Isn't it unfair that adults get to have all sorts of cool stuff, but children don't? That is about to change with the "Kiddo Card". Its a credit card for kids, and it can do EVERYTHING an adult credit card can do. What's the difference from adult credit cards you ask? NOTHING! For the first time, kids get to play on EQUAL ground with the grownups. Kiddo Card - for a better, fairer future for all our children!
The game engine itself actually lets you build just about any game mechanic you can write out in code. But the bar of what constitutes "clever game mechanics" has been set so low in recent years by trashy AAA games that repeat 90s crap over and over again that these "millenial developers" probably have no clue that BETTER MECHANICS are actually possible. What game can you show me in 2017 that has mechanics so new and brilliant that young developers can actually learn from the mechanics?
Except that kids under the age of 18 are not adults often DO NOT have the good sense to recognize that they are being sold shit in a nice package. These games are essentially software TOYS sold to kids who pay for those toys with their parents' money.
>>> Along with the thousands of cookie cutter titles that look like they belong in the 90's Those titles were actually INNOVATIVE in the 1990s. The mechanics were new. The graphics and sound were new. Today's "cookie cutter" copies are trying to sell old game concepts to new teens and tweens who were not around in the 1990s and thus often do not realize that they are being sold an OLD car posing as a NEW car. Sad.
Many moons ago, software industry lobbyists went to court in the U.S. claiming that software "cannot be bought or owned" by the paying customer. They claimed that the buyer can only attain a "limited LICENSE to USE a software product under CERTAIN conditions". The legal argument behind the whole LICENSE aspect was that because CODE is copied from one component in a computer to another during use - from floppy disk to RAM to CPU for example - the software user is essentially making a COPY of the software just by running it on a computer, and thus needs a LICENSE to do so. Somehow this resulted in today's EULAs, where, basically, the software manufacturer has all the RIGHTS in the world, and the paying software buyer has does not even - legally - OWN the copy of the software he or she paid hard cash for.
To add one more important detail to this rant, the PVE edition of the game in question - Fortnite - costs 150 Dollars to buy: https://www.epicgames.com/fort... So much for "free to play". No wonder young kids addicted to "achieving something" in these games are looking for ways to cheat.
Aside from the small indy developers, all the big guys are run by MBAs from Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other business schools. These people do not understand how to make good games. They do not understand that if you want 60 - 100 Dollars from a kid or teenager for a game that their ADULT PARENTS have to work to pay for, you have to actually provide something in return. All they understand is how to MONETIZE piss-average games with very, very simple game mechanics that 1 or 2 experienced coders could actually write on their own in under a year. The reason they GAMIFY everything in all the big games with ranks, achievements, micro-payments, unlocks and so forth is because there is virtually NO content in these games. These games are mashups of game mechanics invented back in the 90s, with some pretty 3D graphics and sound effects thrown in. And by the way, the people that create the actual 3D artwork, animation and other "content" for these games work under very bad conditions, with little job security, long hours, crunch periods and other nastiness.
Reverse tracking would be that whenever someone tracks your life, you get the legal right to track them back. So if the CEO of Company X puts a tracker on your Android phone peering into your private life, for example, you'd get the legal right to track that CEO back and peer into HIS private life and habits. If a big data company is collecting data on you, your spouse, your kids, you would have the legal right to collect big data on THAT big data company's activities, including insight into that company's most private activities. Watch how quickly all tracking stops when such a law is passed.
In this age of widespread online snooping, no government in the world knows at all who the creator of Bitcoin is? Did the man never use the internet when creating his cryptocurrency? Did he not go through an ISP or gateway of some sort? Did he not make 1 single mistake when trying to cover his tracks? This seems to be another "great mystery" that may not be as "unsolvable" as it appears.
There is a massive conspiracy to cover up the fact that the earth is flat. That is why secret operatives sent by no other than the United Nations and led by Colonel Kofi Annan personally broke his trailer. Once the truth gets out about what you see when you rocketeer above 300 feet, the world will never be the same again. What is that I hear you say? There are buildings taller than that? Those buildings are only real up to 299 feet. Everything above that is a strikingly realistic hologram. In fact, if you get into an elevator in a very tall building and press the button for the top floor, you are never seen again. They take you out of the elevator on the "extraction floor" at 299 feet, take you to the secret underground United Nations subterranean train station that was secretly built under every tall building 200 years ago, and send you on a one way journey to the edge of the world. What happens when you get there? You get thrown over the edge. Where do you land when they do that? On your ass of course.
I heereby authoriiize the purchasse of 50 Billion Dollarrrs wörth of stöck from theee Amazingleee Reliabble Inveeestment Fünd of Lagosss, Nigeriaaa. Pleaase sendd they möney in unmarkked fifteee Döllarr billls to P.O. Box 65631 att one-theee-five Revolütiön Röad in Lagoss Nigeeeria.
Apple can basically get away with anything it does because its user base a) knows next to nothing about how hardware or software works under the hood, b) has no idea how cheaply Apple manufactures its products and c) hangs on to the irrational idea that "if you buy Apple, you get the best in the world". I bought the latest greatest iPad as a gift for a relative who only uses Apple products. I checked it out before I gave it to her. I saw nothing that even remotely impressed me either software or hardware wise.
You're driving along the highway going "I'm just a truck, I'm just a truck, I'm just a..." but when the bad guys appear, the artificially intelligent car you have hidden away in the back of the truck comes out, with this music playing: https://youtu.be/mhxRBa7zaOI?t... Thanks to Elon Musk, YOU can be David Hasselhoff. =)
I can help you with any problems you may have. But first you must beat me in 3 successive games of GO! (Video ad plays: "Nvidia... The Way Its Meant To Be Played.") Welcome to the 21st Century, bitch! =)
So you are creating a Youtube site/app for Kids and are using _algorithms_ to keep the kids safe from bad content?
Er, Google... how many tens of Billion dollars does your company have in its coffers?
Is it so bloody hard to hire 500 people whose job it is to watch the videos and determine whether they are suitable for kids?
...launched in 1985. It could combine images and text in various ways and do something magically called LAYOUT. Now if Twitter hired a few software engineers to plug a little DTP engine into its system, people could post something far more interesting that 140 character Tweets - messages with customized layout where text, images, vector and other digital wonders we've had since the 80s could come together on the internet in a much more appealing package. I really do not understand how long Twitter wants to be stuck with SMS-like mini messages with a rectangular image posted under it.
Precisely _WHAT_ can't manufacturers produce that would "reduce the accuracy of Face ID"? It can't be an electronic chip - face recognition doesn't require special chips. That leaves things like the Face ID camera/lens - surely Apple would check beforehand whether that can be manufactured to spec? I just don't get WHICH component of Face ID is so incredibly hard to manufacture that Apple would need to "reduce the accuracy of its face recognition".
One superthin without headphone jack. One slightly thicker with headphone jack and a slightly bigger battery - which you need if you consume a lot of media on your phone anyway.
I have a non-superthin Samsung smartphone with headphone jack. I am not interested in superthin - as long as the phone fits in my pocket, its okay.
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Isn't it unfair that adults get to have all sorts of cool stuff, but children don't? That is about to change with the "Kiddo Card". Its a credit card for kids, and it can do EVERYTHING an adult credit card can do. What's the difference from adult credit cards you ask? NOTHING! For the first time, kids get to play on EQUAL ground with the grownups. Kiddo Card - for a better, fairer future for all our children!
The game engine itself actually lets you build just about any game mechanic you can write out in code. But the bar of what constitutes "clever game mechanics" has been set so low in recent years by trashy AAA games that repeat 90s crap over and over again that these "millenial developers" probably have no clue that BETTER MECHANICS are actually possible. What game can you show me in 2017 that has mechanics so new and brilliant that young developers can actually learn from the mechanics?
You work for the video game industry, don't you, AC? ;-)
Bad attempt at derailing what I wrote. I pointed out where EULAs in general come from, and that they have a very shaky legal basis.
Except that kids under the age of 18 are not adults often DO NOT have the good sense to recognize that they are being sold shit in a nice package. These games are essentially software TOYS sold to kids who pay for those toys with their parents' money.
But then the Streisand Effect doesn't work anymore and Youtube goes out of business. =( Sniff.
>>> Along with the thousands of cookie cutter titles that look like they belong in the 90's Those titles were actually INNOVATIVE in the 1990s. The mechanics were new. The graphics and sound were new. Today's "cookie cutter" copies are trying to sell old game concepts to new teens and tweens who were not around in the 1990s and thus often do not realize that they are being sold an OLD car posing as a NEW car. Sad.
Many moons ago, software industry lobbyists went to court in the U.S. claiming that software "cannot be bought or owned" by the paying customer. They claimed that the buyer can only attain a "limited LICENSE to USE a software product under CERTAIN conditions". The legal argument behind the whole LICENSE aspect was that because CODE is copied from one component in a computer to another during use - from floppy disk to RAM to CPU for example - the software user is essentially making a COPY of the software just by running it on a computer, and thus needs a LICENSE to do so. Somehow this resulted in today's EULAs, where, basically, the software manufacturer has all the RIGHTS in the world, and the paying software buyer has does not even - legally - OWN the copy of the software he or she paid hard cash for.
To add one more important detail to this rant, the PVE edition of the game in question - Fortnite - costs 150 Dollars to buy: https://www.epicgames.com/fort... So much for "free to play". No wonder young kids addicted to "achieving something" in these games are looking for ways to cheat.
Aside from the small indy developers, all the big guys are run by MBAs from Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other business schools. These people do not understand how to make good games. They do not understand that if you want 60 - 100 Dollars from a kid or teenager for a game that their ADULT PARENTS have to work to pay for, you have to actually provide something in return. All they understand is how to MONETIZE piss-average games with very, very simple game mechanics that 1 or 2 experienced coders could actually write on their own in under a year. The reason they GAMIFY everything in all the big games with ranks, achievements, micro-payments, unlocks and so forth is because there is virtually NO content in these games. These games are mashups of game mechanics invented back in the 90s, with some pretty 3D graphics and sound effects thrown in. And by the way, the people that create the actual 3D artwork, animation and other "content" for these games work under very bad conditions, with little job security, long hours, crunch periods and other nastiness.
You can have it all if you promise not to make software anymore.
Reverse tracking would be that whenever someone tracks your life, you get the legal right to track them back. So if the CEO of Company X puts a tracker on your Android phone peering into your private life, for example, you'd get the legal right to track that CEO back and peer into HIS private life and habits. If a big data company is collecting data on you, your spouse, your kids, you would have the legal right to collect big data on THAT big data company's activities, including insight into that company's most private activities. Watch how quickly all tracking stops when such a law is passed.
In this age of widespread online snooping, no government in the world knows at all who the creator of Bitcoin is? Did the man never use the internet when creating his cryptocurrency? Did he not go through an ISP or gateway of some sort? Did he not make 1 single mistake when trying to cover his tracks? This seems to be another "great mystery" that may not be as "unsolvable" as it appears.
There is a massive conspiracy to cover up the fact that the earth is flat. That is why secret operatives sent by no other than the United Nations and led by Colonel Kofi Annan personally broke his trailer. Once the truth gets out about what you see when you rocketeer above 300 feet, the world will never be the same again. What is that I hear you say? There are buildings taller than that? Those buildings are only real up to 299 feet. Everything above that is a strikingly realistic hologram. In fact, if you get into an elevator in a very tall building and press the button for the top floor, you are never seen again. They take you out of the elevator on the "extraction floor" at 299 feet, take you to the secret underground United Nations subterranean train station that was secretly built under every tall building 200 years ago, and send you on a one way journey to the edge of the world. What happens when you get there? You get thrown over the edge. Where do you land when they do that? On your ass of course.
I heereby authoriiize the purchasse of 50 Billion Dollarrrs wörth of stöck from theee Amazingleee Reliabble Inveeestment Fünd of Lagosss, Nigeriaaa. Pleaase sendd they möney in unmarkked fifteee Döllarr billls to P.O. Box 65631 att one-theee-five Revolütiön Röad in Lagoss Nigeeeria.
Apple can basically get away with anything it does because its user base a) knows next to nothing about how hardware or software works under the hood, b) has no idea how cheaply Apple manufactures its products and c) hangs on to the irrational idea that "if you buy Apple, you get the best in the world". I bought the latest greatest iPad as a gift for a relative who only uses Apple products. I checked it out before I gave it to her. I saw nothing that even remotely impressed me either software or hardware wise.
When they drill down to see more "granular data" on me they find that the rabbit hole goes deep indeed. =)
You're driving along the highway going "I'm just a truck, I'm just a truck, I'm just a..." but when the bad guys appear, the artificially intelligent car you have hidden away in the back of the truck comes out, with this music playing: https://youtu.be/mhxRBa7zaOI?t... Thanks to Elon Musk, YOU can be David Hasselhoff. =)
I can help you with any problems you may have. But first you must beat me in 3 successive games of GO! (Video ad plays: "Nvidia... The Way Its Meant To Be Played.") Welcome to the 21st Century, bitch! =)
So you are creating a Youtube site/app for Kids and are using _algorithms_ to keep the kids safe from bad content? Er, Google... how many tens of Billion dollars does your company have in its coffers? Is it so bloody hard to hire 500 people whose job it is to watch the videos and determine whether they are suitable for kids?
...launched in 1985. It could combine images and text in various ways and do something magically called LAYOUT. Now if Twitter hired a few software engineers to plug a little DTP engine into its system, people could post something far more interesting that 140 character Tweets - messages with customized layout where text, images, vector and other digital wonders we've had since the 80s could come together on the internet in a much more appealing package. I really do not understand how long Twitter wants to be stuck with SMS-like mini messages with a rectangular image posted under it.
Precisely _WHAT_ can't manufacturers produce that would "reduce the accuracy of Face ID"? It can't be an electronic chip - face recognition doesn't require special chips. That leaves things like the Face ID camera/lens - surely Apple would check beforehand whether that can be manufactured to spec? I just don't get WHICH component of Face ID is so incredibly hard to manufacture that Apple would need to "reduce the accuracy of its face recognition".
Duh! Duh! Duh! =)
One superthin without headphone jack. One slightly thicker with headphone jack and a slightly bigger battery - which you need if you consume a lot of media on your phone anyway. I have a non-superthin Samsung smartphone with headphone jack. I am not interested in superthin - as long as the phone fits in my pocket, its okay.
Thanks to Amazon's new drone delivery efforts, the AI will also be able to send real stuff to your back door.