Why is it that everyone is upset at Sony for exploiting a hole in Windows?
Why is it that everyone is upset at Sony for acting within their legal right and protecting their intelectual property?
Why is it that everyone is upset at Sony for making low quality music difficult to copy?
Way to revive and old thread.
I never said it had a primary purpose, though I see how you could missinturpret it. A screwdriver is primarily for screwing in stuff. A screwdriver's only purpose (by design) is to screw stuff. Just because you use a screwdriver to stab something, which you could do, doesn't mean that one of it's purposes is to stab things. So things can have multiple uses with a single purpose. You could use a penis to poke holes in walls, but I doubt you are going to find someone that honestly believes that a purpopse of the penis is to poke holes in walls.
I for one will second this post. JavaScript, or ECMAScript, is a very powerful and flexible language. The fact that it has only been implemented for use in web browsers with HTML (this is not entirely true by the way) shouldn't be a reason to look down on JS as a language. HTML and DOM on the other hand are garbage for writing web apps. DOM has it's uses but really, using a Document Object Model for creating Applications is really ass backward. Now I did recently just leave a project that I lead, which used XUL and Javascript with home grown AJAX (or even SJAX if you will), and that turned out to work out pretty well and is an production application gaining some recognition in the realm of scientific research. The biggest problem with XUL is it's poorly supported (if firefox doesn't need it then it doesn't get built or fixed), is based on a DOM where it should really use a AOM (Application Object Model) and is more or less (not talking technically) a hack on top of HTML (you could do most of the same stuff with HTML and XBL)
Application browsers will some day exist, hopefully in my life time. Oh and XUL better kick it in high gear before M$ and it's XAML comes in and walks all over it.
State College is a small out post of civilizations. Don't stray past the city line, heck don't even go to close to the city line. Stay in the College grounds, which is pretty much all of State College and you should be relatively ok.
You are absolutly correct. All you do is travel and kill colossi. That is the premise of the game, and it works. I liked the game, even if it don't really meet my expectation. After the 6th colossi or so I couldn't even tell you why but I was compelled to continue playing. Spend some time just looking around the world. enjoy it. Mindless killing on your way to and from the objective is just a way to make a game seem longer than it really is. SoC is exactly what it says it is and it does it right.
I guess ICO wasn't for everyone, and SoC won't be either. I personally list ICO as one of the best games of all time (tied pretty close with Katamari). Ico was not entirely original, but it had some interesting puzzels that were not overly complex. It was not bogged down with meaning less violence, tasks that require perfect timing, and long puzzels that you would end up doing over and over again. I walked through it from begining to end having to revert to a save very few times. The look and feel of the game is certainly one of the best I have ever seen , not in pixel/polygon count, but instead in beauty and simplisity. The characters have feeling, and you even begin to feel for them (if you're not totaly devoid of affect).
SoC on the other hand, has an interesting concept. It was very short (yes shorter than ICO) and not as visually impressive. The scale of the colosii was great, but the puzzels were mostly simple (specially when they gave you obvious hints). I had really hoped for a more Ico esque game, with deep puzzels and characters I could care about. SoC is fun and I suggest it, but it is a disappointment to Ico fans. If your not an Ico fan you just might like it more than those that are.
Why waste your time with anything but the SSN. SSNs are required for almost all major finacial transactions like setting up accounts, applying fro credit, filling out a rental application, applying for a job or any number of simple tasks. Many people work in industries that have access to SSNs, and, as has been pointed out to me over and over again, with enough money you can buy pretty much anything. Seems to me a good criminal could afford a few thousands SSNs, which would get them access to a few million dollars.
I personally have never been put in that situation, though I worked with some one who was, and they did..
I think you have summed up peoples inturpetation of my post quite well. It's not what I intended, but it is an interesting way to read it. I never said that a person should wait until after marriage to have sex, and I certainly never came close to implying shotgun weddings (or any form of arranged marriage). I think people should do what ever they want to feel good about them selves and their lives as long as it does not negatively impact the lives of others. So sex outside of wedlock is fine by me, just make sure you're not bring a child into the world if you are not commited to raising the child together as a family.
I think that the idea of paying an ongoing subscription licensing fee for use of a software project is not only how things will end up, no doubt, but that this could be a great benifit to consumers. Right now high end software can cost any where from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The average consumer can't aford the latest and greates photoshop every time they want to edit a simple picture or make a simple peice of art. So if companies moved to a per use licensing then the consumers would be able to use the latest and greatest a couple times a year. Imagine you log into your music editing service and only pay for the time used, then anyone could edit a song here and there. Yes it would be come more costly for those that need to use this software on a regular basises but I'm willing to pay for that in exchange for being able to use a product only once with out costing me a weeks pay.
More than one time over? What, did your parents remarry and divorce again, or what?
Not that it really matters but between my parents I have been through 4 divorcesand had 5 parents all before I was an adult. The only reason I am able to determine how my life would have been different is through research of families that have had divorced parents vs. those that do not. Scientificaly this may be considered anecdotal evidence, but enough anecdotal evidence to convince me that families are important to the up bringing of healthy (mentally and physically) children.
Oh and just as a side note you're statement that "feeling good is a consistent property of sex" is not very accurate. Not only are there a significant number of people that do not find Sex enjoyable, but even those that do find it unenjoyable in certain circumstances such as being the victim of rape.
I beleive this is what we refere to as natural selection. Small mutations made at random an left to run in the world. if those mutations are useful they continue on in those that have them. If those mutations are not useful they day off along with those that have them. Delta 32 was not caused by the Black Death but happen to exist before it and proved itself to be useful. It has also been shown many times before that the so called redundant genes (we have an entire duplicate set of genetics that are not used (women have more than men)) have useful mutations in limited cases. Why make changes in the my code that you know works, when you can make mutations in the back up and activate them when needed, seems like a pretty good design.. Hooray for Natual Selection.
Marriage may or may not be "just" a contract, depending on who you are. The fact that you equate marriage to contracts and state that half of those contracts end in divorce, leads me to beleive you don't really understand what marriage is. When the grand parent poster spoke of marriage, they did specificy staying together for the rest of their lives, he was obviously speaking of something different than a breachable contract. The paper is not the life long bliss, the life long biss should be there long before any papers are involved (which are really only for gaining governmental benifit or appeasing others).
Sex is primarily for producing children, It has NO OTHER purpose. Yes one of the side effects of Sex is good feelings, because if it hurt the human race would have probably died off a long time ago.
And Yes I am also of the belief that a commited relationship is important to the raising of healthy well adjusted children (there are always exceptions). Having come from divorced parents (more than one time over) I have a bit of experience and know that my parents lack of commitment to each other certainly played a huge role in my up bringing and has left me with many issues to deal with later in life.
It's too bad that you and so many others think that cheaper is better. It has been speculated that cheaper is not always better. In 2000 Joel Spolsky set up Frog Creek Software to prove that
Better Programmers make Better Software.
I would suggest reating the above article and few other things by Joel to get an understanding of why it's not always best to go for the cheapest option. You do after all get what you pay for.
Oh and by the way I am totaly unaffiliated with Joel Spolsky, I just have a similar thinking that he sums up real well.
Spend a little more time with sex and a little less with violence you might not have that no sig other issues.. then again if you are a resident of the US then you would problem get a sig other faster with violence.. Ok I've made enough posts about this...
I realize (or hope) you're joking, but most that would explain why americans are anti-sex and pro violence. The whole idea of actually teaching your kids something seems to be considered a bad thing by most United Statian (not to be confused with other americans).
Obviously American.. or poking fun at Americans. Either way I would also like this new system because maybe it would be easier for me to find games with more sexuality in them, and be able to seriously shy away from all the mindless violence games..
I'm one of the rare americans who likes more sex than violence. Oh and a bit of realistic conversation (read: Profanity) is good too.
I don't think we should have to worry about the prior art issue. I think that most common uses of genetics would be covered by fair use laws. I mean unless you plan on selling parts of yourself or your offspring that is.
I think the point is that if I have no children (which is nolonger a possibility) and I stopped Jerky and Smackhead from having children (by way of sterilization or euthanization, your choice) the world gets a whole lot better.
And I guess you could say allowing your child to carry a handgun does not make a bad parent either, you would be wrong, but you could say that.
I don't think games make killers, and I don't think porn makes rapists, but I do think children involved in these things are signs of poor parenting, which does make for maladjusted adults.
...your post still implies that you know what makes one person better (more worthy to reproduce/pass on values) than another. 3. There are some people that are unfit to be parents that have lots of children.
Are you the pot or the kettle?
I don't know all the requirments to be a good parent, but I will say if your child is playing MA video games, or discussing Sexual topics on internet forums or chat rooms, you are probably not a good parent.
I agree that some people that chose to not be parents do so for selfish reasons (Myself included in that group at one point) and probably should not be having children. On the flip side some chose so because they feel there are enough children in the world already, and would probably have children if the "unfit" parents would stop. Lastly it doesn't really matter if the fit parents are not having children (this does not hurt anyone) but something should be done to stop the unfit from having children
Musings like yours fleshed out into action plans have caused some of the worst atrocities in history.
This only holds true when those action plans were carried out by a short lived society that was eventually over thrown. Not to say the Atrocities of Hitler's Nazi Regime (Not to be confused with the National Socialist party) are in any way acceptable, but had the Nazi's succeded we would all be singing a different story today.
On another note, no one is talking about genocide, or any other version of killing. There is no suggesting that people be stopped from having children based on genetics or any things that would interfere with evolution. What we are suggesting is that people be held accountable for raising children. You can't drive a car without a license, so why should you be allowed to have/raise children with out one. I just think we would have alot less problems with guns in schools and issues over violence in video games if we only allowed attentive people to parent. I'm even all for continued retesting to make sure parents continue to do their job.
The place where this does potentially fail (though I think it's not so bad), the more capable people are most often the least likely to breed, which would mean a reduction in population, and potentially the end of a nation through attrition.
What? Parents actully have some clue of what their children are doing? Not here in the US (hopefully other countries are a little better than us).
I have been saying this same thing for a long time. I only hope that some day I see a Slashdot article that reads "Parent Jailed for not knowing what their child is doing"
The solution is "easy", even if it is a bit authoritarian. Mandatory sterilization.
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Why is it that everyone is upset at Sony for exploiting a hole in Windows?
Why is it that everyone is upset at Sony for acting within their legal right and protecting their intelectual property?
Why is it that everyone is upset at Sony for making low quality music difficult to copy?
Way to revive and old thread. I never said it had a primary purpose, though I see how you could missinturpret it. A screwdriver is primarily for screwing in stuff. A screwdriver's only purpose (by design) is to screw stuff. Just because you use a screwdriver to stab something, which you could do, doesn't mean that one of it's purposes is to stab things. So things can have multiple uses with a single purpose. You could use a penis to poke holes in walls, but I doubt you are going to find someone that honestly believes that a purpopse of the penis is to poke holes in walls.
I for one will second this post. JavaScript, or ECMAScript, is a very powerful and flexible language. The fact that it has only been implemented for use in web browsers with HTML (this is not entirely true by the way) shouldn't be a reason to look down on JS as a language. HTML and DOM on the other hand are garbage for writing web apps. DOM has it's uses but really, using a Document Object Model for creating Applications is really ass backward. Now I did recently just leave a project that I lead, which used XUL and Javascript with home grown AJAX (or even SJAX if you will), and that turned out to work out pretty well and is an production application gaining some recognition in the realm of scientific research. The biggest problem with XUL is it's poorly supported (if firefox doesn't need it then it doesn't get built or fixed), is based on a DOM where it should really use a AOM (Application Object Model) and is more or less (not talking technically) a hack on top of HTML (you could do most of the same stuff with HTML and XBL)
Application browsers will some day exist, hopefully in my life time. Oh and XUL better kick it in high gear before M$ and it's XAML comes in and walks all over it.
State College is a small out post of civilizations. Don't stray past the city line, heck don't even go to close to the city line. Stay in the College grounds, which is pretty much all of State College and you should be relatively ok.
You are absolutly correct. All you do is travel and kill colossi. That is the premise of the game, and it works. I liked the game, even if it don't really meet my expectation. After the 6th colossi or so I couldn't even tell you why but I was compelled to continue playing. Spend some time just looking around the world. enjoy it. Mindless killing on your way to and from the objective is just a way to make a game seem longer than it really is. SoC is exactly what it says it is and it does it right.
I guess ICO wasn't for everyone, and SoC won't be either. I personally list ICO as one of the best games of all time (tied pretty close with Katamari). Ico was not entirely original, but it had some interesting puzzels that were not overly complex. It was not bogged down with meaning less violence, tasks that require perfect timing, and long puzzels that you would end up doing over and over again. I walked through it from begining to end having to revert to a save very few times. The look and feel of the game is certainly one of the best I have ever seen , not in pixel/polygon count, but instead in beauty and simplisity. The characters have feeling, and you even begin to feel for them (if you're not totaly devoid of affect).
SoC on the other hand, has an interesting concept. It was very short (yes shorter than ICO) and not as visually impressive. The scale of the colosii was great, but the puzzels were mostly simple (specially when they gave you obvious hints). I had really hoped for a more Ico esque game, with deep puzzels and characters I could care about. SoC is fun and I suggest it, but it is a disappointment to Ico fans. If your not an Ico fan you just might like it more than those that are.
Why waste your time with anything but the SSN. SSNs are required for almost all major finacial transactions like setting up accounts, applying fro credit, filling out a rental application, applying for a job or any number of simple tasks. Many people work in industries that have access to SSNs, and, as has been pointed out to me over and over again, with enough money you can buy pretty much anything. Seems to me a good criminal could afford a few thousands SSNs, which would get them access to a few million dollars. I personally have never been put in that situation, though I worked with some one who was, and they did..
I think you have summed up peoples inturpetation of my post quite well. It's not what I intended, but it is an interesting way to read it. I never said that a person should wait until after marriage to have sex, and I certainly never came close to implying shotgun weddings (or any form of arranged marriage). I think people should do what ever they want to feel good about them selves and their lives as long as it does not negatively impact the lives of others. So sex outside of wedlock is fine by me, just make sure you're not bring a child into the world if you are not commited to raising the child together as a family.
I think that the idea of paying an ongoing subscription licensing fee for use of a software project is not only how things will end up, no doubt, but that this could be a great benifit to consumers. Right now high end software can cost any where from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The average consumer can't aford the latest and greates photoshop every time they want to edit a simple picture or make a simple peice of art. So if companies moved to a per use licensing then the consumers would be able to use the latest and greatest a couple times a year. Imagine you log into your music editing service and only pay for the time used, then anyone could edit a song here and there. Yes it would be come more costly for those that need to use this software on a regular basises but I'm willing to pay for that in exchange for being able to use a product only once with out costing me a weeks pay.
More than one time over? What, did your parents remarry and divorce again, or what?
Not that it really matters but between my parents I have been through 4 divorcesand had 5 parents all before I was an adult. The only reason I am able to determine how my life would have been different is through research of families that have had divorced parents vs. those that do not. Scientificaly this may be considered anecdotal evidence, but enough anecdotal evidence to convince me that families are important to the up bringing of healthy (mentally and physically) children. Oh and just as a side note you're statement that "feeling good is a consistent property of sex" is not very accurate. Not only are there a significant number of people that do not find Sex enjoyable, but even those that do find it unenjoyable in certain circumstances such as being the victim of rape.
I beleive this is what we refere to as natural selection. Small mutations made at random an left to run in the world. if those mutations are useful they continue on in those that have them. If those mutations are not useful they day off along with those that have them. Delta 32 was not caused by the Black Death but happen to exist before it and proved itself to be useful. It has also been shown many times before that the so called redundant genes (we have an entire duplicate set of genetics that are not used (women have more than men)) have useful mutations in limited cases. Why make changes in the my code that you know works, when you can make mutations in the back up and activate them when needed, seems like a pretty good design.. Hooray for Natual Selection.
Marriage may or may not be "just" a contract, depending on who you are. The fact that you equate marriage to contracts and state that half of those contracts end in divorce, leads me to beleive you don't really understand what marriage is. When the grand parent poster spoke of marriage, they did specificy staying together for the rest of their lives, he was obviously speaking of something different than a breachable contract. The paper is not the life long bliss, the life long biss should be there long before any papers are involved (which are really only for gaining governmental benifit or appeasing others).
Sex is primarily for producing children, It has NO OTHER purpose. Yes one of the side effects of Sex is good feelings, because if it hurt the human race would have probably died off a long time ago.
And Yes I am also of the belief that a commited relationship is important to the raising of healthy well adjusted children (there are always exceptions). Having come from divorced parents (more than one time over) I have a bit of experience and know that my parents lack of commitment to each other certainly played a huge role in my up bringing and has left me with many issues to deal with later in life.
It's too bad that you and so many others think that cheaper is better. It has been speculated that cheaper is not always better. In 2000 Joel Spolsky set up Frog Creek Software to prove that Better Programmers make Better Software.
I would suggest reating the above article and few other things by Joel to get an understanding of why it's not always best to go for the cheapest option. You do after all get what you pay for.
Oh and by the way I am totaly unaffiliated with Joel Spolsky, I just have a similar thinking that he sums up real well.
(Almost) everyone likes sex. The people who whine about it just aren't getting any.
Point was I would rather sex in my movies and games than would like violence in them.
Oh and by the way, nice sig, brought back some good/bad memories...
Spend a little more time with sex and a little less with violence you might not have that no sig other issues.. then again if you are a resident of the US then you would problem get a sig other faster with violence.. Ok I've made enough posts about this...
I realize (or hope) you're joking, but most that would explain why americans are anti-sex and pro violence. The whole idea of actually teaching your kids something seems to be considered a bad thing by most United Statian (not to be confused with other americans).
Obviously American.. or poking fun at Americans. Either way I would also like this new system because maybe it would be easier for me to find games with more sexuality in them, and be able to seriously shy away from all the mindless violence games..
I'm one of the rare americans who likes more sex than violence. Oh and a bit of realistic conversation (read: Profanity) is good too.
I don't think we should have to worry about the prior art issue. I think that most common uses of genetics would be covered by fair use laws. I mean unless you plan on selling parts of yourself or your offspring that is.
Fewer than what we have now, or atleast fewer poorly raised people overall (not just in ratio).
I think the point is that if I have no children (which is nolonger a possibility) and I stopped Jerky and Smackhead from having children (by way of sterilization or euthanization, your choice) the world gets a whole lot better.
And I guess you could say allowing your child to carry a handgun does not make a bad parent either, you would be wrong, but you could say that.
I don't think games make killers, and I don't think porn makes rapists, but I do think children involved in these things are signs of poor parenting, which does make for maladjusted adults.
You say Troll, Bush say's patriotic. Who should we belive?
...your post still implies that you know what makes one person better (more worthy to reproduce/pass on values) than another.
3. There are some people that are unfit to be parents that have lots of children.
Are you the pot or the kettle?
I don't know all the requirments to be a good parent, but I will say if your child is playing MA video games, or discussing Sexual topics on internet forums or chat rooms, you are probably not a good parent.
I agree that some people that chose to not be parents do so for selfish reasons (Myself included in that group at one point) and probably should not be having children. On the flip side some chose so because they feel there are enough children in the world already, and would probably have children if the "unfit" parents would stop. Lastly it doesn't really matter if the fit parents are not having children (this does not hurt anyone) but something should be done to stop the unfit from having children
Musings like yours fleshed out into action plans have caused some of the worst atrocities in history.
This only holds true when those action plans were carried out by a short lived society that was eventually over thrown. Not to say the Atrocities of Hitler's Nazi Regime (Not to be confused with the National Socialist party) are in any way acceptable, but had the Nazi's succeded we would all be singing a different story today.
On another note, no one is talking about genocide, or any other version of killing. There is no suggesting that people be stopped from having children based on genetics or any things that would interfere with evolution. What we are suggesting is that people be held accountable for raising children. You can't drive a car without a license, so why should you be allowed to have/raise children with out one. I just think we would have alot less problems with guns in schools and issues over violence in video games if we only allowed attentive people to parent. I'm even all for continued retesting to make sure parents continue to do their job.
The place where this does potentially fail (though I think it's not so bad), the more capable people are most often the least likely to breed, which would mean a reduction in population, and potentially the end of a nation through attrition.
What? Parents actully have some clue of what their children are doing? Not here in the US (hopefully other countries are a little better than us).
I have been saying this same thing for a long time. I only hope that some day I see a Slashdot article that reads "Parent Jailed for not knowing what their child is doing"
The solution is "easy", even if it is a bit authoritarian. Mandatory sterilization.