I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people.
You guys are reminding me of the South Park episode where people of the future are having the holy war over what atheists should call themselves. Does it matter what you call yourself or what -ism your particular belief set falls into?
2) Teaches about circuits that are relevant to their life.
The first thing I thought was, "What do electric circuits have to do with MTV?" Most kids wouldn't care about this stuff. You might get the one introverted, awkward kid in the back of the class to be interested in it, which would be enough for me.
At any rate, you're looking for insight on how to do this, not for people to shit all over your project. My advice is to make it a group based contest. Make it semester long if you can and tie it to their grades.
Well, yeah, as a matter of fact, we STARTED out on Mars. WWII was just a cover up to hide the fact that we were all secretly moved to Earth, which back then was like Mars to us, because of the fact that we overutilized the planet and... no, I can't go on with it.
Jesus, can we really not start this again? First off, we've done the research last time this topic came up. The research cited in the last article we had stated that you would have to have a smaller concentration than 50 mW/cm^2 to keep it from having obvious impact to a single tested species of bird. This means that you would need to have a radius on your receiver of greater than 357 M for one of these beams. Again, this accounts for a single species of bird that similar microwave power was tested against. Not to say it won't affect other species or migratory patterns. The math is here. The article was here. The research about the birds was here.
My huge argument to this is that it SEEMS safe enough, given enough provisions. Is the research on it complete? Is it biased? Will it be implemented honestly and responsibly by PG&E, whose only responsibility is making as much money as fast as possible?
I can't answer those questions. But I do know they'll be hacking off as many corners as they can get away with. I've never dealt with them personally, but from other power companies I have (Ameren, I'm looking at you), I can guarantee that every dime that can be removed from the system and put in someone's pocket will be until something goes wrong, then when people start dying from it, (again, Ameren, I'm looking at you), they won't buckle down and dip into profits. They'll take it out on the consumers and jack the rates 20%-50% to, well, maybe fix the issue, maybe not. I still don't know if my power lines are going to fail for weeks next time there's some ice.
because they work for their PCs while everyone else drinks beer or has sex, like a normal person.
Really? Cause the reason why I use Linux is because your girlfriend gets wet when I recompile my slackware kernel, and cause when I go out to bars and scrawl perl on napkins women get so tight around me I can hardly breathe and start buying me drinks.
Seriously though. I have a mac, and I have several linux boxes. I have a (gasp!) windows box for gaming/movies too! At my job I run Solaris and Linux servers both. Which stereotype do I fit into? Please, I need to know which condescending asshole to act like.
I've always struggled to understand this. Being from the middle of Illinois (the proverbial asshole of the Union, let me tell you), I've often wondered how this moral minority has such great pull on culture. Trust me though, we're not all uneducated superstitious Bible-Beaters.
What movies have your generation produced like that? NONE.
Watchmen had a faithful reproduction of the amount of sex from the book. I seem to recall there were a run of movies like Zack and Mimi and others which were even more raunchy than Total Recall. To be more to the point though, I don't think censorship is necessarily the problem here. I think that the problem is that there is very little content being produced with anyone over the age of 20 in mind. Back in the old days, kids had cartoons and they had disney movies. Now that people realized that kids are the only demographic worth catering to, that's all that's made. Don't hate the baby boomers. Don't hate the "pepsi generation". Hate all those overbearing marketing assholes who decided to prey on children with their inability to differentiate content from advertisement. Now that this is the standard operating procedure for anyone looking to make a buck, that's all you'll see anymore. Me personally, I just solve the problem by downloading kids movies, splicing in individual frames of sex scenes, and then posting them back out there for download.
Nethack did not need flashy graphics to be fun.
Neither did Ultima 7.
Neither did Fallout 1 and 2.
Neither did Zork.
Neither did Civilization 3.
Neither did Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
Neither did Postal 2.
I remember these games more fondly than I remember Battlefield 2, Quake 4, Doom 3, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights 1 or 2, Civ 4, Farcry, Fallout 3, HoMM 5 and so on.
It may just be that I'm remembering them through the rose tinted spectacles, but I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that you did not need solid graphics to make a game that was enjoyable. Hell, I remember games that pretty much died before they went gold where the alpha demo release was more fun than most games I've played since [Please reference "Amulets and Armor" and "AIWars"]. Here is a good idea if you want to write good games:
STOP WORRYING ABOUT GRAPHICS. START WORRYING ABOUT STORY. I don't care that you're utilizing all 5,000,000,000 pixel pipelines to render the most lifelike water possible. In fact, I don't want you to. That's right. It is a waste of money on everyone's part (yours, R mine, bigger faster hardware) that everyone is better off not dealing with. Modern gaming is often like giving a shiny new paint job to your dented up old 1992 Cavalier. It still doesn't change the fact that you're trying to polish a turd. Stop half-heartedly implementing story affecting elements. I don't want an illusion of a choice. I want an actual choice. I'm looking at you, KotOR (and Infamous, and KotOR 2). If you're going to have some sort of morality system, make it be believable issues of morality, and not just two oversimplified choices such as "Devour the orphans" and "Build them a new orphanage". May as well just ask me straight up in the beginning if I want a blue lightsaber or a red one, and then just skip straight to action. Stop insulting me with your watered down plot and actually give me something to muse about. For examples of this, see Fallout 1 or 2, or possibly Planescape: Torment if you can actually find a copy.
Pretty water is nice for a tech demo or if you're making a CG movie, but as I understand, games don't have the budget that Hollywood can come up with, so if you're dumping coin into pizzaz, then you're taking coin from story writing and making the plot more in-depth.
And for fuck's sake, bring back co-op multiplayer and LAN play.
I have a new "no opt out" policy where anyone who uses the word 'the' owes me 50 cents. Starting now. This applies to the word in written context as well as spoken, and to the equivalent article used in other languages, as long as it's done in the US.
my email is really just a code so the mailserver knows where to put some bytes it receives, it doesn't really have anything to do with me.
But for that matter, that downloaded song isn't actually a song download, just the instruction received from another computer on how to align the magnetic field on the platters of my hard drive.
I agree entirely. At the same time, this scares me. What if they start demanding you report to the attitude modification center for your antidepressants because you're not smiling all day long? This especially bugs me because I'm not a smilier and I like being bitter, damnit!
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Not the content itself, but your name might be. Are you the Hognoxious of Arkansas?
I thought it was for the lack of apostrophes.
I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people.
If you teach a child to use open source software, you've given her technology for a lifetime.
If you teach a child to use open source software, you've given the child technology for a lifetime.
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5) People who simply do not care to think about it one way or another?
You guys are reminding me of the South Park episode where people of the future are having the holy war over what atheists should call themselves. Does it matter what you call yourself or what -ism your particular belief set falls into?
Or Scientology.
I see your point, but lets worry about REAL religions here.
What will this do to the Subgenius movement?
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2) Teaches about circuits that are relevant to their life.
The first thing I thought was, "What do electric circuits have to do with MTV?" Most kids wouldn't care about this stuff. You might get the one introverted, awkward kid in the back of the class to be interested in it, which would be enough for me.
At any rate, you're looking for insight on how to do this, not for people to shit all over your project. My advice is to make it a group based contest. Make it semester long if you can and tie it to their grades.
Well, yeah, as a matter of fact, we STARTED out on Mars. WWII was just a cover up to hide the fact that we were all secretly moved to Earth, which back then was like Mars to us, because of the fact that we overutilized the planet and... no, I can't go on with it.
Jesus, can we really not start this again? First off, we've done the research last time this topic came up. The research cited in the last article we had stated that you would have to have a smaller concentration than 50 mW/cm^2 to keep it from having obvious impact to a single tested species of bird. This means that you would need to have a radius on your receiver of greater than 357 M for one of these beams. Again, this accounts for a single species of bird that similar microwave power was tested against. Not to say it won't affect other species or migratory patterns. The math is here. The article was here. The research about the birds was here.
My huge argument to this is that it SEEMS safe enough, given enough provisions. Is the research on it complete? Is it biased? Will it be implemented honestly and responsibly by PG&E, whose only responsibility is making as much money as fast as possible?
I can't answer those questions. But I do know they'll be hacking off as many corners as they can get away with. I've never dealt with them personally, but from other power companies I have (Ameren, I'm looking at you), I can guarantee that every dime that can be removed from the system and put in someone's pocket will be until something goes wrong, then when people start dying from it, (again, Ameren, I'm looking at you), they won't buckle down and dip into profits. They'll take it out on the consumers and jack the rates 20%-50% to, well, maybe fix the issue, maybe not. I still don't know if my power lines are going to fail for weeks next time there's some ice.
because they work for their PCs while everyone else drinks beer or has sex, like a normal person.
Really? Cause the reason why I use Linux is because your girlfriend gets wet when I recompile my slackware kernel, and cause when I go out to bars and scrawl perl on napkins women get so tight around me I can hardly breathe and start buying me drinks.
Seriously though. I have a mac, and I have several linux boxes. I have a (gasp!) windows box for gaming/movies too! At my job I run Solaris and Linux servers both. Which stereotype do I fit into? Please, I need to know which condescending asshole to act like.
I've always struggled to understand this. Being from the middle of Illinois (the proverbial asshole of the Union, let me tell you), I've often wondered how this moral minority has such great pull on culture. Trust me though, we're not all uneducated superstitious Bible-Beaters.
Yuck. You got some aol-speak on my shoes.
What movies have your generation produced like that? NONE.
Watchmen had a faithful reproduction of the amount of sex from the book. I seem to recall there were a run of movies like Zack and Mimi and others which were even more raunchy than Total Recall. To be more to the point though, I don't think censorship is necessarily the problem here. I think that the problem is that there is very little content being produced with anyone over the age of 20 in mind. Back in the old days, kids had cartoons and they had disney movies. Now that people realized that kids are the only demographic worth catering to, that's all that's made. Don't hate the baby boomers. Don't hate the "pepsi generation". Hate all those overbearing marketing assholes who decided to prey on children with their inability to differentiate content from advertisement. Now that this is the standard operating procedure for anyone looking to make a buck, that's all you'll see anymore. Me personally, I just solve the problem by downloading kids movies, splicing in individual frames of sex scenes, and then posting them back out there for download.
... part (yours, R mine, bigger faster hardware) ...
Should read "(yours is R and D, mine is bigger faster hardware)"
I missed it when I was previewing.
Nethack did not need flashy graphics to be fun.
Neither did Ultima 7.
Neither did Fallout 1 and 2.
Neither did Zork.
Neither did Civilization 3.
Neither did Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
Neither did Postal 2.
I remember these games more fondly than I remember Battlefield 2, Quake 4, Doom 3, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights 1 or 2, Civ 4, Farcry, Fallout 3, HoMM 5 and so on.
It may just be that I'm remembering them through the rose tinted spectacles, but I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that you did not need solid graphics to make a game that was enjoyable. Hell, I remember games that pretty much died before they went gold where the alpha demo release was more fun than most games I've played since [Please reference "Amulets and Armor" and "AIWars"]. Here is a good idea if you want to write good games:
STOP WORRYING ABOUT GRAPHICS. START WORRYING ABOUT STORY. I don't care that you're utilizing all 5,000,000,000 pixel pipelines to render the most lifelike water possible. In fact, I don't want you to. That's right. It is a waste of money on everyone's part (yours, R mine, bigger faster hardware) that everyone is better off not dealing with. Modern gaming is often like giving a shiny new paint job to your dented up old 1992 Cavalier. It still doesn't change the fact that you're trying to polish a turd. Stop half-heartedly implementing story affecting elements. I don't want an illusion of a choice. I want an actual choice. I'm looking at you, KotOR (and Infamous, and KotOR 2). If you're going to have some sort of morality system, make it be believable issues of morality, and not just two oversimplified choices such as "Devour the orphans" and "Build them a new orphanage". May as well just ask me straight up in the beginning if I want a blue lightsaber or a red one, and then just skip straight to action. Stop insulting me with your watered down plot and actually give me something to muse about. For examples of this, see Fallout 1 or 2, or possibly Planescape: Torment if you can actually find a copy.
Pretty water is nice for a tech demo or if you're making a CG movie, but as I understand, games don't have the budget that Hollywood can come up with, so if you're dumping coin into pizzaz, then you're taking coin from story writing and making the plot more in-depth.
And for fuck's sake, bring back co-op multiplayer and LAN play.
I have a new "no opt out" policy where anyone who uses the word 'the' owes me 50 cents. Starting now. This applies to the word in written context as well as spoken, and to the equivalent article used in other languages, as long as it's done in the US.
my email is really just a code so the mailserver knows where to put some bytes it receives, it doesn't really have anything to do with me.
But for that matter, that downloaded song isn't actually a song download, just the instruction received from another computer on how to align the magnetic field on the platters of my hard drive.
I wish I had mod points for you right now. You just made about 3 people all turn and look at me.
First one works for me too.
I agree entirely. At the same time, this scares me. What if they start demanding you report to the attitude modification center for your antidepressants because you're not smiling all day long? This especially bugs me because I'm not a smilier and I like being bitter, damnit!
Personally I much more resent the idea that certain people imply that MBA's are capable of doing anything as significant as destroying an economy.
Yeah, but I know plenty of atheists who are douchebags as well. Correlation != causation, again, even in this case.