In the supermarket there is music while you work
It drives you crazy, sends you screaming for the door
Work there for a year or two and you can get to like it
I don't work in supermarkets anymore
- from Instant Mash by Joe Jackson 1979
I will be avoiding supermarkets with this garbage in the aisles.
Calling FUD is a little much, but your comment is otherwise a sane response and a good summary of the subject, thanks.
Re:It's today's version of the slide projector
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Good source images and judicious use of photoshop features can produce very good b&w from color images. The main trick is to use a channel mixer adjustment layer instead of just converting the image to greyscale.
Agreed, Slashdot should an easy "thumbs up" moderation for all users. Just give editor a magical +1000 thumb so that small but worthy stories can make it to the front page.
From an article on Korea and the popularity of Starcraft:
On July 22 last year, 16,251 fans gathered at a baseball stadium in Pusan for the All-star game. At the same moment, around six times more people packed Kwanganni beach in the port to see another professional competition _ the online game ``Starcraft.''
Of course online gaming will become a spectator sport. The question is when will it happen?
How will producers make it compelling and fun to watch?
The games themselves will need to be modded for spectators with extra cameras, slow motion replays, avatar close-ups with specially modelled expressions.
And the players will need to be larger than life, their games will be perfomances, their interactions with teammates and other teams will become storylines on the "field" and fleshed out by what happens between games. Rivalry, comraderie, tradgedy will all be played out in this new world for the amusement of TV and online viewers.
If baseball, golf and spelling bees can be spectator events then online gaming will eventually eclipse them all. The producers just need to figure out how to make it work.
Even when a game requires solitary play, the complete game experience will benefit from online integration.
- Updated in-game content like maps, modules, puzzles, soundtracks, etc.
- Before/after game chat lounge
- High score boards
- Tips and hints
- Player generated content
- ???
Offline gaming is to online gaming as CDROM is to Web.
How many of us are still using that dusty old Encarta install to look up info on the Soviet Union? I don't know anyone still using CDROMs for information. Everyone goes online to the web to do research.
I don't know how long it will take, but the same thing will happen with gaming. Online gaming will annihilate offline console gaming.
Humans are social creatures, we are wired to enjoy interaction with other people. Playing with or *around* other people is more exciting. Playing FPS games like Battlefield and Halo feel offline feels like running around a ghost town compared to playing online.
And all interaction doesn't have to be intense, fast paced competition. There are plenty of non-competitive online casual games that let players just hang out together. Pogo.com is a good example of that type. You can chat with other players, see their status and you see alerts when they win big jackpots.
It remains to be seen if they can provide a rich enough experience, but Microsoft is on the right track with online gaming. Offline consoles are a dead end.
3D Buildings are simple grey projections of major city buildings overlayed on the city map. They don't look great yet, but they are fun.
I found Vegas by accident and compiled this list from previous answers.
Las Vegas New York San Francisco Boston Cleveland Denver Atlanta
From Google: Google Earth has 3D buildings listed in a number of major US cities including Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; and Washington, D.C. to name a few. To view these:
1. Turn on the 3D building layer by selecting the check box in the dashboard.
2. Position the viewer within a reasonable viewing altitude over a major city such as San Francisco. The 3D buildings start to appear from an eye-elevation of 10-12,000 feet. Check the eye-elevation meter on the lower right of the 3D viewer to determine your current viewing height. The 3D buildings appear as light grey objects over the imagery of the city. As you zoom in, more details will appear until you can see the entire shape of a building.
3. Use the tilt and rotate tools to get the best view of the buildings.
Supermodel Sandwich is not redeemed by its music, it has leaden, clunky lyrics set in a boring midtempo disco tune.
I considered some of the silly things the Beatles wrote, but even when they were silly, their lyrics had great cadence and rythmn. Lovely Rita is a great example of silly words that flow and sound wonderful despite their silliness. Not to mention some of the best melodies ever written.
It's true, Terence/Sananda was forced at gunpoint to write and release "Supermodel Sandwich". Here are some lyrics from that classic:
Supermodel Sandwich by Terence/Sananda
You're so fine what's your solar sign?
Yield the right of way she said without delay
Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame
Supermodel sandwich would you let me hang?
It's ironic that he invokes the Beatles. At the time he was quoted as saying that his album was better than Sargeant Pepper.
His nonsense aside, p2p and podcasting are great for the indies. I bought two indie albums last week from http://albumlunchbox.com/ that I could only have heard through the internet.
You nailed the idea, that's what's important. The talk/NPR quote stood out to me because that's how I felt about podcasting when I first started listening. There are a ton of boring blah-ggers in this stone-age of podcasting.
I subscribe to the $250 Million Radio Show, too. A new show just popped up about a week ago.
Great post, Spoing. I think you just have one glitch in there.
If you don't like blogs, and could care less about talk radio or public radio, podcasting is a waste of time for you.
My two favorite podcasts are music shows and they don't sound like talk radio at all. I highly recommend Coverville and The Sounds In My Head. Both are very well produced and showcase fantastic music with very little talk between songs.
Yes, webcast could be used to describe these audio RSS enclosures but that term is really too broad. There are distinct properties of something labeled a "podcast" which make the term useful. Podcasts are always downloadable in a format you can use on most MP3 players. Webcasts are usually streamed with in a format to prevent you from downloading them. It's difficult to listen to a webcast if there isn't a computer nearby. Webcasts are often low quality audio due to bandwith constraints. Podcasts currently use higher bitrates more often. Podcasts have special RSS feed reader software that automatically downloads the 'casts and adds them to a playlist on a digital audio player. The 'casts are always waiting for you so you don't have to visit a bunch of different sites to listen. The best podcast clients manage disk space like a Tivo. They delete older files according to rules like max number of files or max drive space.
Podcast is handy shorthand for these properties. I would hate to have to wade through hundreds of webcasts to try and discern which could easily be added to my RSS MP3 enclosure feed reader.
On topic -- The Battlestar Gallactica commentary feeds are a great use for podcasts. I'd love to see someone add support for these to Tivo and MythTV. I eagerly look forward to someone using this to add MST3K type commentary to state of the union addresses.
Checking out your site right now.
It would be nice if the pdf's where available in html. Looks like you're doing really fun stuff but it's hard to digest on your current site. If you want more traffic try a blog or make an overview page or two on the event with the best pics, clear links, and how to's on cool things like "dry ice comets" I'd love to try some of this with my kids. Thanks for sharing!
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It's not just that it's 'beyond people's cognitive capacities.' Concentration has inertia. The more time you are able to spend concentrated and focused on one task, the better your concentration is likely to be. 'Multi-tasking' means that most people will not give tasks the time or attention they really deserve.
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In the supermarket there is music while you work
It drives you crazy, sends you screaming for the door
Work there for a year or two and you can get to like it
I don't work in supermarkets anymore
- from Instant Mash by Joe Jackson 1979
I will be avoiding supermarkets with this garbage in the aisles.
Calling FUD is a little much, but your comment is otherwise a sane response and a good summary of the subject, thanks.
Good source images and judicious use of photoshop features can produce very good b&w from color images. The main trick is to use a channel mixer adjustment layer instead of just converting the image to greyscale.
Agreed, Slashdot should an easy "thumbs up" moderation for all users. Just give editor a magical +1000 thumb so that small but worthy stories can make it to the front page.
From an article on Korea and the popularity of Starcraft :
On July 22 last year, 16,251 fans gathered at a baseball stadium in Pusan for the All-star game. At the same moment, around six times more people packed Kwanganni beach in the port to see another professional competition _ the online game ``Starcraft.''
Of course online gaming will become a spectator sport. The question is when will it happen? How will producers make it compelling and fun to watch?
The games themselves will need to be modded for spectators with extra cameras, slow motion replays, avatar close-ups with specially modelled expressions.
And the players will need to be larger than life, their games will be perfomances, their interactions with teammates and other teams will become storylines on the "field" and fleshed out by what happens between games. Rivalry, comraderie, tradgedy will all be played out in this new world for the amusement of TV and online viewers.
If baseball, golf and spelling bees can be spectator events then online gaming will eventually eclipse them all. The producers just need to figure out how to make it work.
Even when a game requires solitary play, the complete game experience will benefit from online integration.
- Updated in-game content like maps, modules, puzzles, soundtracks, etc.
- Before/after game chat lounge
- High score boards
- Tips and hints
- Player generated content
- ???
It's limited only by the imagination
Offline gaming is to online gaming as CDROM is to Web. How many of us are still using that dusty old Encarta install to look up info on the Soviet Union? I don't know anyone still using CDROMs for information. Everyone goes online to the web to do research.
I don't know how long it will take, but the same thing will happen with gaming. Online gaming will annihilate offline console gaming.
Humans are social creatures, we are wired to enjoy interaction with other people. Playing with or *around* other people is more exciting. Playing FPS games like Battlefield and Halo feel offline feels like running around a ghost town compared to playing online.
And all interaction doesn't have to be intense, fast paced competition. There are plenty of non-competitive online casual games that let players just hang out together. Pogo.com is a good example of that type. You can chat with other players, see their status and you see alerts when they win big jackpots.
It remains to be seen if they can provide a rich enough experience, but Microsoft is on the right track with online gaming. Offline consoles are a dead end.
3D Buildings are simple grey projections of major city buildings overlayed on the city map. They don't look great yet, but they are fun.
I found Vegas by accident and compiled this list from previous answers.
Las Vegas
New York
San Francisco
Boston
Cleveland
Denver
Atlanta
From Google:
Google Earth has 3D buildings listed in a number of major US cities including Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; and Washington, D.C. to name a few. To view these:
1. Turn on the 3D building layer by selecting the check box in the dashboard.
2. Position the viewer within a reasonable viewing altitude over a major city such as San Francisco. The 3D buildings start to appear from an eye-elevation of 10-12,000 feet. Check the eye-elevation meter on the lower right of the 3D viewer to determine your current viewing height. The 3D buildings appear as light grey objects over the imagery of the city. As you zoom in, more details will appear until you can see the entire shape of a building.
3. Use the tilt and rotate tools to get the best view of the buildings.
Supermodel Sandwich is not redeemed by its music, it has leaden, clunky lyrics set in a boring midtempo disco tune. I considered some of the silly things the Beatles wrote, but even when they were silly, their lyrics had great cadence and rythmn. Lovely Rita is a great example of silly words that flow and sound wonderful despite their silliness. Not to mention some of the best melodies ever written.
Little late to reply, but you record the event with your DVR and then it would sync the commentary later. I never watch live TV anymore.
You nailed the idea, that's what's important. The talk/NPR quote stood out to me because that's how I felt about podcasting when I first started listening. There are a ton of boring blah-ggers in this stone-age of podcasting.
I subscribe to the $250 Million Radio Show, too. A new show just popped up about a week ago.
Yes, webcast could be used to describe these audio RSS enclosures but that term is really too broad. There are distinct properties of something labeled a "podcast" which make the term useful. Podcasts are always downloadable in a format you can use on most MP3 players. Webcasts are usually streamed with in a format to prevent you from downloading them. It's difficult to listen to a webcast if there isn't a computer nearby. Webcasts are often low quality audio due to bandwith constraints. Podcasts currently use higher bitrates more often. Podcasts have special RSS feed reader software that automatically downloads the 'casts and adds them to a playlist on a digital audio player. The 'casts are always waiting for you so you don't have to visit a bunch of different sites to listen. The best podcast clients manage disk space like a Tivo. They delete older files according to rules like max number of files or max drive space. Podcast is handy shorthand for these properties. I would hate to have to wade through hundreds of webcasts to try and discern which could easily be added to my RSS MP3 enclosure feed reader.
On topic -- The Battlestar Gallactica commentary feeds are a great use for podcasts. I'd love to see someone add support for these to Tivo and MythTV. I eagerly look forward to someone using this to add MST3K type commentary to state of the union addresses.
Checking out your site right now. It would be nice if the pdf's where available in html. Looks like you're doing really fun stuff but it's hard to digest on your current site. If you want more traffic try a blog or make an overview page or two on the event with the best pics, clear links, and how to's on cool things like "dry ice comets" I'd love to try some of this with my kids. Thanks for sharing!
It's not just that it's 'beyond people's cognitive capacities.' Concentration has inertia. The more time you are able to spend concentrated and focused on one task, the better your concentration is likely to be. 'Multi-tasking' means that most people will not give tasks the time or attention they really deserve.