And who is this apolitical news controller? Or are you saying there's a need for anarchic trustable news provider.
Well, I've thought a while about this in the past and it's hard to define "trusted and solid information" or a method to achieve that. You'd expect journalists to provide that, but they don't as proven many times. Maybe wikipedia does a good job, or the concept is good, but I lack the vision how one could apply that process to all information or media.
I made my nuance trying to hint towards the potential misuse if an entity with a certain agenda who has control over media and information might actively send out disinformation to their advantage.
I agree there's no reliable information and alot of disinformation saturating quality information on the internet.
To me it's a shame seeing "online newssites" or the online version of paper news are following the sensationalist online buzz-kindof attitude instead of bringing quality and authenticity.
You can very well disagree, as information needs to be free but it gets hard to filter out relevant and solid information and one doesn't always have the time to take an intersection of information.
Take this simple example: Moonlanding.
On youtube alone I would get claims of it being faked, structures being found on the moon, ancient spacetravelling civilisations, Nibiru, a 10th planet who is floating around, a theory our Astroid belt is actually a remnant of an impact with earth and Anunaki visiting our planet thousands of years ago, the deeper you dig, the further there's misinformation.
Now, as the critical minds of the average slashdotter knows to seperate or "make an educated guess" on which information is correct, the median intersection will not be able to do so.
There is, in my view, a need for trustable information without it being controlled by a government or an entity with simular interests.
Which I find curious, considering the number of people in creative industries who are working because they too are driven by a passion and (were it not for minor irritations such as paying the mortgage and eating) would happily do it for free.
I used to do it for free, before uni (fun and interest), during uni (fun and experimentation) and after uni (worked 5 months on a project, only thing I asked in return was to repay my lunch) until these minor irritations you mention became more pressing forcing me into a "create their vision" from a "do whatever is just fun and seems interesting to do".
I'm considering starting up something myself, to combine the first and the last.
Livejournal? Does it still exist and is it still relevant?
It's almost 10 years ago I removed my account on there with extensive blogging because of the vampires and the goths who evolved into emo's.
I'm doing so much more with my Android phone now, and feel I don't have need for a "laptop" anymore for most things. For real work, I have my workstation.
they'd at least have the foresight to abduct someone important to interview
Maybe he looked important to their reference frame and concepts. Don't extrapolate your value-systems; those who you might find "important" might be absolutely insignificant to me.
For me the alien-stories get boring though, I was fascinated by it during the 90s, as was everybody. X-files sortof fueled this. But now, grand oversaturation and nothing exciting as the oversaturation discredits anything.
District 9: African leader wants to eat a human mutating into an alien to gain his mutant-properties. The way this works isn't explained, yet it's implied it's a voodoo-belief.
(Well, I did it once, good thing it wasn't a real situation...) Maybe if you could learn how to short out the game's battery battery pack and make a fire it would serve a purpose.
I agree to a certain extend. Scouting seems to me as a "purpose" giving thing for kids playing around and giving them sortof guidance. I used to grow up in the weekends in rural environments and the region, so I have ran around in fields, built treehouses and just "dissapeared" to pop up in time for dinner.
Imagening how life would've looked like 40 years ago, with no TV, boring games,.. I'd imagine they would do the same thing and just take on such a "manual". (the times I ran around playing "Rambo" of "Gi JOE" in camo imagening to be in a war are countless).
So perhaps it's now out of context, these "skills" aren't going to help you if you would evolve through to army as a man in those days (think that was part of the organisation, same as "hitler jugend" btw...) and are a bit outdated. Yet I'm glad I have these experiences of weekly being out playing with a group of kids, building camps, doing the campfire thing, growing to learn your boundaries and learning how to deal with people...
To me it has had purpose, even though with moments it was pretty roughing up, but open knees, being allowed to use knifes (to stab your friends, no kidding:P To do "actual kindof cool stuff" with it) and being around skirted girls in early puberty who punch you because they like you. Good times man.
For that you have applications which serve as intermediate aggrators.
It're still phones, creating a "mobile experience" (quotes to emphasis the literal meaning compared to associated device) experience).
As a sidenote: I love how this sortof interaction is integrating better in an active lifestyle, we've been dreaming up these kindof things for decades as nerds, slaving away from behind bulky phosphorous screens in our basements, in isolation. While now, the "sharing" and reality overlay aspect helps to find, experience, inform and navigate ourselfs, very efficiently in the outside world without dependency on others almost: it's like being guided and navigated through a complex system and be able to interact with it, fully informed, while blindly trusting the experience (after googling it, entering a GPS coordinate, finding points of interests, documenting, sharing, trusting on information on your handheld device while navigating the unknown outside world.)
In a way, it's a superhighdefinition (with near infity resolution) entertainment experience: "what do I want to see/experience today?" and you load up your guidance program on your device and navigate the ultra-HD show. It makes DVD look like lowgrade, uninspired and boring, doesn't it? In the ultrahd experience, actors are improvising on the spot. No crummy cliché plotlines, but kindof recurring clichées persist though until you move further away.
This is what, in my eyes, the geekculture has worked for the last decade to integrate this ideal thoughtbased "fantasyworld", the interwebs, into the real world and extrapolate that experience.
In Belgium they're doing the same thing with video-analysis on "checkpoints" where they have traffice-cameras. At these locations (not gps) on which data they calculate your average speed. If you've been speeding on the trajectory, you'll be fined. No workaround yet, other then maybe a licenseplace SQL injection attack.
One man, a British Airways gold card member, was riding a children's bicycle.
Now the real question is, did he pay the kid to give away its bike, or mug it?
In Belgium we get daily news about the grounded planes. People not being able to get back have gotten taxies from Poland to Belgium (1000km), are stuck for a week in Asia and consider a 7day-train ride back and all sorts of simular absurdities. It's been days and the people aren't refunded or offered alternative (like hotels to stay until the ashcloud clears up.)
I think people all around the world are getting creative to try to get it done, I thought the papers have started a column to collect these stories.
it has everything to do with water's unquie properties.
... as currently assumed by man. Why can't there exist something with simular properties?
There IS a projection though, regularly they find life in a place they did not anticipate. Sulfarlake caves without any sunlight or water? Yep, there's an abundance of life there too.
All the reasoning from on our little sphere and feable concepts mostly very limited to personal understanding and ability to absorb and conceptualize.
The thing which strikes me the most though it the common beginning, the "spark" to light it all up... For all I know or have been told or have read or have been taught, space around us is non-organic. Just a brude collection of basic elements in such a disposition they don't really interact all too much and it's sortof a boring thing, unless you have these massive forces working on eachother.
They've explored planets in our solarsystem, yet it's crudely sterile. Yet, on earth, there's this explosion of life which recurses to both ends (very tiny up to organized configurations building a greater organism) and with each interaction, we shed off some of this life (sweat, skin, hair, we drag around organic matter on our clothes, shoes, leave greasy spots with everything we touch [eg fingerprints], virusses, bacteria, spit, food,... ).
Yet, when we shoot ourselves up in the sky a bit, sterile to such an extend we could infect it with our organic amusementparks we lug around discharging more organic life, jumping, falling and flying off of us just by literally being there, standing around.
To me, humanity or life isn't just a freak occurence, but maybe we're so poorly equipped and are standing like a mole who crawls up in the upper world and figure "wow, this fast empty vacuum isn't giving me any vibrations I can interprete, this must be the emptyness of space where all life stops to exist.", while if he would have eyes to see and brain to conceptualize, he'll think "fuck, this is awesome! WHAT IS ALL THIS STUFF!"
.. add aliens as friends? Which social networking site is that?
So we can get a sense of their ideal life they try to portray through pictures.. Or maybe mental projections..
The idea seems like bullshit though. In a overpopulated world, there is excess and no real reason to reproduce as there are alot of people already occupied with that. The globalization, and more independant thinking, disposable "friends" in very densely populated regions (you can walk off and meet other strangers, and keep on doing that for a very long time without exhausting the "pool of people".). Hence people will tend to "seek out pleasures" more in such dynamics.
In more rural area's, there are different values and different aspects are more important. You'll see more closely tied together communities and families and more the "traditional lifestyle", because it's more needed to rely on eachother. (instead of popping into a 7/11 quickly and be able to live very detached from everything.)
So, in my view, there is "no need" right now to reproduce or maintain bounds like you would if your race is declining and there is more reason to seek out support with eachother for being able to maintain in your living state. We have excess and excess of humans.
Since the study was funded by Taser International, Inc (a for profit corporation), and that company might be about to go the way of the Asbestos companies very very soon
Exactly, those being subjected to the results of a "positive report" are always subjected involuntary as well.
I always found the idea of tasering and advertizing it as "oh, it can't hurt, it's just unpleasant" a bit boundary shifting: before lawenforcement et al had to reason "if I shoot, I have to make certain I'm in a situation where I have no other choice because I can kill this person". With tasering, the bounderies shifted "oh it can't harm, s/he is being annoying, lets buzz them like cattle into complying to the authority I impose."
It used to be cool.. The 60s had a generation who saw the boundaries of human excelling being pushed.
I'm a 80s kid, yet the imagery of the grainy black/white video still has an impact on me. I do love the old scifi series and movies, all in that generation seemed to be geared to push those boundaries, the SciFi was gorgious. In this day and age scifi looks like "oh, that's sortof.. yeah not mindboggling" while we twitter that instantly on a smartphone which sends a signal TO SPACE and back and then AROUND the world within a few milliseconds...
But now the programs of NASA, it's low profile. They would generate ALOT of public interest if they'd just shoot up a disk from a shuttle and take high-res pictures of it leaving it all to speculations.
But no.. right now "we are going tot he moon!" NASA: "no, we cannot do it." "But my watch has more processing power the appolo ever did!" "We cannot do it." "why not?" "just can't..."
Their bones were laid down with the remains of other dead animals, including a sabre-toothed cat, antelope, mice and rabbits. The fact that none of the bodies appear to have been scavenged indicates that all died suddenly and were entombed rapidly
I'm imagening, as they used caves for living and spoiling a decent cave giving protection and housing was used as a "burial" or dumpster is unlikely, the cave was uninhabitable by humans for one or another reason. A likely scenario seems to be that the young and unknowingly couple ran off to have some funky frisky time, ended up in a cave inhabited by preditors and got owned. A predator yet unknown, but one that can eat animals from the size of a mouse up to a sabretooth tiger without biting marks.
As there are no biting marks or "scavenging", or disallowing inhabitation it must've been a might impressive beast eating those creatures without teeth. I propose a blob of ooze or slime which liquified, slowly and horribly, those creatures alive while holding them down with their tentacles of doom while floating in the air with lighteningbols-shooting eyes.
Oh wait, so you're saying that $CARREER equals $SINGLEEXPERIENCE ?
I work as a consultant, in each field no two things are like. And I agree she's been handed a crappy job, probably without proper context. "just puncture these mice, FOR SCIENCE!" which translates quickly to "Well, if this is science, then it sucks."
I've been dating Phd student researching muscle metabolism and the effects of certain proteins trying to slow down muscle degradation (mostly targetted at seniors), hating the medical industry by the way they threat their "subjects" even though she's very passionate about science and wants to make a difference, she'd having a hard time to cope how they treath "humans", so I can really imagine being innocent and unexperienced, being thrown into the field like that without being able to create context and having been thought all those "moral" courses and other things to justify it it might've been a crude experience.
That doesn't say anything about being "fit for $CAREER" though or wasting study. One experience isn't representable for an entire field.
Ducking in fear of retaliation after voicing some quirky, offbeat, or specific humor hasn't been necessary since the general access to a means for free communication and a wide array of varied interestgroups finding eachother based on simularity, as very specific (eg. certain referencial) humor.
Get up buddy, make proud and bold quirky humor not everyone might get, there'll always be some people who'll love it and who will want to throw stuff at you. This is the age of free selfexpression with no consequences. (unless you laugh with moslims)
Why would one offer them 100 mio for it if it's so worthless, for one.
For two, why is money such a big deal? If you love what you do and can provide for yourself with it, why whore yourselves out? It's not about being filthy rich, but doing what you love, right?
Instead of reducing the amount of computation we do in IE to make it faster, let's just look for more processing power instead!
Let them try to get this one fixed, we'll laugh when they hit a wall. If not, we'll find ways to compete and get this battle back on par to get a better experience.
I've seen some graphs comparing the rendering of a page using parallell processing and it's been a nice showoff, making the standoff between browsers a bit more spicy and tense again. Lets improve the webexperience, I need 20 tabs open with image galleries of high resolution, flashmovies and heavy AJAX websites which now sortof lock up frequently.
Check their tests at IE9 testdrive, I'm not certain if you can grab the preview from there, though.
Stop playing your driving games in third-person view.
Well, this is the limitation of having one fixed view, in a real car you can turn your head slightly to get a 160-180 view. In games you do not have this freedom, so looking over the car gives "sortof" the same viewing freedom.
I find if I play racing-games from the cockpit view (games like Need for Speed, when it still was good), I'm limited in the game as I can't estimate how deep or far to take the corner as I would be IRL.
Slashdot Mirror
But,is she awake during sex?
Well, I've thought a while about this in the past and it's hard to define "trusted and solid information" or a method to achieve that.
You'd expect journalists to provide that, but they don't as proven many times.
Maybe wikipedia does a good job, or the concept is good, but I lack the vision how one could apply that process to all information or media.
I made my nuance trying to hint towards the potential misuse if an entity with a certain agenda who has control over media and information might actively send out disinformation to their advantage.
I agree there's no reliable information and alot of disinformation saturating quality information on the internet.
To me it's a shame seeing "online newssites" or the online version of paper news are following the sensationalist online buzz-kindof attitude instead of bringing quality and authenticity.
You can very well disagree, as information needs to be free but it gets hard to filter out relevant and solid information and one doesn't always have the time to take an intersection of information.
Take this simple example: Moonlanding.
On youtube alone I would get claims of it being faked, structures being found on the moon, ancient spacetravelling civilisations, Nibiru, a 10th planet who is floating around, a theory our Astroid belt is actually a remnant of an impact with earth and Anunaki visiting our planet thousands of years ago, the deeper you dig, the further there's misinformation.
Now, as the critical minds of the average slashdotter knows to seperate or "make an educated guess" on which information is correct, the median intersection will not be able to do so.
There is, in my view, a need for trustable information without it being controlled by a government or an entity with simular interests.
I used to do it for free, before uni (fun and interest), during uni (fun and experimentation) and after uni (worked 5 months on a project, only thing I asked in return was to repay my lunch) until these minor irritations you mention became more pressing forcing me into a "create their vision" from a "do whatever is just fun and seems interesting to do".
I'm considering starting up something myself, to combine the first and the last.
Livejournal? Does it still exist and is it still relevant?
It's almost 10 years ago I removed my account on there with extensive blogging because of the vampires and the goths who evolved into emo's.
Oh so why is it the iPad taking the wind?
;)
I'm doing so much more with my Android phone now, and feel I don't have need for a "laptop" anymore for most things. For real work, I have my workstation.
So he can still be right without the gambit
Maybe he looked important to their reference frame and concepts.
Don't extrapolate your value-systems; those who you might find "important" might be absolutely insignificant to me.
For me the alien-stories get boring though, I was fascinated by it during the 90s, as was everybody. X-files sortof fueled this. But now, grand oversaturation and nothing exciting as the oversaturation discredits anything.
District 9: African leader wants to eat a human mutating into an alien to gain his mutant-properties.
The way this works isn't explained, yet it's implied it's a voodoo-belief.
I agree to a certain extend. Scouting seems to me as a "purpose" giving thing for kids playing around and giving them sortof guidance. I used to grow up in the weekends in rural environments and the region, so I have ran around in fields, built treehouses and just "dissapeared" to pop up in time for dinner.
Imagening how life would've looked like 40 years ago, with no TV, boring games, .. I'd imagine they would do the same thing and just take on such a "manual". (the times I ran around playing "Rambo" of "Gi JOE" in camo imagening to be in a war are countless).
So perhaps it's now out of context, these "skills" aren't going to help you if you would evolve through to army as a man in those days (think that was part of the organisation, same as "hitler jugend" btw...) and are a bit outdated. Yet I'm glad I have these experiences of weekly being out playing with a group of kids, building camps, doing the campfire thing, growing to learn your boundaries and learning how to deal with people...
:P To do "actual kindof cool stuff" with it) and being around skirted girls in early puberty who punch you because they like you. Good times man.
To me it has had purpose, even though with moments it was pretty roughing up, but open knees, being allowed to use knifes (to stab your friends, no kidding
Not taken as such :)
I was in a hurry to complete the thought and sortof cut short on formatting. Thanks for your constructive feedback ;)
For that you have applications which serve as intermediate aggrators.
It're still phones, creating a "mobile experience" (quotes to emphasis the literal meaning compared to associated device) experience).
As a sidenote: I love how this sortof interaction is integrating better in an active lifestyle, we've been dreaming up these kindof things for decades as nerds, slaving away from behind bulky phosphorous screens in our basements, in isolation. While now, the "sharing" and reality overlay aspect helps to find, experience, inform and navigate ourselfs, very efficiently in the outside world without dependency on others almost: it's like being guided and navigated through a complex system and be able to interact with it, fully informed, while blindly trusting the experience (after googling it, entering a GPS coordinate, finding points of interests, documenting, sharing, trusting on information on your handheld device while navigating the unknown outside world.) In a way, it's a superhighdefinition (with near infity resolution) entertainment experience: "what do I want to see/experience today?" and you load up your guidance program on your device and navigate the ultra-HD show. It makes DVD look like lowgrade, uninspired and boring, doesn't it? In the ultrahd experience, actors are improvising on the spot. No crummy cliché plotlines, but kindof recurring clichées persist though until you move further away.
This is what, in my eyes, the geekculture has worked for the last decade to integrate this ideal thoughtbased "fantasyworld", the interwebs, into the real world and extrapolate that experience.
My point was that the system in Belgium isn't using GPS as the locations of the cameras are known...
Or install a GPS jammer in your car.
In Belgium they're doing the same thing with video-analysis on "checkpoints" where they have traffice-cameras. At these locations (not gps) on which data they calculate your average speed. If you've been speeding on the trajectory, you'll be fined. No workaround yet, other then maybe a licenseplace SQL injection attack.
Now the real question is, did he pay the kid to give away its bike, or mug it?
In Belgium we get daily news about the grounded planes. People not being able to get back have gotten taxies from Poland to Belgium (1000km), are stuck for a week in Asia and consider a 7day-train ride back and all sorts of simular absurdities. It's been days and the people aren't refunded or offered alternative (like hotels to stay until the ashcloud clears up.)
I think people all around the world are getting creative to try to get it done, I thought the papers have started a column to collect these stories.
... as currently assumed by man. Why can't there exist something with simular properties?
There IS a projection though, regularly they find life in a place they did not anticipate. Sulfarlake caves without any sunlight or water? Yep, there's an abundance of life there too.
All the reasoning from on our little sphere and feable concepts mostly very limited to personal understanding and ability to absorb and conceptualize.
The thing which strikes me the most though it the common beginning, the "spark" to light it all up... For all I know or have been told or have read or have been taught, space around us is non-organic. Just a brude collection of basic elements in such a disposition they don't really interact all too much and it's sortof a boring thing, unless you have these massive forces working on eachother.
They've explored planets in our solarsystem, yet it's crudely sterile. Yet, on earth, there's this explosion of life which recurses to both ends (very tiny up to organized configurations building a greater organism) and with each interaction, we shed off some of this life (sweat, skin, hair, we drag around organic matter on our clothes, shoes, leave greasy spots with everything we touch [eg fingerprints], virusses, bacteria, spit, food, ... ).
Yet, when we shoot ourselves up in the sky a bit, sterile to such an extend we could infect it with our organic amusementparks we lug around discharging more organic life, jumping, falling and flying off of us just by literally being there, standing around.
To me, humanity or life isn't just a freak occurence, but maybe we're so poorly equipped and are standing like a mole who crawls up in the upper world and figure "wow, this fast empty vacuum isn't giving me any vibrations I can interprete, this must be the emptyness of space where all life stops to exist.", while if he would have eyes to see and brain to conceptualize, he'll think "fuck, this is awesome! WHAT IS ALL THIS STUFF!"
.. add aliens as friends? Which social networking site is that?
So we can get a sense of their ideal life they try to portray through pictures.. Or maybe mental projections..
The idea seems like bullshit though. In a overpopulated world, there is excess and no real reason to reproduce as there are alot of people already occupied with that. The globalization, and more independant thinking, disposable "friends" in very densely populated regions (you can walk off and meet other strangers, and keep on doing that for a very long time without exhausting the "pool of people".). Hence people will tend to "seek out pleasures" more in such dynamics.
In more rural area's, there are different values and different aspects are more important. You'll see more closely tied together communities and families and more the "traditional lifestyle", because it's more needed to rely on eachother. (instead of popping into a 7/11 quickly and be able to live very detached from everything.)
So, in my view, there is "no need" right now to reproduce or maintain bounds like you would if your race is declining and there is more reason to seek out support with eachother for being able to maintain in your living state. We have excess and excess of humans.
Exactly, those being subjected to the results of a "positive report" are always subjected involuntary as well.
I always found the idea of tasering and advertizing it as "oh, it can't hurt, it's just unpleasant" a bit boundary shifting: before lawenforcement et al had to reason "if I shoot, I have to make certain I'm in a situation where I have no other choice because I can kill this person". With tasering, the bounderies shifted "oh it can't harm, s/he is being annoying, lets buzz them like cattle into complying to the authority I impose."
And yet again, they have to rework their strategy as this one, too, failed.
I'm a 80s kid, yet the imagery of the grainy black/white video still has an impact on me. I do love the old scifi series and movies, all in that generation seemed to be geared to push those boundaries, the SciFi was gorgious. In this day and age scifi looks like "oh, that's sortof.. yeah not mindboggling" while we twitter that instantly on a smartphone which sends a signal TO SPACE and back and then AROUND the world within a few milliseconds...
But now the programs of NASA, it's low profile. They would generate ALOT of public interest if they'd just shoot up a disk from a shuttle and take high-res pictures of it leaving it all to speculations.
But no.. right now
"we are going tot he moon!"
NASA: "no, we cannot do it."
"But my watch has more processing power the appolo ever did!"
"We cannot do it."
"why not?"
"just can't..."
I'm imagening, as they used caves for living and spoiling a decent cave giving protection and housing was used as a "burial" or dumpster is unlikely, the cave was uninhabitable by humans for one or another reason. A likely scenario seems to be that the young and unknowingly couple ran off to have some funky frisky time, ended up in a cave inhabited by preditors and got owned. A predator yet unknown, but one that can eat animals from the size of a mouse up to a sabretooth tiger without biting marks.
As there are no biting marks or "scavenging", or disallowing inhabitation it must've been a might impressive beast eating those creatures without teeth. I propose a blob of ooze or slime which liquified, slowly and horribly, those creatures alive while holding them down with their tentacles of doom while floating in the air with lighteningbols-shooting eyes.
I work as a consultant, in each field no two things are like. And I agree she's been handed a crappy job, probably without proper context. "just puncture these mice, FOR SCIENCE!" which translates quickly to "Well, if this is science, then it sucks."
I've been dating Phd student researching muscle metabolism and the effects of certain proteins trying to slow down muscle degradation (mostly targetted at seniors), hating the medical industry by the way they threat their "subjects" even though she's very passionate about science and wants to make a difference, she'd having a hard time to cope how they treath "humans", so I can really imagine being innocent and unexperienced, being thrown into the field like that without being able to create context and having been thought all those "moral" courses and other things to justify it it might've been a crude experience.
That doesn't say anything about being "fit for $CAREER" though or wasting study. One experience isn't representable for an entire field.
Ducking in fear of retaliation after voicing some quirky, offbeat, or specific humor hasn't been necessary since the general access to a means for free communication and a wide array of varied interestgroups finding eachother based on simularity, as very specific (eg. certain referencial) humor.
Get up buddy, make proud and bold quirky humor not everyone might get, there'll always be some people who'll love it and who will want to throw stuff at you. This is the age of free selfexpression with no consequences. (unless you laugh with moslims)
Why would one offer them 100 mio for it if it's so worthless, for one.
For two, why is money such a big deal? If you love what you do and can provide for yourself with it, why whore yourselves out? It's not about being filthy rich, but doing what you love, right?
Let them try to get this one fixed, we'll laugh when they hit a wall. If not, we'll find ways to compete and get this battle back on par to get a better experience.
I've seen some graphs comparing the rendering of a page using parallell processing and it's been a nice showoff, making the standoff between browsers a bit more spicy and tense again. Lets improve the webexperience, I need 20 tabs open with image galleries of high resolution, flashmovies and heavy AJAX websites which now sortof lock up frequently.
Check their tests at IE9 testdrive, I'm not certain if you can grab the preview from there, though.
Well, this is the limitation of having one fixed view, in a real car you can turn your head slightly to get a 160-180 view. In games you do not have this freedom, so looking over the car gives "sortof" the same viewing freedom.
I find if I play racing-games from the cockpit view (games like Need for Speed, when it still was good), I'm limited in the game as I can't estimate how deep or far to take the corner as I would be IRL.