I’m sorry?? That stuff is illegal since at least a decade now, isn’t it? It’s well-known that that ”sealing” never is really complete, and in practice of construction, there will always be some holes in it. I know because I know of families who nearly died from that. (In their cases it was really shoddy construction. But better construction still never makes the problem completely go away.)
And something being bad is not a valid argument about how bad something else is.
Wanna bet that those building will start to fall apart just when you realize you got a deadly disease from sniffing glue and breathing dust all the time?;)
Actually in an object of this size you could plainly see it with the naked eye. Because the whole object would start to act like one particle. Which in practice means that you can see waves moving over it in a weird fashion, where particles annihilate and amplify each other. I once saw a video* of it, and it looks really cool. And veery creepy at the same time, when you realize what that means. (Imagine there being two cubes of steel matter in that state. You could not only shove them together to the exact same place. You could also make them annihilate each other and vanish completely. Not violently, but like sound or light waves. I meant that really feels like WTF?)
* I am really sorry that I can’t find the video anymore.:/ It was in the news when they captured it. I read about it in the German magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a few years back. If someone remembers or find it, please add a link to it!
Asshole employers don’t interest most employees. The’re interested in getting the most reward out of their employers with the least possible reward.
You act as if “employers” were some dominant class, ruling over who gets thee “right” to become their slaves.
They need us. But we don’t need them. We can always start our own business. But they can’t become their own employees. And if they don’t get us, all they get is incompetent interns or temporaries who don’t know the company and will destroy it in the blink of an eye.
You know how you can prove that someone is not an alpha male? By him accepting others as his “masters”, just like that. And that’s exactly what acting as if employers (=others) were more dominant than you is. It’s “Accepting that you are the cattle.”.
You wouldn’t believe how many high-level girls I know who play as male characters so the other guys don’t constantly hit on them. If you ever played as a female character, you might know this.
Games are nature’s way of learning. Like dogs play, to train for the real world, so do we. And their greatest aspect, is that they are fun. Because success and learning is supposed to be fun. After all it’s the basis of survival and winning the game of natural selection.
Only schools fucked that one up. Because as they are today, they were originally invented by Bismarck, because he wanted something like military drill, but for kids. (Yeah, how fucked up is that?)
So getting back to games, to a solid motivating balance between too hard and too easy, rewards, and all the stuff that makes you *want* to win the game, and makes you have *fun*, is the best one can do for human education.
So I applaud this idea, of using MMORPG concepts for school-like “education”. Which until now is more focused on training us to be good little mindlessly obeying automaton drones, like soldiers. Maybe that will make kids think outside of the box and come up with their own smarter ways again.
Everyone knows, that if you pull something like that off, you do it from the computer of your most hated boss. E.g. use it as a non-logging proxy and delete the proxy software afterwards.
EA has eaten Origin Systems, and with it Ultima and System Shock. So you can than EA, as always, for something in the gaming industry being fucked up.
Or do you really think something as great as those both franchises would rot like that, without EA having anything to do with it? (But watch out for Ultima in disguise. Just like BioShock is System Shock in disguise.)
But this guy is largely famous for creating the Ultima franchise, which is basically all but dead, because EA sank their fangs into Origin Systems and killed the company.
Sadly, if you replace “Ultima” with “System Shock”, the whole sentence still is true.
If there is one thing on this world that you can legitimately hate and be prejudiced about... it’s EA.:/
I understand your sentiment, but let's be honest here for a second. If you want support, the best way to go about it is using "approved" versions of the software.
Again: Hardware support does have nothing to do with installed software! Just as it does not matter at all what OS I am using on my desktop PC (as opposed to my mobile pocket PC called “phone”), when one of the PCI cards fails!
It’s a hardware error, you have to fix it, or I’ll sue you for selling me defective hardware. And if your software, using the same hardware interface, works, then it’s my problem if my chosen software doesn’t. Because software has nothing to do with hardware support.
On the other hand, if you also offer software, and I chose to use your software, and it fails, then that’s an entirely different thing. Because then it’s like e.g. Autodesk offering a Linux version of Maya, and it not working with my hardware acceleration, despite me having the driver installed that should enable it. That either a configuration error on my side, or a software error on your side. In which case your support has to fix it.
Yes, that makes it harder to support it. Well tough shit, cause that’s your freaking job on a open source platform. I write software for a bazillion of platforms. If I chose to support that platform, I have to support the difficulties that come with it. And so do you.
Besides: Your whole argument is void, since Nokia is doing it already with the N900. So if you can’t that’s only your incompetence, and Nokia will swallow you alive.;) Unless you man up and stand by, supporting, what you chose to sell to me.
Used to. That's not even true anymore at transparency bitrates with lastest Lame improvements. -V5 and -V6 are transparent in most cases.
Sorry, but that’s a straight out lie, and you knw it. You can optimize the encoder as much as you want. It won’t make the limitations of the format itself go away. To make MP3 better than Vorbis, it would have to stop being MP3 at all.
You examples are quite meaningful of the general openness problem : better quality does not mean wider userbase. Typical users do not really care about quality because they do not know what quality is.
Sadly, I have to agree.:/ “good enough” is... well... good enough. The first codec to get above that limit, is going to make it. Everything after that doesn’t matter that much. Like the landing on the moon. Nobody cares that you did it better, when you were the second one landing there.;) So what could move people to another codec?
I’d guess something that they want, but can’t have with the old one. In case of video codecs, there may be a chance, if H.264-encoders were not free, and not easily available to everyone. Seeing that YouTube already offers that service for free, and most DVD burning programs that you get for free with you DVD drive offer it too, that’s not going to happen.
So is it really that important that it’s free? I mean if there are no advantages that anyone can feel... does it matter? After all that’s the whole point of it mattering: It gives you an advantage / prevents a disadvantage.
Conclusion: As long as users don’t clearly see a large enough disadvantage, and/or we don’t offer a large enough advantage, there is no point in changing things.
You are seriously stating that it’s impossible to invent better theories and algorithms than H.264?? I’m not talking about imitating them and trying to improve on it, like a loser! I’m talking about creating the next generation! Something that is outside of the box of what previous generations dared to think about!:)
<black voice>That’s what I’m talking ’bout!</black voice>;)
Perhaps the brainwashing of the MAFIAA made you forget, but we started out as the dominant ones. That’s why they came up with the whole DRM schemes in the first place. And perhaps you noticed, that DRM can not workby its very definition. It’s a physically impossible concept.
The whole reason they are getting so crazy, is because they are doomed to die, and they know it. And I’m only talking about the publishers, that nobody needs anymore since the Internet replaced them. Not about the artists, who now see a glimmer of light of getting out of the nasty wrath of publisher contracts and terms.
We already won. We were always winning. That’s the whole thing. They would have to create a global totalitarian system to stop us from winning. Like ACTA + 1984. And even when we ignore that that’n not going to happen (ACTA is alreary revoked by most states)... it wouldn’t be the first revolution where heads get cut off for freedom, now would it?
The can not win this one. So stop the loser attitude. Because in the wars of psychology and social engineering (which this one is), you usually get exactly what you prophecy to happen. Think about how you influence people, when you stand there on your soap box, and don’t say “Those crazy people have no chance. We laugh in their faces.”, but instead ask in that suggestive way “Oh god, how can we even possibly win that one? We’re doomed! DOOOMED!!!”. Because the second one is what you’re doing. And it’s not cool!
So come on! Take off the reality distortion glasses of the MAFIAA, look at factual reality, and see that even according to their own predictions, their death struggle is over in about 5-7 years!
Well, have you seen Kongregate.com? Most games that get uploaded there also are crap. But that does not matter, since Kongregate is designed in a way, that you will usually only get in touch with good games. But you can go to the “new games” page if you want. They simply use a rating system. And the users are quite demanding in their ratings. From 3 stars on, it’s worth a try. And from 4 stars on, developers get to use the achievements API, so they can add achievements. Which makes the whole site some kind of role playing metagame. Plus, every 4 star game gets its time on the front page.
You can also give tips to the developers. Apart from having a successful game on the site giving you massive points in the metagame. And on top of that, the site owners are no anonymous body, but if you write them, you get a real answer and a real communication. Something that I think is worth more than most other things.
I wish this site would be seen as a role model for such communities. I play there, even though I always get the latest and greatest games for free... go figure...
The only problem: The resolution is still crap. (Yes, I assume it will improve. But it will take a few years.) And of course you won’t be able to wear them forever, because just like throwaway lenses, I bet they will be designed so you have to throw them away once a week “for comfort”.
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Maybe like a hornets’ nest.
I’m sorry?? That stuff is illegal since at least a decade now, isn’t it?
It’s well-known that that ”sealing” never is really complete, and in practice of construction, there will always be some holes in it. I know because I know of families who nearly died from that. (In their cases it was really shoddy construction. But better construction still never makes the problem completely go away.)
And something being bad is not a valid argument about how bad something else is.
Wanna bet that those building will start to fall apart just when you realize you got a deadly disease from sniffing glue and breathing dust all the time? ;)
Actually in an object of this size you could plainly see it with the naked eye. Because the whole object would start to act like one particle. Which in practice means that you can see waves moving over it in a weird fashion, where particles annihilate and amplify each other.
I once saw a video* of it, and it looks really cool. And veery creepy at the same time, when you realize what that means. (Imagine there being two cubes of steel matter in that state. You could not only shove them together to the exact same place. You could also make them annihilate each other and vanish completely. Not violently, but like sound or light waves. I meant that really feels like WTF?)
* I am really sorry that I can’t find the video anymore. :/ It was in the news when they captured it. I read about it in the German magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a few years back. If someone remembers or find it, please add a link to it!
Why the beating around the bush?
Except that in the real world, your LABEL gets the money. The artists never get anything from it. And that is the whole point.
After all, the music industry is the natural enemy of the musician industry.
Asshole employers don’t interest most employees. The’re interested in getting the most reward out of their employers with the least possible reward.
You act as if “employers” were some dominant class, ruling over who gets thee “right” to become their slaves.
They need us. But we don’t need them. We can always start our own business. But they can’t become their own employees.
And if they don’t get us, all they get is incompetent interns or temporaries who don’t know the company and will destroy it in the blink of an eye.
You know how you can prove that someone is not an alpha male? By him accepting others as his “masters”, just like that.
And that’s exactly what acting as if employers (=others) were more dominant than you is. It’s “Accepting that you are the cattle.”.
Well, I’m not. And I never will be again.
You wouldn’t believe how many high-level girls I know who play as male characters so the other guys don’t constantly hit on them. If you ever played as a female character, you might know this.
Games are nature’s way of learning. Like dogs play, to train for the real world, so do we.
And their greatest aspect, is that they are fun. Because success and learning is supposed to be fun. After all it’s the basis of survival and winning the game of natural selection.
Only schools fucked that one up. Because as they are today, they were originally invented by Bismarck, because he wanted something like military drill, but for kids. (Yeah, how fucked up is that?)
So getting back to games, to a solid motivating balance between too hard and too easy, rewards, and all the stuff that makes you *want* to win the game, and makes you have *fun*, is the best one can do for human education.
So I applaud this idea, of using MMORPG concepts for school-like “education”. Which until now is more focused on training us to be good little mindlessly obeying automaton drones, like soldiers.
Maybe that will make kids think outside of the box and come up with their own smarter ways again.
Now if only they could repeat it with Putin...
Everyone knows, that if you pull something like that off, you do it from the computer of your most hated boss. E.g. use it as a non-logging proxy and delete the proxy software afterwards.
I’m in Germany right now, and from what I can see, there’s no complex life here.
The most complex thing I found is a common Potatous Couchus Televisiones mold.
If we look in the bible, there is on mention of God being made, therefore the most logical explanation is that it’s all made up.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
*disappears like a bursting bubble*
Imagine all the 3D space we could live in if all the land would become flooded!
MUHAHAHAHAHAA
Your sleeping winged and tentacled overlords of the future
Shut up, you ignorant loud idiot.
EA has eaten Origin Systems, and with it Ultima and System Shock.
So you can than EA, as always, for something in the gaming industry being fucked up.
Or do you really think something as great as those both franchises would rot like that, without EA having anything to do with it?
(But watch out for Ultima in disguise. Just like BioShock is System Shock in disguise.)
Looks photoshopped. ;)
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Yeah, the shadows are all wrong. Definitely photoshopped.
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You don’t get conspiracy theorists, do you?
But this guy is largely famous for creating the Ultima franchise, which is basically all but dead, because EA sank their fangs into Origin Systems and killed the company.
Sadly, if you replace “Ultima” with “System Shock”, the whole sentence still is true.
If there is one thing on this world that you can legitimately hate and be prejudiced about... it’s EA. :/
No, he actually meant the year 00000000003, right after the big bang. ;)
It’s never too early to hate an universe that comes up with COBOL...
“Just”? Engineering such a molecular Transformer sounds much harder than just creating the finished chip
I understand your sentiment, but let's be honest here for a second. If you want support, the best way to go about it is using "approved" versions of the software.
Again: Hardware support does have nothing to do with installed software!
Just as it does not matter at all what OS I am using on my desktop PC (as opposed to my mobile pocket PC called “phone”), when one of the PCI cards fails!
It’s a hardware error, you have to fix it, or I’ll sue you for selling me defective hardware.
And if your software, using the same hardware interface, works, then it’s my problem if my chosen software doesn’t. Because software has nothing to do with hardware support.
On the other hand, if you also offer software, and I chose to use your software, and it fails, then that’s an entirely different thing. Because then it’s like e.g. Autodesk offering a Linux version of Maya, and it not working with my hardware acceleration, despite me having the driver installed that should enable it. That either a configuration error on my side, or a software error on your side. In which case your support has to fix it.
Yes, that makes it harder to support it. Well tough shit, cause that’s your freaking job on a open source platform.
I write software for a bazillion of platforms. If I chose to support that platform, I have to support the difficulties that come with it. And so do you.
Besides: Your whole argument is void, since Nokia is doing it already with the N900. So if you can’t that’s only your incompetence, and Nokia will swallow you alive. ;) Unless you man up and stand by, supporting, what you chose to sell to me.
Used to. That's not even true anymore at transparency bitrates with lastest Lame improvements. -V5 and -V6 are transparent in most cases.
Sorry, but that’s a straight out lie, and you knw it.
You can optimize the encoder as much as you want. It won’t make the limitations of the format itself go away. To make MP3 better than Vorbis, it would have to stop being MP3 at all.
You examples are quite meaningful of the general openness problem : better quality does not mean wider userbase. Typical users do not really care about quality because they do not know what quality is.
Sadly, I have to agree. :/ ;)
“good enough” is... well... good enough. The first codec to get above that limit, is going to make it. Everything after that doesn’t matter that much. Like the landing on the moon. Nobody cares that you did it better, when you were the second one landing there.
So what could move people to another codec?
I’d guess something that they want, but can’t have with the old one.
In case of video codecs, there may be a chance, if H.264-encoders were not free, and not easily available to everyone.
Seeing that YouTube already offers that service for free, and most DVD burning programs that you get for free with you DVD drive offer it too, that’s not going to happen.
So is it really that important that it’s free? I mean if there are no advantages that anyone can feel... does it matter?
After all that’s the whole point of it mattering: It gives you an advantage / prevents a disadvantage.
Conclusion: As long as users don’t clearly see a large enough disadvantage, and/or we don’t offer a large enough advantage, there is no point in changing things.
You are seriously stating that it’s impossible to invent better theories and algorithms than H.264?? :)
I’m not talking about imitating them and trying to improve on it, like a loser!
I’m talking about creating the next generation! Something that is outside of the box of what previous generations dared to think about!
<black voice>That’s what I’m talking ’bout!</black voice> ;)
Perhaps the brainwashing of the MAFIAA made you forget, but we started out as the dominant ones. That’s why they came up with the whole DRM schemes in the first place.
And perhaps you noticed, that DRM can not work by its very definition. It’s a physically impossible concept.
The whole reason they are getting so crazy, is because they are doomed to die, and they know it. And I’m only talking about the publishers, that nobody needs anymore since the Internet replaced them. Not about the artists, who now see a glimmer of light of getting out of the nasty wrath of publisher contracts and terms.
We already won. We were always winning. That’s the whole thing.
They would have to create a global totalitarian system to stop us from winning. Like ACTA + 1984.
And even when we ignore that that’n not going to happen (ACTA is alreary revoked by most states)... it wouldn’t be the first revolution where heads get cut off for freedom, now would it?
The can not win this one. So stop the loser attitude. Because in the wars of psychology and social engineering (which this one is), you usually get exactly what you prophecy to happen.
Think about how you influence people, when you stand there on your soap box, and don’t say “Those crazy people have no chance. We laugh in their faces.”, but instead ask in that suggestive way “Oh god, how can we even possibly win that one? We’re doomed! DOOOMED!!!”.
Because the second one is what you’re doing. And it’s not cool!
So come on! Take off the reality distortion glasses of the MAFIAA, look at factual reality, and see that even according to their own predictions, their death struggle is over in about 5-7 years!
Well, have you seen Kongregate.com? Most games that get uploaded there also are crap. But that does not matter, since Kongregate is designed in a way, that you will usually only get in touch with good games. But you can go to the “new games” page if you want.
They simply use a rating system. And the users are quite demanding in their ratings. From 3 stars on, it’s worth a try. And from 4 stars on, developers get to use the achievements API, so they can add achievements. Which makes the whole site some kind of role playing metagame. Plus, every 4 star game gets its time on the front page.
You can also give tips to the developers. Apart from having a successful game on the site giving you massive points in the metagame.
And on top of that, the site owners are no anonymous body, but if you write them, you get a real answer and a real communication. Something that I think is worth more than most other things.
I wish this site would be seen as a role model for such communities. I play there, even though I always get the latest and greatest games for free... go figure...
The only problem: The resolution is still crap. (Yes, I assume it will improve. But it will take a few years.)
And of course you won’t be able to wear them forever, because just like throwaway lenses, I bet they will be designed so you have to throw them away once a week “for comfort”.