Part of a rich gaming experience is realism and accuracy
I have to disagree with you over this statement. The square grid, like in a chess game, adds an element of strategy that does not necessarily have anything to do with realism. Good gameplay doesn't depend on realism at all.
Take Quake - how realistic is it that a man can be hit 20 times with a machine gun and then get up? Or even if he's killed he comes back to live immediately. The fun of quake is not based on any sort of realism whatsoever.
And how about Tetris? Or Lemmings? Realism is clearly not inversely proportional to playability - sometimes the opposite, such as the PS2 game Driving Emotion S.
Ok, so maybe simulation games are different. In a sim game, you want to be able to use your real world knowledge to your advantage. And this is precisely the reason I enjoy games like civ or Myst. But, IMHO, to start sacrificing gameplay for realism in civ would put it on the same slippery slope that the Ultima series fell into after Quest of the Avatar.
It's intersting that the airport doesn't afffect battery life.
I have a sony crusoe picturebook with a double battery. I usually get 5+ hours out of it (pretty unimpressive in my opinion), but with a pcmcia wireless card in it, I get less than 1 hour before dead battery.
It's a fascinating prediction, but it certainly won't be easy to implement. Say I place I copyright notice on my website that prohibits downloads. Do I then get to collect royalties from the RIAA?
How does the RIAA collect taxes from the Swiss ISP I work for anyway? We don't pay the IRS anything at the moment.
Who's going to gauge which artists are being distributed the most? It would make for a pretty big shake-up if it couldn't be done, and how else would you know how much to pay them in royalties?
If any of your horror scenarios actually happen, it won't be for a very long time.
Eventually, when CD burners, Minidiscs and car MP3 players become cheap and popular enough, how do you propose artists make a living in this new world order?
How about the artists perform live for their money? It's not a revolutionary concept, we just go back to the entertainment model as it existed 100 years ago.
Perhaps you should have asked "How will the recording industry make a living in this new world order?" My answer to that is that I don't care. Maybe they'll cease to exist. Possibly the artists will pay for the privilege of being recorded and distributed on the net.
Maybe we'll go back to relying on friends and critics to recommend music and other entertainment, rather than buying into the marketing crap that gets shovelled out of production houses. Maybe we'll go back to attending live performances in real theatres once in a while.
Please don't look at these movies or pictures! Some of the crew of the ISS are desperately hungry for a boiled egg, and the more hits these images get the longer it will take!
Two weeks ago I had a redhat 6.2 machine compromised (by an rcp exploit) within 6 hours of installing it. ANY machine not running the very latest security patches should not be connected to a live network.
Of course, the proliferation of Win2k & IIS and worms that infect them means that you'll probably get your system probed sooner running them, but this is going to be true of any popular OS.
I can't imagine why they chose the animated GIF to distribute this image. It may have more platform independance that using mpegs, but other video formats have the advantages of being able to freeze and rewind.
Did anyone else notice the amount of error pixels that were apparent? Particularly the Jul 8th image at 90W. Surely that's transmission noise? Could the weather pattern really be that fine?
I found it interesting that the storm spread from the low-altitude (high air-pressure) region of Hellas to the high-altitude Tharsis. Surely if storms of this scale repeatedly follow this pattern Tharsis is only going to get/lower/?
It was also interesting to see the way the storm spread around Olympus Mons; with something of a shadow of calm as the storm spread.
Yes, but realistically speaking, if your house is raided for comitting offenses relating to the use of these tools, they'll be very to find a few extra 'intent to commit' crimes to throw into the prosecution.
Among the crap technology laws they've introduced in Aus recently, this doesn't really rate, this has some good applications.
If we're really talking about an intelligent system here, then it deserves to be open. At the very least, it should be allowed to choose it's editors.
If we really want to avoid a "Butlerian Jihad", we need to be prepared to accept AI as citizens with equal rights. The real acid test for intelligence will be a system which is smart enough to go to court and demand its rights. Better that we grant those rights than wait for the strikes, protest-marches and violence to begin.
The 'tubes' reminded me very strongly of WAVE ROCK in Australia. There's no doubt wind erosion alone can create some pretty incredible shapes.
For me, these guys lost all their credibility when they failed to give accurate information about where the pictures came from. Why not link back to the original NASA pics?
most of the time you can't find such an algorithm with random data (and this can be proved.)
Yes, it can be proved that not all data can be generated from a formula. This was the subject of Gregory Chaitin's presentation which was covered on slashdot in March.
One of the interesting caveats in this argument is the reliance on the Turing Halting Problem, which means that this proof is restricted to finite time. However, I don't think "Patrick" would have got his $5000 if the "decompressor" had taken infinite time to run, despite the slack wording of his challenge:)
You don't sound like you know what you're talking about. It is still illegal to export 128bit encryption to countries under US trade embargoes - eg Iraq, N. Korea.
Simply put, it is in the best interests of subscribers not to share proprietary info with all their friends. It's a tragedy-of-the-commons situation simple enough even your average luser gets it. Subscribers want to continue receiving very high quality content. They know that if that content isn't profitable it goes away.
I'm living in Switzerland and I've been trying to learn German for months. One of the biggest helps I have had was buying "Die Sims" and working through it.
I'm picking up all sorts of common phrases and daily expressions - it's a really easy and fun way to learn a language! I've not really read any game instructions in English, but since the gameplay is totally intuitive and visual, that's no problem.
The only problem I AM having is pronunciation. All of the speech in Sims is a silly nonsense language "bis drawl es FREMSHAY". The unfortunate result is that I'm starting to associate the silly made up words with the instructions I'm giving my Sims.
Once I accidentally slapped a guest in the face because I wasn't sure what 'klaps' was. Now I'll remember!
I seem to remember reading somewhere that NASA's official position on this was that 'geology' would be used for any planet or moon for exactly your reasons.
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Take Quake - how realistic is it that a man can be hit 20 times with a machine gun and then get up? Or even if he's killed he comes back to live immediately. The fun of quake is not based on any sort of realism whatsoever.
And how about Tetris? Or Lemmings? Realism is clearly not inversely proportional to playability - sometimes the opposite, such as the PS2 game Driving Emotion S.
Ok, so maybe simulation games are different. In a sim game, you want to be able to use your real world knowledge to your advantage. And this is precisely the reason I enjoy games like civ or Myst. But, IMHO, to start sacrificing gameplay for realism in civ would put it on the same slippery slope that the Ultima series fell into after Quest of the Avatar.
It's intersting that the airport doesn't afffect battery life.
I have a sony crusoe picturebook with a double battery. I usually get 5+ hours out of it (pretty unimpressive in my opinion), but with a pcmcia wireless card in it, I get less than 1 hour before dead battery.
YMMV
It's a fascinating prediction, but it certainly won't be easy to implement. Say I place I copyright notice on my website that prohibits downloads. Do I then get to collect royalties from the RIAA?
How does the RIAA collect taxes from the Swiss ISP I work for anyway? We don't pay the IRS anything at the moment.
Who's going to gauge which artists are being distributed the most? It would make for a pretty big shake-up if it couldn't be done, and how else would you know how much to pay them in royalties?
If any of your horror scenarios actually happen, it won't be for a very long time.
Perhaps you should have asked "How will the recording industry make a living in this new world order?" My answer to that is that I don't care. Maybe they'll cease to exist. Possibly the artists will pay for the privilege of being recorded and distributed on the net.
Maybe we'll go back to relying on friends and critics to recommend music and other entertainment, rather than buying into the marketing crap that gets shovelled out of production houses. Maybe we'll go back to attending live performances in real theatres once in a while.
Please don't look at these movies or pictures! Some of the crew of the ISS are desperately hungry for a boiled egg, and the more hits these images get the longer it will take!
Here's a guy who had a lisp bot keep a moron chatting for NEARLY 90 MINUTES! It's a great read.
I'm not a network guru, but isn't the zombie threat largely neutralised if you setup your router rules correctly? Spam's still a problem of course.
Two weeks ago I had a redhat 6.2 machine compromised (by an rcp exploit) within 6 hours of installing it. ANY machine not running the very latest security patches should not be connected to a live network.
Of course, the proliferation of Win2k & IIS and worms that infect them means that you'll probably get your system probed sooner running them, but this is going to be true of any popular OS.
There's a lot of discussion of RHIC black holes on everything2. See What if a black hole was created on Earth?.
I can't imagine why they chose the animated GIF to distribute this image. It may have more platform independance that using mpegs, but other video formats have the advantages of being able to freeze and rewind.
Did anyone else notice the amount of error pixels that were apparent? Particularly the Jul 8th image at 90W. Surely that's transmission noise? Could the weather pattern really be that fine?
I found it interesting that the storm spread from the low-altitude (high air-pressure) region of Hellas to the high-altitude Tharsis. Surely if storms of this scale repeatedly follow this pattern Tharsis is only going to get /lower/?
It was also interesting to see the way the storm spread around Olympus Mons; with something of a shadow of calm as the storm spread.
Yes, but realistically speaking, if your house is raided for comitting offenses relating to the use of these tools, they'll be very to find a few extra 'intent to commit' crimes to throw into the prosecution.
Among the crap technology laws they've introduced in Aus recently, this doesn't really rate, this has some good applications.
If we're really talking about an intelligent system here, then it deserves to be open. At the very least, it should be allowed to choose it's editors.
If we really want to avoid a "Butlerian Jihad", we need to be prepared to accept AI as citizens with equal rights. The real acid test for intelligence will be a system which is smart enough to go to court and demand its rights. Better that we grant those rights than wait for the strikes, protest-marches and violence to begin.
Probably not
Judging by the kgcc fiasco they probably won't even make it portable across linuxes.
I'm just happy Africans, Indians and Chinese can benefit from US public money.
The 'tubes' reminded me very strongly of WAVE ROCK in Australia. There's no doubt wind erosion alone can create some pretty incredible shapes.
For me, these guys lost all their credibility when they failed to give accurate information about where the pictures came from. Why not link back to the original NASA pics?
Tim posted the story, but the review was written by clampe, who's pretty bright himself.
One of the interesting caveats in this argument is the reliance on the Turing Halting Problem, which means that this proof is restricted to finite time. However, I don't think "Patrick" would have got his $5000 if the "decompressor" had taken infinite time to run, despite the slack wording of his challenge
Simply put, it is in the best interests of subscribers not to share proprietary info with all their friends. It's a tragedy-of-the-commons situation simple enough even your average luser gets it. Subscribers want to continue receiving very high quality content. They know that if that content isn't profitable it goes away.
:)
Was your contribution profitable to you?
No? Then go away
My point is; free content can work.
Easily done with a javascript/cgi combo.
<script language=javascript>
var peek;
peek = getMaxScreenX + getMaxScreenY (etc etc)
document.writeln('<IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/peek.pl?'+peek+'">');
</script>
Nothing fancy, but with 4+ version browsers you have some extra info. You can even get plugin info this way.
I'm living in Switzerland and I've been trying to learn German for months. One of the biggest helps I have had was buying "Die Sims" and working through it.
I'm picking up all sorts of common phrases and daily expressions - it's a really easy and fun way to learn a language! I've not really read any game instructions in English, but since the gameplay is totally intuitive and visual, that's no problem.
The only problem I AM having is pronunciation. All of the speech in Sims is a silly nonsense language "bis drawl es FREMSHAY". The unfortunate result is that I'm starting to associate the silly made up words with the instructions I'm giving my Sims.
Once I accidentally slapped a guest in the face because I wasn't sure what 'klaps' was. Now I'll remember!
you've written 10000 lines of perl and you didn't think of this?
for(0..10) {
print unless($_%2);
}
You clearly picked contrived examples, and totally failed to back up your argument.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that NASA's official position on this was that 'geology' would be used for any planet or moon for exactly your reasons.
The only link I can find is http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/selenology.html