"The neighborhoods where I don't go"... for some reason, this almost seems synonymous with "outside", and I know that my neighborhood isn't all that bad compared to others. Scary.
I'm still curious why this was marked as funny, rather than insightful. I know I also hate the full brightness of lights in the morning. Heck, I walk around with the lights off when I get up in the middle of the night, just because I prefer it. Dim lights, even if only for the first 15 seconds, are very nice, IMO.
I think this is a very good point. Wish i'd thought of it.:) If I'd used a Mac more, I'd probably have had the insight. Still, I hope you get upmodded for this.:)
However, 'enter' should intuitively mean whatever left(-double)-clicking does
Why should it? That doesn't seem particularly inherently intuitive. I would certainly EXPECT that to be the behavior, because I'm accustomed to windows, and "enter" being the "select" / "click" equivalent when tabbing around in most web browsers.
It seems like it's "intuitive" only because that's what we're accustomed to in other operating systems (and thus, habitual).
I don't know if I would have thought of the solution, so it IS a clever thing. However, when reading it, I was immediately reminded of the techniques that are used in cryptography for key exchange with a trusted party (Alice and Bob both get their keys from Trent, or something like that).
Very clear, and certainly seems to be Working As Intended.
While I'm not left-handed, I swap between right and left hands at work, to help prevent/minimize RSI effects. I go into computer stores, and see all these funky right-handed mice, and sigh.
I love my Razer, at home. At work, I'm very happy with this (wired) Logitech mouse.
Committee member Brit Williams, who opposed the measure, said, 'You are talking about basically a reinstallation of the entire voting system hardware.'
Why would this be a Bad Thing? I'd rather have an expensive overhaul to create a system I can trust than have a system which has no accountability.
Insert comment about the scalability and parallelizability of counting paper here.
Honestly, I'd have modded it as interesting even w/o the link.
Interesting because someone is living off of savings, happily, and from revenue from a website. I don't know if that means the revenue is good, or the savings are. heh. It's certainly not an income model *I* could do.
But the fact that people that run porn sites are also Slashdot-reading geeks is ALSO interesting.:)
This is why I feel like I am peering into a bucket of mud whenever I play console games like Need for Speed Underground (please don't laugh;)), or even resident evil.
Hell, even when I play them on my monitor, it's bad... but not as bad as on the TV. *shudder*.
Depending on how well-lit the roads are where one is driving, it may not be enough to go to the low-glade setting on the mirror. On a dark rural road, low-light vision is very important, and there are few enough street lights (or none) that any oncoming car nearly blinds you (even when looking off the side), and lights in your mirrors are still too bright for comfort.
When that big SUV tailgates me (admittedly, rare on deserted roads -- they usu jsut go around me;)), I start wishing that I had a dimmer setting for my side-view mirrors, too. (I can point them outwards, at least.)
When I was taking German in high school, I found it interesting the way they draw a definite distinction between Freunde (friends) and Bekannten (acquaintances). (Apologies for spelling errors, as my Deutsch-fu is weak and rusty.) I found it a much more natural, in some ways, way of thinking about the people I knew. I had very few really close friends (bosom buds, Best Friends, whatever), and many acquaintances that most americans would refer to as "friends".
More recently, I got married, and found myself hanging out with a whole new crowd... and realized that there's some middle ground. None of my wife's and my friends are people that I'd care to have long phone calls at odd hours with, the way I am willing to with my best friends (e.g., "let me call and tell you about how my life sucks/sucks less/kicks ass")... but they're definitely more than acquaintances. I look forward to visiting them, I invite them to my birthday, I'd happily invite them over to grill some steaks or something.
It seems like for americans, the scale is: {Best friend, friend, drinking buddy, coworker, acquaintance}, whereas in German, the distinction between who you address as Du (close Friends and Family) versus Sie (everyone else) seemed to have less variance.
Of course, having never lived in Germany, this is all subject to whether I understood my teacher correctly.;) So, sorry if I've misundertood it, but I always did find it interesting and thought-provoking.
You mentioned Ruby. Do you have any suggestions for a good toolkit to use with Ruby, and any good sample / example / tutorial code/info on using said toolkit? I've looked briefly at the FXRuby toolkit (Based on the FOX toolkit), but wasn't sure if there were any other good kits out there.
This could also just be an instance of "quit stalling and try to USE FXruby", and if so, i'm open to hearing that, too.;) I'm a relative Ruby neophyte, so that may be part of my slacking's reason.
I find it funny that the music sounds like it's from one of the Rainbow Six series of games. I suspect it/is/, as opposed to merely being composed by the same people....I don't know.:)
I believe greylisting only delays the first instance of mail from an unknown host. So, people that regularly correspond with you should see no delays. (I could be wrong, I only started learning about it last week.:))
I liked your point about the extra effort we go to (and often feel we need) in order to have a place that we can trust is safe to share in. It's really spot-on. Having come from my cousin's wedding, maybe that's closer to the forefront of my mind.
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Perhaps when your choices are driven by what is and what isn't doable at any given time, the game is far less open ended. In other words, your path is determined by difficulty. Like you have to do A (because it is easier) before B (which requires lvl 3+, for example), and B before C, etc.
It just seemd very unnatural for the world to adapt to my character rather than the other way around.
This highlights a major difference from what we see in video games, versus what happens in reality. The world DOES adapt to what we do, though it's not open ended in the same way that Oblivion is. There are "more difficult"/dangerous areas -- I don't want to travel to Africa, or Russia, or downtown Los Angeles.
I think there are two main reasons this is so jarring in Oblivion:
1) We're accustomed to the "new areas/missions open as you level" -- similar to WoW, Fallout, etc. Something that deviates from this seriously, while still being an RPG, plays by different rules than what we have internalized.
2) There's really no such thing as "levelling" in life (unless you consider work experience or education?) where you suddnely become more capable at combat, or negotiation, or anything. Games use levels to approximate the growth in skill and power that characters have. (And to make you have a goal, i suppose.)
If Oblivion's power growth system was purely gear-based, or political, or something -- and where your skill as a player made a much bigger impact than the "levels" of your character, it would be interesting. Imagine if you could make a lvl20 character (with all the customizations, etc, that that entails), or some other arbitrary power level, and then could not level past that. Then, throw in some encounters that are harder than average, some easier, some impossible w/o friends (well, maybe not, in a single player game;)). That might be a more "interesting" approach.
At that point, it all becomes a matter of what gear you collect, and/or how well equipped your enemies are. As long as no major plot-encounters become "impossible", you should be OK. I wonder if anyone has already implemented this for Oblivion...:-) With the mod community as healthy as it is, I bet someone already has.
The down side of this, of course, is that you LOSE the ability to keep raising your skills (or new ones) however you like. I can't decide that even though I have Mad Crazy Bow Skills, I suddenly want to go all nin-nin and be a master thief, because I will have already made that tradeoff. (Though, you know, with a good character editor...;))
Even though I disagree with the severity of your predictions, I believe that your argument would be more easily read if you used more than one paragraph, and added some line breaks when posting lyrics. Otherwise, people will just skim over most of it.
White space and punctuation are what make prose readable.
You don't need shaving cream to shave.... The only purpose of shaving cream is to hold the water to wet your beard for a minute or two while the hairs gets saturated.
I thought, "When I step out of the shower in the morning, my beard is soaked. I should be able to shave without any shaving cream."
I agree that shaving while the beard is wet/hot is optimal; I prefer to shave in the shower for that reason. I've tried it a variety of ways, and can rank them in order of increasing preference:
- hot (or very warm) water only. - with soap - hair conditioner - shampoo (I may have these mixed up - I use enough conditioner that I always have surplus shampoo;)) - with Trader Joe's shaving cream.:D
I can, if the water is right, and if I'm careful, get a very good shave using either soap or shampoo... however, I've noticed that my skin always feels more irritated than when I use shaving cream. If I were using a better shaving cream (as mentioned elsewhere), I imagine it'd be even more noticeable. It's certainly enough of a difference that I definitely prefer to use shaving cream, rather than the others.
The most important thing for me, though, has been to shave IN the shower -- that way I can rinse more easily, and have a constant supply of hot water.:) That, and it lets me condition my hair while I shave... heh.
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"The neighborhoods where I don't go" ... for some reason, this almost seems synonymous with "outside", and I know that my neighborhood isn't all that bad compared to others. Scary.
I'm still curious why this was marked as funny, rather than insightful. I know I also hate the full brightness of lights in the morning. Heck, I walk around with the lights off when I get up in the middle of the night, just because I prefer it. Dim lights, even if only for the first 15 seconds, are very nice, IMO.
Can you REALLY trust GMail to Really Truly Delete the contents of your mail? I don't.
I think this is a very good point. Wish i'd thought of it. :) If I'd used a Mac more, I'd probably have had the insight. Still, I hope you get upmodded for this. :)
Why should it? That doesn't seem particularly inherently intuitive. I would certainly EXPECT that to be the behavior, because I'm accustomed to windows, and "enter" being the "select" / "click" equivalent when tabbing around in most web browsers.
It seems like it's "intuitive" only because that's what we're accustomed to in other operating systems (and thus, habitual).
I don't know if I would have thought of the solution, so it IS a clever thing. However, when reading it, I was immediately reminded of the techniques that are used in cryptography for key exchange with a trusted party (Alice and Bob both get their keys from Trent, or something like that).
Very clear, and certainly seems to be Working As Intended.
I wholeheartedly agree!
While I'm not left-handed, I swap between right and left hands at work, to help prevent/minimize RSI effects. I go into computer stores, and see all these funky right-handed mice, and sigh.
I love my Razer, at home.
At work, I'm very happy with this (wired) Logitech mouse.
Why would this be a Bad Thing? I'd rather have an expensive overhaul to create a system I can trust than have a system which has no accountability.
Insert comment about the scalability and parallelizability of counting paper here.
Honestly, I'd have modded it as interesting even w/o the link.
:)
Interesting because someone is living off of savings, happily, and from revenue from a website. I don't know if that means the revenue is good, or the savings are. heh. It's certainly not an income model *I* could do.
But the fact that people that run porn sites are also Slashdot-reading geeks is ALSO interesting.
Exactly.
;)), or even resident evil.
This is why I feel like I am peering into a bucket of mud whenever I play console games like Need for Speed Underground (please don't laugh
Hell, even when I play them on my monitor, it's bad... but not as bad as on the TV. *shudder*.
Depending on how well-lit the roads are where one is driving, it may not be enough to go to the low-glade setting on the mirror. On a dark rural road, low-light vision is very important, and there are few enough street lights (or none) that any oncoming car nearly blinds you (even when looking off the side), and lights in your mirrors are still too bright for comfort.
;)), I start wishing that I had a dimmer setting for my side-view mirrors, too. (I can point them outwards, at least.)
When that big SUV tailgates me (admittedly, rare on deserted roads -- they usu jsut go around me
Agreed.
;) So, sorry if I've misundertood it, but I always did find it interesting and thought-provoking.
When I was taking German in high school, I found it interesting the way they draw a definite distinction between Freunde (friends) and Bekannten (acquaintances). (Apologies for spelling errors, as my Deutsch-fu is weak and rusty.) I found it a much more natural, in some ways, way of thinking about the people I knew. I had very few really close friends (bosom buds, Best Friends, whatever), and many acquaintances that most americans would refer to as "friends".
More recently, I got married, and found myself hanging out with a whole new crowd... and realized that there's some middle ground. None of my wife's and my friends are people that I'd care to have long phone calls at odd hours with, the way I am willing to with my best friends (e.g., "let me call and tell you about how my life sucks/sucks less/kicks ass")... but they're definitely more than acquaintances. I look forward to visiting them, I invite them to my birthday, I'd happily invite them over to grill some steaks or something.
It seems like for americans, the scale is: {Best friend, friend, drinking buddy, coworker, acquaintance}, whereas in German, the distinction between who you address as Du (close Friends and Family) versus Sie (everyone else) seemed to have less variance.
Of course, having never lived in Germany, this is all subject to whether I understood my teacher correctly.
If I had mod points, I'd have modded you up for referencing the Doctor. (Not not THAT doctor, the OTHER one.) :)
How long until we can get rigger's jacks, a la Shadowrun? :)
You mentioned Ruby. Do you have any suggestions for a good toolkit to use with Ruby, and any good sample / example / tutorial code/info on using said toolkit? I've looked briefly at the FXRuby toolkit (Based on the FOX toolkit), but wasn't sure if there were any other good kits out there.
;) I'm a relative Ruby neophyte, so that may be part of my slacking's reason.
This could also just be an instance of "quit stalling and try to USE FXruby", and if so, i'm open to hearing that, too.
... so switch hands? :)
It's funny, I thought the exact same thing. I'd have modded you up if I had the points. :D
I find it funny that the music sounds like it's from one of the Rainbow Six series of games. I suspect it /is/, as opposed to merely being composed by the same people ... .I don't know. :)
I believe greylisting only delays the first instance of mail from an unknown host. So, people that regularly correspond with you should see no delays. (I could be wrong, I only started learning about it last week. :))
I liked your point about the extra effort we go to (and often feel we need) in order to have a place that we can trust is safe to share in. It's really spot-on. Having come from my cousin's wedding, maybe that's closer to the forefront of my mind.
:)
Mods, please mod the parent up!
Maybe, but you might not want to. ;)
This highlights a major difference from what we see in video games, versus what happens in reality. The world DOES adapt to what we do, though it's not open ended in the same way that Oblivion is. There are "more difficult"/dangerous areas -- I don't want to travel to Africa, or Russia, or downtown Los Angeles.
I think there are two main reasons this is so jarring in Oblivion:
1) We're accustomed to the "new areas/missions open as you level" -- similar to WoW, Fallout, etc. Something that deviates from this seriously, while still being an RPG, plays by different rules than what we have internalized.
2) There's really no such thing as "levelling" in life (unless you consider work experience or education?) where you suddnely become more capable at combat, or negotiation, or anything. Games use levels to approximate the growth in skill and power that characters have. (And to make you have a goal, i suppose.)
If Oblivion's power growth system was purely gear-based, or political, or something -- and where your skill as a player made a much bigger impact than the "levels" of your character, it would be interesting. Imagine if you could make a lvl20 character (with all the customizations, etc, that that entails), or some other arbitrary power level, and then could not level past that. Then, throw in some encounters that are harder than average, some easier, some impossible w/o friends (well, maybe not, in a single player game
At that point, it all becomes a matter of what gear you collect, and/or how well equipped your enemies are. As long as no major plot-encounters become "impossible", you should be OK. I wonder if anyone has already implemented this for Oblivion...
The down side of this, of course, is that you LOSE the ability to keep raising your skills (or new ones) however you like. I can't decide that even though I have Mad Crazy Bow Skills, I suddenly want to go all nin-nin and be a master thief, because I will have already made that tradeoff. (Though, you know, with a good character editor
Even though I disagree with the severity of your predictions, I believe that your argument would be more easily read if you used more than one paragraph, and added some line breaks when posting lyrics. Otherwise, people will just skim over most of it.
White space and punctuation are what make prose readable.
I agree that shaving while the beard is wet/hot is optimal; I prefer to shave in the shower for that reason. I've tried it a variety of ways, and can rank them in order of increasing preference:
- hot (or very warm) water only.
- with soap
- hair conditioner
- shampoo (I may have these mixed up - I use enough conditioner that I always have surplus shampoo
- with Trader Joe's shaving cream.
I can, if the water is right, and if I'm careful, get a very good shave using either soap or shampoo... however, I've noticed that my skin always feels more irritated than when I use shaving cream. If I were using a better shaving cream (as mentioned elsewhere), I imagine it'd be even more noticeable. It's certainly enough of a difference that I definitely prefer to use shaving cream, rather than the others.
The most important thing for me, though, has been to shave IN the shower -- that way I can rinse more easily, and have a constant supply of hot water.
As they said, the damage HAS to be complete -- backups would just be found and restored, and the public faith in the broken machines would continue.