actually, i personally think wikipedia is still pretty useful: it's correct about 50% of the time, making it a rather accurate depiction of the sum of human knowledge.;)
(are winky faces allowed on slashdot?)
and if nothing else, it helps us realize the world is not so objective.
wow, an EU proponent on slashdot... now i've seen everything. i must say, i admire your bravery. i imagine you're probably about as popular as an ID supporter around here. i myself am both -- i find there are a lot of interesting connections -- but of course i won't try to promote either idea here; that's suicide. couldn't find any contact info for you, but feel free to shoot me an e-mail (you'll have to reply to the spam filter) if you wish to further discuss your ideas.
i'm no expert, but i believe any hardware supported by alsa/jack should be supported by ardour, as ardour doesn't talk directly to the hardware. try http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
so in your link to the definition of mature, did you read the first definition? or definitions 2 & 4, and to a lesser extent 5 & 6 for that matter? typically the first listed definition is the most common, though i don't know for sure if that's true about dictionary.com. i, at least, took it to be the most common definition, and that's how i meant it.
so you see, i have not changed the definition. it would probably be more accurate to say that i came to better grips with the definition. when i was younger, i probably mistakenly defined maturity too narrowly. When definition 3 applies to a game, but none of the other defninitions do, that's when they seem childish and i steer clear of them. i like games that have "reached full natural growth or development", are "characteristic of full development, either mental or physical", and have been "worked out fully by the mind", but not necessarily games that are "suitable or intended for adults"...unless the other three also apply.
i hope i've made myself abundantly clear. leave it to slashdot to bring out the nitpickyness in people.;)
okay, before you had a point, now you're just trying to get my goat.
i should have made it clearer what i meant by 'mature'. sorry about that. but the definition "more developed / less childish / more grown up" is certainly not excluded from a discussion about video games. if we were talking about rating systems, you'd have something, but unless i'm mistaken the conversation is about next generation gaming in general.
yes, sex and violence should be given a 'mature' rating...meaning they're not suitable for children. but that does not mean they are more 'mature,' in a general sense. that's what i was trying to say. a 'mature' rating does not a better game make.
so i ask you, what's wrong with preferring games that are more mature, in the general sense, but not mature, in the ratings sense? you're allowed not to feel the same way, and i'd respect your opinion if you didn't.
agreed. and on the other side of the coin, why does violence/sex = mature? violence and sex were cool in high school, but now that i'm 25 they seem like childish marketing ploys. sex and violence sell because people are immature and don't have a firm grasp on reality. anymore, i want games with real substance and fun factor. that's not to say that the XBOX360 and PS3 won't have sweet games for hardcore gamers, but now that i'm growing out of the college years i don't want to use up hours upon hours of the day being a hardcore gamer.
this next generation i may end up a bit of a ninty famboy, simply because nintendo grew up long ago. sony and microsoft have a ways to go yet. their marketing strategies are evidence of this.
#1, "Users Lie"....great example: set up a workstation for a guy...fresh win 2K installation w/ all service packs, etc. later he complained about spyware being on it, and that he couldn't find some file amongst his documents. so while searching for the list item, i found porn in his network share...with him standing there watching. i just laughed, and being a nice guy, cleaned the spyware out for him. here's the kicker: he claimed the computer belonged to the president of the company before him, must've been him that got "that stuff" on there. in his network share. and he wasn't kidding.
There is a distinct difference between introversion and social anxiety. Introversion is 100% natural and part of your personality, and doesn't mean you're socially inept or clumsy---just more thoughtful and deliberate. a listener, not a talker. Social anxiety (aka shyness), in many cases, can be crippling and difficult to deal with, and in my experience is tied closely to depression. Though i would guess it's more common in introverts than extroverts.
God does not tell us to kill homosexuals. He told the Israelites to kill the Nephilim, who happened to be practicing homosexuality. He also destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, where all of the inhabitants practiced homosexual gang rape. But Hebrew laws do not apply to us.
God does not tell us that pi=3. To understand why you have to know a couple things: 1. Hebrew letters are also used to represent numbers. 2. The original hebrew word for the circumfirence of the pool in the passage you're talking about was misspelled in the original text (the word was used to mean "circumference" as well as the actual measured circumference). 3. Translators "fixed" it, but the original spelling, when the letters are summed, give an approximation of pi much better than you could probably figure out by measuring with your hand.
3000 years ago? 7 days? Ever consider the relativistic effects of a God watching the universe from the outside? A day with the Lord is as a thousand years. A thousand or a billion, I think God's hinting at the fact that there's more to consider than the number of times the earth rotated during creation.
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actually, i personally think wikipedia is still pretty useful: it's correct about 50% of the time, making it a rather accurate depiction of the sum of human knowledge. ;)
(are winky faces allowed on slashdot?)
and if nothing else, it helps us realize the world is not so objective.
wow, an EU proponent on slashdot... now i've seen everything. i must say, i admire your bravery. i imagine you're probably about as popular as an ID supporter around here. i myself am both -- i find there are a lot of interesting connections -- but of course i won't try to promote either idea here; that's suicide. couldn't find any contact info for you, but feel free to shoot me an e-mail (you'll have to reply to the spam filter) if you wish to further discuss your ideas.
here's to open-mindedness.
wow am i an idiot. itchy trigger finger i guess; this is what i meant: http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Ma trix:Main
whoops! even better: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
i'm no expert, but i believe any hardware supported by alsa/jack should be supported by ardour, as ardour doesn't talk directly to the hardware. try http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
so in your link to the definition of mature, did you read the first definition? or definitions 2 & 4, and to a lesser extent 5 & 6 for that matter? typically the first listed definition is the most common, though i don't know for sure if that's true about dictionary.com. i, at least, took it to be the most common definition, and that's how i meant it.
;)
so you see, i have not changed the definition. it would probably be more accurate to say that i came to better grips with the definition. when i was younger, i probably mistakenly defined maturity too narrowly. When definition 3 applies to a game, but none of the other defninitions do, that's when they seem childish and i steer clear of them. i like games that have "reached full natural growth or development", are "characteristic of full development, either mental or physical", and have been "worked out fully by the mind", but not necessarily games that are "suitable or intended for adults"...unless the other three also apply.
i hope i've made myself abundantly clear. leave it to slashdot to bring out the nitpickyness in people.
okay, before you had a point, now you're just trying to get my goat.
i should have made it clearer what i meant by 'mature'. sorry about that. but the definition "more developed / less childish / more grown up" is certainly not excluded from a discussion about video games. if we were talking about rating systems, you'd have something, but unless i'm mistaken the conversation is about next generation gaming in general.
yes, sex and violence should be given a 'mature' rating...meaning they're not suitable for children. but that does not mean they are more 'mature,' in a general sense. that's what i was trying to say. a 'mature' rating does not a better game make.
so i ask you, what's wrong with preferring games that are more mature, in the general sense, but not mature, in the ratings sense? you're allowed not to feel the same way, and i'd respect your opinion if you didn't.
haha... good call.
but you know what i mean. there are different definitions of 'mature'. unfortunately it seems they get used interchangeably.
agreed. and on the other side of the coin, why does violence/sex = mature? violence and sex were cool in high school, but now that i'm 25 they seem like childish marketing ploys. sex and violence sell because people are immature and don't have a firm grasp on reality. anymore, i want games with real substance and fun factor. that's not to say that the XBOX360 and PS3 won't have sweet games for hardcore gamers, but now that i'm growing out of the college years i don't want to use up hours upon hours of the day being a hardcore gamer.
this next generation i may end up a bit of a ninty famboy, simply because nintendo grew up long ago. sony and microsoft have a ways to go yet. their marketing strategies are evidence of this.
girls look so fake nowadays!
#1, "Users Lie"....great example: set up a workstation for a guy...fresh win 2K installation w/ all service packs, etc. later he complained about spyware being on it, and that he couldn't find some file amongst his documents. so while searching for the list item, i found porn in his network share...with him standing there watching. i just laughed, and being a nice guy, cleaned the spyware out for him. here's the kicker: he claimed the computer belonged to the president of the company before him, must've been him that got "that stuff" on there. in his network share. and he wasn't kidding.
i really think we'll have a pretty good chance of survivalif we start building up our defenses now. who's with me?
i'll get my shovel
same thing happened to me, until i switched to SuSE, where it worked natively. though it was netgear not belkin, so that might not work for you.
i used to be in a band called "the quick". always thought it would be funny to open for the dead, if only because of the flyers we could print.
There is a distinct difference between introversion and social anxiety. Introversion is 100% natural and part of your personality, and doesn't mean you're socially inept or clumsy---just more thoughtful and deliberate. a listener, not a talker. Social anxiety (aka shyness), in many cases, can be crippling and difficult to deal with, and in my experience is tied closely to depression. Though i would guess it's more common in introverts than extroverts.
here's why:
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it is a whole six (forward/back, left/right, up/down, yaw, pitch, roll)
Fortunately, in the real world, you can make some good money without completely dominating your industry.
hell, look at apple.
even the most basic marketing class tells you there's typically room in every market for 3 leaders: the best, the cheapest, and the different.
i happen to like the different.
great references! i've been looking for some good sites and books like these lately.
Keep the right-wing ideals out of site and off of Slashdot.
"Slashdot: news for nerdy liberals. Stuff that matters to those who aren't conservative."
just isn't that catchy... why don't we keep it the way it is?
as i said to the other replier,
i am a fool. please accept my sincerest apologies, i obviously don't know what i'm talking about. (no, i'm not being sarcastic.)
i guess we'll find out what it's really all about when the last day comes.
i'm sorry. i am a fool and was acting out of emotion. please accept my apologies.
God does not tell us to kill homosexuals. He told the Israelites to kill the Nephilim, who happened to be practicing homosexuality. He also destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, where all of the inhabitants practiced homosexual gang rape. But Hebrew laws do not apply to us.
God does not tell us that pi=3. To understand why you have to know a couple things: 1. Hebrew letters are also used to represent numbers. 2. The original hebrew word for the circumfirence of the pool in the passage you're talking about was misspelled in the original text (the word was used to mean "circumference" as well as the actual measured circumference). 3. Translators "fixed" it, but the original spelling, when the letters are summed, give an approximation of pi much better than you could probably figure out by measuring with your hand.
3000 years ago? 7 days? Ever consider the relativistic effects of a God watching the universe from the outside? A day with the Lord is as a thousand years. A thousand or a billion, I think God's hinting at the fact that there's more to consider than the number of times the earth rotated during creation.
not that i care, but some people might...
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http://www.glassarmonica.com/armonica/glassharmon
yuck, eating breakfast and chewing gum? minty sausage and eggs anyone?