God of War is one of them of this I am certain. It got everything right -- graphics, atmosphere, audio, animation, gameplay mechanics.
It was like a symphony of gaming, everything about the game cohered together well.
Some unsung classics (i.e. underground/cult following)
Xenosaga episodes 1-3 had a great and interesting story and some very good graphics and concepts but the interest was lacking from the masses and the execution of the gameplay was standard JRPG stuff (not very well designed). The gameplay was a bit stale, but the art, story, etc, was very fascinating in and of itself. It's too bad too because it would make for a great remake IMHO, it could have been a total classic, it's more of tarnished "could have been one of the greats".
"The (potential) "truth" of a concept only comes about after several successful repetitions of the experimental conditions leading to the same result."
But that's still based on a philosophy of truth, i.e. a base concept of how one goes about finding out what is true.
"There are plenty of examples of flawed superstitious beliefs leading to an equally large disadvantage or equally great damage. "
No doubt but knowing who has truth from who doesn't is a hard problem, science and peer review are are flawed because humans aren't good at detecting what is true from what is not in their own thought processes, concepts and philosophies.
If there were errors in how we think about things (ie. base concepts) then there are errors all the way down. I've been studying this, concepts are the lenses by which people see and interpret the world but few people understand the process by which concepts/knowledge are conceived by a person before they are passed down.
All people operate under tremendous amounts of ignorance, hence Socrates said "All I know is that I know nothing", he knew knowledge was endless.
Socrates often said his wisdom was limited to an awareness of his own ignorance. Socrates believed wrongdoing was a consequence of ignorance and those who did wrong knew no better. The one thing Socrates consistently claimed to have knowledge of was "the art of love" which he connected with the concept of "the love of wisdom", i.e., philosophy. He never actually claimed to be wise, only to understand the path a lover of wisdom must take in pursuing it. It is debatable whether Socrates believed humans (as opposed to gods like Apollo) could actually become wise. On the one hand, he drew a clear line between human ignorance and ideal knowledge; on the other, Plato's Symposium (Diotima's Speech) and Republic (Allegory of the Cave) describe a method for ascending to wisdom.
Socrates believed the best way for people to live was to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth. He always invited others to try to concentrate more on friendships and a sense of true community, for Socrates felt this was the best way for people to grow together as a populace. His actions lived up to this: in the end, Socrates accepted his death sentence when most thought he would simply leave Athens, as he felt he could not run away from or go against the will of his community; as mentioned above, his reputation for valor on the battlefield was without reproach.
The idea that humans possessed certain virtues formed a common thread in Socrates' teachings. These virtues represented the most important qualities for a person to have, foremost of which were the philosophical or intellectual virtues. Socrates stressed that "virtue was the most valuable of all possessions; the ideal life was spent in search of the Good. Truth lies beneath the shadows of existence, and it is the job of the philosopher to show the rest how little they really know."
"And who are you to make such a (ridiculous) claim?"
Is it really ridiculous, considering what we don't know about human reasoning and the brain? I went to a conference and neurologists and cognitive linguistics says reasoning is not well understood at all. Someone can understand something in a different way and have it totally be objective, i.e. someone may speak in terms of something else because we understand the world entirely by metaphor. See Daniel tammet for instance:
"Frankly, this whole fiasco just strengthened my love for ATI. Their newer binary blobs are amazing"
you must not use many of their products, I got an ATI wonder 650 and the screen update is hugely lagged so badly in the ATI software that things become out of synch... I couldn't play for example, god of war or any game without sever screen update lag.
I had to switch to a 3rd party alternative to get the cards functionality back.
IMHO many of these companies absolutely suck at making software / drivers / etc.
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"Of course, you quickly run into the old paradox: In a world where everyone is special, no one is."
I don't know about you but I play games for their interactivity I don't play them to be a "hero" many games have shit heroes and shit stories, but were fun games anyway. We play games to release and have fun.
Even good games have shit characters, I remember hating almost all the character classes and the art for them in diablo / Diablo 2 but the game played like nobodies business.
"If you're going advocate for genetic engineering to impose social beliefs then use the proper term of eugenics or at least inform us how "anti-dysgenics" is any less immoral than state enforced eugenics."
You assume you're the moral one and the doctrine of non-interference is "moral", nature is a barbarian, and so are most human beings. Our history testifies to the fact of the low quality of human beings in general - constant war, agitation, poverty, religion. That all stems from errors in thinking, behaving and perceiving.
Nature is bloody, if you don't like it stop eating, because we could extend your morality to every single living thing on the planet, but then no one would eat.
We're already eugenic, quite viciously, socially, in terms of politics, religion, etc... capitalism itself is one giant eugenics program in and of itself. So stop with the hypocrisy already.
Eugenics is built into nature, if it wasn't we wouldn't have evolved. And yes there is a difference between eugencis (as it is historically known) and anti-dysgenics letting people who have provable errors in their biology die out naturally, or help them via technology in their conception.
As soon as genetic engineering gets off the ground your argument will be swept away anyway, the vaunted market that many so love here will decide, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I always thought Google should buy Sealand or some other country and move it's operations there outside of United states laws, it would do a lot of good if we had a country that didn't have such crap... abuses of new countries laws or lack of laws non-withstanding
We've passed that point already with the internet, the internet public infrastructure already allows massive spying due to the nature of TCP/IP and lack of serious encryption protocols, not to mention the computing horsepower that will be available soon anyway.
Lastly they always have sattelites to keep us monitored anyway, and software is being worked on to recognize/extract data from the images themselves, sooner or later the physics of high resolution 'optical' sattelites will make it all moot anyway, one only has to look at google maps.
Wouldn't be hard to track people, only so many people and only so far the can move within a period of time.
"Or it might finally make people realize that we are all human, and a stupid act at 18 doesn't equate to judgment post 30. Naaahhh..."
The truth is people are immature, we live short lives and don't get to reflect much on anything because most people are making a living. I forget which author commented upon the stupidity of the working classes due to lack of time, anyone know?
The problems stem for ignorance and false behaving based on false understanding, we let people have their animal prejudices not based on anything, other then personal distaste. I think that has to change in the future personally.
... would allow google to do the same thing. There's been so many times what was interesting came up in a book google searched only to have pages blanked out. Sometimes I wonder if they should just put advertising on the book itself and pay the owners/authors directly (for the hits/adclicks/being read, etc).
Sedentary work + stress = overeating, who would have thunk it?
The real problem is the desire for money outweighs (pardon the pun) the desire for a sane society, i.e. exercise, etc. Having a certain amount of hours off a week for exercise/relaxation and whatnot, I was just reading something about how americans have near the least vacaton time a year compared to other industrialized nations.
I'm not surprised given the nature of our stupidity when it comes to taking care of ourselves, money first, health later.
I don't think anyone really cares, except us who know what "beta" is. Personally I think it should just be understood that if you're online, it's constantly in development. The idea of "product releases" is in itself we might say an out-dated model, if we look at windows and windows update, software is now organic/live, it "lives" and static software will (eventually, probably not in my lifetime) have to go the way of the dodo (i.e. self-configuring, self-healing).
We want tools that can do better then we can ultimately, an adaptive program, or self-programming program, at least in some respects, is more ideal then one where you need developers to constantly baby and monitor it and updated it. It's an inhuman task that costs enormous amounts of money and man hours.
"The practical utility of this is highly questionable."
Many things in science have little practical utility until well after the fact. We could name a lot from mathematics alone, someones little curiousity becomes some key concept for understanding some other problem somewhere down the line. While I agree not all of them turn out like that, the fact is we're going to have dead ends no matter which way you slice it, it's one long search for what is true and relevant.
Unfortunately I think we're wasting a lot of money on a legalist culture, I think we should just have laws that disavow certain kinds of things to be sued for to begin with, and we should remove corporate personhood as well and make the owners liable.
The whole problem is no one takes responsibility for anything, we live in a resonsibilityless culture, both in business and from consumers.
They bad ones harm the good businesses and good consumers in the process. It sucks.
"And, BTW, DVD was supposed to have superseded CD by now."
CD is irrelevant because of MP3 players, I don't know where you get this idea that DVD was supposed to replace CD's, digital MP3's and flash players did that a long time ago.
(not that this has anything to do with the article:P)
I remember I lost your post a while back about language translation, understanding the world metaphorically. I caved in and got a subscription (lol)... and dug out the post... if you got an email/etc and your still interested let me know, the original post was here, in case you've forgotten.
"And the roads to get suppliers and customers in and out of the place of business. And police to investigate shoplifting, burglary, vandalism, and other crimes that might happen."
Don't forge special constracts where the public funds infrastructure like telelphone, cable, fibre optics, and then lets companies come in and compete over them.
"I'm only 9 pages into the comic but the fact that every tab and plugin will run as a separate process seems significant to me and something more than just a rebranding."
Which is good because current plugins in firefox (they add up) will freeze/slowdown/crash the browser, and I hate that, it's Firefox 3 too.
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God of War is one of them of this I am certain. It got everything right -- graphics, atmosphere, audio, animation, gameplay mechanics.
It was like a symphony of gaming, everything about the game cohered together well.
Some unsung classics (i.e. underground/cult following)
Xenosaga episodes 1-3 had a great and interesting story and some very good graphics and concepts but the interest was lacking from the masses and the execution of the gameplay was standard JRPG stuff (not very well designed). The gameplay was a bit stale, but the art, story, etc, was very fascinating in and of itself. It's too bad too because it would make for a great remake IMHO, it could have been a total classic, it's more of tarnished "could have been one of the greats".
"The (potential) "truth" of a concept only comes about after several successful repetitions of the experimental conditions leading to the same result."
But that's still based on a philosophy of truth, i.e. a base concept of how one goes about finding out what is true.
"There are plenty of examples of flawed superstitious beliefs leading to an equally large disadvantage or equally great damage. "
No doubt but knowing who has truth from who doesn't is a hard problem, science and peer review are are flawed because humans aren't good at detecting what is true from what is not in their own thought processes, concepts and philosophies.
If there were errors in how we think about things (ie. base concepts) then there are errors all the way down. I've been studying this, concepts are the lenses by which people see and interpret the world but few people understand the process by which concepts/knowledge are conceived by a person before they are passed down.
All people operate under tremendous amounts of ignorance, hence Socrates said "All I know is that I know nothing", he knew knowledge was endless.
Socrates often said his wisdom was limited to an awareness of his own ignorance. Socrates believed wrongdoing was a consequence of ignorance and those who did wrong knew no better. The one thing Socrates consistently claimed to have knowledge of was "the art of love" which he connected with the concept of "the love of wisdom", i.e., philosophy. He never actually claimed to be wise, only to understand the path a lover of wisdom must take in pursuing it. It is debatable whether Socrates believed humans (as opposed to gods like Apollo) could actually become wise. On the one hand, he drew a clear line between human ignorance and ideal knowledge; on the other, Plato's Symposium (Diotima's Speech) and Republic (Allegory of the Cave) describe a method for ascending to wisdom.
Socrates believed the best way for people to live was to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth. He always invited others to try to concentrate more on friendships and a sense of true community, for Socrates felt this was the best way for people to grow together as a populace. His actions lived up to this: in the end, Socrates accepted his death sentence when most thought he would simply leave Athens, as he felt he could not run away from or go against the will of his community; as mentioned above, his reputation for valor on the battlefield was without reproach.
The idea that humans possessed certain virtues formed a common thread in Socrates' teachings. These virtues represented the most important qualities for a person to have, foremost of which were the philosophical or intellectual virtues. Socrates stressed that "virtue was the most valuable of all possessions; the ideal life was spent in search of the Good. Truth lies beneath the shadows of existence, and it is the job of the philosopher to show the rest how little they really know."
"And who are you to make such a (ridiculous) claim?"
Is it really ridiculous, considering what we don't know about human reasoning and the brain? I went to a conference and neurologists and cognitive linguistics says reasoning is not well understood at all. Someone can understand something in a different way and have it totally be objective, i.e. someone may speak in terms of something else because we understand the world entirely by metaphor. See Daniel tammet for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbASOcqc1Ss
How he does what he does is not understood at all, so it's not a surprise that physicists would not agree on a lot.
Also a conference on neurology/ science of propaganda
http://www.linktv.org/video/2142
No it's not sorry. I own a 650
"Frankly, this whole fiasco just strengthened my love for ATI. Their newer binary blobs are amazing"
you must not use many of their products, I got an ATI wonder 650 and the screen update is hugely lagged so badly in the ATI software that things become out of synch ... I couldn't play for example, god of war or any game without sever screen update lag.
I had to switch to a 3rd party alternative to get the cards functionality back.
IMHO many of these companies absolutely suck at making software / drivers / etc.
"Of course, you quickly run into the old paradox: In a world where everyone is special, no one is."
I don't know about you but I play games for their interactivity I don't play them to be a "hero" many games have shit heroes and shit stories, but were fun games anyway. We play games to release and have fun.
Even good games have shit characters, I remember hating almost all the character classes and the art for them in diablo / Diablo 2 but the game played like nobodies business.
"If you're going advocate for genetic engineering to impose social beliefs then use the proper term of eugenics or at least inform us how "anti-dysgenics" is any less immoral than state enforced eugenics."
You assume you're the moral one and the doctrine of non-interference is "moral", nature is a barbarian, and so are most human beings. Our history testifies to the fact of the low quality of human beings in general - constant war, agitation, poverty, religion. That all stems from errors in thinking, behaving and perceiving.
Nature is bloody, if you don't like it stop eating, because we could extend your morality to every single living thing on the planet, but then no one would eat.
We're already eugenic, quite viciously, socially, in terms of politics, religion, etc... capitalism itself is one giant eugenics program in and of itself. So stop with the hypocrisy already.
Eugenics is built into nature, if it wasn't we wouldn't have evolved. And yes there is a difference between eugencis (as it is historically known) and anti-dysgenics letting people who have provable errors in their biology die out naturally, or help them via technology in their conception.
As soon as genetic engineering gets off the ground your argument will be swept away anyway, the vaunted market that many so love here will decide, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
"How would you like to dictate what people think?"
No people themselves have to choose to become better people / genetic engineering (anti-dysgenics)
I always thought Google should buy Sealand or some other country and move it's operations there outside of United states laws, it would do a lot of good if we had a country that didn't have such crap... abuses of new countries laws or lack of laws non-withstanding
We've passed that point already with the internet, the internet public infrastructure already allows massive spying due to the nature of TCP/IP and lack of serious encryption protocols, not to mention the computing horsepower that will be available soon anyway.
Lastly they always have sattelites to keep us monitored anyway, and software is being worked on to recognize/extract data from the images themselves, sooner or later the physics of high resolution 'optical' sattelites will make it all moot anyway, one only has to look at google maps.
Wouldn't be hard to track people, only so many people and only so far the can move within a period of time.
I hear you though.
"Or it might finally make people realize that we are all human, and a stupid act at 18 doesn't equate to judgment post 30. Naaahhh..."
The truth is people are immature, we live short lives and don't get to reflect much on anything because most people are making a living. I forget which author commented upon the stupidity of the working classes due to lack of time, anyone know?
The problems stem for ignorance and false behaving based on false understanding, we let people have their animal prejudices not based on anything, other then personal distaste. I think that has to change in the future personally.
... would allow google to do the same thing. There's been so many times what was interesting came up in a book google searched only to have pages blanked out. Sometimes I wonder if they should just put advertising on the book itself and pay the owners/authors directly (for the hits/adclicks/being read, etc).
It's about time business's (and customers) re-established good will over mindless abuse of one another.
Sedentary work + stress = overeating, who would have thunk it?
The real problem is the desire for money outweighs (pardon the pun) the desire for a sane society, i.e. exercise, etc. Having a certain amount of hours off a week for exercise/relaxation and whatnot, I was just reading something about how americans have near the least vacaton time a year compared to other industrialized nations.
I'm not surprised given the nature of our stupidity when it comes to taking care of ourselves, money first, health later.
I don't think anyone really cares, except us who know what "beta" is. Personally I think it should just be understood that if you're online, it's constantly in development. The idea of "product releases" is in itself we might say an out-dated model, if we look at windows and windows update, software is now organic/live, it "lives" and static software will (eventually, probably not in my lifetime) have to go the way of the dodo (i.e. self-configuring, self-healing).
We want tools that can do better then we can ultimately, an adaptive program, or self-programming program, at least in some respects, is more ideal then one where you need developers to constantly baby and monitor it and updated it. It's an inhuman task that costs enormous amounts of money and man hours.
IMHO Freespace 2 probably had some of the best engineered sound in how it played out in the missions and reacted to the player.
"The practical utility of this is highly questionable."
Many things in science have little practical utility until well after the fact. We could name a lot from mathematics alone, someones little curiousity becomes some key concept for understanding some other problem somewhere down the line. While I agree not all of them turn out like that, the fact is we're going to have dead ends no matter which way you slice it, it's one long search for what is true and relevant.
Tried emailing you, I'm wondering if they are getting spamblocked.
Unfortunately I think we're wasting a lot of money on a legalist culture, I think we should just have laws that disavow certain kinds of things to be sued for to begin with, and we should remove corporate personhood as well and make the owners liable.
The whole problem is no one takes responsibility for anything, we live in a resonsibilityless culture, both in business and from consumers.
They bad ones harm the good businesses and good consumers in the process. It sucks.
"And, BTW, DVD was supposed to have superseded CD by now."
CD is irrelevant because of MP3 players, I don't know where you get this idea that DVD was supposed to replace CD's, digital MP3's and flash players did that a long time ago.
(not that this has anything to do with the article :P)
I remember I lost your post a while back about language translation, understanding the world metaphorically. I caved in and got a subscription (lol)... and dug out the post... if you got an email/etc and your still interested let me know, the original post was here, in case you've forgotten.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/16/2333204
"And the roads to get suppliers and customers in and out of the place of business. And police to investigate shoplifting, burglary, vandalism, and other crimes that might happen."
Don't forge special constracts where the public funds infrastructure like telelphone, cable, fibre optics, and then lets companies come in and compete over them.
"I'm only 9 pages into the comic but the fact that every tab and plugin will run as a separate process seems significant to me and something more than just a rebranding."
Which is good because current plugins in firefox (they add up) will freeze/slowdown/crash the browser, and I hate that, it's Firefox 3 too.
Socrates once said, "I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."