What happened during the last year? I seem to be under the impression that it intensified to silly levels only during the last year...
Anyway, here's hoping that when anybody puts a lander on the moon, there will be a webcam with live view provided (hey, it won't change much, image once every few minutes will be more than enough). And when some rover - the video stream used for teleoperation will be likewise available on the web.
With perfecting automatic rendezvouz, one doesn't really need large/rarely used/exceedingly expensive (vs. almost assembly-line manufactured, efficient in "kg to LEO per cost", not launch) booster. Also, chief scientist of their lunar exploration program is an outspoken supporter of manned exploration.
But that wasn't the premise, it was about "we probably won't even be here anymore" - and while, sure, the progress is nice...some fundamental things stay strangely similar (which might not be the case anymore quite soon, sure; or we might be nearing some another long-lasting equlibrium state, similar to the one of our civilisation from 50k years ago; whatever). We should spread to few other areas, among them possibly Oort cloud - which should also present some people with opportunities of hitching a ride on a gravitionally disturbed comet captured by some passing star; we might even send directly some embryo colonisation ships to nearby systems (just the ways in which I imagine it). We might have few helluva big cataclysms here on Earth, too; almost ending the civilisation as we know it.
However...remember you are a member of a specie which survived population bottlenecks of mere thousands of individuals. And despite spreading to large part of the planet, our cradle is still heavily populated. However I sometimes like to laugh at the possibility of us destabilising the system which we are part of to the point of realising the Medea Hypothesis - it is quite exceedingly unlikely; we aren't dissapearing anywhere.
I'm dissapointed, the anology with 6k years looks not bad enough for a lot of people to agree (well, we all want to think that way...)
Though OTOH "since the daughter of my buddy has made tremendous progress in language during the first few short years of her life, in a few decaddes she should be able to communicate in any semi-popular language" (for example) is a bit too obvious giveaway.
Though to be fair - don't be carried away, the consequences are really nil, zilch, nada. The actions...could still be presented to the player in a really "fun" way (as far as FPP shooters go). The whole experience would then be painful basically only if one already has such outlook.
If that's the case, the whole deal with standing trial starts to look just like an excuse...
And there are certainly ways to convey all the dillemas faced by people back then in a much more tactful way (while still "entertaining") - for example as in a relatively recently seen by me (great) film "Das Wunder von Berlin"
It seems you are indeed under the impression that product placement or logo & "overlay" commercials don't exist already...certainly influencing also bittorent watchers; in many cases probably more than is typical, for example when the show is simply not available at their place and they still try to see it (sure, harder to quantify by ad agencies, but why should that stop them?) Heck, I expect quite a bit of "meta" commercial watching in the shows at some point.
Coincidentally: one of the voices of critique directed at the game (was in the submission, I guess it's in one of the linked articles) talks about "shooting at people like they are rabbits" - well, no, apparently rabbits were doing more than fine in the area of Berlin Wall. I wonder if they are in the game...
From their site: "The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology." Certainly fits; contrary to what many people think it's not about "stupid" research. After all, the prizes "are physically handed out by genuinely bemused Nobel laureates" - would perceiving the whole thing only as harmless fun be enough to get them so easily aboard?
PS. Also, you jump too quickly to conclusions - the effect might as well be, for example, that when people know the promotions will be random, they don't care too much / there's no infighting / the random ones aren't worse enough (but with other positive effects it pays off) / etc.
It still brakes the readability of URLs (yes, it's usually far from perfect anyway, but the domain at least tells something); well, I guess this one might be slightly less evil, also in the mentioned stats gathering, right?...
(or allowing one to see the target url, assuming you're logged into Google Account of course)
Meh, I'm slightly dissapointed - though otoh France should readily provide them with nukes after secession;) (or perhaps they have something fun of different kind already?)
Please, do tell us how a loose group of mere thousands of people (connected mostly just by similar origin and culture), living in a pre-industrial way on very small islands spread over an area of continental US, was supposed to say "NO" to a "requests" of one of the greatest naval and generally industrial powers of the era (while being under the colonial rule already anyway); all in times which didn't attach much value to "savages"... (again, all assuming they would be even able to give informed consent)
You really shouldn't hold it back, you know; this needs to be shared with the world - it will have monumental effects on it for millenia to come / you will be surely remembered as one of the greatest political thinkers in known history / etc.
Production costs have become insane even the way things are right now, mostly spread between two types of platforms and with less need for absolute attention to detail - and you want for the "shiny" to go totally overboard while slashing the audience in at least ~half? (plus "burger time and infocom adventures" market was much smaller, as is the indy one - at least as far as big publishers with profit-motives care; nvm how I don't really see how such adventures fit with "more shiny!")
I guess also one of the reasons why, AFAIK, medical displays seem to show usually greyscale (at least 10-bit one at that, IIRC) with only few color highlights; and sometimes in a bit insane resolutions? (I actually thought one of those would be fabulous to have for almost all kinds of work done on a computer; if not for the price...)
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What happened during the last year? I seem to be under the impression that it intensified to silly levels only during the last year...
Anyway, here's hoping that when anybody puts a lander on the moon, there will be a webcam with live view provided (hey, it won't change much, image once every few minutes will be more than enough). And when some rover - the video stream used for teleoperation will be likewise available on the web.
With perfecting automatic rendezvouz, one doesn't really need large/rarely used/exceedingly expensive (vs. almost assembly-line manufactured, efficient in "kg to LEO per cost", not launch) booster. Also, chief scientist of their lunar exploration program is an outspoken supporter of manned exploration.
But that wasn't the premise, it was about "we probably won't even be here anymore" - and while, sure, the progress is nice...some fundamental things stay strangely similar (which might not be the case anymore quite soon, sure; or we might be nearing some another long-lasting equlibrium state, similar to the one of our civilisation from 50k years ago; whatever). We should spread to few other areas, among them possibly Oort cloud - which should also present some people with opportunities of hitching a ride on a gravitionally disturbed comet captured by some passing star; we might even send directly some embryo colonisation ships to nearby systems (just the ways in which I imagine it). We might have few helluva big cataclysms here on Earth, too; almost ending the civilisation as we know it.
However...remember you are a member of a specie which survived population bottlenecks of mere thousands of individuals. And despite spreading to large part of the planet, our cradle is still heavily populated. However I sometimes like to laugh at the possibility of us destabilising the system which we are part of to the point of realising the Medea Hypothesis - it is quite exceedingly unlikely; we aren't dissapearing anywhere.
Duh - it isn't obviously bad enough at the first glance.
I'm dissapointed, the anology with 6k years looks not bad enough for a lot of people to agree (well, we all want to think that way...)
Though OTOH "since the daughter of my buddy has made tremendous progress in language during the first few short years of her life, in a few decaddes she should be able to communicate in any semi-popular language" (for example) is a bit too obvious giveaway.
Though to be fair - don't be carried away, the consequences are really nil, zilch, nada. The actions...could still be presented to the player in a really "fun" way (as far as FPP shooters go). The whole experience would then be painful basically only if one already has such outlook.
If that's the case, the whole deal with standing trial starts to look just like an excuse...
And there are certainly ways to convey all the dillemas faced by people back then in a much more tactful way (while still "entertaining") - for example as in a relatively recently seen by me (great) film "Das Wunder von Berlin"
It seems you are indeed under the impression that product placement or logo & "overlay" commercials don't exist already...certainly influencing also bittorent watchers; in many cases probably more than is typical, for example when the show is simply not available at their place and they still try to see it (sure, harder to quantify by ad agencies, but why should that stop them?) Heck, I expect quite a bit of "meta" commercial watching in the shows at some point.
Fixed link.
Little known fact: the Berlin Wall was actually good to some parts of the (loosely understood) population (after all, it was essentially two walls with no-man's-land between them)
Coincidentally: one of the voices of critique directed at the game (was in the submission, I guess it's in one of the linked articles) talks about "shooting at people like they are rabbits" - well, no, apparently rabbits were doing more than fine in the area of Berlin Wall.
I wonder if they are in the game...
So, you're under the impression that blocks of commercialls interrupting the shows are the only source of revenue even right now?
You seem to put it like it's something new?...
(in fact, I'd say there's certainly less of such stuff going on than was the case "historically"; still too much of course)
But make sure any collectors and users of bat guano get to see it.
From their site: "The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology." Certainly fits; contrary to what many people think it's not about "stupid" research. After all, the prizes "are physically handed out by genuinely bemused Nobel laureates" - would perceiving the whole thing only as harmless fun be enough to get them so easily aboard?
PS. Also, you jump too quickly to conclusions - the effect might as well be, for example, that when people know the promotions will be random, they don't care too much / there's no infighting / the random ones aren't worse enough (but with other positive effects it pays off) / etc.
Well, there's a better one to tolerate: http://goo.gl/
It still brakes the readability of URLs (yes, it's usually far from perfect anyway, but the domain at least tells something); well, I guess this one might be slightly less evil, also in the mentioned stats gathering, right?...
(or allowing one to see the target url, assuming you're logged into Google Account of course)
Well, if "many" becomes "zero" suddenly... Surely nobody explored or explores other approaches; they are all blinded by the worship of tokamaks, unlike the enlightened US?
Meh, I'm slightly dissapointed - though otoh France should readily provide them with nukes after secession ;) (or perhaps they have something fun of different kind already?)
Fairey Rotodyne was probably a more sucesfull example of those ideas. But...no, not really similar at all.
Similar would be Bell/Agusta BA609, V-22 Osprey, perhaps NASA Puffin. This one pretty damn close, ze Germans had something even closer, and here is almost the real deal, just not with turbines or ducted fans ("cancelled", riiight ;) )
Pretty close to proper aerial HK
"Disingenuous", really? "Affect change"?
Please, do tell us how a loose group of mere thousands of people (connected mostly just by similar origin and culture), living in a pre-industrial way on very small islands spread over an area of continental US, was supposed to say "NO" to a "requests" of one of the greatest naval and generally industrial powers of the era (while being under the colonial rule already anyway); all in times which didn't attach much value to "savages"... (again, all assuming they would be even able to give informed consent)
You really shouldn't hold it back, you know; this needs to be shared with the world - it will have monumental effects on it for millenia to come / you will be surely remembered as one of the greatest political thinkers in known history / etc.
Production costs have become insane even the way things are right now, mostly spread between two types of platforms and with less need for absolute attention to detail - and you want for the "shiny" to go totally overboard while slashing the audience in at least ~half? (plus "burger time and infocom adventures" market was much smaller, as is the indy one - at least as far as big publishers with profit-motives care; nvm how I don't really see how such adventures fit with "more shiny!")
Hm, makes sense regarding how Jobs could carry away the audience - those were largely live rehearsals?
Hey, at least it's less than a decade now, right? Right? (can't help but wonder who will build it though, not that Bridger is gone... ;( )
I guess also one of the reasons why, AFAIK, medical displays seem to show usually greyscale (at least 10-bit one at that, IIRC) with only few color highlights; and sometimes in a bit insane resolutions? (I actually thought one of those would be fabulous to have for almost all kinds of work done on a computer; if not for the price...)
Not in most operating systems, I'm afraid...
Gmail ads quite often think that my German is Swedish...