I just love it when Christians horribly mistranslate the original Hebrew to make it say something to justify their view that everyone else is going to hell.
Look, people. The Buddhists are smart, but that's really all they have going for them. Do you really know what all that meditation is? It's THINKING! Nothing more than sitting still and calming the varying stimuli that affect your mind for long enough to apply the existential (Multiple Intelligence's word for philosophical/religious intelligence) intelligence you were born with.
Siddartha Guatama really was just fortunate to be in a situation (a prince, I remember from History class) where he could take time off from constantly striving for what he THOUGHT would make him happy and think for a good long time (many years) about what REALLY would make him happy. He came up with Buddhism, what are your thoughts?
You may now stop worshipping the fat Indian guy. It really doesn't matter what religion you are if you want to be happy, just THINK!
As a starting hint, I've found that the key to happiness in anything is knowing when one's circumstances are GOOD ENOUGH rather than when they are perfect.
as it is understood in most Judeo-Christian religions
Please do not include "Judeo" there. In Judaism the Happy Afterlife is a TIME, not a place, and is directly brought about by the doing of mitzvot (commandments). Everyone is considered responsible for doing these mitzvot because 1. They're often the Right Thing to do anyway and 2. Our Covenant with G-d.
When we die we supposedly wake up and it's the afterlife, yes, but WHEN exactly this happens is squarely in our own hands, and thus life has more to it than trying to be happy.
Kind of a loose explanation, but it'll have to do.
That, unfortunately, would be me. I'm the moron who has to be conscious of his own attempts to block out his existential intelligence by running on what I believe some call a "hedonic treadmill" but is perhaps more sensibly referred to as "The Wheel of Samsara".
I've seen pictures of the Nunchaku attachment, and it at the very least includes 2 extra trigger buttons.
So for a basic setup of remote and nunchaku:
1 analog control stick for two dimensional movement in 360 degrees with varying intensities
2 trigger buttons that can be comfortably reached with the index or middle fingers of the hand that holds the nunchaku
1 set of remote sensors that can detect movement in 3 dimensions with rotation around arbitrary axis
1 A button on the obvious face of the remote part that will be easily reachable with the thumb
1 B trigger button on the remote
1 set of small a and b buttons placed on the bottom of the remote
1 standard 8-way two dimensional direction pad
That's 2 forms of 2D directional control (usable simultaneously), a full 3D form of control (that can be used simultaneously with either or both 2D directional controls), and 6 buttons.
Assuming that nunchaku become fairly standard, I think this controller is darn well complex enough for any game you can think of. Especially because things like the R/L buttons and the C-stick/C-buttons are VERY VERY OFTEN used as button substitutes for directional controls, which are now given straight to the player.
Excuse me? An entire half of the country voted AGAINST Bush, despite the fact that his opponent was almost as bad as him AND a pussy who wouldn't stand up for principles.
We, the non-Republican people of America, deserve access to the FULL Internet as long as we are willing to pay ISPs and techies appropriate sums proportional to the bandwidth we recieve in turn.
Somebody from Slashdot here should march down to Washington and shove this very page and report in their faces, thus providing a very good reason to stop granting the corporation's requests for easier access to foreign labor to substitute for domestic labor they're pretending they can't get.
Yeah, and I suppose it's the engineer's job to solve society's organizational problems. Incomplete data on the problem is one thing, the job environment being fucked up is another.
I happen to think that mindless is what people are learning in the schools right now, and it would probably be better for the kids to sit on the net reading Slashdot.
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You thought you loved advertising, which is exactly what they wanted you to think. Get the holy hell out of advertising.
I just love it when Christians horribly mistranslate the original Hebrew to make it say something to justify their view that everyone else is going to hell.
Read The Fucking Talmud
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The obligatory Buddhism Praising Hour...
Look, people. The Buddhists are smart, but that's really all they have going for them. Do you really know what all that meditation is? It's THINKING! Nothing more than sitting still and calming the varying stimuli that affect your mind for long enough to apply the existential (Multiple Intelligence's word for philosophical/religious intelligence) intelligence you were born with.
Siddartha Guatama really was just fortunate to be in a situation (a prince, I remember from History class) where he could take time off from constantly striving for what he THOUGHT would make him happy and think for a good long time (many years) about what REALLY would make him happy. He came up with Buddhism, what are your thoughts?
You may now stop worshipping the fat Indian guy. It really doesn't matter what religion you are if you want to be happy, just THINK!
As a starting hint, I've found that the key to happiness in anything is knowing when one's circumstances are GOOD ENOUGH rather than when they are perfect.
as it is understood in most Judeo-Christian religions
Please do not include "Judeo" there. In Judaism the Happy Afterlife is a TIME, not a place, and is directly brought about by the doing of mitzvot (commandments). Everyone is considered responsible for doing these mitzvot because 1. They're often the Right Thing to do anyway and 2. Our Covenant with G-d.
When we die we supposedly wake up and it's the afterlife, yes, but WHEN exactly this happens is squarely in our own hands, and thus life has more to it than trying to be happy.
Kind of a loose explanation, but it'll have to do.
That, unfortunately, would be me. I'm the moron who has to be conscious of his own attempts to block out his existential intelligence by running on what I believe some call a "hedonic treadmill" but is perhaps more sensibly referred to as "The Wheel of Samsara".
I've seen pictures of the Nunchaku attachment, and it at the very least includes 2 extra trigger buttons.
So for a basic setup of remote and nunchaku:
1 analog control stick for two dimensional movement in 360 degrees with varying intensities
2 trigger buttons that can be comfortably reached with the index or middle fingers of the hand that holds the nunchaku
1 set of remote sensors that can detect movement in 3 dimensions with rotation around arbitrary axis
1 A button on the obvious face of the remote part that will be easily reachable with the thumb
1 B trigger button on the remote
1 set of small a and b buttons placed on the bottom of the remote
1 standard 8-way two dimensional direction pad
That's 2 forms of 2D directional control (usable simultaneously), a full 3D form of control (that can be used simultaneously with either or both 2D directional controls), and 6 buttons.
Assuming that nunchaku become fairly standard, I think this controller is darn well complex enough for any game you can think of. Especially because things like the R/L buttons and the C-stick/C-buttons are VERY VERY OFTEN used as button substitutes for directional controls, which are now given straight to the player.
Given M$'s philosophy of business (copy a safe strategy and then throw marketing money behind it), I'd say you're exactly correct.
Excuse me? An entire half of the country voted AGAINST Bush, despite the fact that his opponent was almost as bad as him AND a pussy who wouldn't stand up for principles.
We, the non-Republican people of America, deserve access to the FULL Internet as long as we are willing to pay ISPs and techies appropriate sums proportional to the bandwidth we recieve in turn.
Which is why there is WorldForge.
Somebody from Slashdot here should march down to Washington and shove this very page and report in their faces, thus providing a very good reason to stop granting the corporation's requests for easier access to foreign labor to substitute for domestic labor they're pretending they can't get.
Yeah, and I suppose it's the engineer's job to solve society's organizational problems. Incomplete data on the problem is one thing, the job environment being fucked up is another.
I happen to think that mindless is what people are learning in the schools right now, and it would probably be better for the kids to sit on the net reading Slashdot.
Of course! Nobody should carry guns except, of course, the government, because they could only be looking out for our best interests, right?
I don't know about most Americans, but I think guns are absolutely necessary to keep the government in line.
I code and read Slashdot on this 4-5 year old system powered by a 1.3 Ghz Pentium 4, so don't tell me old machines are useless.
True, the latest games might not even run, but I use Linux anyway and have two consoles for when I want games.