Re:School isn't just to get a job
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Yep, totally agree. You're going to study those books. If you don't like them, you won't study them.
I'm belgian and engineer in computer sciences. We have LOTS of math and not that much compuer sciences. I was good at computer before entering university so what I leraned most is the theory. It helped me a lot in bringing together all the little pieces of information I knew. Math are useless in e-commerce. That's for sure. But 1) math gives you a way of thinking which is usefull in many situations, 2) math is important in many areas of coding (3D engines, physics, image analysis, etc...)
Just to note that a huge number of Earth's aliens (us, we discovered them a long time ago !) don't have access to water (and are dying of that). So if Nasa could turn the telescopes back on this surface, it'd could be helpfull...
Since I got the "videogame-journalist" status here, I got my PS2 before everyone else:) Anyway, needless to say that every little black boxes just disappeared in a matter of seconds... Now we'll wait 1 year before the good games arrive:( I think Sony's using some kind of hypnosis to get us so crazy. It's un-na-tu-ral and pretty scary.
Re:Hacking Furbies for autistic children...
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Interactive fiction, do you know that ? That's book that you run through just like in a game. A kind of uber-Zork.
So with that in mind, just think about to these things:
1-Mr Jones *loves* instant satisfaction (just think why you love to listen to mp3). Graphics, sounds, atmosphere bring instant satisfaction. So you need to put them in.
2. Mister Jones don't know what multi-pass texture-bumpo-litto-mapping is. He doesn't care about 50fps scrolling and don't give a fuck to IA. So we don't need that.
3. Mister Jones sometimes go on holidays. It takes some sun bathes and _read_ books. Why ? Becos, on, holidays, you don't want to take too much responsibilities, decisions. Books take you by the hand.
4. Mister Jones has fantasms, dreams, frustrations. So mister Jones has an emotional world in his head. So he chooses the books to take with him. So he needs choice. And just compare the choice offered by videogaming to the one proposed by litterature and you'll see how far we are. A shame.
We need games with emotional content that fits people's mind. The blurb is that if a book sells 1000 copies it's OK, a game has to sell by 20000 to not be a crash. BUT, considering mr jones don't care about hi-tech, costly developpement, we can sure beat the prices a little. Anyway there are emotion shared by the many : love, envy, etc. The real problem is : do people want to interact ? I'm not sure... Young people do, nerds do : a very small emotionnal niche. That's why the games looks all the same. And so you've got Myst... 2e6 copies... n times less than Santana last CD or Pink Floyd's Wall. Its gonna be long before the real diversification of games will be possible. But, imho, that's the only way to go : mass-market.
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Yep, totally agree. You're going to study those books. If you don't like them, you won't study them. I'm belgian and engineer in computer sciences. We have LOTS of math and not that much compuer sciences. I was good at computer before entering university so what I leraned most is the theory. It helped me a lot in bringing together all the little pieces of information I knew. Math are useless in e-commerce. That's for sure. But 1) math gives you a way of thinking which is usefull in many situations, 2) math is important in many areas of coding (3D engines, physics, image analysis, etc...)
Just to note that a huge number of Earth's aliens (us, we discovered them a long time ago !) don't have access to water (and are dying of that). So if Nasa could turn the telescopes back on this surface, it'd could be helpfull...
Since I got the "videogame-journalist" status here, I got my PS2 before everyone else :) Anyway, needless to say that every little black boxes just disappeared in a matter of seconds... Now we'll wait 1 year before the good games arrive :( I think Sony's using some kind of hypnosis to get us so crazy. It's un-na-tu-ral and pretty scary.
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Interactive fiction, do you know that ? That's book that you run through just like in a game. A kind of uber-Zork.
So with that in mind, just think about to these things:
1-Mr Jones *loves* instant satisfaction (just think why you love to listen to mp3). Graphics, sounds, atmosphere bring instant satisfaction. So you need to put them in.
2. Mister Jones don't know what multi-pass texture-bumpo-litto-mapping is. He doesn't care about 50fps scrolling and don't give a fuck to IA. So we don't need that.
3. Mister Jones sometimes go on holidays. It takes some sun bathes and _read_ books. Why ? Becos, on, holidays, you don't want to take too much responsibilities, decisions. Books take you by the hand.
4. Mister Jones has fantasms, dreams, frustrations. So mister Jones has an emotional world in his head. So he chooses the books to take with him. So he needs choice. And just compare the choice offered by videogaming to the one proposed by litterature and you'll see how far we are. A shame.
We need games with emotional content that fits people's mind. The blurb is that if a book sells 1000 copies it's OK, a game has to sell by 20000 to not be a crash. BUT, considering mr jones don't care about hi-tech, costly developpement, we can sure beat the prices a little. Anyway there are emotion shared by the many : love, envy, etc. The real problem is : do people want to interact ? I'm not sure... Young people do, nerds do : a very small emotionnal niche. That's why the games looks all the same. And so you've got Myst... 2e6 copies... n times less than Santana last CD or Pink Floyd's Wall. Its gonna be long before the real diversification of games will be possible. But, imho, that's the only way to go : mass-market.
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