My mum is well into House, so I saw a couple of episodes while at home - interesting character, kind of an anti-hero, he even got the diagnosis completely wrong in the light sensitivity episode lol.
Yeah the idea of leaving a positive impact is a good one. I still find it a little depressing that memories are all that is left, but what can you do. From scientific evidence so far, it does seem likely to be the case that the end is the end, but IMO that is definitely not definite;) I mean if we can evolve from beings who live solely on instinct, is it not possible that some kind of intelligence has evolved either from either biological beginnings as our own has, or purely physical processes? It's good to consider all people equal, though personally I know that I'm not quite as evil as a cold blooded serial killer/rapist who purposely commits heinous acts. If our entire purpose is to protect the gene pool then they are working against that. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell, but it's strange to think that if there is some kind of individual consciousness after death, that the malicious consciousnesses would also be present, which leads people to wish for a heaven and a hell.
I believe people should be allowed to immigrate yes, though I think VISA systems are sensible for places that have limited space like the UK, otherwise the country really would degenerate into anarchy with overcrowding. I'm not an economist but I'm guessing having a massive influx of people into any country would devalue the currency and mean everyone ends up being 'poorer' like in China and India where people work for peanuts. Getting a VISA is criminally expensive though, which could be partially what you are referring to - a guy at work had to pay something like £750 each for his wife and kid to come over from Thailand. I dread to think how much it would have cost if they hadn't been married. In the UK we already take in asylum seekers who come over from various places, though I'm not sure what rights that gives them, but it's better than just turning everyone away. The US has a lot more space, and is meant to be the 'land of opportunity', so it is a little hypocritical to limit inflow from Mexico.. I don't even see why Mexico isn't a state (purely for geographical reasons, it's just as weird as Alaska being a state:p ), is it likely that they will join the US in time? Treating immigrants as second class humans is despicable, but it's basic human nature to make the most of any power you hold over someone "I'm calling immigration!" seems to be a common theme from American TV and movies when people want to get their way over an immigrant.
Sounds like a lot of speculation to me:p I'm not disagreeing, but it is just a load of ifs. Even if SONY did do that, it is perfectly good business sense, though personally I'd rather not operate using such underhanded tactics. That's probably why I'm not a millionaire though.
Keep saying to yourself.. "It's only a delusion, it's only a delusion" and you will get over that god thing that holds you back from truly critical thinking.
How is repeating a mantra to yourself going to help you break free of brainwashing systems? How do you know that you are not the one who is 'deluded'. I'm playing devil's advocate here because I recently stopped believing in God myself, but you simply choose to believe that there is no god based on the evidence you yourself have acquired. You may feel that you 'know' that there is no god, but there are plenty of people who 'know' that there is a god too. I don't personally know either opinion to be correct, though I have more respect for those that have looked into the matter and chosen to believe based on their experience than those that just choose what they have been told to believe, or what seems obvious to them on the surface of things. There are 'obvious' reasons to both believe in God or not believe in God, both are regularly explained away by believers of both sides.
I was brought up believing that God existed and managed to keep believing it until earlier this year. I don't really have any proper worldview to replace it with yet, the only thing I have so far is my own experience and interesting scientific unknowns. I'd like to think that there is more to life than what we see, and I also think that dismissing that idea offhand is foolish.
I used to think that everything in the world was already on a set path and predictable, which it basically is at large scales for things like simulating solar systems, structural stresses and even more complex stuff like fluid dynamics, but down on the quantum level, we have no fully functional models yet. I haven't looked into it for a while (planning to soon, string theory looks quite interesting), but what if - for example's sake - our own universe is just a simulation and quantum level particles are being manipulated directly by some computer program, in a completely unpredictable manner? We can attempt to understand our own reality, but to claim that there is no reality other than the one we can perceive and study is pretty narrow minded. Our own personal reality is the only thing which we can say for sure exists, but there are plenty of things that are true that we cannot be sure of. For example even if I never see the pyramids with my own eyes, that doesn't mean they're not there (this is assuming that they are and I've not been had by some global joke where everyone else wants to have a laugh at my expense).
IMO celibacy does cause general sexual frustration which may give people urges that they wouldn't otherwise have. It is possible for people to be sexually attracted to pretty much anything given the right circumstances, hence necrophilia, bestiality, coprophagia and shit like that (pun intended).
Pedophilia is actually acceptable in some cultures. It seems obviously wrong to most of us, but those cultures that are okay with pedophilia may think being gay is wrong, etc. The only universal sexual taboo that humanity has, is that each culture must have at least one sexual taboo.. likewise individual religions have their own taboos.
While I agree with age limits on sex, especially in age difference so that children can't be taken advantage of (though I personally would have been happy to have sex with girls of similar age, or even older women when I was about 12, but these days I can see why that would be a really weird situation:p ), the rules vary a lot from place to place. Here in Scotland the legal age for getting married/having sex is 16. Apparently the legal age to have sex is 14 in Canada (as long as the other person is under 16), and I think it is generally 18 in America, and so on. Clearly there is no one set of rules that everyone agrees on, and there probably never will be. No person exactly conforms to their society's sexual norms either, they just pretend to!
While I am no longer a Christian, if I were I'd point out that in the bible, God introduced imperfection and suffering into the world after Adam and Eve fell. Damaging the gene structure seems a good way to introduce death and disease..
As someone who's seen things from both side of the fence - and honestly believed them rather than just tried to understand those who believed them - that doesn't seem a good counter to me. I'd personally first point out more obvious things like the existence of the human appendix and residual human tail structure (actually I just googled it and apparently some humans are still born with actual tails.. eww) as more obvious evidence for pure natural selection over ID.
BTW, I think your caps lock is switched on, you may want to look into that. How did you even get around the lameness filter?:O You are truly a god among dotters. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go finish off the Bungle Duke.
Since the title says 'switching', I'm guessing it's routing efficiency. I've not RTFA but I'm planning to in a minute if that makes things any better;)
Totally agree with you about the latency thing. I was reading reviews of Battlefield Bad Company for the PS3 the other day, someone has said "this game has no lag!". While the server/client communication may be more efficient than other similar online games, there's no way it will have 'no' lag (which I would equate to latency). And in fact, when I've been playing it myself some games have had some serious lag anyway, which I doubt was my own connection as connecting to a new server tends to sort out the problem. I seem to get a lot of dropped packets on some servers as my character actually drifts backwards:s
Most people just don't know what they're talking about when it comes to things like networking, but they'll try to pretend they do*. What else is new..
* that's what I do anyway \o/ these suckers are paying me to administrate their network and I have no idea what a subnet mask looks like, or why a subnet would even want to hide its identity
The term "first world" refers to countries that are capitalist, which are technologically advanced, and whose citizens have a high standard of living.
Yes, it's of course highly laughable to suggest that it's better living in a first world country rather than in abject poverty. Any country that restricts the sales of computer games is obviously far behind the curve when it comes to human rights..
I bought Manhunt in a shop here in the UK. It was crap. I don't care how much publicity the others Manhunt games get from being restricted, I won't buy them unless they actually become fun to play. We have 18+ game ratings here in the UK btw. While the UK is not perfect, I'd much rather live here as an IT monkey than become a sweatshop worker in China or India, thankyouverymuch.
IMO causing a controversy over a computer game will only improve how popular it would otherwise have been. I had seen Manhunt in shops and not been that interested, but after the big deal that was being made over it, I thought I'd see what the fuss was about.
Hmm. After reading the Editorial summary, wouldn't techs just be able to get around this by having their clients sign a disclaimer allowing them to investigate the problems occuring with their PC? Seems to me that it's a good idea to have that kind of disclaimer anyway in case the machine turns out to have even worse problems than the client expects, and they try to blame you for causing the problems.
I agree that the law here is far too nebulous and clearly written by a guy that understands nothing about data recovery or even basic computer repairs. Anyone who even so much as checks an error log is performing an 'investigation'.
The sad thing is that if this law is presented as being somehow important to the public's personal privacy, nobody but the techies will complain.
I don't think he was implying that people can't leave Texas, just that when the stuff spreads, it will no longer work to get away from this type of law.
Personally I think it sounds pretty dumb, but I haven't RTFA, and I don't live in the US anyway.. though one of our offices is in Houston, if I ever went out there and someone asked me to fix their home PC, this could become relevant:s
Thus, oxygen doesn't get in reaction with oxygen, right?
Well, single Oxygen atoms can bind with another to become O2, or even become O3 (ozone). IIRC extremely high voltage welding tools can create ozone.. I'm sure someone will call me out on that if it's wrong:P
What, the ones that are owned by private companies to protect their property (but which the police request footage from, they have asked us for foootage loads of times, even for crimes that occurred across the road), or are otherwise in public places, and therefore not invading anyone's privary, and so are not 'illegal'?
Oh wait, I'm in Scotland, not England, I guess anything I say doesn't apply as you meant England, not the UK..
I'm pretty sure he means because the MP5 is already in lots of games. If I was in the market for a submachinegun then the first thing that would spring to mind would be the MP5. Similarly if I had to buy a rifle I'd seriously consider the AK and any M16 derivatives. Thanks, Counter-Strike!
This is all pretty useless however as gun ownership is not particularly lauded nor necessary in the UK:)
Yep I saw an SEC page in one of my searches before and used the Cache, but I didn't find anything beyond http://www.secinfo.com/dV5Ff.4fjbj.htm , which only mentions Sony, MS etc because they are PDA makers, not because they bought licenses. I can believe that SONY bought licenses, and would want to outdo competitors, but if they were trying to stifle innovation then they wouldn't have even bought a license surely. All that did was give C3D money and give SONY more toys to play with, to make better products for us. Perhaps they are going to release FMD devices for the next generation, or perhaps we will just be using broadband wireless tech everywhere by then.
Exaccerly. I realised recently I had developed quite a nihilistic worldview because of Christianity - if the bible is right then the only reason we are here is to make more Christians and for the rest to go to hell. I was quite surprised to read that Nietzche says Christianity is essentially nihilistic. I had thought it was just me getting the wrong end of the stick, because most of the Christians I know don't end up down that logical route, they use it as a way of cheering themselves up, and affirming their own wishes as you say. Most are quite cheery and not at all operating under nihilistic pretenses. IMO that's because they're choosing to only focus on certain positive aspects of Christianity though, and just push things like doubts, and the logical conclusions of biblical ideas out of the picture.. I managed to be like that for a while, but now that I've come out of it, I find it hard to see how my other perfectly intelligent friends can't see the same things. The whole group mentality is hard to fight though, it's not nice to truly feel like you're splitting yourself from the herd. I guess it's easier for me because I've been spending a lot of time on/. though so I've been more logical and often atheistic doctrine flying round my head and am in some ways just migrating to a different group mentality!
I ended up being quite depressed around that time too, as my dad died 6 freaking weeks before I started CS at University, which was hard for me because he's the one that got me interested in computers in the first place, as he did CS as a mature student while I was a kid, taught me the basics of coding, and I wanted to be like him and work with him, etc. We argued loads in the year before he died, which sucked having to live with that (he was annoyed at me for not studying his Software Engineering book before I went to Uni, but I knew I was already going to know a lot of the coursework and I didn't want to be too bored:p he had his final year CS project finished before his final year even started!), but arguing is a pretty normal teenageparent thing to happen I guess. Plus I've found out since then that he was apparently even worse with his own dad, and he didn't speak to one of my uncles for a few years when he dumped his fiance, so I know it wasn't just me that had a problem xD Not that I'm an angel, me and my first gf were always arguing too and now she won't even speak to me:P I think she managed to transpose her hate for her dad onto me. I'm not surprised as I always thought I was quite like him, but she tried to argue that I wasn't as much of a jerk. I guess I won that argument hands down in the end! \o/
Strangely the world can be less depressing if you accept that you are in control and don't sit there waiting for any God to do stuff in your life. It seems like doing it yourself is the way to go. Sure there's nobody else to blame for things going wrong, but also you get to take credit for when you do things right!;) I like that I can question things and not feel guilty, and feel more like I'm using my brain again (which I know is of fairly good quality, I just haven't been using it as much as I should). I still am operating on the notion that all achievement is ultimately meaningless if there is nothing beyond our physical reality - brought on largely when my dad died, and I wished he'd spent more time with us and less time studying and working - what's the point in great learning if you never pass it on..? But I suppose the point is - even if it all is ultimately meaningless - at least you can enjoy the journey and try to find some meaning amongst the chaos.
As for/. , it does help keep me current so I don't feel that bad about reading it, but I'm generally much more productive if I make an effort to keep the/.ing for later in the day, otherwise I'm always replying to replies:p Anyway, I've happily been much more heavily involved with my application dev
I can't see the first link, but fair enough. That's better than just saying that SONY killed it, but still not exactly conclusive, I think that's what you call 'circumstancial' evidence. There are plenty more reasons for companies to fold than conspiracies. Licensing tech to other companies would not hurt C3D, and the last link you provide mentioned that several companies licensed the tech, so it obviously wasn't an exclusive license to SONY, which would have put them more in a position to kill C3D for killing's sake..
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Heh, I like that, it's like saying "we're going to have to let you go, but we're pretty sure you did it ya bastard"
My mum is well into House, so I saw a couple of episodes while at home - interesting character, kind of an anti-hero, he even got the diagnosis completely wrong in the light sensitivity episode lol.
Yeah the idea of leaving a positive impact is a good one. I still find it a little depressing that memories are all that is left, but what can you do. From scientific evidence so far, it does seem likely to be the case that the end is the end, but IMO that is definitely not definite ;) I mean if we can evolve from beings who live solely on instinct, is it not possible that some kind of intelligence has evolved either from either biological beginnings as our own has, or purely physical processes? It's good to consider all people equal, though personally I know that I'm not quite as evil as a cold blooded serial killer/rapist who purposely commits heinous acts. If our entire purpose is to protect the gene pool then they are working against that. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell, but it's strange to think that if there is some kind of individual consciousness after death, that the malicious consciousnesses would also be present, which leads people to wish for a heaven and a hell.
I believe people should be allowed to immigrate yes, though I think VISA systems are sensible for places that have limited space like the UK, otherwise the country really would degenerate into anarchy with overcrowding. I'm not an economist but I'm guessing having a massive influx of people into any country would devalue the currency and mean everyone ends up being 'poorer' like in China and India where people work for peanuts. Getting a VISA is criminally expensive though, which could be partially what you are referring to - a guy at work had to pay something like £750 each for his wife and kid to come over from Thailand. I dread to think how much it would have cost if they hadn't been married. In the UK we already take in asylum seekers who come over from various places, though I'm not sure what rights that gives them, but it's better than just turning everyone away. The US has a lot more space, and is meant to be the 'land of opportunity', so it is a little hypocritical to limit inflow from Mexico.. I don't even see why Mexico isn't a state (purely for geographical reasons, it's just as weird as Alaska being a state :p ), is it likely that they will join the US in time? Treating immigrants as second class humans is despicable, but it's basic human nature to make the most of any power you hold over someone "I'm calling immigration!" seems to be a common theme from American TV and movies when people want to get their way over an immigrant.
Sounds like a lot of speculation to me :p I'm not disagreeing, but it is just a load of ifs. Even if SONY did do that, it is perfectly good business sense, though personally I'd rather not operate using such underhanded tactics. That's probably why I'm not a millionaire though.
Keep saying to yourself .. "It's only a delusion, it's only a delusion" and you will get over that god thing that holds you back from truly critical thinking.
How is repeating a mantra to yourself going to help you break free of brainwashing systems? How do you know that you are not the one who is 'deluded'. I'm playing devil's advocate here because I recently stopped believing in God myself, but you simply choose to believe that there is no god based on the evidence you yourself have acquired. You may feel that you 'know' that there is no god, but there are plenty of people who 'know' that there is a god too. I don't personally know either opinion to be correct, though I have more respect for those that have looked into the matter and chosen to believe based on their experience than those that just choose what they have been told to believe, or what seems obvious to them on the surface of things. There are 'obvious' reasons to both believe in God or not believe in God, both are regularly explained away by believers of both sides.
I was brought up believing that God existed and managed to keep believing it until earlier this year. I don't really have any proper worldview to replace it with yet, the only thing I have so far is my own experience and interesting scientific unknowns. I'd like to think that there is more to life than what we see, and I also think that dismissing that idea offhand is foolish.
I used to think that everything in the world was already on a set path and predictable, which it basically is at large scales for things like simulating solar systems, structural stresses and even more complex stuff like fluid dynamics, but down on the quantum level, we have no fully functional models yet. I haven't looked into it for a while (planning to soon, string theory looks quite interesting), but what if - for example's sake - our own universe is just a simulation and quantum level particles are being manipulated directly by some computer program, in a completely unpredictable manner? We can attempt to understand our own reality, but to claim that there is no reality other than the one we can perceive and study is pretty narrow minded. Our own personal reality is the only thing which we can say for sure exists, but there are plenty of things that are true that we cannot be sure of. For example even if I never see the pyramids with my own eyes, that doesn't mean they're not there (this is assuming that they are and I've not been had by some global joke where everyone else wants to have a laugh at my expense).
IMO celibacy does cause general sexual frustration which may give people urges that they wouldn't otherwise have. It is possible for people to be sexually attracted to pretty much anything given the right circumstances, hence necrophilia, bestiality, coprophagia and shit like that (pun intended).
Pedophilia is actually acceptable in some cultures. It seems obviously wrong to most of us, but those cultures that are okay with pedophilia may think being gay is wrong, etc. The only universal sexual taboo that humanity has, is that each culture must have at least one sexual taboo.. likewise individual religions have their own taboos.
While I agree with age limits on sex, especially in age difference so that children can't be taken advantage of (though I personally would have been happy to have sex with girls of similar age, or even older women when I was about 12, but these days I can see why that would be a really weird situation :p ), the rules vary a lot from place to place. Here in Scotland the legal age for getting married/having sex is 16. Apparently the legal age to have sex is 14 in Canada (as long as the other person is under 16), and I think it is generally 18 in America, and so on. Clearly there is no one set of rules that everyone agrees on, and there probably never will be. No person exactly conforms to their society's sexual norms either, they just pretend to!
I was thinking God probably runs Gentoo, but if that were true then non-Jews presumably wouldn't be called 'gentiles'.
In the absense of any real evidence, my second guess is that the universe is running on THEONIX.
While I am no longer a Christian, if I were I'd point out that in the bible, God introduced imperfection and suffering into the world after Adam and Eve fell. Damaging the gene structure seems a good way to introduce death and disease..
As someone who's seen things from both side of the fence - and honestly believed them rather than just tried to understand those who believed them - that doesn't seem a good counter to me. I'd personally first point out more obvious things like the existence of the human appendix and residual human tail structure (actually I just googled it and apparently some humans are still born with actual tails.. eww) as more obvious evidence for pure natural selection over ID.
What is not proven?
BTW, I think your caps lock is switched on, you may want to look into that. How did you even get around the lameness filter? :O You are truly a god among dotters. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go finish off the Bungle Duke.
Since the title says 'switching', I'm guessing it's routing efficiency. I've not RTFA but I'm planning to in a minute if that makes things any better ;)
Totally agree with you about the latency thing. I was reading reviews of Battlefield Bad Company for the PS3 the other day, someone has said "this game has no lag!". While the server/client communication may be more efficient than other similar online games, there's no way it will have 'no' lag (which I would equate to latency). And in fact, when I've been playing it myself some games have had some serious lag anyway, which I doubt was my own connection as connecting to a new server tends to sort out the problem. I seem to get a lot of dropped packets on some servers as my character actually drifts backwards :s
Most people just don't know what they're talking about when it comes to things like networking, but they'll try to pretend they do*. What else is new..
* that's what I do anyway \o/ these suckers are paying me to administrate their network and I have no idea what a subnet mask looks like, or why a subnet would even want to hide its identity
The term "first world" refers to countries that are capitalist, which are technologically advanced, and whose citizens have a high standard of living.
Yes, it's of course highly laughable to suggest that it's better living in a first world country rather than in abject poverty. Any country that restricts the sales of computer games is obviously far behind the curve when it comes to human rights..
I bought Manhunt in a shop here in the UK. It was crap. I don't care how much publicity the others Manhunt games get from being restricted, I won't buy them unless they actually become fun to play. We have 18+ game ratings here in the UK btw. While the UK is not perfect, I'd much rather live here as an IT monkey than become a sweatshop worker in China or India, thankyouverymuch.
IMO causing a controversy over a computer game will only improve how popular it would otherwise have been. I had seen Manhunt in shops and not been that interested, but after the big deal that was being made over it, I thought I'd see what the fuss was about.
Hmm. After reading the Editorial summary, wouldn't techs just be able to get around this by having their clients sign a disclaimer allowing them to investigate the problems occuring with their PC? Seems to me that it's a good idea to have that kind of disclaimer anyway in case the machine turns out to have even worse problems than the client expects, and they try to blame you for causing the problems.
I agree that the law here is far too nebulous and clearly written by a guy that understands nothing about data recovery or even basic computer repairs. Anyone who even so much as checks an error log is performing an 'investigation'.
The sad thing is that if this law is presented as being somehow important to the public's personal privacy, nobody but the techies will complain.
I don't think he was implying that people can't leave Texas, just that when the stuff spreads, it will no longer work to get away from this type of law.
Personally I think it sounds pretty dumb, but I haven't RTFA, and I don't live in the US anyway.. though one of our offices is in Houston, if I ever went out there and someone asked me to fix their home PC, this could become relevant :s
yeah, 'dumbfuckstruck' would have had a nicer ring to it at least, even if it still makes no sense other than as self-pwnage.
Thus, oxygen doesn't get in reaction with oxygen, right?
Well, single Oxygen atoms can bind with another to become O2, or even become O3 (ozone). IIRC extremely high voltage welding tools can create ozone.. I'm sure someone will call me out on that if it's wrong :P
What, the ones that are owned by private companies to protect their property (but which the police request footage from, they have asked us for foootage loads of times, even for crimes that occurred across the road), or are otherwise in public places, and therefore not invading anyone's privary, and so are not 'illegal'?
Oh wait, I'm in Scotland, not England, I guess anything I say doesn't apply as you meant England, not the UK..
I'm pretty sure he means because the MP5 is already in lots of games. If I was in the market for a submachinegun then the first thing that would spring to mind would be the MP5. Similarly if I had to buy a rifle I'd seriously consider the AK and any M16 derivatives. Thanks, Counter-Strike!
This is all pretty useless however as gun ownership is not particularly lauded nor necessary in the UK :)
The joke's on you - that was a BLUFF!
But then if he finds out and travels back in time, he technically knows before you do :P Who is he to say what is 'supposed' to happen anyhow..
Yep I saw an SEC page in one of my searches before and used the Cache, but I didn't find anything beyond http://www.secinfo.com/dV5Ff.4fjbj.htm , which only mentions Sony, MS etc because they are PDA makers, not because they bought licenses. I can believe that SONY bought licenses, and would want to outdo competitors, but if they were trying to stifle innovation then they wouldn't have even bought a license surely. All that did was give C3D money and give SONY more toys to play with, to make better products for us. Perhaps they are going to release FMD devices for the next generation, or perhaps we will just be using broadband wireless tech everywhere by then.
Exaccerly. I realised recently I had developed quite a nihilistic worldview because of Christianity - if the bible is right then the only reason we are here is to make more Christians and for the rest to go to hell. I was quite surprised to read that Nietzche says Christianity is essentially nihilistic. I had thought it was just me getting the wrong end of the stick, because most of the Christians I know don't end up down that logical route, they use it as a way of cheering themselves up, and affirming their own wishes as you say. Most are quite cheery and not at all operating under nihilistic pretenses. IMO that's because they're choosing to only focus on certain positive aspects of Christianity though, and just push things like doubts, and the logical conclusions of biblical ideas out of the picture.. I managed to be like that for a while, but now that I've come out of it, I find it hard to see how my other perfectly intelligent friends can't see the same things. The whole group mentality is hard to fight though, it's not nice to truly feel like you're splitting yourself from the herd. I guess it's easier for me because I've been spending a lot of time on /. though so I've been more logical and often atheistic doctrine flying round my head and am in some ways just migrating to a different group mentality!
I ended up being quite depressed around that time too, as my dad died 6 freaking weeks before I started CS at University, which was hard for me because he's the one that got me interested in computers in the first place, as he did CS as a mature student while I was a kid, taught me the basics of coding, and I wanted to be like him and work with him, etc. We argued loads in the year before he died, which sucked having to live with that (he was annoyed at me for not studying his Software Engineering book before I went to Uni, but I knew I was already going to know a lot of the coursework and I didn't want to be too bored :p he had his final year CS project finished before his final year even started!), but arguing is a pretty normal teenageparent thing to happen I guess. Plus I've found out since then that he was apparently even worse with his own dad, and he didn't speak to one of my uncles for a few years when he dumped his fiance, so I know it wasn't just me that had a problem xD Not that I'm an angel, me and my first gf were always arguing too and now she won't even speak to me :P I think she managed to transpose her hate for her dad onto me. I'm not surprised as I always thought I was quite like him, but she tried to argue that I wasn't as much of a jerk. I guess I won that argument hands down in the end! \o/
Strangely the world can be less depressing if you accept that you are in control and don't sit there waiting for any God to do stuff in your life. It seems like doing it yourself is the way to go. Sure there's nobody else to blame for things going wrong, but also you get to take credit for when you do things right! ;) I like that I can question things and not feel guilty, and feel more like I'm using my brain again (which I know is of fairly good quality, I just haven't been using it as much as I should). I still am operating on the notion that all achievement is ultimately meaningless if there is nothing beyond our physical reality - brought on largely when my dad died, and I wished he'd spent more time with us and less time studying and working - what's the point in great learning if you never pass it on..? But I suppose the point is - even if it all is ultimately meaningless - at least you can enjoy the journey and try to find some meaning amongst the chaos.
As for /. , it does help keep me current so I don't feel that bad about reading it, but I'm generally much more productive if I make an effort to keep the /.ing for later in the day, otherwise I'm always replying to replies :p Anyway, I've happily been much more heavily involved with my application dev
I can't see the first link, but fair enough. That's better than just saying that SONY killed it, but still not exactly conclusive, I think that's what you call 'circumstancial' evidence. There are plenty more reasons for companies to fold than conspiracies. Licensing tech to other companies would not hurt C3D, and the last link you provide mentioned that several companies licensed the tech, so it obviously wasn't an exclusive license to SONY, which would have put them more in a position to kill C3D for killing's sake..
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"Doctor, the system has found a nest of people who have contracted a bad case of 'OMGPONIZEEEEZ!!!'. It claims the only cure is to wave shiny objects around in their peripheral vision."
Interestingly enough, the originator of the project and author of TFA is one "Niniane Wang" :p
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