So your point is in the last 80 years there have been, what, 3500 deaths from bombings in US. Most of that from one incident.
That same number takes about 3 months to reach from gun homicides. I doubt they even go back to 1927 with gun death statistics but based on the data they do have it's probably in the 500,000+ range (it's over 130,000 in the last decade alone).
So, yeah, great point, you pretty much reinforce the argument that guns are by FAR the most efficient way to kill someone.
A lot of speculation or vague answers to your post, but the real reason is simple - many theaters can't display it at 48 fps, and this way they can easily make 24 fps prints.
If you have a modern medium to high end HDTV, turn on frame interpolation processing (by whatever silly trademarked name your TV has for it) and watch an HD movie (especially one with sweeping pans and action, etc). It's hard to quantify exactly why it's distracting, but is sometimes described as a "soap opera" effect.
It bugs me too, but it really is hard to objectively say why. I'd like to think it's about a subconscious feeling of "expansiveness" and uncertainty (since your brain has to interpolate instead of the TV, and maybe your brain interpolating engages you with the content differently, etc) that you want with a more "epic" movie experience.
But there is also a strong argument that it's mostly your brain adjusting to something it has not experienced in this setting, and you will get used to it if exposed enough. Sort of like getting a new pair of glasses with a different shape/refractive index...
I think you may have been meaning to reply the the GP? The parent post was mostly correct (except that PAL and NTSC are really more like 50/60 FPS at 1/2 height than 25/30 FPS at full height...)
Originally raster came from scanning CRTs, but in computer graphics terminology, raster == bitmap. JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, etc are "raster image" formats, vs. a "vector image" format.
But I'd argue that the retina really isn't a pixel array, either (though it is massively parallel). While it does have a discrete number of photorecepters (of course), the analogy of the process of going from those receptors to creating a mental image in your brain "as pixels" is about as accurate as the analogy of your memory as "RAM":)
They weren't talking about selling the app, they were talking about sales of a recurring subscription *in* the app. No need for hosting, bandwidth, sales, or any of that. Apple really has nothing to do with hosting or distributing content for in-app DLC and media, either, but they are happy to take a 30% cut.
The fact is for many types of media a 30% markup or subscription fee is absurd. That's more than the margin for most digital media sales, for example - no one can compete with iTunes or iBooks on iOS because of that markup.
Wow, interesting read on Midgely. And if his contributions to the development of TEL and CFCs weren't enough to nominate him for the "bad scientist of the century" award, he should also be nominated for the "Darwin Award of the century"...
In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. This led him to devise an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. This system was the eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55.
Of course, it's only a good price if you are a resident of that state, so the options there are a bit more limiting that might sound. Out of state tuition is usually just as expensive as a private school. And many schools only allow a certain number of credits from another school (that's why the article specifically mentions "Excelsior College", which doesn't have that requirement but sounds a bit like a made up school in a Stan Lee comic).
Taking the average of the top ~10 public engineering schools, it's about 10-12k a year for in-state tuition alone (doesn't include room and board, fees, etc). Assuming full time and not being lucky enough to have family in the same town to mooch off of, most people would have to include those as well. So, it still sounds like $30k+ for a "good" state school, which is hard to call "cheap" under any stretch of the definition...
I think it's mostly a matter of redundancy. If one of the headquarters collapses into a bureaucratic black hole under its own ponderous weight, they'll still have a backup bureaucracy to continue to get nothing done...
I have no idea where you were going with this, it was so all over the map... but are you saying because the technology was provided and clearly explained that parents are not responsible for their kids and the government and corporations should have to limit access to content to *EVERYONE* in that case?
Because, honestly, that's bullshit, and censorship. I am all for selective programmatic restriction of adult content to children but blanket blocking to EVERYONE just because of lazy parents. Whatever. Nanny state to the extreme...
Oh, and Apple had never dealt with a "V-Chip" since they have never made a TV. V-Chip is an ancient and obsolete analog XDS-based standard.
This isn't about playing a game between those hours (which would be insane). It's about buying a game during those hours. If you give a kid access to buying games and let them play them they can just as soon do it at 11pm.
Yes, absolutely! Parental controls already exist on other consoles like Xbox 360 to handle exactly this sort of thing. And any minor who can bypass those controls can easily STAY UP UNTIL 11PM, making this just a bunch of completely useless pandering towards the "family values" crowd...
And honestly, if someone under 18 is capable enough and has enough money to get a credit card, their own game console, and Internet access that doesn't depend on their parents, I say they are mature enough to download a "mature" video game.
That's not DRM, that's Parental Controls. Which is the whole fucking POINT. This is a non-issue, a decent implementation of parental controls deals with all of this already, absolutely no reason to restrict things for everyone.
You call it "mediocre," but it won game of the year, has good ratings, was successful enough to spawn a sequel, and has enough of a continuing user base to get angered by this event, requiring in a public response by the publisher. None of which support the adjective "mediocre".
Actually, if you actually go and read the comments from the people who "play* it, the most frequent response to the publisher's post was along the lines of "thanks for making a great game, 7 good years".
Oh, and "Game of the Year"? Come on. From TIGA ("The Independent Game Developers’ Association is a trade association representing the business and commercial interests of some video and computer game developers in the UK and Europe."), some EU Indie trade org? Yeah, that's "Game of the Year" about like winning the US MLS championship makes you the "world champions of football".
The fact is, there is no motivation for them to shell out any more money on free servers when they already released the sequel. 7 years is longer than many Indie game studios survive, let alone host MP servers...
Yes, for some basic MP games like BF1942, that's works reasonably well (and even then many of the "good" servers were hosted by companies getting some advertising/publicity, like nVidia, etc)
It most definitely won't for a MMPRPG like WoW though, where almost all of the complexity is in the servers.
Well, those aren't really "mediocre FPS shooters":)
And the original Doom wasn't even client/server, it was LAN peer-to-peer with IPX and modem support only (and was really painful over the Internet with any sort of latency compared to modern games...) Though there have of course been many adds ons and ports that changed that, most not by id...
And id released the Quake 3 source code over 7 years ago, so people can do whatever with it, including fixing security holes, creating new trackers, etc. There's no cost to id.
Anyway, sure, it's awesome when a developer has the foresight and talent to design games that can exist without any central servers, but for various reasons (probably security more than anything) many don't. But the fact that people were playing it for 7 years means they people who bought it think they made a pretty good game so I'd hardly call it a rip-off. I'd prefer a good game that has a 7 year playable lifespan than a crappy one you give up on (or finish) after 10 hours and never look back...
Unless you want to say, develop the most profitable game of all time, which is online only. Obviously is makes no sense to design a single player game first if you aren't creating a single player game.
Honestly, the big games are all about money (most are created by large public companies, so no surprise there!), and unless there is a subscription or in-game transactions, there isn't much money in keeping free servers running indefinitely.
7 years is already a pretty long term contract for a mediocre FPS shooter. They aren't going to make any more money on Sniper game sales, as Sniper 2 was released this year.
While I agree that someone can still be brilliant but completely socially backward, you are equating chewing your fingernails with sitting down in a large lecture, taking your shoe and sock off, picking something off of your foot, and visibly munching down on it.
Biting his fingernails in front of a crowd would be a pretty bad habit. Picking his nose and eating it in front of the crowd (which I'm not sure he wasn't doing earlier in the video, anyway) is very "socially backward". Taking off his shoe and eating his own toenails (or whatever it was) on camera in the middle of hundreds of people is getting pretty borderline. I wouldn't go as far as saying borderline insane, but borderline dementia or some other mental disturbance, possibly...
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So your point is in the last 80 years there have been, what, 3500 deaths from bombings in US. Most of that from one incident.
That same number takes about 3 months to reach from gun homicides. I doubt they even go back to 1927 with gun death statistics but based on the data they do have it's probably in the 500,000+ range (it's over 130,000 in the last decade alone).
So, yeah, great point, you pretty much reinforce the argument that guns are by FAR the most efficient way to kill someone.
A lot of speculation or vague answers to your post, but the real reason is simple - many theaters can't display it at 48 fps, and this way they can easily make 24 fps prints.
If you have a modern medium to high end HDTV, turn on frame interpolation processing (by whatever silly trademarked name your TV has for it) and watch an HD movie (especially one with sweeping pans and action, etc). It's hard to quantify exactly why it's distracting, but is sometimes described as a "soap opera" effect.
It bugs me too, but it really is hard to objectively say why. I'd like to think it's about a subconscious feeling of "expansiveness" and uncertainty (since your brain has to interpolate instead of the TV, and maybe your brain interpolating engages you with the content differently, etc) that you want with a more "epic" movie experience.
But there is also a strong argument that it's mostly your brain adjusting to something it has not experienced in this setting, and you will get used to it if exposed enough. Sort of like getting a new pair of glasses with a different shape/refractive index...
I think you may have been meaning to reply the the GP? The parent post was mostly correct (except that PAL and NTSC are really more like 50/60 FPS at 1/2 height than 25/30 FPS at full height...)
Originally raster came from scanning CRTs, but in computer graphics terminology, raster == bitmap. JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, etc are "raster image" formats, vs. a "vector image" format.
But I'd argue that the retina really isn't a pixel array, either (though it is massively parallel). While it does have a discrete number of photorecepters (of course), the analogy of the process of going from those receptors to creating a mental image in your brain "as pixels" is about as accurate as the analogy of your memory as "RAM" :)
They weren't talking about selling the app, they were talking about sales of a recurring subscription *in* the app. No need for hosting, bandwidth, sales, or any of that. Apple really has nothing to do with hosting or distributing content for in-app DLC and media, either, but they are happy to take a 30% cut.
The fact is for many types of media a 30% markup or subscription fee is absurd. That's more than the margin for most digital media sales, for example - no one can compete with iTunes or iBooks on iOS because of that markup.
Wow, interesting read on Midgely. And if his contributions to the development of TEL and CFCs weren't enough to nominate him for the "bad scientist of the century" award, he should also be nominated for the "Darwin Award of the century"...
In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. This led him to devise an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. This system was the eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55.
Considering Stanford only allows 45 (1 year) AP or transfer credits out of a minimum 180 required for a degree, your story is a bit exaggerated...
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Of course, it's only a good price if you are a resident of that state, so the options there are a bit more limiting that might sound. Out of state tuition is usually just as expensive as a private school. And many schools only allow a certain number of credits from another school (that's why the article specifically mentions "Excelsior College", which doesn't have that requirement but sounds a bit like a made up school in a Stan Lee comic).
Taking the average of the top ~10 public engineering schools, it's about 10-12k a year for in-state tuition alone (doesn't include room and board, fees, etc). Assuming full time and not being lucky enough to have family in the same town to mooch off of, most people would have to include those as well. So, it still sounds like $30k+ for a "good" state school, which is hard to call "cheap" under any stretch of the definition...
Maybe so (and a crazy church at that) But the Jono's post also lost me at "worship the church of Ubuntu..."
Won't work, the Everglades are too warm. They'd have to find something else to take care of the snake-eating gorillas.
I think it's mostly a matter of redundancy. If one of the headquarters collapses into a bureaucratic black hole under its own ponderous weight, they'll still have a backup bureaucracy to continue to get nothing done...
I have no idea where you were going with this, it was so all over the map... but are you saying because the technology was provided and clearly explained that parents are not responsible for their kids and the government and corporations should have to limit access to content to *EVERYONE* in that case?
Because, honestly, that's bullshit, and censorship. I am all for selective programmatic restriction of adult content to children but blanket blocking to EVERYONE just because of lazy parents. Whatever. Nanny state to the extreme...
Oh, and Apple had never dealt with a "V-Chip" since they have never made a TV. V-Chip is an ancient and obsolete analog XDS-based standard.
Seriously? Your nanny state government mandates these companies censor your content to ridiculous viewing hours and you blame the *companies*?
Do you actually live in a democracy or just think you do?
This isn't about playing a game between those hours (which would be insane). It's about buying a game during those hours. If you give a kid access to buying games and let them play them they can just as soon do it at 11pm.
Yes, absolutely! Parental controls already exist on other consoles like Xbox 360 to handle exactly this sort of thing. And any minor who can bypass those controls can easily STAY UP UNTIL 11PM, making this just a bunch of completely useless pandering towards the "family values" crowd...
And honestly, if someone under 18 is capable enough and has enough money to get a credit card, their own game console, and Internet access that doesn't depend on their parents, I say they are mature enough to download a "mature" video game.
That's not DRM, that's Parental Controls. Which is the whole fucking POINT. This is a non-issue, a decent implementation of parental controls deals with all of this already, absolutely no reason to restrict things for everyone.
You call it "mediocre," but it won game of the year, has good ratings, was successful enough to spawn a sequel, and has enough of a continuing user base to get angered by this event, requiring in a public response by the publisher. None of which support the adjective "mediocre".
Actually, if you actually go and read the comments from the people who "play* it, the most frequent response to the publisher's post was along the lines of "thanks for making a great game, 7 good years".
Oh, and "Game of the Year"? Come on. From TIGA ("The Independent Game Developers’ Association is a trade association representing the business and commercial interests of some video and computer game developers in the UK and Europe."), some EU Indie trade org? Yeah, that's "Game of the Year" about like winning the US MLS championship makes you the "world champions of football".
The fact is, there is no motivation for them to shell out any more money on free servers when they already released the sequel. 7 years is longer than many Indie game studios survive, let alone host MP servers...
Yes, for some basic MP games like BF1942, that's works reasonably well (and even then many of the "good" servers were hosted by companies getting some advertising/publicity, like nVidia, etc)
It most definitely won't for a MMPRPG like WoW though, where almost all of the complexity is in the servers.
Well, those aren't really "mediocre FPS shooters" :)
And the original Doom wasn't even client/server, it was LAN peer-to-peer with IPX and modem support only (and was really painful over the Internet with any sort of latency compared to modern games...) Though there have of course been many adds ons and ports that changed that, most not by id...
And id released the Quake 3 source code over 7 years ago, so people can do whatever with it, including fixing security holes, creating new trackers, etc. There's no cost to id.
Anyway, sure, it's awesome when a developer has the foresight and talent to design games that can exist without any central servers, but for various reasons (probably security more than anything) many don't. But the fact that people were playing it for 7 years means they people who bought it think they made a pretty good game so I'd hardly call it a rip-off. I'd prefer a good game that has a 7 year playable lifespan than a crappy one you give up on (or finish) after 10 hours and never look back...
Unless you want to say, develop the most profitable game of all time, which is online only. Obviously is makes no sense to design a single player game first if you aren't creating a single player game.
Honestly, the big games are all about money (most are created by large public companies, so no surprise there!), and unless there is a subscription or in-game transactions, there isn't much money in keeping free servers running indefinitely.
7 years is already a pretty long term contract for a mediocre FPS shooter. They aren't going to make any more money on Sniper game sales, as Sniper 2 was released this year.
Don't want to get a double fine from the Vogons...
While I agree that someone can still be brilliant but completely socially backward, you are equating chewing your fingernails with sitting down in a large lecture, taking your shoe and sock off, picking something off of your foot, and visibly munching down on it.
Biting his fingernails in front of a crowd would be a pretty bad habit. Picking his nose and eating it in front of the crowd (which I'm not sure he wasn't doing earlier in the video, anyway) is very "socially backward". Taking off his shoe and eating his own toenails (or whatever it was) on camera in the middle of hundreds of people is getting pretty borderline. I wouldn't go as far as saying borderline insane, but borderline dementia or some other mental disturbance, possibly...