Warrock is pretty good. It's not open source and I don't think there is a Linux version, but you can play it for free. The downside is that you will have to tolerate the constant bitching and bickering of 14-year olds.
Don't underestimate the power of Slashdot. It's as if millions of mouse clicks suddenly jumped out into the internets and the servers where suddenly silenced.
I can't quite follow the Crysis thrashing. Crysis was the best looking game ever when it was released and I was surprised to get a decent (>20) framerate while playing with DX9 high settings on my mid-range XP64 with 8800GTX.
And the effects in Crysis, like explosions and water are still the best I have ever seen. In fact, the water in Crysis looks so good that I wish someone would make an X-Com Terror From The Deep 3D-remake using the Crysis engine.:D
I'm not sure I fully agree with the article. Metaphors can help in better assimilating new knowledge by making it more natural to work with. Think about what object orientation has done for programming. If we had done as Dijsktra suggests and approached software engineering with an "open mind" maybe we would still be coding in assembler, as that is the "purest" way to interact and think the way computers do.
Humans "detach" themselves from natural selection all the time.
Should we let a mother and her baby die instead of performing a C-section? Should we let all cancer patients die instead of trying to heal them with operations and antibiotics? Should we let people die of diseases X, Y and Z instead of providing vaccines?
After all, these people "should" have died if it wasn't for our modern medicine. So what you are addressing is actually much bigger in scope.
But I get your drift. I'm definitively no Nazi... but if you think about it logically, you have to wonder if humanity is not weakening itself in the long run by "dragging along" all those people that are weaker and would have died off some disease or disorder early in their lives.
German and Latin are good languages, both are a lot easier than English.
I'm a native German speaker with an English and Spanish background. Most non-german people I know would definitively agree that German is more difficuilt than any latin-based language like Spanish, French and English. The biggest complaints being the complex grammar and hard pronounciation, due to extremely long words with lots of consonants.
Just sayin'...
Islam isn't any more violent that Christianity is. If you look into the old testament, you'll find the same "kill all unbelievers" and divine mass murder that people like to quote from the Quran so much.
The only question is how those words from holy books are interpreted. One thousand years ago, us christians where the ones being violent and commiting crimes in the name of our religion. Think the crusades, the inquisition and the damage commited to researchers and progress during the dark ages.
During that time, the arabic culture was the one profiting from a liberal society and reaping all it's benefits. Today, it is mostly the other way around, but there are good reasons for this.
Most arabic nations are led by a small elite of quasi-dictatorships that are/where being supported by the West, like Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, formally Iraq, etc. This elite is obscenely rich and powerful, whereas most of the population is very poor. What happens when people are very poor and oppressed by a wealthy elite? They are easily swayed by anything that promises them change and a better future. In the arab world, this usually means turning towards are religion that is fiercely opposed to the wealthy oppressors and their Western backers.
Contrary to what many believe, people don't blow themselves up just for fun and profit. There is genuine despair and helplessness there.
I don't see why legacy app support is such a big deal in the world of multiboot configurations, VMWares and excess CPU power (for "normal" applications), except perhaps that setting up a dual-boot config or installing a VM is beyond the capabilities of the average PC user.
What Microsoft should do is create a new, clean and stable Windows Version with integrated multi-boot support and ship it with the most recent, useful Windows (eg. XP) free of charge. Then find a way to sorta Alt+Tab between OSes.
[dreammode]And then make it open source and only charge consumers for help & support.[/dreammode]
I remember reading somewhere that maybe we don't live in a universe that has made us, but rather, the universe is made up by minds as we go.
The day before I read about StarCraft II coming out, I was thinking how cool it would be if Blizzard would finally make a sequel to StarCraft. I swear to god, yesterday I was wondering what the next installment of Diablo would look like.
This is creeping me out.
since they are governed by unelected representatives Actually, there are elections in most communist countries. The catch is, that there are only members of the communist party on the ballot.
I'll never understand the american political climate. Bill Clinton boosted the economy, slashed foreign debt, was very well received by most of the world, yet he almost got impeached because of some affair with a secretary.
George Bush lied to the american people numerous times, is throwing incredible amounts of money away for a war based on false facts, has boosted terrorism and anti-american sentiment all over the world, ignores human rights and international law, didn't accomplish anything at all except increasing military spending and oil price to historical levels... and there he was... happily going about his business for the full 8 years of his two terms, without anybody stopping him.
Can someone please explain this to me?
I think I'm going to create a company that produces breathable air.
And every year I'm going to complain about the billions of dollars of revenue that all the people who breathe free air are COSTING me.
Damn communists screwheads!
>1. Having skin exposed to anything less than 37oC makes you colder.
I think this is wrong. Having skin exposed at 37C would make you very hot. Your body produces excess heat that has to be expelled somehow. At 37 the environment wouldn't take any heat away from you so your body would start to sweat in an effort to get rid of the excess heat more efficiently.
"Where will all this liquid carbon be stored? The researchers don't know. They suggest that it could be stored in geological formations or under the oceans."
Sounds just like what the Titanians did before it all got out of hand and ruined their planet.
The doomed Titanians
Dude, you do know that it's the managers of U.S. and european companies that outsource jobs and production to China and other cheap countries, right? Over there they cost of a years employment is what an U.S. worker would demand in a week with the added plus that nobody cares about you pumping all that green ooze into their holy river at night.
It's all about increasing the already exorbitant profit-margins of big companies just a little bit more. Make the stock price go up and let rich bastards get even richer.
Don't blame the chinese for that. Blame greed and... capitalism actually. Funny that.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought it was Googles coup to prevent Microsoft from aquiring Yahoo.
It's not about automating creativity. It's about "creating fun GAMErules automatically". That is something entirely different. Read the text properly.
Warrock is pretty good. It's not open source and I don't think there is a Linux version, but you can play it for free. The downside is that you will have to tolerate the constant bitching and bickering of 14-year olds.
Don't underestimate the power of Slashdot. It's as if millions of mouse clicks suddenly jumped out into the internets and the servers where suddenly silenced.
And the effects in Crysis, like explosions and water are still the best I have ever seen. In fact, the water in Crysis looks so good that I wish someone would make an X-Com Terror From The Deep 3D-remake using the Crysis engine. :D
I'm not sure I fully agree with the article. Metaphors can help in better assimilating new knowledge by making it more natural to work with. Think about what object orientation has done for programming. If we had done as Dijsktra suggests and approached software engineering with an "open mind" maybe we would still be coding in assembler, as that is the "purest" way to interact and think the way computers do.
Your translation is wrong. Translating his post into Chinese actually requires at least 26 characters, not 12.
Humans "detach" themselves from natural selection all the time. Should we let a mother and her baby die instead of performing a C-section? Should we let all cancer patients die instead of trying to heal them with operations and antibiotics? Should we let people die of diseases X, Y and Z instead of providing vaccines? After all, these people "should" have died if it wasn't for our modern medicine. So what you are addressing is actually much bigger in scope. But I get your drift. I'm definitively no Nazi... but if you think about it logically, you have to wonder if humanity is not weakening itself in the long run by "dragging along" all those people that are weaker and would have died off some disease or disorder early in their lives.
pissing contest...egoistical morons ...for fucks sake... end the pissing ...assholes...
part.
German and Latin are good languages, both are a lot easier than English.
I'm a native German speaker with an English and Spanish background. Most non-german people I know would definitively agree that German is more difficuilt than any latin-based language like Spanish, French and English. The biggest complaints being the complex grammar and hard pronounciation, due to extremely long words with lots of consonants. Just sayin'...
Islam isn't any more violent that Christianity is. If you look into the old testament, you'll find the same "kill all unbelievers" and divine mass murder that people like to quote from the Quran so much.
The only question is how those words from holy books are interpreted. One thousand years ago, us christians where the ones being violent and commiting crimes in the name of our religion. Think the crusades, the inquisition and the damage commited to researchers and progress during the dark ages.
During that time, the arabic culture was the one profiting from a liberal society and reaping all it's benefits. Today, it is mostly the other way around, but there are good reasons for this.
Most arabic nations are led by a small elite of quasi-dictatorships that are/where being supported by the West, like Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, formally Iraq, etc. This elite is obscenely rich and powerful, whereas most of the population is very poor. What happens when people are very poor and oppressed by a wealthy elite? They are easily swayed by anything that promises them change and a better future. In the arab world, this usually means turning towards are religion that is fiercely opposed to the wealthy oppressors and their Western backers.
Contrary to what many believe, people don't blow themselves up just for fun and profit. There is genuine despair and helplessness there.
I don't see why legacy app support is such a big deal in the world of multiboot configurations, VMWares and excess CPU power (for "normal" applications), except perhaps that setting up a dual-boot config or installing a VM is beyond the capabilities of the average PC user.
What Microsoft should do is create a new, clean and stable Windows Version with integrated multi-boot support and ship it with the most recent, useful Windows (eg. XP) free of charge. Then find a way to sorta Alt+Tab between OSes.
[dreammode]And then make it open source and only charge consumers for help & support.[/dreammode]
I remember reading somewhere that maybe we don't live in a universe that has made us, but rather, the universe is made up by minds as we go. The day before I read about StarCraft II coming out, I was thinking how cool it would be if Blizzard would finally make a sequel to StarCraft. I swear to god, yesterday I was wondering what the next installment of Diablo would look like. This is creeping me out.
Am I the only one who, while browsing ones slashdot RSS-feeds, keeps reading that Bell and SuperMario where sued by the GPL?
I'll never understand the american political climate. Bill Clinton boosted the economy, slashed foreign debt, was very well received by most of the world, yet he almost got impeached because of some affair with a secretary. George Bush lied to the american people numerous times, is throwing incredible amounts of money away for a war based on false facts, has boosted terrorism and anti-american sentiment all over the world, ignores human rights and international law, didn't accomplish anything at all except increasing military spending and oil price to historical levels... and there he was... happily going about his business for the full 8 years of his two terms, without anybody stopping him. Can someone please explain this to me?
I think I'm going to create a company that produces breathable air. And every year I'm going to complain about the billions of dollars of revenue that all the people who breathe free air are COSTING me. Damn communists screwheads!
>1. Having skin exposed to anything less than 37oC makes you colder. I think this is wrong. Having skin exposed at 37C would make you very hot. Your body produces excess heat that has to be expelled somehow. At 37 the environment wouldn't take any heat away from you so your body would start to sweat in an effort to get rid of the excess heat more efficiently.
The developers where obviously having some THC.
"Where will all this liquid carbon be stored? The researchers don't know. They suggest that it could be stored in geological formations or under the oceans."
Sounds just like what the Titanians did before it all got out of hand and ruined their planet.
The doomed Titanians
Dude, you do know that it's the managers of U.S. and european companies that outsource jobs and production to China and other cheap countries, right? Over there they cost of a years employment is what an U.S. worker would demand in a week with the added plus that nobody cares about you pumping all that green ooze into their holy river at night. It's all about increasing the already exorbitant profit-margins of big companies just a little bit more. Make the stock price go up and let rich bastards get even richer. Don't blame the chinese for that. Blame greed and... capitalism actually. Funny that.