We now have instruments that can measure things with orders of magnitude more precision than in Bohr's time, and QM is statistical because Bohr et al couldnt measure much more than noise at the level they were trying to see. That's why it appears non-deterministic unless statistical.
The problem is, that bullshit got written up as the basis for physics ever since. So we ended up with batshit insane unintuitive and WRONG crap like string theories and such.
Come ON, "photons are the smallest quantities (quantum, pl. quanta) of light we can measure, and such a quantity can be thought of as a particle that has properties completely opposed to those of matter particles"? Now go read up on bounded waves.
Oh, yeah. The guy who said "coherent light can't exist" just before someone lit the first ever laser in front of him.
The guy who disagreed with Einstein (who was right) and had gotten everything wrong, because he wanted so much his system to be right, without waiting for new(er) theories to refine what actually made sense.
I see where the idea that "free will doesn't exist" comes from, then : the same craphole that ultimately caused bullshit like String Theories to be spawned.
Bullshit. I have free will. I think. Independently. I happen to think that conscious thought is a sense, too - like smell and taste and hearing and both others. It's a means of perception.
And free will exists. How can anyone think he has no free will? If there is conscious thought then there's free will, as easy as that. When someone wants to learn something, is that not freee will? And if they find a point in what they're studying, that just makes no sense whatsoever, is there no free will to either read the rest of the matter as fiction, or stop reading the stuff altogether?
Their healthy lives depends on them not doing that much sports, too. Gymnasts beginning from infancy so that they're pros at 14, before their childish elasticity ends, have totally broken bodies by the time they're 20.
Let them destroy their bodies in whatever way they want to. They're *all* doped anyway.
They do not produce seeds, which means that you have to buy new seeds each season. It makes a complete mockery of food security given that you can only buy the seeds from the GM companies.
Wrong. Not all GM crops do that. What they do that's actually harmful is, they pollinate non-GM crops, and, since those are not engineered to mix well with the modified genes, the non-GM plants bear seeds that produce unusable plants.
See? You're right (GM crops are bad), although your opinion is based on a wrong idea.
You and I probably wouldn't enjoy living in a society that resricted people's biologic function of having children. Nor would we want to live in a society where children were seized in great number from their parents post birth.
Oh yes I would. For the first, there would be much less problems with kids, and for the second, it would free people from having to bear the consequence of that decision for 20+ years.
To date the only successful (defined as getting large mindshare) attempts at moral systems absent religion designed for mass instruction have been unspeakably evil. i.e. Socialism, National Socialism/Fascism, Communism
I fail to see how religion is any less evil. Moreover, Fascism, National-Socialism and Communism fit the definition of "Cult".
You have the right to an opinion, the right to express it, and certainly should not be allowed to alter people's lives when you don't know what you're talking about.
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
Because they're *exactly* as lazy and stupid as the morons who wrote MSSQL in the first place, to say nothing of the brain-dead zombie who explicitly allowed unsanitized user input.
They're trying to insert that command, and it *might* need to be escaped by a ' before it... or has needed to be escaped in a version as ancient as the trojan they're pushing... go figure. Why? Because it's safe. It's safe for them, I mean - I mean, it's almost impossible to figure how to escape characters in UNIX Bash/sed/awk regular expressions, in what order they'll be interpreted, how they'll be expanded, and such.
Bah, only morons use MSSQL anyway. Who wants to pay for that when any neighbourhood kid with eight hours of free time can go on the scary machine, enact an esoteric ritual and you've got a LAMP stack?
Simple really. Google and Hotmail just HAVE to be up'n'runnin' 24/7, else they'll have some zillion users with no email for $LENTGH_OF_TIME. Now, mail.momandpop.com has some dozen people on their service, who won't even notice when momandpop.com isn't accessible for a day. (Specially since their users all have mail adresses anyway.)
My point is, you can trust companies who have THAT much to lose (MSFT, GOOG), but certainly not small ops that will disappear in a year.
And you just have to look at their website once to know if it's serious. And if you can't tell, ask Google : how long have they been there doing Just That? And, most important : do they have enough money to support your use of their service? (This applies more to "free" services, but anyone offering something for $0 has to have some sort of revenue stream anyway, and one that won't dry up as fast as venture capital)
Not true. Everyone who's had an NDE felt the exact same things.
Some were too far gone (brain cells necrosing, anyone?) and babble about "wheels of light" and such, but what is known and undisputable, backed up by untold zillions of experiences, is 1)It feels good, 2)"Light at the end of the tunnel". As for what follows, come on - seeing your dead loved ones? Yeah, right. What's next, Judgement of the Dead ?
Yeah, so instead of paying $2000 once for the GPU that could run the game with settings on High (since that's what it was coded to run on in the first place, because nVidia doesn't give sub-par crap to Carmack) you'd have to pay $300 every month for a connection fast enough to "stream full-size 3D frames" and with a lantency as good as local? No, you dream.
Design a GPU to ray-trace instead of raster and you're on to something, here.
Oh, and, traffic is free. Free. FREE. The cables are Just There, ready to use. Bandwidth is a one-time cost, traffic is free. Costs only maintenance. And we've been paying the price of BANDWIDTH a zillion times over the years.
Yeah, morons with zero knowledge buy pre-made "gaming MY ASS" rigs with only two cores (or worse : AMD), nowhere near enough RAM, CRAP mobos with old chipsets like the i965p, insufficient hard drives, preferably Maxtor so they DIE in two months just when you've filled them with pr0n, and mid-range graph'cards that kill the super-cheap PSU in a few weeks.
Or they try to play with what Intel tries to make pass for GPUs.
Yeah, the hot ticket is about $150. Forever. If nVidia (or ATI, for that matter) wanted to KILL the competition they'd ONLY make $2000 cards, but price them $200. They cost the SAME to produce. You'd think they believe in capitalism (definition : the system where a product ends up selling for its production cost) and do Just That, but noooo, they sell the REAL hardware for INHUMAN costs and hope that someONE will buy ONE. D'you think the piece of CRAP that's a GF6200 costs anything less to MAKE than a GTX280? Think again. Same lines, same factories, same materials, same processes. It's just price discrimination, and they're terrified of trying to outsell their competitors : shareholders will only see that you can produce castrated cards and sell them, while reserving the REAL products to the dozen people who will burn $LOTS for what EVERY GPU SHOULD BE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Heat? Heat kills my laptops faster than their warranty expires! Not because of the CPU -they got at least THAT right, now the laptop CPUs are cooled well, but the GPUs just BURN. When will they understand and water-cool the fucking things?
With enough cache to replace RAM, you'd have a system so expensive that even IBM couldn't dream of building it, let alone sell it.
The reason we don't do Just That already is that cache is fabulously expensive. It's so many more transistors in the chip, they're not feasible.
Remember the first celeron? It had no L2 cache, that's why it SUCKED all that much. Remember the last Alpha? It had 8M of cache, that's why it simply killed each and every other CPU at the time. Well, that, and that its circuits were hand-tuned (which made it cost $3000+ because Digital was SO DAMN STUPID they couldn't think that cutting the price in ten so as to sell billions of units was a GOOD idea).
Now Intel has bought Digital from Compaq before they fused with HP, and has finally gotten it RIGHT this time: their good CPUs have 12M of cache. Now THAT's nice and fast.
I don't know for you fellow geeks, but as soon as I see one more attempt at doing integrated graphics in CPUs an alarm goes off in my head, the one that means "SLOW CRAP ALERT".
Integrated graphics suck. Always have, always will. More cost for same perfs == teh suck. Shared memory == teh suck. They will suck at 3D, and render desktops with tearing and artefacts when you drag windows. Teh One True Suck.
Ideas like this are one of the reasons why computers still take as long to boot as they did ten years ago, based on the fact that Some People Never Understand.
Only one thing to do with products that you just KNOW will make your life miserable : BOYCOTT.
Just use real CPUs (Intel) and real GPUs (nVidia).
Gaming is for consoles : cheap, displosable computers that only do games (and maybe run Linux because you're such a geek). Seriously, a PC you'd WANT is $2000+ and a console is $300, so why pay seven times the price just to run games anyway?
Huzzah, one free threadjack, third place on the discussion.
Is this truly a case of fighting piracy, or is it also an attempt to stop homebrew from stealing the market?
WTF? Of course it's for fighting piracy. Oh, yes, homebrew is nice, and really risks stealing the market from Nintendo. Tetris and Breakout and Asteroid clones by the thousands, yeah, that's SO many more hours of games -for free!- than Enix and Camcom will ever develop.
Homebrew? Who will ever make, in their mom's basement, a game that's as good, as long, as advanced as a what real studio produces (read : all in 3D, nice and full environment, tons of art, hours of music)?
No, it's for pirating games. Of course it is. Yeah, you can program your very own PONG on it, too, but you can also copy Real Games and play them without buying them! What would YOU use it for?
Of course : DX10 will only run on stream processors (GPUs). You could emulate them with 250+ Opteron cores, of course, but that would be such a waste...
Ah, I'd thought about it and forgotten to write it.
Clothes such as lace shirts, for examples. And pretty robes.
For MMOs, what about letting people "officially" sell their farmed stuff? And let them advertize it. Thinking of it, the market would fluctuate... the in-game gold would cost foo, including the price for the ad. Let's open the splash screen up fo bids. The sellers would have to include the price of the ad in their selling, so it could be a little more expensive than if users find other, unadvertized shops. But users are stupid enough so that's not a concern. In-game... Dunno, ads for plastic swords to be used in RPGAs? Maybe let the market decide, let the value of in-game gold be determined by sellers, who calculate how long it takes to farm, add the price of the ads they buy (if any), why not let players run ads themselves (and review them for compatibility with the game environment) in places their characters own in-game... You can build an economy that way. This creates value.
For offline games, well, selling compatible stuff... "Kit for Making your Hydromel at Home" sounds pretty appealing to me.
There should be some way to update them, too... Like, ads only appear if you're connected? And their places are covered by other textures while off-line. Good idea, that. So, if you prefer to play with ads for "Langkor's Beard Comb" (a real-life hair trimmer), you can, because they're part of the game experience. Not "part of the game" -that would suck, for several reasons- but they should seem normal. Add to this ads that expose in-game stuff, like in Oblivion.
There are sensible ways to introduce ads in games. They just have to be thought about with common sense.
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We now have instruments that can measure things with orders of magnitude more precision than in Bohr's time, and QM is statistical because Bohr et al couldnt measure much more than noise at the level they were trying to see. That's why it appears non-deterministic unless statistical.
The problem is, that bullshit got written up as the basis for physics ever since. So we ended up with batshit insane unintuitive and WRONG crap like string theories and such.
Come ON, "photons are the smallest quantities (quantum, pl. quanta) of light we can measure, and such a quantity can be thought of as a particle that has properties completely opposed to those of matter particles"?
Now go read up on bounded waves.
Oh, yeah. The guy who said "coherent light can't exist" just before someone lit the first ever laser in front of him.
The guy who disagreed with Einstein (who was right) and had gotten everything wrong, because he wanted so much his system to be right, without waiting for new(er) theories to refine what actually made sense.
I see where the idea that "free will doesn't exist" comes from, then : the same craphole that ultimately caused bullshit like String Theories to be spawned.
Bullshit. I have free will. I think. Independently. I happen to think that conscious thought is a sense, too - like smell and taste and hearing and both others. It's a means of perception.
And free will exists. How can anyone think he has no free will? If there is conscious thought then there's free will, as easy as that. When someone wants to learn something, is that not freee will? And if they find a point in what they're studying, that just makes no sense whatsoever, is there no free will to either read the rest of the matter as fiction, or stop reading the stuff altogether?
Not possible. Athletes in Naturalympics will dope too, just try to avoid detection, just like now.
Their healthy lives depends on them not doing that much sports, too. Gymnasts beginning from infancy so that they're pros at 14, before their childish elasticity ends, have totally broken bodies by the time they're 20.
Let them destroy their bodies in whatever way they want to. They're *all* doped anyway.
So I'm a moron who should be shot by morons who own guns?
I see.
Yes.
Wrong.
Not all GM crops do that. What they do that's actually harmful is, they pollinate non-GM crops, and, since those are not engineered to mix well with the modified genes, the non-GM plants bear seeds that produce unusable plants.
See? You're right (GM crops are bad), although your opinion is based on a wrong idea.
Oh yes I would. For the first, there would be much less problems with kids, and for the second, it would free people from having to bear the consequence of that decision for 20+ years.
I fail to see how religion is any less evil. Moreover, Fascism, National-Socialism and Communism fit the definition of "Cult".
You have the right to an opinion, the right to express it, and certainly should not be allowed to alter people's lives when you don't know what you're talking about.
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
Because they're *exactly* as lazy and stupid as the morons who wrote MSSQL in the first place, to say nothing of the brain-dead zombie who explicitly allowed unsanitized user input.
They're trying to insert that command, and it *might* need to be escaped by a ' before it... or has needed to be escaped in a version as ancient as the trojan they're pushing... go figure. Why? Because it's safe. It's safe for them, I mean - I mean, it's almost impossible to figure how to escape characters in UNIX Bash/sed/awk regular expressions, in what order they'll be interpreted, how they'll be expanded, and such.
Bah, only morons use MSSQL anyway. Who wants to pay for that when any neighbourhood kid with eight hours of free time can go on the scary machine, enact an esoteric ritual and you've got a LAMP stack?
Simple really. Google and Hotmail just HAVE to be up'n'runnin' 24/7, else they'll have some zillion users with no email for $LENTGH_OF_TIME. Now, mail.momandpop.com has some dozen people on their service, who won't even notice when momandpop.com isn't accessible for a day. (Specially since their users all have mail adresses anyway.)
My point is, you can trust companies who have THAT much to lose (MSFT, GOOG), but certainly not small ops that will disappear in a year.
And you just have to look at their website once to know if it's serious. And if you can't tell, ask Google : how long have they been there doing Just That? And, most important : do they have enough money to support your use of their service? (This applies more to "free" services, but anyone offering something for $0 has to have some sort of revenue stream anyway, and one that won't dry up as fast as venture capital)
Because they're fourteen years old?
Not true. Everyone who's had an NDE felt the exact same things.
Some were too far gone (brain cells necrosing, anyone?) and babble about "wheels of light" and such, but what is known and undisputable, backed up by untold zillions of experiences, is 1)It feels good, 2)"Light at the end of the tunnel". As for what follows, come on - seeing your dead loved ones? Yeah, right. What's next, Judgement of the Dead ?
When Doom3 came out, the computer that could run it wasn't nearly out of the "inhuman" price range.
And the system requirements are bullshit anyway. "Needs to run" , yeah, at 4 frames per month...
Yeah, so instead of paying $2000 once for the GPU that could run the game with settings on High (since that's what it was coded to run on in the first place, because nVidia doesn't give sub-par crap to Carmack) you'd have to pay $300 every month for a connection fast enough to "stream full-size 3D frames" and with a lantency as good as local? No, you dream.
Design a GPU to ray-trace instead of raster and you're on to something, here.
Oh, and, traffic is free. Free. FREE. The cables are Just There, ready to use. Bandwidth is a one-time cost, traffic is free. Costs only maintenance. And we've been paying the price of BANDWIDTH a zillion times over the years.
Yeah, morons with zero knowledge buy pre-made "gaming MY ASS" rigs with only two cores (or worse : AMD), nowhere near enough RAM, CRAP mobos with old chipsets like the i965p, insufficient hard drives, preferably Maxtor so they DIE in two months just when you've filled them with pr0n, and mid-range graph'cards that kill the super-cheap PSU in a few weeks.
Or they try to play with what Intel tries to make pass for GPUs.
Yeah, the hot ticket is about $150. Forever. If nVidia (or ATI, for that matter) wanted to KILL the competition they'd ONLY make $2000 cards, but price them $200. They cost the SAME to produce. You'd think they believe in capitalism (definition : the system where a product ends up selling for its production cost) and do Just That, but noooo, they sell the REAL hardware for INHUMAN costs and hope that someONE will buy ONE. D'you think the piece of CRAP that's a GF6200 costs anything less to MAKE than a GTX280? Think again. Same lines, same factories, same materials, same processes. It's just price discrimination, and they're terrified of trying to outsell their competitors : shareholders will only see that you can produce castrated cards and sell them, while reserving the REAL products to the dozen people who will burn $LOTS for what EVERY GPU SHOULD BE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Heat? Heat kills my laptops faster than their warranty expires! Not because of the CPU -they got at least THAT right, now the laptop CPUs are cooled well, but the GPUs just BURN. When will they understand and water-cool the fucking things?
With enough cache to replace RAM, you'd have a system so expensive that even IBM couldn't dream of building it, let alone sell it.
The reason we don't do Just That already is that cache is fabulously expensive. It's so many more transistors in the chip, they're not feasible.
Remember the first celeron? It had no L2 cache, that's why it SUCKED all that much. Remember the last Alpha? It had 8M of cache, that's why it simply killed each and every other CPU at the time. Well, that, and that its circuits were hand-tuned (which made it cost $3000+ because Digital was SO DAMN STUPID they couldn't think that cutting the price in ten so as to sell billions of units was a GOOD idea).
Now Intel has bought Digital from Compaq before they fused with HP, and has finally gotten it RIGHT this time: their good CPUs have 12M of cache. Now THAT's nice and fast.
Reduced costs, hopefully. And killing performance, too.
Completely right.
A CPU is on-board, yes?
No.
I don't know for you fellow geeks, but as soon as I see one more attempt at doing integrated graphics in CPUs an alarm goes off in my head, the one that means "SLOW CRAP ALERT".
Integrated graphics suck. Always have, always will. More cost for same perfs == teh suck. Shared memory == teh suck. They will suck at 3D, and render desktops with tearing and artefacts when you drag windows. Teh One True Suck.
Ideas like this are one of the reasons why computers still take as long to boot as they did ten years ago, based on the fact that Some People Never Understand.
Only one thing to do with products that you just KNOW will make your life miserable : BOYCOTT.
Just use real CPUs (Intel) and real GPUs (nVidia).
Gaming is for consoles : cheap, displosable computers that only do games (and maybe run Linux because you're such a geek). Seriously, a PC you'd WANT is $2000+ and a console is $300, so why pay seven times the price just to run games anyway?
Huzzah, one free threadjack, third place on the discussion.
WTF? Of course it's for fighting piracy. Oh, yes, homebrew is nice, and really risks stealing the market from Nintendo. Tetris and Breakout and Asteroid clones by the thousands, yeah, that's SO many more hours of games -for free!- than Enix and Camcom will ever develop.
Homebrew? Who will ever make, in their mom's basement, a game that's as good, as long, as advanced as a what real studio produces (read : all in 3D, nice and full environment, tons of art, hours of music)?
No, it's for pirating games. Of course it is. Yeah, you can program your very own PONG on it, too, but you can also copy Real Games and play them without buying them! What would YOU use it for?
Just to kill some more time...
An mp3 of 5 minutes at 128kbps = 19200 bits
So, that makes 2^19200 possibilities... It's even more than the bitmaps of 255x255@1bpp.
Of course : DX10 will only run on stream processors (GPUs). You could emulate them with 250+ Opteron cores, of course, but that would be such a waste...
Ah, I'd thought about it and forgotten to write it.
Clothes such as lace shirts, for examples. And pretty robes.
For MMOs, what about letting people "officially" sell their farmed stuff? And let them advertize it. Thinking of it, the market would fluctuate ... the in-game gold would cost foo, including the price for the ad. Let's open the splash screen up fo bids. The sellers would have to include the price of the ad in their selling, so it could be a little more expensive than if users find other, unadvertized shops. But users are stupid enough so that's not a concern.
In-game... Dunno, ads for plastic swords to be used in RPGAs? Maybe let the market decide, let the value of in-game gold be determined by sellers, who calculate how long it takes to farm, add the price of the ads they buy (if any), why not let players run ads themselves (and review them for compatibility with the game environment) in places their characters own in-game... You can build an economy that way. This creates value.
For offline games, well, selling compatible stuff... "Kit for Making your Hydromel at Home" sounds pretty appealing to me.
There should be some way to update them, too... Like, ads only appear if you're connected? And their places are covered by other textures while off-line. Good idea, that. So, if you prefer to play with ads for "Langkor's Beard Comb" (a real-life hair trimmer), you can, because they're part of the game experience. Not "part of the game" -that would suck, for several reasons- but they should seem normal. Add to this ads that expose in-game stuff, like in Oblivion.
There are sensible ways to introduce ads in games. They just have to be thought about with common sense.