Because they'd have to completely reprogram every game that they feature? Duh? How the hell do you even think that's possible? They locally render the HUD? Do the hitscans on the local machine? It's going to have to keep the 3d geometry up to date and accurate for that, so what's left to stream? The textures?
Do you even know what a computer IS, besides a magic fucking box?
"It just means more sites have linked to it, and is probably why when I am looking for something recent I usually end up getting news 6 months old in my Google results right off the bat. They are all junk."
Do a Google search. See the 'More Options...' text? Click it. Click 'Recent Results'.
Cool almost-point you have there. It would be a full, actual, legitimate point, but you kinda missed the fact that while 'the 90s' is A DECADE, it is not one of 'the decades'. 'The 90s' contains most (but not all) of the years in the 200th DECADE of our calendar.
I don't know how I can make the point clearer without resorting to a steel-reinforced clue bat.
Impossible, you say? What, do you have some kind of monopoly on the interpretation of the passing of time? So what if I consider the year 1988 to be in the 185th century? I ALWAYS count centuries starting with 165. If you call that wrong, then well, that's just like, your opinion man.
Left4Dead needs this. Badly, oh so badly. Some gems I've heard before we even left the safe room:
"what do you mean grab health pack? where health pack?"
"hey i just want 2 play zombie so leave me here k"
"*sound of air conditioner, breathing; PTT key is stuck down... eventually the voice of a child is heard* do we shoot the scary things? *more air conditioner, sound of my voice on their speakers asking if they're fucking serious... an older voice speaks* um yeah, you gotta uh, shoot them uh vampires there *...votekick*"
There are two worlds which can exist here. Let me outline each of them.
In the first world, copyrights are enforced completely and without fail. In this world, when you create a work of art only those who compensate you are ever allowed to view the work and appreciate it. Now since these people paid, they are worth about the same as they were before viewing it. They gained entertainment, but lost money. If the price was right, their net gain is nothing. The artist is really the only person who gains anything, and still he only profits if the popularity of his work is enough to cover the costs involved in creating the work. Sure, the world gets a new piece of art, but again if everyone has to pay, then nothing is gained.
Now imagine a second world, where there is no 'copyright'. In this world an artist produces a work of art, and it is instantly copied to anyone who wants it for (what is essentially) free. This is where your car analogy breaks down. There are no tangible objects which can be fully and exactly copied using the energy from a hand crank or a potato battery. Once a digital object has been created, it is essentially worth NOTHING; yet, it still has value for those that 'consume' the product (single quotes because something that's copied so easily can't really be 'consumed'). So, by freely giving away worthless digital objects, one could create seemingly endless amounts of pleasure for those who want it.
Now don't think that I'm saying I expect $500 million movies to be created just to make people smile. Movies really are a different beast, and without some enforced method of compensation I do worry about losing the huge Hollywood movies. But when talking about music or books... what's the difference between a catchy song that was produced over a few months in someone's spare time, and a song that had $10 million in marketing behind it and was produced by someone who demanded a six digit salary? Is it really all that money that makes it a quality product? Would people stop making music if they didn't think it would make them a millionaire?
Just ask yourself if you really think cops would be jailing people who copied a house by pushing a button. Ask yourself if you would try to prevent a world where everyone actually owned their own home, just because you want the original house designer to have everyone indebted to him.
I also hope you've never, EVER passed a street performer without donating to them. After all, you DID hear their work. That means they deserve money according to you.
"Don't come with that crap like: oh but otherwise I wouldn't have bought it anyway.. You watched it, so you owe them money, even though you might have found it crap..."
Really? Did you ever stop to consider the fact that they ACTIVELY prevent me from giving them money? I spent three hours one day trying to pay for one fucking album on iTunes. The artist's page clearly said 'iTunes' all over the damn place, but each time I clicked the link it would just take me to the music homepage. After some research I found out that the album I wanted was a mystical, magical 'French' album. These rare music files could only be accessed using the localized French iTunes, and after a FUCKING HUGE download, I finally found the album and the 'buy' button.
I clicked the button with great hope, only to have that hope knocked in the back of the head with a stale baguette and left bleeding face down on the floor. Apple saw right through my localization disguise, and while they let me see the music, they still knew my account was American and wouldn't even let me try to buy it. So I created a fake French identity, with a generated French name, and a valid but unoccupied French address. Pretty sure that's some kind of felony. That's right, I broke laws in my attempts to pay this artist for their work. Anyways, fake identity in hand, I went back to iTunes logged in as a Frenchie, clicked the 'buy' button... again... and gave them all the information they needed to rape and pillage my checking account.
But wait! Apple doesn't want my dirty American money, that would never do. In order to get the sacred French music, I must first obtain a pure, virgin, French iTunes gift card, or make friends with one of their chosen people in order to utilize their holy French credit card. Anything less would cause all the artists in the world to starve and quit producing!
That's about the point I gave up and downloaded the fucking thing. Think about that next time you decide to feel morally superior to a 'dirty pirate'.
Actually this story probably won't affect your views in any way. I'd bet you think the goatse guy deserves millions, what with all the people viewing his work without proper compensation. I mean, it's artistic, so he should get money. Right?
"The reason calling citizens of the northern one Americans doesn't really confuse people is that continents haven't historically had governing structures, (and North America doesn't have one now) so the concept of 'a citizen of $CONTINENT' is meaningless."
The reason calling citizens of the northern one USians doesn't really confuse people is that NOBODY HAS EVER, ONCE, IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, CALLED MEXICO 'THE US'.
By the way, you illiterate fuck, if "a citizen of continent" is meaningless, then why have the phrases "a citizen of Europe" and "a citizen of Asia" already been used over TEN MILLION TIMES on the internet? Could it be because you're just making shit up? Perhaps it's because you actually DON'T know how to communicate with other human beings? Maybe, just MAYBE, it's because you're not the Grand Fucking Poobah of the English language?
Because you can do those things while pushing the button? Duh?
I hope to baby fucking jesus that you never drink caffeine. That makes your brain think it's awake when it shouldn't be! OMG! NOBODY WILL SLEEP! BAN COCA COLA!!!!
Yeah, all those stupid potheads. They can only ASPIRE to sit on their ass and post to slashdot. You, however, have truly have conquered life, and anyone who chooses another route certainly must be a moron.
Yeah, that crazy druggy failed to pluralize THREE WHOLE WORDS! He also didn't use PERIODS and lacks TWO COMMAS! PARENTS PAY ATTENTION! IF YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO HAVE CORRECT GRAMMAR DON'T LET THEM USE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS!
On the other hand, if you want to fail at understanding basic English unless it's grammatically pristine, then sober life is for you!
As I said in my other post, PLEASE STOP HIDING WHO YOU ARE. You think women got voting rights by settling for putting on a fake mustache? If your numbers were truly represented in online games none of this would be an issue.
Or how about a better solution? Stop being so bitchy about people that freak out around girls and mock them for it. As you said, guys get the same crap. We're just better at defending ourselves. Next time a guy makes your gender an issue, politely remind them that you have more vag in between your legs than they've seen their entire life (internet doesn't count).
Guys make an issue out of female gamers because they all decide to stay silent. 80% of the gamers I play with online could be female, and I'd never know. So when one finally does use a headset, they have to put up with some crap because it's a new experience for all the 13 year olds used to screaming at other male middle schoolers playing Halo.
Another anecdote doesn't really serve to prove your point, but I'll throw my two cents in and say that I too have seen it in action. One of my WoW buddies flirted quite a bit with a girl around his age in game, and soon found out she was married to another guy in the guild. That didn't stop either of them from continuing to flirt though, and my friend eventually felt guilty or something and informed the husband.
How her husband failed to be good enough when she had jack shit to do other than WoW quests all day, I have no idea...
"I agree, EH.. We up here in Canada would love to have some tablets, but where would we plug them in? Our igloos have no electrical and solar chargers are out since we don't get sun for 6 months of the year, EH."
We can already estimate things like sexual attraction from brain readings. The problem is getting them to implant electrodes in their skull to facilitate your flirting...
I closed my eyes and thought of this whole post before typing it. Every word. Where was the feedback? Are you suggesting that this post only existed in my head because I had a keyboard in front of me? Are you suggesting that, had my keyboard been in another room, my brain would no longer have generated these thoughts? Or are you suggesting that these thoughts, generated sans feedback, would be unreadable by this machine until a keyboard was brought near me? Are you suggesting that a person with no hands, and thus no keyboard-feedback capabilities, can have no word-like thoughts? Why are you jumping from 'our brain requires input to function' (no shit, Sherlock) to 'our brain must receive input from a keyboard to think about words'?
Saying you need 'brain-body feedback loops' to think about words is just silly. You're absolutely right that for typing the body requires certain kinds of feedback from the keyboard, but this has to do with keeping your proprioception up to date with where your fingers actually are, and is not necessary for the formation of words in your brain. You can't type in the air, because in order to know which direction to twitch your finger, you must first know where it is, and that location is easily lost when your fingers are just flopping about with no solid reference point.
So, the current system is basically: think of word -> generate muscle stimulus -> adapt stimulus based on current position versus memorized one -> stimulate muscles -> update current finger position. Feedback definitely necessary.
The mind-reading system would be: think of word -> generate muscle stimulus -> !!! machine detects muscle stimulus !!! -> cancel stimulus 'cause you didn't want to move your fingers anyways.
In the article the process is like: see letter in box -> record stimulus -> think of letter in box, generating the same stimulus -> !!! machine detects stimulus !!!.
No feedback is necessary, because you're not actively manipulating the world. Sure, your thoughts will enact changes on the screen, but you won't have to adapt the way you think every time the screen changes. Feedback would only be necessary if, say, the letter associated with each box changed every time you thought of it.
A pretty good analogy would be music. I doubt the best pianist in the world could play on an 'air keyboard', yet it's clearly possible to play/compose music in your head. Hell, lots of times the music gets STUCK in your head! Where's the feedback loop in that cognitive capacity?
tl;dr Feedback is only necessary because of the imperfect translation between thoughts and actions: brain configuration X is the word 'puppy', but brain configuration Y is the one that makes your hand write it, and Y will never be the same; it relies on feedback. When you can directly read the thoughts the translation can be perfect from the start: brain configuration X is the word 'puppy', no changes or adjustments necessary.
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Because they'd have to completely reprogram every game that they feature? Duh? How the hell do you even think that's possible? They locally render the HUD? Do the hitscans on the local machine? It's going to have to keep the 3d geometry up to date and accurate for that, so what's left to stream? The textures?
Do you even know what a computer IS, besides a magic fucking box?
Inability to stare at the sun is a bug, not a feature. Since this eye will actually be DESIGNED, they should be able to leave it out.
"It just means more sites have linked to it, and is probably why when I am looking for something recent I usually end up getting news 6 months old in my Google results right off the bat. They are all junk."
Do a Google search. See the 'More Options...' text? Click it. Click 'Recent Results'.
Cool almost-point you have there. It would be a full, actual, legitimate point, but you kinda missed the fact that while 'the 90s' is A DECADE, it is not one of 'the decades'. 'The 90s' contains most (but not all) of the years in the 200th DECADE of our calendar.
I don't know how I can make the point clearer without resorting to a steel-reinforced clue bat.
Were you born in the 20th century, or the 19th?
I was born in the 185th century.
Impossible, you say? What, do you have some kind of monopoly on the interpretation of the passing of time? So what if I consider the year 1988 to be in the 185th century? I ALWAYS count centuries starting with 165. If you call that wrong, then well, that's just like, your opinion man.
Try Left4Dead.
Left4Dead needs this. Badly, oh so badly. Some gems I've heard before we even left the safe room:
"what do you mean grab health pack? where health pack?"
"hey i just want 2 play zombie so leave me here k"
"*sound of air conditioner, breathing; PTT key is stuck down... eventually the voice of a child is heard* do we shoot the scary things? *more air conditioner, sound of my voice on their speakers asking if they're fucking serious... an older voice speaks* um yeah, you gotta uh, shoot them uh vampires there *...votekick*"
There are two worlds which can exist here. Let me outline each of them.
In the first world, copyrights are enforced completely and without fail. In this world, when you create a work of art only those who compensate you are ever allowed to view the work and appreciate it. Now since these people paid, they are worth about the same as they were before viewing it. They gained entertainment, but lost money. If the price was right, their net gain is nothing. The artist is really the only person who gains anything, and still he only profits if the popularity of his work is enough to cover the costs involved in creating the work. Sure, the world gets a new piece of art, but again if everyone has to pay, then nothing is gained.
Now imagine a second world, where there is no 'copyright'. In this world an artist produces a work of art, and it is instantly copied to anyone who wants it for (what is essentially) free. This is where your car analogy breaks down. There are no tangible objects which can be fully and exactly copied using the energy from a hand crank or a potato battery. Once a digital object has been created, it is essentially worth NOTHING; yet, it still has value for those that 'consume' the product (single quotes because something that's copied so easily can't really be 'consumed'). So, by freely giving away worthless digital objects, one could create seemingly endless amounts of pleasure for those who want it.
Now don't think that I'm saying I expect $500 million movies to be created just to make people smile. Movies really are a different beast, and without some enforced method of compensation I do worry about losing the huge Hollywood movies. But when talking about music or books... what's the difference between a catchy song that was produced over a few months in someone's spare time, and a song that had $10 million in marketing behind it and was produced by someone who demanded a six digit salary? Is it really all that money that makes it a quality product? Would people stop making music if they didn't think it would make them a millionaire?
Just ask yourself if you really think cops would be jailing people who copied a house by pushing a button. Ask yourself if you would try to prevent a world where everyone actually owned their own home, just because you want the original house designer to have everyone indebted to him.
I also hope you've never, EVER passed a street performer without donating to them. After all, you DID hear their work. That means they deserve money according to you.
"Don't come with that crap like: oh but otherwise I wouldn't have bought it anyway.. You watched it, so you owe them money, even though you might have found it crap..."
Really? Did you ever stop to consider the fact that they ACTIVELY prevent me from giving them money? I spent three hours one day trying to pay for one fucking album on iTunes. The artist's page clearly said 'iTunes' all over the damn place, but each time I clicked the link it would just take me to the music homepage. After some research I found out that the album I wanted was a mystical, magical 'French' album. These rare music files could only be accessed using the localized French iTunes, and after a FUCKING HUGE download, I finally found the album and the 'buy' button.
I clicked the button with great hope, only to have that hope knocked in the back of the head with a stale baguette and left bleeding face down on the floor. Apple saw right through my localization disguise, and while they let me see the music, they still knew my account was American and wouldn't even let me try to buy it. So I created a fake French identity, with a generated French name, and a valid but unoccupied French address. Pretty sure that's some kind of felony. That's right, I broke laws in my attempts to pay this artist for their work. Anyways, fake identity in hand, I went back to iTunes logged in as a Frenchie, clicked the 'buy' button... again... and gave them all the information they needed to rape and pillage my checking account.
But wait! Apple doesn't want my dirty American money, that would never do. In order to get the sacred French music, I must first obtain a pure, virgin, French iTunes gift card, or make friends with one of their chosen people in order to utilize their holy French credit card. Anything less would cause all the artists in the world to starve and quit producing!
That's about the point I gave up and downloaded the fucking thing. Think about that next time you decide to feel morally superior to a 'dirty pirate'.
Actually this story probably won't affect your views in any way. I'd bet you think the goatse guy deserves millions, what with all the people viewing his work without proper compensation. I mean, it's artistic, so he should get money. Right?
"The reason calling citizens of the northern one Americans doesn't really confuse people is that continents haven't historically had governing structures, (and North America doesn't have one now) so the concept of 'a citizen of $CONTINENT' is meaningless."
The reason calling citizens of the northern one USians doesn't really confuse people is that NOBODY HAS EVER, ONCE, IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, CALLED MEXICO 'THE US'.
By the way, you illiterate fuck, if "a citizen of continent" is meaningless, then why have the phrases "a citizen of Europe" and "a citizen of Asia" already been used over TEN MILLION TIMES on the internet? Could it be because you're just making shit up? Perhaps it's because you actually DON'T know how to communicate with other human beings? Maybe, just MAYBE, it's because you're not the Grand Fucking Poobah of the English language?
Shut. The fuck. Up.
Because you can do those things while pushing the button? Duh?
I hope to baby fucking jesus that you never drink caffeine. That makes your brain think it's awake when it shouldn't be! OMG! NOBODY WILL SLEEP! BAN COCA COLA!!!!
Yeah, all those stupid potheads. They can only ASPIRE to sit on their ass and post to slashdot. You, however, have truly have conquered life, and anyone who chooses another route certainly must be a moron.
Yeah, that crazy druggy failed to pluralize THREE WHOLE WORDS! He also didn't use PERIODS and lacks TWO COMMAS! PARENTS PAY ATTENTION! IF YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO HAVE CORRECT GRAMMAR DON'T LET THEM USE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS!
On the other hand, if you want to fail at understanding basic English unless it's grammatically pristine, then sober life is for you!
YAAAY! YOU GOT THE POINT!!!!
LOL you can't even read correctly, so how about you shut the fuck up?
What talent? Gotta know if you're a scrub to validate your story :)
Until they look down and realize they can see their characters feet. "OMG SUCH CUTE PINK SHOES *bam, zombied*"
As I said in my other post, PLEASE STOP HIDING WHO YOU ARE. You think women got voting rights by settling for putting on a fake mustache? If your numbers were truly represented in online games none of this would be an issue.
Or how about a better solution? Stop being so bitchy about people that freak out around girls and mock them for it. As you said, guys get the same crap. We're just better at defending ourselves. Next time a guy makes your gender an issue, politely remind them that you have more vag in between your legs than they've seen their entire life (internet doesn't count).
Guys make an issue out of female gamers because they all decide to stay silent. 80% of the gamers I play with online could be female, and I'd never know. So when one finally does use a headset, they have to put up with some crap because it's a new experience for all the 13 year olds used to screaming at other male middle schoolers playing Halo.
Really? You WANT to look like a male night elf? No girl wants large tits? Your arguments don't make sense either way.
Another anecdote doesn't really serve to prove your point, but I'll throw my two cents in and say that I too have seen it in action. One of my WoW buddies flirted quite a bit with a girl around his age in game, and soon found out she was married to another guy in the guild. That didn't stop either of them from continuing to flirt though, and my friend eventually felt guilty or something and informed the husband.
How her husband failed to be good enough when she had jack shit to do other than WoW quests all day, I have no idea...
"I agree, EH.. We up here in Canada would love to have some tablets, but where would we plug them in? Our igloos have no electrical and solar chargers are out since we don't get sun for 6 months of the year, EH."
FTFY
We can already estimate things like sexual attraction from brain readings. The problem is getting them to implant electrodes in their skull to facilitate your flirting...
I closed my eyes and thought of this whole post before typing it. Every word. Where was the feedback? Are you suggesting that this post only existed in my head because I had a keyboard in front of me? Are you suggesting that, had my keyboard been in another room, my brain would no longer have generated these thoughts? Or are you suggesting that these thoughts, generated sans feedback, would be unreadable by this machine until a keyboard was brought near me? Are you suggesting that a person with no hands, and thus no keyboard-feedback capabilities, can have no word-like thoughts? Why are you jumping from 'our brain requires input to function' (no shit, Sherlock) to 'our brain must receive input from a keyboard to think about words'?
Saying you need 'brain-body feedback loops' to think about words is just silly. You're absolutely right that for typing the body requires certain kinds of feedback from the keyboard, but this has to do with keeping your proprioception up to date with where your fingers actually are, and is not necessary for the formation of words in your brain. You can't type in the air, because in order to know which direction to twitch your finger, you must first know where it is, and that location is easily lost when your fingers are just flopping about with no solid reference point.
So, the current system is basically: think of word -> generate muscle stimulus -> adapt stimulus based on current position versus memorized one -> stimulate muscles -> update current finger position. Feedback definitely necessary.
The mind-reading system would be: think of word -> generate muscle stimulus -> !!! machine detects muscle stimulus !!! -> cancel stimulus 'cause you didn't want to move your fingers anyways.
In the article the process is like: see letter in box -> record stimulus -> think of letter in box, generating the same stimulus -> !!! machine detects stimulus !!!.
No feedback is necessary, because you're not actively manipulating the world. Sure, your thoughts will enact changes on the screen, but you won't have to adapt the way you think every time the screen changes. Feedback would only be necessary if, say, the letter associated with each box changed every time you thought of it.
A pretty good analogy would be music. I doubt the best pianist in the world could play on an 'air keyboard', yet it's clearly possible to play/compose music in your head. Hell, lots of times the music gets STUCK in your head! Where's the feedback loop in that cognitive capacity?
tl;dr
Feedback is only necessary because of the imperfect translation between thoughts and actions: brain configuration X is the word 'puppy', but brain configuration Y is the one that makes your hand write it, and Y will never be the same; it relies on feedback. When you can directly read the thoughts the translation can be perfect from the start: brain configuration X is the word 'puppy', no changes or adjustments necessary.