None of us are able to live alone, work alone, think alone.
Did you come up with this because of your own ability to do so? Because except for reproduction, we can easily survive our whole life alone. Sure it will be boring. But it works.
The idea that computers can become intelligent independently and in parallel with this real global AI is insane, and it has always been.
Says who? You, because you need it to base your arguments on it? ^^ You will see it happening in your lifetime. Wait for it.
The best thing is, that eating fat, and being fat, are two completely different things.
All energy gets transformed into sugar anyway. But it depends on how fast it enters the blood stream. If it enters too fast, the cells can't use it, and the body has to remove it from the stream, because it damages the blood vessels. It removes it, by transforming it into body fat. If not, you got diabetes, and can die from it.
And what enters the blood steam how fast? Short carbohydrates are the number one here. Because they basically already are sugars. So next to no processing has to occur. Fat on the other hand, has a very high energy density. But it also is slower to process. Which makes it risky to eat more than you actually need, because you are trying to fill your stomach. But in the presence of both, the pure sugar is way worse. Especially, because usually, to process the sugar in your body, you need B vitamins. Which whole grains bring with them. While sugar does not. So your body has to take it away from other processes. Like some in your brain, etc. Creating an imbalance and faulty processes. What this results in, should be clear. Of course, saturated fats are worse than unsaturated ones. (But beware that the saturatedness is pretty much equal to its liquidity. Which makes it clear that margarine is artificially saturated, and then filled with some unsaturated fats, to make it not just as bad. This creates trans-fats which are even worse. So real butter in fact is way more healthy here.)
Because of that thing with energy density, it is also not the only factor, how much you eat. That is why you can eat food with a low glycemic load all day long, stuffing you to the ears with it, and still not get fat.
Isn't that great? You can eat tons of food. You can even eat fat (in moderation). And it still does not make you fat!
The only problem: We do not have that much recipes for food that tastes well to us, and contains that kind of food. This is because we are used to, and are even a bit addicted to that bad food. We expect that taste, and do not like other tastes that much. But if you go trough it, you will become used to it, and it will taste just as good. This is simple psychology.
Of course, this lets us get to the bottom of the problem: Why do we not eat that well, when we know exactly how to do it? Simple: Because eating disorders are a psychological problem. No nutritional education in the world is going to fix that. We have to find the cause of that what blocks us from just going trough it, and eating better.
Is at that the food was designed for maximum addictiveness? That we just are sad because our life is not that great (prehaps even with the feedback loop of being fat now, and the bad food changing out mood for the worse)?
I don't know, but at least this is a start.:) Because we have to face this taboo: Eating healthy has to be fun. It has to taste good. We have to like it. Not because we have to, but because we really like it! As long as this is ignored, the problem won't ever go away!
- Tons of CO released into the athmosphere. - People learning *nothing*. - Sugar and other too short carbohydrates without any other vital substances still being the no. 1 unhealthy stuff. - Very likely other bad side-effects of the bacteria genes.
And all so we all can eat tons of fat.
Wow, what a... uum... great... deal!
I know something better to make people "exhale" the saturated fat* *and* the sugar: Make them vomit vigorously, as soon as an overdose of saturated fats and short carbohydrates enters their body, without the vital substances and fibers to cope with it. Or even better, add detector cells to the tongue.
And then watch their eating habits change all by themselves.:)
___ * Because fat all by itself is a good thing. You just should not eat a whole pound of it. ^^
As we know, realism is what you use, to show the world on the outside of our minds. But humor happens on the inside. The side that is usually described trough abstract things.
So what we need, are more abstract games. Which A am saying for a long time. Look at how successful Kongregate.com is. (Called the YouTube of Flash games.) Many if not most of their games are pretty abstract. Which forces developers, to come up with a good basic gameplay mechanic. You can't just hide your incompetence and lack of humor with pretty graphics and realistic worlds. Because Flash is too slow to allow it.
Of course, a good game also has beautiful aesthetics, a good story, and innovative technology. Additionally to the best mechanics. Then even great humor is no problem at all.
In my opinion, the best place for such games, is the Wii. Because of the added controller technology. And because it also is a bit weak on the graphics side. I bet a game with a crazy but self-confident humor like the Monty Python's one, combined with a specific artistic style that does not require big graphics, and a good set of mechanics behind it, would sell like crazy. Add a story to it that drags people with it, and you got your place in history books, reviving the whole genre of funny games.
In my opinion, there are no excuses. There is just the laziness of adding the newest graphics to sequel 5000 of a series or very similar games, and expecting to get a good game out of it.:)
As far as I know, downloading always was legal. What was illegal, was uploading, when you did not have a license to do so.
The reason downloading is not illegal, is the same reason it is not illegal to buy stuff from somebody, when later, you read in the paper that the guy you bought it from had obtained it illegally. (Note that I'm avoiding the word "stolen" here, because stealing implies that the original owner does not have it anymore.)
The person that in these cases gets prosecuted, is the seller. You just show the cops your contract, with the address of the seller on it, and you're good. Of course you have to give the object back to the person it got stolen for. But you can sue the seller for the money.
At least in Germany.
I know this, because it happened to a friend of mine.
Of course, because the **AA do not care about any authors or rights, and their objective is not to protect anyone, but to make money trough mafia-like tactics, they do not care, and spread FUD all over the media, about downloading being illegal etc. Which the media picks up happily, bundling it into a nice sensationalist news.
So what changed exactly? Did the **AA equivalent of Spain run out of money? Because that would finally be nice news.:)
Hmm, considering the areas that the hurricanes move over, I agree that it is an event that we actually may want to occur. ^^
When I see satellite films of a moving hurricane, I always sit there, trying to shove the hurricane on my screen in the right direction. Like "*Just* a *liiittle* bit more to the left. Come on! Please!"
And he will laugh maniacally, when the change in nature's cycles creates huge storms that wipe out entire Europe and half of Africa.
Seriously, why do people still not understand, that everything in nature is a system of sensitive balanced cycles, and when you change things, you have to make a new working cycle or at least balance it all out again, to not create a catastrophe in the long term? Maybe because they still can. And because when it happens, they are long dead, or it does not affect them.
Well I bet his method will be just as elegant and as well-integrating as Windows.:P
Well, it's that stuff without business logic. Basically a GUI interface to a database, that you could have generated out of the SQL with a script. (I have created something like this myself as it's really simple.)
Why would you do this crazy madness, when you could just use Haskell, which was designed from ground up with all those cool concepts that now get glued left and right to every second language? You know, it has a.NET implementation too, including all the APIs.
Will it run in the browser, without any plugins? And if yes, does it support Chrome OS or the Emacs browser? Or do I have to start a virtual machine, that in written in JavaScript?
"Productive" in the meaning of being a well-drilled slave that works hard for others, and asks for next to nothing in return?
Or "productive" as in "Makes his own dreams become reality."?
I doubt that boot camp is anything but dream and freedom crushing. It's closer to what used to stand above the entry of KZs: "Arbeit macht frei!" Go ahead and translate it.
An enhancement is, to alwads add vowels of the original words in between consonants that are hard to spell, Wgasa, for example, would be more easy spelled, if it would have been called Wogasa or Whogasa.
The composer Brahms responded to a review of his latest symphony: "Dear sir: I am seated in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me, and very soon it will be behind me."
You forgot mechanics. And that you have to separate graphics into technology and aesthetics. They all four have to balance each other out, be fully integrated, and support each other. With that one main goal of the ultimate experience.
Story is not everything for games, like it is for movies and other passive media. Just as art is not everything.
Those things are just parts of the more general concept of the experience.
Unfortunately, those from the old media, who criticize games for an apparent lack of story, did not understand this.
that the only reason they focus on the optics, is that it is the only thing they got.
Try to keep an harmonic integrated balance of the four key elements, strengthening each other: - Aesthetics - Mechanics - Story - Technology
Do no prefer any single one of them. Let all of them support each other.
So logically, aesthetics should only exist, if there is a point to it. A point to the basic experience that you want to create.
And since abstract aesthetics show the world within, and realistic aesthetics show the world on the outside, sometimes, abstract graphics and simple shapes help the game more than any level of realism.
My fellow game designer, do whatever your heart tells you. Let the players feel the experience you can see in your head. How you do it does not matter. Even if you do it with basic black lines on a white background. And let others dive into it and follow you.
Then you will have a game that will truly be remembered.
Slashdot Mirror
and do nothing, when they can (like when it's a secret anyway),
then you know that they are not doing that recognition spectacle for you to be known, but for them to be known.
None of us are able to live alone, work alone, think alone.
Did you come up with this because of your own ability to do so?
Because except for reproduction, we can easily survive our whole life alone.
Sure it will be boring. But it works.
The idea that computers can become intelligent independently and in parallel with this real global AI is insane, and it has always been.
Says who? You, because you need it to base your arguments on it? ^^
You will see it happening in your lifetime. Wait for it.
How about an optical memristor?
Why focus on hopefully soon outdated technology. :)
Except if what I and many other people think is true: That the only difference between our spiking neural nets and Skynet is the processing power.
The best thing is, that eating fat, and being fat, are two completely different things.
All energy gets transformed into sugar anyway. But it depends on how fast it enters the blood stream.
If it enters too fast, the cells can't use it, and the body has to remove it from the stream, because it damages the blood vessels.
It removes it, by transforming it into body fat. If not, you got diabetes, and can die from it.
And what enters the blood steam how fast?
Short carbohydrates are the number one here. Because they basically already are sugars. So next to no processing has to occur.
Fat on the other hand, has a very high energy density. But it also is slower to process. Which makes it risky to eat more than you actually need, because you are trying to fill your stomach.
But in the presence of both, the pure sugar is way worse. Especially, because usually, to process the sugar in your body, you need B vitamins. Which whole grains bring with them. While sugar does not. So your body has to take it away from other processes. Like some in your brain, etc. Creating an imbalance and faulty processes. What this results in, should be clear.
Of course, saturated fats are worse than unsaturated ones. (But beware that the saturatedness is pretty much equal to its liquidity. Which makes it clear that margarine is artificially saturated, and then filled with some unsaturated fats, to make it not just as bad. This creates trans-fats which are even worse. So real butter in fact is way more healthy here.)
Because of that thing with energy density, it is also not the only factor, how much you eat. That is why you can eat food with a low glycemic load all day long, stuffing you to the ears with it, and still not get fat.
Isn't that great? You can eat tons of food. You can even eat fat (in moderation). And it still does not make you fat!
The only problem: We do not have that much recipes for food that tastes well to us, and contains that kind of food.
This is because we are used to, and are even a bit addicted to that bad food. We expect that taste, and do not like other tastes that much. But if you go trough it, you will become used to it, and it will taste just as good. This is simple psychology.
Of course, this lets us get to the bottom of the problem: Why do we not eat that well, when we know exactly how to do it?
Simple: Because eating disorders are a psychological problem. No nutritional education in the world is going to fix that.
We have to find the cause of that what blocks us from just going trough it, and eating better.
Is at that the food was designed for maximum addictiveness?
That we just are sad because our life is not that great (prehaps even with the feedback loop of being fat now, and the bad food changing out mood for the worse)?
I don't know, but at least this is a start. :)
Because we have to face this taboo: Eating healthy has to be fun. It has to taste good. We have to like it. Not because we have to, but because we really like it!
As long as this is ignored, the problem won't ever go away!
- Tons of CO released into the athmosphere.
- People learning *nothing*.
- Sugar and other too short carbohydrates without any other vital substances still being the no. 1 unhealthy stuff.
- Very likely other bad side-effects of the bacteria genes.
And all so we all can eat tons of fat.
Wow, what a... uum... great... deal!
I know something better to make people "exhale" the saturated fat* *and* the sugar:
Make them vomit vigorously, as soon as an overdose of saturated fats and short carbohydrates enters their body, without the vital substances and fibers to cope with it.
Or even better, add detector cells to the tongue.
And then watch their eating habits change all by themselves. :)
___
* Because fat all by itself is a good thing. You just should not eat a whole pound of it. ^^
As we know, realism is what you use, to show the world on the outside of our minds.
But humor happens on the inside. The side that is usually described trough abstract things.
So what we need, are more abstract games. Which A am saying for a long time.
Look at how successful Kongregate.com is. (Called the YouTube of Flash games.)
Many if not most of their games are pretty abstract. Which forces developers, to come up with a good basic gameplay mechanic. You can't just hide your incompetence and lack of humor with pretty graphics and realistic worlds. Because Flash is too slow to allow it.
Of course, a good game also has beautiful aesthetics, a good story, and innovative technology. Additionally to the best mechanics.
Then even great humor is no problem at all.
In my opinion, the best place for such games, is the Wii. Because of the added controller technology. And because it also is a bit weak on the graphics side.
I bet a game with a crazy but self-confident humor like the Monty Python's one, combined with a specific artistic style that does not require big graphics, and a good set of mechanics behind it, would sell like crazy. Add a story to it that drags people with it, and you got your place in history books, reviving the whole genre of funny games.
In my opinion, there are no excuses. There is just the laziness of adding the newest graphics to sequel 5000 of a series or very similar games, and expecting to get a good game out of it. :)
and Russian cracker ring sites very soon. :)
If not already. Wait, I'll go look. I could use some money! I like money! Maybe I could buy a latte with it. With extra cream! Cuz I like sex too!
Also wrong. Earth collided with him.
What was he doing on earth's extra-wide lane anyway?
Searching for is mom?
*ducks* (Too early? Ok. Bad hurricane78*! *slap*)
[* By the way: How do I rename myself. I could not find anything, and I do not like that name anymore. While I like to keep my ID.]
As far as I know, downloading always was legal.
What was illegal, was uploading, when you did not have a license to do so.
The reason downloading is not illegal, is the same reason it is not illegal to buy stuff from somebody, when later, you read in the paper that the guy you bought it from had obtained it illegally. (Note that I'm avoiding the word "stolen" here, because stealing implies that the original owner does not have it anymore.)
The person that in these cases gets prosecuted, is the seller. You just show the cops your contract, with the address of the seller on it, and you're good. Of course you have to give the object back to the person it got stolen for. But you can sue the seller for the money.
At least in Germany.
I know this, because it happened to a friend of mine.
Of course, because the **AA do not care about any authors or rights, and their objective is not to protect anyone, but to make money trough mafia-like tactics, they do not care, and spread FUD all over the media, about downloading being illegal etc. Which the media picks up happily, bundling it into a nice sensationalist news.
So what changed exactly? Did the **AA equivalent of Spain run out of money? Because that would finally be nice news. :)
Hmm, considering the areas that the hurricanes move over, I agree that it is an event that we actually may want to occur. ^^
When I see satellite films of a moving hurricane, I always sit there, trying to shove the hurricane on my screen in the right direction.
Like "*Just* a *liiittle* bit more to the left. Come on! Please!"
And he will laugh maniacally, when the change in nature's cycles creates huge storms that wipe out entire Europe and half of Africa.
Seriously, why do people still not understand, that everything in nature is a system of sensitive balanced cycles, and when you change things, you have to make a new working cycle or at least balance it all out again, to not create a catastrophe in the long term?
Maybe because they still can. And because when it happens, they are long dead, or it does not affect them.
Well I bet his method will be just as elegant and as well-integrating as Windows. :P
Well, it's that stuff without business logic. Basically a GUI interface to a database, that you could have generated out of the SQL with a script. (I have created something like this myself as it's really simple.)
Why would you do this crazy madness, when you could just use Haskell, which was designed from ground up with all those cool concepts that now get glued left and right to every second language? .NET implementation too, including all the APIs.
You know, it has a
Well, I have an easy answer: They both are crap and can't hold a candle to Haskell. In code beauty, elegance, efficiency, and speed.
Will it run in the browser, without any plugins? And if yes, does it support Chrome OS or the Emacs browser? Or do I have to start a virtual machine, that in written in JavaScript?
"Productive" in the meaning of being a well-drilled slave that works hard for others, and asks for next to nothing in return?
Or "productive" as in "Makes his own dreams become reality."?
I doubt that boot camp is anything but dream and freedom crushing.
It's closer to what used to stand above the entry of KZs: "Arbeit macht frei!"
Go ahead and translate it.
Depending on whose economy you are talking about.
Two words: Glass pearls.
I was to a Mexican restaurant yesterday. So by your definition I can call myself "Orion" now?
Yay!
An enhancement is, to alwads add vowels of the original words in between consonants that are hard to spell,
Wgasa, for example, would be more easy spelled, if it would have been called Wogasa or Whogasa.
The composer Brahms responded to a review of his latest symphony: "Dear sir: I am seated in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me, and very soon it will be behind me."
Which was recently posted on /. :)
Maybe you spent too much time, moving your units "around" the north and south pole.
Or your 500 sq. mile "cities" were too big, and you could not build enough onto that small map?
You forgot mechanics. And that you have to separate graphics into technology and aesthetics. They all four have to balance each other out, be fully integrated, and support each other. With that one main goal of the ultimate experience.
Story is not everything for games, like it is for movies and other passive media.
Just as art is not everything.
Those things are just parts of the more general concept of the experience.
Unfortunately, those from the old media, who criticize games for an apparent lack of story, did not understand this.
that the only reason they focus on the optics, is that it is the only thing they got.
Try to keep an harmonic integrated balance of the four key elements, strengthening each other:
- Aesthetics
- Mechanics
- Story
- Technology
Do no prefer any single one of them. Let all of them support each other.
So logically, aesthetics should only exist, if there is a point to it. A point to the basic experience that you want to create.
And since abstract aesthetics show the world within, and realistic aesthetics show the world on the outside, sometimes, abstract graphics and simple shapes help the game more than any level of realism.
My fellow game designer, do whatever your heart tells you. Let the players feel the experience you can see in your head. How you do it does not matter. Even if you do it with basic black lines on a white background. And let others dive into it and follow you.
Then you will have a game that will truly be remembered.
Badly, now that those banks collapse. ^^