Please don't equate Atheism to Nihilism. Just because you're Atheist DOES NOT imply you have a complete lack of morals or beliefs. Entirely unnecessary to your point too, Christian developers, Jewish developers, etc. could all easily find a way to justify what you're describing.
The truly insane part is, you can buy items, but luckily they have character level restrictions. Broken, but at least only so much. Unfortunately, they're going so far as to let you SELL CHARACTERS ON THE REAL MONEY AUCTION HOUSE. So, I can't buy that +50 axe because it requires me to be level 30. So... I'll just buy a level 30 character.
WHAT.
Maybe trying to game on your laptop? Maybe trying to game when you have an internet connection that charges you if you go over your monthly allowance of data? Maybe trying to play diablo 3 on a PLANE or in a CAR ? These things are now impossible.
DRM = I WILL NOT BUY THIS. Will not budge on that one. Have resisted several Ubisoft games since their ridiculous new system.
YOU DON'T PUNISH YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Too bad, too, because all the changes they were making to the gameplay had me excited about D3. Ah well.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but MSAA is already embarrassingly parallel, and provides for better fidelity than this newfangled MLAA.
Yes, its faster than MSAA, but modern GPUs are already pretty good at handling real-time MSAA.
Yeah, that is exactly what I was wondering. I suppose the idea is for systems with bad integrated graphics cards, or with mobile devices that have no dedicated graphics.
Then these are still just tips that EVERYONE who writes programs should be aware of. Don't over engineer, don't worry too much about efficiency at first, premature optimization is the root of all evil. On the other hand, be aware that readability and maintainability can be very important in code if it is going to be used more than as a one-off, or if it is going to be used by a team.
This assumes people are very clearly an engineer/programmer OR a scientist. But I would consider most software engineers to be computer scientists as well. Its a fairly nonsense distinction. The analogy to spiderman and doc ock is fun, but ultimately metaphor don't prove anything.
"Programmers need to understand that sometimes a program really only needs to run once, on one set of input, with expert supervision. Scientists need to understand that prototype code may need a complete rewrite before it can be used in production."
This is just an extreme generalization, to the point of stereotyping.
"However, its authority is derived from the U.S. Congress and is subject to congressional oversight. Additionally, the members of the Board of Governors, including its chairman and vice-chairman, are chosen by the President and confirmed by Congress. The government also exercises some control over the Federal Reserve by appointing and setting the salaries of the system's highest-level employees. Thus the Federal Reserve has both private and public aspects."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
Wikipedia isn't always accurate, but you can go argue with the citations if you disagree.
Shouldn't it be SPHERES ? I'm not going to require you to write S.P.H.E.R.E.S. , but at least use all-caps so I can tell which one you're referring to. The word "sphere" is already taken.:P
Hate to be a grammar nazi but this is pretty basic stuff, actually affects how it reads...
People already have unrestricted access to drugs. Thats the whole point. The war on drugs only makes them MORE available. I really wish prohibitionists like you would realize this. What happened during Prohibition on alcohol? The gangs made TONS of money, and became a whole challenge for the police. Al Capone was finally arrested on tax evasion, because he was freaking untouchable. This country is a land of the free, and people are going to continue to demand freedom. All you can do is let them be free, or declare them criminals and lock them up. We're doing the latter now, and our prisons are filling up insanely fast.
Is anything random? So far, nothing we've experienced has been random. Now, at the smallest scale, we can use probability to gain some accuracy, but that doesn't mean we can't find a better understanding in time.
Regardless though, random isn't any better. Determined, or partially determined and partially random, either way its just noise added to the system, and its still a system. Doesn't imply free will like most people seem to extrapolate from the idea of random in the least.
The brain is more complex and has more nodes/elements/variables than any system we've ever studied. In time though, we'll come to understand it. Consciousness results from the propagation of signals through extremely complex networks with extreme levels of feedback.
I'm actually with you on that, not exactly my most insightful post:P.
I just loved how clearly he stated the concept, and felt a need to voice my support.
Shouldn't have gotten modded anything. Not troll, not informative.
I suspect at some point we will come to terms with the fact that what we call "consciousness" is an emergent phenomenon of the brain, and that it is no more free than a glider in Conway's Game of Life.
This wouldn't change anything as to the case you described. In the case of Hot Coffee, Rockstar said "this is what is in our game" and the ESRB said "okay, here is your rating" and then later people found out how to enable the hidden minigame, and the ESRB was like "hey, this stuff is in your game, and you didn't tell us." but rockstar was like "well, you can't access it unless you modify the game, its locked out". I think Rockstar was actually fine in this case, its not their fault, but once the cat got out of the bag it was too much of a scandal.
ALL that is changing is that now, instead of sending a copy of your game and a video of your game being played to the ESRB so they can look it over and check "comedic violence" or whatever, instead they just say, "developers, we'll trust you, you know your game" and the developer is the one who checks "comedic violence" and then sends the form to the ESRB. That said, if the ESRB finds a game has content that they were not made aware of, then they're free to strip the rating they awarded and give a new one (as they could before, as in the case of GTA) or they could just leave them without a rating entirely, which would cause stores to drop the game.
No, its voluntary, and they cannot review your game without your consent (or they could, but it would't do anything). But nobody is going to publish / stock a game that doesn't have an ESRB rating. Hell, if you get an A rating then they won't stock your game. So if you don't apply for a rating, everybody assumes you're shady, and you're either dealing with an A-rated game, or you're a tiny publisher that isn't worth the time.
The point of the ratings board is so the video games industry can self-police and doesn't require United States Government regulation. Its a VERY GOOD thing. The ERSB sucks balls and doesn't know anything about games (there's like, what, 10 people working there or something that do ALL the tests?), and so all the more reason why developers should be the ones to label their own games. Then, if a developer sells a game that has more than they advertise, there should be legal ramifications (and there are). And bam, now you don't need government OR the ERSB involved.
Also wrong; you people are failing to understand the relative numbers involved. Athletes DO make tons of money for the same reason rock stars and actors do; but its not because we "value entertainment more", its because their products can be sold to a larger audience, the few who are really, really good at it get ALL the money in the field, and so its very concentrated and they get a ton. But its because only a fraction of everybody who wants to play in the NFL gets to, etc. Ever see how much even a AAA baseball player makes? Its NOTHING compared to MLB. Peanuts. Same for music; there are TONS of starving musicians, and most really talented classical performers are undervalued these days, struggling for a living even though they're extremely skilled. Some people in music make tons of money because they write a song that becomes popular, everybody in the US wants that song, and because its digital, they can make copies and sell them to everybody really easily. You start making more and more and more profit the more sales you get, there's practically no distribution cost. But that only works for the few musicians who becomes really popular, the indie bands struggle to feed themselves.
Aha! And this leads to the deeper truth: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Trying to find out which subjects are more important and then making those compulsory is the wrong attitude entirely; instead we need to better explain to children WHY they are learning these things, empower them to choose, and then everything else will follow.
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Please don't equate Atheism to Nihilism. Just because you're Atheist DOES NOT imply you have a complete lack of morals or beliefs. Entirely unnecessary to your point too, Christian developers, Jewish developers, etc. could all easily find a way to justify what you're describing.
The truly insane part is, you can buy items, but luckily they have character level restrictions. Broken, but at least only so much. Unfortunately, they're going so far as to let you SELL CHARACTERS ON THE REAL MONEY AUCTION HOUSE. So, I can't buy that +50 axe because it requires me to be level 30. So... I'll just buy a level 30 character. WHAT.
Maybe trying to game on your laptop? Maybe trying to game when you have an internet connection that charges you if you go over your monthly allowance of data? Maybe trying to play diablo 3 on a PLANE or in a CAR ? These things are now impossible.
DRM = I WILL NOT BUY THIS. Will not budge on that one. Have resisted several Ubisoft games since their ridiculous new system.
YOU DON'T PUNISH YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Too bad, too, because all the changes they were making to the gameplay had me excited about D3. Ah well.
Yeah, I was about to point out the same. Fail -_-
Ah, guess I should have thoroughly RTFA before commenting. I guess on consoles where MSAA is hard to have time for, this could be useful.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but MSAA is already embarrassingly parallel, and provides for better fidelity than this newfangled MLAA.
Yes, its faster than MSAA, but modern GPUs are already pretty good at handling real-time MSAA.
Yeah, that is exactly what I was wondering. I suppose the idea is for systems with bad integrated graphics cards, or with mobile devices that have no dedicated graphics.
Then these are still just tips that EVERYONE who writes programs should be aware of. Don't over engineer, don't worry too much about efficiency at first, premature optimization is the root of all evil. On the other hand, be aware that readability and maintainability can be very important in code if it is going to be used more than as a one-off, or if it is going to be used by a team.
This assumes people are very clearly an engineer/programmer OR a scientist. But I would consider most software engineers to be computer scientists as well. Its a fairly nonsense distinction. The analogy to spiderman and doc ock is fun, but ultimately metaphor don't prove anything.
"Programmers need to understand that sometimes a program really only needs to run once, on one set of input, with expert supervision. Scientists need to understand that prototype code may need a complete rewrite before it can be used in production."
This is just an extreme generalization, to the point of stereotyping.
"However, its authority is derived from the U.S. Congress and is subject to congressional oversight. Additionally, the members of the Board of Governors, including its chairman and vice-chairman, are chosen by the President and confirmed by Congress. The government also exercises some control over the Federal Reserve by appointing and setting the salaries of the system's highest-level employees. Thus the Federal Reserve has both private and public aspects." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System Wikipedia isn't always accurate, but you can go argue with the citations if you disagree.
Shouldn't it be SPHERES ? I'm not going to require you to write S.P.H.E.R.E.S. , but at least use all-caps so I can tell which one you're referring to. The word "sphere" is already taken. :P
Hate to be a grammar nazi but this is pretty basic stuff, actually affects how it reads...
Clearly we need to ban bartering. And the euro. And gold. And... hm. This is going to take awhile...
This just in!!! American US Dollars are being used to pay for drugs! Dollars are dangerous and must be outlawed.
People already have unrestricted access to drugs. Thats the whole point. The war on drugs only makes them MORE available. I really wish prohibitionists like you would realize this. What happened during Prohibition on alcohol? The gangs made TONS of money, and became a whole challenge for the police. Al Capone was finally arrested on tax evasion, because he was freaking untouchable. This country is a land of the free, and people are going to continue to demand freedom. All you can do is let them be free, or declare them criminals and lock them up. We're doing the latter now, and our prisons are filling up insanely fast.
Is anything random? So far, nothing we've experienced has been random. Now, at the smallest scale, we can use probability to gain some accuracy, but that doesn't mean we can't find a better understanding in time.
Regardless though, random isn't any better. Determined, or partially determined and partially random, either way its just noise added to the system, and its still a system. Doesn't imply free will like most people seem to extrapolate from the idea of random in the least.
A neuron / Neural network node / dendrites & synapses ?
:)
The brain is more complex and has more nodes/elements/variables than any system we've ever studied. In time though, we'll come to understand it. Consciousness results from the propagation of signals through extremely complex networks with extreme levels of feedback.
What else is there?
I'm actually with you on that, not exactly my most insightful post :P.
I just loved how clearly he stated the concept, and felt a need to voice my support.
Shouldn't have gotten modded anything. Not troll, not informative.
I suspect at some point we will come to terms with the fact that what we call "consciousness" is an emergent phenomenon of the brain, and that it is no more free than a glider in Conway's Game of Life.
Bingo.
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc. RTFA
This wouldn't change anything as to the case you described. In the case of Hot Coffee, Rockstar said "this is what is in our game" and the ESRB said "okay, here is your rating" and then later people found out how to enable the hidden minigame, and the ESRB was like "hey, this stuff is in your game, and you didn't tell us." but rockstar was like "well, you can't access it unless you modify the game, its locked out". I think Rockstar was actually fine in this case, its not their fault, but once the cat got out of the bag it was too much of a scandal.
ALL that is changing is that now, instead of sending a copy of your game and a video of your game being played to the ESRB so they can look it over and check "comedic violence" or whatever, instead they just say, "developers, we'll trust you, you know your game" and the developer is the one who checks "comedic violence" and then sends the form to the ESRB. That said, if the ESRB finds a game has content that they were not made aware of, then they're free to strip the rating they awarded and give a new one (as they could before, as in the case of GTA) or they could just leave them without a rating entirely, which would cause stores to drop the game.
Nothing's changed.
No, its voluntary, and they cannot review your game without your consent (or they could, but it would't do anything). But nobody is going to publish / stock a game that doesn't have an ESRB rating. Hell, if you get an A rating then they won't stock your game. So if you don't apply for a rating, everybody assumes you're shady, and you're either dealing with an A-rated game, or you're a tiny publisher that isn't worth the time.
The point of the ratings board is so the video games industry can self-police and doesn't require United States Government regulation. Its a VERY GOOD thing. The ERSB sucks balls and doesn't know anything about games (there's like, what, 10 people working there or something that do ALL the tests?), and so all the more reason why developers should be the ones to label their own games. Then, if a developer sells a game that has more than they advertise, there should be legal ramifications (and there are). And bam, now you don't need government OR the ERSB involved.
Allow me to restate what I just said in even fewer words: He is not complaining about competition. He is complaining about what we compete over.
Yes, you're free to reject competition. But that doesn't mean he was being "ironic".
Also wrong; you people are failing to understand the relative numbers involved. Athletes DO make tons of money for the same reason rock stars and actors do; but its not because we "value entertainment more", its because their products can be sold to a larger audience, the few who are really, really good at it get ALL the money in the field, and so its very concentrated and they get a ton. But its because only a fraction of everybody who wants to play in the NFL gets to, etc. Ever see how much even a AAA baseball player makes? Its NOTHING compared to MLB. Peanuts. Same for music; there are TONS of starving musicians, and most really talented classical performers are undervalued these days, struggling for a living even though they're extremely skilled. Some people in music make tons of money because they write a song that becomes popular, everybody in the US wants that song, and because its digital, they can make copies and sell them to everybody really easily. You start making more and more and more profit the more sales you get, there's practically no distribution cost. But that only works for the few musicians who becomes really popular, the indie bands struggle to feed themselves.
Aha! And this leads to the deeper truth: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Trying to find out which subjects are more important and then making those compulsory is the wrong attitude entirely; instead we need to better explain to children WHY they are learning these things, empower them to choose, and then everything else will follow.