For me, the philosophical point of "What is Deja Vu" was the part I found most interesting - Maybe Deja Vu is where they made adjustments to the reality simulator you are living in.
I'd often thought "What if this is all bullshit?" before, but never once had I pondered what Deja Vu is. (Probably the best explanation is your right and left hemispheres failing a comparison between themselves, and spiking a signal to take a second look.)
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"If you want to play WoW until you literally drop dead, that is 100% YOUR problem."
I 100% agree with you on that statement, but I would swap out "should be" for "is". However, I also agree with the parent.
What we're saying is IF they win this case, which says that they somehow have the right to regulate what third party software you run on your own machine while you are running WoW on your machine, then that must mean that they get all rights (and responsibilities) to the operation of their software, which in turn would mean (In a legal sense, not in a "real world" or "fair" sense) that they also assume legal liability for use of their software in ways which would harm others.
Or simpler, if they want such complete dictatorship over how their software is run, then if someone is somehow harmed by running their software, then it only seems fair that they also can be sued in that case, because if they have absolute control over how their software runs, then it is their fault that anyone could be hurt by using their software, since they allowed the use of their software in that manner, thus they are legally liable.
I don't think Blizzard has considered both edges of the sword they are playing with.
If the chainsaw manufacturer sends a company representative to watch and control your every move with the chainsaw, and said representative did not interfere with your attempts at juggling the chainsaw, then by lack of action, the company has implicitly allowed/authorized you to juggle the chain saw, therefore they are responsible for your actions, regardless of how stupid your actions were.
They changed to the "humans as batteries" because they judged the average viewer coudn't comprehend the idea of "humans as co-processors" idea in the original story. So it got Hollywooded, and we are all slightly dumber for it having been changed to a "lowest common denominator" story.:(
In the seven ages of man (The ~10,000 year cycles, not the poem from Shakespeare referring to the Stone/Bronze/Iron ages, but the times in which one age is all but forgotten by the next age.), each time mankind has attained the technology plateau to establish civilization on Mars it has been short-lived. The societal stresses from multiple worlds is something our race has yet still not learned to appreciate. Man still seems to need to control and destroy.
Very few relics of the previous age persist. Even the garbage of the previous age has been lost to time. Very occasionally, we will find a curious relic, such as a spark plug inside of a rock.
Curiously the longest-lasting civilization was during the 3rd Age. Nearly 500 years before collapsing. But then it collapsed with the worst destruction so far. Even the moon shows the scars from that horrible conflict - all the largest patches on the moon are from fusion weapons, not naturally-occurring craters as they would have us believe. Fusion weapons to wipe all trace of there ever being cities on the moon. To return the world to a simplistic agrarian existence until the rise of the next golden age.
Mars is the filter, the filter to see if we have yet reached the evolutionary level to not bicker as small children when in this situation.
Why do you think the named the planet after the god of war anyway? Racial memory.
What else explains Bush wanting to send people to Mars - he's not just betting on a single apocalyptic prediction, the Armageddon legend isn't failsafe. [Just kidding about that one - I hope!!]
Because gun control laws have proven so effective in reducing crime, right?
Come on guy, give me a fucking break. All those laws do is make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain life-preservers to use to protect themselves against the people who just ignored the gun laws.
I haven't written a line of code in C or C++ since I started with C# - C/C++ syntax with no tracking of memory (I detest tracking memory!!) except in the more obscure situations. Both.NET and Mono allow for C#, so you're not stuck on one platform.
"One of the fastest growing religious movements in the US is the "prosperity ministry" where they preach that Jesus was really a rich, upper-middle class guy who would never be seen riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey."
Now if you buy one of those sucky widescreen laptops you see at most big box stores, yah, they suck, way too little resolution.
But if you get one of the ones with the 1920x1200 widescreens (Like my Dell D810), then I've got no problem with them. They rock. (Assuming you have good eyesight or appropriate glasses/contacts!!)
Very good point of view. We need to put an immediate end to allowing leadership by these short-sighted legislative drones. They are destroying a lot of good, for no apparent reason.
Have they actually had any circumstances justifying such Draconian legislation?
Or is this just a big power grab?
If any country should be aware of the dangers of somewhat-haphazardly designating a large number of people as criminal/undesirable/incorrigible, it should be Australia. A whole bunch of supposedly worthless uncivilizable "criminals" shipped to Australia as "lost causes" turned the whole thing around and built themselves a nice place to live, and now they are fucking it back up themselves. Trying to turn most of themselves back into so-called "criminals".
If we were smart, we would SAVE our oil, drain the Mideast dry (circa 2050), and then say, "Hey guys; we've got oil over in America" and charge $1000 a barrel. We'd be rich. (But of course, we're short-term thinkers; we won't do that.)
You don't think that's already been the plan since the 1950s? In this game, it's whoever finishes LAST that wins. Drain the middle east, and then we get back to ruling the world. We shoulda had no problem with this, but we didn't forsee the growth of China and India. We thought they'd stay backwards no-tech places forever.
Very good point. The term for it is Common Carrier Status. Modify nothing passing across your network and you are a common carrier. Unlike Comcast, who lost that when they started playing around with packet delivery.
The point being made was that Westerns tend to evangelize the belief that "Might makes right", vs Science Fiction tending to push the belief that long-term planning and applied thought is a far better premise on which to base our society.
Using the word "tend" to convey "most, but not all".
Are you fucking kidding me? Both approaches (Flash and Silverlight) are highjacking attempts. I refuse to install either one. They are bullshit from sucky programmers. If you can't do it with HTML and Javascript (Backed by the server code of your choice - C#, Java, RoR, PERL, whatever), then go home, you are a sucky coder.
I just put in "C#", no "developer" added, as then you have to consider additional words like "programmer", "software engineer", etc. that will affect the count.
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For me, the philosophical point of "What is Deja Vu" was the part I found most interesting - Maybe Deja Vu is where they made adjustments to the reality simulator you are living in.
I'd often thought "What if this is all bullshit?" before, but never once had I pondered what Deja Vu is. (Probably the best explanation is your right and left hemispheres failing a comparison between themselves, and spiking a signal to take a second look.)
"If you want to play WoW until you literally drop dead, that is 100% YOUR problem."
I 100% agree with you on that statement, but I would swap out "should be" for "is". However, I also agree with the parent.
What we're saying is IF they win this case, which says that they somehow have the right to regulate what third party software you run on your own machine while you are running WoW on your machine, then that must mean that they get all rights (and responsibilities) to the operation of their software, which in turn would mean (In a legal sense, not in a "real world" or "fair" sense) that they also assume legal liability for use of their software in ways which would harm others.
Or simpler, if they want such complete dictatorship over how their software is run, then if someone is somehow harmed by running their software, then it only seems fair that they also can be sued in that case, because if they have absolute control over how their software runs, then it is their fault that anyone could be hurt by using their software, since they allowed the use of their software in that manner, thus they are legally liable.
I don't think Blizzard has considered both edges of the sword they are playing with.
If the chainsaw manufacturer sends a company representative to watch and control your every move with the chainsaw, and said representative did not interfere with your attempts at juggling the chainsaw, then by lack of action, the company has implicitly allowed/authorized you to juggle the chain saw, therefore they are responsible for your actions, regardless of how stupid your actions were.
I read through the postings here and still cannot figure out what a negative keyword might be...
They changed to the "humans as batteries" because they judged the average viewer coudn't comprehend the idea of "humans as co-processors" idea in the original story. So it got Hollywooded, and we are all slightly dumber for it having been changed to a "lowest common denominator" story. :(
In the seven ages of man (The ~10,000 year cycles, not the poem from Shakespeare referring to the Stone/Bronze/Iron ages, but the times in which one age is all but forgotten by the next age.), each time mankind has attained the technology plateau to establish civilization on Mars it has been short-lived. The societal stresses from multiple worlds is something our race has yet still not learned to appreciate. Man still seems to need to control and destroy.
Very few relics of the previous age persist. Even the garbage of the previous age has been lost to time. Very occasionally, we will find a curious relic, such as a spark plug inside of a rock.
Curiously the longest-lasting civilization was during the 3rd Age. Nearly 500 years before collapsing. But then it collapsed with the worst destruction so far. Even the moon shows the scars from that horrible conflict - all the largest patches on the moon are from fusion weapons, not naturally-occurring craters as they would have us believe. Fusion weapons to wipe all trace of there ever being cities on the moon. To return the world to a simplistic agrarian existence until the rise of the next golden age.
Mars is the filter, the filter to see if we have yet reached the evolutionary level to not bicker as small children when in this situation.
Why do you think the named the planet after the god of war anyway? Racial memory.
What else explains Bush wanting to send people to Mars - he's not just betting on a single apocalyptic prediction, the Armageddon legend isn't failsafe. [Just kidding about that one - I hope!!]
Because gun control laws have proven so effective in reducing crime, right?
Come on guy, give me a fucking break. All those laws do is make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain life-preservers to use to protect themselves against the people who just ignored the gun laws.
What if the moon fell down?
What if people were little yellow squares and dogs were red circles?
Curious what development environment you use for your Mono development? Monodev? Eclipse? Or just a text editor? Or some weird use of Visual Studio?
The last Walter Bender.
New movie from M Night Shamalyananananan coming next year!
Yep, it'll be right out there with all the Cobol projects on Sourceforge...
I haven't written a line of code in C or C++ since I started with C# - C/C++ syntax with no tracking of memory (I detest tracking memory!!) except in the more obscure situations. Both .NET and Mono allow for C#, so you're not stuck on one platform.
"One of the fastest growing religious movements in the US is the "prosperity ministry" where they preach that Jesus was really a rich, upper-middle class guy who would never be seen riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey."
What religion is this one you are talking about?
My girlfriend's Irish, so I think that's a great idea :)
Now if you buy one of those sucky widescreen laptops you see at most big box stores, yah, they suck, way too little resolution.
But if you get one of the ones with the 1920x1200 widescreens (Like my Dell D810), then I've got no problem with them. They rock. (Assuming you have good eyesight or appropriate glasses/contacts!!)
Amen!
Very good point of view. We need to put an immediate end to allowing leadership by these short-sighted legislative drones. They are destroying a lot of good, for no apparent reason.
Have they actually had any circumstances justifying such Draconian legislation?
Or is this just a big power grab?
If any country should be aware of the dangers of somewhat-haphazardly designating a large number of people as criminal/undesirable/incorrigible, it should be Australia. A whole bunch of supposedly worthless uncivilizable "criminals" shipped to Australia as "lost causes" turned the whole thing around and built themselves a nice place to live, and now they are fucking it back up themselves. Trying to turn most of themselves back into so-called "criminals".
I do not understand.
If we were smart, we would SAVE our oil, drain the Mideast dry (circa 2050), and then say, "Hey guys; we've got oil over in America" and charge $1000 a barrel. We'd be rich. (But of course, we're short-term thinkers; we won't do that.)
You don't think that's already been the plan since the 1950s? In this game, it's whoever finishes LAST that wins. Drain the middle east, and then we get back to ruling the world. We shoulda had no problem with this, but we didn't forsee the growth of China and India. We thought they'd stay backwards no-tech places forever.
Very good point. The term for it is Common Carrier Status. Modify nothing passing across your network and you are a common carrier. Unlike Comcast, who lost that when they started playing around with packet delivery.
"If anything they need privacy more than the average citizen"
WHAT????!!!! Egads, man, think about what you are saying! I've never heard a less-thought-out opinion in my life.
Government officials needing more privacy than the people they are elected to represent??? And that's a good thing that won't be abused?
Any monkeys might fly out of my ass.
Settle down, Beavis.
The point being made was that Westerns tend to evangelize the belief that "Might makes right", vs Science Fiction tending to push the belief that long-term planning and applied thought is a far better premise on which to base our society.
Using the word "tend" to convey "most, but not all".
You forgot to take your Paxil again today, didn't ya? ;)
(I once forgot my Paxil for a couple days, and cried at the end of The Goonies. Really... Made no sense.)
The first reaction of the Mac/OS X guy was to start whining about the protocol when it was lack of functionality in his OS. Typical.
"Developers, stick to Flash"
Are you fucking kidding me? Both approaches (Flash and Silverlight) are highjacking attempts. I refuse to install either one. They are bullshit from sucky programmers. If you can't do it with HTML and Javascript (Backed by the server code of your choice - C#, Java, RoR, PERL, whatever), then go home, you are a sucky coder.
I just put in "C#", no "developer" added, as then you have to consider additional words like "programmer", "software engineer", etc. that will affect the count.
C# by itself returns their "> 5000" message.
"are sometimes woefully problematic in the down-stream affects that they cause"
That should really be 'effects' rather than 'affects' - See http://xkcd.com/326/