So hardware will slow it's advance...good. Maybe more attention will be paid to software efficiency. A couple of years of progress on the software-speed side will be ORGASMICALLY great when a new hardware technology comes into play.
At risk of not just losing all it's context, but of being so distributed that should today's knowledge ever be lost it may never be assembled again.
The world needs caches of information...history, of course, but also physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, language, which are redundant, widespread, and not easy, but not impossibly difficult either, to find. To ensure that no matter what happens, if all intellectual progress of the last few thousand years is lost, it can be regained.
Include the largest amount of data in whatever the most durable available digital format is. (It might have to be some custom format specifically for this project...so that hopefully the data and the devices for reading the data could survive sitting around for a millenium or two)
Include less data, but more critical, on acid-free paper. A small library of science and history texts, and maybe some literature too.
Include the most critical information...physical laws and constants, maybe some brief historical summaries, carved into stone or clay, or perhaps lead (though that would be at risk of melting where stone wouldn't)
For a Rosetta Stone, include copies of some text likely to be known even thousands of years from now, at least to scholars. That pretty much means religious texts. Copies with translations as literal as possible while still making sense, in languages likely to persist, or at least likely to have related languages persist. All the biggest languages in the world today. Include complete copies on paper, and brief sections on stone.
If these caches get put anywhere that people live and are likely to continue to reside, make them really boring looking, so no one cares.
Anyplace with more than 2 or 3 arcade machines is likely to have a Neo Geo. Granted there are large parts of the country without arcades, or possibly ANY coin-op games (what happened to video games in 7-11? I used to play Bubble Bobble several times a week there), but most people can probably find a Neo Geo to play.
That being said, I know of one instance where piracy definitely didn't hurt the neo geo, and may have helped a little.
For about 2 years, every morning before class I'd play neo geo games at the university. I eventually got into Metal Slug 2 and X. I got GOOD. I could play up to an hour on one quarter (playing for score takes a while) Eventually I downloaded these and started playing them with Neo Rage X (Which I prefer to MAME). So soon I knew where EVERY secret, EVERY bonus was. I played through using save states to try and figure out the theoretical maximum score on Metal Slug 2. And every day at school I'd keep plugging away on it trying to get closer and closer to it. One credit only.
There was a sort of cult-of-metal-slug on campus. One time a bunch of the other people who played it (but whose initials I had long since pushed out of the top 10, to fill it entirely with my own) saw me playing, dodging bullets in the 4th stage area with the helicopters and the soldiers coming from either side. Staring. I don't know why they thought that part was so tough.
Anyhow, I am a total dork, and I played more legit, because I honed my skills illegally.
That's an ironic thing to say, considering that in the first 2 or 3 years, the selling point of the Neo Geo was it's graphics and sound (everyone was wowed by the amount of speech!), and the games mostly played like crap.
When Mortal Kombat first came out on the Genesis, I rented it, and two kids from next door came over and played it. One was 6 the other 7. The 7 year old was getting TROUNCED by his younger brother and started yelling at him "quit hitting me!" After another round or two, the older brother started hitting the 6 year old for real.
It was really funny.
It should be noted however, that the younger brother kept cool, and that the older brother was ALWAYS an asshole.
I don't really see how this is fundamentally a novel concept...I mean viruses and bacteria have been operating on these scales forever, they've been manipulated for decades... It is interesting to hear that they're being used in a manner not dissimilar to earlier self-assembly techniques.
The line about disassembly is interesting, though. If this is self-dissasembly and reassembly, wow, that makes for some interesting possibilities. Kind of like a ship-in-a-bottle, you could get devices into places with no route for the whole object...does your bladder need repair? Stick a catheter in, pump in whatever solution the nanotech-viruses need to operate, pump in the viruses, and let them build the surgical tools, then take them apart when they're done. Better than laproscopy (sp?), we could be talking about surgery through a syringe.
I'm sure this could also be used for evil, as well...
Maybe someday they'll stick electrodes into the brains of soldiers to give them orgasms whenever they kill someone.
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"This looks like it is aimed at an even younger generation. Cybiko appears to me to be aimed at kids who can already read and write. This appears to be aimed at kids who can't yet."
So in other words, perfect for the Slashdot crowd.
"DVDs are notoriously susceptible to scratches, heat damage, loss and other problems, and our DVD Copy Plus software enables legal owners of DVD movies to protect their DVD investments by making legitimate backup or duplicate copies for their own use. In our mind, this is no different than making an extra personal copy of a music CD, which is perfectly legal," said Robert Moore, President of 321 Studios. "
I think the difference between copying a DVD and an audio CD is there is nothing on a CD which was INTENDED to prevent it's copying, except for those new crippled ones.
They have to be circumventing that, therefore they are violating the DMCA. Not terribly hard to understand. (Well, the fact that they are violating a law which is on some levels hard to understand isn't.)
IMO, it really ruins the aesthetics, having that big NES cart shaped hole in the side.
It would have been more interesting, IMO, if he had it all be insertable into the front. Cannibalizing cartridge slots off of another NES and 2600, mounting those to the front of the case and connecting those to the slots on the motherboard...would that work? Also, he should have used the second, smaller (snes-like) NES.
Wouldn't it just decrease the average transfer rate of each of the devices (and fuck with any non-uwb device using that spectrum)?
They're talking about it only being really short-range though. Unless you're like, on a convention floor or something, full of UWB phones, I doubt you'd get unworkable numbers of them close enough together to be a problem.
I think it's pretty clear from my post that I HAVE used all three.
And I HAVE tried the Gamecube controller on other games. that Rogue Squadron game might be decent with a flight stick, possibly even an N64 controller, but I didn't care for the GC controller on it. And with Pikmin, which was great, there's a lot of stuff which is just superfluous, which is NOT in Luigi's mansion. The controller was DESIGNED FOR THAT ONE GAME...it is perfect for it, and just weird enough that it won't be for anything else. It just happens to be a fairly decent general configuration. A Playstation-esque configuration.
And I do have large hands, I have no problem with the playstation controller. Maybe because I only wrap my FINGERS around the controller...I don't feel the need to have it perfectly fit my palms, too. (Any controller made to fit one size palm is NOT going to be acceptable for a larger number of people) It does NOT have too many shoulder buttons...one for each finger you don't need to hold the controller (I only use my pinky and ring finger to hold it, how about you?), and I am not confused by having that many buttons (except when I have to chord them, like in Vib Ribbon). The buttons on the face are easily distinguished by their position. Do you fault arcade games for having groups of identical buttons? Do you fault your keyboard for having buttons that are too tough to tell apart? Do you hunt and peck?
I have bought ONE new CD in the last 4 years. And that wasn't even in the US.
There's nothing interesting on the radio. I live on the ass end of nowhere with no local artists or concerts of things I like, and all my friends listen to is rap. No exposure to anything good except via the internet.
If the mainstream focusses too narrowly, the industry is going to lose EVERYONE who isn't totally fixated on the few most popular bands, and aren't in a position that they're finding anything that appeals to them.
Taking away our tools (a CDR drive is NOT a toy), is not going to solve their problem. Putting the parts of the business into fewer hands isn't going to help anything. It'll probably just hurt, because the entire industry is expendable.
Comics typically compress, time-wise, even worse than novels. Books have to describe everything that is happening visually. Comics only take more pages to do that if there is lots of fast action being shown in detail.
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So hardware will slow it's advance...good. Maybe more attention will be paid to software efficiency. A couple of years of progress on the software-speed side will be ORGASMICALLY great when a new hardware technology comes into play.
At risk of not just losing all it's context, but of being so distributed that should today's knowledge ever be lost it may never be assembled again.
The world needs caches of information...history, of course, but also physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, language, which are redundant, widespread, and not easy, but not impossibly difficult either, to find. To ensure that no matter what happens, if all intellectual progress of the last few thousand years is lost, it can be regained.
Include the largest amount of data in whatever the most durable available digital format is. (It might have to be some custom format specifically for this project...so that hopefully the data and the devices for reading the data could survive sitting around for a millenium or two)
Include less data, but more critical, on acid-free paper. A small library of science and history texts, and maybe some literature too.
Include the most critical information...physical laws and constants, maybe some brief historical summaries, carved into stone or clay, or perhaps lead (though that would be at risk of melting where stone wouldn't)
For a Rosetta Stone, include copies of some text likely to be known even thousands of years from now, at least to scholars. That pretty much means religious texts. Copies with translations as literal as possible while still making sense, in languages likely to persist, or at least likely to have related languages persist. All the biggest languages in the world today.
Include complete copies on paper, and brief sections on stone.
If these caches get put anywhere that people live and are likely to continue to reside, make them really boring looking, so no one cares.
Future scholars might thank us.
5.4? This is local news, maybe.
Hmm...well, maybe it's good news. Maybe it will delay SF getting a real killer quake.
Anyplace with more than 2 or 3 arcade machines is likely to have a Neo Geo. Granted there are large parts of the country without arcades, or possibly ANY coin-op games (what happened to video games in 7-11? I used to play Bubble Bobble several times a week there), but most people can probably find a Neo Geo to play.
That being said, I know of one instance where piracy definitely didn't hurt the neo geo, and may have helped a little.
For about 2 years, every morning before class I'd play neo geo games at the university. I eventually got into Metal Slug 2 and X. I got GOOD. I could play up to an hour on one quarter (playing for score takes a while) Eventually I downloaded these and started playing them with Neo Rage X (Which I prefer to MAME). So soon I knew where EVERY secret, EVERY bonus was. I played through using save states to try and figure out the theoretical maximum score on Metal Slug 2. And every day at school I'd keep plugging away on it trying to get closer and closer to it. One credit only.
There was a sort of cult-of-metal-slug on campus. One time a bunch of the other people who played it (but whose initials I had long since pushed out of the top 10, to fill it entirely with my own) saw me playing, dodging bullets in the 4th stage area with the helicopters and the soldiers coming from either side. Staring. I don't know why they thought that part was so tough.
Anyhow, I am a total dork, and I played more legit, because I honed my skills illegally.
That's an ironic thing to say, considering that in the first 2 or 3 years, the selling point of the Neo Geo was it's graphics and sound (everyone was wowed by the amount of speech!), and the games mostly played like crap.
How about the Chinese space agency? If they think for a second that it could really fly, they might be considering it.
What do you need Sorensen for? There's hardly any porn in that format!
Think of all the good it could do in the US, land of the fatasses.
When Mortal Kombat first came out on the Genesis, I rented it, and two kids from next door came over and played it. One was 6 the other 7. The 7 year old was getting TROUNCED by his younger brother and started yelling at him "quit hitting me!" After another round or two, the older brother started hitting the 6 year old for real.
It was really funny.
It should be noted however, that the younger brother kept cool, and that the older brother was ALWAYS an asshole.
That's enough to more than account for the continual increases in ticket prices...I guess it really DID beat it.
I don't really see how this is fundamentally a novel concept...I mean viruses and bacteria have been operating on these scales forever, they've been manipulated for decades... It is interesting to hear that they're being used in a manner not dissimilar to earlier self-assembly techniques.
The line about disassembly is interesting, though. If this is self-dissasembly and reassembly, wow, that makes for some interesting possibilities. Kind of like a ship-in-a-bottle, you could get devices into places with no route for the whole object...does your bladder need repair? Stick a catheter in, pump in whatever solution the nanotech-viruses need to operate, pump in the viruses, and let them build the surgical tools, then take them apart when they're done. Better than laproscopy (sp?), we could be talking about surgery through a syringe.
I'm sure this could also be used for evil, as well...
Keep up that sitting and snacking.
People? That's not high on my list of favorite magazines.
Maybe someday they'll stick electrodes into the brains of soldiers to give them orgasms whenever they kill someone.
"This looks like it is aimed at an even younger generation. Cybiko appears to me to be aimed at kids who can already read and write. This appears to be aimed at kids who can't yet."
So in other words, perfect for the Slashdot crowd.
Can you offset the cubes a bit, rather than lining the faces up perfectly? That would really open up more possible structures.
I think it's a given that, at least in places that have room for it, there will be some playful constructions made from these things.
Okay, forgive my ignorance...is this product the one I see advertised all over the place that lets you copy a DVD...TO A CD? To make a VCD of it?
If it is, it has to decrypt.
From the press release:
"DVDs are notoriously susceptible to scratches, heat damage, loss and other problems, and our DVD Copy Plus software enables legal owners of DVD movies to protect their DVD investments by making legitimate backup or duplicate copies for their own use. In our mind, this is no different than making an extra personal copy of a music CD, which is perfectly legal," said Robert Moore, President of 321 Studios. "
I think the difference between copying a DVD and an audio CD is there is nothing on a CD which was INTENDED to prevent it's copying, except for those new crippled ones.
They have to be circumventing that, therefore they are violating the DMCA. Not terribly hard to understand. (Well, the fact that they are violating a law which is on some levels hard to understand isn't.)
IANAL
IMO, it really ruins the aesthetics, having that big NES cart shaped hole in the side.
It would have been more interesting, IMO, if he had it all be insertable into the front. Cannibalizing cartridge slots off of another NES and 2600, mounting those to the front of the case and connecting those to the slots on the motherboard...would that work? Also, he should have used the second, smaller (snes-like) NES.
I am not an engineer, but...
Wouldn't it just decrease the average transfer rate of each of the devices (and fuck with any non-uwb device using that spectrum)?
They're talking about it only being really short-range though. Unless you're like, on a convention floor or something, full of UWB phones, I doubt you'd get unworkable numbers of them close enough together to be a problem.
I think it's pretty clear from my post that I HAVE used all three.
And I HAVE tried the Gamecube controller on other games. that Rogue Squadron game might be decent with a flight stick, possibly even an N64 controller, but I didn't care for the GC controller on it. And with Pikmin, which was great, there's a lot of stuff which is just superfluous, which is NOT in Luigi's mansion. The controller was DESIGNED FOR THAT ONE GAME...it is perfect for it, and just weird enough that it won't be for anything else. It just happens to be a fairly decent general configuration. A Playstation-esque configuration.
And I do have large hands, I have no problem with the playstation controller. Maybe because I only wrap my FINGERS around the controller...I don't feel the need to have it perfectly fit my palms, too. (Any controller made to fit one size palm is NOT going to be acceptable for a larger number of people) It does NOT have too many shoulder buttons...one for each finger you don't need to hold the controller (I only use my pinky and ring finger to hold it, how about you?), and I am not confused by having that many buttons (except when I have to chord them, like in Vib Ribbon). The buttons on the face are easily distinguished by their position. Do you fault arcade games for having groups of identical buttons? Do you fault your keyboard for having buttons that are too tough to tell apart? Do you hunt and peck?
I have bought ONE new CD in the last 4 years. And that wasn't even in the US.
There's nothing interesting on the radio. I live on the ass end of nowhere with no local artists or concerts of things I like, and all my friends listen to is rap. No exposure to anything good except via the internet.
If the mainstream focusses too narrowly, the industry is going to lose EVERYONE who isn't totally fixated on the few most popular bands, and aren't in a position that they're finding anything that appeals to them.
Taking away our tools (a CDR drive is NOT a toy), is not going to solve their problem. Putting the parts of the business into fewer hands isn't going to help anything. It'll probably just hurt, because the entire industry is expendable.
Comics typically compress, time-wise, even worse than novels. Books have to describe everything that is happening visually. Comics only take more pages to do that if there is lots of fast action being shown in detail.
especially on Efnet.