The problem with most adaptive games is that they only take level into consideration. When in fact, it should be looking at everything BUT level
Why? Because leveling just happens; always. In any RPG, you can gain levels without a single fight just by doing side-missions; fed-ex runs being the main source. So by level 5 I've never swung a sword yet the game thinks I'm ready for High Orcs. Shooters, just toss a grenade or a missile in general area and you'll do some damage.
Instead, it should look at what you've accomplished, and how you did it. For a shoot-em-up, it should being looking at my hit ratio. If I can't hit the broadside of a barn, then to make things "easier" send MORE things at me. That way I'm more likely to hit targets even while I'm sporadic making a much funner game while I learn how to aim. If I'm dead-eye, then send only single, but highly agile opponents at me. If they keep dodging all my sniper shots, I will have to adapt a new strategy to take him out.
would be visible as plain text in the source code. So what's the point of a hard to guess string if it HAS to be displayed in an easy to read format?
Next, describe "basic" HTML... Obviously we can't just use some arbitrary W3C set (HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 5.0...) as [script] has been a perfectly valid tag for a very long time. So it would then be up to the coder to create a list of available tags. And if you're just going to create a list of available commands, then you're asking HTML to behave like BB-Code. So why not just use one of the many libraries out there and use the more user-friendly (or at least less things for the end-user to understand) and widely-accepted BB-Code?
It's up to the programmer to make things safe, not adding new cumbersome commands to a language.
But people seem to be ignoring a key aspect in all of this.
All of this crapware is from the installer, not from the software.
You can check the source code up and down and never see this stuff. The core software doesn't need any ties. However whatever program they use to bundle the software for east-of-use (Installshield for example) can include anything they want. So if you take the source and compile it yourself, you'll have clean software. If you use the convenient easy installer, it's up for debate.
When you leave a voicemail, say your name and phone number FIRST, and say it slow and clear. Don't make me wait through your boring and rambling message again and again because you recite your phone number in under 1 second.
"Heyyyyyy.... It's Bob. How ya doing? Guess you couldn't get my call. Must be off having fun without me. *heh* Yeah, well. You know. So. I thought maybe, you know. *pause* We could go grab a beer and *pause* Maybe check out that new club that opened up... When was it?... Gawd... I think it was like... three months ago? Yeah. That place. Heard the DJ rocks. Soooo... If you wanna hang out or something. *pause* Yeah, give me a call either way. That way I know you got this message. *pause* So call me at *subsonic screech that you think contains the numbers 7, 2, and the letter F*"
So if I find a way to put a y-split on the gas tank at the local Chevron so I can get fuel into my car for free, then I should be allowed? I mean, they are sending fuel into anyone's car that uses the pumps. It's a weak business model that depends on the fact that people don't circumvent the security of concrete and metal.
I did this one with my daughter for a science fair project. For me, the parts DID cost more than $5, but there were a lot of things I bought singly, but would have the cost lowered spread out over multiple applications; bag of rubber bands, one long piece of PVC, wood, nails, etc...Also many pieces can be brought from home to lower the cost.
While the results were never that spectacular, given more time, and less baling wire construction, it might be fun and educational. You can throw in lessons about resistors and capacitors then use it to power something bigger.While it won't help much for logic gates, you gotta start somewhere.
Smut! Give me smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut, If it's uncut, and unsubt- le.
I've never quibbled If it was ribald, I would devour where others merely nibbled. As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense, "To be smut It must be ut- Terly without redeeming social importance."
Por- Nographic pictures I adore. Indecent magazines galore, I like them more If they're hard core.
(Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)
Stories of tortures Used by debauchers, Lurid, licentious, and vile, Make me smile. Novels that pander To my taste for candor Give me a pleasure sublime. (Let's face it, I love slime.)
All books can be indecent books Though recent books are bolder, For filth (I'm glad to say) is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd. (I could tell you things about Peter Pan, And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!)
I thrill To any book like Fanny Hill, And I suppose I always will, If it is swill And really fil thy.
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately? I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley. But now they're trying to take it all away from us unless We take a stand, and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press. In other words,
Smut! (I love it) Ah, the adventures of a slut. Oh, I'm a market they can't glut, I don't know what Compares with smut.
Hip hip hooray! Let's hear it for the Supreme Court! Don't let them take it away!
That leads into the asahat theory that "I'm not patenting the code, because that's math and that's intangable. I'm patenting the unique formation of electronic bits that when read by a computer cause the computer to perform actions that would useful to the operator in need of a spreadsheet. Due to the random storage abilities of various media, this patent must include not just a single continuous string of these bits, but the string broken up into smaller discontinuous strings."
It's like people who go 45 MPH in the left lane on a 55 MPH road. Yeah, that's definitely what the laws say you can do, but most people don't, and the presence of a vehicle going a different speed from the flow of traffic creates danger and stress that shouldn't be there. Ignoring custom in favor of only the rules in print is antisocial behavior.
Actually, you're kinda wrong, at least in terms of American driving. The law says by your going slow, you are creating a hazard and can be ticketed for such.
See, the left lane, known as the passing lane, or #1 lane for traffic reports, is designed for vehicles to legally pass other cars on the left hand side. By trying to go 45MPH, you're not only breaking the social norm, you're also breaking the law.
In some states, it's also illegal to drive long distances in the "passing lane". It is meant for passing, and by your staying in that lane, you are preventing others from passing; forcing them to either pass on the right (illegal) or use the center divide as a lane (illegal).
It's both anti-social AND illegal.
Plus remember, he was doing this as an ex-per-i-ment. That doesn't mean he condoned his own behavior, but it was done to further psychological research. Do you think the scientists from the Standford Prison Experiment thought beating up people was a happy fun thing?
In every RPG I've ever played you start out pretty weak and helpless, and work your way up to being an unstoppable demigod. Starting the next game out with god like powers is going to ruin a lot of the game.
Then you change the rules of power:
* The source of power you use has become bankrupt. All "spells" stop working.
* The more powerful metals experience an effect similar to rust. Suddenly than bronze sword and steel plate become more powerful than mythril.
* You suffer a curse because your might hurt the wrong person. Now the more strength you use to accomplish something the weaker you become. Sure you have 25 strength, but try an break that door and you lose HP.
* The big baddie you fought last time was just a mere drone. Feeble compared to the mighty armada that is about to descend upon you and your world.
* You died. Now your offspring must take up the mantle. Sure they inherit your +5 Battle Axe of Butt Kicking, but they aren't powerful enough to wield it yet.
There are tons of way to make people weak again. Just play around with these concepts; make what they have useless, make what they have unusable, make the foe resistant to their power, make the foe more powerful.
So if you are a game company wanting to get into the 'cheap, not recently released game' market, it is easy. Simply cut your prices for the stuff you brought out last year by 30% and for two years by 50%.
And that's the other problem; game companies rarely keep their product available beyond say the first 6 months unless there is a huge following like Sims, WoW, Diablo.
There is no product to cut one year later, let alone two years later. And yet consumers that WANT to give them money, they refuse. There are games from Monolith, Activision, and LucasArts that I would be willing to pay normal retail price for, if they'd just release it.
There are warehouses full of old IP that these companies sit on; they won't let anyone else build off them, but they also won't develop/release/re-release the stuff that has a market banging on their doors.
So, when rats attack your cellar, you pick the most intelligent and ask for advice? Or just kill them by anything at hand.
No.
When rats attack my cellar I usually head to the center of town where some annual festival is taking place. I then look for the all the loner males between the age of 16-21 with only a single parent. Even better is if it's not their natural parent but instead an uncle, aunt, or grandparent.
I would then congratulate them on whatever achievement they just accomplished, chastise them for over sleeping on this big day, then explain how I knew one of their dead and/or missing relatives and what a great warrior they were.
Once they fall for that I give them some rusty knife from my kitchen drawers, a worn-out leather apron, and inform them that their destiny is to be a great warrior like whats-er-face and they should prove their worth by defeating the rats in my cellar.
Based on completion percent: From 0-25%; The only people that are even going to known about this are the developers them selves and close friends and relatives. Unlikely the IP owner would even be aware that this needs to be shut down.
From 25-65%; The "Twitter" phase. The dev team actually has something to show. Maybe a screen shot here or there. Playable but only in the most loosest sense of the word. Still way below anyone's radar except die-hard fans and cosplayers.
From 65-90%; Being picked up by a few gaming websites. Given rave reviews based purely on the potential. IP owner first realizes they need to squash the uprising.
From 90-99%; The sweet spot. Attack of the Show will do a spoof on what they think the game will look like. Slashdot will post a poorly edited summary and have a link to Compuworld's seizure-inducing ad-saturated article that mentions the first Twitter post. IP owner must strike.
100%; Too late. Cat's out of the bag and nothing can kill the hack. It's digital media will live forever in BitTorrents and Pirate Bays forever.
By sending the C&D during that sweet spot, the IP owner gets maximum exposure to let the world know that you shouldn't use something that doesn't belong to you.
Oh sure, then the fanbois will cry that the IP owner is stifling creativity, imitation is flattery non-sense, the IP owner's should suck donkey balls, and what have you. That is until IP owner creates their next big thing, perhaps even using the IP that was being ripped off.
And due to the timing, the company is thrust into the spotlight, sends a message to all the other wanna-be hackers from trying the same thing and thus saves the IP owner from sending out a whole bunch of no-ROI C&D orders.
Used to refer to exploits that have existed in the wild for a long time, known to be a easy access point for exploits by consumers, but have only just been announced as a critical threat by the application owners.
As in, "Javascript in a PDF file? That's a negative-one-day exploit just waiting for a press release."
I'd love to see the AI/NPCs 'react' to the environment. Not just, if (handgrenade 5ft away) { run and scream }
But trip, literally TRIP over dead bodies. Take notice that the last guy that was in this room is now a red spray on the wall. Move to a radio that's turned on and boogie a little. Or veg out if they walk into a room with a TV playing. Not every time, but just enough to be a little random.
All to often I'll see some sort of action in the room; action that the devs put in there intentionally for ME to draw me in. Why can't bots do the same?
Standing in the same room for too long? Have your assistant wander over and lean against a wall. Or pull out a PSP and start playing.
If you manage to kill a beast that's attacking them, they should say thanks.
If they get caught running into the same wall due to crappy nav AI, have them stop, rub their eyes, stare, scratch their head and then try again. Sure they'll still be stuck but it will distract you so you won't go "Stupid AI" but instead be pulled in by the antics.
For the AI you're fighting against, have them hide behind dead bodies (and have the dead's body armor still work!).
Push a crate/roll a barrel so they can move from one cover to another.
The environment should be more than eye candy for the player.
While I can see the argument that the universe is mathematically bent, I don't see that as a particularly strong foundation for any side.
To which, I point at the American mile; 5,280 feet. It's a case where humanity has set an arbitrary length and made things fit around it. Or the concept of leap year. Our mathematical world doesn't quite fit so we make things up to make it fit.
Sure, everything will have a rhythm. Light will, barring all other influences, travel at a specific speed. Things will fall at a set rate based on their weight, mass, and surface area. But we invented the math to explain it all. Just because we can explain doesn't make it correct. We also invented the alphabet, how to tie knots, and American Idol. I can explain all of these things, but it doesn't make any of it correct or define reality.
Long ago, humanity witnessed the sun rise and fall and they needed a reason for it. So the wisdom of the time invented gods. We since gone on to invent math of spinning axis, orbits, gravity, and explosive power. Next we'll invent a blood disorder that courses through us and binds the universe.
In order for Lars to be able to download it from the web, someone would have had to buy the album, bothered to encode it, and then upload the whole thing in the first place.
Real Life(tm) makes for really crappy entertainment. That why the industry has to embellish it. Consider that you "steer" planes with foot peddles. But watching that pilot drive down the freeway with his arms crossed would look ridiculous to the mass populous.
And I don't know about you, but during the last blackout in my house, I didn't get bathed in soft, indirect blue lighting. But real pitch black in movies only works with glow in the dark condoms.
So while I know that when I do a WHOIS lookup, it doesn't make cubes spin on my computer screen and then print the results in 72pt Comic Sans Wide Wingdings. Unless the industry starts doing a lot of close-ups, I'm okay with the big graphic font thing.
I'm just glad they've figured out how to get rid of the "refresh rate" rolling when trying to film an old CRT monitor.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem with most adaptive games is that they only take level into consideration. When in fact, it should be looking at everything BUT level
Why? Because leveling just happens; always. In any RPG, you can gain levels without a single fight just by doing side-missions; fed-ex runs being the main source. So by level 5 I've never swung a sword yet the game thinks I'm ready for High Orcs. Shooters, just toss a grenade or a missile in general area and you'll do some damage.
Instead, it should look at what you've accomplished, and how you did it. For a shoot-em-up, it should being looking at my hit ratio. If I can't hit the broadside of a barn, then to make things "easier" send MORE things at me. That way I'm more likely to hit targets even while I'm sporadic making a much funner game while I learn how to aim. If I'm dead-eye, then send only single, but highly agile opponents at me. If they keep dodging all my sniper shots, I will have to adapt a new strategy to take him out.
There are some fundamental flaws with your proposal: HTML (javascript included) is browser-based, and how do we define "basic" HTML?
Since HTML is browser-based, everything must be transmitted to the browser and then interpreted.So your
[shield lock="some_random_hard_to_guess_string_here" enabled="basic_html_only"]
would be visible as plain text in the source code. So what's the point of a hard to guess string if it HAS to be displayed in an easy to read format?
Next, describe "basic" HTML... Obviously we can't just use some arbitrary W3C set (HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 5.0...) as [script] has been a perfectly valid tag for a very long time. So it would then be up to the coder to create a list of available tags. And if you're just going to create a list of available commands, then you're asking HTML to behave like BB-Code. So why not just use one of the many libraries out there and use the more user-friendly (or at least less things for the end-user to understand) and widely-accepted BB-Code?
It's up to the programmer to make things safe, not adding new cumbersome commands to a language.
But people seem to be ignoring a key aspect in all of this.
All of this crapware is from the installer, not from the software.
You can check the source code up and down and never see this stuff. The core software doesn't need any ties. However whatever program they use to bundle the software for east-of-use (Installshield for example) can include anything they want. So if you take the source and compile it yourself, you'll have clean software. If you use the convenient easy installer, it's up for debate.
When you leave a voicemail, say your name and phone number FIRST, and say it slow and clear. Don't make me wait through your boring and rambling message again and again because you recite your phone number in under 1 second.
"Heyyyyyy.... It's Bob. How ya doing? Guess you couldn't get my call. Must be off having fun without me. *heh* Yeah, well. You know. So. I thought maybe, you know. *pause* We could go grab a beer and *pause* Maybe check out that new club that opened up... When was it?... Gawd... I think it was like... three months ago? Yeah. That place. Heard the DJ rocks. Soooo... If you wanna hang out or something. *pause* Yeah, give me a call either way. That way I know you got this message. *pause* So call me at *subsonic screech that you think contains the numbers 7, 2, and the letter F*"
So if I find a way to put a y-split on the gas tank at the local Chevron so I can get fuel into my car for free, then I should be allowed? I mean, they are sending fuel into anyone's car that uses the pumps. It's a weak business model that depends on the fact that people don't circumvent the security of concrete and metal.
I did this one with my daughter for a science fair project. For me, the parts DID cost more than $5, but there were a lot of things I bought singly, but would have the cost lowered spread out over multiple applications; bag of rubber bands, one long piece of PVC, wood, nails, etc...Also many pieces can be brought from home to lower the cost.
While the results were never that spectacular, given more time, and less baling wire construction, it might be fun and educational. You can throw in lessons about resistors and capacitors then use it to power something bigger.While it won't help much for logic gates, you gotta start somewhere.
How to build a generator
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut,
If it's uncut,
and unsubt- le.
I've never quibbled
If it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he
acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."
Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they're hard core.
(Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)
Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers,
Lurid, licentious, and vile,
Make me smile.
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(Let's face it, I love slime.)
All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in
the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
(I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!)
I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill,
And I suppose I always will,
If it is swill
And really fil
thy.
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they're trying to take it all
away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,
Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what
Compares with smut.
Hip hip hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!
-Tom Lehrer ("Smut")
That leads into the asahat theory that "I'm not patenting the code, because that's math and that's intangable. I'm patenting the unique formation of electronic bits that when read by a computer cause the computer to perform actions that would useful to the operator in need of a spreadsheet. Due to the random storage abilities of various media, this patent must include not just a single continuous string of these bits, but the string broken up into smaller discontinuous strings."
Or something like that...
It's like people who go 45 MPH in the left lane on a 55 MPH road. Yeah, that's definitely what the laws say you can do, but most people don't, and the presence of a vehicle going a different speed from the flow of traffic creates danger and stress that shouldn't be there. Ignoring custom in favor of only the rules in print is antisocial behavior.
Actually, you're kinda wrong, at least in terms of American driving. The law says by your going slow, you are creating a hazard and can be ticketed for such.
See, the left lane, known as the passing lane, or #1 lane for traffic reports, is designed for vehicles to legally pass other cars on the left hand side. By trying to go 45MPH, you're not only breaking the social norm, you're also breaking the law.
In some states, it's also illegal to drive long distances in the "passing lane". It is meant for passing, and by your staying in that lane, you are preventing others from passing; forcing them to either pass on the right (illegal) or use the center divide as a lane (illegal).
It's both anti-social AND illegal.
Plus remember, he was doing this as an ex-per-i-ment. That doesn't mean he condoned his own behavior, but it was done to further psychological research. Do you think the scientists from the Standford Prison Experiment thought beating up people was a happy fun thing?
In every RPG I've ever played you start out pretty weak and helpless, and work your way up to being an unstoppable demigod. Starting the next game out with god like powers is going to ruin a lot of the game.
Then you change the rules of power:
* The source of power you use has become bankrupt. All "spells" stop working.
* The more powerful metals experience an effect similar to rust. Suddenly than bronze sword and steel plate become more powerful than mythril.
* You suffer a curse because your might hurt the wrong person. Now the more strength you use to accomplish something the weaker you become. Sure you have 25 strength, but try an break that door and you lose HP.
* The big baddie you fought last time was just a mere drone. Feeble compared to the mighty armada that is about to descend upon you and your world.
* You died. Now your offspring must take up the mantle. Sure they inherit your +5 Battle Axe of Butt Kicking, but they aren't powerful enough to wield it yet.
There are tons of way to make people weak again. Just play around with these concepts; make what they have useless, make what they have unusable, make the foe resistant to their power, make the foe more powerful.
Is it http://www.allpinouts.org/ like it was written in the summary?
Or is it http://www.allpinouts.com/ as it was linked in the article?
Both URLs are Slashdotted at this point so I can't check.
Oblig Family Guy:
Peter: A BOAT'S A BOAT, but the mystery box could be anything. IT COULD EVEN BE A BOAT. You know how much we wanted one of those.
So if you are a game company wanting to get into the 'cheap, not recently released game' market, it is easy. Simply cut your prices for the stuff you brought out last year by 30% and for two years by 50%.
And that's the other problem; game companies rarely keep their product available beyond say the first 6 months unless there is a huge following like Sims, WoW, Diablo.
There is no product to cut one year later, let alone two years later. And yet consumers that WANT to give them money, they refuse. There are games from Monolith, Activision, and LucasArts that I would be willing to pay normal retail price for, if they'd just release it.
There are warehouses full of old IP that these companies sit on; they won't let anyone else build off them, but they also won't develop/release/re-release the stuff that has a market banging on their doors.
I was really hoping it was a reboot of that classic TV show "Salvage 1"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
So, when rats attack your cellar, you pick the most intelligent and ask for advice?
Or just kill them by anything at hand.
No.
When rats attack my cellar I usually head to the center of town where some annual festival is taking place. I then look for the all the loner males between the age of 16-21 with only a single parent. Even better is if it's not their natural parent but instead an uncle, aunt, or grandparent.
I would then congratulate them on whatever achievement they just accomplished, chastise them for over sleeping on this big day, then explain how I knew one of their dead and/or missing relatives and what a great warrior they were.
Once they fall for that I give them some rusty knife from my kitchen drawers, a worn-out leather apron, and inform them that their destiny is to be a great warrior like whats-er-face and they should prove their worth by defeating the rats in my cellar.
But that's just how I roll.. er, role play.
Most bang for the buck for the IP owner.
Based on completion percent:
From 0-25%; The only people that are even going to known about this are the developers them selves and close friends and relatives. Unlikely the IP owner would even be aware that this needs to be shut down.
From 25-65%; The "Twitter" phase. The dev team actually has something to show. Maybe a screen shot here or there. Playable but only in the most loosest sense of the word. Still way below anyone's radar except die-hard fans and cosplayers.
From 65-90%; Being picked up by a few gaming websites. Given rave reviews based purely on the potential. IP owner first realizes they need to squash the uprising.
From 90-99%; The sweet spot. Attack of the Show will do a spoof on what they think the game will look like. Slashdot will post a poorly edited summary and have a link to Compuworld's seizure-inducing ad-saturated article that mentions the first Twitter post. IP owner must strike.
100%; Too late. Cat's out of the bag and nothing can kill the hack. It's digital media will live forever in BitTorrents and Pirate Bays forever.
By sending the C&D during that sweet spot, the IP owner gets maximum exposure to let the world know that you shouldn't use something that doesn't belong to you.
Oh sure, then the fanbois will cry that the IP owner is stifling creativity, imitation is flattery non-sense, the IP owner's should suck donkey balls, and what have you. That is until IP owner creates their next big thing, perhaps even using the IP that was being ripped off.
And due to the timing, the company is thrust into the spotlight, sends a message to all the other wanna-be hackers from trying the same thing and thus saves the IP owner from sending out a whole bunch of no-ROI C&D orders.
"Negative-One-Day Exploit"
Used to refer to exploits that have existed in the wild for a long time, known to be a easy access point for exploits by consumers, but have only just been announced as a critical threat by the application owners.
As in, "Javascript in a PDF file? That's a negative-one-day exploit just waiting for a press release."
Just keep it in your man-purse when you're not using it so people won't judge you.
I'd love to see the AI/NPCs 'react' to the environment. Not just,
if (handgrenade 5ft away) {
run and scream
}
But trip, literally TRIP over dead bodies. Take notice that the last guy that was in this room is now a red spray on the wall. Move to a radio that's turned on and boogie a little. Or veg out if they walk into a room with a TV playing. Not every time, but just enough to be a little random.
All to often I'll see some sort of action in the room; action that the devs put in there intentionally for ME to draw me in. Why can't bots do the same?
Standing in the same room for too long? Have your assistant wander over and lean against a wall. Or pull out a PSP and start playing.
If you manage to kill a beast that's attacking them, they should say thanks.
If they get caught running into the same wall due to crappy nav AI, have them stop, rub their eyes, stare, scratch their head and then try again. Sure they'll still be stuck but it will distract you so you won't go "Stupid AI" but instead be pulled in by the antics.
For the AI you're fighting against, have them hide behind dead bodies (and have the dead's body armor still work!).
Push a crate/roll a barrel so they can move from one cover to another.
The environment should be more than eye candy for the player.
While I can see the argument that the universe is mathematically bent, I don't see that as a particularly strong foundation for any side.
To which, I point at the American mile; 5,280 feet. It's a case where humanity has set an arbitrary length and made things fit around it. Or the concept of leap year. Our mathematical world doesn't quite fit so we make things up to make it fit.
Sure, everything will have a rhythm. Light will, barring all other influences, travel at a specific speed. Things will fall at a set rate based on their weight, mass, and surface area. But we invented the math to explain it all. Just because we can explain doesn't make it correct. We also invented the alphabet, how to tie knots, and American Idol. I can explain all of these things, but it doesn't make any of it correct or define reality.
Long ago, humanity witnessed the sun rise and fall and they needed a reason for it. So the wisdom of the time invented gods. We since gone on to invent math of spinning axis, orbits, gravity, and explosive power. Next we'll invent a blood disorder that courses through us and binds the universe.
Just making up shit as we go along...
In order for Lars to be able to download it from the web, someone would have had to buy the album, bothered to encode it, and then upload the whole thing in the first place.
Yeah.. Like THAT would happen.
I wonder if it can specifically identify legal content, too.
Ask any government official or *IAA lawyer... NONE of it is legal. EVAR.
Nope. Every camera will be made to look like The Grand Inquisitor.
"IGNORE ME!!"
http://ignoremee.ytmnd.com/
Real Life(tm) makes for really crappy entertainment. That why the industry has to embellish it. Consider that you "steer" planes with foot peddles. But watching that pilot drive down the freeway with his arms crossed would look ridiculous to the mass populous.
And I don't know about you, but during the last blackout in my house, I didn't get bathed in soft, indirect blue lighting. But real pitch black in movies only works with glow in the dark condoms.
So while I know that when I do a WHOIS lookup, it doesn't make cubes spin on my computer screen and then print the results in 72pt Comic Sans Wide Wingdings. Unless the industry starts doing a lot of close-ups, I'm okay with the big graphic font thing.
I'm just glad they've figured out how to get rid of the "refresh rate" rolling when trying to film an old CRT monitor.
I just finally upgraded to 3.0 from 2.0 on my workstation
I hate being outdated.
One of these things, is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong