the Sony marketing machine had already killed the Dreamcast
It;s much more "SEGAs incompetence machine had already killed the dreamcast". The saturn and the 32x left such a bitter pill in their fanbase that event he really well put together DC wasn't enough to revive their mojo. That along with the ease of pirating, the poor SEGA marketing, and Sony's looming threat is what sunk the DC. I'd place sony as a very small reason.
Heavenly Sword looked awesome back when it was a potential launch title and no one new it was only 6 hours long.
I bought it on friday and am about 1/2 -> 2/3 done. It's a good 6h. No filler. I guess you take it as you will. Some 30h games are mostly filler. This is a 6h game that is very good without filler. It's well paced, somewhat difficult. Frustrating but fair. Very polished. But short. IT's been more then 6h right now. I think they mean 6h if your good at god of war. I'm not that good and I keep trying to play it like ninja gaiden so I'm only 2/3 of the way through after about 12h.
The iPhone costs about $250, so at the original price they were making a respectable 58% margin; At $399, they are making a 37% margin, and the future holds even lower prices.
do they really? Feature wise it's less them my Motorola Q. hardware wise it's nothing very remarkable that not found in sub $200 retail phones except a large touch screen. PDA's retail for $400 with more features and a touch screen. I think it might be less then $250 but they spend extra on usability R&D.. or they just found a way to port the Reality distorting field.
An iPhone in general is a piss poor purchase. I'd get one only if I want to get laid by a gold digger.
You do have a valid argument. Investment does lead to more work.
Jon Stewart's argument was about 2 types of people: those who have regular jobs and "work" and those who are on Wall Street (their work is investment).
For people who already have work, their savings are in banks. When the Fed cuts interest rates, the return that people who "work" get on their savings goes down. But the stock market goes up (as it did when the rate cut was announced). So the rate cut is good for guys on Wall St and even for people who live on borrowed money (mortgage, credit card debt). But for people who practice fiscal prudence, keep a job and save their hard-earned money in banks, the rate of return on savings goes down. At the same time, the dollar depreciates and there is inflation. So the real worth of savings goes down even further. Your point is well taken: If everyone saves and no one invests, that situation is also bad for the economy. In its infinite wisdom, the Fed controls the money supply in the economy. In this instance, they decided to lower rates. But all this, of course, means that interest rates are not determined only by the free market. So to that extent, it is not a free market economy.
I thought they were making everyone pay for the mistakes of the greedy and inept. After all the lowering of the rate was to prevent the collapse of portions of the mortgage industry. Thus indirectly taxing the people who are financially prudent for those who went for a quick buck and are rapidly seeing it collapse on them.
Wait, you spent upwards of $500 to.. play games you could play on consoles you already own? WTF? Why?
Well. For one there is upscaling and smoothing. For another hardware doesn't last forever and one day my PS2 may die. It's nice to know I can replace it with the latest model. BC is around 80% even with the 80gig one that does not have the old ps2 hardware. That's a fair shade better then 30% on the 360. It's nice to play some of the old classics. That's why a lot of classic games are flying off the virtual shelves of all 3 consoles.
There are some ok games. Heavenly sword and resistance aren't console sellers but their good games. Even the criticisms about heavenly sword aren't that it sucks but it's too short. Motostorm is a system seller if your into rally. I'm not.
Linux is a big draw for me too. I swear to god the "identity" of slashdot is schizophrenic. We love Linux but hate the only home console to support it. We Hate MS but I swear to god half fo the games section are MS fanboys. We know what happens when MS takes over a industry but we root for the 360?
PS. I'm posting this on my PS3 running feisty fawn ubuntu.
Which only reinforces that it is tougher on men who hit rock bottom. I dunno. The pitiful wretches that walk the streets selling themselves in the "bad" parts of my town are in a similar state to the pitiful wretches with no homes. Dirty, drunk or stones. Might be a farther bottom but neither have a very long life expectancy nor a fun life. I'd imagine not having a home a bit worse. But then again, women get there once any demand to have sex with you dries up.
Sure there is, unfortunately they have to not only accept being abused, but having homosexual sex too.
Homosexual or straight. There isn't as much demand for male prostitutes. Just think about the % of sleazy straight men to sleazy gay Men. As well Gay sex is easier to come by as men tend to be more permiscious. Thus the requirement for rent boys are lower then rent girls.
The very short article consisted of Berners-Lee saying that male geeks act stupid, and that causes women to not want to enter the field. It would be nice to have some examples of this so-called stupid behavior. Stupid male ideas that may repel Women from our industry:
1- Women who speak to me for more then a minute must want to date me. 2- If I know more then you in X I must be better then you in every way. 3- Flavor X of utility type Y is the best ever. All else is heresy. 4- 512 gigs of porn is a reasonable item to leave on the public network drive. 5- 80h work weeks is both sane and healthy. 6- Failure to do 80h works weeks is a sign of insufficient work ethic. No matter how much more you actually do during your piddly 40h week. 7- coding skills is directly proportional to Penis size. Penis size is directly proportional to Geek pedantry skills. full implications in both directions. 8- FPS skills are integral for all IT work. 9- Periods induce insanity. 10- If a male manager/supervisor is mad at me I must have screwed up. If a female manager is mad at me it's PMS.
Serious note: I think IT has fewer women because they aren't' encouraged to come into related fields and little more then that. They are taught to value things that most IT jobs would contradict.
Exactly. Im getting sick of all this politically correct hand-wringing. Most geeky jobs especially IT means:
1. Lots of time taken up by emergencies, on-call, etc. 2. Getting down and dirty: pulling wire, moving equipment, etc 3. Never having a typical office job. 4. Limited opportunities for growth. Fortunately I have a decent paying IT job that includes none of that. Topically it may be because my outfit is run by women. I am the only man here full time.
Way to base your argument on your conclusion. The assumption that girls would rather keep their "cute outfits" clean than work on cars, is a cultural assumption. It's a cultural norm that can (and should) change (yes i'm skipping over the argument why it should change, which i'd like to think in modern society i can take for granted). The question you should ask yourself is a) what can you do to change the norm and b) what are you doing to reinforce stereotypes like these (suggestion: posting comments like the one you just did;) )?
I agree Culture is a important bias. What you teach them to want to do is as important as what they are born able to do. However people often go too far int he other direction and ignore there are biological differences. Biologically women should be the best IT gender. Higher built in endurance of repetitive tasks. More body fat to keep them going when they've forgotten to eat while recompiling the webserver. Better ability to multi task. However biology would dictate they would make a worse fire fighter. less muscle mass. different center of gravity. Less explicit desire ot get themselves killed.
And this is the only reason males have on average the better jobs: They are more likely to take risks. When woman whine that they are oh so discriminated they manage it perfectly to blend out all the males who took a risk, failed and landed in the gutter. A place where predominantly men are found.
Thats because there isn't as much demand for male prostitutes. Because a woman who has failed at life for any reason ends up as a prostitute while a man ends up as a bum. The prostitute is a step above the gutter.
However, what's next? I'm not sure I've come accross a single game in the last 10 years that couldn't have been done on my '97 PC by simply lowering the graphical detail.
The next step is details. Compare MGS 3 versus Tomb raider II. A lot more environmental interaction and gameplay variety. So the set pieces gets more interactive (that desk of pens now actually rattles and changes if you launch a rocket at it). More effective AI. Destructible environments. Bigger levels. Sand box games are hard when you have to load 1/2 a city block at a time. More customization options for avatars.
It pretty much a given that we've passed the "exponential" part of the logarithmic improvement curve. Now you get a diminishing return for more hardware and time. We started off pretty bad so improvements were huge. Now we're closing in on the level part of the curve so improvements are incrmeental.
The issue is: more graphics mean more costs, more costs means less flexibility and less flexibility means less innovation and independence.
Good thing for you, smaller games have made a come-back. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have online stores chalk full of smaller games. Their all pretty but in a more modest sort of way unlike some of the baroque epics.
Also innovation != fun. ET was innovative in many ways. It sucked donkey testicles. Liar has a innovative control scheme. One that doesn't work too well given the bad frame rates and control lag. Red steel has a innovative sword swinging mechanic.. as you can see innovative != fun. What you want is polished/innovative. Like Zelda : TP, Gears of war, God of war II etc... All big name epics with graphic polish and semi-innovative gameplay. Or look to super stardust HD, Flow, Geometry wars, and Calling all cars. Heck the Ninetendo DS is a hotbed of innovation mixed with polish and fun. From puzzle quest to elite beat agents. These days are a cornucopia of fun innovation. I bet you there is now numerically more title we could agree on as innovative and fun then in our days of yore.
I tend to side with the "give me gameplay" crowd here.
Define gameplay. As many point out graphics and gameplay aren't mutually exclusive and often handled by different teams. Play Q&A, game designers, producers, directors handle Gameplay. Graphic artists and game engine coders handle graphics. They work in parallel and often 80% of everythign is crap anyways. Want gameplay, try elite beat agents. Want gameplay and graphics, try Gears of war. Want just graphics, try liar.
The power of gameplay, lasting gameplay far outstrips graphics
arcade Pac-man was awesome game play for it's time. I doubt I could stand more then 10 min of it. Super mario brothers was awesome for it's time. I doubt I could ever finish it again without being bored silly. Final Fantasy 6 was awesome for its time. I could play it still all the way through once a year. But my younger brother gets bored to tears. Gameplay dates itself too. We suffer from nostalgia, you and me. Gameplay is fun. Eye candy is fun. A good story is fun. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Most people who pine for better game play are not looking hard enough. Generally they suffer form a severe case of nostalgia. Back int he bad old days for each Super Mario brothers or Missile command there were 4 ET's, Coeleco smurfs or Custer's Revenge. You just don't remember them. The past wasn't some golden age where game play trumps graphics. IT was a place where event he brilliant games had significant control issues, where top shelf games wouldn't been be considered tier 3 dreck today. Take a much maligned games liek Lair, is the basic controls any worse then say NARC for the NES? but NARC was a "good" game for it's time while Lair is a maligned as crap. I haven't played lair but bad controls are no longer acceptable.
There is game play innovation today, and it doesn't have to be independent of pretty graphics. In fact the people responsible for the game play aren't the ones responsible for innovative game play. One does not diminish the other. Good game play is also not the same as innovative game play. They coincide for instance in games like Katamari damacy but often innovation ~= unpolished ~= crap. What we're all looking for is polished game play. It never changes that around 80% of everything will be considered crap. So just rmeember that back int he day 80% of everything was crap too but you just don't remember. So they can ray trace graphics, thats awesome. Will it diminish gameplay.. not really you'll still have 80/20 rule. It's not an indication that things were better then before only that your brain works in a funny way.
Step 1) Find a John Carmack Step 2) Feed him lots of junk food and soda Step 3) Harness his creative energy to publish some tech demos thinly disguised as games Step 4) Sell the engine to someone who can make a game better than you can Step 5) Profit!
The physics of this universe could not possibly cope with 2 John Carmacks. The concentration of genius would overload the known universe and we'd have a 2nd big bang expanding into 144 D Branes.
I think a good example of this is how many security problems have been found in IIS in recent years. For example, go to the MS Security Bulletin site and look up bulletins for IIS 6.0 compared to IIS 5.0 -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx.
There are only two "Important" bulletins for IIS 6, while IIS 5 has almost 30 bulletins over the same inital time period. It is amazing how far IIS has come since that nightmare that was IIS 4.
Third party vendors are to blame as well. I had to install a proprietary DB and web front end that required me to allow "full control" to everyone (basically chmod a+rwx) to several virtual directories. These directories contained executables (.dll and.ASP). You can imagine what a gaping security whole this is.
Hohman transfers are slow and cheap; that's why we use them. If you have a much more energy-dense fuel supply (plutonium certainly fills the bill) there are much faster routes available.
I prefer a holtzman Transfer. Get there in 0.01s. Only bad thing is no one knows how it works except god and Holtzmans wife. And God help you if you bring a laser pointer.
I'm quite certain most of them don't say a lot of bad things about Darl publicly with their names attached, but they have some real feeling of betrayal all t
Interviewer: My this is a impressive resume. Bsc, Msc. 10 years in industry.
Interviewee: Thank you.
Interviewer: An impressive array of languages as well.
Interviewee: I have experience with a myriad of development environments and Operating systems as well.
Interviewer: Hmm.. We are concerned that in your work history you list "well known tech company". Is it a secret? Signed a strange NDA? NSA related? You were with them for 8 years.
Interviewee: ohh no. Just in light of current events I thought I'd be more successful if I left it out. It's SCO.
But natural gas is needed to melt the oil off the tar sands. And there is already a crunch all over North America on supplies of the gas. The practical limit on the tar sands is probably 20 years or less.
A nuclear power plant is going up. Canada is one of the largest sources for uranium as well.
Considering the reserve is 33% of the worlds reserves (multiple independent sources) and that our current utilization is very low, we have some time. 400 might be big. Might be closer to 120 with growth in capacity. Still 80 more then what is projected for the middle east.
Increase prosperity in the west, which in almost all urban centers, has the most inflated land, housing and resource prices anywhere in Canada? Prices in Edmonton and Calgary are nowhere close to the prices in Toronto but on par with Ottawa. Vancouver is the highest overall but being a mild climate with a coastal view it's on par with cities along the coast.
Sure, if we continue to let the west sell off our resources to the highest bidder and pocket all the profit. Constitutionally all resources are provincial. So you have no choice. The only thing to be done is transfer payments and income tax which redistributes the wealth. You can't do much more then that without sparking another western populist revolt.
?We are not in control of our resources whatsoever and this is not a good thing. It's the wild west right now, and the 'gold mines' are already starting to dry up. Taken a look at satellite images of northern Alberta recently? Compared to 5 years ago? Yeah, almost 1/4 of Alberta has been visibly scarred by strip mining for oil in FIVE YEARS. Projections are that we can exist at current capacity for another 400 years. The increase in activity is not a increase in exploration with a level capacity like int he middle east but instead simply expanding capacity. In the last 5 the tar sands have dramatically increase output. We do sit on 33% of the world oil supply. The US and the middle east is less then what we have, and we have a better social and economic infrastructure to get at it then Venezuela's 33% (venezuala and Canada make up 66% of the worlds known oil supply).
It is a vast mistake to look at this as if our dollar has risen...it hasn't. The USD has fallen. There is a big difference. We're heading for a recession like we've never seen before, and this time, we won't have the resources left to easily sell off to bail ourselves out. Due to a strong over all economy out dollar has risen slightly against most other currencies as well. The free falling US dollar just makes it more dramatic.
Grr. I love my country, but there's not going to be much left of it if we let things continue on the way they are. It's generally been a good 2 decades for Canada. You want that to change?
here's no argument that universal health care is a bad idea
Thats news to the rest of the western worlds. You know the ones out performing your currency and economy, with lower levels of poverty and spend 1/2 as much over all per person for a better service on average.
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the Sony marketing machine had already killed the Dreamcast
It;s much more "SEGAs incompetence machine had already killed the dreamcast". The saturn and the 32x left such a bitter pill in their fanbase that event he really well put together DC wasn't enough to revive their mojo. That along with the ease of pirating, the poor SEGA marketing, and Sony's looming threat is what sunk the DC. I'd place sony as a very small reason.
Heavenly Sword looked awesome back when it was a potential launch title and no one new it was only 6 hours long.
I bought it on friday and am about 1/2 -> 2/3 done. It's a good 6h. No filler. I guess you take it as you will. Some 30h games are mostly filler. This is a 6h game that is very good without filler. It's well paced, somewhat difficult. Frustrating but fair. Very polished. But short. IT's been more then 6h right now. I think they mean 6h if your good at god of war. I'm not that good and I keep trying to play it like ninja gaiden so I'm only 2/3 of the way through after about 12h.
The iPhone costs about $250, so at the original price they were making a respectable 58% margin; At $399, they are making a 37% margin, and the future holds even lower prices.
do they really? Feature wise it's less them my Motorola Q. hardware wise it's nothing very remarkable that not found in sub $200 retail phones except a large touch screen. PDA's retail for $400 with more features and a touch screen. I think it might be less then $250 but they spend extra on usability R&D.. or they just found a way to port the Reality distorting field.
An iPhone in general is a piss poor purchase. I'd get one only if I want to get laid by a gold digger.
You do have a valid argument. Investment does lead to more work.
Jon Stewart's argument was about 2 types of people: those who have regular jobs and "work" and those who are on Wall Street (their work is investment).
For people who already have work, their savings are in banks. When the Fed cuts interest rates, the return that people who "work" get on their savings goes down. But the stock market goes up (as it did when the rate cut was announced). So the rate cut is good for guys on Wall St and even for people who live on borrowed money (mortgage, credit card debt). But for people who practice fiscal prudence, keep a job and save their hard-earned money in banks, the rate of return on savings goes down. At the same time, the dollar depreciates and there is inflation. So the real worth of savings goes down even further.
Your point is well taken: If everyone saves and no one invests, that situation is also bad for the economy. In its infinite wisdom, the Fed controls the money supply in the economy. In this instance, they decided to lower rates. But all this, of course, means that interest rates are not determined only by the free market. So to that extent, it is not a free market economy.
I thought they were making everyone pay for the mistakes of the greedy and inept. After all the lowering of the rate was to prevent the collapse of portions of the mortgage industry. Thus indirectly taxing the people who are financially prudent for those who went for a quick buck and are rapidly seeing it collapse on them.
Don't try to trivialize the solid case for banning PS3s by associating it with the cranks who want to ban PS3s for being too cheap.
banning PS3? minus well ban SUV first. Solid case? Ban all computers while your at it as most are energy hogs.
Wait, you spent upwards of $500 to.. play games you could play on consoles you already own? WTF? Why?
Well. For one there is upscaling and smoothing. For another hardware doesn't last forever and one day my PS2 may die. It's nice to know I can replace it with the latest model. BC is around 80% even with the 80gig one that does not have the old ps2 hardware. That's a fair shade better then 30% on the 360. It's nice to play some of the old classics. That's why a lot of classic games are flying off the virtual shelves of all 3 consoles.
There are some ok games. Heavenly sword and resistance aren't console sellers but their good games. Even the criticisms about heavenly sword aren't that it sucks but it's too short. Motostorm is a system seller if your into rally. I'm not.
Linux is a big draw for me too. I swear to god the "identity" of slashdot is schizophrenic. We love Linux but hate the only home console to support it. We Hate MS but I swear to god half fo the games section are MS fanboys. We know what happens when MS takes over a industry but we root for the 360?
PS. I'm posting this on my PS3 running feisty fawn ubuntu.
Sure there is, unfortunately they have to not only accept being abused, but having homosexual sex too.
Homosexual or straight. There isn't as much demand for male prostitutes. Just think about the % of sleazy straight men to sleazy gay Men. As well Gay sex is easier to come by as men tend to be more permiscious. Thus the requirement for rent boys are lower then rent girls.
1- Women who speak to me for more then a minute must want to date me.
2- If I know more then you in X I must be better then you in every way.
3- Flavor X of utility type Y is the best ever. All else is heresy.
4- 512 gigs of porn is a reasonable item to leave on the public network drive.
5- 80h work weeks is both sane and healthy.
6- Failure to do 80h works weeks is a sign of insufficient work ethic. No matter how much more you actually do during your piddly 40h week.
7- coding skills is directly proportional to Penis size. Penis size is directly proportional to Geek pedantry skills. full implications in both directions.
8- FPS skills are integral for all IT work.
9- Periods induce insanity.
10- If a male manager/supervisor is mad at me I must have screwed up. If a female manager is mad at me it's PMS.
Serious note: I think IT has fewer women because they aren't' encouraged to come into related fields and little more then that. They are taught to value things that most IT jobs would contradict.
1. Lots of time taken up by emergencies, on-call, etc.
2. Getting down and dirty: pulling wire, moving equipment, etc
3. Never having a typical office job.
4. Limited opportunities for growth. Fortunately I have a decent paying IT job that includes none of that. Topically it may be because my outfit is run by women. I am the only man here full time.
Way to base your argument on your conclusion. The assumption that girls would rather keep their "cute outfits" clean than work on cars, is a cultural assumption. It's a cultural norm that can (and should) change (yes i'm skipping over the argument why it should change, which i'd like to think in modern society i can take for granted). The question you should ask yourself is a) what can you do to change the norm and b) what are you doing to reinforce stereotypes like these (suggestion: posting comments like the one you just did ;) )?
I agree Culture is a important bias. What you teach them to want to do is as important as what they are born able to do. However people often go too far int he other direction and ignore there are biological differences. Biologically women should be the best IT gender. Higher built in endurance of repetitive tasks. More body fat to keep them going when they've forgotten to eat while recompiling the webserver. Better ability to multi task. However biology would dictate they would make a worse fire fighter. less muscle mass. different center of gravity. Less explicit desire ot get themselves killed.
This is of course on average.
And this is the only reason males have on average the better jobs: They are more likely to take risks. When woman whine that they are oh so discriminated they manage it perfectly to blend out all the males who took a risk, failed and landed in the gutter. A place where predominantly men are found.
Thats because there isn't as much demand for male prostitutes. Because a woman who has failed at life for any reason ends up as a prostitute while a man ends up as a bum. The prostitute is a step above the gutter.
However, what's next? I'm not sure I've come accross a single game in the last 10 years that couldn't have been done on my '97 PC by simply lowering the graphical detail.
The next step is details. Compare MGS 3 versus Tomb raider II. A lot more environmental interaction and gameplay variety. So the set pieces gets more interactive (that desk of pens now actually rattles and changes if you launch a rocket at it). More effective AI. Destructible environments. Bigger levels. Sand box games are hard when you have to load 1/2 a city block at a time. More customization options for avatars.
It pretty much a given that we've passed the "exponential" part of the logarithmic improvement curve. Now you get a diminishing return for more hardware and time. We started off pretty bad so improvements were huge. Now we're closing in on the level part of the curve so improvements are incrmeental.
The issue is: more graphics mean more costs, more costs means less flexibility and less flexibility means less innovation and independence.
Good thing for you, smaller games have made a come-back. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have online stores chalk full of smaller games. Their all pretty but in a more modest sort of way unlike some of the baroque epics.
Also innovation != fun. ET was innovative in many ways. It sucked donkey testicles. Liar has a innovative control scheme. One that doesn't work too well given the bad frame rates and control lag. Red steel has a innovative sword swinging mechanic.. as you can see innovative != fun. What you want is polished/innovative. Like Zelda : TP, Gears of war, God of war II etc... All big name epics with graphic polish and semi-innovative gameplay. Or look to super stardust HD, Flow, Geometry wars, and Calling all cars. Heck the Ninetendo DS is a hotbed of innovation mixed with polish and fun. From puzzle quest to elite beat agents. These days are a cornucopia of fun innovation. I bet you there is now numerically more title we could agree on as innovative and fun then in our days of yore.
I tend to side with the "give me gameplay" crowd here.
Define gameplay. As many point out graphics and gameplay aren't mutually exclusive and often handled by different teams. Play Q&A, game designers, producers, directors handle Gameplay. Graphic artists and game engine coders handle graphics. They work in parallel and often 80% of everythign is crap anyways. Want gameplay, try elite beat agents. Want gameplay and graphics, try Gears of war. Want just graphics, try liar.
The power of gameplay, lasting gameplay far outstrips graphics
arcade Pac-man was awesome game play for it's time. I doubt I could stand more then 10 min of it. Super mario brothers was awesome for it's time. I doubt I could ever finish it again without being bored silly. Final Fantasy 6 was awesome for its time. I could play it still all the way through once a year. But my younger brother gets bored to tears. Gameplay dates itself too. We suffer from nostalgia, you and me. Gameplay is fun. Eye candy is fun. A good story is fun. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Most people who pine for better game play are not looking hard enough. Generally they suffer form a severe case of nostalgia. Back int he bad old days for each Super Mario brothers or Missile command there were 4 ET's, Coeleco smurfs or Custer's Revenge. You just don't remember them. The past wasn't some golden age where game play trumps graphics. IT was a place where event he brilliant games had significant control issues, where top shelf games wouldn't been be considered tier 3 dreck today. Take a much maligned games liek Lair, is the basic controls any worse then say NARC for the NES? but NARC was a "good" game for it's time while Lair is a maligned as crap. I haven't played lair but bad controls are no longer acceptable.
There is game play innovation today, and it doesn't have to be independent of pretty graphics. In fact the people responsible for the game play aren't the ones responsible for innovative game play. One does not diminish the other. Good game play is also not the same as innovative game play. They coincide for instance in games like Katamari damacy but often innovation ~= unpolished ~= crap. What we're all looking for is polished game play. It never changes that around 80% of everything will be considered crap. So just rmeember that back int he day 80% of everything was crap too but you just don't remember. So they can ray trace graphics, thats awesome. Will it diminish gameplay.. not really you'll still have 80/20 rule. It's not an indication that things were better then before only that your brain works in a funny way.
Step 1) Find a John Carmack
Step 2) Feed him lots of junk food and soda
Step 3) Harness his creative energy to publish some tech demos thinly disguised as games
Step 4) Sell the engine to someone who can make a game better than you can
Step 5) Profit!
The physics of this universe could not possibly cope with 2 John Carmacks. The concentration of genius would overload the known universe and we'd have a 2nd big bang expanding into 144 D Branes.
I think a good example of this is how many security problems have been found in IIS in recent years. For example, go to the MS Security Bulletin site and look up bulletins for IIS 6.0 compared to IIS 5.0 -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx.
.ASP). You can imagine what a gaping security whole this is.
There are only two "Important" bulletins for IIS 6, while IIS 5 has almost 30 bulletins over the same inital time period. It is amazing how far IIS has come since that nightmare that was IIS 4.
Third party vendors are to blame as well. I had to install a proprietary DB and web front end that required me to allow "full control" to everyone (basically chmod a+rwx) to several virtual directories. These directories contained executables (.dll and
Hohman transfers are slow and cheap; that's why we use them. If you have a much more energy-dense fuel supply (plutonium certainly fills the bill) there are much faster routes available.
I prefer a holtzman Transfer. Get there in 0.01s. Only bad thing is no one knows how it works except god and Holtzmans wife. And God help you if you bring a laser pointer.
I'm quite certain most of them don't say a lot of bad things about Darl publicly with their names attached, but they have some real feeling of betrayal all t
Interviewer: My this is a impressive resume. Bsc, Msc. 10 years in industry.
Interviewee: Thank you.
Interviewer: An impressive array of languages as well.
Interviewee: I have experience with a myriad of development environments and Operating systems as well.
Interviewer: Hmm.. We are concerned that in your work history you list "well known tech company". Is it a secret? Signed a strange NDA? NSA related? You were with them for 8 years.
Interviewee: ohh no. Just in light of current events I thought I'd be more successful if I left it out. It's SCO.
Interviewer:..... Get the fuck out.
But natural gas is needed to melt the oil off the tar sands. And there is already a crunch all over North America on supplies of the gas. The practical limit on the tar sands is probably 20 years or less.
A nuclear power plant is going up. Canada is one of the largest sources for uranium as well.
Considering the reserve is 33% of the worlds reserves (multiple independent sources) and that our current utilization is very low, we have some time. 400 might be big. Might be closer to 120 with growth in capacity. Still 80 more then what is projected for the middle east.
here's no argument that universal health care is a bad idea
Thats news to the rest of the western worlds. You know the ones out performing your currency and economy, with lower levels of poverty and spend 1/2 as much over all per person for a better service on average.