Are you seriously making the argument that it matters, which religion it is? It’s a mental disease, fueled by having an unacceptably (by the brain) horrible reality, and abused by power-greedy dicks (churches and their leaders).
Protip: There was a time when Christianity was just as crazy. It’s called the dark ages, the crusades and the inquisitions! I rest my case.
I was kind of surprised when I watched the show since they did this right after the danish Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
So your logic would recommend caving in to them? Because clearly, the first thing you do, when a mentally ill person does what that person always does, and threatens you, is to cave in, and thereby allow their fantasy reality to dominate (over you too).
Have you got no spine? Wasn’t the rule: We don’t make deals with insane people / terrorists?
Of course they get angry when you make fun of the central node that holds together their whole house of cards of a delusional fantasy world. Because they got nothing else. Nothing better. Which is the reason they turned to religion and to extremism in the first place. Remember, that this could happen to us as well, if things go further down the drain.
If you want to do something about it, rather than calling them idiots, I recommend helping them so they can help themselves get out of the fantasy world, by instead choosing a reality, that is better. (Instead of the current, worse one.)
I just hope that South Park does not cave in... (The first step to also getting infected.)
number plate capture in all weather conditions, 24 hours a day.
Yeah. And I’m Santa!
No light and a wall of clouds and rain between them, and there will be no photons there to capture. Simple as that. Someone should get that marketing droid a physics course!
I see one singe photo... on a Daily Mail (tabloid) site... of people (who don’t look like children) hiding their faces... Sorry, but while I would believe that MS has unfair sweat shops in Asia, neither does that site have any credibility nor does the photo show anything that proves anything.
It it were a set of photos, from someone I trust, that would be something different... (And I hope this happens.)
Your logic is wrong. If you read, you don’t think. You record. Thinking is what you do after being done reading. But it does not require reading. And great science an not come from solely constructing things out of the ideas of others. You have to come up with things for yourself. Something that nobody ever thought of before. And it’s scientifically proven that when you read, you disable your own center for logic analysis. So you actually are the drone while you read those articles.
How do you not see that this is all a made up reality of social conditioning?
Who made them so prestigious? Who told anyone that you have to thank them, instead of them you, how it should be. Why would you put yourself in a submissive position anyway... and even be happy for it?? Just to be liked by them and their self-fulfilling prestigiousness?
It’s like you geeks approach this like you approach women: By thinking that she’s oh-so-special and you should be oh-so-happy for “getting lucky”, and then being surprised that she does not find someone attractive who even himself says that he’s not worth it...
Yes. Proudly brought to you by the fine people who also say that you can't end your life under the same circumstances.
Well, usually this is a non-issue. Since they can’t punish a dead man, can they?;) But of course, if you’re half vegetable and unable to kill yourself... There are things worse than death. What those things are, are for everyone personally to decide. And I consider keeping someone “alive” with those things torture. Plain and simple torture.
If I ever know that I am 100% sure to get in such a situation, I will kill myself while I still can. You can bet on that. No unicorn rainbow tree-hugging happy fantasy land here.
Obviously you never experienced a state worse than death.
Seriously. Death is way overrated in horribleness. Imagine life-long horrible pain without a cure. Imagine being mentally or physically tortured and kept alive for as long as possible. Imagine being a zombie (the type that psycho drugs make out of people), not really living, but not able to die. Those are horror scenarios far worse than death.
Now imagine someone offering you a drug that offers you a year more to live, in exchange for living one of those scenarios. I think now you won’t be so sure about that decision anymore, will you? If you ask me, I’d choose death in those cases.
(Obviously I’m not saying that this is one of those cases though. I’m just arguing that it’s not that simple in real life.)
Yes, it’s good that we can save people. (Whether everyone deserves saving, or got cancer because he did not care for his health, is another question.)
But again, I can’t help but think that this smells like the typical pharma industry scheme: Sell something that makes the symptoms go away, but never ever the actual cause. That way your clients will be hooked for life, as their survival or health depends on you. For additional point, make it highly addictive. (Example: Prozac: Its only use is to help you run away from your problem instead of facing it. Which is essentially the same thing as strengthening your disease. Which usually would make your life even more horrible to you. But thanks to Prozac, you’re now as happy as a dog... living a zombie life. Unless you stop taking it... when you fall back into reality and have to face an even worse mountain to climb, as if nature would punish you for running away. I’ve seen in when people get on that slippery slope because of an idiot physician/psychiatrist. And usually, if you can’t get them off fast, you can as well declare them dead. Because there won’t be much left called “life” in that person, after some time.:((()
I came here to say exactly that: It is not free to play! It is free to use. Playing involves by definition a motivating interest curve (the base of all game design), which itself unconditionally demands a certain ratio of winning. And this is not the case with those so-called “free to play” games.
Basically, unless you pay (usually more than with normal games), you’re just walking around in a very elaborate lounge. It’s not even a demo, since a demo also includes playing.
So you don’t have to wait for long, until most people will stop, because all they will get, will be frustration. And those people will all flood the forums with how much the game sucks. So in the end, the game will be known as crap, and nobody will play it anymore.
And this is why I myself, or any other self-respecting (read “art & love for it > money & greed”) won’t ever pursuit such a financing model. It only gets you bad publicity. And unless you’e a huge publisher who can act like a dick because of the amount of marketing you can and must put into it, you’ll quickly kill yourself with it.
A company with a business model that ignores basic physics of what it operates in, represses the fact that it’s about to die, and thereby moves itself into death in the first place... News at 11. ^^
This is no conflict, since everyone gets what he wants: 1. The Escapist is happy, because everyone liking to decide himself what he requests from their servers (eg. not ads) will go away. (What they don’t think about, is that nobody will be left.) 2. Other sites with reality-based business models will gain more clients, so that they can offer a better service (*hint*), and thereby gain even more clients. 3. We will get new, better sites, that adhere to our conditions (=reality!).(But since nobody at such a site will work for free, we’ll have to ultimately pay something for it. Especially for something special.)
In one sentence: Escapist: You’re not special. You got nothing to offer, that somebody else can’t supply for equal or better conditions. Unless you change that, you can’t make demands, even when it looks to like it to you.
How this all will work? Well, if you knew how little money companies actually get out of those ads (1000 clicks was 50€ about 5 years ago, and a >3% click rate was considered good. [Internal and accidental clicks included!] Now we have ad blockers and fallen prices. You do the math.) So if you’d pay perhaps 5€ a month more on your Internet bill, that would pay for all sites you could possibly ever visit. They would most likely even get more than with ads. (The problem I see with billing it in that generic flat-rate fashion, is that not all content/information has the same value. But the bill could also come from a payment service provider, who would have to adhere to strict privacy rules and the bank secret, so your ISP does not get even more monopolistic power.)
You can use that document, you get your “representative” into pound-me-in-the-ass prison for treason. And the fact that the whole thing was kept secret shows that it was (...how do you call that in English?...) wanton treason (?).
At least in Germany, you get the maximum punishment for this, similar to murder, rape, etc.
Now remember: If you are not doing anything against this, you show that you are OK with it, and let them continue on that path. Especially if you use the invalid (because of circular reasoning) excuse of “But what can a single person do alone?”. (People are only alone, if everyone is using this excuse. So it’s fulfilling its own prophecy, and wouldn’t be the case otherwise. It is also the only reason dictators stay alive that long when a population of millions wants to see them dead.)
You say that as if it were a good thing to learn and understand absolutely nothing about the devices you’you using. Basically this behavior trains people to play with colorful clickables on what is essentially only an appliance. And then you act surprised, that everyone that calls you when you work in tech support, is a fuckin’ moron...
I used about half a dozen distros, and I never quite understood, WTF was going on. They all hid everything behind colorful clickables and other pointless ncurses-based tools (aka “Windows syndrome”), any it was really hard to get it all, because you were starting from the surface.
But more and more often I only found help on the Gentoo forums (before the search became defunct). So I thought: Why not give it a shot. This was the first time where I had to learn the most basic stuff that everyone else hid behind an installer, as if it were something bad to know what you are doing. Luckily, the handbook and everything got me to a point, where I could find out all the rest by myself. (Something you can’t with most distros, since you wouldn’t even know what you could find out.)
Whether Gentoo actually is the best distro for everyday usage, depends on how you approach problems. But everything where you have to build it up from scratch definitely is the best to learn things.
My final task to students would be, to build your own custom distro, with everything customized. Kernel, fs, tools, desktop, basic settings, package management, booting/init, etc. This includes configuring and patching the kernel, finding out hardware information, writing bash scripts, editing every file in/etc/, automating basic tasks, and using a lot of tools in the process.
Quake-like FPS games aren't suitable for consoles, therefore good FPSes are not being made anymore.
There. Fixed that for ya. Seriously. Quake (especially CPMA) is pretty much the perfect shooter. You can’t improve the pure shooter aspect anymore. And if you want to talk about other aspects, let’s talk about System Shock (1) which came out 3 months after Doom (1), and which still is unbeaten in what you can do.
Seconded. Only consoles and pussies need a cover system. Because they are too inexact and clunky.
If you disagree, let’s meet for a round of Quake 3 Challenge Pro-Mode Arena on my server. You with the console, and no aiming assistance, and me with my real computer. ^^
...is something else than the “run around and shoot everything in sight, press this button there, and perhaps have this cutscene”.
You know... something different than just re-heating old ideas.
I mean, System Shock 1 still beats most FPSes in terms of what you can do, hands down. And that game is exactly as old as Doom 1. (Yep, while Doom got the publicity for the gore, SS1 was the real innovation here.)
There are the streaming cores, where you have to define one simple algorithm, and then you can pass massive loads of data trough it. Which is good for rendering, and any other stream processing. But not for any event handling. The rest you do with the single full CPU core. And that one is very very weak, compared to the amount of stuff you can process in the streaming cores. But it has no limitations in flexibility.
So you can have 90% of your main core unused, but still not have much power left, since that part is so weak in comparison.
Yeah, because you can just magically “optimize” any program endlessly forever...
Games already are on the very limits of a platform. They already are optimized to the breaking point. There’s nothing left. You can only make the textures and models crappier and remove some physics and collision detection.
Also 30 fps from 60 fps sounds like no change at all, but simply rendering every second frame from the second pov. Which is exactly what I would have done, considering all resources already being used up, and countless months already being used up for optimization.
Sorry, but it’s stereoscopic 2D! Stereoscopic 3D would be two cubes. This is just two fixed 2D planes in 3D space. The same thing as two flat panel displays in front of you. That the images on it are ortographically projected, does not make it 3D. The rest of the 3D volume still is out of focus for that very reason. (= It all lying on the same plane.)
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Are you seriously making the argument that it matters, which religion it is?
It’s a mental disease, fueled by having an unacceptably (by the brain) horrible reality, and abused by power-greedy dicks (churches and their leaders).
Protip: There was a time when Christianity was just as crazy. It’s called the dark ages, the crusades and the inquisitions!
I rest my case.
I was kind of surprised when I watched the show since they did this right after the danish Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
So your logic would recommend caving in to them? Because clearly, the first thing you do, when a mentally ill person does what that person always does, and threatens you, is to cave in, and thereby allow their fantasy reality to dominate (over you too).
Have you got no spine?
Wasn’t the rule: We don’t make deals with insane people / terrorists?
Of course they get angry when you make fun of the central node that holds together their whole house of cards of a delusional fantasy world. Because they got nothing else. Nothing better. Which is the reason they turned to religion and to extremism in the first place.
Remember, that this could happen to us as well, if things go further down the drain.
If you want to do something about it, rather than calling them idiots, I recommend helping them so they can help themselves get out of the fantasy world, by instead choosing a reality, that is better. (Instead of the current, worse one.)
I just hope that South Park does not cave in... (The first step to also getting infected.)
number plate capture in all weather conditions, 24 hours a day.
Yeah. And I’m Santa!
No light and a wall of clouds and rain between them, and there will be no photons there to capture. Simple as that.
Someone should get that marketing droid a physics course!
I see one singe photo... on a Daily Mail (tabloid) site... of people (who don’t look like children) hiding their faces...
Sorry, but while I would believe that MS has unfair sweat shops in Asia, neither does that site have any credibility nor does the photo show anything that proves anything.
It it were a set of photos, from someone I trust, that would be something different... (And I hope this happens.)
Your logic is wrong. If you read, you don’t think. You record. Thinking is what you do after being done reading. But it does not require reading. And great science an not come from solely constructing things out of the ideas of others. You have to come up with things for yourself. Something that nobody ever thought of before. And it’s scientifically proven that when you read, you disable your own center for logic analysis. So you actually are the drone while you read those articles.
Unless you consider making your survival dependent on a company... that you have to pay... “no harm”, I wouldn’t smoke that cigar...
How do you not see that this is all a made up reality of social conditioning?
Who made them so prestigious? Who told anyone that you have to thank them, instead of them you, how it should be. Why would you put yourself in a submissive position anyway... and even be happy for it??
Just to be liked by them and their self-fulfilling prestigiousness?
It’s like you geeks approach this like you approach women: By thinking that she’s oh-so-special and you should be oh-so-happy for “getting lucky”, and then being surprised that she does not find someone attractive who even himself says that he’s not worth it...
Yes. Proudly brought to you by the fine people who also say that you can't end your life under the same circumstances.
Well, usually this is a non-issue. Since they can’t punish a dead man, can they? ;)
But of course, if you’re half vegetable and unable to kill yourself...
There are things worse than death. What those things are, are for everyone personally to decide.
And I consider keeping someone “alive” with those things torture. Plain and simple torture.
If I ever know that I am 100% sure to get in such a situation, I will kill myself while I still can. You can bet on that. No unicorn rainbow tree-hugging happy fantasy land here.
Obviously you never experienced a state worse than death.
Seriously. Death is way overrated in horribleness.
Imagine life-long horrible pain without a cure. Imagine being mentally or physically tortured and kept alive for as long as possible. Imagine being a zombie (the type that psycho drugs make out of people), not really living, but not able to die.
Those are horror scenarios far worse than death.
Now imagine someone offering you a drug that offers you a year more to live, in exchange for living one of those scenarios.
I think now you won’t be so sure about that decision anymore, will you?
If you ask me, I’d choose death in those cases.
(Obviously I’m not saying that this is one of those cases though. I’m just arguing that it’s not that simple in real life.)
Yes, it’s good that we can save people. (Whether everyone deserves saving, or got cancer because he did not care for his health, is another question.)
But again, I can’t help but think that this smells like the typical pharma industry scheme: Sell something that makes the symptoms go away, but never ever the actual cause. That way your clients will be hooked for life, as their survival or health depends on you. For additional point, make it highly addictive. (Example: Prozac: Its only use is to help you run away from your problem instead of facing it. Which is essentially the same thing as strengthening your disease. Which usually would make your life even more horrible to you. But thanks to Prozac, you’re now as happy as a dog... living a zombie life. Unless you stop taking it... when you fall back into reality and have to face an even worse mountain to climb, as if nature would punish you for running away. I’ve seen in when people get on that slippery slope because of an idiot physician/psychiatrist. And usually, if you can’t get them off fast, you can as well declare them dead. Because there won’t be much left called “life” in that person, after some time. :((()
I came here to say exactly that: It is not free to play! It is free to use.
Playing involves by definition a motivating interest curve (the base of all game design), which itself unconditionally demands a certain ratio of winning. And this is not the case with those so-called “free to play” games.
Basically, unless you pay (usually more than with normal games), you’re just walking around in a very elaborate lounge. It’s not even a demo, since a demo also includes playing.
So you don’t have to wait for long, until most people will stop, because all they will get, will be frustration. And those people will all flood the forums with how much the game sucks. So in the end, the game will be known as crap, and nobody will play it anymore.
And this is why I myself, or any other self-respecting (read “art & love for it > money & greed”) won’t ever pursuit such a financing model. It only gets you bad publicity. And unless you’e a huge publisher who can act like a dick because of the amount of marketing you can and must put into it, you’ll quickly kill yourself with it.
A company with a business model that ignores basic physics of what it operates in, represses the fact that it’s about to die, and thereby moves itself into death in the first place... News at 11. ^^
This is no conflict, since everyone gets what he wants:
1. The Escapist is happy, because everyone liking to decide himself what he requests from their servers (eg. not ads) will go away. (What they don’t think about, is that nobody will be left.)
2. Other sites with reality-based business models will gain more clients, so that they can offer a better service (*hint*), and thereby gain even more clients.
3. We will get new, better sites, that adhere to our conditions (=reality!).(But since nobody at such a site will work for free, we’ll have to ultimately pay something for it. Especially for something special.)
In one sentence: Escapist: You’re not special.
You got nothing to offer, that somebody else can’t supply for equal or better conditions. Unless you change that, you can’t make demands, even when it looks to like it to you.
How this all will work? Well, if you knew how little money companies actually get out of those ads (1000 clicks was 50€ about 5 years ago, and a >3% click rate was considered good. [Internal and accidental clicks included!] Now we have ad blockers and fallen prices. You do the math.)
So if you’d pay perhaps 5€ a month more on your Internet bill, that would pay for all sites you could possibly ever visit. They would most likely even get more than with ads. (The problem I see with billing it in that generic flat-rate fashion, is that not all content/information has the same value. But the bill could also come from a payment service provider, who would have to adhere to strict privacy rules and the bank secret, so your ISP does not get even more monopolistic power.)
Why do you think Haliburton was and is massively building jails?
Sorry, but I think this time there really is a bigger plan behind all this.
You can use that document, you get your “representative” into pound-me-in-the-ass prison for treason. And the fact that the whole thing was kept secret shows that it was (...how do you call that in English?...) wanton treason (?).
At least in Germany, you get the maximum punishment for this, similar to murder, rape, etc.
Now remember: If you are not doing anything against this, you show that you are OK with it, and let them continue on that path. Especially if you use the invalid (because of circular reasoning) excuse of “But what can a single person do alone?”. (People are only alone, if everyone is using this excuse. So it’s fulfilling its own prophecy, and wouldn’t be the case otherwise. It is also the only reason dictators stay alive that long when a population of millions wants to see them dead.)
You say that as if it were a good thing to learn and understand absolutely nothing about the devices you’you using.
Basically this behavior trains people to play with colorful clickables on what is essentially only an appliance.
And then you act surprised, that everyone that calls you when you work in tech support, is a fuckin’ moron...
Sorry, it’s your own damn fault.
I used about half a dozen distros, and I never quite understood, WTF was going on. They all hid everything behind colorful clickables and other pointless ncurses-based tools (aka “Windows syndrome”), any it was really hard to get it all, because you were starting from the surface.
But more and more often I only found help on the Gentoo forums (before the search became defunct). So I thought: Why not give it a shot.
This was the first time where I had to learn the most basic stuff that everyone else hid behind an installer, as if it were something bad to know what you are doing. Luckily, the handbook and everything got me to a point, where I could find out all the rest by myself. (Something you can’t with most distros, since you wouldn’t even know what you could find out.)
Whether Gentoo actually is the best distro for everyday usage, depends on how you approach problems. But everything where you have to build it up from scratch definitely is the best to learn things.
My final task to students would be, to build your own custom distro, with everything customized. Kernel, fs, tools, desktop, basic settings, package management, booting/init, etc. This includes configuring and patching the kernel, finding out hardware information, writing bash scripts, editing every file in /etc/, automating basic tasks, and using a lot of tools in the process.
About your sig:
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Nope, Funny moderation does not give you any karma at all.
Quake-like FPS games aren't suitable for consoles, therefore good FPSes are not being made anymore.
There. Fixed that for ya.
Seriously. Quake (especially CPMA) is pretty much the perfect shooter. You can’t improve the pure shooter aspect anymore.
And if you want to talk about other aspects, let’s talk about System Shock (1) which came out 3 months after Doom (1), and which still is unbeaten in what you can do.
Seconded. Only consoles and pussies need a cover system. Because they are too inexact and clunky.
If you disagree, let’s meet for a round of Quake 3 Challenge Pro-Mode Arena on my server. You with the console, and no aiming assistance, and me with my real computer. ^^
...is something else than the “run around and shoot everything in sight, press this button there, and perhaps have this cutscene”.
You know... something different than just re-heating old ideas.
I mean, System Shock 1 still beats most FPSes in terms of what you can do, hands down. And that game is exactly as old as Doom 1. (Yep, while Doom got the publicity for the gore, SS1 was the real innovation here.)
It’s way more complicated than that.
There are the streaming cores, where you have to define one simple algorithm, and then you can pass massive loads of data trough it. Which is good for rendering, and any other stream processing. But not for any event handling. The rest you do with the single full CPU core. And that one is very very weak, compared to the amount of stuff you can process in the streaming cores. But it has no limitations in flexibility.
So you can have 90% of your main core unused, but still not have much power left, since that part is so weak in comparison.
Yeah, because you can just magically “optimize” any program endlessly forever...
Games already are on the very limits of a platform. They already are optimized to the breaking point. There’s nothing left.
You can only make the textures and models crappier and remove some physics and collision detection.
Also 30 fps from 60 fps sounds like no change at all, but simply rendering every second frame from the second pov. Which is exactly what I would have done, considering all resources already being used up, and countless months already being used up for optimization.
The insertion of true stereoscopic 3D
Sorry, but it’s stereoscopic 2D!
Stereoscopic 3D would be two cubes.
This is just two fixed 2D planes in 3D space. The same thing as two flat panel displays in front of you.
That the images on it are ortographically projected, does not make it 3D. The rest of the 3D volume still is out of focus for that very reason. (= It all lying on the same plane.)
I’m sorry, but other non-MS companies can do that, WITH all the features.
Proof: iPhone vs every Nokia S60 phone ever.