Because it means they didn't have to learn about all the crap of dealing with Window Issues.
i.e. DLL Hell, Printers working on one system but not another, etc.
> The very notion of science itself is incompatible with religion. > Science takes as it's central premise that nothing should escape testing or questioning.
You're missing the whole point of the Religion of Science, and the Science of Religion.
Science worships the God of Objective Truth. Religion worships the God of Subjective Truth.
Both are Right. And both equally Wrong.
Tell me, how do you test: * Why you were born? * What is the purpose of Life? * What is the purpose of Death? * Why does Life even exist in the first place? * Does Free-Will exist? * Does Fate exist?
Let's take a look at something a little less abstract.
It is the pinnacle of ignorance and arrogance to tell a person who has been dead for 1.5 hours (nevermind others for "only" 30 mins), that everything he has experienced is due to some "delusion", when you have "no frame of reference" unless you've gone through a similiar experience! It's a similiar problem of "How do you explain/prove color to a blind man?" (Failing to prove something, does not constitute proof; which is the reason "existence proofs" are useless.)
Thankfully you don't have to die to have an NDE or OBE. The _only_ way to _truely_ know something, is to experience it firsthand, because everything is a subjective experience. Thankfully, there are enough documented cases, http://www.near-death.com/ that Science really has no excuse to turn a blind eye, to the meta-physical realms. It accepts that "Time not physical", but yet refuses to go one inch further.
-- "Philosophy is a belief -- Religion is the path that you walk in order to prove your Philosophy."
> Oh, I see..The scientist were praying wrong... Well that explains everything then...
The problem with the study, and Science is general, is that it takes one negative result to mean that the procedure is ineffective, when instead we should be looking at the anomaly of why there was a few cases of success in the first place! It's like trying to prove a negative by lack of success. You don't prove something is impossible by failing to demonstrate it!
i.e. Just because one person fails to fly, doesn't mean flight is impossible.
~ Until you have been clinically dead, you have _no clue_ of what Life even is.
At 5 million subscribes x $15/month = $75,000,000 million / year, I'd say it's "pure profit."
(Yes, I know their currency is spread is across USD, Yen, and Euro's. That doesn't change the fact that the 1st generation of MMORPG proved that you can sustain profitability with as little as 200,000 subscribes, which they are well past.)
Here's a summary of why Logical thinkers reject Christianity.
1. The problem is that the (funadmentalist) Christians read something literal, and completely miss the deeper allegorical points. i.e. Why are all the days of creation called Good, except for Day 2?
2. The Bible is not a history book, despite Christians having blinders on believing it is "authentic." i.e. The Flood is a retelling of the Sumarian Epic of Gilgamesh, The 10 Commandments comes right out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Herod's slaughter of all 2 yrs old is not recorded by Josephus or Philo, etc, ad nausea
3. Most non-christians are aware of the absurdities in the Bible. i.e. God tells his people to "not to kill" (Ex 13:20) but yet it is ok for God to be hypocritical and ordains mass murder, Deut 20:16-17. Sounds like a God of Love to me!
Of course, aethiests, and evolutionists have their own share of delusions too, but at least it's due to inexperience.
> Christians are protesting the DaVinci Code and developing texts refuting it. Apparently they're having difficulty believing that a book can be fiction.
Don't worry -- they are still working on the Bible...
> There is NOTHING in the constitution that guarantess you can "travel anonymously". It isn't even implied. Your statement has not basis in fact or reality.
No, but the Bill of Rights does.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
-- ALL civilizations eventually collapse. Or are you that ignorant and arrogant to assume that yours won't? "The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws" -- Tacitus, A.D. 55
We're not complaining how "bad" it is, just that there is room for improvement
i.e. How many people work at job _just_ so they can get by? Instead of having the resources (time/money) to do what they really want?
Guess it's a crime to have hope, and/or want a better life!
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T 000 *NIX: hello.c != hello.C (WTF??)
T 000 ALL: ' ' not interchangeable '_'
Yeah, CoolBits rock; It's been around seen the GeForce 2/3 days.
The "Detect Optimal Frequeinces" is definately very cool. Just bump the settings down just a few notches from the detected settings, and you've got the best stability/overclock ratio.
> Why does the author talk about power leveling when he himself says that power leveling is not cheating.
Wondering that myself. Power Leveling / Turboing / Rushing is not cheating. It's just being very efficient at playing the game. It _may_ involve exploiting rules, but that is not a necessary condition, only sufficient.
-- MMORPG gamer: "Check out this phat loot of this mob!" Translation: There is nothing wrong with virtual dolls/dressup for boys!
> I think 96% of them are offended by people stealing ideas without credit.
Pulling numbers out a hat (or your ass) doesn't give your argument any (more) credability.
-- There are 2 types of creators / engineers / artists / musicians / programmers, etc... * Those that want their creation to be enjoyed by others, * Those that are trying to make a buck off it
A long time ago, some crazy person had this idea that he could fly. Having never done so, he took it on faith, that he could, with the right equipment. Fortunately, this looney bird wasn't alone, for he had a brother who shared his distorted view of "reality". They just didn't believe, as their belief became faith when they struggled until they proved their faith, by actually constructing a flying device.
Later, other irrational people had the crazy notion that they could walk on the moon. Having never done so, all they had, was to take it on faith, that they could. Eventually through trials and setbacks, including death, they PROVED their faith was correct, when they actually did it.
Science is very much a Religion -- because it has faith; faith that Truth is Objective. Of course the Science of Religion says that Truth is Subjective, which is equally true. Now, since one truth does not negate another truth, both of these must be accepted, in order to overcome the limitations of the Religion of Science, and the Science of Religion.
> OTOH religion goes out of it's way to suppress and subvert new information which contradicts accepted beliefs.
Gee, like Science has never done that. Maybe because both are directed by people who have a hard time accepting reality that is outside their paradigm.
Slashdot Mirror
Ahhh, to be ignorant and naive again...
If you haven't worked in the games industry, don't go around making bad analogies.
When was the last time McDonald's had "crunch time" ?
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MMORPG gamer: "Check out this phat loot of this mob!"
Translation: There is nothing wrong with virtual dolls/dressup for boys!
Because it means they didn't have to learn about all the crap of dealing with Window Issues.
i.e. DLL Hell, Printers working on one system but not another, etc.
> All console games these days have widescreen support. It is not hard to do.
Technically, no, but artistically, it is, in order to do it right.
It's about providing a UI that looks good any at resolution.
It's much easier to make a UI look good at 4:3, then to do "double" the work to support 16:9 or some other "oddball" configuration.
Yeah it sucks, but as a programmer I can appreciate the amount of work an artist has to do.
Cheers
Wheres the dam insert toggle key for one?
Print Screen is missing, but at least there is another key combo for it.
> The very notion of science itself is incompatible with religion.
> Science takes as it's central premise that nothing should escape testing or questioning.
You're missing the whole point of the Religion of Science, and the Science of Religion.
Science worships the God of Objective Truth.
Religion worships the God of Subjective Truth.
Both are Right. And both equally Wrong.
Tell me, how do you test:
* Why you were born?
* What is the purpose of Life?
* What is the purpose of Death?
* Why does Life even exist in the first place?
* Does Free-Will exist?
* Does Fate exist?
Let's take a look at something a little less abstract.
It is the pinnacle of ignorance and arrogance to tell a person who has been dead for 1.5 hours (nevermind others for "only" 30 mins), that everything he has experienced is due to some "delusion", when you have "no frame of reference" unless you've gone through a similiar experience! It's a similiar problem of "How do you explain/prove color to a blind man?" (Failing to prove something, does not constitute proof; which is the reason "existence proofs" are useless.)
Thankfully you don't have to die to have an NDE or OBE. The _only_ way to _truely_ know something, is to experience it firsthand, because everything is a subjective experience. Thankfully, there are enough documented cases, http://www.near-death.com/ that Science really has no excuse to turn a blind eye, to the meta-physical realms. It accepts that "Time not physical", but yet refuses to go one inch further.
--
"Philosophy is a belief -- Religion is the path that you walk in order to prove your Philosophy."
That's because the grand-parent forgot to reference Monty Python - Lumberjack.mp3
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"The difference between Religion and Philosophy, is that one is put into practise the other"
-- Emmanuel
> Oh, I see..The scientist were praying wrong ... Well that explains everything then...
The problem with the study, and Science is general, is that it takes one negative result to mean that the procedure is ineffective, when instead we should be looking at the anomaly of why there was a few cases of success in the first place! It's like trying to prove a negative by lack of success. You don't prove something is impossible by failing to demonstrate it!
i.e.
Just because one person fails to fly, doesn't mean flight is impossible.
~
Until you have been clinically dead, you have _no clue_ of what Life even is.
> The more you pay, the more you get. Unfortunately, to get the next increment in quality, you have to pay significantly more money.
Yeah, it's a decreasing returns of spending 2x the money.
> Aren't all games role playing games?
;-)
Yes, but don't confuse the issue with facts
At 5 million subscribes x $15/month = $75,000,000 million / year, I'd say it's "pure profit."
(Yes, I know their currency is spread is across USD, Yen, and Euro's. That doesn't change the fact that the 1st generation of MMORPG proved that you can sustain profitability with as little as 200,000 subscribes, which they are well past.)
Here's a summary of why Logical thinkers reject Christianity.
1. The problem is that the (funadmentalist) Christians read something literal, and completely miss the deeper allegorical points.
i.e.
Why are all the days of creation called Good, except for Day 2?
2. The Bible is not a history book, despite Christians having blinders on believing it is "authentic."
i.e.
The Flood is a retelling of the Sumarian Epic of Gilgamesh,
The 10 Commandments comes right out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead,
Herod's slaughter of all 2 yrs old is not recorded by Josephus or Philo,
etc, ad nausea
3. Most non-christians are aware of the absurdities in the Bible.
i.e. God tells his people to "not to kill" (Ex 13:20) but yet it is ok for God to be hypocritical and ordains mass murder, Deut 20:16-17. Sounds like a God of Love to me!
Of course, aethiests, and evolutionists have their own share of delusions too, but at least it's due to inexperience.
Peace
Yeap ;-)
Funny to see (modern) games incorporate features from 10+ old games.
Still no rock-climbing skill, ability to make a raft, or a weatherballon, etc. in modern RPGs...
> Christians are protesting the DaVinci Code and developing texts refuting it. Apparently they're having difficulty believing that a book can be fiction.
Don't worry -- they are still working on the Bible...
*ba-da boom*
Genius/Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Author does have a few interesting points, even if he reaches the wrong conclusion.
The main thing I hate about WoW is:
- Dead Time (you WASTE so much time travelling)
- Combat-only (impossible to be a pure tradesman)
Sure, WoW is the "Best", but it still sucks.
How many console titles have you shipped?
http://ncix.com/ is the newegg of Canada.
> There is NOTHING in the constitution that guarantess you can "travel anonymously". It isn't even implied. Your statement has not basis in fact or reality.
No, but the Bill of Rights does.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
--
ALL civilizations eventually collapse.
Or are you that ignorant and arrogant to assume that yours won't?
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws" -- Tacitus, A.D. 55
It can _always_ be better.
We're not complaining how "bad" it is, just that there is room for improvement
i.e.
How many people work at job _just_ so they can get by?
Instead of having the resources (time/money) to do what they really want?
Guess it's a crime to have hope, and/or want a better life!
--
Yeah, CoolBits rock; It's been around seen the GeForce 2/3 days.
The "Detect Optimal Frequeinces" is definately very cool. Just bump the settings down just a few notches from the detected settings, and you've got the best stability/overclock ratio.
MOD up as funny.
(The joke is that Holywood's quality is lacking.)
The EE is actually 128-bit. It can natively do vector operations, where a vector is 4 floats * 32 bits/float = 128 bits.
s /agdc2002/PS2forPCprogrammers.pdf
Now, integer operations are not the full 128 bits, so it is more like a pseudo-truth that the CPU is 32 / 128 bit.
References:
http://www.technology.scee.net/files/presentation
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Pet Peeve: People (incorrectly) saying the PS2 only has 32 Megs of Ram. It has 40 MB. (32 Main, 4 Megs VRAM, 2 Megs IOP, 2 Megs SPU)
> aspiration is not faith
What defintion of faith are you using??
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=faith
1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
> and proving it shows it wasn't a matter of faith.
If you never do anything with your beliefs, they are just that beliefs.
If you act on your beliefs, you have faith.
> Why does the author talk about power leveling when he himself says that power leveling is not cheating.
Wondering that myself. Power Leveling / Turboing / Rushing is not cheating. It's just being very efficient at playing the game. It _may_ involve exploiting rules, but that is not a necessary condition, only sufficient.
--
MMORPG gamer: "Check out this phat loot of this mob!"
Translation: There is nothing wrong with virtual dolls/dressup for boys!
> I think 96% of them are offended by people stealing ideas without credit.
Pulling numbers out a hat (or your ass) doesn't give your argument any (more) credability.
--
There are 2 types of creators / engineers / artists / musicians / programmers, etc...
* Those that want their creation to be enjoyed by others,
* Those that are trying to make a buck off it
> science is NOT based on faith.
A long time ago, some crazy person had this idea that he could fly. Having never done so, he took it on faith, that he could, with the right equipment. Fortunately, this looney bird wasn't alone, for he had a brother who shared his distorted view of "reality". They just didn't believe, as their belief became faith when they struggled until they proved their faith, by actually constructing a flying device.
Later, other irrational people had the crazy notion that they could walk on the moon. Having never done so, all they had, was to take it on faith, that they could. Eventually through trials and setbacks, including death, they PROVED their faith was correct, when they actually did it.
Science is very much a Religion -- because it has faith; faith that Truth is Objective.
Of course the Science of Religion says that Truth is Subjective, which is equally true.
Now, since one truth does not negate another truth, both of these must be accepted, in order to overcome the limitations of the Religion of Science, and the Science of Religion.
> OTOH religion goes out of it's way to suppress and subvert new information which contradicts accepted beliefs.
Gee, like Science has never done that. Maybe because both are directed by people who have a hard time accepting reality that is outside their paradigm.
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Science Proves Religion