Looks like someone took 'down the rabbit hole' too literally. Has anyone got a shovel? I think this man's head is stuck in his back yard.
His arguments could be likened to someone saying in the 40's that autos will become so important to society that everyone will need to become a professional grade mechanic. It seems to me that most 1st worlders get by just fine swapping air filters, topping up fluid and even (gasp) changing the oil.
Computers will adapt to users because that's what they want. Human adaption to an environment lasts only until we can change that environment to suit us. I doubt computers will remain stupid long enough or become pervasive enough to force genetic change on humans.
This guy seems to have fallen into his own matrix, but forgot to put a stop condition on the recursive algos, and now he can't get out.
As to the RSA and the SOF... Just a few years before a patent clerk warped the fabric of space time, a keynote speaker for the nobel prize said, "The future of the Nobel prize lies in the Nth decimal place."
Degrees are a way of limiting thought down 'known' constructive channels. I believe real progress comes from creative individuals. It is the learned, 'creative' scientist who has the greatest potential to examine a situation and derive a constructive point of view.
In my experience most scientists (like most individuals) don't have a large degree of creativity.
Besides, up here on O Mons I can do with a magnified pocket mirror in 5 minutes what it takes those boys in France 10 weeks and 50 tons of metal to accomplish.
I am NEVER going to let a gallaxy drive my car. 'seems they're always colliding.
"This is also an important discovery because it highlights that the Milky Way is not in its middle age - it is still forming."
Sarcasm: Gosh, and here I thought we only had 20 billion years before our migration. I can go back to sleep.
Opinion: It's a silly thought. Our gallaxy could be much older, in it's middle or late age and just have become 'the big boy on the block'. Drawing conclusions like that is highly speculative, and not a good way to do science.
Halo wasn't original, it was a 'slightly' modified Larry Niven set with a terrible storyline and repetative, boring, levels. If it's seminal because they stole Niven's (admittedly cool) idea, or because they wrote a graphics engine that delivers lower fps at lower effects levels than more modern games on hardware that didn't even exist back then!
If it had come out 3 years ago I would have been impressed with the graphics, but even then... 'eh'.
Half Life was a better game. More variety, better action. I don't think the bots were as good (they seemed indecisive at times), but overall it was a much more enjoyable experience.
Yes, I was dissapointed with Halo. Maybe that's an appropriate name. You get everything at the edge, NOTHING in the core.
We shun nine out of ten titles and place the remaining one percent on a pedestal. 10% is a pretty good margin. I'll only own one out of about 500 cars.
You see, that's the problem with gamers today. We're so picky. That's not a problem. That's a GOOD THING. If we weren't, we'd still be playing Mario Bros and be all happy about nokia's horrible little paperweight.
they look into the past. It seems, to them at least, as time passes, all the faults and niggles of yesteryear's games mysteriously vanish.. (etc, ad nauseum) Um, no. The best games were fun back then, and there were good parts and bad parts. The issue here is repetition and change of focus. Because so little had been tried before, it was easy to come up with a 'unique' idea for a game. Game play was more important than graphics (because the graphics were going to suck no matter what you did). With improvements in graphics hardware people DEMAND something 'pretty' or 'stimulating' to look at. That takes some of the dev teams focus away from game play. With limited production schedules, these factors combine to increase the likely-hood that game 'foo' will be just as crappy as the movie 'foo'. I mean really, how many renditions of Lara Croft are people going to take?
In ten years time, what will today's gamers be playing? Why, the software they failed to appreciate today. I doubt it. If a game sucks, it sucks ok?
Try playing Medal of Honor Frontline or The Getaway some time, with a clean frame of mind, untainted by the thoughts of superiority and not specifically looking for faults. Boo Hoo, what's with this guy? Someone must have given him a wegie at a ROM lan party or something.
I'd like to know where this retro 'modern hate' gamer crowd is. NONE of my gamer friends shun modern games.
Different people have different tastes. I wish this guy would bitch about teen angst or terrorism. "Try eating at McDonalds or White Castle some time, with a clean....." oy.
A company that creates games only for one card deserves to go bankrupt. Let them hurt I say.
Valve is an example of an excellent company that codes for more than one platform, and FIRST coded along a non-optimized path. Changes to the graphics engine came AFTER they wrote the game.
DOOM III is supposed to be OGL 2. That's just about as non-hardware specific as you can get.
The high point was Dark Forces II. After that, the maps and textures started getting over used. You could tell either the creators were running out of juice (how many infinite drops/50 story fusion laser beams are we going to be subjected to?) or they started running short of money to pay the artists. (just finished Jedi Academy. The levels were a disgrace.)
I can imagine MMGs having difficulty with that.
SO why don't we come up with.. ooh this idea is good. I think I'm going to go make some money now.
Every time I got a better game (i was a vic20-c64 kid) I thanked a higher power.
I liked computer games because they were novel, and something to do when I was bored or my friends weren't over. I personally got more enjoyment out of building legos, models, and painting.
The first game that really hooked me was Wing Commander, the second was Civilization. Even with those games I don't get nostalgic. Hell, I don't feel special about ANY games. 'Real' memories are built from interaction with friends and the world around you.
All of this comes from a person who is EASILY addicted to good video games. As someone who has spent much time playing them, I know they are not life, but something to pass the time. Perhaps the nostalgia some feel comes from the circumstance of the game play.
I just lost track of where I was going with this....*sigh*
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Looks like someone took 'down the rabbit hole' too literally. Has anyone got a shovel? I think this man's head is stuck in his back yard.
His arguments could be likened to someone saying in the 40's that autos will become so important to society that everyone will need to become a professional grade mechanic. It seems to me that most 1st worlders get by just fine swapping air filters, topping up fluid and even (gasp) changing the oil.
Computers will adapt to users because that's what they want. Human adaption to an environment lasts only until we can change that environment to suit us. I doubt computers will remain stupid long enough or become pervasive enough to force genetic change on humans.
This guy seems to have fallen into his own matrix, but forgot to put a stop condition on the recursive algos, and now he can't get out.
With all of these flares right in our direction, makes me wonder if the sun is pissed at us.
CNN is reporting that millions of people have deleted all the music files from their computers in a story
This tends to happen when you format your HD because windows committed suicide.
this could be the beginning of the end for the audio CD.
Um, yea, kinda like the very VERY beginning. If the end were a person, this might be like that person's great grandfathers' sperm.
A little hard to breath but the view is nice.
As to the RSA and the SOF... Just a few years before a patent clerk warped the fabric of space time, a keynote speaker for the nobel prize said, "The future of the Nobel prize lies in the Nth decimal place."
Degrees are a way of limiting thought down 'known' constructive channels. I believe real progress comes from creative individuals. It is the learned, 'creative' scientist who has the greatest potential to examine a situation and derive a constructive point of view.
In my experience most scientists (like most individuals) don't have a large degree of creativity.
Besides, up here on O Mons I can do with a magnified pocket mirror in 5 minutes what it takes those boys in France 10 weeks and 50 tons of metal to accomplish.
Musicmatch sux, it should be deleted. The whole company should be deleted!
I am NEVER going to let a gallaxy drive my car. 'seems they're always colliding.
"This is also an important discovery because it highlights that the Milky Way is not in its middle age - it is still forming."
Sarcasm: Gosh, and here I thought we only had 20 billion years before our migration. I can go back to sleep.
Opinion: It's a silly thought. Our gallaxy could be much older, in it's middle or late age and just have become 'the big boy on the block'. Drawing conclusions like that is highly speculative, and not a good way to do science.
I think the man has mental gas, and this is the equivalent of a fart.
Well, I guess this means I'll get 2 more happy people in my cities now...
You need to upgrade something before it's broke!
As previously mentioned, IPv6 is about more than address space...
Seriously, what happens when the entire world is running IPv4 stuff (as it is now) but CAN'T live without it?
We need to do the upgrade before the cost of the upgrade becomes so high we can't support it. I say do it now, while the net is still small.
Halo wasn't original, it was a 'slightly' modified Larry Niven set with a terrible storyline and repetative, boring, levels. If it's seminal because they stole Niven's (admittedly cool) idea, or because they wrote a graphics engine that delivers lower fps at lower effects levels than more modern games on hardware that didn't even exist back then!
If it had come out 3 years ago I would have been impressed with the graphics, but even then... 'eh'.
Half Life was a better game. More variety, better action. I don't think the bots were as good (they seemed indecisive at times), but overall it was a much more enjoyable experience.
Yes, I was dissapointed with Halo. Maybe that's an appropriate name. You get everything at the edge, NOTHING in the core.
We shun nine out of ten titles and place the remaining one percent on a pedestal. 10% is a pretty good margin. I'll only own one out of about 500 cars.
You see, that's the problem with gamers today. We're so picky. That's not a problem. That's a GOOD THING. If we weren't, we'd still be playing Mario Bros and be all happy about nokia's horrible little paperweight.
they look into the past. It seems, to them at least, as time passes, all the faults and niggles of yesteryear's games mysteriously vanish.. (etc, ad nauseum) Um, no. The best games were fun back then, and there were good parts and bad parts. The issue here is repetition and change of focus. Because so little had been tried before, it was easy to come up with a 'unique' idea for a game. Game play was more important than graphics (because the graphics were going to suck no matter what you did). With improvements in graphics hardware people DEMAND something 'pretty' or 'stimulating' to look at. That takes some of the dev teams focus away from game play. With limited production schedules, these factors combine to increase the likely-hood that game 'foo' will be just as crappy as the movie 'foo'. I mean really, how many renditions of Lara Croft are people going to take?
In ten years time, what will today's gamers be playing? Why, the software they failed to appreciate today. I doubt it. If a game sucks, it sucks ok?
Try playing Medal of Honor Frontline or The Getaway some time, with a clean frame of mind, untainted by the thoughts of superiority and not specifically looking for faults. Boo Hoo, what's with this guy? Someone must have given him a wegie at a ROM lan party or something.
I'd like to know where this retro 'modern hate' gamer crowd is. NONE of my gamer friends shun modern games. Different people have different tastes. I wish this guy would bitch about teen angst or terrorism. "Try eating at McDonalds or White Castle some time, with a clean....." oy.So will this beat a new 9800XT in doom III?
When it comes to RAIDing, I prefer to raid the kitchen.
When it comes to backing up, paper + a good safe works well and has a longer shelf life than most computer media.
Ok, so it's not 'perfect'. I'm a little annoyed with that myself, but @ least you get to pick your card.
Um,
NO.
I wonder what sort of 'optimizations' we'll find in their code.
A company that creates games only for one card deserves to go bankrupt. Let them hurt I say.
Valve is an example of an excellent company that codes for more than one platform, and FIRST coded along a non-optimized path. Changes to the graphics engine came AFTER they wrote the game.
DOOM III is supposed to be OGL 2. That's just about as non-hardware specific as you can get.
Here we use things like Lo-Jack for the consumer, and AirIQ for the corporation.
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The Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series.
The high point was Dark Forces II. After that, the maps and textures started getting over used. You could tell either the creators were running out of juice (how many infinite drops/50 story fusion laser beams are we going to be subjected to?) or they started running short of money to pay the artists. (just finished Jedi Academy. The levels were a disgrace.)
I can imagine MMGs having difficulty with that.
SO why don't we come up with.. ooh this idea is good. I think I'm going to go make some money now.
the Leisure Suit Larry games are used to treat...
This also reminds me of my then-girl friend and I playing Duke 3d. When we'd get done, she would be jittery and jumping around corners for 10 minutes.
What crack wh0re thought this one up? Blue Tooth is far from dead. It's more like a child, who was a baby everyone saw potential in.
Just the other day my friend was asking me how to enable blue tooth hotsync from his pda to his computer.
My next laptop will be blue tooth enabled (the Dell inspiron 8600) and I'm sure more laptops and devices will follow.
When the article pronounce a 'newish' technology dead, that's when it's time to take a second look.
Every time I got a better game (i was a vic20-c64 kid) I thanked a higher power.
I liked computer games because they were novel, and something to do when I was bored or my friends weren't over. I personally got more enjoyment out of building legos, models, and painting.
The first game that really hooked me was Wing Commander, the second was Civilization. Even with those games I don't get nostalgic. Hell, I don't feel special about ANY games. 'Real' memories are built from interaction with friends and the world around you.
All of this comes from a person who is EASILY addicted to good video games. As someone who has spent much time playing them, I know they are not life, but something to pass the time. Perhaps the nostalgia some feel comes from the circumstance of the game play.
I just lost track of where I was going with this....*sigh*
Let's not forget EM from TV's, Microwaves, my brain, etc.
Bot Pilot.
When the army finally comes out with their Robot Soldier I'll be right there to take on any of those evil middle-easter clans!