everybody becomes richer under capitalism. The rich just slightly faster. If you doubt that, look at the kind of shit happening where the state rules supreme.
I really don't want use a car anaolgy, you know. It might make the whole case against MS seem even more ridiculous. Just think about how easy it is to "install" the air condition you previously had in your Ford into a BMW. Open standards? There are very close to zero in the car industry (tires and a while back radios, I think thats it).
I agree completely with this. Access to technology will happen when the circumstances are right. You can not set the cirumstances right by giving away technology, though. It's a very simple ladder: drink, eat, sleep, life in peace |--- prosperity starts here ---| watch TV, surf the internet.
... the description of this wouldn't contained so much BS. Compete with Office XP? Yeah, that's a good one. Not only is the thing slow as hell (I'm sorry, at work I just can't wait 2 minutes for a wordprocessor to load and one minute per menu-click), it's missing important Word features such as drawings and a spellchecker. After playing around with it for 5 minutes I found 3 grave bugs already: import not possible for a small and non-fancy word file, font display will not update if the cursor is at a position with different font, trying to save the "Introducing ajaxWrite" file gives me all kinds of errors. Also this thing copies the really bad behaviour of office: changing font before writing something seems impossible. So, we have slow, incomplete and bugridden. Thanks, I'll just spend money to get real software then.
Your life will get better once you realize that each and every "alien" ever displayed or described is always a reflection on humanity. If someone even could think up a "realistic" alien, you would be lucky to realize it as a lifeform. Even if this were possible and you could also understand the realitically un-translated language you would just grow bored of the show because it's a complete fiction with nothing you can relate to.
I hear you! A little while back I looked up the graphics of X-Wing on wikipedia and boy does it ever suck. Basically the graphics are made out of blocks the size of my fingernails. Yet still, I ruined two joysticks on this game;)
The "alliance catastrophies" part was definatly fun. Although not so much when you weren't the one gaming the system;)... What bothered me about civ3 diplomacy was how much the culture specific aspects played into the decision making of the AI. Lasting peace with war-like nations was highly unlikely except, so it seemed, when the AI thought it couldn't even stand up to one of your units. The "extortion game" from weak cultures got old real fast. "give us the Republic or ELSE" just doesn't go over too well when all the demanding side has is like three spearmen.
I agree. Also, it's probalby worth to mention that the simulation of evolution would make for quite a boring game. There just wouldn't be anything to do for the player, let alone anything to be "build" by the player.
At the higher levels, I fail to see how this game is offering us anything new. We've got some sort of cartoony small-scale RTS, followed by an open-ended space exploration. I'm sorry, but years and years of Starcraft, Command & Conquer, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, etc etc have jaded the market. Wright's proposing that an entire segment of Spore consist of an ambiguous attempt at a genre that already possesses a very high standards level. How can this possibly be a good idea?
Integration, the creation of meaning the spans the different mini-games. The reason why I like Rome:Total War better than C&C (strictly a better RTS than the RTW mini-RTS game) and Civ (strictly a better "world" game) is that your actions from one part carry over to the others. Battles become more meaningful when I *know* why I fight them instead of relying on a cut-scene General to inform me. Strategy becomes more exiting when I know that I don't have to rely on good odds but instead can counter superior numbers with better tactics.
Thats one of the reasons I think Spore will be awesome: Your actions will have far reaching consequences, some that might even enter into the game of other players (I intend to create the deadliest species in the galaxy;) Secondly, I think you underestimate how important customization has become. The possible choices shown in the spore video already seem enough to allow for millions and millions of unique species. People absolutely love to design something that is "their" own.
Mars' atmospheric pressure: around 75% of earths
Titans' atmospheric pressure: around 150% of earths
Now, I've always thought that Mars was so cold because the atmosphere was too thin to "hold back the heat". Also, I've been told that Mars atmosphere was thin as it is because Mars gravity was too low to prevent atmosphere to escape into space. Now how come Titan has double the atmospheric pressure than Mars with barely half the gravity? What am I missing?
> Few and far in-between is the - I must say - cretin who will disregard an individual only > based on a passport fate has dealt him.
And disregarding somebody based on his ethnicity is A-OK?
> stuff about WW2
So WW2 was inevitable anyways, caused by victors of WW1 who, suprisingly didn't start WW1. Uh oh! Also you seem to think it was a righteous struggle against... western imperialism? Churchil and Eisenhower who where the true Nazis? Please, do tell me. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Offering a termed surrender when your whole conquer-the-world plan has gone down the shitter is so heroic! You truly are some sort of brown-shirt genuis!
> stuff about the holocaust
Yeah, it's pretty wrong that germany will put you to trail for voicing an opinion. But you see, this is part of the attitute that made germany so uniquely suitable for fascim: unquestioning faith in authority and almost zero regard for individual rights.
Have you been to Dachau and Auschwitz? Have you seen the photos and films of cargo trains full with nacked, starving and sick people arriving there? Fake you say? Let's hear your proof (and be reminded: extraordinary theories demand extraordinary proof).
>stuff about ying yang
You know, if white is sane and black is bat-shit-insane I'd rather be clear in the white.
You rethoric shows that you like to substitute propaganda for knowledge. "Ethnic german" applies to many very different people and peoples (anglo-saxons, goths etc. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_peop les) that it has become pretty useless as criteria of distinction. A redneck Texan can be as much an "ethnic german" as the petit french man.
But thats besides the point. From your post I get the impression that you believe that a german can only love his country if he embraces WW2, the holocaust and the facist pigs that started both. Given this definition, yes I do hate my country. More to the point, I think that the gedankengut you seem to share should have died 50 years ago. What better way to kill ideas than to chop the heads of people of who believe in them?
I'm a german and I'd have no problem if every last one wehrmacht-soldier would have been put to death. And your logic is faulty: imprisoning a kidnapper is not kidnapping just as killing a murderer is not murder. Germany didn't get the kind of punishment it so well deserved. The allies even showed mercy.
please. You make it sound as if Windows crashes every forty seconds. I've been logged on to this workstation since 22 of February and that reboot was for applying a securtiy update. While not exactly a stress test, my daily work requires keeping multiple words, huge excels, remote desktop connections, outlook, eclipse and many many browser windows open. Hooking up to some sort of NAT device, having a virus scanner, firefox and viewing emails only as plain text keeps your Windows plenty safe and stable.
except that the EU commision in essence assumes the role of a court of law that enforces it's jurisdiction by violence. The guys at microsoft wrote an operating system that everybody is completely free to not use. Tell me, for all code you've written could you provide complete API documentation that would allow people seeking your blood to create interoperable programs?
while this idea is fun to entertain when you are like 16, sitting at your parents dinner table it raises some ugly issues. Realworld objects can very often only be used to one end at a time. Take a car, for example. You got one car and for guys with Rage-against-the-machine t-shirts screaming "property is theft, war is peace, black is white". Nevermind that four 16 year olds with walnuts for brains wouldn't even get to the point where there might be a car available at all. But anyways. All four of them have the equally important need to go somewhere. Unfortunatly, each in an other direction (north, east etc). Even worse, they all have to absolutly go now.
How would you resolve this issue? Obviously, only one of them is going to be on time, where he wants to go. Whoever takes the car is, by your values, a thief. By your morals, no one would be able to go anywhere. Which so happens to be a nice analogy to what "property is theft" and related ideology will do to a mans life.
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please define what monopoly means to you. Everybody seems to be entitled to make up what words mean these days, I just want to be certain.
everybody becomes richer under capitalism. The rich just slightly faster. If you doubt that, look at the kind of shit happening where the state rules supreme.
I really don't want use a car anaolgy, you know. It might make the whole case against MS seem even more ridiculous. Just think about how easy it is to "install" the air condition you previously had in your Ford into a BMW. Open standards? There are very close to zero in the car industry (tires and a while back radios, I think thats it).
Do you even know what monopoly means? I doubt it.
What kind of pain are they inflicting and on whom? Same question for damage.
I agree completely with this. Access to technology will happen when the circumstances are right. You can not set the cirumstances right by giving away technology, though. It's a very simple ladder: drink, eat, sleep, life in peace |--- prosperity starts here ---| watch TV, surf the internet.
ups, sorry this was posted at the wrong spot! Nevermind me :-D
or how about, you know not turning every topic in a "OMG Earth is gonna die!" shitfest.
Your life will get better once you realize that each and every "alien" ever displayed or described is always a reflection on humanity. If someone even could think up a "realistic" alien, you would be lucky to realize it as a lifeform. Even if this were possible and you could also understand the realitically un-translated language you would just grow bored of the show because it's a complete fiction with nothing you can relate to.
I hear you! A little while back I looked up the graphics of X-Wing on wikipedia and boy does it ever suck. Basically the graphics are made out of blocks the size of my fingernails. Yet still, I ruined two joysticks on this game ;)
The "alliance catastrophies" part was definatly fun. Although not so much when you weren't the one gaming the system ;) ... What bothered me about civ3 diplomacy was how much the culture specific aspects played into the decision making of the AI. Lasting peace with war-like nations was highly unlikely except, so it seemed, when the AI thought it couldn't even stand up to one of your units. The "extortion game" from weak cultures got old real fast. "give us the Republic or ELSE" just doesn't go over too well when all the demanding side has is like three spearmen.
Evolution >> Revolution
what did they tell you that was a lie? How did they insult you? How have you been ripped off?
I agree. Also, it's probalby worth to mention that the simulation of evolution would make for quite a boring game. There just wouldn't be anything to do for the player, let alone anything to be "build" by the player.
At the higher levels, I fail to see how this game is offering us anything new. We've got some sort of cartoony small-scale RTS, followed by an open-ended space exploration. I'm sorry, but years and years of Starcraft, Command & Conquer, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, etc etc have jaded the market. Wright's proposing that an entire segment of Spore consist of an ambiguous attempt at a genre that already possesses a very high standards level. How can this possibly be a good idea?
;)
Integration, the creation of meaning the spans the different mini-games. The reason why I like Rome:Total War better than C&C (strictly a better RTS than the RTW mini-RTS game) and Civ (strictly a better "world" game) is that your actions from one part carry over to the others. Battles become more meaningful when I *know* why I fight them instead of relying on a cut-scene General to inform me. Strategy becomes more exiting when I know that I don't have to rely on good odds but instead can counter superior numbers with better tactics.
Thats one of the reasons I think Spore will be awesome: Your actions will have far reaching consequences, some that might even enter into the game of other players (I intend to create the deadliest species in the galaxy
Secondly, I think you underestimate how important customization has become. The possible choices shown in the spore video already seem enough to allow for millions and millions of unique species. People absolutely love to design something that is "their" own.
This might be a little off-topic but I'd be glad if somebody cleared that up for me:
Mars' gravity: 0.376G (Wikipedia)
Titans' gravity: 0.14G (Wikipedia)
Mars' atmospheric pressure: around 75% of earths
Titans' atmospheric pressure: around 150% of earths
Now, I've always thought that Mars was so cold because the atmosphere was too thin to "hold back the heat". Also, I've been told that Mars atmosphere was thin as it is because Mars gravity was too low to prevent atmosphere to escape into space. Now how come Titan has double the atmospheric pressure than Mars with barely half the gravity? What am I missing?
except that the NSA do the bulk of signal intelligence. Which includes monitoring internet communications -> re: I read your emails.
> Few and far in-between is the - I must say - cretin who will disregard an individual only > based on a passport fate has dealt him.
... western imperialism? Churchil and Eisenhower who where the true Nazis? Please, do tell me.
And disregarding somebody based on his ethnicity is A-OK?
> stuff about WW2
So WW2 was inevitable anyways, caused by victors of WW1 who, suprisingly didn't start WW1. Uh oh! Also you seem to think it was a righteous struggle against
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Offering a termed surrender when your whole conquer-the-world plan has gone down the shitter is so heroic! You truly are some sort of brown-shirt genuis!
> stuff about the holocaust
Yeah, it's pretty wrong that germany will put you to trail for voicing an opinion. But you see, this is part of the attitute that made germany so uniquely suitable for fascim: unquestioning faith in authority and almost zero regard for individual rights.
Have you been to Dachau and Auschwitz? Have you seen the photos and films of cargo trains full with nacked, starving and sick people arriving there? Fake you say? Let's hear your proof (and be reminded: extraordinary theories demand extraordinary proof).
>stuff about ying yang
You know, if white is sane and black is bat-shit-insane I'd rather be clear in the white.
I just wanted to know. Thanks!
You rethoric shows that you like to substitute propaganda for knowledge. "Ethnic german" applies to many very different people and peoples (anglo-saxons, goths etc. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_peop les) that it has become pretty useless as criteria of distinction. A redneck Texan can be as much an "ethnic german" as the petit french man.
But thats besides the point. From your post I get the impression that you believe that a german can only love his country if he embraces WW2, the holocaust and the facist pigs that started both. Given this definition, yes I do hate my country. More to the point, I think that the gedankengut you seem to share should have died 50 years ago. What better way to kill ideas than to chop the heads of people of who believe in them?
I'm a german and I'd have no problem if every last one wehrmacht-soldier would have been put to death. And your logic is faulty: imprisoning a kidnapper is not kidnapping just as killing a murderer is not murder. Germany didn't get the kind of punishment it so well deserved. The allies even showed mercy.
please. You make it sound as if Windows crashes every forty seconds. I've been logged on to this workstation since 22 of February and that reboot was for applying a securtiy update. While not exactly a stress test, my daily work requires keeping multiple words, huge excels, remote desktop connections, outlook, eclipse and many many browser windows open. Hooking up to some sort of NAT device, having a virus scanner, firefox and viewing emails only as plain text keeps your Windows plenty safe and stable.
except that the EU commision in essence assumes the role of a court of law that enforces it's jurisdiction by violence. The guys at microsoft wrote an operating system that everybody is completely free to not use. Tell me, for all code you've written could you provide complete API documentation that would allow people seeking your blood to create interoperable programs?
Certainly not. But I wouldn't pretend like I didn't think I was superior to thugs-with-ideolodgy.
while this idea is fun to entertain when you are like 16, sitting at your parents dinner table it raises some ugly issues. Realworld objects can very often only be used to one end at a time. Take a car, for example. You got one car and for guys with Rage-against-the-machine t-shirts screaming "property is theft, war is peace, black is white". Nevermind that four 16 year olds with walnuts for brains wouldn't even get to the point where there might be a car available at all. But anyways. All four of them have the equally important need to go somewhere. Unfortunatly, each in an other direction (north, east etc). Even worse, they all have to absolutly go now.
How would you resolve this issue? Obviously, only one of them is going to be on time, where he wants to go. Whoever takes the car is, by your values, a thief. By your morals, no one would be able to go anywhere. Which so happens to be a nice analogy to what "property is theft" and related ideology will do to a mans life.