Ever play Horizons? Great crafting game but not much else sadly. They forced its release before it was ready. I've heard a good deal about SWGs economic and crafting system pre-NGE but I never really played it. I'd love to see another MMORPG that has a good player driven economy. Combat is fun and all but some times gathering cotton to spin into thread is fun too.
Might as well just dig a hole in the ground, line it with concrete and dump the poor bastards in. Yes they are sick but not every sick person should be damned for life. Some of them manage to get better after all. The problem with informing the public about these people is that they end up driven from their homes. People react with fear and then push them out. With full coverage they'd never find a place to live. Some would say 'good middens.' I say let them be monitored but let them also try and live. Tormenting them the rest of their lives is just as wrong as the torment they caused. Maybe that's justice but I find it bitter and wrong.
You would probably love Exalted. That said a lot of 'DnD' gamers moved into other systems. I've never liked DnD but I love Exalted, Werewolf, In Nomine, Riddle of Steel, StarWars (D6 version) etc. Then again any game can be good with good players. I just haven't had the best of experiences with DnD in the past.
I have McAfee Online VS scanner at home. Its cheep and isn't too annoying. The newest version is a bit more annoying than the previous ones but it still isn't bad. I hate Norton's AV software. I've never had anything but problems with it. They have some nice tools, don't get me wrong but their AV package sucks. There are some fee options available too though you might have to put up with some annoying things with those.
I'd like to see a special ink used instead. Print a document and keep it as long as you want, then drop it in an eraser / stacker device for putting back into the printer. Maybe even make some pens that use this type of ink too. Then you can use normal paper. Maybe have the eraser / stacker device check the paper to make sure it is reusable, if it fails the test then spit it out into the normal recycling bin.
Actually if you wanted to make some carbon nanotubes or balls then you can just light up a fire. They are found in almost all soot from burned wood and such. They first noticed them doing some strange experiments with lasers and such but now they know how to grow them relatively well. The problem is growing them the way we want. It's easy to make them but hard to control them. They tend to grow in clumps or double to triple walled tubes. While non uniform nanotubes wouldn't hurt your steel swords any they aren't very useful for specific modern uses.
Ooo shiny! That's like the first stage of RP'n. Once you can get past the shiny stage you can get into real RP. RP is mostly about being the person you are playing. RP encompasses everything about your character from shiny sword to using the bathroom, from what your character likes and dislikes to what their past was. Some people don't care for that, they never get past the first stage and that's fine. It takes a very active imagination and many other skills. It doesn't matter as long as you enjoy the game and don't ruin it for others.
The real question is what is that heat sink made out of? What sort of odd chemicals might be on that thing? I'd not be willing to eat an egg cooked on that grill as it might have led or other nasty stuff on it. Even if he washed it before it might still leach poisons into the egg. Bad move guy, hope you don't get poisoned. I bet that is about normal for a possessor around that level on most all computers.
The $100 laptop project is still up and running. All that failed was the pledge. The pledge was never officially endorsed by the laptop project anyway. The laptops were never intended to be sold to people in the US and such. The pledge was started by people who wanted one. So they thought that maybe if they got enough people to join them in the pledge the project would look at all the possible income and go ahead and sell to them.
Hell yea! That level was very scary and ranks right up there with the max pain baby one. The cradle level takes the cake though because of how the atmosphere was designed. Thief 3 was a great game and that was a great level. I only wish it was more open ended. I'd love to see a much bigger city to explore with more non-story line driven sneaky-thief fun.
I consider myself a hard-core gamer but I still play WoW. Eve may be one of those kinds of games but I found it boring. Granted I didn't give it much try but I don't care for space sims much. Horizons was also a truly 'hard-core' type of game. It's too bad the people funding the game forced them to release it WAY before it was ready. I'd still be playing it if not for the fact that the client rendering engine was terribly inefficient and their darn money policy when they implemented with the new patters. I loved that game and really wanted to see it succeed. Maybe I'll give WoW a break and go check it out again.
A good argument to this would be 'if them then why not you too'. Would YOU be willing to be recorded all day every day? From the moment you exited your home to when you entered again?
Animals don't excursive, they don't need to. That is because the act of feeding and living IS the exercise. This is only natural as I see it. I've always wondered why nobody did something like this before. Creatures are active when they have something to do. Biology makes us lazy because that conserves resources. In the modern human environment we hardly need to do much more than think. Thinking is good for you but there is more to life than just thinking. Interaction in the workout makes it entertaining, this should encourage us to work out longer and try harder, if for nothing else than the numbers on the screen. Just like real life, if you are hungry you'll work hard to get food; if you are hunting you'll run as long as it takes to get that food. Same with modern life, but instead of hunting for food we hunt for points in a video game. Much more money and research needs to go into this kind of thing. If we encourage gyms I think it'll be hard to find a gym that isn't teched out.
To bad dogs and other small mammals produce more "energy" then humans. I guess in the real world they'd just kill us all and use dogs as power. Or even better, microbes, smaller and a lot less picky about food.
While I see the advantage of bipedal robots I can't help but think we may be going to wrong direction. Four or even six legs are far more stable and efficient. I'd like to see more work on centaur-like robots in the house. This type of design would allow them to interact in normal human ways but also carry much more. Not only that, kids could ride the robots around! Or maybe even bear-like robots that can stand upright and walk around when needed but drop to all fours when going long distances or carrying large heavy loads.
Not only would that be great I'd like to see them work more on the first person experience. In Anarchy Online when in first person view you could still see your characters body. I wish more MMOs would do this. Not only does it add more to the feeling of actually being the person you are playing but it also feels more natural. It's nice to see where your feet are on the ground and what your hands are doing. Also, as annoying is it can be to have your screen filled with a weapon or what not it sure makes playing in first person much more interesting. At least that way you can see that you are doing things unlike in WoW. In WoW it's hard to tell if you're attacking or doing much of anything in first person.
Cameras are fine for low scale retail jobs such as you describe or banking but not for other types. I wouldn't and couldn't do my job if I had cameras pointed at me all the time. I'd be so nervous I'd goof up that I'd never get anything done. Not only that it'd be an insult.
If you have the money and will:
Contract a robotics company to build you a huge multi-disk changer. Take a design similar to those multi-disk changers that hold a hundred disks and just make it bigger. That would cut down on storage space and also make accessing the disks much easer. The investment cost may be high but the end result should pay off in the long run.
Arguably adults are not much brighter than teenagers just slower to change. That could be due to 'wisdom' that comes from experiences or just biological, most likely both. The internet more accurately reflects us as humans, the species, rather than individuals. I could go on with this idea but I don't know that people want to read rant/ideas on the net.:)
The software and hardware are interchangeable. The brain makes hardware and software changes to itself during operation.
*Tangent*
Some day we may make DNA to build cells for computational biomasses. Such cells DNA would not need to be nearly as complex as real living creatures. Even single celled creatures need much more DNA based information than any artificial cells. Artificial computational biomass cells would only need enough information for replicating on command, following operation instructions and continuation (aka living). Some day we may have enough knowledge to build such systems (creatures). A biomass computer is only the first step to harnessing a very powerful technology. We may even be able to make cells that can build new cells with new DNA that we program. That way we could experiment with out having to build such cells and DNA by hand.
How about some sort of middle ground? Patent the program and its patches but not the individual code elements that make it work. Patenting code elements is like patenting the glass, steel, rubber and other components of an aircraft, then suing a car manufacturer for using glass steel and rubber. I have no problem with companies making money off programs, but they should not be able to patent the parts that make the program, just the program itself. I guess that is kind of flawed too, considering company's patent parts to cars and aircraft, but it works at a more basic level. Computer programs are much like that basic level, as developed as computers and programs are we still are at the forging level. We are still working with fire and pots to smelt metal to make axes. Patenting bronze because it was used in making an axe is just wrong.
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Ever play Horizons? Great crafting game but not much else sadly. They forced its release before it was ready. I've heard a good deal about SWGs economic and crafting system pre-NGE but I never really played it. I'd love to see another MMORPG that has a good player driven economy. Combat is fun and all but some times gathering cotton to spin into thread is fun too.
Most of these children have probably never played a game before. Graphics matter little when you have nothing to compare against.
Carbon nanotubes! (someday)
Maybe its sticky?
Might as well just dig a hole in the ground, line it with concrete and dump the poor bastards in. Yes they are sick but not every sick person should be damned for life. Some of them manage to get better after all. The problem with informing the public about these people is that they end up driven from their homes. People react with fear and then push them out. With full coverage they'd never find a place to live. Some would say 'good middens.' I say let them be monitored but let them also try and live. Tormenting them the rest of their lives is just as wrong as the torment they caused. Maybe that's justice but I find it bitter and wrong.
Glass is silica.
You would probably love Exalted. That said a lot of 'DnD' gamers moved into other systems. I've never liked DnD but I love Exalted, Werewolf, In Nomine, Riddle of Steel, StarWars (D6 version) etc. Then again any game can be good with good players. I just haven't had the best of experiences with DnD in the past.
I have McAfee Online VS scanner at home. Its cheep and isn't too annoying. The newest version is a bit more annoying than the previous ones but it still isn't bad. I hate Norton's AV software. I've never had anything but problems with it. They have some nice tools, don't get me wrong but their AV package sucks. There are some fee options available too though you might have to put up with some annoying things with those.
I'd like to see a special ink used instead. Print a document and keep it as long as you want, then drop it in an eraser / stacker device for putting back into the printer. Maybe even make some pens that use this type of ink too. Then you can use normal paper. Maybe have the eraser / stacker device check the paper to make sure it is reusable, if it fails the test then spit it out into the normal recycling bin.
Actually if you wanted to make some carbon nanotubes or balls then you can just light up a fire. They are found in almost all soot from burned wood and such. They first noticed them doing some strange experiments with lasers and such but now they know how to grow them relatively well. The problem is growing them the way we want. It's easy to make them but hard to control them. They tend to grow in clumps or double to triple walled tubes. While non uniform nanotubes wouldn't hurt your steel swords any they aren't very useful for specific modern uses.
Ooo shiny! That's like the first stage of RP'n. Once you can get past the shiny stage you can get into real RP. RP is mostly about being the person you are playing. RP encompasses everything about your character from shiny sword to using the bathroom, from what your character likes and dislikes to what their past was. Some people don't care for that, they never get past the first stage and that's fine. It takes a very active imagination and many other skills. It doesn't matter as long as you enjoy the game and don't ruin it for others.
The real question is what is that heat sink made out of? What sort of odd chemicals might be on that thing? I'd not be willing to eat an egg cooked on that grill as it might have led or other nasty stuff on it. Even if he washed it before it might still leach poisons into the egg. Bad move guy, hope you don't get poisoned. I bet that is about normal for a possessor around that level on most all computers.
The $100 laptop project is still up and running. All that failed was the pledge. The pledge was never officially endorsed by the laptop project anyway. The laptops were never intended to be sold to people in the US and such. The pledge was started by people who wanted one. So they thought that maybe if they got enough people to join them in the pledge the project would look at all the possible income and go ahead and sell to them.
Hell yea! That level was very scary and ranks right up there with the max pain baby one. The cradle level takes the cake though because of how the atmosphere was designed. Thief 3 was a great game and that was a great level. I only wish it was more open ended. I'd love to see a much bigger city to explore with more non-story line driven sneaky-thief fun.
I consider myself a hard-core gamer but I still play WoW. Eve may be one of those kinds of games but I found it boring. Granted I didn't give it much try but I don't care for space sims much. Horizons was also a truly 'hard-core' type of game. It's too bad the people funding the game forced them to release it WAY before it was ready. I'd still be playing it if not for the fact that the client rendering engine was terribly inefficient and their darn money policy when they implemented with the new patters. I loved that game and really wanted to see it succeed. Maybe I'll give WoW a break and go check it out again.
A good argument to this would be 'if them then why not you too'. Would YOU be willing to be recorded all day every day? From the moment you exited your home to when you entered again?
Animals don't excursive, they don't need to. That is because the act of feeding and living IS the exercise. This is only natural as I see it. I've always wondered why nobody did something like this before. Creatures are active when they have something to do. Biology makes us lazy because that conserves resources. In the modern human environment we hardly need to do much more than think. Thinking is good for you but there is more to life than just thinking. Interaction in the workout makes it entertaining, this should encourage us to work out longer and try harder, if for nothing else than the numbers on the screen. Just like real life, if you are hungry you'll work hard to get food; if you are hunting you'll run as long as it takes to get that food. Same with modern life, but instead of hunting for food we hunt for points in a video game. Much more money and research needs to go into this kind of thing. If we encourage gyms I think it'll be hard to find a gym that isn't teched out.
To bad dogs and other small mammals produce more "energy" then humans. I guess in the real world they'd just kill us all and use dogs as power. Or even better, microbes, smaller and a lot less picky about food.
While I see the advantage of bipedal robots I can't help but think we may be going to wrong direction. Four or even six legs are far more stable and efficient. I'd like to see more work on centaur-like robots in the house. This type of design would allow them to interact in normal human ways but also carry much more. Not only that, kids could ride the robots around! Or maybe even bear-like robots that can stand upright and walk around when needed but drop to all fours when going long distances or carrying large heavy loads.
Not only would that be great I'd like to see them work more on the first person experience. In Anarchy Online when in first person view you could still see your characters body. I wish more MMOs would do this. Not only does it add more to the feeling of actually being the person you are playing but it also feels more natural. It's nice to see where your feet are on the ground and what your hands are doing. Also, as annoying is it can be to have your screen filled with a weapon or what not it sure makes playing in first person much more interesting. At least that way you can see that you are doing things unlike in WoW. In WoW it's hard to tell if you're attacking or doing much of anything in first person.
Cameras are fine for low scale retail jobs such as you describe or banking but not for other types. I wouldn't and couldn't do my job if I had cameras pointed at me all the time. I'd be so nervous I'd goof up that I'd never get anything done. Not only that it'd be an insult.
If you have the money and will:
Contract a robotics company to build you a huge multi-disk changer. Take a design similar to those multi-disk changers that hold a hundred disks and just make it bigger. That would cut down on storage space and also make accessing the disks much easer. The investment cost may be high but the end result should pay off in the long run.
That it is.
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Arguably adults are not much brighter than teenagers just slower to change. That could be due to 'wisdom' that comes from experiences or just biological, most likely both. The internet more accurately reflects us as humans, the species, rather than individuals. I could go on with this idea but I don't know that people want to read rant/ideas on the net.
The software and hardware are interchangeable. The brain makes hardware and software changes to itself during operation.
*Tangent*
Some day we may make DNA to build cells for computational biomasses. Such cells DNA would not need to be nearly as complex as real living creatures. Even single celled creatures need much more DNA based information than any artificial cells. Artificial computational biomass cells would only need enough information for replicating on command, following operation instructions and continuation (aka living). Some day we may have enough knowledge to build such systems (creatures). A biomass computer is only the first step to harnessing a very powerful technology. We may even be able to make cells that can build new cells with new DNA that we program. That way we could experiment with out having to build such cells and DNA by hand.
How about some sort of middle ground? Patent the program and its patches but not the individual code elements that make it work. Patenting code elements is like patenting the glass, steel, rubber and other components of an aircraft, then suing a car manufacturer for using glass steel and rubber. I have no problem with companies making money off programs, but they should not be able to patent the parts that make the program, just the program itself. I guess that is kind of flawed too, considering company's patent parts to cars and aircraft, but it works at a more basic level. Computer programs are much like that basic level, as developed as computers and programs are we still are at the forging level. We are still working with fire and pots to smelt metal to make axes. Patenting bronze because it was used in making an axe is just wrong.