Walking free is also a right, yet many people get life sentences.
That has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
You should try a stint working as a developer. I have heard MANY much MORE stupid things than that - and generally by people who are paid enough to know better.
He probably has, but he wants that 'special someone' that those sites can't provide as he has already found his 'special someone' in real life. Problem is that 'special someone' was taken already, so sociopath has tried to "release" that 'special someone' from their otherwise fulfilled life. Enter criminal act.
Whoa, I must have missed a whole bit there about how far back insects date than. I always assumed that there was little insect life at that time - clearly I have been misled all this time.
Why not just introduce a German style Drivers License test, along with the cost, the instruction and the detail that those guys go through.
If I am ever in some sort of dangerous situation as a passenger in a car, I would pick a person with a German drivers license as the best person to be behind the wheel if I had a choice.
Go earn $50M and fund your own game, see how much you value abstract notions of "creativity" then.
Well, I see the trolls are hungry tonight...
Not every game HAS to have super high detailed 3D graphics, a physics system plucked from the altars in heaven and a big shiny display in your local games store. There are a LOT of good games created that are VERY playable, that are VERY enjoyable that are free online or played on a subscription basis.
Why don't you look around at some of the entertainment that isn't on display at your local game store and actually try it? There are VERY few games that are made with insanely high budgets, just as there are very few films made with massive budgets - that doesn't mean that there aren't a LOT of other fantastic movies out there and it certainly doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of amazing games just waiting for you to play.
I recall a very memorable moment in my life. I was in year eight at the time (about twelve or thirteen years of age for non Australians) and there were two year eleven or year twelve kids both very loud, both very physical and both annoying everyone else on the school bus with their ten minute argument which seemed to be on the edge of a physical conflict at every second. This carried on for a good while, eventually a year nine kid got involved and they sort of turned their built up rage on this new kid.
Having had enough this ongoing saga, I stood up and rather loudly shouted while staring them both down "You two shut up, else I'm going to beat the shit out of BOTH of you!". Looking back, this clearly must have looked comical. One kid half the size of these two older kids threatening them, yet the effect itself was what made this stick with me.
The rest of the bus went silent for a split second, then literally BURST out into both laughter and applause. Result? Amazingly the two kids in the main argument both sat down, shut up and remained quiet for the rest of the trip to the train station.
Sometimes even the perceived threat (however unlikely - a twelve year old kid beating up TWO fifteen year old kids heheh) is enough to stop a tirade.
Since then, I have never been afraid to step in when I see a kid getting picked on if they are outnumbered and clearly have their tail between their legs so to speak.
Can't stress it enough. Lets assume you do get to an interview. Ooze COMMON SENSE. Let it seep out your pores. You are going to be the guy that doesn't need to ask the stupid questions that should be assumed.
Secondly, show examples of your programming experience. Doesn't have to be used somewhere in industry, just have working, finished examples of your code available either online (if applicable) or somehow available for them to see. Be the candidate that they interview that might not have experience working in a firm, but can still finish projects.
I can't stress just how much those two simple points will help?
A country that appears to have so little respect for the rights of other folks in it's region appears to hold the rights of it's own folks in very high regard.
I don't know whether to applaud or to cry at the irony.
Well, the plan is to have an online universe in which everyone interacts with one another rather than standalone gameplay.
Having tended to always take the crafting part of a game rather seriously, I have made a very strong focus on a complex, but detailed crafting portion of the game - which basically allows for totally unlimited craft. To give you an idea, A spaceship will perform as well as the components have been built within it, which will be affected by the skill level/crafting systems they were build on, which will be affected by the quality of the resources that have gone into them. That's not even taking into account that you can basically put almost anything onto a ship if it has the room (apart from a few "must have" components. Same goes for stations, bases etc.
The rest is pretty much a straightforward explore/build/conquer concept. Three races (major factions) with a sprinkling in the middle.
It's a good ways off yet though, still in early to middle of getting all the code working.
I did the highest level of maths in my Australian higher school certificate, but didn't really do much in the way of physics at school or Uni. Even with what I am programming in my spare time (a space based build/conquer/explore type game) I am finding that I have to resort to buying coffee for friends that DID do physics and higher levels of maths at Uni to get some of the formulas I need to work out the things here. Also, I work with numbers ALL day pretty much at work (Senior Performance Analyst for a multinational) - so I ain't exactly derpa derpa derpa when it comes to numbers.
Can I google and find the formulas? Sure, yeah, but do I have the level of understanding with all of Kelper's Laws and bits to change them to what I want for my game? Nope.
Anyone who says that maths isn't needed for a programmer is utterly kidding themselves - or working at the low end of the food chain.
That's funny, when I was going school, we used to get in there earlier just to play sport (I know, very un-Slashdot of me). Though I was rather unlikely to be absent from school without a damned good reason (one that came from my parents sadly).
Also, when I was at school, I found that all of our exams were in the morning - especially for the "harder" subjects like Math, Science and so on. The "easier" subjects like art, music and various other smaller subjects were generally at the end of the school day. I always found myself much more awake earier in the day, but that could have been from the sport we played. Generally towards the afternoon of the day, I found my attention waning and my concentration slipping greatly.
It also helps Nintendo as it's ANOTHER market for them to develop, grow, make money off. It's what the entertainment industry SHOULD be doing as a whole - "Hmmmm, how else could we look at making money..." rather than "Lets try to sue people because our business model is no longer making money..."
RIAA (and all you similar minded corps) take note of this brash concept - update and improve your business models!
I don't know, I don't find it yuck at all. I wear leather shoes and stuff, and the concept of making something out of a dead animal isn't really that "out there" for me. Look around, we make SOOOO much stuff out of dead bits of things. Wooden floorboards? Cotton clothing? Woolen jumpers? Want gruesome? take this example:
A lovely old armchair in your grandparents home could quite easily have the following:
Main body: Dead wood.
Cushion inlay: Dead hair from a horse.
Cushion material: Leather from a cow.
Varnish on the wood for extra color: Shellac (made from resin is a brittle or flaky secretion of the female lac insect)
The glue used in the joints of the armchair: Likely made from boiled animal sinew.
Still think a hat with a few roadkill feathers is gruesome?
I am not saying it's a great idea for anyone to implement matey. I am certainly not planning to do anything like that, but if you for a moment thing that as a species, there aren't too many of us on the planet to indefinately support our lifestyle without some major changes - you are in denial.
Just becuase you have a point of view, doesn't mean you have to follow it through to it's inevitable conclusion. What if you are wrong and the others are right? I have an opinion, that our "human" way of life as it is right now cant be sustained by the planet, especially with the population explosion that we are undergoing.
Have a look at these numbers:
Source: Population growth data
1AD: 200 Million
1000AD: 310 Million
1750: 791 Million
1900: 1,650 Million
1975: 4,068 Million
2000: 6,070 Million
Jul. 1, 2008: 6,707 Million
Also, do you think that people today do more harm to the planet than say 100 years ago? How about 500 years ago? How about 2000 years ago?
The first thing I said in my post was No, advocating that would be wrong. but it doesn't mean it isn't true. Unleashing something like that is unimaginable - but if it were to happen naturally, it might just be a saving grace for the overall race.
As sad as it is, humans have become an invasive species on this planet. We are wiping out everything else. It's only a matter of time before we wipe oursleves out entirely. I wouldn't like to see that happen.
No, advocating that would be wrong.
However, if people get to the point where they want to run themselves into the ground and perhaps put a small dent in the incredible population boom, I certainly won't stop them.
It's one of those funny things. I give to charity for example, which would pretty much put me at odds with my own thoughts that there are WAY too many of us here, yet it's simply so true.
The rate that we are chewing through resources and the way that we treat the other species (Eg, Oh, look a yummy fish. Lets catch them all and eat them. Oh.... where did all our yummy fish go?) is ghastly.
Again, while horrid, perhaps a better form of population control would be some sort of pandemic that went through and culled the numbers. Say, 90 out of a hundred? The irony is that it would be a more humane way to cut back the numbers. It would be indescriminate, wouldn't pick poor or rich, intelligent or thick - basically do all the dirtywork without anyone being able to point a direct finger at anyone else. Luck of the draw type thing. That way, at least the remainder could carry on without the guilt of anything so abbhorrent on their conciousness at night.
unfortunately the rest of the world is willing to purchase products made with poor environmental, labor and safety levels:/
As cold as it may sound, while I don't like their environmental policies as I see it having a negative impact on the world, I don't see any impact when it comes down to their unsafe workplaces or their use labor force. As far as a species goes, there are far too many of us on this planet as is.
The MPAA/RIAA's methods of "enforcing" their IP are despicable. But without any protection, one of the current major assets of the US - media and entertainment - will be in serious jeopardy. Let's put it this way - if Chinese citizens actually paid for even a small fraction more of the American software, movies, and music they consume, the trade deficit picture would be significantly different. That is what Obama is talking about, not picking on homemakers who shared a few mp3s online. Hopefully the MPAA & RIAA can get a damn clue and start focusing on the real threat to their business - rampant, organized, professional international piracy.
The problem here is that for all his apparent "good will" he either doesn't get it, or he is banking on the voters not to get it and push something through.
It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.
You can't put a copyright on an idea that someone else in a third world country won't just copy WITH CHEAPER INPUTS AND LABOR. You can copyright a song, a movie that sort of thing yes - but unless he wants the US to simply be the entertainment supplier of the world, he is chasing the wrong fish here.
If you come up with an idea to say, make cheap energy through some form of funky technology (insert some form of wind, wave, whatever) and think that the chaps down the road in China, India and a bunch of other countries won't make knock off versions of it WITH FULL SUPPORT OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS then you are totally kidding yourself.
Just the same as if one of those countries jumped in with the exact same technology, I can assure you that the US government would be totally backing US to manufacture the same idea but in their own backyard rather than just buying tons and tons of the stuff from overseas.
While I agree with protecting your own IP, this whole process is dominated by protecting one small part of the overall industry and not the industry as a whole. That's why I think Obama in this is either being kidded or is hoping that his speech will float above the bullshit filters of most voters.
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Walking free is also a right, yet many people get life sentences.
That has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
You should try a stint working as a developer. I have heard MANY much MORE stupid things than that - and generally by people who are paid enough to know better.
He probably has, but he wants that 'special someone' that those sites can't provide as he has already found his 'special someone' in real life. Problem is that 'special someone' was taken already, so sociopath has tried to "release" that 'special someone' from their otherwise fulfilled life. Enter criminal act.
At least the good guys caught the bad guy here.
Whoa, I must have missed a whole bit there about how far back insects date than. I always assumed that there was little insect life at that time - clearly I have been misled all this time.
Why not just introduce a German style Drivers License test, along with the cost, the instruction and the detail that those guys go through.
If I am ever in some sort of dangerous situation as a passenger in a car, I would pick a person with a German drivers license as the best person to be behind the wheel if I had a choice.
Go earn $50M and fund your own game, see how much you value abstract notions of "creativity" then.
Well, I see the trolls are hungry tonight...
Not every game HAS to have super high detailed 3D graphics, a physics system plucked from the altars in heaven and a big shiny display in your local games store. There are a LOT of good games created that are VERY playable, that are VERY enjoyable that are free online or played on a subscription basis.
Why don't you look around at some of the entertainment that isn't on display at your local game store and actually try it? There are VERY few games that are made with insanely high budgets, just as there are very few films made with massive budgets - that doesn't mean that there aren't a LOT of other fantastic movies out there and it certainly doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of amazing games just waiting for you to play.
Also noteworthy: We have the worlds largest reserves of Uranium and we know how much the superpowers love that shit...
Possible title for the "adult movie":
The flood of the stud, Rudd, poking into the crud... thud thud thud.
I recall a very memorable moment in my life. I was in year eight at the time (about twelve or thirteen years of age for non Australians) and there were two year eleven or year twelve kids both very loud, both very physical and both annoying everyone else on the school bus with their ten minute argument which seemed to be on the edge of a physical conflict at every second. This carried on for a good while, eventually a year nine kid got involved and they sort of turned their built up rage on this new kid.
Having had enough this ongoing saga, I stood up and rather loudly shouted while staring them both down "You two shut up, else I'm going to beat the shit out of BOTH of you!". Looking back, this clearly must have looked comical. One kid half the size of these two older kids threatening them, yet the effect itself was what made this stick with me.
The rest of the bus went silent for a split second, then literally BURST out into both laughter and applause. Result? Amazingly the two kids in the main argument both sat down, shut up and remained quiet for the rest of the trip to the train station.
Sometimes even the perceived threat (however unlikely - a twelve year old kid beating up TWO fifteen year old kids heheh) is enough to stop a tirade.
Since then, I have never been afraid to step in when I see a kid getting picked on if they are outnumbered and clearly have their tail between their legs so to speak.
Can't stress it enough. Lets assume you do get to an interview. Ooze COMMON SENSE. Let it seep out your pores. You are going to be the guy that doesn't need to ask the stupid questions that should be assumed.
Secondly, show examples of your programming experience. Doesn't have to be used somewhere in industry, just have working, finished examples of your code available either online (if applicable) or somehow available for them to see. Be the candidate that they interview that might not have experience working in a firm, but can still finish projects.
I can't stress just how much those two simple points will help?
A country that appears to have so little respect for the rights of other folks in it's region appears to hold the rights of it's own folks in very high regard.
I don't know whether to applaud or to cry at the irony.
Well, the plan is to have an online universe in which everyone interacts with one another rather than standalone gameplay.
Having tended to always take the crafting part of a game rather seriously, I have made a very strong focus on a complex, but detailed crafting portion of the game - which basically allows for totally unlimited craft. To give you an idea, A spaceship will perform as well as the components have been built within it, which will be affected by the skill level/crafting systems they were build on, which will be affected by the quality of the resources that have gone into them. That's not even taking into account that you can basically put almost anything onto a ship if it has the room (apart from a few "must have" components. Same goes for stations, bases etc.
The rest is pretty much a straightforward explore/build/conquer concept. Three races (major factions) with a sprinkling in the middle.
It's a good ways off yet though, still in early to middle of getting all the code working.
Sound like something you were looking for, or no?
I wrote:
Can I google and find the formulas? Sure, yeah, but do I have the level of understanding with all of Kelper's Laws and bits...
You wrote:
You might have had more luck if you were Googling "Kepler's Laws".
*throws on Three Stooges Voice*
Wise guy huh?
*takes off Three Stooges Voice*
I did the highest level of maths in my Australian higher school certificate, but didn't really do much in the way of physics at school or Uni. Even with what I am programming in my spare time (a space based build/conquer/explore type game) I am finding that I have to resort to buying coffee for friends that DID do physics and higher levels of maths at Uni to get some of the formulas I need to work out the things here. Also, I work with numbers ALL day pretty much at work (Senior Performance Analyst for a multinational) - so I ain't exactly derpa derpa derpa when it comes to numbers.
Can I google and find the formulas? Sure, yeah, but do I have the level of understanding with all of Kelper's Laws and bits to change them to what I want for my game? Nope.
Anyone who says that maths isn't needed for a programmer is utterly kidding themselves - or working at the low end of the food chain.
That's funny, when I was going school, we used to get in there earlier just to play sport (I know, very un-Slashdot of me). Though I was rather unlikely to be absent from school without a damned good reason (one that came from my parents sadly).
Also, when I was at school, I found that all of our exams were in the morning - especially for the "harder" subjects like Math, Science and so on. The "easier" subjects like art, music and various other smaller subjects were generally at the end of the school day. I always found myself much more awake earier in the day, but that could have been from the sport we played. Generally towards the afternoon of the day, I found my attention waning and my concentration slipping greatly.
It also helps Nintendo as it's ANOTHER market for them to develop, grow, make money off. It's what the entertainment industry SHOULD be doing as a whole - "Hmmmm, how else could we look at making money..." rather than "Lets try to sue people because our business model is no longer making money..."
RIAA (and all you similar minded corps) take note of this brash concept - update and improve your business models!
Side note: Way to go Nintendo!
I can't speak for the rest but I dislike Windows for the little annoyances which I don't seem to be able to get rid of...........
You really should learn to google:
Search Terms: disable windows antivirus warnings
Top Result - Howto: Disable Windows Security Center Balloon Warning
Search Terms: disable windows desktop cleanup
Top result - HOW TO: Disable the Automatic Desktop Cleanup Feature in Windows XP
I had to undo a bunch of moderation to chime in here.
You realize you can post Anon and not have it bork your moderations?
*Bender voice* Uh oh. I'm boned. *end character voice*
*Professor Farnsworth voice* Good news everybody! *end character voice*
Righto, time to ask the serious questions! But what happens when they hit 88 miles per hour?
I don't know, I don't find it yuck at all. I wear leather shoes and stuff, and the concept of making something out of a dead animal isn't really that "out there" for me. Look around, we make SOOOO much stuff out of dead bits of things. Wooden floorboards? Cotton clothing? Woolen jumpers? Want gruesome? take this example:
A lovely old armchair in your grandparents home could quite easily have the following:
Main body: Dead wood.
Cushion inlay: Dead hair from a horse.
Cushion material: Leather from a cow.
Varnish on the wood for extra color: Shellac (made from resin is a brittle or flaky secretion of the female lac insect)
The glue used in the joints of the armchair: Likely made from boiled animal sinew.
Still think a hat with a few roadkill feathers is gruesome?
I am not saying it's a great idea for anyone to implement matey. I am certainly not planning to do anything like that, but if you for a moment thing that as a species, there aren't too many of us on the planet to indefinately support our lifestyle without some major changes - you are in denial.
Just becuase you have a point of view, doesn't mean you have to follow it through to it's inevitable conclusion. What if you are wrong and the others are right? I have an opinion, that our "human" way of life as it is right now cant be sustained by the planet, especially with the population explosion that we are undergoing.
Have a look at these numbers:
Source: Population growth data
1AD: 200 Million
1000AD: 310 Million
1750: 791 Million
1900: 1,650 Million
1975: 4,068 Million
2000: 6,070 Million
Jul. 1, 2008: 6,707 Million
Also, do you think that people today do more harm to the planet than say 100 years ago? How about 500 years ago? How about 2000 years ago?
The first thing I said in my post was No, advocating that would be wrong. but it doesn't mean it isn't true. Unleashing something like that is unimaginable - but if it were to happen naturally, it might just be a saving grace for the overall race.
As sad as it is, humans have become an invasive species on this planet. We are wiping out everything else. It's only a matter of time before we wipe oursleves out entirely. I wouldn't like to see that happen.
No, advocating that would be wrong.
However, if people get to the point where they want to run themselves into the ground and perhaps put a small dent in the incredible population boom, I certainly won't stop them.
It's one of those funny things. I give to charity for example, which would pretty much put me at odds with my own thoughts that there are WAY too many of us here, yet it's simply so true.
The rate that we are chewing through resources and the way that we treat the other species (Eg, Oh, look a yummy fish. Lets catch them all and eat them. Oh.... where did all our yummy fish go?) is ghastly.
Again, while horrid, perhaps a better form of population control would be some sort of pandemic that went through and culled the numbers. Say, 90 out of a hundred? The irony is that it would be a more humane way to cut back the numbers. It would be indescriminate, wouldn't pick poor or rich, intelligent or thick - basically do all the dirtywork without anyone being able to point a direct finger at anyone else. Luck of the draw type thing. That way, at least the remainder could carry on without the guilt of anything so abbhorrent on their conciousness at night.
unfortunately the rest of the world is willing to purchase products made with poor environmental, labor and safety levels :/
As cold as it may sound, while I don't like their environmental policies as I see it having a negative impact on the world, I don't see any impact when it comes down to their unsafe workplaces or their use labor force. As far as a species goes, there are far too many of us on this planet as is.
The MPAA/RIAA's methods of "enforcing" their IP are despicable. But without any protection, one of the current major assets of the US - media and entertainment - will be in serious jeopardy. Let's put it this way - if Chinese citizens actually paid for even a small fraction more of the American software, movies, and music they consume, the trade deficit picture would be significantly different. That is what Obama is talking about, not picking on homemakers who shared a few mp3s online. Hopefully the MPAA & RIAA can get a damn clue and start focusing on the real threat to their business - rampant, organized, professional international piracy.
The problem here is that for all his apparent "good will" he either doesn't get it, or he is banking on the voters not to get it and push something through.
It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.
You can't put a copyright on an idea that someone else in a third world country won't just copy WITH CHEAPER INPUTS AND LABOR. You can copyright a song, a movie that sort of thing yes - but unless he wants the US to simply be the entertainment supplier of the world, he is chasing the wrong fish here.
If you come up with an idea to say, make cheap energy through some form of funky technology (insert some form of wind, wave, whatever) and think that the chaps down the road in China, India and a bunch of other countries won't make knock off versions of it WITH FULL SUPPORT OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS then you are totally kidding yourself.
Just the same as if one of those countries jumped in with the exact same technology, I can assure you that the US government would be totally backing US to manufacture the same idea but in their own backyard rather than just buying tons and tons of the stuff from overseas.
While I agree with protecting your own IP, this whole process is dominated by protecting one small part of the overall industry and not the industry as a whole. That's why I think Obama in this is either being kidded or is hoping that his speech will float above the bullshit filters of most voters.