You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind(entire.spacebar.org) |
You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind(entire.spacebar.org) |
A lot of people fall into this trap.
When someone beats me at a game, they most likely say "I've won you." as oppose to "I've beaten you." The former implies I'm the prize.
I've fallen into this trap myself plenty of times and do wonder if messages like "You win ...." enforces this mistake.
Do check out more of his work!
[1] http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/ [2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/
All it needs is some soothing bloops and beeps to make it that but more of a non-goal oriented Skinner box - akin to Tetris without the scoring.
I thought the computer went by Joshua, since that's what Dr, Falkan referred to it in the last scene of the movie:
Falken saw the computer as a surrogate for his dead son. In that scene he said "Hello, Joshua" but the screen only shows "Hello". Lightman and Mack never knew the name WOPR, at least not before the military got involved, so the only name they had to go on was the password. I don't think the computer ever mentioned a name for itself.
thEn is a correct and acceptable spelling in Canada.
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As I was typing this up I was looking for references to back up statement. BUT I was wrong. (damn my 4rd grade english teacher!)
I was taught that the two words were grammatically the same it was just a difference in US vs 'British/Canadian' spelling. (i.e. grey vs gray)
So, please ignore my indignant reply. (Which I left in for reference.)
For future versions of myself who will make this mistake again:
THAN = a comparison
Golf balls are smaller THAN bowling balls.
THEN = a statement relating to time.
I went golfing THEN bowling.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/then
Glad you learned something today :-) http://xkcd.com/1053/
Kudos on leaving your statement in full transparency anyway :)
/me has disgraced the entire Canadian education system, or has just highlighted his own ignorance.
