For a variety of reasons, the Debian package maintainers modify the codebase before they put it on Debian's package system. Apparently the license for the Firefox name and logos doesn't allow this, so they told Debian to either stop modifing the source or change the name and logos. They did.
No, Apple coined the term PC--meaning personal computer, a generic term for computers meant to be used by one person at a time, unlike big iron servers which would be used by many people on terminals. What you said is like saying well MS Windows is the most popular OS, so when people say "OS", they must mean MS Windows. Que paso???
If you really want to distinguish IBM compatibles running MS Windows from other PCs, then just call it a "Wintel" or something. Or just the hardware, maybe IA32 systems, or x86 systems if you don't think they'll get the first one (which is more correct)
Obviously the Mac IA32 systems (they have those now?) essentialy should work the same (PCI bus and such, right?), so I don't think they need that different a title anyway. If you can slap in the same cards and use the same binaries if they have the same OS installed, then an IA32 system is an IA32 system.
If it is more stable (with a bunch of pages up--that is the way I browse), I'm sold!
The only question is, how do you get.debs/apt-get on a Slackware system? Or is there a more universal program to do that? (one which combines and supports rpms, debs and slack packages) That is the true Linux holy grail...
I am not enthusiastic about this site either, but I don't think it is fair to complain if this guy copies Wikipedia software/content. After all, didn't the article say the guy starting Citizendium also helped found wikipedia? So he would be copying what was part his, yes?
I wish, but I don't want to buy a PS2 and end up dealing with Sony's "it falls apart after a few months of normal use" problems.
And that is what sucks about all this proprietary crap. I should be able to buy any game and play it on any computer. (Game consoles are compters to, just restricted.)
And what will they have over Scholarpedia? At least that site has some articles, and the way they produce content seems like it would be quite reliable, though slow.
I admit I haven't used that site very much, and it seems a crapshoot if a given subject will have articles right now, but will Citizendium even be worth looking at? Wikipedia already has tons of info on just about everything, though it could be inacurate. Scholarpedia will have highly accurate articles, but probably not on every possible thing. Where does this new site fit? I guess we will see...
It is not just money (but the $500 goes to verisign, not MS). They have to be a commercial entity with a Class 3 Commercial Software Publisher Certificate from Verisign--read the article pointed to by the ancestor poster.
For a long time I have talked about the features they are going to add to DRM. Such as this one: requiring signed drivers for everything. But microsoft shills modded me a troll.
So you are saying Reiserfs has an unmaintainable codebase? Then you point to a Suse story where it basicly says reiserfs sucks (did when I tried it a few years ago), and suse may have kept it, but Mr Reiser refuses to update version 3. Well, now maybe suse will fork version 3. Though this convinces me even more that maybe it should just be trashed. There are plenty of other filesystems out there, and ext2/3 are good enough for many uses. It sucks to lose lots of work, but it happens all the time.
About the mailing list, sounds like they got emotional. Nothing suprising, as many people do when they are so close to a tragedy. I imagine the other coders will be back in operation after they pull themselves together. They may need a few weeks.
Same with Mr Reiser if he gets out--this arrest just sounds like standard police procedure. Maybe they will stick a charge to him (reguardless of wether or not he is guilty), but it is hard to say. Then again, his wife may just show up, or they'll find her body and discover someone else did it.
I suppose it is possible they will drop their work, but as long as someone is there to pay them, I'm sure they'll stay with it. This news may have slowed the development, but I'm not so sure this project will fall apart. This event hasn't made it much more likely, though it did sound like it was having some trouble before, but Theo de Raat (sp?) is an asshole too, and OpenBSD is still going strong.
If your job somehow depends upon this project, believe me, you will find a way to make it work. I certainly don't see the drivers falling apart and not working on updated kernels any time soon. Even if no one maintains it. At the very least, you will have plenty of warning in case you need to switch filesystems.
I am talking about a right wing nutcase church/cult who took over an entire state's government (In fact, they established it). Maybe they didn't burn me alive, but they poisoned be, which among other things, led to me having kidney failure and two strokes. Now I get to be chained to a machine 9 hrs/day and and only be active for two or so. Your life is pretty much over when you have to be laying down for at least 20 hours out of the day. These people have killed before. (at least one famous massacre 100 years ago, and I did hear there are quite a high number of "suicides" and "hunting accidents") though now they are playing the criminal game where they use legal technicalities and such.
The feds don't seem to care. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Bush is giving them the thumbs up on the sick things they do. Certainly there, freedom of religion is out the window. They may have to play with legal technicalities (no stoning people out in the open streets), but they are playing the taliban game.
I don't understand what all the doom and gloom is about. Even if Reiser is convicted, it won't destroy open source. I seriously doubt it will even destroy the reiserfs project or even change its name. Do you think the judge will somehow make his code illegal?
Anyone can take over the project, and since it is obviously very popular, undoubtedly there will be plenty of smart people who want to take it over. Maybe there will be a few forks, but as open source has shown, competition is a good thing. You get to choose the best one.
It is nice to have the fantasy of people being untouchable supercoders and leaders, however the reality is: just about everyone is going to be replaceable, even Linus Torvalds. There may be some geniuses who may need several people to replace them, but they are still replaceable.
If Hans or his wife was your personal friend or parent or whatever, then my condolences, no matter how this turns out, you are probably going through a rough time. However, if you are just worried about the project, then don't worry, there is no reason to do so.
Religious extremists who take control of the local government and pass laws to attempt elimination of all who don't belong to their religion or those who don't follow their religion.
For example, one of their clerics declared that everyone over 25 and single was a "menace to society." So they set about plans to try and eliminate all housing which housed people who where over 25. First the nearby religious university changed their rules for off campus[1] housing. It required all people living in said housing would have to be a student. Nearly all other housing was considered "family" and most of them wouldn't rent to single people. This made housing very scarce if you weren't married and not a student.
Then a few years later, the city council decided to pass some "parking laws", which essentially eliminated quite a bit more housing for non-student singles. It meant you couldn't have any roommates. And you needed a really good job to afford your own apartment around there. (The employers paid almost nothing for jobs.) The real parking problems were mostly caused by the university not having enough lots. There were a few "off campus housing" complexes which did have parking problems, but as far as I could see, they were never touched. This was the point I became homeless.
[1] - Off campus housing has nothing to do with the university. It is just the places their students happen to live. The students were required to live only in housing which followed the university's rules. Since the majority of single people in the area were going to this university, nearly all single housing in the area were bound by these rules, and even if you didn't go to that school, you were required to sign a contract and follow those rules to live in those complexes.
No dude, that isn't the really bad story. Like this one time, like that small and impotent company, oh man that last joint really screwed my memory, dude. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Mickey's Shaft they like paid this really hot girl to have sex with one of the kernel developers, she like had to go into his parent's mouldy basement and everything. Really gross. Anyway she really screwed him hard, and like he thought he was all cool and everything, so like he stopped messing with his like computer and like duuudddee what happened to Linux? It like sucked!
The the other Linux dudes, they like totally snaked some penguins from like the south pole, you know? and they made the penguins like violate this really knarly surfer dude, and so he like lost all confidence and like started living in his parents basement and everything. So they like give him a Linux computer and all saying like they're really sorry, so he starts playing with it like all day--he doesn't surf anymore dudes, it sucks. So like he becomes this major linux hacker, and you know, dudes! Linux rulez now!!! Yeah!
It's funny, because I was thinking of Godwining this thread with Nazi research. Would someone really turn down a treatment if they learned the doctor came up with it using Nazi reasearch? I doubt it. Likewise, I don't see why someone would throw away a filesystem because of an incident completely unrelated to its development.
Can you ever really be sure anyone is 100% guilty. Putting someone in prison or even just marking their record as guilty is not a fair thing for someone who is innocent....and I would say giving someone a life sentance is at least as bad as execution. Sure, they may get out of prison sometime, however what kind of life will they be able to lead?
There are worse things than prison. Because I was over 25 and single, the local taliban essentially made it so I would have all sorts of problems, including being poisoned. I will have kidney failure and the damage from 2 strokes for the rest of my life. I have to be chained to a dialysis machine for 9 hrs/day, and because of the strokes, I can't be active (meaning doing things like walking) for more than 2 or so hrs/day. Much less if I carry something heavy, and now anything over 10 lbs is "heavy." I didn't even do anything wrong--just tried to live my life. So I didn't go to their church. Is that and the constant harrasment they gave me fair "punishment"? Is it not worse than prison or death?
Now the US justice system is supposed to make things fair, or at least reasonable. It is designed to let people go if there is any excuse to do so, because holding or punishing someone when they are innocent is a crime in itself. So I think the question should be: If someone has gone through all the stringent requirements for being declared guilty, should they not be punished for their apparent crime? At least so long as the punishment is resonable for said crime and it is a real crime?
So I guess we're calling any post which disagrees with you a hyperbole?
So you are saying Pac-Man was a pretty version of Tetris? Donkey Kong? What about Unreal or Unreal Tournament? Or Quake? Doom? Those games may have had something resembling a story or plot, however they were pretty much a joke. Gamers loved those games because they had fun gameplay and some of them had an immersive environment.
I used GTA as an example because of the gameplay, not the perspective. In fact, the only version I played was GTA 2, and it had a satellite view likely due to limitations of the machines it played on. The artifical view certainly made it less immersive--how often are you floating 100 feet above your body?
I also don't think you understand what makes an RPG. That genre is more or less based on the principle of the user creating a character and working with the character to make it grow. Any stories are usually for explaining why the character is there or give the character something to do. They are often simplistic at best, but accepted because the story isn't the reason the game was bought in the first place.
There are very few videogames where the story isn't total laughable crap. Warcraft 2 is one, however the story is in the manual, not the game.
When I complain about cutscenes, I am saying nothing should stop gameplay. Ever. I don't mind the villan chatting away or clues being given or something being presented, however I should still be able to control my character. They should just play the sound clip and let me hack away at the beast.
...and then you go into the fixed camera of the Resident Evil games? Have you ever tried to play them??? I had #3 and Zero, and the fixed camera made moving and targeting quite difficult. Yeah, I suppose this series was one exception where the story was a great compliment to the game. However the interface didn't work. Just look at all the complaints about the "tank" like interface.
Resident Evil's clunky remote-control-tank control interface was a necessary evil... But here is the same crappy control we had in 1996 made worse by the small directional pad and tiny graphics of the DS. In some of the wider shots, it can be very difficult to see which way your avatar is facing, and since facing is the basis for movement in RE's turn-left/right-push-up-to-walk-forward control layout, this can create some frustrating moments. Okay, I admit it: I wanted to smash my DS even more than I wanted to smash my PS1 controller 10 years ago. -- Will ' Jayson' Hill -- Resident Evil: Deadly Silence Review
What about card games? They are nothing like a movie. They have no plot. From what I've seen, my mother seems to play them the entire time she is home, and she is retired, so that is a lot of time. If the game doesn't entertain her, then why does she play it so much. The only other games she plays are hangman, the memory game (where you match blocks with the same symbol), some sort of line game, and a codebreaker game. None of those have movie qualities or have a story. I know these are the only games she plays because I fix her computer nothing else is installed.
I know video games and movies are not realistic. I was talking about realizm of the objects and such. No one is going to belive a game which is just made up of simple geometric shapes and blobs...unless that is part of the game. If you use characters which look like real people or at least some reasonable facsimile, trees, mountains, dirt paths and such, the user will be much more likely to believe the environment.
By the way, you separate paragraphs using the <p> tag.
You obviously have no clue why most people play video games. Most real gamers hate cut-scenes and "stories". They break up gameplay and add no real value. People play games to have interactive fun, not watch a movie.
Camera placement should be first person (meaning where your avatar's eyes are looking, the camera points. You are supposed to be seeing through your avatar, not staring at his/her ass.)
Visual composition in games is just recreating real world objects in a realistic fashon. If it is a decent game, the user will be able to control where the camera goes and what it looks at. If you have decent models, then it will be no different than the real world. If the user wants to look at a tree or arch rock formation, he/she can do so. Having the game follow tracks like a train can make the user have a good visual experience (and make it easy to program), but that method sucks.
Editing and pacing---what editing? This is an interactive thing, not a bunch of video clips. Similar problem with pacing, but you can control pacing somewhat with how many enemies (or whatever interactive elements) are in the game. Films won't help much there--good testers will tell you if the pace is too intense or to slow, however the user should have the option to set how intense the game should be--plenty of games have easy/hard options. In the end the user will control where the game goes and the speed of travel--unless you made a non-interactive train. Why do you think GTA was so succesful? Because you could do anything you want. If you want to join gang A or B, go for it. If you want to just putter around jacking cars and beating up people, the programmers said, "have fun." None of that "you have to go from point A to B then C, oh look a monster, press the X button until it is dead."
Lighting may be the only place you could have a point, but I think just putting in realistic lighting, or where the machine can't handle so many lights, just use the standard light in the sky technique.
Movies and video games are completely different things. Whenever AI becomes developed enough for interactive characters, they won't be getting inspiration from films, but great books and those who write them. The things movies could "offer"--jiggling boobs and explosions don't need great sources of "inspiration" anyway.
The non-gamers who don't want to play a game, but just sit and watch can buy movies.
Then why not just put a VGA jack instead of HDTV? Computer monitors are more common and generally have all the advantages you stated in one way or another.
Widescreen being optional, however I'm not sure why someone would want widescreen for video games anyway. You are usually (should be) concentrating on the action. The 4:3 ratio is much better for action. Unless there are a lot of stupid cutscenes. Widescreen for movies: yes, for games: just say no. Though maybe party games may work better? For most games I don't see an advantage...
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Even though the name was a joke, I think it is cool. Certainly goes with the Linux penguin theme, don't you think?
For a variety of reasons, the Debian package maintainers modify the codebase before they put it on Debian's package system. Apparently the license for the Firefox name and logos doesn't allow this, so they told Debian to either stop modifing the source or change the name and logos. They did.
No, Apple coined the term PC--meaning personal computer, a generic term for computers meant to be used by one person at a time, unlike big iron servers which would be used by many people on terminals. What you said is like saying well MS Windows is the most popular OS, so when people say "OS", they must mean MS Windows. Que paso???
If you really want to distinguish IBM compatibles running MS Windows from other PCs, then just call it a "Wintel" or something. Or just the hardware, maybe IA32 systems, or x86 systems if you don't think they'll get the first one (which is more correct)
Obviously the Mac IA32 systems (they have those now?) essentialy should work the same (PCI bus and such, right?), so I don't think they need that different a title anyway. If you can slap in the same cards and use the same binaries if they have the same OS installed, then an IA32 system is an IA32 system.
Well, apparently they've been exchanging some freaky kinky stuff, so a lot more people became interested really fast.
If it is more stable (with a bunch of pages up--that is the way I browse), I'm sold!
The only question is, how do you get .debs/apt-get on a Slackware system? Or is there a more universal program to do that? (one which combines and supports rpms, debs and slack packages) That is the true Linux holy grail...
I am not enthusiastic about this site either, but I don't think it is fair to complain if this guy copies Wikipedia software/content. After all, didn't the article say the guy starting Citizendium also helped found wikipedia? So he would be copying what was part his, yes?
I wish, but I don't want to buy a PS2 and end up dealing with Sony's "it falls apart after a few months of normal use" problems.
And that is what sucks about all this proprietary crap. I should be able to buy any game and play it on any computer. (Game consoles are compters to, just restricted.)
And what will they have over Scholarpedia? At least that site has some articles, and the way they produce content seems like it would be quite reliable, though slow.
I admit I haven't used that site very much, and it seems a crapshoot if a given subject will have articles right now, but will Citizendium even be worth looking at? Wikipedia already has tons of info on just about everything, though it could be inacurate. Scholarpedia will have highly accurate articles, but probably not on every possible thing. Where does this new site fit? I guess we will see...
Interesting. That could be a useful site. Here is an example I tried. Linux kernel syscalls in user space. :)
Yeah, just like your mama's vagina.
It is not just money (but the $500 goes to verisign, not MS). They have to be a commercial entity with a Class 3 Commercial Software Publisher Certificate from Verisign--read the article pointed to by the ancestor poster.
So they can eventually turn it off.
From the article:
So on 64 bit systems, it is already this way.Read the ancestor post's article closely.
For a long time I have talked about the features they are going to add to DRM. Such as this one: requiring signed drivers for everything. But microsoft shills modded me a troll.
Maybe some will listen now.
So you are saying Reiserfs has an unmaintainable codebase? Then you point to a Suse story where it basicly says reiserfs sucks (did when I tried it a few years ago), and suse may have kept it, but Mr Reiser refuses to update version 3. Well, now maybe suse will fork version 3. Though this convinces me even more that maybe it should just be trashed. There are plenty of other filesystems out there, and ext2/3 are good enough for many uses. It sucks to lose lots of work, but it happens all the time.
About the mailing list, sounds like they got emotional. Nothing suprising, as many people do when they are so close to a tragedy. I imagine the other coders will be back in operation after they pull themselves together. They may need a few weeks.
Same with Mr Reiser if he gets out--this arrest just sounds like standard police procedure. Maybe they will stick a charge to him (reguardless of wether or not he is guilty), but it is hard to say. Then again, his wife may just show up, or they'll find her body and discover someone else did it.
I suppose it is possible they will drop their work, but as long as someone is there to pay them, I'm sure they'll stay with it. This news may have slowed the development, but I'm not so sure this project will fall apart. This event hasn't made it much more likely, though it did sound like it was having some trouble before, but Theo de Raat (sp?) is an asshole too, and OpenBSD is still going strong.
If your job somehow depends upon this project, believe me, you will find a way to make it work. I certainly don't see the drivers falling apart and not working on updated kernels any time soon. Even if no one maintains it. At the very least, you will have plenty of warning in case you need to switch filesystems.
I am talking about a right wing nutcase church/cult who took over an entire state's government (In fact, they established it). Maybe they didn't burn me alive, but they poisoned be, which among other things, led to me having kidney failure and two strokes. Now I get to be chained to a machine 9 hrs/day and and only be active for two or so. Your life is pretty much over when you have to be laying down for at least 20 hours out of the day. These people have killed before. (at least one famous massacre 100 years ago, and I did hear there are quite a high number of "suicides" and "hunting accidents") though now they are playing the criminal game where they use legal technicalities and such.
The feds don't seem to care. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Bush is giving them the thumbs up on the sick things they do. Certainly there, freedom of religion is out the window. They may have to play with legal technicalities (no stoning people out in the open streets), but they are playing the taliban game.
Yes, but how long until they close that hole?
I don't understand what all the doom and gloom is about. Even if Reiser is convicted, it won't destroy open source. I seriously doubt it will even destroy the reiserfs project or even change its name. Do you think the judge will somehow make his code illegal?
Anyone can take over the project, and since it is obviously very popular, undoubtedly there will be plenty of smart people who want to take it over. Maybe there will be a few forks, but as open source has shown, competition is a good thing. You get to choose the best one.
It is nice to have the fantasy of people being untouchable supercoders and leaders, however the reality is: just about everyone is going to be replaceable, even Linus Torvalds. There may be some geniuses who may need several people to replace them, but they are still replaceable.
If Hans or his wife was your personal friend or parent or whatever, then my condolences, no matter how this turns out, you are probably going through a rough time. However, if you are just worried about the project, then don't worry, there is no reason to do so.
Religious extremists who take control of the local government and pass laws to attempt elimination of all who don't belong to their religion or those who don't follow their religion.
For example, one of their clerics declared that everyone over 25 and single was a "menace to society." So they set about plans to try and eliminate all housing which housed people who where over 25. First the nearby religious university changed their rules for off campus[1] housing. It required all people living in said housing would have to be a student. Nearly all other housing was considered "family" and most of them wouldn't rent to single people. This made housing very scarce if you weren't married and not a student.
Then a few years later, the city council decided to pass some "parking laws", which essentially eliminated quite a bit more housing for non-student singles. It meant you couldn't have any roommates. And you needed a really good job to afford your own apartment around there. (The employers paid almost nothing for jobs.) The real parking problems were mostly caused by the university not having enough lots. There were a few "off campus housing" complexes which did have parking problems, but as far as I could see, they were never touched. This was the point I became homeless.
[1] - Off campus housing has nothing to do with the university. It is just the places their students happen to live. The students were required to live only in housing which followed the university's rules. Since the majority of single people in the area were going to this university, nearly all single housing in the area were bound by these rules, and even if you didn't go to that school, you were required to sign a contract and follow those rules to live in those complexes.
No dude, that isn't the really bad story. Like this one time, like that small and impotent company, oh man that last joint really screwed my memory, dude. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Mickey's Shaft they like paid this really hot girl to have sex with one of the kernel developers, she like had to go into his parent's mouldy basement and everything. Really gross. Anyway she really screwed him hard, and like he thought he was all cool and everything, so like he stopped messing with his like computer and like duuudddee what happened to Linux? It like sucked!
The the other Linux dudes, they like totally snaked some penguins from like the south pole, you know? and they made the penguins like violate this really knarly surfer dude, and so he like lost all confidence and like started living in his parents basement and everything. So they like give him a Linux computer and all saying like they're really sorry, so he starts playing with it like all day--he doesn't surf anymore dudes, it sucks. So like he becomes this major linux hacker, and you know, dudes! Linux rulez now!!! Yeah!
It's funny, because I was thinking of Godwining this thread with Nazi research. Would someone really turn down a treatment if they learned the doctor came up with it using Nazi reasearch? I doubt it. Likewise, I don't see why someone would throw away a filesystem because of an incident completely unrelated to its development.
Can you ever really be sure anyone is 100% guilty. Putting someone in prison or even just marking their record as guilty is not a fair thing for someone who is innocent. ...and I would say giving someone a life sentance is at least as bad as execution. Sure, they may get out of prison sometime, however what kind of life will they be able to lead?
There are worse things than prison. Because I was over 25 and single, the local taliban essentially made it so I would have all sorts of problems, including being poisoned. I will have kidney failure and the damage from 2 strokes for the rest of my life. I have to be chained to a dialysis machine for 9 hrs/day, and because of the strokes, I can't be active (meaning doing things like walking) for more than 2 or so hrs/day. Much less if I carry something heavy, and now anything over 10 lbs is "heavy." I didn't even do anything wrong--just tried to live my life. So I didn't go to their church. Is that and the constant harrasment they gave me fair "punishment"? Is it not worse than prison or death?
Now the US justice system is supposed to make things fair, or at least reasonable. It is designed to let people go if there is any excuse to do so, because holding or punishing someone when they are innocent is a crime in itself. So I think the question should be: If someone has gone through all the stringent requirements for being declared guilty, should they not be punished for their apparent crime? At least so long as the punishment is resonable for said crime and it is a real crime?
So I guess we're calling any post which disagrees with you a hyperbole?
So you are saying Pac-Man was a pretty version of Tetris? Donkey Kong? What about Unreal or Unreal Tournament? Or Quake? Doom? Those games may have had something resembling a story or plot, however they were pretty much a joke. Gamers loved those games because they had fun gameplay and some of them had an immersive environment.
I used GTA as an example because of the gameplay, not the perspective. In fact, the only version I played was GTA 2, and it had a satellite view likely due to limitations of the machines it played on. The artifical view certainly made it less immersive--how often are you floating 100 feet above your body?
I also don't think you understand what makes an RPG. That genre is more or less based on the principle of the user creating a character and working with the character to make it grow. Any stories are usually for explaining why the character is there or give the character something to do. They are often simplistic at best, but accepted because the story isn't the reason the game was bought in the first place.
There are very few videogames where the story isn't total laughable crap. Warcraft 2 is one, however the story is in the manual, not the game.
When I complain about cutscenes, I am saying nothing should stop gameplay. Ever. I don't mind the villan chatting away or clues being given or something being presented, however I should still be able to control my character. They should just play the sound clip and let me hack away at the beast.
...and then you go into the fixed camera of the Resident Evil games? Have you ever tried to play them??? I had #3 and Zero, and the fixed camera made moving and targeting quite difficult. Yeah, I suppose this series was one exception where the story was a great compliment to the game. However the interface didn't work. Just look at all the complaints about the "tank" like interface.
What about card games? They are nothing like a movie. They have no plot. From what I've seen, my mother seems to play them the entire time she is home, and she is retired, so that is a lot of time. If the game doesn't entertain her, then why does she play it so much. The only other games she plays are hangman, the memory game (where you match blocks with the same symbol), some sort of line game, and a codebreaker game. None of those have movie qualities or have a story. I know these are the only games she plays because I fix her computer nothing else is installed.
I know video games and movies are not realistic. I was talking about realizm of the objects and such. No one is going to belive a game which is just made up of simple geometric shapes and blobs...unless that is part of the game. If you use characters which look like real people or at least some reasonable facsimile, trees, mountains, dirt paths and such, the user will be much more likely to believe the environment.
By the way, you separate paragraphs using the <p> tag.
You obviously have no clue why most people play video games. Most real gamers hate cut-scenes and "stories". They break up gameplay and add no real value. People play games to have interactive fun, not watch a movie.
Camera placement should be first person (meaning where your avatar's eyes are looking, the camera points. You are supposed to be seeing through your avatar, not staring at his/her ass.)
Visual composition in games is just recreating real world objects in a realistic fashon. If it is a decent game, the user will be able to control where the camera goes and what it looks at. If you have decent models, then it will be no different than the real world. If the user wants to look at a tree or arch rock formation, he/she can do so. Having the game follow tracks like a train can make the user have a good visual experience (and make it easy to program), but that method sucks.
Editing and pacing---what editing? This is an interactive thing, not a bunch of video clips. Similar problem with pacing, but you can control pacing somewhat with how many enemies (or whatever interactive elements) are in the game. Films won't help much there--good testers will tell you if the pace is too intense or to slow, however the user should have the option to set how intense the game should be--plenty of games have easy/hard options. In the end the user will control where the game goes and the speed of travel--unless you made a non-interactive train. Why do you think GTA was so succesful? Because you could do anything you want. If you want to join gang A or B, go for it. If you want to just putter around jacking cars and beating up people, the programmers said, "have fun." None of that "you have to go from point A to B then C, oh look a monster, press the X button until it is dead."
Lighting may be the only place you could have a point, but I think just putting in realistic lighting, or where the machine can't handle so many lights, just use the standard light in the sky technique.
Movies and video games are completely different things. Whenever AI becomes developed enough for interactive characters, they won't be getting inspiration from films, but great books and those who write them. The things movies could "offer"--jiggling boobs and explosions don't need great sources of "inspiration" anyway.
The non-gamers who don't want to play a game, but just sit and watch can buy movies.
Then why not have a jack for computer monitors instead of HDTV?
Then why not just put a VGA jack instead of HDTV? Computer monitors are more common and generally have all the advantages you stated in one way or another.
Widescreen being optional, however I'm not sure why someone would want widescreen for video games anyway. You are usually (should be) concentrating on the action. The 4:3 ratio is much better for action. Unless there are a lot of stupid cutscenes. Widescreen for movies: yes, for games: just say no. Though maybe party games may work better? For most games I don't see an advantage...