This is disappointing. I know a lot of geeks hated the movie, and labelled it as no plot mainstream crap, but I enjoyed it.
Huh? I thought geeks loved the Matrix; at least that's the sense I've gotten from slashdot and a few other geeky sources. Personally, I wasn't too impressed with it. Plot holes, amazingly poor acting (even from usually good actors like Fishburne), and they all seemed a little smug about how clever they thought they were. Not that I didn't enjoy it, just that I didn't think it was the classic a lot of people here seem to think.
I meant to emphasize the assume in that sentence. In so-called primitive cultures, many times the elders are always the wise ones, but sometimes they aren't, and at those times, a younger leader usually takes over the tribe, because he commands the respect that the elder doesn't deserve.
In tribal (I guess that's a better term than primitive) societies there's usually an institutionalized age/status system, and while a younger man might actually lead, the older members are usually given respect simply because of their age.
In some cases I'm sure this is true, but I believe that the vast majority of kids, even from a very very young age, can tell who is really wise and who isn't. There's an aura about them. A knowing smile, but never condescending...
Still have to disagree with you here; I don't think wisdom is so cut-and-dry. You can have a vicious, curmudgeonly, condescending, sarcastic old teacher who might be incredibly brilliant in his or her field. You may have someone who is totally ignorant of anything remotely approaching an academic discipline, but they may be a master of something mundane. I think you can learn from anyone.
Our problem is that our present culture tells us we must assume that the older people are wiser, even though many of them are not.
Again, I have to disagree; our present culture is, compared to the rest of human history, amazingly lacking in respect for older members of society.
Whatever your opinion on whether it was right or wrong, I don't think it's outrageous for Infogrames or Funimation to think it might cause competition to them; I mean, you're basically creating a game based on a story you don't own. And anyone who doesn't consider a mod a real game must not have hit the computer game store lately. Look how many mods have hit the shelves as retail games (and are presumably making money). Personally I think Infogrames was acting pretty cool in offering the developers a chance to get involved in legit, paid work.
Our society has developed in recent years to assume that elders are superior, rather than expect them to become wise, and then share their wisdom with others.
I've got to disagree totally with this; first of all, the idea that elders are superior hasn't developed in "recent years"--it's an idea that's been around for thousands of years. And it hasn't really started to change until recently, when the mass media started inundating TV and movies with the idea that adults are clueless and kids can be totally independent, which is of course wrong.
People must command respect. They can't just expect people (even kids) to respect them simply because they're older. Many seem to have forgotten this basic truth of our instinctive culture.
Again, I don't think this is an instinctive part of our culture. And just about everybody deserves respect; it's polite to show it even if you don't feel it. Plus, kids are too inexperienced to even tell in many cases whether an adult has something to pass on or not; and in any case, EVERYONE has something to pass on, even if they're not some wise guru sitting on a mountaintop divulging the mysteries of the universe.
there are an incredible number of 15yolds who are incredibly intelligent and resourceful
No more so than in any other age group; kids today are the same as the previous few generations, they just are lucky enough to get so many opportunities.
Why don't you see them? Why don't people know about Pablo's Inferno, Somnombulo, Highway 13, Gear, Pistolwhip, The Great Unknown, Acme Novelty Library, Jim, Non, etc?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've never been impressed with the indie comics I've occasionally run across. Mindlessly depressing, and I don't really go for that "grim irony" thing...
And to add insult to industry, e-books tend to be as expensive as their paper counterparts. You know a group of marketing drones whose combined IQ still didn't break into triple digits were sitting in a room somewhere, and thought they could sell books for the same price while pocketing what would usually go to manufacturing and distributing.
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I've been using Opera for the past few days, and it seems pretty good. More stable than either IE or NS on W98, and it seems to support just about everything I've run into.
It's funny how we had years of the media praising the just-out-of-college dotcommer who started his own company and raised all this venture capital. Who then wasted all their money on pool tables and 700 dollar chairs. Now we see that maybe people in their early twenties are a little too stupid to run corporations. Though I guess in the dot-com world stupidity tends to extend to all age groups.
Actually I've found US News and World Report a little better than Time or Newsweek; it's a bit more serious, with better political and international coverage.
Obviously you have no clue about what happened then. The FSC passed down several decisions, some favoring Gore and some favoring Bush; they rejected Gore's motion to have Miami-Dade continue it's halted recount, which may have cost Gore the election.
The notion that they "rewrote" the law is idiocy; it's their job to interpret the law, and they did it to the best of their ability. If the US Supreme Court felt that the recount standards were unfair, the proper course would be to send a ruling back to the Florida Supreme Court ordering new standards.
They were given a choice; they could clinch a victory for their side by selling out their judicial integrity, and they decided that getting Bush into the White House was worth it.
It is certainly the Florida Supreme Court that showed disgusting partiality in our election, not SCOTUS
If the situation had been reversed, and Gore had the slight majority, the US Supreme Court would have ruled in Bush's favor. Whatever else people think about their decision (even people who agree with it), I think that's pretty clear. Whoever believes otherwise is so mind-numbingly stupid as to defy belief.
I suggest that you are both right... er, correct. Programmers are thinking beings, and modify their viewpoints as new information and ideas are absorbed and analyzed.
They also tend to have a lot of holes in their historical/sociological knowledge and are swayed easily by single sources and unverified facts.
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Concentrating on every single move sucks the fun out of the game. Life isn't only about planning; intuition and quick thinking have a part too, and if you slowly plan out everything you do, it'll suck the fun out of life too. --
Tell me about it; I've played nethack for well over a DECADE and I've never even come close to winning. Get into the 20s and suddenly a giant mumak comes up and tramples you to death. Before they introduced them the cockatrice would kill you. Tempted to just give up and start copying save files... --
If Zork has taught us anything, it's that you can manufacture diamonds by getting a piece of coal, a screwdriver, a sprig of garlic, a lamp, an ivory torch, then going past the vampire bat into the mines, putting the torch and screwdriver in the basket, then lowering the basket, going through the mines using the lamp to light your way, drop the lamp so you can squeeze through the narrow opening, retrieving everything from the basket, then putting the coal in the machine and using the screwdriver to activate it. Beautiful diamond, easy as can be. --
Hell, even the New York Daily News is more reputable than the Washington Times; despite the right-wing propaganda, the press isn't as slanted to the left as people think. --
Actually, I read somewhere that French tanks of the time were superior to the German ones, though admittedly the German tactics were pretty effective against an enemy used to trench warfare. --
I think a lot of the bitterness arises from how quickly France fell to Germany; the maginot line was specifically designed to resist any sort of German attack, and the French army at the time was considered more than a match for Germany, yet they still crumbled in a few hours. Of course the Brits didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in the early part of the war, either. --
just have paper ballots, they work fine. Or mechanical voting machines (we have them in New York, and maybe they haven't been manufactured in 50 years, but the plans have to be around). Then make it standard for the whole country. I swear, some people seem to experience something akin to physical pain when they contemplate NOT linking something in our society to the internet. --
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What else did I miss?
Anything remotely dealing with gameplay. Nobody's criticizing the graphics or physics engine or detail. It's just it wasn't a particularly fun game.
Yes, we haven't had enough first person shooters in the past 5 years. And people wonder why Japanese games are more fun.
I'm talking about potential. Evolution doesn't work that fast.
This is disappointing. I know a lot of geeks hated the movie, and labelled it as no plot mainstream crap, but I enjoyed it.
Huh? I thought geeks loved the Matrix; at least that's the sense I've gotten from slashdot and a few other geeky sources. Personally, I wasn't too impressed with it. Plot holes, amazingly poor acting (even from usually good actors like Fishburne), and they all seemed a little smug about how clever they thought they were. Not that I didn't enjoy it, just that I didn't think it was the classic a lot of people here seem to think.
I meant to emphasize the assume in that sentence. In so-called primitive cultures, many times the elders are always the wise ones, but sometimes they aren't, and at those times, a younger leader usually takes over the tribe, because he commands the respect that the elder doesn't deserve.
In tribal (I guess that's a better term than primitive) societies there's usually an institutionalized age/status system, and while a younger man might actually lead, the older members are usually given respect simply because of their age.
In some cases I'm sure this is true, but I believe that the vast majority of kids, even from a very very young age, can tell who is really wise and who isn't. There's an aura about them. A knowing smile, but never condescending...
Still have to disagree with you here; I don't think wisdom is so cut-and-dry. You can have a vicious, curmudgeonly, condescending, sarcastic old teacher who might be incredibly brilliant in his or her field. You may have someone who is totally ignorant of anything remotely approaching an academic discipline, but they may be a master of something mundane. I think you can learn from anyone.
Our problem is that our present culture tells us we must assume that the older people are wiser, even though many of them are not.
Again, I have to disagree; our present culture is, compared to the rest of human history, amazingly lacking in respect for older members of society.
Whatever your opinion on whether it was right or wrong, I don't think it's outrageous for Infogrames or Funimation to think it might cause competition to them; I mean, you're basically creating a game based on a story you don't own. And anyone who doesn't consider a mod a real game must not have hit the computer game store lately. Look how many mods have hit the shelves as retail games (and are presumably making money). Personally I think Infogrames was acting pretty cool in offering the developers a chance to get involved in legit, paid work.
Our society has developed in recent years to assume that elders are superior, rather than expect them to become wise, and then share their wisdom with others.
I've got to disagree totally with this; first of all, the idea that elders are superior hasn't developed in "recent years"--it's an idea that's been around for thousands of years. And it hasn't really started to change until recently, when the mass media started inundating TV and movies with the idea that adults are clueless and kids can be totally independent, which is of course wrong.
People must command respect. They can't just expect people (even kids) to respect them simply because they're older. Many seem to have forgotten this basic truth of our instinctive culture.
Again, I don't think this is an instinctive part of our culture. And just about everybody deserves respect; it's polite to show it even if you don't feel it. Plus, kids are too inexperienced to even tell in many cases whether an adult has something to pass on or not; and in any case, EVERYONE has something to pass on, even if they're not some wise guru sitting on a mountaintop divulging the mysteries of the universe.
there are an incredible number of 15yolds who are incredibly intelligent and resourceful
No more so than in any other age group; kids today are the same as the previous few generations, they just are lucky enough to get so many opportunities.
Why don't you see them? Why don't people know about Pablo's Inferno, Somnombulo, Highway 13, Gear, Pistolwhip, The Great Unknown, Acme Novelty Library, Jim, Non, etc?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've never been impressed with the indie comics I've occasionally run across. Mindlessly depressing, and I don't really go for that "grim irony" thing...
And to add insult to industry, e-books tend to be as expensive as their paper counterparts. You know a group of marketing drones whose combined IQ still didn't break into triple digits were sitting in a room somewhere, and thought they could sell books for the same price while pocketing what would usually go to manufacturing and distributing.
I've been using Opera for the past few days, and it seems pretty good. More stable than either IE or NS on W98, and it seems to support just about everything I've run into.
25 megs? What the hell did they put in it? Why can't they just release the damn browser by itself?
It's funny how we had years of the media praising the just-out-of-college dotcommer who started his own company and raised all this venture capital. Who then wasted all their money on pool tables and 700 dollar chairs. Now we see that maybe people in their early twenties are a little too stupid to run corporations. Though I guess in the dot-com world stupidity tends to extend to all age groups.
Actually I've found US News and World Report a little better than Time or Newsweek; it's a bit more serious, with better political and international coverage.
Obviously you have no clue about what happened then. The FSC passed down several decisions, some favoring Gore and some favoring Bush; they rejected Gore's motion to have Miami-Dade continue it's halted recount, which may have cost Gore the election.
The notion that they "rewrote" the law is idiocy; it's their job to interpret the law, and they did it to the best of their ability. If the US Supreme Court felt that the recount standards were unfair, the proper course would be to send a ruling back to the Florida Supreme Court ordering new standards.
They were given a choice; they could clinch a victory for their side by selling out their judicial integrity, and they decided that getting Bush into the White House was worth it.
It is certainly the Florida Supreme Court that showed disgusting partiality in our election, not SCOTUS
If the situation had been reversed, and Gore had the slight majority, the US Supreme Court would have ruled in Bush's favor. Whatever else people think about their decision (even people who agree with it), I think that's pretty clear. Whoever believes otherwise is so mind-numbingly stupid as to defy belief.
This decision was upheld unanimously by a very conservative lower court, there is no way the Supreme Court would overturn that.
Right, the Supreme Court prefers to overturn decisions made by Democratic courts instead(i.e. the Florida Supreme Court in the last election)
I suggest that you are both right... er, correct. Programmers are thinking beings, and modify their viewpoints as new information and ideas are absorbed and analyzed.
They also tend to have a lot of holes in their historical/sociological knowledge and are swayed easily by single sources and unverified facts.
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Concentrating on every single move sucks the fun out of the game. Life isn't only about planning; intuition and quick thinking have a part too, and if you slowly plan out everything you do, it'll suck the fun out of life too.
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If I remember right you HAVE to kill the thief.
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Tell me about it; I've played nethack for well over a DECADE and I've never even come close to winning. Get into the 20s and suddenly a giant mumak comes up and tramples you to death. Before they introduced them the cockatrice would kill you. Tempted to just give up and start copying save files...
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If Zork has taught us anything, it's that you can manufacture diamonds by getting a piece of coal, a screwdriver, a sprig of garlic, a lamp, an ivory torch, then going past the vampire bat into the mines, putting the torch and screwdriver in the basket, then lowering the basket, going through the mines using the lamp to light your way, drop the lamp so you can squeeze through the narrow opening, retrieving everything from the basket, then putting the coal in the machine and using the screwdriver to activate it. Beautiful diamond, easy as can be.
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Hell, even the New York Daily News is more reputable than the Washington Times; despite the right-wing propaganda, the press isn't as slanted to the left as people think.
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Actually, I read somewhere that French tanks of the time were superior to the German ones, though admittedly the German tactics were pretty effective against an enemy used to trench warfare.
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I think a lot of the bitterness arises from how quickly France fell to Germany; the maginot line was specifically designed to resist any sort of German attack, and the French army at the time was considered more than a match for Germany, yet they still crumbled in a few hours. Of course the Brits didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in the early part of the war, either.
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just have paper ballots, they work fine. Or mechanical voting machines (we have them in New York, and maybe they haven't been manufactured in 50 years, but the plans have to be around). Then make it standard for the whole country. I swear, some people seem to experience something akin to physical pain when they contemplate NOT linking something in our society to the internet.
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