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07-11-2009, 01:56 PM
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#1 | | //bemanistyle::[Regular]
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With that said, damn, I can't wait for season 6 to be shown here on TV (starts next week for us here).
P.S.
So who here watches the show? 
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07-11-2009, 02:42 PM
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#2 | | g//ay for k//eternal
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that said, that really just makes it like house for math, which isn't a horrid thing
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07-11-2009, 07:02 PM
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#3 | | APHEXTWINAPHEXTWINAPHEXTWIN
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Total Tokens: 78,958,467.78 Donate Tokens | Too much of the show reeks of the "What the Bleep Do We Know" bullshit, i.e. the show generally goes "through math, we can find this out!" regardless of what "math" actually means here. Problems are much better at falling under "suspension of disbelief" than solutions, and whereas House came up with bizarre/absurd medical conundrums to solve, Numb3rs uses real-life crimes and then hand-waves away the solutions.
It's really no more "intelligent" than all the CSI type shows, where the forensics lab is capable of coming up with anything they need to solve a crime. Frankly, I actually find those kinds of shows insulting to my intelligence, where the directors/producers think they can just pass their bullshit off as "too smart for the audience to understand."
The big lesson these companies need to learn is that Science =/= magic.
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07-11-2009, 08:36 PM
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#4 | | g//ay for k//eternal
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and no matter how much of a math genius you are, if your dataset is insufficient there is really not much you can do about it other than (somewhat) educated guessing which should not be used to convict people
but i assume this is why "intelligent" is in quotes
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07-13-2009, 09:16 PM
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#5 | | PS3lix Eternal
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Anyway, my favorites were probably L&O: CI, CSI: Miami, and Without a Trace, but all the shows started running together eventually because they all have similar stories and get resolved in similar manners, just with different methods.
It's like they had a big pile of crime drama cookie dough and they whipped out the big box of cookie cutters to come up with the different ideas.
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07-17-2009, 03:17 PM
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#6 | | A CURSE CALLED AUTISM
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| pretty much every episode
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07-17-2009, 05:20 PM
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#7 | | CANDY RAVE
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Originally Posted by Fred 00 guys, we can use algorithms to......
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| pretty much every episode | This pretty much explains each every episode. It gets interesting for the first few episodes then it gets tedious.
Admittedly on the chalkboard, the equations tend to be right but the show seems to be more interested in throwing out mathematical jargon to make everything sound impressive rather than having the maths of it right.
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