From the article:
"The next step is to understand the exact way in which it works, and perhaps eventually design such a therapy for humans."
Gee... he's really going out on a long speculative limb, there. I suppose he thinks that curing cancer easily, quickly, cheaply and without debilitating side-effects may have some practical application. Well, that's why they pay scientists the big bucks, for that vision thing.
Judging by the developer's [lack of] expertise in fixing long-standing class bugs, I wouldn't be too sure it's fixed...
On the other hand, anything that benefited a player sure got fixed pronto, so I guess it's an even bet after all.
p.s. Yes, I am a bitter ex-WoW player. The Devs are lying jackasses who have changed how a class works and denied that they changed it (in the face of a howl of outrage from the now-gimped players). When faced with evidence that they did institute a change, they shift to a "that wasn't a change, it was a bug fix" position. Strangely, these "fixes" never work to a class's advantage.
As always, nobody is forcing you to go to Disney World. If you don't want to get your finger scanned, then don't enter the park.
Yeah, and if you don't want to get your fingers scanned, don't fly, or go to the mall, or use a bank... it's not like it's going to be mandatory or anything...
Hello! This is the Microsoft approach to civil liberty reduction. Make optional content dependent on onerous restrictions, then desirable content, then... should I use ASCII to draw you a picture here?
Read the comments attached to the article... man, those Search Ranking consultants are upset!
Can you believe this? First they tweak their algo every 5 minutes so we can't get any consistent results, and now this atrocity with the new Google toolbar. In this WPW members opinion Google has gone to far!
Da noive o' dem guys! First, they make it hard for us to make money off of their hard work, and now... they're... trying to make money... off our...
(At this point, the built in irony surge protector , in fear of its very existance, makes a forceable exit from the speaker's cranium)
My girlfriend kept trying to look around the corners in Dungeon Siege by moving her head, and I kept snickering (well, hooting) at her, and she kept hitting me, so, yes, video games do lead to violence.
Au contraire, mon frer. B5 had a five-year plan in place years before it aired. I was there at the beginning, back when it was TWCNBN; I was there for the Eeep!
On the other hand, yes, the "movies" were pretty disappointing.
B5 didn't die, it ended. Big difference. Unfortunately, it ended at the end of the fourth season, and then they went ahead and made the fifth season anyway.
Granted, it was originally planned to go five seasons, and JMS had to hurry to finish the whole thing in the fourth season, but finish it he did.
The fifth season... well, I'm not usually this succinct, but... it blew.
Duke Nukem has some interesting gameplay options (tripwire bombs! AIGH!), but I agree as to the rest. I don't mind the violence and the killing, but isn't this the same game as Wolfenstein? ID doesn't write games, they write ever-increasingly complex (and purty) tech demos that other companies write games with.
You see... he's lying. He is, on purpose, saying things that aren't true.
Geeks have a problem with this kind of thing, because computers don't lie (or argue;), and when we run into someone who's a liar, we keep tring to have a reasonable conversation with them to find out where the point of divergence is. And we never get there, because he's not playing the same game of question and answer you are (google "Grician").
All the documented evidence and logical disproof of everything he says won't make a bit of difference because he doesn't care.
This is one of (one! ha!) those things I've never understood about QM: what's the difference between "superimposition of two states, but not determined until observed" and "either one of two states, but unknown until observed". It's like the disclaimer on BandAids(tm), "guaranteed sterile, unless opened". Logically, you could claim anything was true, but only until checked.
QUICK! There's a highly aroused naked woman behind you RIGHT NOW, but she'll disappear if you try to interact with or observe her. Doesn't that suck?
Even if you said there was a difference (as I seem to remember being reported at one time), how could you measure said difference, since by definition, measuring a system would collapse the state of the system into one or the other alternative.
In the article, doesn't bouncing the photon off of a mirror qualify as interacting with the system , thus forcing the photon to "choose" one of the two paths and destroying the interference pattern?
This whole process reminds me of a ill-formed logic problem, where a series of individually reasonable-sounding steps somehow leads you to an untenable and unacceptable conclusion.
Did anyone ask if disabling the TPM counts as a DMCA violation... or is that a foregone conclusion?
The Turing machine stores the state of the emulated program at every step. If the emulated program currently has the state that it had at any point in the past, it's in a loop and will continue forever. If not, there are only so many states... a LOT, mind you, but finite... and it will eventually terminate.
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From the article: "The next step is to understand the exact way in which it works, and perhaps eventually design such a therapy for humans." Gee... he's really going out on a long speculative limb, there. I suppose he thinks that curing cancer easily, quickly, cheaply and without debilitating side-effects may have some practical application. Well, that's why they pay scientists the big bucks, for that vision thing.
No, No...
"We will meet again, Dr. Doctorow... sooon, very soon!"
Judging by the developer's [lack of] expertise in fixing long-standing class bugs, I wouldn't be too sure it's fixed...
On the other hand, anything that benefited a player sure got fixed pronto, so I guess it's an even bet after all.
p.s. Yes, I am a bitter ex-WoW player. The Devs are lying jackasses who have changed how a class works and denied that they changed it (in the face of a howl of outrage from the now-gimped players). When faced with evidence that they did institute a change, they shift to a "that wasn't a change, it was a bug fix" position. Strangely, these "fixes" never work to a class's advantage.
Very concerned of? I'm skeptical for that's correct...
Heh heh, Doc Smith fan much?
My girlfriend kept trying to look around the corners in Dungeon Siege by moving her head, and I kept snickering (well, hooting) at her, and she kept hitting me, so, yes, video games do lead to violence.
Au contraire, mon frer. B5 had a five-year plan in place years before it aired. I was there at the beginning, back when it was TWCNBN; I was there for the Eeep!
On the other hand, yes, the "movies" were pretty disappointing.
B5 didn't die, it ended. Big difference. Unfortunately, it ended at the end of the fourth season, and then they went ahead and made the fifth season anyway. Granted, it was originally planned to go five seasons, and JMS had to hurry to finish the whole thing in the fourth season, but finish it he did. The fifth season... well, I'm not usually this succinct, but... it blew.
Duke Nukem has some interesting gameplay options (tripwire bombs! AIGH!), but I agree as to the rest. I don't mind the violence and the killing, but isn't this the same game as Wolfenstein? ID doesn't write games, they write ever-increasingly complex (and purty) tech demos that other companies write games with.
Geeks have a problem with this kind of thing, because computers don't lie (or argue ;), and when we run into someone who's a liar, we keep tring to have a reasonable conversation with them to find out where the point of divergence is. And we never get there, because he's not playing the same game of question and answer you are (google "Grician").
All the documented evidence and logical disproof of everything he says won't make a bit of difference because he doesn't care.
This is one of (one! ha!) those things I've never understood about QM: what's the difference between "superimposition of two states, but not determined until observed" and "either one of two states, but unknown until observed". It's like the disclaimer on BandAids(tm), "guaranteed sterile, unless opened". Logically, you could claim anything was true, but only until checked.
QUICK! There's a highly aroused naked woman behind you RIGHT NOW, but she'll disappear if you try to interact with or observe her. Doesn't that suck?
Even if you said there was a difference (as I seem to remember being reported at one time), how could you measure said difference, since by definition, measuring a system would collapse the state of the system into one or the other alternative.
In the article, doesn't bouncing the photon off of a mirror qualify as interacting with the system , thus forcing the photon to "choose" one of the two paths and destroying the interference pattern?
Please... this one haunts my dreams...
This whole process reminds me of a ill-formed logic problem, where a series of individually reasonable-sounding steps somehow leads you to an untenable and unacceptable conclusion.
Did anyone ask if disabling the TPM counts as a DMCA violation... or is that a foregone conclusion?
That's not really necessary. This is the guy who said Mohammed might well marry one of those Miss World contestants. It's true!
(to enraged mob) That's him over there!
Okay, why won't this work...
The Turing machine stores the state of the emulated program at every step. If the emulated program currently has the state that it had at any point in the past, it's in a loop and will continue forever. If not, there are only so many states... a LOT, mind you, but finite... and it will eventually terminate.
* cough * sputter *
You said that with a straight face? Yes, art, yes, music, and yes, 4K of code, which constitues art in and of itself!
I =have= done 8-bit wide sprite animation, and it's not for sissies, bucko...