Their software collects information from you without your consent. If it's not a big deal to anyone, then it shouldn't have been big deal for Carmack to include a dialog saying "iD would like to collect information about your video card to help us serve our customers. This information will be used for no other purposes." or something to that effect. Instead, iD elected to cause people's computers to report information to which iD is not entitled.
It's not their right to decide for you. That's why it's a big deal. If I pick a penny from your pocket it's no great loss, but it's wrong.
I'd like to thank John Carmack for thousands of hours of fun. Oh, John, you're welcome for the last 2.5 inches of Ferrari exhaust pipe I bought you;)
My question is this: when do you forsee the PC platform becoming powerful enough to support enough additional physics processing to provide a "real" environment? Not just some breaking glass; an environment where someone can realize that glass melts, heat it up, and make a new exit for themselves without the programmer having had to think of that solution first. Sort of a Prolog approach to 3D shooters.
OK - I'm a/. reader, a software engineer, and a relatively pragmatic person. Magic works. I have verified this in the same way that I verify other aspects of the behavior of the objective universe, through experimentation.
I don't think that this fact requires a person to adopt a particular paradigm about the world. In particular, I don't think that the "technology is bad" paradigm somehow must come along with the "magic works" one.
People don't have to "believe" this; they don't have to believe in electriity either, but it doesn't alter the facts.
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Their software collects information from you without your consent. If it's not a big deal to anyone, then it shouldn't have been big deal for Carmack to include a dialog saying "iD would like to collect information about your video card to help us serve our customers. This information will be used for no other purposes." or something to that effect. Instead, iD elected to cause people's computers to report information to which iD is not entitled.
It's not their right to decide for you. That's why it's a big deal. If I pick a penny from your pocket it's no great loss, but it's wrong.
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I'd like to thank John Carmack for thousands of hours of fun. Oh, John, you're welcome for the last 2.5 inches of Ferrari exhaust pipe I bought you
My question is this: when do you forsee the PC platform becoming powerful enough to support enough additional physics processing to provide a "real" environment? Not just some breaking glass; an environment where someone can realize that glass melts, heat it up, and make a new exit for themselves without the programmer having had to think of that solution first. Sort of a Prolog approach to 3D shooters.
OK - I'm a /. reader, a software engineer, and a relatively pragmatic person. Magic works. I have verified this in the same way that I verify other aspects of the behavior of the objective universe, through experimentation.
I don't think that this fact requires a person to adopt a particular paradigm about the world. In particular, I don't think that the "technology is bad" paradigm somehow must come along with the "magic works" one.
People don't have to "believe" this; they don't have to believe in electriity either, but it doesn't alter the facts.
moebius_4d
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