If we had a way to create a one login to a single individual, stuff like making a new style of government could take place. Instead of a congress to represent everyone, everyone who cared could vote on every bill up. You could even have people be jurors in every case out there. The old time where everyone could not be in the same place has passed, we are living in a new time where everyone can gather in the same place. Now I'm not saying this is a superior style of government and trials, I'm just saying it is possible.
With C, you can call methods. In Basic you have SUBS. When you use SUBS enough, you inevitably write a for loop using the same variable for indexing in and outside the SUB, and then you wonder why your code isn't working right.
If you want to score extra points, add a nice graphics and sound library to go along with C. Oh, and don't forget about code reusability. Keep everyone's code each year for the next year of students. Allowing new students to compile and run other people's code is sometimes more useful than coding stuff up from scratch.
Bad programmers are why companies don't take a chance on good programmers. Many good programmers can't get a job because the HR department thinks you actually need experience in a specific set of software in order to be good at the job. Good programmers know they can pick up most any language and get cracking within a week or so. For me its:"Yeah I've coded since I've been able to type so over 10 years of basic followed by over 10 years of C/C++. A Carnegie Mellon degree in Scientific Computing. No experience, but I have coded several large projects at home." I applied to thousands of jobs on job boards, and I never cracked into the industry.
I'm in the same boat. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2002. I only held one programming position for six months and there wasn't much for me to do there. I'm a very adept programmer, and I wrote the core code for a 3d fighting MMOG(ALL it needs is art and content). My resume is here.
And the 3 click... 4... 5... to 100 clicks!
Just imagine how difficult it'd be for your competitors if their customers had to click 101 times to buy anything.
China acts like its at war with the US when it comes to copyrights. They pirate as a way of life. And its hard to fault them when they don't make enough money to pay for the legit copies anyway. Also there is the well known Internet CyberWar that China is trying to hack US military computers like constantly. The Internet really seems like a place that no one respects any rules.
On one hand, it isn't right to steal. On the other hand, nothing is being stolen.
On one hand you have a bunch of jerks suing grandmothers. On the other hand you have a bunch of jerks suing college kids.
From what I can see, piracy actually helps society. More people get the valuable information they want and need to help them with their education and productivity. There is a small loss in that there is less value produced for the creator. And there is a chance that if things go out of control in favor of the pirates that the loss can become big. I just wonder. I sometimes wonder if pirates leveled the playing field so that people got almost no monetary value from what they're making, would people stop making things altogether. And I think the amount being made would be reduced, but it wouldn't be gone completely.
I think stuff would have to be funded from governments and foundations instead of trying to find a profit. Intellectual property could then be thought of as more like public roads and less like private bars of gold. This is just stuff I think about when I wonder why we don't have a centralized Internet library yet. I think the value of a centralized Internet library may outweigh the loss of new stuff produced.
Anyone want to field this..? Anyone who isn't highly biased towards the music industry... Because they never want to rationally think it through. They just want to maximize profits at all costs.
Asheron's Call 1 was an awesome game. I'll always be a fan of theirs because of how awesome Asheron's Call 1 was. The game was strangely imbalanced... But that was ok because the devs were constantly making new content. So while you could use imbalances to become very powerful, the devs could throw new monsters at you that are on your level. The biggest downfall to AC1 was AC2. AC2 had such a bad combat system that armor did basically nothing. If you create a MMORPG, make sure your combat system is tight.
You have two choices: Read someone else's code and documentation, or write it yourself. Sometimes the act of learning someone else's code is almost as much work as writing the stuff yourself. The nice thing about writing the code yourself is easier to modify, and extend. The act of writing code makes you remember what you did whereas learning someone else's code doesn't always let you remember every nuance. I catch slack from my friend who disagrees with me, but whenever I have the ability to code something that someone made a library for, I typically code it myself.
Everyone has their own preference. I just like the finding the elemental resist and speed artifact part of the game. The game also has its own special flair when it comes to ironmaning it. If you run out of light or food, you pretty much lose. If you linger too long on a dungeon level, you waste light and food. So if you get low on light or food, you play more aggressively and dive faster. Of course if you dive too fast, you won't be able to defeat the enemies. So very often you find yourself staring death by lack of resources vs death from tough monsters.
If a small business owner employs people who make less than 250k a year, then tax breaks for his employees essentially translates into that the boss doesn't need to pay as much to keep them on board. So tax breaks for workers do help the small business owner.
That is a funny story. They attacked the devs because the target wasn't there.
Reminds me of all my PNP days in highschool. Our crew hardly ever followed the storyline, so most of the game was adhock game mastering. It was fun riots though because our crew was very skilled at humor and some of the strangest events happened.
D&D was the one of the first RPGS and one of the biggest. So it can be excused if it has balance flaws. Fighters only had a certain limited styles of attacks, but mages would get like 10 new types of spells each level. Simply by giving a cornucopia of abilities, a few of them have to be overpowered. The further a mage progressed, the more spells they get, which makes them even more powerful! They just said that mages at the beginning are weak, but towards the end they get strong. That holds up in dated RPGS, but not for MMORPGS where many players judge your game by end game balance because that is where PVP goes on.
Can a human control a monkey arm?
If so, can we control its entire body?
If so, can we do it remotely, through a wire to a cell phone.
If so, how long until someone decides to use monkeys as freedom fighters?
Yes, science should never go down this path, but hey, it is still possible to look down the paths
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If we had a way to create a one login to a single individual, stuff like making a new style of government could take place. Instead of a congress to represent everyone, everyone who cared could vote on every bill up. You could even have people be jurors in every case out there. The old time where everyone could not be in the same place has passed, we are living in a new time where everyone can gather in the same place. Now I'm not saying this is a superior style of government and trials, I'm just saying it is possible.
With C, you can call methods. In Basic you have SUBS. When you use SUBS enough, you inevitably write a for loop using the same variable for indexing in and outside the SUB, and then you wonder why your code isn't working right. If you want to score extra points, add a nice graphics and sound library to go along with C. Oh, and don't forget about code reusability. Keep everyone's code each year for the next year of students. Allowing new students to compile and run other people's code is sometimes more useful than coding stuff up from scratch.
I'm imagining a game between two people determined by how much they spend on the game. Oh wait, they already did that with Magic The Gathering.
Bad programmers are why companies don't take a chance on good programmers. Many good programmers can't get a job because the HR department thinks you actually need experience in a specific set of software in order to be good at the job. Good programmers know they can pick up most any language and get cracking within a week or so. For me its:"Yeah I've coded since I've been able to type so over 10 years of basic followed by over 10 years of C/C++. A Carnegie Mellon degree in Scientific Computing. No experience, but I have coded several large projects at home." I applied to thousands of jobs on job boards, and I never cracked into the industry.
I'm hoping for the full body suit for the next nintendo system.
Thats not the worst part. Its tough picking up the ladies anymore. How is a man supposed to compete with what men from India can do with their bodies?
I'm in the same boat. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2002. I only held one programming position for six months and there wasn't much for me to do there. I'm a very adept programmer, and I wrote the core code for a 3d fighting MMOG(ALL it needs is art and content). My resume is here.
And the 3 click... 4... 5... to 100 clicks!
Just imagine how difficult it'd be for your competitors if their customers had to click 101 times to buy anything.
China acts like its at war with the US when it comes to copyrights. They pirate as a way of life. And its hard to fault them when they don't make enough money to pay for the legit copies anyway. Also there is the well known Internet CyberWar that China is trying to hack US military computers like constantly. The Internet really seems like a place that no one respects any rules.
You have a physical library that contains 5 books. You allow people to view online versions up to 5 viewers at a time. Why would this be illegal?
Some countries don't enforce copyrights especially when it profits them to ignore them. What nation is the Internet again?
On one hand, it isn't right to steal. On the other hand, nothing is being stolen.
On one hand you have a bunch of jerks suing grandmothers. On the other hand you have a bunch of jerks suing college kids.
From what I can see, piracy actually helps society. More people get the valuable information they want and need to help them with their education and productivity. There is a small loss in that there is less value produced for the creator. And there is a chance that if things go out of control in favor of the pirates that the loss can become big. I just wonder. I sometimes wonder if pirates leveled the playing field so that people got almost no monetary value from what they're making, would people stop making things altogether. And I think the amount being made would be reduced, but it wouldn't be gone completely.
I think stuff would have to be funded from governments and foundations instead of trying to find a profit. Intellectual property could then be thought of as more like public roads and less like private bars of gold. This is just stuff I think about when I wonder why we don't have a centralized Internet library yet. I think the value of a centralized Internet library may outweigh the loss of new stuff produced.
Anyone want to field this..? Anyone who isn't highly biased towards the music industry... Because they never want to rationally think it through. They just want to maximize profits at all costs.
Nah, they're just resting.
Look, matey, I know a dead business model when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now
The faster clock of the 66 may seem like a win, but the 50 MHz version has the faster bus speed.
Only the DX. The DX2 is actually a double clock speed of a 25 MHZ.
I tried them both with Xwing, and the 66MHZ wins hands down.
I'm waiting for the merchandising. I want to buy Starcraft2 the Flame Thrower.
Asheron's Call 1 was an awesome game. I'll always be a fan of theirs because of how awesome Asheron's Call 1 was. The game was strangely imbalanced... But that was ok because the devs were constantly making new content. So while you could use imbalances to become very powerful, the devs could throw new monsters at you that are on your level. The biggest downfall to AC1 was AC2. AC2 had such a bad combat system that armor did basically nothing. If you create a MMORPG, make sure your combat system is tight.
You have two choices: Read someone else's code and documentation, or write it yourself. Sometimes the act of learning someone else's code is almost as much work as writing the stuff yourself. The nice thing about writing the code yourself is easier to modify, and extend. The act of writing code makes you remember what you did whereas learning someone else's code doesn't always let you remember every nuance. I catch slack from my friend who disagrees with me, but whenever I have the ability to code something that someone made a library for, I typically code it myself.
Everyone has their own preference. I just like the finding the elemental resist and speed artifact part of the game.
The game also has its own special flair when it comes to ironmaning it. If you run out of light or food, you pretty much lose. If you linger too long on a dungeon level, you waste light and food. So if you get low on light or food, you play more aggressively and dive faster. Of course if you dive too fast, you won't be able to defeat the enemies. So very often you find yourself staring death by lack of resources vs death from tough monsters.
And due to low voter turnout, we figure no one cares if we phase out paper voting too.
If a small business owner employs people who make less than 250k a year, then tax breaks for his employees essentially translates into that the boss doesn't need to pay as much to keep them on board. So tax breaks for workers do help the small business owner.
That is a funny story. They attacked the devs because the target wasn't there.
Reminds me of all my PNP days in highschool. Our crew hardly ever followed the storyline, so most of the game was adhock game mastering. It was fun riots though because our crew was very skilled at humor and some of the strangest events happened.
The patient wakes up hearing someone on top of them singing disco. They'll probably think they woke up in hell, have a stroke and die.
D&D was the one of the first RPGS and one of the biggest. So it can be excused if it has balance flaws. Fighters only had a certain limited styles of attacks, but mages would get like 10 new types of spells each level. Simply by giving a cornucopia of abilities, a few of them have to be overpowered. The further a mage progressed, the more spells they get, which makes them even more powerful! They just said that mages at the beginning are weak, but towards the end they get strong. That holds up in dated RPGS, but not for MMORPGS where many players judge your game by end game balance because that is where PVP goes on.
Can a human control a monkey arm?
If so, can we control its entire body?
If so, can we do it remotely, through a wire to a cell phone.
If so, how long until someone decides to use monkeys as freedom fighters?
Yes, science should never go down this path, but hey, it is still possible to look down the paths
Maybe that is the reason they didn't name it an Xbox 2, when there is a Playstation 3 out.