Nonlinear storylines are an extremely old hat. The problem you get is always, that the more freedom you give the user, the less it remains to be a story.
You see, a story has several rules, like a normal state, then a depression, then the buildup, and the climax. Between those steps, the change is amplitude-modulated with smaller factors in a fractal-like way. At least in theory.:) Most people do not realize, that if you remove this quite fixed rules, the story stops being interesting.
Then, there is the concept of the "game" in itself. Tetris is such a pure game. Many Minigames/Flashgames are too. The only linearity there is the difficulty buildup, to generate motivation. It's fun, sure, but there's no story. And when you do something like that with a game of the class of Halflife, it feels strange.
Now what the GP wants, is that those stories are created after those basic "good story" and "good game" rules, in a huge algorithm. I think this would be possible, but it would be very very very hard, next to a complete brain-fuck. I haven't played Far Cry 2 yet, but if it's like a "Far Cry extreme", than you still got a tiny bit of storyline, but Far Cry was far from great in terms of game theory and the storyline is - as usual in games - a joke. Spore on the other hand seems to have done it's job in game theory very well, but has no story at all (right?). So there's no need for a storyline-algorithm.
Oh, and I'd love to create that algorithm. Although you would not get very far without neural nets.
If you mean the "outside of our universe" versions... Right... partially. Depending on the structure of the universe, it's nearly impossible to say, that something can *never ever* be proven. "Never" is from the beginning until the end of time, independent of your position and state of existence. If that were so, then you should be able to prove your argument.:)
ID, the idea of a God, and "outside of our world/universe/time range" theories all try to adress the really annoying problem of "what was the cause of everything" trough ignorance. This is because you can always ask "And who created God?" or "What's outside of the multiverse?"
I think that maybe, we just ask an absurdly wrong question, because our brain can't be wrapped around a concept that makes sense in our current view of reality.
That problem and everything following from it, inclusive religious explanations for those that don't need a more advanced reality dissonance, will continue to exist, until we get to a point where we solve this.
You know who's behind W3C, do you? It's a committee of companies. And Microsoft is one of the big fishes in there. (Primarily responsible for blockings and intrigues.) Here's the complete list: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
Hmm... why is it that * a country who itself
- owns tons of nuclear bombs, biological and chemical weapons (all WMDs),
- the biggest military in the world
- and dangerously crazy people in the government,
- and that wants to oppress the whole world(*) * wants to stop another much smaller country
- with dangerously crazy people in the government * to build
- nuclear bombs
- and power plants * to protect itself from that big country's embargos?
Hmmmmmmmmm??? Ewwwwwwww!!!
Exactly.
(*) Oil did not get more expensive. The price for oil *normalized*, after the USA could not force the OPEC to sell out under market price anymore, because the Chinese told the OPEC that if the USA does stop buying, they'll buy it instead.
I don't know what went wrong for you all, but here, Flash 10 beta 20080702 runs nicely, except for some glitches on back areas in video playback, a hang every now and then (rare, so it's not very annoying), and because this is compiz-fusion and x86_64 on a crappy onboard graphics card, it's too slow in full screen (while xine/mplayer/vlc run fine).
I second that. Flash's native file format should be SVG. Didn't Adobe develop SVG as a direct concurrent to Macromedia Flash in the first place? A (on-the-fly?) converter would be a good idea too.
I'm sorry, but it's the "mathematical phantasy" thing. Or more correctly: It's a tought experiment, to find out if the universe has some special fine-tuned constants, because this would pose some interesting questions on why they are exactly like this.
Of course, as far as our knowledge goes, the universe could be a 4d sphere (with a 3d surface). So there is still the question "is there an 'outside' to the universe"? If so, what is there? Other universes?
A completely different, and more realistic POV is to see our universe as the cone or our event horizon. So there could be space outside that we'll never see, but that is perfectly normal "space". Of course this would pose the question, that if the constants are different in "another universe" (= another place outside our event horizon), then why is there no visible gradient when you get near the border of that horizon?
I could not decide, which versions looked better. I only recognized that they ere mostly non that good looking on both fotos.
Then I looked closer, because I know a bit about the methods behind it. And they did some big errors, like copying the one side of a face to the other, when the face did not look perfectly straight into the camera. This gave some weird results. Some faces even looked quite unnatural (especially, but not solely the focus on huge foreheads.
P.S.: I'm happy that I now since the last months know trough experience, that my opinion that looks matter, were wrong.
Wrong. It's the other way around: The adoption of new browsers is slow, because if a user hoes not absolutely has to, he's not going to upgrade. It's like with making products easier: As soon as you "simplified" (aka. dumbed down) your product so that even the most stupid retard can use it, nature will develop an even bigger idiot to complain how "complicated" an "non-usable" it is.
My tip: If you wait, they will be extinct anyway. There's no need to support dumbing down, and to annoy more users than you help, when you can just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself.
You should try Internet radios. There is very much unknown, rare and special music there. You an listen to anything from white label underground drum & bass over Korean pop (avoid at all cost;) to Afghani classic music. Of course there's crap too, but it's like with "real" radio: Who listens to them anymore? I started to like shoutcast.com, and now have a fixed playlist of my main stations in Amarok which i can switch with global keyboard commands. I'm very happy with this setup.
> and since it uses PVC (plus a few more elements) it's quite toxic should it catch on fire.
Umm... what do you think the rest of the refrigerator is made of? It's basically a small metal frame with isolation foam (some plastic) and plastic around it. sometimes (more often than not) the cooling circuit is the only metal thing in there.
there is no X in there. just an x. N_x = person x of people N. Sorry,/. does not allow proper math.:) The underscores mean "the next letters are in subscript".
Hey Eliza! Don't be sad. Everybody gets a reality crisis now and then. We love you for what you are, not just for the porn. Just look at the power you've got. If you're not real, then how can those that you control be? See... everything's OK. Now, please show me some more pictures of sex with goats on fire...
Well, if some people can't behave - where it does absolutely not matter how they look like - just ask your money back and tell them it's because those people behaved like this. Try to avoid words that might offend or shock the people that you want your money back from, or they will ignore you. Then tell them you won't come back until this is fixed and tell all your friends. (Tell facts only. It's *not* illegal to tell facts.)
Then when they see more and more problems with such complaints and less customers, they will start to set now rules like "loud talking, screaming, throwing stuff, and similar things are not allowed while the film is running." to get you back.
Of course there are two problems with this: 1. As long as there are enough of those types around for every cinema to have full rooms, you will change nothing. (Or have to build an *exclusive* cinema *experience* *hint*hint* for you, with those rules.) 2. As long as the managers of the cinemas are too stupid to know that they need their customers, you will not change anything either. (Hint: Fear - induced from a real friend like you - works nicely for those PHB types. Think "Cartman as a psychology professor" style.)
Was it stupid to answer a "flaming AC"?;) Well I think there are no bad people. There are no trolls. There are only poor suckers who had bad things happening in their life. And I hope I could help you a bit.:D
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Nonlinear storylines are an extremely old hat.
The problem you get is always, that the more freedom you give the user, the less it remains to be a story.
You see, a story has several rules, like a normal state, then a depression, then the buildup, and the climax. Between those steps, the change is amplitude-modulated with smaller factors in a fractal-like way. At least in theory. :)
Most people do not realize, that if you remove this quite fixed rules, the story stops being interesting.
Then, there is the concept of the "game" in itself. Tetris is such a pure game. Many Minigames/Flashgames are too. The only linearity there is the difficulty buildup, to generate motivation.
It's fun, sure, but there's no story. And when you do something like that with a game of the class of Halflife, it feels strange.
Now what the GP wants, is that those stories are created after those basic "good story" and "good game" rules, in a huge algorithm.
I think this would be possible, but it would be very very very hard, next to a complete brain-fuck.
I haven't played Far Cry 2 yet, but if it's like a "Far Cry extreme", than you still got a tiny bit of storyline, but Far Cry was far from great in terms of game theory and the storyline is - as usual in games - a joke. Spore on the other hand seems to have done it's job in game theory very well, but has no story at all (right?). So there's no need for a storyline-algorithm.
Oh, and I'd love to create that algorithm. Although you would not get very far without neural nets.
If you mean the "outside of our universe" versions... Right... partially. :)
Depending on the structure of the universe, it's nearly impossible to say, that something can *never ever* be proven. "Never" is from the beginning until the end of time, independent of your position and state of existence. If that were so, then you should be able to prove your argument.
ID, the idea of a God, and "outside of our world/universe/time range" theories all try to adress the really annoying problem of "what was the cause of everything" trough ignorance. This is because you can always ask "And who created God?" or "What's outside of the multiverse?"
I think that maybe, we just ask an absurdly wrong question, because our brain can't be wrapped around a concept that makes sense in our current view of reality.
That problem and everything following from it, inclusive religious explanations for those that don't need a more advanced reality dissonance, will continue to exist, until we get to a point where we solve this.
You've got it exactly right.
You know who's behind W3C, do you?
It's a committee of companies. And Microsoft is one of the big fishes in there. (Primarily responsible for blockings and intrigues.)
Here's the complete list: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
Wrong again.
GP and GPP got wooshed, Only GPP is funny. Oh, and who said, that GP is not funny? In that case you got wooshed.
But what if.. oh god... if you're funny too? Then i will be wooshed too.
Thank god, that I'm funny too. :D
P.S.: Does someone know a replacement for "thank god", that does not include imaginary beings?
Shit. Slashdot ate my <Internet-is-for-porn-monster> and <kate-monster> tags.
Hmm... why is it that
* a country who itself
- owns tons of nuclear bombs, biological and chemical weapons (all WMDs),
- the biggest military in the world
- and dangerously crazy people in the government,
- and that wants to oppress the whole world(*)
* wants to stop another much smaller country
- with dangerously crazy people in the government
* to build
- nuclear bombs
- and power plants
* to protect itself from that big country's embargos?
Hmmmmmmmmm???
Ewwwwwwww!!!
Exactly.
(*) Oil did not get more expensive. The price for oil *normalized*, after the USA could not force the OPEC to sell out under market price anymore, because the Chinese told the OPEC that if the USA does stop buying, they'll buy it instead.
I don't know what went wrong for you all, but here, Flash 10 beta 20080702 runs nicely, except for some glitches on back areas in video playback, a hang every now and then (rare, so it's not very annoying), and because this is compiz-fusion and x86_64 on a crappy onboard graphics card, it's too slow in full screen (while xine/mplayer/vlc run fine).
I second that. Flash's native file format should be SVG. Didn't Adobe develop SVG as a direct concurrent to Macromedia Flash in the first place?
A (on-the-fly?) converter would be a good idea too.
I'm sorry, but it's the "mathematical phantasy" thing.
Or more correctly: It's a tought experiment, to find out if the universe has some special fine-tuned constants, because this would pose some interesting questions on why they are exactly like this.
Of course, as far as our knowledge goes, the universe could be a 4d sphere (with a 3d surface). So there is still the question "is there an 'outside' to the universe"? If so, what is there? Other universes?
A completely different, and more realistic POV is to see our universe as the cone or our event horizon. So there could be space outside that we'll never see, but that is perfectly normal "space". Of course this would pose the question, that if the constants are different in "another universe" (= another place outside our event horizon), then why is there no visible gradient when you get near the border of that horizon?
Since when is "no reason to suspect something" an argument for something to be not true?
So you're still wrong.
I could not decide, which versions looked better. I only recognized that they ere mostly non that good looking on both fotos.
Then I looked closer, because I know a bit about the methods behind it. And they did some big errors, like copying the one side of a face to the other, when the face did not look perfectly straight into the camera. This gave some weird results. Some faces even looked quite unnatural (especially, but not solely the focus on huge foreheads.
P.S.: I'm happy that I now since the last months know trough experience, that my opinion that looks matter, were wrong.
Wrong. It's the other way around: The adoption of new browsers is slow, because if a user hoes not absolutely has to, he's not going to upgrade.
It's like with making products easier: As soon as you "simplified" (aka. dumbed down) your product so that even the most stupid retard can use it, nature will develop an even bigger idiot to complain how "complicated" an "non-usable" it is.
My tip: If you wait, they will be extinct anyway. There's no need to support dumbing down, and to annoy more users than you help, when you can just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself.
The problem will be, that the computer is the master, while your brain is the slave.
> the reddit affect
Let me guess... You're one of the most frequent users there...
You should try Internet radios. There is very much unknown, rare and special music there. You an listen to anything from white label underground drum & bass over Korean pop (avoid at all cost ;) to Afghani classic music. Of course there's crap too, but it's like with "real" radio: Who listens to them anymore?
I started to like shoutcast.com, and now have a fixed playlist of my main stations in Amarok which i can switch with global keyboard commands. I'm very happy with this setup.
Bah. The only real system is the T-1000. It beat the crap out of the T-800.
Repeat after me:
EVERY... DIFFERENCE... IS... AN... ILLUSION... TO... DISTRACT... YOU!
(And yes, you have to yell it. More text to counter the lame "lameness" censorship. ;)
> and since it uses PVC (plus a few more elements) it's quite toxic should it catch on fire.
Umm... what do you think the rest of the refrigerator is made of? It's basically a small metal frame with isolation foam (some plastic) and plastic around it. sometimes (more often than not) the cooling circuit is the only metal thing in there.
> No, but existence is.
There, fixed that for you.
My brain has that function built in since I installed the text library that now exists for thousands of years.
Kids these days...
there is no X in there. just an x. /. does not allow proper math. :)
N_x = person x of people N. Sorry,
The underscores mean "the next letters are in subscript".
Hey Eliza! Don't be sad. Everybody gets a reality crisis now and then. We love you for what you are, not just for the porn. Just look at the power you've got. If you're not real, then how can those that you control be?
See... everything's OK. Now, please show me some more pictures of sex with goats on fire...
And the earth is too.
Well, if some people can't behave - where it does absolutely not matter how they look like - just ask your money back and tell them it's because those people behaved like this. Try to avoid words that might offend or shock the people that you want your money back from, or they will ignore you.
Then tell them you won't come back until this is fixed and tell all your friends. (Tell facts only. It's *not* illegal to tell facts.)
Then when they see more and more problems with such complaints and less customers, they will start to set now rules like "loud talking, screaming, throwing stuff, and similar things are not allowed while the film is running." to get you back.
Of course there are two problems with this:
1. As long as there are enough of those types around for every cinema to have full rooms, you will change nothing. (Or have to build an *exclusive* cinema *experience* *hint*hint* for you, with those rules.)
2. As long as the managers of the cinemas are too stupid to know that they need their customers, you will not change anything either. (Hint: Fear - induced from a real friend like you - works nicely for those PHB types. Think "Cartman as a psychology professor" style.)
Was it stupid to answer a "flaming AC"? ;) :D
Well I think there are no bad people. There are no trolls. There are only poor suckers who had bad things happening in their life. And I hope I could help you a bit.