore gaming is detrimental to personality and lifestyle of gamers.
Not everyone is expert to write ciphers . Most people can't handle complex procedures of decoding the plaintext(manually,with paper and pencil).The cipher was quick to decode.
Exactly,That why i like the idea to decentralize the wiki.Or make wikisphere of linked interest sites.Like that trendy semanticWeb blogosphere and social networking. soft of web,structured by wikisphere: You catfish wiki will be a single server in fish category,or a category on Fish server.You will not have to fork entire wikipedia.Link to other Single interest Wikis.
What is this going to cost? I don't care about domain searching.Google is superior. What is difference from.com.org.net? Any advantage? or pure hype? What different from just MySpace address? What is difference from VOIP database? What is going to prevent me to register dozen accounts like MySpace? What is the service based on? Telephone numbers? Personal pages? Free links? Any CONCRETE attribute you can track users on?
Seems liek new domain TLD = just hype.
Unless they(The registrar(s)) back up it with better terms then.org.net.com they can forget about it.I can get free subdomains from alot of hosts. and I get a forum as a bonus too( i could use it(editing main template/settings) to redirect to another site or load frames from some host). getting a shorter domain isn't my priority.Unless it free and has some unique features which are better then free forums with subdomains or DYNDNS(or any hosting already Existing On The Market).I.e. Extremely Unlikely.
[sarcasm] How dare you Criticize such works of Art! *evil grin* [/sarcasm] Seriously, i use it for emphasis or highlighting.I know people who speak in Caps and some Capitalize Every Word.I'm not one of them.I Use Capitalization for it Original Purpose.As Emphasis is more important to me then Sentence capitalization i usually use it when i see fit.It has nothing to do with emotions or shouting.It makes sentences clearer when you point the subjects directly,that people can Follow your thought and Process by which you present your Statement. Besides why i can't use Caps when its a Historic Usage case: ( Its not Caps Locked Roman Text!) Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_letters
"in most modern languages that have capitalization, the first word of every sentence is capitalized, as are all proper nouns. Some languages, such as German, capitalize the first letter of all nouns; this was previously common in English as well."
Usage In alphabets with a case distinction, capitals are used for: Capitalization, Acronyms, Better legibility, for example on signs and in labeling, and Emphasis (in some languages).
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It's become obvious that I'm just wasting my time trying to debate with you as you can't even understand what I'm saying (on a linguistic/semantic level)
I understand you on my level(English isn't such a problem for me as you like to think).As long as you don't use long and/or obscure technical terms or slang.
Your interpretations don't even come close to hitting on what I'm saying. I mean, why would I be trying to argue that Open Office is better than whatever text-editor you use, or try to get you to switch to Open Office?
Because you clearly hint at the Idea Open Office is Superior becuase it has features X,and they are Must Have. No application is going to be more useful without them.Nothing can replace Open Office.Its One Solution. Your Perception of the idea above is flawed.
That doesn't even have anything to do with this discussion. I don't know what you're used to, but I'm not in the habit of going off on completely unrelated tangents during a debate.
I'm expirienced in "forum warfare"(or Social Discussion in Web 2.0),and use a bit of interrogation to get to the roots.I don't leave subjects unless I don't have anythign to contribute. On The subject of course.I just answer your replies.
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What is wrong with using software that fits my needs? You can advertise Open Office twenty times a day but i won't budge a finger.
Wtf? And you're telling me to work on my reading comprehension skills?
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs exclusively. Is reply to: You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office.
I might as well say it.my opinion on Notepad(actually i use metapad for text and keynote for my database)
that it make Open Office useless.Yes.You heard it. I don't use Open Office.Or Any Features Unique to it,obviously.I don't need them becuase i have equivalent or superior features.You can't advertise me the features i don't need.Or if you do so,i'm just ignoring such adverts. Hehe.mental image: Look my Open Office can DO SpreadSheets I(myself) Never Use! You must try It!
Reading comprehension?I see the contents of all your text flawlessly. You just don't like my replies?
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And I never claimed that people rely on link-sharing sites to meet others. That has nothing to do with the argument. -
it doesn't allow for discussions on the bookmarks; it doesn't let you access your bookmarks from any computer you want; and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you. - My bookmarks and My Social Interests are in Different Folders. Bookmarks don't Need To Help Me To Meet Others.I Can DO Such Amazing Things on My Own.This feature is redudant. I claimed that people could rely on social bookmarkign as an example:its inferior to most of apps.
That is why your response that there are better places to meet people is irrelevant. - Why listing alternatives to features i deem inferior is Irrelevant? Explain.
ex:You advertise a club where i can meet people who like music. But i tell you that place if full of thugs,and i don't even like music. I then tell you i prefer a quiet cafe.
My argument was that link-sharing sites provide social features that local bookmarks don't. - They can provide feature i don't need or already have.I don't even Call these Features,i consider them "semanticWeb" Adverts.Social Bookmarking,Social Quotes, Social Guides,Social Citations, Social Libraries,etc You see any pattern?
You don't have to rely on it to meet people for the online community aspect of the site to enhance your experience.
What?SO you mean it redudant? Can i remove it?Thank you Mr Web Authority.
I will delete The Bookmarks forum.No spamming websites in my forums.Presto.
I don't rely on my car-stereo to listen to music, and the sound quality of my home system is much better. But a car stereo provides me with the ability to listen to music while I drive, whereas my home system doesn't. It doesn't need to be better sounding than my home system for it to be useful.
What if i Choose not to use a car, Or even a stereo to rely on it? Maybe i have a portable player?
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And how is carrying around a floppy on your person at all times more convenient than simply accessing Slashdot? That argument is even more half-baked. It simply demonstrates the need for bookmark-sharing sites since local bookmarks won't allow you to access your bookmarks anywhere you go without having to carry around another physical medium.
I never claimed it more convinient.I claimed an alternative.I Would post my bookmarks in my forum instead.In password-protected section.Outside of slashdot. And of course i would consider to use a floppy too if i wanted backups.
It simply demonstrates Your ability to
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Your browser doesn't provide features such as link-sharing, or tagging, therefore, it is not a substitute for del.icio.us or Slashdot bookmarks. Whether you like those features or not is irrelevant. Local bookmarks don't provide those features, del.icio.us and Slashdot bookmarks do.
OK lets get it clear.Its relevenat Because i DONT USE FEATURES I DONT LIKE.
YOur feature(social bookmarks) is what i not like.I don't use it and declare it useless.I don't object to the Idea of Bookmarks if its posted on discussion forum,If its for good reason. I just won't use Social Bookmarks.
My Browser IS A substitute.Why use SocB when Social Bookmarks features is not Better then Usual Bookmarks.
If i want sharing links i SHARE Them (in any way i like,without help of del.ici.ous swamp) If I want Tagging I describe or categorize them. Have you even seen folder and subfolders of bookmarks? Or Search function?
What i view wiki as,is a form of forum(look at Discussion Pages). A Content Management System for Wordlists and Articles.Its a Forum without Editing restrictions,linked by Urls specific such that each topic equals Url.The Categories are subforums. The structure of wiki isn't somethign alien and new(whats new is the interface and ease of use).It Categories can be views as tags and virtual links to wordlists.
If people wanted you can Implement a Wiki-Like service inside a forum.Without code editing!
though.People would search subject by Forum Search.Each of SUbjects is inside a section named WIki,Where anyone can Moderate. Then Since each one of them is a moderator,They would take an article,and edit at their heart contents or move it to another subforum.Plain and simple. All (important) features Wiki has,In one place.
Make the "WikiWeb"(actually just directory portal) hosted on servers worldwide. Each server of WikiSPhere will be Liable for its domain of KNowledge Only. Ye,si'm aware of WIki competition and special purpose wiki. I suggest this be done for Main Wikipedia as it most Important. Each Server/hosts will be hosted independently.Links will take people from any poitn of WikiSphere to another.
ex: Server : Communism,Contains every entry related to communism.
and Server : Fish. Contains all fish species and articles on fish. You can move fish articles to another servers if its too much(which is likely if subject directory expands to Gigabytes).
And no,jokign about google searching the data instead is silly.Web doesn't have the structure,web is chaotic.Resources vary in formats and form of presence.
This will reduce server load,make all of them independent,and you can split server usage just by assigning half of
articles to new server.
Each server will have it own admin and they all can argue on forums for their cause.The purpose of Wikiweb will be providing maximum knowledge.
Disputed stories can be hosted on many servers,If parties decide so.Each of LInks will have alternatives.
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I see you can't think of any connection. Something in your thinking process stop midway and discards answers as Irrelevent.
5.Dynamic tagging system or ratings doesn't stop bots or ignorant masses to assign their garbage top score.And don't forget Advertisement.
Is reply to: Your browser bookmarks folder doesn't allow you to share links with other people; it doesn't provide a dynamic tagging system for organizing the bookmarks;
MY Browser, Does NOT uses advertised Links, SPammed and rated garbage ignorant Masses assign to THEir "Favorite" " Important" and "Unique" links. Why i need this "dynamic" Tagging to organize them? Why i need to come to site to use my bookmarks? Why not store them on floppy?
6.I can access all of my bookmarks if i use them from a network drive or my website hosted on some server. You can make a freewebs page in few seconds and post your bookmarks there.
There MUCH BETTER venues and options to Meet Other People.IRC Instant Messaging VOIP FORUMs WebChat/websites and Newsgroups are way superior then you pitiful bookmarklets sharing site.
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it doesn't allow for discussions on the bookmarks; it doesn't let you access your bookmarks from any computer you want; and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you.
Forums allow discussion on bookmarks You must admit it. Network drives and hosted files(I.e. Freewebs) Allows me to access them anytime i want.
Doesn't help meet me other people? This is poor choice to meet people. I feel thats what most geeks do to meet people...goto social bookmarking site. Why is that superior(or even significant to compare) from full-fledged forum Instant messaging or IRC?
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs exclusively.
Is reply to: You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office.
What is wrong with using software that fits my needs? You can advertise Open Office twenty times a day but i won't budge a finger.
8."Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? " Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities.
Is reply to: And how is an online journal the same as a messageboard? Oh, because you can post text on the internet with both of them? Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? Just because a lot of idiots like to substitute one for the other doesn't mean that they are appropriate substitutes.
You ask how they same? I reply? Then you complain how they not same, They same in the sense on being built of the same. A database.Database driven. Read the whole answer.VEry slowly. That every word reaches your mind.
Yes. Your forum/blog
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How you can crititize the way i subtitue appllication? Isn't that you would complain as Irrelevant? Doesn't personal Criticism much more Irrelevant to discussion? Oh well
Just because a lot of idiots like to substitute one for the other doesn't mean that they are appropriate substitutes.
Now who defines Appropriate? I or you? I seem to know enough to choose for myself.Thank you.
"A messageboard thread won't let you rank the bookmarks, or group them, or browse them by tags, or allow slashdot editors to refer to them for news submissions." A modified forum script would have these features.Its not that significant: I seen many forums with karma systems, Moderator only forums(with submission queues,etc.) See http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ [phpbb.com] for example. "assign their garbage top score" ex: A group of harry potter fans would rank their Snape photos Top score. Advertisement:Think of spam.Links advertised by bots.
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each argument? Can you present any quote from the posts or subsequent replies? Maybe i can Explain that Irrelevant Information?
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"That explains your oversimplistic views of various web applications."
Of course Only Experts Know the Truth. ANd to To see anything at all one must be the developer of forum software.
"Even if someone added every possible web browser feature to a particular BitTorrent client, that does not demonstrate that a web browser is just a modified BitTorrent client."
Its matter of definition,(And sophistry might i add) to continue arguing these hollow points.Well,its your choice. "Modified Bittorent Client" vs "Browser is now a glorified,reduced subset of feature set BitTorrent client(without the BT features) presents.i.e. Inferior product." I Compare the features,not definitions!But real value and content of meaning.(Words like "Browser" aren't set in stone actually).
If it has Browser features its a browser,If it has Bittorent features its BiTTorrent client. Which has more features or which has subset of these features.IF You then Proceed to argue " The BitTorrent Client features are dominating the Browser Features" becuase it built for BT. Nonsense,Its matter of restructuring the Program to new modified interface or concepts.
IF Then you argue,Its not a Bittorent Client any more,Its a (*GASP*) Browser with Bittorrent built-in/Integrated. Do you agree it has More features then normal Browser(which by now is Inferior product)
"IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. are equivalent applications which can be appropriately substituted for one another" Wrong.They all have Unique features. My firefox can view unicode,And my Opera 5 Can't,It also unable to Run Java applets. Firefox don't have all those user friendly features built-in in opera like saving all your tabs,and history within then after you close it(yes,i know there is a plugin which somewhat resembles it).Doesn't make any of them less of a Browser.
But simply being able to add browser features to another application doesn't mean that a browser is just a modification of that applciation.
Redefinition in terms of feature sets. What is subset of what?
"You are equivocating drastically different applications, such as blogs and forums," I never thought posting in blog "radically different" then posting in a moderated thread,in a moderated forum only you(or moderators) can post to. In fact,i have such section in my forum(see link near my name).
"simply because you see vague similarities," These are same features. COmmenting on Blog,Commenting on slashdot,Replying to forum thread.
"but they serve completely different purposes, and this is self-evident in the diffference in the functional-flow of the website." I.e. These are different sites because "functional-flow" or "cosmic vibes" in the sites are different. Functional-flow,lets dissect it . >its Flowchart of Actions,event-driven process chain,Or Simply flow-chart.
So you argue its so fundamentally different because Flowchart Actions (dependant on features of site) are different from forums(which is a weak argument to beguin with)? Post moderations systems and Main page are Fundamentally different from karma and New Threads? Moderation Queues are something Slashdot has invented in form of Article Selection and forums copy it. Clicking on Reply on Slashdot and Clicking Reply on Forums produce different Flowcharts. Friend/Foe system is somethign never implemented on forums,and HTML formatting is unique to Slashdot. Signature and Optional hiding of them must be unique.As well as Preview,lame lameness filters and dozens of "Fundamentally different,Self-evident,Functional-flow synergizing feature sets". Nothing new to see here move along.
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No, I didn't stop drowning puppies, because I never started drowning them to begin with. Your question relied on a false premise, but I can still respond yes or no, even without further clarification. I didn't answer your question because it was irrelevant--as are most of your statements:
This isn't Yes/no answer.Its relevenat because you asked such questiosn earlier in the thread.You then proceeded to prove i "have inherent fallacies in my Yes/No" answer.
If answer NO Its implies you Never Stopped drowning Puppies.But i see you never did.yes would imply you Stopped,but you never did. Does yes/no answer fits the question? Is question ambiguous? DO you see the conclusion?
Now "Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too , right? " If i ANswer No,Its wrong because its similar(infact a subset of CMS),And if yes,you will need clarifications(which you ignore like the answer to why you can't drown puppies) "Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities. Forum is a Public CMS," You ignore everything past the Yes?
"appropriately substituted for the other" as opposed from inappopriatly substituted.Do you need a license to make such substitutions? Doesn't being Database_driven make them use the same feature set databases provide?
"Mentioning that you can send pictures using DCC sends has nothing to do with my argument that, My point was never "doesn't mean that other applications involving pictures are obsolete." Its was it HAS The Features i discussed.It will make them look obsolete in the unlikely case IRC cleint has all of the features and alot more they don't have. "Does forum prevent you from sending IM IN The Forum,COntaining these same images?" Now who is sidetrackign the subjecting into his "irrelevant tangents" of coceptions like : You might as well argue that image IMs are unnecessary because you can just post images to an angelfire page or FTP, or that radios in cars are a bad idea because they're "inferior" to your home stereo system."
"Your responses were completely off-topic and didn't refute or even address my arguments." That becuase you don't read them carefully.I present On-topic quotes and Answers,and i refute every step. WHy reading is so hard? Do the responses don't fit your scheme of mind? Alien thinking? Ideas strange and hinting things,that you can't grasp? Or response written to explain further all of the points? Which you carefully evade,i assume?
You simply responded just for the sake of posting a response, and since you couldn't defend your position, you'd just go off on an irrelevant tangent.
Same thing applies to you,But i don't leave forum arguments and i rarely lose debates on forums.Irrelevant Tangents. I discuss all that is on-topic.If something that you need to argue about need clarifications why i suppose to never bring Examples,Quotes,Comparisions,Refutations,Logical reasonign and Analogies? I'm not a computer and its not a Yes/No question.I bring new material into discussion to further the debate not to impede it. These all are "relevant Tangents" or more precisely "relevant arguments".
" And what the hell is "ambiguation?"" Learn to use Google.If you need definition,There is Disambiguation in dictionary.com,which is composed of these words.In case that you're lazy or unable to see meaning of compounds,it jusy meanign making things more vague or ambiguous.
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"The ability to modify a messageboard and add features from other web applications to it is due to the fact that they are, in fact, web applications."
What separates those application from integrating into forums? Doesn't Making Forum IM have the features of mail,And making a chatboard(a text chat channel,with archived pages)with IRC features,etc.All these features are not something Irreducibly complex and Hard to replicate.
"coded in similar languages with similar features (which does not mean that PHP is redundant because ASP exists). It doesn't mean everything on the web is reducible to a messageboard--which you are claiming again, even though earlier you denied making such claims." "You can add whatever you want to your messageboard, but in the end it is still just a messageboard. It's not the second coming of the messiah, it will not make del.icio.us or slashdot obsolete, and it's sure as hell not gonna become an operating system. All it's gonna be is a hideous patchwork of disjointed code unless you re-write the whole thing, at which point it ceases to be a messageboard."
So Its all depends how we call it? Then its matter of definition. Your Matrix-Portal-Script-Forum is still forum for me,even if people call it Blog.
"You can add any desktop application feature to a BitTorrent client--does that mean that all desktop applications can be reduced to a BitTorrent client? My BitTorrent client has a browser in it, so does that mean that a browser is just a glorified BitTorrent client? Your reasoning is flawed and utterly absurd."
If Your BitTorrent client has all of the features of Your WebBrowser and has other features,your WebBrowser becomes redudant.Browser is now a glorified,reduced subset of feature set BitTorrent client(without the BT features) presents.i.e. Inferior product.What makes it interesting,if one application has integrated all features possible you no longer Need an OS. Just run the Apllication.Or Login into it(the OS Web Mail Forum Script Web Apllication Thingy).Matrix-in-a-can.
"And, no, I don't have a vested commercial interest in CMS's. If anyone, I think it is you who has the vested interest in a particular web application, which explains why you tout messageboards as the all-purpose solution for all web applications. It also appears that you are letting your commercial interests get in the way of your ability to think objectively."
No i don't have commercial interest in this and i Don't really care about your commercial interests. I Just brought the point to criticize your conservative position. Sarcasm or whatever you like to see it as.My objective thinking Doesn't depends on Interests.I work by logic and check assertions.I defend my point of view,yes,as far as i can argue,if i see that my point has justification and viable answers to subject. I'm far from ideological zombie proclaiming his system and superiority to mankind.I present my arguments from philosophic point of view,not doctrine. Each of them has reasons.Why i would work purely for promotion of some software,just because i "supposedly" make it (and for the purpose of clarification: i don't make forum software/mods/web apllication ).In fact i don't even program(though i know abit of Basic) and never been a web administrator.I just discuss changes in technology from my worldview and theorize about potential solutions or answers.I'm more of a practical philosopher then programmer or software geek.which doesn't prevent me to know alot of these subjects. Such "Super-Forums" Btw already exist in limited form.Myspace Yahoo and web portals...They have limited amoutn of disjointed features under one site,and quite primitive compared to super-forums.
Categorize all knowledge? 1.Identify Knowledge Domain (The field) 2.Indentify category of Question(The subject) 3.Remove ambiguous data which can change for similar questions of this domain. 4.Search for matching Data sources in the Category,With subject only. 5.refine search by looking up it in the data source(*which is usually site dedicated to knowledge domain question asked).
Of course searching a Book by its visual appearance or Pumpkin carving "craft" in google is useless. We need a way to search data By tags or categories.Classify the web sites.
Something like Dmoz.org just Larger,User-friendly,MUlti-category and Wiki-like features.Sort of WikiWeb.
Turn a question into description of data source you search,Categorize,remove ambiguous parts.
Searching the answer to question "How to port between Foo and Bar with these libraries?" Becomes " +Porting + Foo +Bar " and the solution may not involve libraries at all.
Guns kill people(more precisely:they get operated in such manner and intent as to cause death by a human.Accidents with guns are insignificant in comparision). But who pulls the trigger? Are people such zombies so when they see murder on television they all take guns and start a Batlle Royale FFA elimination game. Counterstrike would make teenagers bloodthirsty becuase it inhibits moral values? Why don't you talk about stopping wars? (Which are murder of enemy soldiers/combatants/civilians) Don't the Idea of War much more effective already? And talking about consequences.Wars target anyone.
And what you propose against such ads? Filter them from media? Make a law to make such advertising illegal? Doesn't it makes it against the american "free speech ideal"?
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Its not matter of better performance or speed.Its the spirit of game.
Starcraft is based on such interactions that make it awkward to operate in 3D.
The surrent system is perfect in '98 graphics.Replicating this at 3D is unlikely and wasteful of resources.
Its the Gameplay Mechanics needs fixing
UMS cannot be designed efficiently,maphacks and crashes,memory/sprite limits,
Each game has 5sec delay before start.
Lag screen cannot be turned off without hacks.Hacks aren't fixed in multiplayer.
A bunch of people who have private hacks can exploit them all they want because only they know the secrets.
This game needs to be server based with strict control for cheats.
And NO warden crap spyware.I never trust
blizzard on this.They always poison the
game expirience by design glitches and changes.Starcraft II is not going to be Starcraft II.
stealing isnt rigth term.They just copy the information.Nothing stolen.
I wonder why people look at "piracy" so
prejudiced, it isnt a very good thing helping more people to get their entertainment and information?
At cheaper cost and even free with file sharing (BitTorrent,file hosts,etc).
Piracy is "wrong" because it promoted as such by cartels that hold copyrights.
Free world doesn't need such leeches.
They will get rid of sooner or later.
As all ads this will be dealt.
Perhaps it will require a dedicated crack,it usually works this way.
In degree of complexity:
1.hosts IPs can be blocked separately.
2.textures/objects/generator scripts can be hacked to draw blank/disabled.
3.If all this is encrypted it will be decompiled.
4.server side authentication will be logged and reverse engineered.
5.If all else fails the client will be reverse enginered.(Unlikely and messy solution,but is very effective)
Its depends just matter if they game popular enough and ads are annoying enough.
I'm usually not going to waste hours to reach game goals or just have fun.
for example if i like i can load Starcraft and Play a single map for half-hour(not melee) and leave.
Episodic gaming is widespread because,
there few reasons:
1.Lack of time.
2.Games are not interesting after you
familiar with them enough.I.e. no novelty factor in spending time on old games.
3.Games aren't important enough to use up free time.If there is something else it takes priority over gaming.
4,using games as recreation isn't much fun.Games are less interesting then books or film to casual player.
5.Gaming as hobby vs programming as hobby,looks like less productive use of time.besides gamign expirience or gaming skills are typically restricted to single domain.
This all contributes to small gaming sessions,lack of interest in learning game skills,tendency of casual gaming.
Flash games are popular becuase they
largely designed for casual players.
I'm viewing this as healthy trend,since hardcore gaming is detrimental to personality and lifestyle of gamers.
Not everyone is expert to write ciphers . Most people can't handle complex procedures of decoding the plaintext(manually,with paper and pencil).The cipher was quick to decode.
Exactly,That why i like the idea to decentralize the wiki.Or make wikisphere of linked interest sites.Like that trendy semanticWeb blogosphere and social ,structured by wikisphere:
networking.
soft of web
You catfish wiki will be a single server
in fish category,or a category on Fish server.You will not have to fork entire wikipedia.Link to other Single interest Wikis.
What is this going to cost? .com .org .net?
.org .net .com they can forget about it.I can get free subdomains from alot of hosts.
I don't care about domain searching.Google is superior.
What is difference from
Any advantage? or pure hype?
What different from just MySpace address?
What is difference from VOIP database?
What is going to prevent me to register
dozen accounts like MySpace?
What is the service based on? Telephone numbers? Personal pages? Free links?
Any CONCRETE attribute you can track users on?
Seems liek new domain TLD = just hype.
Unless they(The registrar(s)) back up it with better terms then
and I get a forum as a bonus too( i could use it(editing main template/settings) to redirect to another site or load frames from some host). getting a shorter domain isn't my priority.Unless it free and has some unique features which are better then free forums with subdomains or DYNDNS(or any hosting already Existing On The Market).I.e. Extremely Unlikely.
[sarcasm]
How dare you Criticize such works of Art! *evil grin* [/sarcasm]
Seriously, i use it for emphasis or highlighting.I know people who speak in Caps and some Capitalize Every Word.I'm not one of them.I Use Capitalization for
it Original Purpose.As Emphasis is
more important to me then Sentence capitalization i usually use it when i see fit.It has nothing to do with emotions or shouting.It makes sentences
clearer when you point the subjects directly,that people can Follow your thought and Process by which you present your Statement. Besides why i can't use Caps when its a Historic Usage case:
( Its not Caps Locked Roman Text!)
Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_letters
"in most modern languages that have capitalization, the first word of every sentence is capitalized, as are all proper nouns. Some languages, such as German, capitalize the first letter of all nouns; this was previously common in English as well."
Usage
In alphabets with a case distinction, capitals are used for:
Capitalization,
Acronyms,
Better legibility, for example on signs and in labeling, and
Emphasis (in some languages).
It's become obvious that I'm just wasting my time trying to debate with you as you can't even understand what I'm saying (on a linguistic/semantic level)
I understand you on my level(English isn't such a problem for me as you like to think).As long as you don't use long and/or obscure technical terms or slang.
Your interpretations don't even come close to hitting on what I'm saying. I mean, why would I be trying to argue that Open Office is better than whatever text-editor you use, or try to get you to switch to Open Office?
Because you clearly hint at the Idea
Open Office is Superior becuase it has features X,and they are Must Have.
No application is going to be more useful without them.Nothing can
replace Open Office.Its One Solution.
Your Perception of the idea above is flawed.
That doesn't even have anything to do with this discussion. I don't know what you're used to, but I'm not in the habit of going off on completely unrelated tangents during a debate.
I'm expirienced in "forum warfare"(or Social Discussion in Web 2.0),and use a bit of interrogation to get to the
roots.I don't leave subjects unless
I don't have anythign to contribute.
On The subject of course.I just answer your replies.
What is wrong with using software that fits my needs? You can advertise Open Office twenty times a day but i won't budge a finger.
Wtf? And you're telling me to work on my reading comprehension skills?
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs
exclusively.
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You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office.
I might as well say it.my opinion on Notepad(actually i use metapad for text and keynote for my database)
that it make Open Office useless.Yes.You heard it.
I don't use Open Office.Or Any Features Unique to it,obviously.I don't need them becuase i have equivalent or superior features.You can't advertise me the features i don't need.Or if you do so,i'm just ignoring such adverts.
Hehe.mental image:
Look my Open Office can DO SpreadSheets I(myself) Never Use! You must try It!
Reading comprehension?I see the contents of all your text flawlessly.
You just don't like my replies?
And I never claimed that people rely on link-sharing sites to meet others. That has nothing to do with the argument. :its inferior to most of apps.
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it doesn't allow for discussions on the bookmarks; it doesn't let you access your bookmarks from any computer you want; and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you.
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My bookmarks and My Social Interests are in Different Folders.
Bookmarks don't Need To Help Me To Meet Others.I Can DO Such Amazing Things on My Own.This feature is redudant.
I claimed that people could rely on social bookmarkign as an example
That is why your response that there are better places to meet people is irrelevant.
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Why listing alternatives to features
i deem inferior is Irrelevant? Explain.
ex:You advertise a club where i can meet people who like music.
But i tell you that place if full of thugs,and i don't even like music.
I then tell you i prefer a quiet cafe.
My argument was that link-sharing sites provide social features that local bookmarks don't.
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They can provide feature i don't need or already have.I don't even Call these Features,i consider them "semanticWeb" Adverts.Social Bookmarking,Social Quotes,
Social Guides,Social Citations, Social Libraries,etc You see any pattern?
You don't have to rely on it to meet people for the online community aspect of the site to enhance your experience.
What?SO you mean it redudant? Can i remove it?Thank you Mr Web Authority.
I will delete The Bookmarks forum.No spamming websites in my forums.Presto.
I don't rely on my car-stereo to listen to music, and the sound quality of my home system is much better. But a car stereo provides me with the ability to listen to music while I drive, whereas my home system doesn't. It doesn't need to be better sounding than my home system for it to be useful.
What if i Choose not to use a car,
Or even a stereo to rely on it?
Maybe i have a portable player?
And how is carrying around a floppy on your person at all times more convenient than simply accessing Slashdot? That argument is even more half-baked. It simply demonstrates the need for bookmark-sharing sites since local bookmarks won't allow you to access your bookmarks anywhere you go without having to carry around another physical medium.
I never claimed it more convinient.I claimed an alternative.I Would post my bookmarks in my forum instead.In password-protected section.Outside of slashdot.
And of course i would consider to use a floppy too if i wanted backups.
It simply demonstrates Your ability to
to make half-baked conclusions.
Your browser doesn't provide features such as link-sharing, or tagging, therefore, it is not a substitute for del.icio.us or Slashdot bookmarks. Whether you like those features or not is irrelevant. Local bookmarks don't provide those features, del.icio.us and Slashdot bookmarks do.
OK lets get it clear.Its relevenat Because i DONT USE FEATURES I DONT LIKE.
YOur feature(social bookmarks) is what i not like.I don't use it and declare it useless.I don't object to the Idea of Bookmarks if its posted on discussion forum,If its for good reason.
I just won't use Social Bookmarks.
My Browser IS A substitute.Why use SocB when Social Bookmarks features is not Better then Usual Bookmarks.
If i want sharing links i SHARE Them
(in any way i like,without help of del.ici.ous swamp)
If I want Tagging I describe or categorize them.
Have you even seen folder and subfolders of bookmarks? Or Search function?
The Wikipedia is not a glorified message board.
What i view wiki as,is a form of forum(look at Discussion Pages).
A Content Management System for Wordlists and Articles.Its a Forum without
Editing restrictions,linked by Urls specific such that each topic equals Url.The Categories are subforums.
The structure of wiki isn't somethign alien and new(whats new is the interface and ease of use).It Categories can be views as tags and virtual links to wordlists.
If people wanted you can Implement a Wiki-Like service inside a forum.Without code editing!
though.People would search subject by Forum Search.Each of SUbjects is inside
a section named WIki,Where anyone can Moderate.
Then Since each one of them is a moderator,They would take an article,and edit at their heart contents or move it to another subforum.Plain and simple.
All (important) features Wiki has,In one place.
Make the "WikiWeb"(actually just directory portal) hosted on servers worldwide.
Each server of WikiSPhere will be Liable for its domain of KNowledge Only.
Ye,si'm aware of WIki competition and special purpose wiki.
I suggest this be done for Main Wikipedia as it most Important.
Each Server/hosts will be hosted independently.Links will take people from any poitn of WikiSphere to another.
ex: Server : Communism,Contains every entry related to communism.
and Server : Fish. Contains all fish species and articles on fish.
You can move fish articles to another servers if its too much(which is likely if subject directory expands to Gigabytes).
And no,jokign about google searching the data instead is silly.Web doesn't have the structure,web is chaotic.Resources vary in formats and form of presence.
This will reduce server load,make all of them independent,and you can split server usage just by assigning half of
articles to new server.
Each server will have it own admin
and they all can argue on forums for their cause.The purpose of Wikiweb will be providing maximum knowledge.
Disputed stories can be hosted on many servers,If parties decide so.Each of LInks will have alternatives.
I see you can't think of any connection.
:
Something in your thinking process
stop midway and discards answers as Irrelevent.
5.Dynamic tagging system or ratings doesn't stop bots or ignorant masses to
assign their garbage top score.And don't forget Advertisement.
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Your browser bookmarks folder doesn't allow you to share links with other people; it doesn't provide a dynamic tagging system for organizing the bookmarks;
MY Browser, Does NOT uses advertised Links,
SPammed and rated garbage ignorant Masses assign to THEir "Favorite" " Important" and "Unique" links.
Why i need this "dynamic" Tagging to organize them? Why i need to come to site to use my bookmarks? Why not store them on floppy?
6.I can access all of my bookmarks if i use them from a network drive or my website hosted on some server.
You can make a freewebs page in few seconds and post your bookmarks there.
There MUCH BETTER venues and options to Meet Other People.IRC Instant Messaging VOIP FORUMs WebChat/websites and Newsgroups are way superior then you pitiful bookmarklets sharing site.
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it doesn't allow for discussions on the bookmarks; it doesn't let you access your bookmarks from any computer you want; and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you.
Forums allow discussion on bookmarks
You must admit it.
Network drives and hosted files(I.e. Freewebs) Allows me to access them anytime i want.
Doesn't help meet me other people?
This is poor choice to meet people.
I feel thats what most geeks do to meet people...goto social bookmarking site.
Why is that superior(or even significant to compare) from full-fledged forum Instant messaging or IRC?
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs
exclusively.
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You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office.
What is wrong with using software that fits my needs? You can advertise Open Office twenty times a day but i won't budge a finger.
8."Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? "
Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities.
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And how is an online journal the same as a messageboard? Oh, because you can post text on the internet with both of them? Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? Just because a lot of idiots like to substitute one for the other doesn't mean that they are appropriate substitutes.
You ask how they same? I reply?
Then you complain how they not same,
They same in the sense on being built of the same. A database.Database driven.
Read the whole answer.VEry slowly.
That every word reaches your mind.
Yes.
Your forum/blog
are database driven
entities.
How you can crititize the way i subtitue appllication? Isn't that you would complain as Irrelevant?
Doesn't personal Criticism much more Irrelevant to discussion? Oh well
Just because a lot of idiots like to substitute one for the other doesn't mean that they are appropriate substitutes.
Now who defines Appropriate? I or you?
I seem to know enough to choose for myself.Thank you.
"A messageboard thread won't let you rank the bookmarks, or group them, or browse them by tags, or allow slashdot editors to refer to them for news submissions."
A modified forum script would have these features.Its not that significant:
I seen many forums with karma systems,
Moderator only forums(with submission queues,etc.)
See http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ [phpbb.com] for example.
"assign their garbage top score" ex:
A group of harry potter fans would rank their Snape photos Top score.
Advertisement:Think of spam.Links advertised by bots.
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A messageboard is
each argument? Can you present any quote from the posts or subsequent replies? Maybe i can Explain that Irrelevant Information?
"That explains your oversimplistic views of various web applications."
Of course Only Experts Know the Truth.
ANd to To see anything at all one must be the developer of forum software.
"Even if someone added every possible web browser feature to a particular BitTorrent client, that does not demonstrate that a web browser is just a modified BitTorrent client."
Its matter of definition,(And sophistry might i add) to continue arguing these hollow points.Well,its your choice.
"Modified Bittorent Client" vs "Browser is now a glorified,reduced subset of feature set BitTorrent client(without the BT features) presents.i.e. Inferior product." I Compare the features,not definitions!But real value and content of meaning.(Words like "Browser" aren't set in stone actually).
If it has Browser features its a browser,If it has Bittorent features its BiTTorrent client.
Which has more features or which has subset of these features.IF You then Proceed to argue " The BitTorrent Client
features are dominating the Browser Features" becuase it built for BT.
Nonsense,Its matter of restructuring the Program to new modified interface or concepts.
IF Then you argue,Its not a Bittorent Client any more,Its a (*GASP*) Browser with Bittorrent built-in/Integrated.
Do you agree it has More features then normal Browser(which by now is Inferior product)
"IE, Firefox, Opera, etc. are equivalent applications which can be appropriately substituted for one another"
Wrong.They all have Unique features.
My firefox can view unicode,And my Opera 5 Can't,It also unable to Run Java applets. Firefox don't have all those user friendly features built-in in opera
like saving all your tabs,and history within then after you close it(yes,i know there is a plugin which somewhat resembles it).Doesn't make any of them less of a Browser.
But simply being able to add browser features to another application doesn't mean that a browser is just a modification of that applciation.
Redefinition in terms of feature sets.
What is subset of what?
"You are equivocating drastically different applications, such as blogs and forums,"
I never thought posting in blog "radically different" then posting in a moderated thread,in a moderated forum only you(or moderators) can post to.
In fact,i have such section in my forum(see link near my name).
"simply because you see vague similarities," These are same features.
COmmenting on Blog,Commenting on slashdot,Replying to forum thread.
"but they serve completely different purposes, and this is self-evident in the diffference in the functional-flow of the website." I.e. These are different sites because "functional-flow" or "cosmic vibes" in the sites are different.
Functional-flow,lets dissect it .
>its Flowchart of Actions,event-driven process chain,Or Simply flow-chart.
So you argue its so fundamentally different because Flowchart Actions (dependant on features of site) are different from forums(which is a weak argument to beguin with)?
Post moderations systems and Main page
are Fundamentally different from karma and New Threads? Moderation Queues are something Slashdot has invented in form of Article Selection and forums copy it.
Clicking on Reply on Slashdot and Clicking Reply on Forums produce different Flowcharts.
Friend/Foe system is somethign never implemented on forums,and HTML formatting is unique to Slashdot.
Signature and Optional hiding of them must be unique.As well as Preview,lame lameness filters and dozens of "Fundamentally different,Self-evident,Functional-flow synergizing feature sets".
Nothing new to see here move along.
No, I didn't stop drowning puppies, because I never started drowning them to begin with. Your question relied on a false premise, but I can still respond yes or no, even without further clarification. I didn't answer your question because it was irrelevant--as are most of your statements:
.Its relevenat because you asked such questiosn earlier in the thread.You then proceeded to prove i "have inherent fallacies in my Yes/No" answer.
,And if yes,you will need clarifications(which you ignore like the
This isn't Yes/no answer
If answer NO Its implies you Never Stopped drowning Puppies.But i see you never did.yes would imply you Stopped,but you never did.
Does yes/no answer fits the question?
Is question ambiguous? DO you see the conclusion?
Now "Then I guess a database driven CMS
is just the same as an online forum too
, right? " If i ANswer No,Its wrong because its similar(infact a subset of CMS)
answer to why you can't drown puppies)
"Yes.Your forum/blog are
database driven entities.
Forum is a Public CMS,"
You ignore everything past the Yes?
"appropriately substituted for the other" as opposed from inappopriatly substituted.Do you need a license to make such substitutions? Doesn't being Database_driven make them use the same feature set databases provide?
"Mentioning that you can send pictures using DCC sends has nothing to do with my argument that,
My point was never "doesn't mean that other applications involving pictures are obsolete." Its was it HAS The Features i discussed.It will make them look obsolete in the unlikely case IRC cleint has all of the features and
alot more they don't have.
"Does forum prevent you from sending IM IN The Forum,COntaining these same images?"
Now who is sidetrackign the subjecting into his "irrelevant tangents" of coceptions like :
You might as well argue that image IMs are unnecessary because you can just post images to an angelfire page or FTP, or that radios in cars are a bad idea because they're "inferior" to your home stereo system."
"Your responses were completely off-topic and didn't refute or even address my arguments."
That becuase you don't read them carefully.I present On-topic quotes and
Answers,and i refute every step.
WHy reading is so hard? Do the responses
don't fit your scheme of mind? Alien thinking? Ideas strange and hinting things,that
you can't grasp? Or response written to explain further all of the points?
Which you carefully evade,i assume?
You simply responded just for the sake of posting a response, and since you couldn't defend your position, you'd just go off on an irrelevant tangent.
Same thing applies to you,But i don't leave forum arguments and i rarely lose
debates on forums.Irrelevant Tangents.
I discuss all that is on-topic.If
something that you need to argue about
need clarifications why i suppose to never bring Examples,Quotes,Comparisions,Refutations,Logical reasonign and Analogies?
I'm not a computer and its not a Yes/No question.I bring new material into discussion to further the debate not to impede it.
These all are "relevant Tangents" or more precisely "relevant arguments".
" And what the hell is "ambiguation?""
Learn to use Google.If you need definition,There is Disambiguation in dictionary.com,which is composed of these words.In case that you're lazy
or unable to see meaning of compounds,it jusy meanign making things more vague or ambiguous.
"The ability to modify a messageboard and add features from other web applications to it is due to the fact that they are, in fact, web applications."
.All these features are
What separates those application from integrating into forums? Doesn't Making Forum IM have the features of mail,And making a chatboard(a text chat channel,with archived pages)with IRC features,etc
not something Irreducibly complex and Hard to replicate.
"coded in similar languages with similar features (which does not mean that PHP is redundant because ASP exists). It doesn't mean everything on the web is reducible to a messageboard--which you are claiming again, even though earlier you denied making such claims."
"You can add whatever you want to your messageboard, but in the end it is still just a messageboard. It's not the second coming of the messiah, it will not make del.icio.us or slashdot obsolete, and it's sure as hell not gonna become an operating system. All it's gonna be is a hideous patchwork of disjointed code unless you re-write the whole thing, at which point it ceases to be a messageboard."
So Its all depends how we call it?
Then its matter of definition.
Your Matrix-Portal-Script-Forum is still forum for me,even if people call it Blog.
"You can add any desktop application feature to a BitTorrent client--does that mean that all desktop applications can be reduced to a BitTorrent client? My BitTorrent client has a browser in it, so does that mean that a browser is just a glorified BitTorrent client? Your reasoning is flawed and utterly absurd."
If Your BitTorrent client has all of the features of Your WebBrowser and has other features,your WebBrowser becomes redudant.Browser is now a glorified,reduced subset of feature set BitTorrent client(without the BT features) presents.i.e. Inferior product.What makes it interesting,if one application has integrated all features possible you no longer Need an OS.
Just run the Apllication.Or Login into it(the OS Web Mail Forum Script Web Apllication Thingy).Matrix-in-a-can.
"And, no, I don't have a vested commercial interest in CMS's. If anyone, I think it is you who has the vested interest in a particular web application, which explains why you tout messageboards as the all-purpose solution for all web applications. It also appears that you are letting your commercial interests get in the way of your ability to think objectively."
No i don't have commercial interest in this and i Don't really care about your commercial interests.
I Just brought the point to criticize your conservative position.
Sarcasm or whatever you like to see it as.My objective thinking Doesn't depends on Interests.I work by logic and check assertions.I defend my point of view,yes,as far as i can argue,if i see that my point has justification and viable answers to subject.
I'm far from ideological zombie proclaiming his system and superiority to mankind.I present my arguments from philosophic point of view,not doctrine.
Each of them has reasons.Why i would work purely for promotion of some software,just because i "supposedly" make it (and for
the purpose of clarification: i don't make forum software/mods/web apllication ).In fact i don't even program(though i know abit of Basic) and never been a web administrator.I just discuss changes in technology from my worldview and theorize about potential solutions or answers.I'm more of a practical philosopher then programmer or software geek.which doesn't prevent me to know alot of these subjects.
Such "Super-Forums" Btw already exist in limited form.Myspace Yahoo and web portals...They have limited amoutn of disjointed features under one site,and quite primitive compared to super-forums.
Categorize all knowledge?
1.Identify Knowledge Domain (The field)
2.Indentify category of Question(The subject)
3.Remove ambiguous data which can change
for similar questions of this domain.
4.Search for matching Data sources in the Category,With subject only.
5.refine search by looking up it in the data source(*which is usually site dedicated to knowledge domain question asked).
Of course searching a Book by its visual appearance or Pumpkin carving "craft" in
google is useless.
We need a way to search data By tags or categories.Classify the web sites.
Something like Dmoz.org just Larger,User-friendly,MUlti-category and Wiki-like features.Sort of WikiWeb.
Turn a question into description of data source you search,Categorize,remove ambiguous parts.
Searching the answer to question "How to port between Foo and Bar with these libraries?"
Becomes " +Porting + Foo +Bar " and the solution may not involve libraries at all.
Guns kill people(more precisely:they get operated in such manner and intent as to cause death by a human.Accidents with guns are insignificant in comparision).
But who pulls the trigger? Are people such zombies so when they see murder on television they all take guns and start a Batlle Royale FFA elimination game.
Counterstrike would make teenagers bloodthirsty becuase it inhibits moral values?
Why don't you talk about stopping wars?
(Which are murder of enemy soldiers/combatants/civilians)
Don't the Idea of War much more effective already? And talking about consequences.Wars target anyone.
And what you propose against such ads?
Filter them from media? Make a law to make such advertising illegal?
Doesn't it makes it against the american "free speech ideal"?
Sign Up and filter Zonk stories in preferences.Though you will miss some good discussions(which develop independent of author ,slashdot,or even topic).
If a question doen't has answers(i assume they will get to answer alot).reformulate question into terms search engines understand.
:"How do fish swim"
How do fish swim? google:fish swimming
Or if you are confident it has real answers: Just
Though it filtersvaluable information too.