If anyone is really interested in the technical and mathematical side of this stuff, I definitely recommend Probabilistic Robotics by (among others) Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and leader of the winning team in this race.
Surely it makes sense to develop the multiplayer portion of a game first, and then get a bunch of people playing it to see what kind of strategies work well and should be implemented in the AI for the single player. I'm sure I rememeber Peter Molyneux saying that's how Populous was developed all those years ago, and that was about as good a 2-player game as there has ever been.
Users would pay a few euros a month to download as much music or film material as they wanted, with proceeds going to the artists.
Socialist MP Patrick Bloche helped draft the amendment.
He argues it makes no sense to treat several million French internet users as potential offenders.
"Rather than outlawing, punishing, and paradoxically maintaining to a certain extent an illegal system," he says, "let's make a different choice: authorising peer-to-peer downloading, but in return, putting in place a system allowing artists to be paid."
Wow, there is someone listening after all! Props to French MPs for standing up to the music industry.
Well, with the insane development costs for these new platforms, don't be expecting anything original or innovative. Endless EA rehashes is going to be the norm I think, even more so than now.
1) is cryptographically unsound, and
2) inconveniences honest people while making next to no difference to those who are determined to pirate things.
The problem is that the average non-technical Joe doesn't know what it is and doesn't seem to care. Maybe it's just time to join the "determined to pirate things" group?
copying a PPV movie and keeping it, which only deprives the distributor of potential future income that you were probably never going to give them anyway.
If you "probably never" wanted to see the movie again, why would you keep a copy?
I want a reader that folds open like a traditional book, showing me left and right pages. I read the left page then the right page, like a traditional book. When I get to the end of the right page, I somehow get it to "turn the page" (via a button on the outside or whatever) so that the text disappears and reappears while my eyes "reset" themselves to the top-left of the left page.
The screens (left and right) on this thing should take up pretty much the whole of each side, with as little bezel as possible. They should have a resolution of 300 pixels per inch or greater, be clearly readable from any angle without any reflections or the like. Crucially, I shouldn't have to care about getting fingerprints all over them, so I can hold the whole thing like a normal book (but thinner), nor should I be able to scratch them or worry about inflicting damage in everyday use.
Any "operating system" should be dead simple to use, like selecting tracks on the best MP3 player you can think of. I want an universal external interface that allows me to walk into any bookshop and download any books I want, as well as interfacing to my PC at home.
Give me all that and I might be interested. For now, I'm sticking with paper.
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Microsoft's share price fell 11% today after their profits went up by "only" 16%, to $3bn in the last quarter.
Something tells me they can afford those "significantly higher expenses".
If anyone is really interested in the technical and mathematical side of this stuff, I definitely recommend Probabilistic Robotics by (among others) Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and leader of the winning team in this race.
Surely it makes sense to develop the multiplayer portion of a game first, and then get a bunch of people playing it to see what kind of strategies work well and should be implemented in the AI for the single player. I'm sure I rememeber Peter Molyneux saying that's how Populous was developed all those years ago, and that was about as good a 2-player game as there has ever been.
Wow, there is someone listening after all! Props to French MPs for standing up to the music industry.
Well, with the insane development costs for these new platforms, don't be expecting anything original or innovative. Endless EA rehashes is going to be the norm I think, even more so than now.
1) is cryptographically unsound, and
The problem is that the average non-technical Joe doesn't know what it is and doesn't seem to care. Maybe it's just time to join the "determined to pirate things" group?2) inconveniences honest people while making next to no difference to those who are determined to pirate things.
...when we said MS should do something about viruses.
I want a reader that folds open like a traditional book, showing me left and right pages. I read the left page then the right page, like a traditional book. When I get to the end of the right page, I somehow get it to "turn the page" (via a button on the outside or whatever) so that the text disappears and reappears while my eyes "reset" themselves to the top-left of the left page.
The screens (left and right) on this thing should take up pretty much the whole of each side, with as little bezel as possible. They should have a resolution of 300 pixels per inch or greater, be clearly readable from any angle without any reflections or the like. Crucially, I shouldn't have to care about getting fingerprints all over them, so I can hold the whole thing like a normal book (but thinner), nor should I be able to scratch them or worry about inflicting damage in everyday use.
Any "operating system" should be dead simple to use, like selecting tracks on the best MP3 player you can think of. I want an universal external interface that allows me to walk into any bookshop and download any books I want, as well as interfacing to my PC at home.
Give me all that and I might be interested. For now, I'm sticking with paper.