Apple has a monopoly on 1.3 billion iOS devices. Google doesn't have that with Android. First off users can install anything they want on Androod. Second Google doesn't control all android devices. They don't control Samsungs or Huawei's or even most of the others
Why do all the countries and non-Chinese seem to want a say in what services Chinese people get access to? Why is not having Google there to provide info better than having them there? By not having them there all you have is Baidu. How is adding competition to Baidu bad for the Chinese people?
First off no one said anything about life killing robots.
Second it assumes all civilizations come to the exact same conclusion (don't make probes). It's a mighty large leap to assume all civilizations are the same.
it's easier than that. The Fermi Paradox works out you don't need even close to the speed of light to colonize the entire Galaxy with probes. All you need is the will and for your civilization to survive until the first few self replicating probes are built. The fact that we haven't seen such probes suggests something prevents civilizations from getting to that stage of development. but it's got nothing to do with the distances between stars.
I hate crunch as much as the next person but it's not as simple as you're making it
Ads have to be purchased months in advance, promises have to be made to stores (Walmart, Gamestop, Best Buy, etc...) those companies have shelves that need to be full of product. They only have so much space so you have to promise them your product will be available to fill their shelf on a certain date. They also have limited promotional space so you have to schedule your posters, cardboard stands, flags and whatever other promotional stuff you're going to have with them and promise on a certain date.
TV stations have limited time for ads so if you want commercials to run you also need to book them months in advance.
Even on the internet while you can post an ad whenever you want if you want your add to be on the front of some popular site you need to book it in advance otherwise someone else might have already booked that time period.
All that is to say that game teams are asked well in advance "when will your game be done" and the team says "We'll have it done by October 23th 2018". At that point, marketing, PR, and sales will all make promises to 100s of different companies for the game.
Now, 6 months before the deadline the team realizes they aren't going to hit the deadline and all the promises the company has made will be broken or money wasted. Those other companies expecting a product will not be happy to do business again with your game company as you've proven yourself to no be able to keep your promises.
So, what do you do? You crunch to meet the deadline you promised.
I don't have a solution. One solution might be "better planning" but that's easier said that done. How many of you had a deadline when you were a student and ended up having to crunch to get your paper written, homework done, test study etc. Planners aren't any more perfect than you.
In any case, I'm not defending crunch. I'm join pointing out the solutions are not as simple as many seem to think
I live in Japan where pay is more even but my take home pay is 1/2 to 1/6th what it would be in the USA so why do I care that my USA CEO makes larger multiple of my salary when they are willing to pay me far more than my Japanese CEO how makes less???
Played Dark Secret, first scene you look in a mirror to see your avatar. Tried to smile or make a facial expression but of course there are no sensors for face, immersion ruined.
Played Job Simulator, dropped item on floor, tried to kick it away with my feet. Failed because no feet sensor. Immersion ruined. Also tried to hip close file drawer, failed because it can't tell where my hips are. Immersion ruined.
Tried Rec Room. Saw other people. Wanted to give hand gestures (Peace, Shaka, Middle Finger, etc...) but couldn't. Need every finger tracked.
I'm not saying the current VR isn't great, it is. Have loved several games. BUT, I IMO we need all of those in their. In order of priority IMO
1. Face (this one is low-hanging fruit as it would be easy and cheap to do) 2. Fingers 3. Feet (this one and below are also easy, just add velcro strap sensors) 4. Elbows 4. Hips 5. Knees
You shouldn't have to protect yourself from theft. Many countries don't have a culture of theft. go live in one and you'll see this is the approach of having nothing worth stealing is the wrong approach. it's so freeing to live somewhere I can carry whatever and not worry about thieves
> San Francisco police commander Robert O'Sullivan is in favor of the legislation, fearing the robots could harm children, the elderly, and those with limited mobility.
What twisted logic. Children, the elderly and those with limited mobility would use robots to make them mobile.
I love programming. I find it extremely fun. It's like having an infinite box of legos and I can build all kinds of things from websites to creative coding projects to games to interactive installation to dating apps whatever.
I'm not saying everyone else should find it fun for some of us it's amazingly fun
The biggest problem I had with Gattaca is the *main* part, not being able to get into the space program because your genes are bad, is not Sci Fi. It's been part of NASA since it started. The fact that the main character would risk a multi-billion dollar program was just selfish and irresponsible.
As another example the Air Force also screens. They might not use direct genetic testing but many of the tests to be a fighter pilot amount the same thing. Example: Eye sight not 100% perfect, no piloting for you.
It's not about the interface (although gIMPs interface leaves lots to be desired). It's about the feature set. Photoshop is orders of magnitude more powerful than gIMP and has been forever. It's non-destructive ability to layer various kinds of effects and then edit where and how they are applied (because it's non-distructive) are just one of the major features that separate the two. It's on their list to add and has been for years (no sign of it yet) but it's been in Photoshop for ~15 years?
There are open source projects that are closer to parity with features. Blender comes to mind that seems to come close to some of its closed source competition. Maybe Libre Office is another. gIMP is not in that category of being near par with it's closed source competitors.
AR will take off someday as it's useful in pretty much all situations. VR is much less useful, isolating. Requires an unreasonable amount of dedicated space. It seems like it will remain a niche except outside a few vertical markets like 3d design and architecture. I'm sure there will be a market but it seems unlikely to be a mainstream tech.
I agree with you that's mostly what I wish they'd do but if you google it the airlines don't want to lose money and they'd have to offer refunds or something for people calling in with the flu on missed flights. Otherwise I wish they'd do it for all the reasons you point out though I'd hate if if I missed a flight:P
I started on Apple II, TRS-80, Atari 800, C64 and I certainly remember those days fondly. But today's kids have Scratch, Python, PICO-8, Unity, Unreal, HTML5, Processing, digital cameras, digital video, the internet, github and all kind of other stuff to go crazy on. You can **start** learning how to make a website on HTML or a **start** learning to make a game in Unity in 30-60 minutes and have thousands of tutorials and videos all over the web to help you progress. That's sooooooooooo much better than it was back in the 8bit days when the best you could hope for was some BASIC games books, Softdisk / Compute Magazine and or whatever you could find at the local bookstore.
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Apple has a monopoly on 1.3 billion iOS devices. Google doesn't have that with Android. First off users can install anything they want on Androod. Second Google doesn't control all android devices. They don't control Samsungs or Huawei's or even most of the others
They won't have the same results nor have the same features. It is competition.
Why do all the countries and non-Chinese seem to want a say in what services Chinese people get access to? Why is not having Google there to provide info better than having them there? By not having them there all you have is Baidu. How is adding competition to Baidu bad for the Chinese people?
First off no one said anything about life killing robots.
Second it assumes all civilizations come to the exact same conclusion (don't make probes). It's a mighty large leap to assume all civilizations are the same.
it's easier than that. The Fermi Paradox works out you don't need even close to the speed of light to colonize the entire Galaxy with probes. All you need is the will and for your civilization to survive until the first few self replicating probes are built. The fact that we haven't seen such probes suggests something prevents civilizations from getting to that stage of development. but it's got nothing to do with the distances between stars.
I hate crunch as much as the next person but it's not as simple as you're making it
Ads have to be purchased months in advance, promises have to be made to stores (Walmart, Gamestop, Best Buy, etc...) those companies have shelves that need to be full of product. They only have so much space so you have to promise them your product will be available to fill their shelf on a certain date. They also have limited promotional space so you have to schedule your posters, cardboard stands, flags and whatever other promotional stuff you're going to have with them and promise on a certain date.
TV stations have limited time for ads so if you want commercials to run you also need to book them months in advance.
Even on the internet while you can post an ad whenever you want if you want your add to be on the front of some popular site you need to book it in advance otherwise someone else might have already booked that time period.
All that is to say that game teams are asked well in advance "when will your game be done" and the team says "We'll have it done by October 23th 2018". At that point, marketing, PR, and sales will all make promises to 100s of different companies for the game.
Now, 6 months before the deadline the team realizes they aren't going to hit the deadline and all the promises the company has made will be broken or money wasted. Those other companies expecting a product will not be happy to do business again with your game company as you've proven yourself to no be able to keep your promises.
So, what do you do? You crunch to meet the deadline you promised.
I don't have a solution. One solution might be "better planning" but that's easier said that done. How many of you had a deadline when you were a student and ended up having to crunch to get your paper written, homework done, test study etc. Planners aren't any more perfect than you.
In any case, I'm not defending crunch. I'm join pointing out the solutions are not as simple as many seem to think
I live in Japan where pay is more even but my take home pay is 1/2 to 1/6th what it would be in the USA so why do I care that my USA CEO makes larger multiple of my salary when they are willing to pay me far more than my Japanese CEO how makes less???
1 year of original dev, 3 years of maintainence
also no teamwork. 700 person team. Giant pile of things to do. Pick one and do it. Not much real need for collaboration.
great company, great compensation, great perks. bored
pretty much all code review guidelines discourage "thank you" messages.
I think they should all be changed to encourage thank you messages.
Played Dark Secret, first scene you look in a mirror to see your avatar. Tried to smile or make a facial expression but of course there are no sensors for face, immersion ruined.
Played Job Simulator, dropped item on floor, tried to kick it away with my feet. Failed because no feet sensor. Immersion ruined. Also tried to hip close file drawer, failed because it can't tell where my hips are. Immersion ruined.
Tried Rec Room. Saw other people. Wanted to give hand gestures (Peace, Shaka, Middle Finger, etc...) but couldn't. Need every finger tracked.
I'm not saying the current VR isn't great, it is. Have loved several games. BUT, I IMO we need all of those in their. In order of priority IMO
1. Face (this one is low-hanging fruit as it would be easy and cheap to do)
2. Fingers
3. Feet (this one and below are also easy, just add velcro strap sensors)
4. Elbows
4. Hips
5. Knees
as pointed out by numerous previous slashdot linked articles it's very easy to transfer phone numbers without the original owners permission.
Blade Runner had nothing to do with AI or machines
try Colossus: The Forbin Project
that sounds like some pretty big reality distortion hype
I use arq
https://www.arqbackup.com/
it lets you chose were to store your data
You shouldn't have to protect yourself from theft. Many countries don't have a culture of theft. go live in one and you'll see this is the approach of having nothing worth stealing is the wrong approach. it's so freeing to live somewhere I can carry whatever and not worry about thieves
> San Francisco police commander Robert O'Sullivan is in favor of the legislation, fearing the robots could harm children, the elderly, and those with limited mobility.
What twisted logic. Children, the elderly and those with limited mobility would use robots to make them mobile.
I love programming. I find it extremely fun. It's like having an infinite box of legos and I can build all kinds of things from websites to creative coding projects to games to interactive installation to dating apps whatever.
I'm not saying everyone else should find it fun for some of us it's amazingly fun
The biggest problem I had with Gattaca is the *main* part, not being able to get into the space program because your genes are bad, is not Sci Fi. It's been part of NASA since it started. The fact that the main character would risk a multi-billion dollar program was just selfish and irresponsible.
As another example the Air Force also screens. They might not use direct genetic testing but many of the tests to be a fighter pilot amount the same thing. Example: Eye sight not 100% perfect, no piloting for you.
It's not about the interface (although gIMPs interface leaves lots to be desired). It's about the feature set. Photoshop is orders of magnitude more powerful than gIMP and has been forever. It's non-destructive ability to layer various kinds of effects and then edit where and how they are applied (because it's non-distructive) are just one of the major features that separate the two. It's on their list to add and has been for years (no sign of it yet) but it's been in Photoshop for ~15 years?
There are open source projects that are closer to parity with features. Blender comes to mind that seems to come close to some of its closed source competition. Maybe Libre Office is another. gIMP is not in that category of being near par with it's closed source competitors.
AR will take off someday as it's useful in pretty much all situations. VR is much less useful, isolating. Requires an unreasonable amount of dedicated space. It seems like it will remain a niche except outside a few vertical markets like 3d design and architecture. I'm sure there will be a market but it seems unlikely to be a mainstream tech.
I'd.be happy to be wrong
I agree with you that's mostly what I wish they'd do but if you google it the airlines don't want to lose money and they'd have to offer refunds or something for people calling in with the flu on missed flights. Otherwise I wish they'd do it for all the reasons you point out though I'd hate if if I missed a flight :P
It's not more complicated than any standard English TV remote.
The only thing that makes it appear complicated is that you can't read Japanese. If you did read Japanese it would be very clear.
Blender has video editing built in I've heard. It probably also supports shaders. note: I'm only guessing as I have barely used Blender
video editing in blender
I started on Apple II, TRS-80, Atari 800, C64 and I certainly remember those days fondly. But today's kids have Scratch, Python, PICO-8, Unity, Unreal, HTML5, Processing, digital cameras, digital video, the internet, github and all kind of other stuff to go crazy on. You can **start** learning how to make a website on HTML or a **start** learning to make a game in Unity in 30-60 minutes and have thousands of tutorials and videos all over the web to help you progress. That's sooooooooooo much better than it was back in the 8bit days when the best you could hope for was some BASIC games books, Softdisk / Compute Magazine and or whatever you could find at the local bookstore.
Doh! Today I learned my site is mis-configured. Try www.vertexshaderart.com