You completely misinterpreted what I said. I never claimed that the progress achieved by western culture was a negative thing, in fact I'm a great supporter of it. It's the mindset that's lacking and it's what has lead to the destruction of this planet. Perhaps you don't "believe" in global warming or pollution and its consequences? These have been brought on by western culture's flawed mindset and estrangement from its environment.
Because it originated in the west, i.e. Europe. When America was colonized Western culture went there too. At that time the "far East" was largely unaware of Western culture and it lived on very different principles. Most westerners, for example, cannot begin to comprehend why a Japanese samurai would be willing to commit seppuku at the word of his superior. However, Alan Watts deals with bringing Eastern philosophies and religions and explaining them to the "west". These include Hinduism and Buddhism and their principles. Again, if you're curious about what they are, I recommend checking out that link I had in my original post to the first two chapters of one of this books. Read the first chapter, it's not very long, and tell me what you think.:-)
Before resorting to ad hominem you should at the very least try and attempt to understand what the other side is saying, oh great Anonymous Coward.
To be a follower of Western Culture you need not live in the west. You're right, many modern Chinese live by this lifestyle, and its spread all over the east and into Japan. Check out that link.:-)
It seems that even Hawking believes that any attempt to change Western culture is in vain. Western society bears a remarkable resemblance to cancer. Fly over urban metropolises and you'll see pus and grime coming out of them, a haze of brown tinges their atmosphere. People shuttle to and fro in their daily lives, consuming as much as their salaries will allow. They justify this as acceptable in the "spirit of capitalism". It's "acceptable" to spend all that money on crap you don't need, because everybody else has it, or "it's cool".
They haven't the slightest hint of how to be happy. They're always unsatisfied. They need more and more, and they live for the future.
In these cultures, from the day you are born you are being rushed to some unknown destination. You go to grade school and graduate that, and that's great because then you go on to high school, and you better good grades so that you can graduate and continue on to college. That's great because then you can go on to graduate school and get a job. You continue in hopes of reaching that future success. Then most of these blobs will be told they need to hurry up there too, so that they can meet that quota, and then by the time you're 40, bald, and more or less impotent, you say: "My God! I've arrived!" And you look around and realize that not much changed, and you feel a big let down, you feel deceived, as if there was some hoax played on you. And there was. In their rush to get you to this point they've made you miss everything.
Finally, westerners are incredibly lonely. They feel as if they are isolated egos inside of a bag of skin. Their idea of God is this old "grampa" like figure who's "king of kings" sitting "up there" in heaven and ruling over the cosmos. Well... I could go on about this, but then I'd fill up several pages. If you're interested about what I said here, please know that it was basically all taken from the words of Alan Watts, the 20th century's best and little known-about philosopher and interpreter of Eastern religions. To get a taste of his works read the first two chapters (forgive their design) for free online from his book: "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are".
Dress in black clothing wearing my sister's mascara while cutting my wrist and whimpering? My teacher told me it was "down the street" not "across the highway"...:'-(
Yeah, FF7 is my favorite RPG, that's one of the reasons why I didn't like Advent Children: its plot paled in comparison to FF7's plot. They should just turn FF7 into a movie.
In terms of visual effects and animation, sure I can agree to the "stunning" remark, but when it came to the plot, Advent Children fell more along the lines of mind "numbing".
I'm having some real issues with this article. And I'm having some greater issues with everybody's attitude here. Some of you don't seem to understand that something like global warming is still within the reach of humanities control. Many of you have given up hope, some of you live in a fairy tail and "don't believe" (as if Global Warming were a religion to be believe in). Let me break it down for you: This thing can be stopped. Whoever tells you otherwise is probably not the most trustworthy source.
Example: One method of stopping global warming is to kill off half of the world's population. Yes, it's possible, but not very practical. However, I'm just illustrating a point, there's no reason why a solution cannot be made to this problem. All we lack is the technology, and that we can create. Stop your pansy-ass whining and go become a scientist or engineer, or just STFU and play your WoW, at least don't bother the rest of the world.
Oh, and whoever modded the parent post as "Overrated", you sir, are a moron, and that is not a matter of opinion.;-)
While I didn't read all of it, here's an interesting quote from Woz:
I don't even call it a problem; it's just something you learn to work around. It's like, there was such a cleaner, good approach to it and they did this stupid thing. But remember, the people who wrote the OS X weren't the people who developed the Lisa and Macintosh. Those guys are gone.
You can tell this guy has "lost touch" when he starts recommending you use OS 9 over OS X; I'm glad those days are over personally, I kind of like being able to fully multitask.
Garbage collection does not equal poor performance. In some instances, it actually speeds things up--when done properly. Take, for example, the D Programming language. It's just as fast as C (faster in some cases) yet it has a garbage collector. The reason is that most programmers tend to not realize that the free() operation actually takes up a decent amount of CPU cycles, and when you're freeing a bunch of little things all over the place, the overhead tends to add up. With a well-designed garbage collector, however, memory is freed all in one big chunk in a single go, and thereby decreasing that overhead. The myth that garbage collection = poor performance is just that, a myth, and most likely started by people who associate Java's performance issues with garbage collection.
To understand how games are made in the first place. What kind of a game is it? Is it a single player game, or multiplayer game? If it's multiplayer you'll have to watch out for code designed to keep the game logic at a fixed rate; all other code will be built on top of that. Singly player games on the other hand don't have to worry about all the intricacies of keeping the various game clients in sync.
So it really depends on the kind of game it is. Since I'm assuming you know this, I would suggest trying to first think how you would write the game yourself, and then see if you find any similarities between your ideas for the engine structure and the games.
I just got off the phone with a team that's there. Apparently Stanford did the best in the semifinals so far, making it through the obstacle course without hitting a single cone and cruising at a comfortable 40 mph. Carnage Mellon, a favorite last year, actually did surprisingly bad and ended up hitting a lot of cones. The University of Florida also had a good run, only nicking a cone or two. It seems like it's gonna be a worthwhile race this year. And trust me, it is really difficult to make one of these machines.
It takes about 4 seconds for an object 300 feet in the air to fall to the ground. In other words, even less of a chance this thing would be mistaken for a UFO.
I'm in the middle of studying for my Chemistry quiz, when I figure, hey, I haven't check slashdot in the last couple of seconds, so lo and behold, out of the bloody blue, there's a story talking about my government giving a moron the power to nuke whoever he wants. WHY???? Where they bored? Did they feel they didn't fuck enough things up? Nuclear war is no joke! It doesn't matter what the reason or who you're bombing; nuking someone is wrong!
There's no reason and entire city of innocent people needs to be wiped out just because these idiots can't get along...
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You completely misinterpreted what I said. I never claimed that the progress achieved by western culture was a negative thing, in fact I'm a great supporter of it. It's the mindset that's lacking and it's what has lead to the destruction of this planet. Perhaps you don't "believe" in global warming or pollution and its consequences? These have been brought on by western culture's flawed mindset and estrangement from its environment.
Happiness has nothing to do with culture, and everything to do with your state of mind.
I agree it has everything to do with your state of mind, but you'll be a fool to think your culture doesn't affect it.
Because it originated in the west, i.e. Europe. When America was colonized Western culture went there too. At that time the "far East" was largely unaware of Western culture and it lived on very different principles. Most westerners, for example, cannot begin to comprehend why a Japanese samurai would be willing to commit seppuku at the word of his superior. However, Alan Watts deals with bringing Eastern philosophies and religions and explaining them to the "west". These include Hinduism and Buddhism and their principles. Again, if you're curious about what they are, I recommend checking out that link I had in my original post to the first two chapters of one of this books. Read the first chapter, it's not very long, and tell me what you think. :-)
Before resorting to ad hominem you should at the very least try and attempt to understand what the other side is saying, oh great Anonymous Coward.
:-)
To be a follower of Western Culture you need not live in the west. You're right, many modern Chinese live by this lifestyle, and its spread all over the east and into Japan. Check out that link.
It seems that even Hawking believes that any attempt to change Western culture is in vain. Western society bears a remarkable resemblance to cancer. Fly over urban metropolises and you'll see pus and grime coming out of them, a haze of brown tinges their atmosphere. People shuttle to and fro in their daily lives, consuming as much as their salaries will allow. They justify this as acceptable in the "spirit of capitalism". It's "acceptable" to spend all that money on crap you don't need, because everybody else has it, or "it's cool".
They haven't the slightest hint of how to be happy. They're always unsatisfied. They need more and more, and they live for the future.
In these cultures, from the day you are born you are being rushed to some unknown destination. You go to grade school and graduate that, and that's great because then you go on to high school, and you better good grades so that you can graduate and continue on to college. That's great because then you can go on to graduate school and get a job. You continue in hopes of reaching that future success. Then most of these blobs will be told they need to hurry up there too, so that they can meet that quota, and then by the time you're 40, bald, and more or less impotent, you say: "My God! I've arrived!" And you look around and realize that not much changed, and you feel a big let down, you feel deceived, as if there was some hoax played on you. And there was. In their rush to get you to this point they've made you miss everything.
Finally, westerners are incredibly lonely. They feel as if they are isolated egos inside of a bag of skin. Their idea of God is this old "grampa" like figure who's "king of kings" sitting "up there" in heaven and ruling over the cosmos. Well... I could go on about this, but then I'd fill up several pages. If you're interested about what I said here, please know that it was basically all taken from the words of Alan Watts, the 20th century's best and little known-about philosopher and interpreter of Eastern religions. To get a taste of his works read the first two chapters (forgive their design) for free online from his book: "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are".
What would you do?
:'-(
Dress in black clothing wearing my sister's mascara while cutting my wrist and whimpering? My teacher told me it was "down the street" not "across the highway"...
and prevents the 'promotion of a dispirited or negative view of life'
You WILL be happy or else! Can't you see the logic in that??? Damn pessimists.
Yeah, FF7 is my favorite RPG, that's one of the reasons why I didn't like Advent Children: its plot paled in comparison to FF7's plot. They should just turn FF7 into a movie.
In terms of visual effects and animation, sure I can agree to the "stunning" remark, but when it came to the plot, Advent Children fell more along the lines of mind "numbing".
Are you kidding me??? You obviously don't know how to kill yourself like a man.
I'm having some real issues with this article. And I'm having some greater issues with everybody's attitude here. Some of you don't seem to understand that something like global warming is still within the reach of humanities control. Many of you have given up hope, some of you live in a fairy tail and "don't believe" (as if Global Warming were a religion to be believe in). Let me break it down for you: This thing can be stopped. Whoever tells you otherwise is probably not the most trustworthy source.
;-)
Example: One method of stopping global warming is to kill off half of the world's population. Yes, it's possible, but not very practical. However, I'm just illustrating a point, there's no reason why a solution cannot be made to this problem. All we lack is the technology, and that we can create. Stop your pansy-ass whining and go become a scientist or engineer, or just STFU and play your WoW, at least don't bother the rest of the world.
Oh, and whoever modded the parent post as "Overrated", you sir, are a moron, and that is not a matter of opinion.
If you spend 15 hours either programming or reading, where do you fit in the time to have a good wank?
everybody hates karma whores! ;-)
TFA does not state when this will be played. Anybody know?
You can tell this guy has "lost touch" when he starts recommending you use OS 9 over OS X; I'm glad those days are over personally, I kind of like being able to fully multitask.
Garbage collection does not equal poor performance. In some instances, it actually speeds things up--when done properly. Take, for example, the D Programming language. It's just as fast as C (faster in some cases) yet it has a garbage collector. The reason is that most programmers tend to not realize that the free() operation actually takes up a decent amount of CPU cycles, and when you're freeing a bunch of little things all over the place, the overhead tends to add up. With a well-designed garbage collector, however, memory is freed all in one big chunk in a single go, and thereby decreasing that overhead. The myth that garbage collection = poor performance is just that, a myth, and most likely started by people who associate Java's performance issues with garbage collection.
Grab your pitchforks--No! Mice! Yes! Grab your mice and let's stab--NO! CLICK! YES! AND LET'S CLICK THEIR WEBSITE TO DEATH!!
To understand how games are made in the first place. What kind of a game is it? Is it a single player game, or multiplayer game? If it's multiplayer you'll have to watch out for code designed to keep the game logic at a fixed rate; all other code will be built on top of that. Singly player games on the other hand don't have to worry about all the intricacies of keeping the various game clients in sync.
So it really depends on the kind of game it is. Since I'm assuming you know this, I would suggest trying to first think how you would write the game yourself, and then see if you find any similarities between your ideas for the engine structure and the games.
I just got off the phone with a team that's there. Apparently Stanford did the best in the semifinals so far, making it through the obstacle course without hitting a single cone and cruising at a comfortable 40 mph. Carnage Mellon, a favorite last year, actually did surprisingly bad and ended up hitting a lot of cones. The University of Florida also had a good run, only nicking a cone or two. It seems like it's gonna be a worthwhile race this year. And trust me, it is really difficult to make one of these machines.
These guys are probably jumping up and down right now enthusiastically screaming "YES! YES! YES!"
It takes about 4 seconds for an object 300 feet in the air to fall to the ground. In other words, even less of a chance this thing would be mistaken for a UFO.
I for one welcome our new plague-infested mice overlords!
WTF is wrong with our government?!?!?
I'm in the middle of studying for my Chemistry quiz, when I figure, hey, I haven't check slashdot in the last couple of seconds, so lo and behold, out of the bloody blue, there's a story talking about my government giving a moron the power to nuke whoever he wants. WHY???? Where they bored? Did they feel they didn't fuck enough things up? Nuclear war is no joke! It doesn't matter what the reason or who you're bombing; nuking someone is wrong!
There's no reason and entire city of innocent people needs to be wiped out just because these idiots can't get along...