I found Monique Wadsted to be truely insightful in this. Describing how this is all a cult, and she should know a cult from defending the church of Scientology, and that's it's a myth young people have issues with copyright. Her knowledge bomb was how she never thought file sharing would last and that it's all just a fad. Thanks Monique and thanks for helping bring law back to Sweden!
I literally stayed home all last year (maybe a month outside tops) after leaving full time work, decided to dedicate the year to myself and leisure (damn first world problems! I'm only 29) and ended up spending over 12 hours every day online trying to keep up to date on the new breakthroughs and studies in most fields. The speed we're progressing at is so insane that perhaps this is why such articles are around, it's that there's so much ground breaking science happening our brains do what they do best and adapt to the patterns and assume them away.
I'm trying to rein myself in on the reading this year since there is just not enough time in the day to stay up-to-date and have a semblance of a life.
The book I'm reading at the moment, The God Problem, has a nice theory* replacing dark energy with gravity by proposing the shape of our universe as a 3D torus (or bagel as described in the book). I'm only about 10% of the way through, pretty big book, but finding it entertaining so far and if it continues to hold up in the face of verifiable data it would change our entire view of the universe. It's even calculated the potential end of the universe, when it annihilates with it's anti-matter cousin, as being under 2 billion years away and back to a cyclical pattern, which I find comforting compared to the deep freeze!
*It's not a new theory as the torus hypothesis has been around for awhile, but the data matching up with the shape does lend more creditability.
But with an abrahamic god pain was created and rather than "life and learning take effort and pain" the correct stance following the logic presented of the abrahamic god is that god is an asshole who chose to cause us pain and suffering for no reason. These things aren't required as god is all the omni's and therefore could have created a world without pain and suffering and still achieved the desired results.
It's one of the most obvious holes in the fairytale! An all knowing and all powerful god who is limited, reduced to creating a violent world and surprised by it.
To me there's definitely an underlying intellectual problem with believing, it's not a lack of intelligence just intellectual laziness. A visit to http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ isn't that difficult and having so many simple resources out there while still having billions believing is the height of intellectual laziness. Fear also plays a large role, fear of death or the unknown, it's nicer to block your ears and eyes and believe that no matter what happens you'll always be around and things will always get better. Remember you're special;)
What about the total lack of any evidence of the existence of Jesus? They still go on like that's fact when the first historical written account was written by someone born 30 years after his supposed death, hearsay at work!
Correct, also the reason why you can't buy books in the Kindle app. There are ways around it, and I doubt that's what is really stopping MS. Perhaps they are threatened by the years of development put into the various tablet office apps today for sub $20 prices?
Anyone who balked at the idea of 30% clearly hadn't worked in the field. I was one of many indies who couldn't believe Apple were only charging 30%!! Finally, we could avoid a raw deal from those evil portal sites that wanted to dictate the game's price, take 50%+ revenue, replace my company logo and branding with their own and remove any links back to my website.
LiveCode has been around for a very long time now and at least one high profile user in NASA.
It originally started as MetaCard back in the 90's having first heard about them after receiving an offer to create a game using the language for free (it was around $1,500 AU) when I was 15, I had a fairly popular website devoted to my hypercard games and was looking for a new language to learn and this one was just like Hypercard but in colour!!
Fast forward a few years and they were bought out by Runtime Revolution who started as an alternative IDE (last I heard Metacard is still usable as an alt IDE) and I ended up jumping back to it to create one last game before entering into my Biomolecular degree. It was a huge challenge to create a visually heavy and unique* Sim/Strategy mix though, the language and software are orientated towards database and text use. I remember using Hypercard to create a German to English translator to help catch up when I got the chicken pox in grade 4 and have always found xtalk to be incredibly easy when working with text.
I stand by the argument that Hypercard would have created a far better web than html, sad that Bill Atkinson missed the networking mark and that Hypercard is rarely appreciated for the impact it had on the evolution of the web.
*I only learnt post-release that my unique take on turn based and real time strategy had already been done better by a game called X-Com.
What's wrong with China? I'm hoping my country, Australia, starts aligning more with China and less with the USA. They're less threatening in my world view.
Hmm, never heard of increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles causes an increase in petrol use overall? I would bet that would stay true with power as well, as we get more efficient with power we'll use more of it.
The in-depth simulation aspect of SimCity is where sim games are headed, there's a bajillion ways (actual figure!) to improve the sim genre and graphics are never a factor!
Civ V with Gods and Kings is a huge improvement over Civ IV and I've clocked up over 200 hours in Civ IV and over 120 in Civ V. I got into the Sim City beta and loved the simulation side but despise the online DRM and the extremely limited map size. GP mentioned "sizes" when it's just one single sized region. The amazing sim engine they are toting is pretty good, but far from perfect. Many times I saw citizens and cars colliding with each other and passing right through, that killed the immersion and promise of a fully simulated agent. I gather the traffic collisions they went on about in previews is just a bool flag for high traffic areas rather than an accurate simulation of rudimentary physics.
Thinking Civ has pretty much covered everything now is like thinking the introduction of Colour TV was the be-all-end-all. We've barely scratched the surface of what a real Civ could be, or any sim for that matter. Wake me up when every single AI agent is simulated in detail with urges, wants, needs, desires, disgust, hatred, genetics, a simulated lifespan from birth to death....
If Sharp really do deliver on their promises, IGZO panels are going to dominate in the next few years. Like e-ink they don't require power for a static image and can be transparent, but unlike e-ink IGZO has fast response/refresh rates and supports high resolutions! There's a 32" 4K coming next month rumoured to be $5,500 US launch price. It's the same panels that caused Apple to release Plan B for the iPad 3.
When you actually talk to the people there, like myself, you find NO ONE wants to be like the US. It's just that we're all too lazy and pissed (as in beer) to bother with politics. It's the laid back Aussie style "who gives a shit mate", it's what happens when you make it illegal to not vote, people who wouldn't vote still don't put any thought or concern into it.
I've been trying out Skype at the urge of my mate with his new Lumia 920. It constantly delivers messages late, with the wrong time stamp and the iPad and Lumia Skype apps actually sort a conversation by who said what!! Not by time which is just too sensible right!? Overall, wondering how the hell this piece of crap managed to get so big!
What's so different about a gaymer compared to a gamer? Why the need to segregate gamers based on their personal sexuality? Do they prefer certain genres? Or just demand gay sex in the games they play?
Yeah my resting heart rate is 45 beats per minute thanks to my love of running and some very good genes! At the computer right now it's reporting 50 on my iPhone, so it more likely hovers around that during the day.
Over here in Australia we'd never have to worry about our Traffic lights being hijacked, in the city I live half our Traffic lights are run by a local council and the other half by the state, delve in deeper and you have 4 different control systems that are incapable of talking to one another. The joys of government!
The real issue is that people see "mentally ill" as negative and you're post clearly implies that too. I'm "mentally ill" having had bipolar since my early teens and being treated multiple times for suicidal attempts. I proudly talk about my depression if someone asks or the subject comes up, it's the only way to fight the stigma and get people talking more about it.
I guess in Australia it's not view as badly (wow, never thought I'd say that) as the states?
I'm simply trying to point out that what you said lacks technical sense to those genuinely interested in programming. Gameplay and code do not directly relate to each other and your comment implied they did. Maybe I came off harsh, but that's me, no different to how I speak away from the keyboard, hardly an insult worthy of anything.
If you want to be picky I find "The complete lack of any thought" is more of an insult than criticism. A critic shouldn't contain assumptions, more along the lines of "The apparently lack of.."
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I found Monique Wadsted to be truely insightful in this. Describing how this is all a cult, and she should know a cult from defending the church of Scientology, and that's it's a myth young people have issues with copyright. Her knowledge bomb was how she never thought file sharing would last and that it's all just a fad. Thanks Monique and thanks for helping bring law back to Sweden!
So very very true!
I literally stayed home all last year (maybe a month outside tops) after leaving full time work, decided to dedicate the year to myself and leisure (damn first world problems! I'm only 29) and ended up spending over 12 hours every day online trying to keep up to date on the new breakthroughs and studies in most fields. The speed we're progressing at is so insane that perhaps this is why such articles are around, it's that there's so much ground breaking science happening our brains do what they do best and adapt to the patterns and assume them away.
I'm trying to rein myself in on the reading this year since there is just not enough time in the day to stay up-to-date and have a semblance of a life.
The book I'm reading at the moment, The God Problem, has a nice theory* replacing dark energy with gravity by proposing the shape of our universe as a 3D torus (or bagel as described in the book). I'm only about 10% of the way through, pretty big book, but finding it entertaining so far and if it continues to hold up in the face of verifiable data it would change our entire view of the universe. It's even calculated the potential end of the universe, when it annihilates with it's anti-matter cousin, as being under 2 billion years away and back to a cyclical pattern, which I find comforting compared to the deep freeze!
*It's not a new theory as the torus hypothesis has been around for awhile, but the data matching up with the shape does lend more creditability.
But with an abrahamic god pain was created and rather than "life and learning take effort and pain" the correct stance following the logic presented of the abrahamic god is that god is an asshole who chose to cause us pain and suffering for no reason. These things aren't required as god is all the omni's and therefore could have created a world without pain and suffering and still achieved the desired results.
It's one of the most obvious holes in the fairytale! An all knowing and all powerful god who is limited, reduced to creating a violent world and surprised by it.
To me there's definitely an underlying intellectual problem with believing, it's not a lack of intelligence just intellectual laziness. A visit to http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ isn't that difficult and having so many simple resources out there while still having billions believing is the height of intellectual laziness. Fear also plays a large role, fear of death or the unknown, it's nicer to block your ears and eyes and believe that no matter what happens you'll always be around and things will always get better. Remember you're special ;)
What about the total lack of any evidence of the existence of Jesus? They still go on like that's fact when the first historical written account was written by someone born 30 years after his supposed death, hearsay at work!
Sounds like a government?
Correct, also the reason why you can't buy books in the Kindle app. There are ways around it, and I doubt that's what is really stopping MS. Perhaps they are threatened by the years of development put into the various tablet office apps today for sub $20 prices?
Anyone who balked at the idea of 30% clearly hadn't worked in the field. I was one of many indies who couldn't believe Apple were only charging 30%!! Finally, we could avoid a raw deal from those evil portal sites that wanted to dictate the game's price, take 50%+ revenue, replace my company logo and branding with their own and remove any links back to my website.
LiveCode has been around for a very long time now and at least one high profile user in NASA.
It originally started as MetaCard back in the 90's having first heard about them after receiving an offer to create a game using the language for free (it was around $1,500 AU) when I was 15, I had a fairly popular website devoted to my hypercard games and was looking for a new language to learn and this one was just like Hypercard but in colour!!
Fast forward a few years and they were bought out by Runtime Revolution who started as an alternative IDE (last I heard Metacard is still usable as an alt IDE) and I ended up jumping back to it to create one last game before entering into my Biomolecular degree. It was a huge challenge to create a visually heavy and unique* Sim/Strategy mix though, the language and software are orientated towards database and text use. I remember using Hypercard to create a German to English translator to help catch up when I got the chicken pox in grade 4 and have always found xtalk to be incredibly easy when working with text.
I stand by the argument that Hypercard would have created a far better web than html, sad that Bill Atkinson missed the networking mark and that Hypercard is rarely appreciated for the impact it had on the evolution of the web.
*I only learnt post-release that my unique take on turn based and real time strategy had already been done better by a game called X-Com.
What's wrong with China? I'm hoping my country, Australia, starts aligning more with China and less with the USA. They're less threatening in my world view.
FYI This is the second portion of the European funding with the first being reported on slashdot a few days ago, the Human Brain Project.
Hmm, never heard of increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles causes an increase in petrol use overall? I would bet that would stay true with power as well, as we get more efficient with power we'll use more of it.
The in-depth simulation aspect of SimCity is where sim games are headed, there's a bajillion ways (actual figure!) to improve the sim genre and graphics are never a factor!
Civ V with Gods and Kings is a huge improvement over Civ IV and I've clocked up over 200 hours in Civ IV and over 120 in Civ V. I got into the Sim City beta and loved the simulation side but despise the online DRM and the extremely limited map size. GP mentioned "sizes" when it's just one single sized region. The amazing sim engine they are toting is pretty good, but far from perfect. Many times I saw citizens and cars colliding with each other and passing right through, that killed the immersion and promise of a fully simulated agent. I gather the traffic collisions they went on about in previews is just a bool flag for high traffic areas rather than an accurate simulation of rudimentary physics.
Thinking Civ has pretty much covered everything now is like thinking the introduction of Colour TV was the be-all-end-all. We've barely scratched the surface of what a real Civ could be, or any sim for that matter. Wake me up when every single AI agent is simulated in detail with urges, wants, needs, desires, disgust, hatred, genetics, a simulated lifespan from birth to death....
If Sharp really do deliver on their promises, IGZO panels are going to dominate in the next few years. Like e-ink they don't require power for a static image and can be transparent, but unlike e-ink IGZO has fast response/refresh rates and supports high resolutions! There's a 32" 4K coming next month rumoured to be $5,500 US launch price. It's the same panels that caused Apple to release Plan B for the iPad 3.
TLDR; Check out this (cheesy) video where IGZO introduces "himself" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUUXoFsjoY
When you actually talk to the people there, like myself, you find NO ONE wants to be like the US. It's just that we're all too lazy and pissed (as in beer) to bother with politics. It's the laid back Aussie style "who gives a shit mate", it's what happens when you make it illegal to not vote, people who wouldn't vote still don't put any thought or concern into it.
It's AUSSIE!!! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! :D We don't go around biting off bat heads you dingo!
I've been trying out Skype at the urge of my mate with his new Lumia 920. It constantly delivers messages late, with the wrong time stamp and the iPad and Lumia Skype apps actually sort a conversation by who said what!! Not by time which is just too sensible right!? Overall, wondering how the hell this piece of crap managed to get so big!
What's so different about a gaymer compared to a gamer? Why the need to segregate gamers based on their personal sexuality? Do they prefer certain genres? Or just demand gay sex in the games they play?
- From a confused gamer
haha, I've had it professional measured and can even count it myself. Also it's called exercise, you only have yourself to blame!
Yeah my resting heart rate is 45 beats per minute thanks to my love of running and some very good genes! At the computer right now it's reporting 50 on my iPhone, so it more likely hovers around that during the day.
Over here in Australia we'd never have to worry about our Traffic lights being hijacked, in the city I live half our Traffic lights are run by a local council and the other half by the state, delve in deeper and you have 4 different control systems that are incapable of talking to one another. The joys of government!
The real issue is that people see "mentally ill" as negative and you're post clearly implies that too. I'm "mentally ill" having had bipolar since my early teens and being treated multiple times for suicidal attempts. I proudly talk about my depression if someone asks or the subject comes up, it's the only way to fight the stigma and get people talking more about it.
I guess in Australia it's not view as badly (wow, never thought I'd say that) as the states?
I'm simply trying to point out that what you said lacks technical sense to those genuinely interested in programming. Gameplay and code do not directly relate to each other and your comment implied they did. Maybe I came off harsh, but that's me, no different to how I speak away from the keyboard, hardly an insult worthy of anything.
If you want to be picky I find "The complete lack of any thought" is more of an insult than criticism. A critic shouldn't contain assumptions, more along the lines of "The apparently lack of.."
Someone's on their rags.... What it's ok for your to criticize but if someone does it back it's totally unfair?