Yeah well, except that our plan is to put a giant lens (or lens-equivalent photoelectric system) between us and the sun, and fry us like ants, when we miss the tiny tiny dish.
It all comes down to the amount of energy. Just like it’s the amount of something that makes it toxic. You can die from drinking simple (bottled/tap) water, if you drink enough of it.
You could have saved yourself all that work, and just pointed to “crab mentality”. ^^
One thing you missed, is where GP’s position comes from: Efficiency. Simple as that. Is it worth it? (See, you always get further, when you really understand what you oppose, instead of being ignorant. Also being nice trumps being arrogant. [Where I seem to fail too.;])
I think what is the deciding factor here, is if your initial experiences with risking something were good or bad. Initial, because later self-fulfilling prophecy takes over, where you see everything in that light, and act in a way that makes it more likely for your expected outcome to happen. You seem to have had positive experiences. And GP seems to have had negative experiences.
But the only difference is, that your sense of what you can achieve, was better calibrated back then. (Or you just got lucky.) See, it’s exactly like in (computer) games: The closer your goals are to your current abilities, the more motivation you will have. Which means that you grow better, and can advance faster, to harder goals, in the future.
Basically, it’s that crazy fast advancement that gives you the great feeling when playing games. This “flow” of “epic win”, as one could call it. It’s what makes the gameplay part of games great in the first place. (That, and some surprises as icing on the cake.:)
And some people even are clever enought, to know that all you’re doing, is backwards rationalizing why you spent weeks in front of the TV, waiting for that one scene where one of the girls shows a bit of skis. ^^
...nobody cares for it to not happen in the first place. At all. While we still live in toxic shit, wear toxic shit, breathe toxic shit, eat toxic shit, and put toxic shit on our skins, as if that were the most normal thing in the world to do. And big pharma plus all the doctors make a nice profit off of it.
Sorry, but we as a species, deserver cancer for that extreme horrible ignorance of ours.
The less-lethal device of choice was the Taser X26.
As in: After its usage, you are “only” half (brain)dead? Or as in: “Only” half of the people die from it?
Sorry, but I prefer being shot in a leg with a normal hand gun, to being tasered and having twitches, phantom pain, and a weird character change for the rest of my life. TYVM. (Actually, I prefer to not give insane people (cops/criminals) weapons in the first place.
This kind of technology only looks cool, when you watch in on a 2D screen. But as soon as you see in in reality, before you, it’s very disappointing and kinda lame and pointless.
It’s amazing how many people can’t tell the difference between real 3D, stereo 2D or just this very simplistic adaptive mono 2D imagery...
But not for anything where you could collide with whatever walks around there. Since you got no collision detection, and even more importantly: No collision reaction from real world objects.
So car-racing, GTA, war games, etc, are right out the door. Not a chance. Of course you could create a game, where you die when you touch anything, or where you are a ghost, but weirdly don’t fall trough the floor. (In other words: As lame as Big Rigs Over The Road Racing.)
Kudos to any team who can pull off a real game with live video spheres from reality. Oh, I nearly missed this one: The spheres or video feed won’t move with you. So it would feel like playing Myst. Either look around a live scenery, OR move (between fixed spots at weird places, like up in the air on a post). not both.
Sorry, sounds like a pointless and impossible job to me. I’d rather go right to real augmented reality. Way cooler.
This is an important problem. And this was a really great way to highlight it. Huge props for Gamestop for doing this, instead of profiting from it.
The real problem though, is not people not reading it. The problem is, that in practice it’s impossible to read all the terms of all the contracts. First they are deliberately written in undecipherable legal code. Something that should be illegal, but isn’t because it’s so hard to define. Then it’s way too much. You would have to read a multi-page small-font document, every time you pull out your wallet. (Yes, the terms can change in the two days between you going to the same shop to buy your food.) And finally, the whole thing is also deliberately made hard to access. How often did you go into a building with house rules, or signed a contract that mentioned them or some other external document, but they never handed them to you, and even acted annoyed and insulted, when you pointed it out, and demanded the document?
It is 100% crystal clear that pretty much all companies do not want you to read any of it, for the very purpose of them biting you in the ass as soon as you trip over the tiniest irregularity. Or even without doing anything.
Most contracts basically go like this: [big font] WE MAKE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE FOR FREE [/big font] [tiny font] There is some hidden document in the lower drawer in the basement of a building on the other side of the world, that is part of what you sign [tiny font] [hidden document] We give you NOTHING, but take from you EVERYTHING! [hidden document]
And that is no different than mob tactics. In fact I say it out loud, and call every major corporation on this world a criminal mob with the sole purpose of making as much money as possible, even when it means walking over more dead bodies than the Nazis. Examples: Monsanto, Haliburton, Eli Lily, Shell, Elsevier. They all have private armies. They all have revolving doors with every big government. They all make huge profits with lies, death and deception....hell, Microsoft is a silly small fish in that area, when compared to those. But still way above the line of acceptable moral behavior.
...but apparently there are enough Americans, stupid enough to fall for religious reality distortion". ^^ (Proof: Watch the fanbois tear this comment apart. Preferably without having to bring up actual arguments.)
They should also market the iPad in the other countries that have the most fundamentalist religious people (e.g. those under heavy mullah influence.;).
P.S.: *puts on his war suit and loads the Predator-style Gatling, to fend off the rage*;)
Of course most people are very ignorant when it comes to those things, and we geeks tend to also be very incompetent in psychology.
But if you remember that a brain is nothing else but a network of trigger-nodes with pulsed communication between them, then pulsed input signals fit right in there. Now every input obviously has some effect on the brain. What we call “learning” or “imprinting”. A laser flickering across the photoreceptors is no different there.
Now if it happens, that the input signal is just right, it can e.g. raise the sensitivity of one neuron (or lower that of an inhibiting one), which then becomes able to trigger the swearing neurons for a lot of previously irrelevant input. It’s a wrong association. Like when you hear a song that remembers you of your ex loved one, and you suddenly get sad. That’s the trigger going across the association to the neurons for sadness.
The big problem that we have for everything mental, is that we can’t prove that what she says is true or not. At least not without serious brain scanning while creating those triggering situations.
But the good and bad news is, that it doesn’t matter. What matters is what that person believes. Because that will cause a feedback loop of self-fulfillment, that makes it true anyway (for the inner model in her brain). So the neural wiring configuration is there in any case.
But luckily, what I described above works in every direction. So undoing it is possible with the anti-input of whatever caused it. A corrective re-learning/re-associating. Aka our good old friend, a behavior therapy. Even better with a kickstart trough creation of anti-congruent situations. (Or in layman’s terms: Make her experience situations that roughly cause that anti-input.)
Yup, that’s just the theory. But in my experience, mental problem are far easier fixed than most people think... IF done right, and IF there is somebody who is trained to keep cool (which is harder than you think), is free from having a twisted reality himself (even harder), and has the empathy and kindheartedness to be willing to do it (I can count the people on this planet, where I know that they are like that, on the fingers of one hand).
Conclusion: Cut the stupid jokes about it being “not real”. Reality is irrelevant for fixing such a problem. What counts is if that person believes it in her inner model, and if it makes her life bad from that point of view.
Do they have a Firefox-like extension mechanism, allowing non C/C++ programmers to join in? I’d do it instantly. But I refuse to ever use C/C++, because I consider its outdated design to be the cause of pretty much every security exploit out there, and its inelegance and programming inefficiency to be a pain to my brain.
I also still own a old keyboard with a DIN connector, the F keys left of the keyboard, and no separate cursor keys. But since I collected adapters since my first computer, I can plug the DIN connector into a PS/2 adapter, which goes into an USB adapter, which goes into the computer. ^^ The only problem is keeping it from breaking off. But a string solves that. (Same string that held up my double-sided-water-cooled graphics card.;)
As a bonus i can directly plug a *wide* (24 pin) COM port adapter in a small one, which goes into the DIN adapter. Or only use a small one, and so connect my old monocrome CRT to USB.;)
By the way: There should absolutely be a contest about who achieves the longest string of adapters, and still gets a (self-made) driver to work with the device!:D
Remember that OS/2 and the Windows NT line share a common base. So you could merge the whole thing with Wine, and get the best from every platform! (If done right!)
That would be really awesome.
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If you think that the totalitarian “teh one true interfacexorz!!!1one” is fitting anywhere in the Linux ecosystem, then you haven’t understood Linux at all. Let alone freedom of choice. Please go back to your Windows monoculture, and see what that brings you.
By the way: As an expert in interface design, I consider every free-floating-window-based, colorful-clickable-laden, frequent-mouse-keyboard-switch-obstructed, physical-desktop-analogy-using GUI of monolithic big applications a insult to the UNIX philosophy, and a horrible failure right from the start, that only is seen as OK, in a environment lacking anything remotely resembling a good UI.
Hints: - Start out with Linux (without the GUI, if possible) - Use a WM like XMonad, or a similar keyboard-controllable tiling “window” manager. - Build your “applications” in a way, that make every button, tool or menu function in it a separate lightweight “applet”(=tiny program). [Requires a good interfacing standard. Compare: Bash piping!] - Assign keyboard shortcuts to everything that you use often enough to remember that shortcut. Use shortcut patterns that allows you to group a set of shortcuts in one mental association. - Allow the rest to be selected by either a standard right-left-up-down-in-out navigation scheme or mouse control, depending on what is more efficient in the situation. (Avoid mouse/keyboard switches as much as possible.)
I think it’s a disadvantage, if you walk up to any “weird looking” stranger (aka: something you don’t know), and act as if you know it.
The problem is not to learn to know things and people that you are not used to. The problem is to think that they are exactly the same. But despite all the media overkill, actually nobody is completely the same. Ever. And that’s a good thing.:) It’s good with everything you don’t know, to be cautious at first.
The only problem is, that we are all trained to think that only looks would decide whether we should be wary. If you’re white, that white guy that looks just like you, but acts differently in that one point, may still stab you in the back, while that black dude who loves the same things that you do, drives you to the hospital...
In short: As usually, it’s not that simple. Ever.:)
There were a few typos in the summary. Here is the correct sentence:
Each vehicle will be equipped with five laser cannons, seven (particle) cannons, GPS (graviton-propelled smartbombs), inertial mutagen unit, three Linux AIs, and an xray-by-wire dying[sic] system.
I find it sad that they didn’t finish the star compressor for the ammo clip of the gamma ray burst artillery tower.
"The opinion that children have sexuality and can enjoy this too, should / should not be distributed," says Schweer further. That this is not an opinion, but a scientific fact that is not doubted by many self-proclaimed protectors children, he is silent.
Yeah, right. I’m sorry, but I know I’m not the only one jacking off at 7 (yes seven! the cool thing: since you never come, you can go on forever ^^), and constantly thinking about sex starting at the age of what? 11? 12?:)
“Scientific fact” my ass. Perhaps for bible idiots who “teach” creationism. One shouldn’t talk about science or facts, when one doesn’t know anything about either.
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Yeah well, except that our plan is to put a giant lens (or lens-equivalent photoelectric system) between us and the sun, and fry us like ants, when we miss the tiny tiny dish.
It all comes down to the amount of energy. Just like it’s the amount of something that makes it toxic. You can die from drinking simple (bottled/tap) water, if you drink enough of it.
You could have saved yourself all that work, and just pointed to “crab mentality”. ^^
One thing you missed, is where GP’s position comes from: Efficiency. Simple as that. Is it worth it? ;])
(See, you always get further, when you really understand what you oppose, instead of being ignorant. Also being nice trumps being arrogant. [Where I seem to fail too.
I think what is the deciding factor here, is if your initial experiences with risking something were good or bad. Initial, because later self-fulfilling prophecy takes over, where you see everything in that light, and act in a way that makes it more likely for your expected outcome to happen.
You seem to have had positive experiences.
And GP seems to have had negative experiences.
But the only difference is, that your sense of what you can achieve, was better calibrated back then. (Or you just got lucky.)
See, it’s exactly like in (computer) games: The closer your goals are to your current abilities, the more motivation you will have.
Which means that you grow better, and can advance faster, to harder goals, in the future.
Basically, it’s that crazy fast advancement that gives you the great feeling when playing games. This “flow” of “epic win”, as one could call it. It’s what makes the gameplay part of games great in the first place. (That, and some surprises as icing on the cake. :)
And some people even are clever enought, to know that all you’re doing, is backwards rationalizing why you spent weeks in front of the TV, waiting for that one scene where one of the girls shows a bit of skis. ^^
What would I do with two instances of Chat Roulette?
I’ll wait for the second design. A so-called R2D2. ^^
...nobody cares for it to not happen in the first place. At all.
While we still live in toxic shit, wear toxic shit, breathe toxic shit, eat toxic shit, and put toxic shit on our skins, as if that were the most normal thing in the world to do.
And big pharma plus all the doctors make a nice profit off of it.
Sorry, but we as a species, deserver cancer for that extreme horrible ignorance of ours.
Dude! Gotta try that! :D
And tell Mythbusters to make a episode about it...
The less-lethal device of choice was the Taser X26.
As in: After its usage, you are “only” half (brain)dead? Or as in: “Only” half of the people die from it?
Sorry, but I prefer being shot in a leg with a normal hand gun, to being tasered and having twitches, phantom pain, and a weird character change for the rest of my life. TYVM.
(Actually, I prefer to not give insane people (cops/criminals) weapons in the first place.
This kind of technology only looks cool, when you watch in on a 2D screen.
But as soon as you see in in reality, before you, it’s very disappointing and kinda lame and pointless.
It’s amazing how many people can’t tell the difference between real 3D, stereo 2D or just this very simplistic adaptive mono 2D imagery...
But not for anything where you could collide with whatever walks around there. Since you got no collision detection, and even more importantly: No collision reaction from real world objects.
So car-racing, GTA, war games, etc, are right out the door. Not a chance.
Of course you could create a game, where you die when you touch anything, or where you are a ghost, but weirdly don’t fall trough the floor. (In other words: As lame as Big Rigs Over The Road Racing.)
Kudos to any team who can pull off a real game with live video spheres from reality.
Oh, I nearly missed this one:
The spheres or video feed won’t move with you. So it would feel like playing Myst. Either look around a live scenery, OR move (between fixed spots at weird places, like up in the air on a post). not both.
Sorry, sounds like a pointless and impossible job to me. I’d rather go right to real augmented reality. Way cooler.
This is an important problem. And this was a really great way to highlight it. Huge props for Gamestop for doing this, instead of profiting from it.
The real problem though, is not people not reading it. The problem is, that in practice it’s impossible to read all the terms of all the contracts.
First they are deliberately written in undecipherable legal code. Something that should be illegal, but isn’t because it’s so hard to define.
Then it’s way too much. You would have to read a multi-page small-font document, every time you pull out your wallet. (Yes, the terms can change in the two days between you going to the same shop to buy your food.)
And finally, the whole thing is also deliberately made hard to access. How often did you go into a building with house rules, or signed a contract that mentioned them or some other external document, but they never handed them to you, and even acted annoyed and insulted, when you pointed it out, and demanded the document?
It is 100% crystal clear that pretty much all companies do not want you to read any of it, for the very purpose of them biting you in the ass as soon as you trip over the tiniest irregularity. Or even without doing anything.
Most contracts basically go like this:
[big font] WE MAKE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE FOR FREE [/big font]
[tiny font] There is some hidden document in the lower drawer in the basement of a building on the other side of the world, that is part of what you sign [tiny font]
[hidden document] We give you NOTHING, but take from you EVERYTHING! [hidden document]
And that is no different than mob tactics. In fact I say it out loud, and call every major corporation on this world a criminal mob with the sole purpose of making as much money as possible, even when it means walking over more dead bodies than the Nazis. ...hell, Microsoft is a silly small fish in that area, when compared to those. But still way above the line of acceptable moral behavior.
Examples: Monsanto, Haliburton, Eli Lily, Shell, Elsevier.
They all have private armies. They all have revolving doors with every big government. They all make huge profits with lies, death and deception.
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That’s what I get, for bringing up mental and emotional topics to a bunch of emotionally incompetent geeks. ^^
...but apparently there are enough Americans, stupid enough to fall for religious reality distortion". ^^ (Proof: Watch the fanbois tear this comment apart. Preferably without having to bring up actual arguments.)
They should also market the iPad in the other countries that have the most fundamentalist religious people (e.g. those under heavy mullah influence. ;).
P.S.: *puts on his war suit and loads the Predator-style Gatling, to fend off the rage* ;)
FYI. I consider Haskell my favorite language. So coming up to an elitist like me, by using elitism... not such a great idea... ;))
Can aliens get Tourette’s?
...this is not impossible at all.
Of course most people are very ignorant when it comes to those things, and we geeks tend to also be very incompetent in psychology.
But if you remember that a brain is nothing else but a network of trigger-nodes with pulsed communication between them, then pulsed input signals fit right in there. Now every input obviously has some effect on the brain. What we call “learning” or “imprinting”. A laser flickering across the photoreceptors is no different there.
Now if it happens, that the input signal is just right, it can e.g. raise the sensitivity of one neuron (or lower that of an inhibiting one), which then becomes able to trigger the swearing neurons for a lot of previously irrelevant input. It’s a wrong association. Like when you hear a song that remembers you of your ex loved one, and you suddenly get sad. That’s the trigger going across the association to the neurons for sadness.
The big problem that we have for everything mental, is that we can’t prove that what she says is true or not. At least not without serious brain scanning while creating those triggering situations.
But the good and bad news is, that it doesn’t matter. What matters is what that person believes. Because that will cause a feedback loop of self-fulfillment, that makes it true anyway (for the inner model in her brain).
So the neural wiring configuration is there in any case.
But luckily, what I described above works in every direction. So undoing it is possible with the anti-input of whatever caused it. A corrective re-learning/re-associating. Aka our good old friend, a behavior therapy. Even better with a kickstart trough creation of anti-congruent situations. (Or in layman’s terms: Make her experience situations that roughly cause that anti-input.)
Yup, that’s just the theory. But in my experience, mental problem are far easier fixed than most people think... IF done right, and IF there is somebody who is trained to keep cool (which is harder than you think), is free from having a twisted reality himself (even harder), and has the empathy and kindheartedness to be willing to do it (I can count the people on this planet, where I know that they are like that, on the fingers of one hand).
Conclusion: Cut the stupid jokes about it being “not real”. Reality is irrelevant for fixing such a problem. What counts is if that person believes it in her inner model, and if it makes her life bad from that point of view.
Do they have a Firefox-like extension mechanism, allowing non C/C++ programmers to join in?
I’d do it instantly. But I refuse to ever use C/C++, because I consider its outdated design to be the cause of pretty much every security exploit out there, and its inelegance and programming inefficiency to be a pain to my brain.
Hey, I still have native PS/2 ports!
I also still own a old keyboard with a DIN connector, the F keys left of the keyboard, and no separate cursor keys. ;)
But since I collected adapters since my first computer, I can plug the DIN connector into a PS/2 adapter, which goes into an USB adapter, which goes into the computer. ^^
The only problem is keeping it from breaking off. But a string solves that. (Same string that held up my double-sided-water-cooled graphics card.
As a bonus i can directly plug a *wide* (24 pin) COM port adapter in a small one, which goes into the DIN adapter. Or only use a small one, and so connect my old monocrome CRT to USB. ;)
By the way: There should absolutely be a contest about who achieves the longest string of adapters, and still gets a (self-made) driver to work with the device! :D
Remember that OS/2 and the Windows NT line share a common base. So you could merge the whole thing with Wine, and get the best from every platform! (If done right!)
That would be really awesome.
If you think that the totalitarian “teh one true interfacexorz!!!1one” is fitting anywhere in the Linux ecosystem, then you haven’t understood Linux at all. Let alone freedom of choice. Please go back to your Windows monoculture, and see what that brings you.
By the way: As an expert in interface design, I consider every free-floating-window-based, colorful-clickable-laden, frequent-mouse-keyboard-switch-obstructed, physical-desktop-analogy-using GUI of monolithic big applications a insult to the UNIX philosophy, and a horrible failure right from the start, that only is seen as OK, in a environment lacking anything remotely resembling a good UI.
Hints:
- Start out with Linux (without the GUI, if possible)
- Use a WM like XMonad, or a similar keyboard-controllable tiling “window” manager.
- Build your “applications” in a way, that make every button, tool or menu function in it a separate lightweight “applet”(=tiny program). [Requires a good interfacing standard. Compare: Bash piping!]
- Assign keyboard shortcuts to everything that you use often enough to remember that shortcut. Use shortcut patterns that allows you to group a set of shortcuts in one mental association.
- Allow the rest to be selected by either a standard right-left-up-down-in-out navigation scheme or mouse control, depending on what is more efficient in the situation. (Avoid mouse/keyboard switches as much as possible.)
And don’t even ask about Wikileaks as a whole...
I think it’s a disadvantage, if you walk up to any “weird looking” stranger (aka: something you don’t know), and act as if you know it.
The problem is not to learn to know things and people that you are not used to. The problem is to think that they are exactly the same. :)
But despite all the media overkill, actually nobody is completely the same. Ever. And that’s a good thing.
It’s good with everything you don’t know, to be cautious at first.
The only problem is, that we are all trained to think that only looks would decide whether we should be wary. If you’re white, that white guy that looks just like you, but acts differently in that one point, may still stab you in the back, while that black dude who loves the same things that you do, drives you to the hospital...
In short: As usually, it’s not that simple. Ever. :)
There were a few typos in the summary. Here is the correct sentence:
Each vehicle will be equipped with five laser cannons, seven (particle) cannons, GPS (graviton-propelled smartbombs), inertial mutagen unit, three Linux AIs, and an xray-by-wire dying[sic] system.
I find it sad that they didn’t finish the star compressor for the ammo clip of the gamma ray burst artillery tower.
I prefer the term “auto-bot”.
But I fear that the DARPA is preparing their “Decepticon” project already. ;)
"The opinion that children have sexuality and can enjoy this too, should / should not be distributed," says Schweer further.
That this is not an opinion, but a scientific fact that is not doubted by many self-proclaimed protectors children, he is silent.
Yeah, right. I’m sorry, but I know I’m not the only one jacking off at 7 (yes seven! the cool thing: since you never come, you can go on forever ^^), and constantly thinking about sex starting at the age of what? 11? 12? :)
“Scientific fact” my ass. Perhaps for bible idiots who “teach” creationism. One shouldn’t talk about science or facts, when one doesn’t know anything about either.