"Whores are intrinsically not high-class; this has a basis in human psychology, and is consistently reflected in the way human societies are structured."
Absolute bollocks: there used to be frigging temple prostitues, who used to be highly respected.
True, that's the classical example, but even up to a couple of decades ago the japanese geisha was a highly respected proffesion (now it's merely respected, if looked on a mite strangely).
And let's not forget old Venice and many other good examples.
Yup, not too many people watched it initially. But even a dumbf*ck would have to admit that the way the show was presented is a textbook case of bad handling: -a sequential show was being shown out of order -a sequential (ie story-arced) show was frequently pre-empted -an action/sci-fi show was put on friday nights...hardly a normal timespot for it's demographic -the show was hardly promoted
So it's not surprising that not many people watched it. Fact is though that the show has sold phenomenally well on DVD (and that's not just for a show hardly anyone watched...that's dvd sales, period), showing it has a huge following now.
The studio fucked up, you gotta admit it. Hell, a movie coming out for a cancelled show is pretty much proof of that.
Wish I had modpoints to give ya: you're absolutely right, it seems to me. This does two things: a) it moves the problem to software, which is gooed because that b) does away with complex/expensive and recurring hardware costs for videoconferencing equipment. All you need is a proper monitor and a camera (and lots of realtime processing power).
We got compulsory ID here in the Netherlands first though (well, before the US...in january 2005)...funny thing is, that's the seconds time in 60 years we've had that happen.
Put more vids up of the IGDA conferences! Two years ago you had a whole number of entire lectures up (the top ten or so). Last year you had some blogger type cliffnotes.
Yeah, yeah...and they have a satelite too now. The real question/is/ 'what are google going to do with this information?'.
My guess: make money. Duh. Nothing else: just make relevant adwords and rake it in. This is a company which made scholar.google.com. I do beleive they are in this for good (and profit!!!) at the moment. But anything else nefferious they do will come out in their papers...remember, they're a public company. We'll know when they start buying an army or searching through webresults/mail for info they shouldn't have just by what they purchase.
Yup...and they all got found out. So you can bether ass that if google did, we'll find out too. And then google and it's adwords/sense is history.
But why would google commit suicide like that? I'm betting they won't, you're saying they are and have. I say show me proof, or pipe down. And if nothing fishy has been detected within, oh, say two weeks?, I'm gonna keep on assuming Google's OK and that you're wrong.
Lets say that, with people being people, there would be just as much copying of code in both worlds (OSS and closed). But then, remind yourself of the fact that OSS is open; everybody can see what you used and how it's structured (look at the CherryOS debacle)...so OSS has quite a big, legit and pretty much unsurmountable reason to not be copying code.
Then look at closed source software; you can't see the code! So I'd say that almost per definition closed software has a greater amount of legal liability than OSS; OSS shows and bares all, closed doesn't. People being people, the guys who can hide will hide.
So it looks to me like you're asking/. the wrong question...the question you should be asking is 'why did I post a story on/. comparing OSS and closed software, with a question partaining to something (copyright infringment) OSS has inherently no problem with?'
Interesting post, but for me you're taking VR too far. A good enough VR setup is me sitting in a chair, with some sunglasses on with OLED (or whatever) screens and motion tracking. As for input...I've been thinbking about that, and we already have an intuitive input device which can be used without looking at it: the gamepad.
VR, for me, isn't neccessarily about really walking through a virtual world...sitting down but being able to look from side to side and up and down, thereby changing my viewpoint, is good enough. That mechanism coupled with a gamepad is good enough for an FPS...hell, it would be the only way that a gampad would be a good replacement for a mouse in FPS games.
The first form of viable power-generating fussion will most likely be not-so-portable. And you might need oil for a number of other reasons, like plastics and medicine, not to mention tens of thousands of other chemicals which you can'yt produce without oil.
But what did we use before oil? Coal (and the like), which at the time wasn't the most cleanly burning fuel.
Anyway, how exactly are you going to build all that you're proposing to build? How are you gonna power the transportation needed? What's gonna power the crane you need?
Come on...they're talkind about CAVE! This is quite old tech. I'd say what goes on at actualitysystems.com is way more advanced. And what about the holographic systems being develloped at uni's around the world? They have red-monochrome multiple viewing angle holography right now (computationally rendered, not just static).
No. I think the 'acedemic' approach didn't pan out with the cumbersome, intrusive technologies of the time. That's the reason why VR was never immersive: you always felt the heavy headset, you where locked in a sensor cage...it sucked.
But imagine it with OLED glasses, which actually do feel and fit like sunglasses. And maybe with 3D positional chips, instead of those cumbersome gyros. All you need is a halfway decent, intuitive interface (like the mouse for 2d screens) and you have an immersive VR experience which computers could graphically generate right now.
But will the money which has already been bitten the first time round be made available again?
You make light of the problem: fusion is expensive in terms of money and especially time (we have 50 year projections, assuming we build a giant fussion test plant right now, followed by actual usuable plants (if nothing goes wrong at all)...maybe). What makes you think we have enough energy reserves as it is to bridge the gap? And what makes you assume that fusion is the end of the need for oil?
You might think it sucks...good for you. Buit as for thsi:
"Where is his science?"
Well, Firefly is just about the only sci-fi series to actually/not have sound in space/! You know, just like in real life? And the reason for using oldfashioned six-shooter type guns is pretty decently explained in the series itself.
So whilst you might not like Firefly (I do, because it doesn't resemble Buffy much at all: Firefly is funny and has well thought out, rounded characters instead of the buffy-characiture), you can't say the show's science is bad.
You should read more about foreigners in Iraq. They/all/ go speeding around as fast as possible over the iraqi roads. It's SOP: to do anything else would be suicide. Read up on the security contractors, or how the journalists go around (when they do get out of their hotels)...hell, driving around at breakneck speeds is SOP for american soldiers, fer crying out loud!
The real question is why did a tank-ish thing, which was situated btween two checkpoints and behind a curve without a LOS on the first checkpoint fire at a van which had already passed them (and, coincidentally, the first checkpoint)?
Very recently. Today, in fact. I live near the Schilderswijk in the Hague. Thing is, I come across a lot of people who/do/ speak dutch. Or broken dutch. But I'll give you an even better example:
I'm british, but went through the dutch school system. My dutch is impeccable...better than most, actually. My dad, however, who has lived here for nigh on two decades, is a different matter. His dutch is awfull...on a par with an older turkish/marrocan parent. But there is a huge difference, a double standard in two parts. First off, he's english and so, for some reason, he's not at all looked at strangely for not speaking halfway decent dutch. And second: the dutch speak english to him. So he won't ever get better, either. And at the same time, somehow, he's not looked at like a pariah like for example turkish or marrocan people who have the exact same mastery of the dutch language.
I totally agree: much more common is the other way 'round: the recent firebombing of that islamic primary school, for example. Twice.
Thing is, the Dutch mayority think they're so good that everyone has to conform to their standards (like them having to learn Dutch...which is fine in theory, but it doesn't work if the dutch people refuse to talk to the immigrants!), so they percieve the immigrants (even second/third/fourth generation) as a threat.
Do note the broad generalisations in this post, and I have to say it's not as bad as this might make it sound...but the cultural elitism is there underneath the surface, especially with the dutch equivalent of rednecks (or 'Sjonny' and 'Anita', as they're known here).
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They didn't quantify how large the universe is so it's a bad show? Huh?
It's all implied, anyway...which I like. Hell, how large is the star wras univers? That was also all implied. It's a subtle story effect.
"Whores are intrinsically not high-class; this has a basis in human psychology, and is consistently reflected in the way human societies are structured."
Absolute bollocks: there used to be frigging temple prostitues, who used to be highly respected.
True, that's the classical example, but even up to a couple of decades ago the japanese geisha was a highly respected proffesion (now it's merely respected, if looked on a mite strangely).
And let's not forget old Venice and many other good examples.
Yup, not too many people watched it initially. But even a dumbf*ck would have to admit that the way the show was presented is a textbook case of bad handling:
-a sequential show was being shown out of order
-a sequential (ie story-arced) show was frequently pre-empted
-an action/sci-fi show was put on friday nights...hardly a normal timespot for it's demographic
-the show was hardly promoted
So it's not surprising that not many people watched it.
Fact is though that the show has sold phenomenally well on DVD (and that's not just for a show hardly anyone watched...that's dvd sales, period), showing it has a huge following now.
The studio fucked up, you gotta admit it. Hell, a movie coming out for a cancelled show is pretty much proof of that.
Nop...Blade Runner used photographs. The rotation effect was therefore, up until this very cool trick came out, magic, technologically speaking.
Wish I had modpoints to give ya: you're absolutely right, it seems to me. This does two things: a) it moves the problem to software, which is gooed because that b) does away with complex/expensive and recurring hardware costs for videoconferencing equipment. All you need is a proper monitor and a camera (and lots of realtime processing power).
Very funny, Jobs. And this is different from my palmpilot how, exactly? Oh, yours is bigger, you say?
WTF? Now we're even /.-ing articles not in the submitted story?
I sure hope this dude 'Aleph One' isn't a hacker, 'cos he's bound to get mad after you guys kill his server.
....and it's rejected by Occam!
Ausweiss, bitte!
We got compulsory ID here in the Netherlands first though (well, before the US...in january 2005)...funny thing is, that's the seconds time in 60 years we've had that happen.
....and Gordon Hill dropped dead from exhaustion right after he was done :)
BTW, if you think that's a nasty comment, you really don't get the 'quote'
Put more vids up of the IGDA conferences! Two years ago you had a whole number of entire lectures up (the top ten or so). Last year you had some blogger type cliffnotes.
Yeah, yeah...and they have a satelite too now. The real question /is/ 'what are google going to do with this information?'.
My guess: make money. Duh. Nothing else: just make relevant adwords and rake it in. This is a company which made scholar.google.com. I do beleive they are in this for good (and profit!!!) at the moment. But anything else nefferious they do will come out in their papers...remember, they're a public company. We'll know when they start buying an army or searching through webresults/mail for info they shouldn't have just by what they purchase.
"right , they all say that"
Yup...and they all got found out. So you can bether ass that if google did, we'll find out too. And then google and it's adwords/sense is history.
But why would google commit suicide like that? I'm betting they won't, you're saying they are and have. I say show me proof, or pipe down. And if nothing fishy has been detected within, oh, say two weeks?, I'm gonna keep on assuming Google's OK and that you're wrong.
Lets say that, with people being people, there would be just as much copying of code in both worlds (OSS and closed). But then, remind yourself of the fact that OSS is open; everybody can see what you used and how it's structured (look at the CherryOS debacle)...so OSS has quite a big, legit and pretty much unsurmountable reason to not be copying code.
/. the wrong question...the question you should be asking is 'why did I post a story on /. comparing OSS and closed software, with a question partaining to something (copyright infringment) OSS has inherently no problem with?'
/cows FUD?
Then look at closed source software; you can't see the code! So I'd say that almost per definition closed software has a greater amount of legal liability than OSS; OSS shows and bares all, closed doesn't. People being people, the guys who can hide will hide.
So it looks to me like you're asking
Are you feeding us
Interesting post, but for me you're taking VR too far. A good enough VR setup is me sitting in a chair, with some sunglasses on with OLED (or whatever) screens and motion tracking. As for input...I've been thinbking about that, and we already have an intuitive input device which can be used without looking at it: the gamepad.
VR, for me, isn't neccessarily about really walking through a virtual world...sitting down but being able to look from side to side and up and down, thereby changing my viewpoint, is good enough. That mechanism coupled with a gamepad is good enough for an FPS...hell, it would be the only way that a gampad would be a good replacement for a mouse in FPS games.
The effect only lasts for half an hour, though.
The first form of viable power-generating fussion will most likely be not-so-portable. And you might need oil for a number of other reasons, like plastics and medicine, not to mention tens of thousands of other chemicals which you can'yt produce without oil.
But what did we use before oil? Coal (and the like), which at the time wasn't the most cleanly burning fuel.
Anyway, how exactly are you going to build all that you're proposing to build? How are you gonna power the transportation needed? What's gonna power the crane you need?
Come on...they're talkind about CAVE! This is quite old tech. I'd say what goes on at actualitysystems.com is way more advanced. And what about the holographic systems being develloped at uni's around the world? They have red-monochrome multiple viewing angle holography right now (computationally rendered, not just static).
And what's up with the lame, out-of-date link?
No. I think the 'acedemic' approach didn't pan out with the cumbersome, intrusive technologies of the time. That's the reason why VR was never immersive: you always felt the heavy headset, you where locked in a sensor cage...it sucked.
But imagine it with OLED glasses, which actually do feel and fit like sunglasses. And maybe with 3D positional chips, instead of those cumbersome gyros. All you need is a halfway decent, intuitive interface (like the mouse for 2d screens) and you have an immersive VR experience which computers could graphically generate right now.
But will the money which has already been bitten the first time round be made available again?
You make light of the problem: fusion is expensive in terms of money and especially time (we have 50 year projections, assuming we build a giant fussion test plant right now, followed by actual usuable plants (if nothing goes wrong at all)...maybe). What makes you think we have enough energy reserves as it is to bridge the gap? And what makes you assume that fusion is the end of the need for oil?
You might think it sucks...good for you. Buit as for thsi:
/not have sound in space/! You know, just like in real life? And the reason for using oldfashioned six-shooter type guns is pretty decently explained in the series itself.
"Where is his science?"
Well, Firefly is just about the only sci-fi series to actually
So whilst you might not like Firefly (I do, because it doesn't resemble Buffy much at all: Firefly is funny and has well thought out, rounded characters instead of the buffy-characiture), you can't say the show's science is bad.
You should read more about foreigners in Iraq. They /all/ go speeding around as fast as possible over the iraqi roads. It's SOP: to do anything else would be suicide. Read up on the security contractors, or how the journalists go around (when they do get out of their hotels)...hell, driving around at breakneck speeds is SOP for american soldiers, fer crying out loud!
The real question is why did a tank-ish thing, which was situated btween two checkpoints and behind a curve without a LOS on the first checkpoint fire at a van which had already passed them (and, coincidentally, the first checkpoint)?
Very recently. Today, in fact. I live near the Schilderswijk in the Hague. Thing is, I come across a lot of people who /do/ speak dutch. Or broken dutch. But I'll give you an even better example:
I'm british, but went through the dutch school system. My dutch is impeccable...better than most, actually. My dad, however, who has lived here for nigh on two decades, is a different matter. His dutch is awfull...on a par with an older turkish/marrocan parent. But there is a huge difference, a double standard in two parts.
First off, he's english and so, for some reason, he's not at all looked at strangely for not speaking halfway decent dutch. And second: the dutch speak english to him. So he won't ever get better, either. And at the same time, somehow, he's not looked at like a pariah like for example turkish or marrocan people who have the exact same mastery of the dutch language.
I totally agree: much more common is the other way 'round: the recent firebombing of that islamic primary school, for example. Twice.
Thing is, the Dutch mayority think they're so good that everyone has to conform to their standards (like them having to learn Dutch...which is fine in theory, but it doesn't work if the dutch people refuse to talk to the immigrants!), so they percieve the immigrants (even second/third/fourth generation) as a threat.
Do note the broad generalisations in this post, and I have to say it's not as bad as this might make it sound...but the cultural elitism is there underneath the surface, especially with the dutch equivalent of rednecks (or 'Sjonny' and 'Anita', as they're known here).