I know you are joking, but there are 4 different paths to enlightenment:
* The Fakir * The Monk * The Yogi * Spiritual Marriage / Gnosis
You _don't_ need me as a sensei, you already have everything within you to learn. Practice any hobby that helps you to connect to the Divine. Music, Painting, Dancing, Gardening, Sports, etc. You'll know what works for you when your sense of time is slowed down -- what athletes call "Being in the Zone."
Lastly, stay away from drugs -- they are a mental crutch.
Scientists are discovering that Consciousness Affects Matter. (The fact that the Placebo Effect even _exists_ at all is partial proof of this.)
But this is nothing new. You can find doctors talking about their NDEs. A NDE (Near Death Experience) is when a person has an OBE when they almost died.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's My stroke of insight is an interesting talk about her OBE.
Before you graduate to OBEs you'll probably want to start with Lucid Dreaming. Reddit, of all places, has a good sub-reddit:/r/LucidDreaming/
Then as you learn to meditate you can work on having an OBE.
Thomas Campbell documents the experiences of his OBEs in My Big Toe -- where he was one the participants.
Once you have you OBE's you can start having them with others.
My wife and I have had shared OBE's -- we then compare and contrast "our notes" to see what is the same and different. The fact that we can describe the same experiences proves that consciousness is non-local -- something that Physicts just now are starting to understand.
Humor, and especially satire, is a corner stone of an enlightened civilization.
Pull that stick out of your ass -- because censoring humor and preventing people from poking fun of the establishment does NOT help people get over "taboo" topics, dogma, or corruption any quicker. In fact it has the opposite effect and makes things WORSE. By removing a "safe" avenue to eventually provide a road to discuss sensitive issue all you've done is force the issue underground.
Congratulations (see I was being _sarcastic_) on convincing the rest of the world that you are a bunch of dumb asses -- while we laugh at your stupidity.
What you resists, persists
There is a BALANCE between the Individual and the State -- too bad you will never learn this.
> Was Reddit the last major bastion of Free Speech?
No, Redditards downvote anything that doesn't fit into their myopic view.
> Is the internet going to become as bland and mindless as 1956 television?
Welcome to new world of Political Censorship -- where anything that doesn't fit into the Stupid Juvenile Whiner mindset is marginalized (at best), or censored (at worst.)
> We have Netflix and a dozen other services without ads served for less than 10 bucks a month? I don't get it.
1. Can I watch the latest STD (Star Trek Disaster) on Netflix? No, because I have to sign up for some bullshit CBS All Access. BUT if I'm _outside_ the US then I _can_ watch it.
Stop with the fucking geo-blocking already due to shitty licencing greed.
2. On Netflix can I watch: Seinfeld ? South Park? The Sopranos? Game of Thrones?
No, again, due to shitty licencing greed.
Customers DON'T want a million different sources. They want a reasonable monthly bill $20 - $75, not $200.
3. When I search for a movie on Netflix and it isn't available I get some crappy message:
Explore titles related to: _x_
WTF?
* Where is the OPTION to provide FEEDBACK? i.e. NOTIFY me WHEN this becomes available. * Where is the option to see how many other people are interested? * Where is the option that I WANT to buy this on BluRay? iTunes? Amazon?
Everyone is busy trying to build their own little kingdom that the entire customer experience is crap.
> We have Netflix and a dozen other services without ads served for less than 10 bucks a month? I don't get it
Streaming (quality) doesn't compare to BluRay (quality).
> And for software, we have TONS of open source equivalents.
I always look for and use an OSS version first and then fall back to a commercial version only if the OSS versions doesn't do what I need but let's be realistic. There just aren't valid OSS replacements for everything (yet.)
* Gimp is still crap compared to Photoshop. And yes, I use both -- both professionally and personally.
* I don't see any alternative to Keyscape's 77 GB VST piano library that sells for $399.
That said, overall, yes Open Source Software is getting there. I certainly find Inkscape a helluva lot easier to use Adobe Illustrator.
And thankfully there are lists that make it much easier to find an OSS replacement.
Gee, when people can't buy their favorite 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's TV shows... what do you think is going to happen? A certain percentage of people will always resort to piracy.
Piracy just shows that there is a _demand._ Let me buy the entire series, say Mash, for $20 instead of price-gouging me $120 / season like ST:TNG used to do.
What I don't understand is how the "long tail" is completely ignored in film / television but the games industry has embraced with sites such as Good Old Games (gog.com) and Steam.
> Most other work is Java and C++, for both a simple editor like vi/vim (even with ctaggs) is completely unsuited. But I guess you hate both such languages:)
Out-of-the-box Crap++ is a complete clusterfuck of over-engineering.
I personally use C++ with ctags -- I will clarify that in a moment.
When even a C++ committee member admits that they write in a sub-set of C++ you know the languages is b-l-o-a-t-e-d.
Myself, like many other game developers, such as John Carmack, use something called "Super C" or "Embedded C++" -- basically C++ without all the bloated features.
* No exceptions * No RTTI * No References (use pointers) * Minimal usage of templates * Const everywhere * Shallow Class Heirarchy * Polymorphism when it makes sense * Inheritance when it makes sense
In case you didn't notice those C++ morons are STILL trying to add a 2D graphics library -- which would have been fine 20 years ago -- but everyone is either using Direct3D, OpenGL, Vulkan, or some other proprietary piece-of-shit 3D library. We don't need Yet-Another-Graphics library.
There is no _standardized_ name-mangling -- something that would help solve _today's_ real problems.
Gee, when are packages coming to C++? You know, something Pascal had 30 years ago???
I could go on but that's enough.
Java is an even crappier language. I wrote some CRC32 in version 7 2 years ago -- it was one of the worst programming experiences I've ever had.
* It took _eight_ revisions to add support for a native unsigned type??? * Any language that _forces_ only one class per file is brain dead * The compiler was brain dead -- it was unable to cast an int to a boolean and short-circuit an IF clause * Let me know when there is a way to make the GC _100% deterministic_ AND give it a _hard_ millisecond deadline, or even disable the dam thing. Ignoring memory management doesn't magically make it go away. * The extra/long/verbose/path/to/my/source is crap, * The gradle/maven build system sucks * Verbose languages, like Java and COBOL, suck.
There is a reason the stereotypical Java-weenie exists.
Part of the problem is that Silicon doesn't really scale past 5 GHz. Commercial CPU's went deep until they hit the 5 GHz cap. A friend of mine finds today's commodity CPU's MHz a bit of a joke. Why? Because
* In 1977 he was working on a 4 GHz CPUs * In 1990 he was working on a 20 GHz CPUs
I'll let _those_ dates sink for a second. NOTE: ALL of these CPUs were built with Gallium Arsenide.
Now this was for the military which is roughly 20 years ahead of the public sector. The problem is no one in the public sector could afford them. The commercial sector is REALLY good at driving prices down, but REALLY crappy at pushing the envelope of technology (because it is too expensive.) When you basically have an unlimited budget like the military you can basically R&D alternative tech such as GaAs. If you want to know what happened to GaAs there is quora Q&A.
It is a little hard to compete with GaAs when silicon is literally dirt cheap.
And as the public have _consistently_ shown, cheaper sells FAR more then better-but-expensive.
These days commercial CPU's are going wide. i.e. The gimped PS4's CPU is 8-core but only runs at 1.75 GHz.
Creating technology is becoming more and more expensive. In the 19760's the Jetsons popularized the idea of the flying car. And yet ~60 years later it is still a pipe dream.
Technology becoming boring is nothing new. The pioneer of modern electronics, Carver Mead basically summarized the fundamental problem:
Microelectronics pioneer, Caltech professor emeritus, and all-around smart guy Carver Mead believes that the scientific revolution that began with the discovery of special relativity and quantum mechanics has stalled, and that it's up to us to kickstart it.
"A bunch of big egos got in the way," he told his audience of 3,000-plus chipheads at the International Soild-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco on Monday.
Slashdot Mirror
That's correct.
There are more important things then money or fame.
I don't do drugs. Sorry to disappoint you.
(Hallucinogenic) Drugs are a mental crutch for people too lazy to put the *years* into learning how to meditate for themselves.
It would be best to stay away from all of them.
I know you are joking, but there are 4 different paths to enlightenment:
* The Fakir
* The Monk
* The Yogi
* Spiritual Marriage / Gnosis
You _don't_ need me as a sensei, you already have everything within you to learn. Practice any hobby that helps you to connect to the Divine. Music, Painting, Dancing, Gardening, Sports, etc. You'll know what works for you when your sense of time is slowed down -- what athletes call "Being in the Zone."
Lastly, stay away from drugs -- they are a mental crutch.
Scientists are discovering that Consciousness Affects Matter. (The fact that the Placebo Effect even _exists_ at all is partial proof of this.)
But this is nothing new. You can find doctors talking about their NDEs. A NDE (Near Death Experience) is when a person has an OBE when they almost died.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's My stroke of insight is an interesting talk about her OBE.
Eben Alexander: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife
Dr.Eben Alexander talks about his Near Death Experience & Proof of Heaven
Before you graduate to OBEs you'll probably want to start with Lucid Dreaming. Reddit, of all places, has a good sub-reddit: /r/LucidDreaming/
Then as you learn to meditate you can work on having an OBE.
Thomas Campbell documents the experiences of his OBEs in My Big Toe -- where he was one the participants.
Once you have you OBE's you can start having them with others.
My wife and I have had shared OBE's -- we then compare and contrast "our notes" to see what is the same and different. The fact that we can describe the same experiences proves that consciousness is non-local -- something that Physicts just now are starting to understand.
Lastly, Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality discusses past experiments done by neuro-scientists that show the brain is !== mind, and non-local.
That is enough resources to get you started. Good luck on experiencing a wider reality !
I could care less about some pseudo-skeptic.
Even when he is dead he will still deny the fact that The Source exists.
> "Soul" is a religious concept,
Nonsense. It has fuck all to do with religion. The fact that _some_ religions _hijack_ the term is orthogonal to the discussion.
> zero actual evidence of the existence of any such thing, and it is not a concept that should be included in such discussions.
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
It is obvious you've never had an OBE, a shared OBE, an NDE, and don't know how to meditate.
I became a mystic when I dwelt in the presence of my Soul a couple decades back. Experience IS the evidence.
You will have _your_ evidence when you are dead and realize that
a) "Holy shit! I'm conscious!"
b) "Whoa! I no longer have a physical body"
But keep telling others what they have or have not experience -- because you don't have a frame of reference to even understand the question.
--
Atheist: A blind man arguing with those that see that there is no such thing as color.
> a calm, smooth-talker who's into little boys more than money.
*rimshot*
> The biggest conundrum of all is the fact that pretty much everyone understands that consciousness is a physical state of the brain
Bullshit.
The shared Out-of-Body experiences proves that assumption false.
What would be your the top 25 games (both commercial, and indie) that you wish you could play natively under Linux ?
> on the world's biggest social^H^H^H^H^H^Hcommercial sellout network,
FTFY.
Humor, and especially satire, is a corner stone of an enlightened civilization.
Pull that stick out of your ass -- because censoring humor and preventing people from poking fun of the establishment does NOT help people get over "taboo" topics, dogma, or corruption any quicker. In fact it has the opposite effect and makes things WORSE. By removing a "safe" avenue to eventually provide a road to discuss sensitive issue all you've done is force the issue underground.
Congratulations (see I was being _sarcastic_) on convincing the rest of the world that you are a bunch of dumb asses -- while we laugh at your stupidity.
What you resists, persists
There is a BALANCE between the Individual and the State -- too bad you will never learn this.
> Was Reddit the last major bastion of Free Speech?
No, Redditards downvote anything that doesn't fit into their myopic view.
> Is the internet going to become as bland and mindless as 1956 television?
Welcome to new world of Political Censorship -- where anything that doesn't fit into the Stupid Juvenile Whiner mindset is marginalized (at best), or censored (at worst.)
Basically anything to do with graphics. i.e. Image searching, image manipulation, image rendering.
i.e.
You can describe a scene to a human and within second they will know what movie you are talking about. Computers SUCK at searching movies.
Imagine the ability to have something like TinEye running locally along with meta-data say the entire IMDB on a per frame basis.
Real-Time Ray Tracing -- "Reflections" - A Star Wars UE4 Real-Time Ray Tracing Cinematic Demo | By Epic, ILMxLAB, and NVIDIA
There are TONS of applications that are held back due to a crappy 5 GHz limit.
> We have Netflix and a dozen other services without ads served for less than 10 bucks a month? I don't get it.
1. Can I watch the latest STD (Star Trek Disaster) on Netflix? No, because I have to sign up for some bullshit CBS All Access. BUT if I'm _outside_ the US then I _can_ watch it.
Stop with the fucking geo-blocking already due to shitty licencing greed.
2. On Netflix can I watch: Seinfeld ? South Park? The Sopranos? Game of Thrones?
No, again, due to shitty licencing greed.
Customers DON'T want a million different sources. They want a reasonable monthly bill $20 - $75, not $200.
3. When I search for a movie on Netflix and it isn't available I get some crappy message:
WTF?
* Where is the OPTION to provide FEEDBACK? i.e. NOTIFY me WHEN this becomes available.
* Where is the option to see how many other people are interested?
* Where is the option that I WANT to buy this on BluRay? iTunes? Amazon?
Everyone is busy trying to build their own little kingdom that the entire customer experience is crap.
> Not one has almost all the content.
^^^ THIS.
> We have Netflix and a dozen other services without ads served for less than 10 bucks a month? I don't get it
Streaming (quality) doesn't compare to BluRay (quality).
> And for software, we have TONS of open source equivalents.
I always look for and use an OSS version first and then fall back to a commercial version only if the OSS versions doesn't do what I need but let's be realistic. There just aren't valid OSS replacements for everything (yet.)
* Gimp is still crap compared to Photoshop. And yes, I use both -- both professionally and personally.
* I don't see any alternative to Keyscape's 77 GB VST piano library that sells for $399.
That said, overall, yes Open Source Software is getting there. I certainly find Inkscape a helluva lot easier to use Adobe Illustrator.
And thankfully there are lists that make it much easier to find an OSS replacement.
http://www.damicon.com/resourc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Gee, when people can't buy their favorite 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's TV shows ... what do you think is going to happen? A certain percentage of people will always resort to piracy.
Piracy just shows that there is a _demand._ Let me buy the entire series, say Mash, for $20 instead of price-gouging me $120 / season like ST:TNG used to do.
What I don't understand is how the "long tail" is completely ignored in film / television but the games industry has embraced with sites such as Good Old Games (gog.com) and Steam.
+1 Informative.
Exactly. This is the _other_ Golden Rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules."
> Most other work is Java and C++, for both a simple editor like vi/vim (even with ctaggs) is completely unsuited. But I guess you hate both such languages :)
Out-of-the-box Crap++ is a complete clusterfuck of over-engineering.
I personally use C++ with ctags -- I will clarify that in a moment.
When even a C++ committee member admits that they write in a sub-set of C++ you know the languages is b-l-o-a-t-e-d.
Myself, like many other game developers, such as John Carmack, use something called "Super C" or "Embedded C++" -- basically C++ without all the bloated features.
* No exceptions
* No RTTI
* No References (use pointers)
* Minimal usage of templates
* Const everywhere
* Shallow Class Heirarchy
* Polymorphism when it makes sense
* Inheritance when it makes sense
CppCon 2014: Nicolas Fleury "C++ in Huge AAA Games"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And when _another_ person on the committee officially recognizes iostreams' performance is crap and hates it: ... and not so much interest in fixing or somehow superseding iostreams which I hate in all its forms. you quickly realize iostreams' slow performance and over-engineered design will never be fixed.
In case you didn't notice those C++ morons are STILL trying to add a 2D graphics library -- which would have been fine 20 years ago -- but everyone is either using Direct3D, OpenGL, Vulkan, or some other proprietary piece-of-shit 3D library. We don't need Yet-Another-Graphics library.
Title: A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++
Date: 2018-02-1
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/s...
**facepalm**
There is no _standardized_ name-mangling -- something that would help solve _today's_ real problems.
Gee, when are packages coming to C++? You know, something Pascal had 30 years ago???
I could go on but that's enough.
Java is an even crappier language. I wrote some CRC32 in version 7 2 years ago -- it was one of the worst programming experiences I've ever had.
* It took _eight_ revisions to add support for a native unsigned type???
* Any language that _forces_ only one class per file is brain dead
* The compiler was brain dead -- it was unable to cast an int to a boolean and short-circuit an IF clause
* Let me know when there is a way to make the GC _100% deterministic_ AND give it a _hard_ millisecond deadline, or even disable the dam thing. Ignoring memory management doesn't magically make it go away.
* The extra/long/verbose/path/to/my/source is crap,
* The gradle/maven build system sucks
* Verbose languages, like Java and COBOL, suck.
There is a reason the stereotypical Java-weenie exists.
.
Name the top 5 women in nursing?
Now do the reverse -- name the top 5 men in nursing?
The point? Whether it be nursing or tech -- no one gives a fuck.
I would highly recommend these "starter" books:
Topic: Math & Logic
Logicomix: An epic search for truth
https://www.amazon.com/Logicom...
Topic: Super heroes
Watchmen
https://www.amazon.com/Watchme...
Topic: DnD
The Bag Wars Saga
https://www.amazon.com/Knights...
New tech is B-O-R-I-N-G.
Everybody is data-mining the fuck out you (You are the product), or re-inventing the same shit over and over again.
* IRC -> HipChat / Slack
* IM -> ICQ -> Skype
* Voice Chat -> TeamSpeak -> Discord
etc.
Part of the problem is that Silicon doesn't really scale past 5 GHz. Commercial CPU's went deep until they hit the 5 GHz cap. A friend of mine finds today's commodity CPU's MHz a bit of a joke. Why? Because
* In 1977 he was working on a 4 GHz CPUs
* In 1990 he was working on a 20 GHz CPUs
I'll let _those_ dates sink for a second. NOTE: ALL of these CPUs were built with Gallium Arsenide.
Now this was for the military which is roughly 20 years ahead of the public sector. The problem is no one in the public sector could afford them. The commercial sector is REALLY good at driving prices down, but REALLY crappy at pushing the envelope of technology (because it is too expensive.) When you basically have an unlimited budget like the military you can basically R&D alternative tech such as GaAs. If you want to know what happened to GaAs there is quora Q&A.
It is a little hard to compete with GaAs when silicon is literally dirt cheap.
And as the public have _consistently_ shown, cheaper sells FAR more then better-but-expensive.
These days commercial CPU's are going wide. i.e. The gimped PS4's CPU is 8-core but only runs at 1.75 GHz.
Creating technology is becoming more and more expensive. In the 19760's the Jetsons popularized the idea of the flying car. And yet ~60 years later it is still a pipe dream.
Technology becoming boring is nothing new. The pioneer of modern electronics, Carver Mead basically summarized the fundamental problem:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Expect nothing to change for the next 20 years.
Now "Get off my LAN"
And what _exactly_ constitutes pornography?
Where do you draw the line between art and pornography?
> Intel - I'd recognize the same for sure but its not coming to me right now (male)
Uhm,
* co-founder Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame)
* ex CEO: Andrew "Andy" Grove