I can't find any details in the Ars Technica links about the creature editor regarding AI. Will this game involve people programming the creatures to do things and interact with each other autonomously? That would be really cool. I wouldn't even care about the graphics if it just had an accessible AI dev environment. Kind of like the old Apple ][+ game, "Robot Wars," but not programming in assembly.
Metallica jumped the shark around the era of the self-titled black album.
Let me pinpoint this moment for all readers of this thread. I know when they jumped the shark because I watched as the daredevil feat was broadcast on television.... Music Television. Metallica jumped the shark with the release of their first music video- "One."
This jump-the-shark moment was created when Metallica embraced the corporate music marketing machine they had previously avoided. The content of the video was a rather strong message decrying the violence created by war. It's a bold statement, yet commercially un-risky at the time of its release. Contemporary Metallica songs and videos avoid such controversial stances (ala Master of Puppets) while the Iraq war drags on.
Have you ever wondered what was going through people's heads in Russia when the Committee for State Security began monitoring its own citizens? Early on I'm sure there were little news blurbs like this one. Then over time, people probably began to accept the necessity of this surveillance. Wikipedia has recognized this trend and accurately compares Russia's Committee for State Security to our own FBI.
I just crossed a new milestone. Got Mac OS X 10.5.1 running on a homebrew quad-core intel box the other day. Promptly installed VMware Fusion and created a virtual Win XP environment. Also downloaded several linux VMs and fired them up. I enjoy the elegance of Mac OS X as my main environment, but when required, I can drop into WinXP without any drama.
Really, though, I can't see why I would benefit from installing Vista at this point.
As an SMU alum, I'm looking forward to returning to campus so I can visit the Bush Presidential Library. It'll be like the most awesome couch with a coffee table book full of big color photos. Not a bunch of annoying stuff to read like at those regular libraries on campus.
Once you see the size of some mini-atx boards, it's not inconceivable that you could put 5 cpu systems in one tower case and have a 1TB RAID-5 system in there also.
You know, in the old NeXT Cube, you could install up to 4 motherboards which I think were interconnected over ethernet. The foundation of NexT OS allowed for processor sharing over the network, so you could kind of have slow multiprocessing.
My series 1 Tivo is still chugging along, but sans the newer connectivity features. I have a network card hacked into it, but none of this transfer stuff works. Like with your Series 2, I'm wondering how to speed up the access to 'now playing' and other interface locations. Perhaps if the channel listing were pruned to just the channels I have and like.... Perhaps if I cut down the season pass list by editing out all the shows that are no longer on the air....
If you make use of government health care, do you really want everyone to be able to read your medical records?
As it stands, one of the first things Bush / Cheney did when they took control was to pass the Medical Privacy Act. Perhaps the most ironic aspect of this law is that it opens patients' private medical records for scrutiny by ALL insurance companies.
If Apple tries to stop me, I will do my utmost to stop their intrusion onto my property by any means necessary.
I think this is the same perspective that Apple's wireless partner, AT&T has regarding the user of its very limited bandwidth on the EDGE network. EDGE sucks. If Apple lets clueless users run P2P and VOIP over it, say goodbye to Google maps and the other standard network apps ever working.
If this were about greed, they'd block SMS messaging apps, which they're not. AT&T and the other wireless carriers still treat text messages as a profit center. Since text chat shouldn't threaten the bandwidth of the network, Apple's cool with texting apps, even though AT&T isn't going to be too happy about them.
But you don't need Java to do that. A native iPhone app can send TCP/IP commands to MythTV.
Actually, I'd probably code the app in Objective C. The part of your post that gave me the inspiration was your idea of different pieces of furniture (appliances) communicating with one another. I'd love to have a nice touch-LCD remote for my MythTV box, and my phone is always with me when I'm watching TV, so making an iPhone tv remote is a no-brainer. I like the idea of having the wifi-TCP communication, because then it'd be a remote that wouldn't depend on IR hitting the MythTV box. Much like a radio wave remote.
Additionally, it could be used for remote programming of the MythTV recorder.
Sorry if my response sounded condescending. Using the 'duhh' opening usually is insulting and I didn't mean to underestimate your comprehension of this situation. As I re-read my post, I regret that word choice.
Wow. Your post got me thinking. I could write a remote-control interface for my iPhone that would send commands via TCP/IP to my MythTV box. Change channels, play / record, etc. over wi-fi.
2) Decent firewall alerting you to connections to chinese IP space,
Duhh.. these guys weren't amateurs. They wouldn't have been communicating directly with the compromised hosts. There'd be like three or more hops of compromised boxes between them and the Pentagon. Not to mention that the intrusion might have originally been thanks to a viral botnet where the controllers recognized some interesting IPs within their herd. Then used the command-control structure to issue specific commands to those boxes to further infiltrate the Pentagon. Probably was always outbound connections uploading data and grabbing new marching orders (encrypted in both cases).
My excitement over the SDK was somewhat doused when I read it isn't PPC compatible. Since my best Mac is a G4 powerbook, that would have been my environment for coding my dream iPhone app. I don't have the resources to buy a new Intel powerbook just to code apps for my iPhone.
Exploring options, I found that the OSX86 scene is thriving with successful installs on beige box PCs. Now I can turn my quad-core 2.4 ghz intel box into an iPhone IDE! Hooray!
When will companies learn to provide us [Consumers | Developer] tools to use that do not have purposeful limitations that are simply the concoction of someone who wants to confine what I can do with their product.
As soon as consumers develop and deploy their own national wireless network. Apple has a responsibility not to let their phone pollute the AT&T network with bandwidth-abusing traffic. If users ran around with P2P apps downloading movies, then it would impact the user experience for all and they would hate their iPhone. Not to mention that other cellular companies would be loathesome to allow the iPhone on their networks.
On the surface of this it looks no better than any other bogus software patent.
What surface are you scrutinizing? Please post a link to the patent you are criticizing so we can properly interpret its merits. The Trism developer said he applied for a patent on the game. Doesn't he deserve to be paid for his concept? Or does he deserve to have his game ripped off with an infinite number of clones like the Tetris guy? I don't think anyone should rush to judge this patent without reviewing it and I certainly don't believe your criticism is based on a reading of his patent application.
Remember those movies shot in Austin by Richard Linklater called "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly?" They used a proprietary software tool called "RotoShop" which was developed in Austin by a guy named Bob Sabastien. He patented the technique.
Had he not patented it, the technique would have been easily mimicked by Adobe and sold as a Premiere plugin. Then the technique would show up all over the place and get over-exposed. Bob's patent ensures that it will appear only in limited use (Charles Schwab commercials), which will pay him royalties. Without the patent, his (perhaps) one great invention of his life would be pilfered by the big guys and he'd make no money from it.
Does the Trism developer deserve to be paid for his innovation? You betcha.
Like it or not, we don't have the workforce to fill out those sorts of jobs anymore, and frankly it doesn't make any economic sense to force a decently educated worker into a job that could be filled for much less cost by someone who has no education at all.
I don't disagree with your point of assigning overqualified workers to menial jobs. I'd like to point out, though, that our native resources for uneducated, impoverished labor do exist. Unfortunately, these potential grape pickers are disillusioned by the cheaper immigrant labor and diminished wages, so they largely end up pursuing more lucrative, illegal wages. So we end up maintaining our own ideal grape pickers in prison (1 in 100 Americans are in prison) or on welfare.
People will say, "Oh, they don't want to pick grapes." Actually, they don't want to pick grapes for what illegal immigrants will accept as compensation. Many of them would probably pick grapes for what taxpayers are paying to incarcerate them.
Robin Leonard, a Microsoft employee, wrote that Wal-Mart is "extremely disappointed in the fact that the standards were lowered and feel like customer confusion will ensue.
If Walmart is complaining about quality, then you've really dumped a steaming turd into the marketplace.
what China did was demonstrate a limited
ability to destroy satellites. It was likely a misdirection
intended to trick us into thinking that is their
highest advancement of this technology. More
likely, they have a rail gun that they used to
cripple our spy satellite. Since we just destroyed
all evidence of their weapon. It probably will
take a few more dead spy satellites before we
catch on.
As far as form-factor goes, this device is challenged by its risk of topheaviness. It requires a significant base to keep it from falling over. The weight could be replaced by a bunjie-cord and then it wouldn't have a tendency to fall over.
But the problem with a bunjie cord is that it's a consumable. It also requires significant energy to produce its elasticity. Which also brings up somewhat of a fallacy of this 'green' gravity lamp. The weights and other mechanisms of this lamp require significant energy to produce. The break-even on energy savings is probably realized only after many years of its use.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Seth
I can't find any details in the Ars Technica links about the creature editor regarding AI. Will this game involve people programming the creatures to do things and interact with each other autonomously? That would be really cool. I wouldn't even care about the graphics if it just had an accessible AI dev environment. Kind of like the old Apple ][+ game, "Robot Wars," but not programming in assembly.
Seth
Metallica jumped the shark around the era of the self-titled black album.
Let me pinpoint this moment for all readers of this thread. I know when they jumped the shark because I watched as the daredevil feat was broadcast on television.... Music Television. Metallica jumped the shark with the release of their first music video- "One."
This jump-the-shark moment was created when Metallica embraced the corporate music marketing machine they had previously avoided. The content of the video was a rather strong message decrying the violence created by war. It's a bold statement, yet commercially un-risky at the time of its release. Contemporary Metallica songs and videos avoid such controversial stances (ala Master of Puppets) while the Iraq war drags on.
Seth
Have you ever wondered what was going through people's heads in Russia when the Committee for State Security began monitoring its own citizens? Early on I'm sure there were little news blurbs like this one. Then over time, people probably began to accept the necessity of this surveillance. Wikipedia has recognized this trend and accurately compares Russia's Committee for State Security to our own FBI.
Seth
I just crossed a new milestone. Got Mac OS X 10.5.1 running on a homebrew quad-core intel box the other day. Promptly installed VMware Fusion and created a virtual Win XP environment. Also downloaded several linux VMs and fired them up. I enjoy the elegance of Mac OS X as my main environment, but when required, I can drop into WinXP without any drama.
Really, though, I can't see why I would benefit from installing Vista at this point.
Seth
As an SMU alum, I'm looking forward to returning to campus so I can visit the Bush Presidential Library. It'll be like the most awesome couch with a coffee table book full of big color photos. Not a bunch of annoying stuff to read like at those regular libraries on campus.
Seth
Once you see the size of some mini-atx boards, it's not inconceivable that you could put 5 cpu systems in one tower case and have a 1TB RAID-5 system in there also.
You know, in the old NeXT Cube, you could install up to 4 motherboards which I think were interconnected over ethernet. The foundation of NexT OS allowed for processor sharing over the network, so you could kind of have slow multiprocessing.
Seth
My series 1 Tivo is still chugging along, but sans the newer connectivity features. I have a network card hacked into it, but none of this transfer stuff works. Like with your Series 2, I'm wondering how to speed up the access to 'now playing' and other interface locations. Perhaps if the channel listing were pruned to just the channels I have and like.... Perhaps if I cut down the season pass list by editing out all the shows that are no longer on the air....
Seth
If you make use of government health care, do you really want everyone to be able to read your medical records?
As it stands, one of the first things Bush / Cheney did when they took control was to pass the Medical Privacy Act. Perhaps the most ironic aspect of this law is that it opens patients' private medical records for scrutiny by ALL insurance companies.
Seth
If Apple tries to stop me, I will do my utmost to stop their intrusion onto my property by any means necessary.
I think this is the same perspective that Apple's wireless partner, AT&T has regarding the user of its very limited bandwidth on the EDGE network. EDGE sucks. If Apple lets clueless users run P2P and VOIP over it, say goodbye to Google maps and the other standard network apps ever working.
If this were about greed, they'd block SMS messaging apps, which they're not. AT&T and the other wireless carriers still treat text messages as a profit center. Since text chat shouldn't threaten the bandwidth of the network, Apple's cool with texting apps, even though AT&T isn't going to be too happy about them.
Seth
But you don't need Java to do that. A native iPhone app can send TCP/IP commands to MythTV.
Actually, I'd probably code the app in Objective C. The part of your post that gave me the inspiration was your idea of different pieces of furniture (appliances) communicating with one another. I'd love to have a nice touch-LCD remote for my MythTV box, and my phone is always with me when I'm watching TV, so making an iPhone tv remote is a no-brainer. I like the idea of having the wifi-TCP communication, because then it'd be a remote that wouldn't depend on IR hitting the MythTV box. Much like a radio wave remote.
Additionally, it could be used for remote programming of the MythTV recorder.
seth
Sorry if my response sounded condescending. Using the 'duhh' opening usually is insulting and I didn't mean to underestimate your comprehension of this situation. As I re-read my post, I regret that word choice.
Seth
Wow. Your post got me thinking. I could write a remote-control interface for my iPhone that would send commands via TCP/IP to my MythTV box. Change channels, play / record, etc. over wi-fi.
Seth
2) Decent firewall alerting you to connections to chinese IP space,
Duhh.. these guys weren't amateurs. They wouldn't have been communicating directly with the compromised hosts. There'd be like three or more hops of compromised boxes between them and the Pentagon. Not to mention that the intrusion might have originally been thanks to a viral botnet where the controllers recognized some interesting IPs within their herd. Then used the command-control structure to issue specific commands to those boxes to further infiltrate the Pentagon. Probably was always outbound connections uploading data and grabbing new marching orders (encrypted in both cases).
Seth
My excitement over the SDK was somewhat doused when I read it isn't PPC compatible. Since my best Mac is a G4 powerbook, that would have been my environment for coding my dream iPhone app. I don't have the resources to buy a new Intel powerbook just to code apps for my iPhone.
Exploring options, I found that the OSX86 scene is thriving with successful installs on beige box PCs. Now I can turn my quad-core 2.4 ghz intel box into an iPhone IDE! Hooray!
Seth
When will companies learn to provide us [Consumers | Developer] tools to use that do not have purposeful limitations that are simply the concoction of someone who wants to confine what I can do with their product.
As soon as consumers develop and deploy their own national wireless network. Apple has a responsibility not to let their phone pollute the AT&T network with bandwidth-abusing traffic. If users ran around with P2P apps downloading movies, then it would impact the user experience for all and they would hate their iPhone. Not to mention that other cellular companies would be loathesome to allow the iPhone on their networks.
Seth
On the surface of this it looks no better than any other bogus software patent.
What surface are you scrutinizing? Please post a link to the patent you are criticizing so we can properly interpret its merits. The Trism developer said he applied for a patent on the game. Doesn't he deserve to be paid for his concept? Or does he deserve to have his game ripped off with an infinite number of clones like the Tetris guy? I don't think anyone should rush to judge this patent without reviewing it and I certainly don't believe your criticism is based on a reading of his patent application.
Seth
Remember those movies shot in Austin by Richard Linklater called "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly?" They used a proprietary software tool called "RotoShop" which was developed in Austin by a guy named Bob Sabastien. He patented the technique.
Had he not patented it, the technique would have been easily mimicked by Adobe and sold as a Premiere plugin. Then the technique would show up all over the place and get over-exposed. Bob's patent ensures that it will appear only in limited use (Charles Schwab commercials), which will pay him royalties. Without the patent, his (perhaps) one great invention of his life would be pilfered by the big guys and he'd make no money from it.
Does the Trism developer deserve to be paid for his innovation? You betcha.
Seth
Like it or not, we don't have the workforce to fill out those sorts of jobs anymore, and frankly it doesn't make any economic sense to force a decently educated worker into a job that could be filled for much less cost by someone who has no education at all.
I don't disagree with your point of assigning overqualified workers to menial jobs. I'd like to point out, though, that our native resources for uneducated, impoverished labor do exist. Unfortunately, these potential grape pickers are disillusioned by the cheaper immigrant labor and diminished wages, so they largely end up pursuing more lucrative, illegal wages. So we end up maintaining our own ideal grape pickers in prison (1 in 100 Americans are in prison) or on welfare.
People will say, "Oh, they don't want to pick grapes." Actually, they don't want to pick grapes for what illegal immigrants will accept as compensation. Many of them would probably pick grapes for what taxpayers are paying to incarcerate them.
Seth
Robin Leonard, a Microsoft employee, wrote that Wal-Mart is "extremely disappointed in the fact that the standards were lowered and feel like customer confusion will ensue.
If Walmart is complaining about quality, then you've really dumped a steaming turd into the marketplace.
Seth
Flamebait? Wow. Perhaps my suspicions have caught the attention of the Chinese military moderation team.
seth
what China did was demonstrate a limited ability to destroy satellites. It was likely a misdirection intended to trick us into thinking that is their highest advancement of this technology. More likely, they have a rail gun that they used to cripple our spy satellite. Since we just destroyed all evidence of their weapon. It probably will take a few more dead spy satellites before we catch on.
Seth
Coondoggie's link is unnecessarily pointing at a newtworkworld copy-and-paste of the NSF's original article which is here.
As far as form-factor goes, this device is challenged by its risk of topheaviness. It requires a significant base to keep it from falling over. The weight could be replaced by a bunjie-cord and then it wouldn't have a tendency to fall over.
But the problem with a bunjie cord is that it's a consumable. It also requires significant energy to produce its elasticity. Which also brings up somewhat of a fallacy of this 'green' gravity lamp. The weights and other mechanisms of this lamp require significant energy to produce. The break-even on energy savings is probably realized only after many years of its use.
Seth
all I could find on their company website was mention of venture capital incubation in Oslo Norway.