Speaking the truth always gets you labeled an asshole since you're not willing to stand behind clueless jerks sniffing each others farts all day long and shoving validation down each others throats.
Something similar to the Geobacter genus might be a good candidate, considering they can metabolise a wide range of organic compounds including hydrocarbons like oil and use iron oxide (something Mars has lots of) instead of oxygen. Not sure on the temperature ranges they can survive or their liquid water requirements but that's part of what this mission is about, to find out if there are micro-environments on Mars capable of supporting single celled organisms.
In that it doesn't DEModulate the signals before communicating them to the IC nor would it be MOdulating any signals to send to the phone's soundcard as all of the sensors would be on the phone itself unless you were doing something with tactile feedback. Essentially we're just talking about a wire connected to the controller.
It's just a wired connection to a microcontroller. It's not like they're going to be using the soundcard to ouput anything complex, just the necessary control signals to tell the controller to move the motors.
The point of adaptation being a survival strategy is when your pond becomes frozen ice for more than half the year because the local climate has changed, the beaver has to adapt or die. Keeping things constant only ensures survival as long as nothing outside of your control changes.
Not sure why everyone is getting so excited about the controller interface being through the audio port since that is old hat and hardly the most interesting connotation of this idea. I'd be much more excited about the possibilities of having a ready built platform with camera, gps, wifi, bluetooth, speach recognition attached to physical actuators. If you were smart enough about the design of the app or provided enough of an interface so that you could program your own behaviors, this could be truly revolutionary for home robotics.
Information has no extension (to use Descartes' terminology - it has no length, width, or height)
I'm sorry, that's just silly. In case there's some confusion, I wasn't attempting to talk about some fuzzy headed concept of information as an existence unto itself. What I meant by 'information we have been given by our senses' was the collection of impulses that have run along our sensory neurons to stimulate the systems of our brains. This 'information' is very measurable, unfortunately Descartes missed out on that information by a few hundred years. As for pain, I don't doubt the existence of the feeling of pain but I do affirm that it does not exist separate from the physical systems that perceive it. Even emotional pain has been shown to trigger the same sites in the brain responsible for interpreting physical pain. The 'FEELING' of pain is just that interpretation of those signals as processed by particular centers in the brain, as is pleasure and even higher emotions which, while much more complex in some ways, still rely on the same underlying functions.
There are no 'spooky' forms floating around inside our heads however, I am not saying that our perception of the world is not an impressive and wonderous mystery. It is very true that we do not know exactly how consciousness arises from the human brain but we do know that the human brain is necessary to the existence of consciousness. We do not need to rely on any imagined elementary particles just because we do not fully understand consciousness, making such a leap makes no sense and I'm not sure why you're trying to sneak it into the conversation without a proper explanation.
Nothing exists in our minds apart from the information we have been given by our senses or that which is a product of the biological processes of our brain. All thought exists physically within our brain as neurochemical interactions, to say otherwise is to presume that there is some as yet unobserved action that does not depend on physical forces going on inside our heads. You cannot say that a concept, abstract or not, exists entirely divorced from physical reality. To do so would be to assume the existence of a reality (if you could call it that) not related to any known physical process and in no way connected to our own, in which case you might as well be talking about the existence of God.
And equally unscientific to dismiss the possibility out of hand without further investigation. We're only just in the early stages of making accurate enough measurements to determine the presence of liquid water. To use a rough analogy, it's as if we've just sighted land through the ship's spyglass and we're already dismissing the possibility of it being host to plants, animals and even potable water.
But I'll probably get modded down for blasphemy, or for the crime of preferring to post anonymously.
If you provided even the barest of sources to back up your assertions you probably wouldn't be. Anonymous posting is only looked down upon because it provides no guarantee that you have any interest in a discussion and it can be easily abused to harass people. It's not like/. asks for your social security number, just make an account with an anonymous email.
So which is it? An EMP will destroy a nation utterly or they'll come out fighting 'cause they're packing heat? Aside from that, I didn't once mention the U.S. so what's up with all the jingoism?
posting on slashdot is basically just a form of email, email is basically the same as a telegraph, a telegraph is basically the same as writing a letter, and writing a letter is basically the same as memorizing a message and telling it to someone else
Call of Duty is basically just a form of a first person shooter, first person shooters are basically just virtual paintball, paintball is basically just a war re-enactment, a war re-enactment is basically just a war, all wars are basically the same so we might as well say the battle of Thermopylae; would be the equivalent application of that type of reduction. It's this ridiculous comparison of things so vastly different that you accused Tepples of when he was talking about the creation of new genres of video game, i.e. First Person Shooter vs. RPG vs. Platformer vs. Adventure. He was not saying that video game plots are just rehashes of older themes from movies and literature.
No, the point is -- it doesn't really matter!
Defining your terms properly matters in any dialogue, otherwise you might as well just grunt at each other.
Obtuse?
Yes, as in unrelated to the matter at hand. No one was attempting to say that video games are not relavent because they make use of old plot devices, but we wouldn't be arguing if you got that point.
Even the ones that are polite, but introverted and quiet become a communication energy drain eventually.
Congratulations! You just offended half the world population and 80% of/.
they don't have to conform to anyone's ideas of the social norm
Introverts have their own social norm, namely that the focus in a work environment should be on the work itself. Most other introverts I know have zero difficulty engaging in conversation when it's about a common directive or goal such as accomplishing a task at work, it's only when people try to engage them in idle small talk or go off on an unrelated tangent that they start blocking. I suspect that what you perceive as a communication energy drain is your attempt to insert unrelated topics into a business communication. Tell them clearly what they need to do and set deadlines for reports on their progress and most introverts will exceed your expectations.
Everyone has been on that business trip with the guy who just won't stop talking... you spend hours and hours with them at the airport, at meals, in the car driving to and from your destination and they never stop! It's miserable. You'd rather be there by yourself than be with the guy who won't shut up from the moment you say "hello" until the time you say "goodnight".
I wouldn't call this excellent execution. Unless, y'know, you're into that sort of thing.
But, I digress. What is more important is that it seems you are misreading genre as medium. Tepples comparison of Katamari Damacy to Bubbles is really spot on if you actually bother to look up what he's referring to. On the other hand, comparing the an internet forum to courier messaging (an odd reduction since a physical forum would seem to have been more fitting) is so obtuse I'm not really sure where to begin. To illustrate, let's take what you're implying Tepples was doing and apply it. The end result would be saying Call of Duty is basically the same as the historical battle of Thermopylae whereas Tepples' assertion was more along the lines of saying 'we haven't come up with many more innovative ways of killing each other since the atom bomb' if we want to stick with a morbid theme.
In other words, he was comparing genres as in Horror, SciFi, Mystery, Fantasy or Classical, Rock, Alternative, Jazz. (Notice that they all stay within their mode of expression.) Whereas you started comparing speaking to writing to printing to broadcasting or the individual stories within a genre but across different media.
Or you could do it in your spare time while working for someone else. This is actually the more common pattern for innovaters, it's relatively rare that you get someone who just throws everything in the pot and comes up with something new. More often, it's the application of knowledge gained in your existing field or through education and then applied to a dream or a problem diligently over time that nets results. A good example is Chester Carlson, the inventor of Xerography.
What Mr. Persson pioneered was the financing for this type of work by developing the game to a usable state where it was just interesting enough to pay a couple bucks for and using that cash flow to build the supporting development structure so he didn't have to do it all by his lonesome.
As a side note, he's not that young. His wikipedia page says 32 which would make him 30 or so when he started Minecraft.
Blech, you mean all the migrants that show up in any subculture when it becomes 'cool'? It's not cynicism or sociopathy, just low IQ and hormones. 'Nerds' and 'geeks' becoming fashionable did a lot for making tech and science culture more mainstream but it's also been watered down by the masses that have signed on because it's the latest fad. Everyday it seems more and more like we face the same dilemma that Kurt Cobaine often lamented about; 'playing shows for the people that used to beat us up in highschool' may make us popular but who wants to be popular if that's the company you get to keep.
When they say intersperse I don't think they mean 'make a checkerboard of small plots'. What they are referring to is high density planting where you find ways to mix planted crops together so that they mutually benefit each other (making use of inter-cropping and companion planting). It's never used on a large scale because it is so labour intensive but many people with postage stamp yards make good use of it to grow their own food.
If a country that possesses nuclear warheads and ICBMs is pissed off enough to launch one at you, you've got a lot more to worry about than whether your tractor has a microcontroller in it or not. In other words, an atmospheric EMP pulse is only going to be set off in preparation for a full scale ground assault so your ass will be drafted in about 24 hours flat. Look on the bright side though, the military's got lots of K rations.
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Speaking the truth always gets you labeled an asshole since you're not willing to stand behind clueless jerks sniffing each others farts all day long and shoving validation down each others throats.
a lot less artists, designers, MBAs, market analysts, advertising execs, outsourced manufacturers, and tin-pot CEOs.
Something similar to the Geobacter genus might be a good candidate, considering they can metabolise a wide range of organic compounds including hydrocarbons like oil and use iron oxide (something Mars has lots of) instead of oxygen. Not sure on the temperature ranges they can survive or their liquid water requirements but that's part of what this mission is about, to find out if there are micro-environments on Mars capable of supporting single celled organisms.
In that it doesn't DEModulate the signals before communicating them to the IC nor would it be MOdulating any signals to send to the phone's soundcard as all of the sensors would be on the phone itself unless you were doing something with tactile feedback. Essentially we're just talking about a wire connected to the controller.
It's just a wired connection to a microcontroller. It's not like they're going to be using the soundcard to ouput anything complex, just the necessary control signals to tell the controller to move the motors.
The point of adaptation being a survival strategy is when your pond becomes frozen ice for more than half the year because the local climate has changed, the beaver has to adapt or die. Keeping things constant only ensures survival as long as nothing outside of your control changes.
*hopefully it would have spellchecking too
Not sure why everyone is getting so excited about the controller interface being through the audio port since that is old hat and hardly the most interesting connotation of this idea. I'd be much more excited about the possibilities of having a ready built platform with camera, gps, wifi, bluetooth, speach recognition attached to physical actuators. If you were smart enough about the design of the app or provided enough of an interface so that you could program your own behaviors, this could be truly revolutionary for home robotics.
I'm sorry, that's just silly. In case there's some confusion, I wasn't attempting to talk about some fuzzy headed concept of information as an existence unto itself. What I meant by 'information we have been given by our senses' was the collection of impulses that have run along our sensory neurons to stimulate the systems of our brains. This 'information' is very measurable, unfortunately Descartes missed out on that information by a few hundred years. As for pain, I don't doubt the existence of the feeling of pain but I do affirm that it does not exist separate from the physical systems that perceive it. Even emotional pain has been shown to trigger the same sites in the brain responsible for interpreting physical pain. The 'FEELING' of pain is just that interpretation of those signals as processed by particular centers in the brain, as is pleasure and even higher emotions which, while much more complex in some ways, still rely on the same underlying functions.
There are no 'spooky' forms floating around inside our heads however, I am not saying that our perception of the world is not an impressive and wonderous mystery. It is very true that we do not know exactly how consciousness arises from the human brain but we do know that the human brain is necessary to the existence of consciousness. We do not need to rely on any imagined elementary particles just because we do not fully understand consciousness, making such a leap makes no sense and I'm not sure why you're trying to sneak it into the conversation without a proper explanation.
Nothing exists in our minds apart from the information we have been given by our senses or that which is a product of the biological processes of our brain. All thought exists physically within our brain as neurochemical interactions, to say otherwise is to presume that there is some as yet unobserved action that does not depend on physical forces going on inside our heads. You cannot say that a concept, abstract or not, exists entirely divorced from physical reality. To do so would be to assume the existence of a reality (if you could call it that) not related to any known physical process and in no way connected to our own, in which case you might as well be talking about the existence of God.
You:
Handle, you've flown off it.
That's the most sensible thing I've heard on /. all year.
And equally unscientific to dismiss the possibility out of hand without further investigation. We're only just in the early stages of making accurate enough measurements to determine the presence of liquid water. To use a rough analogy, it's as if we've just sighted land through the ship's spyglass and we're already dismissing the possibility of it being host to plants, animals and even potable water.
If you provided even the barest of sources to back up your assertions you probably wouldn't be. Anonymous posting is only looked down upon because it provides no guarantee that you have any interest in a discussion and it can be easily abused to harass people. It's not like /. asks for your social security number, just make an account with an anonymous email.
So which is it? An EMP will destroy a nation utterly or they'll come out fighting 'cause they're packing heat? Aside from that, I didn't once mention the U.S. so what's up with all the jingoism?
Call of Duty is basically just a form of a first person shooter, first person shooters are basically just virtual paintball, paintball is basically just a war re-enactment, a war re-enactment is basically just a war, all wars are basically the same so we might as well say the battle of Thermopylae; would be the equivalent application of that type of reduction. It's this ridiculous comparison of things so vastly different that you accused Tepples of when he was talking about the creation of new genres of video game, i.e. First Person Shooter vs. RPG vs. Platformer vs. Adventure. He was not saying that video game plots are just rehashes of older themes from movies and literature.
Defining your terms properly matters in any dialogue, otherwise you might as well just grunt at each other.
Yes, as in unrelated to the matter at hand. No one was attempting to say that video games are not relavent because they make use of old plot devices, but we wouldn't be arguing if you got that point.
The Pandaria reference was a jab at furries btw.
Congratulations! You just offended half the world population and 80% of /.
Introverts have their own social norm, namely that the focus in a work environment should be on the work itself. Most other introverts I know have zero difficulty engaging in conversation when it's about a common directive or goal such as accomplishing a task at work, it's only when people try to engage them in idle small talk or go off on an unrelated tangent that they start blocking. I suspect that what you perceive as a communication energy drain is your attempt to insert unrelated topics into a business communication. Tell them clearly what they need to do and set deadlines for reports on their progress and most introverts will exceed your expectations.
Everyone has been on that business trip with the guy who just won't stop talking... you spend hours and hours with them at the airport, at meals, in the car driving to and from your destination and they never stop! It's miserable. You'd rather be there by yourself than be with the guy who won't shut up from the moment you say "hello" until the time you say "goodnight".
I retract my earlier statement and submit for your approval: Kids born before and after the 80s don't know shit about gaming.
I wouldn't call this excellent execution. Unless, y'know, you're into that sort of thing.
But, I digress. What is more important is that it seems you are misreading genre as medium. Tepples comparison of Katamari Damacy to Bubbles is really spot on if you actually bother to look up what he's referring to. On the other hand, comparing the an internet forum to courier messaging (an odd reduction since a physical forum would seem to have been more fitting) is so obtuse I'm not really sure where to begin. To illustrate, let's take what you're implying Tepples was doing and apply it. The end result would be saying Call of Duty is basically the same as the historical battle of Thermopylae whereas Tepples' assertion was more along the lines of saying 'we haven't come up with many more innovative ways of killing each other since the atom bomb' if we want to stick with a morbid theme.
In other words, he was comparing genres as in Horror, SciFi, Mystery, Fantasy or Classical, Rock, Alternative, Jazz. (Notice that they all stay within their mode of expression.) Whereas you started comparing speaking to writing to printing to broadcasting or the individual stories within a genre but across different media.
Using cover and shields are as old as the effin' hills, just look at Time Crisis. Kids born after the 80s don't know shit about gaming.
Or you could do it in your spare time while working for someone else. This is actually the more common pattern for innovaters, it's relatively rare that you get someone who just throws everything in the pot and comes up with something new. More often, it's the application of knowledge gained in your existing field or through education and then applied to a dream or a problem diligently over time that nets results. A good example is Chester Carlson, the inventor of Xerography.
What Mr. Persson pioneered was the financing for this type of work by developing the game to a usable state where it was just interesting enough to pay a couple bucks for and using that cash flow to build the supporting development structure so he didn't have to do it all by his lonesome.
As a side note, he's not that young. His wikipedia page says 32 which would make him 30 or so when he started Minecraft.
Blech, you mean all the migrants that show up in any subculture when it becomes 'cool'? It's not cynicism or sociopathy, just low IQ and hormones. 'Nerds' and 'geeks' becoming fashionable did a lot for making tech and science culture more mainstream but it's also been watered down by the masses that have signed on because it's the latest fad. Everyday it seems more and more like we face the same dilemma that Kurt Cobaine often lamented about; 'playing shows for the people that used to beat us up in highschool' may make us popular but who wants to be popular if that's the company you get to keep.
When they say intersperse I don't think they mean 'make a checkerboard of small plots'. What they are referring to is high density planting where you find ways to mix planted crops together so that they mutually benefit each other (making use of inter-cropping and companion planting). It's never used on a large scale because it is so labour intensive but many people with postage stamp yards make good use of it to grow their own food.
If a country that possesses nuclear warheads and ICBMs is pissed off enough to launch one at you, you've got a lot more to worry about than whether your tractor has a microcontroller in it or not. In other words, an atmospheric EMP pulse is only going to be set off in preparation for a full scale ground assault so your ass will be drafted in about 24 hours flat. Look on the bright side though, the military's got lots of K rations.