Hmm... hack from the 486 days? Step forward from x86? I'm not sure this indicates anything of the sort. Just how is a non-overclockable board 'higher end'? Since the first multiplier was done a couple of chip generations ago it is surely just an x86 variant(something not specified in the specs?).
How would slashdot readers go about posting official comments? I'm Canadian, and not sure how to comment. Passing the DMCA would surely mean that the same would happen here(in different form?).
I have wondered if this might be due to the technical complexity of producing a 3D game, or just the processing overhead that such games incur. I would expect genres to broaden again once the environment for programming 3D is a bit more familiar to programmers. RPGs have always liked lots of detail and that's expensive to come by in terms of 3D. These days you need a team of people to create a new game, whereas I think a lot of original 'new genre' games were created by individuals with a passion.
As far as 3D shooters go, I'll have to disagree with you there. What about the Descent series?
Another big genre killer, I think, would be the rush to create online games. This has sucked up more precious resources in terms of budget and technical difficulty.
Besides the chance to introduce another 'X', is there a good reason to keep changing the acronym? There was, of course, the JDK, but one wishes that the software companies would just call them 'X-Box SDK' and 'Java SDK' respectively. The last thing programming needs is the profileration of more one use acronyms. Besides, what happens when they run out of letters?
I think you're right in comparing the result to the multiple author stories of grade school, but think that this will be even less cohesive here given the abstract nature of links. A link may continue on some abstract and undocumented principle that only the author of the link will understand. There is no information to qualify the relationship of the link.
Perhaps if there were opportunity to provide metalink data...but I doubt that all respondents would provide accurate information. All forums seem to require a moderator if they are to accept any source of information.
Come to think of it,/. is abstract association limited only by the imagination of those responding and creating links to and through their own interpretations of the story.
I can't bring myself to anticipate the results of an unstructured, unmoderated, and impromptu forum on the web. The linear form of responses makes this even worse and a waste of time IMO.
They always say it's in its first stages or the next part wouldn't sound nearly so exciting:
Oh yeah, the Internet's pretty developed. Now all we have to do is flesh it out a little with some more robust lawmaking...
Becoming? Perhaps the great thing is that the Internet always seems to be 'becoming' as you point out. I agree with your definition of the first stage.
If Stefik looks forward to a point when the Internet isn't becoming, I hope he has a long time to wait.
The connection between 'digital' and fingers is cute, but does that really make fingers==computer?
Personally I'm not really sure if we should begin the history of computers at the dawn of logical/mathematical thinking. If we do, are not all things which perform a logical function computers? Example: I used this stick to say that I am 2 1/2 sticks tall. Is the stick a computer?
The same could be done with rocks or bones or bibles....
IS THE WORLD A COMPUTER, CALCULATING FATE? {Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy anyone?}
someone has to physically go 4 light years there and construct a mirror worm hole Send a robot to open the other end at speeds humankind couldn't withstand. Of course the robot would probably be really complicated and bulky, and it would take it a long time to get there, but we're not talking current tech anyways... This article really doesn't really have enough content(most of it would be beyond us anyways?) to judge anything, but makes for some interesting speculation(most of it already done in science fiction).
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Hmm ... hack from the 486 days? Step forward from x86? I'm not sure this indicates anything of the sort. Just how is a non-overclockable board 'higher end'? Since the first multiplier was done a couple of chip generations ago it is surely just an x86 variant(something not specified in the specs?).
How would slashdot readers go about posting official comments? I'm Canadian, and not sure how to comment. Passing the DMCA would surely mean that the same would happen here(in different form?).
I have wondered if this might be due to the technical complexity of producing a 3D game, or just the processing overhead that such games incur. I would expect genres to broaden again once the environment for programming 3D is a bit more familiar to programmers. RPGs have always liked lots of detail and that's expensive to come by in terms of 3D. These days you need a team of people to create a new game, whereas I think a lot of original 'new genre' games were created by individuals with a passion. As far as 3D shooters go, I'll have to disagree with you there. What about the Descent series? Another big genre killer, I think, would be the rush to create online games. This has sucked up more precious resources in terms of budget and technical difficulty.
Besides the chance to introduce another 'X', is there a good reason to keep changing the acronym? There was, of course, the JDK, but one wishes that the software companies would just call them 'X-Box SDK' and 'Java SDK' respectively. The last thing programming needs is the profileration of more one use acronyms. Besides, what happens when they run out of letters?
Sincerely,
K
Perhaps if there were opportunity to provide metalink data...but I doubt that all respondents would provide accurate information. All forums seem to require a moderator if they are to accept any source of information.
Come to think of it, /. is abstract association limited only by the imagination of those responding and creating links to and through their own interpretations of the story.
I can't bring myself to anticipate the results of an unstructured, unmoderated, and impromptu forum on the web. The linear form of responses makes this even worse and a waste of time IMO.
They always say it's in its first stages or the next part wouldn't sound nearly so exciting:
Oh yeah, the Internet's pretty developed. Now all we have to do is flesh it out a little with some more robust lawmaking...
Becoming? Perhaps the great thing is that the Internet always seems to be 'becoming' as you point out. I agree with your definition of the first stage.
If Stefik looks forward to a point when the Internet isn't becoming, I hope he has a long time to wait.
The connection between 'digital' and fingers is cute, but does that really make fingers==computer?
Personally I'm not really sure if we should begin the history of computers at the dawn of logical/mathematical thinking. If we do, are not all things which perform a logical function computers? Example: I used this stick to say that I am 2 1/2 sticks tall. Is the stick a computer?
The same could be done with rocks or bones or bibles....
IS THE WORLD A COMPUTER, CALCULATING FATE?
{Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy anyone?}
someone has to physically go 4 light years there and construct a mirror worm hole Send a robot to open the other end at speeds humankind couldn't withstand. Of course the robot would probably be really complicated and bulky, and it would take it a long time to get there, but we're not talking current tech anyways... This article really doesn't really have enough content(most of it would be beyond us anyways?) to judge anything, but makes for some interesting speculation(most of it already done in science fiction).