... what about the disabled in wheelchairs or those that are completely bedridden? Seriously we've had these people around for years and many of them seem just fine. I am a bit skeptical IMHO, I'd like to see a study done on people that are disabled and compare them against those that are not.
" do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza?"
Well considering many pizza places you can see how they make there pizza this comment makes little sense, you for sure care about how food is treated and cooked when it is served in a restaurant, many pizza place's are very transparent. Not so with many restaurants.
You've missed the point completely, my point is for someone who is not new to gaming modern FPS games are long in the tooth.
Of course game makers want to sell the most units to the mouth breathing game population. MW2 is an ok game with high production values, but almost all of its "Greatness" comes from all the work that went into the graphics, the same game could have been made with crappy graphics and in another time been equally as fun, my point is that FPS games have been churned out forever, why one sells over another has mostly to do with aesthetic appeal and not gameplay (CoD is all US army/soldier military crap), that would appeal to the lowest common denominator in the gaming community. Esp the increasingly cliche hollywood/action movie crap, I thought some of the action movie stuff was pretty tacky. Trying to carry the game with flash over substance, by way of distraction.
For new gamers I'm sure it's the bee's knee's and I don't fault anyone for liking it, but for us that are older it's "meh".
"Intense single player campaign, fun co-op missions to play with a friend, and a great multiplayer with lots of gamemodes and leveling and class building system"
Everything that has been in almost every FPS since doom, minus the class building system that didn't come till later (mods) like Quake and fps thereafter.
I remember playing Doom 2 and Duke 3D co-op on lan and it was just as good as anything MW2 can throw at you. The only real difference is the graphics tech has changed a lot since then, the core game is fundamentally the same.
"The following screenshot is a clear indication a lot of people can't stick to their principles"
It's not an indication they can't stick to their principles, we're talking about gamers here, they just wanted to draw attention to the fact that they wanted dedicated servers. Sure it says boycott but like immature gamers really meant it, anyone who is not retarded could have predicted the outcome.
Fact is gaming companies are increasingly douchebags who on hit titles can get away with it because lets face it , most people have not played the last 15 or so years of FPS games from doom on.
And people are just easily wow'd.
MW2 is a good game but that's not saying much, it's not hard to make a good FPS today since game developers have got the FPS down to a science.
"Video games were successfully doing this until the Compact Disc became the delivery media of choice, allowing room for bland theatrical scores to dominate."
I completely agree, who thought distorted/electornic synth could be musical?
With all the power of modern sound editing software one can practically create new instruments out of any sound by merely sampling any kind of sounds in the real world.
"In fact, I'd be very surprised if this didn't happen in the next ten years. Armed robots are a great idea in that they'd cost less than a fully trained human and are more easily repairable. It's a natural way to go for the military. I also know enough about software development to see that a catastrophic failure is fairly likely, and that the idiot-proof failsafe they'll set up will turn out not to be and won't, respectively."
Many people also had doubts the atom bomb would work but who had to eat crow?
Human beings are already dangerous enough to themselves, I think we really need a manhattan project on biological deficits of humanity itself, fuck the robots.
As george carlin once said, the planet is fine, it's the people that are fucked.
My post isn't about reasonable standards, if you read anything about the guy at all, teh guy calculated that there is approximately 25 datable women in the UK he would get along with, i.e. the guy is OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY.
Big difference. There is such a thing as reasonable standards, but many nerds like the guy in the article are FAR FAR from reasonable, let's face it we've all known people with just unrealistic perspectives. I am talking about those people specifically.
" the overwhelming majority of people in the world are un-datable - which then leaves only a small group of people for you to date, which then makes it even harder to find "the one"."
"Standards" in the way most people use it, is merely to hide their unrealistic expectations of the world, go ahead and have your "standards". What you're really saying is - "I'm so particular and superior to other people, I have expectations that are just pie-in-the-sky fantasy and have yet to be brought back down to earth and come to my senses and realize human beings aren't perfect, and perhaps my anal retentive attitude is the problem."
The fact that you even say this, proves you are are inexperienced in life.
I agree with what you say, most of the time people just don't put the effort into it. Not only that the guy sounds like a bit of a douchebag, why would you EVER use mathematics for human relationships? Sounds like a bad idea of limiting your horizons and he assumes he knows what kinds of women would be able to charm him or get along with.
If there is anything about my experience with human beigns is - you don't know shit and have to keep pushing on and meeting people, if you add up all the people you've ever met in your life (not alot for some nerds lets face it), statistically speaking they focus too much energy into their own self directed pursuits and not enough into just relaxing and meeting others.
" But that is not the case. You IP is an open target, the government can change the rules whenever it wants and the local competition is heavily entwined with the state."
Sounds like the US, except we have business tooling the government with lobbyists, but capitalists seem to be A-OK with that, as long as they get their little kingdoms and dictatorships over the little people.
China has it's issues, but so does the authoritarian criminal oligarchy that got bailed out to the tune of trillions of dollars. Both the private sector and government are inherently corrupt, because the rich and powerful control both.
"Kids today get emo and suicidal because they have been given everything"
No kids to day get emo and suicidal because the demands on them are OVERWHELMING, in our hyper competitive world the pressure on them is unreal, while they are not perfect or any better then previous generations, they feel they exist in a world of mutual hostility and financial insecurity. Not only that but most kids get the message at home "go to university to find a securejob or you will be poor!"
So kids go to university rack up a bunch of debt, figure out that job security is rare, and they may not have the lifestyle their parents had and have to work longer hours for less pay with lots of debt and in shitty long hours work culture.
You'd have to be out of your effin mind to say kids have it easy today.
"Thus, theft and privacy violations are roughly equivalent."
No they are not, in the real world today privacy is almost impossible unless you have lots of $. Every financial transaction you make, every bill paid, and just existing in the world means you have hardly any privacy. With sattelites pointing down from above, hidden camera's in all your places of business, just what kind of privacy do you think you have NOW? All one has to do is go around collating all that public information should someone with enough money or power want it.
I agree with the guy from Sun who said privacy is pretty much dead, those who have the money and the means know this.
Also lets not forget the contestability of intellectual property (patents being overturned, etc) information is non-rivalrous and non-scarce, and you're broadcasting it all the time (even unintentionally) property is usually only justified by scarcity and by power of commercial interests.
But size does matter to some extent, as a most basic component. For instance if we had a die that didn't use all its matter for transisters and much was left unetched, that would be a waste. There's probably similar things that happen in human beings as well, just because you got the matter, doesn't mean it's well architectured or even that useful.
Ant -> cat -> human each one the size of one's brain allows for more perceptual and thought possibilities.
"How is that different to what we have now? How would these "regular people" be chosen?"
I believe in appliny for the jobs (i.e. anyone can apply) but people selecting the people themselves, and then qualifying as if for a job. Based on general knowledge of civics, history, etc, their performance, and ethical tests. i.e. they can't be morons. They should have sound head on their shoulders. Then their interviews, etc would be posted publically. Ideally I'd also pay a group of people in which ANYONE can come and observe these other people doing their job (they are paid specifically to watch/do nothing, have free time).
That way no one really feels "left out" but their is no perfect government.
I mean compared to what we have now what do you think of what I've said? Do you really think the people we elect are qualified with all the bullshit that continues to happen?
I believe that there are superior kinds of people and they are completely immune to corrupting influences of power, all your questions are based on your own paranoia and lack of judgement.
The real issue is most human beings are of mediocre judgment of what needs to be done and character.
People do not have universal access to being able to see reality and solve problems in it, this is our major malfunction as a species. We need people with big imaginations and be able to see or think things no one has thought yet.
"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everyone sees" Arthur Schopenhauer
1) We give someone (only person) the power to get rid of people who we've discovered are corrupt or we know are entrenched and ant out of power 2) We start paying regular people and give them seats in government to learn and observe (think of it like an internship or learning on the job)
I think the whole problem is society becomes too specialized and people become disconnected from government because it is so enormously time consuming to learn the ropes so that we should pay a group of citizens and "hire" them (everyone has bills, etc) to monitor the government from the inside but they have special investigative powers that can be initiated by the public - i.e. if things havee gotten then the can enact immunity so there can't be anything "classified" these people have the power to get access to things that should be transparent (that are not currently).
I think our whole notion of what government should be has become corrupted and because things are so time consuming and it's a fully time job we need to employ regular people from different walks of life who are passionate about the future of their society, we have to instill responsibility and civic work ethic in people to stand up and demand transparency if it is not given.
The citizens would be able to revoke the right of the person with absolute power when certain conditions are met, and if that person does anything that disqualifies him of such power, with the public having absolute veto power if such bad extenuating circumstances.
But I really doubt they would if we just paid ourselves to be able to do our civic duty and be given the time off (from the regular job world) to learn to understand and work some of the ropes of government ourselves.
"Okay, so we get a king to fire politicians - how is it chosen which ones he fires?"
By using the evidence, and financing giving people from the public as much leave as necesary, IMHO I would involve people in such matters an make it an open and public affair (no closed door meetings, etc,etc).
"Personally, I think we should get rid of the notion that everyone is qualified to vote"
And I think we should get rid of the notion of voting entirely, I think we should run the nation not quite as a business but an oraganization like structure based on performance and problem solving.
"That's all well and good until the king has views that you don't agree with."
This is the whole point of being only temporary, i.e. the whole purpose is to give absolute power to one person on the condition that he is able to fire people, and not fear for his job/finances/life/etc. This is why you only give it to "one person" for a limited time and any deviation from doing simple said tasks disqualifies you.
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... what about the disabled in wheelchairs or those that are completely bedridden? Seriously we've had these people around for years and many of them seem just fine. I am a bit skeptical IMHO, I'd like to see a study done on people that are disabled and compare them against those that are not.
" do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza?"
Well considering many pizza places you can see how they make there pizza this comment makes little sense, you for sure care about how food is treated and cooked when it is served in a restaurant, many pizza place's are very transparent. Not so with many restaurants.
You've missed the point completely, my point is for someone who is not new to gaming modern FPS games are long in the tooth.
Of course game makers want to sell the most units to the mouth breathing game population. MW2 is an ok game with high production values, but almost all of its "Greatness" comes from all the work that went into the graphics, the same game could have been made with crappy graphics and in another time been equally as fun, my point is that FPS games have been churned out forever, why one sells over another has mostly to do with aesthetic appeal and not gameplay (CoD is all US army/soldier military crap), that would appeal to the lowest common denominator in the gaming community. Esp the increasingly cliche hollywood/action movie crap, I thought some of the action movie stuff was pretty tacky. Trying to carry the game with flash over substance, by way of distraction.
For new gamers I'm sure it's the bee's knee's and I don't fault anyone for liking it, but for us that are older it's "meh".
"Intense single player campaign, fun co-op missions to play with a friend, and a great multiplayer with lots of gamemodes and leveling and class building system"
Everything that has been in almost every FPS since doom, minus the class building system that didn't come till later (mods) like Quake and fps thereafter.
I remember playing Doom 2 and Duke 3D co-op on lan and it was just as good as anything MW2 can throw at you. The only real difference is the graphics tech has changed a lot since then, the core game is fundamentally the same.
"The following screenshot is a clear indication a lot of people can't stick to their principles"
It's not an indication they can't stick to their principles, we're talking about gamers here, they just wanted to draw attention to the fact that they wanted dedicated servers. Sure it says boycott but like immature gamers really meant it, anyone who is not retarded could have predicted the outcome.
Fact is gaming companies are increasingly douchebags who on hit titles can get away with it because lets face it , most people have not played the last 15 or so years of FPS games from doom on.
And people are just easily wow'd.
MW2 is a good game but that's not saying much, it's not hard to make a good FPS today since game developers have got the FPS down to a science.
"Video games were successfully doing this until the Compact Disc became the delivery media of choice, allowing room for bland theatrical scores to dominate."
I completely agree, who thought distorted/electornic synth could be musical?
With all the power of modern sound editing software one can practically create new instruments out of any sound by merely sampling any kind of sounds in the real world.
"In fact, I'd be very surprised if this didn't happen in the next ten years. Armed robots are a great idea in that they'd cost less than a fully trained human and are more easily repairable. It's a natural way to go for the military. I also know enough about software development to see that a catastrophic failure is fairly likely, and that the idiot-proof failsafe they'll set up will turn out not to be and won't, respectively."
Many people also had doubts the atom bomb would work but who had to eat crow?
Human beings are already dangerous enough to themselves, I think we really need a manhattan project on biological deficits of humanity itself, fuck the robots.
As george carlin once said, the planet is fine, it's the people that are fucked.
I saw that, that was a great TED video.
My post isn't about reasonable standards, if you read anything about the guy at all, teh guy calculated that there is approximately 25 datable women in the UK he would get along with, i.e. the guy is OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY.
Big difference. There is such a thing as reasonable standards, but many nerds like the guy in the article are FAR FAR from reasonable, let's face it we've all known people with just unrealistic perspectives. I am talking about those people specifically.
" the overwhelming majority of people in the world are un-datable - which then leaves only a small group of people for you to date, which then makes it even harder to find "the one"."
"Standards" in the way most people use it, is merely to hide their unrealistic expectations of the world, go ahead and have your "standards". What you're really saying is - "I'm so particular and superior to other people, I have expectations that are just pie-in-the-sky fantasy and have yet to be brought back down to earth and come to my senses and realize human beings aren't perfect, and perhaps my anal retentive attitude is the problem."
The fact that you even say this, proves you are are inexperienced in life.
I agree with what you say, most of the time people just don't put the effort into it. Not only that the guy sounds like a bit of a douchebag, why would you EVER use mathematics for human relationships? Sounds like a bad idea of limiting your horizons and he assumes he knows what kinds of women would be able to charm him or get along with.
If there is anything about my experience with human beigns is - you don't know shit and have to keep pushing on and meeting people, if you add up all the people you've ever met in your life (not alot for some nerds lets face it), statistically speaking they focus too much energy into their own self directed pursuits and not enough into just relaxing and meeting others.
" But that is not the case. You IP is an open target, the government can change the rules whenever it wants and the local competition is heavily entwined with the state."
Sounds like the US, except we have business tooling the government with lobbyists, but capitalists seem to be A-OK with that, as long as they get their little kingdoms and dictatorships over the little people.
China has it's issues, but so does the authoritarian criminal oligarchy that got bailed out to the tune of trillions of dollars. Both the private sector and government are inherently corrupt, because the rich and powerful control both.
... to grow the network eliminating the benefits of energy efficiency by allowing us to expand the network and consume more energy!
"Kids today get emo and suicidal because they have been given everything"
No kids to day get emo and suicidal because the demands on them are OVERWHELMING, in our hyper competitive world the pressure on them is unreal, while they are not perfect or any better then previous generations, they feel they exist in a world of mutual hostility and financial insecurity. Not only that but most kids get the message at home "go to university to find a securejob or you will be poor!"
So kids go to university rack up a bunch of debt, figure out that job security is rare, and they may not have the lifestyle their parents had and have to work longer hours for less pay with lots of debt and in shitty long hours work culture.
You'd have to be out of your effin mind to say kids have it easy today.
"Thus, theft and privacy violations are roughly equivalent."
No they are not, in the real world today privacy is almost impossible unless you have lots of $. Every financial transaction you make, every bill paid, and just existing in the world means you have hardly any privacy. With sattelites pointing down from above, hidden camera's in all your places of business, just what kind of privacy do you think you have NOW? All one has to do is go around collating all that public information should someone with enough money or power want it.
I agree with the guy from Sun who said privacy is pretty much dead, those who have the money and the means know this.
Also lets not forget the contestability of intellectual property (patents being overturned, etc) information is non-rivalrous and non-scarce, and you're broadcasting it all the time (even unintentionally) property is usually only justified by scarcity and by power of commercial interests.
But one man's utopia is another man's tyranny, tyrrany is perceived, not actual in many cases.
... the death of x tech here, it will eventually die once the groundwork has been laid to migrate to a better system.
But size does matter to some extent, as a most basic component. For instance if we had a die that didn't use all its matter for transisters and much was left unetched, that would be a waste. There's probably similar things that happen in human beings as well, just because you got the matter, doesn't mean it's well architectured or even that useful.
Ant -> cat -> human each one the size of one's brain allows for more perceptual and thought possibilities.
"How is that different to what we have now? How would these "regular people" be chosen?"
I believe in appliny for the jobs (i.e. anyone can apply) but people selecting the people themselves, and then qualifying as if for a job. Based on general knowledge of civics, history, etc, their performance, and ethical tests. i.e. they can't be morons. They should have sound head on their shoulders. Then their interviews, etc would be posted publically. Ideally I'd also pay a group of people in which ANYONE can come and observe these other people doing their job (they are paid specifically to watch/do nothing, have free time).
That way no one really feels "left out" but their is no perfect government.
I mean compared to what we have now what do you think of what I've said? Do you really think the people we elect are qualified with all the bullshit that continues to happen?
I believe that there are superior kinds of people and they are completely immune to corrupting influences of power, all your questions are based on your own paranoia and lack of judgement.
The real issue is most human beings are of mediocre judgment of what needs to be done and character.
People do not have universal access to being able to see reality and solve problems in it, this is our major malfunction as a species. We need people with big imaginations and be able to see or think things no one has thought yet.
"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everyone sees" Arthur Schopenhauer
It's involved:
1) We give someone (only person) the power to get rid of people who we've discovered are corrupt or we know are entrenched and ant out of power
2) We start paying regular people and give them seats in government to learn and observe (think of it like an internship or learning on the job)
I think the whole problem is society becomes too specialized and people become disconnected from government because it is so enormously time consuming to learn the ropes so that we should pay a group of citizens and "hire" them (everyone has bills, etc) to monitor the government from the inside but they have special investigative powers that can be initiated by the public - i.e. if things havee gotten then the can enact immunity so there can't be anything "classified" these people have the power to get access to things that should be transparent (that are not currently).
I think our whole notion of what government should be has become corrupted and because things are so time consuming and it's a fully time job we need to employ regular people from different walks of life who are passionate about the future of their society, we have to instill responsibility and civic work ethic in people to stand up and demand transparency if it is not given.
The citizens would be able to revoke the right of the person with absolute power when certain conditions are met, and if that person does anything that disqualifies him of such power, with the public having absolute veto power if such bad extenuating circumstances.
But I really doubt they would if we just paid ourselves to be able to do our civic duty and be given the time off (from the regular job world) to learn to understand and work some of the ropes of government ourselves.
"Okay, so we get a king to fire politicians - how is it chosen which ones he fires?"
By using the evidence, and financing giving people from the public as much leave as necesary, IMHO I would involve people in such matters an make it an open and public affair (no closed door meetings, etc ,etc).
"Personally, I think we should get rid of the notion that everyone is qualified to vote"
And I think we should get rid of the notion of voting entirely, I think we should run the nation not quite as a business but an oraganization like structure based on performance and problem solving.
Funnily enough I'm comedically challenged.
"That's all well and good until the king has views that you don't agree with."
This is the whole point of being only temporary, i.e. the whole purpose is to give absolute power to one person on the condition that he is able to fire people, and not fear for his job/finances/life/etc. This is why you only give it to "one person" for a limited time and any deviation from doing simple said tasks disqualifies you.