I'll go you one further; the stated aim of OBL/is/ to promote terror. He has said that he hoped that his actions would get the US gov'mnt to enact such tight authority that it would create friction in the country. Oddly enough, Bush has actually done pretty much everything Osama has asked for.
Even stranger, that tape of OBL which came out near the elections had OBL actually stating that he hoped Bush would be re-elected because he was doing such a good job. I still have trouble believing that somehow Rove and co. actually managed to spin it so that the media/the country believed that OBL was rooting for Kerry. That, to me, is REALLY troubling; Goering stated how to get the people behind you, and that the masses were stupid...but this stupid?
Anyway, don't believe me? Go read the OBL transcripts yourself. If you can find them...they're not that easy to find on the intarweb.
Yeah, to transfer the data from the accelerometers and button presses, not to get location data. Bluetooth really won't cut it for that...the frequency won't allow for decent location data. Go do the math yourself.
The announcements by Nintendo, maybe? Even if what/they/ say isn't good enough for you, the little infrared window at the front of the controler is a dead giveaway.
That is, if they6 deliver; think Prince of Persia in a crowded medieval/crusade era middle eastern city, with jumping/fighting/climbing a bit over the top, but still reality based (you can't change direction in midair...if a piece of geometry sticks out more than 10 cm. in the game architecture, you can climb it). This is a game like I've been thinking of for years...if they can pull it off.
And of course the big N's Revolution. I only wish they made it RF based instead of LOS/infrared (which is just silly...two infrared camera's or three micro antennae to pick up the movement...one can lose the 'joystick' if you turn away, the other won't), but otherwise I see the Revolution winning this round of the console wars...just like the DS and GB Advance won the last one:)
Me, I blame it on nerds and geeks. There is no inherent need to work 100 hours a week. With all the mistakes made etc, working 60 hours or just the standard 40 hours a week will get you the exact same level of finished product.
But geeks and nerds like to geek out and have long evening coding sessions. It's what they did. The geek macho could, at any rate. And it's that geek macho which has penetrated and stuck in the software dev biz.
And even if I'm wrong, I prefer this explanation, 'cause I can't think of a/rational/ reason that people would work 100 hours a week for software, expecially considering the research which has been done showing that even in a 40-50 hour workweek, many people would benefit from a nap in the afternoon. But that's just not macho enough.
Simple program gets you simple results. Sketchup is nice, but can I make a complex low poly model? With difficulty. A highpoly model? No way. Use patches, NURBS or subD? Animate? With controlable lead in/out curves? Track editing? Camera work? Render effects? Deformables? Physics? Layer controll? Texture effects?
Sketchup is a kiddie program. If you want a cheap intro to 3d with a prgram which can actually model (but only polygon modeling), try Isilo, or even Wings. And if you want to do anything other than just model...hehe...
What a rubbish statement. Take 3d for example. An open source 3d program is free, grreat and at this point is called Blender. But 3D ain't simple, it ain't easy. It's gonna take a couple of days to figure out if you've done nothing in that direction. So for any newb, it's gonna be very complex. Hell, certain aspects can be complex for non-newbs.
But to call Blender non-free 'cause it's a complex piece of software? That's a very stupid thing to say.
Yeah...might be. But explain to me this: why is the president's hack skit then considered newsworthy? It's something which every president does at these dinners. The headline act comedian afterwards totally criticising most of that president's reign, as well as the media's responce, all this to a hostile audience which doesn't recieve this well...I think that's much more newsworthy than Bush being an arse. But who get's aired on ALL the media? There was narry a word on Colbert for doing something rare; the air was filled with 'news' about a president doing the same old schtick.
Wow...talk about closed minded. Shiny shoes+cut hair=acceptable.
I have shoes which would be ruined if I ever shined them...you know, trendy shoes. And why the hell should I wear a collared shirt? Now I personally do, sometimes, when I feel like it, but you make it sound as if the fact that I wear (expensive?) t shirts (under my suit jacket?) means I'm unwashed scum. And maybe I like my hair done up all luxurious like Fabio (I don't, but if I did you can bet your arse that if I wanted to, I would).
So fuck you and your excluding attitude. Neatness I can get into, but not your mandatory shiny shoes-shorthaired-collared bullshit.
Appart from that...the guys I know at uni and elsewhere doing the most cutting edge shit in computing, they get to dress how the fuck they want. Because they do what no-one else (can?) do, and the money they make gets them enough shallow women and the smarts they have get them the smart women. All you need to do is shower and have decent clothes...that's enough neat for any sane person (even if they wear sandals).
Well, there goes GamesFirst on my list of unreliable publications.
This really is not about Oblivion; it's about a PCI physics card maker having paid a company to write them add-copy. It's so transparent that it makes me feel contempt for the whole bunch of people behind it.
'for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.'
This can be video, flash, games, presentations, quizes...and that's just on the pc! This is just insane...Oblivion should have won the emmy for computer game, had this catagory existed. But now I fear teh catagory is so overly broad that it will become a bought-and-paid-for advertising emmy.
'Oh, we want to hype and PR this [insert product]...let's buy it the 'whatever as long as it's digital' emmy'.
True, you could do that. But even so, you'd have to fire two hemispherical configurations of material at each other. That will require precision machining of shaped charges too. And to get the required velocities (to get that critical pressure going), you'll still have to get precice timing on either end of the tube.
So that does simplify somewhat, but once you get the timings right for two ends, n ends isn't that much more difficult (but not that neccessary either:)).
"[...] a library card, and an electrician to make a nuclear weapon"
Not so simple, bub. You need to be able to machine explosives to a very high accuracy too, and your electrical ignition isn't triavial either. Even a good electrician won't be able to do it; you need great worksmanship as a well as a good theoretician to back him up.
Then there's the teleoperations equipment you'll need to build, unless you can come up with a steady stream of people willing to die. Now, with suicide bombers and all you might think you can do that...but I bet you won't find many after the first hundred die of radiation poisoning and the realisation sets in that a)that's a very messy way to die (not at all like the instant kaboom of a strapped on bomb) and b)you need a new guy every so many minutes to work on the radioactives.
"The purpose of terrorism isn't to kill people per-se. It's to scare them into some sort of action."
This is so true. Look at Osama bin Laden. After 911, the USA took EXACTLY the actions which were his stated aims. I'm still flabberghasted that this worked, and that the population hasn't raised a single question about that. Then again, you would be surprised to find out that transcripts of the OBL tapes are not that easy to find.
I counted 6 hours; an hour of concepting, an hour to model and an hour (two hours max) for the normalmap, an hour for the texture. Finally an hour for scripting and getting the final.esp. This adds up to 5 or six hours MAXIMUM of work.
Assuming they pay their employees about $50 and hour, thats $300 total. Say they lose $0.50 on distribution, they need 200 downloads to break even; the rest is pure profit. $2.50 is VASTLY overpriced for a 'dress-my-little-ponies-up' mod. But at least they got into/.'s april fools gag.
"until you realize how monumentally unfair that standard would be for developing nations."
What, unlike the systems in place right now? Or it's better to let the environment go to hell and ruin the whole world for the sake of not much benefit for the third world? Wouldn't you agree that the global ecosystem is a bit more important?
"can by virtue of messily developing early, have the luxury of cutting emissions"
Yup...you HAVE to be realistic about these things. Fair doesn't come into it, survival does.
"sinking one part of the economy in favor of another"
Huh? It's not a zero-sum game; did banning asbestos sink the construction industry?
"or in this case, creating one from whole cloth, which is why I mentioned Keynes in this context"
It's not a non-existing industry...you'd be growing an already existing one. Plus, you're using not oft used and long discredited parts of Keynes' theories here, which is why I think you don't have a good understanding of Keynes' theories.
"I agree that first-world protectionism serves mainly to screw developing nations"
So why do you use that first sentence if you acknowledge it's something I've dealt with already?
"As you pointed out, capital moves only when conditions are not in equilibrium [...] conditions will never be in sufficient equilibrium to nullify the strong incentive that a firm feels when regulations start becoming pricey"
What? Now you're just being odd. I did not point that out. And the second part of your statement is even stranger and unqualified: what 'conditions'? Nullify (?) what 'incentives'? If you say that capital only moves when 'conditions' are not in equilibrium, why do they have to be in equilibrium to nullify incentives? And why would one want to nullify inmcetives in the first place? Aren't incentives there to PROMOTE behaviour?
"The easiest cost to cut is usually labor"
Yeah...I talked about that, didn't I.
Man, that last paragraph is one of the most confusing I've ever read. And I've read Oppenheim's Signals and Systems:)
But it aint that simple either; what about the costs which go down and improve your standard of living? Nanotech and quantum mechanics are revolutionising solar energy; 30-40% efficiency is what we can achieve right now, and higher levels are coming soon. Combine that with wind and hydro, and soon we'll have cleaner power at lower costs than oil/coal (not saying it's there yet, but give it a decade or two). Green means of agriculture (understanding of ecosystems, natural predator prey systems) can replace pesticiides entirely, in a sustainable,/cheaper/ way....your non-sprayed produce is getting cheaper.
Now I'm not a treehugging eco-nut, but there's also a knock-on effect you have to consider which counter balances the costs. Plus, higher employment mean lower crime and lower government benefits, which means lower taxes.
So you impose an 'earth tax' (or some other catchy name) on imports have their origin in countries which don't adhere to similar conservation laws.
And please don't tell me that you can't do that in a free economy; they're allowed to regulate against asbestos but not against other polutants? Not only that, but protectionism is a fact in all first world countries already (which is why third world countries are having such a time trying to get a foor in the door). As for companies fleeing...no profit in that if you add the tarrifs.
"If capital cannot flee, prices will rise until the firm cannot compete with competitors and will become insolvent."
Please don't tell me that's what they teach in economics 101. It only works like that if competitors don't have to face the same standards. Outsourcing would stop in an instant if companies had to ensure decent working conditions (ie adhere to workplace standards or face tarrifs). The problem is lack of will to legislate that.
When are people going to real;ise that a war is something which will end, which has a resolution. Terrorism, copyright infringement, taxes...these are things which are ongoing states of affairs; the only way to mitigate them is to take away root causes instead of fighting the symptoms, and even then they won't stop.
I agree with you, but I'm always amazed at how the green option is supposed to be bad for the economy. That just doesn't make sense.
Say you implemented the most draconian of green laws. This would mean all these companies had to spend money to get up to code. This would mean they'd have to hire people internally to find out and implement what needs to be done, and hire externally to get it done. They might have to hike prices up a bit, but there would be many, many new jobs created.
So what exactly is the downside to the economy? You get more people employed, you get new companies fromed, all that AND you get a healthier environment (something which government should be legislating for and enforcing ANYWAY).
Funny...your mac runs linux already:) OSX is a mac frontend on a linux kernel:)
Appart from that, linux was desktop ready since 2003...the graphical installer and it's windowing system is good; if grandma can use windows, she can use linux.
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I'll go you one further; the stated aim of OBL /is/ to promote terror. He has said that he hoped that his actions would get the US gov'mnt to enact such tight authority that it would create friction in the country. Oddly enough, Bush has actually done pretty much everything Osama has asked for.
Even stranger, that tape of OBL which came out near the elections had OBL actually stating that he hoped Bush would be re-elected because he was doing such a good job. I still have trouble believing that somehow Rove and co. actually managed to spin it so that the media/the country believed that OBL was rooting for Kerry. That, to me, is REALLY troubling; Goering stated how to get the people behind you, and that the masses were stupid...but this stupid?
Anyway, don't believe me? Go read the OBL transcripts yourself. If you can find them...they're not that easy to find on the intarweb.
Yeah, to transfer the data from the accelerometers and button presses, not to get location data. Bluetooth really won't cut it for that...the frequency won't allow for decent location data. Go do the math yourself.
http://www.n-philes.com/features.php?id=241&p=1
bottom of the page.
Still not convinced? Google yourself.
http://www.physorg.com/news65375101.html
In combination with gyroscopic sensors from Gyration Inc.
The announcements by Nintendo, maybe? Even if what /they/ say isn't good enough for you, the little infrared window at the front of the controler is a dead giveaway.
That is, if they6 deliver; think Prince of Persia in a crowded medieval/crusade era middle eastern city, with jumping/fighting/climbing a bit over the top, but still reality based (you can't change direction in midair...if a piece of geometry sticks out more than 10 cm. in the game architecture, you can climb it). This is a game like I've been thinking of for years...if they can pull it off.
:)
And of course the big N's Revolution. I only wish they made it RF based instead of LOS/infrared (which is just silly...two infrared camera's or three micro antennae to pick up the movement...one can lose the 'joystick' if you turn away, the other won't), but otherwise I see the Revolution winning this round of the console wars...just like the DS and GB Advance won the last one
Me, I blame it on nerds and geeks. There is no inherent need to work 100 hours a week. With all the mistakes made etc, working 60 hours or just the standard 40 hours a week will get you the exact same level of finished product.
/rational/ reason that people would work 100 hours a week for software, expecially considering the research which has been done showing that even in a 40-50 hour workweek, many people would benefit from a nap in the afternoon. But that's just not macho enough.
But geeks and nerds like to geek out and have long evening coding sessions. It's what they did. The geek macho could, at any rate. And it's that geek macho which has penetrated and stuck in the software dev biz.
And even if I'm wrong, I prefer this explanation, 'cause I can't think of a
Simple program gets you simple results. Sketchup is nice, but can I make a complex low poly model? With difficulty. A highpoly model? No way. Use patches, NURBS or subD? Animate? With controlable lead in/out curves? Track editing? Camera work? Render effects? Deformables? Physics? Layer controll? Texture effects?
Sketchup is a kiddie program. If you want a cheap intro to 3d with a prgram which can actually model (but only polygon modeling), try Isilo, or even Wings. And if you want to do anything other than just model...hehe...
What a rubbish statement. Take 3d for example. An open source 3d program is free, grreat and at this point is called Blender. But 3D ain't simple, it ain't easy. It's gonna take a couple of days to figure out if you've done nothing in that direction. So for any newb, it's gonna be very complex. Hell, certain aspects can be complex for non-newbs.
But to call Blender non-free 'cause it's a complex piece of software? That's a very stupid thing to say.
Yeah...might be. But explain to me this: why is the president's hack skit then considered newsworthy? It's something which every president does at these dinners. The headline act comedian afterwards totally criticising most of that president's reign, as well as the media's responce, all this to a hostile audience which doesn't recieve this well...I think that's much more newsworthy than Bush being an arse. But who get's aired on ALL the media? There was narry a word on Colbert for doing something rare; the air was filled with 'news' about a president doing the same old schtick.
Wow...talk about closed minded. Shiny shoes+cut hair=acceptable.
I have shoes which would be ruined if I ever shined them...you know, trendy shoes. And why the hell should I wear a collared shirt? Now I personally do, sometimes, when I feel like it, but you make it sound as if the fact that I wear (expensive?) t shirts (under my suit jacket?) means I'm unwashed scum. And maybe I like my hair done up all luxurious like Fabio (I don't, but if I did you can bet your arse that if I wanted to, I would).
So fuck you and your excluding attitude. Neatness I can get into, but not your mandatory shiny shoes-shorthaired-collared bullshit.
Appart from that...the guys I know at uni and elsewhere doing the most cutting edge shit in computing, they get to dress how the fuck they want. Because they do what no-one else (can?) do, and the money they make gets them enough shallow women and the smarts they have get them the smart women. All you need to do is shower and have decent clothes...that's enough neat for any sane person (even if they wear sandals).
Well, there goes GamesFirst on my list of unreliable publications.
This really is not about Oblivion; it's about a PCI physics card maker having paid a company to write them add-copy. It's so transparent that it makes me feel contempt for the whole bunch of people behind it.
Or to paraphrase: 'Answer me this question, but you are not allowed to answer with these statement, no matter if they are true answers'.
'for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.'
This can be video, flash, games, presentations, quizes...and that's just on the pc! This is just insane...Oblivion should have won the emmy for computer game, had this catagory existed. But now I fear teh catagory is so overly broad that it will become a bought-and-paid-for advertising emmy.
'Oh, we want to hype and PR this [insert product]...let's buy it the 'whatever as long as it's digital' emmy'.
True, you could do that. But even so, you'd have to fire two hemispherical configurations of material at each other. That will require precision machining of shaped charges too. And to get the required velocities (to get that critical pressure going), you'll still have to get precice timing on either end of the tube.
:)).
So that does simplify somewhat, but once you get the timings right for two ends, n ends isn't that much more difficult (but not that neccessary either
"[...] a library card, and an electrician to make a nuclear weapon"
Not so simple, bub. You need to be able to machine explosives to a very high accuracy too, and your electrical ignition isn't triavial either. Even a good electrician won't be able to do it; you need great worksmanship as a well as a good theoretician to back him up.
Then there's the teleoperations equipment you'll need to build, unless you can come up with a steady stream of people willing to die. Now, with suicide bombers and all you might think you can do that...but I bet you won't find many after the first hundred die of radiation poisoning and the realisation sets in that a)that's a very messy way to die (not at all like the instant kaboom of a strapped on bomb) and b)you need a new guy every so many minutes to work on the radioactives.
"The purpose of terrorism isn't to kill people per-se. It's to scare them into some sort of action."
This is so true. Look at Osama bin Laden. After 911, the USA took EXACTLY the actions which were his stated aims. I'm still flabberghasted that this worked, and that the population hasn't raised a single question about that. Then again, you would be surprised to find out that transcripts of the OBL tapes are not that easy to find.
I counted 6 hours; an hour of concepting, an hour to model and an hour (two hours max) for the normalmap, an hour for the texture. Finally an hour for scripting and getting the final .esp. This adds up to 5 or six hours MAXIMUM of work.
/.'s april fools gag.
Assuming they pay their employees about $50 and hour, thats $300 total. Say they lose $0.50 on distribution, they need 200 downloads to break even; the rest is pure profit. $2.50 is VASTLY overpriced for a 'dress-my-little-ponies-up' mod. But at least they got into
Thanks for the link. But what it boils down to is that Pete not-so-neatly avoided saying anything significant on the issue.
Not surprising though; Pete's a PR flak.
"I can say form the Quake days [...] some played like they were being run on a 486 in some guy's bedroom"
Well, in those days that would have been a great, fast server...
"until you realize how monumentally unfair that standard would be for developing nations."
:)
What, unlike the systems in place right now? Or it's better to let the environment go to hell and ruin the whole world for the sake of not much benefit for the third world? Wouldn't you agree that the global ecosystem is a bit more important?
"can by virtue of messily developing early, have the luxury of cutting emissions"
Yup...you HAVE to be realistic about these things. Fair doesn't come into it, survival does.
"sinking one part of the economy in favor of another"
Huh? It's not a zero-sum game; did banning asbestos sink the construction industry?
"or in this case, creating one from whole cloth, which is why I mentioned Keynes in this context"
It's not a non-existing industry...you'd be growing an already existing one. Plus, you're using not oft used and long discredited parts of Keynes' theories here, which is why I think you don't have a good understanding of Keynes' theories.
"I agree that first-world protectionism serves mainly to screw developing nations"
So why do you use that first sentence if you acknowledge it's something I've dealt with already?
"As you pointed out, capital moves only when conditions are not in equilibrium [...] conditions will never be in sufficient equilibrium to nullify the strong incentive that a firm feels when regulations start becoming pricey"
What? Now you're just being odd. I did not point that out. And the second part of your statement is even stranger and unqualified: what 'conditions'? Nullify (?) what 'incentives'? If you say that capital only moves when 'conditions' are not in equilibrium, why do they have to be in equilibrium to nullify incentives? And why would one want to nullify inmcetives in the first place? Aren't incentives there to PROMOTE behaviour?
"The easiest cost to cut is usually labor"
Yeah...I talked about that, didn't I.
Man, that last paragraph is one of the most confusing I've ever read. And I've read Oppenheim's Signals and Systems
But it aint that simple either; what about the costs which go down and improve your standard of living? Nanotech and quantum mechanics are revolutionising solar energy; 30-40% efficiency is what we can achieve right now, and higher levels are coming soon. Combine that with wind and hydro, and soon we'll have cleaner power at lower costs than oil/coal (not saying it's there yet, but give it a decade or two). Green means of agriculture (understanding of ecosystems, natural predator prey systems) can replace pesticiides entirely, in a sustainable, /cheaper/ way....your non-sprayed produce is getting cheaper.
Now I'm not a treehugging eco-nut, but there's also a knock-on effect you have to consider which counter balances the costs. Plus, higher employment mean lower crime and lower government benefits, which means lower taxes.
So you impose an 'earth tax' (or some other catchy name) on imports have their origin in countries which don't adhere to similar conservation laws.
And please don't tell me that you can't do that in a free economy; they're allowed to regulate against asbestos but not against other polutants? Not only that, but protectionism is a fact in all first world countries already (which is why third world countries are having such a time trying to get a foor in the door). As for companies fleeing...no profit in that if you add the tarrifs.
"If capital cannot flee, prices will rise until the firm cannot compete with competitors and will become insolvent."
Please don't tell me that's what they teach in economics 101. It only works like that if competitors don't have to face the same standards. Outsourcing would stop in an instant if companies had to ensure decent working conditions (ie adhere to workplace standards or face tarrifs). The problem is lack of will to legislate that.
BTW, I think you're using Keynes in a wrong way.
+1 (truthfull) to you too.
When are people going to real;ise that a war is something which will end, which has a resolution. Terrorism, copyright infringement, taxes...these are things which are ongoing states of affairs; the only way to mitigate them is to take away root causes instead of fighting the symptoms, and even then they won't stop.
I agree with you, but I'm always amazed at how the green option is supposed to be bad for the economy. That just doesn't make sense.
Say you implemented the most draconian of green laws. This would mean all these companies had to spend money to get up to code. This would mean they'd have to hire people internally to find out and implement what needs to be done, and hire externally to get it done. They might have to hike prices up a bit, but there would be many, many new jobs created.
So what exactly is the downside to the economy? You get more people employed, you get new companies fromed, all that AND you get a healthier environment (something which government should be legislating for and enforcing ANYWAY).
Funny...your mac runs linux already :) OSX is a mac frontend on a linux kernel :)
Appart from that, linux was desktop ready since 2003...the graphical installer and it's windowing system is good; if grandma can use windows, she can use linux.