What makes us human is very simple: our DNA. Cat DNA makes a cat a(n iteration of) cat. Can we blame Star Trek for this idea that being human is something other than being meat configured by a certain set of DNA instructions? i think "what it means to be human" is a self indulgent question until we get a real basis of comparison; some sort of alien sentience. As for identity, refer to the identity property, you are you. That's it. You can't be anyone else and you can't be no one. i've always been annoyed with people saying that they don't know who they are or need to figure out who they are. Look in the mirror. That's you. Remember your life, all that you've done and had done to you. That's you.
It's cute seeing all the windows bashing here. However, 90% of the computers of the world are running windows, so windows CAN'T be the problem. Windows has done more to make computer use prevalent than anything else. People like to complain about windows being bloated and unstable. But to say that they have to ignore that Windows has to work with hundreds of hardware vendors and thousands of software vendors. Linux and Mac have far fewer compatibility issues, not because they are superior in design, but because there are so few things to install into them or connect to them. If a company wanted to make video games for Linux, how much could they possibly make? Making hardware for Macs is almost as futile. You can sell to 9 users or to 1. There are some situations where a monopoly can be good for the consumer. Mass production lowers price. More potential customers = more enticement to produce things. i am not a windows fanboy, i am however a fanboy of being objective. Windows has its flaws, but most of those flaws are overcome by allow the user a huge array of software and hardware. Linux, while i love the idea of it, is still not ready for prime time. Anyway, back to the subject.
We also have segments of the population that have no reason at all to have a computer. Just because we/.ers are so entwined with our machines, doesn't mean that everyone else wants to be or should be. Anyone over the age of 60 has only a few uses for a computer. The main use being keeping in touch with their grandkids who won't call them anymore. As people age their brains learn more slowly, new things require learning. We tried to get grandma to use email and she was terrified of the machine. Then there are people who live in the sticks. Dial up is painful to use, and getting worse since web developers are largely incompetent and are making sites more complex and larger. Our culture revere athletes above teachers and scientists and artist (not to be confused with performers). It shouldn't be a surprise. i think that the next generation of kids will see to it that everyone has a computer and broadband.
We also have a populous that hates to pay taxes. We hate being told what to do or how things should be done. In cultures like Japan, the leaders can say, "Right, we're going to IP6", and it's done. If that means raising taxes or making citizens/companies change their ways, so be it. We however comma are all cowboys alone on the range. i'm not saying either is right or wrong, just describing what i see. There are good and bad things each model. Our future might depend on adoption of technology. We face obsolescence if we don't adapt.
i think we are slow to adopt IT because the US has a strong anti-intellectual streak. We hate anyone smarter/more educated than us. Computers are for smart people, smart people think they are soooo superior to us. Again, the next generation might not think that way. My lil brother, ten years younger than i, had a PC in the house since he was 7. i had one in the home since i was (does the math) 17. Now kids are coming back from the hospital never knowing a life without a computer in the home.
Build a console that does email and chat, like WebTV. Build machines that can do only ONE thing at a time. Want to do word processing? Slap in the Word cartridge. Let's play WoW, slap in the WoW cartridge. That's what most Americans want from a computer. Anything more complex than that should be for geeks only. Whoever builds this machine will be a brazillianaire.
Can some non-pothead/omgmarkofthebeast person explain why you're so afraid of this? If a national id is bad, why isn't a state id? If a state id is bad, why aren't we all pissy about that? What about passports, are they evil too?
oh noes! someone knows who i am! teh horror of it all!
Methinks 90% of the whining about this is due to who happens to be president, rather than the actual issue.
The definition of a bug that i like is "unexpected behavior". If i expect mashing X button then Y button to give me result Z, and i get result A, that's a bug. Even if Z is the correct result!
i love the idea of an OS that gauges the tech skill of the user. i would arrange it as: Typical Mac User, Windows Survivor, Linux Warrior and u:ber 733+.
Wow, how pathetic are you, AC?
You make a thread about the law into a political thread. This guy broke the law. Read the big warnings that come up when you watch a rented movie. There's a big warning from the FBI and Interpol. What if this guy was sending tainted medicine to our old people? We have been leaning on China about bootlegging and copy right violation for about a decade now. Protecting our people is wrong all the sudden? Should people be able to escape justice by crossing a border or committing their crimes over international lines?
The US a bully? You're a coward and a twit. We no more bullies today than we were in WW1 or WW2. The only difference is now people think overthrowing mass murdering tyrants who invades his neighbors is a bad thing because of who happens to be president. Grow up soon, please. Promise us that you'll grow up before the next election. Zach de la Rocha wants his campus anarchist schtick back.
ides, he is me. So yes, it is all "me". You are your me, i and i'm mine. Self-interest is natural.
i agree that they should charge for the client only or the subscription only. Guild Wars doesn't charge a subscription, but is not as massive in scale (but imho is far prettier). Client or Subscription... not both.
As for catering to mac and linux devotees... no. i love me some linux, but the developers would have spend time writing the same game three times. Where do they recoup the cost? The mac population is not as big as you think, and the linux pop is even smaller. So the cost would fall to windows users, unless it is really cheap to write the additional versions. You want more choices? Get a 500$ Dell, it's less than your last iQueef or some consoles. The lack of hardware and software available to you is the price you pay for being refusing to play nice with 90% of the market share.
This game would be perfect for a desert island. Highly replayable, you can write your own campaigns, play campaigns made by other, mod the rules, add your own items and critters.
The prefix pre means "before". Pre-loaded means "before it was loaded". You can't load Unbuntu before you load it. Pre-heat means "before there is heat". Pre-owned means "before it was owned"... which is to say... NEW, not used. Think of it this way, pre sort of means "not yet".
You're misrepresenting the objection to the death penalty. i oppose it not because it is merciful, or to avoid guilt, but to deny the government the right to kill people it doesn't like. Furthermore, what is an acceptable ratio of innocents executed to guilty executed? We execute innocent people, it happens with frightening frequency. Also, the death penalty is weighted against non-whites. They are far more likely to be considered for execution and far more likely to be executed. Then there is the cost, it costs more in court time to fry someone than to shelter them until they die. You misspelled hypocrisy. Damn, and i'm all out of mod points. -1 Overrated, -1 Just Plain Wrong.
"A lack of street protests means a suppression of the minority."
-1 Overrated, +1 Paranoid
Not necessarily, it might mean a lack of concern or motivation.
Note how many hippies came out to support Saddam's rule over Iraq. Suppressed minority? Hardly. They had motivation and concern (Bush getting his way on ANYTHING). The pro Saddam crowd didn't seem to be a minority or suppressed at all. They never seemed to shut up, actually. Where were the Anti-Tyrant protests? There were those who saw the overthrow of a mass murdering dickhead as a good thing, but they lacked motivation or concern. i have my own reasons for despising Bush, but i'm too old and busy to waste my time being a face in a crowd to impress the girl at the university bookstore with my feigned righteous outrage and indignation. i'm not suppressed, just tired and apathetic.
A true liberal should favor liberation
A true democrat should support democracies
Remember if you are left of center and someone disagrees with you they MUST be evil or stupid./democrat//but a hawk/doesn't let anger over the 2000 "election"/partisanship cloud his views
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"You never need to be prompted for a 'root'/admin password when doing that, because you're always admin! That's insecure."
Only IF your profile is an Admin. You can make certain accounts have less rights than than admin.
What is this crap about having to enter the admin PW in Windows all the time? AFAIK you either log in as Administrator or with a profile that is part of that group and then do what you need to do. That's all of once a day. If the user isn't an admin, you don't necessarily want them having admin rights, so it is a good thing(tm) that the admin PW is required.
Did Ultima V allow players to create their own modules? To have persistent multi-player modules? Could players hack the story or the mechanics of Ultima V?
UT wasn't meant to have a story, it's a killfest. Try to compare apples to apples. UT prolly should have LESS story than it did.
Why can't these nutjobs just kill themselves, or just the one or two people who drove them nuts? Why take a bunch of innocents with you? And why do they always kill themselves before they can be caught? We can never ask them "why?!".
Wikipedia is VERY useful as a reference or start point. Teach the kids to use it to find places to find information. Don't allow them to cite Wikipedia as a source. If they find something useful in an entry, that info *should* list its source. The student should follow the link, verify the validity of the info and cite *that* as a source. Simple.
The bot is using THE game, not YOUR copy. WoW operates on a server/client system. The client connects to the server, the client gives you an interface to the game. The game occurs on the server, not your PC. Your PC merely renders and interfaces. If we were talking about Diablo II, then yes, it is YOUR COPY. Scilla and Darrowmere are not yours (insert "Not Yours" pic). Blizzard *is* barking up the wrong tree, they can use the EULA to ban these players. Using copyright law is wholly inappropriate and could put people in jail for being lazy when banninating them would do the trick.
Never used it. But in that case removing the abstraction makes sense. In a game your goal is to simulate an experience that one might enjoy (not doing for real). i wouldn't enjoy filing or flailing my arms to move windows. But holding a wiimote like i would a gun sounds much more fun than moving a mouse/cursor over a target. Driving games make more sense with a steering wheel than a d-pad.
The worst hollywood interface im>ho was minority report's. His arms are flailing this way and that over a basically 2D screen. It was wide and things were stacked, but the size is the only part that is novel. How tired would you be if you spent a day, even an hour doing those gyrations. Imagine using that interface with just one arm, or sitting in a wheelchair. He could have just as easily been sitting down and clicking and dragging with a mouse up on the wide projection screen. Pretty, yes. But not practical for anything longer than the scenes we saw him use it.
There was a Micheal Douglas movie that had a equally stupid interface. He put on a VR helm and gloves to control VR hands open VR drawers and sift through VR folders. Why make an interface that mimics the OLD way of doing something?
Why is Star Wars in the running for favorite Sci-Fi?
Spaceships and lasers don't make something Sci-Fi. We could have Star Wars set on earth and use boats instead of spaceships. The only facet of Star Wars that even nudged up against Sci-Fi was the mitochlorian (sp?) crap, oh and maybe the operation of the "laser swords". Even that could be described as fantasy, in the same way that every fantasy writer has an explanation for how magic works. Star Wars is a fantasy, or more precisely a retelling of ancient myths.
Frankenstein was Sci-Fi, because it asked questions about science/tech and how it relates to our culture/morality. Would it be ethical to bring the dead back to life? What would happen if we stitched dead body parts together and zapped them? Who is the real monster, the creation, the creator or the village mob? Star Trek is Sci-Fi because it investigates cultural issues and technology. If we set Star Trek on Earth with boats, it would still be Sci-Fi for the same reasons as Frankenstein.
Firefly has some elements of Sci-Fi. The ethical issues of personal freedom, of centralized gov't, of messing with a girl's brain to make super soldiers etc. It's more of an adventure/action/comedy bent that true Sci-Fi.
Before some tard quotes wikipedia at me, remember that just because many people use the term Sci-Fi to describe things incorrectly, doesn't make them right. Impact != Effect. Spaceships != Sci-Fi.
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What makes us human is very simple: our DNA. Cat DNA makes a cat a(n iteration of) cat. Can we blame Star Trek for this idea that being human is something other than being meat configured by a certain set of DNA instructions? i think "what it means to be human" is a self indulgent question until we get a real basis of comparison; some sort of alien sentience. As for identity, refer to the identity property, you are you. That's it. You can't be anyone else and you can't be no one. i've always been annoyed with people saying that they don't know who they are or need to figure out who they are. Look in the mirror. That's you. Remember your life, all that you've done and had done to you. That's you.
If you are worried about excess waist, you could wear a belt or do some crunches.
Honest question here: Why does the BBC refer to any problem/conflict as a row? Are they in a boat? Are they in columns and rows?
We also have segments of the population that have no reason at all to have a computer. Just because we /.ers are so entwined with our machines, doesn't mean that everyone else wants to be or should be. Anyone over the age of 60 has only a few uses for a computer. The main use being keeping in touch with their grandkids who won't call them anymore. As people age their brains learn more slowly, new things require learning. We tried to get grandma to use email and she was terrified of the machine. Then there are people who live in the sticks. Dial up is painful to use, and getting worse since web developers are largely incompetent and are making sites more complex and larger. Our culture revere athletes above teachers and scientists and artist (not to be confused with performers). It shouldn't be a surprise. i think that the next generation of kids will see to it that everyone has a computer and broadband.
We also have a populous that hates to pay taxes. We hate being told what to do or how things should be done. In cultures like Japan, the leaders can say, "Right, we're going to IP6", and it's done. If that means raising taxes or making citizens/companies change their ways, so be it. We however comma are all cowboys alone on the range. i'm not saying either is right or wrong, just describing what i see. There are good and bad things each model. Our future might depend on adoption of technology. We face obsolescence if we don't adapt.
i think we are slow to adopt IT because the US has a strong anti-intellectual streak. We hate anyone smarter/more educated than us. Computers are for smart people, smart people think they are soooo superior to us. Again, the next generation might not think that way. My lil brother, ten years younger than i, had a PC in the house since he was 7. i had one in the home since i was (does the math) 17. Now kids are coming back from the hospital never knowing a life without a computer in the home.
Build a console that does email and chat, like WebTV. Build machines that can do only ONE thing at a time. Want to do word processing? Slap in the Word cartridge. Let's play WoW, slap in the WoW cartridge. That's what most Americans want from a computer. Anything more complex than that should be for geeks only. Whoever builds this machine will be a brazillianaire.
What is luxury today, is necessity tomorrow
- Faith and the Muse
Wow, i just had a realization. i'm that 50K$ guy. Ah well, more power to me.
oh noes! someone knows who i am! teh horror of it all!
Methinks 90% of the whining about this is due to who happens to be president, rather than the actual issue.
i love the idea of an OS that gauges the tech skill of the user. i would arrange it as: Typical Mac User, Windows Survivor, Linux Warrior and u:ber 733+.
Wow, how pathetic are you, AC? You make a thread about the law into a political thread. This guy broke the law. Read the big warnings that come up when you watch a rented movie. There's a big warning from the FBI and Interpol. What if this guy was sending tainted medicine to our old people? We have been leaning on China about bootlegging and copy right violation for about a decade now. Protecting our people is wrong all the sudden? Should people be able to escape justice by crossing a border or committing their crimes over international lines? The US a bully? You're a coward and a twit. We no more bullies today than we were in WW1 or WW2. The only difference is now people think overthrowing mass murdering tyrants who invades his neighbors is a bad thing because of who happens to be president. Grow up soon, please. Promise us that you'll grow up before the next election. Zach de la Rocha wants his campus anarchist schtick back.
i agree that they should charge for the client only or the subscription only. Guild Wars doesn't charge a subscription, but is not as massive in scale (but imho is far prettier). Client or Subscription... not both.
As for catering to mac and linux devotees... no. i love me some linux, but the developers would have spend time writing the same game three times. Where do they recoup the cost? The mac population is not as big as you think, and the linux pop is even smaller. So the cost would fall to windows users, unless it is really cheap to write the additional versions. You want more choices? Get a 500$ Dell, it's less than your last iQueef or some consoles. The lack of hardware and software available to you is the price you pay for being refusing to play nice with 90% of the market share.
This game would be perfect for a desert island. Highly replayable, you can write your own campaigns, play campaigns made by other, mod the rules, add your own items and critters.
+1 TMBG Reference
The prefix pre means "before". Pre-loaded means "before it was loaded". You can't load Unbuntu before you load it. Pre-heat means "before there is heat". Pre-owned means "before it was owned"... which is to say... NEW, not used. Think of it this way, pre sort of means "not yet".
There is a difference between spying and tracking habits, smitty.
You're misrepresenting the objection to the death penalty. i oppose it not because it is merciful, or to avoid guilt, but to deny the government the right to kill people it doesn't like. Furthermore, what is an acceptable ratio of innocents executed to guilty executed? We execute innocent people, it happens with frightening frequency. Also, the death penalty is weighted against non-whites. They are far more likely to be considered for execution and far more likely to be executed. Then there is the cost, it costs more in court time to fry someone than to shelter them until they die. You misspelled hypocrisy. Damn, and i'm all out of mod points. -1 Overrated, -1 Just Plain Wrong.
"A lack of street protests means a suppression of the minority." -1 Overrated, +1 Paranoid Not necessarily, it might mean a lack of concern or motivation. Note how many hippies came out to support Saddam's rule over Iraq. Suppressed minority? Hardly. They had motivation and concern (Bush getting his way on ANYTHING). The pro Saddam crowd didn't seem to be a minority or suppressed at all. They never seemed to shut up, actually. Where were the Anti-Tyrant protests? There were those who saw the overthrow of a mass murdering dickhead as a good thing, but they lacked motivation or concern. i have my own reasons for despising Bush, but i'm too old and busy to waste my time being a face in a crowd to impress the girl at the university bookstore with my feigned righteous outrage and indignation. i'm not suppressed, just tired and apathetic. A true liberal should favor liberation A true democrat should support democracies Remember if you are left of center and someone disagrees with you they MUST be evil or stupid. /democrat //but a hawk /doesn't let anger over the 2000 "election"/partisanship cloud his views
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"You never need to be prompted for a 'root'/admin password when doing that, because you're always admin! That's insecure." Only IF your profile is an Admin. You can make certain accounts have less rights than than admin. What is this crap about having to enter the admin PW in Windows all the time? AFAIK you either log in as Administrator or with a profile that is part of that group and then do what you need to do. That's all of once a day. If the user isn't an admin, you don't necessarily want them having admin rights, so it is a good thing(tm) that the admin PW is required.
Is there a "Mod Paranoid" option?
When fark had this article yesterday the FIRST post was "I have to push the PRAM-a-lot. Why the buggery bullocks did it take so long on /.?
Did Ultima V allow players to create their own modules? To have persistent multi-player modules? Could players hack the story or the mechanics of Ultima V? UT wasn't meant to have a story, it's a killfest. Try to compare apples to apples. UT prolly should have LESS story than it did.
Why can't these nutjobs just kill themselves, or just the one or two people who drove them nuts? Why take a bunch of innocents with you? And why do they always kill themselves before they can be caught? We can never ask them "why?!".
Wikipedia is VERY useful as a reference or start point. Teach the kids to use it to find places to find information. Don't allow them to cite Wikipedia as a source. If they find something useful in an entry, that info *should* list its source. The student should follow the link, verify the validity of the info and cite *that* as a source. Simple.
The bot is using THE game, not YOUR copy. WoW operates on a server/client system. The client connects to the server, the client gives you an interface to the game. The game occurs on the server, not your PC. Your PC merely renders and interfaces. If we were talking about Diablo II, then yes, it is YOUR COPY. Scilla and Darrowmere are not yours (insert "Not Yours" pic). Blizzard *is* barking up the wrong tree, they can use the EULA to ban these players. Using copyright law is wholly inappropriate and could put people in jail for being lazy when banninating them would do the trick.
Never used it. But in that case removing the abstraction makes sense. In a game your goal is to simulate an experience that one might enjoy (not doing for real). i wouldn't enjoy filing or flailing my arms to move windows. But holding a wiimote like i would a gun sounds much more fun than moving a mouse/cursor over a target. Driving games make more sense with a steering wheel than a d-pad.
The worst hollywood interface im>ho was minority report's. His arms are flailing this way and that over a basically 2D screen. It was wide and things were stacked, but the size is the only part that is novel. How tired would you be if you spent a day, even an hour doing those gyrations. Imagine using that interface with just one arm, or sitting in a wheelchair. He could have just as easily been sitting down and clicking and dragging with a mouse up on the wide projection screen. Pretty, yes. But not practical for anything longer than the scenes we saw him use it. There was a Micheal Douglas movie that had a equally stupid interface. He put on a VR helm and gloves to control VR hands open VR drawers and sift through VR folders. Why make an interface that mimics the OLD way of doing something?
Why is Star Wars in the running for favorite Sci-Fi? Spaceships and lasers don't make something Sci-Fi. We could have Star Wars set on earth and use boats instead of spaceships. The only facet of Star Wars that even nudged up against Sci-Fi was the mitochlorian (sp?) crap, oh and maybe the operation of the "laser swords". Even that could be described as fantasy, in the same way that every fantasy writer has an explanation for how magic works. Star Wars is a fantasy, or more precisely a retelling of ancient myths. Frankenstein was Sci-Fi, because it asked questions about science/tech and how it relates to our culture/morality. Would it be ethical to bring the dead back to life? What would happen if we stitched dead body parts together and zapped them? Who is the real monster, the creation, the creator or the village mob? Star Trek is Sci-Fi because it investigates cultural issues and technology. If we set Star Trek on Earth with boats, it would still be Sci-Fi for the same reasons as Frankenstein. Firefly has some elements of Sci-Fi. The ethical issues of personal freedom, of centralized gov't, of messing with a girl's brain to make super soldiers etc. It's more of an adventure/action/comedy bent that true Sci-Fi. Before some tard quotes wikipedia at me, remember that just because many people use the term Sci-Fi to describe things incorrectly, doesn't make them right. Impact != Effect. Spaceships != Sci-Fi.