Thanks for the link. Good story for any geek who wants to feel like normal people do reading geek texts.
No, bigger than that, no even bigger, etc.
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but what about something that is constantly expanding (a.k.a. the universe)? While it may not start as an infinite entity, if it is continually becoming larger it would be moving towards the infinite and given ulimited time would eventually get there. Which is of course impossible in a strict definition sense, IMHO, but where does something that is always growing larger fit?
But that is still a lot less than infinite. but a heck of a lot closer to it, eh?
"Infinity and Nothing: same sides of different coins and both equally impossible."~Wah thought for the moment.
How would selling tons of deodorant go against America's ideals? From my perspective any moral, ideal, belief, is quickly traded for a couple billion bucks. Money, IMO, is America's ideal. Not mine of course, but then again, I don't run the place.
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I finally had to change my settings to "-1" to see ANY "Linux isn't the end all be all" comments. C'mon moderators, try to be at least a little objective. If you ignore your faults they will only grow, then one day you'll turn around and see a Grand Canyon.
"News for Nerds, stuff that Matters" != Linux is the best thing ever.(period)
Before you flame think....games!
(my attempt at moderation without actual jurisdiction)
point your mp3 player to 209.76.160.94:8030 or 160.94.54.48:8000
One is a sweet ambient mix, the other, live shows from my top band(Phish). Both run 24 hours a day, neither EVER have commercials, I found both with two clicks and MP3Spy. read the sig.
I've read this article (most of it, seems like an updated version) before. Anyone else get this feeling, certain phrases just seemed very familar, as well as major points/arguments you've head before?
The only thing people are exchanging is used time. Time spent making money or making characters. If one wants one more than the other and so does someone else, what's the deal? I know that was the point of your article, but I just don't get why it's a problem.
This machine certainly has some power under the hood. I'se seen a couple short movies and screen shots. I thought that was amazing for a game machine until I saw this Myers said Sony would have to charge at least $500 for a Playstation 2 to even begin to approach break-even, making it at least twice as expensive as rival consoles -- and some have speculated the price will actually run to $700 or $800. $700!! By next Christmas (when it should be out in Japan) I'll be able to buy a Cel500 and Voodoo3 for that. Which actually puts them on about the same footing, graphics wise. Sony is sneaking a computer through the back door, and personally think it will fail miserably as a game machine if they charge more than $200 for it. Of course with a Net connection possibility, and all that raw power, some SERIOUS net gaming could take off. I've heard it would absolutely suck as a file server though, maybe a Vid-phone, streaming MP3/Movie jukebox, dictation taker? Who's working on the Linux port?
More stuff like this allows harcore gamers to recoup their time investing in gaming. I'd love to sell some of my Diablo characters, or my whole party from Wizardry VI-VII. It makes a nice way to retire and live fat off your experience, or even buy that new machine. Money is only an abstraction of time and so are the virtual characters, so where's the problem? It'll only work if good characters, virtual gold, items are kept scarce (supply/demand, that whole market thing) tho, but with one company in charge keeping things on their servers and owning all the data, it shouldn't be that hard.
I don't see a problem with it. It rewards those who put the time in to develope characters. It allows rich newbies to pump more money into the system. The only one who "lose out" are those not involved, and since their not involved they can't lose out, now can they? If you don't like, quit or play Quake. Anybody want to buy my Quake alias, I usually stay alive for about 15 seconds. You get 100 hit points, 200 armor, 75 rockets, and a bunny.
it costs me about $100 bucks a month to keep a good crop of cards both for play and trade(For standard play, not Type 1 with the $2000 decks). The tough part is dedicating the time to build competitive decks (although you can go to the dojo.com if you're lame). It's a hobby and less expensive than many. WOTC has done a lot to keep the game fun , and hopefully they will for 20 years of so and then my cards can pay for my kids education.
You have the metaphor wrong. You're not paying someone to hit the golf ball, you're buying a bad-ass set of clubs. It can make the overall experience much more rewarding and also rewards those who spend *massive* amounts of time building characters.
I love the idea of more games moving into Linux (being a gamer makes loving Linux tough) but what's the deal with all the civ wannabes. I saw the other day that Microprose had their own. That makes three in my book. After playing Alpha Centauri, none of 'em have much of a chance. Any game where the ultimate goal is to join consciousness with a planet and become one with the universe, is a cool game.
...the cutting edge for music distubution. I've said it before and I'll say it again. MP3Spy is the coolest software. Links with Winamp (flame retardant applied) and hooks to *ANY* streaming MP3s it happens to find (through Shout/IceCast). No commercials, heck I even got requests in at Radio Clambake. A great venue for up and coming bands (you always have a place to find them) as well as the potential to run your own radio station. DMX in tha house.
The SDMI will fail much like DIVX has failed. Someone else pointed this out and I think it's a good analogy. When you have competing formats..one free and open...one closed and expensive, the free one wins out. Oh wait, unless of course the closed and expensive has 90% market share and $20B in a closet and margins in the 40-50% range. But if the open one is there first ppl will rarely move to a closed one.
Glaser is smarter than the Broadcast.com dumba$$ who said MP3 will die a quick death. They're both multi-$$'s though..:(
unless you want to listen over the 'Net. I try various steaming widths and 64 sounds good for live music. Not to mention speech comes over just fine at 16.
They made it Mom(tm) simple, just put in the CD and click play. and the RIAA is so scared of (uncontrolled) MP3 b/c of the same thing, simplicity. All it takes is a computer and most folks have that. Plus they got a mention becuase of a $200 stock price, which will probably go ballistic with more press coverage.
..and that's the level of service you get. I think *some* of the problems in high school and our school system in general could be solved with money, in the right place. I'd like to see a teacher pay raise of roughly 100%, make it a, crazy idea here, highly competitive field to be in, as opposed to something more akin to a fall-back position. I had a some good teachers whose influence is with me still, however I had many more folks just showing up everyday that did absolutely nothing for me. Teaching can be very rewarding, but it's also very difficult/demanding to be done correctly, b/c the industry itself(public teaching) will never generate revenue, that line of work will not be compensated in accodance to its importance. Forget programs and initiatives and all the crap that won't work without dedicated individuals..and go find those dedicated individuals, and compensate them!
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Thanks for the link. Good story for any geek who wants to feel like normal people do reading geek texts.
but what about something that is constantly expanding (a.k.a. the universe)? While it may not start as an infinite entity, if it is continually becoming larger it would be moving towards the infinite and given ulimited time would eventually get there. Which is of course impossible in a strict definition sense, IMHO, but where does something that is always growing larger fit?
But that is still a lot less than infinite.
but a heck of a lot closer to it, eh?
"Infinity and Nothing: same sides of different coins and both equally impossible."~Wah thought for the moment.
How would selling tons of deodorant go against America's ideals? From my perspective any moral, ideal, belief, is quickly traded for a couple billion bucks. Money, IMO, is America's ideal. Not mine of course, but then again, I don't run the place.
I finally had to change my settings to "-1" to see ANY "Linux isn't the end all be all" comments. C'mon moderators, try to be at least a little objective. If you ignore your faults they will only grow, then one day you'll turn around and see a Grand Canyon.
"News for Nerds, stuff that Matters" != Linux is the best thing ever.(period)
Before you flame think....games!
(my attempt at moderation without actual jurisdiction)
Funny, but not nearly as funny as all the comments, there are some REALLY sick folks out there (and they lack that sixth sense...humor)
the above is offtopic/defense
it's not a website, it's an executable.
point your mp3 player to
209.76.160.94:8030
or
160.94.54.48:8000
One is a sweet ambient mix, the other, live shows from my top band(Phish). Both run 24 hours a day, neither EVER have commercials, I found both with two clicks and MP3Spy.
read the sig.
I've read this article (most of it, seems like an updated version) before. Anyone else get this feeling, certain phrases just seemed very familar, as well as major points/arguments you've head before?
I got the same thing, but my boss, co-workers, are all women 35-??
Star Wars conquers all.
worked for Jesus.
The only thing people are exchanging is used time. Time spent making money or making characters. If one wants one more than the other and so does someone else, what's the deal?
I know that was the point of your article, but I just don't get why it's a problem.
This machine certainly has some power under the hood. I'se seen a couple short movies and screen shots. I thought that was amazing for a game machine until I saw this
Myers said Sony would have to charge at least $500 for a Playstation 2 to even begin to approach break-even, making it at least twice as expensive as rival consoles -- and some have speculated the price will actually run to $700 or $800.
$700!! By next Christmas (when it should be out in Japan) I'll be able to buy a Cel500 and Voodoo3 for that. Which actually puts them on about the same footing, graphics wise. Sony is sneaking a computer through the back door, and personally think it will fail miserably as a game machine if they charge more than $200 for it. Of course with a Net connection possibility, and all that raw power, some SERIOUS net gaming could take off. I've heard it would absolutely suck as a file server though, maybe a Vid-phone, streaming MP3/Movie jukebox, dictation taker?
Who's working on the Linux port?
More stuff like this allows harcore gamers to recoup their time investing in gaming. I'd love to sell some of my Diablo characters, or my whole party from Wizardry VI-VII. It makes a nice way to retire and live fat off your experience, or even buy that new machine.
Money is only an abstraction of time and so are the virtual characters, so where's the problem? It'll only work if good characters, virtual gold, items are kept scarce (supply/demand, that whole market thing) tho, but with one company in charge keeping things on their servers and owning all the data, it shouldn't be that hard.
I don't see a problem with it. It rewards those who put the time in to develope characters. It allows rich newbies to pump more money into the system. The only one who "lose out" are those not involved, and since their not involved they can't lose out, now can they? If you don't like, quit or play Quake. Anybody want to buy my Quake alias, I usually stay alive for about 15 seconds. You get 100 hit points, 200 armor, 75 rockets, and a bunny.
it costs me about $100 bucks a month to keep a good crop of cards both for play and trade(For standard play, not Type 1 with the $2000 decks). The tough part is dedicating the time to build competitive decks (although you can go to the dojo.com if you're lame). It's a hobby and less expensive than many. WOTC has done a lot to keep the game fun , and hopefully they will for 20 years of so and then my cards can pay for my kids education.
You have the metaphor wrong. You're not paying someone to hit the golf ball, you're buying a bad-ass set of clubs. It can make the overall experience much more rewarding and also rewards those who spend *massive* amounts of time building characters.
I love the idea of more games moving into Linux (being a gamer makes loving Linux tough) but what's the deal with all the civ wannabes. I saw the other day that Microprose had their own. That makes three in my book. After playing Alpha Centauri, none of 'em have much of a chance. Any game where the ultimate goal is to join consciousness with a planet and become one with the universe, is a cool game.
yeah that Quake sure sucked, and doesn't that Linux thing run under Windows....
...the cutting edge for music distubution. I've said it before and I'll say it again. MP3Spy is the coolest software. Links with Winamp (flame retardant applied) and hooks to *ANY* streaming MP3s it happens to find (through Shout/IceCast). No commercials, heck I even got requests in at Radio Clambake. A great venue for up and coming bands (you always have a place to find them) as well as the potential to run your own radio station. DMX in tha house.
The SDMI will fail much like DIVX has failed. Someone else pointed this out and I think it's a good analogy. When you have competing formats..one free and open...one closed and expensive, the free one wins out. Oh wait, unless of course the closed and expensive has 90% market share and $20B in a closet and margins in the 40-50% range. But if the open one is there first ppl will rarely move to a closed one.
Glaser is smarter than the Broadcast.com dumba$$ who said MP3 will die a quick death. They're both multi-$$'s though..:(
But it won't be tomorrow, remember we're geeks.
unless you want to listen over the 'Net. I try various steaming widths and 64 sounds good for live music. Not to mention speech comes over just fine at 16.
They made it Mom(tm) simple, just put in the CD and click play.
and the RIAA is so scared of (uncontrolled) MP3 b/c of the same thing, simplicity. All it takes is a computer and most folks have that.
Plus they got a mention becuase of a $200 stock price, which will probably go ballistic with more press coverage.
..and that's the level of service you get. I think *some* of the problems in high school and our school system in general could be solved with money, in the right place. I'd like to see a teacher pay raise of roughly 100%, make it a, crazy idea here, highly competitive field to be in, as opposed to something more akin to a fall-back position. I had a some good teachers whose influence is with me still, however I had many more folks just showing up everyday that did absolutely nothing for me. Teaching can be very rewarding, but it's also very difficult/demanding to be done correctly, b/c the industry itself(public teaching) will never generate revenue, that line of work will not be compensated in accodance to its importance.
Forget programs and initiatives and all the crap that won't work without dedicated individuals..and go find those dedicated individuals, and compensate them!
(I'm not a teacher, not even close really)