The wavelength is completely irrelevant for the question if it is a laser. A laser does not have to be in the optical or IR range. A laser is defined as a spatially coherent, narrow, low-divergence beam of electromagnetic waves. (If it’s matter, it’s a maser. There can also be others.)
So a spatially coherent, narrow, low-divergence beam of microwaves, is indeed a laser.
There is no actual difference between story telling and gameplay. In that they are both experiences with the exact same structure (This one). Else it would not be fun.
Only that one is formed by defining generalized laws that allow movement inside the fun area, while the other is pre-scripted to the mindset of the writer.
The whole discussion about games “lacking stories” is pointless. Games are a generalization of pretty much everything we do for fun. Films, stories, art, sports, interesting contraptions, toys, learning... they are are subsets and aspects of what a game is. So instead, it’s more correct to say, that stories lack freedom. And actually there is a free gradient between the two.
Also there is no big need to describe gameplay. As it’s actually always coming down to being the exact same thing. As in all stories too. That pattern is well known. Since the mechanics must work in that certain way, to be a game (or story) and to be fun.
There is a character called “PDF” which ends all directional formatting. Put those around the comment, and you’re good. Alternatively: Special formatting characters are nicely separated into their own blocks. Disable those, and you’re done. I bet your language already has a library that handles it all and is proven over a long time.
Also, is it really a whitelist, if it does not allow more than ANSI plus maybe a five characters? I don’t think so.
I think I’ll just update my advanced/. xhtml editor, so it encodes things, to get past the limitation.
I am stunned by the deep and proper reasoning, that went into your comment. Such wonderfully general paradigms, and oh what a elegant chain of reasoning. I’ve never seen a collection of high-quality references with such a great density. I am hugely impressed, and would like to be thaught at your school of logic. Which no doubt is one of the best in the world.
Ad hominem. (Ad hominem.) Statement based on a perfect world fantasy with no accompanying arguments that follow from common paradigms. Statement waiting for arguments to back it up. Argument as backup to the previous statement, but itself not backed up by anything.
Your comment holds no arguments that follow from any common paradigms, and hence is not more that a meaningless bag of words. Try again. I recommend starting out with commonly accepted paradigms and building a proper chain to your final argument from there. But don’t try this on me, as I will notice: http://xkcd.com/759/;)
I don’t believe you, as I can’t remember any time span between the Euro being introduced and it being typable. I remember a quick patch pushed trough Windows update, and another patch for Linux, and it was done. I specifically remember that I never faced the problem of being unable to enter it.
Except on Slashdot of course. But it’s a surprise that Slashdot doesn’t still use Baudot or Murray encoding. I bet internally, it still runs on a special ternary hacked variant of the morse code.;)
It boggles my mind how you can even dream of dreaming of thinking you could maybe possibly shortly perhaps assume that any life form, be it moss or even bacterial slurry, could by any chance ever be confused about if this is the actual BP TwittBLARGHerBLARRRGH feed.;)
Wow. You did manage the single two things left. ^^
How about the shortcut to: - lock the system - search a file - run something - browse the file system - show the desktop - switch between the task bar, the desktop and your application - print just the window - all the Alt-something shortcuts for the menus - close a document - close a application - etc they all exist. They all make work faster. How many do you think the average user knows? Hm? One?
And how about - the directory structure of the file system browser resembling the actual structure. - file extensions being visible. - system directories being available. - system files being visible. - the ability to run scripts to actually use your computer as a computer (= to automate things) instead of like an appliance with colorful clickables. - the actual start menu not being hidden away under “Programs>”. - every administrative functionality in Windows not being “simplified” in a mind-boggingly idiotic and chaotic set of stupid dialogs. - etc.
That’s just what I came up from the top of my head. And as you may notice, sadly, KDE/Gnome are so extremely the same, that nearly all is true for them too. And hey, OSX actually presents this “simplicity” (actually lack of freedom) as a bullet point in the feature list.
And then they act surprised, if nature invents better idiots to cope with the downwards spiral of idiocy (aka “simplicity’). ^^ As always: Greed = submissive to the users = no long term sustainability = EPIC FAIL.
No. It is “back to zero” news. You know. Kow (-10000)+5000 still is only -5000.
Great news would be, if they not only reversed the whole catastrophe, but additonally also did manage to make the world better because of the whole thing.
One? But one that counts for a 1000 years of EPIC FAIL fuck up.
It’s like saying: But we threw just ONE little Zar bomb on your most populated area! Or: We destroyed just ooone little planet, and you’re all whiney! Boo-hooo!;)
Wrong. Well, partially. The main reason it is/was so cheap for the USA, was that the US were such a big client, that they could tell the sheiks: Either you sell below what it’s worth, or we will not buy from you anymore. But then China came, and said: Jolly good! Then we’ll buy it!:D (you know, they always smile;) And the USA thought: Well fuck you! We’ll have our own oil source! With black jack! And hookers! That’s why all the drilling and calls for “independence” started. (Well, if you did see that segment from the Daily Show: Not really “started”. Since every president since the 60s already did promise that independence.)
I know that at least one trollerator will now go: “Hey, you got nothing to back that up, and you’re just insulting my beloved USA! USA! USA!” But really, I’m not. So it’s not very nice to assume I’m a dick. And really, I know this, because of an interview (also Daily Show) with someone who studied the whole stuff. It’s more his words than mine. I bet you’ve even seen the interview.:)
I thought they would barely manage to point and click, and the keyboard were a mistery to them, just like the whole UI is designed to train them to behave... I doubt more than 5% of the (l)users actually know what a shortcut is, considering how they are intentionally hidden away as deep as possible, or even completely removed. (I’m not hating Windows specifically. “modern” [aka. “dumbed down beyond being usable”] KDE/Gnome and OSX UIs often are not much better nowadays.:/ But there are some competent UI designers out there. E.g. the Maya ones.:))
Sorry for the layout catastrophe. Apparently Slashdot FAILs at <ul>s inside <li>s inside <ul>s, which is should accept, according to HTML (any version).
I have a bold statement for you: The evil one here is the Mozilla team. For removing that thing. It is obvious that this this was just natural selection at work. Hurting everyone who is so dumb that he can’t really be called a human anymore. Just like the lion kills the zebra that fails at being a zebra by being slow and dumb as hell.;) Meanwhile keeping the whole herd healthy.
We humans are zebras without lions. We constantly remove all lion-like things from our lives. And then we complain that the Idiocracy is coming. Damn, we bring this on ourselves!
I liked that quote from bash.org: “Why don’t we just pull the warning labels off of everything, and let the problem solve itself?”
Because there is a level where you’re not doing humanity any good anymore with that overprotective behavior. Instead you’re making it worse for us all. If you think that you can expect a normal healthy human, to avoid an add-on called “Mozilla Sniffer”, then do expect that. Which results in there being no need to remove the thing.
If you ever were in the Saint Louis City Museum, you know what I mean. Life is simply better without 10 miles of protective padding for everyone.:)
An add-on called "Mozilla Sniffer" was uploaded on June 6th to addons.mozilla.org.
That’s like uploading a add-on called “Windows Virus”. Who the hell would install that? I mean even Joe DontKnowShit would think twice before installing something that reminds him of a TLA agent or spy trying to get a look at his privates.
I learned a extremely important lesson some years ago, that might be just as important to you:
Does a company have the right to...
In one sentence: If you ask, you’re already asking for trouble.:) Becauso: Of course, if you allow them to decide that, they will rule in their favor. Makes sense. It’s natural. So why do we ask in the first place? Well, I think most of us are trained into not having a own system of right and wrong, but to always let others decide. (Guess who trained us that way in the first place? ^^)
So the solution is of course, to stop being passive, and stop letting others dominate your reality. What do you think? Remember that laws are made by those who know what they think, and fight for it. We call them leaders, and we complain a lot about them. But somehow we never come up with the idea, of ourselves being the leaders.
What you think (after removing the distortion filters of social conditioning that we all have), is the most important thing to your whole existance. Don’t throw it away.:) So decide. And then so be it. Because you know you are right. (If you don’t, find out what’s the actual reality. It’s fun. Like research with quick results.)
I, for example, entierly stopped asking others about rights and wrongs. I look at it myself, knowing that as a healthy human being I am more than able of deciding this, and then simpy decide. Based on MY rules.
A funny side-effect I noticed, is that people will automatically start to follow you, if you have a strong sense of reality and are confident. Now I don’t really want to tell other people what to do, but have them decide for themselves. But still, it was pretty cool, as it was the first time in my life, this happened just like this. I recommend trying it.
one of those mad schemes of the first decade of the 21st Century, alongside subprime mortgages, leveraged investment vehicles and so on.
I have a few more:
representatives leading something
democracy trough a administration (made from humans)
communism trough a interim government (made from humans)
government protection for diseases, instead of healing them
“religion”
making a taboo out of everything relating sex and nudity
psycho mob organizations abusing people trough social engineering (churches)
sacrificing one’s like for the interests of others
calling nearly pure preparations (like sugar) “food”
calling processed-to-death (or worse: processed to a state where the body thinks it’s usable, but it’s really defective, like heated milk) stuff “food”
the concept of “interest [finan.]”
the idea that you could own something imaginary (like an idea).
I “read the book” (as they used to say), and that will only work if you put it on a rotating platter. Or just use a spoon.
Hmm, from what I know, this should actually work (using a spoon to make the fluid rotate in the mug in the field). But I doubt you can buy a 800W wireless transmitter in your normal electronics shop.;)
There isn’t. It’s just that some idiots would not have all those extreme stories without making it into “TeH FIGHTZ0RZ oF TeH CeNtUrIeZ!!!11!1one(lim (x->0) ((sin x)/x))”
I’m sorry, but that’s your own damn fault. The thing is, that modern JS has stopped assuming that its users are complete retards, because as you may know, this did not work out so well. So it leaves you the choice how the threading works, by just offering worker threads as a tool, and not enforcing them. (Even before that, there were always setTimeout and setInterval, which I used to simulate asynchronous network sockets over object tags in what, 2002?)
But if you don’t use them, of course the code will stall everything. Just like with a normal desktop application. Who would have thought...:)
Slashdot Mirror
The wavelength is completely irrelevant for the question if it is a laser. A laser does not have to be in the optical or IR range. A laser is defined as a spatially coherent, narrow, low-divergence beam of electromagnetic waves. (If it’s matter, it’s a maser. There can also be others.)
So a spatially coherent, narrow, low-divergence beam of microwaves, is indeed a laser.
There is no actual difference between story telling and gameplay. In that they are both experiences with the exact same structure (This one). Else it would not be fun.
Only that one is formed by defining generalized laws that allow movement inside the fun area, while the other is pre-scripted to the mindset of the writer.
The whole discussion about games “lacking stories” is pointless. Games are a generalization of pretty much everything we do for fun. Films, stories, art, sports, interesting contraptions, toys, learning... they are are subsets and aspects of what a game is.
So instead, it’s more correct to say, that stories lack freedom. And actually there is a free gradient between the two.
Also there is no big need to describe gameplay. As it’s actually always coming down to being the exact same thing. As in all stories too. That pattern is well known. Since the mechanics must work in that certain way, to be a game (or story) and to be fun.
First rule: If you can’t change it, and can’t protect yourself from it, there is no point in being alarmed.
As as previously said, that’s an epic fail.
There is a character called “PDF” which ends all directional formatting. Put those around the comment, and you’re good.
Alternatively: Special formatting characters are nicely separated into their own blocks. Disable those, and you’re done.
I bet your language already has a library that handles it all and is proven over a long time.
Also, is it really a whitelist, if it does not allow more than ANSI plus maybe a five characters? I don’t think so.
I think I’ll just update my advanced /. xhtml editor, so it encodes things, to get past the limitation.
I am stunned by the deep and proper reasoning, that went into your comment. Such wonderfully general paradigms, and oh what a elegant chain of reasoning. I’ve never seen a collection of high-quality references with such a great density.
I am hugely impressed, and would like to be thaught at your school of logic. Which no doubt is one of the best in the world.
Your sincerely and deeply humbled,
Hurricane78
Here’s a link to those who want to see how it looks: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20a8/index.htm
I hope they simply replace the glyph.
So let me summarize your comment:
Ad hominem. (Ad hominem.) Statement based on a perfect world fantasy with no accompanying arguments that follow from common paradigms. Statement waiting for arguments to back it up. Argument as backup to the previous statement, but itself not backed up by anything.
Your comment holds no arguments that follow from any common paradigms, and hence is not more that a meaningless bag of words. Try again. ;)
I recommend starting out with commonly accepted paradigms and building a proper chain to your final argument from there.
But don’t try this on me, as I will notice: http://xkcd.com/759/
I don’t believe you, as I can’t remember any time span between the Euro being introduced and it being typable. I remember a quick patch pushed trough Windows update, and another patch for Linux, and it was done.
I specifically remember that I never faced the problem of being unable to enter it.
Except on Slashdot of course. But it’s a surprise that Slashdot doesn’t still use Baudot or Murray encoding. I bet internally, it still runs on a special ternary hacked variant of the morse code. ;)
No shit?
It boggles my mind how you can even dream of dreaming of thinking you could maybe possibly shortly perhaps assume that any life form, be it moss or even bacterial slurry, could by any chance ever be confused about if this is the actual BP TwittBLARGHerBLARRRGH feed. ;)
Wow. You did manage the single two things left. ^^
How about the shortcut to:
- lock the system
- search a file
- run something
- browse the file system
- show the desktop
- switch between the task bar, the desktop and your application
- print just the window
- all the Alt-something shortcuts for the menus
- close a document
- close a application
- etc
they all exist. They all make work faster. How many do you think the average user knows? Hm? One?
And how about
- the directory structure of the file system browser resembling the actual structure.
- file extensions being visible.
- system directories being available.
- system files being visible.
- the ability to run scripts to actually use your computer as a computer (= to automate things) instead of like an appliance with colorful clickables.
- the actual start menu not being hidden away under “Programs>”.
- every administrative functionality in Windows not being “simplified” in a mind-boggingly idiotic and chaotic set of stupid dialogs.
- etc.
That’s just what I came up from the top of my head.
And as you may notice, sadly, KDE/Gnome are so extremely the same, that nearly all is true for them too. And hey, OSX actually presents this “simplicity” (actually lack of freedom) as a bullet point in the feature list.
And then they act surprised, if nature invents better idiots to cope with the downwards spiral of idiocy (aka “simplicity’). ^^
As always: Greed = submissive to the users = no long term sustainability = EPIC FAIL.
No. It is “back to zero” news. You know. Kow (-10000)+5000 still is only -5000.
Great news would be, if they not only reversed the whole catastrophe, but additonally also did manage to make the world better because of the whole thing.
One? But one that counts for a 1000 years of EPIC FAIL fuck up.
It’s like saying: But we threw just ONE little Zar bomb on your most populated area! ;)
Or: We destroyed just ooone little planet, and you’re all whiney! Boo-hooo!
Wrong. Well, partially. The main reason it is/was so cheap for the USA, was that the US were such a big client, that they could tell the sheiks: Either you sell below what it’s worth, or we will not buy from you anymore. :D (you know, they always smile ;)
But then China came, and said: Jolly good! Then we’ll buy it!
And the USA thought: Well fuck you! We’ll have our own oil source! With black jack! And hookers!
That’s why all the drilling and calls for “independence” started. (Well, if you did see that segment from the Daily Show: Not really “started”. Since every president since the 60s already did promise that independence.)
I know that at least one trollerator will now go: “Hey, you got nothing to back that up, and you’re just insulting my beloved USA! USA! USA!” But really, I’m not. So it’s not very nice to assume I’m a dick. :)
And really, I know this, because of an interview (also Daily Show) with someone who studied the whole stuff. It’s more his words than mine. I bet you’ve even seen the interview.
Silly you. Ever heard of time-shift? ;)
That’s how it looked before they fucked up.
Now you have to watch for weeks, to find the glitch where it repeats. Muhahahaaa! *strokes white cat with iron glove*
Would I be a dick for wearing a two-face mask with one half being a Pedobear mask and the other one being a Chris Hansen one*? :D
__
* I assume it’s the same “person” anyway. ^^
I thought they would barely manage to point and click, and the keyboard were a mistery to them, just like the whole UI is designed to train them to behave... :/ But there are some competent UI designers out there. E.g. the Maya ones. :))
I doubt more than 5% of the (l)users actually know what a shortcut is, considering how they are intentionally hidden away as deep as possible, or even completely removed.
(I’m not hating Windows specifically. “modern” [aka. “dumbed down beyond being usable”] KDE/Gnome and OSX UIs often are not much better nowadays.
Sorry for the layout catastrophe. Apparently Slashdot FAILs at <ul>s inside <li>s inside <ul>s, which is should accept, according to HTML (any version).
I have a bold statement for you: ;)
The evil one here is the Mozilla team. For removing that thing.
It is obvious that this this was just natural selection at work. Hurting everyone who is so dumb that he can’t really be called a human anymore.
Just like the lion kills the zebra that fails at being a zebra by being slow and dumb as hell.
Meanwhile keeping the whole herd healthy.
We humans are zebras without lions. We constantly remove all lion-like things from our lives.
And then we complain that the Idiocracy is coming.
Damn, we bring this on ourselves!
I liked that quote from bash.org:
“Why don’t we just pull the warning labels off of everything, and let the problem solve itself?”
Because there is a level where you’re not doing humanity any good anymore with that overprotective behavior. Instead you’re making it worse for us all.
If you think that you can expect a normal healthy human, to avoid an add-on called “Mozilla Sniffer”, then do expect that. Which results in there being no need to remove the thing.
If you ever were in the Saint Louis City Museum, you know what I mean. Life is simply better without 10 miles of protective padding for everyone. :)
An add-on called "Mozilla Sniffer" was uploaded on June 6th to addons.mozilla.org.
That’s like uploading a add-on called “Windows Virus”. Who the hell would install that?
I mean even Joe DontKnowShit would think twice before installing something that reminds him of a TLA agent or spy trying to get a look at his privates.
I learned a extremely important lesson some years ago, that might be just as important to you:
Does a company have the right to ...
In one sentence: If you ask, you’re already asking for trouble. :)
Becauso: Of course, if you allow them to decide that, they will rule in their favor. Makes sense. It’s natural.
So why do we ask in the first place?
Well, I think most of us are trained into not having a own system of right and wrong, but to always let others decide. (Guess who trained us that way in the first place? ^^)
So the solution is of course, to stop being passive, and stop letting others dominate your reality.
What do you think? Remember that laws are made by those who know what they think, and fight for it. We call them leaders, and we complain a lot about them. But somehow we never come up with the idea, of ourselves being the leaders.
What you think (after removing the distortion filters of social conditioning that we all have), is the most important thing to your whole existance. Don’t throw it away. :)
So decide. And then so be it. Because you know you are right. (If you don’t, find out what’s the actual reality. It’s fun. Like research with quick results.)
I, for example, entierly stopped asking others about rights and wrongs. I look at it myself, knowing that as a healthy human being I am more than able of deciding this, and then simpy decide. Based on MY rules.
A funny side-effect I noticed, is that people will automatically start to follow you, if you have a strong sense of reality and are confident. Now I don’t really want to tell other people what to do, but have them decide for themselves. But still, it was pretty cool, as it was the first time in my life, this happened just like this. I recommend trying it.
one of those mad schemes of the first decade of the 21st Century, alongside subprime mortgages, leveraged investment vehicles and so on.
I have a few more:
I “read the book” (as they used to say), and that will only work if you put it on a rotating platter. Or just use a spoon.
Hmm, from what I know, this should actually work (using a spoon to make the fluid rotate in the mug in the field). But I doubt you can buy a 800W wireless transmitter in your normal electronics shop. ;)
There isn’t. It’s just that some idiots would not have all those extreme stories without making it into “TeH FIGHTZ0RZ oF TeH CeNtUrIeZ!!!11!1one(lim (x->0) ((sin x)/x))”
I’m sorry, but that’s your own damn fault.
The thing is, that modern JS has stopped assuming that its users are complete retards, because as you may know, this did not work out so well.
So it leaves you the choice how the threading works, by just offering worker threads as a tool, and not enforcing them.
(Even before that, there were always setTimeout and setInterval, which I used to simulate asynchronous network sockets over object tags in what, 2002?)
But if you don’t use them, of course the code will stall everything. Just like with a normal desktop application. Who would have thought... :)
Well, after the balls were gone, the pitch was way above the human hearing limit anyway. ;)