similar to the way a human's fingerprint is determined.
Now that is interesting. I've never heard that a human fingerprint is based on something other than genetics. Your statement implies a pair of cloned humans would have different finger prints.
Since I'm unaware of any cloned humans, do you have any information on this? Or is it just a standing theory?
Why on Earth would they expect that? Behaviour is clearly influenced by environment.
That issue is hardly clearly one way or the other. The Nature vs. Nurture battle has been going on for a long time. It's very naive of you to believe you are so special that you are privi to the answer most psychologists would love to have. How much research have YOU personally done in that field? None? You probably haven't done any. When you say "Behaviour is clearly influenced by environment" in that context, you are implying that you believe nature has no role. Anybody who has studied this topic at all would immediately cite reasons to strongely disagree with you.
There are people who study this day in day out and make a living trying to figure out the answer to that question, and even THEY don't know with enough certainty to say one way or the other. Oh, sure, some of them will take a stance on one or the other side, but in the end they'll still admit they aren't really sure. It isn't clear, and you clearly do not know enough to have a valid hypothesis. The only thing you have is an uneducated opinion.
But then, you were too busy being an anonymous troll to make any kind of sense, huh?
Sometimes something can "LOOK RIGHT" and still not "FEEL RIGHT". A great example of this is Trillian for Windows, using the XP Theme. IT LOOKS like it's using the XP widgets and gadgets, but it doesn't FEEL like it is. This isn't exactly a bad thing though, since it still responds fairly well and it does (after a fashion) perform somewhat like you would expect.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, there are programs that look absolutely nothing like they are using any kind of standard, but under the looks they work perfectly fine.
It's hard to really draw up some kind of judgement system though. Some people don't care how something "feels" as long as it works. Some people don't care if it works as long as it's pretty. Some people don't care if it's pretty as long as it "feels" right. And of course functionality, form, and fashion can have as much to do with with individual software design as it does the environment it's running under so...
You are correct. Very dumb rules indeed. Think about the precedent this is going to set.
Picard and Riker dolls = Human Data and Worf = Not Human
Tax the first two, but not the second?
Or how about this...
Alien from Venus Barbi...?
This rule leaves too many loopholes, and more importantly doesn't explain WHY something that is "Human" should be taxed more than something that is, say, "Something Else".
If something is superhuman (such as Spiderman) does it get supertaxed?
Doesn't San Francisco have Rail Cars (Trollies, whatever...)? Maybe somebody doesn't like the idea of people riding one of these things instead of using the public transport? Or maybe I'm just seeing conspiracies that aren't there.
No doubt. I'm doing a full Bard's Tale remake in Neverwinter Nights that is about finished, and I even have it running from time to time at nwn.tagor.com...
I'm sick of young brats that don't even REMEMBER the original Bard's Tale coming into the game and saying "This mod sucks, I can only go into the Wine Cellars... And I want to leave the city! Fuck this I'm leaving!"
I've had to make a few changes, but mostly the game mimicks the story of the original Bard's Tale pretty closely, thus some knowledge of the game must be had in order to fully enjoy the mod. I can't explain that to "today's" breed of game players. They think they should just be able to go anywhere and do anything.
I guess that's normal in whatever games they've been playing, but it isn't in any games I've been playing. Maybe they've confused Neverwinter Nights for a MMORPG or something. Whatever the case, those who knew Bard's Tale have thoroughly enjoyed the NWN conversion.
Maybe the hordes of Linux users joining the game will bring some much needed fresh blood that can appreciate a good mod.
Not really very amazing at all. UFO means unidentified. NASA probably see thousands of UFOs a day, but since they're probably just rocks or something, there's no reason to get all excited about a few objects that you found someplace where you expected you would find nothing.
Supposing this isn't some stupid scam, there's no doubt a simple explaination for what they've seen. They just probably aren't skilled enough to explain it, so their imaginations are running wild.
It doesn't do any good to look for signals that we either wouldn't recognize or even see at all.
Who is to say that a more advanced civilization would even bother communicating with Radio? That whole "Light Speed" limit kind of makes communication by this method rather worthless.
I'll leave scientifically valid theories as to other ways they might communicate to someone advanced enough to figrue that out.
Sort-of. Since any hardware vender that doesn't give a crap about DRM is likely to do better than those that do, in the end the systems the provide the most functionality have the best chance of surviving on the market.
As such, hardware venders want to make sure they can swim should the DRM boat sink.
I'm sure other people have pointed out the fact that SNOOD has been around a while and by many different names. I'm not even sure SNOOD is the "Original" either. Many of the varients have other elements that differentiate them, and they can't exactly be called all the same game. Of the many that I've seen SNOOD is pretty unremarkable, even if it's still a "good game".
All in all, the best Snood-Like game I've ever seen was a small (I mean really small) Flash application.
And when it comes to Tetris... Not all *tris games are equal.
That's one way to make it stable, another is to avoid software that has serious problems.
Any program can crash. Others can often fail to do what they're supposed to. But it takes something REALLY fucked up to bring a system down, and RealPlayer has demonstrated that they can do this better than anyone. Even better than Microsoft themselves. Spooky.
Everybody knows that the real Demo Scene was on the Amiga. Hypnautic Hammer. State of the Art. Substance. blah.
If you were there, you know. If you weren't there then no words are going to properly express the concept.
Yes, you can emulate and run the demos now days, but they won't impress you like they did back in the day. The best of the best PC scene demos sucked by comparison to what was typical on the Amiga.
Blah blah blah. Like I said, you had to be there to fully appreciate it.
if you screw up, you can loose your certificate, but its too late for those who trusted that it had value in the first place
On the other hand, you can only lose it once before you don't have it and have to re-prove youreslf to get it again (if possible.)
It's funny this topic comes up. I'm looking at a system to my left that I'm supposed to be working on. It was brought to me after a local screwdriver shop fux0red it all to hell. I'll be setting it straight, but it's going to cost the guy twice now to get something done that could have been done right the first time.
In this specific case, the shop in question has a reputation of simply not fixing problems, or leaving the job half done requiring the customers return and pay for subsequent visits. I could tell long and unbelievable stories about these guys -- but you all know the type and you can all cite examples.
I personally think they wouldn't pull half the shit they pull if they had some kind of operating liscense that could be pulled.
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similar to the way a human's fingerprint is determined.
Now that is interesting. I've never heard that a human fingerprint is based on something other than genetics. Your statement implies a pair of cloned humans would have different finger prints.
Since I'm unaware of any cloned humans, do you have any information on this? Or is it just a standing theory?
Why on Earth would they expect that? Behaviour is clearly influenced by environment.
That issue is hardly clearly one way or the other. The Nature vs. Nurture battle has been going on for a long time. It's very naive of you to believe you are so special that you are privi to the answer most psychologists would love to have. How much research have YOU personally done in that field? None? You probably haven't done any. When you say "Behaviour is clearly influenced by environment" in that context, you are implying that you believe nature has no role. Anybody who has studied this topic at all would immediately cite reasons to strongely disagree with you.
There are people who study this day in day out and make a living trying to figure out the answer to that question, and even THEY don't know with enough certainty to say one way or the other. Oh, sure, some of them will take a stance on one or the other side, but in the end they'll still admit they aren't really sure. It isn't clear, and you clearly do not know enough to have a valid hypothesis. The only thing you have is an uneducated opinion.
But then, you were too busy being an anonymous troll to make any kind of sense, huh?
Sometimes something can "LOOK RIGHT" and still not "FEEL RIGHT". A great example of this is Trillian for Windows, using the XP Theme. IT LOOKS like it's using the XP widgets and gadgets, but it doesn't FEEL like it is. This isn't exactly a bad thing though, since it still responds fairly well and it does (after a fashion) perform somewhat like you would expect.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, there are programs that look absolutely nothing like they are using any kind of standard, but under the looks they work perfectly fine.
It's hard to really draw up some kind of judgement system though. Some people don't care how something "feels" as long as it works. Some people don't care if it works as long as it's pretty. Some people don't care if it's pretty as long as it "feels" right. And of course functionality, form, and fashion can have as much to do with with individual software design as it does the environment it's running under so...
Let's see if we can get close to 32,769 --
ZSNES
GNES
PC ENGINE
MAME
PROJECT 64
VIRTUAL GBA
Yeah, I think they might could have close to 32 thousand games. And if they pay there right people, they might even be able to do it legally.
You are correct. Very dumb rules indeed. Think about the precedent this is going to set.
Picard and Riker dolls = Human
Data and Worf = Not Human
Tax the first two, but not the second?
Or how about this...
Alien from Venus Barbi...?
This rule leaves too many loopholes, and more importantly doesn't explain WHY something that is "Human" should be taxed more than something that is, say, "Something Else".
If something is superhuman (such as Spiderman) does it get supertaxed?
Doesn't San Francisco have Rail Cars (Trollies, whatever...)? Maybe somebody doesn't like the idea of people riding one of these things instead of using the public transport? Or maybe I'm just seeing conspiracies that aren't there.
Everytime I hear about Nanotechnology I keep thinking about the Nanolathes in Total Annihilation!
No doubt. I'm doing a full Bard's Tale remake in Neverwinter Nights that is about finished, and I even have it running from time to time at nwn.tagor.com ...
I'm sick of young brats that don't even REMEMBER the original Bard's Tale coming into the game and saying "This mod sucks, I can only go into the Wine Cellars... And I want to leave the city! Fuck this I'm leaving!"
I've had to make a few changes, but mostly the game mimicks the story of the original Bard's Tale pretty closely, thus some knowledge of the game must be had in order to fully enjoy the mod. I can't explain that to "today's" breed of game players. They think they should just be able to go anywhere and do anything.
I guess that's normal in whatever games they've been playing, but it isn't in any games I've been playing. Maybe they've confused Neverwinter Nights for a MMORPG or something. Whatever the case, those who knew Bard's Tale have thoroughly enjoyed the NWN conversion.
Maybe the hordes of Linux users joining the game will bring some much needed fresh blood that can appreciate a good mod.
Not really very amazing at all. UFO means unidentified. NASA probably see thousands of UFOs a day, but since they're probably just rocks or something, there's no reason to get all excited about a few objects that you found someplace where you expected you would find nothing.
Supposing this isn't some stupid scam, there's no doubt a simple explaination for what they've seen. They just probably aren't skilled enough to explain it, so their imaginations are running wild.
It doesn't do any good to look for signals that we either wouldn't recognize or even see at all.
Who is to say that a more advanced civilization would even bother communicating with Radio? That whole "Light Speed" limit kind of makes communication by this method rather worthless.
I'll leave scientifically valid theories as to other ways they might communicate to someone advanced enough to figrue that out.
Maybe it's not the Hardware or the OS, maybe it's the, er...
uh...
Driver...
On nevermind.
Well, what do you think they're going to get off of THIS hard drive?
If I'm on a basketball team, and I die, my family doesn't get "rights" to my starting center position. They just inherit my money.
That would make a good sig, if it fits.
Sort-of. Since any hardware vender that doesn't give a crap about DRM is likely to do better than those that do, in the end the systems the provide the most functionality have the best chance of surviving on the market.
As such, hardware venders want to make sure they can swim should the DRM boat sink.
I'm sure other people have pointed out the fact that SNOOD has been around a while and by many different names. I'm not even sure SNOOD is the "Original" either. Many of the varients have other elements that differentiate them, and they can't exactly be called all the same game. Of the many that I've seen SNOOD is pretty unremarkable, even if it's still a "good game".
All in all, the best Snood-Like game I've ever seen was a small (I mean really small) Flash application.
And when it comes to Tetris... Not all *tris games are equal.
Does SMP support automatically allow benefits from Hyperthreading, or does that require special support all it's own?
That's one way to make it stable, another is to avoid software that has serious problems.
Any program can crash. Others can often fail to do what they're supposed to. But it takes something REALLY fucked up to bring a system down, and RealPlayer has demonstrated that they can do this better than anyone. Even better than Microsoft themselves. Spooky.
I'll wait until they have one that has an auto-pedal feature.
They have to have a name... ...so we can put them on the Menu.
That's what I get for using cut and paste. :(
./ readers, as the orcish hordes
./ readers, as the Trolls?
Didn't you mean
the single most nintarded idea I've ever heard
You never seen a virtual boy, have you?
so making demos on an Atari, equivalent in quality to the Amiga ones (and they were)
:D
I saw some pretty good Atari demos, definately, but the Amiga and the Atari had more in common than many people are willing to admit.
Still, the best demos I ever saw were DEFINATELY on the Amiga.
Arte
State of the Art
Fullmoon
But for a real mindfAck you gotta get Hypnautic Hammer. Okay, that's one that MIGHT still be fun today.
Everybody knows that the real Demo Scene was on the Amiga. Hypnautic Hammer. State of the Art. Substance. blah.
If you were there, you know. If you weren't there then no words are going to properly express the concept.
Yes, you can emulate and run the demos now days, but they won't impress you like they did back in the day. The best of the best PC scene demos sucked by comparison to what was typical on the Amiga.
Blah blah blah. Like I said, you had to be there to fully appreciate it.
if you screw up, you can loose your certificate, but its too late for those who trusted that it had value in the first place
On the other hand, you can only lose it once before you don't have it and have to re-prove youreslf to get it again (if possible.)
It's funny this topic comes up. I'm looking at a system to my left that I'm supposed to be working on. It was brought to me after a local screwdriver shop fux0red it all to hell. I'll be setting it straight, but it's going to cost the guy twice now to get something done that could have been done right the first time.
In this specific case, the shop in question has a reputation of simply not fixing problems, or leaving the job half done requiring the customers return and pay for subsequent visits. I could tell long and unbelievable stories about these guys -- but you all know the type and you can all cite examples.
I personally think they wouldn't pull half the shit they pull if they had some kind of operating liscense that could be pulled.