I'm afraid you're going to have to define 'limited'. While you're at it, can you think of any kind of property that isn't limited in some way? (the very nature of property itself has limits).
It isn't, at least not directly. It does imply, though, that she has a capacity to make judgments based on belief in something unproven. Translated into a position of power it might mean that she's willing to make decisions that aren't based on empirical fact, but rather based on some book that was written thousands of years ago and largely may not even apply to the subjects upon which she is placing her governance.
This is all really very fundamental: People who believe outlandish things and try to get others to follow them are scary.
Unless they perfect a neural interface I'm pretty sure you won't be getting completely immersive games... But I'd be interested in seeing what kind of crazy fractal-based graphics and random world maps they can make with this tech.
Hyperbole at its finest here folks. This comment completely disregards the fact that all of that "unnecessary crap" can be disabled/uninstalled quite easily. My current Win7x64 box boots and the moment I am past the password screen I can expect to see snappy response to my requests to launch programs etc. Part of this is because I don't HAVE all of that "unnecessary crap" which is NOT from Microsoft but from the companies who sell Windows prepackaged with that "unnecessary crap" (Such as if you were to buy an HP at Best Buy). But it's very easy to buy/build a custom white box that launches very quickly and cleanly. At least as easy as buying/building one with Ubuntu.
"It will continue to thrash the hard drive for another few minutes while it loads a bunch of unnecessary crap" -- That quote in itself is crap.
I also use a Firewire recording interface on Windows 7 x64. In addition to that, I have several USB midi devices and one plain old midi device connected simultaneously quite often. I also play games occasionally on this machine, ranging from Team Fortress 2 to more obscure titeles. The machine is connected wirelessly to my central house printer. I have Adobe CS3 on it for video editing and photography. I run Nikon's RAW image processing suite on there for my photography.
If anyone here can tell me that Ubuntu, right out of the box, will do all of that (I know they can't, because for one TF2 won't run on Linux) and without a single crash after months of this kind of use, then I'll think very hard about switching.
Until then, fuhgedaboutit!
If potentially lethal weapons are not allowed on planes, and there are people who are trained as lethal weapons in the eyes of the law, how comes these people are allowed on planes?
Supposing they did (I can't find this article you're talking about, but I saw something related to Evony) then they should be punished in proportion to the crime. But if all anyone has on them is that they 'reused building graphics' from a single game... That's pretty thin.
One way to avoid the whole mess is to make the tests "open book" and make the "book" any source of information they can find.
Granted, if you do this some students with more savvy on the Net will have an advantage because they'll be able to find the information they need faster... but then those are the ones that (provided they get the right information) are going to excel in the real world when they're doing real work anyway, right?
So let's see if I understand the situation. They are ruthless competitors who make highly popular games and use their strength to push out competitors. Nothing they are doing is illegal, but of course people are whining about it anyway.
I suspect this is merely an exacerbation of the axiom that "half of everyone is dumber than average". Nothing new except that the effect has become more pronounced. That in itself may merit some consideration, but because I believe it averages out (there are people who can take advantage of the situation just as there are people whom are taken advantage of) I highly doubt this will prove to be catastrophic to humankind.
Meditation is fine if that's what you need. I don't think you need it though. You need self-discipline. If meditation is how you get to that then I will put this thought to you: It already takes self discipline to meditate in the first place... So you won't be able to use meditation to solve your problem until it has already been solved.
Supposing that this theory is correct... wouldn't it be self-limiting? If you look at its effects on society at large, and realize that society at large has a certain capability to create things, and one of these things is software (and by extension other things that fall into the realm of this theory) then wouldn't our ability to create these things diminish as the effect grew larger? That should become visible in some sense as a general downward trend in the speed of progress. Except that's not what's happening. I'll start worrying when we start backtracking. In other words, when the people who made Google can not only not progress the Google product further but cannot even understand how Google works anymore.
But I'm going to guess that is not going to happen.
So your point is.. what, exactly? That because nuclear power isn't ready yet we shouldn't even pursue it?
Boy, it's a good thing inventors and practitioners don't all take that approach, or we'd still be using sticks and throwing stones.
The problem is that it's all tied together. Even the oil industry will shrink when after peak oil is hit and decline starts accelerating. So, think your money will be safe in stocks still?
And as a worker in the Alaskan fields I can say that if you think you'll get 20 million barrels a day out of Alaska you had better start building new pipelines right away... Our Trans-Alaskan pipeline is good for about a million. It's a 48 inch, stainless steel beast that goes for a thousand miles.
So, yeah the cumulative amount of oil might be 1.5 years at current consumption but in reality you'll be lucky to get that oil over a 30 year period.
Yep, Alaska is going to be a good place to work in the oil industry for quite some time, so long as you can handle changing logos every so often when a company finally decides to throw in their hat over the difficulty of producing here.
I don't believe anyone is saying peak oil is the end of the world here, and your points, while true, aren't really on context.
All the Germans are saying is the economic impact will potentially be very large.
It will.
I agree with most of your post except the beginning. This is certainly a real problem, and it definitely affects many games' development, but it's not the only real problem.
In one sense it comes down to simple statistics: Half of all games made are worse than average. That doesn't seem to be concomitant with development cost either. In fact they don't appear to be related at all. Somehow extremely bad games are still getting funded for millions of dollars and only then, after the money is spent, do the developers realize that during all this time they forget to actually make it fun.
MMOs are not even remotely 'impossible' to do on a console... But let's talk controls.
I used to play WoW, quite a bit actually, until I decided there were much better things to do with my life. In WoW each of my high level end-game characters had complex skill rotations and keyboard bindings. Looking back on that and thinking about trying to do that with a console controller makes me wonder how feasible it is. In WoW there were players known as "clickers" who used the mouse to execute all their skills. These players weren't able to compete at end-game, for the most part, because they simply couldn't react fast enough. They were second rate. (yes, some were good enough, but most weren't)
So, step number one would probably be "Dumb down the controls for the console version" which is fine, in theory, but it won't satisfy the folks who like PC MMOs because of the availability of complexity. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it would require an innovative solution to the controls aspect.
Then there's the issue of control sensitivity. Let's say I'm involved in a big battle, PvP style, and my opponent is behind me. I will need to be able to turn around very quickly to prevent them backstabbing me. Now, I've had plenty of time playing console and PC games and I can easily make the statement that when I up the sensitivity of my console controller to turn around quickly I also lose quite a bit of fine control for other things. An innovative solution might be to have the game detect when the player is in 'fine control mode' i.e. inside dialog screens/inventory screens/zoom screens etc.
And perhaps another aspect requiring solution is communication. In MMOs it is not uncommon to have a general chat channel where players can talk to each other quickly via typing. Much of game time in an MMO is spent chatting. You might say "yeah well for console MMOs you could just use voice chat." Except that you can't, not really. How well can two people talk over each other in voice chat? Now imagine 10 or 20 people talking over each other. Imagine how this would absolutely destroy the "Auction" channel, with a hundred different people all trying to peddle their wares at the same time.
So a necessary addition to the console MMO would be a keyboard for general chat/guild chat/whispers/auctions. So you'd have two controllers: a keyboard for chatting/writing actions or macros, etc, and the console controller itself for gameplay.
Like I said, not impossible. But nobody has (yet) stepped up to the plate with all this stuff. I think there are a few games in the works that will get close though.
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I'm afraid you're going to have to define 'limited'. While you're at it, can you think of any kind of property that isn't limited in some way? (the very nature of property itself has limits).
It isn't, at least not directly. It does imply, though, that she has a capacity to make judgments based on belief in something unproven. Translated into a position of power it might mean that she's willing to make decisions that aren't based on empirical fact, but rather based on some book that was written thousands of years ago and largely may not even apply to the subjects upon which she is placing her governance.
This is all really very fundamental: People who believe outlandish things and try to get others to follow them are scary.
Unless they perfect a neural interface I'm pretty sure you won't be getting completely immersive games... But I'd be interested in seeing what kind of crazy fractal-based graphics and random world maps they can make with this tech.
Apparently, 100%. :D
Of course.. there'll be offshoot brands such as FuBusion and KungFusion.
Hyperbole at its finest here folks. This comment completely disregards the fact that all of that "unnecessary crap" can be disabled/uninstalled quite easily. My current Win7x64 box boots and the moment I am past the password screen I can expect to see snappy response to my requests to launch programs etc. Part of this is because I don't HAVE all of that "unnecessary crap" which is NOT from Microsoft but from the companies who sell Windows prepackaged with that "unnecessary crap" (Such as if you were to buy an HP at Best Buy). But it's very easy to buy/build a custom white box that launches very quickly and cleanly. At least as easy as buying/building one with Ubuntu.
"It will continue to thrash the hard drive for another few minutes while it loads a bunch of unnecessary crap" -- That quote in itself is crap.
Why would they have? It's not like the paradigm of a computer OS has changed that much since then...
I also use a Firewire recording interface on Windows 7 x64. In addition to that, I have several USB midi devices and one plain old midi device connected simultaneously quite often. I also play games occasionally on this machine, ranging from Team Fortress 2 to more obscure titeles. The machine is connected wirelessly to my central house printer. I have Adobe CS3 on it for video editing and photography. I run Nikon's RAW image processing suite on there for my photography. If anyone here can tell me that Ubuntu, right out of the box, will do all of that (I know they can't, because for one TF2 won't run on Linux) and without a single crash after months of this kind of use, then I'll think very hard about switching. Until then, fuhgedaboutit!
If potentially lethal weapons are not allowed on planes, and there are people who are trained as lethal weapons in the eyes of the law, how comes these people are allowed on planes?
Supposing they did (I can't find this article you're talking about, but I saw something related to Evony) then they should be punished in proportion to the crime. But if all anyone has on them is that they 'reused building graphics' from a single game... That's pretty thin.
Exactly my point, and yet I was modded Troll. Go figure.
A PhD in Physics is not a PhD in Education. It seems that far too many academic institutions forget this simple fact.
One way to avoid the whole mess is to make the tests "open book" and make the "book" any source of information they can find.
Granted, if you do this some students with more savvy on the Net will have an advantage because they'll be able to find the information they need faster... but then those are the ones that (provided they get the right information) are going to excel in the real world when they're doing real work anyway, right?
So let's see if I understand the situation. They are ruthless competitors who make highly popular games and use their strength to push out competitors. Nothing they are doing is illegal, but of course people are whining about it anyway.
Sounds like the system is working as intended.
I suspect this is merely an exacerbation of the axiom that "half of everyone is dumber than average". Nothing new except that the effect has become more pronounced. That in itself may merit some consideration, but because I believe it averages out (there are people who can take advantage of the situation just as there are people whom are taken advantage of) I highly doubt this will prove to be catastrophic to humankind.
Meditation is fine if that's what you need. I don't think you need it though. You need self-discipline. If meditation is how you get to that then I will put this thought to you: It already takes self discipline to meditate in the first place... So you won't be able to use meditation to solve your problem until it has already been solved.
Supposing that this theory is correct... wouldn't it be self-limiting? If you look at its effects on society at large, and realize that society at large has a certain capability to create things, and one of these things is software (and by extension other things that fall into the realm of this theory) then wouldn't our ability to create these things diminish as the effect grew larger? That should become visible in some sense as a general downward trend in the speed of progress. Except that's not what's happening. I'll start worrying when we start backtracking. In other words, when the people who made Google can not only not progress the Google product further but cannot even understand how Google works anymore.
But I'm going to guess that is not going to happen.
So your point is.. what, exactly? That because nuclear power isn't ready yet we shouldn't even pursue it? Boy, it's a good thing inventors and practitioners don't all take that approach, or we'd still be using sticks and throwing stones.
The problem is that it's all tied together. Even the oil industry will shrink when after peak oil is hit and decline starts accelerating. So, think your money will be safe in stocks still?
And as a worker in the Alaskan fields I can say that if you think you'll get 20 million barrels a day out of Alaska you had better start building new pipelines right away... Our Trans-Alaskan pipeline is good for about a million. It's a 48 inch, stainless steel beast that goes for a thousand miles. So, yeah the cumulative amount of oil might be 1.5 years at current consumption but in reality you'll be lucky to get that oil over a 30 year period. Yep, Alaska is going to be a good place to work in the oil industry for quite some time, so long as you can handle changing logos every so often when a company finally decides to throw in their hat over the difficulty of producing here.
I don't believe anyone is saying peak oil is the end of the world here, and your points, while true, aren't really on context. All the Germans are saying is the economic impact will potentially be very large. It will.
Not pr0n? Fail!
As in... the wrong use of the term "gigabyte"?
Telecommunications companies across the world do not use binary notation for transfer of data.
A megabyte is one million bytes. A gigabyte is one billion bytes.
So, no, not as in 2,617. As in 2680/1000 = 2.680 which is closer to 2.7.
I agree with most of your post except the beginning. This is certainly a real problem, and it definitely affects many games' development, but it's not the only real problem. In one sense it comes down to simple statistics: Half of all games made are worse than average. That doesn't seem to be concomitant with development cost either. In fact they don't appear to be related at all. Somehow extremely bad games are still getting funded for millions of dollars and only then, after the money is spent, do the developers realize that during all this time they forget to actually make it fun.
MMOs are not even remotely 'impossible' to do on a console... But let's talk controls.
I used to play WoW, quite a bit actually, until I decided there were much better things to do with my life. In WoW each of my high level end-game characters had complex skill rotations and keyboard bindings. Looking back on that and thinking about trying to do that with a console controller makes me wonder how feasible it is. In WoW there were players known as "clickers" who used the mouse to execute all their skills. These players weren't able to compete at end-game, for the most part, because they simply couldn't react fast enough. They were second rate. (yes, some were good enough, but most weren't)
So, step number one would probably be "Dumb down the controls for the console version" which is fine, in theory, but it won't satisfy the folks who like PC MMOs because of the availability of complexity. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it would require an innovative solution to the controls aspect.
Then there's the issue of control sensitivity. Let's say I'm involved in a big battle, PvP style, and my opponent is behind me. I will need to be able to turn around very quickly to prevent them backstabbing me. Now, I've had plenty of time playing console and PC games and I can easily make the statement that when I up the sensitivity of my console controller to turn around quickly I also lose quite a bit of fine control for other things. An innovative solution might be to have the game detect when the player is in 'fine control mode' i.e. inside dialog screens/inventory screens/zoom screens etc.
And perhaps another aspect requiring solution is communication. In MMOs it is not uncommon to have a general chat channel where players can talk to each other quickly via typing. Much of game time in an MMO is spent chatting. You might say "yeah well for console MMOs you could just use voice chat." Except that you can't, not really. How well can two people talk over each other in voice chat? Now imagine 10 or 20 people talking over each other. Imagine how this would absolutely destroy the "Auction" channel, with a hundred different people all trying to peddle their wares at the same time.
So a necessary addition to the console MMO would be a keyboard for general chat/guild chat/whispers/auctions. So you'd have two controllers: a keyboard for chatting/writing actions or macros, etc, and the console controller itself for gameplay.
Like I said, not impossible. But nobody has (yet) stepped up to the plate with all this stuff. I think there are a few games in the works that will get close though.