I used to lucid dream all the time, till I tried to manifest something so scary I couldn't control it one night. I only get to lucid dream about once every two weeks now, but that also might be attributed to my lack of gaming, as I've made a severe drop in the amount I'd play.
I found the easiest way to become aware you are dreaming is to walk somewhere, or flick a light switch. If it takes you only a few moments to go down the block or across the city, or the lightswitch behaves oddly, you are dreaming.
Lucid dreaming is where you know its a dream, but in the case of the article, you still control yourself in the dream state without realizing its a dream till you wake up.
I remember reading a paper about this like last year, that said gamers are more likely to be lucid dreamers and I found it to be true, in my case. I played a LOT of video games during my teens, I'd say at least 5 hours a day, averaging about 40 hours a week. Once you get -REALLY- immersed in a game that you can turn off and shut down, it becomes easier to be a lucid dreamer. I haven't had it as much lately, since I stopped playing when I got job, but every month I get at least 2 or 3 fully lucid dreams, and in 99% of cases I can remember my dreams.
Let me describe how it usually goes down for me. You fall asleep. You either wake up in your room, or doing some trivial task you usually do, like laundry. Something slightly odd will happen, and happen either quicker than usual or slower than usual, like a spider scuttling across the floor, or someone walking into the room. This is the first signal, you don't have any real thoughts before this, but now you start remembering everything that happens very clearly. When it comes to a point where you are compelling to do something, perhaps your mother asks you to go to the store, and you leave, something VERY odd will happen. This will trigger the thought process of "This can't be right".
Now this can happen normally in any dream, and often times it does to me. Sometimes this will cause me to wake up, other times I will just have to continue with whats happening trying to figure it out. But the lucid part comes when you go "This can't be right, it must be a dream". Once you realize its a dream, a whole lot of doors open up. You feel like you have conscious thought to do whatever you want. I have trained myself that when I see that first signal, I will go and try something to see if I can trigger the "this isn't right" thought. For me, this involves walking some place, and if it takes 5 seconds to walk down the entire block, I know thats not right. If I flick the light switch numerous times but it doesn't flash properly, I know thats not right. Those kinds of things work for me, they get my mind to realize its a dream.
Now, once you get that power to do whatever you want in your dreams, the next step comes in FULL CONTROL of your dreams, which is very difficult to achieve. I have only ever had maybe 2 dozen fully controlled dreams, but I remember each one of them as though it happened yesterday. This is where its not that you have control of your actions, but you also have control of your surroundings. Times I would think "This is a dream, so why don't I just fly?" And I'd be able to fly. Times I'd be "There is a monster, this is clearly a nightmare. Well if I'm dreaming, give me a weapon", and turn a nightmare into a great experience.
Being a nerd, you can imagine where some of the fantasies led. The sad thing is, its the best I've ever had. I have had some very enjoyable endeavours in the real world, but nothing really relates to the pleasure of being able to do what you want to when you want to, without limitation or inhibition. You can do the things you'd be embarassed about without reconsideration. One day I had the thought of "I have already manifested anything I could ever want. What is to stop myself from manifesting the things I would hate or fear the most?" I was able to see deeper into my fears than ever before. Some things I discovered shocked me so much I didn't want to sleep anymore. Luckily that subsided.
If you want to learn to do this, its not as difficult as it might seem. Video games have been shown to help, or at least statistically. The other thing is a dream journal. Keep a journal by your bed. Every day when you wake up, and you remember a dream, write something down, jot it quickly if you're in a rush. But put it down before you forget. Then when you come home from work and you re-read it, you'll get a flurry of memories.
Or a friendly agreement not to snipe each other's talent, but on the other hand, it makes someone at Apple kind of trapped at Apple, since they might not be able to get a job at the other big corporations who would use them.
Well, not exactly. A Piece of paper lying flat would require less space than a rolled up piece of paper. A book not only easier to read, but also very space efficient. Considering an Iphone is already small enough to fit in your pocket, why would you make it bulkier by putting it into a scroll?
Making it foldable does double its ability to be stored in spaces of varying dimensions, but its not like making a device designed to play video ROLL up is going to make it any more efficient, unless you have a video player with the 1 to 1000 aspect ratios they had on ancient scrolls. Folding just makes it flexible. (Haha, I made a funny)
You know, there are already PLENTY of applications out there that blind users can use to turn text on screen to speech? And that a lot of people prefer to disable javascript from running?
Last thing we need is an "on Hover" Javascript ad, you mouse over, and audio gets maximized "FIND YOUR MATCH @ ADULTFINDER.COM!"
Well, You're actually not too far from the truth. Surprisingly enough, video game engines provide great simulators for these kinds of things.
I know of a few cases where people have licensed the Unreal Engine for creating their own simulators, specifically I think it was to deal with some high collision testing. Since the Unreal team has started with some fluids physics, its not hard to see someone possibly using that engine to simulate the effects.
Then, all thats needed is the writing of Entities, which is usually done in C++, not VB. But the idea is the same, you only need about a weeks worth (40 hours) to write the basic entities you'll need, and maybe a bit longer for the complicated ones. Depends on what you are simulating, but if say there are only 4 different types of matter they have to consider, water, oil, air, dirt, than there really isn't that much to add.
So, really, the GUI would be already made, it'd probably be the Unreal Map Editor. The Code they would be writing would be C++, which most/.ers can at least recognize, and you won't need to make any models, since you are going to be using brushes for the landscape and liquids for the rest.
Not that they had to us Unreal, they also could use the Source Engine, though I don't think source offers much in the lines of liquids. But there are actually many ways to go about this. In fact, some modelling and animation software lets you simulate water physics, one in particular I know but I can't recall the name right now. (A plugin for Maya or 3dsMax or Softimage? Bah).
So really, the only LENGTHY part of development is duplicating the ocean currents, which if you have recent records on, is about as trivial as stitching their co-ordinates to the map you create, and making your entities flexible enough to handle the varied input.
I'm not trying to belittle the task of simulating something like this, but with a team of 10 or so people I could see it being done rather quickly. You have to realize that simulations are never quite 100% like the real thing. They have to cut off at some approximation point to keep the simulation running, otherwise the computer would hang trying to figure out the googelth digit. So, really, because the gulf is so large, its not like they have to calculate everything down to the particle.
If I recall correctly, they take a plane high up in the air, and do a dive straight down, causing that weightlessness effect. And when Paxton barfed, I believe that was a legit puke, and not faked. I think thats what I heard in the director's commentary, anyways.
I think this is where most of the issues stem - that some people think biology shapes us more than sociology, and others think vice versa.
I know a lot of people who could have gone to be honour students but instead dropped out to do drugs, and I don't think it was their biology that had any effect on the matter but rather their upbringing by the people they hung out with or problems with their parenting.
Likewise I know a few people graduating with Engineering Degrees next year (hopefully) that came from the worst neighbourhoods in our city, one of which has a single mother who is a gambling addict, and his brother is a lazy slackoff.
Problem is that you can't guage what a person's DNA is like by their family. I can't say that my engineering friend has "faulty" DNA in him because the rest of his family has serious issues, as they are also shaped by sociology and their experiences.
So it begs the question, exactly HOW MUCH is it hard-wired in a male to be crazy for sex, and how much is it wired in females to be selective? We've already mentioned that their are slutty girls and man-whores, and their are also abstinant of both sexes, so it obviously doesn't govern their lives. It would seem that Society shapes them more. The only reason why men would be more promiscuous is not only just because they are wired for it, but because we glorify men who can get any woman they want. When they pull off more than one chick at a time its considered a great feat, but when women do it, they are considered lowly.
We've reached a point in biology where our Genes don't govern us as much as they used to. Got a chemical inbalance? Take a drug. Alergic to dander? There's a drug for that too. Zoloft, Prozac, Ritalin, there's something for just about every kind of condition. Some birth control pills really kill the lobido for women (which seems ironic to me, heh). Some men lose their Lobido on steroids. Certain drugs can bring it back. Heck, we've got drugs to help with erectile dysfunction, something that naturally occurs with extremely old age.
We've evolved much further past biology governing our lives. We may be "Hard-Wired" like any other mammal out there, but we've already worked past that in our mastery of biology and how society plays a role in shaping your personality.
So when someone says that Men are more prone to one activity or another because of their biology, it irks me because that is such a narrow view of a much larger picture.
2) Name one published piece of fiction that you are having trouble finding on the internet. There are torrents for them as much as there are for obscure movies and music files.
3) I am not saying that books aren't good in Academia. I also reinforced that idea. But just as this study says that real books so far have no substitute in the field of academia, they also said more than 90% preferred the e-reader for personal reading. Surely that's a stronger indicator of the effectiveness of e-readers than 80% saying they don't like it for school.
Someone loading a frame on their client side by opening their own website and redirecting their main page to your page allows them to execute code in their frame (if they write code in their frame) to be executed by your server.
This is why people wrote scripts to disable people from framing your website in the first place. Don't act all high and mighty that you're older if you don't understand what we're talking about. Go back to bed Gramps
Hey there old-timer, perhaps no one has taken the time to explain to you folks why us "young ones" have abandoned the outdated and obsolete institutions called libraries. Libraries are always located in two locations: On Campus or too far from home. We will on occasion use the Library on Campus to do grab books pertaining to our studies. Don't get any illusions that we don't.
Now the trend follows that Campus Libraries often lack in the field of fiction. It seems that elementary school libraries were loaded with fiction, and some students enjoyed that, but now-a-days you'd be hard pressed to find any fiction in school libraries. It's all reference material, or history textbooks.
You can however - find fiction at your local public library, funded by your city. However, they are NOT free. There is usually an annual fee, if you are over the age of 14, and if you return the books later than scheduled, there is a fee. Now - these fines are usually pretty petty, and the library card costs is less than a book itself, but that combined with how inconvenient they are makes them a hassle. You can buy a library card, look for a book. There's only 1 copy in the city, and it's at a different library. You call the other library to have it ordered over, but its checked out. It's due in a week. You tell them to put it on hold. Ends up not being returned for a month.
So not too long ago, computers started becoming more predominant for reading. You wouldn't have to leave your home, and you could acquire the book usually within an hour or two of searching. There was no price for it, save for the price for your internet connection.
As the field of electronic reading grew, companies decided there was a market for these devices, and they started producing items like the Kindle. The Kindle attempts to bring you the same conveniences that electronic reading has brought us, without all the hassles of a desktop, as well as without all the hassles of the Library.
I realize it may seems silly and backwards, but try to understand that some of grew past the library in the late 90's. We stopped going because we got better service for free. We couldn't read our book underneath a tree, but we never really liked the outdoors much anyways, prefering instead to stay in our parents basement (for an undisclosed period of time).
For the same reason that people don't like Internet Explorer, or Windows in General, after trying out alternatives seriously. It's slow, it's bloated, it's insecure. I haven't seen a windows mobile phone that takes less than a second to load the contacts list, or one that even manages to navigate menus fluidly.
It's not a hardware issue, its a software issue. And they haven't had a lot of big name acquisitions in the mobile field, as far as I can recall.
I know. I tried hosting a website back around 2002, I was about 14 so I didn't have total knowledge of how it all worked but I wanted to see if I could successfully run something online with the money I'd saved from a minimum wage job.
I had it going for a solid 9 months, before some jerk opened my web site from a frame, executed some bad code and crashed my server. Fix it all up but for whatever reason he'd keep attacking it. Having school to deal with, I didn't put forth the effort to fight back or put security around it, so I stopped hosting it.
I have hated Frames ever since. Surmak mentioned the Java API's, which I admit I do use frequently enough, but even that I keep stored locally.
I don't see anything -WEB BASED- that requires a frame.
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Yeah. VB, C++, Java, they all do PCL commands.
Easiest way is to Build yourself a Win32 GUI, since thats what your users probably use already.
I used to lucid dream all the time, till I tried to manifest something so scary I couldn't control it one night. I only get to lucid dream about once every two weeks now, but that also might be attributed to my lack of gaming, as I've made a severe drop in the amount I'd play.
I found the easiest way to become aware you are dreaming is to walk somewhere, or flick a light switch. If it takes you only a few moments to go down the block or across the city, or the lightswitch behaves oddly, you are dreaming.
Lucid dreaming is where you know its a dream, but in the case of the article, you still control yourself in the dream state without realizing its a dream till you wake up.
I remember reading a paper about this like last year, that said gamers are more likely to be lucid dreamers and I found it to be true, in my case. I played a LOT of video games during my teens, I'd say at least 5 hours a day, averaging about 40 hours a week. Once you get -REALLY- immersed in a game that you can turn off and shut down, it becomes easier to be a lucid dreamer. I haven't had it as much lately, since I stopped playing when I got job, but every month I get at least 2 or 3 fully lucid dreams, and in 99% of cases I can remember my dreams.
Let me describe how it usually goes down for me. You fall asleep. You either wake up in your room, or doing some trivial task you usually do, like laundry. Something slightly odd will happen, and happen either quicker than usual or slower than usual, like a spider scuttling across the floor, or someone walking into the room. This is the first signal, you don't have any real thoughts before this, but now you start remembering everything that happens very clearly. When it comes to a point where you are compelling to do something, perhaps your mother asks you to go to the store, and you leave, something VERY odd will happen. This will trigger the thought process of "This can't be right".
Now this can happen normally in any dream, and often times it does to me. Sometimes this will cause me to wake up, other times I will just have to continue with whats happening trying to figure it out. But the lucid part comes when you go "This can't be right, it must be a dream". Once you realize its a dream, a whole lot of doors open up. You feel like you have conscious thought to do whatever you want. I have trained myself that when I see that first signal, I will go and try something to see if I can trigger the "this isn't right" thought. For me, this involves walking some place, and if it takes 5 seconds to walk down the entire block, I know thats not right. If I flick the light switch numerous times but it doesn't flash properly, I know thats not right. Those kinds of things work for me, they get my mind to realize its a dream.
Now, once you get that power to do whatever you want in your dreams, the next step comes in FULL CONTROL of your dreams, which is very difficult to achieve. I have only ever had maybe 2 dozen fully controlled dreams, but I remember each one of them as though it happened yesterday. This is where its not that you have control of your actions, but you also have control of your surroundings. Times I would think "This is a dream, so why don't I just fly?" And I'd be able to fly. Times I'd be "There is a monster, this is clearly a nightmare. Well if I'm dreaming, give me a weapon", and turn a nightmare into a great experience.
Being a nerd, you can imagine where some of the fantasies led. The sad thing is, its the best I've ever had. I have had some very enjoyable endeavours in the real world, but nothing really relates to the pleasure of being able to do what you want to when you want to, without limitation or inhibition. You can do the things you'd be embarassed about without reconsideration. One day I had the thought of "I have already manifested anything I could ever want. What is to stop myself from manifesting the things I would hate or fear the most?" I was able to see deeper into my fears than ever before. Some things I discovered shocked me so much I didn't want to sleep anymore. Luckily that subsided.
If you want to learn to do this, its not as difficult as it might seem. Video games have been shown to help, or at least statistically. The other thing is a dream journal. Keep a journal by your bed. Every day when you wake up, and you remember a dream, write something down, jot it quickly if you're in a rush. But put it down before you forget. Then when you come home from work and you re-read it, you'll get a flurry of memories.
One thing I've n
Or a friendly agreement not to snipe each other's talent, but on the other hand, it makes someone at Apple kind of trapped at Apple, since they might not be able to get a job at the other big corporations who would use them.
Since the country was run by corporations.
Well, not exactly. A Piece of paper lying flat would require less space than a rolled up piece of paper. A book not only easier to read, but also very space efficient. Considering an Iphone is already small enough to fit in your pocket, why would you make it bulkier by putting it into a scroll?
Making it foldable does double its ability to be stored in spaces of varying dimensions, but its not like making a device designed to play video ROLL up is going to make it any more efficient, unless you have a video player with the 1 to 1000 aspect ratios they had on ancient scrolls. Folding just makes it flexible. (Haha, I made a funny)
It can't come quick enough.
I think it just did.
You know, there are already PLENTY of applications out there that blind users can use to turn text on screen to speech? And that a lot of people prefer to disable javascript from running?
Last thing we need is an "on Hover" Javascript ad, you mouse over, and audio gets maximized "FIND YOUR MATCH @ ADULTFINDER.COM!"
Mod this up. I can't remember the last time I used quicktime since flash came along.
Well, You're actually not too far from the truth. Surprisingly enough, video game engines provide great simulators for these kinds of things.
I know of a few cases where people have licensed the Unreal Engine for creating their own simulators, specifically I think it was to deal with some high collision testing. Since the Unreal team has started with some fluids physics, its not hard to see someone possibly using that engine to simulate the effects.
Then, all thats needed is the writing of Entities, which is usually done in C++, not VB. But the idea is the same, you only need about a weeks worth (40 hours) to write the basic entities you'll need, and maybe a bit longer for the complicated ones. Depends on what you are simulating, but if say there are only 4 different types of matter they have to consider, water, oil, air, dirt, than there really isn't that much to add.
So, really, the GUI would be already made, it'd probably be the Unreal Map Editor. The Code they would be writing would be C++, which most /.ers can at least recognize, and you won't need to make any models, since you are going to be using brushes for the landscape and liquids for the rest.
Not that they had to us Unreal, they also could use the Source Engine, though I don't think source offers much in the lines of liquids. But there are actually many ways to go about this. In fact, some modelling and animation software lets you simulate water physics, one in particular I know but I can't recall the name right now. (A plugin for Maya or 3dsMax or Softimage? Bah).
So really, the only LENGTHY part of development is duplicating the ocean currents, which if you have recent records on, is about as trivial as stitching their co-ordinates to the map you create, and making your entities flexible enough to handle the varied input.
I'm not trying to belittle the task of simulating something like this, but with a team of 10 or so people I could see it being done rather quickly. You have to realize that simulations are never quite 100% like the real thing. They have to cut off at some approximation point to keep the simulation running, otherwise the computer would hang trying to figure out the googelth digit. So, really, because the gulf is so large, its not like they have to calculate everything down to the particle.
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW
Your runaway father, apparently.
According to Tom Cruise, it also makes it a bit more tender, juicier, and giving a more succulent stem cell flavour.
If I recall correctly, they take a plane high up in the air, and do a dive straight down, causing that weightlessness effect. And when Paxton barfed, I believe that was a legit puke, and not faked. I think thats what I heard in the director's commentary, anyways.
I suppose that depends what you're into. Yiff you know what I mean.
Don't look now, someone has your credit card. ...
Haha, you checked your wallet, didn't you?
They clearly had some French researchers working on it.
Surprisingly not. The only people who get Library Access for free are students.
Its not opinion, it is biology.
I think this is where most of the issues stem - that some people think biology shapes us more than sociology, and others think vice versa.
I know a lot of people who could have gone to be honour students but instead dropped out to do drugs, and I don't think it was their biology that had any effect on the matter but rather their upbringing by the people they hung out with or problems with their parenting.
Likewise I know a few people graduating with Engineering Degrees next year (hopefully) that came from the worst neighbourhoods in our city, one of which has a single mother who is a gambling addict, and his brother is a lazy slackoff.
Problem is that you can't guage what a person's DNA is like by their family. I can't say that my engineering friend has "faulty" DNA in him because the rest of his family has serious issues, as they are also shaped by sociology and their experiences.
So it begs the question, exactly HOW MUCH is it hard-wired in a male to be crazy for sex, and how much is it wired in females to be selective? We've already mentioned that their are slutty girls and man-whores, and their are also abstinant of both sexes, so it obviously doesn't govern their lives. It would seem that Society shapes them more. The only reason why men would be more promiscuous is not only just because they are wired for it, but because we glorify men who can get any woman they want. When they pull off more than one chick at a time its considered a great feat, but when women do it, they are considered lowly.
We've reached a point in biology where our Genes don't govern us as much as they used to. Got a chemical inbalance? Take a drug. Alergic to dander? There's a drug for that too. Zoloft, Prozac, Ritalin, there's something for just about every kind of condition. Some birth control pills really kill the lobido for women (which seems ironic to me, heh). Some men lose their Lobido on steroids. Certain drugs can bring it back. Heck, we've got drugs to help with erectile dysfunction, something that naturally occurs with extremely old age.
We've evolved much further past biology governing our lives. We may be "Hard-Wired" like any other mammal out there, but we've already worked past that in our mastery of biology and how society plays a role in shaping your personality.
So when someone says that Men are more prone to one activity or another because of their biology, it irks me because that is such a narrow view of a much larger picture.
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2) Name one published piece of fiction that you are having trouble finding on the internet. There are torrents for them as much as there are for obscure movies and music files.
3) I am not saying that books aren't good in Academia. I also reinforced that idea. But just as this study says that real books so far have no substitute in the field of academia, they also said more than 90% preferred the e-reader for personal reading. Surely that's a stronger indicator of the effectiveness of e-readers than 80% saying they don't like it for school.
Someone loading a frame on their client side by opening their own website and redirecting their main page to your page allows them to execute code in their frame (if they write code in their frame) to be executed by your server.
This is why people wrote scripts to disable people from framing your website in the first place. Don't act all high and mighty that you're older if you don't understand what we're talking about. Go back to bed Gramps
Hey there old-timer, perhaps no one has taken the time to explain to you folks why us "young ones" have abandoned the outdated and obsolete institutions called libraries. Libraries are always located in two locations: On Campus or too far from home. We will on occasion use the Library on Campus to do grab books pertaining to our studies. Don't get any illusions that we don't.
Now the trend follows that Campus Libraries often lack in the field of fiction. It seems that elementary school libraries were loaded with fiction, and some students enjoyed that, but now-a-days you'd be hard pressed to find any fiction in school libraries. It's all reference material, or history textbooks.
You can however - find fiction at your local public library, funded by your city. However, they are NOT free. There is usually an annual fee, if you are over the age of 14, and if you return the books later than scheduled, there is a fee. Now - these fines are usually pretty petty, and the library card costs is less than a book itself, but that combined with how inconvenient they are makes them a hassle. You can buy a library card, look for a book. There's only 1 copy in the city, and it's at a different library. You call the other library to have it ordered over, but its checked out. It's due in a week. You tell them to put it on hold. Ends up not being returned for a month.
So not too long ago, computers started becoming more predominant for reading. You wouldn't have to leave your home, and you could acquire the book usually within an hour or two of searching. There was no price for it, save for the price for your internet connection.
As the field of electronic reading grew, companies decided there was a market for these devices, and they started producing items like the Kindle. The Kindle attempts to bring you the same conveniences that electronic reading has brought us, without all the hassles of a desktop, as well as without all the hassles of the Library.
I realize it may seems silly and backwards, but try to understand that some of grew past the library in the late 90's. We stopped going because we got better service for free. We couldn't read our book underneath a tree, but we never really liked the outdoors much anyways, prefering instead to stay in our parents basement (for an undisclosed period of time).
(Disclaimer: Personal experience)
For the same reason that people don't like Internet Explorer, or Windows in General, after trying out alternatives seriously. It's slow, it's bloated, it's insecure. I haven't seen a windows mobile phone that takes less than a second to load the contacts list, or one that even manages to navigate menus fluidly.
It's not a hardware issue, its a software issue. And they haven't had a lot of big name acquisitions in the mobile field, as far as I can recall.
Yes, that is what I meant, lol.
I know. I tried hosting a website back around 2002, I was about 14 so I didn't have total knowledge of how it all worked but I wanted to see if I could successfully run something online with the money I'd saved from a minimum wage job.
I had it going for a solid 9 months, before some jerk opened my web site from a frame, executed some bad code and crashed my server. Fix it all up but for whatever reason he'd keep attacking it. Having school to deal with, I didn't put forth the effort to fight back or put security around it, so I stopped hosting it.
I have hated Frames ever since. Surmak mentioned the Java API's, which I admit I do use frequently enough, but even that I keep stored locally.
I don't see anything -WEB BASED- that requires a frame.