Hardly. First of all, Dragon's Lair was the shiz-nit when it came out. Second only to the more obscure, but better anime-type laserdisc cabinet game that seemed to be based on Dr. Caligari. (Anyone remember the name? -- 'Time Travellers' or something.) Plus, there was the even-better follow up, Space Ace, which also ruled.
Your point about cel shading being better is just absurd, esp. since there was about fifteen years between the introduction of DL and the first good cel-shaded games (e.g., Jet Set Radio). Yeah, we all hated the lag in DL and the other laserdisc games, (and we hated the insane price point), but that game had the biggest crowds at my arcade for about a year straight, which is saying a lot. Most of the time, we'd just be watching some hot shot who could finish the game on a dollar, so it was more like a movie anyway!!
Your opinion only makes sense if you were born yesterday. For the rest of us, who actually lived in the 1980's, we thought DL was insanely cool.
...the first question in every antitrust issue is how to scope the market that is being measured for anti-competitive behavior. It is basically an unanswerable question, although there are criteria (e.g., who are the competitors?) that apply to help guide a court in deciding which market is subject to the court's antitrust analysis. In this case, it seems clear that the XBOX lives in a different market space than Windows. If for no other reason than that the competitors against Windows are (mostly) totally different entities than the competitors against XBOX.
...but efficiency and clarity, rather. If you're going to spout on about a better way to view and access information, you better practice what you preach.
...a while back, and concluded that: (a) Gelertner's concept of an information stream is simplistic, vague and Windows-based, and (b) Gelertner really likes himself, and thinks his ideas are the tops, and goes around telling everyone so on his ugly, confusing Website about how computers shouldn't be ugly and confusing.
I mean, how can anyone take seriously a 'visionary' that develops for Windows and can't make a goddamn clean Web page. Hrmph!
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Don't forget the loss of jurisprudence. Unlike public court actions, there is no consolidated public repository for the proceedings or outcomes of private enforcements. The risk of re-inventing the wheel is a serious one, and one that mitigates the supposed efficiencies of alternative dispute resolution methods.
...you might want to demand that students seeking technical degrees learn to speak and write their native language. (Not that your comment reflects a lack of understanding, but poor grammar and spelling *are* far too common among techies). The bottom line is that language skills are not mutually exclusive with analytical skills, especially when you recognize that being able to convey your meaning accurately is step one in most undertakings.
I'm confused about your diction. Is "communicate" a term of special signigicance in astrophysics? Where I come from, it signifies the act of conveying a message from one entity to another. Why would two points that have the same tempurature necessitate "communication"? Couldn't it simply be a coincidence that the variables acting on those two points resulted in a similar outcome? Are we assuming that such coincidences are too far-fetched to occur, or have we ruled out the possibility of such a coincidence all together?
I meant Hegelian in the sense of being tied to the thesis + antithesis = synthesis paradigm, which is intolerant of the sorts of co-existing paradoxes that Dick favors in his fiction. Maybe this quote will convince you that I know WTF I'm talking about:
"What is rational is real and what is real is rational." --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I don't want to pit Dick against Hegel (if for no other reason than I don't think PKD was interested in Hegel at all). But I do think Hegel is a neat shorthand for what Dick's paradigm does *not* represent.
Maybe Philip K. Dick was right to be paranoid about governments.
First of all, I challenge the notion that Philip K. Dick was 'paranoid'. I know I'm straying a bit off topic here, but I think this characterization is really unsophisticated and does not do Dick's legacy any justice. PKD used all sorts of mechanisms to portray life as a sequences of overlapping and (occassionally) paradoxical realities. In this sense, Dick was quite non-Hegelian in his philisophical outlook -- a trait that separates him from most 'paranoids'.
In any event, I can think of about ten billion better examples of people that *are* actually 'paranoid' about governments.
...despite the fact that nine out of ten slashdotters constantly complain about abuse of the patent system, almost every top-rated comment in this thread recommends that the submitter patent first and decide whether or not to extort later. What's even lamer is that each of those posts includes the obligatory bigotry about lawyers. You people are fucking pathetic.
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Hardly. First of all, Dragon's Lair was the shiz-nit when it came out. Second only to the more obscure, but better anime-type laserdisc cabinet game that seemed to be based on Dr. Caligari. (Anyone remember the name? -- 'Time Travellers' or something.) Plus, there was the even-better follow up, Space Ace, which also ruled.
Your point about cel shading being better is just absurd, esp. since there was about fifteen years between the introduction of DL and the first good cel-shaded games (e.g., Jet Set Radio). Yeah, we all hated the lag in DL and the other laserdisc games, (and we hated the insane price point), but that game had the biggest crowds at my arcade for about a year straight, which is saying a lot. Most of the time, we'd just be watching some hot shot who could finish the game on a dollar, so it was more like a movie anyway!!
Your opinion only makes sense if you were born yesterday. For the rest of us, who actually lived in the 1980's, we thought DL was insanely cool.
...the first question in every antitrust issue is how to scope the market that is being measured for anti-competitive behavior. It is basically an unanswerable question, although there are criteria (e.g., who are the competitors?) that apply to help guide a court in deciding which market is subject to the court's antitrust analysis. In this case, it seems clear that the XBOX lives in a different market space than Windows. If for no other reason than that the competitors against Windows are (mostly) totally different entities than the competitors against XBOX.
...but efficiency and clarity, rather. If you're going to spout on about a better way to view and access information, you better practice what you preach.
One major difference: The guy in the Wired article is constantly surrounded by hot (often nude) chicks.
You tried to write a book called "Java Programming for Windows"?
That's the strangest thing I've heard all day.
...a while back, and concluded that: (a) Gelertner's concept of an information stream is simplistic, vague and Windows-based, and (b) Gelertner really likes himself, and thinks his ideas are the tops, and goes around telling everyone so on his ugly, confusing Website about how computers shouldn't be ugly and confusing.
I mean, how can anyone take seriously a 'visionary' that develops for Windows and can't make a goddamn clean Web page. Hrmph!
Developers, developers, developers, developers....yeah...yes!
...those of us who compromise the working classes.
It's true: the working classes *are* compromised by free-loading, debt-swimming, dole-takers like you.
...when people complain about Apple not documenting when it is Microsoft's non-standard nonsense that caused the problem in the first place.
Don't forget the loss of jurisprudence. Unlike public court actions, there is no consolidated public repository for the proceedings or outcomes of private enforcements. The risk of re-inventing the wheel is a serious one, and one that mitigates the supposed efficiencies of alternative dispute resolution methods.
...a hard time seeing the Longhorn screenshots, you can get the gist by checking out the OS X page.
...you might want to demand that students seeking technical degrees learn to speak and write their native language. (Not that your comment reflects a lack of understanding, but poor grammar and spelling *are* far too common among techies). The bottom line is that language skills are not mutually exclusive with analytical skills, especially when you recognize that being able to convey your meaning accurately is step one in most undertakings.
I'm confused about your diction. Is "communicate" a term of special signigicance in astrophysics? Where I come from, it signifies the act of conveying a message from one entity to another. Why would two points that have the same tempurature necessitate "communication"? Couldn't it simply be a coincidence that the variables acting on those two points resulted in a similar outcome? Are we assuming that such coincidences are too far-fetched to occur, or have we ruled out the possibility of such a coincidence all together?
...please be advised that all posts beginning "In other news..." are inherently lame.
...insane arm-flailing ignorance and cretinous defensive footstomping victim-ism *is* the classic Islamic mindset, after all.
...this story is an utter insult.
Why don't you write up something interesting (and useful to me), like how to get Wi-Fi running on my Newton.
...apparently even Microsoft isn't aware that people like you *actually* exist.
I meant Hegelian in the sense of being tied to the thesis + antithesis = synthesis paradigm, which is intolerant of the sorts of co-existing paradoxes that Dick favors in his fiction. Maybe this quote will convince you that I know WTF I'm talking about:
"What is rational is real and what is real is rational."
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I don't want to pit Dick against Hegel (if for no other reason than I don't think PKD was interested in Hegel at all). But I do think Hegel is a neat shorthand for what Dick's paradigm does *not* represent.
He said his characters often are paranoid. That is something very different than saying that PKD is a paranoid about governments.
Maybe Philip K. Dick was right to be paranoid about governments.
First of all, I challenge the notion that Philip K. Dick was 'paranoid'. I know I'm straying a bit off topic here, but I think this characterization is really unsophisticated and does not do Dick's legacy any justice. PKD used all sorts of mechanisms to portray life as a sequences of overlapping and (occassionally) paradoxical realities. In this sense, Dick was quite non-Hegelian in his philisophical outlook -- a trait that separates him from most 'paranoids'.
In any event, I can think of about ten billion better examples of people that *are* actually 'paranoid' about governments.
...don't forget where Germany and Japan got their seed capital. We VC'd them, and they're in no military position to forget about it.
...is a perfect distillation of exactly why America owns Europe today.
...it's just that technologists are the weakest of the weak when it comes to understanding and exercising their legal rights.
...despite the fact that nine out of ten slashdotters constantly complain about abuse of the patent system, almost every top-rated comment in this thread recommends that the submitter patent first and decide whether or not to extort later. What's even lamer is that each of those posts includes the obligatory bigotry about lawyers. You people are fucking pathetic.
...next they're coming after the lowest form of life on Earth: helpless technologists that fear and despise lawyers.