It is only logical that this happens from an evolutionary point of view. One could even say, with some certainty, that quantum effects will be included in the brains functioning, just because it can make a difference. Anything that can encode for a difference and can interact with the environment is a potetial evolutionary substrate.
Why does everyone seem oblivious to the fact that splosion man 'borrows' a few concepts from other games as well? I mean, climbing by alternatively jumping from opposing walls, that's been around for some time. Wheels with platforms aren't new and neither is clinging on to edges of platforms. The explosion is just a repacked jump mechanic. Factory and lava settings used to be the spill of platform games in ye old days.
"I agree with you, however that is not what many people want. "
And if we had to trust what many people think they want then we would not have been talking on a site like slashdot. It would propably be called iSlash.org or something and you would only read articles that were approved by Apple or Microsoft or whatever company with the biggest iMarketshare. Your iLife would be regulated by your iDevices according to the iLaws brought into existance by the iLobby.
".. almost all complaints were that there wasn't enough shooting and there was too much "soap opera" and "drama" (I guess that's the term for anything involving emotions)."
I think you seriously underestimate the ammount of soap and drama that the writers managed to put in there. If you were to take out all the drama and personal problems of the characters you would barely have enough material left to fill 2 episodes.
Personally, I was much more appalled by the soggy emo cream that oozed freely than any lack of formulaics... It filled nearly all of the available spacetime (but to be honest, i count the re-caps). The only reason of existance for the characters, it seems, is to become emotionally disstressed about something. Some episodes were so bad that their ONLY function was to deliver you to the cliffhanger at the end. Unfortunately the cliffhangers very quickly became a bitter taste when you learn that they are almost exclusively used to drag you into another episode of oozing emo cream. For me, it broke whe they used aliens (that featured for a whooping 1.5 episodes) as a reason to emotionally distress characters for months. This series was not about aliens, it was about how incredibly emotional people can get from them. More ooze, more cream.
I have seldomly seen a series that was so deprived of actual important or cool stuff that happens. The whole stargate, for instance, is an afterthought. Bar about 15 minutes of footage throughout the series it might have been left out completely without changing anything particular about the plot.
The mission statement for the writing team must have been 'Let's take one episode and inject so much filler into it so that it becomes a season'. I once noticed that they never ever put more than 3 sentences of plot into any one episode. I dare you to find an episode that has more (as you will probably find there are often less than 3 sentences of plot in most episodes). An episode might be described as "Crew gets food off of unknown planet while still contemplating their personal problems" , or "The ship is still under control of militant faction while crew tries to retake it. Meanwhile some crew members contemplate their personal problems.". Cue cliffhanger.
You say it lacks a formula, but to me it was soo obvious. Character does something illogical and then the logic is explained with some or other mental disorder, preferably from the past (be it missing your lesbian mate, your brain was screwed by aliens or your boyfriend may have been cheating on you AND your brain was screwed by aliens altho it is still uncertain if it had any effect).
It is so overdesigned to trigger an emotional response that they utterly fail to cover it up with sciency fictiony elements. To me it was a clear sign that there is no hope left for humanity (and sci fi writers in particular).
The value proposition at techreport that is mentioned in TFA has it's toungue so deep up nvidia's bottom that it is hard to keep a straight face. They have this scatterplot that puts price against performance. There are 16 setups in the plot. One of these is nvidia's GTX580. According to the plot, only 2 cards of the other 15 have a worse performance per dollar. Despite this fact the article mentions: "Nvidia's newest is actually pretty well positioned on the scatter plot, with only the mid-range multi-GPU solutions occupying obviously better real-estate."
Then they do this funky thing where they add in the system price to the chart, obviously skewing the results making the nvidia stand out. And then they actually admit that this gives a skewed perspective..
I haven't got a clue what kind of app you want to write, but have a look at Processing.org . It's an abstraction layer built on top of Java (cross platformity, including web browsers). It has loads of handy stuff for 2D and 3D, including OpenGL. Talking about OpenGL, you can use it in it's raw form as well. In fact, you can just write in Java afaik.
"Not to mention that they will be unable to ensure the entire route between stations is secure. "
Now THATs an understatement. They won't be able to secure 1% of the route, not to mention that public transportation is a realy big complex system intertwined with normal life. There is no way to secure it by means of scanners or pat downs. It is utterly pointless from a security standpoint.
Talking about shadows, in the indoor scenes, specificly the one with the nine monitors, there should be loads of shadows underneath the desk. Especially because there are several lamps above the desk. There are, however, no shadows. And the lamps don't seem to be lighting anything.
So i'm pretty curious about their definition of ray tracing.
"Some of the bad things people have done in history have been a direct result of their interpretation of Christianity and when that repeatedly happens people will begin to wonder if the ideology / religion itself is a good thing."
In christianity there is no such thing as a definitive ideology. Just look at the many sub-genres of christianity, they all have their own twist on the book. There is just no such thing as a 'correct' way to interpret the bible. In stead there is a bag with may possible ideological combinations. Interpretation is at the basis of all of christianity.
This is much more about culture than anything else. In Europe there usually is a humanistic view that people and their lifes are more important than business. In the US work has become an idolized concept (what with all the american dreamings) and so employers got a higher status as providers of american dreams. What strenghtens this is the lower social benefits in the US as compared to Europe. Employee loyalty towards the company will be higher in the US because people are dependingon their jobs more. In Europe you have more opportunity to quit your job and find a new one.
So at the heart of it all is a difference in how we (are taught to) value things.
"It's not like in the middle of A New Hope that Obi Wan decides to stop with this whole turning off the tractor beam business and start selling Amway to the storm troopers."
"The Dutch government just formally announced its exit from Afghanistan."
The Dutch government only reacted to pressure from the people. The thing is that the Dutch government made promises about the (short) length of the involvement in the war. These promises were based on actual agreements with allies. In other words, there was an agreement for the time the Netherlands would be involved. This is also what the Dutch people agreed to. If the promises were lived up to then the Dutch would not be involved in the war for a couple of year now. But the allies pressured the Dutch into staying longer. The stay of Dutch militay was prolonged several times and when another prolongation was suggested the people got angry. So there is no case of 'The Dutch government just formally announced its exit from Afghanistan". It was known by everyone who cared to know that the Dutch were going to exit the war, it's just that the political pressure from the allies to stay longer was unsuccessfull.
I'm not sure how you were informed but i can assure you that the way you bring it is grocely devaluing the Dutch sense for democracy.
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Intelligence is such a broad word.
Artificial Intelligence doubly so.
It is only logical that this happens from an evolutionary point of view.
One could even say, with some certainty, that quantum effects will be included in the brains functioning, just because it can make a difference.
Anything that can encode for a difference and can interact with the environment is a potetial evolutionary substrate.
Upload some porn material for which you own the copyright and then sue all the people that download it.
I say it's brilliant.
I claim prior art...
Why does everyone seem oblivious to the fact that splosion man 'borrows' a few concepts from other games as well?
I mean, climbing by alternatively jumping from opposing walls, that's been around for some time.
Wheels with platforms aren't new and neither is clinging on to edges of platforms.
The explosion is just a repacked jump mechanic.
Factory and lava settings used to be the spill of platform games in ye old days.
So what else is there to make a case out of?
I don't think he was blaming the consumer, merely pointing out the reality of things.
"...and must be considered both as Domestic and >Foreign Policy."
Yeah, good luck with that...
"I agree with you, however that is not what many people want. "
And if we had to trust what many people think they want then we would not have been talking on a site like slashdot. It would propably be called iSlash.org or something and you would only read articles that were approved by Apple or Microsoft or whatever company with the biggest iMarketshare.
Your iLife would be regulated by your iDevices according to the iLaws brought into existance by the iLobby.
iFreedom indeed....
".. almost all complaints were that there wasn't enough shooting and there was too much "soap opera" and "drama" (I guess that's the term for anything involving emotions)."
I think you seriously underestimate the ammount of soap and drama that the writers managed to put in there.
If you were to take out all the drama and personal problems of the characters you would barely have enough material left to fill 2 episodes.
Personally, I was much more appalled by the soggy emo cream that oozed freely than any lack of formulaics...
It filled nearly all of the available spacetime (but to be honest, i count the re-caps).
The only reason of existance for the characters, it seems, is to become emotionally disstressed about something.
Some episodes were so bad that their ONLY function was to deliver you to the cliffhanger at the end.
Unfortunately the cliffhangers very quickly became a bitter taste when you learn that they are almost exclusively used to drag you into another episode of oozing emo cream.
For me, it broke whe they used aliens (that featured for a whooping 1.5 episodes) as a reason to emotionally distress characters for months.
This series was not about aliens, it was about how incredibly emotional people can get from them. More ooze, more cream.
I have seldomly seen a series that was so deprived of actual important or cool stuff that happens.
The whole stargate, for instance, is an afterthought. Bar about 15 minutes of footage throughout the series it might have been left out completely without changing anything particular about the plot.
The mission statement for the writing team must have been 'Let's take one episode and inject so much filler into it so that it becomes a season'.
I once noticed that they never ever put more than 3 sentences of plot into any one episode. I dare you to find an episode that has more (as you will probably find there are often less than 3 sentences of plot in most episodes).
An episode might be described as "Crew gets food off of unknown planet while still contemplating their personal problems" , or "The ship is still under control of militant faction while crew tries to retake it. Meanwhile some crew members contemplate their personal problems.". Cue cliffhanger.
You say it lacks a formula, but to me it was soo obvious.
Character does something illogical and then the logic is explained with some or other mental disorder, preferably from the past (be it missing your lesbian mate, your brain was screwed by aliens or your boyfriend may have been cheating on you AND your brain was screwed by aliens altho it is still uncertain if it had any effect).
It is so overdesigned to trigger an emotional response that they utterly fail to cover it up with sciency fictiony elements.
To me it was a clear sign that there is no hope left for humanity (and sci fi writers in particular).
The value proposition at techreport that is mentioned in TFA has it's toungue so deep up nvidia's bottom that it is hard to keep a straight face.
They have this scatterplot that puts price against performance.
There are 16 setups in the plot.
One of these is nvidia's GTX580.
According to the plot, only 2 cards of the other 15 have a worse performance per dollar.
Despite this fact the article mentions: "Nvidia's newest is actually pretty well positioned on the scatter plot, with only the mid-range multi-GPU solutions occupying obviously better real-estate."
Then they do this funky thing where they add in the system price to the chart, obviously skewing the results making the nvidia stand out. And then they actually admit that this gives a skewed perspective..
Be warned ..
I haven't got a clue what kind of app you want to write, but have a look at Processing.org .
It's an abstraction layer built on top of Java (cross platformity, including web browsers).
It has loads of handy stuff for 2D and 3D, including OpenGL.
Talking about OpenGL, you can use it in it's raw form as well.
In fact, you can just write in Java afaik.
I found it very usefull for making custom ui's.
"Not to mention that they will be unable to ensure the entire route between stations is secure. "
Now THATs an understatement.
They won't be able to secure 1% of the route, not to mention that public transportation is a realy big complex system intertwined with normal life. There is no way to secure it by means of scanners or pat downs. It is utterly pointless from a security standpoint.
"Hah! I'd love to see how this guy would do a physics or calculus paper..."
I'm far more interested in how he managed to write 5000 pages worth of scientific papers in one year, as he claims in the article.
"And don't forget the ones that make freaking noise when I've loaded the page into another tab to be read a few minutes later. "
Yeah, those porn site can have pretty loud adverts...
Wait, they advertise drinks with sex.
That's it, isn't it?
What a wonderfully new idea!.
"If a terrorist could exploit a loophole in the pat down procedure, ..."
A loophole, or any other body cavity.
Talking about shadows,
in the indoor scenes, specificly the one with the nine monitors, there should be loads of shadows underneath the desk.
Especially because there are several lamps above the desk.
There are, however, no shadows.
And the lamps don't seem to be lighting anything.
So i'm pretty curious about their definition of ray tracing.
As long as you're questioning you'll be all right,.
"Some of the bad things people have done in history have been a direct result of their interpretation of Christianity and when that repeatedly happens people will begin to wonder if the ideology / religion itself is a good thing."
In christianity there is no such thing as a definitive ideology.
Just look at the many sub-genres of christianity, they all have their own twist on the book.
There is just no such thing as a 'correct' way to interpret the bible.
In stead there is a bag with may possible ideological combinations.
Interpretation is at the basis of all of christianity.
"What sucks about this is this guy has got a point, but that's lost because his actions are plain nuts and will drown out most mainstream discussion."
Well, at least there is a reasonable chance that this will make South Park...
This is much more about culture than anything else.
In Europe there usually is a humanistic view that people and their lifes are more important than business.
In the US work has become an idolized concept (what with all the american dreamings) and so employers got a higher status as providers of american dreams.
What strenghtens this is the lower social benefits in the US as compared to Europe.
Employee loyalty towards the company will be higher in the US because people are dependingon their jobs more.
In Europe you have more opportunity to quit your job and find a new one.
So at the heart of it all is a difference in how we (are taught to) value things.
"It's not like in the middle of A New Hope that Obi Wan decides to stop with this whole turning off the tractor beam business and start selling Amway to the storm troopers."
Shhh!!.
Don't give the man any ideas now...
"The Dutch government just formally announced its exit from Afghanistan."
The Dutch government only reacted to pressure from the people.
The thing is that the Dutch government made promises about the (short) length of the involvement in the war.
These promises were based on actual agreements with allies.
In other words, there was an agreement for the time the Netherlands would be involved.
This is also what the Dutch people agreed to.
If the promises were lived up to then the Dutch would not be involved in the war for a couple of year now.
But the allies pressured the Dutch into staying longer.
The stay of Dutch militay was prolonged several times and when another prolongation was suggested the people got angry.
So there is no case of 'The Dutch government just formally announced its exit from Afghanistan". It was known by everyone who cared to know that the Dutch were going to exit the war, it's just that the political pressure from the allies to stay longer was unsuccessfull.
I'm not sure how you were informed but i can assure you that the way you bring it is grocely devaluing the Dutch sense for democracy.
But then how can you make a balanced decision on wether you want to fight if information flow to the public is managed?