Although this has been beaten to death, let me take a quick whack once again.
x86 OS X makes little sense. PC people just want cheap compatibility with other cheap Windows compatible people and workplaces.
Apple would sell less boxes if all they could compete on was design. They would eat up any profit by attempting compatibility with the umpteen billion PCI cards out there. Any profit that would be left would be eaten up by dummies asking why the Windows game they bought doesn't work.
Slashdot would be full of comments on how you should just run Windows instead of the emulation layer.
Current users of Mac stuff would have no end of fat binary grief. All Mac developers would have to ship fat binaries and double the support load in addition to the size of the distribution.
Things are fine they way they are for now. Let x86 die the quiet death it deserves. And Windows with it.
horrible controls - I don't think they're horrible, just different from the usual fps type motion control. They're very sensitive and take time to master, but that's the heart of the game. The idea is that once you get good at it, you're only moving the mouse a quarter inch or so.
simplistic graphics - yes, but in the upper levels, there's over 10000 objects in independent motion. If I made them complex, I couldn't produce the sea of objects as you progress through 7*7*21 levels.
amazingly repetitive - again, yes. That's the idea. It's like sitting at the beach, watching the waves come in. All the same, but with small variations. Do it enough, and you start to notice and appreciate the differences. tq is designed to be a game of subtlety. So much so, it's difficult for us to explain it to new players. It's not a game to try and "beat" in 24 hours. It's more like a favorite reef that you enjoy visiting time and again to go snorkeling.
One of the best things that this technology could do is to standardize on how devices talk to their control panels. This implies that the control panel is separate and distinct from the device it controls. A washing machine's panel for example isn't necessarily hard-coded and hard-wired to the washer itself. Now, it would be possible for grandma, who can hardly see, to have just three big buttons for the washer, with loud audio feedback. But the slashgeek could have the mega-LCARS interface that sets the washer based on the rfid tags on the clothes that are tossed in, along with woolen-color vs. cotton-whites incompatibility warnings.
Big, simple interfaces for seniors is overlooked by most device makers these days. Lots of tiny, low contrast buttons with nested menu structures only confuse most non-geeks.
Downside of this will be that you'll need a monthly subscription for -everything- and selecting interfaces will also be an additional charge, like cellphone ring tones.
One has to wonder, though, about the potential ramifications of having dangerous predators exposed to this brain-wasting illness, and what type of 'unusual behavior' they'll start to exhibit.
No need to wonder, just look at Cheney and Rumsfeld. It's a textbook case.
Well... there's like a display, and a case, and some buttons, and some sockets, and a charger, and some headphones, and some chips, and a circuit board, and a battery, and a CD, and box, and some profit. Stuff like that.
They could ship the same device, 'cept for a smaller drive, and people will bitch. or they'll reduce the form factor or use lesser components and people will bitch. They could have the exact same product they sell today, reduce the price by $150, give $150 iTunes credit, and people would -still- bitch.
Will there be $1000 panels or $3000 panels with a much higher profit margin?
Then again, there might be a new, huge mass market for large panels...
"Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."
And that comment shows the Neanderthal mindset of a true Bush-sanctioned child killer. As a modern American corporate soldier, you're being played for an all-day sucker. You're not Audie Murphy or John Wayne. You're a kevlar sheathed Wal-Mart greeter. Semper Fi and low prices. Always.
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We have projects between $200k to $2mil+, and there's no shortage of people who has that kind of money and are willing to spend it in their house.
And those should be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
oops
s/VDI/DVI/
The Samsung SIR-T165 is very nice.
VDI, S-video, composite, component, VGA out.
Firewire (sadly only to D-VHS devices).
Also has some switchable inputs as well.
Gets OTA SD and HD. Some cable too I think (no cable here).
You can control it from it's RS232 port.
This is offensive and wrong.
I think you mean Chinese programmers.
Who's a Pucci?
You are.
They just have more spare time, saved from having to continually reinstall an OS,
remove virii, or (oooooh!) rebuild the kernel.
Although this has been beaten to death, let me take a quick whack once again.
x86 OS X makes little sense. PC people just want cheap compatibility with other
cheap Windows compatible people and workplaces.
Apple would sell less boxes if all they could compete on was design.
They would eat up any profit by attempting compatibility with the umpteen
billion PCI cards out there. Any profit that would be left would be eaten up by
dummies asking why the Windows game they bought doesn't work.
Slashdot would be full of comments on how you should just run Windows
instead of the emulation layer.
Current users of Mac stuff would have no end of fat binary grief.
All Mac developers would have to ship fat binaries and double
the support load in addition to the size of the distribution.
Things are fine they way they are for now. Let x86 die the quiet death it deserves.
And Windows with it.
sad.
Don't worry.
The way things are going, you'll soon get your chance to do it for real, in a city near you.
We'll be fighting in the streets, with our children at our feet,
and the morals that they worship will be gone.
horrible controls - I don't think they're horrible, just different from the usual fps
type motion control. They're very sensitive and take time to master, but that's
the heart of the game. The idea is that once you get good at it, you're only
moving the mouse a quarter inch or so.
simplistic graphics - yes, but in the upper levels, there's over 10000 objects
in independent motion. If I made them complex, I couldn't produce the sea
of objects as you progress through 7*7*21 levels.
amazingly repetitive - again, yes. That's the idea. It's like sitting at the beach,
watching the waves come in. All the same, but with small variations. Do it
enough, and you start to notice and appreciate the differences.
tq is designed to be a game of subtlety. So much so, it's difficult for us to explain
it to new players. It's not a game to try and "beat" in 24 hours. It's more like a
favorite reef that you enjoy visiting time and again to go snorkeling.
billr
tqworld
One of the best things that this technology could do is
to standardize on how devices talk to their control panels.
This implies that the control panel is separate and distinct
from the device it controls. A washing machine's panel
for example isn't necessarily hard-coded and hard-wired
to the washer itself. Now, it would be possible for grandma,
who can hardly see, to have just three big buttons for the
washer, with loud audio feedback. But the slashgeek could
have the mega-LCARS interface that sets the washer based
on the rfid tags on the clothes that are tossed in, along with
woolen-color vs. cotton-whites incompatibility warnings.
Big, simple interfaces for seniors is overlooked by most
device makers these days. Lots of tiny, low contrast buttons
with nested menu structures only confuse most non-geeks.
Downside of this will be that you'll need a monthly subscription
for -everything- and selecting interfaces will also be an additional
charge, like cellphone ring tones.
One has to wonder, though, about the potential ramifications of having dangerous predators exposed to this brain-wasting illness, and what type of 'unusual behavior' they'll start to exhibit.
No need to wonder, just look at Cheney and Rumsfeld. It's a textbook case.
You want abstract video game fun?
I've got your abstract video right here, pal.
Download tranquility from www.tqworld.com and give it a try.
As an experiment, I've made a single, free, slashdot communal account so you can see what the
game does beyond the demo levels.
login: slashdot
pass: tryit
With several people hitting the same account, the server might gripe about some things,
but let's give it a try and see what happens.
Well... there's like a display, and a case, and some buttons, and some sockets, and a charger, and some headphones,
and some chips, and a circuit board, and a battery, and a CD, and box, and some profit. Stuff like that.
They could ship the same device, 'cept for a smaller drive, and people will bitch.
or they'll reduce the form factor or use lesser components and people will bitch.
They could have the exact same product they sell today, reduce the price by $150,
give $150 iTunes credit, and people would -still- bitch.
Pringles.
...we recently approved 87 billion dollars...
We? I don't recall being asked.
The very odd cult game tranquility has used this concept for a long time, and also does the "auto generation" trick with it's game geometry as well.
ZenStrings almost seems...inspired.. by tranquility's soundtracks. Especially the example/sample "Tranquilitatus".
Sure, blame Iowa.
You could buy them 235,000 offshore programmers...
Once, I had to get two beagles to seperate by spraying them with a garden hose.
I predict that by 2015, we'll have 235,00 more error dialogs that say "Some program fail, please you now restart".
Whoever marked this as a troll didn't see the movie.
Should have moderated insightful or funny.
Will there be $1000 panels or $3000 panels with a much higher profit margin?
Then again, there might be a new, huge mass market for large panels...
"Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.
Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover,
so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."
And that comment shows the Neanderthal mindset of a true Bush-sanctioned child killer.
As a modern American corporate soldier, you're being played for an all-day sucker.
You're not Audie Murphy or John Wayne. You're a kevlar sheathed Wal-Mart greeter.
Semper Fi and low prices. Always.
There are 1000's of Saddam wannabes...
And it's coming to Fox this January!!!! Iraqi Idol!