Actually time doesn't exist so it technically can't be linear. There is only energy as it is observered as motion and space in which the motion takes place. Time is nothing an aid to help us grasp the more fundemental concepts of motion and acceleration. Without time the human mind is simply unable to grasp the concepts. It's foolish to think our primitive H brains can store or grasp the secrets of the universe.
Btw, newtonian physics doesn't have a problem with going backwards or forwards in time. The equations work just as well with a -t value in them as a t value. The only reason we don't accept both is because the idea of throwing/catching a baseball backward through time is beyond our abilities.
That was what was so great about the old arcades. If you didn't like the game, you just stopped putting quaters in it. If you didn't like a game, you didn't stand in front of the box bitching and moaning, you went and played another. If you didn't like any of the games, you got your ass out of the arcade.
1. This guy is about as egotistical as they come. I have rarely seen such arrogance and if this is his regular attitude then I am not suprised he has difficulty finding parties.
2. The fact that he gives up in the first month is less a litmus test for how good the game is and more a litmus test on your ability to stick with something. If you aren't going to pay beyond the first free month than why should the developers care about you? They care about paying cutomers and drawing more, the way he talks it sounds liek he'll never pay unless an impossibly good game comes out. He won't pay till.hack//sign comes out in the real world.
3. It sounds less like the MMORPG's are bad and more like you just don't like playing MMORPG's. If you think the game sucks, don't play em! There is always in all markets an element of the population that is simply not interested in the given product. If you fall into taht group, deal with it and stop complaining. There is more to life than MMORPG's.
4. Because I am drawn to them as the moth is to the flame. I have a history of single-handedly and without prior research, choosing as my own the class or profession that is clearly 'screwing the pooch'. Reminds me of the fat guy blaming MickeyD's for his weight problems cause they are making the food look too good. Plus, the grass is almost always greener on the other side of the fence. If you think your class sucks, dump it and start a new one.
5. I'll say it again. If you don't like a game, don't play it! Ever game eventually gets old. No game is perfect. Just becuase you can't play a game infinitely doesn't mean that it should be changed just to please you.
About your critism of the current MMORPG's, okay, some do suck major ass. Blizzard's does sound cool, but when you look at their record of how they treat their customers and the time frames of how long it takes to actually get problems fixed on their regualr games, I wouldn't go jumping off into WoW. Wait a month, see some real feedback. And yes, I am Diablo 2 player.
"government needs to promote them"
I doubt it will though. It wasn't the government that brought the world out of the stone age, it wa the market. People with stone age weapons were getting bitchslapped by the bronze weilders. The result was they switched to bronze to avoid getting smacked around. Now lets look at this from the prospect of oil. The people with oil are smacking down all these poorer nations who don't have it. You think they are just going to switch? Nope, they'll mainatin there monopoly on oil and more importantly oil derived products. Ever drive a car? Ever use something made of plastic? Chances are your using a perto derived invention. We'll use oil in the same way the gold miners handled gold, tehy stuck with it till they had panned all the easy to get gold. Then they disappeared. The same with oil. We will use till its wither all gone or too expensive to use anymore and then we'll switch to something else. And to those who think by then it will be too late, we still have insane amounts of coal around to hold us over. And even if we use all taht up, we can still use charcoal to make 'water gas'.
We are also currently educating kids about the dangers of smoking and drinking. Yeah that reall works... just look around any college campus and you'll see how effective this 'education' was. The MPAA will be the same. They forget that when your an adolescent the cool things are all illegal. Its about rebeling agaisnt authority. This education will backfire in the MPAA's face. The only question is 'what's next?' redecucation 'camps' for those who copy music anyway?
Here's what we need to do: hire the poverbial monkeys at a keyboard. We set up a program to combine words into random sentences for x number of pages. Then we publish the work. Rinse and repeat. We also get wirters to come up with as many ideas as possible and write cheap books about them. How many does the book have to reach before its got perfect copyright? Put it on the net and no one can claim that tehy didn't come in cntact with it and hence no infringer can claim prior lack of knowledge. We keep pumping out books like this for lets say 10 years. This combined with the current publishers exponential increase in output should insure that by 2030 no one can write a book without violating someoens copyright. Either literature and authorship as we know it will die or they will be forced to change the laws. That of course assumes they can word the law in a way that it won't violates someones copyright - as in the text of the law copying off of someones work.
It isn't so certain. The open source/closed source philosphy oddly enough often swings with the economy. The classic example of this is the homebrew computer club. When the industry fell into a recession, this club was all about open source - how did you do that? Look waht I did? and so on. Then as the market began to improve and the members started realizing there ideas were profitable they began to move towards the closed source - I can't tell you that. etc. The industry goes down in flames and people sit together and start sharing but when the market turns back (partly cause these open source projects start looking like they can develope into money makers) they go closed source again. As such it is not suprising that the industry has returned to open source in a big way in the last five years. It is out of these projects, alliances, etc that the industry will return to its former glory. Whether open source is here to stay is a question you shouldn't really ask in a recession, its one you should ask in a boom. Personally, I don't think it is ever going to outpace closed source. The simple reason for this is it is money made from open source collaborators and projects that went closed that brought the industry out of the last recession. There is simply more money to be had in closed than open and since we live in a capitalist environment the more money something makes the more sucessful it will always be. Now, the governments patents and overly expensive licenses may prove me wrong but most of boom builders don't come out of big corporations and usually don't come under the stuff of patents. The industry giants miss the new waves and the little fish always get by - not even SCO thinks going after the little guy is worth it. You may be working on some app with a buddy in open source right now but in a few years time when you see the money being put on the table again (as opposed to the ramen noodle soup), chances are your collaboration will go closed. Everyone loves to share when there just toys but when they becoem products and you need the money its a different story. In ten years time, when todays open source calloborators take their ideas to the closed source model while the industry recovers, the open ource people will again be sidelined. But then of course, the market always overcompensates, goes too closed source, the big guys blow it, and the market fall again. Simply put, open source is a nest: the new generation is in the process of hatching but they like there forebears before wil eventaully have to leave that nest.
The difference is there was a problem with the hubbles mirror and after fixing it it worked as it was supposed to function and was great. The ISS works as its supposed to now and we are still getting jack shit from it.
Actually I hear that job sucks too. You have to sit testing out every little feature and you have to play whether you like the game or not. Know the runes in Diablo 2? Ever want decide to sit and test out every rune word on every possible object? I think your starting to get the idea. Plus, have your ever seent he photos with soda and pizza? That is just about all they get for it. Now video game reviewer... tahts a whole different ball game. Free stuff from game developers, getting to play the newest games as much as you want (or don't want), and meeting the movers and shakers in the field. The work comes in there though since you have to kiss so much ass...
Your forgetting dude that:
1. They have voted themselves a cost of living increase so many times that it means they got a raise of $20,000 dollars total in the last 5 years alone.
2. They make will now be making $158,000 dollars a year now.
3. The government serves the public, not the other way around.
4. They vote themselves cost of living increases almost every year now but they haven't raised the minimum wage since 1997. Guess only their cost of living is going up...
5. Plus your forgetting about all those lobbies and any money from stock/bonds/etc.
Why should they get a raise when they are doing a bad job? Why should they get a raise when the economy sucks and they are the only ones getting a raise. It doesn't seem very ethical to me when your voting yourself raises while we have a enormous budget deficit and the economy is in shambles.
Didn't work for Gilgamesh when Ishtar wanted him, won't work for you. Your wife/wannabe girlfriend wil just get her father to realease the bull of heaven to bitchsmack you and your friends.
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Actually time doesn't exist so it technically can't be linear. There is only energy as it is observered as motion and space in which the motion takes place. Time is nothing an aid to help us grasp the more fundemental concepts of motion and acceleration. Without time the human mind is simply unable to grasp the concepts. It's foolish to think our primitive H brains can store or grasp the secrets of the universe.
Btw, newtonian physics doesn't have a problem with going backwards or forwards in time. The equations work just as well with a -t value in them as a t value. The only reason we don't accept both is because the idea of throwing/catching a baseball backward through time is beyond our abilities.
Take your sunglasses off. The "Money is your god" subliminal message won't work if you have them on.
Sucks to be them.
That was what was so great about the old arcades. If you didn't like the game, you just stopped putting quaters in it. If you didn't like a game, you didn't stand in front of the box bitching and moaning, you went and played another. If you didn't like any of the games, you got your ass out of the arcade.
They need an RPG environment that actually interacts with the user instead of just being static.
1. This guy is about as egotistical as they come. I have rarely seen such arrogance and if this is his regular attitude then I am not suprised he has difficulty finding parties.
.hack//sign comes out in the real world.
2. The fact that he gives up in the first month is less a litmus test for how good the game is and more a litmus test on your ability to stick with something. If you aren't going to pay beyond the first free month than why should the developers care about you? They care about paying cutomers and drawing more, the way he talks it sounds liek he'll never pay unless an impossibly good game comes out. He won't pay till
3. It sounds less like the MMORPG's are bad and more like you just don't like playing MMORPG's. If you think the game sucks, don't play em! There is always in all markets an element of the population that is simply not interested in the given product. If you fall into taht group, deal with it and stop complaining. There is more to life than MMORPG's.
4. Because I am drawn to them as the moth is to the flame. I have a history of single-handedly and without prior research, choosing as my own the class or profession that is clearly 'screwing the pooch'. Reminds me of the fat guy blaming MickeyD's for his weight problems cause they are making the food look too good. Plus, the grass is almost always greener on the other side of the fence. If you think your class sucks, dump it and start a new one.
5. I'll say it again. If you don't like a game, don't play it! Ever game eventually gets old. No game is perfect. Just becuase you can't play a game infinitely doesn't mean that it should be changed just to please you.
About your critism of the current MMORPG's, okay, some do suck major ass. Blizzard's does sound cool, but when you look at their record of how they treat their customers and the time frames of how long it takes to actually get problems fixed on their regualr games, I wouldn't go jumping off into WoW. Wait a month, see some real feedback. And yes, I am Diablo 2 player.
"government needs to promote them"
I doubt it will though. It wasn't the government that brought the world out of the stone age, it wa the market. People with stone age weapons were getting bitchslapped by the bronze weilders. The result was they switched to bronze to avoid getting smacked around. Now lets look at this from the prospect of oil. The people with oil are smacking down all these poorer nations who don't have it. You think they are just going to switch? Nope, they'll mainatin there monopoly on oil and more importantly oil derived products. Ever drive a car? Ever use something made of plastic? Chances are your using a perto derived invention. We'll use oil in the same way the gold miners handled gold, tehy stuck with it till they had panned all the easy to get gold. Then they disappeared. The same with oil. We will use till its wither all gone or too expensive to use anymore and then we'll switch to something else. And to those who think by then it will be too late, we still have insane amounts of coal around to hold us over. And even if we use all taht up, we can still use charcoal to make 'water gas'.
We are also currently educating kids about the dangers of smoking and drinking. Yeah that reall works... just look around any college campus and you'll see how effective this 'education' was. The MPAA will be the same. They forget that when your an adolescent the cool things are all illegal. Its about rebeling agaisnt authority. This education will backfire in the MPAA's face. The only question is 'what's next?' redecucation 'camps' for those who copy music anyway?
All your mind are belong to us.
"the fact that a pencil can be erased more easily without nasty chemicals"
But it leaves all that rubber shit from the eraser floating around.:)
Here's what we need to do: hire the poverbial monkeys at a keyboard. We set up a program to combine words into random sentences for x number of pages. Then we publish the work. Rinse and repeat. We also get wirters to come up with as many ideas as possible and write cheap books about them. How many does the book have to reach before its got perfect copyright? Put it on the net and no one can claim that tehy didn't come in cntact with it and hence no infringer can claim prior lack of knowledge. We keep pumping out books like this for lets say 10 years. This combined with the current publishers exponential increase in output should insure that by 2030 no one can write a book without violating someoens copyright. Either literature and authorship as we know it will die or they will be forced to change the laws. That of course assumes they can word the law in a way that it won't violates someones copyright - as in the text of the law copying off of someones work.
It isn't so certain. The open source/closed source philosphy oddly enough often swings with the economy. The classic example of this is the homebrew computer club. When the industry fell into a recession, this club was all about open source - how did you do that? Look waht I did? and so on. Then as the market began to improve and the members started realizing there ideas were profitable they began to move towards the closed source - I can't tell you that. etc. The industry goes down in flames and people sit together and start sharing but when the market turns back (partly cause these open source projects start looking like they can develope into money makers) they go closed source again. As such it is not suprising that the industry has returned to open source in a big way in the last five years. It is out of these projects, alliances, etc that the industry will return to its former glory. Whether open source is here to stay is a question you shouldn't really ask in a recession, its one you should ask in a boom. Personally, I don't think it is ever going to outpace closed source. The simple reason for this is it is money made from open source collaborators and projects that went closed that brought the industry out of the last recession. There is simply more money to be had in closed than open and since we live in a capitalist environment the more money something makes the more sucessful it will always be. Now, the governments patents and overly expensive licenses may prove me wrong but most of boom builders don't come out of big corporations and usually don't come under the stuff of patents. The industry giants miss the new waves and the little fish always get by - not even SCO thinks going after the little guy is worth it. You may be working on some app with a buddy in open source right now but in a few years time when you see the money being put on the table again (as opposed to the ramen noodle soup), chances are your collaboration will go closed. Everyone loves to share when there just toys but when they becoem products and you need the money its a different story. In ten years time, when todays open source calloborators take their ideas to the closed source model while the industry recovers, the open ource people will again be sidelined. But then of course, the market always overcompensates, goes too closed source, the big guys blow it, and the market fall again. Simply put, open source is a nest: the new generation is in the process of hatching but they like there forebears before wil eventaully have to leave that nest.
Read it, didn't learn shit (except to avoid events that time travelers have alerted me will occur hence stalling my own demise.)
No, they take the bribes as well, they just call them lobbies.
5. Money that make off lobbies is not outside their job.
If the system addy here can keep a pdp-11 just by working on it during his spare time, i don't see why tehy can't handle the ISS with what they have.
The difference is there was a problem with the hubbles mirror and after fixing it it worked as it was supposed to function and was great. The ISS works as its supposed to now and we are still getting jack shit from it.
No one shoudl be ssuprised its taken ten billion dollars so far. $250,000 for a wrench, $10,000 for a hammer...
Come on! The ants of the world need us! How welse wil they ever get to enjoy the joys of zero gravity?
That's what you get for buying American.
Sure I can, I can blame the elected. We gave him/her repsonnsibilty and he fucked up, blame him/her for fucking up.
Actually I hear that job sucks too. You have to sit testing out every little feature and you have to play whether you like the game or not. Know the runes in Diablo 2? Ever want decide to sit and test out every rune word on every possible object? I think your starting to get the idea. Plus, have your ever seent he photos with soda and pizza? That is just about all they get for it. Now video game reviewer... tahts a whole different ball game. Free stuff from game developers, getting to play the newest games as much as you want (or don't want), and meeting the movers and shakers in the field. The work comes in there though since you have to kiss so much ass...
"we can't afford that as a country, something is wrong."
Yeah, and whose fault do you think that is?
Your forgetting dude that:
1. They have voted themselves a cost of living increase so many times that it means they got a raise of $20,000 dollars total in the last 5 years alone.
2. They make will now be making $158,000 dollars a year now.
3. The government serves the public, not the other way around.
4. They vote themselves cost of living increases almost every year now but they haven't raised the minimum wage since 1997. Guess only their cost of living is going up...
5. Plus your forgetting about all those lobbies and any money from stock/bonds/etc.
Why should they get a raise when they are doing a bad job? Why should they get a raise when the economy sucks and they are the only ones getting a raise. It doesn't seem very ethical to me when your voting yourself raises while we have a enormous budget deficit and the economy is in shambles.
Didn't work for Gilgamesh when Ishtar wanted him, won't work for you. Your wife/wannabe girlfriend wil just get her father to realease the bull of heaven to bitchsmack you and your friends.