Maybe we'll have the capability to cheaply trace each confirmed case back to the source through the DNA of diseases. Turn a few ambulance chasing lawyers loose on folks causing outbreaks for whatever reason and a few people might change their tune.
I make games for a living, and have tried many of the gamification apps for things like household chores or which beers you've drank to see what they're like. They're a pain in the butt to enter things into and just aren't much fun IMO.
What you're saying can be summarized as "this is hard so it isn't worth doing".
This is what passes for insightful commentary on Slashdot today?
I know, I know, I must be new here.
I'm sorry that's what you gathered from my post. It's not what I wrote or intended anyone to take away.
A better summary: Layering a game like structure on top of everyday activities has so far not produced many good experiences. Unless there are major unforeseeable advances in experience design and technology over the next couple of years, there will not be anywhere close to 85% of daily activities structured as "games".
I make games for a living, and have tried many of the gamification apps for things like household chores or which beers you've drank to see what they're like. They're a pain in the butt to enter things into and just aren't much fun IMO.
I've seen some interesting things in education, where achievement and point systems are used to construct a less bad grading system, which is cool. But to get to 85% of daily tasks being gamified would take a ton of amazing experience design and technological advancements that I just don't see happening by 2020. Maybe more like 5% would be a more reasonable estimate.
Also, if my HR department decides to gamify performance reviews I'm going to lose it.
We've been playing with a number of yet to be announced similar pieces of HDMI hardware at work, as well as Chromecast. The #1 feature I wish was available is to make multiple dongles stackable on one HDMI port.
Or, perhaps retain storm drainage on golf courses so their fertilizer doesn't end up in streams to begin with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... If golf courses and farmers wouldn't mow and plow right down to the water and then over-fertilize, we could reduce phosphorus in streams a ton.
If you're interested in the health of golf course sized stream in the US, I recommend checking out the EPA Wadeable Stream Assessment (I worked on the field work in Arkansas) http://water.epa.gov/type/rsl/...
I bought the console strictly for social play. The controller design excels at enabling fun multiplayer games for use in the same room by giving one player things the other can't see (a hide and seek style game for example). Keeping UI off the TV is nice, but not terribly effective when you have to continually take your eyes off screen to interact with your inventory, map, etc.
Not to be all conspiratorial, but I think it's been a while now since politicians were really in charge of this sort of thing.
Agreed. I would add, I doubt that anyone who's done the things you have to do to get elected at the national level wants to cross the folks that have access to potentially EVERY electronic piece of information generated by them, their family and staff in the last decade plus. Don't think for a minute that if someone like Feinstein got critical of their programs, some shady business dealings of her husband's or his associates wouldn't get laundered to FBI or others.
Our workplace has been pretty laid back about people experimenting with whatever they would like once we got set up with Amazon. Want to try out anything new, just remember to shut down the services when you're done. We're limited to what Amazon has available, but for a web and app focused business, we have a ton of options available.
Once those pesky real journalists that insist on facts and sources start digging into this, I'd expect the cataclysmic claims will be slowly walked back to something much less sinister, like almost all other claims of thwarted plots.
I don't see the Common Core standards as the problem, this is just a poorly written test made by people who were not the authors of Common Core.
Unless I misunderstand, Common Core simply defines what skills a student should be proficient at by the end of school years. It doesn't define these test questions, Pearson Education did.
The same way Windows 7 x64 made all Windows 7 installations and 32-bit programs worthless, huh?
Oh...wait...
I didn't say it would make 32-bit programs useless. Rather, I said it will make the 32-bit iOS devices useless when the OS leans heavily on new hardware capabilities that degrades user experience on old hardware, just like Apple has consistently done on iOS releases for a couple years now.
This is an important distinction. Companies are not "evil" by nature, but they are REQUIRED to be amoral by the rules that govern them (beholding only to the shareholder).
A few people associated with Wikileaks did what the U.S. could not STOP with the trillions of dollars they've put into their attempts to influence policy in the region.
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If this has forward facing cameras I could see outdoor game designers doing some really cool stuff. http://www.comeoutandplay.org/
... when these announcements start coming with an apology and resignation of whichever C-suite mandated the "feature".
That's assuming everyone is paying the sticker price. Larger customers can negotiate better rates with Amazon.
The closer car makers get to having cars reliably driving themselves down, the more they'll lobby to get their features mandated one by one.
Maybe we'll have the capability to cheaply trace each confirmed case back to the source through the DNA of diseases. Turn a few ambulance chasing lawyers loose on folks causing outbreaks for whatever reason and a few people might change their tune.
I make games for a living, and have tried many of the gamification apps for things like household chores or which beers you've drank to see what they're like. They're a pain in the butt to enter things into and just aren't much fun IMO.
What you're saying can be summarized as "this is hard so it isn't worth doing".
This is what passes for insightful commentary on Slashdot today?
I know, I know, I must be new here.
I'm sorry that's what you gathered from my post. It's not what I wrote or intended anyone to take away.
A better summary: Layering a game like structure on top of everyday activities has so far not produced many good experiences. Unless there are major unforeseeable advances in experience design and technology over the next couple of years, there will not be anywhere close to 85% of daily activities structured as "games".
I guess the race to pay everyone as little as possible has leveled the pay out!
I make games for a living, and have tried many of the gamification apps for things like household chores or which beers you've drank to see what they're like. They're a pain in the butt to enter things into and just aren't much fun IMO.
I've seen some interesting things in education, where achievement and point systems are used to construct a less bad grading system, which is cool. But to get to 85% of daily tasks being gamified would take a ton of amazing experience design and technological advancements that I just don't see happening by 2020. Maybe more like 5% would be a more reasonable estimate.
Also, if my HR department decides to gamify performance reviews I'm going to lose it.
I find it hard to believe anything the big tech companies say after years of favors from the government.
We've been playing with a number of yet to be announced similar pieces of HDMI hardware at work, as well as Chromecast. The #1 feature I wish was available is to make multiple dongles stackable on one HDMI port.
Or, perhaps retain storm drainage on golf courses so their fertilizer doesn't end up in streams to begin with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... If golf courses and farmers wouldn't mow and plow right down to the water and then over-fertilize, we could reduce phosphorus in streams a ton. If you're interested in the health of golf course sized stream in the US, I recommend checking out the EPA Wadeable Stream Assessment (I worked on the field work in Arkansas) http://water.epa.gov/type/rsl/...
I bought the console strictly for social play. The controller design excels at enabling fun multiplayer games for use in the same room by giving one player things the other can't see (a hide and seek style game for example). Keeping UI off the TV is nice, but not terribly effective when you have to continually take your eyes off screen to interact with your inventory, map, etc.
There's really not any information specific to SteamOS or even games in particular, just general info. Not a bad article, but a misleading title.
Not to be all conspiratorial, but I think it's been a while now since politicians were really in charge of this sort of thing.
Agreed. I would add, I doubt that anyone who's done the things you have to do to get elected at the national level wants to cross the folks that have access to potentially EVERY electronic piece of information generated by them, their family and staff in the last decade plus. Don't think for a minute that if someone like Feinstein got critical of their programs, some shady business dealings of her husband's or his associates wouldn't get laundered to FBI or others.
Our workplace has been pretty laid back about people experimenting with whatever they would like once we got set up with Amazon. Want to try out anything new, just remember to shut down the services when you're done. We're limited to what Amazon has available, but for a web and app focused business, we have a ton of options available.
Once those pesky real journalists that insist on facts and sources start digging into this, I'd expect the cataclysmic claims will be slowly walked back to something much less sinister, like almost all other claims of thwarted plots.
I don't see the Common Core standards as the problem, this is just a poorly written test made by people who were not the authors of Common Core. Unless I misunderstand, Common Core simply defines what skills a student should be proficient at by the end of school years. It doesn't define these test questions, Pearson Education did.
The Microsoft goal is to flush so much money down the drain it will become plugged up.
So soon they'll be swimming in their own crap?
Way to go on that transparency and leaker protection thing you so loved.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9GSBT_-JoQ
Good thing the NSA has it all backed up!
The same way Windows 7 x64 made all Windows 7 installations and 32-bit programs worthless, huh?
Oh...wait...
I didn't say it would make 32-bit programs useless. Rather, I said it will make the 32-bit iOS devices useless when the OS leans heavily on new hardware capabilities that degrades user experience on old hardware, just like Apple has consistently done on iOS releases for a couple years now.
I doesn't hurt Apple that this will effectively make all 32-bit iOS devices worthless in a year or so.
Imagine the embarrassment if you were transgender.
This is an important distinction. Companies are not "evil" by nature, but they are REQUIRED to be amoral by the rules that govern them (beholding only to the shareholder).
A few people associated with Wikileaks did what the U.S. could not STOP with the trillions of dollars they've put into their attempts to influence policy in the region.