Hey, here's an idea: why don't we all just stop caring? You want tech content? Go online! There's a ton of stuff out there already between podcasts and videocasts. Hell, between Revision3 and the Leo Laporte Multimedia Empire, I probably get a good 3 to 4 hours of entertainment a week. Add into that your Command N's, your Digital Life, your RocketBoom. And that's just scratching the surface.
Its funny to me to hear everyone bitch and moan about how G4 and Comcast screwed up TechTV. Who cares?! Stop complaining and just watch the NEW TechTV, all online, with the same people and personalities that you are used to. Besides, the stuff that Kevin and Alex do on DiggNation is far funnier and interesting than TSS ever was, since it had to be dumbed down and sanitized for television.
On top of all that, the content on these 'casts is fresher and more up to date than the TV show's were, just thanks to the production time. TSS and the nightly tech news show were pretty good at keeping up to date, but some of the other content was atrociously out of date.
And in a matter of a year or two, maybe we'll even be able to get it to our big screen's without going through hoops. (Or I should say, the AVERAGE person will be able to watch it on their TV without having to muck around much.) Then speciality channels like G4 will die horrible, unprofitable deaths in obscurity.
I cut-n-paste for my site DailyGamingNews.net, and send out a daily email to subscribers. Basically, I find stories, previews, reviews that I think folks will find interesting and send them out in a daily newsletter.
I cannot even begin to tell you how many game titles have a colon (:) in them. For example: "Hit Title : Yet Another Version". It makes me sick... I never noticed how bad and rampant it was until I started doing this daily site.
Easy. Build a game engine that lets the players or amateur developers provide the content and / or build a game system that builds itself. (i.e. a game system that just knows the rules behind how it should build itself: physics, evolution, behaviour - ala Spore)
I think in 10 years MMOGs are going to look a lot more like the Matrix (the world exists based on a set of rules and pretty much runs itself) vs. Dungeons and Dragons (all of the rules for everything are spelled out in detail and every construct is lovingly crafted).
They did it in 2000, with convention means of just not letting folks who disagreed with them vote. This year, they'll be able to do it by simply changing the numbers. Does this article not strike fear into any patriotic heart?
Well, the Windows XP boxes might stay up forever if
1. They didn't require to be rebooted with every "critical update." 2. They didn't require so many "critical updates". 3. They didn't have security holes that let worms in to reboot them.
One of the famed Infocom text adventures. You took the role of an A.I. that "wakes up" to learn that it wasn't a normal person, but a computer program. You then go into the future at your creator's behest to understand "The Plan", a new social experiment by a leading member of politics.
It had everything, suspense, story, futuristic predictions of doom. Was the only Infocom I ever finished completely, and played through twice. The theories and thoughts in it still stick with me today...
I completely agree. But to make this worthwhile - we really need to work on the install process. Maybe I'm a newB, or dont RTFM but I just found erpmi the other day, and thought it was a godsend. But where the heck is a UI for this? I haven't found one.
Now while I am thoroughly enjoying going back to the CL, Windows has trained me to always look to the GUI first, and I would think something as important as a "go find the software, its dependancies" and install it would be pretty damn useful to other newbies...
I am writing today with further concern of regarding the U.S. Patent Office. The U.S. Patent Office and its antiquated practices are working against the very purpose it was created for, furthering American innovation and invention. Instead, in recent years, it has shown that it cannot keep up with the rapidly growing pace of technology and has not been applying proper standards to evaluating prior art. There have been several cases over the past five years where patents that are harmful to my industry, the Internet, and the technology industry have been granted. These patents, which have ample prior art, only induce frivolous lawsuits and draw my industry into the quagmire of costly legal debate, not to protect the rights of inventors, but to further corporate coffers.
The reason that I write today is because a frivolous, non-technology patent was granted on April 9th. Patent 6,368,227 was granted for "Method of swinging on a swing", and describes a method in which a person swinging on a playground swing could swing sideways. This patent is the best indicator that the U.S. Patent Office needs serious review.
I call upon you to investigate this matter further, and if the investigation warrants, bring this topic up for debate within the House of Representatives. It is time that we begin to fix those areas of Government that are not performing their prescribed duty and return them to working for the people again.
I agree completely. Unless you have a child and have gone through the terror of not being able to find them, you don't understand this.
And if you are one of those that posted that parents need to pay better attention, then you also have never had kids. Kids are sometimes slippier than a M$ lawyer. The problem is that many non-parents think that kids can be controlled like a cat or a dog, or other pet. But if it has thumbs and higher brain functions, expect it to slip away from you every so often...
The game console industry still attempts to do this, and yet, pretty much every console was hacked to allow copying of the games...
What makes them think that a non-proprietary system, with components from thousands upon thousands of vendors, let alone millions of software developers familiar with the system, can be stopped by this method? How about they save their money and lower the prices, or raise the artist's cut instead?
Is it just me, or did the media industry suddenly find itself with a lot of time on its hands? Is this a reprecussion of the great dot com burst? Too many executives running around justifying their existence, maybe?
Ok, so you can transmit over AM. Now you just need to have a AM receiver built into your PC, add in some software to decode the signal, build a protocol and you have a Monitor based network.
Wonder what the baud would be...:)
VtM
Sigs are for wussies
Cell phones are annoying enough
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If I had ICQ on my cell phone, I'd just have to smash it. They are annoying and intrusive enough as it is. Might as well just chain me to my desk at work.
DEAD on. This is exactly where I'm at as well. One thing I could add to point 1: Unless you have a lot of spare time, or very small teams, be prepared to lose your technical skills. The more management I do, the less and less I can keep up with the new tech, and the less I know how to do without going to another programmer. I'm trying to turn this around, but its definitely tough.
You're forgetting one thing though... The plane outside of Pittsburg did NOT go down inside a building. They can pull the recorders from that plane and gather some evidence from it immediately.
I want phone based WAP access to my appointment schedule, my dosage of my medications, and other "trivial" information. I also want this for my two kids, who see the doctor and get medicine far more often than I do.
AND I want my phone to tell me when my doctor will REALLY see me, based on his case load for the day. Not the appointment time an hour before hand that I have to show up and check in, or risk having to pay anyway.
Well, if you've seen any sci-fi movies in the 50s or 60s, you'll realize that its better for US to find them, rather than for US to just broadcast out and leave it to chance. If we find them before they find us, we have the chance to prepare the planet.
Otherwise we find out that our message really said: "Eat at Joe's. Humans are tasty." as thousands of alien's drop ship to the surface...
Cost of living is cheaper? I checked out the flat prices when I was in London on vacation... then I checked out the average salaries for the tech jobs... not a chance.
Of course, a lot of companies seemed to like giving away automobiles as a bonus. But who the hell would want a car in london? It cost my 60 pounds just to park our rental for 3 days while we were there....
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Hey, here's an idea: why don't we all just stop caring? You want tech content? Go online! There's a ton of stuff out there already between podcasts and videocasts. Hell, between Revision3 and the Leo Laporte Multimedia Empire, I probably get a good 3 to 4 hours of entertainment a week. Add into that your Command N's, your Digital Life, your RocketBoom. And that's just scratching the surface.
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Its funny to me to hear everyone bitch and moan about how G4 and Comcast screwed up TechTV. Who cares?! Stop complaining and just watch the NEW TechTV, all online, with the same people and personalities that you are used to. Besides, the stuff that Kevin and Alex do on DiggNation is far funnier and interesting than TSS ever was, since it had to be dumbed down and sanitized for television.
On top of all that, the content on these 'casts is fresher and more up to date than the TV show's were, just thanks to the production time. TSS and the nightly tech news show were pretty good at keeping up to date, but some of the other content was atrociously out of date.
And in a matter of a year or two, maybe we'll even be able to get it to our big screen's without going through hoops. (Or I should say, the AVERAGE person will be able to watch it on their TV without having to muck around much.) Then speciality channels like G4 will die horrible, unprofitable deaths in obscurity.
And then we can dance on their graves.
I cut-n-paste for my site DailyGamingNews.net, and send out a daily email to subscribers. Basically, I find stories, previews, reviews that I think folks will find interesting and send them out in a daily newsletter.
I cannot even begin to tell you how many game titles have a colon (:) in them. For example: "Hit Title : Yet Another Version". It makes me sick... I never noticed how bad and rampant it was until I started doing this daily site.
The game industry needs to clone Wil Wright.
Easy. Build a game engine that lets the players or amateur developers provide the content and / or build a game system that builds itself. (i.e. a game system that just knows the rules behind how it should build itself: physics, evolution, behaviour - ala Spore)
I think in 10 years MMOGs are going to look a lot more like the Matrix (the world exists based on a set of rules and pretty much runs itself) vs. Dungeons and Dragons (all of the rules for everything are spelled out in detail and every construct is lovingly crafted).
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They did it in 2000, with convention means of just not letting folks who disagreed with them vote. This year, they'll be able to do it by simply changing the numbers. Does this article not strike fear into any patriotic heart?
Well, the Windows XP boxes might stay up forever if
1. They didn't require to be rebooted with every "critical update."
2. They didn't require so many "critical updates".
3. They didn't have security holes that let worms in to reboot them.
One of the famed Infocom text adventures. You took the role of an A.I. that "wakes up" to learn that it wasn't a normal person, but a computer program. You then go into the future at your creator's behest to understand "The Plan", a new social experiment by a leading member of politics.
It had everything, suspense, story, futuristic predictions of doom. Was the only Infocom I ever finished completely, and played through twice. The theories and thoughts in it still stick with me today...
I completely agree. But to make this worthwhile - we really need to work on the install process. Maybe I'm a newB, or dont RTFM but I just found erpmi the other day, and thought it was a godsend. But where the heck is a UI for this? I haven't found one.
Now while I am thoroughly enjoying going back to the CL, Windows has trained me to always look to the GUI first, and I would think something as important as a "go find the software, its dependancies" and install it would be pretty damn useful to other newbies...
Lets see how far we can take this:
How about an Ultima On-line VISA card - where every purchase you make gets you valuable experience points in the game?
Double points if you buy Electronic Arts merchandise - and every $10,000 will get you a free magic item of your choice!
Here is my letter which I sent this morning:
Rep. Morella:
I am writing today with further concern of regarding the U.S. Patent Office. The U.S. Patent Office and its antiquated practices are working against the very purpose it was created for, furthering American innovation and invention. Instead, in recent years, it has shown that it cannot keep up with the rapidly growing pace of technology and has not been applying proper standards to evaluating prior art. There have been several cases over the past five years where patents that are harmful to my industry, the Internet, and the technology industry have been granted. These patents, which have ample prior art, only induce frivolous lawsuits and draw my industry into the quagmire of costly legal debate, not to protect the rights of inventors, but to further corporate coffers.
The reason that I write today is because a frivolous, non-technology patent was granted on April 9th. Patent 6,368,227 was granted for "Method of swinging on a swing", and describes a method in which a person swinging on a playground swing could swing sideways. This patent is the best indicator that the U.S. Patent Office needs serious review.
I call upon you to investigate this matter further, and if the investigation warrants, bring this topic up for debate within the House of Representatives. It is time that we begin to fix those areas of Government that are not performing their prescribed duty and return them to working for the people again.
I agree completely. Unless you have a child and have gone through the terror of not being able to find them, you don't understand this.
And if you are one of those that posted that parents need to pay better attention, then you also have never had kids. Kids are sometimes slippier than a M$ lawyer. The problem is that many non-parents think that kids can be controlled like a cat or a dog, or other pet. But if it has thumbs and higher brain functions, expect it to slip away from you every so often...
The game console industry still attempts to do this, and yet, pretty much every console was hacked to allow copying of the games...
What makes them think that a non-proprietary system, with components from thousands upon thousands of vendors, let alone millions of software developers familiar with the system, can be stopped by this method? How about they save their money and lower the prices, or raise the artist's cut instead?
Is it just me, or did the media industry suddenly find itself with a lot of time on its hands? Is this a reprecussion of the great dot com burst? Too many executives running around justifying their existence, maybe?
Ok, so you can transmit over AM. Now you just need to have a AM receiver built into your PC, add in some software to decode the signal, build a protocol and you have a Monitor based network.
:)
Wonder what the baud would be...
VtM
Sigs are for wussies
If I had ICQ on my cell phone, I'd just have to smash it. They are annoying and intrusive enough as it is. Might as well just chain me to my desk at work.
I just bought a new 2002 calendar and flipped open the first page. It says "January, 1984"
What gives?
Vulgrin the Sigless
I AM reading too much media.
[alt]-[f4]
click.
DEAD on. This is exactly where I'm at as well. One thing I could add to point 1: Unless you have a lot of spare time, or very small teams, be prepared to lose your technical skills. The more management I do, the less and less I can keep up with the new tech, and the less I know how to do without going to another programmer. I'm trying to turn this around, but its definitely tough.
You're forgetting one thing though... The plane outside of Pittsburg did NOT go down inside a building. They can pull the recorders from that plane and gather some evidence from it immediately.
Um, thats great and all, but .NET != SOAP. SOAP is just one teeny little piece of the whole picture.
I give it 2 weeks once this program is launched before you see the cds up on alt.binaries.cd.images.
Tag lines are for wienies.
I want phone based WAP access to my appointment schedule, my dosage of my medications, and other "trivial" information. I also want this for my two kids, who see the doctor and get medicine far more often than I do.
AND I want my phone to tell me when my doctor will REALLY see me, based on his case load for the day. Not the appointment time an hour before hand that I have to show up and check in, or risk having to pay anyway.
Vulgrin
Well, if you've seen any sci-fi movies in the 50s or 60s, you'll realize that its better for US to find them, rather than for US to just broadcast out and leave it to chance. If we find them before they find us, we have the chance to prepare the planet.
Otherwise we find out that our message really said: "Eat at Joe's. Humans are tasty." as thousands of alien's drop ship to the surface...
Vulgrin the MAD
I would never buy a B&N book again. I'd browse to find what I wanted, then go get a mocha and order everything on Fatbrain...
Question: If you order coffee from Starbucks.com while in a starbucks, do you get a terrible Net feedback loop?
Vulgrin the MAD
"Shyamalan did a great job, but the script was filled with holes"
:) Especially "Groo."
Uh huh, and all of the comic books I've read really concentrate on covering all of the plot holes.
Cost of living is cheaper? I checked out the flat prices when I was in London on vacation... then I checked out the average salaries for the tech jobs... not a chance.
Of course, a lot of companies seemed to like giving away automobiles as a bonus. But who the hell would want a car in london? It cost my 60 pounds just to park our rental for 3 days while we were there....