Also, since Mars has no magnetic field to speak of,
Well if you built a rather large fusion reactor in the center of mars and then set it to spin like ours then gave it a spin then you might be able to do it......but if we had that much technology we'd probaly wouldn't have standard human bodies anymore and therefor not need a real atmosphere to walk around.
Things like leveling, loot, and equipment purchase are valid game mechanics, it would not be compelling to play without them.
But this is Star Trek! The Federation does not have money among itself. (Other factions do however.)
Rank should not be based on arbitrary skill rankings and combat.
Maybe if you accomplish a set number of diplomatic/scientific/or security missions you get to raise your rank from Ensign to captain, but not "go kill 1000 mobs and you get to be captain".
If any Federation mission involves me killing mobs over and over again for me to gain a higher rank or level, I will curse loudly, uninstall the game, break the cd in two and throw it again the wall. (However, if this was a Cardassian or Borg mission I could understand if my goal is to wipe the planet clean of life)
Yes, there should be trade and economics (especially for non-faction players and Ferengi), but if this game is Ever Quest with Star Trek skins, I will be highly disappointed.
1. No leveling. What? Did Captain Kirk constantly go on away missions to zap thousands of space rats with his phaser just so he could travel to a more dangerous planet? Hell no!
2. Realistic ships. By god, they have documented each varient of the enteprise down to the excact inch and they better not make any mistakes.
3. Non-loot oriented. Well... Unless you play as the Ferengi faction, but Federation member shouldn't have to buy armor or their own equipment (unless they are stranded on a planet and have to buy a phase modulater from a Ferengi at twice the price and to triangulate their coordinates via subspace to a passing vessel, but not on the ships).
4. Make it open ended and that you always have the choice of which planet to go to.
5. Make it so the players crew the ships. Not some NPCs.
What would stop me from purchasing a copy of the software for sale, change a byte or two, call it derivate work, and sell it for a lower price? Sorry forr n00bness here, but I've never seen a good answer for this one.
Support packages.
You know when you buy a Red Had server and something breaks... Who are you going to call if that Red Hat software broke on your server and you bought it from a company who didn't sell you a support package? Well you better hope you've got a good IT on hand...
It will have no effect on people who are legitimate customers entering or leaving the store.
If you mean by feeling an uncontrollable urge to relieve their bowels upon hearing the noise, then yes it has no affect on legitimate customers.
But seriously, I believe this device was concocted in order to deceive store owners out of their money. People who shout obscenities or harass customer won't be stopped by a high pitched noise.
Upon finding out that this is being done, its only a matter of those teens wearing earplug or headphones and the harassment continues making the store owners wonder what they paid this company for.
I mean, there's a systemic effect that's present for a limited duration. I'm not trying to "ruin love", but why should it have worked any differently?
If humans would accept the fact their consciousness is nothing more than chemical reactions and nothing really special, then it wouldn't such a big deal.
Studio makes a new hit movie, and now someone else is redistributing it for free without paying the actors or producers a dime.
I don't mean to be old school cynical, but maybe we should actually do away with copyrights in order to destroy the entertainment industry and put our resources into something more beneficial to mankind... Like better industrialization, medical, and scientific progress.
Although a large part of me disagrees with my own statement above, since a great deal of our technology progress comes through computer and console entertainment. Perhaps the singularity will come because we spent all our time and effort trying to get an xbox720 or a ps5 to have graphics that replicate reality or is this first device to have a genuine AI.
Copy protection works, that's why publishers keep using it.
Well if you mean by annoying the customers who actually paid for it, while people who download the no-cd.exe or pulled the already cd-cracked cd image off a bit torrent without any problem, then yes... It works quite well.
The more mainstream anime becomes, the worst it will get. I like anime because it often has much different story lines then traditional North American movies & cartoons.
Well as long as Americans don't make them, we'll be fine.
But seriously, I have seen a few bad Animes, but I think the ones we see over here are mostly the really good ones worth exporting. The more they export, though, then the more we get the lower quality animes.
However, even the almost "mainstream" like Ghost in the Shell Series, Inyuasha, Full Metal Alchemist and others you might see on adult swim on Saturday night are worth staying up for.
Yes, and every time I wake up I want chips, but becasue I know that if I have a bag of chips in the house, no matter the size, that I'll eat the whole thing in a day I just stopped buying them.
That is exactly what I do. Out of sight is always out of mind. If I don't want to do something then I avoid being in situations that is conducize to doing what I don't want to do.
Like keeping food around the house is a perfect example. First you must be aware that this is causing you do to this and then second understanding what must be done to avoid this.
Its not a lack of personal responsibility but woeful ignorace of the situation If it is a genetic disposition that makes you desire bags of chips then you must find a way to work around that. Fighting it with sheer willpower will fail and may be pointless.
Besides, if I have enough will power to take a knife and jab it through my arm and endure the pain then I can go about saying "I have more will power than most", but what does that really acheive? Not much other than a hurt arm and people giving you funny looks.
And as another poster said, many people already do this without Buddhism, but when I mean by meditation I don't really mean spending 5 minutes dwelling on the meaning of eating, but rather just being situationally aware of why you are making the choices you are rather than looking at just what choices you are making. (and no I am not really a Buddhist, I just try to take many things from them and apply to to western living)
Please define free will... It's a fuzzy term at most....
Here is my definition of free will:
"Being able to define your own reality to what your ego desires."
The downside of that and the more fuzzy is do you have control over what your ego wants? (I, self, whatever being is in you skull)
In theory, if you just control your ego's desires then you have total free will, but it just supressing desire.
Of course total free will would entail you are a being that doesn't feel hungry, feel pain, get old, die, or want or do anything that you do not want to do.
That would mean you wouldn't have to do anything if you wanted to so you would sit around and do nothing much because you have no chemical or emotional stimuli to make you do things like boredome, sex drive, hunger, pain, all the other things we have no control of.
but I hope one day we grow up as a race and stop trying to kill one another.
Not going to happen with a political solution. Only a technical solution will prevent people from killing each other.
And only the technological singularity can provide that. Think a Matrix type solution where everyone is physically separated from each other and can only communicate to each other online.
And then we have questions about free will. If you can't kill anyone then you don't have free will in the matter so what then? Kind of Clockwork Orangish. Perhaps killing can be simulated in virtual reality... Hell we already do that already.
They showed him doing some exercise, then pausing to ask his wife to bring him a cherry soda. I thought "perhaps WATER would be a better choice there". Later he was shown eating a bucket of KFC. Hey buddy, try eating some VEGETABLES once in a while. The whole time, he was complaining that his weight was a "genetic problem".
Well if his genetics or at least social disposition lead him to believe that he wanted a cherry soda and a bucket of KFC he had no choice in the matter. Well... He sort of did, but the neurons in his brain automatically fired off saying he needed or at least desired the cherry soda. His mind was simply unable to comprehend the desire for water so it did not happen.
Now saying people have no free will make many people angry and start talking about personal responsibility and he mearly had to choose the water.
Well... If you study Buddhism you will discover there is free will but it doesn't work like that.
Where as the normal free will person will say "I shouldn't drink the cherry soda because it is making me fat." and he will more likley fail to do so because he will come up with a counter reason like "Maybe just this one time" or "I'll drink one now but tommorrow I won't..."
That doesn't solve the problem. Chances are he'll just keep drinking the soda.
The more self-aware Buddhist person will go "I am aware for my desire for cherry soda. This maybe because of my genetics and I know it tastes better than water." and then goes on to meditate or at least rational and seperate themselves from that desire... (And maybe speculates on what makes a cherry soda and water taste the way it does and why he desires one over the other) not the obtainment of cherry soda itself.
It sounds hokey but it works. Or at least better than sheer willpower... But you have to learn a bit more about Buddhist meditation to really understand.
Or cocaine... Does wonders for people trying to do a 60 hour marathon of EQ.
And you'll loose weight at the same time, although... You might end looking like your 50 when you are 22 and all your teeth will rot out and ramble incoherently about the shawdows trying to eat you, but you weren't going to leave the house anyways.
Actually, I've been watching too much Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex, but if we have full (at least prototype) cyborg bodies by 2015 whe should be keeping up to the stories time line. Although, the Major should be in her 25-30ish and according to the plot line she had her cyborg body around age 9 which would be any day now.
However, the touch-screen still seems gimmicky to me (and that's a Nintendo fanboy talking here). Even though I have played a couple of games that required the touch screen pretty extensively (Mario DS, Kirby Canvas Curse, and the wife is on Nintendogs), the two games I spend the most time with at the moment are Advance Wars DS and Mario Kart DS, and I only use the d-pad + buttons for both those games, never the touch screen.
IMO the game that uses the touch screen the best has to be Yu-Gi-Oh! for the DS. Since it is a card game after all. I do have to agree with the Advance Wars and the touch pad. I tried and tried, but the d-pad works a whole lot faster.
Now if they would only make an online version of Advance Wars, I'd be set.
I've always found it strange how so many anti-Microsoft arguments will include some reference to PowerPoint and how it is somehow responsible for bad presentations.
Have you seen any bad Keynote Presenations? Perhaps maybe seen any Keynote Presenations?
If you still see the BSOD then very likely your hardware is at fault.
As a Buddhist would say, consciousness is not independent of reality and reality is not independent of consciousness nor are they dependant of each other to exist.
That said...
And OS is not independent of its hardware. Hardware is not independent of the OS.
Nor are they dependant of each other (at least in the x86/ppc/ vs linux/windows sense) so therefore a hardware issue is dependant on the OS reaction to it.
If the OS did not react poorly to bad hardware or bad interaction with hardware (drivers), then it wouldn't of course have a major failure. Now the only time I have seen WinXP bluescreen is when it had a bad reaction to a particular USB device (iPod).
However, that said, if the OS had some method of dealing with that instead of complete failure then it would be a better OS, but we can't expect it to perform miracles (like still being able to function when you yank the ram straight off the motherboard with the power on).
How about instead of attacking Microsoft every 5 seconds you reply on the strengths of Linux to let people decide.
I'm not partial to either, but here is the deal with human nature. The victor of any public political argument is sadly the one that attacks the most and gets the most personal.
Hence, any person/group/politician who refuses to play in that game will loose.
The point of the argument is that if you let people decide for themselves is that they will usually listen to the idiot screaming the loudest and the longest that is the one to believed to be true. Sure you will gain a few people to agree with you if you use logic in your argument, but humans are just not logical.
Sometimes the only way to fight this is to try to scream longer and louder than the other person. Such is the life of a newspeak spindoctor.
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Also, since Mars has no magnetic field to speak of,
...but if we had that much technology we'd probaly wouldn't have standard human bodies anymore and therefor not need a real atmosphere to walk around.
Well if you built a rather large fusion reactor in the center of mars and then set it to spin like ours then gave it a spin then you might be able to do it...
Blindness and deafness causing nerve damage? I thought they result from nerve damage, at least in part.
If you are blind, do you have stairs in your house?
If you are deaf, do you have to walk across a busy street to get to work?
There is your nerve damage.
Will we even NEED storage or a large bulky scratchable iPod when we can stream terabytes of music in a few years?
I you mean by streaming terabytes of information at any given time at any given place in the world, then no.
But that might be more than a few years.
Things like leveling, loot, and equipment purchase are valid game mechanics, it would not be compelling to play without them.
But this is Star Trek! The Federation does not have money among itself. (Other factions do however.)
Rank should not be based on arbitrary skill rankings and combat.
Maybe if you accomplish a set number of diplomatic/scientific/or security missions you get to raise your rank from Ensign to captain, but not "go kill 1000 mobs and you get to be captain".
If any Federation mission involves me killing mobs over and over again for me to gain a higher rank or level, I will curse loudly, uninstall the game, break the cd in two and throw it again the wall. (However, if this was a Cardassian or Borg mission I could understand if my goal is to wipe the planet clean of life)
Yes, there should be trade and economics (especially for non-faction players and Ferengi), but if this game is Ever Quest with Star Trek skins, I will be highly disappointed.
1. No leveling. What? Did Captain Kirk constantly go on away missions to zap thousands of space rats with his phaser just so he could travel to a more dangerous planet? Hell no!
2. Realistic ships. By god, they have documented each varient of the enteprise down to the excact inch and they better not make any mistakes.
3. Non-loot oriented. Well... Unless you play as the Ferengi faction, but Federation member shouldn't have to buy armor or their own equipment (unless they are stranded on a planet and have to buy a phase modulater from a Ferengi at twice the price and to triangulate their coordinates via subspace to a passing vessel, but not on the ships).
4. Make it open ended and that you always have the choice of which planet to go to.
5. Make it so the players crew the ships. Not some NPCs.
That's all I got.
What would stop me from purchasing a copy of the software for sale, change a byte or two, call it derivate work, and sell it for a lower price? Sorry forr n00bness here, but I've never seen a good answer for this one.
Support packages.
You know when you buy a Red Had server and something breaks... Who are you going to call if that Red Hat software broke on your server and you bought it from a company who didn't sell you a support package? Well you better hope you've got a good IT on hand...
Or the history channel and similar channels will be charged at a higher rate, to be able to survive with fewer viewers?
Personally, I'd pay $5 for the following channels.
History Channel
Cartoon Network
Commedy Central
Thats all I actually watch.
It will have no effect on people who are legitimate customers entering or leaving the store.
If you mean by feeling an uncontrollable urge to relieve their bowels upon hearing the noise, then yes it has no affect on legitimate customers.
But seriously, I believe this device was concocted in order to deceive store owners out of their money. People who shout obscenities or harass customer won't be stopped by a high pitched noise.
Upon finding out that this is being done, its only a matter of those teens wearing earplug or headphones and the harassment continues making the store owners wonder what they paid this company for.
I mean, there's a systemic effect that's present for a limited duration. I'm not trying to "ruin love", but why should it have worked any differently?
If humans would accept the fact their consciousness is nothing more than chemical reactions and nothing really special, then it wouldn't such a big deal.
Studio makes a new hit movie, and now someone else is redistributing it for free without paying the actors or producers a dime.
I don't mean to be old school cynical, but maybe we should actually do away with copyrights in order to destroy the entertainment industry and put our resources into something more beneficial to mankind... Like better industrialization, medical, and scientific progress.
Although a large part of me disagrees with my own statement above, since a great deal of our technology progress comes through computer and console entertainment. Perhaps the singularity will come because we spent all our time and effort trying to get an xbox720 or a ps5 to have graphics that replicate reality or is this first device to have a genuine AI.
Copy protection works, that's why publishers keep using it.
Well if you mean by annoying the customers who actually paid for it, while people who download the no-cd.exe or pulled the already cd-cracked cd image off a bit torrent without any problem, then yes... It works quite well.
If you think that gaming is getting stale now, remember not THAT much has changed since the original Doom.
You mean Wolfenstein 3d.
The more mainstream anime becomes, the worst it will get. I like anime because it often has much different story lines then traditional North American movies & cartoons.
Well as long as Americans don't make them, we'll be fine.
But seriously, I have seen a few bad Animes, but I think the ones we see over here are mostly the really good ones worth exporting. The more they export, though, then the more we get the lower quality animes.
However, even the almost "mainstream" like Ghost in the Shell Series, Inyuasha, Full Metal Alchemist and others you might see on adult swim on Saturday night are worth staying up for.
Better than most crap they play on cable tv...
Yes, and every time I wake up I want chips, but becasue I know that if I have a bag of chips in the house, no matter the size, that I'll eat the whole thing in a day I just stopped buying them.
That is exactly what I do. Out of sight is always out of mind. If I don't want to do something then I avoid being in situations that is conducize to doing what I don't want to do.
Like keeping food around the house is a perfect example. First you must be aware that this is causing you do to this and then second understanding what must be done to avoid this.
Its not a lack of personal responsibility but woeful ignorace of the situation If it is a genetic disposition that makes you desire bags of chips then you must find a way to work around that. Fighting it with sheer willpower will fail and may be pointless.
Besides, if I have enough will power to take a knife and jab it through my arm and endure the pain then I can go about saying "I have more will power than most", but what does that really acheive? Not much other than a hurt arm and people giving you funny looks.
And as another poster said, many people already do this without Buddhism, but when I mean by meditation I don't really mean spending 5 minutes dwelling on the meaning of eating, but rather just being situationally aware of why you are making the choices you are rather than looking at just what choices you are making. (and no I am not really a Buddhist, I just try to take many things from them and apply to to western living)
Please define free will... It's a fuzzy term at most....
Here is my definition of free will:
"Being able to define your own reality to what your ego desires."
The downside of that and the more fuzzy is do you have control over what your ego wants? (I, self, whatever being is in you skull)
In theory, if you just control your ego's desires then you have total free will, but it just supressing desire.
Of course total free will would entail you are a being that doesn't feel hungry, feel pain, get old, die, or want or do anything that you do not want to do.
That would mean you wouldn't have to do anything if you wanted to so you would sit around and do nothing much because you have no chemical or emotional stimuli to make you do things like boredome, sex drive, hunger, pain, all the other things we have no control of.
Missle defense is a waste of money.
I bet the Dinosaurs said the same thing.
but I hope one day we grow up as a race and stop trying to kill one another.
Not going to happen with a political solution. Only a technical solution will prevent people from killing each other.
And only the technological singularity can provide that. Think a Matrix type solution where everyone is physically separated from each other and can only communicate to each other online.
And then we have questions about free will. If you can't kill anyone then you don't have free will in the matter so what then? Kind of Clockwork Orangish. Perhaps killing can be simulated in virtual reality... Hell we already do that already.
They showed him doing some exercise, then pausing to ask his wife to bring him a cherry soda. I thought "perhaps WATER would be a better choice there". Later he was shown eating a bucket of KFC. Hey buddy, try eating some VEGETABLES once in a while. The whole time, he was complaining that his weight was a "genetic problem".
Well if his genetics or at least social disposition lead him to believe that he wanted a cherry soda and a bucket of KFC he had no choice in the matter. Well... He sort of did, but the neurons in his brain automatically fired off saying he needed or at least desired the cherry soda. His mind was simply unable to comprehend the desire for water so it did not happen.
Now saying people have no free will make many people angry and start talking about personal responsibility and he mearly had to choose the water.
Well... If you study Buddhism you will discover there is free will but it doesn't work like that.
Where as the normal free will person will say "I shouldn't drink the cherry soda because it is making me fat." and he will more likley fail to do so because he will come up with a counter reason like "Maybe just this one time" or "I'll drink one now but tommorrow I won't..."
That doesn't solve the problem. Chances are he'll just keep drinking the soda.
The more self-aware Buddhist person will go "I am aware for my desire for cherry soda. This maybe because of my genetics and I know it tastes better than water." and then goes on to meditate or at least rational and seperate themselves from that desire... (And maybe speculates on what makes a cherry soda and water taste the way it does and why he desires one over the other) not the obtainment of cherry soda itself.
It sounds hokey but it works. Or at least better than sheer willpower... But you have to learn a bit more about Buddhist meditation to really understand.
Or cocaine... Does wonders for people trying to do a 60 hour marathon of EQ.
And you'll loose weight at the same time, although... You might end looking like your 50 when you are 22 and all your teeth will rot out and ramble incoherently about the shawdows trying to eat you, but you weren't going to leave the house anyways.
LOL! Good one ;)
Actually, I've been watching too much Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex, but if we have full (at least prototype) cyborg bodies by 2015 whe should be keeping up to the stories time line. Although, the Major should be in her 25-30ish and according to the plot line she had her cyborg body around age 9 which would be any day now.
However, the touch-screen still seems gimmicky to me (and that's a Nintendo fanboy talking here). Even though I have played a couple of games that required the touch screen pretty extensively (Mario DS, Kirby Canvas Curse, and the wife is on Nintendogs), the two games I spend the most time with at the moment are Advance Wars DS and Mario Kart DS, and I only use the d-pad + buttons for both those games, never the touch screen.
IMO the game that uses the touch screen the best has to be Yu-Gi-Oh! for the DS. Since it is a card game after all. I do have to agree with the Advance Wars and the touch pad. I tried and tried, but the d-pad works a whole lot faster.
Now if they would only make an online version of Advance Wars, I'd be set.
I've always found it strange how so many anti-Microsoft arguments will include some reference to PowerPoint and how it is somehow responsible for bad presentations.
Have you seen any bad Keynote Presenations? Perhaps maybe seen any Keynote Presenations?
If you still see the BSOD then very likely your hardware is at fault.
As a Buddhist would say, consciousness is not independent of reality and reality is not independent of consciousness nor are they dependant of each other to exist.
That said...
And OS is not independent of its hardware. Hardware is not independent of the OS.
Nor are they dependant of each other (at least in the x86/ppc/ vs linux/windows sense) so therefore a hardware issue is dependant on the OS reaction to it.
If the OS did not react poorly to bad hardware or bad interaction with hardware (drivers), then it wouldn't of course have a major failure. Now the only time I have seen WinXP bluescreen is when it had a bad reaction to a particular USB device (iPod).
However, that said, if the OS had some method of dealing with that instead of complete failure then it would be a better OS, but we can't expect it to perform miracles (like still being able to function when you yank the ram straight off the motherboard with the power on).
How about instead of attacking Microsoft every 5 seconds you reply on the strengths of Linux to let people decide.
I'm not partial to either, but here is the deal with human nature. The victor of any public political argument is sadly the one that attacks the most and gets the most personal.
Hence, any person/group/politician who refuses to play in that game will loose.
The point of the argument is that if you let people decide for themselves is that they will usually listen to the idiot screaming the loudest and the longest that is the one to believed to be true. Sure you will gain a few people to agree with you if you use logic in your argument, but humans are just not logical.
Sometimes the only way to fight this is to try to scream longer and louder than the other person. Such is the life of a newspeak spindoctor.