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[2013-04-02 10:22:26] - is this on Kaldir or Char? - mig
[2013-04-02 10:18:58] - Xpovos: Yeah, I learned that really early on. How far in before you failed your first mission? I'm only on the 5th or so mission and I've already failed often (playing on hard). -Paul
[2013-04-02 10:02:53] - Fact I learned losing my first mission in HotS last night. If Kerrigan dies, she doesn't. And you don't lose the mission automatically. She respawns after 60 seconds, back at base. If she's in deep territory that can actually be a huge advantage. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-02 10:02:04] - I remember that one being 'fun' on Hard. I just surrounded Tychus with SCVs by the boatload. I can't remember what other unit tactics I used. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-02 09:50:47] - Xpovos: I think I actually had the hardest time with the mission where they steal the Odin, just as a heads up. Not sure if the Planetary Fortresses did MUCH good, but they at least slowed things down a little bit. Surprising how fast they died, though. -Paul
[2013-04-02 09:38:34] - Paul: That's my strategy, but I didn't choose Planetary Fortress, so I probably will reverse that option before I try it on Brutal. I beat all the missions on Hard except SuperNova. And I can probably do that safely enough now that I have Science Vessels. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-02 09:24:44] - be able to do with Microsoft. - mig
[2013-04-02 09:24:38] - daniel: i do wonder about any battle.net related things. Back when they accounced D3 they mentioned a "strategic partnership" with sony. But if D3 isn't going to be an exclusive from what it sounds like, than I have to wonder what the partnership really is. Only thing I can think of is some integration of the PSN and Battle.net, something they definitely wouldn't
[2013-04-02 09:21:16] - I agree that Marine balls just seemed to disappear to Kerrigan. I think I ended up killing the flyers and basically just using massive balls of siege tanks and some planetary fortresses with a lot of SCVs repairing them. -Paul
[2013-04-02 09:20:19] - Xpovos: Sorry I missed most of the SC2 discussion. Is "All-In" the last mission? I've beaten it on Insane (or Brutal or whatever the hardest is called), but it took me a TON of tries. -Paul
[2013-04-02 08:42:00] - Daniel: It can be played online, but only with PS3 copies. So I don't know if it uses Battle.net. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-02 00:21:44] - I know it can be played offline, but does that mean you can still play online? -Daniel
[2013-04-02 00:20:55] - anyone know if ps3 d3 still uses battle.net? Can you play your PC characters? -Daniel
[2013-04-01 15:02:00] - http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/diablo-3-on-the-playstation-3-isnt-just-functional-its-far-better-than-its- here's some info about the PS3 port of Diablo 3 - aaron
[2013-04-01 14:16:21] - xpovos: I almost got fooled by the Blizzard april fool's post in the SC2 page saying that the terran warhound was going to come back into the game, but alas, it was pretty obvious by the first line it was a joke. - mig
[2013-04-01 14:10:04] - mig: I'd like one more mode of play, something I've seen called Ironcore. Basically it's seperated from SC/HC and has no auction house, and depending on version, no trading. You can only survive on gear you find. So to 'compensate' some the drops are supposed to be slightly better and perhaps more tuned to your class or something. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 14:07:31] - xpovos: I think the main problem is too many people think the AH in of itself is the tool of the devil, as if they want to go back to the days of scavenging the trade channels for finding an item and hoping you don't get scammed. - mig
[2013-04-01 13:38:49] - mig: I was stunned in a bad way by the April Fool's joke. It's not a Blizzard joke at least. The AH has some serious drawbacks, and is worthy of some hate, but it is overall a good thing for the game. Removing it would be bad. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 13:32:14] - xpovos: I don't really get the vitriol over the AH honestly. I think it's fine for the game. - mig
[2013-04-01 12:27:57] - Alternatively, I have just been April Fool's'd the fuck up. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 12:15:41] - In other Blizzard news--posting here because I don't think the other thread would be seen: the Diablo 3 AH (all types, Gold, RMAH, everything) will be discontinued in a short time. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 12:14:26] - mig: Ah, yeah, that makes a big difference. I got rid of the flyers. I figured (partially correctly) that removing the brood lords in particular as well as the mutalisks would allow me to focus on siege tanks and bunkers. The transporting overlords got me once, then I protected my rear with turrets. No flyers also made my Banshees king. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 11:54:44] - xpovos: did you deal with nydus worms or the flyers? - mig
[2013-04-01 11:54:08] - mig: I couldn't replace marines fast enough to keep my bunkers full, let alone an M&M ball. Or just an M ball. I probably needed a second barracks? But I tried that once and I just couldn't keep up with all the micro. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 11:49:44] - xpovos: true, but the thing is you can replace marines very quickly, and the death rate is much, much slower than using her statis to take out several battlecruisers, which aren't easily as replacable. - mig
[2013-04-01 11:49:34] - But in the meantime I'm capable of starting HotS, and am about 5 missions in on Hard there. Not having the 'only zergling' issues mentioned below. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 11:48:38] - I won by just overloading both sides with tanks in siege mode and when she destroyed a side, I'd have 8 in queue and switch the hot deploy to the depleted zone. Then send the Banshees out for the Nydus Wurms. It was a lot of fun, but very hard, even on Hard. Brutal is going to be ridiculous. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 11:47:15] - mig: The strategies I read almost all used Planetary Fortresses. The problem with marines is that she has that AoE effect that deals decent damage, enough to take out an M&M ball pretty easily. Her stasis effect is worse, though, in some ways because it takes out high value targets and quickly. So, I dunno. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 11:39:32] - aaron:
~a[2013-04-01 11:36:47] - I think she'd probably wreck the fortresses too quickly. - mig
[2013-04-01 11:36:29] - xpovos: not sure it would help. The big problem in "All In" is that Kerrigan just mauls expensive units way too quickly. Most of the strats I've read invovle making sure you have scores of marines ready for Kerrigan because she can't kill them efficiently. - mig
[2013-04-01 11:26:20] - mig: At least Terrans are set up to be defensive. Zerg isn't. I'm not there yet so if you have cross unit capacity (like in SC1/BW) I don't know about it. I took me about 6-7 tries on Hard. The last time I failed was so frustrating. It was at 99.7% charged when I died. Seriously?! On Brutal I think I need Planetary Fortresses. -- Xpovos
[2013-04-01 11:20:29] - xpovos: actually now that you mentioned it, there's a very similar mission in the HoTS campaign, and I think it was by far the hardest mission in the entire game. - mig
[2013-04-01 11:03:27] - a: i think it's the same as 881810739797 in base 35 - aaron
[2013-03-31 17:05:54] - it took a while, on hard. Still haven't beaten it on Brutal. I think Mark mentioned that it was way harder if you choose to eliminate the flyers vs. flooding the nydus caverns. - mig
[2013-03-29 23:34:45] - How many times did you guys have to try "All In" in Wings of Liberty before you got through? -- Xpovos
[2013-03-29 18:26:04] - a: 643934984? -- Xpovos
[2013-03-29 17:07:22] - what is 627780191 in base 36? ~a
[2013-03-28 15:27:59] - two of his exes are still shareholders? hmm. ~a
[2013-03-28 15:04:47] - I am but not sure if I'll get it right away. Depends a lot on the final PS4 release date. - mig
[2013-03-28 14:53:01] - GTA V. GTA 5. That makes it look less like some random word I made up. -Daniel
[2013-03-28 14:52:25] - aaron: I'm looking forward to GTAV. -Daniel
[2013-03-28 14:48:32] - http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/all/ a guy divided himself into 100,000 shares and held an IPO at $1 a share... investors received a portion of his earnings, and even voted on things like whether he should move in with his girlfriend or have a vasectomy - aaron
[2013-03-28 14:13:46] - a: yeah i'm not sure if it breaks it or not. the example they give of lists having a default implementation of "forEach" is still pretty tidy; i can't think of why you'd implement list AND implement a second interface which also had a default forEach... hmmm - aaron
[2013-03-28 12:50:10] - seems to kind of break the whole concept of default, but i guess that's better than supporting multiple inheritance
~a[2013-03-28 12:48:04] - class Test { interface A {default void m() {}} interface B {default void m() {}} class C implements A, B {} } error: class Test.C inherits unrelated defaults for m() from types A and B ~a
[2013-03-28 12:46:59] - sudo apt-get build-dep openjdk-7 && hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8 && cd jdk8 && sh get_source.sh && bash configure && make clean && make . . . ok, apparently, yes, java 8 gives you an error. ~a
[2013-03-28 10:43:40] - a: i'm really happy about lambda functions though, that's one of those things that would turn 1 line of groovy code into 5 lines of java code... so it'll be really nice having those available in java 8 - aaron
[2013-03-28 10:41:10] - a: yeah, adding static methods made sense but i don't know how i feel about the default method thing. hopefully it'll just result in a conflict and an error - aaron
[2013-03-28 09:48:57] - multiple inheritance leads to some sketchy sketchy situations: for example, lets say you implement two interfaces both of which have the same default method. add complication: now each of those interfaces extend a common base interface. when those default methods start talking to eachother, then the order of interfaces matter and then . . . crying and sadness. ~a
[2013-03-28 09:45:40] - in other words, what's really so monumentally different between implementing multiple interfaces with default methods and extending multiple abstract classes (the latter is something that java disallows). ~a
[2013-03-28 09:44:41] - oooh, i don't know if i'm ok with default methods in interfaces. we're treading on dangerous ground: multiple inheritance is (imo) dangerous. default methods in interfaces are basically multiple inheritance. ~a
[2013-03-28 09:18:37] - http://www.voanews.com/content/cyprus-reopens-banks-under-tight-controls/1630182.html The situation in Cyprus just keeps getting more ridiculous. -Paul
[2013-03-28 09:15:37] - http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-java-8/ new features being introduced in java 8 - aaron
[2013-03-27 16:58:26] - http://www.geekosystem.com/wachowskis-sense8-coming-to-netflix/ This sounds pretty awesome, but it could also be a mess. As much as I liked Babylon 5 and the Matrix movies (yes, even the last two), I also know those people have had some stinkers too. -Paul
[2013-03-27 12:49:14] - xpovos: honestly i kind of view this as a good thing, as it creates an economic incentive for people to pursue education... although i think there's some problems with our education system too, but that's kind of a wild tangent. basically, i think your statement is incorrect but i still agree the internet is a positive force - aaron
[2013-03-27 12:47:09] - xpovos: well, i kind of disagree -- your statement makes it sound like, "now that the internet is popular, there are all these intelligent laborers who have nothing to do". i think it's the opposite, the internet is keeping "intelligent people" busy but phasing out a lot of traditionally middle class jobs: postal workers, cashiers, military drones, etc - aaron
[2013-03-27 12:30:07] - http://qz.com/67323/how-the-internet-made-us-poor/ No, the internet has made us wealthy. We now have a surfeit of labor, intelligent labor at that, that we can and are (though not as efficiently as we all hope) turning towards creating new things we'd never have had otherwise. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-27 12:02:47] - i was born without a straw? ~a
[2013-03-27 12:02:39] - xpovos: i didn't use the straw hole. ~a
[2013-03-27 11:58:38] - http://imgur.com/a/GwHZH anybody looking forward to GTA 5? - aaron
[2013-03-27 11:58:22] - a: That orange juice is against equality. Who is it to tell you that your orange juice relationship is wrong, just because you don't want to use the straw hole? -- Xpovos
[2013-03-27 11:54:38] - mig: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/72331_10101962958028183_462842017_n.jpg here's the cake i was talking about. it was apparently created on an edible image printer -- not a 3D printer or anything, just something which prints flat edible images - aaron
[2013-03-27 11:52:42] - "PLEASE USE STRAW HOLE" said my orange juice. ~a
[2013-03-27 10:33:48] - title: Hi. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-26 21:35:22] - oooooh. ~a
[2013-03-26 19:59:11] - http://chrome.com/maze/ this was pretty hard to get working -- but it's by far the most impressive browser-based game i've ever seen, you use your phone as a controller to control a 3D game on your computer, which is dynamically generated based on a web page you specify. chrome only - aaron
[2013-03-26 17:50:58] - a definite one. i just think it's dumb to look at total numbers instead of %s. so the number of low-income people on disability almost tripled and the population as a whole went up by almost 50%. so the % doubled (assuming the % of low-income people stayed fairly constant). that's a trend. ~a
[2013-03-26 17:47:47] - i agree it's a trend. ~a
[2013-03-26 17:17:23] - a: So, yeah, using percentages might've made the trend a little less "severe", I think it's still fair to call it a trend. -Paul
[2013-03-26 17:16:44] - a: So even rounding the low-income disabled population very generously in favor of minimizing the change, we're still comparing a population which doubled vs a population which didn't even go up 50%. -Paul
[2013-03-26 17:15:49] - a: Let's make it simple and call it 3 million to 6 million. So while that population doubled, the US total population went from about 226 million to 314 million (https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&idim=country:US&dl=en&hl=en&q=united%20states%20population). -Paul
[2013-03-26 17:13:53] - a: Obvious, maybe. I'm not sure how problematic it is or what kind of bias it shows (a bias against percentages?). If I am reading one of the graphs correctly, the number of low-income people on disability went from a little over 2 million in 1980 to almost 7 million now. -Paul
[2013-03-26 17:09:55] - a: Maybe, but you are handpicking one specific type of mental illness. Maybe somebody who was bipolar and undiagnosed 20 years ago would be able to work with minimal difficulty. Just because they are diagnosed now, does that make them any less able to work? -Paul
[2013-03-26 16:23:02] - "I don't know if it alters the crux of the article much" it's an obvious and problematic bias. ~a
[2013-03-26 16:22:48] - paul: undiagnosed or unmedicated schizophrenics don't work. ~a
[2013-03-26 16:02:05] - a: As for the mental illness part, I also don't think that changes what her point was in that section. Sure, it might get diagnosed more now, but a lot of people used to work before they were diagnosed with mental illnesses. Does simply having one make you disabled? -Paul
[2013-03-26 16:00:32] - a: Yeah, I found it to be a pretty interesting (and enlightening) article. Percentages would be nice, but I don't know if it alters the crux of the article much. -Paul
[2013-03-26 15:51:44] - s/he/she/ oops. ~a
[2013-03-26 15:40:32] - more on the other side. "mental illness ... fastest growing causes of disability" yeah, because we're much better at diagnosing it. i doubt depression is the mental illness they're talking about here. i further doubt in the 1961, nearly as many people were on disability because of schizophrenia. That doesn't mean there were fewer % schizophrenics in 1961. ~a
[2013-03-26 15:40:05] - on the other side of the argument though, he focuses more on total dollars and total people. he focuses much less on %s. this is very misleading as the population hasn't stayed constant. ~a
[2013-03-26 15:31:10] - i like the graphs. ~a
[2013-03-26 15:26:48] - "as the number of families on welfare declined, the number of low-income people on disability rose." hmmm. ~a
[2013-03-26 14:12:43] - http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/ "The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined." -Paul
[2013-03-26 14:12:21] - alternatively you can always route your internet over your phone. . . . i hate it when ISPs decide how i am to use their internet, so i almost always proxy everything through my home machine. ~a
[2013-03-26 14:11:18] - proxy server. ~a
[2013-03-26 14:10:22] - a: both urls blocked for me now at work, not really sure what the algorithm is since none of the postings seems block worthy. -Daniel
[2013-03-26 13:14:14] - Paul: My guess is they really like dogs or really hate drugs. Alternatively, it's in the best interest of the state to have the best interest of the person in mind... but I can't peer into Kennedy or Breyer's mind well. They do things I can't comprehend fairly frequently. Scalia at least I usually understand his brand of insanity. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-26 13:07:16] - mig: I'm not sure what the rationale is for Kennedy and Breyer, though.
-Paul[2013-03-26 13:06:40] - mig: I guess what we've learned is that Alito and Roberts are apparently even more likely to defer to law enforcement. My only guess is that Scalia and Thomas's constitutional concerns overrode their desire to defer to law enforcement. -Paul
[2013-03-26 13:03:16] - xpovos: I guess i'm not shocked at the 5-4 split, but just how the split worked out. Even more so since Scalia and Thomas tend to be more deferring to law enforcement on these types of issues. - mig
[2013-03-26 13:01:22] - mig: I saw that decision earlier today. It's so clearly the right one I can't believe the dissent numbers 4. Despite what a lot of people thing about Scalia he's a pretty sane justice. I'll be watching him on the DOMA and Prop 8 cases in particular. I can see him even giving a split decision (anti-DOMA, pro-Prop 8). -- Xpovos
[2013-03-26 12:59:44] - http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-564_jifl.pdf SCOTUS decision ruling taking a drug sniffing dog into a private residence to have it sniff for drugs constitutes a search and thus requires a warrant. Majority: Scalia, Thomas, Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginberg Dissent: Alito, Roberts, Breyer, Kennedy. WTFBBQ? - mig- mig
[2013-03-26 12:58:13] - a: Well, I wouldn't worry about it too much, as long as you don't mind the occasional repost. I've already trained myself to just click on the address bar and press enter instead of refreshing. -Paul
[2013-03-26 12:53:02] - i'd like to avoid the "refresh causes reposting" and there should be a way as a server, to prevent that. ~a
[2013-03-26 12:52:30] - i think paul was kidding. ~a
[2013-03-26 12:49:04] - a: I agree with Paul to a certain extent, this is not a 'bug' in your web code. It isn't even likely a bug in Chrome, it's probably some vestige of an intended feature. I just noticed it and have taken local measures to prevent the problem. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-26 12:27:05] - a: It's not a bug, it's a feature? I can repost what I just said with a single click! -Paul
[2013-03-26 12:25:16] - xpovos/daniel: when i made the first iteration of the message board in 1999, i learned to use the http 302 code using the "Location" header. the reason i did that was to avoid this whole: refresh causes reposting. this process has been working for me for the past 15 years. i'm not sure what i should do. the internet forums about this "bug" confuse me. ~a
[2013-03-26 12:20:12] - ooh!! i haven't seen that reposting bug since the 90s. chrome is so cool and retro - aaron
[2013-03-26 12:16:03] - wtf, chrome? ~a
[2013-03-26 12:15:51] - testing. ~a
[2013-03-26 12:15:49] - testing. ~a
[2013-03-26 12:15:41] - chrome? ~a
[2013-03-26 10:54:20] - And I just got the same thing that Andrew is talking about where I refreshed and it resubmitted. -Daniel
[2013-03-26 10:54:00] - a: Interesting, http://aporter.org/msg/ is currently blocked but http://paul.w.aporter.org/msg/ is not. -Daniel
[2013-03-26 10:53:53] - a: Interesting, http://aporter.org/msg/ is currently blocked but http://paul.w.aporter.org/msg/ is not. -Daniel
[2013-03-26 09:46:14] - Xpovos: Yeah, it is. I don't remember how long ago it started, but I mentioned it on the message board. I think it's the same problem, because I'm also using Chrome. -Paul
[2013-03-26 09:23:34] - Paul: Ah, but is it new for you? This is new for me. Inside the past three weeks I'd say. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-26 06:21:40] - Xpovos: I have the same issue. -Paul
[2013-03-25 19:46:15] - I still have no problems loading the site (yay) but recently if I post and try to reload it tries to repost the message repeatedly (resends POST data). That's a new thing, seemed to work fine before. Because I'm on Chrome I have no idea if I had an update under my radar or if there's been a page code change to give me the difference. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-25 16:16:50] - http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/25/world/europe/berezovsky-profile/?hpt=hp_c1 I really hope I never get on Putin's bad side... -Paul
[2013-03-25 12:32:39] - http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-hunger-strike-media-786/ Has anybody else heard about the hunger strikes going on at Guantanamo? -Paul
[2013-03-25 12:16:42] - -Daniel
[2013-03-25 12:16:39] - a: interesting, i will try that once I'm unable to see teh board again
[2013-03-25 11:51:34] - daniel: you can also try http://paul.w.aporter.org/msg/ if you want to see if they're only blocking certain subdomains. ~a
[2013-03-25 11:23:27] - daniel: proxy server. ~a
[2013-03-25 11:18:57] - I can see the board again. I'm still not entirely sure why sometimes its blocked and sometimes its not. I wonder if my company does a keyword filter or something and depending on what is being talked about sometimes it gets blocked. -Daniel
[2013-03-25 10:49:00] - a: Yeah, I know, and I agree they're probably just trying to find out who disapprove of interracial marriage. That's why I don't like the phrasing. The wording of questions matter, and I wonder if the wording of this one skewed things. -Paul
[2013-03-25 10:46:37] - i don't walk down the street, see barrack obama, and think to myself, "i'm sad he's the president". i don't disapprove of him. so, i'd probably show up as approving of him. ~a
[2013-03-25 10:44:35] - paul: i think the question is using definition #3. a synonymous question (IMO) would be "do you not disapprove of interracial marriage?" ~a
[2013-03-25 09:42:42] - a: I don't walk down the street, see an interracial couple, and think to myself, "I'm glad they aren't dating somebody of their own race". -Paul
[2013-03-25 09:38:53] - a: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/approve By definition #3, sure. By definition #2, not as much. I don't think it's any better than any other kind of marriage (Intraracial or outerracial). -Paul
[2013-03-25 09:25:17] - intraracial. do you approve of interracial marriage? ~a
[2013-03-25 09:08:04] - a: Yes, and I think that's a far better way of asking the question than asking if somebody "approves" of interracial marriage. I don't necessarily approve of interracial marriage any more than I approve of... outerracial marriage? -Paul
[2013-03-23 13:02:22] - http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/23/us/east-coast-meteor-sightings/index.html i saw this meteor while i was driving on friday! at first it looked like a plane, but it was really far away and moving too fast. it was on fire and left a short trail of smoke, i wasn't 100% sure what it was so i'm glad the media picked it up - aaron
[2013-03-22 17:59:57] - do you think interracial marriage should be legal? ~a
[2013-03-22 16:49:50] - Still.. "More Americans disapproved than approved until 1983, and approval did not exceed the majority level until 1997." Those years seem so recent! -Paul
[2013-03-22 16:49:02] - http://www.gallup.com/poll/149390/record-high-approve-black-white-marriages.aspx Not sure why, but I find the polling of approval of interracial marriage to be fascinating. I wish they made it clear if 86% approval means 14% disapproval or if there are some undecideds. -Paul
[2013-03-22 14:47:07] - aaron: I figure if somebody I know gives it a thumbs up too, I might add it to my list of games to play once I no longer am responsible for children under the age of 6.
-Paul[2013-03-22 14:46:36] - aaron: I kinda got sick of hearing about it all the time, since it's been hyped for a long time on a lot of the gaming sites I read, but I liked the first Bioshock and IGN gave it a glowing review, so now I'm interested. -Paul
[2013-03-22 14:37:29] - paul: i saw that advertised during archer last night! it looked interesting - aaron
[2013-03-22 14:32:55] - Speaking of games that I'm a long ways away from playing... is anybody planning on getting the new Bioshock? -Paul
[2013-03-22 14:32:37] - mig: OMG, I loved Ducktales on the NES. I just might have to buy that when it comes out. -Paul
[2013-03-22 14:04:54] - have to say no to frisbee this weekend, sorry. - mig
[2013-03-22 14:03:33] - http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/capcom-reviving-classic-nes-ducktales-with-modern-hd-remake/ NES ducktales to get an HD remake. - mig
[2013-03-22 13:59:20] - a: Sad.
Ok. -Paul[2013-03-22 13:58:06] - nah, don't waste your time. we only have 7. i couldn't get one of them to commit and mig hasn't confirmed yet either. i'm going to cancel today unless there are a bunch of replies. ~a
[2013-03-22 13:45:49] - a: I should be able to switch over. Let me confirm with the boss.
-Paul[2013-03-22 13:28:59] - well, i fucked that up. ~a
[2013-03-22 13:28:46] - i sent out two emails. if both<b> of them switch over, <b>and we can get you to switch over, that will make 8. ~a
[2013-03-22 13:27:11] - 5 "yes" votes. 6 or 7 if we nail down some of the maybes. ~a
[2013-03-22 11:48:27] - a: Except for the weather, how is this weekend looking in terms of enough people for Ultimate? -Paul
[2013-03-22 11:31:56] - mig: Yeah, I'm hoping I'll get roaches and hydras in the next mission (I chose the ice planet). Those stupid transforming hellions kept crushing my poor zerglings. -Paul
[2013-03-22 11:03:58] - paul: it does get a little easier once you have more than zerglings to work with. - mig
[2013-03-22 10:54:57] - mig: I'm already slightly regretting playing through HOTS on hard my first time through. I played for about an hour this morning and it took me all of that time to beat the third mission. It felt like such a grind, although I'm hoping that's because I could only use zerglings. -Paul
[2013-03-22 08:47:05] - mig: hmmm okay. - aaron
[2013-03-21 17:00:25] - in my head i imagined you saying that run-on-sentence all in one breath. ~a
[2013-03-21 17:00:04] - aaron:
nice synopsis. ~a[2013-03-21 16:37:04] - aaron: I'm aware of the events that transpired. I'm just still wrapping my mind how some overheard comments led to people geting fired and anonymous getting invovled. - mig
[2013-03-21 16:33:55] - mig: which led to their being 'let go' - aaron
[2013-03-21 16:33:48] - mig: two guys made sexual jokes at a tech conference, and this girl "adria" overheard them and tweeted their pictures. one of the guys was fired by his company (presumably over the sexual jokes), and adria was later fired from her company (presumably because she publicly shamed two attendees), though neither company has fully disclosed the factors - aaron
[2013-03-21 16:06:11] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/ I'm still trying to make sense of this story... - mig
[2013-03-21 15:51:14] - xpovos: the game looks like zombie dice and the press-your-luck dungeon-crawl thing looks like Donald X's gauntlet of fools, which both got medium-ok BGG ratings. unless it's better than those, i don't really want it - aaron
[2013-03-21 15:44:46] - xpovos: I don't know, the game looks really cool but I think I want to play it before i commit to a purchase. I'm OK paying an extra $7.50 if it ends up being a really good game. - aaron
[2013-03-21 14:06:51] - a: My point? None, really, except to possibly enlighten people who might not know that PETA kills lots of animals. -Paul
[2013-03-21 14:04:26] - a: Hypocrisy I guess. Animal shelters are a popular target of PETA protesters because they euthanize unadoptable animals. I'm not sure why it's news now though. It's been part of the public record for a long time that PETA does in fact euthanize a lot of animals. - mig
[2013-03-21 14:02:52] - i hate peta, but i hate this article more somehow. ~a
[2013-03-21 14:02:19] - "It’s the height of hypocrisy for PETA to demonstrate for the 'rights' of rats and pigs, while killing tens of thousands of pets" there is no hypocrisy to see here. ~a
[2013-03-21 13:59:38] - what's your point? ~a
[2013-03-21 13:29:34] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296572/PETA-killed-1-600-cats-dogs-Virginia-headquarters-year--90-animals-handed-charitys-American-shelter.html Some pictures are nsfw... -Paul
[2013-03-21 12:20:13] - Is anyone interested in this? I can't see getting 6 for myself, but if others are interested we could do a split order on one package. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelmindes/dungeon-roll-a-dicey-dungeon-delve -- Xpovos
[2013-03-21 11:41:52] - a: I love RSS for things that update daily or less, like a lot of webcomics I read. It can collect them for me so that I can read them asynchronously, or even binge on a month's worth at a time and not miss anything either. If it updates more frquently than once a day it's not a good candidate for a feed--similar to what Paul was saying. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-21 10:52:51] - paul: that might explain the recent fluctuations in the price. ~a
[2013-03-21 10:26:07] - paul: though i guess to be fair, to my surprise a bank deposit levy has actually happened in Europe before (Italy 1992). Then again it was incredibly small compared to the proposed Cyprus levy (the 1992 levy was 0.6%). - mig
[2013-03-21 10:14:05] - mig: Yeah, I talked to Dave a little about this. It's almost like they couldn't have screwed up worse if they tried. They were worried about banks going under.... so they enact a policy that ensures bank runs. -Paul
[2013-03-21 10:13:56] - i was wondering about that . . . i kind of want multiple feeds. one where stuff gets updated a few times per day, and another that is constantly scrolling. i know facebook has that concept already. there's the middle feed that updates pretty often and the upper-right tiny-feed that updates like every second. ~a
[2013-03-21 09:06:09] - a: Facebook might work well as a feed reader (at least I wouldn't have to put up with the maddeningly confusing way Facebook decides what to show me) but I think the message board and my twitter feed updates too often. -Paul
[2013-03-20 19:57:46] - paul: you really have to wonder what the EU and/or Cypruss (depending on who you believe originally came up with the deposit raiding scheme) were thinking when they thought this up? Did they really think this wouldn't incite a panic in financially troubled EU countries? - mig
[2013-03-20 18:15:17] - i'm surprised so many of you use a feed reader. i wonder, why don't you demand other things in a feed format? like facebook? or twitter? or the message board?
~a[2013-03-20 17:36:57] - mig: I've already started using feedly instead of google reader... -Paul
[2013-03-20 16:46:03] - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-20/jittery-spaniards-seek-safe-haven-in-bitcoins -Paul
[2013-03-20 10:55:27] - bookmark https://www.google.com/reader/view if you haven't already i guess. - mig
[2013-03-20 10:51:34] - Looks like google is not going to listen to the outcry about reader. I found it removed from the app bar and it's de-listed from the main products page. Still accessible from a direct link but looks like they are dead-set on making it go away. - mig
[2013-03-20 10:19:32] - aaron: yeah, it took me a while to realize that it actually compiles. i thought at first it was like . . . pseudocode. not actual java code. ~a
[2013-03-20 09:10:12] - a: Oh, wow. That is weird. -Paul
[2013-03-20 09:08:53] - http://xkcd.com/1188/ today's xkcd is a pretty nerdy java joke - aaron
[2013-03-19 21:54:19] - paul: look up at the huge runway (right next-door to the west). they have giant shelters on the runway for planes. if you zoom in you can see them at an angle. so weird. ~a
[2013-03-19 15:54:54] - Xpovos: Yeah, after reading the article about the B-52 bombers, I went to wikipedia to read up on them. I was intrigued that they are 50+ year old planes and that over 700 were built, but less than a hundred are active now. I wondered where they all went... -Paul
[2013-03-19 15:53:14] - g: Probably not. Besides, I think we've got enough weddings this year to go to.
-Paul[2013-03-19 15:19:14] - Paul: That is a lot of planes. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-19 15:17:30] - paul: think you can score an invite? ~g
[2013-03-19 15:14:12] - a: Oh, wow. I didn't realize that it was so close to Mexico... good thing we're on good terms with them.
-Paul[2013-03-19 15:00:05] - paul: haha: http://aporter.org/placesmap/ . . . the red icon called "wtf" ~a
[2013-03-19 14:52:42] - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57575141-1/gandalf-to-officiate-at-captain-picards-wedding/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=readMore Gandalf to officiate at Captain Picard's wedding. -Paul
[2013-03-19 14:45:16] - https://maps.google.com/maps?q=32.170890%C2%B0N+110.855184%C2%B0W&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=32.171871,-110.846128&sspn=0.007538,0.014484&t=h&z=15 Also, this is kind of impressive, in a sad way. Google map view of one of the Air Force's storage areas (nicknamed the Boneyard). -Paul
[2013-03-19 14:41:06] - http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/world/asia/korea-b-52s/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Guam is a long way away from South Korea (13,000 mile round trip). Is there really no better way to flex our muscles to such an impoverished nation than to fly these massive planes so far just for training exercises? -Paul
[2013-03-19 14:23:48] - what i can glean from scanning the map is that the east-coast is better than the west-coast if you ever want to leave the city. and . . . the country is right out. ~a
[2013-03-19 14:22:29] - oooh, fun. look what i found: electric vehicle map. ~a
[2013-03-19 12:50:57] - Paul: I'd guess track work, since they probably move about semi-randomly and rarely do anything. But none of them are on the red line... so that can't be it! -- Xpovos
[2013-03-19 12:39:52] - Do the hammer brothers count as anything?
-Paul[2013-03-19 12:24:15] - hah, that was how i found out that the silver line was going all the way to largo during rush hour. ~a
[2013-03-19 11:30:48] - http://i.imgur.com/EWEkt7o.jpg -- Xpovos
[2013-03-19 09:41:09] - But that's what activist judges are for! -- Xpovos
[2013-03-19 09:29:33] - Not the 4th. I guess the 3rd would work if the Gov't just wanted a permanent back door rather than the ability to snoop whenever they wanted. But the 14th amendment gives us the power to broaden the scope a little, I think. It's a big stretch, I know. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-19 09:25:09] - Of course that reasonable expectation of privacy is a bit of a sticking point, given Facebook, but I'll work with it for now. Then the requirement to hand over my "keys" (password) to another so that they can squat in my house and watch what I do is pretty clearly a violation. The issue of it being a private company vs. a government agency is why I'm trying the 3rd.
[2013-03-19 09:23:37] - fuck. ... win. I said I'd have fun.
If I can lock it and assumed a reasonable degree of privacy because of that lock, and it is a place that I habitually frequent, populate with stuff and has "walls" it's pretty clearly a home. I mean, rich people get to have, like, 50 homes if they want. Now everyone has a digital home, even if they're homeless. -- Xpovos[2013-03-19 09:22:06] - a: I never said I'
[2013-03-18 15:06:53] - also, it's hard to argue facebook is your home
~a[2013-03-18 15:06:32] - hah. that would be difficult. even if you use the (less used) definition of "soldier" to mean "anybody who works for the government". even then i don't think it applies to an employee of a company. ~a
[2013-03-18 13:21:51] - I could have fun trying to argue that's a violation of the Third Amendment. -- Xpovos
[2013-03-18 13:20:55] - wouldn't you be breaching facebook's TOS anyways? ~a
[2013-03-18 13:19:52] - "They go beyond the borders of individual states and call for a national solution" hah. i still doubt this is a spreading or rampant problem (especially not a problem that can't be solved at the state level), but thank you for the links. ~a
[2013-03-18 12:11:01] - it's a fairly hot topic on /. and ars. - mig
[2013-03-18 12:10:50] - oops. - mig
[2013-03-18 12:10:42] - stories like this, and <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/bill-banning-employer-facebook-snooping-introduced-in-congress/"> - mig
[2013-03-18 12:08:24] - http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/03/17/cyprus-president-bailout-plan/1995415/ ~a likes to call savings accounts losing accounts. What's going on in Cyprus seems to be taking that concept to quite a new level. - mig
[2013-03-18 11:57:47] - what stories? ~a
[2013-03-18 10:27:09] - paul: you know, new stories about some employers demanding passwords for your social media stuff as a condition of employment have been popping up a lot over the last few months. I could very well see that ESPN employee social media accounts are not under total control of the people they're for. - mig
[2013-03-15 17:37:47] - mig:Yeah, I mean, the Welker signing is a big deal for Boston sports. What if Simmons tweeted about it? Would ESPN fire him? Can he tweet about it now and blame the lateness of it on his "ban"? -Paul
[2013-03-15 17:26:46] - oops i somehow misread that as what would simmons tweet about. - mig
[2013-03-15 17:22:59] - paul: the welker signing. - mig
[2013-03-15 16:55:46] - mig: Such a strange "punishment". First of all, is it really worth punishing? Secondly, it's incredibly lame as punishments go (3 days?). Thirdly, what if Simmons decided he was going to tweet anyway? -Paul
[2013-03-15 16:53:55] - mig: Oh, wow. I hadn't heard about that. I even remember reading his tweets about what happened on First Take. -Paul
[2013-03-15 16:44:35] - also whoever was in charge of the seeding did a terrible job. - mig
[2013-03-15 16:43:24] - g: i boycot! Kyle Katarn, Darth Revan and HK-47 were clearly snubbed by the selection committee. - mig
[2013-03-15 16:28:15] - No twitter for 3 days hardly seems like a punishment at all but it strikes me as incredibly petty. - mig
[2013-03-15 16:25:08] - http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/march/the-bill-simmons-twitter-suspension-hides-espn-s-real-problem.html bill simmons was apparently barred from twitter by espn for criticizing a segment on first take. - mig
[2013-03-15 15:20:09] - based on popularity votes
[2013-03-15 15:06:26] - how do they decide who wins? ~a
[2013-03-15 15:02:41] - who wants to do a star wars bracket? http://starwars.com/This-Is-Madness/ ~g
[2013-03-15 11:20:55] - http://i.imgur.com/37ukGSA.png i wonder if there's a timeline in which i'm a rasta... - aaron
[2013-03-15 10:35:59] - mig: Happy Birthday to the ground! -- Xpovos
[2013-03-15 10:20:29] - aaron: did they have any with mixed babies to see who they liked/disliked? ~g
[2013-03-15 10:19:54] - mig: happy birthday! ~g
[2013-03-14 16:09:06] - g: it's actually a little more specific than that, i was surprised. but you're right, the first half of the article is what you described, where babies were smart enough to realize, "this puppet is nice to other puppets which are similar to me..." but yeah the surprising part is towards the end of the article - aaron
[2013-03-14 14:32:48] - a: I read it as babies like people who like the same things as them regardless of what the person looked like... but I didnt finish reading it. ~g
[2013-03-14 14:20:17] - aaron: he also did Space Alert which I have heard good things about! ~g
[2013-03-14 14:17:07] - a: i'm not super surprised that racism/tribalism would be a genetically selected trait, but it's still a bummer - aaron
[2013-03-14 13:58:20] - aaron: babies are racist? ~a
[2013-03-14 13:37:44] - g: wait a minute... Vlaada Chvatil... that's the galaxy trucker guy! crazy... - aaron
[2013-03-14 13:37:03] - a: its popular on BGG, but I havent looked at it before. No time for heavy weight games these days
~g[2013-03-14 13:34:11] - g: i've never even heard of the #2 seed, "through the ages"... - aaron
[2013-03-14 13:25:55] - I dont like how the boardgames are seeded so many where I dont know either game then they pair up TtR vs. T&E... and Goa vs. Princes... Sigh ~g
[2013-03-14 13:08:08] - http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/154573/official-2013-geek-madness-tournament-round-1-le better than march madness
~g[2013-03-14 12:51:39] - aaron: yea I totally was... ~g
[2013-03-14 12:49:57] - i want to be able to like people's comments... (paul would then want to dislike them though)~g
[2013-03-14 12:28:42] - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-babies-individuals-arent-video.html babies prefer individuals who harm those that aren't like them - aaron
[2013-03-14 12:04:11] - aaron: i took your post, i looked at the invalid html. then i threw it on the ground. what, you think i'm stupid? i'm not a part of your system. my dad's not a phone! duh. ~a
[2013-03-14 11:57:54] - a: <gfy] - aaron
[2013-03-14 11:56:26] - your closing tag name didn't match your opening tag name. need i go on? ~a
[2013-03-14 11:50:29] - close enough?
you didn't even have a tag name, let alone an attribute. your attribute value wasn't wrapped in quotes, omg. yeah, close enough. ~a[2013-03-14 11:32:54] - g: yeah! i saw that kickstarter, i'll be curious how the new deadwood game turns out. i read up on all of the rule changes, it sounded like they're making an effort to balance it and introduce more complex decisions - aaron
[2013-03-14 11:29:07] - (close enough) - aaron
[2013-03-14 11:28:56] - g: you are probably confusing the 60-minute <http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/111124/bsg-express>bsg-express</a> which we play, with the 180-minute <http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galactica>battlestar galactica</a>... the latter game is professionally produced by Fantasy Flight games and has some of the same mechanics - aaron
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