the nice thing about such sketchbooks is, that, if you write them at a time where you have not seen deeper programming depths than pascal and basic, you can think up anything you want, no matter if it's doable or not.
real time real life animation, extremely complex multiplayer enviroments, real time simulations that run for months without pause, fps games with a real story... phantasy is the best compiler.
and, maybe in ten years, there will be a language/system that allows to realize the things you made up in your mind... let's just hope you can find your sketchbook;)
"vcr's will kill the cinema!"
"tv will kill radio stations!"
"computers will kill books!"
"contraception pills will put an end to mankind!"
"no one can survive travelling on the railroad!"
"cgi will remove the need for actors!"
time and time in history, new inventions where made that, at first, looked like they would make something else obsolete. time and time again, that was wrong. the same can apply here.
even if cgi gets better and better, an animated character will never have a soul.. and to act good, you need a soul. now, there are cg films like final fantasy or shrek with great artwork and fantastic animation. but now, just for a second, imagine "Casablanca" based on CG.
qed.
the article is so drastically anti-us that I can't really take it seriously.
being european, i have pondered more than once how nice a net "without those hypocrit, bigot americans" would be. but then, I thought again, and realized that the internet is what it is (a hellhole full of spam and annoying pr0n sites and the likes, but still a great place to hang around) because people from all over the world participate.
also, writing things like "the americans" or "the europeans" is so enormously stupid that it's close to racism for me, and I am very fucking far from being politically correct. what unites a farmer from texas and a businessman from seattle? about the same as a sheperd from ireland and a tourist guide from hungary..not pretty much. if i read something in the net i don't agree with, and then demand that this person and all the people from his city/land/continent/planet be banned from the net, or at least isolated to another part of it, then I think I should sit down in a corner and rot to death.
i have a nice pin from the university of san diego that states "diversity brings us together".
nuff said.
what's next? will sony aquire a "shoot to kill" policy on p2p users?
seriously, though.. about the "don't buy cd's" campaign.I think, musically speaking, we can divide the world into those who ocasionally listen to a tune, and buy 5 cd's a year, and the muzak fanatics who need their daily dose of (insert music style here).
now, in theory, if this boycott would spread and last, artists would get pissed of at record companies because sales drop to all-time lows, and start to do something, for their own good. also, the rec companies themselves will either change their wicked ways or crumble.
but then, think again. all those shiny great songs you find on your favourite napster ancestor have to be ripped from somewhere. most likely from a cd. that means, for music to spread in the net, someone has to buy cds. now if you like mainstream pop, your chances of finding songs you like are big, for there are probably gazillions of p2p users that have never heard about the crap the rec companies pull. but if you are into a bit more advanced music, then, bad luck. now the question is, how long can the true fans of audio live without new stuff? not very long, I guess.
in conclusion, buying less to no cds is a noble and good idea to at least show sony et al there is some resistance, but to archive something, we have to think of other ways.
now, honestly, what these ways are, I have no idea at the moment.
"If you own, rent, or buy a radio, know someone who does, broadcast a radio program, live next to someone who does, or ever heard about the radio phenomenon, you have to give us 150% of your annual income per year. In return, we will do nothing. Breathe to agree."
All EU countries have strict laws that disallow anyone, except for military intelligence agencies and specific police task forces, to hack into anything.
The only thing record companies could do is go to court and ask for an allowance to ask the police to please hack computer X, which would not only cost a fortune, but also take a veeery long time, considering the amount of red tape involved.
those are the problems that can, and will arise more and more, the more we communicate and exchange globally.
remember the Yahoo! lawsuit where a french court ordered them to block french people from access to neonazi sites? Same problem. In the us, there is no law that would block you from viewing nazi stuff (I'm not from the us, but I think that's covered by the 2nd amandment to the constitution), but in france, it's illegal.
Or, the story about the italian police shutting down an us-based website because of blasphemous content.
It's the same in realworld-land. say, you go to holland, smoke a joint in a coffeeshop, and then go to a land where the consumation of marijuana is illegal. eventhough you smoked it in holland, where you are allowed to, you can still get fined for drug abuse elsewhere.
we live in a global word (sorry for that buzzing), with laws that apply to local groups.
this will be a problem for quite some time. just think, there are probably lands where child porn is legal, or where critical writing about politicans is illegal.. all sorts of problems.
the only solutions I can think of would be "one global law" (which is pretty much impossible before there is one global land), specific "net laws" that state that "analog laws" do not apply to the internet anymore, or anarchy.
don't ask me what would be best, I'm a geek, not a philosopher.:)
while the idea of using a boot-from-cd-distro would never appear to me, knoppix is unbeatable when it comes to "initiating the non-believers." I have seen knoppix detect and support some very weird hardware configurations, including but not limited to tv/radio cards, webcams, exotic soundcards and pcmcia cards, without asking for information or requiring a kernel update.
so, the next time J. Random Linuxdisser talks about how no Hardware is supported, the installation is painful or whatever, invest the 30 cents for a CD-R and give him Knoppix.
As of today, I got 3 people to convert from Windows to Linux with this nifty distro.
Maybe they should rename it "Gateway Distro" ?:)
There is nothing to really replace the 3,5" disk on the market at the moment. Look around. Cds and Dvds are big, yes, but what if you need to just move 10 mb of data from A to B? 10 Mb are too much for email, but not worth the effort of burning a cd. ZipDisks, MD Data and stuff are good, but not widely distributed.. and therefore, everyone keeps disk drives, "to carry that text without having to burn a cd".
the question is : which rewritable no-burning-needed media will replace the disk?
of how to solve problems with people who want to implement parts into your program you don't want can be found here. It's a game for the Palm, and the coder added a large FAQ section where every feature that has been asked for / suggested is discribed, along with a text why he didn't add it (yet). this way, people who suggest something to your program don't get all mad-n-stuff(tm) if you decline one of their ideas.
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real time real life animation, extremely complex multiplayer enviroments, real time simulations that run for months without pause, fps games with a real story... phantasy is the best compiler.
and, maybe in ten years, there will be a language/system that allows to realize the things you made up in your mind... let's just hope you can find your sketchbook ;)
lawyers talking with humans.
...
well, then again, maybe that's too sci-fi... ;)
reps talking with democrats.
women talking with nerds!
"vcr's will kill the cinema!" "tv will kill radio stations!" "computers will kill books!" "contraception pills will put an end to mankind!" "no one can survive travelling on the railroad!" "cgi will remove the need for actors!" time and time in history, new inventions where made that, at first, looked like they would make something else obsolete. time and time again, that was wrong. the same can apply here. even if cgi gets better and better, an animated character will never have a soul.. and to act good, you need a soul. now, there are cg films like final fantasy or shrek with great artwork and fantastic animation. but now, just for a second, imagine "Casablanca" based on CG. qed.
"Warning: loading on this machine will taint the kernel: tux loathes the gates of hell"
being european, i have pondered more than once how nice a net "without those hypocrit, bigot americans" would be. but then, I thought again, and realized that the internet is what it is (a hellhole full of spam and annoying pr0n sites and the likes, but still a great place to hang around) because people from all over the world participate.
also, writing things like "the americans" or "the europeans" is so enormously stupid that it's close to racism for me, and I am very fucking far from being politically correct. what unites a farmer from texas and a businessman from seattle? about the same as a sheperd from ireland and a tourist guide from hungary..not pretty much. if i read something in the net i don't agree with, and then demand that this person and all the people from his city/land/continent/planet be banned from the net, or at least isolated to another part of it, then I think I should sit down in a corner and rot to death.
i have a nice pin from the university of san diego that states "diversity brings us together".
nuff said.
seriously, though.. about the "don't buy cd's" campaign.I think, musically speaking, we can divide the world into those who ocasionally listen to a tune, and buy 5 cd's a year, and the muzak fanatics who need their daily dose of (insert music style here).
now, in theory, if this boycott would spread and last, artists would get pissed of at record companies because sales drop to all-time lows, and start to do something, for their own good. also, the rec companies themselves will either change their wicked ways or crumble.
but then, think again. all those shiny great songs you find on your favourite napster ancestor have to be ripped from somewhere. most likely from a cd. that means, for music to spread in the net, someone has to buy cds. now if you like mainstream pop, your chances of finding songs you like are big, for there are probably gazillions of p2p users that have never heard about the crap the rec companies pull. but if you are into a bit more advanced music, then, bad luck. now the question is, how long can the true fans of audio live without new stuff? not very long, I guess.
in conclusion, buying less to no cds is a noble and good idea to at least show sony et al there is some resistance, but to archive something, we have to think of other ways.
now, honestly, what these ways are, I have no idea at the moment.
"Thousands of computer geeks toasted by self-built tesla coils"
but then.. but less geeks means more free jobs..
Thanks for posting! *evil grin*
"If you own, rent, or buy a radio, know someone who does, broadcast a radio program, live next to someone who does, or ever heard about the radio phenomenon, you have to give us 150% of your annual income per year. In return, we will do nothing. Breathe to agree."
Office XP : 330 $
Adobe Photoshop : 530 $
Total : 1020 $
Linux : 10-50 $ (boxed) / free (downloaded)
OpenOffice : ~5 $ (cd) / free (downloaded)
Gimp : free
Total : between 55 $ and nothing.
qed.
Why the hell should I want to backup my grandparents?
The only thing record companies could do is go to court and ask for an allowance to ask the police to please hack computer X, which would not only cost a fortune, but also take a veeery long time, considering the amount of red tape involved.
those are the problems that can, and will arise more and more, the more we communicate and exchange globally. remember the Yahoo! lawsuit where a french court ordered them to block french people from access to neonazi sites? Same problem. In the us, there is no law that would block you from viewing nazi stuff (I'm not from the us, but I think that's covered by the 2nd amandment to the constitution), but in france, it's illegal. Or, the story about the italian police shutting down an us-based website because of blasphemous content. It's the same in realworld-land. say, you go to holland, smoke a joint in a coffeeshop, and then go to a land where the consumation of marijuana is illegal. eventhough you smoked it in holland, where you are allowed to, you can still get fined for drug abuse elsewhere. we live in a global word (sorry for that buzzing), with laws that apply to local groups. this will be a problem for quite some time. just think, there are probably lands where child porn is legal, or where critical writing about politicans is illegal.. all sorts of problems. the only solutions I can think of would be "one global law" (which is pretty much impossible before there is one global land), specific "net laws" that state that "analog laws" do not apply to the internet anymore, or anarchy. don't ask me what would be best, I'm a geek, not a philosopher. :)
while the idea of using a boot-from-cd-distro would never appear to me, knoppix is unbeatable when it comes to "initiating the non-believers." I have seen knoppix detect and support some very weird hardware configurations, including but not limited to tv/radio cards, webcams, exotic soundcards and pcmcia cards, without asking for information or requiring a kernel update. so, the next time J. Random Linuxdisser talks about how no Hardware is supported, the installation is painful or whatever, invest the 30 cents for a CD-R and give him Knoppix. As of today, I got 3 people to convert from Windows to Linux with this nifty distro. Maybe they should rename it "Gateway Distro" ? :)
There is nothing to really replace the 3,5" disk on the market at the moment. Look around. Cds and Dvds are big, yes, but what if you need to just move 10 mb of data from A to B? 10 Mb are too much for email, but not worth the effort of burning a cd. ZipDisks, MD Data and stuff are good, but not widely distributed.. and therefore, everyone keeps disk drives, "to carry that text without having to burn a cd". the question is : which rewritable no-burning-needed media will replace the disk?
of how to solve problems with people who want to implement parts into your program you don't want can be found here. It's a game for the Palm, and the coder added a large FAQ section where every feature that has been asked for / suggested is discribed, along with a text why he didn't add it (yet). this way, people who suggest something to your program don't get all mad-n-stuff(tm) if you decline one of their ideas.