...someone with adequate skills and all the knowhow that was required besides the actual programming. As we were on a tight budget, it was important for us to find that one guy who didn't expect a zillion dollar salary.
Eg, you wanted a professional but didn't want to pay for it. The result was fairly predictable from that point on.
Josephus (at least the part where he mentions Jesus) is a fake - surprised you didn't know that. Tacitus is only know to have written what early Christians belived to have happened.
Case not proven, m'lud. For a man who was supposed to be the most famous man alive in the area, no-one there at the time seems to have heard of him.
As it happens, I'm writing just such a game in my spare time. I won't bore you with the details (at least, not until that far distant time in which it's ready for release), so I'll sumarise the relevant part:
A major part of the game implements a global capitalist economy - an international stock market and a large number of mega-corps, which the players can buy and operate for themselves. The players can then use the enormous power this gives them for their own nefarious purposes, for instance funding rebels in a third-world country in exchange for 'favours' once the rebels are in power, or buying yourself a couple of senators in order to get your bill passed. Or maybe your media empire will suppress stories about your secret private space program. You get the idea.
The social commentry here isn't subtle: By allowing the players to act in this way, and by making the game as realistic as I can (albeit grossly simplified and maybe a little cynical) it may just cause the player to ponder about multinational corporations having unprecedented levels of social and political (as well as economic) power, totally unfettered by the inconvenience of democracy.
In the game, this is extrapolated to: what if say, Bill Gates really was as evil as we often joke about him being? What exactly is to stop him from wielding his potential power to secretly fund nasty little projects and backhanders that buy him more and more power? Could someone in Bill's position, who was evil, Maciavellian, and totally corrupt eventally take over the world - without anyone noticing? What would stop them?
When in fact you look through a microscope, you will certainly find that life is irreduciably complex.
In your opinion.
Unless all 93 pieces are in place, the system does not work at all. QED
Go to your car, open the bonnet look at all the stuff in there. Most likely, if you remove any one of the many many components, your car wouldn't work, right? Therefore, your car engine is 'Irreducibly complex', and therefore no earlier design of engine can possibly have ever existed. QED.
(OK, OK, it's spurious argument, I know, but I think it gets the point across without pages of argument drifting ever further off-topic.)
It's one of the great mysteries of science. I read somewhere - Fortean Times, I think - that there is even evidence that it works on animals. I don't have a link, dammit, but that's quite incredible if true.
"He's a talentless coke-snorting egomaniac rapist"
"that woman he and his friend raped"
The results of the court case revealed that he may be many unsavoury things, but he is not a rapist. Does the phrase "Not guilty" mean anything to you?
Maybe. But he's not a rapist. To accuse him of a serious crime he didn't commit just because you don't like his lifestyle is a bit low, don't you think?
er...completely wrong. He wasn't even in that film, let alone played the Gang Leader. In fact, I'd guess he would still be a boy around the time that film was made.
Still, it was a great film - you got one bit right.
Of course, this will cause a precompiler stack-overflow, but of course, to be Turing-complete assumes a machine with infiniate storage.
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Nice work Jono, giving the Free software song the metal treatment. Fantastic solo, too...but...what's going on with the drum sounds? Did you use a couple of old tupperware tubs or something?:)
Oh, for crying out loud! Science, history, comtemporary texts and your own comments prove the bible untrue. Hint:
An example of this is the great flood of Noah. When they discovered there actually was a layer of underwater "silt" around the period the story comes from
what - covering the whole earth? I don't think so. So it was a localised flood - big deal. They happen all the time.
and when they discovered similar stories in other cultures
I thought all other cultures were wiped out? That that was in fact the point? How come the Chinese, whose culture predates and postdates the 'flood' never mention it?
It's because of this selectiveness of 'evidence', your inability to look at the wider aspects of your claims and your ignorance of anything outside of your religion that makes people make fun of people who belive in (your) god.
Er...this is not the time or the place for this....but feel free to email me if you want to discuss this further.:)
Damn right. People think that Philoshophy has to be about huge, grandiose subjects - but the trivial can be just as important. In fact, not trivial at all. Just try describing the taste of chiken without refering to anything else.
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Eg, you wanted a professional but didn't want to pay for it. The result was fairly predictable from that point on.
Fleetwood computers have them in the UK. It's where I bought mine.
Josephus (at least the part where he mentions Jesus) is a fake - surprised you didn't know that. Tacitus is only know to have written what early Christians belived to have happened.
Case not proven, m'lud. For a man who was supposed to be the most famous man alive in the area, no-one there at the time seems to have heard of him.
More information on that here.
As it happens, I'm writing just such a game in my spare time. I won't bore you with the details (at least, not until that far distant time in which it's ready for release), so I'll sumarise the relevant part:
:)
A major part of the game implements a global capitalist economy - an international stock market and a large number of mega-corps, which the players can buy and operate for themselves. The players can then use the enormous power this gives them for their own nefarious purposes, for instance funding rebels in a third-world country in exchange for 'favours' once the rebels are in power, or buying yourself a couple of senators in order to get your bill passed. Or maybe your media empire will suppress stories about your secret private space program. You get the idea.
The social commentry here isn't subtle: By allowing the players to act in this way, and by making the game as realistic as I can (albeit grossly simplified and maybe a little cynical) it may just cause the player to ponder about multinational corporations having unprecedented levels of social and political (as well as economic) power, totally unfettered by the inconvenience of democracy.
In the game, this is extrapolated to: what if say, Bill Gates really was as evil as we often joke about him being? What exactly is to stop him from wielding his potential power to secretly fund nasty little projects and backhanders that buy him more and more power? Could someone in Bill's position, who was evil, Maciavellian, and totally corrupt eventally take over the world - without anyone noticing? What would stop them?
Sounds like fun, huh?
Basically the plot of Blade Runner then?
In your opinion.
Go to your car, open the bonnet look at all the stuff in there. Most likely, if you remove any one of the many many components, your car wouldn't work, right? Therefore, your car engine is 'Irreducibly complex', and therefore no earlier design of engine can possibly have ever existed. QED.
(OK, OK, it's spurious argument, I know, but I think it gets the point across without pages of argument drifting ever further off-topic.)
You are aware of the number of people who have seen Elvis after his death, right?
+1 Insightful? Talk about moderators on crack. Here's a clue (warning - may contain sarcasm):
If you saw a chimp change into a human, that wouldn't be an example of Darwinism. It would be a werechimp.
Ah, but IS it the question?
It's one of the great mysteries of science. I read somewhere - Fortean Times, I think - that there is even evidence that it works on animals. I don't have a link, dammit, but that's quite incredible if true.
Er, yes you did:
The results of the court case revealed that he may be many unsavoury things, but he is not a rapist. Does the phrase "Not guilty" mean anything to you?
Maybe. But he's not a rapist. To accuse him of a serious crime he didn't commit just because you don't like his lifestyle is a bit low, don't you think?
Rapist? The courts beg to differ with you on that one. Still, who cares about reality, hum? Let's all stick to our predudices.
I got the joke, even it none of the mods did. :)
er...completely wrong. He wasn't even in that film, let alone played the Gang Leader. In fact, I'd guess he would still be a boy around the time that film was made.
Still, it was a great film - you got one bit right.
I don't know....I'm going to ask around, and see what everybody else thinks.
Ah yes, searching on google for xxx. We've all been there.
And churches, of course.
one.cc:
#include "two.cc"
two.cc:
#include "one.cc"
Of course, this will cause a precompiler stack-overflow, but of course, to be Turing-complete assumes a machine with infiniate storage.
Nice work Jono, giving the Free software song the metal treatment. Fantastic solo, too...but...what's going on with the drum sounds? Did you use a couple of old tupperware tubs or something? :)
what - covering the whole earth? I don't think so. So it was a localised flood - big deal. They happen all the time.
I thought all other cultures were wiped out? That that was in fact the point? How come the Chinese, whose culture predates and postdates the 'flood' never mention it?
It's because of this selectiveness of 'evidence', your inability to look at the wider aspects of your claims and your ignorance of anything outside of your religion that makes people make fun of people who belive in (your) god.
Er...this is not the time or the place for this....but feel free to email me if you want to discuss this further.
Neo is his /. login :)
Damn right. People think that Philoshophy has to be about huge, grandiose subjects - but the trivial can be just as important. In fact, not trivial at all. Just try describing the taste of chiken without refering to anything else.
...for giving me an interest in history and geography.