The problem with an evolution game is that it's completely non-interactive. At most you might be able to design the environment and maybe tweak a couple of universal constants but I doubt that there is really any game that could make evolution an engaging experience.
I would actually like to know the answer to this. My own office is always at one extreme or the other, and when it's extremely cold, I can't type well (bad for programming) but when it's extremely hot, I get lazy and tired (also bad for programming).
To Blizzard: You've obviously got a really good team if your software is so solid -- what sort of office environment have you got? Man I sound really OCD there....
As others have pointed out, you should really release this to the public. Slap a little logo at the beginning and you've got 100% free advertising propagated by the entire global Linux community.
Want to know why I spend 2/3rds of my time in Windows (the rest in SuSE 10.3 on KDE 3.x)
I would like to point out that age obviously has nothing to do with computer literacy. From your previous statements I'm much younger than you and I use Linux 100% - to the point where I refuse to use Windows.
1) The games I play, play in Windows. I have no inclination to fumble-fuck around with emulators or what have you trying to get MS Flight Simulator 2004 or STALKER or Team Fortress 2 running on Linux, not sure it's even possible.
I don't think you've tried the latest wine. I was able to install Portal with steam extremely easily - I sincerely mean that. I just double clicked on the stupid.exe and it worked just like in windows (I assume, I haven't used windows in quite some time).
2) The fonts in Windows have been optimized at the per-pixel level to match up with LCD monitors. In KDE 3.x the fonts are about where they were in the Windows 3.1 world, circa 1995. Big pudgy letters that my eyes have to fight to glom. Especially in FireFox on Linux.
You know, that's strange, I've got better fonts on Linux than I've seen on windows. All the fonts in windows looks terribly thin and aliased while in Linux they are full and plump, like a young woman's... lips.;)
3) For fucks sake - where's the calculator? It's bad enough that I can't hover over the different parts of the start menu (or what ever it's called) and just see what's under there, drill down without it hiding all the other stuff because it 'page flipped' - but the calculator isn't called 'calculator'.
For me, this is as easy as + then typing "calc". I use a program called Gnome-do. But then again, I also use gnome.
It's called kcalc. And the movie player isn't called 'movie player'. It's called ICEwigga or something. And the music player isn't called 'music player' - it's called kude or some shit like that.
You sound frustrated to me. I get the feeling you've been using a Linux that is too much of a pain. I used to have those issues too.
Then, I switched to a debian based distro. You know the one I'm talking about. Join the Brown side, and together we can rule as -*.. Sorry got lost in the moment there:P
The new Ford Fusion has one of those, I rented one for a while and it told me L/100Km up here in Canada. It's one of the things I miss with my car I'm using now. (Although I don't think it would be that hard to modify it.. I need a garage)
How the fuck was Napster the bad guys? As far as I can remember it was some dink in a university who made some software to help him and his friends share music. Fuck. Get a goddamn perspective.
Good point, but you're missing the fact that we are the only species on earth to create technology. Perhaps a tenet of intelligence requires a similar bodily structure? We don't know because we only have ourselves as a model on which to base assumptions, which is admittedly not broad enough.
Ok friend, I'll just deal with the consequences. (You're a twerp.)
http://www.swiftview.com/prod1.htm For the record I would have been ok without the link and happy to search, i.e. that AC wasn't me =)
My free will is completely non-deterministic insofar as I make decisions based upon previous experiences. It is the firing of neurons in my brain, and when I die it will be lost forever.
The product I make displays documents of tens of thousands of pages with color content at 600 DPI, flips pages practically instantly, and uses less than 20 megabytes of RAM while doing so.
Crappy code is no excuse.
I am interested in your product - is it an ebook reader or something? You have a link?
As far as I know, that image you linked to for an example of a Moebius strip is not actually a Moebius strip - that strip you've linked to is nice, but it clearly has two sides. =) This is an example of MC Escher Moebius Strip
If you don't believe in God then of course God can't answer the why. In that case you're left with *no* answer to the why, which is fine if you like it. But thousands of years of philosophers tells me that some people at least want to speculate on the why.
It's silly to imply that in order to get answers you need to believe in the supernatural. In fact I resent the implication. It's almost as if you're saying: "If you don't believe in God you're ignorant. You have no answers" I could just as well believe that I could walk to the moon. I could have faith that I could make a rock from a vacuum. However, they'd put me in a loony bin if I tried. Even if I did believe in God, He can't answer the why anyway! As far as I know no-one's got his phone number...? (Also, if anyone claims to, they're most likely placed in an asylum, or given a big pointy white hat;P )
Ah crap. I read the article and it's just some cosmological events.. I was kind of hoping it would be a construct like HALO or ringworld.. =) Ah well..
Yes, and it was also Christianity which fought for that and lost. I assure you, the American South never has been a hotbed of secular humanism. This made me laugh because it's so blazingly true.
Except those are usually signs of someone who doesn't want you to think about what they are saying.
So people who are l;earning to thing generally won't respond.
The fact that some of your member are complaining is a credit to them. The fact that moving newsletters is more important then your members speaks volumes for the Fools. The problem is, when people think, they don't buy. I work in online advertising and I'm absolutely sick to my stomach about how effective some of this crap is... Unfortunately, the lowest common denominator has a cash flow as well and they're the ones most likely to buy something like that online - thus these sorts of advertisements.
Wouldn't be the first time. A while back, Windows XP got really hungry on his way to the store and he ate the resident hobo, Windows ME. He got really sick afterwards, went into a coma, and once he woke up, he ran away and changed his name. We now call him Windows Vista. I didn't think Windows ever came out of a coma...?
Actually, that "reverse ad hominem" has a name: appeal to false authority. You know, X is accepted as a smart and authoritative guy on his domain, X said Y, therefore Y must be true.
No offense, but as it's been said earlier, Einstein was an authority on this specific subject. He knew a lot about our universe and how it works, and advanced us in huge leaps and bounds in his short life. I doubt this is neither ad hominem nor appeal to authority. I would recognize Einstein as a clear authority on the matter.
and obviously someone that great can't be wrong about something outside the domain of his expertise
What would you suggest is the domain in question? Religiosity? Do you have to be a clergyman to have an opinion on God? That seems to be rather short sighted, especially since religion is an everyman's game. Just because you don't believe a God in the personal sense doesn't make your opinion any less valid.
Although, you're still supposed to present your evidence if you want to challenge it. Just personal disbelief or contradicting one's pet dogma aren't enough.
That's what religion is! How the hell are we supposed to disprove something that is deeply personal and unprovable?
No spyware, malware, viruses, Ubuntu is much more secure. That's not to say it's uncrackable, just much, much harder to crack than windows.
Slick - look up compiz fusion on youtube
Internet works the same (we have flash if you absolutely have to have it)
Email works the same (unless for some god-forsaken reason you have to connect to Exchange and use their calendar)
NO MICROSOFT - this may seem a little radical, but as another commenter said, there's this unquantifiable "ick" in windows that you forget about. It's like you're being brainwashed to use their system, and you have to just "accept it". Frankly it's irritating and highly obnoxious.
Probably the one I like the most: Completely free to try and use.
Not for what you get. A console does not provide any real functionality outside of being a DVD player. PCs offer a very high level of functionality outside of gaming.
Yeah, but I could get that same functionality with a cheap computer and a dedicated gaming machine. Saying that you should buy a gaming machine because it does other things is not a reason you should buy a gaming machine - I would rather get the whole deal, _and_ the hookup to a sweet giant screen (HDTV).
Linux gaming has it's own whole host of issues but dredging up the ol' PC gaming is gunna die argument really fails imo. I really think it's going to die as well. I would rather play casual games on my PC and all games on my game console (whatever flavour you prefer)
What I'm worried about is that the game console is starting to become more and more like a PC - this isn't a good thing IMO. I really don't like the idea of convergence in devices.
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The problem with an evolution game is that it's completely non-interactive. At most you might be able to design the environment and maybe tweak a couple of universal constants but I doubt that there is really any game that could make evolution an engaging experience.
Is it cold in your office?
I would actually like to know the answer to this. My own office is always at one extreme or the other, and when it's extremely cold, I can't type well (bad for programming) but when it's extremely hot, I get lazy and tired (also bad for programming).
To Blizzard: You've obviously got a really good team if your software is so solid -- what sort of office environment have you got?
Man I sound really OCD there....
As others have pointed out, you should really release this to the public. Slap a little logo at the beginning and you've got 100% free advertising propagated by the entire global Linux community.
I would like to point out that age obviously has nothing to do with computer literacy. From your previous statements I'm much younger than you and I use Linux 100% - to the point where I refuse to use Windows.
I don't think you've tried the latest wine. I was able to install Portal with steam extremely easily - I sincerely mean that. I just double clicked on the stupid .exe and it worked just like in windows (I assume, I haven't used windows in quite some time).
You know, that's strange, I've got better fonts on Linux than I've seen on windows. All the fonts in windows looks terribly thin and aliased while in Linux they are full and plump, like a young woman's... lips. ;)
For me, this is as easy as + then typing "calc". I use a program called Gnome-do. But then again, I also use gnome.
You sound frustrated to me. I get the feeling you've been using a Linux that is too much of a pain. I used to have those issues too. :P
Then, I switched to a debian based distro. You know the one I'm talking about. Join the Brown side, and together we can rule as -*.. Sorry got lost in the moment there
Way to read a frickin' book.
The new Ford Fusion has one of those, I rented one for a while and it told me L/100Km up here in Canada. It's one of the things I miss with my car I'm using now. (Although I don't think it would be that hard to modify it.. I need a garage)
When I first used Napster it was free? Are we talking about the same software here?
If I was disabled, I sure as hell would want my own bathroom.
How the fuck was Napster the bad guys? As far as I can remember it was some dink in a university who made some software to help him and his friends share music. Fuck. Get a goddamn perspective.
Good point, but you're missing the fact that we are the only species on earth to create technology. Perhaps a tenet of intelligence requires a similar bodily structure? We don't know because we only have ourselves as a model on which to base assumptions, which is admittedly not broad enough.
Yes. It's very dark and scary and I'm told we smell like yaks. It would probably be best to continue living where you are.
My free will is completely non-deterministic insofar as I make decisions based upon previous experiences. It is the firing of neurons in my brain, and when I die it will be lost forever.
The product I make displays documents of tens of thousands of pages with color content at 600 DPI, flips pages practically instantly, and uses less than 20 megabytes of RAM while doing so.
Crappy code is no excuse.
I am interested in your product - is it an ebook reader or something? You have a link?As far as I know, that image you linked to for an example of a Moebius strip is not actually a Moebius strip - that strip you've linked to is nice, but it clearly has two sides. =)
This is an example of MC Escher Moebius Strip
I could just as well believe that I could walk to the moon. I could have faith that I could make a rock from a vacuum. However, they'd put me in a loony bin if I tried.
Even if I did believe in God, He can't answer the why anyway! As far as I know no-one's got his phone number...? (Also, if anyone claims to, they're most likely placed in an asylum, or given a big pointy white hat
Ah crap. I read the article and it's just some cosmological events.. I was kind of hoping it would be a construct like HALO or ringworld.. =) Ah well..
2008 hasn't failed to become the year of Linux on the desktop yet.
I like the cut of your jib.No offense, but as it's been said earlier, Einstein was an authority on this specific subject. He knew a lot about our universe and how it works, and advanced us in huge leaps and bounds in his short life. I doubt this is neither ad hominem nor appeal to authority. I would recognize Einstein as a clear authority on the matter.
What would you suggest is the domain in question? Religiosity? Do you have to be a clergyman to have an opinion on God? That seems to be rather short sighted, especially since religion is an everyman's game.
Just because you don't believe a God in the personal sense doesn't make your opinion any less valid.
That's what religion is! How the hell are we supposed to disprove something that is deeply personal and unprovable?
Take a look at the beryl/compiz forking and joining. I think forking can be a really good thing sometimes, and in the end everyone benefits.
Not for what you get. A console does not provide any real functionality outside of being a DVD player. PCs offer a very high level of functionality outside of gaming.
Yeah, but I could get that same functionality with a cheap computer and a dedicated gaming machine. Saying that you should buy a gaming machine because it does other things is not a reason you should buy a gaming machine - I would rather get the whole deal, _and_ the hookup to a sweet giant screen (HDTV).
Linux gaming has it's own whole host of issues but dredging up the ol' PC gaming is gunna die argument really fails imo.
I really think it's going to die as well. I would rather play casual games on my PC and all games on my game console (whatever flavour you prefer)
What I'm worried about is that the game console is starting to become more and more like a PC - this isn't a good thing IMO. I really don't like the idea of convergence in devices.