Small teams of young engineers willing to work 90 hour weeks in total secrecy, and a complete willingness to throw away bad ideas without flowery language.
How small? How young?
I'm sure a nice chunk of R+D projects fall under a pattern defined by:
"Some engineers willing to work a lot, secretly, with a boss."
I agree, but I'd also like to point out that the technology is ready to give players the separation of vision and aim.
I want to be able to watch in a direction, run in another and shoot in another one. As running is going to be linked to a hand (as foot controls are cumbersome) and shooting to the other, vision should be linked to head movement.
What I'm suggesting is: Don't "evolve" to mouse control if you can truly evolve.
And pickpockets are not likely to attack you for having a camera, as I am sure many people in the area are openly carrying cameras,
The problem is not the camera but the act of sending that data somewhere for your security.
Pickpockets wouldn't steal your camera just for recorrding the plaza (well, they would if you leave it on an unclosed handbad and look oblivious to your surroundings) but they've attacked and intimidated reporters who were openly recording them to report about the high criminality against tourists.
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most people tend to die in ways that are less worthy of a James Bond movie plot.
Most people don't need permanent recording of their lives to avoid being attacked.
So either you don't need the device, or you do and it's useless.
As for being a witness for "every crime that ever happens near you", how many felonious crimes do you personally witness in the average day?
How many muggings happen near enough that the criminal may think I had recorded his face? How many people may think I had recorded their face somewhere they shouldn't be?
If I stay in the center plaza of my current city, Madrid, with an omnidirectional camera I assure you I'd record several dozens of pickpockets.
If I crossed that same plaza, alone, with the recording device hanging from my neck I don't think I'd still be carrying it by the time I reached the other side.
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> If this is the case then why is storage relevant?
Connectivity can never be guaranteed, so you either need storage or you have the thing discarding all data whenever the wifi connection is bad.
And you need a year of storage for that? How long are you planning to stay on that bad wifi tunnel?
Or by injecting your significant other with a deadly STD.
Or releasing anthrax on your ventilation system.
Or bombing your car.
hmm What exactly does this protect you against? And, more importantly, does it protect you more than the extra danger of wearing expensive hardware wherever you go and being a potential witness of every crime that ever happens near you?
By making all kinds of crap classified that shouldn't be they clog the system and reduce the efficiency. It's impossible to run a security system when you flood it with tons of info that is only classified because it's embarrassing to the morons in management.
Au contraire! My friend.
Imagine being a spy trying to find some interesting piece of information. You spend a couple of days seducing the secretary, a week finding a geek to crack the codes, another week to go to Italy to replace the suit you just ruined while chasing, on motorboat, the guy who had the passkeys, etc...
Two months later, the information you just got is random useless crap about a lowly manager fucking up his job in various ways and you just lost your best opportunity of novelizing your adventures.
Why should something evolve that can create something that it needs to exist in the first place? It doesn't seem to be very likely that something organism evolves out an environment without water, that later needs water. But, it may evolve from a wet environment to a state where it later no longer depends on pre-supplied water.
Have you thought of the possibility of an organism that doesn't need water, and still dumps it as byproduct of one of its processes?
A small part of those organisms could then evolve to use that water for a more optimized way of transport, for example. Some coule even evolve so much, they'd require the water, and still produce it.
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The only image in my mind as I read that sentence is: a young programmer, a quality control analist and a tester all with red faces and slaughtered lamb eyes, while I hold an anomaly notice document on my hands.
The document has a post it stuck on the right, so the line of zeroes can extend beyond the paper's limit.
I'm telling that story because I like it a lot, but also because it shows that insane investment can pay off in the end. Yes, the romans poured ressources into a few sieges that were far beyond what they gained. But once the word had spread, the return-on-investment came.
That's how I've been told bank robberies are managed. Spread among the criminals the idea that whoever robs a bank will be hunt down and killed, even if it's more expensive than the robbed money.
We need to get back to the Old Ways, where we invested all of time more wisely in Talking About Doing Stuff. We fear this new fangled "work".
Actually, what we're doing right here is talking about the way of discussing how to talk about doing something.
Hmm, wait... No, it's posting about talking about how to talk about... fuck got lost again. It's talking about talking about talking about talking. Yeah, that's it.
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It will look like flying through buildings made of data.
YES, YES IT WILL!
NaNanananananana I can't hear you nanananananaana
I use my iPad at home, you probably won't see me walking around with it.
I'd be ashamed too.
You could paint it orange and pretend it's a brick.
Or glue some hair to it, a rope, and pretend you're walking a chihuahua.
You don't get it.
They work 90 hours and then they work a totally secret amount of extra hours.
Small teams of young engineers willing to work 90 hour weeks in total secrecy, and a complete willingness to throw away bad ideas without flowery language.
How small? How young?
I'm sure a nice chunk of R+D projects fall under a pattern defined by:
"Some engineers willing to work a lot, secretly, with a boss."
I agree, but I'd also like to point out that the technology is ready to give players the separation of vision and aim.
I want to be able to watch in a direction, run in another and shoot in another one. As running is going to be linked to a hand (as foot controls are cumbersome) and shooting to the other, vision should be linked to head movement.
What I'm suggesting is: Don't "evolve" to mouse control if you can truly evolve.
But then the bugs will appear to be in IE8.
Not all of us are young with good eyes and good knees.
Once you start using your fingers, as you're supposed to, you'll see you can hold it much closer to you face, making good sight unnecesary.
You're welcome.
And pickpockets are not likely to attack you for having a camera, as I am sure many people in the area are openly carrying cameras,
The problem is not the camera but the act of sending that data somewhere for your security.
Pickpockets wouldn't steal your camera just for recorrding the plaza (well, they would if you leave it on an unclosed handbad and look oblivious to your surroundings) but they've attacked and intimidated reporters who were openly recording them to report about the high criminality against tourists.
most people tend to die in ways that are less worthy of a James Bond movie plot.
Most people don't need permanent recording of their lives to avoid being attacked.
So either you don't need the device, or you do and it's useless.
As for being a witness for "every crime that ever happens near you", how many felonious crimes do you personally witness in the average day?
How many muggings happen near enough that the criminal may think I had recorded his face?
How many people may think I had recorded their face somewhere they shouldn't be?
If I stay in the center plaza of my current city, Madrid, with an omnidirectional camera I assure you I'd record several dozens of pickpockets.
If I crossed that same plaza, alone, with the recording device hanging from my neck I don't think I'd still be carrying it by the time I reached the other side.
> If this is the case then why is storage relevant?
Connectivity can never be guaranteed, so you either need storage or you have the thing discarding all data whenever the wifi connection is bad.
And you need a year of storage for that? How long are you planning to stay on that bad wifi tunnel?
Or with a sniper rifle.
Or poisoned.
Or run over with a stolen car.
Or rolled in your bedsheets and defenestrated.
Or by injecting your significant other with a deadly STD.
Or releasing anthrax on your ventilation system.
Or bombing your car.
hmm What exactly does this protect you against? And, more importantly, does it protect you more than the extra danger of wearing expensive hardware wherever you go and being a potential witness of every crime that ever happens near you?
By making all kinds of crap classified that shouldn't be they clog the system and reduce the efficiency. It's impossible to run a security system when you flood it with tons of info that is only classified because it's embarrassing to the morons in management.
Au contraire! My friend.
Imagine being a spy trying to find some interesting piece of information. You spend a couple of days seducing the secretary, a week finding a geek to crack the codes, another week to go to Italy to replace the suit you just ruined while chasing, on motorboat, the guy who had the passkeys, etc...
Two months later, the information you just got is random useless crap about a lowly manager fucking up his job in various ways and you just lost your best opportunity of novelizing your adventures.
I meant "athermal".
If that porn involves schoolgirls getting raped by tentacles, then yes, I would be afraid of getting caught.
Drawings of schoolgirls getting raped.
There's quite a difference. Unless you think they abduct actual schoolgirls, and octopuses, to use them as models.
Why should something evolve that can create something that it needs to exist in the first place? It doesn't seem to be very likely that something organism evolves out an environment without water, that later needs water. But, it may evolve from a wet environment to a state where it later no longer depends on pre-supplied water.
Have you thought of the possibility of an organism that doesn't need water, and still dumps it as byproduct of one of its processes?
A small part of those organisms could then evolve to use that water for a more optimized way of transport, for example. Some coule even evolve so much, they'd require the water, and still produce it.
ta-da!
Life is clever, but the laws of physics catch up to you.
Life, as we know it.
Forms of life we've never seen may well be atermal.
To the best of my knowledge all life on earth seems to have considerable similarities, which implies a relationship, perhaps a common origin point.
Yes. Just as the sphericity of stars implies they're all related.
i wonder how their average cell mass compares to some of the more usual critters we know and love.
Well, they're most probably smaller than panda bears.
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The only image in my mind as I read that sentence is: a young programmer, a quality control analist and a tester all with red faces and slaughtered lamb eyes, while I hold an anomaly notice document on my hands.
The document has a post it stuck on the right, so the line of zeroes can extend beyond the paper's limit.
I'm telling that story because I like it a lot, but also because it shows that insane investment can pay off in the end. Yes, the romans poured ressources into a few sieges that were far beyond what they gained. But once the word had spread, the return-on-investment came.
That's how I've been told bank robberies are managed. Spread among the criminals the idea that whoever robs a bank will be hunt down and killed, even if it's more expensive than the robbed money.
I like the story too.
Could you, please, provide the necessary info for me to find a more detailed description of the facts? (forts and city names should be sufficient).
Great job, if you can get it: spend government money to study if aliens are busy playing videogames
Massive fail if you lose the opportunity of spending government money on the study of junk food and porn.
I mean an an ice cube can not burn can it?
Yes, it does.
You don't need the hypnotist.
We need to get back to the Old Ways, where we invested all of time more wisely in Talking About Doing Stuff. We fear this new fangled "work".
Actually, what we're doing right here is talking about the way of discussing how to talk about doing something.
Hmm, wait... No, it's posting about talking about how to talk about... fuck got lost again. It's talking about talking about talking about talking. Yeah, that's it.
Before using that analogy remember that some toll roads already charge you more if you have a bigger vehicle and people seem to think that is ok.
That's completely irrelevant, as for the analogy to be wrong the toll roads would have to charge the big car manufacturers.