I believe a true artist would want the largest possible audience to witness their works and the only way to achieve this is free distrobution of their work. I also believe every man should be compensated for their work at least to that of a living wage. In the Bible, the temple musicians left to work in their fields because they stopped recieving pay. If I continue with this line of reasoning, I'll just be concluding at concerts FTW again. Man, how cool would it be if concerts only cost $10-$15, and the food/drinks not to be overpriced. Someone should really write Record Company Tycoon. That game could let you be cool and serve the people, or be greedy and line your pockets with cash. Of course if you're cool and serving the people, the other Record Companies may start issuing hitmen out on your bands and locales for concerts, or maybe smuggling in hooligans into your concerts to Mosh when its a 98 degrees concert, ruining your image. Because you know if just one record company came out to be really cool, it'd start to topple the greedy people as a whole. Kinda like Opec, where if some companies decided to flood the market with oil, gas prices wouldn't drop significantly, but they'd make a killing. Then if more companies decided to try and cash in, eventually the market would cave, and gas would be down to $1 a gallon or less.
I personally don't go to any concerts because the price of a ticket is inflated. I'd pay 10$ for a show of musician I wanted to see, but not $50 and upwards per seat. At $10 a seat, the musicians and everyone involved would still get paid. I think the problem comes in that if they add in additional supply(extra days playing concert), the demand would be satisfied too much, and they'd be unable to charge the inflated price for the tickets. So instead of playing a $50 concert one day, and a $10 one the next, they'd be playing maybe two concerts for $20 a piece for a loss of $20 per ticket and extra work involved(theoretically). I know they're aiming for the profit mark on the supply/demand curve and not caring about the public's greater interest. I guess this is where fanboys come in. They buy the tickets for the inflated price, never knowing its inflated, while the people who have some demand, but less are left to skip the concert and listen to the CD. Even if mega musicians in today's age never sell an album because of piracy, they could technically just start playing more concerts and still make way more money than your average man.
I'm almost psyched for the Xbox360 Dev kit that's supposed to come out in a few months and only cost $100. I have so many ideas for simple, but fun, MMOGs. The problem with PC is someone can hack your game in a day. Now when it comes to hacking a console, theres more work involved and the hack doesn't spread like the plague.
But for a long time I said that some website or group of websites that would be hosting every old television show and movie ever created. Some people said On Demand would do this, but I'm pretty sure the Internet is going to beat it out.
Evolution in all likelihood exists and it's a theory accepted by many scientists. What it doesn't explain is how life sparked into existence. When God created the world, it said he did it in days. But one day to God can be billions of years to man. How long is a day when the sun isn't even in existence yet? God could have used evolution with his guiding power to shape the plants and animals around us today. This is one explanation of how the creation theory meshes with evolution.
If you ask most people they will tell you that there is no proof against God. I personally know God exists, but I am saying this on behalf of all those who think someone disproved God. No one has disproved God. Some people have observed things in the world today and artifacts of the past to make theories on what creation could have been, but they have no way to disprove God. Creation in the biblical sense takes up very little room in the bible, and because of this explanation of gigantic works of God taking up very little space some people don't want to believe the Genesis account. Some people refuse to believe because the grand scale of the universe should take into account vast volumes and maybe even several books, not just a few verses. God was merely explaining creation to people of all times and wasn't out to unlock mysteries of physics and biology to his chosen people. God was just telling it how it happened. God can do what he wants and how he wants to do it, it is senseless to criticize God for explaining creation in only a few short verses. Quite the opposite is true. God should be praised for explaining how he created the universe without explaining every detail on how he accomplished it.
Since there is no disproof of God, we must examine what seems like a disproof and disprove the disproof. The problem in today's society that there are so many things that seem like disproofs that people possibly pick one of many as a real blockage to them believing. Even worse, some people pick several possible disproofs and say, "There are so many things going against God that God can't possibly exist." Since the danger currently is that there are so many possible disproofs, we must have explanations for as many as we possibly can. With the ammunition to shoot down false dispoofs, it can help save many people. For example, dinosaurs seem like a disproof of God. Yet, if we say that a day of God's time is different than a day of man's time then we can say that billions of years of our time, could be just 7 days of God's time. (biblical quote). In this way, we disprove a disproof of God. I just started disproving suspected disproofs, but I hope you understand what I mean. There are many things out there that seem like they disprove God. Nothing disproves God. All disproofs of God are lies. They may seem logical and scientific on the outside, but they all inevitably fall short of disproving the Genesis account.
For starters I have a degree in Scientific Computing and a minor in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. I understand the theories that I'm talking about. I'm not about to say something as boorish as 'Evolution is a lie, don't believe it' because that doesn't explain the dinosaurs or other fossil records. What I am going to say is that Evolution makes a lot of sense and God may have used it as a tool, but when it came to man, God created him straight from the soil. Quote: Genesis 2:7 "Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and breathed life giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live" God may have used evolution as a tool for diversifying the plants and animals, but for man it was different. When God created man, the world, stars, plants and animals were already made and God had all this information in which to make a man who was to be like God and have dominion over all that was created. That is one way of looking at evolution, and isn't too bad of a way of thinking of creation.
The next step to unraveling a net of scientific misunderstandings abou
I think Win98 is the way to go for Dos game playing. Dos emulators don't seem advanced enough for me, I tried one and the framerate was exceedingly slow, like 1 frame per 5 seconds.
Why would any company want to lose out on the win98,2000,XP crowd when they market their game? Only Microsoft has any interest in selling stuff that uses DX10+. To me DX10+ is dumb, stupid, and inane.
I was all psyched to see a GEOS flashback, but nothin. The funniest thing about GEOS is that it took longer to load GEOS then your program than it did to simply use the LOAD"*",8,1 tactic.
If someone finds a bug or flaw, it doesn't take someone else very long to fix it. Now when it comes to corporations, they have to wait to bill you for the next release, and you pay it too because the fix of bugs alone justifies buying the new version.
I remember playing Bruce Lee and a ton of pirated games my parents bought for $1 a disk(all they were really worth).
It took us a while to find out: LOAD"*",8,1 or sometimes only LOAD"*",8
But once we unlocked all those games, it was a party time that finally broke the era of boring Atari 2600 games. Commodore rocked so hard. Then came Nintendo 8 bit which didn't entirely blow C64 out of the water, but was the 2nd biggest step in gaming, the first being Atari2600 or Colleco(from your vantage point) to C64.
I loved my c64 and would have kept it if someone didn't offer me $300 for it in 1993 when internet PCs were just starting to make it for the public.
They need maping software and route planning software that will give you a nifty detour around the latest car wreck. This has been discussed in other Slashdot conversations anyway.
Cyc is only words and descriptors. If you attach them to 3d shapes and actions in the 3d world, the program can imagine what you're saying. It can even obey and do tasks if hooked up into a robotic body and scan the room. It requires the technology of being able to scan its environment then run something like the program they run to find text inside of images. Instead of finding text inside of images, its finding objects inside an environment. Pretty simple once you understand the basics, but it will take a lot of work. A longer descriptor of this can be found at: AI page Cyc isn't a waste, but you need to do something harder to make it into AI, you need to attach 3d objects to every noun, and apply 3d actions to every verb, etc. I'd say that'd be on the realm of next to impossible, so yeah what they've done really doesn't advance AI at all.
Theres much that could be done to improve the game past a grind and imbalanced PK system. I've always predicted a big MMORPG to take in all the players, but I'm suprised WOW is doing it with such boring play. When a MMORPG comes out that's actually fun and not a grind, I wonder how many subscribers it will have. Another funny thing is WOW isn't adding new dungeons and content every month like they could be with the millions they're making, mostly its just going to stockholders.
I liked the original X-Wing over TieFighter. In the X-Wing, you needed to balance shields, firing rate, and thrust. Every Tie Fighter except the last one had no shields which made the game play feel less complex.
You get really good at a video game, then an alien coallition recruits you as a pilot. Then its life or death, the video game mattered, but no longer. Sounds strange? Metaphorically, it's not too far off my life.
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I thought someone made Katamari-Democracy.
In space, no one can hear the rattlesnake.
Reinact the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by having Mario battle Sonic
I believe a true artist would want the largest possible audience to witness their works and the only way to achieve this is free distrobution of their work. I also believe every man should be compensated for their work at least to that of a living wage. In the Bible, the temple musicians left to work in their fields because they stopped recieving pay. If I continue with this line of reasoning, I'll just be concluding at concerts FTW again. Man, how cool would it be if concerts only cost $10-$15, and the food/drinks not to be overpriced. Someone should really write Record Company Tycoon. That game could let you be cool and serve the people, or be greedy and line your pockets with cash. Of course if you're cool and serving the people, the other Record Companies may start issuing hitmen out on your bands and locales for concerts, or maybe smuggling in hooligans into your concerts to Mosh when its a 98 degrees concert, ruining your image. Because you know if just one record company came out to be really cool, it'd start to topple the greedy people as a whole. Kinda like Opec, where if some companies decided to flood the market with oil, gas prices wouldn't drop significantly, but they'd make a killing. Then if more companies decided to try and cash in, eventually the market would cave, and gas would be down to $1 a gallon or less.
I personally don't go to any concerts because the price of a ticket is inflated. I'd pay 10$ for a show of musician I wanted to see, but not $50 and upwards per seat. At $10 a seat, the musicians and everyone involved would still get paid. I think the problem comes in that if they add in additional supply(extra days playing concert), the demand would be satisfied too much, and they'd be unable to charge the inflated price for the tickets. So instead of playing a $50 concert one day, and a $10 one the next, they'd be playing maybe two concerts for $20 a piece for a loss of $20 per ticket and extra work involved(theoretically). I know they're aiming for the profit mark on the supply/demand curve and not caring about the public's greater interest. I guess this is where fanboys come in. They buy the tickets for the inflated price, never knowing its inflated, while the people who have some demand, but less are left to skip the concert and listen to the CD. Even if mega musicians in today's age never sell an album because of piracy, they could technically just start playing more concerts and still make way more money than your average man.
I'm almost psyched for the Xbox360 Dev kit that's supposed to come out in a few months and only cost $100. I have so many ideas for simple, but fun, MMOGs. The problem with PC is someone can hack your game in a day. Now when it comes to hacking a console, theres more work involved and the hack doesn't spread like the plague.
Putting into a kid's mind that you could make a lifetime of selectively breeding plants for size and tastiness is a good thing.
If you're under the age of 12 and are a little girl on her cell phone: Don't Drive
But for a long time I said that some website or group of websites that would be hosting every old television show and movie ever created. Some people said On Demand would do this, but I'm pretty sure the Internet is going to beat it out.
I asks how you're doing, but doesn't care.
Evolution in all likelihood exists and it's a theory accepted by many scientists. What it doesn't explain is how life sparked into existence. When God created the world, it said he did it in days. But one day to God can be billions of years to man. How long is a day when the sun isn't even in existence yet? God could have used evolution with his guiding power to shape the plants and animals around us today. This is one explanation of how the creation theory meshes with evolution.
If you ask most people they will tell you that there is no proof against God. I personally know God exists, but I am saying this on behalf of all those who think someone disproved God. No one has disproved God. Some people have observed things in the world today and artifacts of the past to make theories on what creation could have been, but they have no way to disprove God. Creation in the biblical sense takes up very little room in the bible, and because of this explanation of gigantic works of God taking up very little space some people don't want to believe the Genesis account. Some people refuse to believe because the grand scale of the universe should take into account vast volumes and maybe even several books, not just a few verses. God was merely explaining creation to people of all times and wasn't out to unlock mysteries of physics and biology to his chosen people. God was just telling it how it happened. God can do what he wants and how he wants to do it, it is senseless to criticize God for explaining creation in only a few short verses. Quite the opposite is true. God should be praised for explaining how he created the universe without explaining every detail on how he accomplished it.
Since there is no disproof of God, we must examine what seems like a disproof and disprove the disproof. The problem in today's society that there are so many things that seem like disproofs that people possibly pick one of many as a real blockage to them believing. Even worse, some people pick several possible disproofs and say, "There are so many things going against God that God can't possibly exist." Since the danger currently is that there are so many possible disproofs, we must have explanations for as many as we possibly can. With the ammunition to shoot down false dispoofs, it can help save many people. For example, dinosaurs seem like a disproof of God. Yet, if we say that a day of God's time is different than a day of man's time then we can say that billions of years of our time, could be just 7 days of God's time. (biblical quote). In this way, we disprove a disproof of God. I just started disproving suspected disproofs, but I hope you understand what I mean. There are many things out there that seem like they disprove God. Nothing disproves God. All disproofs of God are lies. They may seem logical and scientific on the outside, but they all inevitably fall short of disproving the Genesis account.
For starters I have a degree in Scientific Computing and a minor in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. I understand the theories that I'm talking about. I'm not about to say something as boorish as 'Evolution is a lie, don't believe it' because that doesn't explain the dinosaurs or other fossil records. What I am going to say is that Evolution makes a lot of sense and God may have used it as a tool, but when it came to man, God created him straight from the soil. Quote: Genesis 2:7 "Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and breathed life giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live" God may have used evolution as a tool for diversifying the plants and animals, but for man it was different. When God created man, the world, stars, plants and animals were already made and God had all this information in which to make a man who was to be like God and have dominion over all that was created. That is one way of looking at evolution, and isn't too bad of a way of thinking of creation.
The next step to unraveling a net of scientific misunderstandings abou
I have a few gimmick games that I'd like to release for a console, like MMOPONG, or a MMO Castle Builder.
I think Win98 is the way to go for Dos game playing. Dos emulators don't seem advanced enough for me, I tried one and the framerate was exceedingly slow, like 1 frame per 5 seconds.
Why would any company want to lose out on the win98,2000,XP crowd when they market their game? Only Microsoft has any interest in selling stuff that uses DX10+. To me DX10+ is dumb, stupid, and inane.
I was all psyched to see a GEOS flashback, but nothin. The funniest thing about GEOS is that it took longer to load GEOS then your program than it did to simply use the LOAD"*",8,1 tactic.
If someone finds a bug or flaw, it doesn't take someone else very long to fix it. Now when it comes to corporations, they have to wait to bill you for the next release, and you pay it too because the fix of bugs alone justifies buying the new version.
I remember playing Bruce Lee and a ton of pirated games my parents bought for $1 a disk(all they were really worth).
It took us a while to find out: LOAD"*",8,1 or sometimes only LOAD"*",8
But once we unlocked all those games, it was a party time that finally broke the era of boring Atari 2600 games. Commodore rocked so hard. Then came Nintendo 8 bit which didn't entirely blow C64 out of the water, but was the 2nd biggest step in gaming, the first being Atari2600 or Colleco(from your vantage point) to C64.
I loved my c64 and would have kept it if someone didn't offer me $300 for it in 1993 when internet PCs were just starting to make it for the public.
Someone should form the People for the Ethnical treatment of Animals. Italian Roast Beef anyone?
No uraninite.
I think the only way to be safe is nuke it from orbit.
They need maping software and route planning software that will give you a nifty detour around the latest car wreck. This has been discussed in other Slashdot conversations anyway.
Cyc is only words and descriptors. If you attach them to 3d shapes and actions in the 3d world, the program can imagine what you're saying. It can even obey and do tasks if hooked up into a robotic body and scan the room. It requires the technology of being able to scan its environment then run something like the program they run to find text inside of images. Instead of finding text inside of images, its finding objects inside an environment. Pretty simple once you understand the basics, but it will take a lot of work. A longer descriptor of this can be found at: AI page Cyc isn't a waste, but you need to do something harder to make it into AI, you need to attach 3d objects to every noun, and apply 3d actions to every verb, etc. I'd say that'd be on the realm of next to impossible, so yeah what they've done really doesn't advance AI at all.
Theres much that could be done to improve the game past a grind and imbalanced PK system. I've always predicted a big MMORPG to take in all the players, but I'm suprised WOW is doing it with such boring play. When a MMORPG comes out that's actually fun and not a grind, I wonder how many subscribers it will have. Another funny thing is WOW isn't adding new dungeons and content every month like they could be with the millions they're making, mostly its just going to stockholders.
I liked the original X-Wing over TieFighter. In the X-Wing, you needed to balance shields, firing rate, and thrust. Every Tie Fighter except the last one had no shields which made the game play feel less complex.
You get really good at a video game, then an alien coallition recruits you as a pilot. Then its life or death, the video game mattered, but no longer. Sounds strange? Metaphorically, it's not too far off my life.