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| A game like lemmings, metal gear solid and cyberpunk 2020 mixed together for my sc712 course. Read the spec here. | May 2, 2000 |
Post Mortum: got all of it to work, got a 10/10. asked for an extra half point but didn't get it. darn. Post Mortum: Got the 3d engine done, but the networking didn't get finished. oh well, i guess my stardom must wait. Post Mortum: here it is Post Mortum: here it is in grey this would be used for people who want to do download time trials for servlets where the viewing machine is the on the server. Here is the java file for it.
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A little MFC project for class, which is a very basic drawing program. It allows you to do lines, rectangles and circles. Some other special features:
Dec 2, 1999
A 3D maze program. This project is for a class I am taking right now. We will use MFC, OpenGL and TCP/IP amongst other things.
Dec 17, 1999
create a logo for my senior design group:
Jan 28, 2000
create a logo for opencores.org (an open source microchip design site):
April 6, 2000
create a servlet, that when used in a servlet chain, slows down an output stream of another servlet based on some communications speed (i.e. 14.4kbps, 56.6k, T1, etc).
April 10, 2000
why can't we live our own lives? america was based around the idea that everyone is different and it utilized those differences to become the strongest country in the world (if not the history of the world). by believing in different things we became a nation that could do most anything, because a different viewpoint is usually the most valuable. in brainstorming only one person can come up with a few good ideas, but when a group brainstorms, new and wonders ideas come out of nowhere. look at any of the people featured in the apple "think different" ad campaign, they are all from different countries, ethnicity's, creeds, religions and sexual preferences. different views create different thinking which leads to the evolution of everyone. (follow this link for a cool little passage by apple) it seems that some people are against this. they want to sit on their porch with their banjo and watch their kids sip apple sauce through a straw... (maybe i am going a bit overboard) but what do they want society if it can never change? in my previous rambling i think i talked about a stagnant society and its advantages to our culture. but i am not contradicting myself, why you ask? society will always stagnate for an amount of time, until a new viewpoint comes along. i am afraid, like most humans, of things i don't understand. but i strive to be an enlightened human. an enlightened human is one who always looks towards uncertainty and tried to find some way to understand it, either why there is uncertainty or how it effects them. it seems that most people today wish to simply erase everyone that is not like them. they will say that they tolerate all people, those that have different skin tones etc... america has changed for the better regarding prejudices of the outside, but now we must deal with something much harder to swallow... that people are different in their thinking. there are no campaigns to promote thought diversity, and why not!? diversity is not just skin deep, but mind deep as well and we should all embrace THAT. and happiness is not just about things you own, or people you are with. but it is about the constant journey we are all in to find ourselves. something which by no means is easy. something which most people die looking for. how can you find this inner-self, this meaning of life? some look to others. the few that can afford it attempt to buy it. but in the end they are not happy because they did not create this happiness from their own mind, the only place where it can be manufactored and consumed. your heart or soul is the greatest part of this. even though i am not very much of a religious person, i know there is something inside me that makes me different from everyone else, not because i alone am special, but because everyone is special. there will always be similarities, but we are all our own people. which is another reason why only ourselves can make us happy. no-one else will know for sure what is best, no-one will ever be able to be exactly what we want inside our heads. i guess all i am saying is that i wish things were not so hard in this world, but at the end of our lives we must be able to say that what we did was the best way to make ourselves happy. and i wish that to all of you.
Current Ramblings:
A microchip build to self-destruct when information contained is about to be compromised, or copied without proper authorization. Would fry the internal circuits, done through VLSI design, not explosives.
10/8
people are afraid of things like the matrix coming true. it will not happen. not because we will always control the computers, but because they will be us. humans have always build tools to aid the endeavors we wish to undertake. why would we choose to make a tool that controls us? some can argue that it has already happened; television, cellular phones and drugs are all things we have made that can control us. it is hard for some people to not treat these tools as a means to an end, and not an end in itself. the next level of human development will not be a "natural" act in the sense of evolution. we will choose to become better in many ways and we will do this through our tools. computers are tools just as much as cars are, but for some reason they are put higher than regular tools, are we that afraid of ourselves? every thing we have to fear is within us, by realizing ourselves in other objects we find fear (i.e. artificial intelligence). should we fear ourselves? some will say yes. i hope no. when I was younger I believed everyone is good and will try to be. my life has progressed and it has gotten harder to believe this. i have faith in humanity because I believe in me, and that's all we can do.
10/10
what is beauty? this last new year i stood watching the fireworks obliterate the last millennium. all i could think about was supreme beauty. it ends up being a feeling. the feeling of a first kiss, or the second. the feeling of doing something right. something pure. i think i am rambling again. but that is what this place if for. it is not in the eye of the beholder, but the heart, the soul of the beholder. it makes me wonder whether we will ever be able to replicate human thought, how could we do something which is so irrational, yet logical at the same time? beauty is universal feeling but not a sight. beauty is love is life. we are all examples of beauty, of our love.
1/1
i had a cool idea for a little thing called a cell phone operator. it works like a personal secretary for your cell phone. it is controlled by a cute little artificial intelligence. it could do things like play games, screen calls selectively, bla bla bla. maybe it could put a little hart over its head when your significant other calls, maybe that would get annoying after a while. but very cuitsy. good for the coming cell phone tech wave.
3/15
i was just watching this anime series called "lain" and it was interesting. it was about this girl who starts to discover that the real world and the "Wired" (ie the internet in some near future) are actually the same thing. they are two halves of the same world. it makes me wonder about where we are going as a people. where computers are taking us. in an earlier rambling i talked about the non-threat of computers to humanity, and even more the non-threat of humans to humans. but now i wonder what are the risks to society. humans as a whole have always survived (at least through some pretty bad stuff) and will probably continue to for quite a while, but what will happen to our society and culture. it is an interesting question because how do we rate our own society. currently things are probably "better" than they were a few hundred years ago, but is that true? as a human i feel that we will always be redefining what we should be and live up to. in the past is was best to be a god/king/emporor fearing good little worker that had a small cyclical life in some town, but now where do we go? it seems that we are moving towards a lifestyle of being everywhere and anything at once. we will constantly change, of our own doing and in our own direction. when do we run out of ideas? this is how retro comes back every now and then, we just stop getting better and we strive to be in a time when things were changing a lot. many pundits today claim that we will not stagnate again and continue to grow until we strangle ourselves with our own inventions. these are questions i am not sure there are answers to. but how do we continue, how do we proceed into this unknown future? as humans, i guess, and a little afraid. because there is still something bigger than us and we might be building it as we speak.
3/19
what is our culture coming to? i just saw some daytime talk show about polygamy and married couples that live with other couples. i don't agree with the lifestyle and would never be a proponent to it either (i like one-on-one best), but the reaction of the crowd is what startled me. it seems that we (americans, but i don't know about other cultures...) have become a nation of people who cannot live their own lives. the people on trial in the show were talking about how good their relationships were by sharing with more than one other person, sure why not... but not for everyone right? but the people in the crowd were booing them and basically saying that they were deviant and perverted human beings. they seemed to be more like hippies than sex offenders to me...
3/21
reciently my mind has been jumbled. i have always prided myself on being human, and even aspiring to be more than human, however this may be nothing but a pipe dream. being human alone is hard enough. to me being human is being adaptive, and that is something that i have not been for a while. it is hard to say when it first started, but i know i have crossed the threshold. by no longer being adaptive i put in jepordy everything i have worked so hard to create in my life. true, life is not always easy, that even the best will have bad days. but we must be able to take those bad days, chalk them up as such, and move on. not being able to do this cleanly is my biggest mistake. maybe it is because i don't necissarily live for myself anymore. there is some dream, which at one time was viable, but now... things have changed. the dream may still happen, in some modified form, but i lost touch of what was most important in this dream. my happiness. dreams are hard to live up to, you constantly check against them again and again, and all that proves to do is make the dream seem further away. by holding a solid standard for your happiness you will find that you are never happy, because the truth is that things seldom work out as planned and that suprises can be so much more satisfying if you truely care about your happiness in the end.
4/18
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