New efforts!

[Arcana]

This is...remarkably accurate. The first and last letter of each word doesn't change, so it's not perfect, but very well done.

What I've discovered over time is that although the root cause is likely identical, everyone experiences dyslexic symptoms in different ways having to do not with the actual problem but rather with the way the brain attempts to overcome it.  It is like seeing different versions of the same optical illusion.  But I'm told that for many, that type of display at least conveys the feeling of the problem if not the literal description of the problem exactly.

I also have dyscalculia

You confuse people with vampires?  Oh wait that's dysdraculia.  You're afraid of black boards.  No, that's dyschalculia.  I know, you are unable to smile.  Damn, that's dyscalcitia.  I got it: you have trouble relating to Indian people.  Or is that dyscalcuttia?

This has been your dyslexia language processing booster shot for 2016.  You're welcome.

[Groundbreaker]

hmmm kinda like groot and rocket lol.

This made me smile :D

Never thought about that comparison but yeah very much so.

[Ironwolf]

Intelligence has many ways of being defined.

The most intelligent person I know who holds multiple degrees and is an inventor - literally a mad scientist type who invented a new memory type for electronic devices, invented a way to improve reclaiming platinum from catalytic convertors from 94% to 97.5% (thus making millions if not billions for those doing such work) - and he was once planning out how to fly a lawn chair to the edge of space using weather balloons and shooting the balloons once he achieved near orbit (I talked him out of this one). He is frighteningly smart and incredibly stupid at the same time. No common sense whatsoever.

This guy is similar to Einstein in his vast mind can have huge gaps in judgment and wisdom. Intelligence the ability to do a thing is often larger than wisdom - the ability to discern if a thing should be done.

[Remaugen]

Intelligence has many ways of being defined.

The most intelligent person I know who holds multiple degrees and is an inventor - literally a mad scientist type who invented a new memory type for electronic devices, invented a way to improve reclaiming platinum from catalytic convertors from 94% to 97.5% (thus making millions if not billions for those doing such work) - and he was once planning out how to fly a lawn chair to the edge of space using weather balloons and shooting the balloons once he achieved near orbit (I talked him out of this one). He is frighteningly smart and incredibly stupid at the same time. No common sense whatsoever.

This guy is similar to Einstein in his vast mind can have huge gaps in judgment and wisdom. Intelligence the ability to do a thing is often larger than wisdom - the ability to discern if a thing should be done.

Agreed, intelligence and wisdom are not always hand in hand. Some of the wisest people I know are uneducated, and some of the most intelligent can barely take care of themselves dealing with daily life.

[Battlechimp]

This guy is similar to Einstein in his vast mind can have huge gaps in judgment and wisdom. Intelligence the ability to do a thing is often larger than wisdom - the ability to discern if a thing should be done.

Oddly enough this concept was the basis of one of my favorite heroes in CoH. A 13 year o.d kid who's intelligence qualified him to be classified a meta human. Vast intelligence... very little impulse control.  He got into science so he could build himself his own light saber... until his mother took it away. 

Lots of his stories or RP would end with things like  "... and that's when my mom instituted the No robots in the house rule". Or "... and then my dad said , no trying to subvert fundamental laws of the universe until I'm at least old enough to drive". Or my favorite way to end stories about things he'd try to invent ".... and we did eventually find the cat."

[Vee]

he was once planning out how to fly a lawn chair to the edge of space using weather balloons and shooting the balloons once he achieved near orbit (I talked him out of this one). He is frighteningly smart and incredibly stupid at the same time. No common sense whatsoever.

Anyone with any common sense would realize a lawn chair is a poor choice for a long balloon ascent. You need something comfy that reclines and won't leave marks on your butt.

[Nyx Nought Nothing]

Anyone with any common sense would realize a lawn chair is a poor choice for a long balloon ascent. You need something comfy that reclines and won't leave marks on your butt.

There are some very comfy lawn chairs out there. Potentially some at the edge of space.

[Arcana]

Intelligence has many ways of being defined.

The most intelligent person I know who holds multiple degrees and is an inventor - literally a mad scientist type who invented a new memory type for electronic devices, invented a way to improve reclaiming platinum from catalytic convertors from 94% to 97.5% (thus making millions if not billions for those doing such work) - and he was once planning out how to fly a lawn chair to the edge of space using weather balloons and shooting the balloons once he achieved near orbit (I talked him out of this one). He is frighteningly smart and incredibly stupid at the same time. No common sense whatsoever.

This guy is similar to Einstein in his vast mind can have huge gaps in judgment and wisdom. Intelligence the ability to do a thing is often larger than wisdom - the ability to discern if a thing should be done.

It is physically impossible for any configuration of weather balloons to achieve "near orbit."  Not only would it be bad judgment to make the attempt for a variety of reasons, it would also be ludicrous from an engineering standpoint and ultimately impossible to achieve the end goal from a physics standpoint.

The best case scenario, given the structural limitations of a lawn chair, would be that you would succumb to hypoxia after your supplemental oxygen ran out, freeze to death, perhaps reach 120,000 feet, have the uncontrolled balloon burst, and then have your frozen corpsical unsuccessfully attempt a merger with your seating arrangement when the Earth interrupted the Newtonian portion of the trip.  That's assuming your supersonic return from the stratosphere didn't impart you with enough angular momentum to make your return to Earth a non-singular event.

That would either be an example of someone with particular intellectual skills but lacking in general intelligence (as I define it), or someone who possesses general intelligence but abandons it at sufficiently inopportune times to make the case moot.  Or someone with George Clooney-ish madness when it comes to trollish practical jokes.

Also, electrochemical recovery is not really in my wheelhouse, but I suspect the benefit of a 3.5 percentage point efficiency increase would be more about the reduced environmental impact due to the recovered metal than the value of the recovered platinum.  3.5 percentage points is, if my research is correct, about three to six bucks a converter at today's prices.  That's only worth millions of dollars to someone that recycles millions of converters a year.

[Arcana]

Anyone with any common sense would realize a lawn chair is a poor choice for a long balloon ascent. You need something comfy that reclines and won't leave marks on your butt.

If you can feel the lawn chair making marks on your butt during the ascent, that means you forgot your spacesuit.  You don't have to worry about those marks for long, because assuming you brought enough oxygen to not be brain dead before then, you'll freeze to death first.  Unless this is an especially robust tandem lawn chair and it seats one human and one tauntaun.

[Paragon Avenger]

Has anybody ever heard of Deb Bolo?

[ivanhedgehog]

If you can feel the lawn chair making marks on your butt during the ascent, that means you forgot your spacesuit.  You don't have to worry about those marks for long, because assuming you brought enough oxygen to not be brain dead before then, you'll freeze to death first.  Unless this is an especially robust tandem lawn chair and it seats one human and one tauntaun.

whats the internal temperature of a tauntaun?


Luke warm

[Victoria Victrix]

The comedian's rule of thumb for good comedy is "never punch down."  That is, making fun of someone of higher status is fun and fair game.  Making fun of someone of lower status is mean-spirited, demeaning, and nasty.  Examples: If you are, yourself, fat, black, missing an arm, then making fun of fat, or black, or armless people is perfectly all right.

[Arcana]

The comedian's rule of thumb for good comedy is "never punch down."  That is, making fun of someone of higher status is fun and fair game.  Making fun of someone of lower status is mean-spirited, demeaning, and nasty.  Examples: If you are, yourself, fat, black, missing an arm, then making fun of fat, or black, or armless people is perfectly all right.

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... I don't know if this is the most ingenious set up of all time, or the most ingenious trap of all time.

[Brigadine]

This made me smile :D

Never thought about that comparison but yeah very much so.

:)

[JoshexProxy]

Intelligence.

Even the best and brightest can fail due to unforeseen events. Even with the complete knowledge of physics, there are unknowns in the universe which are not directly related to that knowledge. In other words; oh how it would pay to be all knowing.

Idiots. if only a small percentage of people will be heralded for genius, then most geniuses are heralded by idiots. If geniuses are heralded by idiots, then what gives the idiots the qualification to proclaim someone a genius?

Memory. The idiots that create intelligence tests are very similar to the idiots who think RAM memory is what makes a computer powerful. I.E.; all the memory in the world can record everything that everyone has ever said or figured out, and that gets you a very impressive score on a test based on knowing what other people have already computed. But without the processor capacity to compute and cross-compare that data it may as well be void. WHAT?! OVAR 9000 GB RAM!!! DEAR LORD THE POWAR LEVEL OF THIS MACHINE IS AWESOME! [note in small print: 0.1 Megahertz single core processor].

Processor. They once built a computer to calculate one answer for life, the universe and everything and the answer was 42. Oh wait, that was in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. but still, the point reigns true even with the best processor in the galaxy and all the memory needed to handle the calculative output, you still need common sense or it just doesn't make sense to anyone else or really just might not address the actual point of the initial question at all.

Common Sense. If common sense is truly common then we are in deep poop. common sense however is not common. Common sense is the ability to poise your information in a format everyone can understand. If however the answer is "Error # 42: initial question does not compute to one answer" then even memory, processor and common sense are truly useless without Adaptability.

Adaptability. Adaptability is key for when information does not compute in the intended fashion, and is the core aspect needed to cross-compare one output against the initial calculation in order to find the new question that it proposes, and by doing that eventually find the answer. but even that answer must be cross-compared against the prior data, if there are any unknowns then your answer is invalid. You must have all the answers to find even one true answer. Anything else is just playing with yourself.

wouldn't it be great to be all knowing...

Intelligence is the demonstrated pursuit of new knowledge. The sheer act of wanting to gain new knowledge and making attempts to do so; shows and develops processor power, memory, common sense and adaptability.

though when it comes to computers; we also need to look at what operating system and optional software packages they are running. so even the most intelligent person can run the worst operating system on their gray matter and can opt for all sorts of optional software packages which slow them down by consuming resources. then there's the viruses and adware installed with these applications that really takes a toll on ability.

then there's updating; old library definitions are old. all that knowledge you stored as a library definition "law", yeah, an intelligent person questions them rather than accepting them without reevaluation of their premises. A truly ignorant person just takes whats given to them, takes explanations given to them and never questions or updates their information.

Intelligence is a constant state of reevaluation.

an intelligent person can become ignorant and vice versa.

[Vee]

Idiots. if only a small percentage of people will be heralded for genius, then most geniuses are heralded by idiots. If geniuses are heralded by idiots, then what gives the idiots the qualification to proclaim someone a genius?

There might be just a hint of a false dichotomy there.

On your computer analogy though I'd be more than willing to downgrade cpu and ram for a hard drive bigger than the floppy disc from the time when they were actually floppy disc i run now.

Also pretty sure being all-knowing would suck.

[Fireheart]

My brother has a theory he calls 'Applicable IQ', where one might be incredibly smart, but still get into a dumb situation where everything they know doesn't apply.  Or their intelligence is so focused on the target, that they overlook something important.

Be Well!
Fireheart

[pinballdave]

I usually check in once every day or two days, and someday, when I check in, there will be 20 new pages of incredulous exaltation. The deal will be revealed. The path to restoration will be clear and I will be inflamed with the desire to play _the game_ in the imminent future. Until then, I log in and *sigh*.

[Baaleos]

The Computer analogy is a little somewhat simplistic.
There are many attributes associated with RAM besides its flash memory size that a computer enthusiast should know of.

Eg: Time to Read, Time to Write.
A 1 billion GHZ CPU would have little use to most people without RAM that could cope.
Although a 1 Billion GB RAM stick, could conceivably be more useful than the 1 billion GHZ CPU, since it would have the result of allowing more applications to run, albeit at the bottleneck speed of the CPU interacting with it.
Might take a while to fill that 1 Billion GB of RAM, but you could get there in the end at the bottle necked speed - just leave your computer on for a few days filling a few dozen byte arrays with useless data. (Would we need a new architecture for processors / OS?  128bit OS? 256?)

The 1Billion GHZ CPU however, only useful if performing complex maths or cryptography or rendering a 3D Virtual Reality dreamscape with impossible shapes that defy reality.
A 1 Billion GHZ cpu is pointless as far as playing a game would go, since the game assets could only be loaded into memory at the bottle necked speed of the RAM.


TBH - I think when we start talking about Billion GHZ cpu's, we might as well start talking about Quantum computing.

[Solitaire]

I usually check in once every day or two days, and someday, when I check in, there will be 20 new pages of incredulous exaltation. The deal will be revealed. The path to restoration will be clear and I will be inflamed with the desire to play _the game_ in the imminent future. Until then, I log in and *sigh*.

Here's hoping this comes true, I log in each day hoping to see the good news.

I'm hoping with progress City of Titans has taken with the news they released last week it has shown NCSoft something of what they can achieve and prove the game would be in good hands. But only time will tell, but time waits for no one!