Whilst there is still some murky legal sniping going on around the PlayStation brand, the story you're thinking of (Sony lose rights to Nintendo and must pay silly amounts of money as royalties) was a hoax.
Sony will defend the PlayStation brand to the death - I'd say it's more valuable to them than 'Walkman' was in the '80s. Whilst I don't expect to see a PlayStation 3 in 2003, I do expect the natural successor to the PS2 to have the PlayStation moniker, whenever it comes out. Gamers love brands (think Nintendo, Sega, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Tomb Raider).
Good call. And given that the cartoon element in the Star Wars Holiday Special was about Boba Fett, it could be that the Holiday special was 25 years ahead of the game.
Nah - we should have Tom Selleck as the Prime Intellect. He'd have loads of wacky adventures and loose women and solve crimes. We could call it Magnum PI.
One of the funnier episodes for me was when Homer et al went to New York. However, the prominent presence of the World Trade Center may, I suspect, have consigned this one to syndication-hell. Have folk seen it aired in recent months?
Would be nice if the terms & abbreviations are explained at the end of the text....
Really? To me, the paper reads like it's a set of questions to prompt cryptographic systems designers to look at the overall architecture of their design. Thus the intended audience is quite specialised, and will almost certainly know most, if not all, of the terms and abbreviations used. If you have difficulty in understanding the terms, there are other resouces out there to assist. Including terms and abbreviations would be -redundant.
The idea of disposable computers might seem appealing and convenient, but should the current thrust in technology really be towards disposables when there's already an environmental issue over dead tech today? Dead mobiles, obsolete computers, fridges - all these dead consumer devices cost a lot to dispose of. And you're proposing adding to the mix?
The trendy application for this paper technology you've described is wholly unnecessary. Why bother taking notes on e-paper and uploading to your server at home? Why not think about developing tablet technology which is always connected (GPRS, 3G, WiFi) with your desktop PC at the office. Then you write in realtime to your PC with your tablet. Realtime paperless office with no redundant technology building up.
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A good few years ago, I wrote an MA Thesis on videogame culture. One of the areas that I looked at was the striving towards psychological mastery in videogames through a striving for the end - telos. In psychological terms, videogames insert "the subject into a narrative in which she or he sees herself or himself projected as the hero and potential master" (Peter Buse, 'Nintendo and Telos: Will You Ever Reach the End?' Cultural Critique 34 (1996) 163-84 (p.169))
The ideas that Liquid Narrative are developing - realtime self-evolving narrative strands, reactive storytelling etc, seem to play interestingly into this notion of psychic development.
However, one question I ask is: do games need narrative at all? Games are about play - we are all home ludens. Do basketball games need narrative? The most interesting, successful and universally appealing games are those such as Tetris, where there is no end, but no story to get there either.
The UK is the most advanced country in the world, went through the Agricultural, Industrial and Communications revolutions first.
Umm, I'm British, and even I can't let this one go through unchallenged.
Whilst we may have been world leaders in the industrial revolution, the communication revolution I'm not too sure on. For a start,I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'commiunication revolution'. However, looking at the first real mass-communication revolution, the telegraph, this was not a UK-led invention. Much of the innovation was based on Morse's experiments in telegraphy. Whilst the UK's perceived global domination at the time meant they were very much interested in this new technolgoical medium, they didn't necessarily lead it.
Well, what did you expect - some entirely neutral benefactor who had no ideological or commercial bias against Microsoft? Of course the guy funding XBOX Linux is going to be 'anti' MS in some way.
Yep, I am aware of this. Faramir did die, however, sometime in the glorious days of the Fourth Age. They buried him, and he began spinning on 19 December 2002.
In most companies I've worked with, communications and media are bundled in the same vertical anyway - typically something like ICE (Information-Communication-Entertainment) or similar. From a purely technical standing, I don't think it makes much difference.
From a socio-political position, however, it further blurs the distinction between medium and message. Damn that McLuhan - he was smart!
Hehe. Good link, and I can see why you might have thought that. But, as ever, Microsoft weren't innovating.
The idea of using rooms as metaphors for the storing of information/memory stretches back to the late Middle Ages / early Renaissance. The great humanists and thinkers of the time (More, Bacon etc) used to visualise great vast buildings to help them organise their intellectual world. Erik Davies has written a fine essay, "Techgnosis, Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information" about this.
People can handle new paradigms or user-interfaces. Ten years ago, the notion of navigating backwards and forwards through information ('browsing') was unheard of. Slap a video-recorder UI and people are quick to adapt.
The whole desktop/file/filesystems may indeed be ripe for a new metaphor to help conceptualise them. When computers were the principal domain of workers, the idea of a desktop with files and folders allowed them to grasp alien concepts.
But computers are becoming ubiquitous, pervasive. Perhaps a new metaphor could be found. An example could be objects in rooms. Think of different folders as different rooms - all files (or rather, all streams) are objects in those rooms. Navigation between rooms is possible through doors.
Of course, as others have pointed out, the HFS ain't broken, so why fix it? (Answer: why not? PC cases aren't broken, but we still have case-modders, don't we?)
eactalight contact lenses to reduce glare from the sun
What'd be really cool would be those Peril-Sensitive sunglasses from Hitch-Hikers. In fact, most of the stuff in Hitch-Hikers should be invented, including the BabelFish, the Improbability Drive, the Total Perspective Vortex and the Guide itself.
Its becoming quite the standard in the Java/JSP+servlet world
Indeed. Another factor in the championing of structs is its featuring in the toolsets of products like BEA (yes, some may see BEA as a stinking pile of bloatware, but it is rather respected by many enterprise players).
So for an observation there must be three things: 1 - the thing being observed 2 - the observer 3 - the observation
OK. I'll buy that, leaving aside such thorny issues as self-introspection and the quantum-physical notion that there is no such thing as observation, only participation (Heisenbergian Uncertainty).
God is existance (sic). WTF? Where does God come into what is a simple epistemological statement? It's a logical non-sequitur. You've pulled yourself up by the bootstraps.
Anyway, I shall have to cease this, erm, wonderful numerico-theological debate as it is veering way, way off-topic. No doubt, I shall be leaving the last word to you.
Re:Hacker? How about 'Social Engineer'?
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I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all! The terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors--Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "City Fathers" who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about 'What's to be done with this Kevin Mitnick?'
Now, seriously, what did you mean by 'overt detective'?
I've tried really hard, but I can't make sense of your post. You say you can prove God=3, but haven't done anything of the sort. You seem to be veering towards some sort of Zen buddist thought experiment viz. God is the relation or interaction between two 'objects', hence a third thing, the observation of the two.
If I see a stone, there are two objects, and an observation. Am I God?
Please, I would like to know more. Really. (Actually, not really, but if you are genuinely enlightened and not a troll, then please do explain further....)
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Whilst there is still some murky legal sniping going on around the PlayStation brand, the story you're thinking of (Sony lose rights to Nintendo and must pay silly amounts of money as royalties) was a hoax.
Sony will defend the PlayStation brand to the death - I'd say it's more valuable to them than 'Walkman' was in the '80s. Whilst I don't expect to see a PlayStation 3 in 2003, I do expect the natural successor to the PS2 to have the PlayStation moniker, whenever it comes out. Gamers love brands (think Nintendo, Sega, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Tomb Raider).
But, what will the Third Place be for PS3?
Good call. And given that the cartoon element in the Star Wars Holiday Special was about Boba Fett, it could be that the Holiday special was 25 years ahead of the game.
Nah - we should have Tom Selleck as the Prime Intellect. He'd have loads of wacky adventures and loose women and solve crimes. We could call it Magnum PI.
One of the funnier episodes for me was when Homer et al went to New York. However, the prominent presence of the World Trade Center may, I suspect, have consigned this one to syndication-hell. Have folk seen it aired in recent months?
Would be nice if the terms & abbreviations are explained at the end of the text ....
Really? To me, the paper reads like it's a set of questions to prompt cryptographic systems designers to look at the overall architecture of their design. Thus the intended audience is quite specialised, and will almost certainly know most, if not all, of the terms and abbreviations used. If you have difficulty in understanding the terms, there are other resouces out there to assist. Including terms and abbreviations would be -redundant.
Or Penistone
The idea of disposable computers might seem appealing and convenient, but should the current thrust in technology really be towards disposables when there's already an environmental issue over dead tech today? Dead mobiles, obsolete computers, fridges - all these dead consumer devices cost a lot to dispose of. And you're proposing adding to the mix?
The trendy application for this paper technology you've described is wholly unnecessary. Why bother taking notes on e-paper and uploading to your server at home? Why not think about developing tablet technology which is always connected (GPRS, 3G, WiFi) with your desktop PC at the office. Then you write in realtime to your PC with your tablet. Realtime paperless office with no redundant technology building up.
A good few years ago, I wrote an MA Thesis on videogame culture. One of the areas that I looked at was the striving towards psychological mastery in videogames through a striving for the end - telos. In psychological terms, videogames insert "the subject into a narrative in which she or he sees herself or himself projected as the hero and potential master" (Peter Buse, 'Nintendo and Telos: Will You Ever Reach the End?' Cultural Critique 34 (1996) 163-84 (p.169))
The ideas that Liquid Narrative are developing - realtime self-evolving narrative strands, reactive storytelling etc, seem to play interestingly into this notion of psychic development.
However, one question I ask is: do games need narrative at all? Games are about play - we are all home ludens. Do basketball games need narrative? The most interesting, successful and universally appealing games are those such as Tetris, where there is no end, but no story to get there either.
The UK is the most advanced country in the world, went through the Agricultural, Industrial and Communications revolutions first.
Umm, I'm British, and even I can't let this one go through unchallenged.
Whilst we may have been world leaders in the industrial revolution, the communication revolution I'm not too sure on. For a start,I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'commiunication revolution'. However, looking at the first real mass-communication revolution, the telegraph, this was not a UK-led invention. Much of the innovation was based on Morse's experiments in telegraphy. Whilst the UK's perceived global domination at the time meant they were very much interested in this new technolgoical medium, they didn't necessarily lead it.
From the article:
And US officials have hinted that new developmental weapons technology could be used in an attack on Iraq
Maybe their time has come.
Umm, it's actually a book first. Which is why we're talking about re-writing it in the style of someone else.
It is also, since you mention it, a groundbreaking, life-changing new product, almost, but not quite, utterly unlike the Segway.
The sky was the colour of a Palantir, in tune with a dead mind.
Last year, data supplied by the Hubble Space Telescope led to an apparently refined estimate of 13 billion to 14 billion years
So, last year, they had an estimate of 13-14 billion. This year, it's 11-20 billion. Yeah to scientific progress!
a direct competitor
Well, what did you expect - some entirely neutral benefactor who had no ideological or commercial bias against Microsoft? Of course the guy funding XBOX Linux is going to be 'anti' MS in some way.
Yep, I am aware of this. Faramir did die, however, sometime in the glorious days of the Fourth Age. They buried him, and he began spinning on 19 December 2002.
In most companies I've worked with, communications and media are bundled in the same vertical anyway - typically something like ICE (Information-Communication-Entertainment) or similar. From a purely technical standing, I don't think it makes much difference.
From a socio-political position, however, it further blurs the distinction between medium and message. Damn that McLuhan - he was smart!
Hehe. Good link, and I can see why you might have thought that. But, as ever, Microsoft weren't innovating.
The idea of using rooms as metaphors for the storing of information/memory stretches back to the late Middle Ages / early Renaissance. The great humanists and thinkers of the time (More, Bacon etc) used to visualise great vast buildings to help them organise their intellectual world. Erik Davies has written a fine essay, "Techgnosis, Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information" about this.
People can handle new paradigms or user-interfaces. Ten years ago, the notion of navigating backwards and forwards through information ('browsing') was unheard of. Slap a video-recorder UI and people are quick to adapt.
Gutenberg's 1893 version
You mean Project Gutenberg's version of Henry Wheatley's 1893 edition? It just sounds like you are referring to the great Johann Gutenberg.
When technology improves a book that was already good, that's good news for nerds. I'm not talking about the Two Towers
Just to clarify: The Two Towers film did not improve upon the book. Faramir is spinning in his grave.
The whole desktop/file/filesystems may indeed be ripe for a new metaphor to help conceptualise them. When computers were the principal domain of workers, the idea of a desktop with files and folders allowed them to grasp alien concepts.
But computers are becoming ubiquitous, pervasive. Perhaps a new metaphor could be found. An example could be objects in rooms. Think of different folders as different rooms - all files (or rather, all streams) are objects in those rooms. Navigation between rooms is possible through doors.
Of course, as others have pointed out, the HFS ain't broken, so why fix it? (Answer: why not? PC cases aren't broken, but we still have case-modders, don't we?)
eactalight contact lenses to reduce glare from the sun
What'd be really cool would be those Peril-Sensitive sunglasses from Hitch-Hikers. In fact, most of the stuff in Hitch-Hikers should be invented, including the BabelFish, the Improbability Drive, the Total Perspective Vortex and the Guide itself.
Its becoming quite the standard in the Java/JSP+servlet world
Indeed. Another factor in the championing of structs is its featuring in the toolsets of products like BEA (yes, some may see BEA as a stinking pile of bloatware, but it is rather respected by many enterprise players).
Silly People Don't Realize...
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Shouldn't that be 'Silly People Don't Raelize'...
So for an observation there must be three things:
1 - the thing being observed
2 - the observer
3 - the observation
OK. I'll buy that, leaving aside such thorny issues as self-introspection and the quantum-physical notion that there is no such thing as observation, only participation (Heisenbergian Uncertainty).
God is existance (sic). WTF? Where does God come into what is a simple epistemological statement? It's a logical non-sequitur. You've pulled yourself up by the bootstraps.
Anyway, I shall have to cease this, erm, wonderful numerico-theological debate as it is veering way, way off-topic. No doubt, I shall be leaving the last word to you.
I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all! The terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors--Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "City Fathers" who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about 'What's to be done with this Kevin Mitnick?'
Now, seriously, what did you mean by 'overt detective'?
Are you a relative of this bloke? ;)
I've tried really hard, but I can't make sense of your post. You say you can prove God=3, but haven't done anything of the sort. You seem to be veering towards some sort of Zen buddist thought experiment viz. God is the relation or interaction between two 'objects', hence a third thing, the observation of the two.
If I see a stone, there are two objects, and an observation. Am I God?
Please, I would like to know more. Really. (Actually, not really, but if you are genuinely enlightened and not a troll, then please do explain further....)