and so it is unfair or unrealistic to ascribe total responsibility for someones behavior to themselves only.
For example, it is well documented that people who were abused as children are more likely to abuse their own children. That does not mean that any specific individual that was abused can not overcome that and avoid abusing their own children as adults, but it also does mean that ascribing the full responsibility for that act on the individual is unfair and pointless, as the reality is that at least a subset of those people get affected by their experience in such as way that they make choices they would be less likely to make otherwise.
Unfair, because that person is unlikely to have sat down one day, uninfluenced by his/her upbringing, and have decided to abuse kids.
Unrealistic, because it means that punishment both as a general deterrent to others, and as a deterrent to re-offending, in many cases has no basis in reality.
Bullshit. This thinking trivializes awareness of one's own strengths and shortcomings. Any sentient being can exercise introspection and determine what traits are inherited or learned. Most just choose not to. That would require too much work and would not allow them to ascribe to the culture of victimhood that seems so popular these days. They would rather choose to remain a victim and use their free will to pretend they have no free will. Cheap cop-out.
Why do so many people seem to believe that a 1st person view is the same as a first-person-shooter? I will wait until I play TFG before I damn it or proclaim it.
in as much as it will be an rpg, it will be made by Bethesda, and it will be on the PC, 360 and the PS3. These things will guarantee that it will most definitely be remotely like Oblivion. Oh, yeah, it will also have voice acting so that guarantees it will be even more remotely like Oblivion! Can anyone think of anything else that will make it even further more remotely like Oblivion?
I'm so excited! I can't think of the last time I was this excited that a game so remotely like Oblivion was coming out. Maybe it was NWN2? That was made by a developer and was an RPG with voice acting and even had graphics!!! That was so remotely like Oblivion that it made my eyes tear up.
No, the Saturn 3-d Analog controller is almost exactly like the Dreamcast controller without slots for VMU or vibro. When I got one of those for Panzer Dragoon Saga and SFIII, I stopped using the regular Saturn controller. I loved the analog/digital on/off switch to go from 3-d games to 2-d games. It did have some sort of upgrade slot on the back that was never used afaik. The original Saturn controller is almost exactly like a 6-button Genesis controller with R and L buttons in the back. Any of those beat the SNES controller hands down.
My favorite controller of all time was my EPYX joystick for my C64, It sat in your left hand with a button on the side right by your index finger, then you used your right hand to control the joystick. I have never experienced anything as ergonomic since then.
If you read my previous post carefully, you will see that never do I state or assume that all bipolar people are the same. I am speaking only about my friend. I understand your viewpoint but I can also see why an employer would want to know. 90% of the population being complete ignerts sure doesn't help. I really do understand a lot of what you are saying because I am an epileptic. There are many misconceptions about this condition also, and I can see why some employers would not want to hire an epileptic for certain positions. I haven't had a seizure in 20 yrs but I consider myself "on hiatus", not cured. The depressants I took for 15 years (400 mg Dilantin and 2200 mg Tegretol, daily) definitely affected my mental health as well. When they took me off of them, I was a completely different person. I had been on them since I was 10yrs old, so I didn't know they were why I was depressed. Hell, I didn't even realize I was depressed. Considering so little is known about the brain and exactly what causes these things, no one can tell me with 100% certainty that I will never have another seizure. I still won't be applying for any jobs as a school bus driver, airplane pilot or in sky-scraper construction anytime soon. I still worry every time I'm behind the wheel of a car.
If you were destructive, would you reveal this to a potential employer? Would they have a right to know? How many other people would voluntarily divulge this information? I grew up from a young age knowing that my condition carried potential consequences and that I had certain responsibilities to the people around me because of this. Did it help that people assumed I must be unstable or even half-witted? No. I couldn't educate everyone, but quite a few people learned they were wrong about me. Not everyone is going to be as responsible as You or I or my friend. Is screening being done fairly and correctly? I doubt it. But I do believe that SOME people truly have conditions that employers (or potential employers) have a right to be aware of. Is it fair? Hell, no! But what is?
I have a friend who is severely bipolar. In his "down" phases, he often destroys his own property. This is while he is on his meds. If he forgets to take them, all bets are off. When he is in his "up" stage, he would be one of the first to agree that he should not be trusted in his "down" stage. I wouldn't want him deciding to delete entire drives based on his mental state, and can't see why anyone would want to put their livelihood at risk by placing him in a sensitive position. I am not familliar with the medical terms, so please do not take offence at my use of "up" and "down". I tried to use a descriptive term to get my meaning across. I suppose I could have said "north" and "south", but was afraid someone would think I was implying there was something negative about "south".
This technology, being 25 times faster will absolutely be 50 times more expensive. Comcast customers can look forward to a pricing plan that allows them to pay for a one year package over the span of 5 years. Included in this plan will be 6 months at the reduced rate (50%) of only $1299.99 per month. We are proud to announce a partnership with GM that will allow you to get up to $5000.00 off the annual package of $31,199.99 or a free Cable Modem with the trade in of a GM vehicle. Sign-up will begin in July 2008, and we will come to your home and install sometime between August 2008 and December 2009. All agreements void if you download more than the recommended amount. If our rep arrives for installation and you are not there, we reserve the right to charge a really insipid fee to reschedule your installation and make you wait 4-7 more months.
I think you mean XP THEN Vista. XP has been around a lot longer, so to be chronologically correct that would be your order. I don't have a clue what you are trying to say by "Vista must be slower then XP." Then XP does what? I cannot see what causality you are implying?
Has anyone addressed if Vista is still slower than XP if you turn off the bells, whistles, holographic and foil-plated covers with glow-in-the-dark lettering? I would think that these would cause quite a bit of overhead. Does Vista have a "Classic" mode at all or are we stuck with the assinine chrome plating and spinning rims no matter what?
Jeff Goldblum writing his "Jolly Roger" virus for the alien computer systems takes the cake for me. We are to believe they have no type of firewall, that you can just get there, plug in and upload, and that his OS graphics translate to the same images on their OS?? Fantasy, pure and simple.
Its like those moronic aliens that get destroyed by water, trying to take over a planet that is 70% water in Signs. "Hey guys! Lets go naked to conquer a planet where a substance deadly to us routinely falls from the sky!!" "Sounds good to us Emmnyte, count us in!" Ruined the entire thing for me...
Anyone remember "Hacker" and "Hacker2" from in the 80's. There were no manuals, no instructions, no background. You just get thrown into "accidentally hacking into" someone's system and have to uncover the entire conspiracy. I spent a lot of long nights on those games...
It is easier to associate with a character if they come from a similar background as yourself, but a good role-player can pick a character that is their polar opposite and play them well.
I'm sure someone, somewhere complained to Bioware that Jade Empire didn't offer enough racial diversity. Lets have a group chuckle at their expense...
Well said.
Since these people debating the issue are supposed to be scientists, what is wrong with keeping an open mind and questioning if something more that carbon dioxide is behind the climate change? Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I really get worried when any group starts claiming they have "unquestionable" theories. To me science is about questioning everything. We have hardly exhausted everything we can look into on the subject.
Hmmm, right out of Blizard's own people we get to hear what I knew all along... That WOW was neither new nor innovative. <i>"'When we announce our next MMORPG it's not going to be another WOW--we're not a company that tends to tread the same ground,' he told British film magazine Empire. '<b>It</b>'ll be something innovative and new that really brings entertainment to another level.'"</i>
Good luck with that innovation thing on your next batch of sequels!
Stormwatch beat me to it, but I agree with him 100%. Go back and read some interviews with Suzuki talking about programming the multi core processing on the Saturn. When I read the specs for PS3 I had deja vu. I am one of the biggest Saturn fans out there, and I'm not trashing the PS3, but I can't help but be struck by the irony of the situation. The Playstation won by default over the Saturn (and most people agree that games that were on both systems were better on the Saturn, especially the Capcom games...) because it was sold at a huge loss by Sony (they could afford it) and was easier to program for (therefore had more games, 90% were drek, but definitely had more games) and the ease of copying games and modding the console on the PS.
Sony should know first-hand that the "best" console doesn't always win the war.
Amen. Or is that "astroucious" of me to agree with AuMatar?
Everything I despise about EQ and WoW is missing in DDO. I don't need to learn to fish, or brew or basket weave. All that inane crap is gone in DDO, it is stripped down to the purity of quests that require varying degrees of communication and teamwork. For the majority of antisocial loner MMO fanboys that must be unbearable. The built in voice chat even gets rid of most of the insipid l33tsp34k, you have to decipher in other games. I am a very "astroucious" person to enjoy such an "astroucious" game.
Hell, it should be possible for you to have an antimatter burrito someday. Why you would want to touch anything made of antimatter would be beyond me. The moment any matter came into contact with it, it would be obliterated and converted to energy. The resulting explosion caused by the sudden release of energy would rip the rest of you to shreds rather quickly. Only something also made of antimatter could successfully come into contact with an antimatter burrito. Most of this thread is completely ridiculous when you consider this.
The most famous ST workaround is probably the Heisenberg compensators that allow teleporters to work. This deus ex machina lets them "compensate" for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that states that the more precicely you know the position of a particle, the less precisely you can know its velocity, and vice versa. Without knowing the position and velocity of a particle, teleportation would be impossible, so they cheated by "inventing" the compensators.
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and so it is unfair or unrealistic to ascribe total responsibility for someones behavior to themselves only.
For example, it is well documented that people who were abused as children are more likely to abuse their own children. That does not mean that any specific individual that was abused can not overcome that and avoid abusing their own children as adults, but it also does mean that ascribing the full responsibility for that act on the individual is unfair and pointless, as the reality is that at least a subset of those people get affected by their experience in such as way that they make choices they would be less likely to make otherwise.
Unfair, because that person is unlikely to have sat down one day, uninfluenced by his/her upbringing, and have decided to abuse kids.
Unrealistic, because it means that punishment both as a general deterrent to others, and as a deterrent to re-offending, in many cases has no basis in reality.
Bullshit. This thinking trivializes awareness of one's own strengths and shortcomings. Any sentient being can exercise introspection and determine what traits are inherited or learned. Most just choose not to. That would require too much work and would not allow them to ascribe to the culture of victimhood that seems so popular these days. They would rather choose to remain a victim and use their free will to pretend they have no free will. Cheap cop-out.
Why do so many people seem to believe that a 1st person view is the same as a first-person-shooter? I will wait until I play TFG before I damn it or proclaim it.
Is that a Lovecraft reference?
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn shibboleth"
a Vault Tech(tm) certified vault.
For the record, I did pass 8th grade. In 9th grade I learned about sarcasm. Maybe someone needs to go back to 9th grade?
Actually, I think I learned sarcasm much earlier than that.
I am glad that this AC got the gist of what I was saying.
in as much as it will be an rpg, it will be made by Bethesda, and it will be on the PC, 360 and the PS3. These things will guarantee that it will most definitely be remotely like Oblivion.
Oh, yeah, it will also have voice acting so that guarantees it will be even more remotely like Oblivion!
Can anyone think of anything else that will make it even further more remotely like Oblivion?
I'm so excited! I can't think of the last time I was this excited that a game so remotely like Oblivion was coming out. Maybe it was NWN2? That was made by a developer and was an RPG with voice acting and even had graphics!!! That was so remotely like Oblivion that it made my eyes tear up.
Who has been left out in the dark this long that this is news to them? Slow day I guess.
Am I the only one scratching my head and saying "Wha?????"?
No, the Saturn 3-d Analog controller is almost exactly like the Dreamcast controller without slots for VMU or vibro. When I got one of those for Panzer Dragoon Saga and SFIII, I stopped using the regular Saturn controller. I loved the analog/digital on/off switch to go from 3-d games to 2-d games. It did have some sort of upgrade slot on the back that was never used afaik.
The original Saturn controller is almost exactly like a 6-button Genesis controller with R and L buttons in the back. Any of those beat the SNES controller hands down.
My favorite controller of all time was my EPYX joystick for my C64, It sat in your left hand with a button on the side right by your index finger, then you used your right hand to control the joystick. I have never experienced anything as ergonomic since then.
If you read my previous post carefully, you will see that never do I state or assume that all bipolar people are the same. I am speaking only about my friend. I understand your viewpoint but I can also see why an employer would want to know. 90% of the population being complete ignerts sure doesn't help.
I really do understand a lot of what you are saying because I am an epileptic. There are many misconceptions about this condition also, and I can see why some employers would not want to hire an epileptic for certain positions. I haven't had a seizure in 20 yrs but I consider myself "on hiatus", not cured. The depressants I took for 15 years (400 mg Dilantin and 2200 mg Tegretol, daily) definitely affected my mental health as well. When they took me off of them, I was a completely different person. I had been on them since I was 10yrs old, so I didn't know they were why I was depressed. Hell, I didn't even realize I was depressed. Considering so little is known about the brain and exactly what causes these things, no one can tell me with 100% certainty that I will never have another seizure. I still won't be applying for any jobs as a school bus driver, airplane pilot or in sky-scraper construction anytime soon. I still worry every time I'm behind the wheel of a car.
If you were destructive, would you reveal this to a potential employer? Would they have a right to know? How many other people would voluntarily divulge this information? I grew up from a young age knowing that my condition carried potential consequences and that I had certain responsibilities to the people around me because of this. Did it help that people assumed I must be unstable or even half-witted? No. I couldn't educate everyone, but quite a few people learned they were wrong about me. Not everyone is going to be as responsible as You or I or my friend. Is screening being done fairly and correctly? I doubt it. But I do believe that SOME people truly have conditions that employers (or potential employers) have a right to be aware of. Is it fair? Hell, no! But what is?
I have a friend who is severely bipolar. In his "down" phases, he often destroys his own property. This is while he is on his meds. If he forgets to take them, all bets are off. When he is in his "up" stage, he would be one of the first to agree that he should not be trusted in his "down" stage. I wouldn't want him deciding to delete entire drives based on his mental state, and can't see why anyone would want to put their livelihood at risk by placing him in a sensitive position.
I am not familliar with the medical terms, so please do not take offence at my use of "up" and "down". I tried to use a descriptive term to get my meaning across. I suppose I could have said "north" and "south", but was afraid someone would think I was implying there was something negative about "south".
What if you like chinese soup but you accidentally leave the 'm' off of your favorite site, misohunt.com?
What is worse(better?) piracy or ninjacy?
This technology, being 25 times faster will absolutely be 50 times more expensive. Comcast customers can look forward to a pricing plan that allows them to pay for a one year package over the span of 5 years. Included in this plan will be 6 months at the reduced rate (50%) of only $1299.99 per month. We are proud to announce a partnership with GM that will allow you to get up to $5000.00 off the annual package of $31,199.99 or a free Cable Modem with the trade in of a GM vehicle.
Sign-up will begin in July 2008, and we will come to your home and install sometime between August 2008 and December 2009. All agreements void if you download more than the recommended amount. If our rep arrives for installation and you are not there, we reserve the right to charge a really insipid fee to reschedule your installation and make you wait 4-7 more months.
I think you mean XP THEN Vista. XP has been around a lot longer, so to be chronologically correct that would be your order. I don't have a clue what you are trying to say by "Vista must be slower then XP." Then XP does what? I cannot see what causality you are implying?
Has anyone addressed if Vista is still slower than XP if you turn off the bells, whistles, holographic and foil-plated covers with glow-in-the-dark lettering? I would think that these would cause quite a bit of overhead. Does Vista have a "Classic" mode at all or are we stuck with the assinine chrome plating and spinning rims no matter what?
Jeff Goldblum writing his "Jolly Roger" virus for the alien computer systems takes the cake for me. We are to believe they have no type of firewall, that you can just get there, plug in and upload, and that his OS graphics translate to the same images on their OS?? Fantasy, pure and simple.
Its like those moronic aliens that get destroyed by water, trying to take over a planet that is 70% water in Signs.
"Hey guys! Lets go naked to conquer a planet where a substance deadly to us routinely falls from the sky!!"
"Sounds good to us Emmnyte, count us in!"
Ruined the entire thing for me...
Anyone remember "Hacker" and "Hacker2" from in the 80's. There were no manuals, no instructions, no background. You just get thrown into "accidentally hacking into" someone's system and have to uncover the entire conspiracy. I spent a lot of long nights on those games...
No.
But I always thought Jade was green?
It is easier to associate with a character if they come from a similar background as yourself, but a good role-player can pick a character that is their polar opposite and play them well.
I'm sure someone, somewhere complained to Bioware that Jade Empire didn't offer enough racial diversity. Lets have a group chuckle at their expense...
Well said.
Since these people debating the issue are supposed to be scientists, what is wrong with keeping an open mind and questioning if something more that carbon dioxide is behind the climate change? Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I really get worried when any group starts claiming they have "unquestionable" theories. To me science is about questioning everything. We have hardly exhausted everything we can look into on the subject.
All it takes to ruin an intelligent conversation is to get off on the wrong foot.
Hmmm, right out of Blizard's own people we get to hear what I knew all along... That WOW was neither new nor innovative.
<i>"'When we announce our next MMORPG it's not going to be another WOW--we're not a company that tends to tread the same ground,' he told British film magazine Empire. '<b>It</b>'ll be something innovative and new that really brings entertainment to another level.'"</i>
Good luck with that innovation thing on your next batch of sequels!
Stormwatch beat me to it, but I agree with him 100%. Go back and read some interviews with Suzuki talking about programming the multi core processing on the Saturn. When I read the specs for PS3 I had deja vu. I am one of the biggest Saturn fans out there, and I'm not trashing the PS3, but I can't help but be struck by the irony of the situation. The Playstation won by default over the Saturn (and most people agree that games that were on both systems were better on the Saturn, especially the Capcom games...) because it was sold at a huge loss by Sony (they could afford it) and was easier to program for (therefore had more games, 90% were drek, but definitely had more games) and the ease of copying games and modding the console on the PS.
Sony should know first-hand that the "best" console doesn't always win the war.
I, for one, welcome our new giant tentacled overlords!!
But I think we will be very busy shaking hands for a while...
Amen. Or is that "astroucious" of me to agree with AuMatar?
Everything I despise about EQ and WoW is missing in DDO. I don't need to learn to fish, or brew or basket weave. All that inane crap is gone in DDO, it is stripped down to the purity of quests that require varying degrees of communication and teamwork. For the majority of antisocial loner MMO fanboys that must be unbearable. The built in voice chat even gets rid of most of the insipid l33tsp34k, you have to decipher in other games.
I am a very "astroucious" person to enjoy such an "astroucious" game.
Hell, it should be possible for you to have an antimatter burrito someday. Why you would want to touch anything made of antimatter would be beyond me. The moment any matter came into contact with it, it would be obliterated and converted to energy. The resulting explosion caused by the sudden release of energy would rip the rest of you to shreds rather quickly. Only something also made of antimatter could successfully come into contact with an antimatter burrito. Most of this thread is completely ridiculous when you consider this.
The most famous ST workaround is probably the Heisenberg compensators that allow teleporters to work. This deus ex machina lets them "compensate" for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that states that the more precicely you know the position of a particle, the less precisely you can know its velocity, and vice versa. Without knowing the position and velocity of a particle, teleportation would be impossible, so they cheated by "inventing" the compensators.