But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?
Movies have been photorealistic for 100 years. What has sustained them? Stories Creative stories.
Games are moving to become immersive worlds -- first person Shooters/Adventures/Horrors/Mysteries/Dramas
Gaming Tech *will arrive* at a photorealistic reporduction of the world (VR helmets are coming too...) and then, the game designers will be the scriptwriters/directors etc.
In short, seperate the Medium (3D Tech) from the Content (story). Games are simple entertainment, and technology has enabled that entertainment to become less paired with the underlying technology.
Pacman's game mechanics were a limit of technology. Fun game? yes, of course. But the tech has arrived (or is arriving) to liberate creative content to produce an immersive world in which to set a person to be entertained (ala movie theater), technology isnt as relevant at that point.
Sure, people are going to want ever-increasingly-capable machines to get more-realistic worlds (more immerisve), but the fact that compelling content is being deliverd via the game-medium is the point.
Anyone interested in wiretapping should see this. Shrub's miserable choice for UN Ambassador, John Bolton stars in this story.
From the story "Bolton requested transcripts of 10 NSA intercepts of conversations between named U.S. government officials and foreign persons...NSA insiders report...Bolton...had them masked as "training missions" in order to get around internal NSA regulations that...prohibit such eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.
So, not only do you have to worry about the court authorized and reported taps, but Corrupt Criminals like Bolton skirting the rules to get dirt on his (probable) opponents.
Thank God the NSA is there to protect Freedom(TM)? Right?
Want meta-data search (spotlight) on GNU/Linux? Try installing Beagle.
From Beagle's webpage; "Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for. Beagle can search in many different domains:
documents emails web history IM/IRC conversations source code images music files applications...and much more
the unpunished institutional torture? mixing of church and state? his functional illiteracy? his lying and disinformation campaign to invade foreign nations? his subverting separation of branches of government by trying to appoint agenda-driven radical judges? his stage-managing public events? his refusal to hold press conferences? his pandering to religious-reformation advocates?
or is it something else? tell us, what does mr. bush do that impresses you?
are far, far, FAR better at media manipulation than the liberals are
Thats because Liberals are part of the Reality Based community. A place where peer-review, logic and reason are prized. A universe where reasoned discourse is expected (and non reasoned arguments are dismissed).
Conservatives are living in a Faith Based world. Where proof is unnecssary.
Get it? Lies? Those arent lies -- just words that support our pre-decided world-view... the world-view that is populated top-to-bottom with falacies and make-believe.
Get it? Liberals cant win until they embrace dishonesty.
Its an even greater goddamn pitty that American's believe that the brilliance of its founding fathers is the soul province of its founding fathers.
it is not a secret that american founding fathers were implementing theory and practice by french and english thinkers.
an even greater pity is american's disengagment from constructive political discourse. instead of deciding a future, you have enshrined your past leaders as gods in your cult-of-america religion.
stop daydreaming about manifest destiney and inherent infallability and look around you. your 'democracy' is a fucking laughable shambles.
Bush and his cronies have been purging possible dissenters from Official Federal Events for years.
This is nothing new.
Do a google news search for the Denver Three -- ticket holders physically ejected from a social-security-privitization event by someone claiming to be secret service. why? someone reported a "no blood for oil" sticker on their bumber.
this is just one case. the proto fascists have been stage-managing every apperience like its 1984.
How about a religion of sorts for the wise. they sleep and tend-one-another in turns. The membership can be self-supporting with replacments chosen by the group by invitation.
every x years, a 'class is awoken', it is shown an explination of the last y years developments by the previous class (the previous class is then put into hibernation for a spell).
each class digests and reflects on humanities progress, problems etc. and issues reports, runs for offices, give grants etc etc etc.
right now, our insect-like-lifespans cause chaos. there is no incentive to plan long term, there is no incentive to build real solutions to real long-present problems.
maybe if we all lived longer (or my flight-of-fancy "Cult of the Wise") we would stop thinking about our personal pleasure more and start to think about how to gaurantee pleasure for all... and taking reward in eliminating war, famine, global-pollution etc etc.
or, we could fly off to other planets - hell i dont know.
...that the techies on this forum will A) decry this as unfair competition from super-low paid slave labour and B) are directly responsible for it themselves by deeply held irrational views and their voting/politics.
Welcome to the logical result of your dogma. Free trade and the race to the bottom. McCarthy did such a wonderful job on your country.
The government -- which is supposed to be of, by and for the people -- has been replaced as a body to be mistrusted. This mistrusted body is then made impotent to all but a trade regulation body lead by the Plutocracy.
A boat full of nickle-paid-coders off your coast? WHAT ELSE DID YOU EXPECT! Trade, like the economy, has to be regulated to produce desireable results (like, employment, a middle class, worker-safety). Willfully abandoning tarrifs and other mechanisms to influence International Trade has lead you to the a place where you cannot prevent this behaviour.
Why cant you prevent it? because the Oligarchy rules your government (it is your government) and the population is so attached to their American Capitalism Religion(TM) that anyone who suggests its out-of-control is burned at the stake (like Im about to be).
So, in short, Americans, time to start reaping what you have sown.
From teh Swarmcast website: "Swarming: Grid-Accelerated File Transfer Swarming is a revolutionary new approach to file transfer first invented in 1999 by Justin Chapweske, Onion Networks' Founder and CEO...As the original inventor, Onion Networks, Inc. holds a strong intellectual property position in Swarming and Swarmstreaming(TM) through multiple pending patents.
Delightful. How long until Mr. Chapweske decides to hire a few lawyers to go after the infrigners..? I wonder if our Bittorrent Friends are aware of this assertion...?
Oh yes, People say that GNU/Linux Extremists are the real evil. The extreme views of many of these campaigners will always keep GNU/Linux from making progress. We have to act now! Only reasonable people can avert this chaos. They are always crying wolf -- they just dont get it.
The critique is unnecessary. If people knew the true extent of their bias, no smart person would listen to these GNU/Linux crazies.
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Diamond tipped light wires? Sheesh. Thats so 1998.
Where are my flying cars damnit?!1!
Yes, exactly!
What im going to do, is invent WiFi Power Over Ethernet!
I'll be rich!
But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?
Movies have been photorealistic for 100 years. What has sustained them? Stories Creative stories.
Games are moving to become immersive worlds -- first person Shooters/Adventures/Horrors/Mysteries/Dramas
Gaming Tech *will arrive* at a photorealistic reporduction of the world (VR helmets are coming too...) and then, the game designers will be the scriptwriters/directors etc.
In short, seperate the Medium (3D Tech) from the Content (story). Games are simple entertainment, and technology has enabled that entertainment to become less paired with the underlying technology.
Pacman's game mechanics were a limit of technology. Fun game? yes, of course. But the tech has arrived (or is arriving) to liberate creative content to produce an immersive world in which to set a person to be entertained (ala movie theater), technology isnt as relevant at that point.
Sure, people are going to want ever-increasingly-capable machines to get more-realistic worlds (more immerisve), but the fact that compelling content is being deliverd via the game-medium is the point.
Anyone interested in wiretapping should see this. Shrub's miserable choice for UN Ambassador, John Bolton stars in this story.
From the story "Bolton requested transcripts of 10 NSA intercepts of conversations between named U.S. government officials and foreign persons...NSA insiders report...Bolton...had them masked as "training missions" in order to get around internal NSA regulations that...prohibit such eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.
So, not only do you have to worry about the court authorized and reported taps, but Corrupt Criminals like Bolton skirting the rules to get dirt on his (probable) opponents.
Thank God the NSA is there to protect Freedom(TM)? Right?
if by idle you mean, supplying arms, munitions, supplies and support to both sides...
then yes, you were idle.
You may also find Dashboard interesting...
Want meta-data search (spotlight) on GNU/Linux? Try installing Beagle.
...and much more
From Beagle's webpage; "Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for. Beagle can search in many different domains:
documents
emails
web history
IM/IRC conversations
source code
images
music files
applications
Have a look at uber hacker Nat Friedman's videos of hot Beagle Action.
In short, beware teh Gnome.
why would i care if it takes 2 days to install my OS? I plan on running it for a couple years -- in the grand scheme, its nothing.
especially considering its 'start install' then return in 36 hrs.
what do you like best about him?
the unpunished institutional torture? mixing of church and state? his functional illiteracy? his lying and disinformation campaign to invade foreign nations? his subverting separation of branches of government by trying to appoint agenda-driven radical judges? his stage-managing public events? his refusal to hold press conferences? his pandering to religious-reformation advocates?
or is it something else? tell us, what does mr. bush do that impresses you?
are far, far, FAR better at media manipulation than the liberals are
Thats because Liberals are part of the Reality Based community. A place where peer-review, logic and reason are prized. A universe where reasoned discourse is expected (and non reasoned arguments are dismissed).
Conservatives are living in a Faith Based world. Where proof is unnecssary.
Get it? Lies? Those arent lies -- just words that support our pre-decided world-view... the world-view that is populated top-to-bottom with falacies and make-believe.
Get it? Liberals cant win until they embrace dishonesty.
Its an even greater goddamn pitty that American's believe that the brilliance of its founding fathers is the soul province of its founding fathers.
it is not a secret that american founding fathers were implementing theory and practice by french and english thinkers.
an even greater pity is american's disengagment from constructive political discourse. instead of deciding a future, you have enshrined your past leaders as gods in your cult-of-america religion.
stop daydreaming about manifest destiney and inherent infallability and look around you. your 'democracy' is a fucking laughable shambles.
corrupt dosnt begin to describe your problems.
Bush and his cronies have been purging possible dissenters from Official Federal Events for years.
This is nothing new.
Do a google news search for the Denver Three -- ticket holders physically ejected from a social-security-privitization event by someone claiming to be secret service. why? someone reported a "no blood for oil" sticker on their bumber.
this is just one case. the proto fascists have been stage-managing every apperience like its 1984.
Im doubly screwed.
How about a religion of sorts for the wise. they sleep and tend-one-another in turns. The membership can be self-supporting with replacments chosen by the group by invitation.
every x years, a 'class is awoken', it is shown an explination of the last y years developments by the previous class (the previous class is then put into hibernation for a spell).
each class digests and reflects on humanities progress, problems etc. and issues reports, runs for offices, give grants etc etc etc.
right now, our insect-like-lifespans cause chaos. there is no incentive to plan long term, there is no incentive to build real solutions to real long-present problems.
maybe if we all lived longer (or my flight-of-fancy "Cult of the Wise") we would stop thinking about our personal pleasure more and start to think about how to gaurantee pleasure for all... and taking reward in eliminating war, famine, global-pollution etc etc.
or, we could fly off to other planets - hell i dont know.
...that the techies on this forum will A) decry this as unfair competition from super-low paid slave labour and B) are directly responsible for it themselves by deeply held irrational views and their voting/politics.
Attention Capitalists:
Welcome to the logical result of your dogma. Free trade and the race to the bottom. McCarthy did such a wonderful job on your country.
The government -- which is supposed to be of, by and for the people -- has been replaced as a body to be mistrusted. This mistrusted body is then made impotent to all but a trade regulation body lead by the Plutocracy.
A boat full of nickle-paid-coders off your coast? WHAT ELSE DID YOU EXPECT! Trade, like the economy, has to be regulated to produce desireable results (like, employment, a middle class, worker-safety). Willfully abandoning tarrifs and other mechanisms to influence International Trade has lead you to the a place where you cannot prevent this behaviour.
Why cant you prevent it? because the Oligarchy rules your government (it is your government) and the population is so attached to their American Capitalism Religion(TM) that anyone who suggests its out-of-control is burned at the stake (like Im about to be).
So, in short, Americans, time to start reaping what you have sown.
yes, because debating the intrinsic value of nature -- and life itself -- is something to be offhandedly dismissed.
right?
Saying these kinds of things to the press can only hurt the whole OSS movement as it give all the MS
Youve just called a virtual conversation, observed by (our)personal strangers -- in near real time -- and assumed someone was talking to the press?
You are the press.
This is the internet Mr. Manager.
amen brother. how many of them stay on as phantom loads?
Yes, very insightul.
From teh Swarmcast website: "Swarming: Grid-Accelerated File Transfer Swarming is a revolutionary new approach to file transfer first invented in 1999 by Justin Chapweske, Onion Networks' Founder and CEO...As the original inventor, Onion Networks, Inc. holds a strong intellectual property position in Swarming and Swarmstreaming(TM) through multiple pending patents.
Delightful. How long until Mr. Chapweske decides to hire a few lawyers to go after the infrigners..? I wonder if our Bittorrent Friends are aware of this assertion...?
the preceding was brought to you by weasel words and bs.
Oh yes, People say that GNU/Linux Extremists are the real evil. The extreme views of many of these campaigners will always keep GNU/Linux from making progress. We have to act now! Only reasonable people can avert this chaos. They are always crying wolf -- they just dont get it.
The critique is unnecessary. If people knew the true extent of their bias, no smart person would listen to these GNU/Linux crazies.
Oh yes, I agree. All the experts say the same thing.
very clever subtlenuance, its all about language.