I observed some of this in Colonization a little bit -- configuration files sprinkled everywhere with helpful comments, Do Not Touch flags and variables never used in the game itself. Editing various files sometimes made your game crash, and other times enabled the debug menu.
Compare this with Chris Sawyer's almost obsessive hiding of internal game engine mechanics, compression and run-time zero-length algorithms, and other game-ceasing traps.
The games themselves couldn't be more than 4 years apart. But the approaches to how people can tinker with each game couldn't be further apart, short of building in a plugin engine.
Well... you wouldn't necessarily have to have action going in every angle at once. That would be a little bit ADD. More likely, you'd have more first person experiences. What we have now is the camera depicting what the main character sees; what we'll have later is the camera dpicting where the main character is, and you can see all around. It's still up to the director to focus the audience's attention on where the action is, taking into account that wildly changing focus like handheld cameras do now would be thoroughly irritating.
That said, about the only good use I can think of for something like this would be scary movies where the tendency of a Really Scary Character to jump into a scene from nowhere, punctuated by the inevitable scream and/or musical blast, is everywhere. Something like that would be much more effective in a 360 degree room.
Heck, ride the Haunted Mansion ride in Disneyworld / Disneyland sometime for the same effect.
First, they went on camping gear. Then they went on radios. Now they're in purses.
This isn't so valuable so much for the money some people will save, or even the added convenience women will have. It's just that the more solar power and solar energy is in the mainstream, the better off more widespread adoption will be.
AdBlock operates in the status bar and on images and Iframes
Gmail notifier is a status bar thing
Linkification is a R-click menu thing
Firesomething only affects the title bar
Colorzilla is a stauts bar and menu bar thing, but useful.
Sage is a Favorites bar thing, and can be closed.
Slashfix operates invisibly.
Greasemonkey is a status bar thing.
Infolister is how I was able to compile my list of extensions so quick, and operates invisibly except for a HTML file that is automagically generated and FTP'd at the end of every session.
Minimize to Tray operates invisibly
Tab Mix operates invisibly
I no longer use the Netcraft Toolbar, but it will be useful if I visit strange and wonderful foreign sites.
SessionSaver operates invisibly.
Bookmarks Synchronizer operates invisibly, and FTPs at the end of every session.
Flashblock operates on Flash files
Main concern is how much memory this stuff uses, but it only gets bad so long as I have Gmail open, and SessionSaver reduces the costs of restarts to about 10 seconds. It's a cost-benefit thing.
Consider that it's been widely reported that New Orleans is under 20 feet of water. Of course that's not an average depth -- the French Quarter is above ground, and therefore not underwater.
I have yet to hear anything regarding the not-flooded southern suburbs of New Orleans, and I suspect that not much is happening over there... just a lot of wind damage.
It is very disturbing that the federal government doesn't know about the New Orleans Convention Center situation, which leads me to believe that initially, they thought the state of Louisiana could handle things. This is a rational initial assumption to take, even with a Category 4 hurricane. This has been proven to be incorrect.
From reading other sources out there, I know this subject will come up, so I'm going to go at it first.
The federal/state/local government wasn't prepared for Katrina (yes, even in spite of the drills) because the last Category 4 storm, Hurricane Charley, wasn't all that bad. I get the feeling that every single government agency in the country was gearing up to respond to that type of event.
Katrina has ended up like Charley^2, mostly due ot her size. And there's not nearly enough workers, rescuers, or responders to be able to deal with the situation.
In addition, Charley did not hit Tampa, Florida directly.
It seemed that all the meteorologists knew the impact of Katrina, even in the 18 hours before when we knew she would hit New Orleans, but that this didn't get through to the government that everyone is now blaming for failing to respond.
This compares directly with the Konfabulator versus Apple debate. The government is Apple, and companies like Accuweather are Konfabulator.
If Accuweather and The Weather Channel is going to develop 'products' much like Konfabulator did, and the National Weather Service is going to copy them without recompense, tell me, what's the point of competing? Surely Apple must have noticed some neat things about Konfabulator to the point of (re)developing their own.
I understand that in both cases, the larger entity owned the information, and therefore there always was a risk that the larger would begin trampling the smaller. And I will not say the NWS doesn't know what they're doing, because they very clearing do. But without Konfabulator, would there be Dashboard?
Without Accuweather or the Weather Channel, would the NWS be as good as it is now?
Nice to see the anti-corporate trolls come out and be modded up as per usual.
Corporate competition is a good thing. Restricting data to just corporations is what is not a good thing. Accuweather usually nails forecasts pretty well, and presents it better than the National Weather Service does. The Weather Channel happens to have talking heads on TV, even though their forecasts aren't always right. It's the site to go to for mom and dad. It took me a few months to get around the NWS site, as good as it is.
I'm getting the impression that the higher-modded posts want companies like Accuweather to just "go away". That would be a bad thing. I can't help but think the competition has helped our forecasts to this very day.
Conversely, would you think it was a scary world when a teacher feels too threatened to teach arguments and counterarguments for intelligent design because of anti-creationist nuts?
But I agree with the rest of your post wholeheartedly.:-)
...but is this really only useful for cameras in camera-phones?
Since it seems the lens size is necessarily very small, will the maximum resolutions of the resulting picture be limited in any way? Or is lens size correlated with the maximum resolution of a camera?
It'll take forever for this to become practical on a mass scale, but...
1.) Ability to control nutrients that go into meat -- Good thing.
2.) Ability to prevent salmonella poisoning from ever occurring in the general population in the far-off future -- Better.
I agree that it's hard to determine how many items that exist for a subject XYZ, but I'm not sure this is the way to go about it.
They presumed that for random phrases that return less than 1,000 matches, one can determine between the ratio of matches that Google returns and matches that Yahoo returns, which engine has indexed more documents. This also presumes that the Internet is an infinite source of information about XYZ, and that there is always an indeterminate number of sources that remain unindexed on both engines. I don't think this is the case at all.
Say I write a page about Jabberwocky. I get together with people that write more pages about Jabberwocky, and all of us have on three domains information about Jabberwocky that exists nowhere else, except maybe Wikipedia under the Jabberwocky entry. If both sites index Wikipedia and those three domains (that link to each other), that's 100% coverage... barring horrible algorithms, you can't get less than this, or you get nothing at all.
Also, when you're looking around for such unique information, I have to imagine that it's not representative of other sources in more general searches.
I seem to have it stuck in my mind that the only game that has ever required speedrunning to beat was Battletoads for the original NES.
I had only borrowed the game... and I never, ever got past the part where you're going around a road course AND beat the annoying ball thing to death. Well, okay, maybe once.
Those were some adrenaline-packed hours, trying to not DIE.:-)
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Compare this with Chris Sawyer's almost obsessive hiding of internal game engine mechanics, compression and run-time zero-length algorithms, and other game-ceasing traps.
The games themselves couldn't be more than 4 years apart. But the approaches to how people can tinker with each game couldn't be further apart, short of building in a plugin engine.
That said, about the only good use I can think of for something like this would be scary movies where the tendency of a Really Scary Character to jump into a scene from nowhere, punctuated by the inevitable scream and/or musical blast, is everywhere. Something like that would be much more effective in a 360 degree room.
Heck, ride the Haunted Mansion ride in Disneyworld / Disneyland sometime for the same effect.
First, they went on camping gear. Then they went on radios. Now they're in purses.
This isn't so valuable so much for the money some people will save, or even the added convenience women will have. It's just that the more solar power and solar energy is in the mainstream, the better off more widespread adoption will be.
Someone with mod points that wants to commit Slashdot suicide, mod parent down!
(Someone else desiring negative karma, comment on his ridiculously high UID! This may be your only chance!)
When building your robot, just remember to use more of these and less of these. Your body will thank you.
ant clean, repair
to fix their spacecraft. Ah well. This is cooler.
I present Exhibit A and Exhibit B.
- I occasionally am a Web Developer.
- TargetAlert operates on the screen, not menus
- AdBlock operates in the status bar and on images and Iframes
- Gmail notifier is a status bar thing
- Linkification is a R-click menu thing
- Firesomething only affects the title bar
- Colorzilla is a stauts bar and menu bar thing, but useful.
- Sage is a Favorites bar thing, and can be closed.
- Slashfix operates invisibly.
- Greasemonkey is a status bar thing.
- Infolister is how I was able to compile my list of extensions so quick, and operates invisibly except for a HTML file that is automagically generated and FTP'd at the end of every session.
- Minimize to Tray operates invisibly
- Tab Mix operates invisibly
- I no longer use the Netcraft Toolbar, but it will be useful if I visit strange and wonderful foreign sites.
- SessionSaver operates invisibly.
- Bookmarks Synchronizer operates invisibly, and FTPs at the end of every session.
- Flashblock operates on Flash files
Main concern is how much memory this stuff uses, but it only gets bad so long as I have Gmail open, and SessionSaver reduces the costs of restarts to about 10 seconds. It's a cost-benefit thing.I am on a Win2kPro box. Hasn't crashed the browser session, though.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
I suspect I may have an extension that is preventing the hang, but I have 17 extensions and no time to isolate. :-)
Security-protocols.com issued an advisory for a Critical buffer-overflow problem. I was unable to reproduce it with the links they provided, however.
Assuming this is confirmed as problem, wait 'til they fix it, then download the secured version. All versions of Firefox are affected.
For the less informed, why is this a big deal, and when I download the new iTunes, should I enable it?
Consider that it's been widely reported that New Orleans is under 20 feet of water. Of course that's not an average depth -- the French Quarter is above ground, and therefore not underwater.
I have yet to hear anything regarding the not-flooded southern suburbs of New Orleans, and I suspect that not much is happening over there... just a lot of wind damage.
It is very disturbing that the federal government doesn't know about the New Orleans Convention Center situation, which leads me to believe that initially, they thought the state of Louisiana could handle things. This is a rational initial assumption to take, even with a Category 4 hurricane. This has been proven to be incorrect.
The federal/state/local government wasn't prepared for Katrina (yes, even in spite of the drills) because the last Category 4 storm, Hurricane Charley, wasn't all that bad. I get the feeling that every single government agency in the country was gearing up to respond to that type of event.
Katrina has ended up like Charley^2, mostly due ot her size. And there's not nearly enough workers, rescuers, or responders to be able to deal with the situation.
In addition, Charley did not hit Tampa, Florida directly.
It seemed that all the meteorologists knew the impact of Katrina, even in the 18 hours before when we knew she would hit New Orleans, but that this didn't get through to the government that everyone is now blaming for failing to respond.
This compares directly with the Konfabulator versus Apple debate. The government is Apple, and companies like Accuweather are Konfabulator.
If Accuweather and The Weather Channel is going to develop 'products' much like Konfabulator did, and the National Weather Service is going to copy them without recompense, tell me, what's the point of competing? Surely Apple must have noticed some neat things about Konfabulator to the point of (re)developing their own.
I understand that in both cases, the larger entity owned the information, and therefore there always was a risk that the larger would begin trampling the smaller. And I will not say the NWS doesn't know what they're doing, because they very clearing do. But without Konfabulator, would there be Dashboard?
Without Accuweather or the Weather Channel, would the NWS be as good as it is now?
Corporate competition is a good thing. Restricting data to just corporations is what is not a good thing. Accuweather usually nails forecasts pretty well, and presents it better than the National Weather Service does. The Weather Channel happens to have talking heads on TV, even though their forecasts aren't always right. It's the site to go to for mom and dad. It took me a few months to get around the NWS site, as good as it is.
I'm getting the impression that the higher-modded posts want companies like Accuweather to just "go away". That would be a bad thing. I can't help but think the competition has helped our forecasts to this very day.
But I agree with the rest of your post wholeheartedly. :-)
Is that you, or are you just projecting yourself to be happy to see me?
Since it seems the lens size is necessarily very small, will the maximum resolutions of the resulting picture be limited in any way? Or is lens size correlated with the maximum resolution of a camera?
1.) Ability to control nutrients that go into meat -- Good thing.
2.) Ability to prevent salmonella poisoning from ever occurring in the general population in the far-off future -- Better.
You know, code that will help make Flash and its lookalikes accessible to people who maybe can't see or hear?
That's most likely what the poster of the story intended when he/she speaked of being able to "replace IE in many Windows environments."
They presumed that for random phrases that return less than 1,000 matches, one can determine between the ratio of matches that Google returns and matches that Yahoo returns, which engine has indexed more documents. This also presumes that the Internet is an infinite source of information about XYZ, and that there is always an indeterminate number of sources that remain unindexed on both engines. I don't think this is the case at all.
Say I write a page about Jabberwocky. I get together with people that write more pages about Jabberwocky, and all of us have on three domains information about Jabberwocky that exists nowhere else, except maybe Wikipedia under the Jabberwocky entry. If both sites index Wikipedia and those three domains (that link to each other), that's 100% coverage... barring horrible algorithms, you can't get less than this, or you get nothing at all.
Also, when you're looking around for such unique information, I have to imagine that it's not representative of other sources in more general searches.
The indirect effect is that it would cut down the amount of "Look, artificial benchmark reached!" stories.
Maybe when you find out what the disc goes on, it shoots out a low-quality hologram and goes "Obi-Wan, you are our only hope"...
So 20q may be more correct than it seems!
I had only borrowed the game... and I never, ever got past the part where you're going around a road course AND beat the annoying ball thing to death. Well, okay, maybe once.
Those were some adrenaline-packed hours, trying to not DIE. :-)