You know when you get a call on your cell and your radio or speakers go "dttt--dd-dd-dttt-dd-dd-dttt". That's the cellular signal interference. I used to work at a call center and would point out to coworkers when they were getting a text or a call on their cell. They were freaked out until I explained that I was hearing the GSM interference in my headset. It's not abnormal that a human brain could pick up on such signals as well.
Yes. I had multiple experiences as an early teen where I thought I was predicting what people were going to say next... and then they did. When I got older it stopped altogether.
Later on I learned about psych studies that explained Deja Vu, and it all made sense.
With the linear and subject viewpoint of your own (and every other human), how would you ever be able to tell?
Looks like we need Q on our side for this one:P
I had a dream the other night that the Grudge girl was attacking me. She didn't attack me the next day and hasn't since.
There are a lot of things that happen in our dreams that don't happen in real life. There are also things in dreams that we can relate to real life. But relating these things is no proof that they are correlated. Especially in the case of future events. If you had a complete vision of 9/11 happening, it would be a different story. But what you say seems to boil down to coincidences.
It's pretty natural for life forms to think that's there more to life than there really is.
It's not necessarily a glitch. The brain just always tries to take the path of least resistance. Consider this:
You see a ball, and you've recognized a ball before, so it must be another ball that you're seeing right now.
Now consider people trying to spot the Loch Ness monster on that very lake in Scotland. People who come to the lake often see shapes in the distance and interpret those as the monster. But really, the brain is just trying to match those shapes to the pattern that represents the Loch Ness monster.
Deja Vu is no different. The brain senses something and wants to recognize it as something it already knows. Dega Vu is just an effect of the brains pattern recognition system.
Notice how people never have Deja Vu of extraordinary events? It's really no wonder why that is.
Mass Effect 2 has horrible PC interface issues. The main problem is the menu screens. You have to mouse-click EVERYTHING, the buttons you have to click are spread out as far as possible all over the screen, and there is no support for arrow keys and selecting stuff in the menus. The buttons on the menu screens are all placed exactly the same places and look exactly the same, so it's hard to figure out what screen you're on.
I have never seen such a beautiful interface be so damn unusable.
The only salvation is that there's far less managing of equipment in ME2 than in ME1. If you had to do as much stuff as in ME1, I think I would have not bothered switching equipment/weapons ever.
What bugs me about games like the Mass Effects is that they support the 360 controller on the consoles but not on the PC. I mean, you already did all of the work to support different controller options -- why not let me use them on the PC?
Bioshock 1 (and I pray 2) did this beautifully. They let you use either mouse/keyboard or the 360 controller.
Which brings me to a program called Xpadder. I found it while trying to get Mass Effect to work with the 360 controller. The program maps controller inputs to keyboard/mouse inputs. You can download profiles for games like ME that are made by other users just like you, or you can make a profile yourself.
I'm a PC gamer and I love the Xbox 360 controller for Windows. So much, that I'll seek out games and buy them over others simply because they have controller support.
Actually, the new POP was the reason I got the controller in the first place. The quick-time button mashes were just too difficult using the keyboard. I was more than happy to play this game once I had the 360 controller.
*sigh* All of philosophy revolves around questioning empirical data. Asking not "what is known?" but "how do we know that we know what is known?" Therefore, any philosopher's arguments for, or even against, science is simply based on semantics. It doesn't make a difference because science doesn't ask "why do we know this?" but "what can we infer from what we observe?" Data DOES imply theory, but not if you decide to question the data based on no evidence at all.
I think one of the issues is, why are musicians allowed to be so famous/rich? Why is their worth more than that of normal professions? If a musician creating music just boils down to exploiting mathematics for our ears, does a programmer exploiting logic (obviously integrated with mathematics) not deserve to make the same amount?
... where I live we have had really bad winters the past couple of years. This year the winter has been really good (warm with little snowstorms). Say what you will -- I'm not complaining.
The 'size' of the code really boils down to what needs to be examined/changed. If you have a billion lines of code that are rock-solid and a million other that may need to be modified -- that's a big difference. Programming is all about localized knowledge.
Don't be discouraged. It's not like English where everyone writes in a familiar way. Everyone writes code a little differently and it is hard to go through it. Even with good commenting it can be difficult. Just persist and hope that you can contact one of the original authors.
I will agree that it's not practical, but for the presentation of the works only. The bottom line is that the other works you directly copied parts from, whether modified or not, must be acknowledged somewhere in the publication of your work.
In university the prof gave us an assignment and specifically said "Do not launch any threads. This is to be a single-thread application." The whole class goes single-threaded and gets hosed, while the one guy who didn't understand the rules and launched something like 30 threads got the highest mark.
I agree completely. In fields like CS/CE the most important skills aren't knowing what this or that is, but rather, the ability to figure things out for yourself. Employers value persistence and problem solving abilities above all else.
I was in engineering school so I always took notes with pen and paper. With the few arts courses I did take, I found huge advantages to taking notes with a computer. The engineering lectures were mostly linear and had a lot equations and diagrams to copy. The arts lectures were more non-linear. I cursed every time I had to write another point in a section we covered 10 minutes ago.
Then there are the courses which are covered following power point slides. Some students had tablet PCs and were easily able to write notes to each slide. This was optimal for those courses.
Apple won't release the APIs to allow for Flash GPU acceleration on Macs. Microsoft allows it and Flash is obviously faster on Windows. Apple is lazy, plain and simple.
Got completely sucked into the distortion field, didn't you?
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You know when you get a call on your cell and your radio or speakers go "dttt--dd-dd-dttt-dd-dd-dttt". That's the cellular signal interference. I used to work at a call center and would point out to coworkers when they were getting a text or a call on their cell. They were freaked out until I explained that I was hearing the GSM interference in my headset. It's not abnormal that a human brain could pick up on such signals as well.
Yes. I had multiple experiences as an early teen where I thought I was predicting what people were going to say next... and then they did. When I got older it stopped altogether.
Later on I learned about psych studies that explained Deja Vu, and it all made sense.
With the linear and subject viewpoint of your own (and every other human), how would you ever be able to tell? Looks like we need Q on our side for this one :P
Mod up! Very nice argument.
I had a dream the other night that the Grudge girl was attacking me. She didn't attack me the next day and hasn't since.
There are a lot of things that happen in our dreams that don't happen in real life. There are also things in dreams that we can relate to real life. But relating these things is no proof that they are correlated. Especially in the case of future events. If you had a complete vision of 9/11 happening, it would be a different story. But what you say seems to boil down to coincidences.
It's pretty natural for life forms to think that's there more to life than there really is.
It's not necessarily a glitch. The brain just always tries to take the path of least resistance. Consider this:
You see a ball, and you've recognized a ball before, so it must be another ball that you're seeing right now.
Now consider people trying to spot the Loch Ness monster on that very lake in Scotland. People who come to the lake often see shapes in the distance and interpret those as the monster. But really, the brain is just trying to match those shapes to the pattern that represents the Loch Ness monster.
Deja Vu is no different. The brain senses something and wants to recognize it as something it already knows. Dega Vu is just an effect of the brains pattern recognition system.
Notice how people never have Deja Vu of extraordinary events? It's really no wonder why that is.
I agree. The only one they kept was the map button (M), except half of the time it opened up the map, half the time it showed an objective compass.
ME2 made a lot of improvements over 1, but this should be worked on for the 3rd installment.
Please excuse me while I go and cry in the corner.
Mass Effect 2 has horrible PC interface issues. The main problem is the menu screens. You have to mouse-click EVERYTHING, the buttons you have to click are spread out as far as possible all over the screen, and there is no support for arrow keys and selecting stuff in the menus. The buttons on the menu screens are all placed exactly the same places and look exactly the same, so it's hard to figure out what screen you're on.
I have never seen such a beautiful interface be so damn unusable.
The only salvation is that there's far less managing of equipment in ME2 than in ME1. If you had to do as much stuff as in ME1, I think I would have not bothered switching equipment/weapons ever.
What bugs me about games like the Mass Effects is that they support the 360 controller on the consoles but not on the PC. I mean, you already did all of the work to support different controller options -- why not let me use them on the PC?
Bioshock 1 (and I pray 2) did this beautifully. They let you use either mouse/keyboard or the 360 controller.
Which brings me to a program called Xpadder. I found it while trying to get Mass Effect to work with the 360 controller. The program maps controller inputs to keyboard/mouse inputs. You can download profiles for games like ME that are made by other users just like you, or you can make a profile yourself.
I'm a PC gamer and I love the Xbox 360 controller for Windows. So much, that I'll seek out games and buy them over others simply because they have controller support.
Actually, the new POP was the reason I got the controller in the first place. The quick-time button mashes were just too difficult using the keyboard. I was more than happy to play this game once I had the 360 controller.
*sigh* All of philosophy revolves around questioning empirical data. Asking not "what is known?" but "how do we know that we know what is known?" Therefore, any philosopher's arguments for, or even against, science is simply based on semantics. It doesn't make a difference because science doesn't ask "why do we know this?" but "what can we infer from what we observe?" Data DOES imply theory, but not if you decide to question the data based on no evidence at all.
Then lets count the famous/rich programmers/carpenters/any other profession? Guaranteed, musicians are far more famous.
I think one of the issues is, why are musicians allowed to be so famous/rich? Why is their worth more than that of normal professions? If a musician creating music just boils down to exploiting mathematics for our ears, does a programmer exploiting logic (obviously integrated with mathematics) not deserve to make the same amount?
... where I live we have had really bad winters the past couple of years. This year the winter has been really good (warm with little snowstorms). Say what you will -- I'm not complaining.
The 'size' of the code really boils down to what needs to be examined/changed. If you have a billion lines of code that are rock-solid and a million other that may need to be modified -- that's a big difference. Programming is all about localized knowledge.
Don't be discouraged. It's not like English where everyone writes in a familiar way. Everyone writes code a little differently and it is hard to go through it. Even with good commenting it can be difficult. Just persist and hope that you can contact one of the original authors.
Good point. It's interesting that axioms are not usually cited.
I will agree that it's not practical, but for the presentation of the works only. The bottom line is that the other works you directly copied parts from, whether modified or not, must be acknowledged somewhere in the publication of your work.
If it's not there, you plagiarized.
Why can't we just have education books just present multiple popular theories along with the pros and cons of each?
That would just raise the risk of teachers following their own agendas. This way they get to follow one radical group's agenda :)
In university the prof gave us an assignment and specifically said "Do not launch any threads. This is to be a single-thread application." The whole class goes single-threaded and gets hosed, while the one guy who didn't understand the rules and launched something like 30 threads got the highest mark.
I agree completely. In fields like CS/CE the most important skills aren't knowing what this or that is, but rather, the ability to figure things out for yourself. Employers value persistence and problem solving abilities above all else.
I was in engineering school so I always took notes with pen and paper. With the few arts courses I did take, I found huge advantages to taking notes with a computer. The engineering lectures were mostly linear and had a lot equations and diagrams to copy. The arts lectures were more non-linear. I cursed every time I had to write another point in a section we covered 10 minutes ago.
Then there are the courses which are covered following power point slides. Some students had tablet PCs and were easily able to write notes to each slide. This was optimal for those courses.
Apple won't release the APIs to allow for Flash GPU acceleration on Macs. Microsoft allows it and Flash is obviously faster on Windows. Apple is lazy, plain and simple.
Got completely sucked into the distortion field, didn't you?