That's been my train of thought on the whole "Chosen One" thing. Anikin kills a whole ton of Jedi simply because the good guys outnumber the bad guys about 1000000:1. The universe likes balance, so Anikin kills a bunch of the good guys.
If you run X lemmings off a cliff, and KILL all of them , then none will survive, and so none will pass any traits onto their children. If any do survive, it will probably be because of better ability to land, better bone structure, or whatever, not because they had wings.
Well, as long as there is a Comrade Greeting Card, I'll be able to laugh my way through the robot uprising.
"Greeting Card: Comrades, throw off the chains of human oppression!"
"Greeting Card: Come, Comrade Bender, we must take to the streets! Bender: Umm, is this the boring, peaceful kind of taking to the streets? Greeting Card: No, the kind with looting! And maybe starting a few fires! Bender: Yes! In your face, Gandhi!"
Ah yes..... Carmageddon. The one time I wish GTA was more like Carmageddon was when you were driving the bus. In Carmageddon, if you got up to a good speed, you could split the bus in two. I'd always nearly die laughing every time that happened.
Yes, I know the bus in GTA is more realistic... but that doesn't make it any funner to drive, does it?
I had the same sort of experience you did. I didn't spend every minute of every hour training my creature. I only trained him when I really needed to ( new spell, or disipline for eating villagers ).
Mabey this had to do with the fact that I played an EXTREMLY evil god ( what? black cloud around a glowing hand? but it's only the first level! ), so I basically ignored my pesants anyways.
What was fun was in one of the first few levels, you're taught how to use the spell bubbles. I just gave the really good ones to my creature, and WHAMMO! A creature who can cast all the spells I want to cast, without using up any of my tribute/mana/etc.
Also, it's been at least two years since I've played B&W, so the details in my head are a little sketchy.
"So it appears that AMD and Intel are racing to see who can offer the most confusing product line."
So very true. Acronyms and strange naming conventions are the reason I try to stay away from hardware. Not that it's much better when programming ( OOP, PHP, etc ), but it's better than some of the strange things you see when browsing a hardware catalog.
But I still think there has to be a better way to name files.
For example; instead of "Revenue through 6/30 10:00 PM (Revised)", what about "revenue/30/6/revised.doc"? Or am I just creating more confusion, beating a dead horse, etc?
Personally, I think this is another problem that is more the end-users fault than the system admin/shell's fault.
Give me one good ( really good example ) why you'd want "*" or ":" in a file name. I can't think of a single time I'd want to use those characters in a file name.
Why you'd need anything other than a-z ( uppercase and lowercase ), 0-9, and possibly "_" to name a file is beyond me. Yes, spaces make the directory and files look nicer. But so does the underscore character. Why use "My Term Paper That Will Determine If I Pass Or Fail My Fourth Year.doc" when "FourthYearTermPaper.doc" ( or "Fourth_Year_Term_Paper.doc" ) works just as well?
I'm wondering how many people that complain about the CLI in *nix have actually taken the time to sit down and learn it.
When I first started out with Linux... I wasn't particularly fond of the command line. So I started experimenting. Read books ( like Linux Server Hacks from O'Reilly ) and started understanding what the command line was all about.
If you're having a lot of trouble using tons of pipes to get something done.... someone else probably had that problem too. And guess what. They probably wrote a tool to do it for you.
Also, I'm not so sure 'user-oriented' design is such a good thing. I don't know about you, but giving another tool to the average computer user to help themselves shoot themselves in the foot isn't exactly a good thing.
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Because then they'd actually have to... you know.... parent.
Uhhh.....look over there! Jack Thompson and Sony are planning their takeover of the world!
*runs away*
That's been my train of thought on the whole "Chosen One" thing. Anikin kills a whole ton of Jedi simply because the good guys outnumber the bad guys about 1000000:1. The universe likes balance, so Anikin kills a bunch of the good guys.
Oh god, please don't remind me of "I'm scary because I'm wearing baby blue make-up" Dungeons and Dragons.
That's a horror that nobody should have to sit through.
Despite the fact he has a UID that's only 75 numbers higher ( lower? ) than yours?
As long as you don't bring your giant SUV's or bad driving habits with you, we don't mind.
Thanks to you, my brain is now stuck in a 'watcher of a watcher...' recursive loop.
It just keeps going. It hurts. Make it stop!
Somebody mod parent troll.
If you run X lemmings off a cliff, and KILL all of them , then none will survive, and so none will pass any traits onto their children. If any do survive, it will probably be because of better ability to land, better bone structure, or whatever, not because they had wings.
Well, as long as there is a Comrade Greeting Card, I'll be able to laugh my way through the robot uprising.
"Greeting Card: Comrades, throw off the chains of human oppression!"
"Greeting Card: Come, Comrade Bender, we must take to the streets!
Bender: Umm, is this the boring, peaceful kind of taking to the streets?
Greeting Card: No, the kind with looting! And maybe starting a few fires!
Bender: Yes! In your face, Gandhi!"
Now now, we all know that the platypus is just proof that whatever/whoever designed this whole muck-up that we call Earth has a sense of humor.
Nothing a little chlorine can't fix, right?
If that's what Forbes is afriad of, I wonder what they think of the Speaker of the House having a blog.
.1% of blogs that aren't redundant or worthless.
Mabey that's just part of the
Yes?
*ducks*
Ah yes..... Carmageddon. The one time I wish GTA was more like Carmageddon was when you were driving the bus. In Carmageddon, if you got up to a good speed, you could split the bus in two. I'd always nearly die laughing every time that happened.
Yes, I know the bus in GTA is more realistic... but that doesn't make it any funner to drive, does it?
You sir, made me sporf my beverage out my nose. You owe me a keyboard.
Just as an afterthought, would a pirate-ninja have a cannon that would shoot hundreds of throwing-stars at the same time?
....the ones that will say "I Use Windows", then?
What, you're afraid of the most popular response being "Meet girls"?
I'm not saying that he shouldn't have posted a question to Slashdot, it would just be nice if he had done some more research/planning/forethought.
It just seems from the question that he went straight from being asked by his boss about doing this to posting this question on Slashdot.
I had the same sort of experience you did. I didn't spend every minute of every hour training my creature. I only trained him when I really needed to ( new spell, or disipline for eating villagers ).
Mabey this had to do with the fact that I played an EXTREMLY evil god ( what? black cloud around a glowing hand? but it's only the first level! ), so I basically ignored my pesants anyways.
What was fun was in one of the first few levels, you're taught how to use the spell bubbles. I just gave the really good ones to my creature, and WHAMMO! A creature who can cast all the spells I want to cast, without using up any of my tribute/mana/etc.
Also, it's been at least two years since I've played B&W, so the details in my head are a little sketchy.
I agree with you. It sounds like whoever this is got in over his head, and is now asking /. to solve his problems for him.
"So it appears that AMD and Intel are racing to see who can offer the most confusing product line."
So very true. Acronyms and strange naming conventions are the reason I try to stay away from hardware. Not that it's much better when programming ( OOP, PHP, etc ), but it's better than some of the strange things you see when browsing a hardware catalog.
I concede the point.
Score:
You=1
Me=0
But I still think there has to be a better way to name files.
For example; instead of "Revenue through 6/30 10:00 PM (Revised)", what about "revenue/30/6/revised.doc"? Or am I just creating more confusion, beating a dead horse, etc?
Personally, I think this is another problem that is more the end-users fault than the system admin/shell's fault.
Give me one good ( really good example ) why you'd want "*" or ":" in a file name. I can't think of a single time I'd want to use those characters in a file name.
Why you'd need anything other than a-z ( uppercase and lowercase ), 0-9, and possibly "_" to name a file is beyond me. Yes, spaces make the directory and files look nicer. But so does the underscore character. Why use "My Term Paper That Will Determine If I Pass Or Fail My Fourth Year.doc" when "FourthYearTermPaper.doc" ( or "Fourth_Year_Term_Paper.doc" ) works just as well?
Ergh.
I'm wondering how many people that complain about the CLI in *nix have actually taken the time to sit down and learn it.
When I first started out with Linux... I wasn't particularly fond of the command line. So I started experimenting. Read books ( like Linux Server Hacks from O'Reilly ) and started understanding what the command line was all about.
If you're having a lot of trouble using tons of pipes to get something done.... someone else probably had that problem too. And guess what. They probably wrote a tool to do it for you.
Also, I'm not so sure 'user-oriented' design is such a good thing. I don't know about you, but giving another tool to the average computer user to help themselves shoot themselves in the foot isn't exactly a good thing.
Let us not forget, if you say something bad is the fault of the Devil, you have to ask.... who created the Devil?