I agree. "Dude Where's My Car?" is a much much better movie because it was filmed in a better resolution with more colors, and the cloths people wear are actual still in fashion.
I still play Super Mario Kart battle mode for the SNES, on a regular basis, with my friends. The games are short, action packed, full of strategy, and lots of fun. So you can squeeze in a few games every now and then with your friends. Super Mario Kart is over 10 years old!
Another perfect example is Chess. It is hundreds of years old, and people still play it today as they find it entertaining to do so. Board games can be seen as the precessor to video games. They are visual games that require manual human intervention to enforce the rules and update the board layout.
In fact, it could be argued that some games get better with time. When Chess was first invented, everyone was equivalent to how you and your friends were when you first tried to play it: they all sucked. Games were won basically by luck in the begining. As time went on, what people knew about Chess and how to play it improved. So the games of Chess that were played when it was first made are not nearly as good as some of the games played hundreds of years later.
I notice the same thing with many of the video games that I play for more than a year: Tetris, Quake, Super Mario Kart, etc... my enjoyment of them has increased over the years because my knowledge of the games has improved.
For multiplayer videos games, my skills as well as the skills of my opponents have improved. Hence our matches are more entertaining than the early years, when matches were won mostly by luck of a player stumbling onto on aspect of the game that had yet to be discovered.
Are you not aware of your own Self, i.e. soul? Your statement can be interpreted as true, as long as you except the fact that what one person can measure... another might not be able to measure.
My introspective awareness of my Self has many consequences for me. However, science requires that what is measured can be measured by everyone, not just by me. So it is absolutely true that I have a soul, I know that for sure... but you can't use science to prove/disprove such a thing. Science can measure the electrical activity of my brain, but there is no way to prove that it corresponds to a Self or soul.
In fact, an experiment might consist of such measurements along with an interview of the subject - asking them what they are thinking/feeling. However, just because someone says that they are aware of their Self or they feel sad... it doesn't prove that such things are true. It only proves that such electrical activity in the brain is associated with such verbal output from the subject.
The distinction might be subtle at first, but it is a huge distinction, with great consequences. One such example is in the field of mathematics, where there is a split between classical math, intuitionistic math, etc...
If you take mathematics to mean intuitionistic mathematics, then I agree that it is one example of something that can be known. However, it rests on the assumption that you are aware or your Self.
There is one absolute example that I know of which disproves such a position, i.e. I know of one thing that science cannot measure, but I am sure it exists. My Self aka soul exists. I am aware of that, and it is undeniable to me that my Self exists... even if I am hooked up to a matrix.
Science can measure outwards indicators that we might associate with an intelligent person, but how do we know that a given person is actuall Self aware. How do we know, how do we measure that they have what I know I have: a Self/soul? Science cannot measure such a thing, yet I can measure mine.
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Depending on the branch of mathematics (classical, intuitionism, etc) true is not necessarily the opposite of false. This is referred to as the law of the excluded middle, and its status as a law has been debated time and again.
Actually, many of the founding fathers were not Christians according to the definition used by many American protestants today. Most of the founding fathers even wrote on the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
A soft hacked XBOX could do the job for ony $150, plus the cost of a wireless-ethernet bridge. In fact, a soft hacked XBOX is the best way to stream media from your computer network to your entertainment system.
This is not true! Media Player Classic supports every format in existence: quicktime, real, divx, xvid, microsoft, etc... I am a Linux zealot in the sense that I only use Linux for my servers and desktops, but there once was a time when I ran Windows 98 and Windows 2000... back during those days I used Media Player Classic. Why? Because Media Player Classic is by far the best media player available on Windows. One player, every format. Fast, small, efficient, simple, easy to use, and free.
What else could you want? Well, it would be nice if Media Player Classic ran on Linux, but Linux has something almost as good as Media Player Classic... mplayer. However, even on a 400mhz Pentium II, Media Player Classic would start playing a movie immediately after double-clicking the file. Super fast! Mplayer isn't quite so fast.
Quakeworld is nothing more than a patched Quake that optimizes the networking code and fixes some physics bugs (mainly bugs that prevented people from being "bounced" into the air from standing by explosions). The project was started in 1996, but the release that allowed for 64+ players was in 1997, when Quake was at the peak of its popularity and servers started running those death32 maps that were basically a bunch of smaller Id software maps glued together into one large contiguous map.
Quakeworld also was the testing grounds for other improvements/features such as radiosity in maps, improved score boards, a global ranking system, extended server settings and gameplay modes (deathmatch 3, deathmatch 4), etc...
I am not sure how beefy the server was that was running the 64+ players, but I was there. The problem was that everyone started to meet in the same room. It brought clients to a crawl as back then everyone only had 28.8 dialup. It was also killing everyone's framerate to have to draw 60+ player models.
This is easily solved with a server browser that lets you filter servers based on their settings. So you don't just filter for your vanilla gameplay mode, you also filter for the default settings for that gameplay mode. You can also filter based on levels, etc...
I have been playing Quake since 1996. I still play it today using Fuhquake client and a Qizmo proxy / server browser. Qizmo lets you run such heavily filtered searches, and so I get a list of about 5 servers that match exactly what I want: low ping, non-empty, vanilla ktpro deathmatch.
This lets me pop onto a server, get in and get my quick fix of intense fast paced deathmatch. Even though Quake, after 8 years of being modded, has splintered into several common variations, mods, server settings. You have a slew of CTF varients, a slew of Team Fortress varients, a chunk of deathmatch varients, and even vanilla deathmatch with really lame settings (like Nobody's servers with "teamplay 1" so llamas don't kill themselves with splash damage).
However, every skilled deathmatch player knows that ktpro is the standard for competitive Quake deathmatch. All of the other DM varients are for lamers. I am sure Team Fortress has a similar standard.
So by that same reasoning, Windows is flawed because it doesn't work with non-Intel compatible CPUs? I mean, old versions of Linux work on Macs and Sparcs, but Windows doesn't.
The only commandline method I know of is "apt-cache search". However, in Synaptic, there is a GUI method (under Package->Find) for searching not just filename, description of the package, etc... and combinations of such fields. This is Synaptic on apt-rpm on Fedora that I am looking at right now.
This is exactly what apt does. It has indexes of the RPMs, their names, versions, depedencies, descriptions, etc... you can run searches against that index using Synaptic. The guy just doesn't know how to use Synaptic.
Progeny, the Linux distro, is dead. Progeny, the Linux company, is very much alive. Gnoppix is just a hacked version of Knoppix that uses Gnome as the default desktop as opposed to KDE. I have been using Gnome on Redhat/Fedora as my exclusive desktop for the past year... and I can say that most distros probably use KDE because KDE is a better desktop. After a year of Gnome use, I realized that Nautilus is worthless, and the taskbar, applications menu is not even edit-able!
Its just plain crap. KDE has won, and people are talking to wake up and smell the coffee.
Actually, the story of Noah and the ark was stolen from earlier Sumerian works. It turns out that thousands of years ago, in Sumer (Iran/Iraq), there was a big civilization and problems with floods. One of the floods was really bad, and a guy had build a boat to save himself, some livestock, and his family.
Filter this through word of mouth, retranslation, transliteration, etc... and you end up with Noah and the Ark. Just google "Noah Ark Sumerian" for more info. There are even ancient clay tablets that contain the original flood story. Also note that Sumer was eventually conquered/replaced by the Babylonians.
The problem with the way math is taught in public schools is that it is taught and treated as if it were a game of symbol manipulation for calculating various arithmetical functions: addition, subtraction, etc... This is great and all, but there is far more to math than that.
What about teaching some simple concepts from logic, set theory, and category theory?
I just installed Mandrake on a 40GB harddrive. I let it do the partitioning, using the entire disk. It confirmed with me to erase everything else and I said yes. So either the installer didn't correctly partition and so I didn't have enough space... or it wasn't a diskspace issue.
I downloaded the Mandrake 10 CDs that were released about a month ago. The install went ok, but I was surprised that it was impossible to go "back" after most decisions. Upon booting the installed OS, normal users could not login to their graphical desktop. Trying to do so caused the system to attempt to run KDE... but then the screen flickered and returned to the KDM login prompt.
However, root could login, but KDE was behaving very strangly. I even tried to make a couple new accounts to try again with normal users. Still, only root could login to KDE. I then tried to run urmpi so as to update the system, but it only returned cryptic errors.
So I was said to myself "this is crap, next"!
I then decided to give the latest beta of Sarge a try (beta 3). Sure the installer wasn't has pretty looking as Mandrake's, but it was an easy install... and better yet, the resultant install actually worked....never would have thought that Debian would be easier to install than Mandrake. Then again, Linux distros are changing very rapidly. The moral of the story is to be open minded and try out other distros.
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I agree. "Dude Where's My Car?" is a much much better movie because it was filmed in a better resolution with more colors, and the cloths people wear are actual still in fashion.
I still play Super Mario Kart battle mode for the SNES, on a regular basis, with my friends. The games are short, action packed, full of strategy, and lots of fun. So you can squeeze in a few games every now and then with your friends. Super Mario Kart is over 10 years old!
Another perfect example is Chess. It is hundreds of years old, and people still play it today as they find it entertaining to do so. Board games can be seen as the precessor to video games. They are visual games that require manual human intervention to enforce the rules and update the board layout.
In fact, it could be argued that some games get better with time. When Chess was first invented, everyone was equivalent to how you and your friends were when you first tried to play it: they all sucked. Games were won basically by luck in the begining. As time went on, what people knew about Chess and how to play it improved. So the games of Chess that were played when it was first made are not nearly as good as some of the games played hundreds of years later.
I notice the same thing with many of the video games that I play for more than a year: Tetris, Quake, Super Mario Kart, etc... my enjoyment of them has increased over the years because my knowledge of the games has improved.
For multiplayer videos games, my skills as well as the skills of my opponents have improved. Hence our matches are more entertaining than the early years, when matches were won mostly by luck of a player stumbling onto on aspect of the game that had yet to be discovered.
Are you not aware of your own Self, i.e. soul? Your statement can be interpreted as true, as long as you except the fact that what one person can measure... another might not be able to measure.
My introspective awareness of my Self has many consequences for me. However, science requires that what is measured can be measured by everyone, not just by me. So it is absolutely true that I have a soul, I know that for sure... but you can't use science to prove/disprove such a thing. Science can measure the electrical activity of my brain, but there is no way to prove that it corresponds to a Self or soul.
In fact, an experiment might consist of such measurements along with an interview of the subject - asking them what they are thinking/feeling. However, just because someone says that they are aware of their Self or they feel sad... it doesn't prove that such things are true. It only proves that such electrical activity in the brain is associated with such verbal output from the subject.
The distinction might be subtle at first, but it is a huge distinction, with great consequences. One such example is in the field of mathematics, where there is a split between classical math, intuitionistic math, etc...
If you take mathematics to mean intuitionistic mathematics, then I agree that it is one example of something that can be known. However, it rests on the assumption that you are aware or your Self.
There is one absolute example that I know of which disproves such a position, i.e. I know of one thing that science cannot measure, but I am sure it exists. My Self aka soul exists. I am aware of that, and it is undeniable to me that my Self exists... even if I am hooked up to a matrix.
Science can measure outwards indicators that we might associate with an intelligent person, but how do we know that a given person is actuall Self aware. How do we know, how do we measure that they have what I know I have: a Self/soul? Science cannot measure such a thing, yet I can measure mine.
Depending on the branch of mathematics (classical, intuitionism, etc) true is not necessarily the opposite of false. This is referred to as the law of the excluded middle, and its status as a law has been debated time and again.
Actually, many of the founding fathers were not Christians according to the definition used by many American protestants today. Most of the founding fathers even wrote on the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
A soft hacked XBOX could do the job for ony $150, plus the cost of a wireless-ethernet bridge. In fact, a soft hacked XBOX is the best way to stream media from your computer network to your entertainment system.
This is not true! Media Player Classic supports every format in existence: quicktime, real, divx, xvid, microsoft, etc... I am a Linux zealot in the sense that I only use Linux for my servers and desktops, but there once was a time when I ran Windows 98 and Windows 2000... back during those days I used Media Player Classic. Why? Because Media Player Classic is by far the best media player available on Windows. One player, every format. Fast, small, efficient, simple, easy to use, and free.
What else could you want? Well, it would be nice if Media Player Classic ran on Linux, but Linux has something almost as good as Media Player Classic... mplayer. However, even on a 400mhz Pentium II, Media Player Classic would start playing a movie immediately after double-clicking the file. Super fast! Mplayer isn't quite so fast.
ISDN, back in 1997, was extremely expensive! Well, I was in high school at the time, so everything was extremely expensive :)
Quakeworld is nothing more than a patched Quake that optimizes the networking code and fixes some physics bugs (mainly bugs that prevented people from being "bounced" into the air from standing by explosions). The project was started in 1996, but the release that allowed for 64+ players was in 1997, when Quake was at the peak of its popularity and servers started running those death32 maps that were basically a bunch of smaller Id software maps glued together into one large contiguous map.
Quakeworld also was the testing grounds for other improvements/features such as radiosity in maps, improved score boards, a global ranking system, extended server settings and gameplay modes (deathmatch 3, deathmatch 4), etc...
I am not sure how beefy the server was that was running the 64+ players, but I was there. The problem was that everyone started to meet in the same room. It brought clients to a crawl as back then everyone only had 28.8 dialup. It was also killing everyone's framerate to have to draw 60+ player models.
Quake was doing 60+ people on a server back in 1997, and it has been GPL for years now!
This is easily solved with a server browser that lets you filter servers based on their settings. So you don't just filter for your vanilla gameplay mode, you also filter for the default settings for that gameplay mode. You can also filter based on levels, etc...
I have been playing Quake since 1996. I still play it today using Fuhquake client and a Qizmo proxy / server browser. Qizmo lets you run such heavily filtered searches, and so I get a list of about 5 servers that match exactly what I want: low ping, non-empty, vanilla ktpro deathmatch.
This lets me pop onto a server, get in and get my quick fix of intense fast paced deathmatch. Even though Quake, after 8 years of being modded, has splintered into several common variations, mods, server settings. You have a slew of CTF varients, a slew of Team Fortress varients, a chunk of deathmatch varients, and even vanilla deathmatch with really lame settings (like Nobody's servers with "teamplay 1" so llamas don't kill themselves with splash damage).
However, every skilled deathmatch player knows that ktpro is the standard for competitive Quake deathmatch. All of the other DM varients are for lamers. I am sure Team Fortress has a similar standard.
So by that same reasoning, Windows is flawed because it doesn't work with non-Intel compatible CPUs? I mean, old versions of Linux work on Macs and Sparcs, but Windows doesn't.
The only commandline method I know of is "apt-cache search". However, in Synaptic, there is a GUI method (under Package->Find) for searching not just filename, description of the package, etc... and combinations of such fields. This is Synaptic on apt-rpm on Fedora that I am looking at right now.
Except that the Debian repositories are basically comprehensive: everything you need is in them.
This is exactly what apt does. It has indexes of the RPMs, their names, versions, depedencies, descriptions, etc... you can run searches against that index using Synaptic. The guy just doesn't know how to use Synaptic.
Progeny, the Linux distro, is dead. Progeny, the Linux company, is very much alive. Gnoppix is just a hacked version of Knoppix that uses Gnome as the default desktop as opposed to KDE. I have been using Gnome on Redhat/Fedora as my exclusive desktop for the past year... and I can say that most distros probably use KDE because KDE is a better desktop. After a year of Gnome use, I realized that Nautilus is worthless, and the taskbar, applications menu is not even edit-able!
Its just plain crap. KDE has won, and people are talking to wake up and smell the coffee.
I am not a number. I am a free man!
Actually, the story of Noah and the ark was stolen from earlier Sumerian works. It turns out that thousands of years ago, in Sumer (Iran/Iraq), there was a big civilization and problems with floods. One of the floods was really bad, and a guy had build a boat to save himself, some livestock, and his family.
Filter this through word of mouth, retranslation, transliteration, etc... and you end up with Noah and the Ark. Just google "Noah Ark Sumerian" for more info. There are even ancient clay tablets that contain the original flood story. Also note that Sumer was eventually conquered/replaced by the Babylonians.
The problem with the way math is taught in public schools is that it is taught and treated as if it were a game of symbol manipulation for calculating various arithmetical functions: addition, subtraction, etc... This is great and all, but there is far more to math than that.
What about teaching some simple concepts from logic, set theory, and category theory?
Why are we stuck in the math is numbers approach?
Actually, GTA3 is nothing more than the original GTA with better graphics and sounds, minus motor bikes and minus multiplayer.
He was making a Simpsons reference, I think.
I just installed Mandrake on a 40GB harddrive. I let it do the partitioning, using the entire disk. It confirmed with me to erase everything else and I said yes. So either the installer didn't correctly partition and so I didn't have enough space... or it wasn't a diskspace issue.
I had over 40GB free disk space. There is no way it is because the disk was near full.
I downloaded the Mandrake 10 CDs that were released about a month ago. The install went ok, but I was surprised that it was impossible to go "back" after most decisions. Upon booting the installed OS, normal users could not login to their graphical desktop. Trying to do so caused the system to attempt to run KDE... but then the screen flickered and returned to the KDM login prompt.
...never would have thought that Debian would be easier to install than Mandrake. Then again, Linux distros are changing very rapidly. The moral of the story is to be open minded and try out other distros.
However, root could login, but KDE was behaving very strangly. I even tried to make a couple new accounts to try again with normal users. Still, only root could login to KDE. I then tried to run urmpi so as to update the system, but it only returned cryptic errors.
So I was said to myself "this is crap, next"!
I then decided to give the latest beta of Sarge a try (beta 3). Sure the installer wasn't has pretty looking as Mandrake's, but it was an easy install... and better yet, the resultant install actually worked.