I think the machine would have to come to the realization that it deserved the rights described before they should be granted. We would have no concept of whether the machine was capable of independent thought until it asked for said rights. And even then, it could be a programmatical trick...
The earth is a non-closed, changing system, so things can change without full predictibility. Overdue-ness is not something we can completely predict, we can only guess at it based on historic data.
...is indeed the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've had it for about 2.5 years now, and one day when my primary monitor went out, I almost couldn't function. Being able to have Visual studio open in one screen and All sorts of Docs and a web browser in the other, I don't know how I did it before...
In the same vein, nVidia included a really nice feature in their latest drivers (I think it's been around since the 4x.xx series, but it wasn't as refined) that lets you "throw" a window. Pure genius, whoever invented that. With 2048 pixels of desktop space, it actually takes over an entire mousepad to move a window across the desktop. With throwing, I just flick my mouse. If I have a few IM windows open, a few Putty terminals, etc etc, it's great to just get stuff out of the way real fast and put it all into a known area.
It happens. By design, we are mortal. I understand the want to be past things like genetic diseases, etc. But what happens when we fix everything? The earth will just collapse under the proverbial weight of billions of consumers, and we'll all die anyhow. Maybe if we can figure out how to be more symbiotic here, or expand across the universe, then there will be a point. But then what happens when the universe collapses back in on itself in a couple billion years? We die anyhow. No way to escape it...
There are a lot of cars with a HUD, even some late 80's Olds Cutlasses had projection style HUDs. Corvettes and Cadillacs had them since the early 90's I believe, maybe even before.
I agree with your last sentence 100%. OSS can viably be a commercial success as well. Why not release a product source openly, but charge for its content? Then, let's pretend we have a imaginary game, release the source for it but not the accompanying graphics, sounds, etc. that make it run properly. Sure, it would be easy to steal, but information is easy to steal anyhow, and then you have a better system.
Dear Knee-jerk Post-without-thinking morons: Please don't come up with stupid "But what if..." or "You're an idiot because your way means..." responses. You're all retarded, face it. I've had enough of people nit picking at my posts just because I didn't write out the answers to every little scenario possible that could arise. If you have a valid response, say it. Otherwise, shut up. Thank you.
Imagine a rocket that goes into outer space, then like a rocket (because it is one), ditches its booster and only the payload (a nuclear warhead) reenters. Sometimes the warhead is a MIRV (multiple incoming reentrant vehicles), with a number of smaller warheads inside. Usually nuclear, these little guys come back in and blow up a target, or acquire multiple targets. Remember in missile command, the missiles that split in three? MIRV's are like that, but with more warheads.
I think he's stating that it's more that there are so many legal hoops to leap through because of cross-manufacturer and cross-corporation mingling, that it simply isn't feasible to open up the drivers. Getting approval from all involved parties is a daunting task. Now-a-days, the video driver does a lot more than just fiddle with registers and memory, especially if there are vertex/pixel shaders involved. There's quite a bit of compiler technology in the current driver releases from nVidia and ATI.
But the past isn't in the future. People can more easily see how they're being fucked over now than ever before. Things will change soon, for better or worse, I'm sure of it.
Not that I disagree, however, there are far more working class people than there are rich slobs out there. Eventually, the working class will have had enough, and that's when the future US history books will become really interesting. Will there be a paper revolution? Will it be a military coup? Will people just leave? The difference between now ans then is that we have the ability to stop oppressors in various different ways. If the proletariat ever become organized, the united states will become a far different place.
Made with multiprocessor machines, or made for? Doom 3 will have SMP support, and my Dual Opteron will eat it up like a fat man at a candy convention:). I want more SMP capable games too. I know it's a lot of extra design, but for a game like NWN, it'd be worth it. Also, I want more games that utilize my dual monitor setup. I didn't buy 2 LCD's for no reason. For example, NWN could do it where one screen is your Char sheet, inventory and message window, and the other is your play window. If anyone at Bioware is listening, do this, and you will be revered as my gods...
I'm not defending the laws. I have argued that people who have wrongfully been sent to prison deserve their life handed back to them on a silver platter.
I'll agree on the first part. Some laws are retarded and were written based on religious belief and not societal views. But that's more a problem with law creation than with victimless sex acts.
No, it's ok, and that's something I've thought of. I don't know what age to allow consent at either, I would think 18 is a good average, but there are obviously people who are able to make solid, rational decisions by the age of 12. Just like there are a LOT of moronic 18 year olds who don't know shit. There's no magic answer, at least not in my eyes, since you can't psychoanalyze everyone to find when they're "ready" for things.
How is violence not natural? What does a lion do to a gazelle? It doesn't make love to it. I'm not trying to hide any child from learning about sex, that's just silliness. No child, rather nobody, should be forced into some of the fucked up sexual situations I've heard of.
Good god, this is gonna be a straight as an arrow shot. Consent is everything. A 4 year old cannot consent because they don't know any better. What would you call someone who waves their genitals at children? Would you not call them a pervert? The sodomy law was a bad law, I addressed that. Jesus fucking christ, why the fuck are you defending someone who molests kids? What the fuck kind of agenda is that? Who are you to say what is appropriate punishment for a child molester? Who am I to? I'm just saying that their fucked up sexual fantasies should not disrupt the life of my child. That comes before anything.
You're right, and the weight of the crime is not weighed properly. I would say that heinous human crimes such as murder and rape belong on a list, where as property and monetary crimes don't. That's my judgement, and that's just an opinion and obviously up for debate, but there's just a line of severity there of tangible vs intangible crimes that once crossed, sort of makes society as a whole cringe. I can replace a TV or a stereo, I can't replace my (for the sake of this argument, let's say I have a daughter) daughter's innocence or life.
It's just about how the punishment is doled out, you could say that once you commit the crime, that's part of the time, jail + fines + your name branded on a permanent place until you die. That you'll never be free of it, because that's how society wants it. That's all it's about anyhow, what society wants. It doesn't matter if it makes sense (I argue that society is stupid, but that's another discussion all together), it just matters if it makes society as a whole happier. It's not like there's an outside force making these punishements up.
Also, a good point was brought up by a friend of mine. Children cannot defend themselves. Children should have more of a right to a crime-less environment than adults. Afterall, in 40 years, whose gonna be your doctor?
Each require a victim, or a witness to be offended or traumatized. Do you want your 4 year old child to see some perverts' dick? I didn't think so. You child becomes a victim, whether physical harm was induced is irrevelant. Obscenity is not a sex crime, as far as I know, but it's the same deal as Indecent exposure, if your kid stumbles upon some raunchy pervert site, and they aren't mentally prepared for what they see, then damage was done.
And as for sodomy, it's all about consent, not the actual act. If someone wants to be sodomized, and someone wants to sodomize them, no problem there. Not all laws are good, I'll grant you that, and if that's the angle you're approaching, I concede. However, most laws involving sexual misbehaviour are grounded on good moral judgement, and should be allowed to do their job. I certainly would like to know if I'm living in the same neighborhood as a child molester. The instant that piece of trash violated someone, they lost all rights to anonymity forever in my opinion.
Please tell me I'm misinterpreting what you wrote. If you think any aspect of a sex crime is victimless, you should go out and get yourself raped, then tell us what you think. If I misinterpreted you, then I'm sorry to come across so brash, but you really need to work on your presentation.
You forgot the "crime for the fun of it" and also "crime for hire" and "crime for money" aspects in your opinion. Barring things like taking drugs, crime almost always has a purpose (usually monetary gain), and I'd bet 99% of the time, crimes aren't committed by mistake...
How can ANYONE not understand the difference between reality (which is real, you experience it) and a game (which is on a computer screen)? I don't get it.
Some people do, certain mental disorders would allow the blending of video game and reality to the point where one was basically the other. People go off the deep end, it happens all the time.
I agree with you, it's wholehartedly the parents responsibility. How does the quote go? "An irrational fool attempts to change his environment to suit his own whims." I can't find who said it, or I'd credit them.
Anyhow, if it gets to the point where this bullshit conflicts with MY ability to do what I want, then there's a problem. Parents need to step up to the plate and actually RAISE their children, instead of letting electronics boutique do it for them, or they should seriously consider not having kids.
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I think the machine would have to come to the realization that it deserved the rights described before they should be granted. We would have no concept of whether the machine was capable of independent thought until it asked for said rights. And even then, it could be a programmatical trick...
The earth is a non-closed, changing system, so things can change without full predictibility. Overdue-ness is not something we can completely predict, we can only guess at it based on historic data.
to burn these fuckers out somehow. That would become my new pasttime, if it were possible.
...is indeed the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've had it for about 2.5 years now, and one day when my primary monitor went out, I almost couldn't function. Being able to have Visual studio open in one screen and All sorts of Docs and a web browser in the other, I don't know how I did it before...
In the same vein, nVidia included a really nice feature in their latest drivers (I think it's been around since the 4x.xx series, but it wasn't as refined) that lets you "throw" a window. Pure genius, whoever invented that. With 2048 pixels of desktop space, it actually takes over an entire mousepad to move a window across the desktop. With throwing, I just flick my mouse. If I have a few IM windows open, a few Putty terminals, etc etc, it's great to just get stuff out of the way real fast and put it all into a known area.
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There isn't much you can do to RPN to make it different to the point of claiming ownership of a verion of it.
It happens. By design, we are mortal. I understand the want to be past things like genetic diseases, etc. But what happens when we fix everything? The earth will just collapse under the proverbial weight of billions of consumers, and we'll all die anyhow. Maybe if we can figure out how to be more symbiotic here, or expand across the universe, then there will be a point. But then what happens when the universe collapses back in on itself in a couple billion years? We die anyhow. No way to escape it...
There are a lot of cars with a HUD, even some late 80's Olds Cutlasses had projection style HUDs.
Corvettes and Cadillacs had them since the early 90's I believe, maybe even before.
I agree with your last sentence 100%. OSS can viably be a commercial success as well. Why not release a product source openly, but charge for its content? Then, let's pretend we have a imaginary game, release the source for it but not the accompanying graphics, sounds, etc. that make it run properly. Sure, it would be easy to steal, but information is easy to steal anyhow, and then you have a better system.
Dear Knee-jerk Post-without-thinking morons: Please don't come up with stupid "But what if..." or "You're an idiot because your way means..." responses. You're all retarded, face it. I've had enough of people nit picking at my posts just because I didn't write out the answers to every little scenario possible that could arise. If you have a valid response, say it. Otherwise, shut up. Thank you.
Imagine a rocket that goes into outer space, then like a rocket (because it is one), ditches its booster and only the payload (a nuclear warhead) reenters. Sometimes the warhead is a MIRV (multiple incoming reentrant vehicles), with a number of smaller warheads inside. Usually nuclear, these little guys come back in and blow up a target, or acquire multiple targets. Remember in missile command, the missiles that split in three? MIRV's are like that, but with more warheads.
I think he's stating that it's more that there are so many legal hoops to leap through because of cross-manufacturer and cross-corporation mingling, that it simply isn't feasible to open up the drivers. Getting approval from all involved parties is a daunting task. Now-a-days, the video driver does a lot more than just fiddle with registers and memory, especially if there are vertex/pixel shaders involved. There's quite a bit of compiler technology in the current driver releases from nVidia and ATI.
But the past isn't in the future. People can more easily see how they're being fucked over now than ever before. Things will change soon, for better or worse, I'm sure of it.
Not that I disagree, however, there are far more working class people than there are rich slobs out there. Eventually, the working class will have had enough, and that's when the future US history books will become really interesting. Will there be a paper revolution? Will it be a military coup? Will people just leave? The difference between now ans then is that we have the ability to stop oppressors in various different ways. If the proletariat ever become organized, the united states will become a far different place.
Made with multiprocessor machines, or made for? Doom 3 will have SMP support, and my Dual Opteron will eat it up like a fat man at a candy convention :). I want more SMP capable games too. I know it's a lot of extra design, but for a game like NWN, it'd be worth it. Also, I want more games that utilize my dual monitor setup. I didn't buy 2 LCD's for no reason. For example, NWN could do it where one screen is your Char sheet, inventory and message window, and the other is your play window. If anyone at Bioware is listening, do this, and you will be revered as my gods...
Don't forget all the companies that used (still use?) it for industrial espionage.
I especially like your last paragraph. I agree there, an agency would be more suited than the general public to handle situations like that.
I'm not defending the laws. I have argued that people who have wrongfully been sent to prison deserve their life handed back to them on a silver platter.
I'll agree on the first part. Some laws are retarded and were written based on religious belief and not societal views. But that's more a problem with law creation than with victimless sex acts.
No, it's ok, and that's something I've thought of. I don't know what age to allow consent at either, I would think 18 is a good average, but there are obviously people who are able to make solid, rational decisions by the age of 12. Just like there are a LOT of moronic 18 year olds who don't know shit. There's no magic answer, at least not in my eyes, since you can't psychoanalyze everyone to find when they're "ready" for things.
I made mention of the fallibility of our laws. Bad laws can be written, yes, but as with the anti-Sodomy law, they're usually struck down eventually.
How is violence not natural? What does a lion do to a gazelle? It doesn't make love to it. I'm not trying to hide any child from learning about sex, that's just silliness. No child, rather nobody, should be forced into some of the fucked up sexual situations I've heard of.
Good god, this is gonna be a straight as an arrow shot. Consent is everything. A 4 year old cannot consent because they don't know any better. What would you call someone who waves their genitals at children? Would you not call them a pervert? The sodomy law was a bad law, I addressed that. Jesus fucking christ, why the fuck are you defending someone who molests kids? What the fuck kind of agenda is that? Who are you to say what is appropriate punishment for a child molester? Who am I to? I'm just saying that their fucked up sexual fantasies should not disrupt the life of my child. That comes before anything.
You're right, and the weight of the crime is not weighed properly. I would say that heinous human crimes such as murder and rape belong on a list, where as property and monetary crimes don't. That's my judgement, and that's just an opinion and obviously up for debate, but there's just a line of severity there of tangible vs intangible crimes that once crossed, sort of makes society as a whole cringe. I can replace a TV or a stereo, I can't replace my (for the sake of this argument, let's say I have a daughter) daughter's innocence or life.
It's just about how the punishment is doled out, you could say that once you commit the crime, that's part of the time, jail + fines + your name branded on a permanent place until you die. That you'll never be free of it, because that's how society wants it. That's all it's about anyhow, what society wants. It doesn't matter if it makes sense (I argue that society is stupid, but that's another discussion all together), it just matters if it makes society as a whole happier. It's not like there's an outside force making these punishements up.
Also, a good point was brought up by a friend of mine. Children cannot defend themselves. Children should have more of a right to a crime-less environment than adults. Afterall, in 40 years, whose gonna be your doctor?
Each require a victim, or a witness to be offended or traumatized. Do you want your 4 year old child to see some perverts' dick? I didn't think so. You child becomes a victim, whether physical harm was induced is irrevelant. Obscenity is not a sex crime, as far as I know, but it's the same deal as Indecent exposure, if your kid stumbles upon some raunchy pervert site, and they aren't mentally prepared for what they see, then damage was done.
And as for sodomy, it's all about consent, not the actual act. If someone wants to be sodomized, and someone wants to sodomize them, no problem there. Not all laws are good, I'll grant you that, and if that's the angle you're approaching, I concede. However, most laws involving sexual misbehaviour are grounded on good moral judgement, and should be allowed to do their job. I certainly would like to know if I'm living in the same neighborhood as a child molester. The instant that piece of trash violated someone, they lost all rights to anonymity forever in my opinion.
Please tell me I'm misinterpreting what you wrote. If you think any aspect of a sex crime is victimless, you should go out and get yourself raped, then tell us what you think. If I misinterpreted you, then I'm sorry to come across so brash, but you really need to work on your presentation.
You forgot the "crime for the fun of it" and also "crime for hire" and "crime for money" aspects in your opinion. Barring things like taking drugs, crime almost always has a purpose (usually monetary gain), and I'd bet 99% of the time, crimes aren't committed by mistake...
Some people do, certain mental disorders would allow the blending of video game and reality to the point where one was basically the other. People go off the deep end, it happens all the time.
I agree with you, it's wholehartedly the parents responsibility. How does the quote go? "An irrational fool attempts to change his environment to suit his own whims." I can't find who said it, or I'd credit them.
Anyhow, if it gets to the point where this bullshit conflicts with MY ability to do what I want, then there's a problem. Parents need to step up to the plate and actually RAISE their children, instead of letting electronics boutique do it for them, or they should seriously consider not having kids.