Wow, different strokes for different folks, but when I think of Roberta Williams, I think of "hunt the pixel". Ugh. Maybe I'm not wired the same way, but I tried King's Quest IV and was horribly disappointed. The puzzles were illogical and difficult to complete, even if you DID know what you were supposed to be doing.
I know from personal experience that that's what DIDN'T happen at Origin. (You know, Ultima, Wing Commander, those games)
As the screws tightened on the working environment, the politically naive were axed, regardless of their talent and dedication, and the politically savvy were kept on, because they didn't make waves. This is not the way to run a creative venture. Over time, the creative geniuses who WON'T wear suits and punch a clock from 9-5 either leave or are fired. Then the games suck, and people stop buying them, and you don't have a company anymore.
Origin was not profitable when they got bought by EA in the late 80's/early 90's (I don't remember exactly when it was). Origin began showing profits with UO, and EA then scrubbed the entire company, destroying any vestiges of the Origin corporate identity (which at that time was horribly atrophied). It was almost inevitable, but that doesn't make it any less sad.
By definition, suits can not make video games. Any suit that tells you he can, is lying.
You aren't paying attention. We're dealing with a cartel here! We're dealing with the united front of, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the hardware manufacturers. They're going to make it so you can't do anything with your computer that they don't permit you to do, and they're going to be able to pull it off because tooling up to manufacture hard drives and CPUs is obscenely expensive, and anybody who tries is going to be frozen out of the market.
Free markets, by definition, do not work in the presence of monopolies and oligopolies. These organizations are explicitly designed to thwart market forces and force the consumer to either buy what they want to sell, or do without, and to not permit anyone to manufacture or sell what the customer wants to buy. If this is your idea of a free market, I'd recommend more economics classes.
Yep, and the CIA isn't supposed to operate in the US, and the FBI isn't supposed to operate outside the US. I don't know if you're naive or I'm paranoid, but I think you're silly to discount things like ECHELON and Carnivore.
No, I'm suspicious as to why The Man is suddenly playing nice. No, I don't believe that the NSA has had a change of heart and suddenly believes that The People can be trusted.
I'm much more interested in this contraption than in moral and ethical dilemmas facing the health care industry. Maybe that makes you a better person than me...somehow I'll live with the shame. What you fail to realize, however, is that this story isn't responsible for the rejection of your story. This story happened to interest the Slashdot editors, yours did not. It's nothing personal...they aren't pushing an agenda...they've just got this web site where they post stories that interest them. Why would this be any different than if you wrote to the editor of your local newspaper and then didn't see your letter in print?
Slashdot doesn't have to post what you like. They (the Slashdot editors) don't have to post things with moral and ethical dilemmas. They don't have to post ANYTHING. They post what they are interested in, and they've found enough people that agree that their site has obtained no small notoriety. Bully for them.
Uh, no. Lord British was shown the door by his EA masters, because of the horrible fiasco called Ultima 9. He was allowed to pick up his coat and rapier before he left, but the man was fired. Make no mistake.
It's really pretty sad. I actually worked at Origin for eighteen months testing Wing Commander IV (and WC4 Mac and WC4 PSX...) The glory days of that company had certainly passed by the time I got there. The marketroids and EA goons were totally in control, and some brilliant concept games (like Technosaur) were killed because they were too risky. The Friday afternoon happy hours dwindled, leaving behind 70+ hour weeks and no love from management. It was fun, I guess, but I got over it pretty quick when they laid me off.
My shoulders are broad. The GB forced me to hold it in a really goofy posture. The horizontal layout is superior for adults, and it's a wash for kids, so it's a better design.
OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, consisting primarily of Persian Gulf area countries who produce the vast majority of cheap oil on Earth. There's plenty of oil outside the Persian Gulf area...it's just very difficult and expensive to locate and extract it. So, since getting oil around the PG is pretty simple and inexpensive, those nations have a very strong bargaining perspective WRT the oil companies who want access to their fields.
Did those 94,800 pages somehow leap off the screen and force their way into your consciousness? There are a hell of a lot more books at my university's library (or, for that matter, at Barnes and Noble) than I have any desire, or even ability, to read in my lifetime. Somehow, though, I manage to get in and out having obtained only the information I'm interested in.
Information overload is a luddite buzzword, and nothing else. Maybe when I have a direct neural connection to the 'Net that force-fills my consciousness with useless data, information overload will be a problem....but that's why I'm not going to have a direct neural connection to the 'Net...
Those people who like their information in easily digestible bite sized chunks won't do anything with said information. If there's going to be a "revolution" (assuming we're talking about some sort of world-changing transformation of how we see one another) it's going to be led by articulate leaders, not by a media-browsing sheep. People with short attention spans are not effective at solving difficult problems, unless they're supergenius highly intuitive thinkers. There aren't very many of those.
I don't understand why people complain about information overload on the Internet. Nothing's coming through my monitor to "get me"...I do a search, read what's interesting, and go on with my life. I don't feel like there's some raging torrent o' data just waiting to sweep me off my feet if I don't process it all...I take what I need, then move on.
As far as the original thesis, I'm trying to figure out who it is exactly who has "faith" in a "computer revolution". It's a tool, and its impacts are not going to be as dramatic as some apparently want us to think. The impact is going to be pervasive and inescapable, but it's not like the sky's going to turn red and the seas are going to boil...
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Humidity isn't helping you, but cooler, denser air is. The main advantage of ram air systems like on your Camaro is not the increased pressure of the air cramming into the intake at 70mph, but the fact that that air is from the cool outside, rather than from the hot engine bay. I'm not familiar with the particulars of the Camaro's system, but I know that cold air induction kits for Miatas are good for about 5-10% increase in horsepower.
They don't "own" oil companies, but they definitely 0wnerz them (in the 31337 h4x0rz speak) since OPEC can pretty well shut down all the oil companies on Earth. (Or at least deal them a mortal blow...)
If you're going to base your argument on energy density, you might note that all current and prospective battery technologies are absolutely horrible by comparison to any combustible fuel. Battery power per unit mass is several orders of magnitude lower than, say, gasoline.
The problem you run into is the slow processor on the Palms.
Don't get me wrong...I love my III, but the processor just isn't up to the task of decoding MP3's. You might check out the Visor Springboard modules that play MP3's, but unfortunately they're just about as expensive as standalone units. The TRGPro would be awesome, if only it had the processor juice to decode MP3...
Here's hoping. The device I lust after just doesn't exist yet.
Who do you think is helping NCR's legal beagles figure out which way to put the batteries in, hmm? How convenient. Microsoft finds themselves in a losing battle against superior design, Microsoft cannot exert monopoly power to freeze Palm out of the PC companion market due to the legal scrutiny, Microsoft encourages a patsy to sue competitor into the ground...
It'd be brilliant if it weren't so fucking obvious.
How does adding other functionality remove PIM functionality? I mean, PalmOS was designed to do PIM stuff very well, and it does. Why should it NOT be able to do other stuff very well?
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Wow, different strokes for different folks, but when I think of Roberta Williams, I think of "hunt the pixel". Ugh. Maybe I'm not wired the same way, but I tried King's Quest IV and was horribly disappointed. The puzzles were illogical and difficult to complete, even if you DID know what you were supposed to be doing.
I know from personal experience that that's what DIDN'T happen at Origin. (You know, Ultima, Wing Commander, those games)
As the screws tightened on the working environment, the politically naive were axed, regardless of their talent and dedication, and the politically savvy were kept on, because they didn't make waves. This is not the way to run a creative venture. Over time, the creative geniuses who WON'T wear suits and punch a clock from 9-5 either leave or are fired. Then the games suck, and people stop buying them, and you don't have a company anymore.
Origin was not profitable when they got bought by EA in the late 80's/early 90's (I don't remember exactly when it was). Origin began showing profits with UO, and EA then scrubbed the entire company, destroying any vestiges of the Origin corporate identity (which at that time was horribly atrophied). It was almost inevitable, but that doesn't make it any less sad.
By definition, suits can not make video games. Any suit that tells you he can, is lying.
You aren't paying attention. We're dealing with a cartel here! We're dealing with the united front of, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the hardware manufacturers. They're going to make it so you can't do anything with your computer that they don't permit you to do, and they're going to be able to pull it off because tooling up to manufacture hard drives and CPUs is obscenely expensive, and anybody who tries is going to be frozen out of the market.
Free markets, by definition, do not work in the presence of monopolies and oligopolies. These organizations are explicitly designed to thwart market forces and force the consumer to either buy what they want to sell, or do without, and to not permit anyone to manufacture or sell what the customer wants to buy. If this is your idea of a free market, I'd recommend more economics classes.
Seems like you need to not grouse at Apple and find a service center that knows one end of a screwdriver from the other.
Isn't that like saying "It's the best kick in the balls I've had in years!" ?
Yep, and the CIA isn't supposed to operate in the US, and the FBI isn't supposed to operate outside the US. I don't know if you're naive or I'm paranoid, but I think you're silly to discount things like ECHELON and Carnivore.
No, I'm suspicious as to why The Man is suddenly playing nice. No, I don't believe that the NSA has had a change of heart and suddenly believes that The People can be trusted.
I'm much more interested in this contraption than in moral and ethical dilemmas facing the health care industry. Maybe that makes you a better person than me...somehow I'll live with the shame. What you fail to realize, however, is that this story isn't responsible for the rejection of your story. This story happened to interest the Slashdot editors, yours did not. It's nothing personal...they aren't pushing an agenda...they've just got this web site where they post stories that interest them. Why would this be any different than if you wrote to the editor of your local newspaper and then didn't see your letter in print?
Slashdot doesn't have to post what you like. They (the Slashdot editors) don't have to post things with moral and ethical dilemmas. They don't have to post ANYTHING. They post what they are interested in, and they've found enough people that agree that their site has obtained no small notoriety. Bully for them.
Uh, no. Lord British was shown the door by his EA masters, because of the horrible fiasco called Ultima 9. He was allowed to pick up his coat and rapier before he left, but the man was fired. Make no mistake.
It's really pretty sad. I actually worked at Origin for eighteen months testing Wing Commander IV (and WC4 Mac and WC4 PSX...) The glory days of that company had certainly passed by the time I got there. The marketroids and EA goons were totally in control, and some brilliant concept games (like Technosaur) were killed because they were too risky. The Friday afternoon happy hours dwindled, leaving behind 70+ hour weeks and no love from management. It was fun, I guess, but I got over it pretty quick when they laid me off.
Not to sound trite, but read a book. Staggeringly enough, even some very popular ones are of very high quality.
Blair Witch was much less a good movie, and much more a fun, novel experience. BW2 was neither.
My shoulders are broad. The GB forced me to hold it in a really goofy posture. The horizontal layout is superior for adults, and it's a wash for kids, so it's a better design.
Find me another connector that's more proprietary that Nintendo's. Go ahead. I dare ya.
OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, consisting primarily of Persian Gulf area countries who produce the vast majority of cheap oil on Earth. There's plenty of oil outside the Persian Gulf area...it's just very difficult and expensive to locate and extract it. So, since getting oil around the PG is pretty simple and inexpensive, those nations have a very strong bargaining perspective WRT the oil companies who want access to their fields.
Did those 94,800 pages somehow leap off the screen and force their way into your consciousness? There are a hell of a lot more books at my university's library (or, for that matter, at Barnes and Noble) than I have any desire, or even ability, to read in my lifetime. Somehow, though, I manage to get in and out having obtained only the information I'm interested in.
Information overload is a luddite buzzword, and nothing else. Maybe when I have a direct neural connection to the 'Net that force-fills my consciousness with useless data, information overload will be a problem....but that's why I'm not going to have a direct neural connection to the 'Net...
Those people who like their information in easily digestible bite sized chunks won't do anything with said information. If there's going to be a "revolution" (assuming we're talking about some sort of world-changing transformation of how we see one another) it's going to be led by articulate leaders, not by a media-browsing sheep. People with short attention spans are not effective at solving difficult problems, unless they're supergenius highly intuitive thinkers. There aren't very many of those.
I don't understand why people complain about information overload on the Internet. Nothing's coming through my monitor to "get me"...I do a search, read what's interesting, and go on with my life. I don't feel like there's some raging torrent o' data just waiting to sweep me off my feet if I don't process it all...I take what I need, then move on.
As far as the original thesis, I'm trying to figure out who it is exactly who has "faith" in a "computer revolution". It's a tool, and its impacts are not going to be as dramatic as some apparently want us to think. The impact is going to be pervasive and inescapable, but it's not like the sky's going to turn red and the seas are going to boil...
Humidity isn't helping you, but cooler, denser air is. The main advantage of ram air systems like on your Camaro is not the increased pressure of the air cramming into the intake at 70mph, but the fact that that air is from the cool outside, rather than from the hot engine bay. I'm not familiar with the particulars of the Camaro's system, but I know that cold air induction kits for Miatas are good for about 5-10% increase in horsepower.
They don't "own" oil companies, but they definitely 0wnerz them (in the 31337 h4x0rz speak) since OPEC can pretty well shut down all the oil companies on Earth. (Or at least deal them a mortal blow...)
If you're going to base your argument on energy density, you might note that all current and prospective battery technologies are absolutely horrible by comparison to any combustible fuel. Battery power per unit mass is several orders of magnitude lower than, say, gasoline.
The problem you run into is the slow processor on the Palms.
Don't get me wrong...I love my III, but the processor just isn't up to the task of decoding MP3's. You might check out the Visor Springboard modules that play MP3's, but unfortunately they're just about as expensive as standalone units. The TRGPro would be awesome, if only it had the processor juice to decode MP3...
Here's hoping. The device I lust after just doesn't exist yet.
Who do you think is helping NCR's legal beagles figure out which way to put the batteries in, hmm? How convenient. Microsoft finds themselves in a losing battle against superior design, Microsoft cannot exert monopoly power to freeze Palm out of the PC companion market due to the legal scrutiny, Microsoft encourages a patsy to sue competitor into the ground...
It'd be brilliant if it weren't so fucking obvious.
But then, Palm could just use the Chewbacca Defense. What a great idea!
Why should I carry more than one device with an LCD screen and a decent user interface?
How does adding other functionality remove PIM functionality? I mean, PalmOS was designed to do PIM stuff very well, and it does. Why should it NOT be able to do other stuff very well?