it sounds like you will be paying this as a premium just to try out the editor before the game is finished
It's a smart move though; let the 2.0 community enjoy themselves creating 3D, animated creatures to identify with, see how it's used and appreciated (or not) in the community and have them all move over to the spore-universe.
Honestly, 10$ or 6euros, isn't really such a crazy amount I'd lose my sleep over. And if it allows me to immediatly dive into the game later on (instead of starting with the creature designer before I can start to play) I'd be willing to pay for it, to enjoy myself creating creatures and not being forced to buy the entire game to do so. OTOH, I would find it offensive if they'd require you to purchase both to have a decent gaming experience. I think they just though "hey, we have a fun editor here which we can use outside of the game. Lets sell it seperatly for those who want it." (you don't *need* to buy *anything*)
I think the thing to learn here is that language isn't reality, it merely describes reality.
It's funny how you illustrate this by quoting a Dutch scientist in English.
No, I think the correct answer is "Why are you asking the question?" There might be a more interesting (and perhaps answerable) question that underlies it.
Personally, I'd think the underlying question is; "what are the rules of the universe, can we read it and understand it?". If you'd say "we've discovered the language of the universe" or "We have found a means to communicate, pass on and describe the nature of the universe as we observed it" you'd be saying two entirely different things.
One also implies the universe is bound to preset rules (what created these rules? why does the universe comply with these rules? can you manipulate these rules? If all is rule-bound, can I predict any event based on that?).
I find it very fascinating how such ancient knowledge still is at the root of our modern society.
I understand your point and agree with it to a certain extend. However your conclusion a capitalistic society not being for me is not a correct one.
Perhaps you have all the time in the world to compare and reevalutate all your services, but I don't personally. But I do generate more money, consume and put it back into the capitalistic system. In that logic, I am a big partaker in the system. I just don't compare constantly, only when I'm about to purchase. There are more important things to do with my time. If I'm unhappy with my service (too expensive, not stable, unfriendly support,...) I'll san other horizons, but as long I'm content and have what I want (fe. an instant broadband internet connection which doesn't cost me insanely much and isn't too slow.)
I personally get informed by a magazine which is fulltime working on reviewing and monitoring the customer market. But it's only sporadicly once I've decided to get a new sercice. As I rather spend the little free time I have to myself to other things (as keeping up to date with the IT-industry)
but in order for competition to do it's thing, users need to be well-informed before they purchase.
So, you think the clerk or the sales is going to be aware of these "technical" issues or marketting strategies?
If you'd inform, you'll only hear the things you want to hear or what they've been trained to parrot to you, so you'll sign up and they have another consumer. Once a consumer signs, even with "better alternatives", many wont research because they don't like the hassle to move to another provider or to research other options as their objective has been met "get a internetconnection". This is true for alot of sectors.
Or are you constantly re-evaluating all your running insurances, subscriptions, contracts and providers? I barely have time to get a new service, let alone re-evaluate all my current ones and go around finding the "lesser evil".
From a commercial point of view: I wouldn't go around to my clients once there's a new formula/bundle/product/service that they already own but would be cheaper for THEM. These new promotions are mostly to draw in new clients, not to "make it cheaper for existing one's". As long they pay, let them. If they complain, see if you can do anything for them. You help them out, give them a "better plan", tell them you "shouldn't but do it for them because they're good and loyal customers" and you have instant client satisfaction as well.
They could improve video quality and have a free section and a pay section
This typically evolves into a "pay only" section, where the focus gets drawn away from the "free" zone as it's not paying off, they'll try to milk more money from the user.
Youtube is just a bunch of crap now.
I thought the concept behind "youtube" was that the user is the content uploader. Hence it getting as polluted. However there are gems of movies and clips on youtube (in my case, I find some documentaries and lectures well worth watching). I agree the whole "community" and "viral (*me too*) public video communication" is crap. I don't like it either; so I don't spend time watching. The search in YouTube is intelligent enough to not offer me to watch this "crap" if I'm not searching for it.
If you mean the quality of the videos are "crappy", then it basically depends on the quality of the users' equipment. YouTube would be working at a HD content delivery.
In Belgium we have an official label,, "blindsurfer", for sites designed for people with a visual handicap.
Every official website is required to put their site up for review, and receive the label as "every citizin should be able to use official services, be them online or not". For example, "tax on the web" is completely tweaked for visually challenged people.
.. My grandfather always has these kindof stories from when h e lead different sections in the Belgian army.
Mostly it was because of the paperwork. I recall him telling about an inspector asking for a specific vehicle. My grandfather would look it up in the logbooks and reported it being at a certain base. After his reporting, he got a reply asking wherever he was "really sure". So he sent out a soldier to verify it, he came back, reported the vehicles present in that base. But the guy never checked the chassis numbers and such. He just confirmed there were vehicles of that type present.
Turned out, the bordercontrol had arrested some guys who'd stolen some vehicles. Officially they weren't gone as they weren't reported missing.
Same with selling overstock; Every month a train came by bringing soldiers' cigarettes. They were picked up from the town and brought to base. At a certain point the soldier ordered to pick them up reported the shipment being picked up by "unknown" individuals. (so some Germans have been imposing as an army unit to pick up the shipment cigarettes).
Since then my grandfather was put in charge for a new order, with the order to order 20% extra "just in case".
Instead of piling up the 20%, they devised a plan to sell it consistently through an external contractor and the profits where split. Until bordercontrol noticed an unusual high amount of soldiers going home for the weekend and they've searched some vehicles.
This is all post-WW erra with a bloathed army with paper reporting, but still. I can imagine there are still people trying to make a profit like this or the same logistic problems.
Oh yea, my grandfather went on trail for that and got away clean because they had to sign a statement they couldn't sell "their own" rations. He stated he didn't, he had sold overstock. After that he was put in charge of all logistics instead of his own regiment and the statement was adjusted.
i would have thought liquid cooling would make sense for datacentres - instead of huge electricity bills for A/C you could just plumb each rack into the building's water system
There are a few things that come to mind:
- A datacenter might have different clients renting a cage, owning their own servers you can't enforce the use of watercooling. AC will have to be present and running in any case.
- Water + electricity is a risk. With tight SLA's, you don't want to fry your server with your extra investments in its redundant failover hardware altogether.
- Available server hardware isn't typically watercooled. Who's going to convince the client hacking a watercooled system on your most critical hardware is a good decision? For defects, a support contract with the hardware vendor is typical. If you mod it, soak it, you're out of warranty and can't fall back on your external SLA.
- electricity "bills" aren't an issue, you have so much amps you can run on each cage if you rent you keep under it or you'll have to rent another cage (notice an advantage for the datacenter here?) It's always part of the calculated cost, it's a non-issue really for datacenters or for you when you want to rent a part of the datacenter.
Sir, please go and read ANY history book about ANY campaign. You just described them ALL.
Ofcourse, it doesn't justify to continue that though. Our civilization, as all civilisations in history, thinks it's more moral, advanced and sophisticaed then "barbaric ancient" ones. If you go to a torture museum fe, you cannot but feel much more "civilized". Yet we constantly reflect off of different planes of older societies or generations.
History serves, at least that's what I've been taught, as a means to bundle past experience and arm yourself to recognize and avoid a reoccurence of such a huge tragic event. Just see alot of teens on the internet making references to "Hitler" and accounting him as "the greatest evil". Being convinced of that, as a teen, shows of the effort put into warning about such a thing to manifest. Although the real meaning behind is a bit lost with the result of a strong black/white thinking present and the creation of a "antihero".
Just wait until they turn the US Army loose on its own population. Thats one scenario
I notice some distrust in your own government (I'm asuming you're an American, it's irrelevant though.) and seem to fear this technology might be used against you. It's a bit a disturbed relationship with your "government" as if it's a unpredictable treath. It seems to me you have further insight and a broader view on the problem, and try to go behond emotional "thinking" on these issues thought. Or emotional laden snappy mindfucks ("Oh no, I must be against that or I'm with the terrorist and am not patriotic") as "police state", "war on terror", "new world order", "weapons of mass destruction".
another is that the US continues to frag other, politically weaker countries, as a distraction
Or for strategical reasons. I hate to end up expressing the same "hate clichés" and emotional cries. But it seems the US always has had some form of offensive policy. I cannot present you with factual references, but there have been some documentaries which I've seen where there was a listing of the "military operation against country/community x led by the US since vietnam" which shocked me to see. However, I cannot confirm or refute such claims. The story of US special forces invading in Cuba "to put pressure", executing an entire quarter of civilians which was kept out of the media is one of these which pops up in mind. Again, it're these stories you cannot verify personally and thus ends up in a grey zone.
To "frag other countries", sounds a bit emotional detached though. I know, if it's someone oversea who gets a bullet in his brain "who cares". Yet if it's your neighbour, you'll be much more affected. It's the ability to transfer that awarenes how it'd affect you to someone else being "fragged" or those around. It's immediatly much more serious that way. (the same way you cheer by people being bombed "because they deserve it", and they way the US nation was emotional affected as a whole when the WTC-towers were attacked.)
Am I the only one having trouble that an invading force, armed with the most high-tech toys (in experimental phase) is just using these low-tech rebellians as cannon meat? Using remote controlled guns "to avoid friendly casualties" (the invading force) sounds wrong if the kill ratio is so much out of proportion (the "they are killing us" argument doesn't add up for an invading force).
I just know, that if there'd be an invading force, no matter how technical advanced, killing a rediculious amount of people, I'd aim for them and fight with my life too. No matter how misguided my beliefs could be or of those murdered.
this smells to me like someone spending a lot of money defending against a non-existent threat
It's against the people itself. It's propaganda to keep the "terror" alive in memory, generating visions of terrorist so advanced we have to process and inspect all telecommunication, so you can feel safe.
... and no-one has mentioned fitting them to condoms yet? Seriously, the potential is unlimited!!
Everyone knows that a man has a binary cerebral-setup where the lower brain locks out the other in certain situations.
Now you want to "enhance" that lower brain with silicon chips, and give it an actual intelligence?
That's worse then zombies; men, with massive erections wandering around with an empty void drooling expressing with penisses taking control over the world.
I suspect you have a very dark agency, sir. Never shall any silicon enhance my penis' intelligence.
And the envious non-enhanced smaller brained nerds say, "Those brains are so fake".
Your argument is flawed, please come in for a repair so we can update your firmware, there is a known bug in the logical processing unit.
You don't want to know about the conclusions it has generated and the blind following because of the inability to grasp the concepts of the "enchanted, superiour" brain.
16-core processor?
You must be extremely conservative...
I'm waiting for my one MegaCore processor with 1,048,576 cores, while mocking the market-war with MegiCore processors who only have 1,000,000 cores, but perform better at rendering realistic 3D models of females.
Yes, they use called (silicon nano-) photonic chips for that purpose. The same technique will be used to communicated between different cores in chips. (check the press release of IBM)
I've been looking for an explinatory video from IBM I believe, explaining laser-computing and how they solved certain problems in their designs, but I've failed to locate the particular movie.
I've read before that a nobel price winner formulated his theory utilizing psychedelics.
Would this ever lead to drug testing researchers that announce amazing new scientific breakthroughs
No.
Science is not a "competition", thus using "performance enhancing products" cannot invalidate the result. The result in science is approximation of truth and understanding. If it helps being high to formulate a certain theory, formulate it and eventually create the foundations for others to build further on, it isn't something that should be "invalidated" because of the means of aqcuiring that knowledge.
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It's a smart move though; let the 2.0 community enjoy themselves creating 3D, animated creatures to identify with, see how it's used and appreciated (or not) in the community and have them all move over to the spore-universe.
Honestly, 10$ or 6euros, isn't really such a crazy amount I'd lose my sleep over. And if it allows me to immediatly dive into the game later on (instead of starting with the creature designer before I can start to play) I'd be willing to pay for it, to enjoy myself creating creatures and not being forced to buy the entire game to do so. OTOH, I would find it offensive if they'd require you to purchase both to have a decent gaming experience. I think they just though "hey, we have a fun editor here which we can use outside of the game. Lets sell it seperatly for those who want it." (you don't *need* to buy *anything*)
Everytime I read the word "fag" I have to think to this song.
It's funny how the meaning of the song might differ depending on the demography.
It's funny how you illustrate this by quoting a Dutch scientist in English.
Personally, I'd think the underlying question is; "what are the rules of the universe, can we read it and understand it?". If you'd say "we've discovered the language of the universe" or "We have found a means to communicate, pass on and describe the nature of the universe as we observed it" you'd be saying two entirely different things.
One also implies the universe is bound to preset rules (what created these rules? why does the universe comply with these rules? can you manipulate these rules? If all is rule-bound, can I predict any event based on that?).
I find it very fascinating how such ancient knowledge still is at the root of our modern society.
I understand your point and agree with it to a certain extend. However your conclusion a capitalistic society not being for me is not a correct one.
...) I'll san other horizons, but as long I'm content and have what I want (fe. an instant broadband internet connection which doesn't cost me insanely much and isn't too slow.)
Perhaps you have all the time in the world to compare and reevalutate all your services, but I don't personally. But I do generate more money, consume and put it back into the capitalistic system. In that logic, I am a big partaker in the system. I just don't compare constantly, only when I'm about to purchase. There are more important things to do with my time. If I'm unhappy with my service (too expensive, not stable, unfriendly support,
I personally get informed by a magazine which is fulltime working on reviewing and monitoring the customer market. But it's only sporadicly once I've decided to get a new sercice. As I rather spend the little free time I have to myself to other things (as keeping up to date with the IT-industry)
So, you think the clerk or the sales is going to be aware of these "technical" issues or marketting strategies?
If you'd inform, you'll only hear the things you want to hear or what they've been trained to parrot to you, so you'll sign up and they have another consumer. Once a consumer signs, even with "better alternatives", many wont research because they don't like the hassle to move to another provider or to research other options as their objective has been met "get a internetconnection". This is true for alot of sectors.
Or are you constantly re-evaluating all your running insurances, subscriptions, contracts and providers? I barely have time to get a new service, let alone re-evaluate all my current ones and go around finding the "lesser evil".
From a commercial point of view: I wouldn't go around to my clients once there's a new formula/bundle/product/service that they already own but would be cheaper for THEM. These new promotions are mostly to draw in new clients, not to "make it cheaper for existing one's". As long they pay, let them. If they complain, see if you can do anything for them. You help them out, give them a "better plan", tell them you "shouldn't but do it for them because they're good and loyal customers" and you have instant client satisfaction as well.
Now combine a few and you'll easily max out 40. You can't possible base yourself on the amount of connections.
This typically evolves into a "pay only" section, where the focus gets drawn away from the "free" zone as it's not paying off, they'll try to milk more money from the user.
I thought the concept behind "youtube" was that the user is the content uploader. Hence it getting as polluted. However there are gems of movies and clips on youtube (in my case, I find some documentaries and lectures well worth watching). I agree the whole "community" and "viral (*me too*) public video communication" is crap. I don't like it either; so I don't spend time watching. The search in YouTube is intelligent enough to not offer me to watch this "crap" if I'm not searching for it.
If you mean the quality of the videos are "crappy", then it basically depends on the quality of the users' equipment. YouTube would be working at a HD content delivery.
Every official website is required to put their site up for review, and receive the label as "every citizin should be able to use official services, be them online or not". For example, "tax on the web" is completely tweaked for visually challenged people.
Here's some more indepth about it: Response of a blindsurfer consultantToo bad the official site (appearantly renamed to "anysurfer") isn't accessible for "English" speaking folks: Anysurfer
Turned out, the bordercontrol had arrested some guys who'd stolen some vehicles. Officially they weren't gone as they weren't reported missing.
Same with selling overstock; Every month a train came by bringing soldiers' cigarettes. They were picked up from the town and brought to base. At a certain point the soldier ordered to pick them up reported the shipment being picked up by "unknown" individuals. (so some Germans have been imposing as an army unit to pick up the shipment cigarettes). Since then my grandfather was put in charge for a new order, with the order to order 20% extra "just in case".
Instead of piling up the 20%, they devised a plan to sell it consistently through an external contractor and the profits where split. Until bordercontrol noticed an unusual high amount of soldiers going home for the weekend and they've searched some vehicles.
This is all post-WW erra with a bloathed army with paper reporting, but still. I can imagine there are still people trying to make a profit like this or the same logistic problems.
Oh yea, my grandfather went on trail for that and got away clean because they had to sign a statement they couldn't sell "their own" rations. He stated he didn't, he had sold overstock. After that he was put in charge of all logistics instead of his own regiment and the statement was adjusted.
There are a few things that come to mind:
To "frag other countries", sounds a bit emotional detached though. I know, if it's someone oversea who gets a bullet in his brain "who cares". Yet if it's your neighbour, you'll be much more affected. It's the ability to transfer that awarenes how it'd affect you to someone else being "fragged" or those around. It's immediatly much more serious that way. (the same way you cheer by people being bombed "because they deserve it", and they way the US nation was emotional affected as a whole when the WTC-towers were attacked.)
Am I the only one having trouble that an invading force, armed with the most high-tech toys (in experimental phase) is just using these low-tech rebellians as cannon meat? Using remote controlled guns "to avoid friendly casualties" (the invading force) sounds wrong if the kill ratio is so much out of proportion (the "they are killing us" argument doesn't add up for an invading force).
I just know, that if there'd be an invading force, no matter how technical advanced, killing a rediculious amount of people, I'd aim for them and fight with my life too. No matter how misguided my beliefs could be or of those murdered.
Polarization.
It's hard for me to visualize though, with a lazy eye. I rather had a lazy something else.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1.
It would require me to take one "." from my sig. Hari(kiri links to seppuku anyhow).. wait. that's a sleepdrunken typo.
Who created the god creating god?
When will we see a server, which replicates itself, to handle a slashdotting?
I wasn't aware there are people without muscles at all. My god, how do they move? And Type? Without muscless?
Where are these muscleless beings to be found? I'm intruiged.
It's against the people itself. It's propaganda to keep the "terror" alive in memory, generating visions of terrorist so advanced we have to process and inspect all telecommunication, so you can feel safe.
Please, have a look at this documentary: The century of the self.
Everyone knows that a man has a binary cerebral-setup where the lower brain locks out the other in certain situations.
Now you want to "enhance" that lower brain with silicon chips, and give it an actual intelligence?
That's worse then zombies; men, with massive erections wandering around with an empty void drooling expressing with penisses taking control over the world.
I suspect you have a very dark agency, sir. Never shall any silicon enhance my penis' intelligence.
Your argument is flawed, please come in for a repair so we can update your firmware, there is a known bug in the logical processing unit.
You don't want to know about the conclusions it has generated and the blind following because of the inability to grasp the concepts of the "enchanted, superiour" brain.
16-core processor?
You must be extremely conservative...
I'm waiting for my one MegaCore processor with 1,048,576 cores, while mocking the market-war with MegiCore processors who only have 1,000,000 cores, but perform better at rendering realistic 3D models of females.
Yes, they use called (silicon nano-) photonic chips for that purpose. The same technique will be used to communicated between different cores in chips. (check the press release of IBM)
I've been looking for an explinatory video from IBM I believe, explaining laser-computing and how they solved certain problems in their designs, but I've failed to locate the particular movie.
Science is not a "competition", thus using "performance enhancing products" cannot invalidate the result. The result in science is approximation of truth and understanding. If it helps being high to formulate a certain theory, formulate it and eventually create the foundations for others to build further on, it isn't something that should be "invalidated" because of the means of aqcuiring that knowledge.
.. they wouldn't know how.