Even brief information could still be useful. Information theory is tricky. I think it was Victor Hugo who had a conversation with his publisher regarding the sales of Les Miserables. He sent a "?" and got a "!" back. I guess that was a bit like sending a pointer to something else.
If a civilization 10000 ly away sent:
"May You be touched by his Noodly Appendage."
That might change a lot.
Or maybe they send 100 lines of insanely clever self modifying code which can form the foundation of a good AI which then can become a technological singularity.
Or maybe some constants, science formulas... or maybe schematics for a Warp/FTL drive if there is such a thing.
It's not just about money. As a professional you might also want to work with other professionals. A really good character design can still easily be ruined by a bad 3D modeler/texture/animator guy somewhere down the pipline. Cohesion and Art direction are needed for stuff to work as well, and maybe that's harder to achieve when people are giving their free time and may not respond to criticism and refutation well.
The problem is that the solutions to problems might not be compatible with each other, a political party is tackling several issies with a certain coherence, ie. there might be an underlying grand plan that spans several issues.
There's a PDF here that I believe is related
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf .
From what I've gathered the counting machine runs a program that exists on the manipulated memory card. This program is hacked along with the initial vote values for the candidates (offsets adding up to 0, although it appears they use an overflow for the negative votes as the variables are unsigned). The program is also able to output the fake receipt saying all votes are intitially 0. The voting machine then adds the votes as they're counted, eventually triggering the overflow (from max to 0) and it just continues adding from there as normal.
Aside from what has been mentioned, something that would make me buy a game would be if I got a nice manual. I never read manuals, but I like looking at pictures.
So I'd like an actual manual in one language only, preferably english. Translations are never good and just take up precious space. Instead I'd like to see gloss paper and a good color print. I'd like to see large clear screenshots and (concept) art tastefully arranged in a spacious layout, absolutely no strange typefaces or tiled backgrounds/borders. A bit like an artbook-lite.
So what do I get at the moment? Usually a sheet, or a thin little folder in 32 languages telling me how to insert the CD. If there is an actual manual included, it's often black and white, printed on toilet paper and with newspaper resolution. Any explainatiory screenshots are about an inch big, probably has some nasty moiré or bleeding making it a black gritty square. The layout was made by the kind of person who also likes making flash sites and DVD menus. Bleh.
I believe precautions might deter casual thieves, but not people that are hellbent. They're beyond getting deterred, or atleast it has much less effect on them. The precautions themselves, although maybe not and effective deterrant, might still catch them though. I'm not sure about this (statistically), but people don't casually decide to blow up planes, it's more of a hellbent thing.
What do you think of bump keys? There's some videos on youtube of it. It almost seems like holding down the shift key to get into your house.
Here's a little PDF about
obscenity and the 1st amendment.
Since it would be insane to punish you for crimes against virtual characters (or give you a medal for saving the universe), I'm guessing that they want to (based on flimsy morals) mark areas in the multidimensional space that is sex, violence, age (and maybe other dimensions asewll) as being unethical and likely to cause people to become corruped and comitt real-world crimes. Playing Carmageddon? You'll end up running people over with your car. Reading Pokémon shota? You'll end up molesting young boys. Playing Pacman? You'll end up eating pills and attacking your neighbour's sheets that were hung out to dry. Of course, sex is getting a special treatment here as being more likely to instigate real-world crimes. For some people sex means shoes though, yeah... little tight leather shoes that you just want to polish and polish and polish until they're all hot and shiny... then you might want to read some shoe fanfics to prepare for some serious shoe obducting. Gotta catch ém all!
Once you get an AI to do logical reasoning, is there anything left to improve but speed and knowledge/data? Even so, a super-duper AI will still be possible to trick by supplying it false information, so it won't automatically know you're thinking of '102' when you said you were thinking of a number 'between 0 and 100'. I can imagine a super-AI to be like a... beowulf cluster of Stephen Hawkings with perfect memories. I might be useful to come up with things that that can be logically deduced but require more knowledge than a human can possibly keep track of.
I think Bruce Sterling gave a talk on this subject, it can be found a bit down on this page: Long Now Seminars.
My personal whimsical theo.. hypoth... idea is that alien civilizations turn into (towards us) apathetic singularities, and that's why we will never hear Chenjesu's crystaline humming calling us. Maybe the universe will end in some sort of rather dull uniform black technological singularity goo.
I've always wondered how much of an impact a person sent back in time could have.
Of course, there's always a 20% chance you send back a person that still doesn't know that the earth goes around the sun (Well, around the shared gravitational center or whatever, I suppose it's relative too). "We like... had these steel wagons... and you could like tell them where to go... and you could go to a big building where you pushed smaller wagon in front of you and you put food in it... then you went home and looked at a box with these moving pictures that were funny to look at."
I think one of the most important things to bring back in time would be the idea of book printing and information sharing.
and you should look at how other people, not under the influences you cite, experience God and religion. if you do see how it enriches, sustains, and gives hope, you're just stereotyping, which is merely intellectual laziness.
Yeah, just look at Tom jumping there in Operah's sofa! Now there's a happy man! So what if it costs him a little money and he must eat some placentas...
The real question is, can you do bouncing tits?
On a more serious note... no wait, I was serious about the tits! Anyways, I don't think it's an evolution game in the sense that you have natural selection and genetic mutations going on automatically. It's more of an ID game, no?
Digital tools are both good and bad I think. With Photoshop (+wacom) I can do more color studies. I don't have to buy expensive materials or set things up. The tools are just a click a way. I can mix and select colors faster. The threshold of having to set things up and clean up is not there. On the other hand I've gotten a bit sloppy, maybe because I work at a screen scale and can't zoom in the same way as with the eye on a paper.
My paintings can be seen on my homepage but I'd rather recommend taking a look at Craig Mullins stuff, he is an excellent artist who do a lot of his paintings with Photoshop.
There's many people who 'cheat' by using filters over photos and such. I say cheat because these persons later say (or let people believe) they did it from scratch. It's not cheating if they are frank about their work process.
Daleks are also featured (without permission?) in C64 Paradroid (unit 883) and Amiga/Atari Paradroid 90 (units 683 and 783, and the 999 Command Cyborg could be taken as a Davros paraphrase).
I think the new Daleks looks great, although I do prefer them in gun metal 'color'. The new cybermen looks a bit action figure-ish unfortunately.
By the way, Amazon has a RC Dalek which looks quite nifty ( ASIN: B0009P5YYS )
In Sweden DVDs might be 199-249sek for new and well known movies (currently Fantastic Four, SW ep3, Batman Begins). A sek is 7.95 usd at the moment, so that's 25-30 usd for a movie here.
Then they usually drop to 149sek and stay there if the movie is good (same with games). If they're really old or not that good, they drop to 89sek or '2 for 99sek' after half a year or so.
I mean IF a helmet was made... would the user suffer a concussion? Or just feel nothing...?
Probably depends on the deflection angle. If it hits straight on so all the energy is transfered, then I suppose that the impact will feel about as much as the recoil from the rifle. Maybe like holding the rifle 'stock'(back) against your forehead and pulling the trigger? I heard (urban) getting shot is like getting hit by a fast softball or tennisball in terms of energy. Nothing that would throw you across the room, probably more of a 'THUD!'.
I think body armours are made so the force is distributed over a larger area, becoming 'blunt'. There's lots of layers cleverly arranged so the force is dilluted as it travels through the armour. I suppose helmets also have paddings that act as suspension too. Isn't helmets more for protecting the wearer from shrapnel and tumblers though?
As far as I know, tank armours have a hard outer layer, and a softer inner layer. The hard outer layer attempts to shatter the projectile, and the soft more flexible inner layer will then absorb the shock from the fragments and distribute the force. Not sure where the israeli armour goes. It's a good thing if the bullet doesn't start to tumble or 'mushroom' (hollowpoints do) inside the body. I think this is the reason why hard body armours are avoided, the just makes matters worse by making lots of little nasty fragments that enter the body.
Depleted Uranium (DU) projectiles (as fired by the A10 tank killer) contains a DU 'needle' inside the bullet, and that needle is apparently self sharpening and very heavy, so it doesn't shatter when hitting the outer hard armour layer. Because of the energy it melts the armour, spraying it inside the tank. I think DU incinerates too. That's what I read anyways.
Why does no one view god as the collected set of mechanics that the universe runs under?
"The word for universe in Sanskrit is 'Brahmanda', which is made by joining of words 'Brahma' and 'Anda'. Brahma is derived from root 'Briha' meaning to expand and 'Anda' means egg. Thus 'Brahmanda' means expanding egg."
I believe Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are sometimes seen as an allegory of the universe doing its thing. In fact, Hinduism has a lot of interesting and surprisingly accurate scientifical ideas. It's worth to note that hinduism (as with most religions) has evolved through out time (and it has gotten increasingly complex as they appended and tweaked rather than replacing). Sadly, much of the old knowledge and culture was destroyed by religious zealots and other ignorant people.
People that are stupid (in the sense that they make the wrong choices) might just be uninformed, misinformed or have developed an unhealthy bias/psychosis through indoctrination. Their IQ may be less relevant, unless it drops below the retard limit (70?).
I'd like to see some "Help me, I'm a mom!" buttons in software, particulary in dialogs for options/settings. Clicking one would pop up a text written for moms.
Releasing books that seem more focused on pretty artwork than solid material -- and, of course, the artwork costs more to print, so the cost for the book is increased. Go figure
A picture is worth a thousand words though? Personally I never read the text in RPGs (atleast not initially). I mostly rely on the pictures to get a look and feel of what the game is about, similar to how I always look at the screenshots before reading the game review. I'm an artist however, and probably... different.
Many RPGs have terrible amateur artwork, often printed in B/W. I haven't seen that many RPGs in full color/art magazine dpi/gloss160g. Small RPG companies pays maybe $0-100 per illo. WotC pays a couple of hundred.
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Even brief information could still be useful. Information theory is tricky. I think it was Victor Hugo who had a conversation with his publisher regarding the sales of Les Miserables. He sent a "?" and got a "!" back. I guess that was a bit like sending a pointer to something else. If a civilization 10000 ly away sent: "May You be touched by his Noodly Appendage." That might change a lot. Or maybe they send 100 lines of insanely clever self modifying code which can form the foundation of a good AI which then can become a technological singularity. Or maybe some constants, science formulas... or maybe schematics for a Warp/FTL drive if there is such a thing.
It's not just about money. As a professional you might also want to work with other professionals. A really good character design can still easily be ruined by a bad 3D modeler/texture/animator guy somewhere down the pipline. Cohesion and Art direction are needed for stuff to work as well, and maybe that's harder to achieve when people are giving their free time and may not respond to criticism and refutation well.
The problem is that the solutions to problems might not be compatible with each other, a political party is tackling several issies with a certain coherence, ie. there might be an underlying grand plan that spans several issues.
But for standalone issues, yeah, why not?
There's a PDF here that I believe is related http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf . From what I've gathered the counting machine runs a program that exists on the manipulated memory card. This program is hacked along with the initial vote values for the candidates (offsets adding up to 0, although it appears they use an overflow for the negative votes as the variables are unsigned). The program is also able to output the fake receipt saying all votes are intitially 0. The voting machine then adds the votes as they're counted, eventually triggering the overflow (from max to 0) and it just continues adding from there as normal.
Aside from what has been mentioned, something that would make me buy a game would be if I got a nice manual. I never read manuals, but I like looking at pictures.
So I'd like an actual manual in one language only, preferably english. Translations are never good and just take up precious space. Instead I'd like to see gloss paper and a good color print. I'd like to see large clear screenshots and (concept) art tastefully arranged in a spacious layout, absolutely no strange typefaces or tiled backgrounds/borders. A bit like an artbook-lite.
So what do I get at the moment? Usually a sheet, or a thin little folder in 32 languages telling me how to insert the CD. If there is an actual manual included, it's often black and white, printed on toilet paper and with newspaper resolution. Any explainatiory screenshots are about an inch big, probably has some nasty moiré or bleeding making it a black gritty square. The layout was made by the kind of person who also likes making flash sites and DVD menus. Bleh.
I believe precautions might deter casual thieves, but not people that are hellbent. They're beyond getting deterred, or atleast it has much less effect on them. The precautions themselves, although maybe not and effective deterrant, might still catch them though. I'm not sure about this (statistically), but people don't casually decide to blow up planes, it's more of a hellbent thing.
What do you think of bump keys? There's some videos on youtube of it. It almost seems like holding down the shift key to get into your house.
Here's a little PDF about obscenity and the 1st amendment.
Since it would be insane to punish you for crimes against virtual characters (or give you a medal for saving the universe), I'm guessing that they want to (based on flimsy morals) mark areas in the multidimensional space that is sex, violence, age (and maybe other dimensions asewll) as being unethical and likely to cause people to become corruped and comitt real-world crimes. Playing Carmageddon? You'll end up running people over with your car. Reading Pokémon shota? You'll end up molesting young boys. Playing Pacman? You'll end up eating pills and attacking your neighbour's sheets that were hung out to dry. Of course, sex is getting a special treatment here as being more likely to instigate real-world crimes. For some people sex means shoes though, yeah... little tight leather shoes that you just want to polish and polish and polish until they're all hot and shiny... then you might want to read some shoe fanfics to prepare for some serious shoe obducting. Gotta catch ém all!
Once you get an AI to do logical reasoning, is there anything left to improve but speed and knowledge/data? Even so, a super-duper AI will still be possible to trick by supplying it false information, so it won't automatically know you're thinking of '102' when you said you were thinking of a number 'between 0 and 100'. I can imagine a super-AI to be like a... beowulf cluster of Stephen Hawkings with perfect memories. I might be useful to come up with things that that can be logically deduced but require more knowledge than a human can possibly keep track of.
I think Bruce Sterling gave a talk on this subject, it can be found a bit down on this page: Long Now Seminars.
My personal whimsical theo.. hypoth... idea is that alien civilizations turn into (towards us) apathetic singularities, and that's why we will never hear Chenjesu's crystaline humming calling us. Maybe the universe will end in some sort of rather dull uniform black technological singularity goo.
...or maybe it's relative? If the quality of the posts is the same, then something else must be getting 'geometrically' more grumpy as it ages ._.
Might come in handy when the Ur-Quan hierarchy arrives...
I've always wondered how much of an impact a person sent back in time could have.
Of course, there's always a 20% chance you send back a person that still doesn't know that the earth goes around the sun (Well, around the shared gravitational center or whatever, I suppose it's relative too). "We like... had these steel wagons... and you could like tell them where to go... and you could go to a big building where you pushed smaller wagon in front of you and you put food in it... then you went home and looked at a box with these moving pictures that were funny to look at."
I think one of the most important things to bring back in time would be the idea of book printing and information sharing.
I just unlocked this, all I had to do was run a Photoshop macro that rotated stuff around a bit. http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/esrb_cp.jpg
and you should look at how other people, not under the influences you cite, experience God and religion. if you do see how it enriches, sustains, and gives hope, you're just stereotyping, which is merely intellectual laziness.
Yeah, just look at Tom jumping there in Operah's sofa! Now there's a happy man! So what if it costs him a little money and he must eat some placentas...
The real question is, can you do bouncing tits? On a more serious note... no wait, I was serious about the tits! Anyways, I don't think it's an evolution game in the sense that you have natural selection and genetic mutations going on automatically. It's more of an ID game, no?
Digital tools are both good and bad I think. With Photoshop (+wacom) I can do more color studies. I don't have to buy expensive materials or set things up. The tools are just a click a way. I can mix and select colors faster. The threshold of having to set things up and clean up is not there. On the other hand I've gotten a bit sloppy, maybe because I work at a screen scale and can't zoom in the same way as with the eye on a paper.
My paintings can be seen on my homepage but I'd rather recommend taking a look at Craig Mullins stuff, he is an excellent artist who do a lot of his paintings with Photoshop.
There's many people who 'cheat' by using filters over photos and such. I say cheat because these persons later say (or let people believe) they did it from scratch. It's not cheating if they are frank about their work process.
Daleks are also featured (without permission?) in C64 Paradroid (unit 883) and Amiga/Atari Paradroid 90 (units 683 and 783, and the 999 Command Cyborg could be taken as a Davros paraphrase).
I think the new Daleks looks great, although I do prefer them in gun metal 'color'. The new cybermen looks a bit action figure-ish unfortunately.
By the way, Amazon has a RC Dalek which looks quite nifty ( ASIN: B0009P5YYS )
In Sweden DVDs might be 199-249sek for new and well known movies (currently Fantastic Four, SW ep3, Batman Begins). A sek is 7.95 usd at the moment, so that's 25-30 usd for a movie here.
Then they usually drop to 149sek and stay there if the movie is good (same with games). If they're really old or not that good, they drop to 89sek or '2 for 99sek' after half a year or so.
I mean IF a helmet was made... would the user suffer a concussion? Or just feel nothing...?
Probably depends on the deflection angle. If it hits straight on so all the energy is transfered, then I suppose that the impact will feel about as much as the recoil from the rifle. Maybe like holding the rifle 'stock'(back) against your forehead and pulling the trigger? I heard (urban) getting shot is like getting hit by a fast softball or tennisball in terms of energy. Nothing that would throw you across the room, probably more of a 'THUD!'.
I think body armours are made so the force is distributed over a larger area, becoming 'blunt'. There's lots of layers cleverly arranged so the force is dilluted as it travels through the armour. I suppose helmets also have paddings that act as suspension too. Isn't helmets more for protecting the wearer from shrapnel and tumblers though?
As far as I know, tank armours have a hard outer layer, and a softer inner layer. The hard outer layer attempts to shatter the projectile, and the soft more flexible inner layer will then absorb the shock from the fragments and distribute the force. Not sure where the israeli armour goes. It's a good thing if the bullet doesn't start to tumble or 'mushroom' (hollowpoints do) inside the body. I think this is the reason why hard body armours are avoided, the just makes matters worse by making lots of little nasty fragments that enter the body.
Depleted Uranium (DU) projectiles (as fired by the A10 tank killer) contains a DU 'needle' inside the bullet, and that needle is apparently self sharpening and very heavy, so it doesn't shatter when hitting the outer hard armour layer. Because of the energy it melts the armour, spraying it inside the tank. I think DU incinerates too. That's what I read anyways.
NoNESevent? An event seriously lacking Nintendo Entertainment Systems?
Isn't it funny... that scientists are often as dogmatic and short-sighted as the religious fanatics they criticise.
Yeah, it's true for most people I guess. This quote comes to mind:Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
- James Harvey Robinson
Dict dogmatic
This however is not the definition of Science, instead it sounds more like the definition of... yeah that's right.Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles.
Why does no one view god as the collected set of mechanics that the universe runs under?
"The word for universe in Sanskrit is 'Brahmanda', which is made by joining of words 'Brahma' and 'Anda'. Brahma is derived from root 'Briha' meaning to expand and 'Anda' means egg. Thus 'Brahmanda' means expanding egg."
I believe Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are sometimes seen as an allegory of the universe doing its thing. In fact, Hinduism has a lot of interesting and surprisingly accurate scientifical ideas. It's worth to note that hinduism (as with most religions) has evolved through out time (and it has gotten increasingly complex as they appended and tweaked rather than replacing). Sadly, much of the old knowledge and culture was destroyed by religious zealots and other ignorant people.
People that are stupid (in the sense that they make the wrong choices) might just be uninformed, misinformed or have developed an unhealthy bias/psychosis through indoctrination. Their IQ may be less relevant, unless it drops below the retard limit (70?).
I'd like to see some "Help me, I'm a mom!" buttons in software, particulary in dialogs for options/settings. Clicking one would pop up a text written for moms.
Releasing books that seem more focused on pretty artwork than solid material -- and, of course, the artwork costs more to print, so the cost for the book is increased. Go figure
A picture is worth a thousand words though? Personally I never read the text in RPGs (atleast not initially). I mostly rely on the pictures to get a look and feel of what the game is about, similar to how I always look at the screenshots before reading the game review. I'm an artist however, and probably... different.
Many RPGs have terrible amateur artwork, often printed in B/W. I haven't seen that many RPGs in full color/art magazine dpi/gloss160g. Small RPG companies pays maybe $0-100 per illo. WotC pays a couple of hundred.