Bummer about XBL enforcement. I don't like to play with random other players even in XBL's garden because the average random xboxer is irritating, even with the official attempts to keep people from being offensive. I mostly just use XBL to hook up with friends that are remote from me. We play a custom Halo game we developed called "DICK CHENEY", where all weapons are shotgun and your radar is turned off (and friendly fire is on, in team variants). XBL changes the name of the game to "BLAM!", we figure that it doesn't like the word "DICK".
Oh well. We all know what the game is, so it's not that big a deal. I think it's a funny joke, and it's a good game variant on top of that, so I'm gonna use this opportunity to tell you all about it.
Pfff, whatever. The very idea that scientists even know what intelligence is seems questionable to me.
On the other hand, the relative number of times that dogs vs. cats have urinated, defecated, or vomited in my bed? Easily quantifiable. Cats are way ahead here.
1) I thought of that with the pat-downs, but perhaps there is cross-gender viewing on the screens? I think I heard it said that there wouldn't be, but they say lots of things...
2) thanks for the update on the chrome info, I'll look into that.
Actually, anti-hydrogen looks exactly like hydrogen, but with a goatee. It's usually taking advantage of this fact by surprising regular hydrogen's friends with evil acts. The fact that the two annihilate each other if they ever meet is why you never see them both in the same take...
I'll "Eh?" because it looks to me like XP was the clear winner. It had the best startup time from cold by a lot (resume times = tie), best application open times also by a clear margin, and the only consistently good video performance. Other metrics were basically a tie, but that's advantage XP in 3 of 5 tests.
"Closer than you might think" seems to be code for "Not the result we wanted".
I wonder... why do they even bother allowing game traffic through? I'd say blocking all mmo traffic could be interesting experiment. It has certain potential to improve education.
Improve education? Of all the things I learned in college, the lessons taught in class are not at the top of the value list. Although I suppose such an action could be illustrative of "The Man Is Here To Hold You Down".
I don't know about the university in question, or universities in general these days, but back when I was in school (small liberal arts university) we didn't have the option to get our own phone/data service into the dorms. So if some student wanted to do anything that wasn't "educational" this would effectively prohibit them.
If you prohibit alternate access then you have to allow "non-essential" traffic through, because the non-essential is essential. Man does not live by bread alone.
Certainly I would not expect the university to give away infinite bandwidth, but in that case I would expect bandwidth throttling to be the most appropriate response. The "We're allowing you access so.... Oh and by the way you can't get access any other way" argument is fallacious.
I don't actually play chess, but I know a few people who do. I think you actually have this backwards. You can get by playing the game at the low levels, but if you want to get advanced you need a really big library (of actual books) so you can memorize things. You have to get to the very very top to get back to playing.
People play Fischer Random Chess for this reason. SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 It randomizes the order of the not-pawns (with some other rules) so that memorized routines can't be used. Bobby Fischer, chess super-badass, created it and thus I think we can say that it has merit. This illustrates that while those deriding this genetic algorithm development may be mere nancy-pants crybabies who can't be bothered to plumb the depths of the game and as such are routinely demolished, even the best players may find that overly mechanistic play can impede enjoyment.
Thus, both the pro and anti scripted openings can be seen to have merit.
Someone told me something funny, I don't know if it's true:
MS tried to make XBL a service for PC and Xbox combined, and let people from either platform play together in the same gamespace. The plan was scrapped though when all the keyboard + mousers mercilessly slaughtered the xbox joystickers.
The two control schemes are too widely disparate in performance, they'll never exist together in the same ecosystem.
Interesting. I thought the first book was the most interesting, with it's "the real story..." take on events. After that it became a fairly straightforward 6 Million Dollar Man antihero story.
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that the Halo games are a technical marvel, but as far as I'm concerned, Bungie's work with multiplayer and matchmaking is unparalleled on a console.
The limitation of 4 player / console games supporting system link ensures that the Halo franchise will be the most popular of relatively few games available on XBOX.
Assuming that even HALO itself continues to support this mode...
"A Christmas Carol" has also been translated into Klingon.
Commedia Beauregard - translated works is their shtick - performs it every year. This year they're doing it in Chicago, in addition to the regular Minneapolis.
Ah, the rebuttal. More fun to write than to read. Not that anyone cares, here's mine:
7) They have too many natural predators, something will eat them.
- Zombified flesh is unclean, poisonous. This is generally accepted in the fiction. Animals won't eat them. Even if some bear tried, the zombie - unmoved by pain - would also bite at the bear. Dead bear rather than zombie bear is the consensus result. Insect / bacteria / rot? Yes, zombie rot is part of what happens. Zombies will be functional for weeks or months, that's long enough to result in Zombie Apocalypse.
6) They can't handle the cold / heat.
- Yes, they'll freeze. Then they'll thaw again and start to feast on the living. Cell damage won't stop them any more than the death they have already suffered did. Rot will stop them, maybe, but not for several weeks.
5) Biting is ineffective, and the CDC will stop it.
- Except that all the fiction agrees that biting is effective. You can no more say that zombie bites won't transfer the disease than you can say that zombies won't rise from the dead. Zombie bites spread zombism, it's part of the definition. The CDC will certainly work to prevent the spread, but by this time we're already into the narrative of our zombie movie, and their success certainly not guaranteed.
3) They can't heal from damage
- yes, of course. The wrecked zombie pulling itself after you with its one remaining arm is part of the cannon. Many reasons listed are valid for why zombies can't exist long term, but they only have to be around long enough to destroy society. "They can't heal from damage" is no objection at all.
2) The landscape is full of zombie proof barriers
- You don't live in a secluded mountain monastery. You live around a bunch of other people, in an environment that has been made nice for humans to get around in. Some tibetan monks will be fine. You are zombie bait.
1) People have guns
- Got a gun right now, do ya? Keep it with ya all the time? No? Well even if you do people get upset when you go around shooting folks. No, you won't be able to carry around a shotgun and go blasting zombies until (by definition!) the zombie apocalypse is in full swing. And by then civilization has fairly broken down.
0) We have used science and logic to prepare you for the Zombie Apocalypse!
- The Zombie Apocalypse is a supernatural event. Use all the science you want, when the dead rise to consume the living you'll find everything you thought you knew was wrong.
Wow, that's impressive. Do you have any independent source?
Just goes to illustrate (along with many other stories) something I think frequently: You may think things are f'd up today, and you may even be right, but man it don't compare to how they rolled in the past. Our notions of civilization and humanity, though imperfect, have generally become more advanced throughout history. Likewise in the future our descendants will no doubt look back on our actions with horror.
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Bummer about XBL enforcement. I don't like to play with random other players even in XBL's garden because the average random xboxer is irritating, even with the official attempts to keep people from being offensive. I mostly just use XBL to hook up with friends that are remote from me. We play a custom Halo game we developed called "DICK CHENEY", where all weapons are shotgun and your radar is turned off (and friendly fire is on, in team variants). XBL changes the name of the game to "BLAM!", we figure that it doesn't like the word "DICK".
Oh well. We all know what the game is, so it's not that big a deal. I think it's a funny joke, and it's a good game variant on top of that, so I'm gonna use this opportunity to tell you all about it.
Pfff, whatever. The very idea that scientists even know what intelligence is seems questionable to me.
On the other hand, the relative number of times that dogs vs. cats have urinated, defecated, or vomited in my bed? Easily quantifiable. Cats are way ahead here.
1) I thought of that with the pat-downs, but perhaps there is cross-gender viewing on the screens? I think I heard it said that there wouldn't be, but they say lots of things...
2) thanks for the update on the chrome info, I'll look into that.
Actually, anti-hydrogen looks exactly like hydrogen, but with a goatee. It's usually taking advantage of this fact by surprising regular hydrogen's friends with evil acts. The fact that the two annihilate each other if they ever meet is why you never see them both in the same take...
And lots more buxom younger women are apparently being subjected to throrough full body searches than guys.
Do you have a source on this?
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And why can't I paste into the comment window?
I'll "Eh?" because it looks to me like XP was the clear winner. It had the best startup time from cold by a lot (resume times = tie), best application open times also by a clear margin, and the only consistently good video performance. Other metrics were basically a tie, but that's advantage XP in 3 of 5 tests.
"Closer than you might think" seems to be code for "Not the result we wanted".
Not where I went to school.
I wonder ... why do they even bother allowing game traffic through? I'd say blocking all mmo traffic could be interesting experiment. It has certain potential to improve education.
Improve education? Of all the things I learned in college, the lessons taught in class are not at the top of the value list. Although I suppose such an action could be illustrative of "The Man Is Here To Hold You Down".
I don't know about the university in question, or universities in general these days, but back when I was in school (small liberal arts university) we didn't have the option to get our own phone/data service into the dorms. So if some student wanted to do anything that wasn't "educational" this would effectively prohibit them.
If you prohibit alternate access then you have to allow "non-essential" traffic through, because the non-essential is essential. Man does not live by bread alone.
Certainly I would not expect the university to give away infinite bandwidth, but in that case I would expect bandwidth throttling to be the most appropriate response. The "We're allowing you access so.... Oh and by the way you can't get access any other way" argument is fallacious.
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Go-Go Instant Runoff Voting!
*KA-POW!*
The only people I can imagine being against it are the most cynical of the entrenched power elite. I think we'll all be doing IRV eventually.
I don't actually play chess, but I know a few people who do. I think you actually have this backwards. You can get by playing the game at the low levels, but if you want to get advanced you need a really big library (of actual books) so you can memorize things. You have to get to the very very top to get back to playing.
People play Fischer Random Chess for this reason. SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 It randomizes the order of the not-pawns (with some other rules) so that memorized routines can't be used. Bobby Fischer, chess super-badass, created it and thus I think we can say that it has merit. This illustrates that while those deriding this genetic algorithm development may be mere nancy-pants crybabies who can't be bothered to plumb the depths of the game and as such are routinely demolished, even the best players may find that overly mechanistic play can impede enjoyment.
Thus, both the pro and anti scripted openings can be seen to have merit.
Google is the producer.
Android is the product.
You are the consumer.
But carriers are the customer.
This and a number of other consumer ills I think can be reduced to a single statement: "The consumer is not the customer"
Someone told me something funny, I don't know if it's true:
MS tried to make XBL a service for PC and Xbox combined, and let people from either platform play together in the same gamespace. The plan was scrapped though when all the keyboard + mousers mercilessly slaughtered the xbox joystickers.
The two control schemes are too widely disparate in performance, they'll never exist together in the same ecosystem.
Interesting. I thought the first book was the most interesting, with it's "the real story..." take on events. After that it became a fairly straightforward 6 Million Dollar Man antihero story.
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that the Halo games are a technical marvel, but as far as I'm concerned, Bungie's work with multiplayer and matchmaking is unparalleled on a console.
The limitation of 4 player / console games supporting system link ensures that the Halo franchise will be the most popular of relatively few games available on XBOX.
Assuming that even HALO itself continues to support this mode...
thisthisthis
mod parent up. I'm not interested in the smartphone market until this is resolved.
he should be able to do whatever he wants to with his own property
Maybe in the plane, but you still can't bring them past the security check in the airport!
Haven't you heard?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-06/finance-s-mega-rich-are-meaner-than-rest-of-us-commentary-by-matthew-lynn.html
the two guys in the background look absolutely horrified at that girl.
It's because of how she flails her arms and legs! Thanks, Science!
"A Christmas Carol" has also been translated into Klingon.
Commedia Beauregard - translated works is their shtick - performs it every year. This year they're doing it in Chicago, in addition to the regular Minneapolis.
http://www.cbtheatre.org/CHI-works/KCC2010-CHI/KCC-CHI-2010.htm
Props on their effort, they do a good job with it.
Ah, the rebuttal. More fun to write than to read. Not that anyone cares, here's mine:
7) They have too many natural predators, something will eat them.
- Zombified flesh is unclean, poisonous. This is generally accepted in the fiction. Animals won't eat them. Even if some bear tried, the zombie - unmoved by pain - would also bite at the bear. Dead bear rather than zombie bear is the consensus result. Insect / bacteria / rot? Yes, zombie rot is part of what happens. Zombies will be functional for weeks or months, that's long enough to result in Zombie Apocalypse.
6) They can't handle the cold / heat.
- Yes, they'll freeze. Then they'll thaw again and start to feast on the living. Cell damage won't stop them any more than the death they have already suffered did. Rot will stop them, maybe, but not for several weeks.
5) Biting is ineffective, and the CDC will stop it.
- Except that all the fiction agrees that biting is effective. You can no more say that zombie bites won't transfer the disease than you can say that zombies won't rise from the dead. Zombie bites spread zombism, it's part of the definition. The CDC will certainly work to prevent the spread, but by this time we're already into the narrative of our zombie movie, and their success certainly not guaranteed.
3) They can't heal from damage
- yes, of course. The wrecked zombie pulling itself after you with its one remaining arm is part of the cannon. Many reasons listed are valid for why zombies can't exist long term, but they only have to be around long enough to destroy society. "They can't heal from damage" is no objection at all.
2) The landscape is full of zombie proof barriers
- You don't live in a secluded mountain monastery. You live around a bunch of other people, in an environment that has been made nice for humans to get around in. Some tibetan monks will be fine. You are zombie bait.
1) People have guns
- Got a gun right now, do ya? Keep it with ya all the time? No? Well even if you do people get upset when you go around shooting folks. No, you won't be able to carry around a shotgun and go blasting zombies until (by definition!) the zombie apocalypse is in full swing. And by then civilization has fairly broken down.
0) We have used science and logic to prepare you for the Zombie Apocalypse!
- The Zombie Apocalypse is a supernatural event. Use all the science you want, when the dead rise to consume the living you'll find everything you thought you knew was wrong.
It is worthwhile to note, however, that in this instance the SATA cable naysayer has no more double blind to back him up than the audio-blogger.
I wish every audio skeptic went on the attack packing the same intellectual rigor he demands of the believer.
Otherwise it's just "Yuh-huh!" vs. "Nuh-uh!"
Wow, that's impressive. Do you have any independent source?
Just goes to illustrate (along with many other stories) something I think frequently: You may think things are f'd up today, and you may even be right, but man it don't compare to how they rolled in the past. Our notions of civilization and humanity, though imperfect, have generally become more advanced throughout history. Likewise in the future our descendants will no doubt look back on our actions with horror.