Facism? Every western government has some sort of Special Operations system in place with all the same provisions. I think it is more telling that the slashdot crowd is just now "discovering" what has been known about black operations since the beginning of time.
I'm not biased, nor do I harbor hatred for handicapped people. I do hate people with handicapped stickers that DON'T NEED THEM as evident by their ability to easily handle unwieldy, large, unsafe, Sport Utility Vehicles. Especially when they have big, blue hair, lots of bling, and speak with bodacious Texas accents when telling us all about their old-money rich rancher husbands.
That is not science. In science you make a prediction based on sound principles, and then you design a set of controlled experiments to test your hypothesis. You described only ONE accepted scientific method--quantitative research. Other research methods do not rely on controlled experiments at all (case study, qualitative, ethnography, Action, etc.). This is a huge pet peeve of mine on slashdot...the insistence that quantitative research methodology is the only acceptable form of science.
Forget Road Rage indicators...there are plenty of bad driver indicators. My family has a "three strikes" rule (yes, we're a bunch of judgmental pricks). First, giant SUVs make you a choice suspect. Secondly, ANY multiple use of jingoistic slogans/logos/etc. get you closer to the trifecta. Single, subtle "support our troops" type stickers are fine, but plastering four or 5 of the stupid things on your giant SUV just make you suspect. The final touch is multiple stickers avowing any religious belief. More than one jesus fish is too many, for example. So if you have all of these, you ARE a bad driver, and give ME road rage. (Bonus touch...a special handicapped sticker on your GIANT SUV. If you are so damned handicapped that you need close up parking, then why in the hell are you driving a giant vehicle?)
It's not intellect, it's prosperity. Well, surely there's a correlation (positive) between intellect and prosperity?
And those 6-7 kids are more prosperous than their parents were and will almost certainly have much fewer children as well. God one could only hope. Unfortunately (at least on my redneck side of the family) those 6-7 kids are having 6-7 kids each (and usually 10-20 years earlier than the rest of us), thus propagating the redneck culture of America. (just look at the TV shows offered in prime time or take a listen to any of the 14 country music channels in any given radio market).
Racing is a sport that requires physical strength, endurance and spacial understanding. That's why there aren't a lot of women in racing. Take a look at the curbs in any metro area...those black tire marks on all the curbs? Women drivers...and thats at 35 mph. Imagine the damage they'd cause at 135 mph!
"They try to obfuscate things in the code, and don't leave clear directions for people using it later." Excuse me? "Try to?" Like, it's on purpose? I'll buy the article's premise, because I see it at work every day. I'm a little more cynical, because I get to hear the "defense" of obscure (i.e., passive-aggressive) code writing practices in meetings. I can't go a day without hearing some sort of gripe from the programmer about how unfair work is, or how under-appreciated, overworked they are, or how unrealistic the demands are. Their response is a natural one...stick it to the man by imbedding self-preserving code.
I work for a software company. Our female programmers get all the important work because, well, they are good at what they do. Most notably, they have PEOPLE skills and can contribute to the project in meetings. They improve quality in two ways. First, they care about the code they write (as the article states) and second, they aren't afraid to REWRITE code to make it better. They aren't defensive and recalcitrant when it comes to working out the bugs.
Of course, I don't think this is 100% gender related, because the female programmers that act like the stereotypical programmers also kinda suck at work too. I think it's more of an issue of having people skills and my anecdotal evidence supports hiring more female programmers.
Why is it that whenever Nukes and black market is mentioned, Iran gets a mentioned but some dodgy US allies don't? Name them. Perhaps you never hear of them, because none of the "dodgy" ones have nukes, and the legitimate allies already have nukes.
Isn't there an inverse correlation between intellect and how many broodlings one spits out? If that is true, then the solution to overpopulation is education. Unfortunately, it seems there are far more uneducated people in the world having 6-7 kids, which statistically negates my two children.
Right, I knew that, but it isn't a new Helvetica in Leopard compared to the one used in Tiger, right? Plus, how does a font used in the OS menus even remotely interfere with whatever design projects you've got going on?
Maybe his point is that this isn't as "fundamental" as you think. In other words, some people have a different opinion about it. For now, regardless of anyone's opinion, we have to go with what the court says. Cool how that works, eh?
9-0 would be scarier. I personally like the fact that there's a mix on the court, because surprisingly, not all 300 Americans feel the same way about everything. What I do find kind of scary is the level of dissent coming from the four. I'd figure they'd be able to at least partially see all sides to the case (which is their job after all).
Interesting. What has changed about the fonts? I'll have to fire up my wife's Macbook (Tiger) next to my Leopard and see. I haven't noticed a change at all, surprisingly. Given I do some layout and design at work and have a keen interest in typography, I thought I would have read about it or noticed it.
No, I mean even with all the aids turned off, there were too many times where the car is far too forgiving, like mashing the brake as hard as possible or stomping the gas too early in the middle of the turn. I then negated my entire comment by realizing I hadn't played GT5 with wheel/pedal combo, making my points moot, because I don't know what it does with more realistic input devices;-)
Is G25 the same thing as the GT5? Actually, now that I think about it, I just got my PS3 and don't have a wheel and pedals for it, so I retract everything I said about that (I think we can agree that control pads have NO place in racing simulators). I'm hoping that the lack of wheel and pedals is what left a bad taste in my mouth. I had to remind myself that the horrible braking going into some of those chicanes (especially that mountain course) was due solely to the fact that the brake pedal on a controller is either full on or full off...no ability to modulate. (The Xbox controller, if I remember, has a trigger that has a bit of play in it to allow for a little more realism).
I disagree 1,000,000 per cent. Gran Turismo has "OK" physics, which is good enough to make the masses happy. I just gave the new one a spin (the Prelude GT5 or whatever it's called) and they still have fake physics, complete with the inability to break traction with too much throttle or too hard on the brakes. Granted, it's beta software, but still, I can see the emphasis is on shiny 3d graphics and not the underlying physics model. However, the most important aspect of capturing racing simulation (i.e., cranking off fast lap times) is how realistic the braking points are and the throttle response. If a bump in the road doesn't cause the car to get light and force the driver to change his throttle input accordingly, then it just isn't realistic, just like all the GT series I've tried (all of them, I think?). Mash the gas (don't worry if your wheels are straight, or if your suspension has settled) go fast to the next corner...mash the brakes (don't worry about fade/modulation/trail braking), turn the wheel (don't worry about counter-steering to catch the back end) then mash the gas again. Rinse, repeat, unlock new car, track and song....booooooooooring.
I drive a small car with a small engine (2.3 turbo) with HUGE torque (280 ft. lb.) and pretty big horsepower for a small engine (260-ish).
When I speak of simulation, I speak of simulating the act of racing a car, not the ability to drive it around from a God-perspective. Driving from the roof-cam or the behind-car cam doesn't simulate anything in reality, because nobody drives this way. It also renders the driving physics as useless, as the physics of the car are strongly perceived from a set view point (the drivers seat). Even if the physics model is perfect, an improper perspective will make the physics feel wrong.
With that said, however, the GT series is still pretty fun, just not the same calibre as the old Papyrus stuff.
I was downloading and installing rFactor the day I saw that episode of Top Gear. Granted, it may have been a re-run, since when I lived in the UK, they'd play Top Gear 24-hours a day on 14 different channels.
GT4, TOCA, Gran Turismo 2 are not racing sims. They are arcade games. There are two ways to tell if a game is a real sim or not. If ANY music at all plays while you are on the track, it isn't a sim. If you have to "unlock" cars or tracks, it isn't a sim. I'll throw in a third and fourth. If you can run a legendary track in "backwards" mode, it isn't a sim, and if you can change the view to ANYTHING other than cockpit, it isn't a sim. One last one (and this is the one that most consoles fail at), if you can mash the gas or brake pedal all the way down and it doesn't affect your lateral integrity, then it definitely isn't a sim.
The last good MAINSTREAM sim I played was the Papyrus NASCAR racing series. Regardless of one's opinion about NASCAR style racing, that game nailed it.
Solution: If you "die", the game deletes itself from your hard drive, forcing you to reinstall. When cylons die, they just download again. Same concept?
It isn't learned behavior, or if it is, it is the most universal learned behavior ever investigated. Well, which is it? I'm fairly sure that there is no such thing as a fairness gene. Just as an infant has no fear of a poisonous snake, neither does an infant have a built in sense of fairness.
Selfishness is learned behavior. When a person realizes that the world isn't fair, and no one else is doing much of anything about it, they realize that they too must be selfish in order not to be taken advantage of. Seems that we couldn't agree more. Those are excellent points, and exactly what I've been saying in my posts. So as not to be taken advantage of, I take care of my own.
Slashdot Mirror
That was about the only post in this thread that should be modded up.
Facism? Every western government has some sort of Special Operations system in place with all the same provisions. I think it is more telling that the slashdot crowd is just now "discovering" what has been known about black operations since the beginning of time.
I'm not biased, nor do I harbor hatred for handicapped people. I do hate people with handicapped stickers that DON'T NEED THEM as evident by their ability to easily handle unwieldy, large, unsafe, Sport Utility Vehicles. Especially when they have big, blue hair, lots of bling, and speak with bodacious Texas accents when telling us all about their old-money rich rancher husbands.
It's not cause-and-effect but it is positively correlated.
Forget Road Rage indicators...there are plenty of bad driver indicators. My family has a "three strikes" rule (yes, we're a bunch of judgmental pricks). First, giant SUVs make you a choice suspect. Secondly, ANY multiple use of jingoistic slogans/logos/etc. get you closer to the trifecta. Single, subtle "support our troops" type stickers are fine, but plastering four or 5 of the stupid things on your giant SUV just make you suspect. The final touch is multiple stickers avowing any religious belief. More than one jesus fish is too many, for example. So if you have all of these, you ARE a bad driver, and give ME road rage. (Bonus touch...a special handicapped sticker on your GIANT SUV. If you are so damned handicapped that you need close up parking, then why in the hell are you driving a giant vehicle?)
Racing is a sport that requires physical strength, endurance and spacial understanding. That's why there aren't a lot of women in racing. Take a look at the curbs in any metro area...those black tire marks on all the curbs? Women drivers...and thats at 35 mph. Imagine the damage they'd cause at 135 mph!
Of course, I don't think this is 100% gender related, because the female programmers that act like the stereotypical programmers also kinda suck at work too. I think it's more of an issue of having people skills and my anecdotal evidence supports hiring more female programmers.
I get pissed off too when people classify me as an Evangelic, because I'm white and live in the South.
Isn't there an inverse correlation between intellect and how many broodlings one spits out? If that is true, then the solution to overpopulation is education. Unfortunately, it seems there are far more uneducated people in the world having 6-7 kids, which statistically negates my two children.
Right, I knew that, but it isn't a new Helvetica in Leopard compared to the one used in Tiger, right? Plus, how does a font used in the OS menus even remotely interfere with whatever design projects you've got going on?
Maybe his point is that this isn't as "fundamental" as you think. In other words, some people have a different opinion about it. For now, regardless of anyone's opinion, we have to go with what the court says. Cool how that works, eh?
9-0 would be scarier. I personally like the fact that there's a mix on the court, because surprisingly, not all 300 Americans feel the same way about everything. What I do find kind of scary is the level of dissent coming from the four. I'd figure they'd be able to at least partially see all sides to the case (which is their job after all).
Interesting. What has changed about the fonts? I'll have to fire up my wife's Macbook (Tiger) next to my Leopard and see. I haven't noticed a change at all, surprisingly. Given I do some layout and design at work and have a keen interest in typography, I thought I would have read about it or noticed it.
...running on PowerMacs
No, I mean even with all the aids turned off, there were too many times where the car is far too forgiving, like mashing the brake as hard as possible or stomping the gas too early in the middle of the turn. I then negated my entire comment by realizing I hadn't played GT5 with wheel/pedal combo, making my points moot, because I don't know what it does with more realistic input devices ;-)
I drive a small car with a small engine (2.3 turbo) with HUGE torque (280 ft. lb.) and pretty big horsepower for a small engine (260-ish).
When I speak of simulation, I speak of simulating the act of racing a car, not the ability to drive it around from a God-perspective. Driving from the roof-cam or the behind-car cam doesn't simulate anything in reality, because nobody drives this way. It also renders the driving physics as useless, as the physics of the car are strongly perceived from a set view point (the drivers seat). Even if the physics model is perfect, an improper perspective will make the physics feel wrong.
With that said, however, the GT series is still pretty fun, just not the same calibre as the old Papyrus stuff.
GT4, TOCA, Gran Turismo 2 are not racing sims. They are arcade games. There are two ways to tell if a game is a real sim or not. If ANY music at all plays while you are on the track, it isn't a sim. If you have to "unlock" cars or tracks, it isn't a sim. I'll throw in a third and fourth. If you can run a legendary track in "backwards" mode, it isn't a sim, and if you can change the view to ANYTHING other than cockpit, it isn't a sim. One last one (and this is the one that most consoles fail at), if you can mash the gas or brake pedal all the way down and it doesn't affect your lateral integrity, then it definitely isn't a sim.
The last good MAINSTREAM sim I played was the Papyrus NASCAR racing series. Regardless of one's opinion about NASCAR style racing, that game nailed it.