I think it's a whole new category of video games - the Lego of video games. (Consequently, I've seen my son become a Minecraft fiend and he no longer touches Lego.)
I think this is game changing because Minecraft has only touched the surface of what can be done; so it's like the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons...wait until we have the Minecraft versions of Might & Magic, HOMM, WoW, etc., etc. Just like Magic: The Gathering was a game changer.
trickle down to Dell? 10 years? 20? Never?
Sorry, I'm just in disbelief that computers aren't dead silent at this point.
You would think when customizing, say a Dell, you could choose silence options.
Monster Cable has tried to take over ownership of the word Monster for years and years. (Search google "Monster Cable Lawsuits") This Stealth guy is just a Johnny-Come-Lately in comparison.
Both Black & White and Magic Carpet are lacked good interfaces. These guys can do very cool but Fun, Addictive play is not their forte. So every game they do is always a big disappointment to me.
Negatives: Action scenes blur when things move fast. This really sucks (hey, Spiderman seemed to, too!). Also, we both had headaches afterwards.
Basically, we have technology here that's extremely expensive that's NOT Good Enough yet being pushed by the greatest toy seller ever, George Lucas. Where in the galaxy can we hide?
Why must he make movies to sell toys, rather than make great movies?
Is he obsessed with selling more toys than McDonalds (the world's #1 toy-seller)?
If not, what is up?
And Star Wars fans, how can you still support this when every new movie is more disappointing than the last one? Yeah, the visuals get better and better. But the story gets dumber and dumber.
How much Star Wars merchandise can you fit in your closets? Just where the hell are you warehousing this stuff?
Two Jack Valenti quotes immediately jumped out to me as absurd... "A recent survey revealed that 68 percent of all home computer users say they're satisfied with their normal 56K computer modem."
I've never met one person who was happy with the 56K speed, have you?
"The second professorial indictment is palpable nonsense. It is a charge issued only by those who have a blurred knowledge of the financial fragility of the film industry. Because making movies is so expensive, only two in 10 films ever retrieve their production and marketing investment from domestic theatrical exhibition."
It's not that movies are so expensive to make, but isn't rather that there are SO MANY BAD movies made and almost every bad one loses money?
Wouldn't it be a GOOD THING if Hollywood had to FINALLY run their operations like Real Businesses, with things like Accountability and Penalties for Failures?
How can we ever take him or his industry seriously? Dino DeLaurantis' first movie made money. The next 30 all, ALL lost money. Any other industry in the world would have seen him make 2-5 more movies, not 30. (To my recollection.)
Nice to see others still remember The Long Run and other Daniel Keys Moran books. Still waiting for the xext 36 or so books in the series!
As to a real answer to the poster's question: Neal Stephenson, Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks are the ones who'll be most read and remembered 50 years from now.
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...what exactly does this mean for current Apps?
SECOND post on Slashdot saying it is. Are there any fact checkers around? Anywhere? Can we get a CORRECTION this time?!
NONE of the major news services or newspapers are reporting that the SOPA bill has been killed.
Wired: Minecraft, Tired: Lego. Expired: Lincoln Logs
run by the Republicans? It's no wonder some say the Obama is the best Republican president in years.
Making the title of this post extremely poor.
...actually, they were the ones who caused the earthquake. Next time, they'll hit DC on the nose. Our base is theirs.
Nothing like doing our best to halt all innovation in the U.S.
Couldn't resist.
Add an extremely advanced AI and you end up with something close to what's in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
I think it's a whole new category of video games - the Lego of video games. (Consequently, I've seen my son become a Minecraft fiend and he no longer touches Lego.) I think this is game changing because Minecraft has only touched the surface of what can be done; so it's like the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons...wait until we have the Minecraft versions of Might & Magic, HOMM, WoW, etc., etc. Just like Magic: The Gathering was a game changer.
trickle down to Dell? 10 years? 20? Never? Sorry, I'm just in disbelief that computers aren't dead silent at this point. You would think when customizing, say a Dell, you could choose silence options.
The new just looks CLEAN and CORPORATE. Friggin hohum! Nothing cool. Nothing geeky. Just Clean & Corporate-looking. :(
Monster Cable has tried to take over ownership of the word Monster for years and years. (Search google "Monster Cable Lawsuits") This Stealth guy is just a Johnny-Come-Lately in comparison.
You are so right!!!
Both Black & White and Magic Carpet are lacked good interfaces. These guys can do very cool but Fun, Addictive play is not their forte. So every game they do is always a big disappointment to me.
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My wife and I watched Monsters, Inc. at a digital projector theater (AMC 1000 in SF).
Positives: Incredibly sharp, bright picture (like Ebert says)
Negatives: Action scenes blur when things move fast. This really sucks (hey, Spiderman seemed to, too!). Also, we both had headaches afterwards.
Basically, we have technology here that's extremely expensive that's NOT Good Enough yet being pushed by the greatest toy seller ever, George Lucas. Where in the galaxy can we hide?
Why must he make movies to sell toys, rather than make great movies?
Is he obsessed with selling more toys than McDonalds (the world's #1 toy-seller)?
If not, what is up?
And Star Wars fans, how can you still support this when every new movie is more disappointing than the last one? Yeah, the visuals get better and better. But the story gets dumber and dumber.
How much Star Wars merchandise can you fit in your closets? Just where the hell are you warehousing this stuff?
Two Jack Valenti quotes immediately jumped out to me as absurd...
"A recent survey revealed that 68 percent of all home computer users say they're satisfied with their normal 56K computer modem."
I've never met one person who was happy with the 56K speed, have you?
"The second professorial indictment is palpable nonsense. It is a charge issued only by those who have a blurred knowledge of the financial fragility of the film industry. Because making movies is so expensive, only two in 10 films ever retrieve their production and marketing investment from domestic theatrical exhibition."
It's not that movies are so expensive to make, but isn't rather that there are SO MANY BAD movies made and almost every bad one loses money?
Wouldn't it be a GOOD THING if Hollywood had to FINALLY run their operations like Real Businesses, with things like Accountability and Penalties for Failures?
How can we ever take him or his industry seriously? Dino DeLaurantis' first movie made money. The next 30 all, ALL lost money. Any other industry in the world would have seen him make 2-5 more movies, not 30. (To my recollection.)
Nice to see others still remember The Long Run and other Daniel Keys Moran books. Still waiting for the xext 36 or so books in the series!
As to a real answer to the poster's question: Neal Stephenson, Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks are the ones who'll be most read and remembered 50 years from now.