I'd bet that's habit more than anything. Get 'em to do a duet with Stevie Wonder, and swap glasses at the beginning. They'll still play just as well.:)
Surely the measure of a country is less the number of its population who are incarcerated, and more the number of its population who are executed for opposing the government and who have their organs harvested without consent?
It's known in Australia, among other places, as tall poppy syndrome. Why bother to elevate yourself when it's much easier to just cut down anyone who dares to rise above you and your mediocre peers?
Just that you could as well skip the game. And: this comment.
You seem to think that learning guitar from a teacher is easier or better than playing a game which teaches you guitar as a side effect of you having fun. I disagree. And this game would appear to address Prince's objection directly.
The game is an excellent learning tool. Not everyone has the time/commitment/money for lessons (which would certainly be a better option for learning to play).
Honest question here - why do you assume that lessons (in the traditional format of "go to a person who teaches the instrument, and ask them to teach it to you") are a better option than a game? I'd argue that a well structured game which requires the learning of a skill as part of the gameplay is probably the best possible way to learn that skill.
Most good games require players to master complex moves, commit long sequences to memory, and react rapidly to stimuli. Those are the same skills required to play an instrument well - in fact, the rapid reaction part is only required when improvising.
At this point, why pay for guitar lessons when you could buy a game?
Although I disagree with TFA/TFS. "... much the same way that a musician's eyes would scan up and down the neck of the instrument during a performance."? A performance-quality guitarist probably doesn't look at the fretboard while playing.
Yeah that's what I meant to say... On one side you have the Jedi Council, running the galaxy, and on the other side you have the Sith, presumed wiped out. I wouldn't think the Jedi would be so keen on 'balancing' those two sides!
A couple of my friends are really into EVE, and while it doesn't have character classes, does it not have ship classes? And since you need to level up particular skills per ship it's pretty similar.
Let's be realistic. They have $290k sales in 10.5 months? That sounds like a lot until you realise that's how much it would cost to cover the salaries of three good software engineers, assuming those guys agreed to work from home. If that's split four ways, then there's a decent chance those four people are making a loss.
Your first suggestion wasn't a Beowulf cluster of Linux-running kidney printers? Hand in your./ badge.:P
...then ???Profit. Somehow.:P
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Yep, inkjets were are cheap stopgap that should have only been used long enough for laser printers to come down in price. That time has come and passed. There is no longer a good reason for inkjets to exist in the consumer market.
So what, you want kidneys with frikkin' lasers? I mean, print me a frikkin' bone already!
Is education the Silver Bullet? Or is the problem simply going to be the simple fact that there's no going to be enough jobs... for anyone... with any level of education?
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And education won't matter. Learn to do what? Cross-train for what? That job space is filled too.
The best and brightest will have their pick. The rest of us???
Exactly. The problem isn't so much that some people get stuck in the ghetto (although that is a problem). The problem is that, as technology advances, the percentage of humanity who can't effectively compete with machines increases. Eventually, even those best and brightest will be outpaced by machine minds, unless we can use technology to augment our own abilities.
Evolve to become superhuman? Or be left behind by the machines? Either way, the days of plain old unengineered flesh-and-blood humans are numbered.
Although I don't think it'll be quite such a killer to the industry as far as non-stellar authors goes (plenty of people still read novellas as it is), there's certainly a potential for consequence that will separate the wheat from the chaff - but what do we, as a society, do with that chaff?
I believe that this will, in the coming decades, become the great moral struggle for humankind. You see, the threshold for being 'chaff' has been steadily rising ever we became human. In the middle ages, a halfwit could still help out around a farm or perform drudge work - spinning, churning butter, cutting wood. During the industrial revolution, machines began to take over the menial manual labour. At an accelerating rate, the capabilities of our creations began to overtake those of our less fortunate kin.
In the last few decades, industrial automation has removed many jobs. The overseer jobs remain (for now) but the workers have been replaced by machines. And this is just the beginning. For a while yet, there are still jobs that people of less-than-average ability - chaff, as you term them - can do better than machines. Those jobs are slowly disappearing; consider ATMs and internet banking. How often do you talk to an actual live staff member at a bank? I bet it's now a few times a year, rather than a few times a week.
For another example, take automated checkouts at supermarkets. That cluster of machines at the entrance has probably eliminated 5-10 part-time staff positions. Sure, there's still places for the sales assistant who helps out when your checkout gets confused. I bet ATMs had those at first too.
My guess is that we'll see a huge increase in service industries, including a reversion to the old practice of having house servants. As unskilled jobs dry up, the once-high cost of unskilled human labour will fall rapidly. Rich technocrats will employ increasing numbers of low-paid staff to attend to their homes. Having human subordinates rather than machines will be the mark of aristocracy.
Of course, this will only last for so long before robots are better servants than humans. By this stage, we'll have the technology to build a true post-scarcity society (or rather, a society in which the only scarcity is energy, and even then there's enough to go around). The questions are, how will we manage this transition? And more importantly, how will we continue to give meaning to the lives of those who literally have no way in which they can contribute to society?
It's pretty beefy (especially for the price) - 330MHz or thereabouts, 32MB of RAM, 4gig of flash. Not sure of the exact framerate it gets in Neo Geo emulation but it looks pretty smooth on most games. This video shows some gameplay.
Not to mention that the official English dubs are usually horrible. I'd much rather watch it in the original language with subtitles than listen to some chump butcher their lines.
Although I was disappointed to find that the "climbs the walls of the container" thing was actually just in a one-atom-thick layer. (At such scales, surface tension beats gravity, and with no viscosity to hold it in check, the fluid flows up the sides molecule-by-molecule. It looks like it's just dripping through a hole in the container.:( )
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I'd bet that's habit more than anything. Get 'em to do a duet with Stevie Wonder, and swap glasses at the beginning. They'll still play just as well. :)
Surely the measure of a country is less the number of its population who are incarcerated, and more the number of its population who are executed for opposing the government and who have their organs harvested without consent?
It's known in Australia, among other places, as tall poppy syndrome. Why bother to elevate yourself when it's much easier to just cut down anyone who dares to rise above you and your mediocre peers?
Just that you could as well skip the game. And: this comment.
You seem to think that learning guitar from a teacher is easier or better than playing a game which teaches you guitar as a side effect of you having fun. I disagree. And this game would appear to address Prince's objection directly.
The game is an excellent learning tool. Not everyone has the time/commitment/money for lessons (which would certainly be a better option for learning to play).
Honest question here - why do you assume that lessons (in the traditional format of "go to a person who teaches the instrument, and ask them to teach it to you") are a better option than a game? I'd argue that a well structured game which requires the learning of a skill as part of the gameplay is probably the best possible way to learn that skill.
Most good games require players to master complex moves, commit long sequences to memory, and react rapidly to stimuli. Those are the same skills required to play an instrument well - in fact, the rapid reaction part is only required when improvising.
At this point, why pay for guitar lessons when you could buy a game?
Although I disagree with TFA/TFS. "... much the same way that a musician's eyes would scan up and down the neck of the instrument during a performance."? A performance-quality guitarist probably doesn't look at the fretboard while playing.
Future You liked the post you will have did shall post better than the one you were going to intending posted was in the yesterday future.
Yeah that's what I meant to say... On one side you have the Jedi Council, running the galaxy, and on the other side you have the Sith, presumed wiped out. I wouldn't think the Jedi would be so keen on 'balancing' those two sides!
Woah. I'd never thought of it like that... kind of like the way that "bringing balance to the force" doesn't mean total victory of the bad guys.
A couple of my friends are really into EVE, and while it doesn't have character classes, does it not have ship classes? And since you need to level up particular skills per ship it's pretty similar.
Let's be realistic. They have $290k sales in 10.5 months? That sounds like a lot until you realise that's how much it would cost to cover the salaries of three good software engineers, assuming those guys agreed to work from home. If that's split four ways, then there's a decent chance those four people are making a loss.
Your first suggestion wasn't a Beowulf cluster of Linux-running kidney printers? Hand in your ./ badge. :P
:P
...then ???Profit. Somehow.
Yep, inkjets were are cheap stopgap that should have only been used long enough for laser printers to come down in price. That time has come and passed. There is no longer a good reason for inkjets to exist in the consumer market.
So what, you want kidneys with frikkin' lasers? I mean, print me a frikkin' bone already!
Try convincing the stupid anti-refill chip of that... you'll have to solder some wires onto the kidney machine and plug in a PIC chip. :P
No, the NES cartridge you have to take out and blow on the contacts.
Is education the Silver Bullet? Or is the problem simply going to be the simple fact that there's no going to be enough jobs... for anyone... with any level of education?
And education won't matter. Learn to do what? Cross-train for what? That job space is filled too.
The best and brightest will have their pick. The rest of us???
Exactly. The problem isn't so much that some people get stuck in the ghetto (although that is a problem). The problem is that, as technology advances, the percentage of humanity who can't effectively compete with machines increases. Eventually, even those best and brightest will be outpaced by machine minds, unless we can use technology to augment our own abilities.
Evolve to become superhuman? Or be left behind by the machines? Either way, the days of plain old unengineered flesh-and-blood humans are numbered.
Although I don't think it'll be quite such a killer to the industry as far as non-stellar authors goes (plenty of people still read novellas as it is), there's certainly a potential for consequence that will separate the wheat from the chaff - but what do we, as a society, do with that chaff?
I believe that this will, in the coming decades, become the great moral struggle for humankind. You see, the threshold for being 'chaff' has been steadily rising ever we became human. In the middle ages, a halfwit could still help out around a farm or perform drudge work - spinning, churning butter, cutting wood. During the industrial revolution, machines began to take over the menial manual labour. At an accelerating rate, the capabilities of our creations began to overtake those of our less fortunate kin.
In the last few decades, industrial automation has removed many jobs. The overseer jobs remain (for now) but the workers have been replaced by machines. And this is just the beginning. For a while yet, there are still jobs that people of less-than-average ability - chaff, as you term them - can do better than machines. Those jobs are slowly disappearing; consider ATMs and internet banking. How often do you talk to an actual live staff member at a bank? I bet it's now a few times a year, rather than a few times a week.
For another example, take automated checkouts at supermarkets. That cluster of machines at the entrance has probably eliminated 5-10 part-time staff positions. Sure, there's still places for the sales assistant who helps out when your checkout gets confused. I bet ATMs had those at first too.
My guess is that we'll see a huge increase in service industries, including a reversion to the old practice of having house servants. As unskilled jobs dry up, the once-high cost of unskilled human labour will fall rapidly. Rich technocrats will employ increasing numbers of low-paid staff to attend to their homes. Having human subordinates rather than machines will be the mark of aristocracy.
Of course, this will only last for so long before robots are better servants than humans. By this stage, we'll have the technology to build a true post-scarcity society (or rather, a society in which the only scarcity is energy, and even then there's enough to go around). The questions are, how will we manage this transition? And more importantly, how will we continue to give meaning to the lives of those who literally have no way in which they can contribute to society?
:( Well, it looks pretty much like it does in the arcade, but only 2.4 inches across. :P Very playable. :)
As for GooTube, try logging out of Gmail.
It's pretty beefy (especially for the price) - 330MHz or thereabouts, 32MB of RAM, 4gig of flash. Not sure of the exact framerate it gets in Neo Geo emulation but it looks pretty smooth on most games. This video shows some gameplay.
this thing can actually develop into a more powerful gaming platform if people just concentrate on it.
I think the point is kinda that it's *not* powerful. It's about the right speed to natively run retro games.
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In a way it sorta reminds me of the Dingoo A320. I've got one of those, it's pretty awesome. What's not to love about Metal Slug 2 in your pocket?
Not to mention that the official English dubs are usually horrible. I'd much rather watch it in the original language with subtitles than listen to some chump butcher their lines.
And pretty much treated like shit by the governments, the banks and the large instituitions.
How many governments yo' got, man?
:/
That does sound like it sucks though.
Oh snap, that old weight / mass dichotomy. Well played, sir.
actually a gram of it would weigh a gram.
Not if it's made of feathers. FFS dont you know any physics. It's bad enough that slashdot is full of misinformation...
Yep, that's how it goes.
:( )
Although I was disappointed to find that the "climbs the walls of the container" thing was actually just in a one-atom-thick layer. (At such scales, surface tension beats gravity, and with no viscosity to hold it in check, the fluid flows up the sides molecule-by-molecule. It looks like it's just dripping through a hole in the container.