There's nothing intrisically wrong with video gaming, any more than there's something 'intrinsically wrong' with learning how to read fiction. ("Thog! Put down chicken scratched clay and learn how to use spear!")
Educational computer games can be wonderful. You just won't find many for consoles, as there's not much market. Reader Rabbit will run on the Windows computer that Mom and Dad have anyway.
True, but gifts/talents will only take you so far, and in a lot of cases, will limit you.
First, the whole point of the article is that there's nothing 'innate.' I myself am 'gifted.' That changes my starting position. It doesn't change my possible ending position, compared to a 'non-gifted' person. Or somebody who's gifted elsewhere.
That having been said, grow up with everybody telling you that if you fail at something, you're not living up to your potential', rather than 'need to try harder,' you start to think that any failure is a direct personal lack of ability, and lack of posability, rather than simply being a lack of practice, skill, or training.
Similarly, the 'gifted' person who can more or less coast to a certain level, then has to buckle down and actually work at it, same as everybody else, is truely buggered compared to the 'non-gifted' guy who had to buckle down and actually work at it from the get-go, and therefore *knows how buckle down and actually work at it.*
Last night's On Point featured Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist who funded Netscape, Google, AOL, and so on, and he said something that struck me-- he said that he has failed often, but that his successes outnumber his failures. He also said that his firm has a reputation of betting on the entrepeneur who has failed once before. The entrepeneur who fails, learns from it, and tries again is the kind of guy he wants to invest in.
I remember reading an article on Ted Turner that said something like 'He makes a point, in meetings, to throw ideas out there. Ten, twenty, fifty, and most of them are abysmally stupid. But generally, discussing the stupid ones leads to the good ones. And nobody ever remembers the 49 stupid ideas; they remember the one good one.'
The BSA goes to the local sheriff or whatever, shows their auths from the big software companies to act on their behalf, shows an affidavit that they have a tip from a 'former employee' that there's piracy going on. The sheriff goes over with guns and orders everybody, literally, to stand up, keep hands out in plain sight, and walk away from the computers.
There are stories on slashdot from, oh, 1999, 2000, 2001, somewhere in there, back when the BSA was a noteworthy thing, with some firsthand accounts of raids. There was one that I remember fondly about a chemical manufacturer getting raided, 'agents' trying to install Win32 scanning software on Solaris servers, and so on.
Hell, now I need to go look it up. Ah, maybe this is it.
And yet Obi-Wan, not considered to be a particularly powerful Jedi, manages to smack him down, showing that skill, experience, and, dare I say, rightness of cause, beat raw talent. Or that a Dark Jedi defeats himself. Or something.
I think that Terry Goodkind sums it up nicely in his Sword of Truth series. In that series, there are two types of wizards; those with the Calling, i.e., they want to be, and those with the Gift, i.e., they're naturally talented at it.
in the OT, or at least Epi 4, it was quite clear that any old idiot could use the Force; Kenobi offers to teach some to Solo. That having been said, some people, through luck, or heridity, or whatever, have a particular aptitude or talent for Force usage.
In TPM, all they had to say was 'Midichlorians are ATTRACTED to The Force', not 'CAUSE The Force.' Simple. People with natural aptitudes have higher counts. People with higher counts should probably get some sort of training. Done.
Sure, but what other Disney movie involves a bishop a) giving instructions on more efficient torture (and there's nothing 'implied' about it), and b) announcing his intention to rape and kill a woman?
Ah, but as I said, you can also sell that vote. And that means that lobbyists, corporations, and so on, can, literally, buy your vote.
People in the States already complain about the PACs and what not buying politicians; how would The People like to see an advertising campaign: "$50 for a receipt showing you voted Republicrat!"
What I do care about is that after I vote, I get a printed receipt with a confirmation number. I can then either call a phone line or log in to the internet and verify that confirmation number with the government and CONFIRM ABSOLUTELY the details of my vote by having the system display it back to me.
That would absolutely destroy any concept of 'by the people.'
Not-so-violent example: "Psst, buddy, I'll pay you a hundred bucks for a voting receipt showing you voted for MyGuy."
Violent example: "Citizen, present your voting slip showing that you voted for El Jefe, or we'll break your legs."
Out of curiosity, did you try rotating the PDF 90 degrees, so that the long axis of the page was along the long axis of the monitor, then rotating the laptop?
Oh, I don't know about that. You could screw up a tank pretty good if you can manage to screw with the IVIS data going to it. Or you could neutralize the usefulness of a scout by screwing with the IVIS data coming from it, for that matter.
I think that game companies will see some real payoff in the very near future. I'm looking forward to Insomniac's next "Resistance" title, which will include things like texture streaming to reduce load time (which you can't do on a 360, because there's no guarantee of a hard drive).
Odd, given that one of the reasons Insominac gave for why Gears of War looked better than Resistance was that GoW used texture streaming.
When was the last time you saw a game with voice recognition (and I mean actually recognizing it as a word, not Boogie's system) on the shelves?
LifeLine for the PS2 is the major one I can think of. Basically, you know all the games where you're trying to make it through some environment, and the only help you have is a voice on the radio telling you where to go? In LifeLine, you're that voice.
Didn't work all that well, though, in my experience. Couple all of the problems with old text parser games of trying to figure out what exact verb/noun combo will accomplish what you need to do next with primitive vocog and you're there.
Blood in the home and Reiser buying forensics technique books after the disappearance doesn't faze you guys in the least... any wacky theory that vindicates the guy, you'll latch on to?
I can't speak to the blood, but as to the second, that's classic INTP (and probably a few other along that axis) response; if I was involved in a murder investigation, I'd feel compelled to study all sorts of related material.
True story. A manager-type from an Austin, Texas company that owned the company I was working for in Ontario came up for a few days, business stuff.
So I took him to a strip club. He was most impressed that we got a) totally naked girls, and b) alcohol in the same place, but I digress.
I warned him about the beer, and his response was 'Sheee-it boy, I know how to hold my beer!'. So I recommended Molson XXX, which has an alcoholic content of 7.3%.
He pounded back at least ten, maybe twelve.
Then, it was time to leave, and he stood up for the first time since we'd arrived.
It's been damn year ten years, but I believe his exact words were 'Hol-ee sheee-it, son, what the hell am I doing on the floor?'
Nah, we'll just do what we always do when we want to screw with an American: offer the invading troops some beer, then innocently caution them to 'go easy, eh, our beer's stronger than what you're used to.'
Lets say that an RTS comes out, oh, generic science ficition. Then, a few weeks later, using the same engine, a different studio puts out an official Licensed version of, say, Lexx: The RTS.
The reviewer likes the first game, but nails the second game for being 'game one, only with differnet names and unit models.'
Somebody who really like Lexx isn't going to care about that; they want to play the Lexx game, and the fact that it's 'nothing new' compared to Generic Science Fiction RTS: The RTSing is utterly meaningless.
Meanwhile, for RTSLover6969, the fact that Lexx is Lexx is utterly meaningless; for him, it really WOULD be a waste of time and money to buy it after he finisheds GSF RTS: The RTSing.
In which case, the review pointing out that Lexx is GSF RTS: The RTSing with new models is a valid and useful point, but arbitrarily dropping the score twenty percent really isn't.
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Good lord, I'd hate to know what kind of English you learned from a bunch of Japanese folks with Japanese->English dictionaries! :-)
Classic example: You spoony bard!
There's nothing intrisically wrong with video gaming, any more than there's something 'intrinsically wrong' with learning how to read fiction. ("Thog! Put down chicken scratched clay and learn how to use spear!")
Educational computer games can be wonderful. You just won't find many for consoles, as there's not much market. Reader Rabbit will run on the Windows computer that Mom and Dad have anyway.
And this is why it fails for the mass market.
True, but gifts/talents will only take you so far, and in a lot of cases, will limit you.
First, the whole point of the article is that there's nothing 'innate.' I myself am 'gifted.' That changes my starting position. It doesn't change my possible ending position, compared to a 'non-gifted' person. Or somebody who's gifted elsewhere.
That having been said, grow up with everybody telling you that if you fail at something, you're not living up to your potential', rather than 'need to try harder,' you start to think that any failure is a direct personal lack of ability, and lack of posability, rather than simply being a lack of practice, skill, or training.
Similarly, the 'gifted' person who can more or less coast to a certain level, then has to buckle down and actually work at it, same as everybody else, is truely buggered compared to the 'non-gifted' guy who had to buckle down and actually work at it from the get-go, and therefore *knows how buckle down and actually work at it.*
I remember reading an article on Ted Turner that said something like 'He makes a point, in meetings, to throw ideas out there. Ten, twenty, fifty, and most of them are abysmally stupid. But generally, discussing the stupid ones leads to the good ones. And nobody ever remembers the 49 stupid ideas; they remember the one good one.'
The BSA goes to the local sheriff or whatever, shows their auths from the big software companies to act on their behalf, shows an affidavit that they have a tip from a 'former employee' that there's piracy going on. The sheriff goes over with guns and orders everybody, literally, to stand up, keep hands out in plain sight, and walk away from the computers.
There are stories on slashdot from, oh, 1999, 2000, 2001, somewhere in there, back when the BSA was a noteworthy thing, with some firsthand accounts of raids. There was one that I remember fondly about a chemical manufacturer getting raided, 'agents' trying to install Win32 scanning software on Solaris servers, and so on.
Hell, now I need to go look it up. Ah, maybe this is it.
The old algo was 'three random numbers, a dash, and seven numbers which, when added, total a factor of seven.'
And yet Obi-Wan, not considered to be a particularly powerful Jedi, manages to smack him down, showing that skill, experience, and, dare I say, rightness of cause, beat raw talent. Or that a Dark Jedi defeats himself. Or something.
On a side note, Joe? From Ontario?
I think that Terry Goodkind sums it up nicely in his Sword of Truth series. In that series, there are two types of wizards; those with the Calling, i.e., they want to be, and those with the Gift, i.e., they're naturally talented at it.
in the OT, or at least Epi 4, it was quite clear that any old idiot could use the Force; Kenobi offers to teach some to Solo. That having been said, some people, through luck, or heridity, or whatever, have a particular aptitude or talent for Force usage.
In TPM, all they had to say was 'Midichlorians are ATTRACTED to The Force', not 'CAUSE The Force.' Simple. People with natural aptitudes have higher counts. People with higher counts should probably get some sort of training. Done.
Sure, but what other Disney movie involves a bishop a) giving instructions on more efficient torture (and there's nothing 'implied' about it), and b) announcing his intention to rape and kill a woman?
Ah, but as I said, you can also sell that vote. And that means that lobbyists, corporations, and so on, can, literally, buy your vote.
People in the States already complain about the PACs and what not buying politicians; how would The People like to see an advertising campaign: "$50 for a receipt showing you voted Republicrat!"
That would absolutely destroy any concept of 'by the people.'
Not-so-violent example: "Psst, buddy, I'll pay you a hundred bucks for a voting receipt showing you voted for MyGuy."
Violent example: "Citizen, present your voting slip showing that you voted for El Jefe, or we'll break your legs."
To make it even more amusing, meditate on the fact that most of what was chopped out of MULTICS to make UNIX was....the security related stuff!
Yes, UNIX is actually a secure operating system with the security removed.
Out of curiosity, did you try rotating the PDF 90 degrees, so that the long axis of the page was along the long axis of the monitor, then rotating the laptop?
This would be why man invented all of the various single-instance-storage methods.
Oh, I don't know about that. You could screw up a tank pretty good if you can manage to screw with the IVIS data going to it. Or you could neutralize the usefulness of a scout by screwing with the IVIS data coming from it, for that matter.
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Why would people who ignore the original footage care about new footage?
I still have a copy of that game, the kids just love it.
Odd, given that one of the reasons Insominac gave for why Gears of War looked better than Resistance was that GoW used texture streaming.
LifeLine for the PS2 is the major one I can think of. Basically, you know all the games where you're trying to make it through some environment, and the only help you have is a voice on the radio telling you where to go? In LifeLine, you're that voice.
Didn't work all that well, though, in my experience. Couple all of the problems with old text parser games of trying to figure out what exact verb/noun combo will accomplish what you need to do next with primitive vocog and you're there.
Way to take a single line out of context. You should point out that the chroot is one step out of five or six or so.
I can't speak to the blood, but as to the second, that's classic INTP (and probably a few other along that axis) response; if I was involved in a murder investigation, I'd feel compelled to study all sorts of related material.
True story. A manager-type from an Austin, Texas company that owned the company I was working for in Ontario came up for a few days, business stuff.
So I took him to a strip club. He was most impressed that we got a) totally naked girls, and b) alcohol in the same place, but I digress.
I warned him about the beer, and his response was 'Sheee-it boy, I know how to hold my beer!'. So I recommended Molson XXX, which has an alcoholic content of 7.3%.
He pounded back at least ten, maybe twelve.
Then, it was time to leave, and he stood up for the first time since we'd arrived.
It's been damn year ten years, but I believe his exact words were 'Hol-ee sheee-it, son, what the hell am I doing on the floor?'
Nah, we'll just do what we always do when we want to screw with an American: offer the invading troops some beer, then innocently caution them to 'go easy, eh, our beer's stronger than what you're used to.'
Never fails.
Originality as compared to what?
Lets say that an RTS comes out, oh, generic science ficition. Then, a few weeks later, using the same engine, a different studio puts out an official Licensed version of, say, Lexx: The RTS.
The reviewer likes the first game, but nails the second game for being 'game one, only with differnet names and unit models.'
Somebody who really like Lexx isn't going to care about that; they want to play the Lexx game, and the fact that it's 'nothing new' compared to Generic Science Fiction RTS: The RTSing is utterly meaningless.
Meanwhile, for RTSLover6969, the fact that Lexx is Lexx is utterly meaningless; for him, it really WOULD be a waste of time and money to buy it after he finisheds GSF RTS: The RTSing.
In which case, the review pointing out that Lexx is GSF RTS: The RTSing with new models is a valid and useful point, but arbitrarily dropping the score twenty percent really isn't.