All of which were depicted in both movie and book. I found the movie to be more disturbing than the book - mostly because of that funky boatride, I'll admit.
The glaringly obvious difference between film/music/art and games is fairly obvious - games are interactive. With a movie, a song, or a piece of art, everyone has the same basic material to work with when it comes to interpreting it. Anyone who has seen the movie knows the scene you are referring to when you start discussing it. Compare this to computer games: Unless the game is totally linear, players may encounter the scene in a different order. They can probably also skip scenes of the game. If the game is dependant on initial conditions (RPGs, for example, where you generate your character), there are whole swathes of skills and abilites that each player will not experience on their first run through a game. Thus what we are left with is reviews of the lowest common denominator, reviews which only discuss that which every player will experience in the game - graphics, music, controls, etc.
Not really; it depends on how well we can reverse engineer our bodies. As I understand it, when we want to move, our minds generate an impulse that travels down one of our motor nerves, which activates the appropriate muscle - wallah, movement. So if our clever scientists can just figure out which nerves trigger which movements, and to what degree, using a prosthetic limb should be no different to using a normal one.
Well, if they're using impulses in the motor nerves to direct motion, couldn't they induce impulses in the sensory nerves to generate sensation? Maybe the next generation prosthetic limbs will have tactile feedback.
How many people take that into consideration when they're driving though? I mean, it's pretty common knowledge that spinning your wheels when you take off, changing lanes like a maniac to get to the front, and generally annoying other drivers only gets you to the next light first, but people do it all the time. Many people only think about the fact that they're going slow now, not how far going fast will actually get them.
What's with trying to assosciate this hardwired behaviour/human animal crap with everything people do? This behaviour is actually the *opposite* of animal behaviour - dogs (another pack animal) don't go telling all the other dogs about that cool bone - they go bury it so the other dogs don't find it. I remember hearing somewhere (probably the zoo) that the Chimp is the only other mammal apart from humans that willingly share food. The only other animals I know of that share knowledge about where to find food are bees - hive animals. Which I think is probably just as likely an evolutionary path for some people I know of;p
I can't imagine that the peer pressure on the mothers, with all of their kids flocking to the little blipping, flashing, toy helped.
Not to pick on you or anything, but that's not peer pressure. That's just plain old ordinary pressure. Peer pressure would be if other mothers (ie: peers) were putting pressure on her to by the toy.
Mounts come in at level 40 - and there's a hell a lot of walking to do before then. That said, after your first 10 levels or so, you don't need to walk much. Griffins (or Horde equivelant) cost next to nothing after you've hit level 12 or 14. Then there's the Deeprun Tram for free between Stormwind and Ironforge, and I think the Horde has a Zeppelin? Many classes also get their own transport abilities - Druids and Shaman get a travel form, Mages get a teleport, Hunters get Aspect of the Cheetah, etc. Plus you've got Warlocks who, with two other people to help them, can summon another player from anywhere else in the game. Oh, and don't forget your hearthstone you can use once every hour. Although mounts are a high-level bonus, there are plenty of travel alternatives from very early on.
yay! so we can still say our cars only put water in the air... but making the hydrogen results in nuclear waste
Which is solid, containable, and produced at centralized facilities which can be scrutinized easily, instead of being pumped out the back of millions of individual cars straight into the atmosphere every day.
$6 for manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and store profits. $9 into the pocket. You can't beat that.
Because making the movie in the first place shouldn't be factored into this profit equation, should it? Box office sales can be huge, but so can the cost of making a box office hit.
Plese tell me wear I mentioned iris patterns. Please tell me where I mentioned fingerprints. Please tell me where I mentioned it was mandated this identity be shown at any time. Please tell me how a card and a database entry, which can be invalidated at any time, is equivelant to a branding (and even if you have biometric data on a card, that card's number can be registered as invalid). Please tell me a card, which is not displayed regularly, can be used to track an individual.
And again I ask you, as for photographs and numbers, exactly how is this different to SSN or a driver's license. Explain to me exactly why you couldn't round up Jews by examining their SSN entries. Answer the damn points, and stop mouthing off about things you obviously cannot defend outside foul language, rhetoric and baseless emotional appeals.
t makes me sick to my stomach to read the robotic stock replies, "I havent got anything to hide", "They already use SSN, so why not", and all of these other assemply line arguments from these pathetic drones who couldnt think themeselvs out of a paper bag. They are unprincipled, stupid and are very much the cause of the problem, because if they refused to comply with a national ID card scheme, ANY scheme, it would die instantly. The ones I despise the most are the inured from birth saying, "It doesnt hurt me, Im used to it".
Well, how about you actually answer the points raised, rather than spouting post-modernist nonsense-rhetoric? The point of an identification system is to assosciate a name with a body, just as an SSL certificate is used to assosciate a domain name with a physical entity. I hate to break your philosophical bubble, but having a piece of plastic issued to you does not mystically "indellably brand you with a single identity".
So, either give me an example of some horrible monstrosity that could be performed with a national scheme as opposed to SSNs, driver's licenses, etc, or shut the hell up.
(This only began to subside a bit in the late 1980s after the infamous case of a driver in Boston who pulled over, fell out of his car, and lay on the sidewalk having a heart attack; as you can guess, a traffic cop proceeded to ticket his car WHILE HE WAS LYING THERE and the whole sorry scene was captured in a photograph for the Boston Globe's front page.)
That's not a troll - I read the interview and agree with the parent. Graham just comes across as totally uninterested in the game. It's just an interview for the sake of a famous name - and possibly, famous body.
I'm not talking about old business models vs new, or anything like that. I'm simply saying that a programmer who has to ensure he is not infringing a hundrend patents every time he writes a line of code is going to be less efficient than one who doesn't.
But Ferarri don't say that every stolen Ferarri is a lost sale, and that therefore car theives have cost Ferarri $X million in the last year. The problem is not wether the act is illegal (both car theft and copyright infringement are illegal), it's that the RIAA/MPAA are claiming huge, fictitious losses due to it.
No, it wouldn't solve the problem. That just encrypts the traffic end-to-end, which isn't how the MPAA would get thier information.
BitTorrent works like this. Download a.torrent file. It tells your BT client the location of the tracker, and a unique ID representing your file. The client opens a connection to the tracker, and requests the IP addresses of some peers. The tracker picks about 20 peers, sends your client the IP addresses, and your client then opens connections to the peers and starts uploading/downloading to them.
For the MPAA to get IP addresses, all they have to do is connect to the tracker and say "Hey, gimme some IP addresses", and the tracker will gladly oblige. Encrypting the tracker traffic would just mean nobody could eavesdrop on exactly *which* IP addresses the MPAA was receiving.
Who says anything about American's moving overseas? American's don't have to emigrate for development to happen overseas. What will happen though, as the US gets more and more tied down with stuff like software patents, and authors being sued when people dont like your customers, is that software development in the US will slow. And that means that when there is a demand for software, it won't be American that fulfils it. America is legislating away its dominant position in the software market.
"I looked all through the prefs and couldn't find any settings that looked like they were correct. I tried searching the web to no avail. The docs that come with FireFox don't mention this either. I'm using FirFox 9.3 downloaded from Mozilla.org on Mandrake 10.0. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks."
That quote isn't from me, so I don't know what relevence it has.
The attitude that needs adjusting is peoples unwillingness to learn and be self sefficiant. OSS is not about gratis software as much as it is about having access to the underlying machanics so that you can experiment and learn. If you want "supported" software then go use commercial proprietary software. Their support is just fantastic.
I agree, people should learn how to be independant an self-sufficient when it comes to understanding the software they use. That wasn't the point I was making. What turns me off a lot of OS software is the fact that when I enter a supposed "help" forum, I get called a newbie and sworn at. ("go read the fucking manual"). It's that attitude that is the problem - don't want to help, fine, you don't have to. But don't expect people to adopt your fine software if all you do is sneer at their ignorance and swear at them whenever they have a question.
The whole point is that these aren't John Doe lawsuits. A John Doe lawsuit is when you file suit against a person yet to be identified, the court studies your claim, reveals the identity of the person, and then proceeds like a normal lawsuit. These lawsuits are not John Does. The RIAA scares the users details out of their ISP, and the sues them normally. So the RIAA can scare out the details with no obligation to the proceed with a court case. According to the article, there's been about 6,200 lawsuits. Only around 200 have been John Does.
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All of which were depicted in both movie and book. I found the movie to be more disturbing than the book - mostly because of that funky boatride, I'll admit.
The glaringly obvious difference between film/music/art and games is fairly obvious - games are interactive. With a movie, a song, or a piece of art, everyone has the same basic material to work with when it comes to interpreting it. Anyone who has seen the movie knows the scene you are referring to when you start discussing it. Compare this to computer games: Unless the game is totally linear, players may encounter the scene in a different order. They can probably also skip scenes of the game. If the game is dependant on initial conditions (RPGs, for example, where you generate your character), there are whole swathes of skills and abilites that each player will not experience on their first run through a game. Thus what we are left with is reviews of the lowest common denominator, reviews which only discuss that which every player will experience in the game - graphics, music, controls, etc.
Not really; it depends on how well we can reverse engineer our bodies. As I understand it, when we want to move, our minds generate an impulse that travels down one of our motor nerves, which activates the appropriate muscle - wallah, movement. So if our clever scientists can just figure out which nerves trigger which movements, and to what degree, using a prosthetic limb should be no different to using a normal one.
Well, if they're using impulses in the motor nerves to direct motion, couldn't they induce impulses in the sensory nerves to generate sensation? Maybe the next generation prosthetic limbs will have tactile feedback.
How many people take that into consideration when they're driving though? I mean, it's pretty common knowledge that spinning your wheels when you take off, changing lanes like a maniac to get to the front, and generally annoying other drivers only gets you to the next light first, but people do it all the time. Many people only think about the fact that they're going slow now, not how far going fast will actually get them.
What's with trying to assosciate this hardwired behaviour/human animal crap with everything people do? This behaviour is actually the *opposite* of animal behaviour - dogs (another pack animal) don't go telling all the other dogs about that cool bone - they go bury it so the other dogs don't find it. I remember hearing somewhere (probably the zoo) that the Chimp is the only other mammal apart from humans that willingly share food. The only other animals I know of that share knowledge about where to find food are bees - hive animals. Which I think is probably just as likely an evolutionary path for some people I know of ;p
I can't imagine that the peer pressure on the mothers, with all of their kids flocking to the little blipping, flashing, toy helped.
Not to pick on you or anything, but that's not peer pressure. That's just plain old ordinary pressure. Peer pressure would be if other mothers (ie: peers) were putting pressure on her to by the toy.
Mounts come in at level 40 - and there's a hell a lot of walking to do before then. That said, after your first 10 levels or so, you don't need to walk much. Griffins (or Horde equivelant) cost next to nothing after you've hit level 12 or 14. Then there's the Deeprun Tram for free between Stormwind and Ironforge, and I think the Horde has a Zeppelin? Many classes also get their own transport abilities - Druids and Shaman get a travel form, Mages get a teleport, Hunters get Aspect of the Cheetah, etc. Plus you've got Warlocks who, with two other people to help them, can summon another player from anywhere else in the game. Oh, and don't forget your hearthstone you can use once every hour. Although mounts are a high-level bonus, there are plenty of travel alternatives from very early on.
yay! so we can still say our cars only put water in the air... but making the hydrogen results in nuclear waste
Which is solid, containable, and produced at centralized facilities which can be scrutinized easily, instead of being pumped out the back of millions of individual cars straight into the atmosphere every day.
$6 for manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and store profits. $9 into the pocket. You can't beat that.
Because making the movie in the first place shouldn't be factored into this profit equation, should it? Box office sales can be huge, but so can the cost of making a box office hit.
And you are an arrogant, foul-mouthed moron.
Plese tell me wear I mentioned iris patterns. Please tell me where I mentioned fingerprints. Please tell me where I mentioned it was mandated this identity be shown at any time. Please tell me how a card and a database entry, which can be invalidated at any time, is equivelant to a branding (and even if you have biometric data on a card, that card's number can be registered as invalid). Please tell me a card, which is not displayed regularly, can be used to track an individual.
And again I ask you, as for photographs and numbers, exactly how is this different to SSN or a driver's license. Explain to me exactly why you couldn't round up Jews by examining their SSN entries. Answer the damn points, and stop mouthing off about things you obviously cannot defend outside foul language, rhetoric and baseless emotional appeals.
t makes me sick to my stomach to read the robotic stock replies, "I havent got anything to hide", "They already use SSN, so why not", and all of these other assemply line arguments from these pathetic drones who couldnt think themeselvs out of a paper bag. They are unprincipled, stupid and are very much the cause of the problem, because if they refused to comply with a national ID card scheme, ANY scheme, it would die instantly. The ones I despise the most are the inured from birth saying, "It doesnt hurt me, Im used to it".
Well, how about you actually answer the points raised, rather than spouting post-modernist nonsense-rhetoric? The point of an identification system is to assosciate a name with a body, just as an SSL certificate is used to assosciate a domain name with a physical entity. I hate to break your philosophical bubble, but having a piece of plastic issued to you does not mystically "indellably brand you with a single identity".
So, either give me an example of some horrible monstrosity that could be performed with a national scheme as opposed to SSNs, driver's licenses, etc, or shut the hell up.
(This only began to subside a bit in the late 1980s after the infamous case of a driver in Boston who pulled over, fell out of his car, and lay on the sidewalk having a heart attack; as you can guess, a traffic cop proceeded to ticket his car WHILE HE WAS LYING THERE and the whole sorry scene was captured in a photograph for the Boston Globe's front page.)
So what was the photographer doing?
That's not a troll - I read the interview and agree with the parent. Graham just comes across as totally uninterested in the game. It's just an interview for the sake of a famous name - and possibly, famous body.
$2000 plus an expensive cherry rolltop computer desk by the sound of it.
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I'm not talking about old business models vs new, or anything like that. I'm simply saying that a programmer who has to ensure he is not infringing a hundrend patents every time he writes a line of code is going to be less efficient than one who doesn't.
But Ferarri don't say that every stolen Ferarri is a lost sale, and that therefore car theives have cost Ferarri $X million in the last year. The problem is not wether the act is illegal (both car theft and copyright infringement are illegal), it's that the RIAA/MPAA are claiming huge, fictitious losses due to it.
No, it wouldn't solve the problem. That just encrypts the traffic end-to-end, which isn't how the MPAA would get thier information.
.torrent file. It tells your BT client the location of the tracker, and a unique ID representing your file. The client opens a connection to the tracker, and requests the IP addresses of some peers. The tracker picks about 20 peers, sends your client the IP addresses, and your client then opens connections to the peers and starts uploading/downloading to them.
BitTorrent works like this. Download a
For the MPAA to get IP addresses, all they have to do is connect to the tracker and say "Hey, gimme some IP addresses", and the tracker will gladly oblige. Encrypting the tracker traffic would just mean nobody could eavesdrop on exactly *which* IP addresses the MPAA was receiving.
Who says anything about American's moving overseas? American's don't have to emigrate for development to happen overseas. What will happen though, as the US gets more and more tied down with stuff like software patents, and authors being sued when people dont like your customers, is that software development in the US will slow. And that means that when there is a demand for software, it won't be American that fulfils it. America is legislating away its dominant position in the software market.
Neither do windows users who use VLC media player. Free software too, btw.
Let me know how that turns out. Me, I'm rather suspicious of a roofing tile that comes with a hole in the middle.
Where is this Diablo 3 of which you speak, and where may I get my hands on it?
"I looked all through the prefs and couldn't find any settings that looked like they were correct. I tried searching the web to no avail. The docs that come with FireFox don't mention this either. I'm using FirFox 9.3 downloaded from Mozilla.org on Mandrake 10.0. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks."
That quote isn't from me, so I don't know what relevence it has.
The attitude that needs adjusting is peoples unwillingness to learn and be self sefficiant. OSS is not about gratis software as much as it is about having access to the underlying machanics so that you can experiment and learn. If you want "supported" software then go use commercial proprietary software. Their support is just fantastic.
I agree, people should learn how to be independant an self-sufficient when it comes to understanding the software they use. That wasn't the point I was making. What turns me off a lot of OS software is the fact that when I enter a supposed "help" forum, I get called a newbie and sworn at. ("go read the fucking manual"). It's that attitude that is the problem - don't want to help, fine, you don't have to. But don't expect people to adopt your fine software if all you do is sneer at their ignorance and swear at them whenever they have a question.
The whole point is that these aren't John Doe lawsuits. A John Doe lawsuit is when you file suit against a person yet to be identified, the court studies your claim, reveals the identity of the person, and then proceeds like a normal lawsuit. These lawsuits are not John Does. The RIAA scares the users details out of their ISP, and the sues them normally. So the RIAA can scare out the details with no obligation to the proceed with a court case. According to the article, there's been about 6,200 lawsuits. Only around 200 have been John Does.