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Easy answers vs. Hard facts = Religion vs. Science

Religion is intended as absolute truth, no questions asked. And religious leaders condemn anything else as hypocrisy. Sure, when we speak in terms of average person who is not actually religious, and maybe has some opinions about if Jesus was a carpenter or not, but there is no choise of being christian and not believing that god exists. And I saying that two persons thoughts can't be carbon copies is just splitting hair, ofcourse they can't, individual beings and all. But I AM saying that if you are religious, you believe in the religion, if you don't believe in it, you are not that religious and might sway from your belief anytime.

Well, they finally published the preliminary tests, and first impression is that they are easy, easier than last year atleast. I'm going to doodle away the next three months and check out if I can come up with something good to apply, then I will try (it only costs me 5 points from the programming school so doesn't really matter). But if my output is as crappy as last year, I won't apply, but I got around 10 weeks to do something, so atleast I got the time on my side.

… religion is unified? And not widespread? … you gotta continue that train of thought cause it derailed for me. With widespread I didn't mean the actual science, but actually the thought of science, some might believe in gravity, but not in evolution, and so on. With religion, you either believe one thing and only one thing being an absolute truth, it is the main requirement of being a "believer". With science, if something doesn't fit, I can just think about it myself, not just accept it as wrong as I see it just because I don't have the balls to actually think different.

Also bright monitor that shows several spinning red squares on a green background compared to a bright monitor with soothing pastel colors is very different. My work setup is color calibrated monitors in a room with day light fluorescent lights. Home, it's just standard CRT monitor and a energy saver lamp, the difference is notieable.

What about those that complain about maybe not getting into schools because they chose to get a profession, are they men? I guess it would be men with attitude? Men nonetheless, since even the manliest of men (singer of monster magnet?) complain when unfair setting is presented at their disadvantage.

This kind of thinking is the reason for your problems now. Look, even if I knew that going with high school would have given me better footing when applying to EVTEK, I still wouldn't trade my current profession away, I love my job, and I'm very good at it. Atleast my vocational school education has given me the possibility to study the things they teach in that school by myself, as opposite of going to high school and not knowing anything about graphics at all.

The dancing lamp holds the truth..

Last I checked, rival scientists never got their followers together to invade countries or commit atrocities in the name of string theory or some-such. Nor is it chaged by one "guys" whim, because it is not based on supposed actions and/or sayings of all powerful being, trying to be the truth. Scientific front is pretty widespread and ununified to be considered anything like a religion.

You mean you aren't?

I had my heart set on going through some sort of higher education from the very beginning. But also, I wanted a profession, illustrator to be precise, because a man without a profession is not a man at all. And, as much as I love studying, I wanted to havea job in the middle of my studies, and by job, I mean something else than flipping burgers or working at local Siwa. Besides, most polytechnic shcools (or vocational high school, what ever) are easier to get from vocational shcool, just like UNIs are easier to get from high school, but there are some exceptions like EVTEK. Like the programming school I'm going to apply, I actually have equal and some points, even better chance to get in than high school students. So basically what I did, was I opted for more possibilities than I would have had if I went for high school. Graduating from high school and not getting in to any school after that would basically mean that you live at your parents house for another year. One month after vocational school, I had a job with good pay and my own appartment and I could afford to buy neat things like new cell phones and the best internet money could buy and so on, you get my point.

X-Files, first season, was a pistol... nuff said.

NEAT! Just watched it ten times in a row.. hypnotic. More?

Frie puhlees, can you tell meh, if the new engine will be similar to the current Cryengine in moddability, will it use sandbox? Lua for scripting? Can you mod the new engine if you know how to mod the old, as easily? You know, for an answer, I'll suck your toes!

Gamers Hell seems to carry the Crysis interview video

Freaking awesome, everytime I think that "we are set for a while in game graphics" something comes around the corner and slaps me on the face. You would think that around 10 years of this, I would have already learned my lesson, but NO! I like the cry* names, more imaginative than "gamename engine", "computerterm" or "something renderer/renderer something". It ties the engine to the company snugly. Oh, and question to Frie if he can answer without violating NDA. How well does modding and mapping skills learned on the old engine apply to the new engine? Is it UT style, or complete relearning ahead?

When I'm tired and my eyes are "tired" I can see some colors "moving" when I'm watching a paper with fine texture grain in it, like a green 160mg watercolor paper. But the doctor said that it is common when tired, the eyes react to light differently. Other than that, I got 20/20 vision. And no anykind of color blindness.

REMEMBER NEWCOMER! Jeff Goldblum is allways watching you poop!

OH NO!

I have to take your word for it, since I don't know

Skdr, you are propably right, if I can't get in, the school isn't for me. I have decided that I'll see if I can get my groove on and make a kick ass preliminary test submission. If it's like last year - I was uninspired by the assignments and the finished art I submitted sucked ass - I won't apply at all. Did you say UNI? Didn't I say that high school education is only useful if you continue studying?

Bullshit, Q3 is a far better game than Q2 ever was. Atleast I think so. Define better when they are not even comparable to each other.

As funny as it might seem to you as american, some of us are actually interested in how english is written and spoken, not just "take it, chew it and spit it out".

The education is in no measure higher than the other, they are just almost completely differet from each other. The other part knows everything about nothing useful, and the other know nothing about anything useful outside their own profession.

You went to high shcool? Makes me sad, makes you sad too when you realize that after high shcool, it is either minimum of 4 more years of studying or unemployment without social security (living in your moms basement). When I came from the vocational school I got a profession I started to get full social security right away, and got me a job in a month after school had ended. So I would say, I choose vocational shcool, so that I could spend 1000€ euros on my computer without saving for a year.