“fun” is actually well-defined in the game design business. Fun is happiness with surprises. Happiness is when something that does you good happens. (Mindset/biomass expansion/improvement/preservation. Even if only virtual/simulated.) And surprises are when something happened that you didn’t expect. (The more differing from your mental model’s predictions, the more surprising.) With surprises you learn something new. And that is usually an advantage.
Hence the reason that combination makes us feel exceptionally well.
What you usually do that for, is to solve problems / achieve goals (really the same thing). Either in reality. Or with a good toy, as training/preparation for your mental model.
Compared to Jack the Ripper, a murderer isn’t bad. Compared to the Nazi Regime, a murderer is a saint.
Do you see the flaw in your logic? Are you really saying that murder is good?
A worse thing doesn’t make a bad thing good. If there is a -1200, then -1000 doesn’t suddenly become zero. It’s still exactly -1000. Because your views of what is good and bad don’t change.
Google IS bad. Googe IS NOT a saint. And no company that is based on being a data kraken and living off of advertisement, is ever going to be.
If you mean “death” by “worse”... it isn’t. Prison is worse. Imagine you wanting to die because of the horrors, but being unable to do so... Then you know “worse”.:/
You know that china got a military of about 3 million active personnel, and about 800 million being fit for it? If they want, they take all of Google’s servers in China for themselves, and let the staff work as slaves, and nobody in the world can do anything about it.
It’s very brave to stand up against China, and I applaud that. I’m just saying that they should know when to get out. (When you still can.)
What it’s definitely not, is some game of chicken that Google can even imagine winning. It’s like being in a X-Wing, against the Death Star. Except in real life realism. No Force. Not even the Schwartz.;)
Simple. It means that they found a way around the uncertainty principle. You know, the one that is the reason there are only probabilities of finding a particle somewhere. Never guarantees. And only trough measurement you know if there actually is one there. (Wich leads to tons of weird effects.)
I don’t think you can find deterministic quantum mechanics. And there is one problem with a “static” universe: Where does it come from?
An article that starts with the time travel “paradox” as if it were an unsolvable problem, is already an epic fail and not worth the read.
It’s so simple to cleat the “paradox” that I thought everybody would know it by now: If you go back, you walk back on your simple time line. If you change something back then, you create a separate branch line. Then you can only walk forward in that branch anymore. You can never go back to the old branch. Ever. And because of that, your origin branch can not collide with your current branch, and there is no paradox. Dead simple. Plainly obvious.
Quantum physics completely allow this model. The multiverse theories are also based on that allowance.
Seconded. Plus, the Internet prices are really the best. 24 cent per megabyte. (Install an instant messaging client on your phone [e.g. Nimbuzz], and you can send about 3000 SMS for that price). 1GB for 10€, and a real full flat for 20€.
The problem is very simple, it is a constant cost factor to keep up-to-date. New versions are released so often after all, nearly every 2-3 years. Who can keep up?
Hello Mr Dark Ages Guy!
eix-sync && emerge -auDNtv world # note: no cost involved.
Simple. Because it shows dominance, and not playing by the rules of others. And that is what these types jack off to, and do it all for, at the end of the day.
It’s only illogical, if you still think they’d work for us.
Sure we do. You just won’t hear them on the radio.
For example, compare rap as known from TV, when compared to THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5e5FUvRzNQ That’s the lyrical art how it was meant. And I don’t think anyone can, after really listening to this, say with at straight face, that that type of music can’t be art.:)
The whole album is great. But you have to really listen. Or Kutiman. Just back to it being art.
That’s why I love these times with the Internet changing the world.
They are by definition antisocial, expect everything to revolve around them and don’t want you to use just pieces of them.
Give us just a nice set of libraries. That’s it. Let us choose what parts to use, what parts to get from other libraries, and what not to use at all.
Frameworks are like having to buy a bundle offer at the supermarket, when all you need is one part of it, and then at home also noticing that the parts are not playing nice with everything else.
But I hope the craze will be over soon, just like the Flash intro craze, the Java Applet craze, etc.
So each cell has it's own this.getSexualOrientation() function.
That’s Java right? Then, wouldn’t that be this.getFactoryFactory().getOrientationDeterminationFactory(this.getFactoryFactory().OrientationDeterminator.SEXUAL).getSexualOrientationDeterminator().execute()?
Exactly. And teach them the most important lesson of our society nowadays: Be a total dick, terrorize even small children and take away everyone’s privacy... just because you can, or because you’re insane (what you call “overprotective”)!
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“fun” is actually well-defined in the game design business.
Fun is happiness with surprises.
Happiness is when something that does you good happens. (Mindset/biomass expansion/improvement/preservation. Even if only virtual/simulated.)
And surprises are when something happened that you didn’t expect. (The more differing from your mental model’s predictions, the more surprising.) With surprises you learn something new. And that is usually an advantage.
Hence the reason that combination makes us feel exceptionally well.
What you usually do that for, is to solve problems / achieve goals (really the same thing).
Either in reality. Or with a good toy, as training/preparation for your mental model.
I’ll give you another clue: PEBKAC!
Hey moderators: Did you forget what humor is again?? ;)
Actually the “3000 times more powerful” is true. Look it up.
Let’s follow your exact logic here:
Compared to Jack the Ripper, a murderer isn’t bad.
Compared to the Nazi Regime, a murderer is a saint.
Do you see the flaw in your logic?
Are you really saying that murder is good?
A worse thing doesn’t make a bad thing good.
If there is a -1200, then -1000 doesn’t suddenly become zero. It’s still exactly -1000.
Because your views of what is good and bad don’t change.
Google IS bad. Googe IS NOT a saint.
And no company that is based on being a data kraken and living off of advertisement, is ever going to be.
If you mean “death” by “worse”... it isn’t. Prison is worse. Imagine you wanting to die because of the horrors, but being unable to do so... Then you know “worse”. :/
You know that china got a military of about 3 million active personnel, and about 800 million being fit for it?
If they want, they take all of Google’s servers in China for themselves, and let the staff work as slaves, and nobody in the world can do anything about it.
It’s very brave to stand up against China, and I applaud that.
I’m just saying that they should know when to get out. (When you still can.)
What it’s definitely not, is some game of chicken that Google can even imagine winning. It’s like being in a X-Wing, against the Death Star. Except in real life realism. No Force. Not even the Schwartz. ;)
A democracy is just a dictatorship trough sock puppets. The puppets can change to simulate non-existing free choice.
We don‘t, you insensitive clod!
Sincerely yours,
the Recording Industry Association of America
I meant ‘clear the “paradox”’.
Simple. It means that they found a way around the uncertainty principle. You know, the one that is the reason there are only probabilities of finding a particle somewhere. Never guarantees. And only trough measurement you know if there actually is one there. (Wich leads to tons of weird effects.)
I don’t think you can find deterministic quantum mechanics. And there is one problem with a “static” universe: Where does it come from?
An article that starts with the time travel “paradox” as if it were an unsolvable problem, is already an epic fail and not worth the read.
It’s so simple to cleat the “paradox” that I thought everybody would know it by now:
If you go back, you walk back on your simple time line.
If you change something back then, you create a separate branch line.
Then you can only walk forward in that branch anymore. You can never go back to the old branch. Ever.
And because of that, your origin branch can not collide with your current branch, and there is no paradox.
Dead simple. Plainly obvious.
Quantum physics completely allow this model. The multiverse theories are also based on that allowance.
Or you fry a baby and feed it to the mother. About just as fucked up. ^^
Seconded. Plus, the Internet prices are really the best. 24 cent per megabyte. (Install an instant messaging client on your phone [e.g. Nimbuzz], and you can send about 3000 SMS for that price). 1GB for 10€, and a real full flat for 20€.
You forgot the “Oh, wait...”. ;)
Then again, I prefer hot to cold and beaches to large forests where you get raped. ;)
And you all thought that with the “economic crisis”, all that money were just “vanished”. Bwahahahahaa!
If someone lacks it, another one has it now. I’ll let you figure out the rest.
I don’t care. I just stare the article down, until it sells itself to me!
Chuck Norris
The problem is very simple, it is a constant cost factor to keep up-to-date. New versions are released so often after all, nearly every 2-3 years. Who can keep up?
Hello Mr Dark Ages Guy!
eix-sync && emerge -auDNtv world # note: no cost involved.
Welcome to the 21st century!
Simple. Because it shows dominance, and not playing by the rules of others. And that is what these types jack off to, and do it all for, at the end of the day.
It’s only illogical, if you still think they’d work for us.
Sure we do. You just won’t hear them on the radio.
For example, compare rap as known from TV, when compared to THIS: :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5e5FUvRzNQ
That’s the lyrical art how it was meant. And I don’t think anyone can, after really listening to this, say with at straight face, that that type of music can’t be art.
The whole album is great. But you have to really listen.
Or Kutiman. Just back to it being art.
That’s why I love these times with the Internet changing the world.
...protect themselves from desk lamp radiation.
After all, it’s 3000 times more powerful! So it must be like... OMGDEADLYWTFBBQ!!!1!1one(lim (x->0) (sin(x)/x))
They are by definition antisocial, expect everything to revolve around them and don’t want you to use just pieces of them.
Give us just a nice set of libraries. That’s it.
Let us choose what parts to use, what parts to get from other libraries, and what not to use at all.
Frameworks are like having to buy a bundle offer at the supermarket, when all you need is one part of it, and then at home also noticing that the parts are not playing nice with everything else.
But I hope the craze will be over soon, just like the Flash intro craze, the Java Applet craze, etc.
But don’t you know about the bird? ;)
Because everybody knows about the bird.
Ba-ba-ba baa-baa-ba baba-baba ba, baba-baba-ba baba-baba-ba,
ba-ba-ba baa-baa-ba baba-baba ba, baba-baba-ba baba-baba-ba,
don’t. you. know. about. the. biiird?
Everybody knows about the biird...
Ba-ba-ba baa-baa-ba baba-baba ba, baba-baba-ba baba-baba-ba,
ba-ba-ba baa-baa-ba baba-baba ba, baba-baba-ba baba-baba-ba,
Ba-ba-ba baa-baa-ba baba-baba ba, baba-baba-ba baba-baba-ba,
ba-ba-ba baa-baa-ba baba-baba ba, baba-baba-ba baba-baba-ba.
So each cell has it's own this.getSexualOrientation() function.
That’s Java right? Then, wouldn’t that be this.getFactoryFactory().getOrientationDeterminationFactory(this.getFactoryFactory().OrientationDeterminator.SEXUAL).getSexualOrientationDeterminator().execute()?
Exactly. And teach them the most important lesson of our society nowadays: Be a total dick, terrorize even small children and take away everyone’s privacy... just because you can, or because you’re insane (what you call “overprotective”)!
For a greater tomorrow! Yay!