I call bullshit on the greatness of hitchcock with modern tech. He did what he had to do because he had a vision. Given today's technology he'd say "can we do this?" and the crew would say "sure, we can do it in post."
The Old Ones weren't great because they were especially gifted. They were great because they were first. Several people invented lightbulbs at the same time but only one got credit. The environment was right for someone to grab the brass ring and he did.
What the industry has done for many years is buy a promising young studio and grind it into a fine paste. OP is proposing they create an environment in which innovation can flourish and design is paramount. Baby Apples and baby Valves. That environment is, by definition(?), a *rich* environment - that is to say free of the distraction of the bottom line. On the one hand they're killing the golden goose they just stumbled across. On the other they run a farm to raise geese and hope one of them starts laying golden eggs, too.
I imagine TPB got a think tank together, figured out this was coming, and started planning what to do about it. Stitching up the rights now ensures no debate in the future because it will be "just the way things are".
Honest truth: the Medical Industry wants to make a society of dependant sheep. Sheep that go for their regular checkups (ca-ching) and get treatments (ca-ching)
Eat well, exercise and get regular soul cleansings and shamanic treatments to keep your chakras open. You'll never get heart disease or cancer.
What we need to keep doing isn't reject an overly complicated electrical solution that's proven to be a technological dead-end. Instead we need to throw good money after bad and complicate the system even more.
More paperwork will solve the problem!
You snuck restrictive licenses, closed markets, and numerous other evils past the open eyes of consumers...and then you fail to get your own shuriken onto your own airplane? White Ninja, you have greatly displeased your sensei! Seppuku is now your only option.
Javascript engine speeds have nothing to do with quality of code. It's all about how cool a name you come up with for your engine. IE9 is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with their "Chakra" engine, sure to appeal to a wide market of yuppie-wanna-be-hippie 30 somethings. Following this news, Mozilla has announced their next javascript engine will be called "unicorn bacon", and apple have bought the rights to use the name "iMegatron". The future is now!
Why is it that every upvoted post is "technology 1, humans 0!"
If these people don't want wifi, that's none of our business. As long as a democratic majority vote for it, let them turn it off. Crazy or not it's still their choice.
If we are to be true to the scientific method and rise above dogmatic beliefs then we have to give them the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slim the odds. If it's all in their heads then that's all the more reason to give them what they want.
If we apply the same work ethic to pot growing that we did to chip manufacturing, does that mean customers will be able to get two times higher every 18 months?;)
http://www.marginallyclever.com/samples/
I would gladly write more if I had the freedom to do so.
I'm trying to figure out this websockets thing so I can start making turn-based games.
What have we gained as a direct result of these technologies? What have we lost?
Is it worth it?
I remember being told to play outside all day - back when we could do that without sunscreen and without getting burned. It used to be that I had to make a plan and stick with it if I was going to meet a friend - I couldn't call them when I got to the place and THEN figure out where they were waiting. I didn't used to be a slave to the byzantine contract or incessant needs of my portable phone (that probably isn't giving me cancer). I imagine libraries were a lot more popular, living rooms were centered around conversations or musical instruments, and if you couldn't sleep you could listen to live performances on the radio. To name just a few examples.
What have we gained? Well, the space on my desk that used to be for a rolodex/business cards is now taken up with Arduinos & servos. My girlfriend sits up in bed and watches Glee on her iPad instead of finishing her cross stitch. Pinging the hivemind to solve a technical query is pretty damn awesome. uh... everything else I can think of is probably a negative.
So while I haven't definitively made up my mind, I feel like the evidence I am aware of leans towards "worse off".
I find the field really exciting right now. I've built a hexapod driven by open source code and I hope to develop it into either a rapid prototyper or a 6-axis CNC (depending on how stable I can get it)
I'd love some help improving the design & firmware. With the low entry cost for arduino and sensors, the biggest expense is servos. There's no reason you can't build your own 3-axis miller for
Sell an OS with a webserver already setup + a blog for every user.
Set the browser homepage to an aggregator of their favorite blogs.
Update the software for them through OS patches.
DON'T give them any options to customize the hell out of it.
I am aware of the many security reasons this is a bad idea. My point is that hardware is not needed.
Look, if you take a number of camera photos you can merge them together to form a 3d image, right? So why not do it with video, in real time? Then you'd be able to watch an event from any perspective you want.
You don't get what I'm describing so let me use your analogy: Imagine watching Terminator, except that you can move around to see each scene from whatever angle you prefer, at any point in the film - you aren't forced to follow the director's POV every time through.
You know the relative position of every camera. Why can't you build a real time 3D model of the launch, vehicle, pad, their positions relative to each other, and then broadcast the whole show in 3D in Google Earth - with simulated sound effects? I'd love to, say, tether my viewpoint to the outside of the ship, watch the launch, then get "pulled along" up to space. Even show the cockpit so we can sit with the astronauts during the trip. It could be a great way to visualize launch data, and generate more interest in launches.
If the social component exists (and in equal measure) in many games, what is the next most important feature?
If the social component does not exist in many games, what is the most important feature?
Can you still call it a game if you remove all the of the graphics and/or plot?
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I call bullshit on the greatness of hitchcock with modern tech. He did what he had to do because he had a vision. Given today's technology he'd say "can we do this?" and the crew would say "sure, we can do it in post."
The Old Ones weren't great because they were especially gifted. They were great because they were first. Several people invented lightbulbs at the same time but only one got credit. The environment was right for someone to grab the brass ring and he did.
What the industry has done for many years is buy a promising young studio and grind it into a fine paste. OP is proposing they create an environment in which innovation can flourish and design is paramount. Baby Apples and baby Valves. That environment is, by definition(?), a *rich* environment - that is to say free of the distraction of the bottom line. On the one hand they're killing the golden goose they just stumbled across. On the other they run a farm to raise geese and hope one of them starts laying golden eggs, too.
And you thought it was about the music.
I imagine TPB got a think tank together, figured out this was coming, and started planning what to do about it. Stitching up the rights now ensures no debate in the future because it will be "just the way things are".
This sounds like a great plan. Everybody knows how successful HAM radio and public television have been.
hack the systems on election day.
Get scoobey doo elected.
go to jail.
Improve the state of affairs?
Dude, it's a joke. You need to relax. Maybe try some yoga?
I'm a witch doctor. (Doctor of witching)
Honest truth: the Medical Industry wants to make a society of dependant sheep. Sheep that go for their regular checkups (ca-ching) and get treatments (ca-ching)
Eat well, exercise and get regular soul cleansings and shamanic treatments to keep your chakras open. You'll never get heart disease or cancer.
"It has been said that fusion is 50 years away for quite decades"
No further away than good sentence structure will ever been.
What we need to keep doing isn't reject an overly complicated electrical solution that's proven to be a technological dead-end. Instead we need to throw good money after bad and complicate the system even more. More paperwork will solve the problem!
You snuck restrictive licenses, closed markets, and numerous other evils past the open eyes of consumers...and then you fail to get your own shuriken onto your own airplane? White Ninja, you have greatly displeased your sensei! Seppuku is now your only option.
Javascript engine speeds have nothing to do with quality of code. It's all about how cool a name you come up with for your engine. IE9 is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with their "Chakra" engine, sure to appeal to a wide market of yuppie-wanna-be-hippie 30 somethings. Following this news, Mozilla has announced their next javascript engine will be called "unicorn bacon", and apple have bought the rights to use the name "iMegatron". The future is now!
Why is it that every upvoted post is "technology 1, humans 0!"
If these people don't want wifi, that's none of our business. As long as a democratic majority vote for it, let them turn it off. Crazy or not it's still their choice.
If we are to be true to the scientific method and rise above dogmatic beliefs then we have to give them the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slim the odds. If it's all in their heads then that's all the more reason to give them what they want.
If we apply the same work ethic to pot growing that we did to chip manufacturing, does that mean customers will be able to get two times higher every 18 months? ;)
I wrote these several months ago. http://www.marginallyclever.com/samples/
http://www.marginallyclever.com/samples/
I would gladly write more if I had the freedom to do so.
I'm trying to figure out this websockets thing so I can start making turn-based games.
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#expert
Just because someone has a lot of experience does not necessarily make them more right than someone else with an equally valid, logical argument.
Not that you'll believe me - I don't have a university degree.
Let us consider two cases:
What have we gained as a direct result of these technologies? What have we lost?
Is it worth it?
I remember being told to play outside all day - back when we could do that without sunscreen and without getting burned. It used to be that I had to make a plan and stick with it if I was going to meet a friend - I couldn't call them when I got to the place and THEN figure out where they were waiting. I didn't used to be a slave to the byzantine contract or incessant needs of my portable phone (that probably isn't giving me cancer). I imagine libraries were a lot more popular, living rooms were centered around conversations or musical instruments, and if you couldn't sleep you could listen to live performances on the radio. To name just a few examples.
What have we gained? Well, the space on my desk that used to be for a rolodex/business cards is now taken up with Arduinos & servos. My girlfriend sits up in bed and watches Glee on her iPad instead of finishing her cross stitch. Pinging the hivemind to solve a technical query is pretty damn awesome. uh... everything else I can think of is probably a negative.
So while I haven't definitively made up my mind, I feel like the evidence I am aware of leans towards "worse off".
... less than $800 (probably much less if you're clever) and then you'd be off to making some really awesome robots.
split into two messages because I accidentally used a less than. Oh, Slashdot. Why do you make me write HTML?
I find the field really exciting right now. I've built a hexapod driven by open source code and I hope to develop it into either a rapid prototyper or a 6-axis CNC (depending on how stable I can get it)
More info here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpIoI0G7CE , here: http://visual-hexapod.sourceforge.net/ , and here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SPIDEE-1/113425788691280?v=wall
I'd love some help improving the design & firmware. With the low entry cost for arduino and sensors, the biggest expense is servos. There's no reason you can't build your own 3-axis miller for
Sell an OS with a webserver already setup + a blog for every user.
Set the browser homepage to an aggregator of their favorite blogs.
Update the software for them through OS patches.
DON'T give them any options to customize the hell out of it.
I am aware of the many security reasons this is a bad idea. My point is that hardware is not needed.
"or we'll descend into social barbarism."
When did we ascend out of barbarism?
Look, if you take a number of camera photos you can merge them together to form a 3d image, right? So why not do it with video, in real time? Then you'd be able to watch an event from any perspective you want. You don't get what I'm describing so let me use your analogy: Imagine watching Terminator, except that you can move around to see each scene from whatever angle you prefer, at any point in the film - you aren't forced to follow the director's POV every time through.
There's a lot of people who aren't near an IMAX theater. Virtually anyone with a computer could watch this online.
You know the relative position of every camera. Why can't you build a real time 3D model of the launch, vehicle, pad, their positions relative to each other, and then broadcast the whole show in 3D in Google Earth - with simulated sound effects? I'd love to, say, tether my viewpoint to the outside of the ship, watch the launch, then get "pulled along" up to space. Even show the cockpit so we can sit with the astronauts during the trip. It could be a great way to visualize launch data, and generate more interest in launches.
If the social component exists (and in equal measure) in many games, what is the next most important feature?
If the social component does not exist in many games, what is the most important feature?
Can you still call it a game if you remove all the of the graphics and/or plot?