This is also bad news because MS is, among other things, notable for trying to sit on everything related of what they own, so you blink, and they start selling licenses for modding. And |Advanced Minecraft Pack" to be able to play with mods. And make mods only compile in their own IDE.

I'd like to point out that a dozen of laser turrets causes HUGE power spikes...

Um, Fret, are you sure that calling names the guy that helped you solely because of his age is the right thing to do?

I was expecting something a bit more morbid, I must admit :).

You seem to be quick to ...prune. Remember me to never upset you.

I think chicken jockeys are a quite decent feature compared to others, being both the ultra-fast mob and the mob that ignores fall damage. They have a niche! And it continues with the Minecraft trend of ridiculous mounts.

dawnraider wrote: This video (especially the part around 4:00) actually pretty accurately describes Minecraft as a whole right now:

How is Minecraft a skinnerbox? If anything, it reminds me of Lego Duplo.
(Thanks for reminding me of Extra Credit, tho).

please guys, take a moment to step back and realize that that particular wikipedia page fails to actually address the process of a lightning strike in the vicinity of a lightning rod. It doesn't even properly explain why a lightning rod ought to be a thin tower. When a thin tower of conductive mate...

This "happening" may just be a result of a representative bias. You remember moments when you spawned in familiar place far better than moments when you didn't.

You can try TinyCoreLinux, which is way slimmer than Ubuntu and more than enough for your purposes.

Mud wrote:I fished up a pair of leather boots when I desperately needed a fish a few months ago. I died of starvation shortly thereafter.

I have a vision of Flowerchild reading this, not very satisfied but chuckling nevertheless.

Yes, see, the problem is that P(O|M), for an observer inside the chamber, is not equal to 1. Assuming that every instance of an observer existing in a possible world is an outcome of the experiment, there are many instances of the observer which do *not* survive to see the outcome of the experiment...

There's no point in discussing Copenhagen versus Everett; as of last year, they were showed to be equivalent interpretations (as in, they make exactly the same predictions). Back then, Everett's theory was much better, because Copenhagen contained that handwave about observers and non-observers (mos...

Also, Everett interpretation isn't necessary to explain observation phenomenon. In standard interpretation, there is a concept of quantum entanglement, that means the same. (If two systems are entangled, then every state of one system experiences the other system as if it suddenly collapsed to one s...

The quantum immortality thought experiment relies on non-necessarily-true assumtion that it is somehow necessary for our perception to continue indefinitely . In other words, we actually live in both universes -- but in one of them, not for very long -- so it's impossible to predict which one we wou...

And with that, I once again return us to the many-worlds interpretation! Because it explains wavefunction collapse with this neat little concept known as quantum decoherence . Basically: You just answered your own question. We are part of the quantum system! When you set up an experiment where two ...

I hate to snip all that but I must for the sake of space. These points all kinda reinforce what I said. As you pointed out, all "new" developments of programming languages in the past decade are really just distillations of what's already come. Every single feature you listed was done fir...

My initial, completely unjustified, response would be: Do you? For instance, we receive two sets of images from our eyes that our brains turn into a single image, who's to say it doesn't be the same with the varying states of the system? We seem to have no means of percepting mutiple posiibilities....

Oh, we brought quantum mechanics onto table! Then here's a brain teaser: how can you observe only one state of the system, when you are the part of the quantum system yourselves?

Lua is crazily good, and one of my favourite games, Tales of Maj'Eyal ( http://te4.org/ ), is written almost entirely in Lua. The tables are amazing concept for data representation, and syntax is so flexible, you'll probably find yourself twisting it sooner or later. Obviously, it has some dark corn...

Here's one: If time and space are the same thing (space-time) and we move through time (1 second/second) like we do space, why can't we simply *stop* moving through time like we can space? Haha. What if I told you we're always moving with the same speed in spacetime, but not 1 second per second in ...

Wow. This release helped me convince the rest of my friends to switch to BTW. By quoting release changelog.
Nice job here, Mojang.

As a quick search revealed, the game is well known here, but the topic about it is nowhere to be found. So, I have just beaten it the first time, since I didn't have spare time to play it when it was released, and I got it again with recent Humble Bundle. I think that the game has really slick inter...

Vanilla feature, although I vaguely recall the probability being tweaked. Maybe I'm wrong on the last one, though.