Don't feed the trolls. To assert that the media in the US isn't the freest in the world - even compared to the UK, is lunacy which only foreigners and liberals fall prey.
He's completely unaware of the lefty bias, unaccosted by government, of NYT, WashPost, all three network news channels, Air America, NPR (government subsidized), etc.
I'm one. Anyone else want to volunteer and turn this into a true factual statement?
You're not one - but you liar. You own Sega GT for Xbox which has ingame advertising. You also own PG2 for Xbox which, IIRC, not only has advertising but downloads new advertising.
For a reporter to say "gamers" and ascribe something to them without saying "gamers, by which I mean me and no one else, cause this is a rant piece disguised as journalism" is about what I'd come to expect from the MSM.
All you need to validate my assertion is to look at the people who have come closest to actually living by Ayn's widely propagated ideals. They are uniformly unhappy: prone to suspicion, destructive in their relationships with others, etc. Starting with Ayn herself, who alienated everyone near her except for a few acolytes, and who died alone, bitter, and miserable in her New York apartment.
Hahah. Funnily similar to people who try to live by Keyes' principals.
Your anecdotal evidence is weak. Rand herself criticized most of her 'flock' for treating her philosophy as a religion. Most 'objectivists' I ran into were nutty, but not all. And her philosophy is personally useful to me and I think I 'get it' better than the randbots.
As for she herself, I recall she was pretty happy haven just gotten to ride in a private train car to some event. Though she was understandably a little down after losing her husband.
I metamoderate about 3-4 times a day. It only takes a moment. I just look for all the downward modifications and rate them as 'unfair.' I also sometimes take a moment and hit the hit with 'unfair' the really short posts that get 'insightful' when it's really just the moderator showing 'agreement' with the poster.
Property rights are causal. That house exists only because the person who built it could exercise rights over it. When property is disconnected from rights over it, it disappears - see rent control housing and how well it is upkept.
I can't respond or take apart the entirety of your post because I have other priorities. But just a quickie:
The problem with ideal Capitalism happens after the first round of profit is collected. The profitable companies use their money to buy influence with the market-makers, who then pass laws that alter the markets in favor of the existing companies.
The flaw with that reasoning is that capitalism does not involve passing interventionist laws. To say that it leads to corruption makes it undifferent from any other system. The truth is that there are no 'systems' in their own right, just people with philosophies. And to have capitalism, you first must have capitalists (similar to marxism).
You also are flawed in your assessment of resources, property rights, etc. Property rights are causal. Property does not exist unless property rights also exist.
Also, your assessment of Rand is incorrect - in fact, your 'four drives' are all selfish - and Rand was not all about acquisition. If she was, her characters would have been despots in the USSR.
Property rights are causal. So it is my ability to exercise my rights over a property being the reason it exists. IG - If I could not liscence and sell this sympthony I just wrote, I would not have written it.
He thought that "true capitalism" was a pipe dream and pure propaganda to keep people from complaining about the influence of business in government (he remains completely correct to this day).
I would imagine you would say that 'true Communism' failed because it was never tried - and would encourage further attempts despite the death toll of hundreds of millions if it's own when it was tried (Mao, Stalin, etc.)
Capitalism means one thing - property rights. You own your property and can do what you please with it in voluntary co-operation with others. You may go bankrupt and wind up in the sewers, you may create a monopoly - but at the end of the day your property is yours to do with as you choose.
I wish Ayn Rand were here so she could slap you hard.
Tetsu Ishihara, 34, a computer programmer whose three-room apartment in west Tokyo is filled from floor to ceiling with comic books, does not want to be associated with such charges. Ishihara maintains a growing collection of 130 life-size pillows of female anime characters -- both purchased and self-designed. His favorite is Mio-chan, a female character from a love-simulation computer game in which a high school boy builds up the courage to ask a girl for a first date.
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"There are some people who do lose their grip on reality, but that is not me -- or most of us," said Ishihara, a chubby man with glasses who this year started dating a woman steadily for the first time.
What exactly constitutes loosing grip on reality, brother?
The Matrix looked like reality - hence it was able to suspend it. I should say 'suspension of disbelief.' Imagine what the MAtrix would have looked like with the technology available 20 years ago. Would it have been as good a film? No.
1) I look for suspension of reality when playing - when you look at a screen and you see something that is CLEARLY a limit of the hardware/software (polygons rather than smooth curves), it harms that suspension of reality. Gameplay is important, but if that's all I wanted, I could play Chess.
2) Any graphical limit is a limit on the designers or the artists ability to bring their vision to full realization. The more advanced graphics become, the better an artist will be able to transfer from the canvas of his mind to your screen. Imagine being limited to just one frequency range in music - and then having more and more added - the difference it would make.
I hope they keep pushing the graphics thing and expect better games because of it.
What do you think EA would be like if their workers organized like this?
Put aside how retarded the SGA, etc. are for thinking their 'talents' are as of value in this realm as they are on the screen. Video games are not Shrek 2. Push comes to shove, devs can use the voice jobs as sex bait for chicks in bars.
Programmers is far more valuable to the process - if they organized like this, they might not complain so much about EA (at least until they were outsourced).
I'm going to ignore yout but for other readers will respond to the first part. The problem is the parent of my original post suggested that the big problem was China/Tibet - while ignoring that both were/are derived from the real menace - the Red one.
True - for the purpose of a movie almost any location would work. Recall Temple of Doom? I was reacting to his statement suggesting that the biggest issue in 1960 was the invasion of Tibet - rather than Communism.
A friend of mine is working on AI for the military - he got a PhD from the MIT AI lab. Trust me, from talking to him and others, it's MUCH harder than you think.
The 'smartest guys in the room' cannot make an AI as smart as a roach - which has many more than six brain cells. See the recent competition to design a bot that can cross a small stretch of desert in CA.
You demonstrate perfectly the flaw in American's knowledge of history and how stupid it is to take lessons from celebrities.
The great tyrrany in the 1960s is, of course, mainland China and the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
No, while China was a huge problem and still is, Tibet was a small part of that. The principal tyrrany of the 1960s was Communism and was embodied in the Soviet Union. Are you aware that such a place ever existed? Are you aware of the tens of millions of Russians and other Slovaks who were slaughtered as part of it? Or even the millions killed in China by Mao?
Folks out there who complain about AI fail to realize just how HARD it is to make a good AI. You probably will not find an AI that will "outsmart" you outside of a Chess simulator. This article (and others written on PWOT) are funny, but these guys clearly aren't programmers.
And yes, I pointed out to the authors a while back when I read this article (it's about 2 weeks old), that Halo2 had pretty intelligent AI.
The article lists about 20 MMORPG. The Vanguard isn't even first but in the middle. Some much more interesting stuff about Turbine's new projects could be referenced. Is this going out of the way to hate on MS? Not saying it is, just speculating.
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He's completely unaware of the lefty bias, unaccosted by government, of NYT, WashPost, all three network news channels, Air America, NPR (government subsidized), etc.
You're not one - but you liar. You own Sega GT for Xbox which has ingame advertising. You also own PG2 for Xbox which, IIRC, not only has advertising but downloads new advertising.
For a reporter to say "gamers" and ascribe something to them without saying "gamers, by which I mean me and no one else, cause this is a rant piece disguised as journalism" is about what I'd come to expect from the MSM.
All you need to validate my assertion is to look at the people who have come closest to actually living by Ayn's widely propagated ideals. They are uniformly unhappy: prone to suspicion, destructive in their relationships with others, etc. Starting with Ayn herself, who alienated everyone near her except for a few acolytes, and who died alone, bitter, and miserable in her New York apartment.
Hahah. Funnily similar to people who try to live by Keyes' principals.Your anecdotal evidence is weak. Rand herself criticized most of her 'flock' for treating her philosophy as a religion. Most 'objectivists' I ran into were nutty, but not all. And her philosophy is personally useful to me and I think I 'get it' better than the randbots.
As for she herself, I recall she was pretty happy haven just gotten to ride in a private train car to some event. Though she was understandably a little down after losing her husband.
I metamoderate about 3-4 times a day. It only takes a moment. I just look for all the downward modifications and rate them as 'unfair.' I also sometimes take a moment and hit the hit with 'unfair' the really short posts that get 'insightful' when it's really just the moderator showing 'agreement' with the poster.
gamers won't touch it if it becomes fouled with evil ads.
Any examples of gamers not buying any game because it had advertising in it, much less ALL, a majority, or a plurality even?
I'm glad that there are so many blogs out there because they collectively lift the IQ of the average reporter. But that still doesn't help CBS news.
Property rights are causal. That house exists only because the person who built it could exercise rights over it. When property is disconnected from rights over it, it disappears - see rent control housing and how well it is upkept.
The problem with ideal Capitalism happens after the first round of profit is collected. The profitable companies use their money to buy influence with the market-makers, who then pass laws that alter the markets in favor of the existing companies.
The flaw with that reasoning is that capitalism does not involve passing interventionist laws. To say that it leads to corruption makes it undifferent from any other system. The truth is that there are no 'systems' in their own right, just people with philosophies. And to have capitalism, you first must have capitalists (similar to marxism).
You also are flawed in your assessment of resources, property rights, etc. Property rights are causal. Property does not exist unless property rights also exist.
Also, your assessment of Rand is incorrect - in fact, your 'four drives' are all selfish - and Rand was not all about acquisition. If she was, her characters would have been despots in the USSR.
Property rights are causal. So it is my ability to exercise my rights over a property being the reason it exists. IG - If I could not liscence and sell this sympthony I just wrote, I would not have written it.
I would imagine you would say that 'true Communism' failed because it was never tried - and would encourage further attempts despite the death toll of hundreds of millions if it's own when it was tried (Mao, Stalin, etc.)
Capitalism means one thing - property rights. You own your property and can do what you please with it in voluntary co-operation with others. You may go bankrupt and wind up in the sewers, you may create a monopoly - but at the end of the day your property is yours to do with as you choose.
I wish Ayn Rand were here so she could slap you hard.
Tetsu Ishihara, 34, a computer programmer whose three-room apartment in west Tokyo is filled from floor to ceiling with comic books, does not want to be associated with such charges. Ishihara maintains a growing collection of 130 life-size pillows of female anime characters -- both purchased and self-designed. His favorite is Mio-chan, a female character from a love-simulation computer game in which a high school boy builds up the courage to ask a girl for a first date.
"There are some people who do lose their grip on reality, but that is not me -- or most of us," said Ishihara, a chubby man with glasses who this year started dating a woman steadily for the first time.
What exactly constitutes loosing grip on reality, brother?
The Matrix looked like reality - hence it was able to suspend it. I should say 'suspension of disbelief.' Imagine what the MAtrix would have looked like with the technology available 20 years ago. Would it have been as good a film? No.
2) Any graphical limit is a limit on the designers or the artists ability to bring their vision to full realization. The more advanced graphics become, the better an artist will be able to transfer from the canvas of his mind to your screen. Imagine being limited to just one frequency range in music - and then having more and more added - the difference it would make.
I hope they keep pushing the graphics thing and expect better games because of it.
Put aside how retarded the SGA, etc. are for thinking their 'talents' are as of value in this realm as they are on the screen. Video games are not Shrek 2. Push comes to shove, devs can use the voice jobs as sex bait for chicks in bars.
Programmers is far more valuable to the process - if they organized like this, they might not complain so much about EA (at least until they were outsourced).
The html thing may limit users from being able to put up graphics.
Still, there are a lot of sluts out there who have standards low enough to include an adult male living with the 'rents'. Good luck finding them.
I'm going to ignore yout but for other readers will respond to the first part. The problem is the parent of my original post suggested that the big problem was China/Tibet - while ignoring that both were/are derived from the real menace - the Red one.
True - for the purpose of a movie almost any location would work. Recall Temple of Doom? I was reacting to his statement suggesting that the biggest issue in 1960 was the invasion of Tibet - rather than Communism.
The 'smartest guys in the room' cannot make an AI as smart as a roach - which has many more than six brain cells. See the recent competition to design a bot that can cross a small stretch of desert in CA.
The great tyrrany in the 1960s is, of course, mainland China and the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
No, while China was a huge problem and still is, Tibet was a small part of that. The principal tyrrany of the 1960s was Communism and was embodied in the Soviet Union. Are you aware that such a place ever existed? Are you aware of the tens of millions of Russians and other Slovaks who were slaughtered as part of it? Or even the millions killed in China by Mao?
But no, we here you whining about Tibet. Please.
I can put my Xbox on the side, too, btw. *shrug*
And yes, I pointed out to the authors a while back when I read this article (it's about 2 weeks old), that Halo2 had pretty intelligent AI.
The article lists about 20 MMORPG. The Vanguard isn't even first but in the middle. Some much more interesting stuff about Turbine's new projects could be referenced. Is this going out of the way to hate on MS? Not saying it is, just speculating.
So what alternate dimension are you from that has such unusual physics as size is altered by the perceptors angle?
Pretty high bar there. As I recall, the subject matter boiled down to pretty people versus the ugly people.
I keep hearing that - it's totally stupid. The Xbox is not much larger than the PS2. It's not an issue at all.