It seems the current game industry business model is starting to break down. All they talk about are how publishers are struggling. Why give publishers a tax break when you can get all the really artistic games a push directly by subsidizing studios themselves? Fuck the publishers altogether--the vast majority of people who have a computer have the internet. The internet is the new publisher.
Subsidizing publishers is encouraging their mindless hunt for mass appeal--which has nothing to do with creativity.
I don't think you can do VoIP because it doesn't have WiFi (you could use the USB to hook it up to your computer, but just use your computer at that point). And I wonder how you can get into service providers' systems without a SIM card?
"They" understand because many of them already ARE having problems getting one kind of thing to work on another. I made an analogy to ships and islands:
Today it's like we each buy the right to an island, but there's no ships going to any other island--you're stuck there, unable to interact with the rest of the world. How do we build the ships? Make every form of communication open. This includes all networking protocols (among them, instant messaging and VoIP) and file formats. These are the ships, and if we make them open and free everyone will be able to stay on their island of choice but never be cut off from the rest of the world.
The Capaitalist's greed is the Ruiner. If we ask (and we do), companies won't do anything about it. We need to get government legislation, and I think if we brought the/. effect to the poles, we could make it happen. I proposed this before in some other article, but all I got was "great idea!" and nothing happened. So start emailing the/. crew...
Instead, we could nuke the surface of every continent by noon tomorrow, but meanwhile millions of people on this planet are still dying of things like diarrhea.
Dying is a hellova lot easier than living. To kill is simple--hit rock on head. To live is complex--get around that buffalo's defenses in order to attain food, or just find editable plants, and of course we always have to figure out how to survive all the attacks from other hungry animals, diseases, and the elements (among other things).
Our environment demands constant change for it itself is constantly changing. As already mentioned, there is no "missing link" for we are always in a "transitional" phase. More accurately, we (organisms) are always adapting to the new environment. There isn't a final organism, just a species that fits extremely well with all the others. Which begs the question: we don't seem to be playing nice with our planet or anything else on it... does that mean we're inferior to other species?
Oh, so there's "Brazil of America", "Mexico of America", "Costa Rica of America", and "Chile of America"?
No. It's actually "Federative Republic of Brazil," the "United Mexican States," the "Republic of Costa Rica," and the "Republic of Chile." Do you see any "of America" in there? So when people say "America" they mean the "US" but if you want to talk about the continent they say "North America," etc.. We call ourselves America because it's actually in our name.
-1, Offtopic - Whatever, it was worth correcting a misconception.
Ignoring the improbability of Google actually doing this...
you'd think Google would be smart enough to deploy it's network with WiMax (which has a range of 30 miles). So, basically one node per average-sized city. Then if they could require mesh functionality on every client to keep the load light... this would keep costs way way down (make the nodes solar-powered for even less maintaince cost).
If anyone did this, it would be nothing short of revolutionary. Free wireless broadband everywhere? Kick ass.
It's called Archy, a humane computing environment. It's just in Alpha now, but eventually the Raskin Center will have the basics in, and if it gains momentum, it will become the next kind of OS. As it is, it's the best development platform to work on, ever, and it's being built from scratch. Thing is, it's small (can run on very old hardware) and infinitely expandable. It ditches the shitty mazes (menus) and the windows that love hiding information from you... Archy shows the user's content all at once on an infinite plane. The ZUI provides navigation. Check out their site for more info, and read this crash-course post I wrote to get a better idea of what it is and will be (answer FAQs as well).
Then check out the self-replicating rapid-prototyper. It's a 3D printer of sorts that can even solder basic circuit boards (mirco-controllers included).
The best part? The inventor is releasing it free, as in SPEECH. Open hardware, open software. That, my friend, is called a disruptive technology.
Why don't we form a Slashdot Organization, and bring the/. effect to the US government? We rank in the hundreds of thousands, so if we create a community that is unified by one simple concept, even a whisper from us would deafen the politicos.
Slashdot admins, please consider this request. Form a politically active branch of/. that acts in the best interest of all technology advocates.
Or will you sit back, content with being another Anonymous Coward...
The new network, planned for an Aug. 1 premiere, will enable Internet users to send video content through the online system "to help us make the viewer-created content that will be a large and growing part of what we put on the air," Gore said.
Having viewers make shows for you? I guess that's kind of like how/. works. I was hoping, however, that it would be like blogging meets TV--you know, bloggers at events and getting air time in front of a cable audience and not just the blogosphere.
Then again, it's already like that but with only text. And the blogging goes straight through to the viewer. So the more I think about this, the more it sounds like he's creating a middle-man company, which is to say, a completely useless and potentially brain-damaging company. Fuck that.
By the way, the first sentence of the article is "Al Gore never said he invented the Internet." So at least there's some good text in there.
If violent games cause violence, wouldn't violent movies also cause violence? The only difference is that gamers choose whether or not to be violent (eg you could beat Metal Gear Solid 2 without killing a single person, using the sleeper darts). In movies, you either watch it, or leave.
It's so widely accepted that movies are just a passive form of entertainment, like TV, so the rating system is good enough for both. But with games, no one has identified them as interactive movies/TV, so they don't think you can put a rating system on it and filter them that way. All those morons think video games are some crazy type of "new" entertainment, but it's just a new spin on what we're already familiar with. Add freedom of choice (ie, choose the course of the "movie") to the mix and all hell breaks loose.
His son, Aza Raskin, will take over I assume. If you look at raskincenter.org (after the memorium thing) you'll see he's been a very active member. I'm sure the rest of the Archy team will continue, despite this horrific loss.
I really admired this guy and his ideas. He might have been a little nuts sometimes, but most Renaissance men are (yes, he was a true Renaissance man).
If a companie catalogs websites on computer networks spread throughout the world, does that make it multinational? It'd be nice if it were Google, because they tend to make really good products, plus they have a significant amount of influence now. Searching is a huge part of the HI as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if they got together.
About his website... seriously kids, he's got bigger fish to fry. I'd rather he put all his time and effort into the HI, not a pithy website.
[sarcasm]If someone under the age of 18 buys a violent video game, send them to jail where they'll learn to behave like angels, because those inmates will be a great influence on them.[/sarcasm] Or $5000? Yeah, make them work instead of getting an education, or take their life savings away that would've helped pay for college.
yes. at berlin on my way back to london everyone was scanned with that handheld metal detector even if they got the green light when they went through the walk-through detector. during all my travels in europe this had never occured, so it might have been a special case (maybe a security warning was issued).
no matter. i dont want that "level" of security because it's redundant and doesn't provide any more security than what they already do.
what they did was completely unnecassary, and that's the problem with all the extra security measures nations are doing these days. the PIV is unnecassary and it'll do more harm than good because it gives everyone new hassels to deal with.
The second is that nuclear power == nuclear bombs;
nuclear bombs require pure Plutonium239, and the "waste" from nuclear plants generate this along with other isotopes that cannot be seperated. making enriched, weapons-grade plutonium is not possible to get from the waste.
I don't know what I was thinking... as if game concepts were objective and could be enjoyed by everyone who plays.
I've tried giving games based on Real Life(c) a fair chance, but what I found is that I can only enjoy games that are NOT based in reality. I play games to escape it, actually, not to be limited by it. Sure, things like court hearings can be fun on a screen, just not to me. I hate the police as much as the next guy, and oddly enough I hate Law and Order et al even more. That's just me though.
Besides, I couldn't try the game if I wanted to since I don't know a single word in Japanese. I had to base my conclusion on second hand accounts.
[sarcasm]I LOVE GOING TO COURT!! oh man i can't wait to listen to all those Super Exciting testimonies![/sarcasm]
give me a fucking break. this is one of the lamest game ideas i've ever heard. press the button at the right time?? there's no strategy or replay value in pressing a button at a predtermined time, it'd be like reading a newspaper then tapping it whenever you come across the letter T, only you might actually learn something when reading the paper. no skill involved. i wouldn't waste my time with this piece of shit even if it was the last thing on earth.
Saddam does not seem to have posed any serious threat to the United States, immediate or otherwise.
So you get the president's intelligence briefing every morning? How the fuck would you know what is going on behind the news broadcasts? Maybe France sold a fuckton of ICBMs to several 3rd world countries and then sold the information to the US. Then maybe the US decided it liked Iraq's oil fields. There's thousands of possible explanations, few of which are brought to the public's attention. The only people who really know what's going on are the ones who are actually making the decisions, obviously. I'm fed up with all this ignorant bickering about why "we" did this or that blahblah... put your voice to use and tell the government how you feel about its actions. That's all one can do in this backwards society.
Anyway. Back to the topic. If this guy has so much free time on his hands that he wants to play Commander in Chief in a full-on simulated war, he really ought to get a life/job/education/out of his parent's house. It's just downright disturbing that someone would want to throw away the fun wargames and virtually deal with the monstrosities of a real war.
In the header: "[...]left me woefully unprepared to fight an actual war"
Join the fucking military if you want to be prepared for an actual war, dumbass. And you've got some serious issues if you want to get an ulcers for fun (I twisted his words a little to get my point across, as people often do. Get over it).
After reading a bit of his plea I thought it was a joke. What else could it be? Slashdot seems to be taking it seriously though, which startles me. Whatever.
Duke Nukem Forever has reached such a mythical status that people are begining to think it's a new system to play games on?
Anyway, screw realistic skins, i want realistic cloth and water physics... THEN we can focus on the little details like skin (as if displacement mapping wasn't enough, honestly...)
try before you buy.
this will determine how many morons there are. those who buy without playing just waste money, since they obviously dont give a shit about what they spend it on.
i'm interested in the results. how many gamers are stupid? we shall see...
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It seems the current game industry business model is starting to break down. All they talk about are how publishers are struggling. Why give publishers a tax break when you can get all the really artistic games a push directly by subsidizing studios themselves? Fuck the publishers altogether--the vast majority of people who have a computer have the internet. The internet is the new publisher.
Subsidizing publishers is encouraging their mindless hunt for mass appeal--which has nothing to do with creativity.
I don't think you can do VoIP because it doesn't have WiFi (you could use the USB to hook it up to your computer, but just use your computer at that point). And I wonder how you can get into service providers' systems without a SIM card?
Wake me when it has WiMax.
The Capaitalist's greed is the Ruiner. If we ask (and we do), companies won't do anything about it. We need to get government legislation, and I think if we brought the
Our environment demands constant change for it itself is constantly changing. As already mentioned, there is no "missing link" for we are always in a "transitional" phase. More accurately, we (organisms) are always adapting to the new environment. There isn't a final organism, just a species that fits extremely well with all the others. Which begs the question: we don't seem to be playing nice with our planet or anything else on it... does that mean we're inferior to other species?
Oh, so there's "Brazil of America", "Mexico of America", "Costa Rica of America", and "Chile of America"?
No. It's actually "Federative Republic of Brazil," the "United Mexican States," the "Republic of Costa Rica," and the "Republic of Chile." Do you see any "of America" in there? So when people say "America" they mean the "US" but if you want to talk about the continent they say "North America," etc.. We call ourselves America because it's actually in our name.
-1, Offtopic - Whatever, it was worth correcting a misconception.
Ignoring the improbability of Google actually doing this...
you'd think Google would be smart enough to deploy it's network with WiMax (which has a range of 30 miles). So, basically one node per average-sized city. Then if they could require mesh functionality on every client to keep the load light... this would keep costs way way down (make the nodes solar-powered for even less maintaince cost).
If anyone did this, it would be nothing short of revolutionary. Free wireless broadband everywhere? Kick ass.
It's called Archy, a humane computing environment. It's just in Alpha now, but eventually the Raskin Center will have the basics in, and if it gains momentum, it will become the next kind of OS. As it is, it's the best development platform to work on, ever, and it's being built from scratch. Thing is, it's small (can run on very old hardware) and infinitely expandable. It ditches the shitty mazes (menus) and the windows that love hiding information from you... Archy shows the user's content all at once on an infinite plane. The ZUI provides navigation. Check out their site for more info, and read this crash-course post I wrote to get a better idea of what it is and will be (answer FAQs as well).
Then check out the self-replicating rapid-prototyper. It's a 3D printer of sorts that can even solder basic circuit boards (mirco-controllers included).
The best part? The inventor is releasing it free, as in SPEECH. Open hardware, open software. That, my friend, is called a disruptive technology.
Why don't we form a Slashdot Organization, and bring the /. effect to the US government? We rank in the hundreds of thousands, so if we create a community that is unified by one simple concept, even a whisper from us would deafen the politicos.
/. that acts in the best interest of all technology advocates.
Slashdot admins, please consider this request. Form a politically active branch of
Or will you sit back, content with being another Anonymous Coward...
Having viewers make shows for you? I guess that's kind of like how /. works. I was hoping, however, that it would be like blogging meets TV--you know, bloggers at events and getting air time in front of a cable audience and not just the blogosphere.
Then again, it's already like that but with only text. And the blogging goes straight through to the viewer. So the more I think about this, the more it sounds like he's creating a middle-man company, which is to say, a completely useless and potentially brain-damaging company. Fuck that.
By the way, the first sentence of the article is "Al Gore never said he invented the Internet." So at least there's some good text in there.
So if IE sucks because it doesn't support IDN, then Mozilla just started sucking since it dropped IDN.
I don't think I can take much more suckage. Hurry up, Archy...
If violent games cause violence, wouldn't violent movies also cause violence? The only difference is that gamers choose whether or not to be violent (eg you could beat Metal Gear Solid 2 without killing a single person, using the sleeper darts). In movies, you either watch it, or leave.
It's so widely accepted that movies are just a passive form of entertainment, like TV, so the rating system is good enough for both. But with games, no one has identified them as interactive movies/TV, so they don't think you can put a rating system on it and filter them that way. All those morons think video games are some crazy type of "new" entertainment, but it's just a new spin on what we're already familiar with. Add freedom of choice (ie, choose the course of the "movie") to the mix and all hell breaks loose.
His son, Aza Raskin, will take over I assume. If you look at raskincenter.org (after the memorium thing) you'll see he's been a very active member. I'm sure the rest of the Archy team will continue, despite this horrific loss. I really admired this guy and his ideas. He might have been a little nuts sometimes, but most Renaissance men are (yes, he was a true Renaissance man).
If a companie catalogs websites on computer networks spread throughout the world, does that make it multinational? It'd be nice if it were Google, because they tend to make really good products, plus they have a significant amount of influence now. Searching is a huge part of the HI as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if they got together. About his website... seriously kids, he's got bigger fish to fry. I'd rather he put all his time and effort into the HI, not a pithy website.
Yeah, that's a brilliant plan.
yes. at berlin on my way back to london everyone was scanned with that handheld metal detector even if they got the green light when they went through the walk-through detector. during all my travels in europe this had never occured, so it might have been a special case (maybe a security warning was issued).
no matter. i dont want that "level" of security because it's redundant and doesn't provide any more security than what they already do.
what they did was completely unnecassary, and that's the problem with all the extra security measures nations are doing these days. the PIV is unnecassary and it'll do more harm than good because it gives everyone new hassels to deal with.
that's what i've heard, anyway.
I've tried giving games based on Real Life(c) a fair chance, but what I found is that I can only enjoy games that are NOT based in reality. I play games to escape it, actually, not to be limited by it. Sure, things like court hearings can be fun on a screen, just not to me. I hate the police as much as the next guy, and oddly enough I hate Law and Order et al even more. That's just me though.
Besides, I couldn't try the game if I wanted to since I don't know a single word in Japanese. I had to base my conclusion on second hand accounts.
give me a fucking break. this is one of the lamest game ideas i've ever heard. press the button at the right time?? there's no strategy or replay value in pressing a button at a predtermined time, it'd be like reading a newspaper then tapping it whenever you come across the letter T, only you might actually learn something when reading the paper. no skill involved. i wouldn't waste my time with this piece of shit even if it was the last thing on earth.
Still, rockets are like UPS Same Day shipping, and just as reliable ;)
Duke Nukem Forever has reached such a mythical status that people are begining to think it's a new system to play games on? Anyway, screw realistic skins, i want realistic cloth and water physics... THEN we can focus on the little details like skin (as if displacement mapping wasn't enough, honestly...)
try before you buy. this will determine how many morons there are. those who buy without playing just waste money, since they obviously dont give a shit about what they spend it on. i'm interested in the results. how many gamers are stupid? we shall see...