Yeah, I've wondering the same. Where do you think gaming is going to go in the next 10 years plus? I'm not capable of being a extremely fast response player, but I can make up for it in strategic sense.
Will people like me be more or less likely to want to be involved in FP games in the future?
Yeah, so who's going to do the predictions for 2100+?
ACC is the man. I mean yeah, this is just dreaming-like, but isn't that what all predictions about? Dreams? Sooner or later, most of our dreams become reality because we slowly make progress towards them.
It's called the human spirit, remember?
Personally, I think he wrote up a pretty good checklist for me to work on.
The Media just doesn't know it, because, well, watching a bunch of geeks slurping Mountain Dew and poring over man pages is *boring*.;]
Nah, you just have to learn how to market yourselves.
Q: What operating system do you use? A: One a bunch of us wrote from scratch.
Q: Where do you get your gear? A: Well, mostly stuff that other people throw away. Some of the more creative ones acutally build their machines from scratch.
Q: Have you like, broken into the FBI's computers yet? A: Not worth it. We already know everything they do. Some of us are employed to keep the low lifes out of machines anyway.
Q: When do you hack? A: Anytime, we spread all over the world, so it always daytime for someone. Besides, computers don't sleep.
Q: Have you ever caused other people harm? A: Every day, baby. Especially guys named Bill G.
Q: What is your goal in life? A: World Domination, of course.
Study on your own - buy books, read magazines, and online content make yourself do example problems/programs. You can learn anything through an internet line these days.
Even by the time the books are published, they are dated.
For example, I read the MSDN (just the new content) cover to cover every month. Talk about bleeding edge - most of the white papers at that point are literally just that - papers.
Sorry to reply again, but I'm having fun with this topic tonight...lots of bottled up rage. This just means that you had bad teachers. A good teacher always tells you, "We're making such and such an assumption, which makes our answer just an approximation, but it's a pretty good approximation." etc.
The only teacher I have ever had that volunteered on his/her own to say, "it's just approximation" was a college Mathematics instructor from Russia. He was obviously brilliant, and was one of the best teachers I have had yet. He would even say, "I don't know" sometimes. How many teachers from this country would say that? Most of the time I get something like: "That is not applicable to the problem at hand, just do it this way." Or as the idiot system administrators would say: "You are a hacker, aren't you?!"
About the assumption/approximation thing, that's fine, but I want it stated - or at least plainly understood. Okay, we are going to pretend we are in an ideal world, where there is no friction, no surface tension, etc. etc. That way the students know that what they are learning is important, but not the whole story. How about that - I'm still on topic.
I love walking into Radio Shack and seeing people being macho to the attendants because they know what an RCA cable is, but they could not tell a resistor from a transistor. Ignorance is bliss, but it's not how we are going to get from point A to point B in this world. Someone has to drive the reality airplane, and I know that if push comes to shove I can do it if all hell breaks loose (or at least make sure the new auto pilots does it correctly, thank god for ILS.) I'm guess I'm ranting now, sorry. You see my point, I hope.
I *just learned that one the other day from the Particle Adventure Homepage. I'm not suppose to know that one yet, and I piss off the teachers whenever I point out the TRUTH.
My "bible" now is Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. One needs almost a PhD in mathmatical rigour to read it, but at least I know it has best answers to my questions. I don't always understand it, but I'm only 23, so I have many years yet to understand it fully.
I fully believe a new methodology needs to be found for teaching. Our brains are only so big, and you can only do so much memorization. Then this whole creation/evolution thing would be a non-issue, because we would all realize that base is just that, a base - not an idealogy or a facttoid.
A quick story:In my junior year in high school I did a really far out science project based on quantum mechanics and probability, but got no awards, (or even questions!). I need one in my senior year on Solar power, and got 2nd place statewide.
Just goes to show how messed up our schools really are.
Truth is a weak foundation. Mathematics is on no firmer ground than evolution. Godel and Tarski showed that mathematics isn't about truth, it's about logical relationships between statements. Your system is never any better than your axioms, and no finite set of axioms can ever suffice.
You know, I wish someone had told me that back in preschool. I went through most of high school and college thinking that I knew what Math and Physics was about, at least on a fundimental level.
Now I know that I don't know anything at all, and I won't be able to figure it out until I've learned a large part of it. For example:
Math: I remember the day I was introducted to imaginary numbers. You should have seen how pissed I was. Here I was in 10th grade, and now I was being told that there was a whole new number system out there. Or how about when I learned about "artifical" answers one can almost always get when solving a divergant set of equations. You told me for years there was no answer, now there is?
Physics: Classical Physics was easy. Okay, now I can build anything. What? You mean there are special relevtistic issues that need to be taken into account sometimes? Okay, most of the time? I always wondered about "frictionless" air too. So all those equations I learned really aren't right? Why didn't my high school teacher tell me that?
Most sciences are taught from the top down, increasing and clarify details as you do along. To me this represents a lot of unlearning. Maybe I'm different from the rest of the world, but so far high school/college has done nothing but mislead me. I personally wish we where taught from the group up. Yeah the ground is really shaky, but at least it's something fairly FIRM to stand on.
Maybe it would take us longer to learn stuff, but at least you would know I we really KNEW it, instead of forcing us random trivia.
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My thoughts exactly, I guess it all part of the conspiracy to teach geeks the finer side of life.
I have a "super tinker" swiss army knife that I live by. Instead of a cork screw I have really nice phillips screw driver. The thing with the hole in it is really good for hitting hard to reach dip switchs.
There also a mini screw driver end of the can opener that kicks butt.
The only thing on it I don't use is the "universal hook." My programs have enough hooks in them already.
Those little pieces on this thing would just get lost.
I just hope that they have the guts to make the aliens invade Earth for the last couple of episodes. That would be a hell of a way to end the show
I was just thinking - maybe this show (and all the ones like it) are really out there to help the population adjust to the "Cultural Shock" of an upcoming real-life scheduled alien invasion.
If not, it still seems like it would be good timing on the aliens part. Hello up there?
If you want to make it Public Domain, or GPL, or BSD, etc., you are talking about the goverment siezing the property of a corporation (and therefor from the shareholders). do you really want the goverment going around siezing private property?
I think of it more as "national infrastructure."
Even if it was a one time gig, do you really think that Microsoft could obtain the same level of domination ever again?
They use shady practices to get their control, so it's alright to take that controlling power away.
Does a bank robber get to keep the money he stole even after he finally gets caught?
The problem is that Microsoft has almost a "monopoly" over operating systems, right?
It's simple. Force all the windows code to be dumped into the public domain. Let them keep their applications and the like, but force all of IE/windows 9x/NT OS stuff to be open.
I think the answer to this problem is deregulation, not regulation.
Bang the above one up a notch. The AC's got a very valid point. Microsoft has developed it's own architecture, and even with all the certification programs out there, there no way that they are going to find quality programmers that know their stuff in the future - unless the their "principles" are taught from an early age - which means influencing what colleges teach.
I'm 23 and I've been studing very deeply windows programming for about 4 years now. I'm also be the first one to tell you that in many "MS technology" areas, I still don't know diddle squat.
OT: Direct X 7 just came out, and it now has typelibs for Visual Basic - be afraid.
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Yeah, I've wondering the same. Where do you think gaming is going to go in the next 10 years plus?
I'm not capable of being a extremely fast response player, but I can make up for it in strategic sense.
Will people like me be more or less likely to want to be involved in FP games in the future?
Especially guys named Bill G Says the man with the MSN account.....
;)
First time it's been noticed. It was intentional. It's had been up there for about six months.
Like this one better?
Yeah, so who's going to do the predictions for 2100+?
ACC is the man. I mean yeah, this is just dreaming-like, but isn't that what all predictions about? Dreams? Sooner or later, most of our dreams become reality because we slowly make progress towards them.
It's called the human spirit, remember?
Personally, I think he wrote up a pretty good checklist for me to work on.
The Media just doesn't know it, because, well, watching a bunch of geeks slurping Mountain Dew and poring over man pages is *boring*. ;]
Nah, you just have to learn how to market yourselves.
Q: What operating system do you use?
A: One a bunch of us wrote from scratch.
Q: Where do you get your gear?
A: Well, mostly stuff that other people throw away. Some of the more creative ones acutally build their machines from scratch.
Q: Have you like, broken into the FBI's computers yet?
A: Not worth it. We already know everything they do. Some of us are employed to keep the low lifes out of machines anyway.
Q: When do you hack?
A: Anytime, we spread all over the world, so it always daytime for someone. Besides, computers don't sleep.
Q: Have you ever caused other people harm?
A: Every day, baby. Especially guys named Bill G.
Q: What is your goal in life?
A: World Domination, of course.
Study on your own - buy books, read magazines, and online content make yourself do example problems/programs. You can learn anything through an internet line these days.
Even by the time the books are published, they are dated.
For example, I read the MSDN (just the new content) cover to cover every month. Talk about bleeding edge - most of the white papers at that point are literally just that - papers.
Sorry to reply again, but I'm having fun with this topic tonight...lots of bottled up rage.
This just means that you had bad teachers. A good teacher always tells you, "We're making such and such an assumption, which makes our answer just an approximation, but it's a pretty good approximation." etc.
The only teacher I have ever had that volunteered on his/her own to say, "it's just approximation" was a college Mathematics instructor from Russia. He was obviously brilliant, and was one of the best teachers I have had yet. He would even say, "I don't know" sometimes. How many teachers from this country would say that? Most of the time I get something like: "That is not applicable to the problem at hand, just do it this way." Or as the idiot system administrators would say: "You are a hacker, aren't you?!"
About the assumption/approximation thing, that's fine, but I want it stated - or at least plainly understood. Okay, we are going to pretend we are in an ideal world, where there is no friction, no surface tension, etc. etc. That way the students know that what they are learning is important, but not the whole story. How about that - I'm still on topic.
I love walking into Radio Shack and seeing people being macho to the attendants because they know what an RCA cable is, but they could not tell a resistor from a transistor. Ignorance is bliss, but it's not how we are going to get from point A to point B in this world. Someone has to drive the reality airplane, and I know that if push comes to shove I can do it if all hell breaks loose (or at least make sure the new auto pilots does it correctly, thank god for ILS.) I'm guess I'm ranting now, sorry. You see my point, I hope.
Energy is not conserved.
I *just learned that one the other day from the Particle Adventure Homepage. I'm not suppose to know that one yet, and I piss off the teachers whenever I point out the TRUTH.
My "bible" now is Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. One needs almost a PhD in mathmatical rigour to read it, but at least I know it has best answers to my questions. I don't always understand it, but I'm only 23, so I have many years yet to understand it fully.
I fully believe a new methodology needs to be found for teaching. Our brains are only so big, and you can only do so much memorization. Then this whole creation/evolution thing would be a non-issue, because we would all realize that base is just that, a base - not an idealogy or a facttoid.
A quick story:In my junior year in high school I did a really far out science project based on quantum mechanics and probability, but got no awards, (or even questions!). I need one in my senior year on Solar power, and got 2nd place statewide.
Just goes to show how messed up our schools really are.
Truth is a weak foundation. Mathematics is on no firmer ground than evolution. Godel and Tarski showed that mathematics isn't about truth, it's about logical relationships between statements. Your system is never any better than your axioms, and no finite set of axioms can ever suffice.
You know, I wish someone had told me that back in preschool. I went through most of high school and college thinking that I knew what Math and Physics was about, at least on a fundimental level.
Now I know that I don't know anything at all, and I won't be able to figure it out until I've learned a large part of it. For example:
Math: I remember the day I was introducted to imaginary numbers. You should have seen how pissed I was. Here I was in 10th grade, and now I was being told that there was a whole new number system out there. Or how about when I learned about "artifical" answers one can almost always get when solving a divergant set of equations. You told me for years there was no answer, now there is?
Physics: Classical Physics was easy. Okay, now I can build anything. What? You mean there are special relevtistic issues that need to be taken into account sometimes? Okay, most of the time? I always wondered about "frictionless" air too. So all those equations I learned really aren't right? Why didn't my high school teacher tell me that?
Most sciences are taught from the top down, increasing and clarify details as you do along. To me this represents a lot of unlearning. Maybe I'm different from the rest of the world, but so far high school/college has done nothing but mislead me. I personally wish we where taught from the group up. Yeah the ground is really shaky, but at least it's something fairly FIRM to stand on.
Maybe it would take us longer to learn stuff, but at least you would know I we really KNEW it, instead of forcing us random trivia.
the CAD tools are certainly not up to it though...
I've always wonder about that. What is preventing someone from creating a 3d magic?
What if the CPU could execute EVERY non-dependant, non-aliased branch at concurrently?
It's called eager execution. I've done a little work there. You might see it soon...
I wonder what the hell the maids think of this.
I personally think a beer/fridge combo is a better idea.
Then again, maybe the NSA/CIA/(Insert your Black Helicopter People Here) have just come up with a new anti-cyberterrorist device...
How'd you do that?
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I miss MEEPT too, that's why I came up with "the slashdot group."
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It's called the "Universal Hook" or "Parcel Carrier." I guess that was back when the things were tied up with string.
Anyway, the real swiss use it for fishing.
My thoughts exactly, I guess it all part of the conspiracy to teach geeks the finer side of life.
I have a "super tinker" swiss army knife that I live by. Instead of a cork screw I have really nice phillips screw driver. The thing with the hole in it is really good for hitting hard to reach dip switchs.
There also a mini screw driver end of the can opener that kicks butt.
The only thing on it I don't use is the "universal hook." My programs have enough hooks in them already.
Those little pieces on this thing would just get lost.
Actually I have not for about three years.
For news I listen to the BBC world service.
When I glance at what other people watching TV these days, I'm amazed. 104 channels of garbage.(Okay, maybe I'll exclude CNBC, but not CNN)
I preferred Rosco P. Coltrane myself. I think I can still do a pretty good imitation of him too.
I just hope that they have the guts to make the aliens invade Earth for the last couple of episodes. That would be a hell of a way to end the show
I was just thinking - maybe this show (and all the ones like it) are really out there to help the population adjust to the "Cultural Shock" of an upcoming real-life scheduled alien invasion.
If not, it still seems like it would be good timing on the aliens part. Hello up there?
Then again, I might just be a bit paranoid.
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Is't what this sounds like? "And they do such and such and they are weirdos - but we know where they hang out, so why not go get them?"
I'm starting to think I live in China. Sorry, I guess I should say I mean the PRC.
Well, I better finish up this post so I can go sit by my window and wait for the tanks to roll in...
I was thinking the same thing... so I just pulled out my hand dandy DVD...
Applicable blade runner quotes
If you want to make it Public Domain, or GPL, or BSD, etc., you are talking about the
goverment siezing the property of a corporation (and therefor from the shareholders). do you really want the goverment going around siezing private property?
I think of it more as "national infrastructure."
Even if it was a one time gig, do you really think that Microsoft could obtain the same level of domination ever again?
They use shady practices to get their control, so it's alright to take that controlling power away.
Does a bank robber get to keep the money he stole even after he finally gets caught?
The problem is that Microsoft has almost a "monopoly" over operating systems, right?
It's simple. Force all the windows code to be dumped into the public domain. Let them keep their applications and the like, but force all of IE/windows 9x/NT OS stuff to be open.
I think the answer to this problem is deregulation, not regulation.
Bang the above one up a notch. The AC's got a very valid point. Microsoft has developed it's own architecture, and even with all the certification programs out there, there no way that they are going to find quality programmers that know their stuff in the future - unless the their "principles" are taught from an early age - which means influencing what colleges teach.
I'm 23 and I've been studing very deeply windows programming for about 4 years now. I'm also be the first one to tell you that in many "MS technology" areas, I still don't know diddle squat.
OT: Direct X 7 just came out, and it now has typelibs for Visual Basic - be afraid.
From the site:
...Buy a techie friend a sandwich.
Um, that's pretty lame. Unless of course it's a really BIG sandwich...
on the other hand, I have not had Sushi in a long time...
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