Internet radio, unfortunatly the RIAA got their fingers in this pie. Even if you run all independant music they get a cut. The RIAA has billed themselves as the musician union though everyone knows they represent the labels far more than they represent the artists.
Some albumns that were released independantly are getting increadible coverage [grey albumn], I think part of the problem is the dearth of good music over the last few years (I'm only 20 but I have access to historical records, I recognize a drought when I see one).
The new methods will quickly depose the industry aspect of music. If I can distribute, advertise, edit, and create my music for free why should I sell all my rights to big business and let them do it for me? It's that simple, already artists are trying to start independant labels, soon labels won't even be required.
I do think a new system should have new controllers. Being able to use a dual shock from a PS1 to a PS2 was a nice touch for some people though.
My favorite controller remains the dreamcast but the Xbox S controllers I have are pretty near and dear to my heart.
Some of my friends have ps2's and they can't deal with analogue, I guess the sticks are just too flimsy or something. Anyway we play fighting, FPS, and driving games(occasionally strategie).
Console controllers are terrible for all of these except fighter's, the driving games are what hurt the most because it would be so easy to just make the triggers analogue, all of the crappy physics could be negated with some analogue triggers and good force feedback. FPS's require triigers, they found that out with GoldenEye, granted it wasn't perfect but it was a lot closer, some of the more recent games have tried to offer more functionality with fewer buttons and have gotten burned(R6:Raven Shield, GTA:vice city[xbox]). Their success is due to the fantastic original design and they can afford to suffer from assbackwards menu's, when someone games on a pc they often have to deal with 20-25 buttons (proper voice and weapon binds) and mastering a game on a console means getting good muscle memory of controller layout. We can use more button's, your developers want them, what are you thinking?
My requests for next gen controllers (not listed above) are decent force feedback, and analogue sticks that are easy to use (Play station too loose, Xbox inside feels digital outside requires too much precision for casual gamers, Gamecube good god what were you thinking.
Though technical aspects are an important part of games they remain an indication of just how much games are popular culture.
Critics entering the world of gaming will start to add value to the concept of games as art rather than simply games as entertainment.
Though games claim to have stories they are often so completely banal and stupid that even an action movie would be hard pressed to justify their plotlines.
I don't think academics should get involved yet because Gaming simply isn't at the same level as film making or writing, putting together a piece of crap is the standard.
Critics can either try and help games create better "game play" thus stressing their role as entertainment (and relegating them to a childs diversion with no intellectual or emotional stimulation involved (How many games tell both sides of a story or offer character development or insight? Now compare them to a short story) or they can concentrate on the plot aspects, if they do this hopefully they can prevent video games from joining movies, comics, and parcheeze in the trash heap of intellectual pastimes.
The Xbox uses a HD and OS which support a maximum of 137GB (a partition?)so going above 120 is a waste of time, though I could really use a little more space:(
Ah I was trying to explain that before there were only a handful of people who would be useful in solving the problem with the set up they are proposing everyone would be useful so the ratio of useful/panic would be higher and they would be more likely to tell us.
Well they did estimates about popular knowledge vs deaths caused by mass panic and panicing morons outnumber calm rational people,(now there's a big surprise). However if youd RTFA you would notice that they had outlined a plan where you could theoretically build a device useful for moving an asteroid for less time and money than goes into putting on a public event.
So they can now use the spirit of community normally only used to win a war by uniting everyone in rational fear. (Now would this be easier than uniting them behind irrational hatred for say, Arabs or the Japanese?).
The one aspect of American society where women aren't allowed to compete (even nominally) is sniping. There are issues of compasions and violence involved in the decision. The studies involved might give some insight into this decision?
Actually they own Linux as much as Redhat does, the GPL doesn't proclude huge corperations fooling other stupid people into paying them money for it. They can just slap their own gui on it making the gui propreietary and you couldn't even distribute it for free or complain. That's one of the problems with GPL.
If memory serves there were several international agreements with the purpose of preventing ALL WEAPONRY IN SPACE.
From an international standpoint though it doesn't matter, despite American military rhetoric nuclear weapons ARE ultimate weapons. The specifications for shelters to protect humans from GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR are sufficiently difficult that the survivors would number in the tens of thousands. And of course all major powers probably have really dirty bombs set up to go off every few dozen years after the initial war so that nuclear winter can last several hundred years. The American's because they are vindictive enough to kill everything and everyone else because if such a war occures we don't deserve to exist.
The reason American's seem to be saying that nuclear weapons aren't the ultimate weapon is because of menas of delivery, hence they try and track Russian Nuclear subs (good luck) and keep track of the 20,000+ nuclear war heads pointed at their citizens. (note they can't stop 1 with current technology). The nature of their nuclear testing indicates this ignorance in that they have been experimenting with diffrent delivery methods such as long range cannon. How stupid is that these are bomb's, other countries know how to get bombs around, planes trains and automobiles. For $3000 I will smuggle a nuclear bomb into downtown New York and place it centrally in a location that will render it undetectable for the next 1000 years($1000 to bribe U.S. Border guard while saying it's cigarretes, $2000 to undercut the construction costs and gain access to the corner stone [6ft by 6ft] of a skyscraper) There will be no 3 minute missile flight when I become angry.
So everyone has figured this out except for the states, so why does the states still think it can push ANYONE around? I mean even Andora could probably put together $50,004,000 to buy a nuke off the Russians or pay an unethical physicist.
Well if we assume that it's fairly cheap and easy on the government scale to obtain nukes and I've shown it's even easier to deliver them in a manner which will offer no insight into the government responsible. Then America is pushing everyone around and if someone fought back no one would win. (I wouldn't define it as a win if 10,000 people who decided to kill everyone else survived, maybe it's just me.) But American imperalism continues, why? Why do people let smaller bullies push them around? Because the cost of fighting is higher than aquiescing, however if it continues long enough the cost of a bullet is cheap.
Don't push the world much farther, some people aren't as patient as others and if one of them finds you stealing from the mouths of their citizens to buy SUV's and they have a bomb in Central Park that button will look more and more tempting. Especially since there will be no focus for retaliation, of course if you continue with your current pogrom of random recrimination everyone else might find themselves pushing buttons in unison.
From a design stand point it occures to me that the first elements of our electro neural system to be replaced likely won't be processing or memory based. Though an interfact with a long term storage solution might be in our near future it will probably be controlled consciously. Despite an earlier comment to the contrary, I think that advances will be made in replacing longer neurons such as the spine. The money is there for research because of spinal chord injuries and other disabilities and all these links do is move electrical current from one location to another. This means they can be done in conjunction with our current systems.
Plus running a hyper transport bus from my occular nerve centre to my trigger finger would be pretty badass:)
Using the Infinium labs legal team to fight a case of lible against an individual merely makes him look more guilty(of being incompetent in this case).
Learn from the ants not the grasshopper.
As far as the Phantom goes it sounds like the kind of thing I would be interested in depending on how modular and cheap they are able to keep it. Don't let the head of the company being a complete ass from letting you enjoy what could potentially be a quality product.
From the above you can tell I am optomistic about the chances of the product launching, it's more like I believe it could launch. There really wouldn't be any work involved in creating the system they are talking about, grab some off the shelf components, add cheap modular OS, add win emulator (WineX?) Make deal with one of the billions of PC game designers to publish some games. And now this fellow has a bee in his bonnet maybe he'll get off his ass and do it. Or at least build an office:)
It seems as the time goes on companies rush to bring out the latest hype to let it all fall down. As they invent new gizmos, and standards, they seem to kill it the minute it is actually being used to bring out (*drum roll please*) the newest gizmo and standard. So what's left after they run through every possible combination of ideas, and technologies? Makes me think of history and older civilizations that kind of imploded on advancements.
That's where fashion and design come in. ModelT = Modern Car. Clothing = clothing. Yet people keep buying the newest thing.
NO the sole reason for a jury isn't jury nullification. The reason for a jury is so that the legal system can't be bought. It's much harder to "buy" a jury of unknowns (at least until the trial starts) than it is to buy an individual judge or prosecutor who are both known well in advance of the actual trial date. The jury is supposed to ensure that everyday people have a chance at a trial that is equally as fair as some rich guy, and that some rich guy actually gets a trial and doesn't just walk away because he can pay to be released.
I wasn't going to respond because the people who are disagreeing with me are headed down a road which leads to a shack a.303 rifle and a telescopic sight. However you are simply speaking without perspective so I will lend some.
The flaw in your vision of justics is that MOST PEOPLE ARE MINORITIES. Whether they be black or Jewish or Rich. Look at your post and consider what you said about "rich" people, when the only thing you know about these people is that they were likely successful in some endeavor.
American's live in a society where success is rewarded with wealth. Nothing more nothing less, yes some of them are assholes. Some poor people are assholes (In part because they can't afford perspective). It's easy to blame a corperation after they stop your employment but you are in a business agreement with them and they decided you were no longer a useful partner. I've gotten slightly off topic but hopefully I have pointed out that in modern times being rich is equated with being evil, this is a recent and quite likely short term view based on increadible ignorance. You rail against people with power yet expect them to create a fair system and allow themselves to be governed by it? Does that sound like the work of evil people?
bkr Check out some Locke, Kant, Descartes, Plato and Socrates. (Read Plato first), remember these aren't text books you need to read between the already brimming lines. Finally go check out some Nietzche this will give you some insight into how messed up the philosophy of our modern era is.
Though a comercial release sounds pretty cool I think that the idea of keeping it kind of secular is much better. Cool possible features:
Ok imagine the scenario, you get in and check your e-mail. It's from *@army.us.gov, it asks if you would be available at 9:14 for insertion. You say sure, so 9:12 rolls around and you head in and wait in the waiting room, they have a couple extra guys waiting in case someone messes up then based on ping and mission performance they let you in.
Before you'd been training against other geeks but tonight you are going up against a U.S. platoon. You get five minutes to set up. First you walk over and grab a walky talky, there are four sets of walky talkys and you decide to form three units. Two guys can't communicate with anyone, apparently they are mercenaries and don't speak your language, when they type it's just gibberish. You go and discuss strategie with your unit for a few min's and elect a leader. He will stay in comm central and co-ordinate your actions with the other leaders over the fourth set of walky talkys. He tells you that you are guarding the west and south sides of an outpost and that there will likely be a U.S. attack in the next ten minutes or so. You head out to examine the terrain and set up some booby traps. You scout around and draw a small map for yourself, then cue up the trap building, major defenses like earthworks are only partially constructed, apparently this fort has crappy discipline. You cue up a bunch of build commands on the booby traps, and tell your soldier to clean and prep,his equipment a timer pops up showing you will be done in 5 minutes. You play a small mini game provided for this wait. Occasionally other members of your unit will pop on comms to mention booby traps they have set up or other important features of the landscape. As four minutes approach the mini game turns off and your computer beeps loudly in case you left the room. Your commander comes on to check up on you, there are no noobs and everyone seems to be communicating so he has people describe their likely location and any plans they would like help co-ordinating people on. He mentions that one of the mercinaries has set up with a silenced rifle outside your base behind a rock. When the action starts you must fire a flare to inform him to start flanking the platoon. You roger and move to your position. Peering through the gloom you check to see if the American's are near the base yet, it's been almost 40 minutes and even though you know they are comming you are starting to get bored, you look over and your teamate is lying with blood pooling around his head. You yell to your comm that you are under attack, you quickyly search through your partners clothing and take his pistol, the rifle will only slow you down. It's time to move to your defensive position. You do so pulling out the flare gun.
Five minutes later you are dead, the American's used some kind of laser guided bomb. You don't know about it and they won't tell you, apparently it's confidential. But you got one, tonight some private is reviewing what he saw and what you saw and putting two and two together. Some Seargent looked over your actions and gave you a tactical, strategic and weapons rating. That and the report from your commander will determine your rating for future actions.
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Internet radio, unfortunatly the RIAA got their fingers in this pie. Even if you run all independant music they get a cut. The RIAA has billed themselves as the musician union though everyone knows they represent the labels far more than they represent the artists.
Some albumns that were released independantly are getting increadible coverage [grey albumn], I think part of the problem is the dearth of good music over the last few years (I'm only 20 but I have access to historical records, I recognize a drought when I see one).
The new methods will quickly depose the industry aspect of music. If I can distribute, advertise, edit, and create my music for free why should I sell all my rights to big business and let them do it for me? It's that simple, already artists are trying to start independant labels, soon labels won't even be required.
This was really really hurting. X2 Is by all accounts a questionable title, Descent was the best ever.
I do think a new system should have new controllers. Being able to use a dual shock from a PS1 to a PS2 was a nice touch for some people though.
My favorite controller remains the dreamcast but the Xbox S controllers I have are pretty near and dear to my heart.
Some of my friends have ps2's and they can't deal with analogue, I guess the sticks are just too flimsy or something. Anyway we play fighting, FPS, and driving games(occasionally strategie).
Console controllers are terrible for all of these except fighter's, the driving games are what hurt the most because it would be so easy to just make the triggers analogue, all of the crappy physics could be negated with some analogue triggers and good force feedback. FPS's require triigers, they found that out with GoldenEye, granted it wasn't perfect but it was a lot closer, some of the more recent games have tried to offer more functionality with fewer buttons and have gotten burned(R6:Raven Shield, GTA:vice city[xbox]). Their success is due to the fantastic original design and they can afford to suffer from assbackwards menu's, when someone games on a pc they often have to deal with 20-25 buttons (proper voice and weapon binds) and mastering a game on a console means getting good muscle memory of controller layout. We can use more button's, your developers want them, what are you thinking?
My requests for next gen controllers (not listed above) are decent force feedback, and analogue sticks that are easy to use (Play station too loose, Xbox inside feels digital outside requires too much precision for casual gamers, Gamecube good god what were you thinking.
Though technical aspects are an important part of games they remain an indication of just how much games are popular culture.
Critics entering the world of gaming will start to add value to the concept of games as art rather than simply games as entertainment.
Though games claim to have stories they are often so completely banal and stupid that even an action movie would be hard pressed to justify their plotlines.
I don't think academics should get involved yet because Gaming simply isn't at the same level as film making or writing, putting together a piece of crap is the standard.
Critics can either try and help games create better "game play" thus stressing their role as entertainment (and relegating them to a childs diversion with no intellectual or emotional stimulation involved (How many games tell both sides of a story or offer character development or insight? Now compare them to a short story) or they can concentrate on the plot aspects, if they do this hopefully they can prevent video games from joining movies, comics, and parcheeze in the trash heap of intellectual pastimes.
What makes you believe we won't write our own?
:)
The Xbox uses a HD and OS which support a maximum of 137GB (a partition?)so going above 120 is a waste of time, though I could really use a little more space :(
Suggestion: Take out book about The Renaisence, read, reconsider quesiton.
One are more lawsuits really what we need here? Fight fire with fire and the lawyers always win?
Second it's very unfortunate that a form of music arrived which is entirely based upon sampling and the music industry hasn't collapsed yet.
And so did we. Hum it with me! WOOHOO!
x86-64 inside marketing campaign :)
Ah I was trying to explain that before there were only a handful of people who would be useful in solving the problem with the set up they are proposing everyone would be useful so the ratio of useful/panic would be higher and they would be more likely to tell us.
Just reading that scared the crap out of me. It's like my little sister all over again. Ah she's comming.
Well they did estimates about popular knowledge vs deaths caused by mass panic and panicing morons outnumber calm rational people,(now there's a big surprise).
However if youd RTFA you would notice that they had outlined a plan where you could theoretically build a device useful for moving an asteroid for less time and money than goes into putting on a public event.
So they can now use the spirit of community normally only used to win a war by uniting everyone in rational fear. (Now would this be easier than uniting them behind irrational hatred for say, Arabs or the Japanese?).
Fortunatly a nuclear bomb will only kill 99.999 percent of humanity (woohoo mutants!) And people who think long term agree, we can live with out them.
"Stupid normals, get with the gills".
No one else is doing it because they think it is a dick swinging contest. Aside from plastic they may be right. Yummy plastic!
The one aspect of American society where women aren't allowed to compete (even nominally) is sniping. There are issues of compasions and violence involved in the decision. The studies involved might give some insight into this decision?
Can foo prevent company from using software? My understanding was no.
Actually they own Linux as much as Redhat does, the GPL doesn't proclude huge corperations fooling other stupid people into paying them money for it. They can just slap their own gui on it making the gui propreietary and you couldn't even distribute it for free or complain. That's one of the problems with GPL.
If memory serves there were several international agreements with the purpose of preventing ALL WEAPONRY IN SPACE.
From an international standpoint though it doesn't matter, despite American military rhetoric nuclear weapons ARE ultimate weapons. The specifications for shelters to protect humans from GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR are sufficiently difficult that the survivors would number in the tens of thousands. And of course all major powers probably have really dirty bombs set up to go off every few dozen years after the initial war so that nuclear winter can last several hundred years. The American's because they are vindictive enough to kill everything and everyone else because if such a war occures we don't deserve to exist.
The reason American's seem to be saying that nuclear weapons aren't the ultimate weapon is because of menas of delivery, hence they try and track Russian Nuclear subs (good luck) and keep track of the 20,000+ nuclear war heads pointed at their citizens. (note they can't stop 1 with current technology). The nature of their nuclear testing indicates this ignorance in that they have been experimenting with diffrent delivery methods such as long range cannon. How stupid is that these are bomb's, other countries know how to get bombs around, planes trains and automobiles. For $3000 I will smuggle a nuclear bomb into downtown New York and place it centrally in a location that will render it undetectable for the next 1000 years($1000 to bribe U.S. Border guard while saying it's cigarretes, $2000 to undercut the construction costs and gain access to the corner stone [6ft by 6ft] of a skyscraper) There will be no 3 minute missile flight when I become angry.
So everyone has figured this out except for the states, so why does the states still think it can push ANYONE around? I mean even Andora could probably put together $50,004,000 to buy a nuke off the Russians or pay an unethical physicist.
Well if we assume that it's fairly cheap and easy on the government scale to obtain nukes and I've shown it's even easier to deliver them in a manner which will offer no insight into the government responsible. Then America is pushing everyone around and if someone fought back no one would win. (I wouldn't define it as a win if 10,000 people who decided to kill everyone else survived, maybe it's just me.) But American imperalism continues, why? Why do people let smaller bullies push them around? Because the cost of fighting is higher than aquiescing, however if it continues long enough the cost of a bullet is cheap.
Don't push the world much farther, some people aren't as patient as others and if one of them finds you stealing from the mouths of their citizens to buy SUV's and they have a bomb in Central Park that button will look more and more tempting. Especially since there will be no focus for retaliation, of course if you continue with your current pogrom of random recrimination everyone else might find themselves pushing buttons in unison.
From a design stand point it occures to me that the first elements of our electro neural system to be replaced likely won't be processing or memory based. Though an interfact with a long term storage solution might be in our near future it will probably be controlled consciously. Despite an earlier comment to the contrary, I think that advances will be made in replacing longer neurons such as the spine. The money is there for research because of spinal chord injuries and other disabilities and all these links do is move electrical current from one location to another. This means they can be done in conjunction with our current systems.
:)
Plus running a hyper transport bus from my occular nerve centre to my trigger finger would be pretty badass
Using the Infinium labs legal team to fight a case of lible against an individual merely makes him look more guilty(of being incompetent in this case).
:)
Learn from the ants not the grasshopper.
As far as the Phantom goes it sounds like the kind of thing I would be interested in depending on how modular and cheap they are able to keep it. Don't let the head of the company being a complete ass from letting you enjoy what could potentially be a quality product.
From the above you can tell I am optomistic about the chances of the product launching, it's more like I believe it could launch. There really wouldn't be any work involved in creating the system they are talking about, grab some off the shelf components, add cheap modular OS, add win emulator (WineX?) Make deal with one of the billions of PC game designers to publish some games. And now this fellow has a bee in his bonnet maybe he'll get off his ass and do it. Or at least build an office
It seems as the time goes on companies rush to bring out the latest hype to let it all fall down. As they invent new gizmos, and standards, they seem to kill it the minute it is actually being used to bring out (*drum roll please*) the newest gizmo and standard. So what's left after they run through every possible combination of ideas, and technologies? Makes me think of history and older civilizations that kind of imploded on advancements.
That's where fashion and design come in. ModelT = Modern Car. Clothing = clothing. Yet people keep buying the newest thing.
NO the sole reason for a jury isn't jury nullification. The reason for a jury is so that the legal system can't be bought. It's much harder to "buy" a jury of unknowns (at least until the trial starts) than it is to buy an individual judge or prosecutor who are both known well in advance of the actual trial date. The jury is supposed to ensure that everyday people have a chance at a trial that is equally as fair as some rich guy, and that some rich guy actually gets a trial and doesn't just walk away because he can pay to be released.
.303 rifle and a telescopic sight. However you are simply speaking without perspective so I will lend some.
I wasn't going to respond because the people who are disagreeing with me are headed down a road which leads to a shack a
The flaw in your vision of justics is that MOST PEOPLE ARE MINORITIES. Whether they be black or Jewish or Rich. Look at your post and consider what you said about "rich" people, when the only thing you know about these people is that they were likely successful in some endeavor.
American's live in a society where success is rewarded with wealth. Nothing more nothing less, yes some of them are assholes. Some poor people are assholes (In part because they can't afford perspective). It's easy to blame a corperation after they stop your employment but you are in a business agreement with them and they decided you were no longer a useful partner. I've gotten slightly off topic but hopefully I have pointed out that in modern times being rich is equated with being evil, this is a recent and quite likely short term view based on increadible ignorance. You rail against people with power yet expect them to create a fair system and allow themselves to be governed by it? Does that sound like the work of evil people?
bkr Check out some Locke, Kant, Descartes, Plato and Socrates. (Read Plato first), remember these aren't text books you need to read between the already brimming lines. Finally go check out some Nietzche this will give you some insight into how messed up the philosophy of our modern era is.
Peace out.
Though a comercial release sounds pretty cool I think that the idea of keeping it kind of secular is much better. Cool possible features:
Ok imagine the scenario, you get in and check your e-mail. It's from *@army.us.gov, it asks if you would be available at 9:14 for insertion. You say sure, so 9:12 rolls around and you head in and wait in the waiting room, they have a couple extra guys waiting in case someone messes up then based on ping and mission performance they let you in.
Before you'd been training against other geeks but tonight you are going up against a U.S. platoon. You get five minutes to set up. First you walk over and grab a walky talky, there are four sets of walky talkys and you decide to form three units. Two guys can't communicate with anyone, apparently they are mercenaries and don't speak your language, when they type it's just gibberish. You go and discuss strategie with your unit for a few min's and elect a leader. He will stay in comm central and co-ordinate your actions with the other leaders over the fourth set of walky talkys. He tells you that you are guarding the west and south sides of an outpost and that there will likely be a U.S. attack in the next ten minutes or so. You head out to examine the terrain and set up some booby traps. You scout around and draw a small map for yourself, then cue up the trap building, major defenses like earthworks are only partially constructed, apparently this fort has crappy discipline. You cue up a bunch of build commands on the booby traps, and tell your soldier to clean and prep,his equipment a timer pops up showing you will be done in 5 minutes. You play a small mini game provided for this wait. Occasionally other members of your unit will pop on comms to mention booby traps they have set up or other important features of the landscape. As four minutes approach the mini game turns off and your computer beeps loudly in case you left the room. Your commander comes on to check up on you, there are no noobs and everyone seems to be communicating so he has people describe their likely location and any plans they would like help co-ordinating people on. He mentions that one of the mercinaries has set up with a silenced rifle outside your base behind a rock. When the action starts you must fire a flare to inform him to start flanking the platoon. You roger and move to your position. Peering through the gloom you check to see if the American's are near the base yet, it's been almost 40 minutes and even though you know they are comming you are starting to get bored, you look over and your teamate is lying with blood pooling around his head. You yell to your comm that you are under attack, you quickyly search through your partners clothing and take his pistol, the rifle will only slow you down. It's time to move to your defensive position. You do so pulling out the flare gun.
Five minutes later you are dead, the American's used some kind of laser guided bomb. You don't know about it and they won't tell you, apparently it's confidential. But you got one, tonight some private is reviewing what he saw and what you saw and putting two and two together. Some Seargent looked over your actions and gave you a tactical, strategic and weapons rating. That and the report from your commander will determine your rating for future actions.
Mod Down I ramble.