That brings whole new meaning to the term "computer virus"
At least this is just a really good humidity sensor, and not a life support system or something.
Maybe the next step is to incorporate an auto-immune system into the works.
I'm not sure the issue can be laid on escapism as well. I mean, if you think about it, non-geeks find ways to escape that don't necessarily involve gaming, and often are significantly more self-damaging.
I think the point that people who find it easier to focus analytically may find it difficult to deal with the escapes available in a more social crowd needs further analysis before being put off as people sinking to new lows for lack of their social abilities.
Being able to watch analytical people interact with each other, many of the social norms that are apparent among people who aren't as technical develop. This is something I've noticed studying at an institute of technology. Sometimes, the comfort level that people express when exposed to other people with similarly 'geeky' natures is extraordinary. You would never expect it placing the same group of people in the center of a loud party.
The point that the world of a role playing game is a creative solution to a defined set of rules is very interesting. That makes the fact that rules are not well defined or even static in a normal social relationship apparent and significant. It's possible that the lack of rigid structure behind non-technical human interaction is what makes it difficult for most geeky and technical people to interact.
The issue has so many facets that it can't be approached by saying it's blindingly obvious to everyone. There's more to it than meets the eye and has some amusing subtleties that are worth noting.
There is no way in which an embryo or fetus is aiding the survival of the parent, and there are extra precautions a mother needs to make in order to support a growing unborn infant.
I still think my statement stands fine on its own, although I'd be interested in hearing what reading you suggest I look into to counter this. I don't pretend to be well versed in infantile parisitism.
Hmmm, an interesting proposition.
Time constraints and monetary constraints are still the major issue here. The current system goes through hundreds of patents in the time it would take one group to do one in your method.
I personally think that women have the right to make up their mind.
While they're living off their parent, babies are parasites.
Most of us will let them finish growing because it's exciting to see the results, it's how we propagate our species, and we all went through that stage as well.
Kinda shocking when you think about it that way, isn't it.
It's a little costly, and there's probably better ways to do it, but you can make animated hands using a motion sensor, nitinol (titanium/nickle) wire, a little foam latex or something equally flexible, and something solid enough for a skeleton. Nitinol has the added advantage that you can use it as 'tendons' and get away with it on bare-bones skeletal hands for a creepy effect.
For more amusement, blue and red leds mess with peoples heads. Only flash them if you know you don't have any epileptics in the room.
I agree the patent system is broken, but I also think that a system needs to be there. IMHO The biggest flaws with the American patent system are:
1. It doesn't have enough manpower to do what it's being asked to do
2. It has quotas
3. It doesn't have the money to expand
An idea on how to fix this would be make all pending patents public. They are clocked on submission, and the public is allowed to point to prior art and post thoughts on the obviousness of the patent. By the time some Einstein gets around to reading the thing, he doesn't need to guess the obviousness of the patent, so no more patenting the wheel, and he has links to prior art. (legitimate prior art must come from published sources)
Though I still don't know about the people coming out of the backwoods claiming their patents cover things like XML. Could there be limits on the broadness of a patent? (All objects that are round and may provide ease of locomotion through utilization of rolling friction rather than sliding)
Cars suffer from the same problem. If you take a key and rub it all over the surface, the paint scratches, I mean, come on. Why haven't we seen lawsuits filed against car companies?
Other than servers, I don't see much reason someone would have a computer on during a storm anyway. There are also frequencies where water doesn't affect light as much. If those were allotted to the 'balloons' or even some of NASA's solar powered gliders ahref=http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets /FS-034-DFRC.htmlrel=url2html-3918http://trc.dfrc. nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets/FS-034-DFRC.html> with battery modifications, you might be able to get away with it.
The gliders may have other advantages too. They move slowly, but could get out of the way if a storm was coming, and might be a potential target for AI to make it hands free.
Great, so I now have to replace my car battery as often as I replace my computer battery. Dead in 10 months or less. Guarenteed to allow the car to operate for 2 hours, which means I may get out of the driveway before it shuts down.
OK, I sat and listened to the interview with Jack Thompson and Chatterbox Video Game Radio.
I felt I needed to get past the bias and everything else.
So here's what I've gotten out of it:
1. Jack Thompson seems to believe his focus is very well defined. He claims he wants to fight access to violent and sexual video games by minors, which is something a lot of people including myself agree with, but his actions don't follow.
2. His actions are indictive of his dislike of the existance of violent games and games with sex in them.
3. He doesn't seem to grasp the concept that mods are not created by the original artist, and feels that they should be held responsible for modders creations.
4. He likes to throw big names around to support his opinion. His personal favorite appears to be Hilary Clinton. It feels like he's trying to play off the fact she's running democratic to draw in people on both sides of a fence. As far as I understand, conservitive views tend to be we should maintain the status quo.
5. He blames the game developers for the ESRB's short comings in rating video games.
6. He believes that interactive entertainment has an exponentially stronger affect on people's minds than any other form of media.
7. He loves to point out that he has been on TV and had many interviews.
And my take on it is, he's focusing his energy on the wrong targets. I feel a lot of people agree kids shouldn't get their hands on the higher rating games, but that's not something to blame the game companies for. They shouldn't stop creating the games they do, but they shouldn't focus ads on minors. They should keep the right to make the games they do. If people really didn't want them, they'd be out of business.
I remember the argument about the rating system coming up before. A lot of people felt that it made no sense to have a different rating system for movies and games, and I agreed with that, but I think it's too late to change it now for one reason. The movie rating system works because it's been working for a long time. Familiarity is what keeps it stable (even though it is drifting too), and it's what defines its meaning now. Games haven't had a rating system for that long. When the movie industry first started using their system, did they make mistakes? I wouldn't doubt it, although I can't site specific examples. The industry has faults because its growing into the system. Society needs to pick up on it too, and that's going to start happening as more and more gamers start having kids, because all of a sudden, people are going to recognize the long held system for rating games and be able to better protect their OWN kids from the games.
Many of the problems are taking care of themselves, and Jack seems to be missing that point. Gamers are not just kids anymore. We're the first to test the waters of this technology, and now we get to spread that message to our kids.
And no, Jack, just because you've been on TV doesn't mean you're any more credible than I am, dropping a comment on/.
Don't make bluffs you're not prepared to be called on.
Wait a second. You mean Jack Thompson INTENTIONALLY based his poorly written letter on a letter written in 1729 that was not only about eating babies, but drew a from the original author's peers, major criticizim and disgust.
This just gets better and better.
What kind of an idiot repeats something like that when the original outcome was so bad, and then is shocked and complains when he finds his own associates turning on him for his sick and twisted mind.
This man is either going to end up in an asylum for being completely insane, or end up earning himself one of the most remembered Darwin awards in the history of man kind.
The thing I wonder is if he succeeded in getting penny arcade locked up, how many people would be ready to donate cash to bail them out?
Now for fairness sake, if HE was put away, how many people would be ready to help him get out?
I honestly can say I don't care if pot smokers smoke pot. They can do it all they want to. I have friends who do it and family who did it. So what. The ONLY thing that I can't deal with, is the smell.
I am sure it affects mental growth, and I'm sure the government is hiding something about it... They like to do that with everything, right. But cancer is when a piece of tissue starts to grow uncontrollably too, and if you cut yourself, your scar tissue may grow bigger than the original. It doesn't mean it functions any better. If you leave vegetables on the plant longer, they get bigger, but harder to eat. People really like to imagine bigger immediatly means better.
And once they figure out how to stop people who do it from smelling like that for a month afterward, they can go ahead and do it as much as they like.
I agree with the statement about Americans teaching themselves to become inferior. We keep abstracting technique out of our teaching system and replacing it with computers and tools. The large majority of us may be literate, but that doesn't mean we know what the hell we're doing any more. People who really take the time to study why things work the way they do are still getting jobs. I think a major issue is the thought everyone in America needs a College Education to get a job. People need to wake up. College Educations are not valuable if you're not using them to learn why what you're doing works.
The reason math and science are obsolete is even a topic of discussion is we're becoming overly dependant on our technology to do work for us.
What would happen if we had no electricity? A major blackout?
What about when people do allow math and science into obsolecence. Are we going to allow the Foundation to come true?
Who will fix the tools when we've become so dependant on them that we no longer can?
In the correctly told riddle, the truth teller may or may not guard the life door.
Therefore, as was mentioned before, his argument fails because it doesn't insure that either one is which.
It is, however sufficient enough for the incorrectly told riddle at the very top of this thread. This is why the correctly told riddle is told the way it is.
It's true it's the commutative property of multiplication.
The principle idea is -1 * 1 = -1 (A negative number multiplied by a positive is always a negative)
Which is why asking "Will the other guy say this is the door to salvation" will always tell you the opposite of what it is. (Ask about the door to salvation to the guy who tells the truth, and he will honestly say the other guy would say no. The other one would lie and say the first guy would say no when he would honestly say yes.)
I'll buy that. Fun thought problem.
A side note, it's not hard to burn things with the heat emissions off an led producing the same amount of light as a normal 60-100 watt lightbulb. Rather painful, especially in that first instant (20 MCD 3mm Green LED in direct contact with a finger at 3V is surprizingly hot after operation), so the variable of how long heat dissapates and the variable of how long it takes for you to go to the next room and test the bulbs' temps may be significant.
A Psychotic Mathematician (The Professor) has kidnapped 20 of his students.
They are being held hostage, and the Professor has announced to them that he will provide a thought puzzle to determine whether he will let individuals go free.
The students will be placed in a single room in single file and must always face forward. Students can clearly see all students in front of them.
Every student will be given either a red or blue hat, but no one knows the color hat on their own head.
To be let free, a student must announce the color of the hat on their head.
All students can announce only one color, and all other students can clearly hear the announcement. Announcing anything but red or blue will result in all students being brutally subjected to absurd math problems indefinitly.
They are allowed to discuss how to get out of the situation before being placed in line, but the Professor, after going through years of intense mathematic study, will pessimize (force the situation into the worst possible outcome) the situation for a given solution the students come up with.
How many students can be guarenteed freedom in the optimal solution? What is the optimal solution? What principle in the real world does it reflect?
I have tried to be very explicit in this problem. If someone notices an issue or has a question, please mention it.
My bad, he mis-told the riddle.
I'm familiar with the correctly told one, so I overlooked the goof up.
The original is There are two indistinguishable doors, each has a guard, one leads to salvation, one to a gruesome death, and one of the guards always lies while one always tells the truth. What yes/no question could you ask a guard to guarentee you would pick the door to salvation. You may only ask one question.
The reasoning behind the solution is very simple, but it usually takes a while to pick up on it for most people.
Now all you need are magnets, and you have truely green energy with little to no waste.
The only problem is cats must be alive to land on their feet. So assuming you can feed the spinning cat/toast apparatus mid cycle, the system will decay. A second issue is that the amount of energy taken from the system must be greater than the amount supplied to keep the cat alive to have a net gain, which violates Thermodynamic law (entropy)
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That brings whole new meaning to the term "computer virus"
At least this is just a really good humidity sensor, and not a life support system or something.
Maybe the next step is to incorporate an auto-immune system into the works.
FIGHT THEM COMPUTER BUGS!!!
I'm not sure the issue can be laid on escapism as well. I mean, if you think about it, non-geeks find ways to escape that don't necessarily involve gaming, and often are significantly more self-damaging.
I think the point that people who find it easier to focus analytically may find it difficult to deal with the escapes available in a more social crowd needs further analysis before being put off as people sinking to new lows for lack of their social abilities.
Being able to watch analytical people interact with each other, many of the social norms that are apparent among people who aren't as technical develop. This is something I've noticed studying at an institute of technology. Sometimes, the comfort level that people express when exposed to other people with similarly 'geeky' natures is extraordinary. You would never expect it placing the same group of people in the center of a loud party.
The point that the world of a role playing game is a creative solution to a defined set of rules is very interesting. That makes the fact that rules are not well defined or even static in a normal social relationship apparent and significant. It's possible that the lack of rigid structure behind non-technical human interaction is what makes it difficult for most geeky and technical people to interact.
The issue has so many facets that it can't be approached by saying it's blindingly obvious to everyone. There's more to it than meets the eye and has some amusing subtleties that are worth noting.
I didn't intend the social side, just the physical dependance, but I don't see where the issue is.
Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=parasite
A parasite is an organism that feeds on, and is sheltered on or in another organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.
The host doesn't necessarily have to die from hosting a parasite, and if they don't, the parasite can be considered successful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successful_parasite
There is no way in which an embryo or fetus is aiding the survival of the parent, and there are extra precautions a mother needs to make in order to support a growing unborn infant.
I still think my statement stands fine on its own, although I'd be interested in hearing what reading you suggest I look into to counter this. I don't pretend to be well versed in infantile parisitism.
I don't think I can say "Simpsons did it" for this one...
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BUT SOUTHPARK DID!!!! http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_epis
Hmmm, an interesting proposition. Time constraints and monetary constraints are still the major issue here. The current system goes through hundreds of patents in the time it would take one group to do one in your method.
I personally think that women have the right to make up their mind.
While they're living off their parent, babies are parasites.
Most of us will let them finish growing because it's exciting to see the results, it's how we propagate our species, and we all went through that stage as well.
Kinda shocking when you think about it that way, isn't it.
I thought EA produced them two years ago, but they didn't sell very well.
It's a little costly, and there's probably better ways to do it, but you can make animated hands using a motion sensor, nitinol (titanium/nickle) wire, a little foam latex or something equally flexible, and something solid enough for a skeleton. Nitinol has the added advantage that you can use it as 'tendons' and get away with it on bare-bones skeletal hands for a creepy effect.
For more amusement, blue and red leds mess with peoples heads. Only flash them if you know you don't have any epileptics in the room.
I agree the patent system is broken, but I also think that a system needs to be there. IMHO The biggest flaws with the American patent system are:
1. It doesn't have enough manpower to do what it's being asked to do
2. It has quotas
3. It doesn't have the money to expand
An idea on how to fix this would be make all pending patents public. They are clocked on submission, and the public is allowed to point to prior art and post thoughts on the obviousness of the patent. By the time some Einstein gets around to reading the thing, he doesn't need to guess the obviousness of the patent, so no more patenting the wheel, and he has links to prior art. (legitimate prior art must come from published sources)
Though I still don't know about the people coming out of the backwoods claiming their patents cover things like XML. Could there be limits on the broadness of a patent? (All objects that are round and may provide ease of locomotion through utilization of rolling friction rather than sliding)
Cars suffer from the same problem. If you take a key and rub it all over the surface, the paint scratches, I mean, come on. Why haven't we seen lawsuits filed against car companies?
Other than servers, I don't see much reason someone would have a computer on during a storm anyway. There are also frequencies where water doesn't affect light as much. If those were allotted to the 'balloons' or even some of NASA's solar powered gliders ahref=http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets /FS-034-DFRC.htmlrel=url2html-3918http://trc.dfrc. nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets/FS-034-DFRC.html> with battery modifications, you might be able to get away with it.
The gliders may have other advantages too. They move slowly, but could get out of the way if a storm was coming, and might be a potential target for AI to make it hands free.
Great, so I now have to replace my car battery as often as I replace my computer battery. Dead in 10 months or less. Guarenteed to allow the car to operate for 2 hours, which means I may get out of the driveway before it shuts down.
THAAAAAAT'S PROGRESS!
OK, I sat and listened to the interview with Jack Thompson and Chatterbox Video Game Radio.
/.
I felt I needed to get past the bias and everything else.
So here's what I've gotten out of it:
1. Jack Thompson seems to believe his focus is very well defined. He claims he wants to fight access to violent and sexual video games by minors, which is something a lot of people including myself agree with, but his actions don't follow.
2. His actions are indictive of his dislike of the existance of violent games and games with sex in them.
3. He doesn't seem to grasp the concept that mods are not created by the original artist, and feels that they should be held responsible for modders creations.
4. He likes to throw big names around to support his opinion. His personal favorite appears to be Hilary Clinton. It feels like he's trying to play off the fact she's running democratic to draw in people on both sides of a fence. As far as I understand, conservitive views tend to be we should maintain the status quo.
5. He blames the game developers for the ESRB's short comings in rating video games.
6. He believes that interactive entertainment has an exponentially stronger affect on people's minds than any other form of media.
7. He loves to point out that he has been on TV and had many interviews.
And my take on it is, he's focusing his energy on the wrong targets. I feel a lot of people agree kids shouldn't get their hands on the higher rating games, but that's not something to blame the game companies for. They shouldn't stop creating the games they do, but they shouldn't focus ads on minors. They should keep the right to make the games they do. If people really didn't want them, they'd be out of business.
I remember the argument about the rating system coming up before. A lot of people felt that it made no sense to have a different rating system for movies and games, and I agreed with that, but I think it's too late to change it now for one reason. The movie rating system works because it's been working for a long time. Familiarity is what keeps it stable (even though it is drifting too), and it's what defines its meaning now. Games haven't had a rating system for that long. When the movie industry first started using their system, did they make mistakes? I wouldn't doubt it, although I can't site specific examples. The industry has faults because its growing into the system. Society needs to pick up on it too, and that's going to start happening as more and more gamers start having kids, because all of a sudden, people are going to recognize the long held system for rating games and be able to better protect their OWN kids from the games.
Many of the problems are taking care of themselves, and Jack seems to be missing that point. Gamers are not just kids anymore. We're the first to test the waters of this technology, and now we get to spread that message to our kids.
And no, Jack, just because you've been on TV doesn't mean you're any more credible than I am, dropping a comment on
Don't make bluffs you're not prepared to be called on.
I wonder what would happen if he got a hold on the phallic disney myths. I mean, we've already determined he's Fucking Goofy!!!
Wait a second. You mean Jack Thompson INTENTIONALLY based his poorly written letter on a letter written in 1729 that was not only about eating babies, but drew a from the original author's peers, major criticizim and disgust.
This just gets better and better.
What kind of an idiot repeats something like that when the original outcome was so bad, and then is shocked and complains when he finds his own associates turning on him for his sick and twisted mind.
This man is either going to end up in an asylum for being completely insane, or end up earning himself one of the most remembered Darwin awards in the history of man kind.
The thing I wonder is if he succeeded in getting penny arcade locked up, how many people would be ready to donate cash to bail them out?
Now for fairness sake, if HE was put away, how many people would be ready to help him get out?
Food for thought.
I honestly can say I don't care if pot smokers smoke pot. They can do it all they want to. I have friends who do it and family who did it. So what. The ONLY thing that I can't deal with, is the smell.
I am sure it affects mental growth, and I'm sure the government is hiding something about it... They like to do that with everything, right. But cancer is when a piece of tissue starts to grow uncontrollably too, and if you cut yourself, your scar tissue may grow bigger than the original. It doesn't mean it functions any better. If you leave vegetables on the plant longer, they get bigger, but harder to eat. People really like to imagine bigger immediatly means better.
And once they figure out how to stop people who do it from smelling like that for a month afterward, they can go ahead and do it as much as they like.
I agree with the statement about Americans teaching themselves to become inferior. We keep abstracting technique out of our teaching system and replacing it with computers and tools. The large majority of us may be literate, but that doesn't mean we know what the hell we're doing any more. People who really take the time to study why things work the way they do are still getting jobs. I think a major issue is the thought everyone in America needs a College Education to get a job. People need to wake up. College Educations are not valuable if you're not using them to learn why what you're doing works.
The reason math and science are obsolete is even a topic of discussion is we're becoming overly dependant on our technology to do work for us.
What would happen if we had no electricity? A major blackout?
What about when people do allow math and science into obsolecence. Are we going to allow the Foundation to come true?
Who will fix the tools when we've become so dependant on them that we no longer can?
Quite often, yes, but I found that the Computer Communication Application is much more interesting
In the correctly told riddle, the truth teller may or may not guard the life door.
Therefore, as was mentioned before, his argument fails because it doesn't insure that either one is which.
It is, however sufficient enough for the incorrectly told riddle at the very top of this thread. This is why the correctly told riddle is told the way it is.
Close, but there's more.
It's true it's the commutative property of multiplication.
The principle idea is -1 * 1 = -1 (A negative number multiplied by a positive is always a negative)
Which is why asking "Will the other guy say this is the door to salvation" will always tell you the opposite of what it is. (Ask about the door to salvation to the guy who tells the truth, and he will honestly say the other guy would say no. The other one would lie and say the first guy would say no when he would honestly say yes.)
That was it! omedetou! Took me a two days to catch on when I first heard it. Now what real world principle is governed by the same logic?
I'll buy that. Fun thought problem. A side note, it's not hard to burn things with the heat emissions off an led producing the same amount of light as a normal 60-100 watt lightbulb. Rather painful, especially in that first instant (20 MCD 3mm Green LED in direct contact with a finger at 3V is surprizingly hot after operation), so the variable of how long heat dissapates and the variable of how long it takes for you to go to the next room and test the bulbs' temps may be significant.
A Psychotic Mathematician (The Professor) has kidnapped 20 of his students.
They are being held hostage, and the Professor has announced to them that he will provide a thought puzzle to determine whether he will let individuals go free.
The students will be placed in a single room in single file and must always face forward. Students can clearly see all students in front of them.
Every student will be given either a red or blue hat, but no one knows the color hat on their own head.
To be let free, a student must announce the color of the hat on their head.
All students can announce only one color, and all other students can clearly hear the announcement. Announcing anything but red or blue will result in all students being brutally subjected to absurd math problems indefinitly.
They are allowed to discuss how to get out of the situation before being placed in line, but the Professor, after going through years of intense mathematic study, will pessimize (force the situation into the worst possible outcome) the situation for a given solution the students come up with.
How many students can be guarenteed freedom in the optimal solution?
What is the optimal solution?
What principle in the real world does it reflect?
I have tried to be very explicit in this problem. If someone notices an issue or has a question, please mention it.
My bad, he mis-told the riddle. I'm familiar with the correctly told one, so I overlooked the goof up. The original is There are two indistinguishable doors, each has a guard, one leads to salvation, one to a gruesome death, and one of the guards always lies while one always tells the truth. What yes/no question could you ask a guard to guarentee you would pick the door to salvation. You may only ask one question. The reasoning behind the solution is very simple, but it usually takes a while to pick up on it for most people.
Now all you need are magnets, and you have truely green energy with little to no waste. The only problem is cats must be alive to land on their feet. So assuming you can feed the spinning cat/toast apparatus mid cycle, the system will decay. A second issue is that the amount of energy taken from the system must be greater than the amount supplied to keep the cat alive to have a net gain, which violates Thermodynamic law (entropy)