> Happiness is not in your online games or crappy manga books It sure is. I have a ton of fun playing Diablo 2 or Wow with friends.
>, it is in other people. Not its not, happiness only comes from within, not without.
Who the fuck are you to tell others how they should live/spend their life. Maybe you should listen to the axiom "Whatever floats your boats" -- because not everyone has your definition of happiness.
i.e. I program because I don't have to deal with all the bullshit drama (or politics) of people. Give me a few billion years to (re) discover the algorithms of the universe and I'd be happy.
> Are you just afraid? LOL @ the AC who doesn't even have the balls to use a name.
End the bullshit - one simple tax law: 10% of any income. No fucking loopholes. Plain and simple that doesn't requires thousands of wasted pages.
I can't wait when money disappears in the 25th century and people learn to put TRUE stock in something that only increases in value -- themselves -- instead of artificial things.
-- "The more corrupt a republic, the more numerous its laws." -- 56 - 117 AD
A teacher is supposed to be about teaching how to learn -- that means they themselves shouldn't be afraid of different perceptions. That's why the teacher is a noob (or boob) -- she is close-minded until someone points out how idiotic and myopic her perception is.
> How many geeks know how to use every OS, every IDE. How many developers know how to write software without an IDE, or can code direct in assembly. Does that make the developers idiots.
It's not _that_ hard to learn. Unfortunately people learn applications, not critical thinking about how to _use_ an application.
Any half-decent programmer can pick up any language. Only the idiots think "there is ONE true WAY"
The difference is, most programmers aren't afraid to learn, unlike this teacher.
The medium matter just as much as HOW the story is told. Heck the medium _defines_ how the story is told.
LOTR *The Movie* was popular because it was well adapted "pulp candy" stripped down version of a great book. When you have a rich narrative to draw upon, you can toss out all (or most of) the boring sh!t. Not saying they didn't add some boring stuff, but for the most part, Weta Workshop (of Hercules / Xena fame) did a good job of creating middle earth.
The masses don't want an intelligent, detailed, articulate story -- they want something they can just have a good time for a few hours without thinking too much.
Methinks you expect too much from book to movie adaptations. False expectations will never make anyone happy.
You are right the Writer's Guild hasn't touched the games industry. Having shipped multiple titles with shitty dialogue (both written and spoken), dialogue just isn't a priority. Hell, I'd wish we'd just cut half the dialogue most of the time. We're making games here people, not a fucking book or movie. Somewhere along the way games got hi-jacked with all this narative bullshit.
You know what the first mod for Wow was? Fast Quest Text, which became so popular that Blizzard made it that option officially supported. Most gamers (or us game devs) just don't care about dialogue, so your premise that dialogue is half-assed is correct.
From the above it would seem, I'm against dialogue. I'm not. I'm just of the philosophy "Less is More". One reason GTA 3 worked so well, is that there was NO spoken dialogue. That was brilliant.
I think part of the problem is that it's just too hard too tell the difference between crappy dialogue, and average dialogue. And more importantly, it just takes too long, and too much money for GOOD dialogue, when in the end it just doesn't matter unless you're going to make me sit through some lame cutscene I can't skip. I imagine comedian writers for TV sitcoms must struggle to come up with something fresh all the time, but in most games, dialogue just isn't that important to gameplay -- it is a secondary effect.
I'd wish they would quite wasting their time on virtual reality, and focus on the real physical problems such as these sick people who skin animals alive.
I wish Blizzard had done this BEFORE the new ladder season back in August.
Right now post-leveling in hell, is dog slow, since all the bot games people used to join to level up are gone. At least people were grouping together back then, trying to hit 99.
I imagine the D3 announcement also helped to kill the D2 community.
I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion, but your premise is interesting. And I say this as one who has a Comp Sci degree. i.e. School never teaches you about:
- office politics is more important then the tech - communication with people is the best skill a programmer can develop - almost everybody ships with code "hacks" - businesses for the most don't care about the quality of code, only does it work. And if it works, how long until you can "ship it"? - Universities tend to be more theoretical, Tech Schools need to be more applied.
What were some of your suggestions for how it be taught different / better?
-- Artificial Ignorance will never reach Artifial Intelligence until Consciousness is first understood.
> The universe is the only existant thing for all time and forever more.
That is an assumption on many levels.
> Consciousness is a word that describes a process, nothing more.
Your confusing Evolution with Awareness.
> We are very close to cracking this process.
Sandly, we are not. For the most part, people don't have a fucking clue what consciousness is. It certainly won't be found in the physical dimension. Science is looking for the answers in the wrong place.
> You are making the same mistakes as most people in searching for answers to questions that you don't even understand in the first place.
I already have the answers. I was simply pointing out the fallacy in the GP thinking "Since I don't understand the reason of the Universe, God, etc, therefore it doesn't have one." and letting others know that there indeed an answer.
> What is life?
Unless you have been dead, you _know_ NOTHING about Life.
Your fallacy is thinking these are 'dumb questions.' I say this because you don't have a valid frame of reference to even understand the answer. Here is an analogy: If you have been born blind, you have no concept of color. Without a frame of reference, talking about an experience doesn't mean anything. If you don't know what "hot" means, the phrase "Don't touch the hot stove, you will get burnt" means nothing. The only way to truly know something is to experience it.
> Define GOD.
All-That-Is. All-Parent.
Feel free to pick a definition that fits within your belief system, although I would tend to recommend one of the two listed since they tend to be the most accurate given the limitations and inaccuracies of language. Maybe you will find another one.
> Define the universe first.
I'm assuming you mean this one, and the physical dimension since you never clarified...
An Universe is a manifestation of God's thought.
> Define time first.
A dimension of mind quantized or fractalized; hence the reason one can go "outside" or "transcend" time. At a higher level there is no such thing as time, past or future, as everything is "NOW." At the physical level (if you excuse the irony), time is a meta-physical buffer so that we may learn how to see the consequences of our actions, instead of all the consequences being immediate available.
> Define life first. Define death first.
A transfer of consciousness from one dimension to another. Life is the "entering" into the physical dimension. Death is the "exiting" of the physical dimension.
It would be constructive to find your _own_ answers, instead of others telling you. The only hint I will give is that the traditional definition of Life and Death is a kindergarten level of understanding. Everything is "Alive." Sadly as humans, the general populace is not aware of even 1% of "Life" because people fall into the trap of thinking it is physical. At the physical level, yes you are correct, Death appears to be a polar opposite of Life, but on a higher level, it is not, for there is no such thing as Death on a higher level. Chi, Ki, Prana, Life Force, whatever you want to call it doesn't change its nature or purpose.
>> "The universe is most Logical and Loving." > Now this remark is just fluffy puppy dogs, pink bunnies, and kittens talk, and has absolutely no practical use in a rational conversation.
It sets the framework from which to understand _why_ things even happen in the first place. As long as people assume the opposite, "The universe doesn't make any sense, god is illogical, the universe is unfair, poor me", they will never understand reality to any depth, and learn the most important lesson: They are in control of their destiny. It's liking asking directions on how I do reach the city (to the East) and being told to go North. It won't take you where you want to go.
Just because you are ignorant of the facts, reasons, and why, of what you would call God, doesn't mean there is no reason. The key is to look for the answer of "Why does the universe even bother to exist in the first place? What is consciousness? What is Life? What is Death? What is Time?" Science is completely ignorant of all these, because it thinks there is no method to arrive at those answers, and is unwilling to embrace something outside its domain to get there.
The universe is most Logical and Loving. You only perceive it differently because you don't have all the facts, and are viewing it through a narrow and limited human perspective, instead of a spiritual perspective. If you have children you would realize that children don't always understand the reasons and think things are "unfair" until they mature. Humans, for the most part, are still spiritually immature children.
> We are still left with all of the same problems and mysteries of the universe that we started with.
On this I agree -- Religion has been used as a crutch for far too long. It's always easier to make excuses "Someone else will save me", instead of getting of your ass and taking responsibility for the consequences in your own life -- but that would involve work.
Slashdot Mirror
The subtle body language and signs women put out there?
What, you mean like this? :-)
Yeah, YHBT, but whatever...
> Happiness is not in your online games or crappy manga books
It sure is. I have a ton of fun playing Diablo 2 or Wow with friends.
>, it is in other people.
Not its not, happiness only comes from within, not without.
Who the fuck are you to tell others how they should live/spend their life. Maybe you should listen to the axiom "Whatever floats your boats" -- because not everyone has your definition of happiness.
i.e.
I program because I don't have to deal with all the bullshit drama (or politics) of people. Give me a few billion years to (re) discover the algorithms of the universe and I'd be happy.
> Are you just afraid?
LOL @ the AC who doesn't even have the balls to use a name.
Uh, you do know Sum(i=1,n,i) = n*(n+1)/2, but yeah, iteration works too...
Is it voluntary or compliant?
Funny how there was no income tax until 1913, and now they want to tax some "Imaginary Property" ??
How 'bout we focus on the real problems such as Social Insecurity being broke (I.O.U.S.A.), becoming poor in order to receive benefits, or the outright theft by Haliburton, instead of worrying about virtual ones.
End the bullshit - one simple tax law: 10% of any income. No fucking loopholes. Plain and simple that doesn't requires thousands of wasted pages.
I can't wait when money disappears in the 25th century and people learn to put TRUE stock in something that only increases in value -- themselves -- instead of artificial things.
--
"The more corrupt a republic, the more numerous its laws." -- 56 - 117 AD
> Please do not use phrases like "military and civilian government." There is one government, and the military is a component of it.
Bullshit. Go study Martial Law, Military Law, Judge Advocate General's Corps, etc.
Military Government over-rules Civilian Government on this backwards planet.
> You probably won't still want to play Spore.
> Honestly, I don't understand this attitude.
Yeah and no one plays Chess, or Go which are thousands of years old. *snicker*
A good game stands the test of time. Age doesn't fucking matter.
> Teaching a job,
A teacher is supposed to be about teaching how to learn -- that means they themselves shouldn't be afraid of different perceptions. That's why the teacher is a noob (or boob) -- she is close-minded until someone points out how idiotic and myopic her perception is.
> How many geeks know how to use every OS, every IDE. How many developers know how to write software without an IDE, or can code direct in assembly. Does that make the developers idiots.
It's not _that_ hard to learn. Unfortunately people learn applications, not critical thinking about how to _use_ an application.
Any half-decent programmer can pick up any language. Only the idiots think "there is ONE true WAY"
The difference is, most programmers aren't afraid to learn, unlike this teacher.
Please mod up.
A co-worker Game Designer showed me gem a few years back. Definitely one of the first RTSs.
HOLY SH!T ... just tried it, and verified that bug. Like the wiki says, a bug in IsTextUnicode().
Yeah, mods are on crack on this one.
Oh puh-lease.
Movie != Book.
The medium matter just as much as HOW the story is told. Heck the medium _defines_ how the story is told.
LOTR *The Movie* was popular because it was well adapted "pulp candy" stripped down version of a great book. When you have a rich narrative to draw upon, you can toss out all (or most of) the boring sh!t. Not saying they didn't add some boring stuff, but for the most part, Weta Workshop (of Hercules / Xena fame) did a good job of creating middle earth.
The masses don't want an intelligent, detailed, articulate story -- they want something they can just have a good time for a few hours without thinking too much.
Methinks you expect too much from book to movie adaptations. False expectations will never make anyone happy.
The official title was "Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Simulator" :)
Jim did a good job designing it.
And yes, the art team did a great job on it - Tom certainly stressed over it! But it was worth it.
You are right the Writer's Guild hasn't touched the games industry. Having shipped multiple titles with shitty dialogue (both written and spoken), dialogue just isn't a priority. Hell, I'd wish we'd just cut half the dialogue most of the time. We're making games here people, not a fucking book or movie. Somewhere along the way games got hi-jacked with all this narative bullshit.
You know what the first mod for Wow was? Fast Quest Text, which became so popular that Blizzard made it that option officially supported. Most gamers (or us game devs) just don't care about dialogue, so your premise that dialogue is half-assed is correct.
From the above it would seem, I'm against dialogue. I'm not. I'm just of the philosophy "Less is More". One reason GTA 3 worked so well, is that there was NO spoken dialogue. That was brilliant.
I think part of the problem is that it's just too hard too tell the difference between crappy dialogue, and average dialogue. And more importantly, it just takes too long, and too much money for GOOD dialogue, when in the end it just doesn't matter unless you're going to make me sit through some lame cutscene I can't skip. I imagine comedian writers for TV sitcoms must struggle to come up with something fresh all the time, but in most games, dialogue just isn't that important to gameplay -- it is a secondary effect.
The orginal submitter is in for a tough sell.
No, kidding.
I'd wish they would quite wasting their time on virtual reality, and focus on the real physical problems such as these sick people who skin animals alive.
WARNING: Do NOT watch unless you have a strong stomach...
http://gegen-tierquaelerei.6x.to/
Guess you never visit avsforum, THE site where audio- and videophiles hang out.
It NOT just computer users that hate DRM.
Try: cmd-shift-g
I thought the \ or / key also worked. Been a while.
Also,
http://macfidelity.de/2007/12/08/105-show-full-directory-path-in-finder-window-title-bars/
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050413201826795
I wish Blizzard had done this BEFORE the new ladder season back in August.
Right now post-leveling in hell, is dog slow, since all the bot games people used to join to level up are gone. At least people were grouping together back then, trying to hit 99.
I imagine the D3 announcement also helped to kill the D2 community.
The mods need to lay off the crack-pipe.
I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion, but your premise is interesting. And I say this as one who has a Comp Sci degree. i.e. School never teaches you about:
- office politics is more important then the tech
- communication with people is the best skill a programmer can develop
- almost everybody ships with code "hacks"
- businesses for the most don't care about the quality of code, only does it work. And if it works, how long until you can "ship it"?
- Universities tend to be more theoretical, Tech Schools need to be more applied.
What were some of your suggestions for how it be taught different / better?
--
Artificial Ignorance will never reach Artifial Intelligence until Consciousness is first understood.
I'm not sure which is worst... Worst Buy or Circuit Shity
At, least, one less crappy B&M.
I think you mean, tabbed completion grabs the NEXT entry that matches...
CMD "wraps-around", whereas 4NT doesn't.
> (And if you don't know who, turn in your Slashdot account by tomorrow morning.)
We're geeks, not historians... :-)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore
Sounds similar to the Apple version of Dung Beetles by Bob Bishop.
Nice!
Was Loderunner the first sidescroller with a level editor? I can't seem to recall any before 1984 ?
> The universe is the only existant thing for all time and forever more.
That is an assumption on many levels.
> Consciousness is a word that describes a process, nothing more.
Your confusing Evolution with Awareness.
> We are very close to cracking this process.
Sandly, we are not. For the most part, people don't have a fucking clue what consciousness is. It certainly won't be found in the physical dimension. Science is looking for the answers in the wrong place.
> You are making the same mistakes as most people in searching for answers to questions that you don't even understand in
the first place.
I already have the answers. I was simply pointing out the fallacy in the GP thinking "Since I don't understand the reason of the Universe, God, etc, therefore it doesn't have one." and letting others know that there indeed an answer.
> What is life?
Unless you have been dead, you _know_ NOTHING about Life.
Your fallacy is thinking these are 'dumb questions.' I say this because you don't have a valid frame of reference to even understand the answer. Here is an analogy: If you have been born blind, you have no concept of color. Without a frame of reference, talking about an experience doesn't mean anything. If you don't know what "hot" means, the phrase "Don't touch the hot stove, you will get burnt" means nothing. The only way to truly know something is to experience it.
> Define GOD.
All-That-Is.
All-Parent.
Feel free to pick a definition that fits within your belief system, although I would tend to recommend one of the two listed since they tend to be the most accurate given the limitations and inaccuracies of language. Maybe you will find another one.
> Define the universe first.
I'm assuming you mean this one, and the physical dimension since you never clarified...
An Universe is a manifestation of God's thought.
> Define time first.
A dimension of mind quantized or fractalized; hence the reason one can go "outside" or "transcend" time. At a higher level there is no such thing as time, past or future, as everything is "NOW." At the physical level (if you excuse the irony), time is a meta-physical buffer so that we may learn how to see the consequences of our actions, instead of all the consequences being immediate available.
> Define life first. Define death first.
A transfer of consciousness from one dimension to another. Life is the "entering" into the physical dimension. Death is the "exiting" of the physical dimension.
It would be constructive to find your _own_ answers, instead of others telling you. The only hint I will give is that the traditional definition of Life and Death is a kindergarten level of understanding. Everything is "Alive." Sadly as humans, the general populace is not aware of even 1% of "Life" because people fall into the trap of thinking it is physical. At the physical level, yes you are correct, Death appears to be a polar opposite of Life, but on a higher level, it is not, for there is no such thing as Death on a higher level. Chi, Ki, Prana, Life Force, whatever you want to call it doesn't change its nature or purpose.
>> "The universe is most Logical and Loving."
> Now this remark is just fluffy puppy dogs, pink bunnies, and kittens talk, and has absolutely no practical use in a rational conversation.
It sets the framework from which to understand _why_ things even happen in the first place. As long as people assume the opposite, "The universe doesn't make any sense, god is illogical, the universe is unfair, poor me", they will never understand reality to any depth, and learn the most important lesson: They are in control of their destiny. It's liking asking directions on how I do reach the city (to the East) and being told to go North. It won't take you where you want to go.
Peace
> There is "no reason" for gods.
Just because you are ignorant of the facts, reasons, and why, of what you would call God, doesn't mean there is no reason. The key is to look for the answer of "Why does the universe even bother to exist in the first place? What is consciousness? What is Life? What is Death? What is Time?" Science is completely ignorant of all these, because it thinks there is no method to arrive at those answers, and is unwilling to embrace something outside its domain to get there.
The universe is most Logical and Loving. You only perceive it differently because you don't have all the facts, and are viewing it through a narrow and limited human perspective, instead of a spiritual perspective. If you have children you would realize that children don't always understand the reasons and think things are "unfair" until they mature. Humans, for the most part, are still spiritually immature children.
> We are still left with all of the same problems and mysteries of the universe that we started with.
On this I agree -- Religion has been used as a crutch for far too long. It's always easier to make excuses "Someone else will save me", instead of getting of your ass and taking responsibility for the consequences in your own life -- but that would involve work.
Can any of the IM save the ENTIRE voice-chat session?
I need both incoming and outgoing voice saved. (A plain old wav file is fine.)
Thx