i don't have the time to go into this, but *any* form of faster than light travel or communication is ruled out by einsteins relitivity. due to the relative nature of time, a message that travels faster than a beam of light could inform an observer of an event before it happens, giving that observer a chance to change the event, a paradox which is ruled out by its own nature.
would that really be so bad? I have allways disliked the look of computers. Maybe I'm just odd, but if every major computer manufacturer had a unique look then the world would be a better place.
Anyway I'm thinking about turning this large metal sculpture of an open human head into my next computer... should be cool.
There's no reason why things shouldn't be attractive, think of products from the 19th century, the ironwork was allways embellished, signs and logos were allways in very stylish lettering. Think of the Art Deco architecture too, there's not practical reason why the Chrystler Building has to look so cool, but it does. Then think of the worst of 50's and 60's architecture, big concreet office buildings that look like military bunkers or parking garages. I think this new move toward style in everything is a big plus.
most people don't know this smell, but at the bottom of the grills at the Waffle house after you've been using them for several hours, a terrible terrible smelling GOOP accumulates. Once I got a bit on my hands and the smell stayed like that on it for weeks. The Goop has become legendary in my circle of odd friends.
M$ press releases could be forced to have or something on them
Sure while Bush and Gore may have flaws they ain't Hitler and Stalin. I think we get the candidates we get are the candidates we deserve. There's nothing in the system to prevent good people from running. Now is today's America that different from the America of 10, 50, 100, or even 200 years ago? President John Adams had during the Quasi-War, which was undeclared, restricted american freedom and immigration on a larger scale than any since then. Adams was one of our forefathers and a signer of the Constitution and a Co-author of the declaration of Independance. We over-scrutanize our polititians too much. History tends to erase bad qualities and hypocracy. America, with no common enemy has entered a period of great cynacism. I don't worry though, it won't ammount to anything and it means that we don't have any immediate threat of nuclear destruction. People have allways lacked faith in the system. Only during times of crisis, usually war, have people had a positive consensis about the government. Things aren't perfect but they haven't really gone downhill that much.
they don't let you use calculators when you're taking a verbal part.
And the math is all basic geometry or simpler, so if you've got the brains to be putting stuff on your calculator, you can memorize the pythagorean theorum.
that's simply amazing... but really the only game projects I am interested in right now are Black + White, Civ 3, and Quake 3.
All of these seem to be developed by teams of people that are also in allmost full control of their companies. They are all on the "it's done when it's done" schedule. And they are all using a type of stealth marketing, using their own good reputations and word of mouth to hype their products.
Art exists independantly. The whole thing, the process, the code, the final functional product, is art.
just as "modern art" (he's just colorized some pictures of soup cans! i could do that!) isn't about it's technical difficulty, but the creativity and ideas expressed when the art was originally conceived, linux is art for the fact that it is the first to do open source on such a massive scale, it is "art"
this is also why the music of the Beatles can be considered art, but the Monkees cannot.:-)
aparently you've never worked on a software team or tried to update existing code.
elegant is very nice, which is why anybody uses C++.
in other words: stay the hell away from assembly unless you need to bleed performance. it's functional as hell, but direct processor commands are anything but elegant.
It's good that you're asking and not claiming that you're lack of knowledge proves evolution to be false.
First off the apes that evolved into humans aren't around any more, we didn't evolve from any types of chimps.
Seconly evolution does not wipe out the previous species. Usually an isolated population that has some sort of new stress placed on it will change, leaving the larger population unchanged. Sometimes, in the case of massive catastrophes such as ice ages or mass extenctions, unusual stresses will be placed on entire species, this creates unusually high survival challenges and thus greatly increases the rate of natural selection. But populations don't all spontaneously "evolve" together.
anarchists anger me. they think in slogans and don't look at things logically.
there are a million arguements for having government, and democracy is just a form of government. it certainly isn't perfect, but it is better than any other that has been come up with yet.
here's just one arguement for having people in charge (since TRUE anarchy seeks to abolish all forms of leadership): sewage. keeping the sewers running is a GIANT task, requiring thousands of workers and complex orginization. you can bet that not many people would work in the sewers for the good of their fellow man, they would only do it to get paid. Money requires government to be of any value at all. Also a thousand people couldn't keep anything running without someone in charge to oversee the project and make sure the right people are in the right places.
you don't want to live in a city without sewers, i don't want to live in a world without government.
if you wish to continue this debate, mail me at colmore@colmore.com
i think the problem with political promotion on the internet is that the internet lacks serious context. television and radio are, for most people, mythic industries where only Important People can be heard. the internet, on the other hand, is a forum for everyone, from twelve year old's pokemon fan sites to the KKK to pornography to your particular political candidate. i feel that the image of the internet as a people's media greatly harms it's ability to promote a single individual. it would be much like running ads on CB radio.
an internet site or ad just doesn't seem as IMPORTANT as messages in other media. I was wondering if you agree with my above statements and how you fight the inherent difficulties in giving any web campaign the seriousness you surely want.
This is as silly as "eCash" and "Micropayments" it will simply never succeed. If this generates any money at all I will forever hold my peice and amke no more web predictions. That is of course a lie.
Why this thing can't work: 1) "Serialization" do we want everything to be serialized like that dumb Stephen King (get well soon!) marketing ploy to sell the green mile? Seeing the X-Files come in segments is one thing. Waiting for months as an album or novel is delivered peacemeal is quite different.
2) Artist Frustration. What If the work doesn't generate any "Street Money?" and the Artists work never shows up. In the very simplistic views of the goals of the different participants a key goal of the artist was left out: expression. Sure the artist has to eat, but if that fails at least he or she can make a statement and have work published. Under this doomed system the artist that wasn't able to get people to pay for the promise of more work has a large body of unpublished work that they cannot release by contract. If we add a provision that says that if after some time the work isn't published then the artist regains rights to publish then the public won't pay, they'll just wait a little while longer (and with the pace of the internet being what it is, that wouldn't be too fast)
3) Who's going to pay? They tried to sell content once. Only porn sells directly. If people wouldn't pay for content that ALLREADY existed then why would anyone pay for essentially vaporware. And if the publisher is having trouble generating money then they could easily reach the financial position of being unable to pay angry "customers" back. Even on a guarauteed site, I don't like giving out my credit card number too often. And paying for vaporware isn't something i'd take any risk on.
4) Servers are getting better and cheaper. The promise of internet content is to REMOVE the middleman from publishing. Any artist able to make money by this obsurd system could surely afford a $20 to $30 per month account at dreamhost or somewhere. As servers and bandwidth get better the expense of streaming content and large file storage and big transfer rates will plummit. Artists won't need a Publisher. All they'd need is a friend or hired highschooler to write some HTML.
5) Online novels, maybe the only thing that could succeed on this payment plan, won't happen. Reading large amounts of text on the screen is painful even for bloodshot veterans and truely great books (I reccomend Catch-22 and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:^]) are available at you LIBRARY for free. And reading is more fun when you can curl up with some hot chocolate under a quilt and feel the pages in your hands.
What we need, and I forsee coming within the next 5-10 years, is a very secure system of one click payment on the internet (well one click and a password... sure) this way artist sites could have a simple "donate" button where with two typed fields and a button you could give him or her a buck or two. This would be psychologically easier than pulling out the old card and filling in your name rank and number again and again. With a simple way to give small amounts of money people would be more inclined to acts of small charity. However browsers would have to be guaraunteed to allways alert you to a transaction and allways tell the true amount being sent. Maybe even have a sending delay so you could cancel within 48 hours or so.
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why do i allways find logical puns so irritating even when i make so many myself?
this is all making me very nostalgic for the old shareware DOS game days. PKUNZIP + PKZIP was in everyones C:\DOS\ directory.
I think i'll make a WAD in memoriam.
BS, 10% of your brain is used for conscious thaught, the rest is involuntary muscle control, memory, and body maintenece.
just because a whale has a bigger brain than you doesn't mean its smarter, it just has more systems to control.
if we only had a 10% used brain, then evolution would have gotten rid of the other 90% of the brain, that's a lot of resources to waste.
i don't have the time to go into this, but *any* form of faster than light travel or communication is ruled out by einsteins relitivity. due to the relative nature of time, a message that travels faster than a beam of light could inform an observer of an event before it happens, giving that observer a chance to change the event, a paradox which is ruled out by its own nature.
well perhaps the i is meant in a chemical sence...
they've squared their ion concentration
wrong, i don't have a link, but sometime last year some reaserchers created a medium in which light was slowed down to like 40mph.
c is the speed of light through a vacuum.
prime numbers are a subset of naturals, which do not contain negative integers
would that really be so bad? I have allways disliked the look of computers. Maybe I'm just odd, but if every major computer manufacturer had a unique look then the world would be a better place.
Anyway I'm thinking about turning this large metal sculpture of an open human head into my next computer... should be cool.
There's no reason why things shouldn't be attractive, think of products from the 19th century, the ironwork was allways embellished, signs and logos were allways in very stylish lettering. Think of the Art Deco architecture too, there's not practical reason why the Chrystler Building has to look so cool, but it does. Then think of the worst of 50's and 60's architecture, big concreet office buildings that look like military bunkers or parking garages. I think this new move toward style in everything is a big plus.
most people don't know this smell, but at the bottom of the grills at the Waffle house after you've been using them for several hours, a terrible terrible smelling GOOP accumulates. Once I got a bit on my hands and the smell stayed like that on it for weeks. The Goop has become legendary in my circle of odd friends.
M$ press releases could be forced to have or something on them
Sure while Bush and Gore may have flaws they ain't Hitler and Stalin. I think we get the candidates we get are the candidates we deserve. There's nothing in the system to prevent good people from running. Now is today's America that different from the America of 10, 50, 100, or even 200 years ago? President John Adams had during the Quasi-War, which was undeclared, restricted american freedom and immigration on a larger scale than any since then. Adams was one of our forefathers and a signer of the Constitution and a Co-author of the declaration of Independance. We over-scrutanize our polititians too much. History tends to erase bad qualities and hypocracy. America, with no common enemy has entered a period of great cynacism. I don't worry though, it won't ammount to anything and it means that we don't have any immediate threat of nuclear destruction. People have allways lacked faith in the system. Only during times of crisis, usually war, have people had a positive consensis about the government. Things aren't perfect but they haven't really gone downhill that much.
freedom = slavery
ignorance = truth
war = peace
Linus seems like one Hell of a guy, and he sure is working hard keeping this Linux thing together.
But who's PAYING him!?!?! should we be starting a fund?
they don't let you use calculators when you're taking a verbal part.
And the math is all basic geometry or simpler, so if you've got the brains to be putting stuff on your calculator, you can memorize the pythagorean theorum.
now the GRE's...
Whatever a "Baywolf" Cluster is... heheheh
that's simply amazing... but really the only game projects I am interested in right now are Black + White, Civ 3, and Quake 3.
All of these seem to be developed by teams of people that are also in allmost full control of their companies. They are all on the "it's done when it's done" schedule. And they are all using a type of stealth marketing, using their own good reputations and word of mouth to hype their products.
a dork i may be, but you should have said "fighting robots are cool"
see when you have a plural subject you need to use the plural form of the verb...
awww hell, i'm gonna get flamed.
Art exists independantly. The whole thing, the process, the code, the final functional product, is art.
:-)
just as "modern art" (he's just colorized some pictures of soup cans! i could do that!) isn't about it's technical difficulty, but the creativity and ideas expressed when the art was originally conceived, linux is art for the fact that it is the first to do open source on such a massive scale, it is "art"
this is also why the music of the Beatles can be considered art, but the Monkees cannot.
aparently you've never worked on a software team or tried to update existing code.
elegant is very nice, which is why anybody uses C++.
in other words: stay the hell away from assembly unless you need to bleed performance. it's functional as hell, but direct processor commands are anything but elegant.
It's good that you're asking and not claiming that you're lack of knowledge proves evolution to be false.
First off the apes that evolved into humans aren't around any more, we didn't evolve from any types of chimps.
Seconly evolution does not wipe out the previous species. Usually an isolated population that has some sort of new stress placed on it will change, leaving the larger population unchanged. Sometimes, in the case of massive catastrophes such as ice ages or mass extenctions, unusual stresses will be placed on entire species, this creates unusually high survival challenges and thus greatly increases the rate of natural selection. But populations don't all spontaneously "evolve" together.
i hope i have cleared this up.
anarchists anger me. they think in slogans and don't look at things logically.
there are a million arguements for having government, and democracy is just a form of government. it certainly isn't perfect, but it is better than any other that has been come up with yet.
here's just one arguement for having people in charge (since TRUE anarchy seeks to abolish all forms of leadership): sewage.
keeping the sewers running is a GIANT task, requiring thousands of workers and complex orginization. you can bet that not many people would work in the sewers for the good of their fellow man, they would only do it to get paid. Money requires government to be of any value at all. Also a thousand people couldn't keep anything running without someone in charge to oversee the project and make sure the right people are in the right places.
you don't want to live in a city without sewers, i don't want to live in a world without government.
if you wish to continue this debate, mail me at colmore@colmore.com
i think the problem with political promotion on the internet is that the internet lacks serious context. television and radio are, for most people, mythic industries where only Important People can be heard. the internet, on the other hand, is a forum for everyone, from twelve year old's pokemon fan sites to the KKK to pornography to your particular political candidate. i feel that the image of the internet as a people's media greatly harms it's ability to promote a single individual. it would be much like running ads on CB radio.
an internet site or ad just doesn't seem as IMPORTANT as messages in other media. I was wondering if you agree with my above statements and how you fight the inherent difficulties in giving any web campaign the seriousness you surely want.
unless you are viewing newest first then nobody will ever see this.
first off this jerk is the reason that there are three paragraphs of tiny text everywhere now.
second off, given that, you've got to admire that kind of EFFORT for what is clearly a joke on both sides.
since when do 3d cards make better games? Quake I was the best of the series, and Doom II was the best single player shooter ever.
The great console games were from the 16 bit wars era, not this new fangled 3d crap they've been pushing.
I just want a Chrono Trigger sequel really, then I'll be happy.
Offtopic: I love it when people don't let the box use wordwrap. It makes there posts look like poems!
This is as silly as "eCash" and "Micropayments" it will simply never succeed. If this generates any money at all I will forever hold my peice and amke no more web predictions. That is of course a lie.
:^]) are available at you LIBRARY for free. And reading is more fun when you can curl up with some hot chocolate under a quilt and feel the pages in your hands.
Why this thing can't work:
1) "Serialization" do we want everything to be serialized like that dumb Stephen King (get well soon!) marketing ploy to sell the green mile? Seeing the X-Files come in segments is one thing. Waiting for months as an album or novel is delivered peacemeal is quite different.
2) Artist Frustration. What If the work doesn't generate any "Street Money?" and the Artists work never shows up. In the very simplistic views of the goals of the different participants a key goal of the artist was left out: expression. Sure the artist has to eat, but if that fails at least he or she can make a statement and have work published. Under this doomed system the artist that wasn't able to get people to pay for the promise of more work has a large body of unpublished work that they cannot release by contract. If we add a provision that says that if after some time the work isn't published then the artist regains rights to publish then the public won't pay, they'll just wait a little while longer (and with the pace of the internet being what it is, that wouldn't be too fast)
3) Who's going to pay? They tried to sell content once. Only porn sells directly. If people wouldn't pay for content that ALLREADY existed then why would anyone pay for essentially vaporware. And if the publisher is having trouble generating money then they could easily reach the financial position of being unable to pay angry "customers" back. Even on a guarauteed site, I don't like giving out my credit card number too often. And paying for vaporware isn't something i'd take any risk on.
4) Servers are getting better and cheaper. The promise of internet content is to REMOVE the middleman from publishing. Any artist able to make money by this obsurd system could surely afford a $20 to $30 per month account at dreamhost or somewhere. As servers and bandwidth get better the expense of streaming content and large file storage and big transfer rates will plummit. Artists won't need a Publisher. All they'd need is a friend or hired highschooler to write some HTML.
5) Online novels, maybe the only thing that could succeed on this payment plan, won't happen. Reading large amounts of text on the screen is painful even for bloodshot veterans and truely great books (I reccomend Catch-22 and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
What we need, and I forsee coming within the next 5-10 years, is a very secure system of one click payment on the internet (well one click and a password... sure) this way artist sites could have a simple "donate" button where with two typed fields and a button you could give him or her a buck or two. This would be psychologically easier than pulling out the old card and filling in your name rank and number again and again. With a simple way to give small amounts of money people would be more inclined to acts of small charity. However browsers would have to be guaraunteed to allways alert you to a transaction and allways tell the true amount being sent. Maybe even have a sending delay so you could cancel within 48 hours or so.
Well slashdotters what do you think?