We could dismantle globalisation and start forming trade blocs that enforce minimum standards of workers rights and economic development and only let in other nations that develop to an acceptable level. We could then use these blocs to negotiate how the advanced economies transition to a laborless economy that's fair to everyone.
This is going to go to a really dark place. A choice is coming. We as a society have to choose, do we want a world with crime, or a world without freedom? There is no room for both to co-exist. We can have a colourful world with choice and the crime that comes with that. Or we can be controlled, every negative thought known to the government, dissent suppressed and control handed over to a few elite who are already in power to do with as they please. China shows that this control will not be in the hands of a benevolent or even democratic government.
Net Neutrality could very well be the thing that ends America's tech dominance. Hosting Web hosting can now move off shore to locations where bandwidth is cheaper. It's going to look mighty tempting to host content in other countries.
Who the fuck uses chequebooks anymore? Isn't everything on EFT/Electronic money aside from edge cases with cash or is America behind the times yet again? The only time I ever see a cheque is when a government department or business issues a refund and is too dumb to use direct bank deposit.
How do you solve motion sickness in VR? Simple. Don't make a game that's trying to replicate movement your brain is already quite used to. E.g Games where you sit and control a spacecraft/aircraft work fine because your inner ear doesn't know what to expect. When you do a car racing game (Drive Club) or a game where you walk. There's a greater disconnect between what you see and what you feel so your brain freaks out and you feel nauseous. Try the Star Wars VR demo from Battlefront 1, or Battlezone on PS4. You feel a little motion sickness but it goes away quite quickly because your brain doesn't know what being in a star fighter should feel like. That's why Space games/Descent style games work brilliantly for VR. (I own a PS4 Pro/PSVR this has been my experience).
Nope actually, the game didn't evolve into Freespace 2 at all. Mike Kulas left Parallax software who made Descent and founded Volition Inc. Freespace 1/2 was made at Volition. The Descent name was slapped on Freespace 1 by the publisher Interplay to cash in on the existing popularity of the Descent franchise.
Overload has VR, motion sickness in VR shouldn't be a problem, and yes this game is a potential Killer App for VR. Overload and the X-Wing Demo are what I expected VR to be. They're made for it.
Descent 2 is already an actual game. Technically Overload would be Descent 4. Honestly though, it's amazing that we're seeing both Descent 4 and Overload coming out at the same time. It's great for fans of the genre to have so many options.
I always thought of Fury3 and Terminal Velocity as being their own type of game because the ship couldn't stop moving and couldn't travel in reverse. Awesome flight games though:) I really wish that someone would pick up that style of game and make a modern version.
Descent was the first 3d game that let you travel in any direction, up down, left right,, forward, reverse, slide diagonally it was all there. It was intensely slickly packaged and it had very few competitors/analogues at the time. Forsaken was really the only other game in it's class. It basically created a genre (6dof shooter) all by itself. It is to 6DOF shooters as Doom and Quake were to the FPS Genre.
Mike Kulas is an absolute legend. I remember hanging out in the Volition Inc forums back in the 1990s/2000s. I cut my teeth on game modding/design using the Descent Level Editor and the Freespace 2 level editor. I always wished someone would port the Descent 3 mission editor to Linux. The D3Edit sourcecode got released a couple years ago but noone's done anything with it.
SIP is the reason why phones are now completely stuffed. By dropping the price of international calls to literally $0.00 (simply an international SIP trunk.) It meant that all spammers have to do is control a computer in the country they wish to dial into and all calls are free or as near to free as needed to justify the expense of making the calls. This could be fixed with carrier/vendor cooperation. But it won't happen.
This has been going on for years. Slashdot has covered it many times. Anyone involved in engineering should be trying to avoid China as a place to manufacture product.
I backed it for $1250. Why? Because I grew up on Wing Commander and you never forget your first love. Is it really a surprise that someone who tried to remake Wing Commander: Privateer as an MMO would back a game that basically promises to be Wing Commander 2/3 mixed with Privateer in an MMO setting? The only person I've met through work that backed it for a similar $5000 or more amount was a 6 figure salaried Network Security engineer. Similar in age, people that still appreciate space games and had to wait 15 years for their genre to get revived are happy to pour money into one of the biggest names in the genre.
More like, why not stop screwing customers over with controller redesigns. We don't need another Playstation controller. The PS3 and PS4 controllers are both excellent controllers. But at $100 AUD each brand new, it gets harder to justify upgrading each release.
This is one of the many reasons why I use Free Software. Originally I switched due to working on a game, but then it became permanent because Microsoft Removed Features from the SideWinder Force Feedback Joysticks under Windows XP (Windows 98se had more control options) and a kernel developer helped me fix the same joystick's Linux support.
This is actually the end of culture as we know it.
I recently tried to track down some 3D modelling software that I used to use. Legal copies are not available for sale. I've checked, ebay, amazon, gumtree and google. There are no copies out there. I've checked on every warez site on the internet. literally no-one is carrying that program anymore. All the torrents are dead. Microsoft bought the company in 2008 and axed the product in 2009 during the GFC, so the original publisher is unable to help. Literally the only copy I was able to track down was an old pirate copy sitting on a backup of a failed RAID array that I had here. I've since put it on Dropbox and Google Drive (privately not publicly).
We are creating a new dark age with these copyright laws. A lot of information is already lost forever and it's only going to get worse from here.
Maybe stop worrying about the ethics and just get on with getting rid of all the call centre operators and personal assistant roles. The sooner we throw people out of work from meaningless jobs, the sooner we can ditch insanity like trickle down economics and get back to fixing the way our civilisation works.
Some of us aged under 35 would love to have fully paid off homes, however we have to contend with average house prices of $1 million dollars in Melbourne and an Average wage of $60,000 Australian dollars/year. Assuming you only eat home cooked meals and never go out and actually saved $2000/month from a $4000/month salary. After 10 years you'd have $240,000. after 20 years you'd be halfway there, but you'd also be accruing interest on your loan and be 50 years old. No cash left for kids, any sort of reasonable life or retirement. So please continue to talk down to people living in a completely different economic reality to yourself as if you have any sort of authority at all. BTW I build/deploy Cisco Call Manager for a fortune 50 company as a contractor, so it's not as if I am uneducated, or working an unskilled barista job.
Just don't expect all your apps to fit any particular desktop metaphor. This is the main reason why GNUstep is so disappointing to use. It could have very well been a great way to run an OSX style desktop on Linux. Instead it doesn't have a web browser, and the applications feel out of place with everything else you have installed.
AMIWM is another example, a bit more extreme perhaps. It tries to clone the Amiga desktop's windowing style but doesn't bring any applications of it's own so the entire desktop experience lacks cohesion.
You're statement about service economies is wrong. Most third world countries rely entirely upon Primary Production (e.g Farming/Mining) to base their economies. Hence we see a complete basket case like Venezuela emerge when their primary resources the economy was based on (oil) crashed in value. Advanced countries have diversified economies with Manufacturing, Service, and Primary Production. To fix the US economy we need to move away from the idea that service sector jobs are the bee's knee's and move toward a more balanced approach that integrates Farming, Mining, Manufacturing and the Service economies together. The problem right now is that manufacturing has been left to rot while chasing service dollars. A balance is required to maintain strong economic growth. Australia has similar problems with the government ditching support for Manufacturing and trying to bet the whole place on mining/farming/services.
I am paid full time to work ~15 minutes a day 5 days a week. The rest of the time I am paid to sit in a chair and wait for work to happen. Realistically my work could be absorbed into some of my co-workers' roles but lucky for me they haven't chosen to do so.
The correct thing to do was put Linux on the computers and provide them as is. If people want Windows they can pay for it. It's people hiding the true cost of Microsoft's products that are helping keep their monopoly in place. Maybe instead of trying to cover up Microsoft's crappy business model they should have exposed it for the fraud it is. Want to run that 3 year old PC? That'll be $150 for a boxed copy of Windows. Want XP/7 on it? Sorry, Microsoft has decided you can't get it anymore. Guess you should have chosen a PC platform that supports your old applications.
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We could dismantle globalisation and start forming trade blocs that enforce minimum standards of workers rights and economic development and only let in other nations that develop to an acceptable level. We could then use these blocs to negotiate how the advanced economies transition to a laborless economy that's fair to everyone.
This is going to go to a really dark place. A choice is coming. We as a society have to choose, do we want a world with crime, or a world without freedom? There is no room for both to co-exist. We can have a colourful world with choice and the crime that comes with that. Or we can be controlled, every negative thought known to the government, dissent suppressed and control handed over to a few elite who are already in power to do with as they please. China shows that this control will not be in the hands of a benevolent or even democratic government.
Net Neutrality could very well be the thing that ends America's tech dominance. Hosting Web hosting can now move off shore to locations where bandwidth is cheaper. It's going to look mighty tempting to host content in other countries.
With the death of Windows 7, ReactOS becomes our only hope for a decent Windows platform.
Who the fuck uses chequebooks anymore? Isn't everything on EFT/Electronic money aside from edge cases with cash or is America behind the times yet again? The only time I ever see a cheque is when a government department or business issues a refund and is too dumb to use direct bank deposit.
How do you solve motion sickness in VR? Simple. Don't make a game that's trying to replicate movement your brain is already quite used to. E.g Games where you sit and control a spacecraft/aircraft work fine because your inner ear doesn't know what to expect. When you do a car racing game (Drive Club) or a game where you walk. There's a greater disconnect between what you see and what you feel so your brain freaks out and you feel nauseous. Try the Star Wars VR demo from Battlefront 1, or Battlezone on PS4. You feel a little motion sickness but it goes away quite quickly because your brain doesn't know what being in a star fighter should feel like. That's why Space games/Descent style games work brilliantly for VR. (I own a PS4 Pro/PSVR this has been my experience).
Nope actually, the game didn't evolve into Freespace 2 at all. Mike Kulas left Parallax software who made Descent and founded Volition Inc. Freespace 1/2 was made at Volition. The Descent name was slapped on Freespace 1 by the publisher Interplay to cash in on the existing popularity of the Descent franchise.
Overload has VR, motion sickness in VR shouldn't be a problem, and yes this game is a potential Killer App for VR. Overload and the X-Wing Demo are what I expected VR to be. They're made for it.
Descent 2 is already an actual game. Technically Overload would be Descent 4. Honestly though, it's amazing that we're seeing both Descent 4 and Overload coming out at the same time. It's great for fans of the genre to have so many options.
I always thought of Fury3 and Terminal Velocity as being their own type of game because the ship couldn't stop moving and couldn't travel in reverse. Awesome flight games though :) I really wish that someone would pick up that style of game and make a modern version.
Descent was the first 3d game that let you travel in any direction, up down, left right,, forward, reverse, slide diagonally it was all there. It was intensely slickly packaged and it had very few competitors/analogues at the time. Forsaken was really the only other game in it's class. It basically created a genre (6dof shooter) all by itself. It is to 6DOF shooters as Doom and Quake were to the FPS Genre.
Mike Kulas is an absolute legend. I remember hanging out in the Volition Inc forums back in the 1990s/2000s. I cut my teeth on game modding/design using the Descent Level Editor and the Freespace 2 level editor. I always wished someone would port the Descent 3 mission editor to Linux. The D3Edit sourcecode got released a couple years ago but noone's done anything with it.
SIP is the reason why phones are now completely stuffed. By dropping the price of international calls to literally $0.00 (simply an international SIP trunk.) It meant that all spammers have to do is control a computer in the country they wish to dial into and all calls are free or as near to free as needed to justify the expense of making the calls. This could be fixed with carrier/vendor cooperation. But it won't happen.
This has been going on for years. Slashdot has covered it many times. Anyone involved in engineering should be trying to avoid China as a place to manufacture product.
I backed it for $1250. Why? Because I grew up on Wing Commander and you never forget your first love. Is it really a surprise that someone who tried to remake Wing Commander: Privateer as an MMO would back a game that basically promises to be Wing Commander 2/3 mixed with Privateer in an MMO setting? The only person I've met through work that backed it for a similar $5000 or more amount was a 6 figure salaried Network Security engineer. Similar in age, people that still appreciate space games and had to wait 15 years for their genre to get revived are happy to pour money into one of the biggest names in the genre.
More like, why not stop screwing customers over with controller redesigns. We don't need another Playstation controller. The PS3 and PS4 controllers are both excellent controllers. But at $100 AUD each brand new, it gets harder to justify upgrading each release.
PS4 Pro has been out for almost two years. Same with the PSVR. I know because I own both.
This is one of the many reasons why I use Free Software. Originally I switched due to working on a game, but then it became permanent because Microsoft Removed Features from the SideWinder Force Feedback Joysticks under Windows XP (Windows 98se had more control options) and a kernel developer helped me fix the same joystick's Linux support.
This is actually the end of culture as we know it. I recently tried to track down some 3D modelling software that I used to use. Legal copies are not available for sale. I've checked, ebay, amazon, gumtree and google. There are no copies out there. I've checked on every warez site on the internet. literally no-one is carrying that program anymore. All the torrents are dead. Microsoft bought the company in 2008 and axed the product in 2009 during the GFC, so the original publisher is unable to help. Literally the only copy I was able to track down was an old pirate copy sitting on a backup of a failed RAID array that I had here. I've since put it on Dropbox and Google Drive (privately not publicly). We are creating a new dark age with these copyright laws. A lot of information is already lost forever and it's only going to get worse from here.
Maybe stop worrying about the ethics and just get on with getting rid of all the call centre operators and personal assistant roles. The sooner we throw people out of work from meaningless jobs, the sooner we can ditch insanity like trickle down economics and get back to fixing the way our civilisation works.
Some of us aged under 35 would love to have fully paid off homes, however we have to contend with average house prices of $1 million dollars in Melbourne and an Average wage of $60,000 Australian dollars/year. Assuming you only eat home cooked meals and never go out and actually saved $2000/month from a $4000/month salary. After 10 years you'd have $240,000. after 20 years you'd be halfway there, but you'd also be accruing interest on your loan and be 50 years old. No cash left for kids, any sort of reasonable life or retirement. So please continue to talk down to people living in a completely different economic reality to yourself as if you have any sort of authority at all. BTW I build/deploy Cisco Call Manager for a fortune 50 company as a contractor, so it's not as if I am uneducated, or working an unskilled barista job.
Just don't expect all your apps to fit any particular desktop metaphor. This is the main reason why GNUstep is so disappointing to use. It could have very well been a great way to run an OSX style desktop on Linux. Instead it doesn't have a web browser, and the applications feel out of place with everything else you have installed. AMIWM is another example, a bit more extreme perhaps. It tries to clone the Amiga desktop's windowing style but doesn't bring any applications of it's own so the entire desktop experience lacks cohesion.
You're statement about service economies is wrong. Most third world countries rely entirely upon Primary Production (e.g Farming/Mining) to base their economies. Hence we see a complete basket case like Venezuela emerge when their primary resources the economy was based on (oil) crashed in value. Advanced countries have diversified economies with Manufacturing, Service, and Primary Production. To fix the US economy we need to move away from the idea that service sector jobs are the bee's knee's and move toward a more balanced approach that integrates Farming, Mining, Manufacturing and the Service economies together. The problem right now is that manufacturing has been left to rot while chasing service dollars. A balance is required to maintain strong economic growth. Australia has similar problems with the government ditching support for Manufacturing and trying to bet the whole place on mining/farming/services.
I am paid full time to work ~15 minutes a day 5 days a week. The rest of the time I am paid to sit in a chair and wait for work to happen. Realistically my work could be absorbed into some of my co-workers' roles but lucky for me they haven't chosen to do so.
The correct thing to do was put Linux on the computers and provide them as is. If people want Windows they can pay for it. It's people hiding the true cost of Microsoft's products that are helping keep their monopoly in place. Maybe instead of trying to cover up Microsoft's crappy business model they should have exposed it for the fraud it is. Want to run that 3 year old PC? That'll be $150 for a boxed copy of Windows. Want XP/7 on it? Sorry, Microsoft has decided you can't get it anymore. Guess you should have chosen a PC platform that supports your old applications.