As a fairly avid gamer who has played well over 2000 games of dota (TDA gamecount is in the 1200s), and someone who plays dota as his main game, let me be the first to say: DotA is NOT a good game to get in to. While I love it and think its a terrific game, it is extraordinarily difficult to get into. There are over 90 heroes, each of whom possess 4 skills. There are also probably 60 something (guessing off the top of my head) items. In order to be able to play and enjoy the game, you need to know 1) skills for every hero, and 2) item builds for the heroes you play.
Well since it's pretty obvious you don't know anything and you're just a casual player, STFU N00B!!
Strictly speaking, every computer in the real world is a finite state machine that's complex enough to simulate a universal Turing machine. It's a subtle difference that really only matters if you're considering the math behind it;)
Man oh man, they wanted to KILL all of the old people (also Sarah Palin's mentally challenged kid).
Now see that's change I can believe in. None of this stupid health-care and economic crap. It would solve the deficit problem in one fell swoop by eliminating the SS and Medicare half of the pie, and it would mean those stupid 55+ communities for the elitist old people would go away opening up new apartments to young people.
It is wrong. Copying music without permission is wrong. However, the media companies are pissing up a rope trying to stop it, and the punishments handed out for copying music are totally disproportionate - that's as wrong or more wrong than the copying. However two wrongs do not make a right
Bzzzzt Copying music without permission violates copyright. There are civil penalties for violating copyright because society deems the right it gave to the creator to control said copying is worth protecting.
The morality of violating copyright or seeking the maximum recompense allowed by law is a personal thing.
Can someone tell me why the Australasian Performing Rights Association has any reason to order the takedown of a video containing a song performed by American Gloria Gaynor, written by Freddie Perren, American, and released on Polydor Records, British?
And American phone subsidies notwithstanding, it's a $600 device. If you care about your phone, buy a freaking case or bumper already! And/or a bluetooth headset. You don't have to be that kid sitting in Starbucks showing off just how spendy a phone your parents bought you.
So what you're saying is, it's a $600 device that's defective unless you buy a $30 case or other accessory? If I cared about my phone, I'd probably buy one that "just worked". I have a 3gS and as much as I like some of the capabilities, it has done a decent job turning me off to the whole Apple thing...
I don't think it's like that at all. Very, very, very few people walk up escalators, even if they have nothing in their hands. People are lazy. And if you try to pass them (even if the escalator is pretty wide), they get pissed and offended, just like they get pissed and offended if you pass them while driving.
Maybe it's different in other countries/societies, but here in the USA, most of the people don't want anyone to go any faster than they choose to go.
You should visit our nation's capital and use the metro. The escalators out of the subway are pretty long, and the locals mostly walk up them and know to stay to the right if they're not. Nobody has a problem asking a pesky tourist to get out the way.
The system even works when a rush of people unload from a train. That said if you get a crowd of tourists you can jam things up, but I'd like to think that people eventually would pick up on it.
Since we're talking about escalators I have to toss in my favorite escalator joke
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg did not complete their University degrees. They are all smarter and more worldly from than you and many of the rest of us who spent four years in the ivory tower.
Bzzt wrong answer. Thanks for playing. Being smart is not what these three have in common. They're good at business/profiting off of others, but that just proves you don't need a degree to be good at making money.
Personally, I think a lot of people just need to "wind down" before they can get to sleep. They can't go from doing something mentally stimulating to sleeping, just like that.
I don't really put trolling slashdot in the "mentally stimulating" catagory
...We really need to ban and persecute all forms of religious beliefs...
Only then we'll be truly free.
So what you're saying is, the only way for everybody to be free is forbid everybody from living and believing what they want? How is this any different from the religion of your choice imposing it's views on society?
The only way we'll ever be truly free is if people let other people live their own lives and not try to impose their own personal dogma on others.
Near as I can tell, "Al Qaeda" loosely translates to "angry brown people". I mean maybe there really is some sort of global conspiracy, but every time an armed group of Muslims shows up it seems like it's immediately labeled Al Qaeda.
Yes, robotic missions are more efficient economically, logistically, etc. If nothing else though, I do think we need to at least maintain the ability to do manned-flights. I go back to the Hubble thing...it's had the life it has had due to being serviced by astronauts. Could the work have been done via remote controlled robot? Possibly, but then again maybe not...it's hard to say.
Well a quick search gives the cost at launch of Hubble was about 1.5 billion, and the cost of a single shuttle flight is about 1.3 billion. You pretty much could have built a new Hubble for each of the servicing missions.
That's not to say that the servicing missions haven't taught us a lot about the practical aspects of actually working in space.
I'm a big fan of spaceflight and particularly manned spaceflight. I'm not a fan of politicians designing spacecraft though. I thought the new budget was a good move. It slashed the underfunded over-politicized Constellation and put money into doing the research and advancing the tech levels for a future when people could put their money where there mouths were.
This whole budget process has really disappointed me though. They're not even trying to pretend that NASA is anything but a jobs program. It should be funded for research and pushing the boundaries, not so some guy in FL can keep doing the same thing he's been doing for 30 yrs.
My post was poorly worded. I'm all for the government spending a lot of money on space exploration. In fact, I'd like to see the military budget cut in half so that we would have way more money to spend on space while also paying off the national debt.
Why stop with the military budget? Why not cut the other big expenses in half? *cough* Social Security and Medicare *cough*
Between the two of us we just came up with a plan to save 1 trillion dollars a year.
I'd wager that while the incidence of virgins on here is probably a bit higher than the national average, MOST of the guys here are still getting laid at least occasionally. We're not talking about winning the lottery here.
I won the lottery and still can't get laid, you insensitive clod!!!!
Corporate welfare through defense spending has been an awfully good way of keeping the educated middle class too busy doing busywork to try to enact any kind of social change.
Damn straight! For the longest time, I felt pretty strongly about limited government. To the extent that I'd agree with the Paulites on most topics and pretty much felt the Federal government should really pay attention to the whole "all other rights delegated to the states or the people" section of the constitution.
Then I realized, that as an aerospace-with the emphasis on space-engineer, I'd be suckling at the government teet for the rest of my life. So yeah now I just look at lolcat pictures with my free time...
Bullshit. That's the same tired tripe they've been pushing since well before the civil rights movement. You can't discriminate against blacks and you can't discriminate against gays. Get used to it.
Actually, in a democracy you can discriminate against whoever the hell you want as long as the majority agrees with you. Get used to it.
Yeah, it's true. We used to dock their pay, now my IT Black Guards - recruited from building security - just beat them to death with a shovel and bury them under the flowerbeds outside.
That process risks too much loss of intellectual capital. I would suggest you only break a knee cap, or have employees work in pairs to reduce single point losses of knowledge.
So, you mean that if you were one day disconnected from your entire family for a day you wouldn't have any feelings of distress? Especially if you were used to seeing them/talking to them every day? Your mind would -never- wander to your parents with failing health, your siblings, etc? While such things may be common if you don't talk to your parents much or both you and your family are totally independent, but for many people, they would be distressed.
You wouldn't have any negative feelings of not seeing or talking to your girlfriend/wife/kids if you talk to them daily?
Are you saying that if you were disconnected from your family for just a day you *would* feel distress? If you don't talk to your parents every day, you start worrying? I don't know that what you're describing is an addiction per se, but it sounds like an unhealthy attachment suggesting underlying issues.
Anyway, admitting you have a problem if the first step...
Organize my dinner? Well, I put the mashed potatoes over on one side of the plate. The string beans on another part. The main course, if it's meat loaf or a roast generally goes in the center of the plate. Often the salad is in a separate small bowl.
That's like not even organizing at all! You divide your mashed potatoes and meat in half, so you have four parts. You then use your string beans to make a cross (or an X depending on personal taste) to separate the halves. You now have your food divided up such that you can eat all of the parts at a relatively steady rate to maximize inter-food synergies.
On a wholly unrelated note, I'm not sure of all of the symptoms of internets addiction, but I'm pretty sure posting this drivel instead of going to bed to get a decent night's sleep is one of them...
The "damn computers too slow" comment tells me that he really means the problem can't be solved numerically. A simple computer program can certainly tell you what will happen if you perform a certain burn. But it can't tell you what burn will achieve a certain outcome with minimal fuel expenditure. It can try to grind through all the possible variations, but if the variations are too numerous and the computations are too strenuous then it's not practical. Hence, the damn computers are too slow.
Fuel optimization is an NP complete problem or something those CS nerds talk about a lot if I remember correctly.
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As a fairly avid gamer who has played well over 2000 games of dota (TDA gamecount is in the 1200s), and someone who plays dota as his main game, let me be the first to say: DotA is NOT a good game to get in to. While I love it and think its a terrific game, it is extraordinarily difficult to get into. There are over 90 heroes, each of whom possess 4 skills. There are also probably 60 something (guessing off the top of my head) items. In order to be able to play and enjoy the game, you need to know 1) skills for every hero, and 2) item builds for the heroes you play.
Well since it's pretty obvious you don't know anything and you're just a casual player, STFU N00B!!
Strictly speaking, every computer in the real world is a finite state machine that's complex enough to simulate a universal Turing machine. It's a subtle difference that really only matters if you're considering the math behind it ;)
Oh Snap!!
What about games like the Total War series, that portray a real historical environment in a way that lets you write any history you want?
What do you mean write any history I want? Are you saying that Carthage did not utilize it's war elephants to take over all of Europe?
Man oh man, they wanted to KILL all of the old people (also Sarah Palin's mentally challenged kid).
Now see that's change I can believe in. None of this stupid health-care and economic crap. It would solve the deficit problem in one fell swoop by eliminating the SS and Medicare half of the pie, and it would mean those stupid 55+ communities for the elitist old people would go away opening up new apartments to young people.
It is wrong. Copying music without permission is wrong. However, the media companies are pissing up a rope trying to stop it, and the punishments handed out for copying music are totally disproportionate - that's as wrong or more wrong than the copying. However two wrongs do not make a right
Bzzzzt Copying music without permission violates copyright. There are civil penalties for violating copyright because society deems the right it gave to the creator to control said copying is worth protecting.
The morality of violating copyright or seeking the maximum recompense allowed by law is a personal thing.
Can someone tell me why the Australasian Performing Rights Association has any reason to order the takedown of a video containing a song performed by American Gloria Gaynor, written by Freddie Perren, American, and released on Polydor Records, British?
They're Nazis
And American phone subsidies notwithstanding, it's a $600 device. If you care about your phone, buy a freaking case or bumper already! And/or a bluetooth headset. You don't have to be that kid sitting in Starbucks showing off just how spendy a phone your parents bought you.
So what you're saying is, it's a $600 device that's defective unless you buy a $30 case or other accessory? If I cared about my phone, I'd probably buy one that "just worked". I have a 3gS and as much as I like some of the capabilities, it has done a decent job turning me off to the whole Apple thing...
Obviously, your mother's a thief. You are now justified in stealing everything you want from her.
What would I steal from my mother? She gives me interwebs and room in the basement. With that I have need of nothing more.
I don't think it's like that at all. Very, very, very few people walk up escalators, even if they have nothing in their hands. People are lazy. And if you try to pass them (even if the escalator is pretty wide), they get pissed and offended, just like they get pissed and offended if you pass them while driving.
Maybe it's different in other countries/societies, but here in the USA, most of the people don't want anyone to go any faster than they choose to go.
You should visit our nation's capital and use the metro. The escalators out of the subway are pretty long, and the locals mostly walk up them and know to stay to the right if they're not. Nobody has a problem asking a pesky tourist to get out the way.
The system even works when a rush of people unload from a train. That said if you get a crowd of tourists you can jam things up, but I'd like to think that people eventually would pick up on it.
Since we're talking about escalators I have to toss in my favorite escalator joke
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg did not complete their University degrees. They are all smarter and more worldly from than you and many of the rest of us who spent four years in the ivory tower.
Bzzt wrong answer. Thanks for playing. Being smart is not what these three have in common. They're good at business/profiting off of others, but that just proves you don't need a degree to be good at making money.
Personally, I think a lot of people just need to "wind down" before they can get to sleep. They can't go from doing something mentally stimulating to sleeping, just like that.
I don't really put trolling slashdot in the "mentally stimulating" catagory
...We really need to ban and persecute all forms of religious beliefs...
Only then we'll be truly free.
So what you're saying is, the only way for everybody to be free is forbid everybody from living and believing what they want? How is this any different from the religion of your choice imposing it's views on society?
The only way we'll ever be truly free is if people let other people live their own lives and not try to impose their own personal dogma on others.
You forgot bringing Al Qaeda to Iraq.
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Near as I can tell, "Al Qaeda" loosely translates to "angry brown people". I mean maybe there really is some sort of global conspiracy, but every time an armed group of Muslims shows up it seems like it's immediately labeled Al Qaeda.
Yes, robotic missions are more efficient economically, logistically, etc. If nothing else though, I do think we need to at least maintain the ability to do manned-flights. I go back to the Hubble thing...it's had the life it has had due to being serviced by astronauts. Could the work have been done via remote controlled robot? Possibly, but then again maybe not...it's hard to say.
Well a quick search gives the cost at launch of Hubble was about 1.5 billion, and the cost of a single shuttle flight is about 1.3 billion. You pretty much could have built a new Hubble for each of the servicing missions.
That's not to say that the servicing missions haven't taught us a lot about the practical aspects of actually working in space.
I'm a big fan of spaceflight and particularly manned spaceflight. I'm not a fan of politicians designing spacecraft though. I thought the new budget was a good move. It slashed the underfunded over-politicized Constellation and put money into doing the research and advancing the tech levels for a future when people could put their money where there mouths were.
This whole budget process has really disappointed me though. They're not even trying to pretend that NASA is anything but a jobs program. It should be funded for research and pushing the boundaries, not so some guy in FL can keep doing the same thing he's been doing for 30 yrs.
My post was poorly worded. I'm all for the government spending a lot of money on space exploration. In fact, I'd like to see the military budget cut in half so that we would have way more money to spend on space while also paying off the national debt.
Why stop with the military budget? Why not cut the other big expenses in half? *cough* Social Security and Medicare *cough*
Between the two of us we just came up with a plan to save 1 trillion dollars a year.
Efficiency doesn't have to relate to MPG - getting to your destination in half the time could be considered more efficient than saving fuel.
Yeah but doesn't hold up in court. Although maybe it was just an anti-green judge.
Check Uranus.
That's what she said.
I'd wager that while the incidence of virgins on here is probably a bit higher than the national average, MOST of the guys here are still getting laid at least occasionally. We're not talking about winning the lottery here.
I won the lottery and still can't get laid, you insensitive clod!!!!
Corporate welfare through defense spending has been an awfully good way of keeping the educated middle class too busy doing busywork to try to enact any kind of social change.
Damn straight! For the longest time, I felt pretty strongly about limited government. To the extent that I'd agree with the Paulites on most topics and pretty much felt the Federal government should really pay attention to the whole "all other rights delegated to the states or the people" section of the constitution.
Then I realized, that as an aerospace-with the emphasis on space-engineer, I'd be suckling at the government teet for the rest of my life. So yeah now I just look at lolcat pictures with my free time...
Bullshit. That's the same tired tripe they've been pushing since well before the civil rights movement. You can't discriminate against blacks and you can't discriminate against gays. Get used to it.
Actually, in a democracy you can discriminate against whoever the hell you want as long as the majority agrees with you. Get used to it.
Yeah, it's true. We used to dock their pay, now my IT Black Guards - recruited from building security - just beat them to death with a shovel and bury them under the flowerbeds outside.
That process risks too much loss of intellectual capital. I would suggest you only break a knee cap, or have employees work in pairs to reduce single point losses of knowledge.
So, you mean that if you were one day disconnected from your entire family for a day you wouldn't have any feelings of distress? Especially if you were used to seeing them/talking to them every day? Your mind would -never- wander to your parents with failing health, your siblings, etc? While such things may be common if you don't talk to your parents much or both you and your family are totally independent, but for many people, they would be distressed.
You wouldn't have any negative feelings of not seeing or talking to your girlfriend/wife/kids if you talk to them daily?
Are you saying that if you were disconnected from your family for just a day you *would* feel distress? If you don't talk to your parents every day, you start worrying? I don't know that what you're describing is an addiction per se, but it sounds like an unhealthy attachment suggesting underlying issues.
Anyway, admitting you have a problem if the first step...
Organize my dinner? Well, I put the mashed potatoes over on one side of the plate. The string beans on another part. The main course, if it's meat loaf or a roast generally goes in the center of the plate. Often the salad is in a separate small bowl.
That's like not even organizing at all! You divide your mashed potatoes and meat in half, so you have four parts. You then use your string beans to make a cross (or an X depending on personal taste) to separate the halves. You now have your food divided up such that you can eat all of the parts at a relatively steady rate to maximize inter-food synergies.
On a wholly unrelated note, I'm not sure of all of the symptoms of internets addiction, but I'm pretty sure posting this drivel instead of going to bed to get a decent night's sleep is one of them...
The "damn computers too slow" comment tells me that he really means the problem can't be solved numerically. A simple computer program can certainly tell you what will happen if you perform a certain burn. But it can't tell you what burn will achieve a certain outcome with minimal fuel expenditure. It can try to grind through all the possible variations, but if the variations are too numerous and the computations are too strenuous then it's not practical. Hence, the damn computers are too slow.
Fuel optimization is an NP complete problem or something those CS nerds talk about a lot if I remember correctly.
I take it you've never taken I-95 from DC to Boston.
What?! That's smooth sailing if you leave at 9 pm. People don't do that during the day do they?
You just have to be careful in NJ. That state keeps trying to kill me...