You haven't the faintest clue what the fuck you are talking about. I know what the costs are to rent tables, and let me tell you, they're maybe enough to cover the costs of the rental of the room that hosts all the vendors. Period. I greatly doubt it would in any way go to cover any other expenses of the event.
Yeah, the NSA had a table a few years ago (right next to the EFF!) and other governmental and un-popular organizations have had a table in the past, but overall it's small business and publishers who truly are friends of the hacker community.
I would be vending there this year had I been able to logistically make it happen.
Consider the state of network technologies 10 years ago. There is so much that can be done in the last mile by actually deploying fiber, combined with up and coming high speed switching speeds that I don't think this will be a problem long.
Whether people want to invest another couple grand on a new display, that's another thing.
What they *can* do is put that kind of resolution on desktop displays. Please, enough with the "1920x1080 is high resolution" bullshit. We all had the ability to do 1600x1200 on CRTs over a decade ago.
It's definitely an interesting game, but I found the controls particularly horrible. I understand why they are the way they are. Going from near light speed to a dead stop without any deceleration is rather unrealistic and vise verse. However, from the perspective of it being a "game" it was downright annoying.
Great concept, though, and definitely an interesting learning tool. It'd be even more fun if one could adjust the variables directly and and explore the consequences of those variables more deeply.
I think you are full of bullshit, how can you judge an online game if you played it for only 3 days
The same way you and I judge a movie after watching it once for the 90 to 120 minutes it takes to watch it. The insinuation that you have to invest literally days into something before you know if you like it is absurd. If we were to do that for everything, none of us would have time to find anything we like. For those of us with jobs and families and might only have an hour or two a day (if we're lucky) to play, we need to know quickly whether or not this is something we want to invest our precious time with.
I agree. I would have loved additional time to think about and clarify what I wanted to communicate. Unfortunately the only good time to talk on camera was during clean-up, when my brain was already fried and sleep deprived!
Sometimes I think I should document my experiences in writing, until I realize others have done so in the past and did so better than I could ever hope to do myself.
That's a really great point. We do release all of our recorded presentations on line after the event, but woefully lack any real documentation of what goes on outside of the talks. If someone is willing to act as event historian or documentarian, I would certainly welcome their input and go out of my way to accommodate them.
I am proud to stand by my words and my event, regardless of it's success. This year's attendance was in fact slightly lower than last years.
As for misappropriation of funds, I would be very interested to hear how you came to that conclusion. For various reasons, I have lost tens of thousands of dollars running this event over the past 9 years. Was it worth it? Absolutely.
I am sorry you didn't get much value from it. Thankfully there are a lot of other events out there that may be more suited to your needs.
Who is supposed to pay for the construction of such a space habitat? Where will the materials come from? What about mission support? Even on such a station, there will be a class system and scarcity, whether anyone likes it or not. Someone will have to fly the damn thing. Likewise, unless the powers that be use fascist tactics to control reproduction, procreation will put a further strain on resources.
Although I realize I'm not really arguing with you as much as the idea of a space habitat. Great idea in science fiction, nightmare in reality.
I wish I had mine from late 1996 still. P-100 with a 1 gig drive (wooo!) and 16 megs of ram running NT 3.5.1 and ZBserver with custom Perl scripts running as an ATM node on a 655 Mbps network that was down 60% of the time.
Your argument holds no water. If that were the case, one could make the same arguments about operating systems. Why bother developing Linux in an attempt to "keep up with the Jones'" when Windows already exists.
"I bought a Wii just a little while ago and I love it for short bursts of fun... However I need to ask the question, What is going to keep X-Box and PS3 from stealing the Wii thunder?"
You answered your own question. Some of us don't want to spend hours upon hours playing video games and investing thousands of dollars into consoles, systems, software, etc. Some people just want to pick up a game, relax for an hour or two, then get on to something else. The Wii will essentially be *the* system for casual gamers, who hold a much larger portion of the market overall than hardcore-bleeding edge game types. This will be abundantly apparent once the console has reached market saturation which, as is obvious, it is nowhere near close to doing based upon the pent up demand this far into it's release.
Anyway, that's how I see it and how Nintendo is marketing it. They'll bank nicely because of it and their profit numbers are already a testament to that.
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From joe scriptkiddy sure, but not from the people you actually don't want reading your mail.
You haven't the faintest clue what the fuck you are talking about. I know what the costs are to rent tables, and let me tell you, they're maybe enough to cover the costs of the rental of the room that hosts all the vendors. Period. I greatly doubt it would in any way go to cover any other expenses of the event.
Yeah, the NSA had a table a few years ago (right next to the EFF!) and other governmental and un-popular organizations have had a table in the past, but overall it's small business and publishers who truly are friends of the hacker community.
I would be vending there this year had I been able to logistically make it happen.
If you haven't seen the movie "Primer", do so. They get it more right than a lot of other science fiction films.
Or even better, kickstart it and front load your profits. After that just live with piracy.
This is a horrible, horrible idea on so very many levels.
If sure if someone sent all 3 of them a $25 gift card to Applebees they'd abdicate willingly.
Consider the state of network technologies 10 years ago. There is so much that can be done in the last mile by actually deploying fiber, combined with up and coming high speed switching speeds that I don't think this will be a problem long.
Whether people want to invest another couple grand on a new display, that's another thing.
What they *can* do is put that kind of resolution on desktop displays. Please, enough with the "1920x1080 is high resolution" bullshit. We all had the ability to do 1600x1200 on CRTs over a decade ago.
It's definitely an interesting game, but I found the controls particularly horrible. I understand why they are the way they are. Going from near light speed to a dead stop without any deceleration is rather unrealistic and vise verse. However, from the perspective of it being a "game" it was downright annoying.
Great concept, though, and definitely an interesting learning tool. It'd be even more fun if one could adjust the variables directly and and explore the consequences of those variables more deeply.
I'd say this:
1) It would be money foolishly spent as it would probably negatively impact the value of the property more than improve it
2) $10k to $20k is chump change for any significant remodel.
Anyone else notice that the cost for just *3* of these things is half a billion dollars, assuming no cost overruns?
I think you are full of bullshit, how can you judge an online game if you played it for only 3 days
The same way you and I judge a movie after watching it once for the 90 to 120 minutes it takes to watch it. The insinuation that you have to invest literally days into something before you know if you like it is absurd. If we were to do that for everything, none of us would have time to find anything we like. For those of us with jobs and families and might only have an hour or two a day (if we're lucky) to play, we need to know quickly whether or not this is something we want to invest our precious time with.
From the bottom of the site you just ragged on him for:
"The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010."
He might not be the best writer in the world, but apparently you're not a particularly good reader, either.
I agree. I would have loved additional time to think about and clarify what I wanted to communicate. Unfortunately the only good time to talk on camera was during clean-up, when my brain was already fried and sleep deprived!
Sometimes I think I should document my experiences in writing, until I realize others have done so in the past and did so better than I could ever hope to do myself.
That's a really great point. We do release all of our recorded presentations on line after the event, but woefully lack any real documentation of what goes on outside of the talks. If someone is willing to act as event historian or documentarian, I would certainly welcome their input and go out of my way to accommodate them.
I loved Rubi-Con the 3 years I attended. While Notacon is in some way an homage to it, I am well aware that Rubi-Con was a completely unique con.
I am proud to stand by my words and my event, regardless of it's success. This year's attendance was in fact slightly lower than last years.
As for misappropriation of funds, I would be very interested to hear how you came to that conclusion. For various reasons, I have lost tens of thousands of dollars running this event over the past 9 years. Was it worth it? Absolutely.
I am sorry you didn't get much value from it. Thankfully there are a lot of other events out there that may be more suited to your needs.
A slight neurological issue in the process of treatment.
- Froggy
Just thought I'd clear that up. No, I'm not bitter, I just want to set the record straight.
- Froggy
"The economy will never be "post-scacity", as there's only so much shoreline property. "
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_habitat
Who is supposed to pay for the construction of such a space habitat? Where will the materials come from? What about mission support? Even on such a station, there will be a class system and scarcity, whether anyone likes it or not. Someone will have to fly the damn thing. Likewise, unless the powers that be use fascist tactics to control reproduction, procreation will put a further strain on resources.
Although I realize I'm not really arguing with you as much as the idea of a space habitat. Great idea in science fiction, nightmare in reality.
I wish I had mine from late 1996 still. P-100 with a 1 gig drive (wooo!) and 16 megs of ram running NT 3.5.1 and ZBserver with custom Perl scripts running as an ATM node on a 655 Mbps network that was down 60% of the time.
Ah those were the days.
These are 3 of the stupidest questions I have read in this thread so far. If you cannot and and do not understand the answer, please try again.
Your argument holds no water. If that were the case, one could make the same arguments about operating systems. Why bother developing Linux in an attempt to "keep up with the Jones'" when Windows already exists.
I'm just sayin'...
"I bought a Wii just a little while ago and I love it for short bursts of fun... However I need to ask the question, What is going to keep X-Box and PS3 from stealing the Wii thunder?"
You answered your own question. Some of us don't want to spend hours upon hours playing video games and investing thousands of dollars into consoles, systems, software, etc. Some people just want to pick up a game, relax for an hour or two, then get on to something else. The Wii will essentially be *the* system for casual gamers, who hold a much larger portion of the market overall than hardcore-bleeding edge game types. This will be abundantly apparent once the console has reached market saturation which, as is obvious, it is nowhere near close to doing based upon the pent up demand this far into it's release.
Anyway, that's how I see it and how Nintendo is marketing it. They'll bank nicely because of it and their profit numbers are already a testament to that.
I would assume five since Rubi-Con 5 occurred. We were there, I think.
Actually, Drew's not running it and I'm not ring-wing. Fat, well, yeah. Balding, well, kinda. I hardly make my money with boobies, that's for sure.
I don't know if he's going to do that. However, we have a number of mp3s from the speakers last year on the website.