There is art and then there is art in good taste. For some reason, the Virgin Mary's breast depicted in feces and this immersive experience into the world of a megalomaniac just do not seem to be in good taste to me. Nintendo's draconian processes to protect what people do with and produce for their system does not seem all that bad to me after reading this.
Its just someone else cashing in on the death and destruction that pervades our world. What is next, a race from the top of the World Trade Center Towers?
This game is one of the reasons I am glad I bought my GCN. This is by no means "cookie cutter" and its a third party title that can sit with the big boys on the 'cube. Now, if they would just update Mother (Earthbound) for the new millenia and release that on the 'cube, we would really be talking the little purple (or black, or silver or...) that could.
How exactly do you define implementation? In my company, it is much easier to rise in the ranks with a higher education above a bachelors degree. From my experience and what I have seen of others, the higher level coders may come up with ideas, but they are still in the trenches everyday helping with implementation.
I cannot see getting a doctorate as precluding you from implementation (or a job for that matter), but instead adding the responsibilities of research, development and mentoring lower level employees through implementation.
I bought the SNES Advantage when I was a chittlin' so that I could train in Street Fighter II:Turbo at home for the arcade. That is one nice looking stick Namco is putting out. Very ergonamic. They will probably hook me, because I can use the stick with the PS2 as well, but I alread found my gaming solution. There is just something about the way of the game pad, and the SNEW game pad is still the best IMHO.
I thought I saw a three wheeled version of this device that climbed stairs, but held the user in an upright manner. The three wheels were arranged in triangle and I do not remember the device needing any interaction with the user to fascilitate stair climbing. Anyone else see this?
You decidedly suffer from a case of "the grass is always greener."
You worked your ass off in school but didn't learn that some are NATURALLY smarter than others?
Yes, there were people better than me in Biology, and I am not Trent Reznor and I am not Lance Armstrong. And that is why I did other things, why I found classes and activities that were more suited to me. So yes, I learned there were things other people were "NATURALLY" smarter than me at, but I gave up on being a professional football player a long time ago. I also learned that if you are putting the hard work in in the correct field, you too can appear "NATURALLY" smarter than others!
You also need to learn that hard work without spending the time correctly slows progress.
Apparently you think I made it through college without learning time management. For me (and for many others, I would guess), if I found myself making zero progress in one area, it was either a clue to rest or move on to a different subject and then come back to it. Can you imagine how beneficial it is to alternate from Quantum Mechanics to Linear Algebra to Complex Analysis? Its amazing what your brain can do...even without coffee!
some are luckier than others, what's wrong with trying to spread the wealth?
Ask any olympian who had to compete against an athlete from the USSR who was twice as big from steroids. Its not right for physical performance, why is it different for mental? Its all biochemistry. And do not pull the "steroids give you cancer" argument. One, only if they are abused (and what today does not give you cancer?) and two, who knows what creatine does to you. Have you ever heard of it before Big Mac? (Mark MacGuire) Has there been a study on long term exposure?
How can these guys still be going?!? This is obviously another try at pumping up the stock. Does not unsubstantiated rumor to pump stock prices coupled with stock dumping by company executives indication that SOMETHING might be a little wrong here?
Dr Rae said: "Creatine supplementation may be of use to those requiring boosted mental performance in the short term - for example university students."
I worked my ass off in University, and never took any sort of miracle Ginseng anything. I work my ass off to keep from getting the office chair ass, too. I do not take anything like this. What happened to hard work? Why does everybody need the "magic pill?" Drugs are for the sick and injured, not the lazy and impatient.
end rant
Hardass American Businessman
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The Diamond Age
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Carter Clarke, 75, has been retired from the Army for nearly 30 years, but he never lost the air of command. When he walks into Gemesis - the company he founded in 1996 to make diamonds - the staff stands at attention to greet him. It just feels like the right thing to do. Particularly since "the General," as he's known, continually salutes them as if they were troops heading into battle. "I was in combat in Korea and 'Nam," he says after greeting me with a salute in the office lobby. "You better believe I can handle the diamond business."
Call me a patriot, but I am impressed by the hardass, American businessman standing up to the entrenched, monopoly vendors. Here is free market at its best, with visionaires taking risk on new technologies, betting the farm on being the first in a new market. It will be interesting to see if both companies can co-exist, if one will knock the other out, or if DeBeers will call out Leon on both of them.
Re:As a registered voter...rant
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The "Techie" Vote?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
As a registered voter, it is my right and resposibility to involve myself in the politcal process. I have every right to gripe, moan and complain about my government, my taxes and the Addiction World going up down the steet, two blocks down from...and Addiction World.
Check one, two. I have that right and privilege as long as I protect it. Not with guns and violence, but by electing competent individuals as representatives. Not voting only makes it easier for the person you do not want to be elected. I have no idea how valid a comment that is, but if it gets more people voting, I will scream it from the mountain tops.
Because I may have the right and privilege to complain about my government, but do I have any point of reference if I do not even bother voting?
I think it is worth stating that the ultra-capitalist western cowboy-regime driven country that hosts these ultra-capitalist western cowboy-regime driven companies is the one thay ends up paying the majority of R&D costs for these drugs. Reguardless of who develops the drug, the price in the US can be 5 to 10 times as expensive as other countries. Just food for thought.
How much about a standard computer must you know to run anything today? If you are coding in assembly, admittedly you must have an understanding, but do you need to know the base logic of the computer? Do you really have to understand how a transistor or a JK-flip-flop works to write C, C++ or Java? You certainly do not to build a machine. Its just a bunch of black boxes.
The true power of quantum computing is the idea of a mixed state, the shades of gray if you will, that will be possible with quantum elements. While logic gates take strictly binary inputs (bits), quantum gates will take superpositions of the 1 and 0 states (qubits). Ask a simple question, is it cloudy outside? A bit either says yes or know depending upon a threshold of some sort. Who sets the threshold, does everyone agree on the threshold, and how accurately is the threshold mesured? A qubit can give you a mixture of yes and know, relaxing the systems. Its very similar to fuzzy sets, as elements are not strictly in or out of a set.
There will be a learning curve. Unfortunately, until there are a large number of gates of a specific type, a deffinitive logic process (fuzzy logic, if you will) cannot be decided upon. (Maybe there will be serveral types, and Intel works with one type of qubit logic and AMD works with a different.) But the logic system is what you will need to understand, that is what people understand now. Is it really a simple process to break down everything into yes or know? You don't need a PhD. for that. I think the fuzziness of a quantum system is much closer to reality than that of binary.
I picked up my PhD. (Posthole Digger) at the hardware store.
Novell specifically, explicitly forbade SCO from revoking the AIX license, and the fact that SCO ignored this
This appears in the article, but has anyone found anything besides this statement? Like a press release from Novell, a leak from somewhere or a phantom contract clause an intern found in the back of a filing cabinet drawer?
A few days back, there was an interruption of the stream from radio.wazee. I realized how much I listen to their content and how much I would miss it if it were gone. I was afraid they had sunk into the web oblivion and was relieved when they stream was working the next day. (Note: Both the winamp and wmp streams were down...did not check the rma stream, not that I would care if it was up down or sideways.) Now that I am working, and they have a Paypal donation option, I am going to start contributing. No commercials, music I like 24/7, as the kids say these days, and no special equipment besides my pre-exiting computer and broadband if you want decent quality gives me a warm fuzzy.
You want people to pay? Give them a reason to pay and make it easy.
1) Good content people enjoy that is worth paying for. 2) A reason my money is needed, aka I do not want to pay for something paperless that also has adds. 3) Make is simple for me to do. I already have a Paypal account, however secure/trustworthy it is.
It does not hurt that they are asking for a donation, instead of charging people for content.
Total immersion into gameplay requires total integration of technical aspects in the game itself. Regain health by eating at a restaurant or staying in a hotel with money you got from doing something in the game. And you would not have to count rockets...you could tell by the weigh how many you had left.
Who carries 100 rockets around in a pouch nowadays, anyway?
In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI suspended information service contracts with an earlier Asher-run company because of concerns about his past, according to law enforcement sources. The Chicago Tribune reported in 1987 that court documents in a federal drug case said defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who identified Asher as a pilot and onetime smuggler, offered him as an informant.
Who are the criminals here, the people violating our civil rights by using this thing or the former drug trafficer heading its development? Is not this sort of system supposed to track these people down?
Maybe we should be considered the criminals if we let this sort of thing proceed.
I have not yet heard anyone talk about training to be a Jedi. Is anyone out there a Jedi? If so, are you having fun? I have heard about craft-beings, adventurers, brawlers, dancers, musicians and Pigs but no Jedi. Or has this not been implemented yet?
but I don't how this adds anything that wasn't already said.
Hmmmmmm...I think it adds the credibility of a lawyers expert opinion. Now I think that adds something to the argument. IANAL is a big joke around here, but its true. We are not lawyers. You can quote common sense all you want, but if a lawyer agrees with you, then your opinion may truly count in the only place this will eventually matter - the courtroom.
After reading that article, I have to conclude they have entirely different reasons for playing as well. Every example she made had something to do with a woman improving some kind of relationship, whether it be with friends, coworkers, boyfriends or the friends of boyfriends. That is not why you play video games. You play video games for fun, not so a guy will go out with you or you can get more responsibility at work.
But I think real "gamer chicks" know that. If I meet a girl who plays video games, it had better be because she likes it, not just so she can get in my pants. Girls are sneaky like that.
Maybe they are good reasons to get started, but if you never have fun doing it, you will not stay a gamer.
Slashdot Mirror
No one is promising us 40 virgins in the afterlife if we die in the name of Torvalds, either.
There is art and then there is art in good taste. For some reason, the Virgin Mary's breast depicted in feces and this immersive experience into the world of a megalomaniac just do not seem to be in good taste to me. Nintendo's draconian processes to protect what people do with and produce for their system does not seem all that bad to me after reading this.
Its just someone else cashing in on the death and destruction that pervades our world. What is next, a race from the top of the World Trade Center Towers?
This game is one of the reasons I am glad I bought my GCN. This is by no means "cookie cutter" and its a third party title that can sit with the big boys on the 'cube. Now, if they would just update Mother (Earthbound) for the new millenia and release that on the 'cube, we would really be talking the little purple (or black, or silver or...) that could.
I guess a felt tip marker will not circumvent this scheme.
How exactly do you define implementation? In my company, it is much easier to rise in the ranks with a higher education above a bachelors degree. From my experience and what I have seen of others, the higher level coders may come up with ideas, but they are still in the trenches everyday helping with implementation.
I cannot see getting a doctorate as precluding you from implementation (or a job for that matter), but instead adding the responsibilities of research, development and mentoring lower level employees through implementation.
I bought the SNES Advantage when I was a chittlin' so that I could train in Street Fighter II:Turbo at home for the arcade. That is one nice looking stick Namco is putting out. Very ergonamic. They will probably hook me, because I can use the stick with the PS2 as well, but I alread found my gaming solution. There is just something about the way of the game pad, and the SNEW game pad is still the best IMHO.
I thought I saw a three wheeled version of this device that climbed stairs, but held the user in an upright manner. The three wheels were arranged in triangle and I do not remember the device needing any interaction with the user to fascilitate stair climbing. Anyone else see this?
Did we not here this somewhere before?
You decidedly suffer from a case of "the grass is always greener."
You worked your ass off in school but didn't learn that some are NATURALLY smarter than others?
Yes, there were people better than me in Biology, and I am not Trent Reznor and I am not Lance Armstrong. And that is why I did other things, why I found classes and activities that were more suited to me. So yes, I learned there were things other people were "NATURALLY" smarter than me at, but I gave up on being a professional football player a long time ago. I also learned that if you are putting the hard work in in the correct field, you too can appear "NATURALLY" smarter than others!
You also need to learn that hard work without spending the time correctly slows progress.
Apparently you think I made it through college without learning time management. For me (and for many others, I would guess), if I found myself making zero progress in one area, it was either a clue to rest or move on to a different subject and then come back to it. Can you imagine how beneficial it is to alternate from Quantum Mechanics to Linear Algebra to Complex Analysis? Its amazing what your brain can do...even without coffee!
some are luckier than others, what's wrong with trying to spread the wealth?
Ask any olympian who had to compete against an athlete from the USSR who was twice as big from steroids. Its not right for physical performance, why is it different for mental? Its all biochemistry. And do not pull the "steroids give you cancer" argument. One, only if they are abused (and what today does not give you cancer?) and two, who knows what creatine does to you. Have you ever heard of it before Big Mac? (Mark MacGuire) Has there been a study on long term exposure?
I guess I just think differently than you do.
How can these guys still be going?!? This is obviously another try at pumping up the stock. Does not unsubstantiated rumor to pump stock prices coupled with stock dumping by company executives indication that SOMETHING might be a little wrong here?
SEC...hello!!!
Dr Rae said: "Creatine supplementation may be of use to those requiring boosted mental performance in the short term - for example university students."
I worked my ass off in University, and never took any sort of miracle Ginseng anything. I work my ass off to keep from getting the office chair ass, too. I do not take anything like this. What happened to hard work? Why does everybody need the "magic pill?" Drugs are for the sick and injured, not the lazy and impatient.
end rant
Carter Clarke, 75, has been retired from the Army for nearly 30 years, but he never lost the air of command. When he walks into Gemesis - the company he founded in 1996 to make diamonds - the staff stands at attention to greet him. It just feels like the right thing to do. Particularly since "the General," as he's known, continually salutes them as if they were troops heading into battle. "I was in combat in Korea and 'Nam," he says after greeting me with a salute in the office lobby. "You better believe I can handle the diamond business."
Call me a patriot, but I am impressed by the hardass, American businessman standing up to the entrenched, monopoly vendors. Here is free market at its best, with visionaires taking risk on new technologies, betting the farm on being the first in a new market. It will be interesting to see if both companies can co-exist, if one will knock the other out, or if DeBeers will call out Leon on both of them.
-but our shennanigans are cheeky and fun...theirs are cruel and evil
- EVIL SHENNANIGANS
-I swear I'll pistol whip the next guy who says shennanigans!
Natalie Portman naked and petrified
in carbonite? I would hang that on my wall.
As a registered voter, it is my right and resposibility to involve myself in the politcal process. I have every right to gripe, moan and complain about my government, my taxes and the Addiction World going up down the steet, two blocks down from...and Addiction World.
Check one, two. I have that right and privilege as long as I protect it. Not with guns and violence, but by electing competent individuals as representatives. Not voting only makes it easier for the person you do not want to be elected. I have no idea how valid a comment that is, but if it gets more people voting, I will scream it from the mountain tops.
Because I may have the right and privilege to complain about my government, but do I have any point of reference if I do not even bother voting?
I think it is worth stating that the ultra-capitalist western cowboy-regime driven country that hosts these ultra-capitalist western cowboy-regime driven companies is the one thay ends up paying the majority of R&D costs for these drugs. Reguardless of who develops the drug, the price in the US can be 5 to 10 times as expensive as other countries. Just food for thought.
How much about a standard computer must you know to run anything today? If you are coding in assembly, admittedly you must have an understanding, but do you need to know the base logic of the computer? Do you really have to understand how a transistor or a JK-flip-flop works to write C, C++ or Java? You certainly do not to build a machine. Its just a bunch of black boxes.
The true power of quantum computing is the idea of a mixed state, the shades of gray if you will, that will be possible with quantum elements. While logic gates take strictly binary inputs (bits), quantum gates will take superpositions of the 1 and 0 states (qubits). Ask a simple question, is it cloudy outside? A bit either says yes or know depending upon a threshold of some sort. Who sets the threshold, does everyone agree on the threshold, and how accurately is the threshold mesured? A qubit can give you a mixture of yes and know, relaxing the systems. Its very similar to fuzzy sets, as elements are not strictly in or out of a set.
There will be a learning curve. Unfortunately, until there are a large number of gates of a specific type, a deffinitive logic process (fuzzy logic, if you will) cannot be decided upon. (Maybe there will be serveral types, and Intel works with one type of qubit logic and AMD works with a different.) But the logic system is what you will need to understand, that is what people understand now. Is it really a simple process to break down everything into yes or know? You don't need a PhD. for that. I think the fuzziness of a quantum system is much closer to reality than that of binary.
I picked up my PhD. (Posthole Digger) at the hardware store.
Novell specifically, explicitly forbade SCO from revoking the AIX license, and the fact that SCO ignored this
This appears in the article, but has anyone found anything besides this statement? Like a press release from Novell, a leak from somewhere or a phantom contract clause an intern found in the back of a filing cabinet drawer?
Praise the lord, somebody read the article! You diserve a nice karma sundae. And that means someone else diserves a nice karma enema.
Alternate sig for today:
-I can't swallow that!
-Good news! It's a suppository!
A few days back, there was an interruption of the stream from radio.wazee. I realized how much I listen to their content and how much I would miss it if it were gone. I was afraid they had sunk into the web oblivion and was relieved when they stream was working the next day. (Note: Both the winamp and wmp streams were down...did not check the rma stream, not that I would care if it was up down or sideways.) Now that I am working, and they have a Paypal donation option, I am going to start contributing. No commercials, music I like 24/7, as the kids say these days, and no special equipment besides my pre-exiting computer and broadband if you want decent quality gives me a warm fuzzy.
You want people to pay? Give them a reason to pay and make it easy.
1) Good content people enjoy that is worth paying for.
2) A reason my money is needed, aka I do not want to pay for something paperless that also has adds.
3) Make is simple for me to do. I already have a Paypal account, however secure/trustworthy it is.
It does not hurt that they are asking for a donation, instead of charging people for content.
Total immersion into gameplay requires total integration of technical aspects in the game itself. Regain health by eating at a restaurant or staying in a hotel with money you got from doing something in the game. And you would not have to count rockets...you could tell by the weigh how many you had left.
Who carries 100 rockets around in a pouch nowadays, anyway?
In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI suspended information service contracts with an earlier Asher-run company because of concerns about his past, according to law enforcement sources. The Chicago Tribune reported in 1987 that court documents in a federal drug case said defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who identified Asher as a pilot and onetime smuggler, offered him as an informant.
Who are the criminals here, the people violating our civil rights by using this thing or the former drug trafficer heading its development? Is not this sort of system supposed to track these people down?
Maybe we should be considered the criminals if we let this sort of thing proceed.
I have not yet heard anyone talk about training to be a Jedi. Is anyone out there a Jedi? If so, are you having fun? I have heard about craft-beings, adventurers, brawlers, dancers, musicians and Pigs but no Jedi. Or has this not been implemented yet?
but I don't how this adds anything that wasn't already said.
Hmmmmmm...I think it adds the credibility of a lawyers expert opinion. Now I think that adds something to the argument. IANAL is a big joke around here, but its true. We are not lawyers. You can quote common sense all you want, but if a lawyer agrees with you, then your opinion may truly count in the only place this will eventually matter - the courtroom.
After reading that article, I have to conclude they have entirely different reasons for playing as well. Every example she made had something to do with a woman improving some kind of relationship, whether it be with friends, coworkers, boyfriends or the friends of boyfriends. That is not why you play video games. You play video games for fun, not so a guy will go out with you or you can get more responsibility at work.
But I think real "gamer chicks" know that. If I meet a girl who plays video games, it had better be because she likes it, not just so she can get in my pants. Girls are sneaky like that.
Maybe they are good reasons to get started, but if you never have fun doing it, you will not stay a gamer.