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At least it's only a fan, rather than a stalker.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This: http://www.xkcd.com/1492/[^]
I hadn't seen the original fun-and-games about this (http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/[^] if you're interested) so I had to look at Explain XKCD[^] to find our what the elephant Randal was on about.
Then I had to download the picture, and load it into Paintshop Pro to use the colour picker and check... 
And yes: both dresses are the same colour: #879abd, or R:87, G:9A, B:BD
Sure as heck look different to me!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I use a beamer to watch TV and movies. One of my fun gags is, when people are over, I'll point to a black bit of the beamed picture, and ask them what colour it is.
They invariably say "black", and it has taken me some time to convince one or two of them that the answer is "white" (the colour of the wall), and that there is no such thing as a bulb that can shine the colour black (UV ain't even close to black).
It's all in the mind*.
* And that's a fact. The whole world that we see is just a VM in our mind. The world we're actually living in may look completely different.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The world we're actually living in may look completely different.
But it's irrelevant, because whoever the world would look completely different to wouldn't be seeing it the way we see it, so it's still just a VM in their mind.
I think the quote "it's all relative" is wrong. It should be "it's all irrelevant!"
Marc
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To an extent, e.g. it doesn't matter if what I see as blue you would see as orange, as long as when we look at something we use the same name for its colour.
But it's within our own VM that things matter, because its virtual nature means that it can be deceived into showing us the wrong things.
e.g. the beamer "black" colour: if we didn't use this virtual world, the white wall would still be white. You can't change reality; you can only change your perceptions within your VM.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: as long as when we look at something we use the same name for its colour.
Yeah, that's what makes semantics so much fun! And is the cause of so many conflicts 
Mark_Wallace wrote: because its virtual nature means that it can be deceived into showing us the wrong things.
There's a really cool illusion that I like to show people when I take them on a walk at High Falls[^]. I tell them to stare for 10 or 15 seconds at the waterfall and then shift their eyes to the adjacent rock face. The rocks appear to move upwards. You can get the same affect, say, biking. Staring at the road moving toward you, and then look up at the sky (a few clouds are necessary) and the clouds look like they're receding.
It's amazing how bizarre the sensory system and the brain perceives things consciously. I finally realized that in order for me to perceive an apparent motion when none exists, that the brain is actually handling motion and shape as two completely different processes, and the imbalance caused by the over-excitation of neurons in one direction of motion results in the illusion in the opposite direction, even though the physical shape isn't changing. Re-integrate the two in the process of conscious perception, and you get the illusion that the damn rocks are moving.
Sorry, probably TMI, but it really is amazing, and the reaction people have when I show them the illusion is always amusing.
Marc
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Sometimes, it doesn't even need movement.
There's a road I frequently cycle, which has forest on either side. Whichever way I'm going, it looks like the road goes uphill.
I can't even force myself to not see it going uphill.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Whichever way I'm going, it looks like the road goes uphill.
I've had that experience too, and when driving as well, and when talking to women. 
Marc
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And I've had that picture of a dress open all day, now.
Most of the day it was white and gold. Then it was blue and black for an hour. Now it's pale blue and brown.
The differences are incredible -- I literally cannot believe my own eyes.
That'd never happen with a man's shirt. The damned thing should make its mind up!
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I wonder how many levels of VM you have to drill-down through before you hit where the bits are hatched.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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It's not like the kind of files we're used to dealing with; it's a constantly changing conglomeration of memories of movements, sounds, and smells, all being constantly merged, compressed, and defragged.
That's why the old mental-telepathy thing will probably never work (at least the way described in fiction); the content of each brain is so different and independent of that of every other brain that if you transferred bits of it, the target brain wouldn't be able to interpret it.
Transferring files from one computer to another? No problem.
Transferring memory content between people? Not a hope.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Then I had to download the picture, and load it into Paintshop Pro to use the colour picker and check
I just loaded it with Paint.NET, selected half of one of the images, then dragged it next to the other image.
Interesting how you don't have to move it back very far before the colors start looking different again.
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I saw this[^] on a dustbin at Rosebank, South Africa.
What is amazing is that Rosebank is like CBD[^] and I do not think this is the target audience for such business. I mean educated (not literate) people wouldn't fall for this, right?
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d@nish wrote: educated (not literate)
 -> Ah, got it!
BTW Educated people won't take photographs of dustbins in a CBD either. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
modified 27-Feb-15 1:17am.
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You have to be joking, do you know how many people believe in astrology and the sky fairy! Spells is but a small step from that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Erm, even the ones who studied science? Baffling.
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My level 100 warlock is quite the opposite of that.
I mean ranged DPS with a few healing spells, but those have been very much reduced in this expansion 
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Some of pics on his website (like this one[^]) look more like screenshots from Skyrim. Another reminds me of Harry Potter. 
Marc
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We better tread carefully here.... What if the caster of the spells doesn't like what we are saying here? 
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So I enrolled in a Bach. Sys Admin last year and it didn't work out very well. The College was just screwed up. I've been doing a Diploma in IT (Web Dev) elsewhere since and everything's going really well.
However...
Have you noticed how everything you do at College or UNI now is all about reports?
Like... Everytime you have to do something, you gotta write a report first! That's so annoying!
I self-taught myself programming when I was 17. And I've been building lots of things for myself ever since. So when I sign up for a course, I just want the paper to say that "Yeah he can do it". But no...
They have to chuck in all of this other crap like writing Analysis' and Reports and other arbitrary junk that you can't even find any info about online.
No wonder this world is so screwed up! You can't ever get anything done anymore because we're all too busy writing freaking reports about what we're about to do!
You wanna build a database? Write a report first! You wanna create a website? Write a report first! You wanna eat dinner???
WRITE A REPORT! ...first.
Oh, what's that Evil Iceblock? You wanna take a dump?
NUP, SORRY! YOU GOTTA WRITE A REPORT ON THAT FIRST!
SCREW YOU AND YOUR REPORTS!
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You wanna get money from your employer for new office equipment or software?
You write a report.
Sorry kiddo, that's the way the world works.
Thanks for reporting your findings.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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