I thought the movie was great. The satire of the medium itself was hilarious. Only Mel Brooks has ever done it better. That's not to say H2G2 is nothing but a flagrant satire on the medium; It's not. It had plot, character development, and unexpected twists.
Popular movies have evolved into a state where statements by an intelligent main character are obligatory. Having such a line interrupted, in the way that it was interrupted, was hilarious, and was a great shot at traditional moviemaking.
Love your last one.:) But you missed an important one. Under a good GM, participants learn to work as a team, period.
Picture a group of typical 12-year-olds playing gambling paladins and raucous fighters. Unless they're forced to, they're not going to work as a team to accomplish anything. Under a DM that pushes teamplay for the Big rewards, they get an incentive to do better in that respect.
Heck, I DM'd a D&D game where a 21-year-old player was only happy if he pulled off more stunts and accomplished more objectives than the rest of the player. He bitched whenever I made a mistake, complained whenever something he wanted to do would have required a called shot, and was a general nuisance.
I clicked on the link, thinking it might be a good read. And it is, but only from the perspective of someone who already knows something about it. The author stares at D&D, only making passing references to other genres, of tabletop RPGs. He alludes to cartoon, superhero and historic genres, but provides no links.
He also suggests historical-based games as a way to avoid exposing children to religious issues. Questions about maturity requirements aside, he apparently never heard of Egyptian or Norse mythology.
The author uses images of D&D books as illustrations for discussion of evil (Book of Vile Darkness) and religion (Dieties and Demigods).
Apparently, he never read Dieties and Demigods, because it's a fascinating source of information for Greek, Norse and Egyptian mythology. I'm not saying it's a definitive source, but it's certainly capable of spurring someone into doing their own research. The stat blocks for the *ahem* dieties and demigods in the book read like essays on the subject, if you're paying attention.
I know he said he only has control over the DHCP server, but...
Get ahold of the guy in charge of the firewall between the campus network and the Internet.
iptables has an IRC module for conntrack. Maybe he can block the IRC protocol? From my understanding, that's how botnets get their instructions, anyway. Eliminate their instruction source, and there's little chance of them "going off."
Alternatively, set up rate limiting for outgoing pings. If the global traffic rate rises above, say, 1000/sec, drop the packet. That won't piss off the Mirc users and OSS developers on the network, anyway.
No kidding. I have a friend who took a plea bargain for something he didn't do, rather than risk being convicted for it.
There needs to be more stringent requirements for convictions. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is something too many juries ignore, for some types of cases. <sarcasm>Better to convict an innocent man than let a guilty one go free.</sarcasm>
Reminds me of the disgust I felt when I saw that most of the people in my Political Science class were in favor of relaxing the requirement that suspects know their Miranda rights.
Apples and oranges, IMO. In one case, you have people charging other people in order to practice their religion. In the other, you have an organization funding a church in return for using their property.
One activity impedes religious activity, the other aids it. So unless the tabernacles in Jesus's time were getting kickbacks from the merchants, and the people at the church are being forced to use that cell provider, you're talking about two completely different things.
(Granted, they'll get much better indoor reception with that provider at that church. But who needs to use a cell phone in a church?)
There are places in the Grand Rapids area where long roads end in quick, 90-degree turns, with a house on the corner. Most of these places have large rocks between the road and their house, in case someone falls asleep at the wheel.
So there were studies that linked the symptoms to the angle of incidence of the light?
I imagine other aspects of some VR implementations would cause problems, too. Like display pixelation, or the each eye's viewing surface being placed wrong.
That's not true at all. You're only crosseyed if your eyes are focusing on a close common point. If each eye is looking at a different screen, how close that point is is up to the software.
The whole point of 3D displays is to allow you to forget that your viewing surface is less than three feet away. If each screen held an identical image, and was aligned properly, then that image would appear to the user to be at an infinite distance.
The only part of your eye that's focusing on a near surface is are the muscles controlling the lens. If you want to test for strain there, try taking two identical wallet photos, taping or gluing them to a piece of paper at a center-to-center distance equal to that of your eyes, and put that close to your face. Then try aiming your eyes to converge at infinity.
Your lens is perfectly capable of focusing independently of the aim of your eyes; I do it all the time, and suffer no ill effects.
A tip for posting around here...if you're going to claim that something that isn't common knowledge has been proved, you'll need to cite your source, preferably with a hyperlink.
People are forgetting that Open Source doesn't just mean using OSS communications protocols and software.
It can also imply opening existing processes to a wider range of participation, which is what they're doing here. Letting people submit content to be broadcast in ways that are typically only available to licensed individuals and other people of higher status is an embracement of an "Open" philosophy.
As for the exact term, think of "source" as meaning "origin", not "source code."
Slashdot Mirror
(oh... who am I kidding i'm a nerd too...)
For that, may you be modded "Funny," then modded down. Extra karma loss.
I thought the movie was great. The satire of the medium itself was hilarious. Only Mel Brooks has ever done it better. That's not to say H2G2 is nothing but a flagrant satire on the medium; It's not. It had plot, character development, and unexpected twists.
Popular movies have evolved into a state where statements by an intelligent main character are obligatory. Having such a line interrupted, in the way that it was interrupted, was hilarious, and was a great shot at traditional moviemaking.
I only hope the subsequent movies are as good.
Love your last one. :) But you missed an important one. Under a good GM, participants learn to work as a team, period.
Picture a group of typical 12-year-olds playing gambling paladins and raucous fighters. Unless they're forced to, they're not going to work as a team to accomplish anything. Under a DM that pushes teamplay for the Big rewards, they get an incentive to do better in that respect.
Heck, I DM'd a D&D game where a 21-year-old player was only happy if he pulled off more stunts and accomplished more objectives than the rest of the player. He bitched whenever I made a mistake, complained whenever something he wanted to do would have required a called shot, and was a general nuisance.
Funny...I thought it was illegal use of a monopoly. A.K.A. "abusing" it.
I clicked on the link, thinking it might be a good read. And it is, but only from the perspective of someone who already knows something about it. The author stares at D&D, only making passing references to other genres, of tabletop RPGs. He alludes to cartoon, superhero and historic genres, but provides no links.
He also suggests historical-based games as a way to avoid exposing children to religious issues. Questions about maturity requirements aside, he apparently never heard of Egyptian or Norse mythology.
The author uses images of D&D books as illustrations for discussion of evil (Book of Vile Darkness) and religion (Dieties and Demigods).
Apparently, he never read Dieties and Demigods, because it's a fascinating source of information for Greek, Norse and Egyptian mythology. I'm not saying it's a definitive source, but it's certainly capable of spurring someone into doing their own research. The stat blocks for the *ahem* dieties and demigods in the book read like essays on the subject, if you're paying attention.
If you're a developer, and you release a useful project under the GPL, chances are you'll get patches back that'll teach you a think or two.
Happened to me today, in fact.
I know he said he only has control over the DHCP server, but...
Get ahold of the guy in charge of the firewall between the campus network and the Internet.
iptables has an IRC module for conntrack. Maybe he can block the IRC protocol? From my understanding, that's how botnets get their instructions, anyway. Eliminate their instruction source, and there's little chance of them "going off."
Alternatively, set up rate limiting for outgoing pings. If the global traffic rate rises above, say, 1000/sec, drop the packet. That won't piss off the Mirc users and OSS developers on the network, anyway.
No kidding. I have a friend who took a plea bargain for something he didn't do, rather than risk being convicted for it.
There needs to be more stringent requirements for convictions. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is something too many juries ignore, for some types of cases. <sarcasm>Better to convict an innocent man than let a guilty one go free.</sarcasm>
Reminds me of the disgust I felt when I saw that most of the people in my Political Science class were in favor of relaxing the requirement that suspects know their Miranda rights.
Apples and oranges, IMO. In one case, you have people charging other people in order to practice their religion. In the other, you have an organization funding a church in return for using their property.
One activity impedes religious activity, the other aids it. So unless the tabernacles in Jesus's time were getting kickbacks from the merchants, and the people at the church are being forced to use that cell provider, you're talking about two completely different things.
(Granted, they'll get much better indoor reception with that provider at that church. But who needs to use a cell phone in a church?)
There are places in the Grand Rapids area where long roads end in quick, 90-degree turns, with a house on the corner. Most of these places have large rocks between the road and their house, in case someone falls asleep at the wheel.
But...but...doesn't a tree grow in Brooklyn?
I hope for karmic retribution for these people.
I'd mod them down for you, but most of them don't use Slashdot.
So there were studies that linked the symptoms to the angle of incidence of the light?
I imagine other aspects of some VR implementations would cause problems, too. Like display pixelation, or the each eye's viewing surface being placed wrong.
I'd love to read further on the subject, though.
...until it's canceled for "administrative reasons."
An informative read...your link-including comment ought to be modded up, so more people read it.
However, you missed the tone of the essay. And that would be, "VR is okay, as long as safety is addressed."
They haven't used steel for standard wiring in over a hundred years! Why do you call it "ironic," then?
The mere fact that the question has been raised means someone cares.
Sorry...
Mod parent UP.
That's not true at all. You're only crosseyed if your eyes are focusing on a close common point. If each eye is looking at a different screen, how close that point is is up to the software.
The whole point of 3D displays is to allow you to forget that your viewing surface is less than three feet away. If each screen held an identical image, and was aligned properly, then that image would appear to the user to be at an infinite distance.
The only part of your eye that's focusing on a near surface is are the muscles controlling the lens. If you want to test for strain there, try taking two identical wallet photos, taping or gluing them to a piece of paper at a center-to-center distance equal to that of your eyes, and put that close to your face. Then try aiming your eyes to converge at infinity.
Your lens is perfectly capable of focusing independently of the aim of your eyes; I do it all the time, and suffer no ill effects.
A tip for posting around here...if you're going to claim that something that isn't common knowledge has been proved, you'll need to cite your source, preferably with a hyperlink.
Otherwise, nobody's likely to take you seriously.
Israelis are using virtual reality to treat suicide bombing victims.
I thought there was a Slashdot article on this a while back, but I couldn't find the link.
FYI, that's called a race condition. I never heard of that as applying to this issue, though. Interesting.
Uh uh. I've seen it under Linux, too. In fact, I'm looking at it right now.
...if boolean transparency data structures contributed to their not using anti-aliased fonts.
People are forgetting that Open Source doesn't just mean using OSS communications protocols and software.
It can also imply opening existing processes to a wider range of participation, which is what they're doing here. Letting people submit content to be broadcast in ways that are typically only available to licensed individuals and other people of higher status is an embracement of an "Open" philosophy.
As for the exact term, think of "source" as meaning "origin", not "source code."