Actually, I think they realized that, among other problems, not enough people are gonna have broadband to make this complete "set top box" concept work, so we won't see a true consumer do-everything box until the PS3.
Amen. Another good point that some people seem to miss is that addiction is a disease, not a crime. I mean, really, should we start throwing everybody with the flu in jail?
To clarify core10k's slightly cryptic post... (for those who don't know what the terms melting pot and tossed salad mean in this cultural context)
Melting pot is where a large number of cultures all blend together to produce something well, unique. US-ians started out as just brits, but after millions of immigrants brought their own cultural traditions to the US, we now think of ourselves as Americans.
Tossed salad refers to having all the same cultures coexist, but retain their individuality. In the US this hasn't happened as much, though I suppose in big cities a lot of people live in pretty ethnic-specific areas (chinatown, the italian section, german section, etc).
Yeah, that confused me. And the fact that the Societas Eruditorium was poised to actually play a role in the plot, but didn't.
A number of Stephenson's books seem to have a problem where the reader is never quite sure if a character died or not, as his prose in these parts is perhaps deliberately vague.
Plus his endings always leave the reader danglingt, which is too bad, because the rest of the text is awesome.
Oh no, not just 4 processors... Sony's "GSCube," their streaming media server thingy, is reputed to have up to 64 Emotion Engines and Graphics Synthesizers. Each graphics synthesizer has 32 megs of RAM instead of 4, and I think the main board might have 128 megs instead of 32. I assume it's highly modular... Regardless, that is some serious graphics hardware (practically SGI Onyx2 level).
Oh yeah, I think Sony's T10000 (or something) PS2 development/graphics workstation (which runs linux, by the way) has something like 4 emotion engines. You were right all along!
Right. So NASA should have canned the ISS and done something useful with their money, such as this X-33, or a moon base, or a mars mission, or... Well, there's actually a lot of things they probably could have done besides building the ISS getting their budget cut.
Heh, there's a good number of easter eggs in q3a, too. Iliad, the Old Man Murray icon, and a few other recognizable symbols are scattered throughout the levels. There might be a dopefish, too. (just browse the textures directory of the main pak, they're all in there somewhere)
It's gonna take about 2 more years for them to crack RC5-64, but hey, let's get started on AES now! According to my rough calculations, it should take a mere 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 1^20) years to break at today's computing speed!
Unless we can get some time on the NSA's über-secret quantum computer and do it in a few minutes, that is.
Given id's registration of www.ua-corp.com, I would suspect that the role of the UAC in DooM's story will be greatly expanded. Plus, don't forget Graeme Devine's innocuous "game designer" role at id. I suspect that he will be a unifying force behind id's games from now on (he came to id when Quake 3 was mostly done, so he didn't exert much influence on said game).
Oh, and Tim Willits has been a level designer at id since the DooM II mission pack release. Close enough for me.
Re:Ratings? Hrmm how do US ratings work?
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Hmm, in the US, we have G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, in order from Disney to really mature stuff. As I understand it, you have to be accompanied by someone 18 or older to get into a R movie, but you must *be* 17 or older to see and NC-17 rated movie (hence the "17").
Yeah, it's wierd, we can thank the MPAA for that, but I hope this clears things up for non-US citizens.
I think this possibility of attack has been mentioned before (well of course it has, you linked to the story;). The counter arguments raised, that a) it hasn't happened yet, and b) are the RIAA/MPAA really that smart?, still apply to Gnutella.
The other problem is that the RIAA could possibly into sticky legal areas themselves by clogging peoples' bandwidth with garbage.
Well, it wasn't just "someone." The guy was (is) one of the original Napster guys. Napster may actually go down for good soon (though I kinda doubt it), and when it does, there will be a *lot* of people looking for a good place to get mp3's. Jordan Ritter is merely warning us of the dangers of 10 million people on Gnutella.
Agreed. And since you brought up Rareware (which is almost totally owned by Nintendo), it should be mentioned that Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Hair Day are NOT exactly bloodless, sanitized gaming experiences. Nintendo is desparately trying to get away from that "family" image.
If Neo Nazi's can advocate Jew hatred, then MIT grad students can advocate stuffing cats in bottles.
Besides the fact that one group is dead serious and the other is a joke, the speech of both ought to be protected, as long as they don't actually hurt anybody (and it has already been established that bonsaikitten.com didn't hurt anything).
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Actually, I think they realized that, among other problems, not enough people are gonna have broadband to make this complete "set top box" concept work, so we won't see a true consumer do-everything box until the PS3.
Yes, but if people buy just this kit and a PS2, and no games, then Sony loses money.
Well, if you were lucky, you could get a Plymouth Arco by the mid 90's, but hell, this this is huge!
Bigger than the Launch Arcos even...
Antigravity elevators, f00. ;)
Amen. Another good point that some people seem to miss is that addiction is a disease, not a crime. I mean, really, should we start throwing everybody with the flu in jail?
Didn't think so.
"digital colon convergence"...sounds like a new digital ass-interface...
Or the favored cologne of 25 year old Valley CEO's...
Yes, and you only need encryption if you have something to hide.
Privacy is something that everybody is entitled to.
I feel so cheated!
I caught this one as an April Fool's right away, but the story was hilarious.
This certainly sounds like an April fool's story. Parrot!?
Funny thing is, it looks legit...
To clarify core10k's slightly cryptic post... (for those who don't know what the terms melting pot and tossed salad mean in this cultural context)
Melting pot is where a large number of cultures all blend together to produce something well, unique. US-ians started out as just brits, but after millions of immigrants brought their own cultural traditions to the US, we now think of ourselves as Americans.
Tossed salad refers to having all the same cultures coexist, but retain their individuality. In the US this hasn't happened as much, though I suppose in big cities a lot of people live in pretty ethnic-specific areas (chinatown, the italian section, german section, etc).
Ya see?
Yeah, that confused me. And the fact that the Societas Eruditorium was poised to actually play a role in the plot, but didn't.
A number of Stephenson's books seem to have a problem where the reader is never quite sure if a character died or not, as his prose in these parts is perhaps deliberately vague.
Plus his endings always leave the reader danglingt, which is too bad, because the rest of the text is awesome.
Oh no, not just 4 processors... Sony's "GSCube," their streaming media server thingy, is reputed to have up to 64 Emotion Engines and Graphics Synthesizers. Each graphics synthesizer has 32 megs of RAM instead of 4, and I think the main board might have 128 megs instead of 32. I assume it's highly modular... Regardless, that is some serious graphics hardware (practically SGI Onyx2 level).
Oh yeah, I think Sony's T10000 (or something) PS2 development/graphics workstation (which runs linux, by the way) has something like 4 emotion engines. You were right all along!
/me wants one...
Right. So NASA should have canned the ISS and done something useful with their money, such as this X-33, or a moon base, or a mars mission, or... Well, there's actually a lot of things they probably could have done besides building the ISS getting their budget cut.
Indeed. Anybody who has read Douglas Adams knows this. :)
I think the term for Stallman would be "pro-copyleft."
real good non-lossy compression on the pr0n with that format...
Heh, there's a good number of easter eggs in q3a, too. Iliad, the Old Man Murray icon, and a few other recognizable symbols are scattered throughout the levels. There might be a dopefish, too. (just browse the textures directory of the main pak, they're all in there somewhere)
It's gonna take about 2 more years for them to crack RC5-64, but hey, let's get started on AES now! According to my rough calculations, it should take a mere 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 1^20) years to break at today's computing speed!
Unless we can get some time on the NSA's über-secret quantum computer and do it in a few minutes, that is.
:)
Given id's registration of www.ua-corp.com, I would suspect that the role of the UAC in DooM's story will be greatly expanded. Plus, don't forget Graeme Devine's innocuous "game designer" role at id. I suspect that he will be a unifying force behind id's games from now on (he came to id when Quake 3 was mostly done, so he didn't exert much influence on said game).
Oh, and Tim Willits has been a level designer at id since the DooM II mission pack release. Close enough for me.
Hmm, in the US, we have G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, in order from Disney to really mature stuff. As I understand it, you have to be accompanied by someone 18 or older to get into a R movie, but you must *be* 17 or older to see and NC-17 rated movie (hence the "17").
Yeah, it's wierd, we can thank the MPAA for that, but I hope this clears things up for non-US citizens.
I think this possibility of attack has been mentioned before (well of course it has, you linked to the story ;). The counter arguments raised, that a) it hasn't happened yet, and b) are the RIAA/MPAA really that smart?, still apply to Gnutella.
The other problem is that the RIAA could possibly into sticky legal areas themselves by clogging peoples' bandwidth with garbage.
Precisely. HavenCo may prove useful in a real-world scenario after all (if they ever get up and running, that is).
Well, it wasn't just "someone." The guy was (is) one of the original Napster guys. Napster may actually go down for good soon (though I kinda doubt it), and when it does, there will be a *lot* of people looking for a good place to get mp3's. Jordan Ritter is merely warning us of the dangers of 10 million people on Gnutella.
Agreed. And since you brought up Rareware (which is almost totally owned by Nintendo), it should be mentioned that Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Hair Day are NOT exactly bloodless, sanitized gaming experiences. Nintendo is desparately trying to get away from that "family" image.
If Neo Nazi's can advocate Jew hatred, then MIT grad students can advocate stuffing cats in bottles.
Besides the fact that one group is dead serious and the other is a joke, the speech of both ought to be protected, as long as they don't actually hurt anybody (and it has already been established that bonsaikitten.com didn't hurt anything).