> "Archival vinyl" is an oxymoron unless you never play the album. > they'll come up with a nondestructive way to read the disc, like a laser beam. Oops, they did that. It's called a CD.
Becare about using the word never. History has proved it wrong over and over.
i.e. "We'll never fly..." "We'll never go to the moon..." etc.
At some point it is all about (re) aligning the frequencies of matter (since that all energy & matter are -- frequencies.) That is indeed possible, we just have to wait to develop our mental powers (again) and/or build a machine to help.
Yeah, that happened with a lof ot 80's shows. We had lower expectations on how to be happy back then.
As a kid, it was easy to "believe in anything" -- everything seemed magical. The alternative "reality" seemed like such a cool place to "live" until you grew up, and realized everything in the fantasy was constructed purposely.
I think the "magic" was lost, when I found out the buildings in Westerns were only "fronts"
Great points. I think we both agree that the governing body can ONLY derive its power from the people. (i.e. People create the Government; Government does not create the people.) Anything created derives its "rights" from its creator. Sadly, too many governments forget that they were created to serve the people.
Thx for the info on the UK.
Did you know that the Magna Carta is NULL and VOID ? Any contract signed under duress is not valid! Of course everyone keeps the whole sham going, because (most) lawyers are too chicken-shit to buck the system.
I don't obey the law because it is "legal", I follow certain principles BECAUSE of consequences (which might be moral reasons or not.) Whether "The Law" matches my morality is just a consequences. Government Laws are _completely_ arbitrary, and I am under no obligation to follow a bad law, even if the law imposes penalties.
Quite pretending there is some "social contract" that everyone is under.
* Lastly, don't get into game programmers for the money. The pay stinks, & the are hours long. (BOO Crunch Time). Only the crazy ones survive in this industry (avg turn around time is less then 5 years before jumping to another industry) because we eat, breath, and live code, and like constantly being challenged. There is always something NEW to learn, especially when the "next-gen" consoles come out. (Usually scratching your head at trying to figure out how to best make efficient use of the hardware)
As someone who has worked on PC, PSX, PS2 games, and currently a Wii title, you're talking out of your @$$, because not everyone works for EA, THQ, etc...
Here's WHY you want a 4 yr B. Sc. degree:
* You will be exposed to the breadth of comp sci. Games are one of the few applications that require you to know a little of EVERYTHING. Specifically:
hardware (timers, interrupts, input),
math,
graphics (and why and where you need to use the various "cheats/hacks" such as simulating a stencil buffer with alpha, etc.)
audio,
real-time computing,
networking,
compiler optimization (i.e. why you need to know asm, so you can see why gcc sucks so bad generating bloated STL code, and replace it with your own...)
memory management
audio
AI
scripting & language design (i.e. ok, LUA doesn't suck so bad now, now that I've replaced it's memory management...)
software engineering (knowing the trade offs of various designs)
optimization (standard speed vs flexibility)
database design and management (including file formats), and last but not least,
User Interface Design.
If games sound a lot like an Operating System, it is because they practically are!
* Sure some of the classes you will never use again, but at least you'll have the language and the background to know WHEN you should choose one algorithm over another, and the pros/cons of each. i.e. static arrays over dynamic lists, etc. Learning big O notation will help in this.
* YES, you probably could be be a great games programmer without a degree, but it's hard to prove it without experience. To get experience you have to demonstrate you have the knowledge. (classic chicken-egg) That piece of paper shows that at least you
a) understand the basics, and
b) were committed to finish getting it.
* Lastly, don't get into game programmers for the money. The pay stinks, & the are hours long. (BOO Crunch Time). Only the crazy ones survive in this industry (avg turn around time is There is always something NEW to learn, especially when the "next-gen" consoles come out. (Usually scratching your head at trying to figure out how to best make efficient use of the hardware)
> If they are from somewhere else, they are an alien. > If they are enterring illegally, they are an illegal alien.
How quickly we forgot North America was built by immigration. No wonder it was already inhabited by people who laughed at the concept of ownership of land as ridiculous as trying to own the sky, or the ocean.
The planet doesn't belong to you -- stop pretending part of it does. You have no more "authority" over it, then the next person. Resorting to guns to backup your "authority" is childish behavior based on fear and control.
The planet existed long before you were born, and will exist long after your dead.
-- How can a contract/law (Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc) apply when you NEVER signed it?!?!
I guess Dave Wendy was an ignorant business man, because he didn't finish high school, until shortly before he died. Oh wait, he proved his understanding, by _doing something_, that is, creating a very successful fast food business. Maybe he received a honorary PhD in Business because he was making all the "arm chair professors" look bad.:-)
-- Educate comes from Latin 'educere' -- meaning to draw out, not "fill up with useless facts."
Damn right it IS is my decision to make; regardless of what the law says, there is NOTHING you can do to prevent sharing of something I find valuable; especially information. Get over it.
Intellectual Property Rights are neither property, nor rights. Nothing is ever created in a vacuum as Sir Isaac Newton once said, "If I have been able to see farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." This childish attitude of "100% mine" is getting old... unless you lived on island and had no human contact, nothing you produce is truly 100% yours. It belongs to society because you are part of society, and where influenced by society, forming a feedback loop. Whether & How they want to repay you is up to everyone else to decide. Just because you value your work, doesn't give you the right to demand everyone else does.
If all you care about is distribution of your 'baby', there will always be more willing to share it. Focus on what matters -- creating something for the fun and enjoyment, instead of being a corporate shrill. Thats how we got into this mess of soul-less works in the first place.
> If you have experienced these yourself, how do you know that a near-death experience or out-of-body experience wasn't a neurobiologically-based phenomenon, and that what you saw as a past life wasn't an construct of your imagination?
If you never woke up how would you know you were dreaming? The goal of life is "wake up" -- as conscious as we think we are, we're really asleep.
In the somnambulistic state you are NOT conscious so its a little hard for it to be imagination.:-)
Also, there are many reasons why I _know_ it is MORE then just a biological effect.
- I didn't believe in OBEs/NDEs either, until I had my first one. After experiencing the infinite joy/love of the soul -- it is ineffable experience and impossible to describe -- I was motivated to learn more... and was fortunate enough to experience many more 'pieces to the puzzle.'
- When I first met my wife, we were both regressed to by two different people. How does your wife "remember" the _exact_ same details of a common past life even though you have never talked about it before?? For me, this was 'my smoking gun.' The odds of coming up with exact same "mundane" details is next to impossible.
- I've talked with a stranger who has the ability to channel. The entity started to give personal details that even I was shocked at. This was my first experience of communication with a non-physical entity.
- I've met a man, Dannion, who was dead for 28 minutes, at a private group meeting. (His favorite story was how some doctor was giving him a hard time about "the NDE is just a figment of your imagination" and belittling him with "_I'm_ a M.D. What are you credentials?", to which he replied "D.O.A.") He has the gift/ability to read what people are thinking. People would start to describe their problem they were having in this life; he would politely cut them off, explain their problem in detail, have them break down in tears at the awe and amazement of being able to do so, and then explain a solution. This happened for a few people.
- After hearing meta-physical music in another OBE, music on this realm is so 2-dimensional and "flat."
- With these tools you can learn information that is not possible as a human (i.e. see someone do something even though you weren't there physically or conscious of it, and then have them confirm later that is what happened. People who have surgery are commonly able to report what happened even though they were supposed to be "unconscious.")
- You can communicate with intelligent meta-physical beings; the knowledge they give you is proof enough, that the experience "is real." I found out my wife has the ability to channel, and the first time it happened, I 'demanded proof' that was I communicating with someone other then my wife. Tell me something about myself that I have never shared with my wife. You don't need too many answers to go "OK. We're not in Kansas anymore -- we're off the f-n map here!"
- I believe Monroe called this meta-physical communication "Non-Verbal Communication." You can communicate with your consciousness, and your higher self in a more direct manner. When they tell you how things will play out in your near future, and they come to pass, you start to pay attention.
There other examples, but the main point is that EVERYONE has the ability to prove these things for themselves. The great Truths that Science remains so clueless about is:
- Time is just a dimension of the mind. - You are a spiritual being in a physical body having a human experience.
As Robert Monroe so eloquently stated, "The question isn't so much 'Are you more then your physical body?'; The real interesting question is 'How _much_ more are you then your physical body?'"
The funny thing is OBE's have been documented for ages. Even the Bible mentions one in 2 Cor 12:2. But its always the arm-charm skeptics claiming knowledge over a subject they have NO experience in, making the most noise. It's great
> can you explain thoroughly what makes impossible/impractical for a high level language like Python or C# to be used for a kernel OS?
Because of memory mapped IO. Hardware maps its IO to a particular memory address. Most high level languages won't let you explicitly set the address of the raw pointer.
i.e. On the PS2, there is a 16K block of fast ram, called scratch pad.
enum {
SCRATCHPAD_ADDRESS = 0x70000000; }// And when you want to use... char * pTemp = SCRATCHPAD_ADDRESS;// char, int, etc....
Also, most high-level languages "sandbox" pointers to prevent buffer overflows, but there are times when you need to initialize and use pointer to a specific memory address OUTSIDE the VM environment. In this particular case it is not a bug.
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> So why don't we just stop calling it music? Most of it isn't music anyway!
One man's music is another man's noise.
If you don't like it, don't listen to it.
Solution is simple:
Ask them to SHOW you the LAW that REQUIRES you to HAVE one.
They can't -- because there is NONE.
No kidding!
What's REAL ironic is that the Constitution is written on hemp paper -- the main reason it has lasted so long!
--
Because we all know a War on Terror is going to be just as effective as the War On Drugs, oh wait...
> "Archival vinyl" is an oxymoron unless you never play the album.
> they'll come up with a nondestructive way to read the disc, like a laser beam. Oops, they did that. It's called a CD.
Hey buddy, here's a clue stick...
Two words: Laser Turntable
> the fraun-created 128k (yes, really) files are VERY close to the 44.1k cd sources in .wav format.
Try listening to classical music sometime, not pop music.
> It will never be cheaper to "3-D print"
Becare about using the word never. History has proved it wrong over and over.
i.e.
"We'll never fly..."
"We'll never go to the moon..."
etc.
At some point it is all about (re) aligning the frequencies of matter (since that all energy & matter are -- frequencies.) That is indeed possible, we just have to wait to develop our mental powers (again) and/or build a machine to help.
Yeah, that happened with a lof ot 80's shows. We had lower expectations on how to be happy back then.
As a kid, it was easy to "believe in anything" -- everything seemed magical. The alternative "reality" seemed like such a cool place to "live" until you grew up, and realized everything in the fantasy was constructed purposely.
I think the "magic" was lost, when I found out the buildings in Westerns were only "fronts"
Great points. I think we both agree that the governing body can ONLY derive its power from the people. (i.e. People create the Government; Government does not create the people.) Anything created derives its "rights" from its creator. Sadly, too many governments forget that they were created to serve the people.
Thx for the info on the UK.
Did you know that the Magna Carta is NULL and VOID ? Any contract signed under duress is not valid! Of course everyone keeps the whole sham going, because (most) lawyers are too chicken-shit to buck the system.
--
Wow, not all lawyers suck...
> Yes, sometimes you have no choice but to use Windows. Especially if you're a gamer.
Sucks that Crysis and Age of Conan are Vista only. Guess I won't be buying or playing them....
My Powerbook G3 doesn't have airport, hence the problem. :-(
> You obey the law because you helped define it
What a load of bull.
Legality != Morality.
I don't obey the law because it is "legal", I follow certain principles BECAUSE of consequences (which might be moral reasons or not.) Whether "The Law" matches my morality is just a consequences. Government Laws are _completely_ arbitrary, and I am under no obligation to follow a bad law, even if the law imposes penalties.
Quite pretending there is some "social contract" that everyone is under.
There is no crime when there is no victim.
Let me know when I can get WPA support for my Powerbook G3 w/ OS 10.3.x
Some of us put our old spare computers to use.
> It's an MMORPG the way it's meant to be
:-)
Not everyone wants everything outside of towns to be instanced.
sorry, last paragraph got munched....
* Lastly, don't get into game programmers for the money. The pay stinks, & the are hours long. (BOO Crunch Time). Only the crazy ones survive in this industry (avg turn around time is less then 5 years before jumping to another industry) because we eat, breath, and live code, and like constantly being challenged. There is always something NEW to learn, especially when the "next-gen" consoles come out. (Usually scratching your head at trying to figure out how to best make efficient use of the hardware)
Here's WHY you want a 4 yr B. Sc. degree:
* You will be exposed to the breadth of comp sci. Games are one of the few applications that require you to know a little of EVERYTHING. Specifically:
If games sound a lot like an Operating System, it is because they practically are!
* Sure some of the classes you will never use again, but at least you'll have the language and the background to know WHEN you should choose one algorithm over another, and the pros/cons of each. i.e. static arrays over dynamic lists, etc. Learning big O notation will help in this.
* YES, you probably could be be a great games programmer without a degree, but it's hard to prove it without experience. To get experience you have to demonstrate you have the knowledge. (classic chicken-egg) That piece of paper shows that at least you
a) understand the basics, and
b) were committed to finish getting it.
* Lastly, don't get into game programmers for the money. The pay stinks, & the are hours long. (BOO Crunch Time). Only the crazy ones survive in this industry (avg turn around time is There is always something NEW to learn, especially when the "next-gen" consoles come out. (Usually scratching your head at trying to figure out how to best make efficient use of the hardware)
Cheers
> If they are from somewhere else, they are an alien.
> If they are enterring illegally, they are an illegal alien.
How quickly we forgot North America was built by immigration. No wonder it was already inhabited by people who laughed at the concept of ownership of land as ridiculous as trying to own the sky, or the ocean.
The planet doesn't belong to you -- stop pretending part of it does. You have no more "authority" over it, then the next person. Resorting to guns to backup your "authority" is childish behavior based on fear and control.
The planet existed long before you were born, and will exist long after your dead.
--
How can a contract/law (Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc) apply when you NEVER signed it?!?!
Have to concur, partially.
:-)
I guess Dave Wendy was an ignorant business man, because he didn't finish high school, until shortly before he died. Oh wait, he proved his understanding, by _doing something_, that is, creating a very successful fast food business. Maybe he received a honorary PhD in Business because he was making all the "arm chair professors" look bad.
--
Educate comes from Latin 'educere' -- meaning to draw out, not "fill up with useless facts."
> How is someone going to learn assembly?
AppleWin
--
Somedays you wish the CP/M inventor would of used an Apple. (Stupid 8.3 compared to 32 chars)
> Real-time Raytracing (a myth, yes, but a good one nonetheless)
2005 called, they want their hardware back.
--
How can you understand Life if you don't even understand what happens after Death??
> right is about the right of the creator
Who made you?
Who makes the government?
> It's not your decision to make.
Damn right it IS is my decision to make; regardless of what the law says, there is NOTHING you can do to prevent sharing of something I find valuable; especially information. Get over it.
Intellectual Property Rights are neither property, nor rights. Nothing is ever created in a vacuum as Sir Isaac Newton once said, "If I have been able to see farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." This childish attitude of "100% mine" is getting old... unless you lived on island and had no human contact, nothing you produce is truly 100% yours. It belongs to society because you are part of society, and where influenced by society, forming a feedback loop. Whether & How they want to repay you is up to everyone else to decide. Just because you value your work, doesn't give you the right to demand everyone else does.
If all you care about is distribution of your 'baby', there will always be more willing to share it. Focus on what matters -- creating something for the fun and enjoyment, instead of being a corporate shrill. Thats how we got into this mess of soul-less works in the first place.
Yeah, because we all know, that all the old music (previous recorded) is just going to suddenly disappear...
After they pulled that patent crap on Carmack who _invented_ Carmack's reverse!
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28
> 1) Hearing artifacts at 256kbps.
:-)
Yup, completely agree. CD stands for Crap Digital after listening to vinyl on horns.
> Seeing as a 400GB hard drive is going to cost less than $200
Eh? Where DO you do your shopping??
I just picked up a SATA3 WD 500 Gig for $140 (US) from Newegg.
If you're in Canada, NCIX is the newegg of Canada
Cheers
> If you have experienced these yourself, how do you know that a near-death experience or out-of-body experience wasn't a neurobiologically-based phenomenon, and that what you saw as a past life wasn't an construct of your imagination?
:-)
If you never woke up how would you know you were dreaming? The goal of life is "wake up" -- as conscious as we think we are, we're really asleep.
In the somnambulistic state you are NOT conscious so its a little hard for it to be imagination.
Also, there are many reasons why I _know_ it is MORE then just a biological effect.
- I didn't believe in OBEs/NDEs either, until I had my first one. After experiencing the infinite joy/love of the soul -- it is ineffable experience and impossible to describe -- I was motivated to learn more... and was fortunate enough to experience many more 'pieces to the puzzle.'
- When I first met my wife, we were both regressed to by two different people. How does your wife "remember" the _exact_ same details of a common past life even though you have never talked about it before?? For me, this was 'my smoking gun.' The odds of coming up with exact same "mundane" details is next to impossible.
- I've talked with a stranger who has the ability to channel. The entity started to give personal details that even I was shocked at. This was my first experience of communication with a non-physical entity.
- I've met a man, Dannion, who was dead for 28 minutes, at a private group meeting. (His favorite story was how some doctor was giving him a hard time about "the NDE is just a figment of your imagination" and belittling him with "_I'm_ a M.D. What are you credentials?", to which he replied "D.O.A.") He has the gift/ability to read what people are thinking. People would start to describe their problem they were having in this life; he would politely cut them off, explain their problem in detail, have them break down in tears at the awe and amazement of being able to do so, and then explain a solution. This happened for a few people.
- After hearing meta-physical music in another OBE, music on this realm is so 2-dimensional and "flat."
- With these tools you can learn information that is not possible as a human (i.e. see someone do something even though you weren't there physically or conscious of it, and then have them confirm later that is what happened. People who have surgery are commonly able to report what happened even though they were supposed to be "unconscious.")
- You can communicate with intelligent meta-physical beings; the knowledge they give you is proof enough, that the experience "is real." I found out my wife has the ability to channel, and the first time it happened, I 'demanded proof' that was I communicating with someone other then my wife. Tell me something about myself that I have never shared with my wife. You don't need too many answers to go "OK. We're not in Kansas anymore -- we're off the f-n map here!"
- I believe Monroe called this meta-physical communication "Non-Verbal Communication." You can communicate with your consciousness, and your higher self in a more direct manner. When they tell you how things will play out in your near future, and they come to pass, you start to pay attention.
There other examples, but the main point is that EVERYONE has the ability to prove these things for themselves. The great Truths that Science remains so clueless about is:
- Time is just a dimension of the mind.
- You are a spiritual being in a physical body having a human experience.
As Robert Monroe so eloquently stated, "The question isn't so much 'Are you more then your physical body?'; The real interesting question is 'How _much_ more are you then your physical body?'"
The funny thing is OBE's have been documented for ages. Even the Bible mentions one in 2 Cor 12:2. But its always the arm-charm skeptics claiming knowledge over a subject they have NO experience in, making the most noise. It's great
> can you explain thoroughly what makes impossible/impractical for a high level language like Python or C# to be used for a kernel OS?
// And when you want to use... // char, int, etc....
Because of memory mapped IO. Hardware maps its IO to a particular memory address. Most high level languages won't let you explicitly set the address of the raw pointer.
i.e.
On the PS2, there is a 16K block of fast ram, called scratch pad.
enum
{
SCRATCHPAD_ADDRESS = 0x70000000;
}
char * pTemp = SCRATCHPAD_ADDRESS;
Also, most high-level languages "sandbox" pointers to prevent buffer overflows, but there are times when you need to initialize and use pointer to a specific memory address OUTSIDE the VM environment. In this particular case it is not a bug.
Basically the problem boils down to...
Speed vs Flexibility vs Performance vs Safety
Pick 2.
Cheers