Yeah. Thanks!
We've been trying to pioneer this non--violent, non-lingual, no-short-term-memory, no-threat genre (more for adults than kids) but we heard from a lot of people that no weapons etc. was not "exciting" enough. As if reef diving in the real world wasn't exciting unless a shark was after you... On the other hand, our players that "get it" are somewhat fanatical.
C'mon you geeks... Think past the base application.
There's a lot more that the system could do than
just perform spot identification. Say you are
walking down the street with another "face" on
the list, now -you- get the bit set that you are
associating with known criminals, even if that's
not known to you. Now, that you are on the list,
anybody that you're seen with is a possible
associate.
The system can also be used to watch a certain
place and track who goes there. Go to a pr0n shop
that sells materials that border on pedophilia,
data mine that against your M$ passport account
that shows your net activity and that you've
got a 10 year old that also uses the machine.
Guiliy by triangulation.
I'm sure your employer would want to know that
you head to the corner bar every day after
work and stay for 2.3 hours.
After all, they have the right to protect their
profits by eliminating those with potential
"problems".
Data mining against cameras watching a poling
place on election day, correlating against the
sequence of votes cast brings up all kinds of
intriguing possibilities for those eager to
manipulate the process and influence future
outcomes.
As the software gets more sophisticated, it
could not only track you but also look at how
your image varies from your template. Eyes seem
a little red? Gait is a little unsteady?
Better set that bit and flag them for a closer
look.
Say you are a congressman and one day your
girlfriend comes up missing...uh, forget that.
The best thing about BG was all of the Tektronix -supplied instrumentation in the control areas of the ships. Lots of blinky red LEDs.There was also the Tek 4013 APL storage tube terminal that Adama transcribed his voice recognition diary into with that neat little per-character flash that it did.
(did this post twice? If so, sorry. Slashcode puked "Invalid form key").
If Microsoft has not got further, it must be beacuse of all the giants standing on its shoulders: DoJ, Linux, IBM, Gnu, Netscape, Word Perfect, Lotus, Borlans, Apple, Corel..
Not to mention the rape of SGI via Irix vs. NT and OpenGL vs. DirectX by Belluzzo, and the rape of Sega via Dreamcast/WinCE resulting in the Xbox.
Plus buying out and shelving the work of Alvy Ray Smith and Jim Blinn. Turner Whitted too I think....
-Just because Unix sofware engineers can, it doesn't mean they can on Mac OS X.
Xenix was pretty much pure Unix v7. The shipped docs were unedited ('cept s/Unix/Xenix/g) Vols 1 and 2a/2b (for those that remember that...)
Just 'sh' for a shell, no vi, just 'ed' for editing. UUCP only for networking. But current Linux command line users would feel (suprisingly) at home on it.
The 8086 variant never panned out (IBM PC announced ~Jan '81 and all but killed it) but it was available for 68000 and PDP&LSI/11. Tandy/RS sold a TRS Model 16 that used a 68000 running Xenix. At the time, it was said that they sold the most commercial versions of Unix. Yes, Radio Shack. I think that's 'cuz they sold a bunch to Citibank. The actual distro was done by HCR in Toronto in late 1980. My company (well, me...) jumped all over HCR when I hunted down the impending release and got the first release one week before MS got theirs, making us the first company to sell Unix commercially in the US outside of Bell Labs. You can find our little ad ("MSD") in the back of Byte ~Dec. '80. We ran it on LSI/11s with 256k(!) of RAM and a huge 80lb Shugart 20Mb disk and two 8" floppies. (you could boot it and run/swap from the floppies, but 'twas slow) We sold systems with 6 VT-100's a DecWriter and 300 baud modem attached and it all ran pretty well. (considering) I still have that 1st 9track tape reel but nothing to mount it on. Probably all bit-rotted. There's the ancient history lesson for today.
- and don't forget to play tranquility at www.tqworld.com
Jobs is going to pop a gasket but nobody told the people at Staples to keep X off of the shelf until Saturday. I walked in and there it was, a pile of 'em. So far, it's really nice. Much more refined and much faster than the Public Beta. Makes all Linux distros look as dowdy as M$ products. Mac people are going to freak though...it's -not- a Mac anymore. The nicest surprise was the inclusion of a CD with the complete developer tools. Off I go to play, too much fun.
My partner and I have just introduced a new OpenGL game for the Mac called tranquility. It's exactly what you're talking about... the process of playing it is it's own reward. It's totally abstract and non violent and almost non-lingual.
We've learned a lot from what users have been asking for in the past month of our initial release. Even early on, we wrapped a scoring mechanism around it because people desired some sort of unit, or metric to measure their progress vs. the investment of time in playing.
We're a client/server game. All the level descriptions and behavior are downloaded from the net into our 3D client where the geometry is constructed and displayed. But it's not a multiplayer game, nor are there objects to shoot or things to shoot them with. Users have been asking why they can't see other players in our "world". No doubt the next thing they will ask for is a weapon so they can vaporize the other players and make them disappear.
I think that you see the kinds of games that you do because the majority of people can't function on a non-zero-sum environment.
Bill Romanowski
Vote on your tax return
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Here's something that would never happen... Cast your votes on your tax return. We already touch on that now with the "Election Fund" checkbox. It would no doubt have more far reaching effects than just fully automating what we have now. Anyone notice that Tax Day is as far away on the calendar from Election Day as is possible? --
I've had almost one of every kind of boxen in my collection at one time or another. The Amiga (it was a 3000) tops the list of computers I was glad to get rid of. I could never see why people liked them that much. Braindamaged CLI syntax, atari 800 class video. Yeah, the Toaster was a crufty hack and some of the Psygnosis games were OK but for the most part, ick. -- tranquility for the mac...coming soon.
Apple gets the most references by far in this little turd. I love how they put the negative spin on the Cube rebate when just a few weeks ago, every news item about Apple cited it's high cost. Apple makes an adjustment and they get slammed. Again.
It talks of the "gloomy market" and that Apple's down 65% but articles like these contributed the most to fuel the irrational drop. Maybe somebody wants to knock the stock price down a couple more bucks on monday morning?
It's all tied in with the "troubles" in the Middle East, giving al-Waleed bin Talal (the billionaire Saudi Arabian prince with a big block of AAPL) another swift, multi-million-dollar kick in the nuts.
They also equate the slowdown with "Consumers..buying cheaper models". The paragraph makes no sense in the context of # of units shipped, which may effect profit levels but should increase the units shipped, 'cuz they're more affordable.
This article is less about being "informative" and more about delivering a negative payload.
It surprises me that so many posts here think that MP3.com was breaking the law. Many of you are supposed to be the tech wizards of today but are as clueless as the Judge is when it comes to bits vs. atoms and the fundamental change that is happening around you.
Persons that come down against mp3.com in this thread (some quite brutally) show that for all that web site building they're doing, they still don't get the point, the essence, of what's going on here as society digitizes itself.
The laws need changing. Your point of view needs changing as well.
--
I think there are two possible outcomes that the industry-fed lawyers and industry-fed politicians are heading towards:
1) A substantial Federal income tax will be levied on all citizen/consumer/pirates/scum (that means you) which will be deposited directly to RIAA/MPAA members (minus the gov't payoff) 'cuz you're gonna break the law eventually (or break the laws that haven't been written yet).
or
2) For the common good of the nation, music and all other forms of media will be made illegal because citizens/consumers/pirates/scum (that means you) are just going to do naughty things eventually. Besides, if you are sitting around listening to that subversive noise, you are not being a productive citizen and maximizing profits for the mega-corps that, by judicial decree, now own you, your time, and your thoughts. Plus, item 1) will be implemented anyway to compensate for loss in income to the mega-corp.
This would be a whole lot cheaper than wating resources on the media protection arms race and by implemeting 2), the corporations can be profitable without producing anything, which obviously, is the end game they are working towards.
--
On "Joe's Garage", Zappa predicted that in the future, music would be illegal. It seems as if that will shortly come to pass. I think he also said "...and maybe later, we'll all be gay", which also seems to be coming true. Å The real child molester we should fear is Viacom.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah. Thanks!
We've been trying to pioneer this non--violent, non-lingual, no-short-term-memory, no-threat genre (more for adults than kids) but we heard from a lot of people that no weapons etc. was not "exciting" enough. As if reef diving in the real world wasn't exciting unless a shark was after you... On the other hand, our players that "get it" are somewhat fanatical.
Bill Romanowski
TQworld
Wanna bet that they would start to vote differently on this kind of stuff?
Yes they would. As typical in federal legislation, the law would be written that they were exempt.
C'mon you geeks... Think past the base application.
There's a lot more that the system could do than
just perform spot identification. Say you are
walking down the street with another "face" on
the list, now -you- get the bit set that you are
associating with known criminals, even if that's
not known to you. Now, that you are on the list,
anybody that you're seen with is a possible
associate.
The system can also be used to watch a certain
place and track who goes there. Go to a pr0n shop
that sells materials that border on pedophilia,
data mine that against your M$ passport account
that shows your net activity and that you've
got a 10 year old that also uses the machine.
Guiliy by triangulation.
I'm sure your employer would want to know that
you head to the corner bar every day after
work and stay for 2.3 hours.
After all, they have the right to protect their
profits by eliminating those with potential
"problems".
Data mining against cameras watching a poling
place on election day, correlating against the
sequence of votes cast brings up all kinds of
intriguing possibilities for those eager to
manipulate the process and influence future
outcomes.
As the software gets more sophisticated, it
could not only track you but also look at how
your image varies from your template. Eyes seem
a little red? Gait is a little unsteady?
Better set that bit and flag them for a closer
look.
Say you are a congressman and one day your
girlfriend comes up missing...uh, forget that.
This shit is as dangerous as it is inevitable.
--
..the future is now. And it sucks.
My first! A Poly88, from Polymorphic Systems. Orange, with a white front and a yellow reset button. It's remains are around here someplace...
The weather service uses a DecTalk from the early '80s. How...quaint.
(did this post twice? If so, sorry. Slashcode puked "Invalid form key").
Not to mention the rape of SGI via Irix vs. NT and OpenGL vs. DirectX by Belluzzo,
and the rape of Sega via Dreamcast/WinCE resulting in the Xbox.
Plus buying out and shelving the work of Alvy Ray Smith and Jim Blinn. Turner Whitted too I think....
-Just because Unix sofware engineers can, it doesn't mean they can on Mac OS X.
Just 'sh' for a shell, no vi, just 'ed' for editing. UUCP only for networking. But current Linux command line users would feel (suprisingly) at home on it.
The 8086 variant never panned out (IBM PC announced ~Jan '81 and all but killed it) but it was available for 68000 and PDP&LSI/11.
Tandy/RS sold a TRS Model 16 that used a 68000 running Xenix.
At the time, it was said that they sold the most commercial versions of Unix. Yes, Radio Shack. I think that's 'cuz they sold a bunch to Citibank.
The actual distro was done by HCR in Toronto in late 1980. My company (well, me...) jumped all over HCR when I hunted down the impending release
and got the first release one week before MS got theirs, making us the first company to sell Unix commercially in the US outside of Bell Labs.
You can find our little ad ("MSD") in the back of Byte ~Dec. '80.
We ran it on LSI/11s with 256k(!) of RAM and a huge 80lb Shugart 20Mb disk and two 8" floppies. (you could boot it and run/swap from the floppies, but 'twas slow)
We sold systems with 6 VT-100's a DecWriter and 300 baud modem attached and it all ran pretty well. (considering)
I still have that 1st 9track tape reel but nothing to mount it on. Probably all bit-rotted. There's the ancient history lesson for today.
- and don't forget to play tranquility at www.tqworld.com
Jobs is going to pop a gasket but nobody told the people at Staples to keep X off of the shelf until Saturday. I walked in and there it was, a pile of 'em. So far, it's really nice. Much more refined and much faster than the Public Beta. Makes all Linux distros look as dowdy as M$ products. Mac people are going to freak though...it's -not- a Mac anymore. The nicest surprise was the inclusion of a CD with the complete developer tools. Off I go to play, too much fun.
It's exactly what you're talking about... the process of playing it is it's own reward. It's totally abstract and non violent and almost non-lingual.
We've learned a lot from what users have been asking for in the past month of our initial release.
Even early on, we wrapped a scoring mechanism around it because people desired some sort of unit, or metric to measure their progress vs. the investment of time in playing.
We're a client/server game. All the level descriptions and behavior are downloaded from the net into our 3D client where the geometry is constructed and displayed. But it's not a multiplayer game, nor are there objects to shoot or things to shoot them with. Users have been asking why they can't see other players in our "world". No doubt the next thing they will ask for is a weapon so they can vaporize the other players and make them disappear.
I think that you see the kinds of games that you do because the majority of people can't function on a non-zero-sum environment.
Bill Romanowski
Here's something that would never happen...
Cast your votes on your tax return. We already touch on that now with the "Election Fund" checkbox.
It would no doubt have more far reaching effects than just fully automating what we have now.
Anyone notice that Tax Day is as far away on the calendar from Election Day as is possible?
--
I've had almost one of every kind of boxen in my collection at one time or another.
The Amiga (it was a 3000) tops the list of computers I was glad to get rid of.
I could never see why people liked them that much. Braindamaged CLI syntax, atari 800 class video.
Yeah, the Toaster was a crufty hack and some of the Psygnosis games were OK but for the most part, ick.
--
tranquility for the mac...coming soon.
Bush responded. "If it means what I'm for, then I'm for it. You heard what I was for. He keeps saying I'm against things."
Any questions?
--
I love how they put the negative spin on the Cube rebate when just a few weeks ago, every news item about
Apple cited it's high cost. Apple makes an adjustment and they get slammed. Again.
It talks of the "gloomy market" and that Apple's down 65%
but articles like these contributed the most to fuel the irrational drop.
Maybe somebody wants to knock the stock price down a couple more bucks on monday morning?
It's all tied in with the "troubles" in the Middle East, giving al-Waleed bin Talal
(the billionaire Saudi Arabian prince with a big block of AAPL) another swift, multi-million-dollar kick in the nuts.
They also equate the slowdown with "Consumers..buying cheaper models".
The paragraph makes no sense in the context of # of units shipped, which may effect profit levels
but should increase the units shipped, 'cuz they're more affordable.
This article is less about being "informative" and more about delivering a negative payload.
--
presearch
Enter the word "apple" into msie, what do you get?
www.apple.com
Enter "dictionary", what do you get?
www.dictionary.com? Think again bub.
dictionary.msn.com
I'm sure that M$ has the right to do this but I'd be pissed if
my site was on the redirection list.
--
Many of you are supposed to be the tech wizards of today but are as clueless as the Judge is when it comes to bits vs. atoms and the fundamental change that is happening around you.
Persons that come down against mp3.com in this thread (some quite brutally) show that for all that web site building they're doing, they still don't get the point, the essence, of what's going on here as society digitizes itself.
The laws need changing. Your point of view needs changing as well. --
I think there are two possible outcomes that the industry-fed lawyers and industry-fed politicians are heading towards: 1) A substantial Federal income tax will be levied on all citizen/consumer/pirates/scum (that means you) which will be deposited directly to RIAA/MPAA members (minus the gov't payoff) 'cuz you're gonna break the law eventually (or break the laws that haven't been written yet). or 2) For the common good of the nation, music and all other forms of media will be made illegal because citizens/consumers/pirates/scum (that means you) are just going to do naughty things eventually. Besides, if you are sitting around listening to that subversive noise, you are not being a productive citizen and maximizing profits for the mega-corps that, by judicial decree, now own you, your time, and your thoughts. Plus, item 1) will be implemented anyway to compensate for loss in income to the mega-corp. This would be a whole lot cheaper than wating resources on the media protection arms race and by implemeting 2), the corporations can be profitable without producing anything, which obviously, is the end game they are working towards. --
On "Joe's Garage", Zappa predicted that in the future, music would be illegal. It seems as if that will shortly come to pass. I think he also said "...and maybe later, we'll all be gay", which also seems to be coming true.
Å The real child molester we should fear is Viacom.