Personally, I will continue to support Loki and any other quality Linux game publishers by buying one of every damn game they make (that's worth owning). I will also use Wine to get my non-ported games to run.
A ways down the road, evolution will dictate which is more effective (porting would be my guess), and we'll be free of crappy sluggish OS's (well - I will be, dammit)
...I only got into Lisp a few weeks ago, but already the flexibility of the language is paying-off. I find the development of my code is much more rapid and "hands-on" - I'm able to spot logical errors and specific code flaws as I write them, rather than days or weeks down the line.
Well - I won't rant, but I've found that the best IDE for my purposes is Franz's Allegro CL
Franz also has an interactive Lisp course linked from their site.
I beg to differ, speaking as a non-christian, I could argue that people have no more soul than a TI-82 (now, the TI-85's are a different story) due to the fact that given simple stimulus you will evoke a simple and directly predictable response - should you know enough about the person's psychology.
Everything is relative and based upon quantum probabilities (rather than Aristotlean binary logic), the problem with our current computers is that they are based upon Aristotlean logic, that is - ignoring the logical third possibility: maybe, and extensions thereupon (10% maybe, 20% maybe, 30% maybe, etc.)
As the function of the human brain is based upon assigning a probabilistic value to an observed relation (ask Pavlov) through positive and negative re-inforcement, the logic of our wetware is such that we have a near-infinite degree of %maybe available to define our observations.
Our neurons create new connections based upon our observations (pos/neg), which in turn influence future actions.
Personally, I don't know whether humans have a "soul" or not, although the more I see us seeking to define it, the more I see it running away - after all, definition into such an inflexible logic would surely thwart something rooted in such a flexible system.
I would like to think we do, but that will just be something I keep as a big maybe for now.
Of course, if the soul and body co-exist, a Quantum Logic computer would indeed have both.
The first question you should ask yourself before you vote is: Does the government work for me, or do I work for the government?
As a citizen of a Free nation, you should feel that the government is working to protect your interests.
Remember that the Government is a body that our nation (the people who compose our mega-conglomerate modern tribe) has composed to keep itself from being harmed by outside influences (read: invasions). We often forget that as individual, thinking, feeling, intelligent human adults we are responsible for our own actions. Should I emphasize that? "our own actions" Which we freely choose.
You are free! Start acting like it and demanding to be treated as such!
The issues that are so commonly raised by our fine country's politicians are specifically geared at distracting you from any real progressive thought. The issues all involve forcing someone to do something so that others won't be offended. Consider that the words "polite" and "politics" have the same root, what the hell does politeness have to do with my business dealings, my creative endeavours, my private home life, or who I choose to marry?
It has to do with social acceptance.
Let me ask you a question: what words do we use to describe something that has greatly improved our lives on a grand scale, or advanced us in some field vastly beyond our previous understandings? Words like revolutionary, unprecedented, unbelievable, discovery, innovation all come to mind.. all of which present the concept that something new, different, previously unaccepted (or unacceptable) has occured and has "revolutionized" our way of life.
No revolutionary idea has ever been socially accepted.
Do you want to live in a society that decays from its own stagnation? I can't believe that a single person reading this would be willing to accept the responsibility of giving-up in such a fashion, if they understood that that is what they're doing. Modern society in our country (and abroad in many places) is a drug, it is geared at giving you the exact thing you want to hear and doing as little to damage that hope as possible while it whittles away at your freedoms.
How much regulation is necessary in your own home? Do you spend your day thinking of new ways to structure and organize a formal method of interacting with your significant other (if applicable), or would you consider that to be a bit wasteful? How many house rules do you have for guests? For your children? Which do you see the people of the US being treated as by our "benevolent overseers"?
Politics are for politicians, and everyone knows they make their money with lies. Cut out the middle man and start thinking for yourself, why is it that you willfully view a "toned-down" version of a movie on television - aren't you big enough to stand up to a little difference of thought and not be offended?
Any society that would consider a mere word to be obscene obviously has a major problem. When you see the word F+U+C+K do you become righteously indignant?
I'm open to flames, but I won't listen to anything that's not at least a bit thought-out.
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Personally, I will continue to support Loki and any other quality Linux game publishers by buying one of every damn game they make (that's worth owning). I will also use Wine to get my non-ported games to run.
A ways down the road, evolution will dictate which is more effective (porting would be my guess), and we'll be free of crappy sluggish OS's (well - I will be, dammit)
..we'll see even more small offices replace their naughty little NT servers with a nice clean samba device, now that even ZD is covering it ;)
...I only got into Lisp a few weeks ago, but already the flexibility of the language is paying-off. I find the development of my code is much more rapid and "hands-on" - I'm able to spot logical errors and specific code flaws as I write them, rather than days or weeks down the line. Well - I won't rant, but I've found that the best IDE for my purposes is Franz's Allegro CL Franz also has an interactive Lisp course linked from their site.
Simple answer: One has a soul, the other doesn't.
I beg to differ, speaking as a non-christian, I could argue that people have no more soul than a TI-82 (now, the TI-85's are a different story) due to the fact that given simple stimulus you will evoke a simple and directly predictable response - should you know enough about the person's psychology.
Everything is relative and based upon quantum probabilities (rather than Aristotlean binary logic), the problem with our current computers is that they are based upon Aristotlean logic, that is - ignoring the logical third possibility: maybe, and extensions thereupon (10% maybe, 20% maybe, 30% maybe, etc.)
As the function of the human brain is based upon assigning a probabilistic value to an observed relation (ask Pavlov) through positive and negative re-inforcement, the logic of our wetware is such that we have a near-infinite degree of %maybe available to define our observations.
Our neurons create new connections based upon our observations (pos/neg), which in turn influence future actions.
Personally, I don't know whether humans have a "soul" or not, although the more I see us seeking to define it, the more I see it running away - after all, definition into such an inflexible logic would surely thwart something rooted in such a flexible system.
I would like to think we do, but that will just be something I keep as a big maybe for now.
Of course, if the soul and body co-exist, a Quantum Logic computer would indeed have both.
The first question you should ask yourself before you vote is: Does the government work for me, or do I work for the government?
As a citizen of a Free nation, you should feel that the government is working to protect your interests.
Remember that the Government is a body that our nation (the people who compose our mega-conglomerate modern tribe) has composed to keep itself from being harmed by outside influences (read: invasions). We often forget that as individual, thinking, feeling, intelligent human adults we are responsible for our own actions. Should I emphasize that? "our own actions" Which we freely choose.
You are free! Start acting like it and demanding to be treated as such!
The issues that are so commonly raised by our fine country's politicians are specifically geared at distracting you from any real progressive thought. The issues all involve forcing someone to do something so that others won't be offended. Consider that the words "polite" and "politics" have the same root, what the hell does politeness have to do with my business dealings, my creative endeavours, my private home life, or who I choose to marry?
It has to do with social acceptance.
Let me ask you a question: what words do we use to describe something that has greatly improved our lives on a grand scale, or advanced us in some field vastly beyond our previous understandings? Words like revolutionary, unprecedented, unbelievable, discovery, innovation all come to mind.. all of which present the concept that something new, different, previously unaccepted (or unacceptable) has occured and has "revolutionized" our way of life.
No revolutionary idea has ever been socially accepted.
Do you want to live in a society that decays from its own stagnation? I can't believe that a single person reading this would be willing to accept the responsibility of giving-up in such a fashion, if they understood that that is what they're doing. Modern society in our country (and abroad in many places) is a drug, it is geared at giving you the exact thing you want to hear and doing as little to damage that hope as possible while it whittles away at your freedoms.
How much regulation is necessary in your own home? Do you spend your day thinking of new ways to structure and organize a formal method of interacting with your significant other (if applicable), or would you consider that to be a bit wasteful? How many house rules do you have for guests? For your children? Which do you see the people of the US being treated as by our "benevolent overseers"?
Politics are for politicians, and everyone knows they make their money with lies. Cut out the middle man and start thinking for yourself, why is it that you willfully view a "toned-down" version of a movie on television - aren't you big enough to stand up to a little difference of thought and not be offended?
Any society that would consider a mere word to be obscene obviously has a major problem. When you see the word F+U+C+K do you become righteously indignant?
I'm open to flames, but I won't listen to anything that's not at least a bit thought-out.