If the government wanted to control people all they have to do is get a well publicized attempt at striking down a group of "dissidents" and it works like a charm. Maybe get a bunch of napalm and douse a small city or the like and most people will fall into line.
About the gun issue. Suppose a I close all the gun shops and have to go elsewhere to get guns. Now suppose I make sure that I close my borders to all trade and make sure that said trade is strictly monitored if I indeed want something to get into the country. Now unless you are very cleaver and can manage to sneak guns from China into a black maket and then find a person who can sell them to you (usually at a high markup) then you won't be able to get a gun.
You can go through a great variety of means to get the data after you have it. You could just transfer it to another PC. Usually when I think of porn I think of good old fashioned.jpg,.gif, etc and.txt as well. The downloading itself itns't hard at all. Viewing takes slightly more but usually not much more. I don't think spending $5k on a computer is justifiable for porn viewing.
Software from microsoft and the like prevents the fear of loosing hardware sales. I will also submit that linux has betrayed people in the regard nicely. Trying to run GNOME, KDE, or E on anything less than a well equiped Pentium class computer will leave you in the cold really fast. Think your modem is good enough? Well we will just ram the web with graphics and things like quake 3 until your old modem isn't good enough anymore. See it's about duplicity in the game and making it work for them.
I mean even the best upgrade schedule will have to at some point realize that upgrading system components is far better and in the long run cheaper than replacing the whole box. Of course yoy may be burning out those computers really, really fast but that's just not that easy to do in my mind.
People do ned to upgrade and people still need new computers. Computers aren't just something that you buy and forget about. Hardware vendors play little games and deceive people so that they can get more sales.
That is the question I thought you had to manually force instructions with some physical means to allow them to run your custom programs. Wouldn't this generate heat?
1. What is a slip ring? 2. What is perfboard 3. What is a Berg connector? 4. a threaded spacer? 5. a 16C84? how do you even figure out to program it in the first place? 6. DIP resistor? 7. what is a PIC16C84? what is a "programmer" for a chip and how can you force something to recognize insturctions? don't you know need to have some form of way of stching instructions onto the chip with a laser or something?
.NET is used to transact data via servers and hold applications on remote servers via a single remote provider of applications (ie microsoft). They hold the apps, they hold your data therefore you don't have the apps or their data and you have nothing hence the comment.
I would think that chess evoloved from the ancient battles that plagued the midevil world and tended to focus on strategy. Mostly I think they were like military training excercises that monarches would employ to get the finer points of what they wanted to gain.
Personally I think it's a travesty about online games. Basically any online game takes usually one of two forms if it's based on quake 3 or the like.
1. A mud type of thing where you kill computer controlled minions and you eventually get more and more points without a plot this is mind numbing and eats up your time really quickly. I had a character who was working up into the early 40's level on a Daiku mud and just gave up for lack of enjoyment rather sad but it just didn't flow easily.
2. Kill, kill, kill. Basically a supped version of Xevil where you kill others for hours at a time and never do any creativity there.
I also hate what sqaure plans to do with Final Fantasy through 11 when they plan an online game which I speculate will eventually kill the series and considering their lack of fun games in the remainder (for me they just are flashy games that have their difficulty settings up a bit too much Vagrant Story comes to mind immediately) will probably convince me to leave the square bandwagon.
In reality you have to realize that most games really would benefit from realism at least in interaction with the game itself.
I say this because of some of the insanely hard things you have to do logically within games say like find a hidden key or get some magical monster.
For example instead of having to look blind I should be able to talk about any topic I want with a character in a game. Say I don't want to let on to the barmaid that I am looking for the treasure but want to simply engage her in small talk and get her to spill the beans about the adventurers who have been frequenting the tavern? What if I want to have a different approach each time I do something instead of being preprogrammed in? All that takes is a little creative use of the if() statement and you're home free.
I played adom and one of the worst things about the game is the fact that most characters are weak and rations and foodstuffs are heavy. The only really playable characters are the lizard people (their name skips me havn't played in a while). I die far too easily on that game. Grey elven wizards are the best spell casters who can really win easily but they are also weak and need food which they usually cannot find. Add to that the fact that you have to deal with spell books magically disapearing and the like and adom while having a plot I grant you that and maybe a nice one is a very frustrating game.
Computer Games these days are mostly eye candy. Game play and story are a thing of the past. Sad.
I don't mean to flame but have you ever seen some of the differences between the releases of the Final Fantasy series namely the difference between FFV and say FFVIII really quite stunning. Story line is not at all declining in favor of "eye candy".
P.S. Can you imagine playing games on a beowulf cluster? You will probably need one to play in a virtual 3d world.
I can't totally say for sure but most people in the modern world seen to have dedicated processing boards for 3d work and that allow for more and more 3d processing.
Your above sounds like something people accuse me of saying but I think it's a little extreme. On the PC end you are talking about a great deal of money but less than $10,000 worth of hardware for anything but the most extreme uses.
Remember the original playstation has a 33Mhz processor in it.
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If the government wanted to control people all they have to do is get a well publicized attempt at striking down a group of "dissidents" and it works like a charm. Maybe get a bunch of napalm and douse a small city or the like and most people will fall into line.
About the gun issue. Suppose a I close all the gun shops and have to go elsewhere to get guns. Now suppose I make sure that I close my borders to all trade and make sure that said trade is strictly monitored if I indeed want something to get into the country. Now unless you are very cleaver and can manage to sneak guns from China into a black maket and then find a person who can sell them to you (usually at a high markup) then you won't be able to get a gun.
You can go through a great variety of means to get the data after you have it. You could just transfer it to another PC. Usually when I think of porn I think of good old fashioned .jpg,.gif, etc and .txt as well. The downloading itself itns't hard at all. Viewing takes slightly more but usually not much more. I don't think spending $5k on a computer is justifiable for porn viewing.
X was never meant to be an art contest nor some elaborate screen saver it was for graphics apps.
Computers cannot be treated like frivilous things and taken for granted. The nice new ones cost a mint and you have to justify the cost
Many other things are more important than internet speeds for a PC
Then all that money drys up. Why should I spend $5,000 just to play a game when I can do the same for $100?
Downloading an mpeg isn't CPU intensive.
Software from microsoft and the like prevents the fear of loosing hardware sales. I will also submit that linux has betrayed people in the regard nicely. Trying to run GNOME, KDE, or E on anything less than a well equiped Pentium class computer will leave you in the cold really fast. Think your modem is good enough? Well we will just ram the web with graphics and things like quake 3 until your old modem isn't good enough anymore. See it's about duplicity in the game and making it work for them.
A 10 year old computer will work just fine for all those tasks it's the bandwidth that is the only limiting factor.
I mean even the best upgrade schedule will have to at some point realize that upgrading system components is far better and in the long run cheaper than replacing the whole box. Of course yoy may be burning out those computers really, really fast but that's just not that easy to do in my mind.
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People do ned to upgrade and people still need new computers. Computers aren't just something that you buy and forget about. Hardware vendors play little games and deceive people so that they can get more sales.
That is the question I thought you had to manually force instructions with some physical means to allow them to run your custom programs. Wouldn't this generate heat?
1. What is a slip ring? 2. What is perfboard 3. What is a Berg connector? 4. a threaded spacer? 5. a 16C84? how do you even figure out to program it in the first place? 6. DIP resistor? 7. what is a PIC16C84? what is a "programmer" for a chip and how can you force something to recognize insturctions? don't you know need to have some form of way of stching instructions onto the chip with a laser or something?
I was just guessing on that one but most likely it did originate from military prepardness.
.NET is used to transact data via servers and hold applications on remote servers via a single remote provider of applications (ie microsoft). They hold the apps, they hold your data therefore you don't have the apps or their data and you have nothing hence the comment.
I would think that chess evoloved from the ancient battles that plagued the midevil world and tended to focus on strategy. Mostly I think they were like military training excercises that monarches would employ to get the finer points of what they wanted to gain.
What is an analog video game and how do they work? Are they like pinball games?
Personally I think it's a travesty about online games. Basically any online game takes usually one of two forms if it's based on quake 3 or the like.
1. A mud type of thing where you kill computer controlled minions and you eventually get more and more points without a plot this is mind numbing and eats up your time really quickly. I had a character who was working up into the early 40's level on a Daiku mud and just gave up for lack of enjoyment rather sad but it just didn't flow easily.
2. Kill, kill, kill. Basically a supped version of Xevil where you kill others for hours at a time and never do any creativity there.
I also hate what sqaure plans to do with Final Fantasy through 11 when they plan an online game which I speculate will eventually kill the series and considering their lack of fun games in the remainder (for me they just are flashy games that have their difficulty settings up a bit too much Vagrant Story comes to mind immediately) will probably convince me to leave the square bandwagon.
In reality you have to realize that most games really would benefit from realism at least in interaction with the game itself.
I say this because of some of the insanely hard things you have to do logically within games say like find a hidden key or get some magical monster.
For example instead of having to look blind I should be able to talk about any topic I want with a character in a game. Say I don't want to let on to the barmaid that I am looking for the treasure but want to simply engage her in small talk and get her to spill the beans about the adventurers who have been frequenting the tavern? What if I want to have a different approach each time I do something instead of being preprogrammed in? All that takes is a little creative use of the if() statement and you're home free.
I played adom and one of the worst things about the game is the fact that most characters are weak and rations and foodstuffs are heavy. The only really playable characters are the lizard people (their name skips me havn't played in a while). I die far too easily on that game. Grey elven wizards are the best spell casters who can really win easily but they are also weak and need food which they usually cannot find. Add to that the fact that you have to deal with spell books magically disapearing and the like and adom while having a plot I grant you that and maybe a nice one is a very frustrating game.
Computer Games these days are mostly eye candy. Game play and story are a thing of the past. Sad.
I don't mean to flame but have you ever seen some of the differences between the releases of the Final Fantasy series namely the difference between FFV and say FFVIII really quite stunning. Story line is not at all declining in favor of "eye candy".
P.S. Can you imagine playing games on a beowulf cluster? You will probably need one to play in a virtual 3d world.
I can't totally say for sure but most people in the modern world seen to have dedicated processing boards for 3d work and that allow for more and more 3d processing.
Your above sounds like something people accuse me of saying but I think it's a little extreme. On the PC end you are talking about a great deal of money but less than $10,000 worth of hardware for anything but the most extreme uses.
Remember the original playstation has a 33Mhz processor in it.
Hmm let's see Cletus let's just point that big shiny gun at our heads and pull the trigger.
Good grief if you are stupid enough to shoot yourself with a gun even if it is lying around you are a real fool.
It's only if you have a weak mind to actively engage in such activities is when it becomes a problem.
Ahhhh then you can't trap people into using windows in any way. It's really not smart for them to shoot themselves in the foot.