Sorry, I originally had the word 'crew' in there because really, we wouldn't just send one guy. Then I changed everything to be a single person because I thought it would make the point better. I neglected to change my mass measurement though (and the last sentence, which nobody was pedantic enough to point out).
Do you have to own a copy of the game to spectate on line?
Live? Yes. In theory, people can record what happens in the game and then, afterward, convert that to an mpeg or somesuch. Creative googling may even turn some up.
We're several years (at best) from this being anything other than super-niche. A small portion of people who enjoy the game (who are a small portion of the population) would watch these more than just to see what they're like.
Actually, the two posts are "Does it run Linux" (which is now modded "Funny") and "It would be great if only it ran windows" or something similar, which is modded "Troll."
I'm willing to bet the cost will be very similar...
And you'd lose. Keeping people alive in space is EXPENSIVE. They need air, food, a place to poop, things to keep them occupied for months so they don't go nuts, exercise equipment...
We can send a couple hundred (or less) kilogram probe to Mars on the most cost-efficient multiyear route. To send a couple hundred kilogram human, you'd need to send tons and tons of extra mass just to keep him alive, and you'd need to use a very cost-inefficient trajectory to get him there as quickly as possible, which means tons and tons of fuel.
Cool! So we can stop debating about what is a planet and what is an asteroid, just like we stopped debating the definition of life! This will save so much time!
I don't know if the article writer's inability to create Marvel characters in under 30 minutes is a valid test of if you can create valid Marvel characters at all.
However, the fact that NCSoft took steps to dissuade her from using said characters is good.
When it gets right down to it, what is more important, the game play itself, or whether or the fact that the guys you are shooting look like Klingons or totally "original" aliens in an original universe?
No. If you make a game that plays exactly like another game but with different skins on the things you're shooting, then you're not being original and you're part of the "never ending death spiral". You can argue good or bad gameplay, but if the game is fun isn't what they're talking about. UT2K4 doesn't have a lot of originality in it, for example, but it's great fun to play.
The article here is talking about the fact that so many games these days are not ORIGINAL, not that they're not GOOD.
Isn't it possible that the gaming industry is going through a normal swing of the pendulum where crappy games come out all in the same genre(s) until the market gets massively oversaturated? And that soon it will swing back as consumers stop buying the junk and become more picky?
I mean, it's been 30 (according to the OP) years, haven't we seen this before?
Wow, my days of not owning an iPod are certainly coming to a middle. With content like this, the price tag of the easily stealable devices seems the same as it did yesterday.
Actually, on my last flight, we were delayed for a couple hours on the tarmac becasue they had to "replace a part". When they put the new part in, they had to turn off and back on the plane, and they waited about 2 minutes between turning off and back on.
It was eerie sitting there for those two minutes thinking, "They're cold booting the plane that is about to take me into the air."
I'm usually pretty lenient about what I consider a good patent, but this one seems dumb. It's not even an optimal way to do it. They're just using a fairly cheesy form of compression to make a string shorter.
So, they remove the ability for a human to tell what the lat/long is by inspecting the string, but compress the string suboptimally? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
A lot of science fiction writers prefer SF to SciFi. SciFi to them implies Space Opera. It was coined to ride the coattails of "HiFi" and make people think "Excitement!" And you pick a two letter acronym at random and see how many things it stands for. San Fransisco isn't the only SF out there.
I thought the exact same thing. It sound kneejerk to me. I would assume that I, as root, would be setting up these "normalcy" filters and not some government agency.
Not that I think it's a good idea, just that I don't think it has anything to do with privacy.
...if spending $1-2 billion is what it will take to repair the Hubble and give it another five years of service (or however long), as the original poster said, that's peanuts. Consider how much more information will be gleaned from those additional years and the cost works out to dollars a day.
Um, 1,500,000,000/(365.25*5) is roughly $821,355 "dollars a day"
I still say spend the money, but don't make it out that it's cheap by normal human being standards.
Enterprise was/not/ my favorite show. Of all the shows that I watched more than 1 episode (I watched one and half of another of Enterprise) it is actually the WORST in quite some time.
That doesn't justify basing ratings (and people's jobs) off of horribly innacurate information.
remember those car insurance companies that used the sales pitch "we will give you our quote and of 3 other competitors" ? yea, it may get you attention, but ultimately, how likely are you to break even?
Well, considering the only company I can remember that did that was Progressive, then I'd say it worked.
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So if I go into business and start selling hydrogen cars, it's not my fault or responsibility that customers have noplace to refuel.
Well, actually, it's if you go into business giving away hydrogen cars, but what's the difference?
Sorry, I originally had the word 'crew' in there because really, we wouldn't just send one guy. Then I changed everything to be a single person because I thought it would make the point better. I neglected to change my mass measurement though (and the last sentence, which nobody was pedantic enough to point out).
This dude's so mad right now.
I posted this as an AC and they mod it INTERESTING?????
Do you have to own a copy of the game to spectate on line?
Live? Yes. In theory, people can record what happens in the game and then, afterward, convert that to an mpeg or somesuch. Creative googling may even turn some up.
We're several years (at best) from this being anything other than super-niche. A small portion of people who enjoy the game (who are a small portion of the population) would watch these more than just to see what they're like.
Actually, the two posts are "Does it run Linux" (which is now modded "Funny") and "It would be great if only it ran windows" or something similar, which is modded "Troll."
Similar, but not identical.
Um, why is using slower memory a GOOD thing?
Because it's cheaper? Cheaper is better when you're trying to reach a certain price-point.
I'm willing to bet the cost will be very similar...
And you'd lose. Keeping people alive in space is EXPENSIVE. They need air, food, a place to poop, things to keep them occupied for months so they don't go nuts, exercise equipment...
We can send a couple hundred (or less) kilogram probe to Mars on the most cost-efficient multiyear route. To send a couple hundred kilogram human, you'd need to send tons and tons of extra mass just to keep him alive, and you'd need to use a very cost-inefficient trajectory to get him there as quickly as possible, which means tons and tons of fuel.
Then you gotta get them back.
Cool! So we can stop debating about what is a planet and what is an asteroid, just like we stopped debating the definition of life! This will save so much time!
I had exactly this same situation when shopping for a car. Two cars, two completely different prices!
I don't know if the article writer's inability to create Marvel characters in under 30 minutes is a valid test of if you can create valid Marvel characters at all.
However, the fact that NCSoft took steps to dissuade her from using said characters is good.
You just mentioned it. This is Ask Slashdot, not a news article.
When it gets right down to it, what is more important, the game play itself, or whether or the fact that the guys you are shooting look like Klingons or totally "original" aliens in an original universe?
No. If you make a game that plays exactly like another game but with different skins on the things you're shooting, then you're not being original and you're part of the "never ending death spiral". You can argue good or bad gameplay, but if the game is fun isn't what they're talking about. UT2K4 doesn't have a lot of originality in it, for example, but it's great fun to play.
The article here is talking about the fact that so many games these days are not ORIGINAL, not that they're not GOOD.
Isn't it possible that the gaming industry is going through a normal swing of the pendulum where crappy games come out all in the same genre(s) until the market gets massively oversaturated? And that soon it will swing back as consumers stop buying the junk and become more picky?
I mean, it's been 30 (according to the OP) years, haven't we seen this before?
So he shares with you, then?
I won't say "You can mod me down if you want, but..." because I hate it when people say that.
But...
I think this is a Good Thing(tm). They've been doing it with movies for ever and I don't remember it destroying my civil liberties when I was a child.
Wow, my days of not owning an iPod are certainly coming to a middle. With content like this, the price tag of the easily stealable devices seems the same as it did yesterday.
...Slashdot sues itself for post-infringement.
Actually, on my last flight, we were delayed for a couple hours on the tarmac becasue they had to "replace a part". When they put the new part in, they had to turn off and back on the plane, and they waited about 2 minutes between turning off and back on.
It was eerie sitting there for those two minutes thinking, "They're cold booting the plane that is about to take me into the air."
Thank you for posting this, I was starting to think that I was the only one who had no freaking clue what the post was talking about.
I'm usually pretty lenient about what I consider a good patent, but this one seems dumb. It's not even an optimal way to do it. They're just using a fairly cheesy form of compression to make a string shorter.
So, they remove the ability for a human to tell what the lat/long is by inspecting the string, but compress the string suboptimally? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
A lot of science fiction writers prefer SF to SciFi. SciFi to them implies Space Opera. It was coined to ride the coattails of "HiFi" and make people think "Excitement!"
And you pick a two letter acronym at random and see how many things it stands for. San Fransisco isn't the only SF out there.
I thought the exact same thing. It sound kneejerk to me. I would assume that I, as root, would be setting up these "normalcy" filters and not some government agency.
Not that I think it's a good idea, just that I don't think it has anything to do with privacy.
...if spending $1-2 billion is what it will take to repair the Hubble and give it another five years of service (or however long), as the original poster said, that's peanuts. Consider how much more information will be gleaned from those additional years and the cost works out to dollars a day.
Um, 1,500,000,000/(365.25*5) is roughly $821,355 "dollars a day"
I still say spend the money, but don't make it out that it's cheap by normal human being standards.
Enterprise was /not/ my favorite show. Of all the shows that I watched more than 1 episode (I watched one and half of another of Enterprise) it is actually the WORST in quite some time.
That doesn't justify basing ratings (and people's jobs) off of horribly innacurate information.
remember those car insurance companies that used the sales pitch "we will give you our quote and of 3 other competitors" ? yea, it may get you attention, but ultimately, how likely are you to break even?
Well, considering the only company I can remember that did that was Progressive, then I'd say it worked.