I don't think the parent or GP were even saying that they would. They are mentioning how "warez d00dz" could potentially still do it. These warez d00dz are different from the average Slashdotter in that the warez d00dz want free crap and the average Slashdotter, ostensibly, is just upset with the draconian copy protection.
If a game does have infinite enemies it must have disappearing bodies or someone is going to spend ten hours killing enemies to make it crash, just because they can.
But why is that a problem? It's certainly not normal use, so nobody would run into it unless they tried and the person who is trying to isn't really problematic at all. It's only when it's likely to crop up in normal play that it's a problem.
Firstly and foremost, I believe your sarcasm detector should be taken in for repair, because the apples and oranges example seemed to me to be a very obvious piece of sarcasm to try and show what your example of "irony" looked like.
Secondly, your original post has nothing to do with Socratic irony at all. Thirdly, there isn't cosmic irony either, because there shouldn't be an expectation that DHCP and HDCP will behave a certain way in relation to each other just because two of the letters in the acronym are switched. We can file this piece into "coincidence" which is, in fact, the way that most people incorrectly use irony.
The difference is irrelevant in that it would be improper for us to change the title, but to separate a sub-genre is perfectly proper.
I'm not saying there's any error in calling "graphic novels" "comic books", especially since I would say that "graphic novel" is a subset of "comic books". In my opinion, the only error in such would be if one were specifically attempting to separate the sub-genre for some reason, so "graphic novel" would merely make more sense than "comic book".
Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" added later in the 16th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy"). Low poems had happy endings and were of everyday or vulgar subjects, while High poems were for more serious matters. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of man, in the low and vulgar Italian language and not the Latin language as one might expect for such a serious topic.
What's to say that God doesn't work through science? No hypocrisy at all. I mean, yes, explaining everything through science eliminates the need for explaining it with God, but that's not the argument here.
The reason CSS doesn't cause the same issues is because the CSS method isn't dependent on the CSS working. If the CSS doesn't work, then, oh well, good thing we have this text telling the user not to use those forms. If the Javascript doesn't work, crap, the user can't even see the necessary forms. See the difference?
I know, I know, "Don't feed the trolls", and I know this a typical copy-paste troll, but I just have to say this:
Do you realize that that is self-contradictory a few times? Such as when it builds up trying to say Linux is painfully difficult to use and then near the end it states that you only need a little more knowledge to use it? It can't be both! This is why anti-Linux people on/. are generally seen as trolls: they usually are.
What the heck are you talking about? Arthur definitely was the one to pull the tiles:
Arthur picked up one of the letter stones from his home-made
Scrabble set. It was a T. He sighed and out it down again. The
letter he put down next to it was an I. That spelt IT. He tossed
another couple of letters next to them They were an S and an H as
it happened. By a curious coincidence the resulting word
perfectly expressed the way Arthur was feeling about things just
then. He stared at it for a moment. He hadn't done it
deliberately, it was just a random chance. His brain got slowly
into first gear.
"Ford," he said suddenly, "look, if that Question is printed in
my brain wave patterns but I'm not consciously aware of it it
must be somewhere in my unconscious."
"Yes, I suppose so."
"There might be a way of bringing that unconscious pattern
forward."
"Oh yes?"
"Yes, by introducing some random element that can be shaped by
that pattern."
"Like how?"
"Like by pulling Scrabble letters out of a bag blindfolded."
Ford leapt to his feet.
"Brilliant!" he said. He tugged his towel out of his satchel and
with a few deft knots transformed it into a bag.
"Totally mad," he said, "utter nonsense. But we'll do it because
it's brilliant nonsense. Come on, come on."
The sun passed respectfully behind a cloud. A few small sad
raindrops fell.
They piled together all the remaining letters and dropped them
into the bag. They shook them up.
"Right," said Ford, "close your eyes. Pull them out. Come on come
on, come on."
Arthur closed his eyes and plunged his hand into the towelful of
stones. He jiggled them about, pulled out four and handed them to
Ford. Ford laid them along the ground in the order he got them.
"W," said Ford, "H, A, T... What!"
He blinked.
"I think it's working!" he said.
Arthur pushed three more at him.
"D, O, Y... Doy. Oh perhaps it isn't working," said Ford.
"Here's the next three."
"O, U, G... Doyoug... It's not making sense I'm afraid."
Arthur pulled another two from the bag. Ford put them in place.
"E, T, doyouget... Do you get!" shouted Ford, "it is working!
This is amazing, it really is working!"
"More here." Arthur was throwing them out feverishly as fast as
he could go.
"I, F," said Ford, "Y, O, U,... M, U, L, T, I, P, L, Y,... What
do you get if you multiply,... S, I, X,... six, B, Y, by, six
by... what do you get if you multiply six by... N, I, N, E,...
six by nine..." He paused. "Come on, where's the next one?"
"Er, that's the lot," said Arthur, "that's all there were."
He sat back, nonplussed.
He rooted around again in the knotted up towel but there were no
more letters.
But it wasn't a million or so years before the question was completed. I mean, yes, Dent was physically 2 million years into the past when he did the Scrabble tiles, but the idea was (in theory) that he was part of the program when Earth would have finished the calculation and therefore he should be able to get the full Question.
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Actually, it's not your bad, it's the OP's mistake. You actually had the idea that the article actually referred to. The OP got the wrong idea with what sort of spawn point the article was speaking of.
I assure you that, unless there has been a large change in design from when you described it to me a year ago, I have had plenty of time to consider it.
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WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE
Caps and lack of punctuation to reflect the Scrabble tiles ;)
http://xkcd.com/c194.html
It may be the first such post on this article, but it certainly is not the first ever post. Like all memes, AYBABTU is quite redundant by definition.
Note: explaining the joke makes it unfunny. If you would have just kept it without the note, some mod points would be in order.
It seems to me that they are using approximations by order of magnitude, as physicists are apt to do, so I see no problem.
I don't think the parent or GP were even saying that they would. They are mentioning how "warez d00dz" could potentially still do it. These warez d00dz are different from the average Slashdotter in that the warez d00dz want free crap and the average Slashdotter, ostensibly, is just upset with the draconian copy protection.
But why is that a problem? It's certainly not normal use, so nobody would run into it unless they tried and the person who is trying to isn't really problematic at all. It's only when it's likely to crop up in normal play that it's a problem.
I've never heard it referred to as anything except for "Imperial" except for on that stupid website, and I know people all over the US.
Secondly, your original post has nothing to do with Socratic irony at all. Thirdly, there isn't cosmic irony either, because there shouldn't be an expectation that DHCP and HDCP will behave a certain way in relation to each other just because two of the letters in the acronym are switched. We can file this piece into "coincidence" which is, in fact, the way that most people incorrectly use irony.
I'm not saying there's any error in calling "graphic novels" "comic books", especially since I would say that "graphic novel" is a subset of "comic books". In my opinion, the only error in such would be if one were specifically attempting to separate the sub-genre for some reason, so "graphic novel" would merely make more sense than "comic book".
My point precisely: that's the difference between The Divine Comedy and "comic book"
Hence the second half of the sentence that you so selectively quoted.
From Wikipedia:
That *whoosh* was not a deadline going past...
It's a card game, not a board game, but Bang! is definitely a lot of fun, quick to set up and clean up, and fairly easy to catch on.
What's to say that God doesn't work through science? No hypocrisy at all. I mean, yes, explaining everything through science eliminates the need for explaining it with God, but that's not the argument here.
The post specifically states that all subjects insisted that the light was there, so I am confused by your response.
Several days after anyone cares, but his name is John. Turns out he's a professor at my college....
The reason CSS doesn't cause the same issues is because the CSS method isn't dependent on the CSS working. If the CSS doesn't work, then, oh well, good thing we have this text telling the user not to use those forms. If the Javascript doesn't work, crap, the user can't even see the necessary forms. See the difference?
Do you realize that that is self-contradictory a few times? Such as when it builds up trying to say Linux is painfully difficult to use and then near the end it states that you only need a little more knowledge to use it? It can't be both! This is why anti-Linux people on /. are generally seen as trolls: they usually are.
But it wasn't a million or so years before the question was completed. I mean, yes, Dent was physically 2 million years into the past when he did the Scrabble tiles, but the idea was (in theory) that he was part of the program when Earth would have finished the calculation and therefore he should be able to get the full Question.
Actually, it's not your bad, it's the OP's mistake. You actually had the idea that the article actually referred to. The OP got the wrong idea with what sort of spawn point the article was speaking of.
I assure you that, unless there has been a large change in design from when you described it to me a year ago, I have had plenty of time to consider it.
Only by design, however. The only limitations that exist to bringing this sort of thing to computer RPGs are present in your model, too.