We started off with no graphics (text based games) = 0%physical realistic graphics.
We moved on to space invaders,pong, defender, etc. games with barely an improvement in graphics =15% graphics
Then the console wars begin and graphics were the only yard stick. We are at a point where the graphics are basically 75%+ physical realistic graphics.
Now the kicker: to continue to specialize in graphics means a very little return to investment ratio, but it still the only yard stick.
How do you show the execs that this game is worth continueing because of its plot if the graphics are just the same as competing game? Then you have the console producers to placate. They want the fanciest graphic games to show off their console.
I've wandered...sorry.
On another note the same problem that will happen to graphics happens to everything else. Take civil rights. The closer you get to total equality the less people you'll have fighting to achieve it. The closer you get to perfect graphics (realistic,) the less people you'll have working on it.
There comes a point where only a few people care about that last %1....less money to work on the issue, but more money actually needed to fix the issue....
On a positive note, online (and hard drives for consoles) provide the best growth for the future.
My favorite part of the NPR/Diebold discussion was where Diebold said they would meet all the requirements of the state.
He didn't say he'd provide a secure system. He didn't say fix anything. All he said was he was going to meet the bare minium requirements of the state.
I would have thought so too, but the Palantir was no where in the movie even when he was burning.....
If it is in the extras, I'll be surprised. the Palantir was one of the first gripes I had after RotK. I don't think it would have been too hard to include a sphere in that sequence...
Actually it's been covered in the media. There is one story of a man who setup video cameras all over the house and then sold it. The attic was accessible from the outside, so he'd climb up and swap the tapes in a VCR. There wasn't any sound only video so the most he could be charged with is stealing electricity
I was just saying 50% of the world's wealth is in the US and in the hands of 6% of the population.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with that. I also didn't create those stats. I got them from an internal Chevrontexaco website.
BTW
That would be a valid argument if wealth is a scarce resource... in other words, if you looked at the world like the 6 Americans were "hogging" all of the resources, and the rest of the world was suffering for said "hogging."
hogging resources is exactly how you create wealth. Look at the diamond industry. Diamonds are plentyful, but they are very expensive because they are horded.
It is a global ignorance problem, it is not a global resource and wealth problem.
I think that was mentioned in the stats...70% are illiterate.
(see below) I'm taking this from an internal website on diversity. I'd say the world's wealth is already concentrated.
If you could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, keeping the same ratios, this is what it would look like:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Western Hemisphere, and 6 Africans
51 female, 49 male
70 non-white, 30 white
70 non-Christian, 30 Christian 50% of the world's wealth would be held by only 6 people who would be U.S. citizens
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death, 1 near birth
1 would have a college degree
0 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
Though I question if we need more or less privacy, the problem with less privacy is the creation of more diverse groups. Many of these diverse groups will be small, maybe a new religion, LUG, political group, etc. With no strong voice, they could easily be squished by the another major group.
With more privacy, the group could remain hidden as normal.
What I fear is this: "In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." -Martin Niemoller
Finally, if it were a software problem, shouldn't they be able to play back the exact sequence of commands to a duplicate machine at JPL and reproduce the problem?
I thought there wasn't any duplicate machines on Earth. I thought they were working with simulations.
I do have a friend that has only recently started to throw away boxes of games from the 90s.
I do not suffer this problem. The box only lasts long enough to get home.
When Interplay was having trouble with their distributor and box cover art, I was screaming on the message boards 'Let me download a dvd image and I'll send ya $60.'
Of course this was October and BGDA2 just came out yesterday. Who knows maybe BIS would still be around if Interplay had been able to ship their two most anticipated games of 2003 in 2003.
Supposedly they are thinking about returning to the series years afterwards.
I believe Paul 'Avon' Darrow got the rights and is bring it back. Since he was the only one alive at the end of the series hopefully he'll be back too!
Another idea: breakdown of the Federation. It collapses sometime after Picard's retirement, and a starship crew makes the rounds restoring order to worlds and rebuilding alliances.
I believe Roddenberry already came up with a similar premise. Now known as "Andromeda."
It just occurred to me to ask the question of why Enterprise needs to be on every week for each new season? Why not go with a mini-series every year. The hype increases, there is more latitude to do something different and there is less danger of worrying about ratings
My guess would be getting the contracts right to bring back recurring characters.
I also like snappy banter, pop culture references, girls with guns, and body paint, which is why I prefer Farscape. (Which is essentially Buck Rogers re-imagined with a wink and a nod to go with the camp.) "Cocksure American saves universe by swaggering while exotic foreign babes salivate" fits in nicely with my world view.
If you ever get the chance, Farscape is more a Blake's Seven sort show than a Buck Rogers.
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We started off with no graphics (text based games) = 0%physical realistic graphics.
We moved on to space invaders,pong, defender, etc. games with barely an improvement in graphics =15% graphics
Then the console wars begin and graphics were the only yard stick. We are at a point where the graphics are basically 75%+ physical realistic graphics.
Now the kicker: to continue to specialize in graphics means a very little return to investment ratio, but it still the only yard stick.
How do you show the execs that this game is worth continueing because of its plot if the graphics are just the same as competing game? Then you have the console producers to placate. They want the fanciest graphic games to show off their console.
I've wandered...sorry.
On another note the same problem that will happen to graphics happens to everything else. Take civil rights. The closer you get to total equality the less people you'll have fighting to achieve it. The closer you get to perfect graphics (realistic,) the less people you'll have working on it.
There comes a point where only a few people care about that last %1....less money to work on the issue, but more money actually needed to fix the issue....
On a positive note, online (and hard drives for consoles) provide the best growth for the future.
My favorite is when a user tells me they are running windows 2000....when I get the pc, it is of course windows me.
that was the first thing they were going to check when it landed. They were going to wipe the swap space of flight data...
".. I think it will be perfect again.." meaning that it was perfect the first time...?
Well the simulation was perfect.
ahem. War? ...Bush is a uniter not a divider.
:P
Just look at the Democrats and Republicans voters meeting at the unemployment office.....people coming together.
My favorite part of the NPR/Diebold discussion was where Diebold said they would meet all the requirements of the state.
He didn't say he'd provide a secure system. He didn't say fix anything. All he said was he was going to meet the bare minium requirements of the state.
I think he is refering to the 'new coke' of the 80s...
too bad Ebay wasn't around then. I could have made a killing! Any one remember what the final going price was before Coke brought back Classic Coke?
I would have thought so too, but the Palantir was no where in the movie even when he was burning.....
If it is in the extras, I'll be surprised. the Palantir was one of the first gripes I had after RotK. I don't think it would have been too hard to include a sphere in that sequence...
I don't think that is going to happen. Microsoft wants to kill mods and is looking at custom hardware to do it.
Unless they've got some special transmeta chip to fake an xbox1, I don't think it'll play Xbox1 titles.
Actually it's been covered in the media. There is one story of a man who setup video cameras all over the house and then sold it. The attic was accessible from the outside, so he'd climb up and swap the tapes in a VCR. There wasn't any sound only video so the most he could be charged with is stealing electricity
I was just saying 50% of the world's wealth is in the US and in the hands of 6% of the population.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with that. I also didn't create those stats. I got them from an internal Chevrontexaco website.
BTW
hogging resources is exactly how you create wealth. Look at the diamond industry. Diamonds are plentyful, but they are very expensive because they are horded.
I think that was mentioned in the stats...70% are illiterate.
Though I question if we need more or less privacy, the problem with less privacy is the creation of more diverse groups. Many of these diverse groups will be small, maybe a new religion, LUG, political group, etc. With no strong voice, they could easily be squished by the another major group.
With more privacy, the group could remain hidden as normal.
What I fear is this:
"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."
-Martin Niemoller
As this was a criminal case, he got a free defender from the Norvegian state.
get a free defender here (USA) and you'll get a plea bargin.
He's also taken the most vacations since his daddy. I think he can spare some time to watch the news or visit someone who is unemployeed.
Finally, if it were a software problem, shouldn't they be able to play back the exact sequence of commands to a duplicate machine at JPL and reproduce the problem?
I thought there wasn't any duplicate machines on Earth. I thought they were working with simulations.
The Mars ISP is cold. It was just spyware traffic. It just needed to run Spybot.
I do have a friend that has only recently started to throw away boxes of games from the 90s.
I do not suffer this problem. The box only lasts long enough to get home.
When Interplay was having trouble with their distributor and box cover art, I was screaming on the message boards 'Let me download a dvd image and I'll send ya $60.'
Of course this was October and BGDA2 just came out yesterday. Who knows maybe BIS would still be around if Interplay had been able to ship their two most anticipated games of 2003 in 2003.
Supposedly they are thinking about returning to the series years afterwards.
I believe Paul 'Avon' Darrow got the rights and is bring it back. Since he was the only one alive at the end of the series hopefully he'll be back too!
http://www.blakes7.com/
Another idea: breakdown of the Federation. It collapses sometime after Picard's retirement, and a starship crew makes the rounds restoring order to worlds and rebuilding alliances.
I believe Roddenberry already came up with a similar premise. Now known as "Andromeda."
which has gone the way of Hercules...oh wait....
It just occurred to me to ask the question of why Enterprise needs to be on every week for each new season? Why not go with a mini-series every year. The hype increases, there is more latitude to do something different and there is less danger of worrying about ratings
My guess would be getting the contracts right to bring back recurring characters.
I also like snappy banter, pop culture references, girls with guns, and body paint, which is why I prefer Farscape. (Which is essentially Buck Rogers re-imagined with a wink and a nod to go with the camp.) "Cocksure American saves universe by swaggering while exotic foreign babes salivate" fits in nicely with my world view.
If you ever get the chance, Farscape is more a Blake's Seven sort show than a Buck Rogers.
Mars is 38% of Earth Gravity. It's still going to take a lot to leave the planet.
I say stay there and build! I'm willing to go!
Well actually, only the last person to die will die utterly alone.
:]
oooh...you just conjured up images of Alive and Ravenous except in space and beaming back to Earth.
When can I go?
Ah inventions from movies....
Now instead of looking out the window or wall, I can have breakfast at the beach!
I guess the next thing they'll come out with is fingernail polish that changes with a click.