The Rebels in Star Wars attacked only military targets. I believe Al Qaeda's military actions against the US military are generally classified as "terrorist". The only one that comes to mind is them hitting an aircraft carrier, or something similar.
I realize in the modern world that the rules of engagement are pretty much "anything that works" "All's fair in love and war" is a phrase that's been around for at least 400 years.
Those are just the medium, though. There are more recent forms of art that DO involve the spectator/user. Performance art often does. I'm pretty sure there are interactive art programs out there. Look at dance--those doing the dancing are not neccessarily the creators of the dance.
But, even some of the more traditional art forms involve the spectator/reader, in a more indirect way. Hamlet and lots of other books and plays present the idea of a play within a play(thereby suggesting the spectator/reader is also involved in this idea).
Sure, you can judge art. Not in a very objective way, but it's the same with games. You can judge both for technical qualities, but whether it's "good" comes down to personal taste. I don't like Britney Spears. I do like Tool. I don't like Quake. I do like Fallout.
I think the irony is that the big thing about consoles is that they are NOT like PCs. Like being able to play on the couch is a major selling point. But, to merge they must depart from that.
Yeah, the cartoons back then destroyed kids' sense of reality, too. That's why there were thousands of reports of kids falling off cliffs with signs that said "Yikes!".;)
I'd think it'd help less than it would with most typing. Most typing is long paragraphs. Lots of words. Not many symbols or numbers. Touch typing seems designed around typing lots of letters fast(Dvorak isn't supposed to actually improve speed as much as is thought).
Also, touch typing would help with cutting and pasting. But, I'd think most programmers would know the keys for that, even if they touch type.
Referring to your "fight fire with fire" doesn't apply to non-metaphoric fires--yes it does. Fire fighters burn sections of forest to kill a major forest fire all the time. Controlled burns are standard procedure to prevent major forest fires, too.
There's a thing about a guy at www.seanbaby.com who mailed Nintendo Power. Talked about how he was raking in the cash as a plumber, getting all the women. He thought he was really cool because he looked like Mario. 30 year old delusional plumber who plays video games obsessively. That was like 10 or 15 years ago, so now he's like 40. Yeah, women are all over him.
Well, as far as the lack of original plots--I don't think most people like radically different SF worlds. People like to understand a movie they are watching. Most of the best SF I read, I have to THINK about a LOT of the book. If you put all that in a movie, you'd be BLOWN away.
I don't care for the way Heinlein obsessed about sex, but it wasn't all Leave it to Beaver. I Will Fear no Evil sucked, but I'd say it had original sexual/gender ideas. Friday had standardized polygamy contracts(or something like that).
ST did have money--obviously, since the Ferengis were obsessed with it. But, I generally agree that the utopia is a cop out.
How often does anyone excrete in a movie? Pretty much only if a scene needs to happen in a public restroom, or a couple is in a hotel room or home and one talks while pissing. The pissing person is always male, too.
Do you mean what is usually called a "wheel"? The thing on top of the mouse? Or do you mean the "wheels" the mouse ball touches to make the mouse move onscreen?
Yeah, there was a link to the demo on the article's site. I didn't know it was out. I've been looking forward to Lionheart for a while. I didn't know there were still so many OTHER fans of Fallout(actually, I only played Fallout 2).
Apparently there is a Mafia in Sims Online. They run prostitution(?), extortion, and assassinations. There is also vigilante justice for this. People do get kicked off for harassment, but I don't think the ways they do these things are under that.
The obvious solution to me is not to make rules against it and kick people off(pissing off people who seem to me, to be playing within the limits of the game). Make the rules such that BEING a "hitman" negatively hurts YOU. If those redmarks are bad(I'm under the impression this is how you take hits on people), give players negative points for each red mark they make. If they dislike lots of people, it's probably not all those other people that are the problem. Make the red marks not count--or even count negatively against the person doing the hit.
I don't see how prostitution could be bad. Is it that big a deal to have a bit flipped saying "these two had sex"?
Or, have the Sims get paid a wage for being cops. And judges. It'd be pretty easy to find out "what REALLY happened". The judges could take away red marks and add them to the "criminals".
The more dimensions you add to a game, the better.
I thought that's what ALL the Sims games were about--and why they are so popular.
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I was recently in a conversation about OLD submarines. There were submarines as long ago as the American Revolutionary war. I might be getting them mixed up, but the guy I was talking too talked about "The Turtle". A wooden ball from which the crew placed explosives on the sides of ships. Or maybe they drilled holes in the ships.
You say SF authors today don't "change how we live" and they did in the 50s and 60s. But, did people in the 50s and 60s say the SF authors changed the world back then? The most recent "change the world" thing I can think of was 3D cyberspace. Usually credited to Gibson's Neuromancer, but someone else did it earlier (Vinge?). The closest we have for now is online games.
Bruce Sterling did something similar to the schizophrenic thing in Distraction. It was more of a "physical" split in brain chemistry, though. The book's topic was scandals distracting people from what's REALLY going on in the world of politics. "I heard something about a repeal of the First Amendment, but I want to hear about who the Senator is screwing."--that's the basic idea.
My initial thought about the subject was the same basically. Does it make it a competition over who has the best stuff? But, what if the technology MAKES a better player.
The first thing that came to mind with this was Mark McGuire. I don't watch sports(surprise). But, I do know that he was an "average" player until he started using working out and using supplements. Supplements are a pretty new technology. Similar to steroids. These are technologies that DO improve the capabilities of a player(different drugs for different sports). The main difference is just that one is known to have detrimental health effects. These just improve strength or size, for the most part, which is arguably not skill. But, most sports are more dependent upon size, strength, or speed than skill. Also, there are probably drugs that enhance alertness, so some of them probably increase ability.
Like, I believe baseball uses 3D playbacks of pitches and swings to help the players improve. Obviously, a better simulator(or however they turn the record into a 3D representation) will do a better job of this.
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You say they are not "working class neighborhoods" because you see lots of people not working. Do you have percentages or are you basing this on the fact that you don't see the people who DO work at their jobs? Do you have percentages of people who don't work in areas that have money(non-"ghettos")? There seem to be a lot of people who have the money to be "housewives" or live off their parents in these places, too.
I read the 4 books in the Rama series. (I didn't know about the just-Lee ones) The only GOOD one was Rendevous. The second was alright. The other two sucked. Reading those made me realize that a lot of writers latch onto another, more popular author's name to sell THEIR books. It works even better if you can latch onto a series. It's sad to see someone doing that to their father. His books suck. It makes Herbert Sr.'s "universe" not as cool.
Still, I'm in love with Herbert Sr.'s "universe", so I'll read this one, too.
We don't KNOW enough about black holes to say whether we could create a tiny black hole, though. We don't even know if they exist. Probably, the only way to protect ourselves from a tiny black hole destroying the earth like that, though, would be to figure out anti-gravity (if it exists) or some kind of gravity projector to cancel out the BH's gravity.
I think black holes are THEORETICALLY infinitely zero in size and have infinitely high gravity. But, I think that's just because it worked out well in the math. If it had infinitely high gravity, everything would be moving toward it pretty damn fast.
Actually, I heard that he made a bet a long time ago with someone that he could start his own religion. I guess he won the bet. He had been a old school sf writer.
the first spam was done by two married lawyers. They received so many mail bombs their ISP's server went down. I guess that quickly became not a viable solution as hard drive sizes and proliferation of spam increased.
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The Rebels in Star Wars attacked only military targets.
I believe Al Qaeda's military actions against the US military are generally classified as "terrorist". The only one that comes to mind is them hitting an aircraft carrier, or something similar.
I realize in the modern world that the rules of engagement are pretty much "anything that works"
"All's fair in love and war" is a phrase that's been around for at least 400 years.
Those are just the medium, though. There are more recent forms of art that DO involve the spectator/user. Performance art often does. I'm pretty sure there are interactive art programs out there. Look at dance--those doing the dancing are not neccessarily the creators of the dance.
But, even some of the more traditional art forms involve the spectator/reader, in a more indirect way. Hamlet and lots of other books and plays present the idea of a play within a play(thereby suggesting the spectator/reader is also involved in this idea).
Sure, you can judge art. Not in a very objective way, but it's the same with games. You can judge both for technical qualities, but whether it's "good" comes down to personal taste. I don't like Britney Spears. I do like Tool. I don't like Quake. I do like Fallout.
I slightly disagree. It's also about making "computer crime" SCARY. After all, someone might hack onto the power grid and shut down all of New York!
I think the irony is that the big thing about consoles is that they are NOT like PCs. Like being able to play on the couch is a major selling point. But, to merge they must depart from that.
Yeah, the cartoons back then destroyed kids' sense of reality, too. That's why there were thousands of reports of kids falling off cliffs with signs that said "Yikes!". ;)
I'd think it'd help less than it would with most typing. Most typing is long paragraphs. Lots of words. Not many symbols or numbers. Touch typing seems designed around typing lots of letters fast(Dvorak isn't supposed to actually improve speed as much as is thought).
Also, touch typing would help with cutting and pasting. But, I'd think most programmers would know the keys for that, even if they touch type.
Referring to your "fight fire with fire" doesn't apply to non-metaphoric fires--yes it does. Fire fighters burn sections of forest to kill a major forest fire all the time. Controlled burns are standard procedure to prevent major forest fires, too.
There's a thing about a guy at www.seanbaby.com who mailed Nintendo Power. Talked about how he was raking in the cash as a plumber, getting all the women. He thought he was really cool because he looked like Mario. 30 year old delusional plumber who plays video games obsessively. That was like 10 or 15 years ago, so now he's like 40. Yeah, women are all over him.
I saw Minority Report as being about the old "Free Will" question.
Well, as far as the lack of original plots--I don't think most people like radically different SF worlds. People like to understand a movie they are watching. Most of the best SF I read, I have to THINK about a LOT of the book. If you put all that in a movie, you'd be BLOWN away.
I don't care for the way Heinlein obsessed about sex, but it wasn't all Leave it to Beaver. I Will Fear no Evil sucked, but I'd say it had original sexual/gender ideas. Friday had standardized polygamy contracts(or something like that).
ST did have money--obviously, since the Ferengis were obsessed with it. But, I generally agree that the utopia is a cop out.
How often does anyone excrete in a movie? Pretty much only if a scene needs to happen in a public restroom, or a couple is in a hotel room or home and one talks while pissing. The pissing person is always male, too.
Do you mean what is usually called a "wheel"? The thing on top of the mouse? Or do you mean the "wheels" the mouse ball touches to make the mouse move onscreen?
I use my fingernail and tweezers.
Yeah, there was a link to the demo on the article's site. I didn't know it was out. I've been looking forward to Lionheart for a while. I didn't know there were still so many OTHER fans of Fallout(actually, I only played Fallout 2).
Apparently there is a Mafia in Sims Online. They run prostitution(?), extortion, and assassinations. There is also vigilante justice for this. People do get kicked off for harassment, but I don't think the ways they do these things are under that.
The obvious solution to me is not to make rules against it and kick people off(pissing off people who seem to me, to be playing within the limits of the game). Make the rules such that BEING a "hitman" negatively hurts YOU. If those redmarks are bad(I'm under the impression this is how you take hits on people), give players negative points for each red mark they make. If they dislike lots of people, it's probably not all those other people that are the problem. Make the red marks not count--or even count negatively against the person doing the hit.
I don't see how prostitution could be bad. Is it that big a deal to have a bit flipped saying "these two had sex"?
Or, have the Sims get paid a wage for being cops. And judges. It'd be pretty easy to find out "what REALLY happened". The judges could take away red marks and add them to the "criminals".
The more dimensions you add to a game, the better.
I thought that's what ALL the Sims games were about--and why they are so popular.
I was recently in a conversation about OLD submarines. There were submarines as long ago as the American Revolutionary war. I might be getting them mixed up, but the guy I was talking too talked about "The Turtle". A wooden ball from which the crew placed explosives on the sides of ships. Or maybe they drilled holes in the ships.
You say SF authors today don't "change how we live" and they did in the 50s and 60s. But, did people in the 50s and 60s say the SF authors changed the world back then? The most recent "change the world" thing I can think of was 3D cyberspace. Usually credited to Gibson's Neuromancer, but someone else did it earlier (Vinge?). The closest we have for now is online games.
Bruce Sterling did something similar to the schizophrenic thing in Distraction. It was more of a "physical" split in brain chemistry, though. The book's topic was scandals distracting people from what's REALLY going on in the world of politics. "I heard something about a repeal of the First Amendment, but I want to hear about who the Senator is screwing."--that's the basic idea.
My initial thought about the subject was the same basically. Does it make it a competition over who has the best stuff? But, what if the technology MAKES a better player.
The first thing that came to mind with this was Mark McGuire. I don't watch sports(surprise). But, I do know that he was an "average" player until he started using working out and using supplements. Supplements are a pretty new technology. Similar to steroids. These are technologies that DO improve the capabilities of a player(different drugs for different sports). The main difference is just that one is known to have detrimental health effects. These just improve strength or size, for the most part, which is arguably not skill. But, most sports are more dependent upon size, strength, or speed than skill. Also, there are probably drugs that enhance alertness, so some of them probably increase ability.
Like, I believe baseball uses 3D playbacks of pitches and swings to help the players improve. Obviously, a better simulator(or however they turn the record into a 3D representation) will do a better job of this.
You say they are not "working class neighborhoods" because you see lots of people not working. Do you have percentages or are you basing this on the fact that you don't see the people who DO work at their jobs? Do you have percentages of people who don't work in areas that have money(non-"ghettos")? There seem to be a lot of people who have the money to be "housewives" or live off their parents in these places, too.
I read the 4 books in the Rama series. (I didn't know about the just-Lee ones) The only GOOD one was Rendevous. The second was alright. The other two sucked. Reading those made me realize that a lot of writers latch onto another, more popular author's name to sell THEIR books. It works even better if you can latch onto a series. It's sad to see someone doing that to their father. His books suck. It makes Herbert Sr.'s "universe" not as cool.
Still, I'm in love with Herbert Sr.'s "universe", so I'll read this one, too.
I just moved from Tullahoma.
that death guy was pretty bad, too.
We don't KNOW enough about black holes to say whether we could create a tiny black hole, though. We don't even know if they exist. Probably, the only way to protect ourselves from a tiny black hole destroying the earth like that, though, would be to figure out anti-gravity (if it exists) or some kind of gravity projector to cancel out the BH's gravity.
I think black holes are THEORETICALLY infinitely zero in size and have infinitely high gravity. But, I think that's just because it worked out well in the math. If it had infinitely high gravity, everything would be moving toward it pretty damn fast.
Actually, I heard that he made a bet a long time ago with someone that he could start his own religion. I guess he won the bet. He had been a old school sf writer.
the first spam was done by two married lawyers. They received so many mail bombs their ISP's server went down. I guess that quickly became not a viable solution as hard drive sizes and proliferation of spam increased.