that stuff can easily be ironed out by an n-gram based system that "ranks" English sentences based on probability.
Isn't this what humans do all the time? If you heard your buddy say "I really admire urinalysis" you'd probably pause and say "Wait, what?" Humans stop other humans all the time for clarification on what they just said, but we expect computers to get it right all the time. We need a speech2text program that will say "Wait, can you repeat that?"
As someone else pointed out; CDs usually come with 7/10 tracks that aren't worth listening to. So if you like the full CD, buy it. But if you like that one song on the radio, it's not worth buying the full cd.
Anyway, considering the millions raised for campaigning, 50,000 is not so much.
It's not like Obama got this e-mail personally and was like "Nah, I don't think I'm gonna reach into my million dollar stack of cash for this." The campaign probably has a very defined amount of money that they've decided will go into online advertisements and that is a very small percentage of the millions of dollars the campaign raises overall. And at the decision level, with that small crew of online advertising people, when you have say 100k to spend on online advertising, do you give half of it to this guy - who is basically the only guy representing Obama on mySpace and you have no control over what happens on his site, or do you start another free mySpace account and have his account shut down?
as others have pointed out, big companies that care about privacy and security concerns will make the web apps run off their own internal servers. Web apps are poised to take over for desktop apps. Why install some software on a hundred or a thousand machines when you can install it on one and have everyone log on to it? For the home user, having your e-mail and school reports easily accessible from anywhere without having to lug around cds or flash drives makes the privacy concerns irrelevant. Most of the stuff I need to keep secure are already online in the form of my online banking account and credit card information saved on some servers somewhere. The documents and stuff on my hard drive aren't very important to anyone but me. If I wasn't in the 3d animation industry and didn't required processor and memory intensive software to do my work, I don't know why I'd need a computer that was any better than a dumb terminal to the web.
Nothing can disprove God's existence in the same way that we can't disprove that a china teapot is currently orbiting the sun. The burden of proof is not on the skeptic and it is only in religion where it is accepted to put that burden of proof onto him/her. So no, this theory won't disprove God if you believe in him. But the more theory and evidence that comes out giving naturalistic answers to questions about how the world works brings us closer to making the idea of a God irrelevant.
Eh, until reflectivity wakes up in a dumpster with a dead hooker, not knowing how it got there or what happened the night before, I think it could get lower.
Funny enough, there was a few incidents after Finding Nemo where kids flushed their fish down the drain to "free" them not knowing that most water pipes lead into a purifying system instead of the ocean.
but what about all those hundreds or thousands of other kids that might be seeing it? I, as an innocent bystander can be driving around minding my own business and get rear ended by a damn 2 year old going to the beach with his girlfriend, all because that ad was on the air.
From what I read, the parents tried to do a lot more than I would have done. They went through counseling and lots of other stuff. Maybe the kid was just bad? As the lady in the article said, he had a brother and the brother turned out fine.
They make their careers by lying to the audience, and have no problems putting on a crapload of make-up so they look good for the camera and makes them look younger, but now they have problems when their performance is digitally altered to make the film better? I think they're just clinging on to the little sense of reality they have left. Cause when you take away the acting, what else do actors bring to the table?
When I was a "hardcore gamer" putting in probably 20 or more hours a week into gaming, I only played a handful of games. This was even before extensive multiplayer features. Now I imagine people just play 1 or 2 games for months or years. Does anyone really need the next multi million dollar game when they're still playing World of Warcraft or Counterstrike?
Kids, on the other hand, are fickle. They'll play Cars for a couple of days/weeks, and then when the next CG movie comes out, they're gonna hound their parents to get the game for it. Of course you're gonna have bigger sales to that market with crappier games.
Maybe I'm just not a big Sonic fan as I've always been a Nintendo guy, but doesn't this show that Sonic just can't really be kept "cool" forever? The fact that Sonic can only be in one type of game, and has to go back to it's roots of fast action sidescroller shows that it's a limited mascot, whereas Mario can (and is) put to any number and genre of games from sports, to racing, to puzzle to 3d platformer and still maintain the integrity of the mascot as well as have a fun game (Not even mentioning the spin-off games from different characters). When Sonic came out, it was to show the Genesis as a hip, cool, and fast game system. Haven't there been enough fast games already to make the character moot? If Sonic can't change with the company, then what's the point of keeping him around besides nostalgia?
I guess it depends on priorities. I'm interested in an open aggregation of the world's data that everyone has access to, but not so much for a graphics engine, of which there is an already perfectly fine one for my purposes (speaking as a gamer and as a 3D artist who has a fairly large stake in a better graphics engine). Apparently I'm not alone in this. Bandwidth costs money as long as there are people using that bandwidth to download your content. The reason Wikipedia's bandwidth costs are so large is because lots and lots of people read Wikipedia. How many people, on the other hand, would download this graphics engine and use it as a replacement for DX10? It's doubtful the big 3d software companies would support it since they've got a lot divested in DX or OpenGL already and constantly have people complaining of not enough features or of feature creep. So yeah, I'd say Wikipedia is worth it.
Your point is well made. Adventure game elements have been incorporated into pretty much every genre, but calling Oblivion an adventure game is a pretty big stretch. It's an RPG by any definition of the genre. It's just more related to the Computer RPGs than traditional Console RPGs like Final Fantasy. But back to the main point, while adventure game elements have been incorporated into many other genres, the traditional adventure game is pretty much gone. Adventure games are geared more toward players who want games based on story and thinking puzzles instead of action, so a game who's primary gameplay mechanic is action is already out. This includes Zelda and Deus Ex, although those could be (and usually are) considered "action-adventure" since their adventure elements are as ingrained as the action elements. Full Throttle, for instance, was a pure-bred adventure game and was criticized primarily for the action segments that were implemented in it (although, to be fair, those action segments would have been bad in any genre)
warcraft 2 had multiplayer before starcraft did. What starcraft added was battle.net which made it easier to find matches, but I played multiplayer war2 for years. It was actually the first multiplayer game I ever played.
music is very personalized and ubiquitous. There's probably very few people in America who haven't heard the top 5 songs of the day, whether they like them or not. Music is also easily accessible. In 3 - 5 minutes, a song could deliver lyrics that could change your mood or teach you things - like a little psychology session. And, people usually listen to music at any time for different things. People have music to study to, dance to, listen to when they're happy and music for depression. The easily accessible 3 minute package makes it easy to have music a part of your life unlike any other form of media. Books require a lot of attention and time, and tv isn't as portable and requires too much attention as well. It's really not surprising that music choices are the biggest conversation topic.
This is not news as the basic premise is hundreds (or thousands) of years old. New and original art is never in the mainstream. Every so often, new forms of art and ideas are created and the current ideas and art styles fight tooth and nail to suppress the new stuff. Then the new stuff eventually becomes mainstream and boring and the cycle repeats with a new wave of artists pushing the mainstream. While Okami might not have sold well, it will probably be an influence to many incoming game designers who will incorporate some of the unique elements of it into a game that may appeal to a wider audience.
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that stuff can easily be ironed out by an n-gram based system that "ranks" English sentences based on probability.
Isn't this what humans do all the time? If you heard your buddy say "I really admire urinalysis" you'd probably pause and say "Wait, what?" Humans stop other humans all the time for clarification on what they just said, but we expect computers to get it right all the time. We need a speech2text program that will say "Wait, can you repeat that?"
As someone else pointed out; CDs usually come with 7/10 tracks that aren't worth listening to. So if you like the full CD, buy it. But if you like that one song on the radio, it's not worth buying the full cd.
Anyway, considering the millions raised for campaigning, 50,000 is not so much.
It's not like Obama got this e-mail personally and was like "Nah, I don't think I'm gonna reach into my million dollar stack of cash for this." The campaign probably has a very defined amount of money that they've decided will go into online advertisements and that is a very small percentage of the millions of dollars the campaign raises overall. And at the decision level, with that small crew of online advertising people, when you have say 100k to spend on online advertising, do you give half of it to this guy - who is basically the only guy representing Obama on mySpace and you have no control over what happens on his site, or do you start another free mySpace account and have his account shut down?
as others have pointed out, big companies that care about privacy and security concerns will make the web apps run off their own internal servers. Web apps are poised to take over for desktop apps. Why install some software on a hundred or a thousand machines when you can install it on one and have everyone log on to it? For the home user, having your e-mail and school reports easily accessible from anywhere without having to lug around cds or flash drives makes the privacy concerns irrelevant. Most of the stuff I need to keep secure are already online in the form of my online banking account and credit card information saved on some servers somewhere. The documents and stuff on my hard drive aren't very important to anyone but me. If I wasn't in the 3d animation industry and didn't required processor and memory intensive software to do my work, I don't know why I'd need a computer that was any better than a dumb terminal to the web.
or as Mr. Garrison on South Park said, "You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt-sex with a fish-squirrel. Congratulations."
Nothing can disprove God's existence in the same way that we can't disprove that a china teapot is currently orbiting the sun. The burden of proof is not on the skeptic and it is only in religion where it is accepted to put that burden of proof onto him/her. So no, this theory won't disprove God if you believe in him. But the more theory and evidence that comes out giving naturalistic answers to questions about how the world works brings us closer to making the idea of a God irrelevant.
"my past support of EssJay in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on."
Well, that's what happens when you get all your info from Wikipedia.
Reflectivity Reaches a New Low
Eh, until reflectivity wakes up in a dumpster with a dead hooker, not knowing how it got there or what happened the night before, I think it could get lower.
Funny enough, there was a few incidents after Finding Nemo where kids flushed their fish down the drain to "free" them not knowing that most water pipes lead into a purifying system instead of the ocean.
but what about all those hundreds or thousands of other kids that might be seeing it? I, as an innocent bystander can be driving around minding my own business and get rear ended by a damn 2 year old going to the beach with his girlfriend, all because that ad was on the air.
From what I read, the parents tried to do a lot more than I would have done. They went through counseling and lots of other stuff. Maybe the kid was just bad? As the lady in the article said, he had a brother and the brother turned out fine.
They make their careers by lying to the audience, and have no problems putting on a crapload of make-up so they look good for the camera and makes them look younger, but now they have problems when their performance is digitally altered to make the film better? I think they're just clinging on to the little sense of reality they have left. Cause when you take away the acting, what else do actors bring to the table?
You hear that people? The magic is over! You can stop buying them up off the shelves so I could get one!
When I was a "hardcore gamer" putting in probably 20 or more hours a week into gaming, I only played a handful of games. This was even before extensive multiplayer features. Now I imagine people just play 1 or 2 games for months or years. Does anyone really need the next multi million dollar game when they're still playing World of Warcraft or Counterstrike?
Kids, on the other hand, are fickle. They'll play Cars for a couple of days/weeks, and then when the next CG movie comes out, they're gonna hound their parents to get the game for it. Of course you're gonna have bigger sales to that market with crappier games.
Maybe I'm just not a big Sonic fan as I've always been a Nintendo guy, but doesn't this show that Sonic just can't really be kept "cool" forever? The fact that Sonic can only be in one type of game, and has to go back to it's roots of fast action sidescroller shows that it's a limited mascot, whereas Mario can (and is) put to any number and genre of games from sports, to racing, to puzzle to 3d platformer and still maintain the integrity of the mascot as well as have a fun game (Not even mentioning the spin-off games from different characters). When Sonic came out, it was to show the Genesis as a hip, cool, and fast game system. Haven't there been enough fast games already to make the character moot? If Sonic can't change with the company, then what's the point of keeping him around besides nostalgia?
I guess it depends on priorities. I'm interested in an open aggregation of the world's data that everyone has access to, but not so much for a graphics engine, of which there is an already perfectly fine one for my purposes (speaking as a gamer and as a 3D artist who has a fairly large stake in a better graphics engine). Apparently I'm not alone in this. Bandwidth costs money as long as there are people using that bandwidth to download your content. The reason Wikipedia's bandwidth costs are so large is because lots and lots of people read Wikipedia. How many people, on the other hand, would download this graphics engine and use it as a replacement for DX10? It's doubtful the big 3d software companies would support it since they've got a lot divested in DX or OpenGL already and constantly have people complaining of not enough features or of feature creep. So yeah, I'd say Wikipedia is worth it.
There's nothing preventing them from requiring you to own the hard drive to play the game.
Yes there is. Losing half their target market is something preventing them from requiring to own a hard drive.
Your point is well made. Adventure game elements have been incorporated into pretty much every genre, but calling Oblivion an adventure game is a pretty big stretch. It's an RPG by any definition of the genre. It's just more related to the Computer RPGs than traditional Console RPGs like Final Fantasy. But back to the main point, while adventure game elements have been incorporated into many other genres, the traditional adventure game is pretty much gone. Adventure games are geared more toward players who want games based on story and thinking puzzles instead of action, so a game who's primary gameplay mechanic is action is already out. This includes Zelda and Deus Ex, although those could be (and usually are) considered "action-adventure" since their adventure elements are as ingrained as the action elements. Full Throttle, for instance, was a pure-bred adventure game and was criticized primarily for the action segments that were implemented in it (although, to be fair, those action segments would have been bad in any genre)
Shit, I just got a Badgesickle to live in my garden and I find out the damn game is for girls! I'm gonna go play some Vegas to feel manly again.
warcraft 2 had multiplayer before starcraft did. What starcraft added was battle.net which made it easier to find matches, but I played multiplayer war2 for years. It was actually the first multiplayer game I ever played.
people still buy singles off of iTunes, and there is a list of singles that are the most purchased.
music is very personalized and ubiquitous. There's probably very few people in America who haven't heard the top 5 songs of the day, whether they like them or not. Music is also easily accessible. In 3 - 5 minutes, a song could deliver lyrics that could change your mood or teach you things - like a little psychology session. And, people usually listen to music at any time for different things. People have music to study to, dance to, listen to when they're happy and music for depression. The easily accessible 3 minute package makes it easy to have music a part of your life unlike any other form of media. Books require a lot of attention and time, and tv isn't as portable and requires too much attention as well. It's really not surprising that music choices are the biggest conversation topic.
This is not news as the basic premise is hundreds (or thousands) of years old. New and original art is never in the mainstream. Every so often, new forms of art and ideas are created and the current ideas and art styles fight tooth and nail to suppress the new stuff. Then the new stuff eventually becomes mainstream and boring and the cycle repeats with a new wave of artists pushing the mainstream. While Okami might not have sold well, it will probably be an influence to many incoming game designers who will incorporate some of the unique elements of it into a game that may appeal to a wider audience.
Stop with the puns before I mordor someone!