Sorry but it takes more than just asking questions.
Hes going to have to fail as many times as NASA has failed before he actually gets it right.
Having the statistics still doesnt mean he will get it right on the first try. In fact I'm 100 percent sure he wont.
I'm not going to be the test dummy for his rocket. If i want to go into space, I'd be safer making my own rocket than trusting John Carmack to make me one. I mean neither of us have PHDs in physics, and I can ask these same guys questions myself and get the same answers.
Hes not incredible, the programmers working at Los Alamos, MIT, NASA etc, These guys do SERIOUS coding with REAL physics, mathematicians make sure everything is precise.
Game programming is more difficult than application programming, but its not in the same league as scientific programming. You need to know your shit to write a simulation of a nuclear bomb explosion, or of your rocket.
Perhaps the use of a genetic algorithm could be used to help find the most aerodynamic design, but he would still need very PRICISE statistics, math, etc and a super computer or cluster to actually do this.
I think carmack knows his games, and he knows how to write a nice engine, but honestly, I dont think he knows what hes getting into with space stuff.
I dont think anyone is stupid enough to risk their life using the technology of game programmer john carmack!
I mean his quake software was so buggy, it left a backdoor open where anyone could remotely take over someones computer.
Lets not forget carmack knows absolutely nothing about real world physics, his games dont use REAL physics, sure he may know some calculus, but does this make him qualified to produce a rocket to launch a man into space?
First I want to see some simulations of the launch, I want him to find the most aerodynamic design for the craft so it doesnt break up into peices or burn up into dust. I want him to also tell me how hes going to manage to do this in a safe way yet be cheaper than NASA. NASA is expensive for a reason, they DONT make alot of mistakes!
Carmack actually thinks hes qualified to do what hes doing? Hes a computer programmer!!! a GAME programmer at that!
This is just funny.
It would be diffrent if a scientist with a PHD in physics were doing this, but john carmack?! How many off you would put your life in the hands of john carmack?
Your playing and socializing skills wont get you anywhere in the world of work, where the quality of your work, your intelligence, and your knowledge matter about all else.
Most scientists and programmers have below average social skills
bill gates, einstien etc, these people were complete misfits
You are right, school on all levels should be about learning. I think that troll who posted that msg that school is about playing and socializing, is most likely some dropout kid.
Kids should learn computers are soon as possible, this isnt 1920, this is 2002, we are in the information age, and we need as many programmers as possible to build the nanites, and robots which will be used in our future society.
So hows it helping the economy when the majority cant borrow the money. And hows borrowing money better than actually getting to keep it?
If you worked for microsoft you'd EARN the money which means its your money.
Borrowing the money is not fair because not everyone can borrow money, and its not like you can borrow 100,000 a year, and also you cant keep it, its borrowing, dont forget interest.
borrowing doesnt help the economy because most people dont borrow money, they earn it.
it IS the job of corporations to benifit the economy.
Whats the whole point of a corporation? Its a place for people to make money in an organized fashion. Its all about people making money, its all about creating jobs, its all about the economy.
What the hell is the purpose of the corporation if not to benifit the people? What better way to benifit the people than to give them jobs?
Corporations should help benifit the economy as much as they possibly can while staying in business. Corporations if they are to replace government (because alot of people seem to be anti government and pro capitalism)
Have to be responsible, this means its now corporations jobs to keep the economy in order and not taxes and government and so on.
Slavery didnt create racial tensions, its people like the KKK who harass and kill minorities, its the nazis, its racist venture capitalists, and banks who dont give loans to minorities.
Its racism that causes racial tension, not slavery. Slavery is natural, racism is not. You see, every group of people has done slavery, its when you enslave a group of people and then taunt that group for hundreds of years afterwards, along with not giving them fair treatment (Even now) that causes racial tensions.
When US is fair for all races, and theres no more groups like the KKK and others who keep creating more tension stop provoking minorities and harrassing them, thats when tension goes down.
China has done slavery against other Chinese, its not a racial issue, its normal. Slavery is normal, europeans enslaved the people who founded the USA, they left europe and went to the new world, some of them were prisoners. The Irish had to deal with slavery, so did the italians.
You are right about sweat shops, capitalism is the cause of sweat shops, well not capitalism, but globalism.
I'm very anti globalism, not anti capitalism, i feel if capitalism is fair, its fine, but globalism allows us to have an unfair advantage, because we are so established with our capitalism and our companies, no one can compete with us because we have the best economy right now and will have the b est economy in the global economy as well, which means globalism doesnt help the world, or us,
We'll lose our jobs to sweatshop slave laborers, so NIKE can save money and overcharge us to buy their sneakers.
China is going through a phase, you have to understand America went through this phase too, we shouldnt harrass China, we should leave them alone, let China make their mistakes, and let them learn on their own.
You cannot teach China about freedom when they arent ready for it. When the USA was founded, the USA wasnt ready for freedom, maybe the founders were but the people werent! Thats why there was slavery, thats why witches were burned, and people were killed.
Right now, its the same situation, theres alot of republicans, anarchists, and absolute capitalists who want the government to be made smaller and eventually to be out of our lives.
While some of us are ready for this, the majority of the world is not, the crime rates are too high, we have terrorism to worry about, we dont have a solution for education besides public education, we dont have a solution for poverty.
Until we can solve the problems that having no government would create, we cannot downsize government with tax cuts.
Without government, everyone will have to go to private schools, so how will you set up a system so each student can go to private school? should you make it like the health insurence industry and like a persons job take money out of their check to pay for it? How are you going to make sure every child gets a fair education?
Its almost like private health care, sure successful people will do fine, but not everyone can be successful, what will the working class do?
I'm all for getting rid of government, when society is READY for it, but society isnt even CLOSE to being ready. Crime rates are still high, theres still homeless people, highschool drop outs (because the school system just isnt working), and people just arent making enough money on average, to pay for all they would have to pay for, without taxes.
So whats the solution? Usually people who live in the middle of no where, where the standard of living is lower but things are much cheaper, are the ones claiming they want no government, they usually dont have any crime because they live in the middle of no where, their schools arent as good but they are usually farmers and can live off the land so that doesnt matter, for security they have their shotgun.
But what about everyone else?
Perhaps a solution, no government for certain states and areas. No tax zones for certain areas, and so on.
This way people who want to pay taxes and who NEED government support can have it, yet people who are ready for it, can live without government in their life.
I just dont see this country surviving at the moment as a whole, if you remove government from everywhere. People in the city wouldnt know how to survive without government.
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Yes but its not on the same level, the physics are FAKE.
Just because it uses calculus, doesnt mean its on the same level as space travel!
I wouldnt want a game coder who doesnt know physics launching anything!
Sorry but it takes more than just asking questions.
Hes going to have to fail as many times as NASA has failed before he actually gets it right.
Having the statistics still doesnt mean he will get it right on the first try. In fact I'm 100 percent sure he wont.
I'm not going to be the test dummy for his rocket. If i want to go into space, I'd be safer making my own rocket than trusting John Carmack to make me one. I mean neither of us have PHDs in physics, and I can ask these same guys questions myself and get the same answers.
Hes not incredible, the programmers working at Los Alamos, MIT, NASA etc, These guys do SERIOUS coding with REAL physics, mathematicians make sure everything is precise.
Game programming is more difficult than application programming, but its not in the same league as scientific programming. You need to know your shit to write a simulation of a nuclear bomb explosion, or of your rocket.
Perhaps the use of a genetic algorithm could be used to help find the most aerodynamic design, but he would still need very PRICISE statistics, math, etc and a super computer or cluster to actually do this.
I think carmack knows his games, and he knows how to write a nice engine, but honestly, I dont think he knows what hes getting into with space stuff.
They will never actually put a man into space.
I dont think anyone is stupid enough to risk their life using the technology of game programmer john carmack!
I mean his quake software was so buggy, it left a backdoor open where anyone could remotely take over someones computer.
Lets not forget carmack knows absolutely nothing about real world physics, his games dont use REAL physics, sure he may know some calculus, but does this make him qualified to produce a rocket to launch a man into space?
First I want to see some simulations of the launch, I want him to find the most aerodynamic design for the craft so it doesnt break up into peices or burn up into dust. I want him to also tell me how hes going to manage to do this in a safe way yet be cheaper than NASA. NASA is expensive for a reason, they DONT make alot of mistakes!
Carmack actually thinks hes qualified to do what hes doing? Hes a computer programmer!!! a GAME programmer at that!
This is just funny.
It would be diffrent if a scientist with a PHD in physics were doing this, but john carmack?! How many off you would put your life in the hands of john carmack?
Thats what they are in school for.
Teachers on the other hand, their job is to teach, you cannot properly teach something you dont know yourself. Teachers need to be trained.
I worked as an instructor in the school system teaching computers when i was still a student.
The students CAN be the teachers if they need teachers so bad. The students can also TRAIN the teachers.
However my school was small (less than 100 students)
In a big school, Its not as realistic
you act as if this is a perfect machine
as if people cant manipulate it to their own benifit.
Wake up.
Most grown ups never learned to interact with others.
Thats why theres fights, wars, hate, racism, elitism and other stupid problems we shouldnt have.
I'm someone whos never been all that social but i KNOW how to treat people, its not hard, treat them how you'd like to be treated!
Your playing and socializing skills wont get you anywhere in the world of work, where the quality of your work, your intelligence, and your knowledge matter about all else.
Most scientists and programmers have below average social skills
bill gates, einstien etc, these people were complete misfits
No with 200 computers running interactive software, i think 200 students would be fine.
We are already pushing 100 in most classes now.
Students need to be taught the tools of tomorrows industry.
Do you use the typing skilsl taught to you in school? nope, typists arent needed anymore
We will soon find out, because the population increases and the amount of teaches decreases.
As the difficulity of the work increases the need for teachers increases.
Dont you think, interactive software would teach a student just as well as a teacher could?????
You are right, school on all levels should be about learning. I think that troll who posted that msg that school is about playing and socializing, is most likely some dropout kid.
Kids should learn computers are soon as possible, this isnt 1920, this is 2002, we are in the information age, and we need as many programmers as possible to build the nanites, and robots which will be used in our future society.
School is about socializing? WTF?! Did you drop out or something?
School is about learning, or at least it SHOULD be.
Socialize on the weekends. Thats like saying work is the place to socialize, no you do that after work at the bar.
Im only 21 so im not much older
but not in a way that CREATES jobs, its invested in a way to make other CEOs richer
Who the hell is going to "borrow" money for a living?
Maybe someone whos rich can borrow millions of dollars but the average person cant afford to borrow any money at all.
Second the places this money is reinvested in, is not places which matter to the working class.
The working class benifits from more jobs, not from invested money.
So hows it helping the economy when the majority cant borrow the money. And hows borrowing money better than actually getting to keep it?
If you worked for microsoft you'd EARN the money which means its your money.
Borrowing the money is not fair because not everyone can borrow money, and its not like you can borrow 100,000 a year, and also you cant keep it, its borrowing, dont forget interest.
borrowing doesnt help the economy because most people dont borrow money, they earn it.
im anti government
but i live in the city
theres no alternative to government
without government you'd have complete chaos.
I like the idea of anarchy but the majority of people just cant handle it.
And if thats the case, big companies therefore are bad for the economy,
thanks for proving my point, the economy cares about jobs and people, not the top 1 percent which are owners.
without socialism i wouldnt have been able to afford an education
it IS the job of corporations to benifit the economy.
Whats the whole point of a corporation? Its a place for people to make money in an organized fashion. Its all about people making money, its all about creating jobs, its all about the economy.
What the hell is the purpose of the corporation if not to benifit the people? What better way to benifit the people than to give them jobs?
Corporations should help benifit the economy as much as they possibly can while staying in business. Corporations if they are to replace government (because alot of people seem to be anti government and pro capitalism)
Have to be responsible, this means its now corporations jobs to keep the economy in order and not taxes and government and so on.
Slavery didnt create racial tensions, its people like the KKK who harass and kill minorities, its the nazis, its racist venture capitalists, and banks who dont give loans to minorities.
Its racism that causes racial tension, not slavery. Slavery is natural, racism is not. You see, every group of people has done slavery, its when you enslave a group of people and then taunt that group for hundreds of years afterwards, along with not giving them fair treatment (Even now) that causes racial tensions.
When US is fair for all races, and theres no more groups like the KKK and others who keep creating more tension stop provoking minorities and harrassing them, thats when tension goes down.
China has done slavery against other Chinese, its not a racial issue, its normal. Slavery is normal, europeans enslaved the people who founded the USA, they left europe and went to the new world, some of them were prisoners. The Irish had to deal with slavery, so did the italians.
You are right about sweat shops, capitalism is the cause of sweat shops, well not capitalism, but globalism.
I'm very anti globalism, not anti capitalism, i feel if capitalism is fair, its fine, but globalism allows us to have an unfair advantage, because we are so established with our capitalism and our companies, no one can compete with us because we have the best economy right now and will have the b est economy in the global economy as well, which means globalism doesnt help the world, or us,
We'll lose our jobs to sweatshop slave laborers, so NIKE can save money and overcharge us to buy their sneakers.
China is going through a phase, you have to understand America went through this phase too, we shouldnt harrass China, we should leave them alone, let China make their mistakes, and let them learn on their own.
You cannot teach China about freedom when they arent ready for it. When the USA was founded, the USA wasnt ready for freedom, maybe the founders were but the people werent! Thats why there was slavery, thats why witches were burned, and people were killed.
Right now, its the same situation, theres alot of republicans, anarchists, and absolute capitalists who want the government to be made smaller and eventually to be out of our lives.
While some of us are ready for this, the majority of the world is not, the crime rates are too high, we have terrorism to worry about, we dont have a solution for education besides public education, we dont have a solution for poverty.
Until we can solve the problems that having no government would create, we cannot downsize government with tax cuts.
Without government, everyone will have to go to private schools, so how will you set up a system so each student can go to private school? should you make it like the health insurence industry and like a persons job take money out of their check to pay for it? How are you going to make sure every child gets a fair education?
Its almost like private health care, sure successful people will do fine, but not everyone can be successful, what will the working class do?
I'm all for getting rid of government, when society is READY for it, but society isnt even CLOSE to being ready. Crime rates are still high, theres still homeless people, highschool drop outs (because the school system just isnt working), and people just arent making enough money on average, to pay for all they would have to pay for, without taxes.
So whats the solution? Usually people who live in the middle of no where, where the standard of living is lower but things are much cheaper, are the ones claiming they want no government, they usually dont have any crime because they live in the middle of no where, their schools arent as good but they are usually farmers and can live off the land so that doesnt matter, for security they have their shotgun.
But what about everyone else?
Perhaps a solution, no government for certain states and areas. No tax zones for certain areas, and so on.
This way people who want to pay taxes and who NEED government support can have it, yet people who are ready for it, can live without government in their life.
I just dont see this country surviving at the moment as a whole, if you remove government from everywhere. People in the city wouldnt know how to survive without government.
Whats funny is, we dont want to allow china and russia to do what we did to build their countries.
How much money is too much? They need enough money to run their company. A years supply of money is enough.
If they fail to make money for a whole year they should go out of business or downsize.
Companies should NOT be allowed to "save" money. The economy does not benifit from corporate saving.
Yes but 40 billion combined with all the unused money of all companies.
It adds up.