Not to take anything away from Vinge and Rainbows End, but Blindsight was just simply amazing. From the characters to the technology to the plotting style, it took everything good about a first contact story, and then added to it. If you haven't read it, you owe it to yourself to (and the associated Vampire Domestication presentation.) Best of all, Peter Watts has made it, and his previous Rifters trilogy, available online under a Creative Commons license at his website, and it's well worth just downloading and checking it out. I read it CC, and then bought the book. Haven't bought the Rifters set yet, but I probably will my next Amazon order.
Seriously, Blindsight took vampires, transhumans, uploaded minds, and alien contact, and made it into something incredible with the narrative devices, character development, setting and dialog. You need to read the book, and since the first one is free, why not?
If they let the elite have control of how many Skirmishers joined them, or of who the skirmishers are, this could work. For example, the Elite lets two skirmishers play, the skirmishers get fragged, their control jumps to another NPC. Or you had some kind of 'ladder match' where you iterated through a single player level with players taking turns at the Elite spot. That could work. But yeah, it probably won't work well with an open join world. Unless you're a guy who wants a real challenge to beat a bunch of griefers.
Spring is an open source RTS Engine, created by fans of Total Annihilation. There is actually an active gaming community, and mods based on the engine, like Star Wars : Spring, based on the SW:TA mod.
A communication infrastructure, or a transportation infrastructure? I ask this because what my American viewpoint sees of the middle east is the seeming lack of mass-transportation systems like we have in American (highways, railroads, and the like.) The Middle East also seems to lack a stable communication infrastructure, especially to rural areas. Which do you think is more important, communications or transportation?
Fossils came from the catastrophic, world wide flood described in Genesis 7:17 through 7:24. (Reference) And if you study fossilization, I believe that you would find that the catastrophic answer makes more sense (I am not a Geologist or Palentologist, however.)
Two, ID is a broad and varied ideology. Some ID proponents do claim exactly what you claim.
I find it interesting that you can draw some fairly accurate parallels between Galileo and some modern day ID proponents. Science's foundation is the questioning of established ideas, not the dogmatic defense of them. C'mon, people, take your evolutionary blinders off for a moment, and examine the two theories critically, instead of spasmodically twitching whenever anyone mentions ID.
Certainly, voter fraud is a problem. But let's look at it this way. Bush won the popular vote by ~2-3 million votes (I don't rememeber number exactly). Even if all of the numbers thrown around in the post are valid, would you have said that a president that received a majority of the vote should not win?
Of course, if I had disliked Bush, my answer might be yes, but be honest here. Even if 300,000 votes were fraudulent, that doesn't change this election.
How much of a savings do you anticipate receiving by basically outsourcing this work, as opposed to creating migration tools in-house? I would assume that this is a major reason for CA's decision
Mr. Godwin - Lots of/.ers follow the SCO case, followed the DeCSS, Napster, IP, CIPA, etc. What are some lesser known cases/laws that you forsee as having a large potential impact on 'cyberlaw' as we know it?
This is what has made Linux successful,
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It's Linus' optimism. See, RMS insists that if you don't tell people what they can't do with software, that they'll do the worst. Linus assumes that people will do whatever they feel like, and the more they can do, the better, because you can't easily stop a movement. You can stop a man.
Go Linus. I'm not a DRM fan, but I am a fan of you ideology.
Dr. Felten, do you have an suggestion as to what sort of legistlation could be introduced that would soothe the minds of reactionary lawmakers while preserving the rights that we currently enjoy?
To offer a different reading on this topic, which assumes that the story presented in the Bible is factual, -
I think that Jesus was rather disgusted at the layers of elitism that the moneychangers were putting between the common folk and God. First, the moneychangers and other merchants there were also "inspectors" that looked over the animals that the Jews would bring to sacrifice, to inspect that they met ceremonial laws. They would then deny the animal a passing status, and would offer to buy the animal, and sell an acceptable sacrifice for an extra fee. Then, they would turn around and sell the animal that they had just denied was an acceptable sacrifice as an acceptable sacrifice. Secondly, they were set up in the court of the Gentiles, taking it over, which basically denied the non-Jewish God-fearers a place to worship.
I'm dissapointed by the size of the pictures in either story. Does anyone know where I might be able to find bigger pictures? (I need a new background.:))
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You know, 19 year olds that look like they're 40? Does he get carded?
If you read Watts' Vampire Domestication PDF, it should answer most of your questions, and let you decide if you are going to read the book or not.
Not to take anything away from Vinge and Rainbows End, but Blindsight was just simply amazing. From the characters to the technology to the plotting style, it took everything good about a first contact story, and then added to it. If you haven't read it, you owe it to yourself to (and the associated Vampire Domestication presentation.) Best of all, Peter Watts has made it, and his previous Rifters trilogy, available online under a Creative Commons license at his website, and it's well worth just downloading and checking it out. I read it CC, and then bought the book. Haven't bought the Rifters set yet, but I probably will my next Amazon order.
Seriously, Blindsight took vampires, transhumans, uploaded minds, and alien contact, and made it into something incredible with the narrative devices, character development, setting and dialog. You need to read the book, and since the first one is free, why not?
If they let the elite have control of how many Skirmishers joined them, or of who the skirmishers are, this could work. For example, the Elite lets two skirmishers play, the skirmishers get fragged, their control jumps to another NPC. Or you had some kind of 'ladder match' where you iterated through a single player level with players taking turns at the Elite spot. That could work. But yeah, it probably won't work well with an open join world. Unless you're a guy who wants a real challenge to beat a bunch of griefers.
...is an Anti-Norton virus.
After one of my users uttered that spoonerism the other day, I am more and more convinced it needs to happen.
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Spring is an open source RTS Engine, created by fans of Total Annihilation. There is actually an active gaming community, and mods based on the engine, like Star Wars : Spring, based on the SW:TA mod.
A communication infrastructure, or a transportation infrastructure? I ask this because what my American viewpoint sees of the middle east is the seeming lack of mass-transportation systems like we have in American (highways, railroads, and the like.) The Middle East also seems to lack a stable communication infrastructure, especially to rural areas. Which do you think is more important, communications or transportation?
Fossils came from the catastrophic, world wide flood described in Genesis 7:17 through 7:24. (Reference) And if you study fossilization, I believe that you would find that the catastrophic answer makes more sense (I am not a Geologist or Palentologist, however.)
Two, ID is a broad and varied ideology. Some ID proponents do claim exactly what you claim.
I find it interesting that you can draw some fairly accurate parallels between Galileo and some modern day ID proponents. Science's foundation is the questioning of established ideas, not the dogmatic defense of them. C'mon, people, take your evolutionary blinders off for a moment, and examine the two theories critically, instead of spasmodically twitching whenever anyone mentions ID.
Certainly, voter fraud is a problem. But let's look at it this way. Bush won the popular vote by ~2-3 million votes (I don't rememeber number exactly). Even if all of the numbers thrown around in the post are valid, would you have said that a president that received a majority of the vote should not win?
Of course, if I had disliked Bush, my answer might be yes, but be honest here. Even if 300,000 votes were fraudulent, that doesn't change this election.
How much of a savings do you anticipate receiving by basically outsourcing this work, as opposed to creating migration tools in-house? I would assume that this is a major reason for CA's decision
Mr. Godwin - Lots of /.ers follow the SCO case, followed the DeCSS, Napster, IP, CIPA, etc. What are some lesser known cases/laws that you forsee as having a large potential impact on 'cyberlaw' as we know it?
It's Linus' optimism. See, RMS insists that if you don't tell people what they can't do with software, that they'll do the worst. Linus assumes that people will do whatever they feel like, and the more they can do, the better, because you can't easily stop a movement. You can stop a man.
Go Linus. I'm not a DRM fan, but I am a fan of you ideology.
Dr. Felten, do you have an suggestion as to what sort of legistlation could be introduced that would soothe the minds of reactionary lawmakers while preserving the rights that we currently enjoy?
To offer a different reading on this topic, which assumes that the story presented in the Bible is factual, -
I think that Jesus was rather disgusted at the layers of elitism that the moneychangers were putting between the common folk and God. First, the moneychangers and other merchants there were also "inspectors" that looked over the animals that the Jews would bring to sacrifice, to inspect that they met ceremonial laws. They would then deny the animal a passing status, and would offer to buy the animal, and sell an acceptable sacrifice for an extra fee. Then, they would turn around and sell the animal that they had just denied was an acceptable sacrifice as an acceptable sacrifice. Secondly, they were set up in the court of the Gentiles, taking it over, which basically denied the non-Jewish God-fearers a place to worship.
That'll do. :D Thank you.
I'm dissapointed by the size of the pictures in either story. Does anyone know where I might be able to find bigger pictures? (I need a new background. :))
Try looking at AtariAge.com. Either the site or their forums should be able to point you in the right direction on where to go.