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For one thing, people who have experienced it know that there is no longer any difference between themselves and their character.
According to Zen buddhism and Taoism, it doesn't matter how strongly you concentrate, it's how few distractions you have from whatever you're doing. Atheletes learn as part of their conditioning to push themselves by ignoring fatigue. Monks learn to ignore hunger, fatigue, pain, sorrow, joy, anger, the release of Warcraft III, the temptation of money. Gamers ignore, well, everything. This allows their minds to be wielded completely. No piece of their minds stays behind to remind them to cook dinner or walk the dog. Every ounce of their being is playing the game.
Of course, ignoring something so completely that it doesn't even enter your mind isn't something that happens in everyday experience. Usually we just "push it to the side" or "put it on the back burner". That's not enough. It has to evaporate from your reality.
Buddhists, by the way, say there is a significant difference in how it feels to be "the Zone"(the Buddhist word is Satori), when one achieves it without an aid, such as a game or a sport, as opposed to without an aid(the goal of meditation).
Re:Apple Gaytime Pro
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Well, thankyou for that in-depth critique, but if you look closer, you'll see that it's not only in quicktime. There are also mpeg's provided.
Do you like the preemptive or low-latency patch better?
Do you like LILO or GRUB better?
Do you like to modify the files in the convoluted make system XFree86 uses?
Do you prefer BSD or SysV style init scripts better?
Your analogy would be better served with these:
Do you like to shift from N to D?
Do you like pressing your foot down to make the car go?
Do you like turning your turn signal on?
Do you like adjusting your rear view mirrors?
There's always room for tweaking, but everyone needs to learn how to drive. And it really helps to know that wheels go round and turn whichever way you turn the steering wheel. It's also really helpful to know that oil keeps metal parts from wearing each other away.
With computers, though, there's no difference between operating and modifying, so which procedures are part of operation and which are altering the system?
I'd say modprobe is a basic part of operating one's computer, whereas compiling one's kernel is not.
No, but that's what the suits think is required to make a game successful. I personally would never have even considered buying Thief if it were not for the rave reviews PC Gamer gave it. From the ads I saw, I got the impression that it was an FPS where you didn't kill people. The sneaking around them instead part never came into play. I didn't know anything about it until I read the PC Gamer article. Compare that to the impression I got about Deus Ex--that there's about 6 ways to complete each mission, and instead of killing, you can hack, bribe, or sneak.
The ads never told about the cool stuff, just the things it wasn't. They tried to convey that it was unlike any other first person game. They failed to convey what it was instead or why that was cool.
Or it could be because Thief's box wasn't shiny enough:)
This is wonderful. Now all they need to do is legitimize DeCSS, stop lobbying for copyright extension, stop lobbying for mandatory DRM, and stop squashing the anime the distribution rights to which they own, and then they will no longer be evil.
He claims on his website that the spectral lines have been observed and attributed to other causes--he names high-energy ions. He also says that this claim is particularly vacuous because the spectral lines occur as part of the background radiation of the universe, IOW, the reactions occur in deep space. The lines also occur in our sun, IIRC.
He says repeatedly on his site that his theories cannot be used to make a perpetual motion machine because his theory does not violate the law of Conservation of Mass and Energy.
He claims his theory can easily explain the expansion of the universe, and dark matter, among other things. His theory has difficulty explaining certain things that Schrodinger's handles pretty easily, though.
At $0.0005 per taxpayer, I think it's worth investigating.
I tried "UV Marking Pen", "LED Flashlight", and "Lockpick" in Google sets, but it came up empty. I removed "UV Marking Pen". Here's what it came up with: Lockpick LED flashlight Atomic Watches Personal Alcohol Tester Wireless Camera Cell Phone Accessories Atomic Watch FaxPress Moon filter 1 Celestron Sky Maps 6x30 finderscope toy police car propeller toy smiley face bubbles yoyo super ball logbook 2 AA batteries Mechanics LCD Products
Okay, so maybe it doesn't work that well.(but you will definately want to check out the Moon Filter and Personal Alcohol Tester)
After reading the somewhat inflamatory article, I'm inspired to consider a counterinitiative. Techniques for building better software(besides the obvious many eyeballs) coming from the open source/free software communities using open methods to improve all software is a very headlinable idea, and think of the PR boost that having developed better methods more quickly or better than a comparable proprietary only solution would bring.
This letter is an excellent deliberation upon the virtues of free software in such a manner that not only does it embarass Microsoft, but the refutation is effectively apodictic. His elegance, grace, and accuracy in his comments assures that if his position is not irrefutable, a counter would fall short of Mr. Nunez's acme of debate.
Why, against Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla, Monster-zero, Angels, and superhumanly strong alien beings who, of course, can only be defeated by the hero, who is also a superhumanly strong alien being, but a nice one.
(the last two were from Evangelion and Dragonball Z respectively, all others from Godzilla vs. movies.)
What, you don't like capital punishment? Only felons would be concerned about this because they're the only ones who get executed. Heck, why don't we just kill anyone who is convicted. You don't like that idea? Why, are you planning on committing a crime that would cause you to be incarcerated?
What, you don't like spam? Only people who post their email addresses to the web get spam. You can just not post your email address.
What, you don't like China's nuclear weapons? Why would you be so concerned, only countries that annoy China have to be worried about this. Just don't let your nation annoy China.
What, you don't like the CBDTPA? Only criminals who pirate others' work need be concerned about this law.
What, you don't like the DMCA? Only people who crack software need to be concerned about that.
Innocent until proven guilty shouldn't just apply to courts of law. Apply it to all of society. Why would the government need to identify a law abiding citizen?
For brevity's sake, I won't even bother to mention that this won't reduce crime, just make detectivework easier.
No, they are only required to provide the source code whenever they distribute the binary. Only because the binary is available for download are they required to provide the source for download as well.
If they stopped providing the binary for download, they wouldn't have to provide the source for download anymore.
Actually, they're required to put CD's with the source in the box with the CD for the binaries because of the GPL. If the source CD's weren't in the box along with the binary CD, it would be violating the GPL, even if it was available for download on their website.
The improvement is that the corporations would no longer designate what is "cool", and would once again be slaves to the same unpredictable fads that individuals are. That would force them to react, rather than act.
Smalltime musicians, for example, if this system determines that they will be the next "big thing", could either leverage this system's knowledge to get a good contract with an existing record company or start their own.
The best part is that smalltime musicians will become popular at all. If corporate backing has less effect on a musician's popularity, perhaps Joe Q. Musician can gain the popularity that his skill and talent and effort suggest that he deserves.
If the tangible benefits of this system to those not endorsed by corporate backing don't interest you, think of the principle. If this system is instituted by the Open Source community and adopted by the public, we will have lifted one chain of corporate slavery from the necks of the public, whether or not they know or care.
Local retailers may not be able to compete for those who are price concerned, but very few people are. With local stores, you can simply go out and buy the item. For extremely time-critical items or for the impatient person, local retailers will always win out. The hassle of internet sales is another factor. For the average person, who finds visiting a local store easier than buying over the internet, local retailers prevail.
With local versus internet retailers, "fairness" can not really be a question because customers prefer face-to-face communication. Why do you think Sears, Roebuck, and Co. became a retail store chain instead of a mail order business long ago? It was more profitable after urbanization, which is incredibly more complete than it was back then.
Re:yeah, i think that sounds right
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It was called an ansible. The particle they split was a meson.
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For one thing, people who have experienced it know that there is no longer any difference between themselves and their character.
According to Zen buddhism and Taoism, it doesn't matter how strongly you concentrate, it's how few distractions you have from whatever you're doing. Atheletes learn as part of their conditioning to push themselves by ignoring fatigue. Monks learn to ignore hunger, fatigue, pain, sorrow, joy, anger, the release of Warcraft III, the temptation of money. Gamers ignore, well, everything. This allows their minds to be wielded completely. No piece of their minds stays behind to remind them to cook dinner or walk the dog. Every ounce of their being is playing the game.
Of course, ignoring something so completely that it doesn't even enter your mind isn't something that happens in everyday experience. Usually we just "push it to the side" or "put it on the back burner". That's not enough. It has to evaporate from your reality.
Buddhists, by the way, say there is a significant difference in how it feels to be "the Zone"(the Buddhist word is Satori), when one achieves it without an aid, such as a game or a sport, as opposed to without an aid(the goal of meditation).
Well, thankyou for that in-depth critique, but if you look closer, you'll see that it's not only in quicktime. There are also mpeg's provided.
- Which virtual memory system do you prefer?
- Do you like the preemptive or low-latency patch better?
- Do you like LILO or GRUB better?
- Do you like to modify the files in the convoluted make system XFree86 uses?
- Do you prefer BSD or SysV style init scripts better?
Your analogy would be better served with these:- Do you like to shift from N to D?
- Do you like pressing your foot down to make the car go?
- Do you like turning your turn signal on?
- Do you like adjusting your rear view mirrors?
There's always room for tweaking, but everyone needs to learn how to drive. And it really helps to know that wheels go round and turn whichever way you turn the steering wheel. It's also really helpful to know that oil keeps metal parts from wearing each other away.With computers, though, there's no difference between operating and modifying, so which procedures are part of operation and which are altering the system?
I'd say modprobe is a basic part of operating one's computer, whereas compiling one's kernel is not.
No, but that's what the suits think is required to make a game successful. I personally would never have even considered buying Thief if it were not for the rave reviews PC Gamer gave it. From the ads I saw, I got the impression that it was an FPS where you didn't kill people. The sneaking around them instead part never came into play. I didn't know anything about it until I read the PC Gamer article. Compare that to the impression I got about Deus Ex--that there's about 6 ways to complete each mission, and instead of killing, you can hack, bribe, or sneak.
:)
The ads never told about the cool stuff, just the things it wasn't. They tried to convey that it was unlike any other first person game. They failed to convey what it was instead or why that was cool.
Or it could be because Thief's box wasn't shiny enough
This is wonderful. Now all they need to do is legitimize DeCSS, stop lobbying for copyright extension, stop lobbying for mandatory DRM, and stop squashing the anime the distribution rights to which they own, and then they will no longer be evil.
Have I forgotten anything?
She doesn't even have to puke to lose weight. They don't call it weightlessness for nothing.
He claims on his website that the spectral lines have been observed and attributed to other causes--he names high-energy ions. He also says that this claim is particularly vacuous because the spectral lines occur as part of the background radiation of the universe, IOW, the reactions occur in deep space. The lines also occur in our sun, IIRC.
He says repeatedly on his site that his theories cannot be used to make a perpetual motion machine because his theory does not violate the law of Conservation of Mass and Energy.
He claims his theory can easily explain the expansion of the universe, and dark matter, among other things. His theory has difficulty explaining certain things that Schrodinger's handles pretty easily, though.
At $0.0005 per taxpayer, I think it's worth investigating.
I tried "UV Marking Pen", "LED Flashlight", and "Lockpick" in Google sets, but it came up empty. I removed "UV Marking Pen". Here's what it came up with:
Lockpick
LED flashlight
Atomic Watches
Personal Alcohol Tester
Wireless Camera
Cell Phone Accessories
Atomic Watch
FaxPress
Moon filter 1
Celestron Sky Maps
6x30 finderscope
toy police car
propeller toy
smiley face bubbles
yoyo
super ball
logbook
2 AA batteries
Mechanics
LCD Products
Okay, so maybe it doesn't work that well.(but you will definately want to check out the Moon Filter and Personal Alcohol Tester)
After reading the somewhat inflamatory article, I'm inspired to consider a counterinitiative. Techniques for building better software(besides the obvious many eyeballs) coming from the open source/free software communities using open methods to improve all software is a very headlinable idea, and think of the PR boost that having developed better methods more quickly or better than a comparable proprietary only solution would bring.
This letter is an excellent deliberation upon the virtues of free software in such a manner that not only does it embarass Microsoft, but the refutation is effectively apodictic. His elegance, grace, and accuracy in his comments assures that if his position is not irrefutable, a counter would fall short of Mr. Nunez's acme of debate.
IOW: MS, Nunez 0wns j00!
>Who are they defending themselves from?
Why, against Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla, Monster-zero, Angels, and superhumanly strong alien beings who, of course, can only be defeated by the hero, who is also a superhumanly strong alien being, but a nice one.
(the last two were from Evangelion and Dragonball Z respectively, all others from Godzilla vs. movies.)
What, you don't like capital punishment? Only felons would be concerned about this because they're the only ones who get executed. Heck, why don't we just kill anyone who is convicted. You don't like that idea? Why, are you planning on committing a crime that would cause you to be incarcerated?
What, you don't like spam? Only people who post their email addresses to the web get spam. You can just not post your email address.
What, you don't like China's nuclear weapons? Why would you be so concerned, only countries that annoy China have to be worried about this. Just don't let your nation annoy China.
What, you don't like the CBDTPA? Only criminals who pirate others' work need be concerned about this law.
What, you don't like the DMCA? Only people who crack software need to be concerned about that.
Innocent until proven guilty shouldn't just apply to courts of law. Apply it to all of society. Why would the government need to identify a law abiding citizen?
For brevity's sake, I won't even bother to mention that this won't reduce crime, just make detectivework easier.
No, they are only required to provide the source code whenever they distribute the binary. Only because the binary is available for download are they required to provide the source for download as well.
If they stopped providing the binary for download, they wouldn't have to provide the source for download anymore.
Actually, they're required to put CD's with the source in the box with the CD for the binaries because of the GPL. If the source CD's weren't in the box along with the binary CD, it would be violating the GPL, even if it was available for download on their website.
You know you're a geek when you think Lance Bass is a kind of long fish.
The improvement is that the corporations would no longer designate what is "cool", and would once again be slaves to the same unpredictable fads that individuals are. That would force them to react, rather than act. Smalltime musicians, for example, if this system determines that they will be the next "big thing", could either leverage this system's knowledge to get a good contract with an existing record company or start their own. The best part is that smalltime musicians will become popular at all. If corporate backing has less effect on a musician's popularity, perhaps Joe Q. Musician can gain the popularity that his skill and talent and effort suggest that he deserves. If the tangible benefits of this system to those not endorsed by corporate backing don't interest you, think of the principle. If this system is instituted by the Open Source community and adopted by the public, we will have lifted one chain of corporate slavery from the necks of the public, whether or not they know or care.
Local retailers may not be able to compete for those who are price concerned, but very few people are. With local stores, you can simply go out and buy the item. For extremely time-critical items or for the impatient person, local retailers will always win out. The hassle of internet sales is another factor. For the average person, who finds visiting a local store easier than buying over the internet, local retailers prevail. With local versus internet retailers, "fairness" can not really be a question because customers prefer face-to-face communication. Why do you think Sears, Roebuck, and Co. became a retail store chain instead of a mail order business long ago? It was more profitable after urbanization, which is incredibly more complete than it was back then.
It was called an ansible. The particle they split was a meson.