You're being ridiculous. If something makes the user's experience less frustrating with no cost then how is it a bad thing? I recall an article some time ago where someone put together a proof of concept init system using make that showed that starting services concurrently can speed up boot time. The fact is, this is unlikely to increase the time that it takes to load all of the services and they may be able to reduce it.
How do people develop such a warped sense of aesthetics that they like this sort of thing? The entire case mod "scene" has got to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. It's kind of like when you see a car painted yellow, green and purple. I'm not claiming I have impeccable taste, but I know ridiculous when I see it.
But let me ask a serious, non-confrontational question. Of all those people who believe in something other than simple materialism, I've seen arguments where people poke holes and try to make materialism seem inconsistent or inadequate, but I've never seen anybody propose a sensible alternative hypothesis for how the mind works. Maybe it's because I'm a scientist, but I honestly can't understand what other possibility there could be. What are the alternatives? Souls? Is there anything besides souls?
There aren't really any adequate explanations of consciousness. Explanations of consciousness not based on observations of the physical world are handicapped by the fact that as far as we can tell, all of our experiences directly correlate to the states of our physical bodies. This suggests that since we are aware of our consciousness that it must be somehow be tied to a physical aspect of our brains.
However, purely physical explanations can't quite fill in the details. Consciousness is a stream of abstract representations of the physical world as mediated to us by our senses. So the question is, where do these abstractions come from? Even though these abstractions are intimately tied to a concrete system, you'll find that you end up facing a variant on an old philosophical problem.
David Hume argued that you argued that the flaw in empiricism is that you can't derive a moral argument purely from observations. The argument boils down to the fact that objective statements about the world take the forms "X is Y" or "A causes B" and moral statements take the form "People ought to do K". There just isn't a way to prove that people ought to do anything just using a list of facts. You can show that certain actions tend to have effects that many people report that they dislike but you still can't tell people what to do without invoking some sort of metaphysical authority.
You can understand a lot if not most of what there is to be said about consciousness from studying the physical picture. However, there's just no way to take a series of concrete facts and make a statement about abstractions without invoking some sort of metaphysical authority.
Of course none of this makes sense. No matter which way I try to approach the problem, I end up arriving at absurd conclusions.
It's just the Greek and Latin words are related since Greek and Latin aren't too distantly related. Dime came to English from French so it's more accurate to say it's derived from the Latin decimus.
Actually the word dime is just an archaic word for tenth. Of course, you are right that it is related to the prefix deci- (both come originally from the Latin word decimus meaning tenth).
I thought the ads in Pikmin were funny though. Generally the products were odd things like lip balm and it was funny to read what the ship's computer decided they were and what marketing techniques they should use when selling the objects to suckers back on their home planet.
You generally don't travel by clicking on the ground in Puzzle Pirates. Just use the map and click on your destination. You can travel from one side of an island to the other instantly.
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As I recall you get 3 points of karma if your story is accepted. Kind of a small gain for writing something this long but apparently the editors seem to accept every book review they receive.
While this clearly cripples the judges ability to make a sound judgment, from reading your posts you don't seem to understand what the word authority means.
I don't know how this idea that a republic with elected officials isn't a democracy got started, but it's inconsistent with historical usage as well as current popular useage. The Romans used the term republic to refer to any state that didn't have a king as its leader. After the fall of the Roman empire until the renaissance, the term republic was used interchangeably with democracy and was used to refer both to the forms of government used in Rome and Greece.
Today democracy is used as a more general term to describe all forms of government in which the people directly or indirectly control the government. The term republic is commonly used to refer to a form of democracy in which the people elect officials to represent them. However the classical definition of republic is still in use as many countries that are clearly not representative democracies refer to themselves as republics.
No one would insure a private company using that business model, especially if speeds were unrestricted. Also, maintaining safety requires some sort of policing. With the large initial cost and the relatively small profit after maintenance costs, no company would touch this idea. There are better ways to invest your money.
You have too much faith in the free market. The market is a mechanism that is intended to reward people who excel at something. It achieves this goal... sometimes. In an ideal world, the only way to succeed in business would be to sell a product with a price that adequately reflects its quality with respect to its competitors. However, businesses compete on things other than quality and price and in fact many of the market's participants scheme to avoid competing on quality or price.
Of course the government isn't much better. Many people seem to think that political and economic philosophy dictate that one must trust the government or trust the market. One shouldn't trust either one.
Never trust any ideology. There is no reason to believe that a certain philosophy will solve everyone's problems so you should fear any system that uses the same answer for every problem. Be prepared to look at things on a case by case basis.
As far as I can tell, most Slashdot posters only have two emotions. Everything is either great or an atrocity against all that is good and proper. These folks aren't exactly even-tempered.
First off, Tekken is vastly inferior to a certain weapons-based fighter series also made by Namco. I'll let you reflect on what that might be on your own.
Second of all you can't just throw a bunch of shit together and just hope that it all sticks together. There are innumerable problems that you'll encounter if you try to put everything into your game. Here's a few of them:
Everything has to work. If any component of the gameplay is lacking, it will bring everything else down with it.
Even if the gameplay features work well separately, it will still be extremely difficult to make them work well together.
Complexity is not the same thing as sophistication
Given the length of time that such a project would take even with a sufficiently large team, it would look and feel extremely dated by the time it was released.
It's harder to get a bunch of different people to agree on everything with a big project than it is with a smaller project that has some sort of unifying concept.
Big ideas don't scale down as well. Eventually with a game like this you would have to make some compromises in order to finish it and when this happens you'll more than certainly end up with some hideous abortion of design.
For the most part, ideas for games are worthless anyway. It's the execution that matters most of all.
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You're being ridiculous. If something makes the user's experience less frustrating with no cost then how is it a bad thing? I recall an article some time ago where someone put together a proof of concept init system using make that showed that starting services concurrently can speed up boot time. The fact is, this is unlikely to increase the time that it takes to load all of the services and they may be able to reduce it.
I really can't see anything wrong with this.
How do people develop such a warped sense of aesthetics that they like this sort of thing? The entire case mod "scene" has got to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. It's kind of like when you see a car painted yellow, green and purple. I'm not claiming I have impeccable taste, but I know ridiculous when I see it.
Somehow I don't think that someone referred to as a professor of food chemistry (even if that isn't all they do) is going to cure any diseases.
Heh, I've got the same issue. Metroids just set off something deep inside me that says "oh shit!"
There aren't really any adequate explanations of consciousness. Explanations of consciousness not based on observations of the physical world are handicapped by the fact that as far as we can tell, all of our experiences directly correlate to the states of our physical bodies. This suggests that since we are aware of our consciousness that it must be somehow be tied to a physical aspect of our brains.
However, purely physical explanations can't quite fill in the details. Consciousness is a stream of abstract representations of the physical world as mediated to us by our senses. So the question is, where do these abstractions come from? Even though these abstractions are intimately tied to a concrete system, you'll find that you end up facing a variant on an old philosophical problem.
David Hume argued that you argued that the flaw in empiricism is that you can't derive a moral argument purely from observations. The argument boils down to the fact that objective statements about the world take the forms "X is Y" or "A causes B" and moral statements take the form "People ought to do K". There just isn't a way to prove that people ought to do anything just using a list of facts. You can show that certain actions tend to have effects that many people report that they dislike but you still can't tell people what to do without invoking some sort of metaphysical authority.
You can understand a lot if not most of what there is to be said about consciousness from studying the physical picture. However, there's just no way to take a series of concrete facts and make a statement about abstractions without invoking some sort of metaphysical authority.
Of course none of this makes sense. No matter which way I try to approach the problem, I end up arriving at absurd conclusions.
It's just the Greek and Latin words are related since Greek and Latin aren't too distantly related. Dime came to English from French so it's more accurate to say it's derived from the Latin decimus.
What the hell are you on? Since new frontiers archers have been overpowered and as a result there are far too many of them.
Actually the word dime is just an archaic word for tenth. Of course, you are right that it is related to the prefix deci- (both come originally from the Latin word decimus meaning tenth).
I thought the ads in Pikmin were funny though. Generally the products were odd things like lip balm and it was funny to read what the ship's computer decided they were and what marketing techniques they should use when selling the objects to suckers back on their home planet.
You generally don't travel by clicking on the ground in Puzzle Pirates. Just use the map and click on your destination. You can travel from one side of an island to the other instantly.
I think my favorite pinball table of all time is Cirqus Voltaire which also was from Williams.
Your timing is impeccable. The first cartoon of Volume II airs on on Monday
He's funny looking and, quite frankly, that's enough for me.
Unfortunately phones lack tab keys.
As I recall you get 3 points of karma if your story is accepted. Kind of a small gain for writing something this long but apparently the editors seem to accept every book review they receive.
Must be a little league fast ball.
While this clearly cripples the judges ability to make a sound judgment, from reading your posts you don't seem to understand what the word authority means.
That's fine because I have an unhealthy addiction to 3d platformers.
I don't know how this idea that a republic with elected officials isn't a democracy got started, but it's inconsistent with historical usage as well as current popular useage. The Romans used the term republic to refer to any state that didn't have a king as its leader. After the fall of the Roman empire until the renaissance, the term republic was used interchangeably with democracy and was used to refer both to the forms of government used in Rome and Greece.
Today democracy is used as a more general term to describe all forms of government in which the people directly or indirectly control the government. The term republic is commonly used to refer to a form of democracy in which the people elect officials to represent them. However the classical definition of republic is still in use as many countries that are clearly not representative democracies refer to themselves as republics.
When you hear the eruption, duck and cover.
I'll feel much safer when all of the games "journalists" are in prison.
No one would insure a private company using that business model, especially if speeds were unrestricted. Also, maintaining safety requires some sort of policing. With the large initial cost and the relatively small profit after maintenance costs, no company would touch this idea. There are better ways to invest your money.
You have too much faith in the free market. The market is a mechanism that is intended to reward people who excel at something. It achieves this goal... sometimes. In an ideal world, the only way to succeed in business would be to sell a product with a price that adequately reflects its quality with respect to its competitors. However, businesses compete on things other than quality and price and in fact many of the market's participants scheme to avoid competing on quality or price.
Of course the government isn't much better. Many people seem to think that political and economic philosophy dictate that one must trust the government or trust the market. One shouldn't trust either one.
Never trust any ideology. There is no reason to believe that a certain philosophy will solve everyone's problems so you should fear any system that uses the same answer for every problem. Be prepared to look at things on a case by case basis.
It's not an opinion if it's verifiably true.
As far as I can tell, most Slashdot posters only have two emotions. Everything is either great or an atrocity against all that is good and proper. These folks aren't exactly even-tempered.
Second of all you can't just throw a bunch of shit together and just hope that it all sticks together. There are innumerable problems that you'll encounter if you try to put everything into your game. Here's a few of them:
For the most part, ideas for games are worthless anyway. It's the execution that matters most of all.