I'd point out the clarification, but this is Slashdot, so just about everyone here should already know this.
But hey, it's popular to poke fun at Mr. Gates. I imagine that in 15 years, when Google is the new Evil Empire, everyone will misquote Larry Page as saying "There's no reason anyone would need to get the Universal Interface brain implant."
I also don't like the summary because it almost grants the notion that science has to have an answer for absolutely everything or else creation must be true.
"Mysteries don't prove science is bunk. They are the reason for science." -- Dr. Galapagos
That is why we have different words for different things. It makes these distinctions clear.
Dangit! I ran out of mod points a few hours ago. If I had known something brilliant like this was going to come along, I would have saved one.
Your explanation is accurate and clear, and you even left off the almost-obligatory-on-/. ad hominem attack. This is the kind of post mod points were designed for!
In the director's commentary, Joss relays an anecdote about this scene.
Alan (Wash): My script only goes up to page 105. It's weird. I don't have any pages for after that. Joss: Oh, I just... that's the end. It just ends there. You guys land, it's a happy ending. Alan: Oh, good. OK, fine.
Daryl: We're the good guys! Arlo: What... what are you talking about? There aren't any good guys! You realize that, don't you? I mean, you realize there aren't evil guys, and innocent guys, it's just, it's just... it's just a bunch of guys!
Wash: Oh yeah? I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar! Giant Spike: You're a dead leaf now, dude. Wash: *TOTALLY UNEXPECTED IMPALEMENT* Fans:...WHAT. Zoe: No way did that just happen. Simon can fix this! Fans: OMGWTFFJDIAJDJASKDJAKLDJA Mal: Run like hell now, strangle Joss Whedon later! Fans: *WEEP*
Because they think of themselves as the "good guys", and the history they are taught (by school, Hollywood, the media, etc) portrays bad things being done by "bad guys". In reality, there is no good and bad, just a mixture of greys.
Daryl: We're the good guys! Arlo: What... what are you talking about? There aren't any good guys! You realize that, don't you? I mean, you realize there aren't evil guys, and innocent guys, it's just, it's just... it's just a bunch of guys!
If/. put the comments in a wiki, we could fix each other's spelling! How cool would that be?
Last edited by Q00u, 05:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Fixed ironic spelling errors.// Pathoschild 21:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Removed smilie (^_^), let's keep it professional guys.// Dystopos 00:58, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Will you guys leave my comments alone please?// Pcgabe 03:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
You must be new here.// Q00u, 05:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
So, if I win I start working for BioWare?
No. The winning entries will be reviewed by BioWare senior staff James Ohlen and Kevin Barrett, but no employment is guaranteed.
So, you can 'win' and still be unemployed.
From the submission agreement (emphasis mine):
4. The Developer acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) BioWare is continuously engaged in an active research and development program in which BioWare has invested and is continuing to invest considerable time and money in the development of new multimedia products as well as improvements and enhancements to BioWare's existing products which may be similar or identical to the ideas, functions, features or other aspects of the Materials;
(b) other persons, including BioWare's employees or contractors may have originated and submitted to BioWare or to others, or may in the future originate and submit to BioWare or to others, products, concepts, ideas, functions or enhancements which may be similar or identical to the ideas, functions, features or other aspects of the Materials; and
(c) the submission of the Materials to BioWare and/or the receipt of the Materials by BioWare does not entitle the Developer to any compensation whatsoever where BioWare, independent of the submitted Materials, has produced or will in the future produce a product which may be, in whole or in part, similar or identical to the ideas, functions, features or other aspects of the Materials.
So, they can copy your ideas and not reimburse you in any way, as long as they claim that their development was independent from your submission.
I'm not saying they would, but they could.
That being said, I'm still going to submit something. ^_^ And you all should too. Competition is pressure, and pressure makes diamonds.
Yet if someone was to invent the Retard-Prod(tm) that jabs everyone with an IQ less than 60, the inventor would be lynched within a day.
If someone were to invent the Retard-O-Prod that jabs everyone with an IQ of less than X, the inventor would be hailed as a conquering hero.
If you give me a working Retard-O-Prod (with variable IQ tolerance dial; crank that baby UP!), I will give you a cool $1,000,000 cash.
Keep one by the doorway to your house to drive away solicitors! Put one at the entrance to your finer discriminating stores! Sorry, Billy, you must be at least this smart to shop here. I won't even bother getting into the obvious possibilities (putting them in voting booths, the DMV, et cetera).
If you can make a wearable version, that would be even better. That way, I wouldn't constantly feel the need to shout YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS everywhere I go. I'll let the Retard-O-Prod do the shouting for me. ^_^ We can call it the iProd!
Of course, considering the number of annoyingly foolish conversations I've heard among alleged 'geniuses', we'd really need to turn it up to 140 or 150...
If you ask me, there's too much discrimination based on race, gender, religion, age, et cetera, and NOT ENOUGH discrimination against stupidity.
Your statement is utter crap. Grandparent wasn't suggesting that an achievement must be difficult in order to be worthwhile. GP simply pointed out that ENGINEERING IS HARD.
Bad engineers kill people. Using your false analogy, if my inability to walk to work would result in people dying, then my lack of ability to do so SHOULD wash me out, before it results in death. If my inability to teach myself math and physics would result in me being a bad engineer, that lack should likewise cause me to wash out.
It sounds melodramatic, and for just about any other discipline it is. But this is engineering. It requires a different kind of person. A person that can handle any difficulty.
No matter how many engineers the world needs, there will NEVER be a need for more bad engineers.
(and for the record, I bike to work 3 days a week ^_^)
For example, native English speakers should be able to spot the four subtle English mistakes in your post. ^_^
I keed! I keed!
But you're absolutely correct. Watch Tenchi Muyo! dubbed (to know what's going on), then watch it again in Japanese with the literal subtitles turned on, and listen to the difference.
What the industry needs is a free and open source suite of tools and engine components that nobody can buy, but that anyone can use. If the little companies want to win, that's where they should start, by pooling their resources
This is probably the single most brilliant thing I've ever read in a/. comment. An elegant, obvious solution to a growing problem.
Am I cynical to think that your suggestion will be ignored or put down? What a sad world that would be.
Lets have the seks first and wonder about useful applications later.
How is seks not a 'useful application'?! Although, it's really hard to argue against someone who says "Lets have the seks first..." If only my girlfriend thought along those lines.
Because English speakers prefer proper pronunciation to proper spelling? The reverse used to be true of Japanese (margarine, for example, is pronounced mah-gah-rin [even though Japanese DOES have a 'jah' sound], because that more closely matches the English spelling).
Here's a snippet from the Wikipedia article that I found interesting:
Katamari means "clump", Damashii is the rendaku form of tamashii (soul or spirit). Therefore, the whole phrase approximates to "clump spirit," or, somewhat more loosely, "clump of soul." It might also be considered a pun -- dama means ball while shii can be translated as circumference, and the two kanji that form the name look nearly alike in a kind of visual alliteration. The name is officially transliterated as Katamari Damacy in all releases.
It's a very well thought out name, so perhaps some people purposely choose to use the Japanese pronunciation, to honor that?
As a language instructor, I think those people are twits, as dumb as whomever mistranslated margarine into Japanese. When someone who speaks a different language GIVES YOU THE TRANSLATION, YOU USE IT!
I have a friend who's unemployed--he's collecting unemployment insurance. This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going. He's down there every week, waiting on the lines and getting interviewed and making up all theses lies about looking for jobs.
If they had any idea of the effort and energy that he is expending to avoid work, I'm sure they'd give him a raise.
I've never seen someone to such a tremendous job, not working.
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The antispyware industry has had no choice but to put up www.spywarrior.com just so people can sort out the few good ones from the many bad ones.
Spywarrior.com is also handy if you are looking for airline tickets or Christian singles. Yay for search portals!
Reavers aren't real.
Indeed.
I'd point out the clarification, but this is Slashdot, so just about everyone here should already know this.
But hey, it's popular to poke fun at Mr. Gates. I imagine that in 15 years, when Google is the new Evil Empire, everyone will misquote Larry Page as saying "There's no reason anyone would need to get the Universal Interface brain implant."
By using this medium all of the concerns about contaminating proteins in existing stem cell lines can essentially be removed.
And thank God! Now that the major concern regarding stem cell research has been cleared up, we can get on with this vital, life-saving work.
That =was= what all the controversy about stem cell research was, right? Contaminating proteins?
That is why we have different words for different things. It makes these distinctions clear.
Dangit! I ran out of mod points a few hours ago. If I had known something brilliant like this was going to come along, I would have saved one.
Your explanation is accurate and clear, and you even left off the almost-obligatory-on-/. ad hominem attack. This is the kind of post mod points were designed for!
It's in a deleted scene. You can see it on the DVD, but it's not part of the movie.
There are good guys, and there are bad guys.
Daryl: We're the good guys!
Arlo: What... what are you talking about? There aren't any good guys! You realize that, don't you? I mean, you realize there aren't evil guys, and innocent guys, it's just, it's just... it's just a bunch of guys!
(Fast becoming my favorite quote)
(source)
(from Hand Puppet Movie Theatre)
...WHAT.
Wash: Oh yeah? I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar!
Giant Spike: You're a dead leaf now, dude.
Wash: *TOTALLY UNEXPECTED IMPALEMENT*
Fans:
Zoe: No way did that just happen. Simon can fix this!
Fans: OMGWTFFJDIAJDJASKDJAKLDJA
Mal: Run like hell now, strangle Joss Whedon later!
Fans: *WEEP*
Because they think of themselves as the "good guys", and the history they are taught (by school, Hollywood, the media, etc) portrays bad things being done by "bad guys". In reality, there is no good and bad, just a mixture of greys.
Daryl: We're the good guys!
Arlo: What... what are you talking about? There aren't any good guys! You realize that, don't you? I mean, you realize there aren't evil guys, and innocent guys, it's just, it's just... it's just a bunch of guys!
(source)
If /. put the comments in a wiki, we could fix each other's spelling! How cool would that be?
// Pathoschild 21:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC) // Dystopos 00:58, 6 December 2005 (UTC) // Pcgabe 03:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC) // Q00u, 05:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Last edited by Q00u, 05:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Fixed ironic spelling errors.
Removed smilie (^_^), let's keep it professional guys.
Will you guys leave my comments alone please?
You must be new here.
From the submission agreement (emphasis mine):So, they can copy your ideas and not reimburse you in any way, as long as they claim that their development was independent from your submission.
I'm not saying they would, but they could.
That being said, I'm still going to submit something. ^_^ And you all should too. Competition is pressure, and pressure makes diamonds.
Yet if someone was to invent the Retard-Prod(tm) that jabs everyone with an IQ less than 60, the inventor would be lynched within a day.
If someone were to invent the Retard-O-Prod that jabs everyone with an IQ of less than X, the inventor would be hailed as a conquering hero.
If you give me a working Retard-O-Prod (with variable IQ tolerance dial; crank that baby UP!), I will give you a cool $1,000,000 cash.
Keep one by the doorway to your house to drive away solicitors! Put one at the entrance to your finer discriminating stores! Sorry, Billy, you must be at least this smart to shop here. I won't even bother getting into the obvious possibilities (putting them in voting booths, the DMV, et cetera).
If you can make a wearable version, that would be even better. That way, I wouldn't constantly feel the need to shout YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS everywhere I go. I'll let the Retard-O-Prod do the shouting for me. ^_^ We can call it the iProd!
Of course, considering the number of annoyingly foolish conversations I've heard among alleged 'geniuses', we'd really need to turn it up to 140 or 150...
If you ask me, there's too much discrimination based on race, gender, religion, age, et cetera, and NOT ENOUGH discrimination against stupidity.
Iambic pentameter?
You don't get Dragonball Orphan Annie Z in your country? Man, America is really behind the times!
Your statement is utter crap. Grandparent wasn't suggesting that an achievement must be difficult in order to be worthwhile. GP simply pointed out that ENGINEERING IS HARD.
Bad engineers kill people. Using your false analogy, if my inability to walk to work would result in people dying, then my lack of ability to do so SHOULD wash me out, before it results in death. If my inability to teach myself math and physics would result in me being a bad engineer, that lack should likewise cause me to wash out.
It sounds melodramatic, and for just about any other discipline it is. But this is engineering. It requires a different kind of person. A person that can handle any difficulty.
No matter how many engineers the world needs, there will NEVER be a need for more bad engineers.
(and for the record, I bike to work 3 days a week ^_^)
For example, native English speakers should be able to spot the four subtle English mistakes in your post. ^_^
I keed! I keed!
But you're absolutely correct. Watch Tenchi Muyo! dubbed (to know what's going on), then watch it again in Japanese with the literal subtitles turned on, and listen to the difference.
Your cellphone runs Linux? It comes with a free SDK so you can make your own games? It has a SD slot and USB? It has a 3.5" screen?
You mean yours doesn't?
What the industry needs is a free and open source suite of tools and engine components that nobody can buy, but that anyone can use. If the little companies want to win, that's where they should start, by pooling their resources
/. comment. An elegant, obvious solution to a growing problem.
This is probably the single most brilliant thing I've ever read in a
Am I cynical to think that your suggestion will be ignored or put down? What a sad world that would be.
You can read Joi Ito's New York Times Op Ed on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki here.
Lets have the seks first and wonder about useful applications later.
How is seks not a 'useful application'?! Although, it's really hard to argue against someone who says "Lets have the seks first..." If only my girlfriend thought along those lines.
It is Godzilla season. We must kill him many times.
Here's a snippet from the Wikipedia article that I found interesting:It's a very well thought out name, so perhaps some people purposely choose to use the Japanese pronunciation, to honor that?
As a language instructor, I think those people are twits, as dumb as whomever mistranslated margarine into Japanese. When someone who speaks a different language GIVES YOU THE TRANSLATION, YOU USE IT!