Part of the fun of hunting is physics in action. You have a possibly moving prey X meters away. You need to know the wind, hold the gun steady, lead the prey, and know the drop of a bullet. If you just take a picture, that could be a complete miss from bullet drop. If you just take a picture, you could have missed with a bullet because the prey was moving.
Regulated hunting is good because it keeps the animals from overtaking the environment and being pests as most of the natural predators are gone.
I like how if you run away from melee range, the melee guy gets a free swing at your back. I like aiming lightning bolts in a line and bouncing them off walls. I like trying to get as many creatures in a fireball without having allies inside. I liked the initial quest to clear the slums of monsters.
Between Pool of Radience/Wasteland/Final Fantasy 1 and Legacy of the Ancients, I learned a lot about where game design can bring you in terms of successful systems.
I never said to get rid of the class room system we have, but add this on top of the system.
It'd be great for those who like to read ahead, those who have no teachers to begin with (3rd world countries), and home schoolers.
Maybe someway down the road, you can replace class room systems, but I merely say to increase the functionality of them. If you replace books with ebook readers, it will save school systems an est average of 10,000$ per child for K-12. Surely some one knows where you can use money to increase the functionality of our current class room system.;)
Back in 2002, I was doing some theorizing on True Artificial Intelligence, and one of the applications I realized is that it'd make a perfect teacher. But more importantly, I realized we could create a computerized teaching system without having achieved AI. Lets start:
1) Digitize all education books saying copyright is holding us back. Suddenly you have about a million dollars in worth of ebooks for every student at the cost of 100 dollars for an ebook reader or laptop. This in itself would be an education revolution. Never before could we store or transport so much information in such a compact and cheap device.
2) Have K-college teachers teach their course to empty classrooms with a video recorder. You'd have about 10+ redundant lectures on the same stuff. Kids can then watch these lectures in their own homes.
3) Important "Tutors"- Have chat rooms or live QA with tutors on duty. This way when a kid wants to ask a question he can get it answered promptly. These would be like call centers with qualified teachers on duty.
4) Then the spice comes when you introduce software that teaches them through trial and error. I fondly remember learning how to count,add,multiply from TI-99 computer. The advantage that little piece of software gave me in math, allowed me to crush through to some of the highest levels in math an undergrad can take.
Now you can't count on the government to ditch copyright so I think the only way this will happen is through self sacrificial IP donations and rewriting books, open source K-12, and you can revolutionize education so everyone even in the third world can get an education if they want to put forth the effort. I think education and hunger are the two problems we can solve in this generation. Lets do it.
I converted one of my c games straight to Flash in one week of learning the language. The syntax is almost identical! On top of this, AS3 graphic handling is waaaaay better than C/C++. I recommend picking up Flash, get Flashbuilder 4.6 from Adobe, well worth the money imo if you know C.
Public school officials are known to power trip so much. To some people power tripping, they don't care about the law of the land, they just want to punish the person they think is doing something wrong.
Heh. I coded a nice tile based RPG out of it, but I couldn't make it MMOG because there is no socket code in Quick Basic. The trick to making big games in Quick Basic is to write your own Virtual Disk so you can get past the 640k memory limit. Once you have a virtual disk, you can write an interpreted language inside Quick Basic, then your code is simply loaded up in a custom database. I rewrote the whole thing in C/C++ because people told me I could get socket libraries in it, but I gave up on my game entirely when Ultima Online came out because I felt I wouldn't be able to build up a market because my graphics are so bad. I was partially right in thinking there is only enough room for one MMORPG at a time back in 97, but I think I shouldn't have gave up after having coded for thousands of hours with things like Farmville succeeding today.
I found out about the division bug as a beginner programmer! I was trying to write the first MMORPG using Quick Basic. I remember division not being exactly accurate, so the solution I needed to use was to round up and down results that are really close. It fixed it, but new programmers shouldn't be forced to deal with stuff like that.
I've preferred AMDs to Intels because AMD was one of the first sponsors to Esports back in 99. Too bad Columbine happened and I suspect they wanted to distance themselves from Quake tournaments. Another thing I like about AMD was that their processors don't melt if they get hot because they have a self preservation shutdown mode. People said Intel had this, but I melted a processor just a few months ago on SWTOR.
The advantage of open sourcing K-12 textbooks is that when schools finally go digital, they'll save a great deal of money per student. Free books = more educational money to go elsewhere. Also open sourced K-12 textbooks means you can buy kids in 3rd world countries a laptop through OLPC, and they'll have a chance at a first world education. Textbooks are just the beginning, I think all sorts of tutor software could be used too. People think it would be great for when we get Artificial Intelligence that it can teach our children, but we could make a software suite to help do it now.
When I tried to do hyper democracy, I wanted to be like Digg/Reddit, but I wanted factional voting. Factional voting is allowing republicans to view only republican upvotes and democrats to only see democrat upvotes. We had a ton of other features too. This is why we failed. We didn't embrace KISS. By just going with facebook likes, this saves you from writing an entire voting system! This is an eloquent approach. The only problem is a lot of people don't like Facebook. I guess these are tradeoffs.
Another challenge we faced when writing a hyper democracy website was: How do you validate they're a US voter? It could be someone from the Ukraine trying to change politics. Worse yet, it can be a million computer botnet from Nigeria trying to petition congress on something. We couldn't solve this problem in an eloquent fashion. We were going to have people physically sign up at booths across the nation to be validated, but even that doesn't solve stuff. My biggest worry is that if Facebook gets ingrained with politics and identification of people, is that Facebook will be mandatory for those getting political and that lying on Facebook about a fake ID would be a felony down the road.
My hats off to the eloquent interface: Just use Facebook likes instead of your own database. But that can come back to bite you in the long run.
>It's for this reason that I'm very curious about what would happen with my behaviour if I, for whatever reason, should someday turn rich.
I've wondered this about myself too. Maybe we could convince the government to do a sociological study of the changes gaining a large amount of wealth would do to a person. So naturally we'll volunteer for this experiment as we're the ones who thought of it first: We should be rewarded for our IP.
No one is going to take me serious after I just told a joke, but I knew a man who raised a bird(I think its parent died). He whistled to the bird all sorts of different tunes as he fed it and cared for it. When it grew up, it flew around and whistled all sorts of different tunes that were unfamiliar to the other birds. While the normal bird of its species has one unique call, this bird had upwards of thirty different whistles. It stayed around this area for a year or two. I wonder if it is returning this spring.
So you bring up a valid point: Do birds simply sing the song their parents tell them as they're being raised and prefer it? Do they calibrate their song based on what they hear other birds calling out? Is there an evolutionary component that makes birds prefer a certain tone to another? What tune would a bird sing if it was raised in silence?(poor bird, science is cruel sometimes) I'm sure these questions have been examined and explored by scientists. I think they're completely unrelated from a company copyrighting sounds from nature, but fascinating to think of none the less.
Yet bird songs might copy each other's tunes. So his bird song might sound the same as one they recorded. This is because birds have no copyright and reproduce other bird's songs as their own. They then use this to attract a mate and pass the other bird's intellectual property to their kids. Not only do they steal other birds song, but they show that if copying songs is legal, it makes all the birds lazy and not want to come up with new songs. This is why pirates always carried parrots on their ships. The parrot is the most efficient bird at stealing songs back when we didn't have computers and the Internet.
If Apple can take the monumental task of providing K-College books for free, I'm sure in the future we wouldn't mind getting Apple products to run them on. Apple has always been pro-education with the Apples in the classroom projects which got my K-12 schools computers. Why not go ahead and do the real revolution in our midst. By providing free K-College books, you end up saving people much more money on books than they spend on your computers. Sorry, this is my plea to everyone, lets provide K-College books in freely copied form, so the entire world can get an education.
I'm saying this not because the power was so good, but because nothing compares to Red Baron, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, and Xwing. EA/Bioware could have scored big with SWTOR by using Xwing vs TieFighter style combat in an MMO context where you can upgrade your ship. Instead the space combat is a gimmick and the game is barely an MMO with so few people on each server.
What if they brought back Stunt Island as Stunt Island 2? Allow people to autoshare videos on Youtube. Allow people to share/rate missions like they do on Little Big Planet. Have multiplayer with watchers/chatters. Have car racing too if you want to go all out.
Maybe I'm not in the mix anymore, but when I played some modern flight sims they showed an out of cockpit view and you just flew around using the mouse. Maybe someone could point me to where the good competitive gaming flight sims are that I am not aware of?
Another thing we're missing from the early/mid 90s is adventure games, but I don't miss them any further than I can get without the blue key.
Another question might be: Where will find the hacker that belongs on the moon? Do we send up the person with the highest score on Lunar Lander . Or do simply send up the most annoying hacker we can find to get him away from us? Also we need to make sure this hacker isn't going to turn into a full scale black hat in an unassailable moon fortress.
>Shareholders will vote for what the company tells them will make the most money. This decision should not be left up to them or the telcos
My first thought is: Just change ISPs once this happens.
My second thought is: Most of us don't have another option than one broadband provider.
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the elephant might go extinct like the rhino due to poachers. At least we'll have mammoths. >.>
I guess the optimist would go,"If we have the tech to do it for mammoths, we can get back other extinct life forms."
Part of the fun of hunting is physics in action. You have a possibly moving prey X meters away. You need to know the wind, hold the gun steady, lead the prey, and know the drop of a bullet. If you just take a picture, that could be a complete miss from bullet drop. If you just take a picture, you could have missed with a bullet because the prey was moving.
Regulated hunting is good because it keeps the animals from overtaking the environment and being pests as most of the natural predators are gone.
I like how if you run away from melee range, the melee guy gets a free swing at your back. I like aiming lightning bolts in a line and bouncing them off walls. I like trying to get as many creatures in a fireball without having allies inside. I liked the initial quest to clear the slums of monsters.
Between Pool of Radience/Wasteland/Final Fantasy 1 and Legacy of the Ancients, I learned a lot about where game design can bring you in terms of successful systems.
I never said to get rid of the class room system we have, but add this on top of the system.
;)
It'd be great for those who like to read ahead, those who have no teachers to begin with (3rd world countries), and home schoolers.
Maybe someway down the road, you can replace class room systems, but I merely say to increase the functionality of them. If you replace books with ebook readers, it will save school systems an est average of 10,000$ per child for K-12. Surely some one knows where you can use money to increase the functionality of our current class room system.
Back in 2002, I was doing some theorizing on True Artificial Intelligence, and one of the applications I realized is that it'd make a perfect teacher. But more importantly, I realized we could create a computerized teaching system without having achieved AI. Lets start:
1) Digitize all education books saying copyright is holding us back. Suddenly you have about a million dollars in worth of ebooks for every student at the cost of 100 dollars for an ebook reader or laptop. This in itself would be an education revolution. Never before could we store or transport so much information in such a compact and cheap device.
2) Have K-college teachers teach their course to empty classrooms with a video recorder. You'd have about 10+ redundant lectures on the same stuff. Kids can then watch these lectures in their own homes.
3) Important "Tutors"- Have chat rooms or live QA with tutors on duty. This way when a kid wants to ask a question he can get it answered promptly. These would be like call centers with qualified teachers on duty.
4) Then the spice comes when you introduce software that teaches them through trial and error. I fondly remember learning how to count,add,multiply from TI-99 computer. The advantage that little piece of software gave me in math, allowed me to crush through to some of the highest levels in math an undergrad can take.
Now you can't count on the government to ditch copyright so I think the only way this will happen is through self sacrificial IP donations and rewriting books, open source K-12, and you can revolutionize education so everyone even in the third world can get an education if they want to put forth the effort. I think education and hunger are the two problems we can solve in this generation. Lets do it.
I converted one of my c games straight to Flash in one week of learning the language. The syntax is almost identical! On top of this, AS3 graphic handling is waaaaay better than C/C++. I recommend picking up Flash, get Flashbuilder 4.6 from Adobe, well worth the money imo if you know C.
Public school officials are known to power trip so much. To some people power tripping, they don't care about the law of the land, they just want to punish the person they think is doing something wrong.
Heh. I coded a nice tile based RPG out of it, but I couldn't make it MMOG because there is no socket code in Quick Basic. The trick to making big games in Quick Basic is to write your own Virtual Disk so you can get past the 640k memory limit. Once you have a virtual disk, you can write an interpreted language inside Quick Basic, then your code is simply loaded up in a custom database. I rewrote the whole thing in C/C++ because people told me I could get socket libraries in it, but I gave up on my game entirely when Ultima Online came out because I felt I wouldn't be able to build up a market because my graphics are so bad. I was partially right in thinking there is only enough room for one MMORPG at a time back in 97, but I think I shouldn't have gave up after having coded for thousands of hours with things like Farmville succeeding today.
I found out about the division bug as a beginner programmer! I was trying to write the first MMORPG using Quick Basic. I remember division not being exactly accurate, so the solution I needed to use was to round up and down results that are really close. It fixed it, but new programmers shouldn't be forced to deal with stuff like that.
I've preferred AMDs to Intels because AMD was one of the first sponsors to Esports back in 99. Too bad Columbine happened and I suspect they wanted to distance themselves from Quake tournaments. Another thing I like about AMD was that their processors don't melt if they get hot because they have a self preservation shutdown mode. People said Intel had this, but I melted a processor just a few months ago on SWTOR.
As a Christian myself, I do not want to kill anyone. Nor do I want anyone to die.
Meredith Attwell Baker did this and was not charged, so why not everyone else who wants to make a buck at the people's expense?
The advantage of open sourcing K-12 textbooks is that when schools finally go digital, they'll save a great deal of money per student. Free books = more educational money to go elsewhere. Also open sourced K-12 textbooks means you can buy kids in 3rd world countries a laptop through OLPC, and they'll have a chance at a first world education. Textbooks are just the beginning, I think all sorts of tutor software could be used too. People think it would be great for when we get Artificial Intelligence that it can teach our children, but we could make a software suite to help do it now.
We'd either have to pay tribute to the patent maker, be sued for it, or be driving around on octagons.
When I tried to do hyper democracy, I wanted to be like Digg/Reddit, but I wanted factional voting. Factional voting is allowing republicans to view only republican upvotes and democrats to only see democrat upvotes. We had a ton of other features too. This is why we failed. We didn't embrace KISS. By just going with facebook likes, this saves you from writing an entire voting system! This is an eloquent approach. The only problem is a lot of people don't like Facebook. I guess these are tradeoffs.
Another challenge we faced when writing a hyper democracy website was: How do you validate they're a US voter? It could be someone from the Ukraine trying to change politics. Worse yet, it can be a million computer botnet from Nigeria trying to petition congress on something. We couldn't solve this problem in an eloquent fashion. We were going to have people physically sign up at booths across the nation to be validated, but even that doesn't solve stuff. My biggest worry is that if Facebook gets ingrained with politics and identification of people, is that Facebook will be mandatory for those getting political and that lying on Facebook about a fake ID would be a felony down the road.
My hats off to the eloquent interface: Just use Facebook likes instead of your own database. But that can come back to bite you in the long run.
I wonder what the conversion rate of a 50 dollar bill is into Gooney.
Ah, Gooney sounds kinda lame, I'd have went for street rep instead and called it G-Money.
If we're willing to spend $13 million per life saved, why don't we just end world hunger? The cost is 100$/yr per life saved.
>It's for this reason that I'm very curious about what would happen with my behaviour if I, for whatever reason, should someday turn rich.
I've wondered this about myself too. Maybe we could convince the government to do a sociological study of the changes gaining a large amount of wealth would do to a person. So naturally we'll volunteer for this experiment as we're the ones who thought of it first: We should be rewarded for our IP.
No one is going to take me serious after I just told a joke, but I knew a man who raised a bird(I think its parent died). He whistled to the bird all sorts of different tunes as he fed it and cared for it. When it grew up, it flew around and whistled all sorts of different tunes that were unfamiliar to the other birds. While the normal bird of its species has one unique call, this bird had upwards of thirty different whistles. It stayed around this area for a year or two. I wonder if it is returning this spring.
So you bring up a valid point: Do birds simply sing the song their parents tell them as they're being raised and prefer it? Do they calibrate their song based on what they hear other birds calling out? Is there an evolutionary component that makes birds prefer a certain tone to another? What tune would a bird sing if it was raised in silence?(poor bird, science is cruel sometimes) I'm sure these questions have been examined and explored by scientists. I think they're completely unrelated from a company copyrighting sounds from nature, but fascinating to think of none the less.
Yet bird songs might copy each other's tunes. So his bird song might sound the same as one they recorded. This is because birds have no copyright and reproduce other bird's songs as their own. They then use this to attract a mate and pass the other bird's intellectual property to their kids. Not only do they steal other birds song, but they show that if copying songs is legal, it makes all the birds lazy and not want to come up with new songs. This is why pirates always carried parrots on their ships. The parrot is the most efficient bird at stealing songs back when we didn't have computers and the Internet.
If Apple can take the monumental task of providing K-College books for free, I'm sure in the future we wouldn't mind getting Apple products to run them on. Apple has always been pro-education with the Apples in the classroom projects which got my K-12 schools computers. Why not go ahead and do the real revolution in our midst. By providing free K-College books, you end up saving people much more money on books than they spend on your computers. Sorry, this is my plea to everyone, lets provide K-College books in freely copied form, so the entire world can get an education.
Hypertext is good when you're discussing a high level topic, and you need to define the building blocks you're standing upon.
Debunking the Epicurean Fallacy
I'm saying this not because the power was so good, but because nothing compares to Red Baron, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, and Xwing. EA/Bioware could have scored big with SWTOR by using Xwing vs TieFighter style combat in an MMO context where you can upgrade your ship. Instead the space combat is a gimmick and the game is barely an MMO with so few people on each server.
What if they brought back Stunt Island as Stunt Island 2? Allow people to autoshare videos on Youtube. Allow people to share/rate missions like they do on Little Big Planet. Have multiplayer with watchers/chatters. Have car racing too if you want to go all out.
Maybe I'm not in the mix anymore, but when I played some modern flight sims they showed an out of cockpit view and you just flew around using the mouse. Maybe someone could point me to where the good competitive gaming flight sims are that I am not aware of?
Another thing we're missing from the early/mid 90s is adventure games, but I don't miss them any further than I can get without the blue key.
Another question might be: Where will find the hacker that belongs on the moon? Do we send up the person with the highest score on Lunar Lander . Or do simply send up the most annoying hacker we can find to get him away from us? Also we need to make sure this hacker isn't going to turn into a full scale black hat in an unassailable moon fortress.
I thought it meant if the light turns yellow, you book it(speed up) so you avoid the red light!
>Shareholders will vote for what the company tells them will make the most money. This decision should not be left up to them or the telcos
My first thought is: Just change ISPs once this happens.
My second thought is: Most of us don't have another option than one broadband provider.