what kind of software can be used to simplify this work
The easiest way would require new hardware - to get the immersive visualization and manipulation that real directors have.
Combine that "matrix construct" immersiveness with some very very smart software that fills in the detail gaps with appropriate meshes, textures, and object properties, and you'd have something pretty damn easy.
Instead of pushing a mouse around a small viewport and tediously specifying your 3D scenes down to the very last detail, you could "paint" with an intuitive, broad brush.
I imagine wearing this hardware - full FOV retinal scanners and whatnot - which puts me in this "construct", and being able to say or select: "It's 2pm, summer. Give me the generic OpenContent park. Bigger. More grass. Oak tree there. Spruce over there. Older. Taller. More squirrels. Put three park benches along that path. More carved names on the bench. Age the benches 50 years. Increase bench spacing. Change all paths to cobblestone. Put a hot babe on the middle bench. Take her clothes off. Okay, put them back on. Save Scene As 'ParkSex - opening scene'. Okay, an old rusty van drives up from that direction, and stops... there. A hot stud with my face gets out and walks over to the chick and pauses in front of her. Oh, she's reading Acme. Camera moves here to here as she looks at me, er, him. Chick pulls out a gun - BFG... no a rocket launcher -........ too noisy in the park - reduce traffic ambient..."
A 'CV' is just the snooty name for a résumé, especially if used outside Europe. A lot of people seem to think that using latin somehow gives them a professional highbrow edge.
Anyway, teaching boring facts is the last thing that should be emphasized in school or games; rote memorization is not what our brains are optimized for, and it'll become increasingly unnecessary as "brain augmentation" (like Google) improves. (And no, dear Luddites, technology is not a crutch.)
kids who grew up with video games are unbelivably good at flying planes.
and the kids who grew up programming video games will write the code that makes most planes pilotless; so who'll need those human Nintendo-pilots anyway?:)
"The stresses such an artifact would undergo are so strong that the tensile strength of scrith approaches that of the strong nuclear force, which holds atoms together (4)." -
physics+ringworld
Mithril armor is actually a "smart material" sent back in time from the future such that it's indisguishable from magic.:)
How it works is fairly simple (for someone from the fuuuuture): the material is networked and is aware of its state. When some of the "links" in the armor notice that they're moving very fast relative to their neighbors -- as would happen when a bullet or sword is trying to pierce -- it tenses and effectively becomes diamond plate armor, spreading the pressure out from a square centimeter to a square torso.
amateur porn surfers; real men use http://www.thehun.com/ [thehun.com] and http://www.sublimedirectory.com/ [sublimedirectory.com] anyways
People still surf for porn in 2003? For tiny galleries of boring static images and sub-VHS-quality streaming video clips in your choice of RealMedia, Quicktime, or MicroCrap? Seriously?
"Real men" either buy adult DVDs, or download high quality DivX rips from p2p (or get the real thing often enough not to need to burp their worm).
I mean, hell, at that point, I might as well just use my 56.6k modem
And so would I, but AOL TimeWarner still hasn't capped their RoadRunner service.
With a 56K modem you could transfer about 12GB per month (with unlimited local calls to stay online 24/7), which is way more than many of those insane broadband caps. And I used to have a dual-56K "shotgun" modem - so that would be ~24GB month, which is about half what I xfer now.
Of course... always-on, low latency, and streaming, isn't something dialup can provide.
Or do what I do and create a double-sided resume: On one side is your standard, boring, corporate, lying-through-your-teeth, buzzword-laden resume, and on the other you put your no-bullshit, plain-english, the-truth-gets-you-nowhere version.
I like your motivational list, but you missed one colonization impetus that's unique to Mars (or self-sustaining offworld habitats in general): survival.
I'm hoping that as the years progress, greater numbers of people will "wake up" to the increasingly likelyhood that our exponentially advancing technology is making it much easier to wipe ourselves out (in our lifetime).
Top Ten (unfunny) Reasons for Sending People into Space:
10. Robots aren't as dextrous or adaptable as humans yet.
9. Robots aren't smart enough (yet) to be autonomous when telepresence latency increases.
8. We can't upload our minds into robotic shells yet. (GITS!)
7. The human condition is biological, and so we want to know the experience as such.
6. Robots don't get taxpayers excited.
5. Robots aren't "heroic" enough to inspire kids to grow up to be scientists, etc.
4. Robots just take more jobs away from real flesh-and-blood humans! (Armitage!)
3. We can convert the dead humans into valuable H20.
2. To ensure genetically diverse humans live on (via traditional sex in space) when Earth bites the dust.
1. Ego. ME. ME. ME. ME! ME!!!
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I could pull the plug on my job today and last a good 10 years
Assuming the U.S. dollar remains dominant, and inflation steady.
(Personally, I'm banking on traditional wealth not meaning much as we accelerate toward the technological Singularity over the next few decades.)
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You actually get snide comments about your "cheapass" cellphone? From who? I thought the early phase where cellphones were status symbols was over long ago, and those who don't carry them are the really "important" people. All the phones look alike anyway now.
What kind of satellite or spaceship do you want to launch off mars?
Just one kind mostly: geosynchronous, and with bootstrapping spools of diamondoid cable; then you don't need to waste so much energy on chemical rockets all the time.
Silly wabbit, the gubbermint has been using reverse engineered alien computing technology since the 50s. It's true!
These Top Secret quantum computers are hidden miles beneath the artic pole in the joint underground bunkers of the Illuminati, The High Jew Command, and the Grey Alien Galactic Council. It's all true! Really!
This super-secret computer is primarily used to simulate our solar system in enough detail such that The Powers That Be can "guide" history by killing the right butterflies to maximize their power. It's all true! Sincerely! Check out the literature yourself!
Oh, you mean the Net's global? And the FBI would be getting a lot of that juris-my-dick-tion crap from other countries? What are they gonna do? "Hey you, axis of evil, hand over the p2p terrorist on 194.225.70.96 or we'll embargo your netblock!"?:)
[P2P's] not a solution for anything that doesn't involve sharing illegal files.
Oh? So then I guess "illegal p2p" sites like GameTab (bittorrent) and FileFront (redswoosh) aren't a solution for getting game demos faster than CrapPlanet's fantastic client-server lines eh?
P2P is a hack
Why do I get the impression that your job depends on the centralization of power that client-server allows?
If I need to download a BF1942 patch, I'll get it and delete it
Speak for yourself. Not everyone is as selfish as you apparently are, and p2p will eventually have reputation systems for weeding rogues and assholes out of our webs of trust.
The regulations to ensure it doesn't get out of control aren't in place...
Regulations won't don't do squat.
There's only a couple ways to prevent extinction from some nasty bio or nano-disaster (whether intentional or accidental): 1) Permanently move some eggs off our basketcase-planet; 2) Hope that benevolent AI and IA (human Intelligence Amplication) emerges before full-blown nanotech, to safely handle it better than any stupid & selfish humans could; 3) Luck.
"The Fermi Paradox refers to the question mark that hovers over the data point that we have seen no signs of extraterrestrial life. This tells us that it is not the case that life evolves on a significant fraction of Earth-like planets and proceeds to develop advanced technology, using it to colonize the universe in ways that would have been detected with our current instrumentation. There must be (at least) one Great Filter â" an evolutionary step that is extremely improbable â" somewhere on the line between Earth-like planet and colonizing-in-detectable-ways civilization. If the Great Filter isn't in our past, we must fear it in our (near) future. Maybe nearly every civilization that develops a certain level of technology causes its own extinction." -- http://www.transhumanist.com/volume9/risks.html
Red Mars is... an 'almost plausible sci-fi' future-history approach about Colonizing and Terraforming Mars.
It's only plausible if you still think that technology is advancing linearly, instead of exponentially, and only if you assume humans will still be stuck in our fragile biological form for a period longer than the centuries it takes to terraform a planet in the first place. So no, IMHO, I think we'll sooner end up ripping Mars apart (oh the humanity!) to make better use of its matter, than wasting space & energy by living on its limited surface area.
(Yeah, I've had a slight problem suspending my disbelief for most SF in recent years:)
I'd much rather see Iain Banks' Culture brought to the screen, though that would be just a tad bit more difficult.
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The easiest way would require new hardware - to get the immersive visualization and manipulation that real directors have.
Combine that "matrix construct" immersiveness with some very very smart software that fills in the detail gaps with appropriate meshes, textures, and object properties, and you'd have something pretty damn easy.
Instead of pushing a mouse around a small viewport and tediously specifying your 3D scenes down to the very last detail, you could "paint" with an intuitive, broad brush.
I imagine wearing this hardware - full FOV retinal scanners and whatnot - which puts me in this "construct", and being able to say or select: "It's 2pm, summer. Give me the generic OpenContent park. Bigger. More grass. Oak tree there. Spruce over there. Older. Taller. More squirrels. Put three park benches along that path. More carved names on the bench. Age the benches 50 years. Increase bench spacing. Change all paths to cobblestone. Put a hot babe on the middle bench. Take her clothes off. Okay, put them back on. Save Scene As 'ParkSex - opening scene'. Okay, an old rusty van drives up from that direction, and stops ... there. A hot stud with my face gets out and walks over to the chick and pauses in front of her. Oh, she's reading Acme. Camera moves here to here as she looks at me, er, him. Chick pulls out a gun - BFG ... no a rocket launcher - ........ too noisy in the park - reduce traffic ambient ..."
I realize this is quite a ways off. :)
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A 'CV' is just the snooty name for a résumé, especially if used outside Europe. A lot of people seem to think that using latin somehow gives them a professional highbrow edge.
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"too cultural", you say? I fail to see what's wrong with having some authentic culture show through VS. the alternative: boring corporate bile.
Much better to offend a few anal drones like yourself, than to put everyone to sleep with an impersonal, unoffensive lowest common denominator.
(And to spout an outdated meme: Get with the Clue Train.)
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(Personal Responsibility doesn't pay out as much as the Lawsuit Lottery(TM) or Nanny Government Peace of Mind.)
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A quickie list...
- Hand/eye coordination: any FPS or racing sim
- Logic/Problem solving: Lemmings, Tetris,
- "Anti-social" socializing: IRCs "gimme ops!" game, The Sims, RPGs,
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- Coding: IRCs "scriptz", That old C-Robots game, ego contests
- Capitalism 101: _$Latest_Sequel_ Tycoon,
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- Physics 101: Scorched Earth, Soda,
- Dancing like a spaz: Dance Dance Revolution, EOL.
- Boring facts: "Research" for
/. posts, Trivia games, Google whacking (or whatever it's called.)
Anyway, teaching boring facts is the last thing that should be emphasized in school or games; rote memorization is not what our brains are optimized for, and it'll become increasingly unnecessary as "brain augmentation" (like Google) improves. (And no, dear Luddites, technology is not a crutch.)--
and the kids who grew up programming video games will write the code that makes most planes pilotless; so who'll need those human Nintendo-pilots anyway? :)
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Orbitals are sane; ringworlds aren't.
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How it works is fairly simple (for someone from the fuuuuture): the material is networked and is aware of its state. When some of the "links" in the armor notice that they're moving very fast relative to their neighbors -- as would happen when a bullet or sword is trying to pierce -- it tenses and effectively becomes diamond plate armor, spreading the pressure out from a square centimeter to a square torso.
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People still surf for porn in 2003? For tiny galleries of boring static images and sub-VHS-quality streaming video clips in your choice of RealMedia, Quicktime, or MicroCrap? Seriously?
"Real men" either buy adult DVDs, or download high quality DivX rips from p2p (or get the real thing often enough not to need to burp their worm).
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And so would I, but AOL TimeWarner still hasn't capped their RoadRunner service.
With a 56K modem you could transfer about 12GB per month (with unlimited local calls to stay online 24/7), which is way more than many of those insane broadband caps. And I used to have a dual-56K "shotgun" modem - so that would be ~24GB month, which is about half what I xfer now.
Of course... always-on, low latency, and streaming, isn't something dialup can provide.
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I'm hoping that as the years progress, greater numbers of people will "wake up" to the increasingly likelyhood that our exponentially advancing technology is making it much easier to wipe ourselves out (in our lifetime).
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10. Robots aren't as dextrous or adaptable as humans yet.
9. Robots aren't smart enough (yet) to be autonomous when telepresence latency increases.
8. We can't upload our minds into robotic shells yet. (GITS!)
7. The human condition is biological, and so we want to know the experience as such.
6. Robots don't get taxpayers excited.
5. Robots aren't "heroic" enough to inspire kids to grow up to be scientists, etc.
4. Robots just take more jobs away from real flesh-and-blood humans! (Armitage!)
3. We can convert the dead humans into valuable H20.
2. To ensure genetically diverse humans live on (via traditional sex in space) when Earth bites the dust.
1. Ego. ME. ME. ME. ME! ME!!!
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Assuming the U.S. dollar remains dominant, and inflation steady.
(Personally, I'm banking on traditional wealth not meaning much as we accelerate toward the technological Singularity over the next few decades.) --
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That's what I thought you said.
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Just one kind mostly: geosynchronous, and with bootstrapping spools of diamondoid cable; then you don't need to waste so much energy on chemical rockets all the time.
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These Top Secret quantum computers are hidden miles beneath the artic pole in the joint underground bunkers of the Illuminati, The High Jew Command, and the Grey Alien Galactic Council. It's all true! Really!
This super-secret computer is primarily used to simulate our solar system in enough detail such that The Powers That Be can "guide" history by killing the right butterflies to maximize their power. It's all true! Sincerely! Check out the literature yourself!
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Oh? So then I guess "illegal p2p" sites like GameTab (bittorrent) and FileFront (redswoosh) aren't a solution for getting game demos faster than CrapPlanet's fantastic client-server lines eh?
P2P is a hack
Why do I get the impression that your job depends on the centralization of power that client-server allows?
If I need to download a BF1942 patch, I'll get it and delete it
Speak for yourself. Not everyone is as selfish as you apparently are, and p2p will eventually have reputation systems for weeding rogues and assholes out of our webs of trust.
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[X] Anti-social
[X] Freedom lover
Where do I sign up? :)
No need for the free state project when you can start from scratch with your own floating city.
(Of course, engineering on this scale will become magnitudes easier when bottom-up manufacturing replaces the ages old top-down bulktech.)
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Regulations won't don't do squat.
There's only a couple ways to prevent extinction from some nasty bio or nano-disaster (whether intentional or accidental): 1) Permanently move some eggs off our basketcase-planet; 2) Hope that benevolent AI and IA (human Intelligence Amplication) emerges before full-blown nanotech, to safely handle it better than any stupid & selfish humans could; 3) Luck.
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Barriers to free p2p wireless? Hmm... that would be... the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and... greed. :)
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It's only plausible if you still think that technology is advancing linearly, instead of exponentially, and only if you assume humans will still be stuck in our fragile biological form for a period longer than the centuries it takes to terraform a planet in the first place. So no, IMHO, I think we'll sooner end up ripping Mars apart (oh the humanity!) to make better use of its matter, than wasting space & energy by living on its limited surface area.
(Yeah, I've had a slight problem suspending my disbelief for most SF in recent years :)
I'd much rather see Iain Banks' Culture brought to the screen, though that would be just a tad bit more difficult.
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