I think he means that people expect results much sooner than they will actually take. In the 1950s researchers thought AI was only a few decades away. Then it was 30 years away (ie HAL in 2001) and now they are thinking at least 50.
There are probably really, really difficult problems to work out in Nanotech that haven't even been thought of yet.
The wipeout series had an excellent (if you like dance music) soundtrack. Underworld, The Prodigy, Fluke, Leftfield.... I find the beats help me maintain focus and get good times.
You can read from the frame buffer in OpenGL with glReadPixels() so you could render a scene with way beyond real-time complexity and then read it out and write it to disk.
However, if you are not constrained by speed, and are after quality, you are better off doing ray-tracing, which you do on a CPU.
A trend emerges among ageing Hollywood celebrities, dubbed by Entertainment weekly as the "asian youth from a poverty stricken country" look.
2005:
LELEESHA: Shanya! I gotta go to the restroom.
SHANYA: Ooh, don't go at the mall! Wait until we get home, didn't you hear about the girl in the restroom? A girl at my cousin's school last year was found dead in a restroom, WITH HER FACE REMOVED.
I had an idea for a game in the style of missile command where you control the multi-billion dollar missile defence shield. After beginning the game, a small turbaned dude enters from the side, places a suitcase down in between your skyscapers then runs for it. Furious button clicking does nothing as you can only shoot upwards.
The First Line: These ideas aren't really that orginal, after all speilberg is just turning them into movies. The real genius are the writes who wrote the orginal books, like Bradbury and P.K. Dick...
.....
The Last Line: Good artists create, great artist steal.....
It's funny how people's brains seem to turn off when they get near something high-tech, or really even something unfamiliar (e.g. people are constantly confused as to where they parked at ski resorts, yet they have no problems finding their parking spot at the mall/stadium/wherever).
That was because my car got covered in snow, fucker.
ain't it so that folks here 'gard book-smarts as all dat. y'all may think that you are fly 'caus yr iq is high, but perhaps you use that as your selection criteria because it allows you to assign yourselves the high social rank that you have egotistically perceived yourselves at? Don't forget it is your brain that thinks so higly of your intelligence, if you don't think (with your brain) that could be a result of a selfish brain, then that just goes to prove my point. It won't let you.
Kurt Vonnengut makes fun of that aspect of sci-fi through his literary alter ego, Kilgore Trout. He never could come up with any decent characters, only his ideas are good. At Trout says "In all of my years as a writer only once did I create a living, breathing character... And I did it with my ding dong in a birth canal!"
Ironically Trout is possibly the best developed of Vonnegut's reoccuring characters.
They should put the spaceport on Easter Island. The islanders would allow it so long as in exchange they were able to borrow the spaceships on weekends to half bury some stone statues.
Do you ever go turn off the computer and go outdoors into the big HOT blue room?
Remember that only a handful of people came out to the book BBQ on north terrace for the last censorship protest (were you there? I was). All that needs to happen is for Today Tonight to run a story about children seeing the horrors of the internet and the bill will pass with very little protest.
I agree with you that there is a glut of half finished and unoriginal games being developed for Linux, but people have to start somewhere.
Understanding what makes a game playable and working out how everything should fit together is hard. If you set out to clone an existing game, you only need to worry about the how not why. The first game I ever wrote was Asteroids (learn how to handle user input, do physics, display game objects, collision detection), then Pacman (load data like levels, AI (to an extent)), then eventually a Gauntlet clone called XTux (starring Tux, Beastie and others) and when that is finally finished, I will hopefully have enough knowlege about game design to write something original.
So, while a small tetris clone might not be worth much to YOU, it might be an important step to the person that actually put in the effort to write it.
I don't think this would make more gaming companies want to port to Linux. Why? Because they would have to recompile the game with WINE and Linux to get a native binary. Unfortunately, with these 600Meg-1Gig games you see, that would mean adding another CD (or two) to the box, which would cost money, as well as add weight for shipping costs.
Almost all of those 600Meg-1Gig is game data (movies, sound, levels and art) which are able to be read from any platform (once you get past the byte order issues). Binary executables are relatively small.
Such a Game already exists, with network multiplayer..
You can play as:
Tux, Gown (girl penguin) or Tie (baby penguin)
Chuck the BSD daemon
A Gnome
The KDE dragon
Emacs the Gnu
O'Reilly vi possum
Redhat Shadowman
Suse Lizard
Duke (Java guy)
RMS
Linus
Bill the borg.
Your enemies in single player are Clippy the paperclip, Zombies, Microsoft Certified Peons, Cobol monsterss, trolls and zombies.
Maps include streets, offices, Linux desktops and even slashdot. I submitted the link to slashdot 6 months ago, but they won't post it... just because it doesn't use OpenGL doesn't mean it isn't fun to play.
It doesn't work like that. How many guys go around hitting on girls with large heads thinking that in 50,000 years their decendants will be smarter? Instead they look for immediate signs of health youth and fertility, such as waist to hip ratio's, sufficient but not excessive fat stores (read: T&A).
In today's society (this is especially true for women) you're better off in terms of finding a desireable partner being attractive rather than smart. Thus we're much more likely to evolve to be prettier than smarter.
It makes me think that the people at least think that they can do it. Anyone who was going to do it as a prank would have made the page look a bit better, or gone for superbly bad, rather than just the my-pets-page-on-geocities-bad that it is now. At least that's what they would have done had they some style...
Slashdot Mirror
I think he means that people expect results much sooner than they will actually take. In the 1950s researchers thought AI was only a few decades away. Then it was 30 years away (ie HAL in 2001) and now they are thinking at least 50.
There are probably really, really difficult problems to work out in Nanotech that haven't even been thought of yet.
The wipeout series had an excellent (if you like dance music) soundtrack. Underworld, The Prodigy, Fluke, Leftfield.... I find the beats help me maintain focus and get good times.
You can read from the frame buffer in OpenGL with glReadPixels() so you could render a scene with way beyond real-time complexity and then read it out and write it to disk.
However, if you are not constrained by speed, and are after quality, you are better off doing ray-tracing, which you do on a CPU.
2004:
A trend emerges among ageing Hollywood celebrities, dubbed by Entertainment weekly as the "asian youth from a poverty stricken country" look.
2005:
LELEESHA: Shanya! I gotta go to the restroom.
SHANYA: Ooh, don't go at the mall! Wait until we get home, didn't you hear about the girl in the restroom? A girl at my cousin's school last year was found dead in a restroom, WITH HER FACE REMOVED.
LELEESHA: GET OUT!
2008:
Urban Legends III: Face the electric Boogaloo.
Pissed. Very Pissed. We did this 3 years ago and they don't even have a slashdot level!
I had an idea for a game in the style of missile command where you control the multi-billion dollar missile defence shield. After beginning the game, a small turbaned dude enters from the side, places a suitcase down in between your skyscapers then runs for it. Furious button clicking does nothing as you can only shoot upwards.
The First Line: These ideas aren't really that orginal, after all speilberg is just turning them into movies. The real genius are the writes who wrote the orginal books, like Bradbury and P.K. Dick...
The Last Line: Good artists create, great artist steal.....
That was because my car got covered in snow, fucker.
ain't it so that folks here 'gard book-smarts as all dat. y'all may think that you are fly 'caus yr iq is high, but perhaps you use that as your selection criteria because it allows you to assign yourselves the high social rank that you have egotistically perceived yourselves at? Don't forget it is your brain that thinks so higly of your intelligence, if you don't think (with your brain) that could be a result of a selfish brain, then that just goes to prove my point. It won't let you.
BCPL begat B which begat C.
So it follows the next character should be P.
Kurt Vonnengut makes fun of that aspect of sci-fi through his literary alter ego, Kilgore Trout. He never could come up with any decent characters, only his ideas are good. At Trout says "In all of my years as a writer only once did I create a living, breathing character... And I did it with my ding dong in a birth canal!"
Ironically Trout is possibly the best developed of Vonnegut's reoccuring characters.
They should put the spaceport on Easter Island. The islanders would allow it so long as in exchange they were able to borrow the spaceships on weekends to half bury some stone statues.
He did die, but Kevorkian brought him back.
Do you ever go turn off the computer and go outdoors into the big HOT blue room?
Remember that only a handful of people came out to the book BBQ on north terrace for the last censorship protest (were you there? I was). All that needs to happen is for Today Tonight to run a story about children seeing the horrors of the internet and the bill will pass with very little protest.
I agree with you that there is a glut of half finished and unoriginal games being developed for Linux, but people have to start somewhere.
Understanding what makes a game playable and working out how everything should fit together is hard. If you set out to clone an existing game, you only need to worry about the how not why. The first game I ever wrote was Asteroids (learn how to handle user input, do physics, display game objects, collision detection), then Pacman (load data like levels, AI (to an extent)), then eventually a Gauntlet clone called XTux (starring Tux, Beastie and others) and when that is finally finished, I will hopefully have enough knowlege about game design to write something original.
So, while a small tetris clone might not be worth much to YOU, it might be an important step to the person that actually put in the effort to write it.
Or you could just not use DNS at all:R D.html
http://208.48.26.217/2001/01/07/weekinreview/07WO
Plan to throw the first version away, you will anyway.
I don't think this would make more gaming companies want to port to Linux. Why? Because they would have to recompile the game with WINE and Linux to get a native binary. Unfortunately, with these 600Meg-1Gig games you see, that would mean adding another CD (or two) to the box, which would cost money, as well as add weight for shipping costs.
Almost all of those 600Meg-1Gig is game data (movies, sound, levels and art) which are able to be read from any platform (once you get past the byte order issues). Binary executables are relatively small.
You mean like this?
Such a Game already exists, with network multiplayer..
You can play as:
Your enemies in single player are Clippy the paperclip, Zombies, Microsoft Certified Peons, Cobol monsterss, trolls and zombies.
Maps include streets, offices, Linux desktops and even slashdot. I submitted the link to slashdot 6 months ago, but they won't post it... just because it doesn't use OpenGL doesn't mean it isn't fun to play.
When young dwarves were guaranteed a well paying job under employment of George Lucas. At least they can still do porno.
It doesn't work like that. How many guys go around hitting on girls with large heads thinking that in 50,000 years their decendants will be smarter? Instead they look for immediate signs of health youth and fertility, such as waist to hip ratio's, sufficient but not excessive fat stores (read: T&A).
In today's society (this is especially true for women) you're better off in terms of finding a desireable partner being attractive rather than smart. Thus we're much more likely to evolve to be prettier than smarter.
You maniacs!! You blew it up!!!
(-1 terrible pun)
No, go to Adelaide, we have Magic Mountain!
It makes me think that the people at least think that they can do it. Anyone who was going to do it as a prank would have made the page look a bit better, or gone for superbly bad, rather than just the my-pets-page-on-geocities-bad that it is now. At least that's what they would have done had they some style...
What's the price if I only want one 1/8th my size?