Slow forum

[Roboman]

This forum is really slow. I have 100mb up and down and still loading any link on this forum usually take 30 seconds or more, over time that equals frustration.

Now I wouldn't come here and start bad mouthing your forum without an idea. How about a paypal donation button? Invest in some server/broadband upgrades.
I'd be the first to donate.

[ApostateAbe]

Forum is fast again. I think someone waved a magic wand.

[Roboman]

The forum is on speed.

[Lydia]

"Quite" on speed. It seems like the wand was low in battery.

[A22]

It's slow here too

But I'm patient

[EditorOne]

This forum loads the slowest of any place I visit. It took more than 15 seconds to get the window up to "post reply," and it has taken longer. I'd say it's my computer, but another forum using this same software gives fast-as-I-can-hit-the-keys response to commands.
I'm not complaining. I'm observing. Wait - you knew that....

[Minuend]

It was fast the other day, now it's slow again. I figure they give us speed in turns. Kinda like Melkor's pimp.

[EyeSeeCold]

The genre of Doom metal was inspired by the slowness of INTPforum.

[Roboman]

Ahh, finally it's back... and QUICK!

[Bird]

If this were the early nineties none of us
would be complaining about waiting fifteen seconds.

[EditorOne]

If this were the early nineties some wouldn't be able to reach the keyboard from their cribs.:D

Our expectations change as technology improves. I now want at least 30 mpg from an auto, 100 watts of light using 60 watts of power, ten cents a gallon off my gas price for every $100 bought at Giant, and: A computer that reacts as fast (or faster, in some cases) as I can type words.
I've noticed a huge increase in speed since The Thanksgiving Break. Whatever is happening (I don't pretend to understand anything to do with computers after 2005, and even then I was probably just kidding myself) it seems to be increasing the speed to that of similar software on other forums. Huzzah!

[Bird]

Lolololololol. At first I thought this was some comment
about lazyness and then I realized it was in reference to age (;

[Melkor]

Seems pretty fast to me...

Oh back in the day, the only thing keeping the generator running was Jesin's huge Hamster wheel, Wisp's static cat fur circuit and my witty banter. :/

[Cognisant]

Now we run turbines with Da Blob's inexhaustible supply of hot air, and have built a Dyson sphere around my radiant ego, never shall we want for power again!

[Melkor]

Well until it becomes apparent that there is no God, and Blob has nothing to talk about and you have no reason to be overt about your opinions.

Then we'll have to run the forum off human batteries.

Oh, I know, lets also cultivate them in a friendly artificially environment that matches our own world!

Totally pointless and contrary to logic but lets do it anyway!

[Melllvar]

Oh, I know, lets also cultivate them in a friendly artificially environment that matches our own world!

Totally pointless and contrary to logic but lets do it anyway!

Clearly the machines, being purely logical and rational entities, would never do something so pointless and contrary. Therefore it must be the case that the energy output of the human body is higher when it is being mentally stimulated through (perceived) interaction with it's natural environment.

Incidentally, you know people never apply the same level of deductive logic to determine the rules under which the universe operates when watching movies as they do in real life?

[Melkor]

That's because (as in this case) when it comes to movies we have to firstly presume that the event is possible and that it actually occurred within the reality of the film.
Rather than reasoning from the ground up we have to assume it is true and then try to justify it as true by any means possible.


If we used such logic in everyday life, the results would be chaotic. We'd simply have a terrible sense of reality, take small unsubstantiated facts as gospel and then try to prove them blindly and...

Wait!
Isn't that what religious folk do?
D:



I'm hoping Cog backs me up on this, but there are no psychological environmentally derived factors that can increase one's amount of chemical energy by any substantial amount.

There are only blatantly physical and genetic means.

[Melllvar]

That's because (as in this case) when it comes to movies we have to firstly presume that the event is possible and that it actually occurred within the reality of the film.
Rather than reasoning from the ground up we have to assume it is true and then try to justify it as true by any means possible.

If we used such logic in everyday life, the results would be chaotic. We'd simply have a terrible sense of reality, take small unsubstantiated facts as gospel and then try to prove them blindly and...

Well, "if you eliminate all of the impos..." ok sorry that was just going to sound way too cliche.

This wasn't a very good example, since yeah the perfection of machine decision making seems questionable and wasn't really substantiated as factual by the movie. But I mean that is how logic works, you draw necessary conclusions given known facts, regardless of how absurd the conclusions may seem in themselves... People just aren't willing to stretch their imaginations to accommodate the facts.

Wait!
Isn't that what religious folk do?
D:

The bastards.

I'm hoping Cog backs me up on this, but there are no psychological environmentally derived factors that can increase one's amount of chemical energy by any substantial amount.

There are only blatantly physical and genetic means.

Increased heart rate and sweating during a bad dream? It's not the total chemical energy, just the rate of metabolism, really...

I would take credit for hijacking this thread, but I think that was already well underway beforehand.