More games means more customers means more games -- a virtuous cycle
This statement is rather ambigious. Does it state that the more customers, the more money, thus more games? Or perhaps, customers are hooked on games, and want to buy the next version (look at Final Fantasy, and many Flight Simulator games).
more games means more customers -- I'm pretty sure this just means that people are more likely to buy the console that has lots of titles rather than the one that only has a handfull
more customers means more games -- Would you rather develop your game for for a console that has sold 60 million units or one that has sold a very small fraction of that?
>I'd love to ask him about whether YT is Mrs Matheson
I saw Mr Stephenson on his book signing tour for Cryptonomicon and during the Q&A asked him exactly that - he said nope not the same person - further along that line of questioning it turns out according to Neal, Diamond Age and Snow Crash are not in the same universe at all. He stated further that any similarity is just due to the coincidence of the both novels having the same author.
Hey the first circle of Hell (limbo) in Dante's inferno was pretty cool - that was where all the virtuous pagans were - I'd be down for hanging out with Aristole and Plato when I die - way more than I'd be down for running NT while I live
Correct me if I am wrong but from what I recall he did his most important work after the church took away his telescope and put him under house arrest. Supporting Copernicus and Heliocentricty is all well and good but G. noticed some pretty stunning (for his time) stuff after while under house arrest for playing with a telescope. Little things like - the period of pendulum swinging (the story goes that he was bored in church watching the incense censors swinging back and forth back and forth) oh and there was the whole dropping two objects that weigh different amounts and noticing that they fall at the same rate - and lots of other stuff I can't remember since it has been awhile since I was in a Physics class
Actually our computers are a little better than finite state machines - finite state machines have no memory only a state if its a Deterministic FSM or n states if its a Nondeterministic FSM. It might interest you to know that a FSM is equivalent to a regular expression. IMHO our computers are more like turning machines with a finite tape. I've always thought of the microprocessor as a Universal Turing Machine it accepts instructions(equivalent to another Turing machine) and data(equivalent to the tape covered in symbols) and then acts like its that other Turing machine operating on that tape covered in symbols.
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More games means more customers means more games -- a virtuous cycle
This statement is rather ambigious. Does it state that the more customers, the more money, thus more games? Or perhaps, customers are hooked on games, and want to buy the next version (look at Final Fantasy, and many Flight Simulator games).
more games means more customers -- I'm pretty sure this just means that people are more likely to buy the console that has lots of titles rather than the one that only has a handfull
more customers means more games -- Would you rather develop your game for for a console that has sold 60 million units or one that has sold a very small fraction of that?
>I'd love to ask him about whether YT is Mrs Matheson
I saw Mr Stephenson on his book signing tour for Cryptonomicon and during the Q&A asked him exactly that - he said nope not the same person - further along that line of questioning it turns
out according to Neal, Diamond Age and Snow Crash are not in the same universe at all. He stated further that any similarity is just due to the coincidence of the both novels having the same author.
Hey the first circle of Hell (limbo) in Dante's inferno was pretty cool - that was where all the virtuous pagans were - I'd be down for hanging out with Aristole and Plato when I die - way more than I'd be down for running NT while I live
Correct me if I am wrong but from what I recall he did his most important work after the church took away his telescope and put him under house arrest. Supporting Copernicus and Heliocentricty is all well and good but G. noticed some pretty stunning (for his time) stuff after while under house arrest for playing with a telescope. Little things like - the period of pendulum swinging (the story goes that he was bored in church watching the incense censors swinging back and forth back and forth) oh and there was the whole dropping two objects that weigh different amounts and noticing that they fall at the same rate - and lots of other stuff I can't remember since it has been awhile since I was in a Physics class
Actually our computers are a little better than finite state machines - finite state machines have no memory only a state if its a Deterministic FSM or n states if its a Nondeterministic FSM. It might interest you to know that a FSM is equivalent to a regular expression. IMHO our computers are more like turning machines with a finite tape. I've always thought of the microprocessor as a Universal Turing Machine it accepts instructions(equivalent to another Turing machine) and data(equivalent to the tape covered in symbols) and then acts like its that other Turing machine operating on that tape covered in symbols.