I just checked this worlds.com out and remember using this technology back in 1995 or 1996, when it was owned by some startup in San Francisco. Back then it was interesting and different but in running the client program again just now I see that basically NOTHING has changed. Where "$35 million" in reseach and development has gone I have no idea- probably up the CEO's nose, and those of his whores. Verant spend about $10 million to develop Everquest and that product is light-years beyond Worlds.com.
This patent, though being totally bogus to begin with, is the only thing the company has of value, as they can use it to try to extract cash out of real 3D/VR technology companies like Id Software and Verant.
The problem of clipping avatars from FOV in server-client worlds is LONG documented in academic and military reseach, not to mention numerous home-grown MUD type worlds.
One should take a look at the video clips of interviews with Worlds.com's CEO on CNBC and CNN, from 1999. It's a perfect example of the DOT-COM/Venture capital mania- totally bogus business models where CEOs basically schill to pump up their stocks value. Their stock is worth 9 cents today. NINE CENTS!
EA buys so many companies and milks them for all they are worth until they're gone.
Origin Systems use to produce a lot of games now they produce none. Ultima Online will be their last product, and they will just suck the blood out of it until there's nothing left and OSI will be gone for good.
Some bean counter out EA decided that after spending $10-$15 million on UO2 the company need to cut costs to meet H1 2001 profit forecasts- NOW, at any cost. So, what the hell- just throw away all that money.
EA obviously doesn't have the stomach to make on-line games, which require far more persistence and effort than stand alones.
All scientific research now rests on using the tools of computers to advance. So, in a trivial yet important sense, all fields of science are boiling down necessarily to mathematic logic, as such is the underlying nature of computation.
Don't worry this won't pass. So many flagrant bills get filed each session here it makes the federal Congress look like a well run.
Texas is too pro-business for this type of legislation to pass.
Each session someone from Houston files a bill which will make the the State of Texas take over the City of Austin- make it similar to Washington D.C.
Did you know its illegal to milk someone else's cow in Texas?
If mathematics is the last to finally fall off the 19th century romantic notion of science, than this shows how right Nietzsche's "Perspectivist" philosophy is in terms of there being no sacred pure and dis-interested knowledge.
What Omega appears to _formally_ demonstrate is the truth that the world we perceive is indeed a creation of the brain. That is, the very physical structure which produces the categories of consciousness itself denies us access to the world as it is (or might be) beyond appearance.
We can only see the world as it appears in phenomena we observe, and our brains form relational knowledge based on experience and the brain's organizing principles.
Put another way, mathematics ultimately has no reality in of itself beyond the very brains which have created it. Mathematics is just another "natural" language. If a tree falls in the forest it doesn't make a sound unless there is a being there to perceive it. Similarly, there is no "ultimate" or "transcendent" nature to mathematics- if there is no brain in the universe which is capable of creating and understanding numerical computation, there are no mathematical concepts in the universe.
I think your post is a troll or you're going to a community college. If you feel that MCSE classes tought more than that in "CS" I can only feel very sorry for you, and you are very clueless.
Go search the CS under course pages for the lectures notes and exams at MIT or Berkeley and then come back and tell us what you think. CS study has ZERO to do with Unix or PHP. Would you equate a laborer who uses a hammer with an architect?
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I just checked this worlds.com out and remember using this technology back in 1995 or 1996, when it was owned by some startup in San Francisco. Back then it was interesting and different but in running the client program again just now I see that basically NOTHING has changed. Where "$35 million" in reseach and development has gone I have no idea- probably up the CEO's nose, and those of his whores. Verant spend about $10 million to develop Everquest and that product is light-years beyond Worlds.com.
This patent, though being totally bogus to begin with, is the only thing the company has of value, as they can use it to try to extract cash out of real 3D/VR technology companies like Id Software and Verant.
The problem of clipping avatars from FOV in server-client worlds is LONG documented in academic and military reseach, not to mention numerous home-grown MUD type worlds.
One should take a look at the video clips of interviews with Worlds.com's CEO on CNBC and CNN, from 1999. It's a perfect example of the DOT-COM/Venture capital mania- totally bogus business models where CEOs basically schill to pump up their stocks value. Their stock is worth 9 cents today. NINE CENTS!
EA buys so many companies and milks them for all they are worth until they're gone. Origin Systems use to produce a lot of games now they produce none. Ultima Online will be their last product, and they will just suck the blood out of it until there's nothing left and OSI will be gone for good. Some bean counter out EA decided that after spending $10-$15 million on UO2 the company need to cut costs to meet H1 2001 profit forecasts- NOW, at any cost. So, what the hell- just throw away all that money. EA obviously doesn't have the stomach to make on-line games, which require far more persistence and effort than stand alones.
All scientific research now rests on using the tools of computers to advance. So, in a trivial yet important sense, all fields of science are boiling down necessarily to mathematic logic, as such is the underlying nature of computation.
Don't worry this won't pass. So many flagrant bills get filed each session here it makes the federal Congress look like a well run. Texas is too pro-business for this type of legislation to pass. Each session someone from Houston files a bill which will make the the State of Texas take over the City of Austin- make it similar to Washington D.C. Did you know its illegal to milk someone else's cow in Texas?
If mathematics is the last to finally fall off the 19th century romantic notion of science, than this shows how right Nietzsche's "Perspectivist" philosophy is in terms of there being no sacred pure and dis-interested knowledge.
What Omega appears to _formally_ demonstrate is the truth that the world we perceive is indeed a creation of the brain. That is, the very physical structure which produces the categories of consciousness itself denies us access to the world as it is (or might be) beyond appearance.
We can only see the world as it appears in phenomena we observe, and our brains form relational knowledge based on experience and the brain's organizing principles.
Put another way, mathematics ultimately has no reality in of itself beyond the very brains which have created it. Mathematics is just another "natural" language. If a tree falls in the forest it doesn't make a sound unless there is a being there to perceive it. Similarly, there is no "ultimate" or "transcendent" nature to mathematics- if there is no brain in the universe which is capable of creating and understanding numerical computation, there are no mathematical concepts in the universe.
I think your post is a troll or you're going to a community college. If you feel that MCSE classes tought more than that in "CS" I can only feel very sorry for you, and you are very clueless. Go search the CS under course pages for the lectures notes and exams at MIT or Berkeley and then come back and tell us what you think. CS study has ZERO to do with Unix or PHP. Would you equate a laborer who uses a hammer with an architect?