I don't know about that... I've read that an EMP strike could take out most of our airforce, while the old USSR fighter-planes, which still used vacuum tubes, would servive to fight a post-apocolyptic war.
Who's gonna sit through a 30 second commercial?
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I write inflammitory e-mails to webmasters of sites who open up more than one pop-up window advertisment, and I rarely visit sites that have any popup adverts at all.
If I try to view a site with a flash commercial, I either:
Close it immedialtely
switch to a different window and wait for it to finish
I might watch it if it's really well done, but that's for entertainment value. After all, on those rare occations I watch TV, the advertisments are abosultely hilarious.
The vast majority of people aren't even aware that DVDs from say Europe, won't play on their DVD player. And if they ever did find out, their response would be "Oh well, I won't buy DVDs in Europe." Those of use who care aren't buying enough hardware to make a difference.
If we have no choice, will we buy copyright protected harddrives, or will we do without? Do they still get our money even if they do things that #### us off? Think about it...
Marines do more than just wade into machine gun fire and blow up things...
Care to guess who was pulling security duty outside our embassies in the middle east after the bombing of the Cole? It wasn't Slomin's Shield - I'll tell you that!
I have had 2 computer science courses: Intro to C and intro to Unix - a total of 4 credits. I am also a Math major. And I also got a really nice job programming.
In my experience on the job, those programmers who had studied the most advanced math (i.e., math majors or double majors math/CS) were most able to do the important programming - choosing how to set up a program, how one part will interface with another, etc. If you are interested in doing those "senior programmer" type things, get lots of math. Once you have the critical thinking skills and the understanding of formal systems that classes like Algrebra and Analysis give you, you realize that the process of actual "coding" is the least important part of programming, and involves merely writing down your ideas in a way the compiler understands. The real work is understanding the problem.
BTW, I gave up programming to go back to grad school - still not sure if I should kick myself over that one;)
Come on, guys. D&D can be the ultimate positive-sum game. Of course, if played incorrectly (depending on your goals, of course), it can be the ultimate negative-sum game as well...
As far as Civilization/etc. go, I become more powerful when I wipe out my oppenents' cities.
I was at least pleasently surprised by the dates of galactic struggles on the game history site (http://moo3.quicksilver.com/gamehistory.htm
). Just take out the middle number of all the galactic dates and draw your own conclusions. Engineering majors who never took anything but C++, LinAlg, JAVA, and MTHACRNYMS need not apply.
I don't know what this says about the gameplay or about the design, but if the writer of the history is working on it, it'll be good.
I deleted every old copy of MOO and MOOII I had and burned the CDs they were backed up on. Hopefully I can keep from buying this one, too, unless they still let you blast planets into rubble. Commence orbital bombardment!
I noticed a lot of people asking about the miners, and what would happen to them as the mines become automated. Let me add my own slant to the discussion.
Don't get me wrong on the issue of socialism; I dream of a social state, but I think the workers of the world are moving away from actual production. While I consider myself a producer when I write computer code, it's not quite the same as having a tangible object in my hands, of which I can say, "Look, I made this." Those jobs that technology continues to render obsolete are by-and-large those jobs that require repetitive tasks and little in the way of deep thought.
I predict we will see workers moving away from manufacturing and resource gathering and into fields such as maintaining systems (making sure the little robots are working), organizing systems (decided where to open the new mine) and service (getting coffee for the other two groups).
The automated mines are a good step in the right direction, IMHO. Let our race move away from doing basic labor and start thinking more!
Why on earth clone someone who is infertile? I guess it means there will be more buisness of this type; after all, if a parent is infertile, the clone should be too, right?
Somehow, this just seems to go against the basic rules of evolution: people who can't have kids don't.
The "funny" part was the assumption that nerds would be the last to come to anime, whereas in reality, nerds have been the only people in the country watching animen for the last 10+ years. Hate to post something so obvious to many of us, but there it is.
Personally, I think even Teletubbies is pretty awful - the one show I saw had the Teletubbies not actually leaving when it was time to go. If I have kids, that's the last thing I want - my kids thinking I'm playing when I say "It's time to go."
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Are we surprised? When are we going to go metric, anyway?
I don't know about that... I've read that an EMP strike could take out most of our airforce, while the old USSR fighter-planes, which still used vacuum tubes, would servive to fight a post-apocolyptic war.
If I try to view a site with a flash commercial, I either:
I might watch it if it's really well done, but that's for entertainment value. After all, on those rare occations I watch TV, the advertisments are abosultely hilarious.
Bottom line: Not profitable.
No sig here.
If we have no choice, will we buy copyright protected harddrives, or will we do without? Do they still get our money even if they do things that #### us off? Think about it...
Care to guess who was pulling security duty outside our embassies in the middle east after the bombing of the Cole? It wasn't Slomin's Shield - I'll tell you that!
In my experience on the job, those programmers who had studied the most advanced math (i.e., math majors or double majors math/CS) were most able to do the important programming - choosing how to set up a program, how one part will interface with another, etc. If you are interested in doing those "senior programmer" type things, get lots of math. Once you have the critical thinking skills and the understanding of formal systems that classes like Algrebra and Analysis give you, you realize that the process of actual "coding" is the least important part of programming, and involves merely writing down your ideas in a way the compiler understands. The real work is understanding the problem.
BTW, I gave up programming to go back to grad school - still not sure if I should kick myself over that one ;)
-- When all else fails, read the friggen' binary!
"Altruism breeds altruism?" Rather: Altruism usually breeds itself out of the race.
As far as Civilization/etc. go, I become more powerful when I wipe out my oppenents' cities.
I don't know what this says about the gameplay or about the design, but if the writer of the history is working on it, it'll be good.
I deleted every old copy of MOO and MOOII I had and burned the CDs they were backed up on. Hopefully I can keep from buying this one, too, unless they still let you blast planets into rubble. Commence orbital bombardment!
Don't get me wrong on the issue of socialism; I dream of a social state, but I think the workers of the world are moving away from actual production. While I consider myself a producer when I write computer code, it's not quite the same as having a tangible object in my hands, of which I can say, "Look, I made this." Those jobs that technology continues to render obsolete are by-and-large those jobs that require repetitive tasks and little in the way of deep thought.
I predict we will see workers moving away from manufacturing and resource gathering and into fields such as maintaining systems (making sure the little robots are working), organizing systems (decided where to open the new mine) and service (getting coffee for the other two groups).
The automated mines are a good step in the right direction, IMHO. Let our race move away from doing basic labor and start thinking more!
Prepare for ascent!
Somehow, this just seems to go against the basic rules of evolution: people who can't have kids don't.
Personally, I think even Teletubbies is pretty awful - the one show I saw had the Teletubbies not actually leaving when it was time to go. If I have kids, that's the last thing I want - my kids thinking I'm playing when I say "It's time to go."