No, those shots don't exist in the game... The screen shots are from totally different angles. Admittedly, they could have just rendered another angle, but that's a wee bit paranoid, don't you think?
Anyway, I'm ambivalent about the whole business, in feasibility, gameplay, and rendering complexity. Plus, it's much more difficult to be impressed with the graphics when your average Unreal Tournament level tends to be just as pretty.
NOTE: No warranties, either express or implied, are hereby given. All software is supplied as is, without guarantee. The user assumes all responsibility for damages resulting from the use of these features, including, but not limited to, frustration, disgust, system abends, disk head-crashes, mongol hordes, general malfeasance, floods, fires, shark attack, nerve gas, locust infestation, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, local electromagnetic disruptions, hydraulic brake system failure, invasion, hashing collisions, normal wear and tear of friction surfaces, comic radiation, inadvertent destruction of sensitive electronic components, windstorms, the Riders of Nazgul, infuriated chickens, malfunctioning mechanical or electrical sexual devices, premature activation of the distant early warning system, peasant uprisings, halitosis, artillery bombardment, explosions, earthquakes, hard times, acts of God, acts of Satan, evil overlords, cave-ins, and/or frogs falling from the sky.
I ripped this and made my own modifications from some other guy who probably did the same thing. Keep the meme alive!
We should be focusing on the problems of the world right now. That is what is important. Once we have the global problems solved, we can start directing our attention and money towards saving our pitiful little 225 year old upstart nation.
This, of course, if the solutions don't cause more problems, which is historically true. Anyway, censorship in communist nations isn't exactly new.
-- If your god is dead, blame mine; Campus Crusade for Cthulu
The most recent book burnings I've heard of were in 1962 when the US Food and Drug administration burned the published works of Wilhelm Reich. The FDA also obtained a court injunction which ordered the banning and burning of any book containing the word "orgone," which was the central concept of his works and he was imprisoned for two years. Basically, he stuck his inquisitive scientific nose a bit too far out, and got it chopped off for his pains. His studies were on naturalistic healing methods, a few of which were erotic in nature. (Of course, anyone in the U.S. can expect such treatment from the espousal of the subversive notion that sex is good for you.)
Since most people don't know about this particular incident, and most people have never heard of Reich, I'd say that there were many other less-publicized incidents occurring more recently. Who knows?
-- Here's your medical bill for that topic whiplash
Frankly, I'd say it was a overall Great Thing, at least if it catches on. After all, what are the primary methods of learning how to program, gaining the tricks and techniques of the trade?
Take a class in it, which will teach you syntax and not much else
Figure it out yourself from the techniques you already know and the documentation you have
(this is the big one) Learning how someone else did it
Way back when I was a wee tyke, when I was first getting the hang of Pascal, I would have given my left kidney to access the wealth of open source code today. Not because it's a free product, but because I could have learned things like fast hash functions and various optimizations without having to munge through the concepts myself. Something may be gained from the experience, I suppose, but the pain is considerably more than the gain.
If software companies want to abandon software by making it open source, then scores of programmers in their crysalis stage are going to benefit. The customers were screwed already from the companies poor support policies, so they don't even enter into the equation.
With an eye to the future, I'd say that anything that will help people become programmers is a worthwhile endeavor. Isn't that what the geek community is about?
Some training both on the part of the computer and the user would probably be necessary. People have accomplished some amazing things using standard biofeedback techniques. After all, that kind of feedback is precisely how our brains were designed to learn.
Consider a biofeedback keyboard in which the computer and the user worked together to learn what distinct brain states matched with the letter 'K'. It'd probably be a good bit like learning how to type - you stumble through each letter, hitting lots of wrong ones on the way, then you start typing words, then groups of words together. Soon, you're thinking at over a hundred words a minute, unencumbered by those slow, stupid nerve chains going all the way to your fingers.
However, it makes one wonder about the possible psychological side effects of this type of training. People who use the computer all day do tend to lose their ability to empathize with actual people if the computer use isn't balanced by something a little less cerebral. The intense concentration on brain state might make it worse.
-- If God is inside us, I hope he likes coffee, because that's what he's getting.
his horrific recounting of the history of eugenics, the perverted use of genetics to breed superior humans, and his chapter on free will
Yeah, it's pretty awful when you restrict the choice about who gets to have sex with whom. But what occurs when the sex is taken out of our genetic manipulations? It doesn't necessarily have to be a Brave New World scenario.
Given that, and the parental "obligation" to give the best they can for their children, doesn't that obligation extend to making sure they're as smart/strong/ueber as possible? Can we afford to not make the next generation utterly hyperintelligent and creative, considering how well we've done in the past *cough, cough*.
It's unlikely that there will be any sociological force great enough to counter the relentless march of technological progress excepting a jihad executed on a massive scale. Our species seems to have the tendency to do anything that can be done, anyway. Not that I'm complaining.
> the company takes "the protection of our > intellectual property very seriously but can't > comment on specific cases. We prefer an open > partnership model that broadens access to ARM > architectures."
Translation: To crush our enemies, to see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
The second sentence has no semantic content, therefore no translation can be offered.
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Anyway, I'm ambivalent about the whole business, in feasibility, gameplay, and rendering complexity. Plus, it's much more difficult to be impressed with the graphics when your average Unreal Tournament level tends to be just as pretty.
Writing a haiku
Recursively on haikus
Match this, computer...
I ripped this and made my own modifications from some other guy who probably did the same thing. Keep the meme alive!
This, of course, if the solutions don't cause more problems, which is historically true. Anyway, censorship in communist nations isn't exactly new.
-- If your god is dead, blame mine; Campus Crusade for Cthulu
Since most people don't know about this particular incident, and most people have never heard of Reich, I'd say that there were many other less-publicized incidents occurring more recently. Who knows?
-- Here's your medical bill for that topic whiplash
- Take a class in it, which will teach you syntax and not much else
- Figure it out yourself from the techniques you already know and the documentation you have
- (this is the big one) Learning how someone else did it
Way back when I was a wee tyke, when I was first getting the hang of Pascal, I would have given my left kidney to access the wealth of open source code today. Not because it's a free product, but because I could have learned things like fast hash functions and various optimizations without having to munge through the concepts myself. Something may be gained from the experience, I suppose, but the pain is considerably more than the gain.If software companies want to abandon software by making it open source, then scores of programmers in their crysalis stage are going to benefit. The customers were screwed already from the companies poor support policies, so they don't even enter into the equation.
With an eye to the future, I'd say that anything that will help people become programmers is a worthwhile endeavor. Isn't that what the geek community is about?
Consider a biofeedback keyboard in which the computer and the user worked together to learn what distinct brain states matched with the letter 'K'. It'd probably be a good bit like learning how to type - you stumble through each letter, hitting lots of wrong ones on the way, then you start typing words, then groups of words together. Soon, you're thinking at over a hundred words a minute, unencumbered by those slow, stupid nerve chains going all the way to your fingers.
However, it makes one wonder about the possible psychological side effects of this type of training. People who use the computer all day do tend to lose their ability to empathize with actual people if the computer use isn't balanced by something a little less cerebral. The intense concentration on brain state might make it worse.
-- If God is inside us, I hope he likes coffee, because that's what he's getting.
Looks like our 'trode net might come into being after all.
Given that, and the parental "obligation" to give the best they can for their children, doesn't that obligation extend to making sure they're as smart/strong/ueber as possible? Can we afford to not make the next generation utterly hyperintelligent and creative, considering how well we've done in the past *cough, cough*.
It's unlikely that there will be any sociological force great enough to counter the relentless march of technological progress excepting a jihad executed on a massive scale. Our species seems to have the tendency to do anything that can be done, anyway. Not that I'm complaining.
> the company takes "the protection of our
> intellectual property very seriously but can't
> comment on specific cases. We prefer an open
> partnership model that broadens access to ARM
> architectures."
Translation: To crush our enemies, to see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
The second sentence has no semantic content, therefore no translation can be offered.