FPS's for example just need enough plot to get you to the next slaughter zone.
There is more to good storytelling than plot.
No game ever set the stage better than the intro to Half-Life.
On its release, [Half-Life] received universal acclaim, with critics praising the seamlessly flowing narrative, presentation and realistic gameplay, and it won over fifty PC Game of the Year awards. Its gameplay influenced the design of first-person shooters for years after its release, and it is widely considered to be one of the greatest computer games of all time. IGN ranked Half-Life as the number one greatest first-person shooter of all time, stating that ''When you look at the history of first-person shooters, it all breaks down pretty cleanly into pre-Half-Life and post-Half-Life eras.''
Half of prime time Internet traffic in the states was a Netflix stream before Netflix offered a streaming only service. Expectations evolve. Closed captioning. Multilingual dialog. High definition. 4K video. Theater sound. Original production. Live broadcast.
Internet radio is evolving as well
To the point where the WiFi radio can found at Walmart.
The target audience for these services are likely to be perfectly comfortable paying a little more each month to access the fast lane.
They may not even recognize the device they are using to access streaming media as a computer.
It's simply their phone, tablet. HDTV, e-book reader. radio or home theater audio system. They aren't thinking in terms of the Internet and the loss of "net neutrality" becomes an increasingly distant abstraction, hard to explain, and not easy to demonstrate how it will impact them personally.
and a rival company claims he ignored the IBM reps and 'went flying'. Its not true, but Gates claims that it is.
IBM went to Microsoft and Gates for an operating system and programming languages for their new micro --- and Gates sent them on to Kildall.
Various reasons have been given for the two companies failing to reach an agreement. DRI, which had only a few products, might have been unwilling to sell its main product to IBM for a one-time payment rather than its usual royalty-based plan. orothy might have believed that the company could not deliver CP/M-86 on IBM's proposed schedule, as the company was busy developing an implementation of the PL/I programming language for Data General. Or, the IBM representatives might have been annoyed that DRI had spent hours on what they considered a routine formality [a non disclosure agreement.
Kildall obtained a copy of PC DOS, examined it, and concluded that it infringed on CP/M. When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue. Instead Kildall only threatened IBM with legal action, and IBM responded with a proposal to offer CP/M-86 as an option for the PC in return for a release of liability. Kildall accepted, believing that IBM's new system (like its previous personal computers) would not be a significant commercial success. When the IBM PC was introduced, IBM sold its operating system as an unbundled option. One of the operating system options was PC DOS, priced at US$40. PC DOS was seen as a practically necessary option; most software titles required it and without it the IBM PC was limited to it's built-in Cassette Basic. CP/M-86 shipped a few months later at $240, but sold poorly against DOS and enjoyed far less software support.
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." --- Henry Ford
The quote is bogus.
Something to be trotted out whenever the entrepreneur of the 1950s has a product that wasn't selling worth spit.
Ford was raised on a farm. The horse and carriage was an endless care and expense. The Ford car tireless and uncomplaining. You could make good time on a hard surfaced road --- few and far between in the beginning.
When I can pick up a dishwasher replacement part printed out by Whirlpool at my local kinko's and it costs less and is just as good as a cast one then 3D printing will have arrived.
This assumes you have correctly identified the problem and have the time, the tools and the skills needed to disassemble a home appliance and replace a part.
I suspect that 3D printing will lead to more sophisticated and customized appliances that will be a beast to repair.
If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
The screen is "in my face" never just "on his face."
I object to tech that encourages its users to become more insular and self-absorbed. If that makes me a Luddite so be it.
Head mounted displays are used pretty regularly in military aviation.
For young adults in their physical prime and entering an inherently high risk profession. Tech with an almost unlimited budget for research and development.
CB radio at 27 MHz has been around since 1958. The radios were cheap --- remain cheap --- and have significant usable range without the use of repeaters.
CB radio survives because the cell phone isn't the answer to every problem.
.... or simply that as I age I am more protective of my vision.
But I would really like to see devices like these reviewed by eye doctors and other perhaps other specialists before I commit to building or wearing them.
It's really not that hard once you gain a bit of experience, but you were lazy.
I value my time above minimum wage. The subscription service is reliable and cheap at $10-$15 a month. If I wasn't better quality I'll spring for the Blu-Ray disc.
Only one reasonable response: Drop all your paid over-the-interent content subscriptions, and start pirating everything. Burn the media industry to the ground.
The geek has been telling anyone willing to listen that piracy isn't hurting big media --- and now he expects to use piracy to destroy the big media?
The licensed Netflix stream represented fully half of all prime time Internet traffic in the states before Netflix offered a streaming only service, before Netflix began offering high definition video, theater sound, closed captioning....
Tablets. Smart phones. The smart TV. The WiFi Internet radio.
Streaming media is available everywhere. In your home. In your car. No computer required. No P2P clients. I wasted endless hours in my own brief flirtation with P2P trying to find an uncorrupted file of reasonable quality. Never again.
Paying retail list would have been a better use of my time.
People never wanted buggy whips. People wanted transport. Buggy whips were just a means to that end.
There were 13,000 businesses in the wagon and carriage industry in 1890. A company survived not by conceiving of itself as being in the ''personal transportation'' business, but by commanding technological expertise relevant to the automobile. The people who made the most successful transition were not the carriage makers, but the carriage parts makers, some of whom are still in business.
One is the giant Timken Company, whose signature products, roller bearings, were first used in wagon wheels in the 1890s. They easily adapted to the automobile because they could be applied ''to nearly anything that moved.''
Fahrenheit is most often used for temperatures in the comfort range for indoor and outdoor activities. 100=dangerously hot . 75=warm, 50=chill, and 25=cold. and 0=dangerously cold.
Like the original Liberator pistol that the US dropped all over France, etc.,
The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass-produced. It had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired a.45 caliber pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Due to this limitation, it was intended for very close-in use, 1--4 yards (0--5 m). Its maximum effective range was only about 25 feet (7.6 m). At longer range, the bullet would begin to tumble and stray off course. As a result of its low quality, it was nicknamed the "Woolworth gun."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff never saw the practicality in mass dropping the Liberator over occupied Europe, and authorized distribution of fewer than 25,000 of the half million FP-45 pistols shipped to Great Britain for the French resistance. Generals Joseph Stillwell and Douglas MacArthur were similarly unenthusiastic about the other half of the pistols scheduled for shipment to the Pacific. The Army then turned 450,000 Liberators over to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which preferred to supply Resistance fighters in both theatres with more effective weapons whenever possible.
I wonder how many government offices -- the U.S. Federal government has long been Microsoft's biggest customer -- couldn't get along just fine with an open source word processor, even considering all the proprietary-format documents they're stuck with for now.
Microsoft positions MS Office as part of an integrated solution for clerical work that scales to an enterprise of any size.
Microsoft has entered into a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Texas, a pact that carries much more weight these days after the HIPAA omnibus rule was released in January.
Implementing Office 365 for such a large network should serve as a sign that the state is comfortable enough with cloud computing that 100,000 employees, including the state Health and Human Services System, will be using the services.
"If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse"
Too often, a quote is attributed to Ford simply because its touches upon success in business or innovation: He has become a patron saint of the entrepreneur... One of the more popular of these quotations is, ''If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse,'' which has never been satisfactorily traced to Henry Ford. In fact, the quote only begins to appear in the early 21st century, ''quoted'' by modern-day business gurus using it as an object lesson.
So roughly speaking, if a judge tells you to do something, and you think it is nonsense, and you just say "no, I won't do that", then you are in contempt.
You have to frame your objections as a proper legal argument. You have to get that argument in the record to preserve it on appeal. That simply keeps you in the game. It doesn't give you a winning hand.
They can be ignored as can email campaigns, the things we should be focused ob is term limits recalling "citizens united" and getting rid of lobbyist.
Term limits increase a lobbyist's power.
He will have have experience, staff, and resources and long-term connections to the folks back home. The lobbyist from the central states will know grain and cattle. The lobbyist from Texas. oil and natural gas.
Until a complex Excel macro doesn't work. Until an incoming document from an outside source cannot be read.
You need to stop thinking like a geek converting dear old Dad to LibreOffice for home use home and start thinking about the skill sets and productivity of fifty to five hundred clerical workers with different skill sets and responsibilities.
Slashdot Mirror
FPS's for example just need enough plot to get you to the next slaughter zone.
There is more to good storytelling than plot.
No game ever set the stage better than the intro to Half-Life.
On its release, [Half-Life] received universal acclaim, with critics praising the seamlessly flowing narrative, presentation and realistic gameplay, and it won over fifty PC Game of the Year awards. Its gameplay influenced the design of first-person shooters for years after its release, and it is widely considered to be one of the greatest computer games of all time. IGN ranked Half-Life as the number one greatest first-person shooter of all time, stating that ''When you look at the history of first-person shooters, it all breaks down pretty cleanly into pre-Half-Life and post-Half-Life eras.''
Half-Lifep
Is not a reputable source at all. The entire site is based on click baiting articles and opinion pieces.
You're new here, I take it.
Half of prime time Internet traffic in the states was a Netflix stream before Netflix offered a streaming only service. Expectations evolve. Closed captioning. Multilingual dialog. High definition. 4K video. Theater sound. Original production. Live broadcast.
Internet radio is evolving as well
To the point where the WiFi radio can found at Walmart.
The target audience for these services are likely to be perfectly comfortable paying a little more each month to access the fast lane.
They may not even recognize the device they are using to access streaming media as a computer.
It's simply their phone, tablet. HDTV, e-book reader. radio or home theater audio system. They aren't thinking in terms of the Internet and the loss of "net neutrality" becomes an increasingly distant abstraction, hard to explain, and not easy to demonstrate how it will impact them personally.
and a rival company claims he ignored the IBM reps and 'went flying'. Its not true, but Gates claims that it is.
IBM went to Microsoft and Gates for an operating system and programming languages for their new micro --- and Gates sent them on to Kildall.
Various reasons have been given for the two companies failing to reach an agreement. DRI, which had only a few products, might have been unwilling to sell its main product to IBM for a one-time payment rather than its usual royalty-based plan. orothy might have believed that the company could not deliver CP/M-86 on IBM's proposed schedule, as the company was busy developing an implementation of the PL/I programming language for Data General. Or, the IBM representatives might have been annoyed that DRI had spent hours on what they considered a routine formality [a non disclosure agreement.
Kildall obtained a copy of PC DOS, examined it, and concluded that it infringed on CP/M. When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue. Instead Kildall only threatened IBM with legal action, and IBM responded with a proposal to offer CP/M-86 as an option for the PC in return for a release of liability. Kildall accepted, believing that IBM's new system (like its previous personal computers) would not be a significant commercial success. When the IBM PC was introduced, IBM sold its operating system as an unbundled option. One of the operating system options was PC DOS, priced at US$40. PC DOS was seen as a practically necessary option; most software titles required it and without it the IBM PC was limited to it's built-in Cassette Basic. CP/M-86 shipped a few months later at $240, but sold poorly against DOS and enjoyed far less software support.
Gary Kildall
CP/M-86 was cut-priced down to $60 by 1983. Too late,
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." --- Henry Ford
The quote is bogus.
Something to be trotted out whenever the entrepreneur of the 1950s has a product that wasn't selling worth spit.
Ford was raised on a farm. The horse and carriage was an endless care and expense. The Ford car tireless and uncomplaining. You could make good time on a hard surfaced road --- few and far between in the beginning.
When I can pick up a dishwasher replacement part printed out by Whirlpool at my local kinko's and it costs less and is just as good as a cast one then 3D printing will have arrived.
This assumes you have correctly identified the problem and have the time, the tools and the skills needed to disassemble a home appliance and replace a part.
I suspect that 3D printing will lead to more sophisticated and customized appliances that will be a beast to repair.
If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
The screen is "in my face" never just "on his face."
I object to tech that encourages its users to become more insular and self-absorbed. If that makes me a Luddite so be it.
Head mounted displays are used pretty regularly in military aviation.
For young adults in their physical prime and entering an inherently high risk profession. Tech with an almost unlimited budget for research and development.
CB Radio === Total waste of a good ham band.
CB radio at 27 MHz has been around since 1958. The radios were cheap --- remain cheap --- and have significant usable range without the use of repeaters.
CB radio survives because the cell phone isn't the answer to every problem.
.... or simply that as I age I am more protective of my vision.
But I would really like to see devices like these reviewed by eye doctors and other perhaps other specialists before I commit to building or wearing them.
It's really not that hard once you gain a bit of experience, but you were lazy.
I value my time above minimum wage. The subscription service is reliable and cheap at $10-$15 a month. If I wasn't better quality I'll spring for the Blu-Ray disc.
Only one reasonable response: Drop all your paid over-the-interent content subscriptions, and start pirating everything. Burn the media industry to the ground.
The geek has been telling anyone willing to listen that piracy isn't hurting big media --- and now he expects to use piracy to destroy the big media?
The licensed Netflix stream represented fully half of all prime time Internet traffic in the states before Netflix offered a streaming only service, before Netflix began offering high definition video, theater sound, closed captioning....
Tablets. Smart phones. The smart TV. The WiFi Internet radio.
Streaming media is available everywhere. In your home. In your car. No computer required. No P2P clients. I wasted endless hours in my own brief flirtation with P2P trying to find an uncorrupted file of reasonable quality. Never again.
Paying retail list would have been a better use of my time.
It's called surveillance.
When - and if - the courts agree with you.
Doesn't mean the police won't be asking questions, doing a background check.
People never wanted buggy whips. People wanted transport. Buggy whips were just a means to that end.
There were 13,000 businesses in the wagon and carriage industry in 1890. A company survived not by conceiving of itself as being in the ''personal transportation'' business, but by commanding technological expertise relevant to the automobile. The people who made the most successful transition were not the carriage makers, but the carriage parts makers, some of whom are still in business.
One is the giant Timken Company, whose signature products, roller bearings, were first used in wagon wheels in the 1890s. They easily adapted to the automobile because they could be applied ''to nearly anything that moved.''
Failing Like a Buggy Whip Maker? Better Check Your Simile [2010
I'm sure if I followed an important public figure around for a while I could catch him rolling a stop sign or two.
It's called stalking.
If you are spotted, expect your high profile target or his warders to call for back-up.
I've got this hankerin' to call 911.
At the risk of a stiff fine and jail time on the misdemeanor or felony charge. You could also be looking at a very costly civil suit for damages.
Yep. Archaic or just retarded?
Simply convenient.
Fahrenheit is most often used for temperatures in the comfort range for indoor and outdoor activities. 100=dangerously hot . 75=warm, 50=chill, and 25=cold. and 0=dangerously cold.
Like the original Liberator pistol that the US dropped all over France, etc.,
The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass-produced. It had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired a .45 caliber pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Due to this limitation, it was intended for very close-in use, 1--4 yards (0--5 m). Its maximum effective range was only about 25 feet (7.6 m). At longer range, the bullet would begin to tumble and stray off course. As a result of its low quality, it was nicknamed the "Woolworth gun."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff never saw the practicality in mass dropping the Liberator over occupied Europe, and authorized distribution of fewer than 25,000 of the half million FP-45 pistols shipped to Great Britain for the French resistance. Generals Joseph Stillwell and Douglas MacArthur were similarly unenthusiastic about the other half of the pistols scheduled for shipment to the Pacific. The Army then turned 450,000 Liberators over to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which preferred to supply Resistance fighters in both theatres with more effective weapons whenever possible.
FP-45 Liberator
The Liberator shipped with a wooden dowel to remove the empty cartridge case. Fail to hit your mark with your first shot and you were as good as dead.
I wonder how many government offices -- the U.S. Federal government has long been Microsoft's biggest customer -- couldn't get along just fine with an open source word processor, even considering all the proprietary-format documents they're stuck with for now.
Microsoft positions MS Office as part of an integrated solution for clerical work that scales to an enterprise of any size.
Microsoft Office 365 for Health Organizations
Microsoft has entered into a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Texas, a pact that carries much more weight these days after the HIPAA omnibus rule was released in January.
Implementing Office 365 for such a large network should serve as a sign that the state is comfortable enough with cloud computing that 100,000 employees, including the state Health and Human Services System, will be using the services.
What will Texas Office 365 deal mean for healthcare security? [Feb 2013]
"If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse"
Too often, a quote is attributed to Ford simply because its touches upon success in business or innovation: He has become a patron saint of the entrepreneur... One of the more popular of these quotations is, ''If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse,'' which has never been satisfactorily traced to Henry Ford. In fact, the quote only begins to appear in the early 21st century, ''quoted'' by modern-day business gurus using it as an object lesson.
Henry Ford's quotations
What people wanted was clean, affordable. mechanical horse power.
The carriage without the horse. The barn. The stable-boy. The veterinarian. The manure pit.
So roughly speaking, if a judge tells you to do something, and you think it is nonsense, and you just say "no, I won't do that", then you are in contempt.
You have to frame your objections as a proper legal argument. You have to get that argument in the record to preserve it on appeal. That simply keeps you in the game. It doesn't give you a winning hand.
So, if something has been published 1000 times in works of fiction, can I still get a patent on it...
The writer "invents" devices that serve the purpose of his stories --- and is free to ignore any real-world constraints that might get in his way.
Always ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
How often has that strategy ended in a geek pleading guilty to a felony charge?
They can be ignored as can email campaigns, the things we should be focused ob is term limits recalling "citizens united" and getting rid of lobbyist.
Term limits increase a lobbyist's power.
He will have have experience, staff, and resources and long-term connections to the folks back home. The lobbyist from the central states will know grain and cattle. The lobbyist from Texas. oil and natural gas.
This works for most people.
Until a complex Excel macro doesn't work. Until an incoming document from an outside source cannot be read.
You need to stop thinking like a geek converting dear old Dad to LibreOffice for home use home and start thinking about the skill sets and productivity of fifty to five hundred clerical workers with different skill sets and responsibilities.