Kind of true, this is what I believe after 10 years of personal experience and experimentation.
Paradoxes are not possible because time, as a whole, isn't linear. That is just how our senses perceive it in 3 dimensional space. Each time line is personal and relative to the observer. "Time as a whole" is more like an infinitely dense tangled web.
I travel forward in a linear manner to kill my father in the past. The "me" that would have been born isn't actually the same me as the traveler, the traveler continues on through time in a linear manner the world forming around them.
Once you start to travel away from your original time line you can never get back. (I should actually say "more generic time line", because you never leave your own personal time line)
It appears to be a many worlds universe but on the larger scale it is not, everything that was or will be... is.
This will leave many large populations ripe for the picking.
The next real threat will not be planned for. Sting a politician once like this and see how they react the next time, especially if the population and media starts bitching about wasteful spending.
If I were an evil organization who has a stated goal of population control, and I had a virus I would be releasing it now.
The real problem is the stupidity of the deals cut. If you buy xxx amount of vaccine (that isn't yet produced ) there should be a clause to cancel the order, or at the very least cancel the production and shift the balance of the payment to a future vaccines production.
But make it a 3d non-platformer, make use of techniques in Mirrors Edge and you could keep the basic path/maps found in the original games.
My 60 year old Dad would love it, GnG was his favourite game, he doesn't play it anymore because he says it's "too easy"
I agree, but the same can be said for most modern games. You can't fail, there is no real death or setback. Most games have a low difficulty factor and even if you do die there is no real penalty. As a result the modern games play out like animated movies.
In an effort to reduce a players frustration the big game houses have produced games that offer no challenge and therefore no feeling of accomplishment / reward for completing the game. Ever complete Ghosts n Goblins ? that made you feel good, not everyone can do it without cheats.
Three lives sparingly added to and not recovered at the end of each level. If you die - give the player a choice to give up an inventory item (as if you were mugged) or go back to the beginning of a level- make it a penalty of some kind.
I stopped playing single player games for this very reason, out smarting a human player is a better challenge, though people in games become predictable after a while too. At least when you fail in a MP game it is a good honest failure.... you lose .
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The difference is some of a computers functions are to read, store or aid the research of information.
As computers, their storage mediums, etc develope very rapidly a lot of information is lost or made difficult to retrieve (look at the trouble I went through to get The IBM 5100)
In the case of computers by discarding that which is "old" this society is to some degree creating a mini dark ages as far as information is concerned.
Amnesty, this implies that if you dont come forward with the pirated copy you will be punnished in some way. A poster at Beta News said " If you ask me they should cut off all updates/downloads for anyone who doesn't own a copy of windows."
Two reasons I can think of that this won't/shouldn't happen and will also be bad for Microsofts business.
Thousands of unpatched WinXP boxes will eventually get rooted.(More than usual) = Bad for the OS's image security wise , thats bad for sales.
Many frustraited users will switch to Linux , Mac or another OS, and not only those with pirated copies. Some legit XP users will see the effcts of the increase in virii and zombied machines and choose to switch to escape the hoard.
Actually none of the previous posts are me. This is what happened , the short version.
I spent too much time in this world line, time travel missions are usually of only a short duration. My lengthy stay on this world line "caused" an increase in divergence greater than expected. Effectively my internet fame changed your history, increasing the divergence from my own original world line.
Towards the end of my stay here the NSA and CIA came calling; I made a quick exit to return home.
Sadly for myself, the increased divergence between world lines meant that when returning I arrived in a word line closer to this ones future than my own world lines present.
In other words I can never go home.
Plans here were changed to fix mistakes and minimize resistance based on the information found on the internet about me. I am sorry the good guys lose this time and it is my fault.
I decided to come back here to see how things play out.
Unless you can be encouraged to take back the power of government from the corporations, then the future is very bleak.
Is it me? : Slashdot ID and email John Titor, As my story is old someone would have registered these long ago for a prank. They were both registered today.... Now how would I have managed that?
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Kind of true, this is what I believe after 10 years of personal experience and experimentation.
Paradoxes are not possible because time, as a whole, isn't linear. That is just how our senses perceive it in 3 dimensional space. Each time line is personal and relative to the observer. "Time as a whole" is more like an infinitely dense tangled web.
I travel forward in a linear manner to kill my father in the past. The "me" that would have been born isn't actually the same me as the traveler, the traveler continues on through time in a linear manner the world forming around them.
Once you start to travel away from your original time line you can never get back. (I should actually say "more generic time line", because you never leave your own personal time line)
It appears to be a many worlds universe but on the larger scale it is not, everything that was or will be... is.
This will leave many large populations ripe for the picking. The next real threat will not be planned for. Sting a politician once like this and see how they react the next time, especially if the population and media starts bitching about wasteful spending. If I were an evil organization who has a stated goal of population control, and I had a virus I would be releasing it now. The real problem is the stupidity of the deals cut. If you buy xxx amount of vaccine (that isn't yet produced ) there should be a clause to cancel the order, or at the very least cancel the production and shift the balance of the payment to a future vaccines production.
But make it a 3d non-platformer, make use of techniques in Mirrors Edge and you could keep the basic path/maps found in the original games. My 60 year old Dad would love it, GnG was his favourite game, he doesn't play it anymore because he says it's "too easy"
I agree, but the same can be said for most modern games. You can't fail, there is no real death or setback. Most games have a low difficulty factor and even if you do die there is no real penalty. As a result the modern games play out like animated movies. In an effort to reduce a players frustration the big game houses have produced games that offer no challenge and therefore no feeling of accomplishment / reward for completing the game. Ever complete Ghosts n Goblins ? that made you feel good, not everyone can do it without cheats. Three lives sparingly added to and not recovered at the end of each level. If you die - give the player a choice to give up an inventory item (as if you were mugged) or go back to the beginning of a level- make it a penalty of some kind. I stopped playing single player games for this very reason, out smarting a human player is a better challenge, though people in games become predictable after a while too. At least when you fail in a MP game it is a good honest failure.... you lose .
. The difference is some of a computers functions are to read, store or aid the research of information. As computers, their storage mediums, etc develope very rapidly a lot of information is lost or made difficult to retrieve (look at the trouble I went through to get The IBM 5100) In the case of computers by discarding that which is "old" this society is to some degree creating a mini dark ages as far as information is concerned.
Amnesty, this implies that if you dont come forward with the pirated copy you will be punnished in some way.
A poster at Beta News said " If you ask me they should cut off all updates/downloads for anyone who doesn't own a copy of windows."
Two reasons I can think of that this won't/shouldn't happen and will also be bad for Microsofts business.
Thousands of unpatched WinXP boxes will eventually get rooted.(More than usual) = Bad for the OS's image security wise , thats bad for sales.
Many frustraited users will switch to Linux , Mac or another OS, and not only those with pirated copies. Some legit XP users will see the effcts of the increase in virii and zombied machines and choose to switch to escape the hoard.
Actually none of the previous posts are me.
This is what happened , the short version.
I spent too much time in this world line, time travel missions are usually of only a short duration. My lengthy stay on this world line "caused" an increase in divergence greater than expected.
Effectively my internet fame changed your history, increasing the divergence from my own original world line.
Towards the end of my stay here the NSA and CIA came calling; I made a quick exit to return home.
Sadly for myself, the increased divergence between world lines meant that when returning I arrived in a word line closer to this ones future than my own world lines present.
In other words I can never go home.
Plans here were changed to fix mistakes and minimize resistance based on the information found on the internet about me.
I am sorry the good guys lose this time and it is my fault.
I decided to come back here to see how things play out.
Unless you can be encouraged to take back the power of government from the corporations, then the future is very bleak.
Is it me? : Slashdot ID and email John Titor,
As my story is old someone would have registered these long ago for a prank. They were both registered today.... Now how would I have managed that?