I played the Game Boy version as a kid on a yellow/green GB, the memories and trauma runs deep.
I only made it to the third level (the one after bike level, oh the nightmares) twice (or three times).
So yeah. My nerd cred is still intact,
(for those not in the know, the original Battletoads is arguably one of the most unfairly hard games ever made, next to Ghouls'n'Ghosts and ilk. except more unfair) (also Takeshi's Challenge does not count, for it was just a troll)
I opened this newspost actually hoping that the guy somehow made a convenient, portable multi-kilowatt focused laser beam, and also solved cooling problems in one go.
That would have kept me a bit interested.
This tho ? Pure false advertising, it is as much (less actually) exciting than a 1 watt powered laser pointer. With todays technology, we could be building more content rich shinies, as opposed to form rich shinies. Form has its place, but as a nerd, I really prefer, and see beauty in, function, and the engineering itself.
This is cost effective for what they want to do, and that is building space things in space, from space-mined metals.
Do you think bringing up all the metals to space and then 3-d printing from them is cheaper ? It is debatable, but I think efficient in-place mining methods evolved to an efficiency-extreme will be cheaper than bringing the same tonnage of materials from a Earth gravity well.
Moon gravity well, otoh.. That may be the golden middle of convenient mining (you are still on a planet) + easy escape of gravity well.
If there was any progress AT ALL in the field of AI, we would have seen at least SOME improvement in game AI, right ?
Right ?
With octocore multi-gigahurtz processors and gigs upon gigs of ram ?
I am being coherent here, actually.
But we've seen stagnation at best, and true degeneracy / devolution at worst.
I think the field of AI is a VERY GOOD mirror of entire human andeavour -- lots of big talk amounting to a pathetic amount of bullshit, fake or falsified results, achieving nothing meaningful (still conning some money in the process).
Actually, this is where you fail to understand the brain.
The neural system is the brain, extended.
The eyes are the brain, the penis (especially that:) is the brain, the ears are the brain, senses of touch / pain / pleasure / tastes are felt by the brain, everything directly, becaus the brain is a fractal tree (central brain that we call "brain" is only a hub/processor).
If you know anything about psychoactives, you should know that a given trip is basically a combination of a substance, a set (you) and a setting (your circumstances / life context).
It is not about the windows, but rather, person's optic nerve and field of view - it basically gave extreme tunnel vision, except real. You could only see very little, all else was a blind spot.
Thanks for a well written and informative reply; I know most of this stuff, what I was trying to get at is that there exists a rigid thinking that takes existing notions (dogma ?) as granted. I still, steadfastly think, that reality is much more interesting than even our best models and approximations.
There needs to be more new thinking, but I can personally attest that new thinking is hard, because otherwise I myself would have actual proposals, and I am just wildly flailing around.
Maybe someday even I could cobble something together out of vacation time and caffeine.:D
It is the best HC system in the world if you are a millionaire (now a billionaire due to inflation:).
And remember, in US, every poor schmuck is just a temporarily embarrased future millionaire.
So most of the problems actually stem from society which operates not in mode of cooperation, but rather in mode of competition. Sewere, cut-throat competition. And winner takes all. Even the best healthcare.
Meanwhile, in other more laid back countries, people just eat, fuck, play games and otherwise spend time merrily.
Guesstimating the age of the universe while being limited in resolution department of measuring insruments is just bad science, it should not even be considered science. Also, in my opinion, estimating AOU based on red-shift is also flawed, because there is only GUESS that red-shift is caused by acceleration of bodies from each other (extremely counter-intuitive and fitting only a very primitive, and very suspicious-looking, model of universe). You could say that space intrinsically robs EM radiation of energy over huge distances and be just as correct.
Also consider that speed of light is almost the same as standing still, even by galactic perspective (speed of light is really slow), and everything as we see it, happens at most in speed of light, which gives not enough time for sequential phenomena (that gives birth to observable universe) to play out.
The problem with modern scientist is that he is very competent in the concrete, but not at all in abstract. being unable to integrate knowledge to a coherent whole. We need new sciences (metasciences ?) that would do nothing but rewiew existing sciences just to see if far branches make sense at all in the grand scheme of things. You could say that is existing scientific method, but that is only (mostly) intra-discipline, not inter-discipline.
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Wrong.
SC1 had 10 Terran, 10 Zerg and 10 Protoss missions.
SC1: Brood War, otoh, had 10 Protoss missions, 8 Terran missions and 8 + 1 secret Zerg mission.
At least be factual when you "correct" other people.
It is because everything associated with Dwarf Fortress is innately funny.
Haha, I started reading "The Tales of Alvin Maker" and basically quit the first book by the middle, in disgust.
If everything OSC writes is like this, then I pity his readership.
Keep your stupid ideologies and "moral" views out of my books.
Also, the tone, the tone of his writing..
As for benchmark, I consider A. E. Van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon and Clifford Simak to be top notch.
This guy just rubbed me all the wrong ways, is all I'm saying.
What job ?
The "three laws" (or equivalent) will apply to every robot made NOT for the US army.
I played the Game Boy version as a kid on a yellow/green GB, the memories and trauma runs deep.
I only made it to the third level (the one after bike level, oh the nightmares) twice (or three times).
So yeah. My nerd cred is still intact,
(for those not in the know, the original Battletoads is arguably one of the most unfairly hard games ever made, next to Ghouls'n'Ghosts and ilk. except more unfair) (also Takeshi's Challenge does not count, for it was just a troll)
Nothing changed from ages past.
You are still a slave working for a "caveman" slave owner (CxO et al.).
If you disagree with me, try doing what you really want in life; hard, huh ?
Because it requires "caveman" mentality.
Anything else is sheer denial.
I hate Smartphones and after my old phone broke down, I ain't even buying a new one.
Living without a mobile phone is like living without a (annoying) stone chained to your leg.
It's measurably better quality of living.
Now why after reading all this I am reminded of a certain Futurama episode ?
I honestly find the whole situation really funny.
Now all we need is Iceberg MKII, and we're set.
Oh man, where is David Brin when you need him ? :P
I opened this newspost actually hoping that the guy somehow made a convenient, portable multi-kilowatt focused laser beam, and also solved cooling problems in one go.
That would have kept me a bit interested.
This tho ? Pure false advertising, it is as much (less actually) exciting than a 1 watt powered laser pointer. With todays technology, we could be building more content rich shinies, as opposed to form rich shinies. Form has its place, but as a nerd, I really prefer, and see beauty in, function, and the engineering itself.
This is cost effective for what they want to do, and that is building space things in space, from space-mined metals.
Do you think bringing up all the metals to space and then 3-d printing from them is cheaper ? It is debatable, but I think efficient in-place mining methods evolved to an efficiency-extreme will be cheaper than bringing the same tonnage of materials from a Earth gravity well.
Moon gravity well, otoh.. That may be the golden middle of convenient mining (you are still on a planet) + easy escape of gravity well.
Configure from known inputs yes.
Design no.
What ? There exists a natural language parser ?
I am not aware of ?
That implies perfect translations and ..
Heeeeey, wait a minute ..
Agree totally.
And sadly so.
If there was any progress AT ALL in the field of AI, we would have seen at least SOME improvement in game AI, right ?
Right ?
With octocore multi-gigahurtz processors and gigs upon gigs of ram ?
I am being coherent here, actually.
But we've seen stagnation at best, and true degeneracy / devolution at worst.
I think the field of AI is a VERY GOOD mirror of entire human andeavour -- lots of big talk amounting to a pathetic amount of bullshit, fake or falsified results, achieving nothing meaningful (still conning some money in the process).
Actually, this is where you fail to understand the brain.
The neural system is the brain, extended.
The eyes are the brain, the penis (especially that :) is the brain, the ears are the brain, senses of touch / pain / pleasure / tastes are felt by the brain, everything directly, becaus the brain is a fractal tree (central brain that we call "brain" is only a hub/processor).
This is how I see / have always seen it.
So rare, that it should be changed to rarer / stranger animals, like:
"It's a platypus ! It's a giraffe ! It is COMMON SENSE MAN !"
If you know anything about psychoactives, you should know that a given trip is basically a combination of a substance, a set (you) and a setting (your circumstances / life context).
It is far from random.
Academi, formerly known as Xe, formerly known as Blackwater -- killing people, for money !
Ahoy !!
Haha, doesn't help that General Products hulls are basically monolithic windows, hah !
(And that includes most story / protagonist occupied ships :D)
Yes.
And that is obviously tryptamines.
It is not about the windows, but rather, person's optic nerve and field of view - it basically gave extreme tunnel vision, except real. You could only see very little, all else was a blind spot.
Thanks for a well written and informative reply; I know most of this stuff, what I was trying to get at is that there exists a rigid thinking that takes existing notions (dogma ?) as granted. I still, steadfastly think, that reality is much more interesting than even our best models and approximations.
There needs to be more new thinking, but I can personally attest that new thinking is hard, because otherwise I myself would have actual proposals, and I am just wildly flailing around.
Maybe someday even I could cobble something together out of vacation time and caffeine. :D
It is the best HC system in the world if you are a millionaire (now a billionaire due to inflation :).
And remember, in US, every poor schmuck is just a temporarily embarrased future millionaire.
So most of the problems actually stem from society which operates not in mode of cooperation, but rather in mode of competition. Sewere, cut-throat competition. And winner takes all. Even the best healthcare.
Meanwhile, in other more laid back countries, people just eat, fuck, play games and otherwise spend time merrily.
Absolutely agree.
Guesstimating the age of the universe while being limited in resolution department of measuring insruments is just bad science, it should not even be considered science. Also, in my opinion, estimating AOU based on red-shift is also flawed, because there is only GUESS that red-shift is caused by acceleration of bodies from each other (extremely counter-intuitive and fitting only a very primitive, and very suspicious-looking, model of universe). You could say that space intrinsically robs EM radiation of energy over huge distances and be just as correct.
Also consider that speed of light is almost the same as standing still, even by galactic perspective (speed of light is really slow), and everything as we see it, happens at most in speed of light, which gives not enough time for sequential phenomena (that gives birth to observable universe) to play out.
The problem with modern scientist is that he is very competent in the concrete, but not at all in abstract. being unable to integrate knowledge to a coherent whole. We need new sciences (metasciences ?) that would do nothing but rewiew existing sciences just to see if far branches make sense at all in the grand scheme of things. You could say that is existing scientific method, but that is only (mostly) intra-discipline, not inter-discipline.