You mean Space Indiana Jones and the Platinum Planet. Well after "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" I think you don't need the word "Space" it's a given now.
I'm interested that no one has yet mentioned Half-Life or Portal. Valves use of so-called in game cut scenes has made them, IMHO, a role model of how to integrate story into gameplay--especially in HL2 and its assorted episodes, where there are many scenes where plot-related events occur simultaneously with active gameplay, and even those scenes where you are basically just standing around listening to someone talk are made seamless with the rest of the gameplay--only in very rare instances is control ever actually taken away from the player in an obvious way.
Sure, the story itself may not win any awards for depth compared to RPGs and text adventures, but the integration of story and gameplay is excellent. Yes! Yes! That's gaming done the right way! Get better at this kind of continuous story/game-play then you may some day see game plots that are rich and complex and don't ask the user to sit through cut scenes. How often do players just skip cut-scenes anyway?
For those who couldn't sit through the 80-minute video (or don't have Silverlight), Gates said that in the future Microsoft's mega data centers will have many millions of servers". It currently has "hundreds of thousands" of servers, but expects to pack up to 300,000 into its new Chicago container farm. Gates also predicted that only a select number of companies (presumably including Microsoft and Google) will be able to compete on this scale. Which is a "moon shot" style parting gesture. It's aiming squarely at Google and saying "we can not allow a server gap!" In a way this is a back-handed admission that Microsoft has totally missed it in the "data center race" and needs to catch up. It's as if Google (continuing my space race analogy) has done everything but land on the moon and Gates has just challenged his company to do just that.
Once Microsoft hits the million server mark and celebrates the world's largest data center... it will probably implode. Google will probably not be bated into this tactic since they probably don't even know how many operational servers they have right now. And, they probably haven't bothered to figure out how to tell yet either. Microsoft will trumpet the achievement with a week of press releases and conferences, get a stock pop, and about six months later in tiny un-noticed trade rags we'll find out that half the servers in the super-data-center are off-line due to an undisclosed flaw and it was covered up.
So I predict a data center race with Microsoft declaring itself the winner and nobody who knows technology well really caring that much. However, it will play great and get a nice stock pop. It will also stick in Joe Blogs' mind and that will be better PR than you can buy.
Ah... microsoft's mentality, you gotta love it. When he says "we havent thought about that size before", he wants to convey "we, humanity".
Doesnt that kind of show what kind of reality distortion field this guy lives in?
Amazon thought about it, Google thought about it. Ah, they are not "we, humanity"... i see. Actually, I read it as a genuinely humble admission that Microsoft has never thought about data centers the size that Google and Amazon have. I read it as a genuine admission of his company's short comings and a challenge for his company to rise to that challenge. Admittedly he stops short of saying... "we haven't thought about that size before. Like Google and Amazon have."
The last bit I read as a desire to be able to compete with the larger data centers. Recognizing that Microsoft today is not one of the companies with a large reliable data center on the scale of Google.
A good commentator would have mentioned that, pointed it out as a sign of weakness, and seen Gate's parting challenge to his company as a "moon shot" type of declaration.
You should not have story segments and playable segments it should all be game play... it should be story-play. The hardware is advanced enough now that you can ditch those crutches of cut-scenes and stupidly contrived narrative sequences. The whole thing should be one continuous experience with no load screens no "forced play modes" and no freaking levels.
Modern games should be one contiguous experience with the player in ultimate control and able to swap "modes" on the fly. The games should be like life. The "plot" should be changeable by the player.
MS' ass is still bleeding from the reaming over Java.
Only thing is, it wasn't Java the language, it was Sun the corporation behind Java that sued Microsoft. Now tell me, which is the big corporation behind Ruby with deep enough pockets to face Microsoft at the courts? EFF?
Yeah, that's not new at all. Surgeons have been using remote robotics for YEARS to do micro-surgery. Recently they've even started to do telesurgery, where the surgeon experienced in one particular procedure lives half way around the world and uses a robotic interface to work with the robot in the operating room thousands of miles away. ... yes, but are they using direct brain input? The arm has multiple modes of operation. Not just the joystick mode. It also has macros.
Utter bitch? That story showed she had feelings! Women with feelings are bitches, men with feelings are pansies. Women without feelings are elf-tarts and men without feelings are vulcan-cakes.
FYI. That's geek dating slang in the big geek party scene. And, you're not part of the scene if you are cute and stupid... which is a 'tard-muffin.
Example:
Geek Girl1: Ooh, check out that chem-student what a chiseled IQ... he's a total vulcan-cake. Geek Girl2: I scoped him already, he's dating a 'tard-muffin lit-major. Geek Girl1: So, like totally, illogical! Why are all the vulcan-cakes taken by tard-muffins at this school? All that's left are the pansies. Geek Girl2: Don't go bitch on me elf-girl. There's plenty of cranium out there.
How practical would such a device be for working? It would actually be pretty useful to remove the need to do all the point-clicky stuff and keep my hands localized to the keyboard; granted, does a lot of that already with its interface. I don't know if it would be feasible, because I bet far more neurons would fire when working on a hard problem, thus interfering with the mouse's accuracy. I wouldn't want the mouse to fly everywhere if I were trying to type hello world:). I'm sure it doesn't work that way. In fact I'd bet it is something you need to spend about a week learning to do with any proficiency. Inside that first week the mental effort to shift attention to mousing versus the inconvenience of moving your hand to the physical mouse would probably favor the physical mouse ten to one.
This review seems so inconclusive that I'm not even sure if the device really works, or is something faked up by a charlatan.
A remarkable idea, but if it winds up killing off gamers instead of being their salvation, its life as a product would appear to be nasty, brutish and short.
It seems almost like the Ouija board of computing.
D If it runs under $120 I'm going to run out and get one. But, then I have a box of a half-dozen failed "revolutionary" new UI devices. It's sort of a hobby of mine.
I suspect that it is exceptionally hard to use with out training but just like the twiddler, air-mouse, and the alpha-grip an extremely practiced user can make them work as well as the device its intended to replace.
The problem is you need to be better than the device you are replacing. I keep buying these toys... I keep hoping. We'll see if this new toy can cross over to being a real enhancement.
They've done unorthodox "input": sense augmentation. Sight by tongue-mounted electrodes, magneto-sensing, orientation-enhancement (ie for fighter pilots, divers). It works, you don't have to be young, and the brain figures it out pretty darn fast: the extra sense gets integrated and feels natural(ish). I would reckon having an extra digit or wheels or something would be very similar. That's really fascinating stuff!
Actually, I'd like to test this hypothesis. I'll bet we'll be shocked to find out that it's actually easy for people who are young enough. I know, that's counter-intuitive,...... So I'd bet that using that "mental extension into the tool" effect you really could find ways to add on novel new cybernetic body-parts and that the brains of mammals are actually adaptive enough to deal with it. I think this will be true because of the structure of mammal brains and its ability to re-wire itself. You'd have to graft those cybernetic body-parts onto children for it to be "easy for people who are young enough".
The only reason the adult brain can re-wire itself to deal with prosthetics is because some poor guy/girl has to undergo months and months of painful physical therapy. It's not quite so simple as strapping on their (robo) limb and telling them to have at it. Do you play video games? Have you played a fighter? When you screen character kicks or punches do you think: up,down,left,left,A,B,A or do you think "round house"
I find that younger players don't even think about the "combo" they think about the move after having practiced the combo enough times. These old guys with the strap-on arms are doing the same thing with lots and lots of practice.
In fact on one of the deep link videos the researchers show evidence that one of the wearers had gotten so used to the controls he was absentmindedly using the hand.
The fact that he absentmindedly sets down the glass after his first attempt at using the arm means he's incorporated the arm's controls into his "body picture" just like the kid with the video game who has memorized those absurd macros and no longer thinks in: up,down,up,down,A,B,A
It's the human ability to incorporate a tool as part of their "extended" anatomy. The mirror neurons mirroring movement in body parts that don't actually exist. Recreating the control movements.
Someone should study whether gamers register the same mirror neuron activity as dancers do. Do gamers who watch a sequence of game moves mirror in mirror neurons the moves as if they were tapping the keys themselves? I suspect that they do.
I imagine it's much harder than you may think to pick up a control scheme for a part of your body that's not only never existed on your body, but never existed in the history of your species.
But, more to the point, I think they ought to focus on the basics before adding on extra fingers and elbows;) Actually, I'd like to test this hypothesis. I'll bet we'll be shocked to find out that it's actually easy for people who are young enough. I know, that's counter-intuitive, but I suspect that the reason there is a yawning chasm between generations and their use of technology is not that old folks are Luddites but that some folks can't adapt to the mental augmentation that is the exo-cortex of the Internet.
Notice that we don't see this chasm in older baby-boomers. I think that means we won't see another gaping technology chasm between generations. The computers are here now and brains are adapting to them. Other threads on slashdot have discussed the idea that computer programs become mental extensions just as tools become extensions of people's bodies. Stories of ancient knights speak of warriors fighting until they could not tell their arms from their swords.
So I'd bet that using that "mental extension into the tool" effect you really could find ways to add on novel new cybernetic body-parts and that the brains of mammals are actually adaptive enough to deal with it. I think this will be true because of the structure of mammal brains and its ability to re-wire itself.
After all don't you wince when you hit something in your car? Some people even exclaim "ouch" as if they were themselves hurt. I suspect it's an artifact of being able to use tools that enables us to tack on a tool as a "temporary body part"
Am I the only one that sees this as an exciting new way to control giant robots and Mecha? One of the demo videos shows an engineer who has not lost an arm controlling the device as a third arm. That could mean the creation of a real-life Doctor Octopus... or even a way to control real life Mecha or telerobotic space exploration systems for mining the moon!
DHS controls ICE see: http://www.ice.gov/about/faq.htm my ICD and API docs come with a nice big seal from DHS. So yes, the number of issued visas is under the DHS purview. The particulars of how a visa is granted, why, and to whom are not under direct control of DHS... merely the number, adjudication, and tracking.
Prior to 2003 these authorities were held by the DoJ but they shifted to DHS.
Who is inside the country is a data point that DHS is decidedly interested in. This is a reality I work with every single day as I develop software that tracks the whereabouts of visa holders.
Parent post gives good advice. I'll just tack on a little then. I can't advise Australia to Canada but I can talk to expatriate issues...
I've moved between the US and Europe for work twice. Unless you move in suitcases and stay in fully furnished lodging then you have a big logistical job moving between countries. Plan on at least a 20-40% fudge-factor for exchange rate fluctuations... these rates can change over night and utterly destroy your life.
Side Note: plan on the experience of moving back home being strangely like moving to another country all over again... you might find your credit in your home country is equally non-existent if you stay in the host country long enough. Keeping things simple helps this process tremendously.
Maintain a strict budget with lots and lots of wiggle room and plan on being flexible. For example your temporary short-term arrangements might end up having to hold for years on end. So only make commitments you can support for the long-haul if need be.
Keep exchange rates in your mind and keep wide margins in your budgets when you plan things. If you don't need the extra then you can hold it in the bank for when something surprises you like the inability to get certain types of health care for yourself or family members due to international red-tape. For example as a US citizen our insurance has "coverage areas" and you may live outside "coverage" so you have to travel hundreds to thousands of miles if you have a toothache... or perhaps even fly to a US city to get a check-up or a dental cleaning.
If there ever was an accident I suspect we would have to pay for everything out of pocket. The universal health care covers the citizens of that nation... not you. So learn about how your health care will work and plan accordingly. Taxes can get mighty weird too as each country, state, and province that can lay claim to you may want a cut so watch out for where your paycheck comes from you could get a third nation with a third set of tax laws involved by accident.
Yes, insurance issues and international tax issues will be constant nagging problems. So will worker rights in some cases. You will not be a citizen of the country that you are working in so labor laws may not protect you. Obviously, your home country's labor laws don't protect you either. So you live on the good will of your employer and there might be no recourse for a soured relationship with them. Be prepared.
Your best mitigation of these risks is to keep your household light (minimalist) and alway have enough in the bank to move yourself back home should an employment situation go terribly wrong. In some working arrangements you can have the horrible consequence having your entire life tied to your job standing with the threat of deportation over your head... and no legal standing for fair treatment in the work place. So be careful. Be prepared.
A good employer will know about these issues and advise you on how to deal with them. Many employers will simply not know about any of this. Keep things as simple as possible.
With that warning having been written... I will say moving to another country for a job was an adventure that has honestly made my career and my life better. It was a hard learning experience and well worth it. You may regret some mis-steps you make in moving to work in another country but you will learn so much about yourself and your home country by the contrast your host country will give you. It is a positive growth experience that will be well worth the risk and effort.
Corporations are anti-citizen. They are letting the American economy stagnate by investing in foreign nations. When you pay salaries to foreign workers, that money doesn't re-enter the American economy. It enters foreign economies. But it always trickles to the top. I think congress should mandate a law that states that "No employee of a corporation may make more than 10 times what the lowest paid employee makes" While I sympathize with the emotions of what you are saying I must disagree. You can't legislate something like that. Let me run through something with you...
If you hire a worker form another country you do three things. First you fill an immediate need. Second you avoid paying for the education of the worker. Third you rob the other country of their investment in that person.
A naive dream solution would be to force corporations to pay for the loss of profits and pay economic damages inflicted upon the other nation when they hire someone expatriate.
But then, they might move to the other nation to avoid the penalty. Let them go, but take their head quarters with them. Then treat them as an importer and impose tariffs. The protections should be in place to make the local worker more profitable to employ. That still means you need to make the local worker more competitive.
I don't know how but we need to provide incentive for corporations to invest in their own long term profitability. And by long term I mean the 10 to 100 year scale. That's a scale nothing but governments and religions have ever successfully planned on before.
It is profitable to educate local workers and develop in-house talent. It is profitable to provide benefits and to pay your quality workers well. Especially if your top workers can easily move to your competitor who may pay more or provide education benefits. It is profitable to produce quality over quantity. Just not in the very short term.
You can't force people to do plan long-term. Instead you can provide mechanisms that will reward in the short term and long term the ones that do positive things for the very long term. You can provide a social framework where the employer that does a good job of taking care of its employees is rewarded with stability and the one that fails can't find the talent it needs and dies.
Things like pensions, maternity leave, and sick days are only profitable when seen on a large enough scale. It's a time scale that employers can't see if they are battling quarter to quarter and not decade to decade. The shift of time scale is what's needed... civil good becomes a money maker when seen on a long enough time scale.
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Sure, the story itself may not win any awards for depth compared to RPGs and text adventures, but the integration of story and gameplay is excellent. Yes! Yes! That's gaming done the right way! Get better at this kind of continuous story/game-play then you may some day see game plots that are rich and complex and don't ask the user to sit through cut scenes. How often do players just skip cut-scenes anyway?
Woo! That movie is gonna be awesome!
I suppose hope really is audacious.
Once Microsoft hits the million server mark and celebrates the world's largest data center... it will probably implode. Google will probably not be bated into this tactic since they probably don't even know how many operational servers they have right now. And, they probably haven't bothered to figure out how to tell yet either. Microsoft will trumpet the achievement with a week of press releases and conferences, get a stock pop, and about six months later in tiny un-noticed trade rags we'll find out that half the servers in the super-data-center are off-line due to an undisclosed flaw and it was covered up.
So I predict a data center race with Microsoft declaring itself the winner and nobody who knows technology well really caring that much. However, it will play great and get a nice stock pop. It will also stick in Joe Blogs' mind and that will be better PR than you can buy.
Doesnt that kind of show what kind of reality distortion field this guy lives in?
Amazon thought about it, Google thought about it. Ah, they are not "we, humanity"... i see. Actually, I read it as a genuinely humble admission that Microsoft has never thought about data centers the size that Google and Amazon have. I read it as a genuine admission of his company's short comings and a challenge for his company to rise to that challenge. Admittedly he stops short of saying
The last bit I read as a desire to be able to compete with the larger data centers. Recognizing that Microsoft today is not one of the companies with a large reliable data center on the scale of Google.
A good commentator would have mentioned that, pointed it out as a sign of weakness, and seen Gate's parting challenge to his company as a "moon shot" type of declaration.
You should not have story segments and playable segments it should all be game play... it should be story-play. The hardware is advanced enough now that you can ditch those crutches of cut-scenes and stupidly contrived narrative sequences. The whole thing should be one continuous experience with no load screens no "forced play modes" and no freaking levels.
Modern games should be one contiguous experience with the player in ultimate control and able to swap "modes" on the fly. The games should be like life. The "plot" should be changeable by the player.
Only thing is, it wasn't Java the language, it was Sun the corporation behind Java that sued Microsoft. Now tell me, which is the big corporation behind Ruby with deep enough pockets to face Microsoft at the courts? EFF?
Uh, you guys know that the previous comment was a total farce right? It is either funny or a failed attempt at funny.
FYI. That's geek dating slang in the big geek party scene. And, you're not part of the scene if you are cute and stupid... which is a 'tard-muffin.
Example:
Geek Girl1: Ooh, check out that chem-student what a chiseled IQ... he's a total vulcan-cake.
Geek Girl2: I scoped him already, he's dating a 'tard-muffin lit-major.
Geek Girl1: So, like totally, illogical! Why are all the vulcan-cakes taken by tard-muffins at this school? All that's left are the pansies.
Geek Girl2: Don't go bitch on me elf-girl. There's plenty of cranium out there.
...like a Claymore trigger? I don't think they have the pattern recognition for that.But that's just a wild guess on my part.
A remarkable idea, but if it winds up killing off gamers instead of being their salvation, its life as a product would appear to be nasty, brutish and short.
It seems almost like the Ouija board of computing.
D If it runs under $120 I'm going to run out and get one. But, then I have a box of a half-dozen failed "revolutionary" new UI devices. It's sort of a hobby of mine.
I suspect that it is exceptionally hard to use with out training but just like the twiddler, air-mouse, and the alpha-grip an extremely practiced user can make them work as well as the device its intended to replace.
The problem is you need to be better than the device you are replacing. I keep buying these toys... I keep hoping. We'll see if this new toy can cross over to being a real enhancement.
-1 bitching about missing mod option.
So I'd bet that using that "mental extension into the tool" effect you really could find ways to add on novel new cybernetic body-parts and that the brains of mammals are actually adaptive enough to deal with it. I think this will be true because of the structure of mammal brains and its ability to re-wire itself. You'd have to graft those cybernetic body-parts onto children for it to be "easy for people who are young enough".
The only reason the adult brain can re-wire itself to deal with prosthetics is because some poor guy/girl has to undergo months and months of painful physical therapy. It's not quite so simple as strapping on their (robo) limb and telling them to have at it. Do you play video games? Have you played a fighter? When you screen character kicks or punches do you think: up,down,left,left,A,B,A or do you think "round house"
I find that younger players don't even think about the "combo" they think about the move after having practiced the combo enough times. These old guys with the strap-on arms are doing the same thing with lots and lots of practice.
In fact on one of the deep link videos the researchers show evidence that one of the wearers had gotten so used to the controls he was absentmindedly using the hand.
The fact that he absentmindedly sets down the glass after his first attempt at using the arm means he's incorporated the arm's controls into his "body picture" just like the kid with the video game who has memorized those absurd macros and no longer thinks in: up,down,up,down,A,B,A
It's the human ability to incorporate a tool as part of their "extended" anatomy. The mirror neurons mirroring movement in body parts that don't actually exist. Recreating the control movements.
Someone should study whether gamers register the same mirror neuron activity as dancers do. Do gamers who watch a sequence of game moves mirror in mirror neurons the moves as if they were tapping the keys themselves? I suspect that they do.
But, more to the point, I think they ought to focus on the basics before adding on extra fingers and elbows
Notice that we don't see this chasm in older baby-boomers. I think that means we won't see another gaping technology chasm between generations. The computers are here now and brains are adapting to them. Other threads on slashdot have discussed the idea that computer programs become mental extensions just as tools become extensions of people's bodies. Stories of ancient knights speak of warriors fighting until they could not tell their arms from their swords.
So I'd bet that using that "mental extension into the tool" effect you really could find ways to add on novel new cybernetic body-parts and that the brains of mammals are actually adaptive enough to deal with it. I think this will be true because of the structure of mammal brains and its ability to re-wire itself.
After all don't you wince when you hit something in your car? Some people even exclaim "ouch" as if they were themselves hurt. I suspect it's an artifact of being able to use tools that enables us to tack on a tool as a "temporary body part"
Am I the only one that sees this as an exciting new way to control giant robots and Mecha? One of the demo videos shows an engineer who has not lost an arm controlling the device as a third arm. That could mean the creation of a real-life Doctor Octopus ... or even a way to control real life Mecha or telerobotic space exploration systems for mining the moon!
DHS controls ICE see: http://www.ice.gov/about/faq.htm my ICD and API docs come with a nice big seal from DHS. So yes, the number of issued visas is under the DHS purview. The particulars of how a visa is granted, why, and to whom are not under direct control of DHS... merely the number, adjudication, and tracking.
Prior to 2003 these authorities were held by the DoJ but they shifted to DHS.
Who is inside the country is a data point that DHS is decidedly interested in. This is a reality I work with every single day as I develop software that tracks the whereabouts of visa holders.
Parent post gives good advice. I'll just tack on a little then. I can't advise Australia to Canada but I can talk to expatriate issues...
I've moved between the US and Europe for work twice. Unless you move in suitcases and stay in fully furnished lodging then you have a big logistical job moving between countries. Plan on at least a 20-40% fudge-factor for exchange rate fluctuations... these rates can change over night and utterly destroy your life.
Side Note: plan on the experience of moving back home being strangely like moving to another country all over again... you might find your credit in your home country is equally non-existent if you stay in the host country long enough. Keeping things simple helps this process tremendously.
Maintain a strict budget with lots and lots of wiggle room and plan on being flexible. For example your temporary short-term arrangements might end up having to hold for years on end. So only make commitments you can support for the long-haul if need be.
Keep exchange rates in your mind and keep wide margins in your budgets when you plan things. If you don't need the extra then you can hold it in the bank for when something surprises you like the inability to get certain types of health care for yourself or family members due to international red-tape. For example as a US citizen our insurance has "coverage areas" and you may live outside "coverage" so you have to travel hundreds to thousands of miles if you have a toothache... or perhaps even fly to a US city to get a check-up or a dental cleaning.
If there ever was an accident I suspect we would have to pay for everything out of pocket. The universal health care covers the citizens of that nation... not you. So learn about how your health care will work and plan accordingly. Taxes can get mighty weird too as each country, state, and province that can lay claim to you may want a cut so watch out for where your paycheck comes from you could get a third nation with a third set of tax laws involved by accident.
Yes, insurance issues and international tax issues will be constant nagging problems. So will worker rights in some cases. You will not be a citizen of the country that you are working in so labor laws may not protect you. Obviously, your home country's labor laws don't protect you either. So you live on the good will of your employer and there might be no recourse for a soured relationship with them. Be prepared.
Your best mitigation of these risks is to keep your household light (minimalist) and alway have enough in the bank to move yourself back home should an employment situation go terribly wrong. In some working arrangements you can have the horrible consequence having your entire life tied to your job standing with the threat of deportation over your head... and no legal standing for fair treatment in the work place. So be careful. Be prepared.
A good employer will know about these issues and advise you on how to deal with them. Many employers will simply not know about any of this. Keep things as simple as possible.
With that warning having been written... I will say moving to another country for a job was an adventure that has honestly made my career and my life better. It was a hard learning experience and well worth it. You may regret some mis-steps you make in moving to work in another country but you will learn so much about yourself and your home country by the contrast your host country will give you. It is a positive growth experience that will be well worth the risk and effort.
Hedge your bets well and good luck!
I want to move to where ever it is that you live.
They are letting the American economy stagnate by investing in foreign nations. When you pay salaries to foreign workers, that money doesn't re-enter the American economy. It enters foreign economies. But it always trickles to the top. I think congress should mandate a law that states that "No employee of a corporation may make more than 10 times what the lowest paid employee makes" While I sympathize with the emotions of what you are saying I must disagree. You can't legislate something like that. Let me run through something with you...
If you hire a worker form another country you do three things. First you fill an immediate need. Second you avoid paying for the education of the worker. Third you rob the other country of their investment in that person.
A naive dream solution would be to force corporations to pay for the loss of profits and pay economic damages inflicted upon the other nation when they hire someone expatriate.
But then, they might move to the other nation to avoid the penalty. Let them go, but take their head quarters with them. Then treat them as an importer and impose tariffs. The protections should be in place to make the local worker more profitable to employ. That still means you need to make the local worker more competitive.
I don't know how but we need to provide incentive for corporations to invest in their own long term profitability. And by long term I mean the 10 to 100 year scale. That's a scale nothing but governments and religions have ever successfully planned on before.
It is profitable to educate local workers and develop in-house talent. It is profitable to provide benefits and to pay your quality workers well. Especially if your top workers can easily move to your competitor who may pay more or provide education benefits. It is profitable to produce quality over quantity. Just not in the very short term.
You can't force people to do plan long-term. Instead you can provide mechanisms that will reward in the short term and long term the ones that do positive things for the very long term. You can provide a social framework where the employer that does a good job of taking care of its employees is rewarded with stability and the one that fails can't find the talent it needs and dies.
Things like pensions, maternity leave, and sick days are only profitable when seen on a large enough scale. It's a time scale that employers can't see if they are battling quarter to quarter and not decade to decade. The shift of time scale is what's needed... civil good becomes a money maker when seen on a long enough time scale.
The trick is... how do you do this?