When will you evolutionists learn!? The Flying Spaghetti Monster DESIGNED the human brain to process information linearly, molding us as of clay with His Noodly Appendage!
Note that your reply finds roleplaying to be a common activity among young people "in the first years of school to pre-adolescence", whereas your original post was about actual adolescents, especially those who are on Slashdot and have pretensions (often false) of hackerdom (not crackers, the hackers ESR does anthropology about). Those are two different age groups, and while it is commonly accepted that the former (5-12, let's say) roleplay quite a bit, there is naught but stereotype to suggest that teenagers/adolescents roleplay at rates beyond those of the general populace.
The second comment was intended to say "I am a Random Slashdotter, and I code." Apparently that makes me non-typical. On the matter of coding, I would say that most people on Slashdot could write a {shell,Perl,Python} script and perhaps simple to intermediate C programs, and that the supposed ignorance in posts related to Apple, M$, and SCO comes from the fact that only a very few people (on or off Slashdot) can code at the operating system, or even device driver, level.
Slashdotters do, however, have this amazing propensity to complain about some problem in the {scientific,IT,video games} field and never do anything about it even though they could.
This shows what the real issues we should be focusing on are. The internet was originally created to be a peer-to-peer-like network in which any node could run client or server software as it pleased. However, ISPs, governments and others have set things up in such a way that the common person doesn't have nearly enough bandwidth to run a server, even if they spend the money and time necessary to get an appropriate box. People are charged extra for their Internet access because they'd rather produce content as well as consume it! This is what we really need to do something about.
1.Microsoft, you moron of a Slashdotter, Microsoft! 2.What does your #2 reply have to do with my #2 statement? Other than pronouncing that I am wrong for some reason known only to you, your statement has no relation to mine. The stupid and unwealthy are more likely to be manipulated by the rich and intelligent, no matter how much they work their asses off.
For example, the movie, Minority Report, carries red for violence and profanity and yellow for sex.
For all I try I simply can't remember anything close to sex in that film. They had nude female bodies, yes, but they were lying in a pool hooked up to machinery. Only someone who's totally perverted anyway would even think the word "sex" upon seeing the Precog's Temple. Other than that, I don't even recall a kissing scene.
Let's not hand these people our video games until they can get their damned facts straight.
I still see myself when I look in the mirror. If I could, I would mod this article redundant.
Oh, and of course I want scientists knowing how to change my behavior! We should live to see the day Slashdotting until 12AM is considered an "unhealthy" habit to be "behavior modified".
We shouldn't do it because people (ie: users AND techies) like having a single internet such that locations on it can be given uniformly (the very point of URLs and domain names in the first place) without having to hand over an IP address of the associated DNS server, as well.
And the problem with having fragmented authoritative root DNS servers is that two might contain the same domain pointing to two different IPs, and the Internet would therefore be cloven in twain. Given that everyone around seems to like having one internet and seems to like not having to refer to an associated DNS server when giving out a URL, that would be a problem.
#3 is mitigated by the GP's comments about the damaging effects of monopolies, which you seem content to spin away. Therefore, you shall receive replies only to 1 and 2.
1.Some people are simply power-hungry, and therefore seek money and power solely for those means. They won't spend $1 million vs my $50 thousand on bananas. Instead they'll spend $100 thousand, buy all the bananas, set up their own banana-seller, and use their remaining $900 thousand to market their bananas to the remarkably-unintelligent populous, putting my ass out of business because I failed to cater to the lowest common denominator. Yes, people are evil and malicious like that.
2.See above about the remarkably-unintelligent populous. The fact is that the 30% with 70% of the money got their money one of two ways: they were given it, or they earned it. Either way, I'll bet they were tought a thing or two about the wise use of money, influence, and their lives, unlike most of the 70% with the 30% of the money, who by your own admission are more likely to spend more. Intelligence and money defeat numbers and lack of money, and so the wealthy continually feed the general public propoganda, schooling, etc in order to KEEP THEM STUPID, thereby making them even less likely to gain either intelligence OR money.
Some developer should: 1.Develop a 3D upgrade of the game design for "Ristar" that allows movement and jumping with the nunchaku while giving control over the characters grapples (in Ristar his arms), possibly variable length grapples like in the N64 game "Chameleon Twist", to the A button and pointer on the remote-like part of the controller. 2.Sell this new game in which both movement AND attacking are controlled by pointer (somewhat) to the masses. 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!
This game design idea is hereby public domain. I was thinking of a grappling based game in full 3D for a long time before I played Ristar on "Sonic Mega Collection", and therefore have the right to license my idea how I please, even if I don't have the technical game-design language to describe it without referring to other games.
Funny, because the local DSL provider has been surveying around here and is going to be laying down fiber optic cable through the residential areas of town.
This idea came to me: We should stick a copy of the Adelphi Charter, along with essays and papers supporting those positions, in archives with music, software, movies, and other media, name the archives for the media (of course), and put the archives on peer to peer networks and torrent trackers where they'll be downloaded. As people download and redistribute our media (everyone loves stolen music), they'll find political notices bundled with it.
You mean this Laffer Curve? Letter writing campaigns become ineffective above a certain size? Forgive me if I'm not right-wing enough to apply a supply side economic theory to political protest.
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Amen to that, and join up brother!
Pascal OS Dev
When will you evolutionists learn!? The Flying Spaghetti Monster DESIGNED the human brain to process information linearly, molding us as of clay with His Noodly Appendage!
I do believe Garfield invented Magic as a math project.
Note that your reply finds roleplaying to be a common activity among young people "in the first years of school to pre-adolescence", whereas your original post was about actual adolescents, especially those who are on Slashdot and have pretensions (often false) of hackerdom (not crackers, the hackers ESR does anthropology about). Those are two different age groups, and while it is commonly accepted that the former (5-12, let's say) roleplay quite a bit, there is naught but stereotype to suggest that teenagers/adolescents roleplay at rates beyond those of the general populace.
The second comment was intended to say "I am a Random Slashdotter, and I code." Apparently that makes me non-typical. On the matter of coding, I would say that most people on Slashdot could write a {shell,Perl,Python} script and perhaps simple to intermediate C programs, and that the supposed ignorance in posts related to Apple, M$, and SCO comes from the fact that only a very few people (on or off Slashdot) can code at the operating system, or even device driver, level.
Slashdotters do, however, have this amazing propensity to complain about some problem in the {scientific,IT,video games} field and never do anything about it even though they could.
If you have no evidence of a connection between youth and roleplaying, don't make the supposition. If you have evidence, let's hear it.
Off topic: Follow my "homepage" URL to find proof that I code.
Or perhaps I like being sober, because where I live if you have a social life you spend it drunk.
Ah, but did you change the name of the root account to "God"?
I think this finally prooves, once and for all, school people are fucking retarted.
This shows what the real issues we should be focusing on are. The internet was originally created to be a peer-to-peer-like network in which any node could run client or server software as it pleased. However, ISPs, governments and others have set things up in such a way that the common person doesn't have nearly enough bandwidth to run a server, even if they spend the money and time necessary to get an appropriate box. People are charged extra for their Internet access because they'd rather produce content as well as consume it! This is what we really need to do something about.
1.Microsoft, you moron of a Slashdotter, Microsoft!
2.What does your #2 reply have to do with my #2 statement? Other than pronouncing that I am wrong for some reason known only to you, your statement has no relation to mine. The stupid and unwealthy are more likely to be manipulated by the rich and intelligent, no matter how much they work their asses off.
For example, the movie, Minority Report, carries red for violence and profanity and yellow for sex.
For all I try I simply can't remember anything close to sex in that film. They had nude female bodies, yes, but they were lying in a pool hooked up to machinery. Only someone who's totally perverted anyway would even think the word "sex" upon seeing the Precog's Temple. Other than that, I don't even recall a kissing scene.
Let's not hand these people our video games until they can get their damned facts straight.
Why did they have to cancel Futurama?! *jumps off cliff*
Except I don't get to make out with a hot yellow chick when I land.
But don't you ever wonder what exactly causes those high suicide rates?
I still see myself when I look in the mirror. If I could, I would mod this article redundant.
Oh, and of course I want scientists knowing how to change my behavior! We should live to see the day Slashdotting until 12AM is considered an "unhealthy" habit to be "behavior modified".
We shouldn't do it because people (ie: users AND techies) like having a single internet such that locations on it can be given uniformly (the very point of URLs and domain names in the first place) without having to hand over an IP address of the associated DNS server, as well.
And the problem with having fragmented authoritative root DNS servers is that two might contain the same domain pointing to two different IPs, and the Internet would therefore be cloven in twain. Given that everyone around seems to like having one internet and seems to like not having to refer to an associated DNS server when giving out a URL, that would be a problem.
#3 is mitigated by the GP's comments about the damaging effects of monopolies, which you seem content to spin away. Therefore, you shall receive replies only to 1 and 2.
1.Some people are simply power-hungry, and therefore seek money and power solely for those means. They won't spend $1 million vs my $50 thousand on bananas. Instead they'll spend $100 thousand, buy all the bananas, set up their own banana-seller, and use their remaining $900 thousand to market their bananas to the remarkably-unintelligent populous, putting my ass out of business because I failed to cater to the lowest common denominator. Yes, people are evil and malicious like that.
2.See above about the remarkably-unintelligent populous. The fact is that the 30% with 70% of the money got their money one of two ways: they were given it, or they earned it. Either way, I'll bet they were tought a thing or two about the wise use of money, influence, and their lives, unlike most of the 70% with the 30% of the money, who by your own admission are more likely to spend more. Intelligence and money defeat numbers and lack of money, and so the wealthy continually feed the general public propoganda, schooling, etc in order to KEEP THEM STUPID, thereby making them even less likely to gain either intelligence OR money.
A moron who knew his audience, apparently.
Some developer should:
1.Develop a 3D upgrade of the game design for "Ristar" that allows movement and jumping with the nunchaku while giving control over the characters grapples (in Ristar his arms), possibly variable length grapples like in the N64 game "Chameleon Twist", to the A button and pointer on the remote-like part of the controller.
2.Sell this new game in which both movement AND attacking are controlled by pointer (somewhat) to the masses.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
This game design idea is hereby public domain. I was thinking of a grappling based game in full 3D for a long time before I played Ristar on "Sonic Mega Collection", and therefore have the right to license my idea how I please, even if I don't have the technical game-design language to describe it without referring to other games.
Funny, because the local DSL provider has been surveying around here and is going to be laying down fiber optic cable through the residential areas of town.
And which symbols is it really useful to have symbol keys for across all languages?
Which is precisely it. John Ashcroft never did support Justice.
It's especially moot because some NAT-based home routers come with firewall software built in.
This idea came to me: We should stick a copy of the Adelphi Charter, along with essays and papers supporting those positions, in archives with music, software, movies, and other media, name the archives for the media (of course), and put the archives on peer to peer networks and torrent trackers where they'll be downloaded. As people download and redistribute our media (everyone loves stolen music), they'll find political notices bundled with it.
You mean this Laffer Curve? Letter writing campaigns become ineffective above a certain size? Forgive me if I'm not right-wing enough to apply a supply side economic theory to political protest.