I've been saying for the past two years that we do indeed have free will, simply because the power of commmunication makes us uniquely self aware on a level most animals haven't attained, however, I don't think we are smarter than monkeys. We just have the ability to write things down and communicate so that the next monkeys benefit. I think real free will is only present when you consciously decide to do something that you don't do out of habit, or couldn't do absent-mindedly. It's the real beauty of the universe that ALLOWS us to feel special while being completely insignificant. Our perception and ability to share it is our only real unique gift. Free will as it's talked about in the Rush song is not quite what free will is. Free will requires tremendous focus.
Just remember that we are currently experiencing a market that supports three separate consoles and I'd bet at least 5% of that market own all 3 systems. Of the current gen systems, I own a Wii and an XBOX 360. The out of box experience with the revolutionary controls of the Wii still pales compared to the suspension of disbelief I feel when I play Bioshock or Skate. We are just about to come out on the other side of the uncanny valley with this generation of games. The next one will surely be beyond the rendering quality used for the Final Fantasy Spirit Within movie. Mass Effect already looks damn close to an FMV game in realism.
Good graphics push very hard wired emotional buttons in my brain that make me really want to facilitate their existence as best I can, to enter into a world that is believable AND fun to explore. Saying gameplay is far more important than graphics is just being rhetorical. Of course it's important for games to have great gameplay, but I say it's almost equally important that we edge closer to immersion into other worlds.
They win the right place at the right time lottery so that someone else could win the right place at the right time lottery?
By virtue of implying Microsoft's success was tantamount to Google's success, why stop there? If there was no Microsoft, there would be no internet as we know it. Makes perfect sense... pause... NAAAAAHHHT!
While it might be easier to hijack packets being flung back and forth and decrypt them while they are still relevant, there are lots of ways to throw tons of junk decoys in the authentication process. Lots of decoys + time limited authentication and red flagging/locking out someone sending a suspect number of invalid logins at least makes the problem manageable.
Aaah, but Earth is a fairly young planet and we really have no way of knowing if there aren't civilizations or creatures that are billions of years old.
Which is far more important of an innovation than anything he's done for ILM. The dude should ALWAYS be billed as the father of Photoshop, and all will bow in his awesome presence.
Yes, because in no way are Iraqi insurgents confounding our troops right now in this century.
Be realistic. I'm no proponent of militias as they exist in Bumfuck, Montana, but in some ways, I'm a bit thankful that they do exist. Our love of guns is a good and bad thing, but it is STILL a deterrent for out-of-hand governments like the one we have in place today from just declaring marshal law and throwing people they don't like into camps. You don't need tinfoil to know that in the past month, Bush has taken liberties with presidential orders which did not make the front page of CNN.com
Read that and tell me you aren't glad we have crazies all about who are looking for a machine to rage against. All they need is a little moral justification and it's on like Donkey Kong. Also, in a state of civil unrest, unless you are Chuck Norris, you are going to want a great equalizer on your side.
... this has got to be one of the most successful hype campaigns ever. Seriously. I've seen the Optimus keyboard in music magazines, every tech website known to man, and in the comments, when available, everyone has said they'd never spend what's expected to be the street price of the damn thing. Yeah, I guess there is a bit of wow factor, but at that price, it's like saying wow to a Bentley, only you wouldn't be laughed at for salivating over a beautiful car.
This is a keyboard with little displays in the keys. Yeah, at some point, all input devices might have polymorphic indicators on their surface, but these guys are gonna be doomed if they can't ship the product at a widely accessible price. At $200, they'd have a hard time keeping them in stock, assuming the quality wasn't sketchy.
I've recently been spitting the rhetorical "they should" with friends recently along similar lines. My idea was that "they should" come out with stylized USB keys that conform to a specific size and let music lovers collect the cool USB keys that contain 24-bit/96kHz 2.0 or 5.1 FLAC versions of the album in complete DRM free glory at a $10-15 price point and that you could recover the files, should they ever become lost, once you register your key online. I think a vinyl movement would be great too. (except that vinyl recorded from a digital source which most studios use, seems kind of odd.) Basically, we are losing any tangible or visible association we used to make with an album via CD booklets, LP covers and inserts. I also don't like the notion of buying singles and not an album because that kills the album experience you get when you listen to an album that was conceptualized to be a complete work start to finish.
Who am I kidding. Rock is dead. Justin Timberlake isn't going to make Dark Side of the Moon. Kerry Underwood isn't going to make the next OK Computer.
Until the revenue lost to various online activities is more than the money misappropriated to pork barrel projects, frivolous spending, and otherwise bad accounting, I think the government should learn to spend what they are given more responsibly and leave internet and commerce in general, the fsck alone.
It seems kind of far fetched to believe that after the couple of years (plus) the world has been kicking the tires on AJAX implementations, that it took a lone post on Slashdot to remind people about black hats and the evil creatures that lurk on the intarwebs. If this exploit is truly as pervasive in its effectiveness as we are lead to believe, then we would've heard about it before now. If not, then I guess there are thousands of coders out there not practicing what they preach with regard to trusting client side data and authentication.
Seconded. I thought the iPhone was so much more appealing when I had a PPC-6700 WM5 device. The 700p just works the way it ought to. I'm forever giving the finger to Windows Mobile from now on. The Treo is a champ.
Oblivion is as much of an adventure game to me as it is an RPG, if not more. It's the single most immersive way for me to sit down at my PC and just go to another living breathing world. The best part is that it's fairly open ended but has linear story lines if you like that sort of thing. I'd rather see more adventure games in the sandbox style than the Zelda style. It'd be great to see the Zelda franchise take on that type of gameplay.
When he dies, they'll just replace him with another guy in a turtleneck. No one will know the difference. Mac users are more emotional than logical anyway.;)
Wow, that would've been way better if the camera angles were a little more interesting. Even if the shot would've been tighter and a smaller image space was used. People expect talking heads when watching the news. I think it's a bit unnatural to see a shot that looks like someone holding a camera zoomed all the way out from about 6 feet back. Such a small detail to blow after nailing the much harder technical aspects.
Likewise, I haven't had a bluescreen that wasn't directly related to a legitimate configuration issue. Once a box is stable and you haven't seen a blue screen in a month or so, you can pretty much expect that you won't see one again for quite some time on that box, if ever. Sure, there are still occasionally hard locks because of an application hanging, that can hardly be blamed on the OS though, and it's represented on all OSes.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft's business practices or even XP, but in all fairness, XP is a stable operating system. Secure? That's another issue, but it's the issue that the linux zealots should be beating like a gong, not the stability.
Anything I code from home isn't usually being handled by anyone else. I'm either doing it for a freelance client or for my employer which uses it's own version control. (Visual SourceSafe. Gross!) For most things, lazy versioning is good enough, but you are right about a real versioning solution being better. It probably would do more to prevent the corrupt file situation far more gracefully.
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Sealab 2021 did it.
I've been saying for the past two years that we do indeed have free will, simply because the power of commmunication makes us uniquely self aware on a level most animals haven't attained, however, I don't think we are smarter than monkeys. We just have the ability to write things down and communicate so that the next monkeys benefit. I think real free will is only present when you consciously decide to do something that you don't do out of habit, or couldn't do absent-mindedly. It's the real beauty of the universe that ALLOWS us to feel special while being completely insignificant. Our perception and ability to share it is our only real unique gift. Free will as it's talked about in the Rush song is not quite what free will is. Free will requires tremendous focus.
Just remember that we are currently experiencing a market that supports three separate consoles and I'd bet at least 5% of that market own all 3 systems. Of the current gen systems, I own a Wii and an XBOX 360. The out of box experience with the revolutionary controls of the Wii still pales compared to the suspension of disbelief I feel when I play Bioshock or Skate. We are just about to come out on the other side of the uncanny valley with this generation of games. The next one will surely be beyond the rendering quality used for the Final Fantasy Spirit Within movie. Mass Effect already looks damn close to an FMV game in realism. Good graphics push very hard wired emotional buttons in my brain that make me really want to facilitate their existence as best I can, to enter into a world that is believable AND fun to explore. Saying gameplay is far more important than graphics is just being rhetorical. Of course it's important for games to have great gameplay, but I say it's almost equally important that we edge closer to immersion into other worlds.
They win the right place at the right time lottery so that someone else could win the right place at the right time lottery? By virtue of implying Microsoft's success was tantamount to Google's success, why stop there? If there was no Microsoft, there would be no internet as we know it. Makes perfect sense... pause... NAAAAAHHHT!
While it might be easier to hijack packets being flung back and forth and decrypt them while they are still relevant, there are lots of ways to throw tons of junk decoys in the authentication process. Lots of decoys + time limited authentication and red flagging/locking out someone sending a suspect number of invalid logins at least makes the problem manageable.
Very easily winnable. The Iraqis aren't wearing berets.
I'm not kidding, that thing is like Sputnik. Round and quite pointy at parts. HEAD, PANTS, NOW!
Aaah, but Earth is a fairly young planet and we really have no way of knowing if there aren't civilizations or creatures that are billions of years old.
Were they hungry Hungary officials? Were white marbles somehow involved?
Which is far more important of an innovation than anything he's done for ILM. The dude should ALWAYS be billed as the father of Photoshop, and all will bow in his awesome presence.
Yes, because in no way are Iraqi insurgents confounding our troops right now in this century.
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Be realistic. I'm no proponent of militias as they exist in Bumfuck, Montana, but in some ways, I'm a bit thankful that they do exist. Our love of guns is a good and bad thing, but it is STILL a deterrent for out-of-hand governments like the one we have in place today from just declaring marshal law and throwing people they don't like into camps. You don't need tinfoil to know that in the past month, Bush has taken liberties with presidential orders which did not make the front page of CNN.com
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/2
Read that and tell me you aren't glad we have crazies all about who are looking for a machine to rage against. All they need is a little moral justification and it's on like Donkey Kong. Also, in a state of civil unrest, unless you are Chuck Norris, you are going to want a great equalizer on your side.
... this has got to be one of the most successful hype campaigns ever. Seriously. I've seen the Optimus keyboard in music magazines, every tech website known to man, and in the comments, when available, everyone has said they'd never spend what's expected to be the street price of the damn thing. Yeah, I guess there is a bit of wow factor, but at that price, it's like saying wow to a Bentley, only you wouldn't be laughed at for salivating over a beautiful car. This is a keyboard with little displays in the keys. Yeah, at some point, all input devices might have polymorphic indicators on their surface, but these guys are gonna be doomed if they can't ship the product at a widely accessible price. At $200, they'd have a hard time keeping them in stock, assuming the quality wasn't sketchy.
I've recently been spitting the rhetorical "they should" with friends recently along similar lines. My idea was that "they should" come out with stylized USB keys that conform to a specific size and let music lovers collect the cool USB keys that contain 24-bit/96kHz 2.0 or 5.1 FLAC versions of the album in complete DRM free glory at a $10-15 price point and that you could recover the files, should they ever become lost, once you register your key online. I think a vinyl movement would be great too. (except that vinyl recorded from a digital source which most studios use, seems kind of odd.) Basically, we are losing any tangible or visible association we used to make with an album via CD booklets, LP covers and inserts. I also don't like the notion of buying singles and not an album because that kills the album experience you get when you listen to an album that was conceptualized to be a complete work start to finish. Who am I kidding. Rock is dead. Justin Timberlake isn't going to make Dark Side of the Moon. Kerry Underwood isn't going to make the next OK Computer.
Until the revenue lost to various online activities is more than the money misappropriated to pork barrel projects, frivolous spending, and otherwise bad accounting, I think the government should learn to spend what they are given more responsibly and leave internet and commerce in general, the fsck alone.
It seems kind of far fetched to believe that after the couple of years (plus) the world has been kicking the tires on AJAX implementations, that it took a lone post on Slashdot to remind people about black hats and the evil creatures that lurk on the intarwebs. If this exploit is truly as pervasive in its effectiveness as we are lead to believe, then we would've heard about it before now. If not, then I guess there are thousands of coders out there not practicing what they preach with regard to trusting client side data and authentication.
Seconded. I thought the iPhone was so much more appealing when I had a PPC-6700 WM5 device. The 700p just works the way it ought to. I'm forever giving the finger to Windows Mobile from now on. The Treo is a champ.
Oblivion is as much of an adventure game to me as it is an RPG, if not more. It's the single most immersive way for me to sit down at my PC and just go to another living breathing world. The best part is that it's fairly open ended but has linear story lines if you like that sort of thing. I'd rather see more adventure games in the sandbox style than the Zelda style. It'd be great to see the Zelda franchise take on that type of gameplay.
If only there was some EFFin' organization that provided such a service. I don't know what the EFF we'll do now. I guess we are all pretty EFF'd.
When he dies, they'll just replace him with another guy in a turtleneck. No one will know the difference. Mac users are more emotional than logical anyway. ;)
... that we all taste just like chicken.
Wow, that would've been way better if the camera angles were a little more interesting. Even if the shot would've been tighter and a smaller image space was used. People expect talking heads when watching the news. I think it's a bit unnatural to see a shot that looks like someone holding a camera zoomed all the way out from about 6 feet back. Such a small detail to blow after nailing the much harder technical aspects.
I'd take any offer over $50m. Youtube is Napster's legal problems with far less ground to stand on since they host the videos on their servers.
Likewise, I haven't had a bluescreen that wasn't directly related to a legitimate configuration issue. Once a box is stable and you haven't seen a blue screen in a month or so, you can pretty much expect that you won't see one again for quite some time on that box, if ever. Sure, there are still occasionally hard locks because of an application hanging, that can hardly be blamed on the OS though, and it's represented on all OSes.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft's business practices or even XP, but in all fairness, XP is a stable operating system. Secure? That's another issue, but it's the issue that the linux zealots should be beating like a gong, not the stability.
FreeDOS Chili Pie.
Anything I code from home isn't usually being handled by anyone else. I'm either doing it for a freelance client or for my employer which uses it's own version control. (Visual SourceSafe. Gross!) For most things, lazy versioning is good enough, but you are right about a real versioning solution being better. It probably would do more to prevent the corrupt file situation far more gracefully.