The 'Deja Vu' sense you get in the Matrix is not a bug. It's an artifact caused when the machines that run the Matrix make an alteration to something nearby the person who experience the 'Deja Vu.' I would hazard to guess it occurs because it's apparently not possible for them to make such massive changes in real time while the simulation is running, so they make the change and then 'play back' from a few moments ago, which causes the 'Deja Vu'.
Although, why some entity with enough processing power and intelligence to design a simulation completely capable of fooling the human brain can't make a real-time edit, I don't know.
What I was most strenously objecting to, and I apologise for inciting your wrath, oh Most Ancient One, is the comparison the G'G'P Poster made with EA.
EA is a shithole, and I don't doubt that Game Design is even more dog-eat-dog than game programming, but using the worst possible example in an industry (EA) to make a decision about said industry as a whole is a Bad Thing(TM).
Please, Oh Most Ancient One, whose/. UID is far lower than mine, please, forgive my youthful impudence.
Since you're apparently new here, I should point out the fact that 'Funny' doesn't improve your Karma, idiot.
Educate yourself or remove yourself from the population.
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GEEK: Bring out your obsolete boxen!
Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
NETCRAFT: Ah! Good, Good! Here's one for you -- and here's your one gig of porn.
AMIGA: I'm not obsolete!
GEEK: What?
NETCRAFT: 'S Nothing -- here's your one gig of porn now.
AMIGA: I'm not obsolete, I'm not!
GEEK: Oy, what's this here? He says he's not obsolete!
NETCRAFT: Oh, Yes, Yes, he is.
AMIGA: I'm not!
GEEK: He isn't obsolete.
NETCRAFT: Yes, Well, he will be soon, you see. He's dying.
AMIGA: No I'm not! I'm gaining market share!
NETCRAFT: Oh no, you're not -- you'll be stone dead and useless in a moment.
GEEK: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations y'know.
AMIGA: I don't want to go in the dumpster! I don't want to go in the dumpster!
NETCRAFT: Oh, don't be such a baby. It's just like being on Hibernate!
GEEK: I can't take him like that.
AMIGA: I feel useful! I feel useful!
NETCRAFT: Oh, do us a favor... c'mon.
GEEK: I can't.
NETCRAFT: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. Less market-share than Punch-cards and Paper-tape.
GEEK: Naaah, I really got to go on to IBM's -- they've lost OS/2 this last week.
NETCRAFT: Well, when is your next round, then?
GEEK: Oh, I won't be back around here till next Thursday.
AMIGA: I think I'll go do a compile, now!
NETCRAFT: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, mate, isn't there something you can do here?
AMIGA: I feel useful... I feel useful. I'm just gonna do a little compile!
[bzzzzzzzzzzzzttttttt]
NETCRAFT: Ah, thanks very much.
GEEK: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
In response to your.sig: What about those of us who realise that a.45 is better for stopping someone on PCP than a.22, but a.22 is better for a Mob-Style, back of the head, execution?
Seriously. I've recently started a website that has an online forum (what, you were expecting a link? I'm not eager for a/.'ing) after a schism with another online forum, and I've gotten wave after wave of trolls coming over and wrecking the place.
I had most of them banned, and the ones with static IP addresses banned by the IP, and then one of them brilliantly discovered the use of proxies and anonymous surfing sites (it was brilliant for a bunch of trolls, atleast), and I was back at square one.
I'm rather cynical about Government, being a Rational Anarchist (and no, it's not an oxymoron, thank you,) but you do not want people to do things without the possiblity of reprisal. That's the whole reason the law works -- bad things can happen to you. And as anyone who has ever had a website defaced or completely ruined and valuable data and off-site backups (off-site from your home, that is) lost, you'll see why.
However, the problem isn't with Proxies -- they're just a tool, and like any other tool you can use them for good or evil. You can use a hammer to build a house, or to bash your best mate's skull in. That doesn't mean we should ban hammers.
The Problem is with People. And the problem is so prolific on the internet because you can do things on the internet that in real life would get the crap beaten out of you.
After all, if you walked into a bar and started calling everyone in it faggots, you'd probably wind up with a cracked skull. And since these people called 'Trolls' can't do these things in real life, they do them online.
This problem, this use of things in wrong or evil manners, will not change until humanity itself changes, and the more and more I age the more and more I learn about Humanity, and the more and more I realise that this change will most certainly never come about willingly, or easily, because I've learned that the vast amount of people are a) lazy, and b) unconcerned with personal betterment.
It should be 'Yin and Yang' never 'Yin or Yang,' and upon looking at an actual picture you may see why.
You cannot have good without evil, or hot without cold, because if something is relative, you always have to have something to measure it against.
Also, a much better arguement, in this particular case, is that the Yin contains the seed of the Yang, and the Yang the seed of the Yin. One never exists without atleast a little bit of the other.
You've been playing Vampire: the Masquerade far too long, because that's not what Shadowrun's Essence was all about.
Shadowrun is a mixture of Cyberpunk and Fantasy. And one of the concepts of Shadowrun is that everyone has Essence, which is their Life Force, not their 'Humanity.' The more cyberwear you install, the lower your essence goes, because the less meat there is on your corpse the less living tissue imbued with life force you have.
This was a big problem with Mages and other people who used magic (Adepts and Mages and Shamans, pretty much) because your Magic Attribute (which determined how big of a stick you could swing magically) was linked to your essence. For every integer point of essence you lose, you lose a point of Magic.
So if you're a Mage and you get cybereyes, which would cost.2 essence according to the SR3, making your essence drop from 6 to 5.8, your magic would drop from 6 to 5.
And when your Magic gets to 0, you're burned out, and there is no way to ever raise it again, and you can't use magic ever again.
However, when you essence gets to Zero, you die. Instantly.
There's just not enough life force to keep your corpse moving./p.
You didn't offend me. It's very hard to offend me. Atleast, it's hard to make me angry. The tooth was just particularly painful at that moment and it was manifesting its will, as I do believe it has come alive and is truely some sort of parasite, and is slowly invading my brain via the nerves that go through the jaw, to be known.
Yes, Zonk was, indeed, out on a Bender last night. Also present were Fry and Leela, who declined to comment other than saying, "Zonk's just zis guy, you know?"
Sir, I have a wisdom tooth that is broken in half and it will not come out, nor can I have it removed. I apologise for the lack of spell-checking, but I'm rather loopy at the moment.
We can blame God for all kinds of things like hurricanes and Godzilla but it's a safe bet that we brought THAT scourge upon ourselves.
Hey, now! We all know perfectly well that Godzilla was a result of the United States dumping radioactives into ocean waters, part of their plan to keep on supressing Japan after the war. After all, if Tokyo hadn't been leveled by Godzilla every 6 months, Japan would have taken its rightful place as ruler of the world!
Music is something that many people enjoy by themselves. Witness all the cars equipped with stereos: the lone occupant of the car listens to music on her way to and from work.
Yep, when you're right, you're right. There's nothing like listening to someone enjoy their music in their car on their loud-ass stereo and their insanely loud base that's rattlin' my fillin's.
Yep, they're certainly enjoying it by themselves, 'cause me and the other commuters who can't hear ourselves think aren't.
A five year old AIWA with 30 Watt speakers. You're welcome to it if you can get past the German Sheepherd and survive having six.45's emptied into your chest from my revolver.
An opinion may be unpopular (and this is/., so you may get flamed) but I do thank you for your view of the situation, seeing as how you actually use Java a great deal. Thank you.
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The 'Deja Vu' sense you get in the Matrix is not a bug. It's an artifact caused when the machines that run the Matrix make an alteration to something nearby the person who experience the 'Deja Vu.' I would hazard to guess it occurs because it's apparently not possible for them to make such massive changes in real time while the simulation is running, so they make the change and then 'play back' from a few moments ago, which causes the 'Deja Vu'.
Although, why some entity with enough processing power and intelligence to design a simulation completely capable of fooling the human brain can't make a real-time edit, I don't know.
Yes, but 'lay-person insane' and 'legally insane' are two very different things.
To be legally insane, it must be demonstrated that you do not understand the difference between right and wrong, as defined by the rest of society.
He apparently did know the difference, since he said he feels bad about doing it afterwards.
If you feel guilt or regret for an action, it follows that you knew what you were doing was wrong.
What I was most strenously objecting to, and I apologise for inciting your wrath, oh Most Ancient One, is the comparison the G'G'P Poster made with EA.
EA is a shithole, and I don't doubt that Game Design is even more dog-eat-dog than game programming, but using the worst possible example in an industry (EA) to make a decision about said industry as a whole is a Bad Thing(TM).
Please, Oh Most Ancient One, whose /. UID is far lower than mine, please, forgive my youthful impudence.
Oi! I know reading the fucking article isn't required here, after all, I've been here alot longer than you, but how the hell did you get informative?
My Modding Brethern: Game Designer != Game Programmer
See?! Tequila makes me funny!
Why not post to /. while drunk? It's how I get all my '+5, Funny' moderations!
Since you're apparently new here, I should point out the fact that 'Funny' doesn't improve your Karma, idiot.
Educate yourself or remove yourself from the population.
GEEK: Bring out your obsolete boxen!
Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
[clang] Bring out your obsolete boxen over here!
NETCRAFT: Ah! Good, Good! Here's one for you -- and here's your one gig of porn.
AMIGA: I'm not obsolete!
GEEK: What?
NETCRAFT: 'S Nothing -- here's your one gig of porn now.
AMIGA: I'm not obsolete, I'm not!
GEEK: Oy, what's this here? He says he's not obsolete!
NETCRAFT: Oh, Yes, Yes, he is.
AMIGA: I'm not!
GEEK: He isn't obsolete.
NETCRAFT: Yes, Well, he will be soon, you see. He's dying.
AMIGA: No I'm not! I'm gaining market share!
NETCRAFT: Oh no, you're not -- you'll be stone dead and useless in a moment.
GEEK: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations y'know.
AMIGA: I don't want to go in the dumpster! I don't want to go in the dumpster!
NETCRAFT: Oh, don't be such a baby. It's just like being on Hibernate!
GEEK: I can't take him like that.
AMIGA: I feel useful! I feel useful!
NETCRAFT: Oh, do us a favor... c'mon.
GEEK: I can't.
NETCRAFT: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. Less market-share than Punch-cards and Paper-tape.
GEEK: Naaah, I really got to go on to IBM's -- they've lost OS/2 this last week.
NETCRAFT: Well, when is your next round, then?
GEEK: Oh, I won't be back around here till next Thursday.
AMIGA: I think I'll go do a compile, now!
NETCRAFT: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, mate, isn't there something you can do here?
AMIGA: I feel useful... I feel useful. I'm just gonna do a little compile!
[bzzzzzzzzzzzzttttttt]
NETCRAFT: Ah, thanks very much.
GEEK: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Don't you mean their Korean division?
Sir, I don't celebrate Christmas, but I do think I am going to have to get you a gift this year.
Thank you. I feel that I would have made my instructors finally feel that their tutelage was not entirely wasted.
In response to your .sig: What about those of us who realise that a .45 is better for stopping someone on PCP than a .22, but a .22 is better for a Mob-Style, back of the head, execution?
Not that I've ever done either of those. Oh, no.
What, you think I'm lyin'? You callin' me a liar?
You callin' me a liar, issat i-
Er...
Seriously. I've recently started a website that has an online forum (what, you were expecting a link? I'm not eager for a /.'ing) after a schism with another online forum, and I've gotten wave after wave of trolls coming over and wrecking the place.
I had most of them banned, and the ones with static IP addresses banned by the IP, and then one of them brilliantly discovered the use of proxies and anonymous surfing sites (it was brilliant for a bunch of trolls, atleast), and I was back at square one.
I'm rather cynical about Government, being a Rational Anarchist (and no, it's not an oxymoron, thank you,) but you do not want people to do things without the possiblity of reprisal. That's the whole reason the law works -- bad things can happen to you. And as anyone who has ever had a website defaced or completely ruined and valuable data and off-site backups (off-site from your home, that is) lost, you'll see why.
However, the problem isn't with Proxies -- they're just a tool, and like any other tool you can use them for good or evil. You can use a hammer to build a house, or to bash your best mate's skull in. That doesn't mean we should ban hammers.
The Problem is with People. And the problem is so prolific on the internet because you can do things on the internet that in real life would get the crap beaten out of you.
After all, if you walked into a bar and started calling everyone in it faggots, you'd probably wind up with a cracked skull. And since these people called 'Trolls' can't do these things in real life, they do them online.
This problem, this use of things in wrong or evil manners, will not change until humanity itself changes, and the more and more I age the more and more I learn about Humanity, and the more and more I realise that this change will most certainly never come about willingly, or easily, because I've learned that the vast amount of people are a) lazy, and b) unconcerned with personal betterment.
That, and they just don't care.
It should be 'Yin and Yang' never 'Yin or Yang,' and upon looking at an actual picture you may see why.
You cannot have good without evil, or hot without cold, because if something is relative, you always have to have something to measure it against.
Also, a much better arguement, in this particular case, is that the Yin contains the seed of the Yang, and the Yang the seed of the Yin. One never exists without atleast a little bit of the other.
The count on that Cadence Call is off a little.
You've been playing Vampire: the Masquerade far too long, because that's not what Shadowrun's Essence was all about.
Shadowrun is a mixture of Cyberpunk and Fantasy. And one of the concepts of Shadowrun is that everyone has Essence, which is their Life Force, not their 'Humanity.' The more cyberwear you install, the lower your essence goes, because the less meat there is on your corpse the less living tissue imbued with life force you have.
This was a big problem with Mages and other people who used magic (Adepts and Mages and Shamans, pretty much) because your Magic Attribute (which determined how big of a stick you could swing magically) was linked to your essence. For every integer point of essence you lose, you lose a point of Magic.
So if you're a Mage and you get cybereyes, which would cost .2 essence according to the SR3, making your essence drop from 6 to 5.8, your magic would drop from 6 to 5.
And when your Magic gets to 0, you're burned out, and there is no way to ever raise it again, and you can't use magic ever again.
However, when you essence gets to Zero, you die. Instantly.
There's just not enough life force to keep your corpse moving./p.
Reminds of the time Zoidberg ate me.
Zoidberg: Woo woo woo wooo!
You didn't offend me. It's very hard to offend me. Atleast, it's hard to make me angry. The tooth was just particularly painful at that moment and it was manifesting its will, as I do believe it has come alive and is truely some sort of parasite, and is slowly invading my brain via the nerves that go through the jaw, to be known.
Yes, Zonk was, indeed, out on a Bender last night. Also present were Fry and Leela, who declined to comment other than saying, "Zonk's just zis guy, you know?"
Sir, I have a wisdom tooth that is broken in half and it will not come out, nor can I have it removed. I apologise for the lack of spell-checking, but I'm rather loopy at the moment.
Hey, now! We all know perfectly well that Godzilla was a result of the United States dumping radioactives into ocean waters, part of their plan to keep on supressing Japan after the war. After all, if Tokyo hadn't been leveled by Godzilla every 6 months, Japan would have taken its rightful place as ruler of the world!
Yep, when you're right, you're right. There's nothing like listening to someone enjoy their music in their car on their loud-ass stereo and their insanely loud base that's rattlin' my fillin's.
Yep, they're certainly enjoying it by themselves, 'cause me and the other commuters who can't hear ourselves think aren't.
A five year old AIWA with 30 Watt speakers. You're welcome to it if you can get past the German Sheepherd and survive having six .45's emptied into your chest from my revolver.
An opinion may be unpopular (and this is /., so you may get flamed) but I do thank you for your view of the situation, seeing as how you actually use Java a great deal. Thank you.
I said Java is useless except for extremely specific things, one of which would be Web Applications, and the other would be ease of portability.