There's a book that covers this. It's a science fiction book that explores a society that emerges when a freely available, perfectly portable surveillance technology emerges. It's based on projections of light-transmitting wormholes that can be put up *anywhere*, even in your house. Now, of course the initial usages are obvious, but once the novelty of "hee, I can look at people in their bathroom" wears off, the society becomes increasingly uncaring about the old social stigmas and shames. The technology also extends into time, letting people see what real history is like, rather than the history people accept, filtered through thousands of years of alterations.
Though it destroys many people's faiths of famous figures of the past, it also constructs a society where the shames have shifted from transient things like sexuality.
It's called "The Light of Other Days", and it was a collaboration between Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
Aren't these companies in the business of making better cars too? Sure that Magic Carburator doesn't exist. But you know what? Maybe they ought to make it exist. They can put billions of dollars into designs for cars, why not work on making the individual parts better while they're at it?
The fact is, they don't want to make it better, because that means people won't buy as many cars.
The industry's position is always the worst for the customer.
The only impression I got out of that was that she had no idea what half the stuff they were saying meant.
Especially. "The games will be on regular CD"
At the size they're using (12 cm), they would be wise to use DVD data density. I imagine that it is, and this marketdroid just doesn't know what the difference is.
And if she didn't understand something that important, maybe she didn't have any official word and just played it by ear. Whoops.
I remember that too. I think the problem was, even with using the 64's graphics capabilities, one couldn't feasibly live-render FF7's cutscenes. If they had made that game, it'd end up taking a stack of cartridges just to get in all the content. I remember the nightmare switching cd's for Riven was. Imagine, go back to Midgard and the game comes up with a box that says "Please insert cartridge 3". No, that wouldn't work. But NOW, maybe it might be feasible to just create textures and wireframes, map files, and just render the entire areas. The upside to that would be, it would even look better than it did on the PSX.
I do it all the time in windows. this is an XP-only solution, but meta-l-s or logout/switch user leaves your windows untouched to open an admin account. And if that's too much work, there's a 'Run As' box that (on my system) automatically appears when something that requires admin powers to install is run. Not to mention you can also do something like I do, install it in a folder with it's ACL set to child inheritance and rwx for your user account, which doesn't even require admin power to install in.
So it's not as hard as you make it out to be, but requires a little bit more setup.
Actually, from what I remember about viruses, they are NOT mobile. They have no flagella or cilia to self-locomote. Rather, they allow whatever medium's natural motion move them. Blood motion and sneezing being the two bodily motions it capitalizes on the most.
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Mjolner is the armor, Spartan II is the SpecOps force. And both are descriptive of the purpose of each component of the NavSpec project.
There's a book that covers this. It's a science fiction book that explores a society that emerges when a freely available, perfectly portable surveillance technology emerges. It's based on projections of light-transmitting wormholes that can be put up *anywhere*, even in your house. Now, of course the initial usages are obvious, but once the novelty of "hee, I can look at people in their bathroom" wears off, the society becomes increasingly uncaring about the old social stigmas and shames. The technology also extends into time, letting people see what real history is like, rather than the history people accept, filtered through thousands of years of alterations.
Though it destroys many people's faiths of famous figures of the past, it also constructs a society where the shames have shifted from transient things like sexuality.
It's called "The Light of Other Days", and it was a collaboration between Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
Wait until the wave function collapses.
Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors...
Stop rocking the boat.
Aren't these companies in the business of making better cars too? Sure that Magic Carburator doesn't exist. But you know what? Maybe they ought to make it exist. They can put billions of dollars into designs for cars, why not work on making the individual parts better while they're at it? The fact is, they don't want to make it better, because that means people won't buy as many cars. The industry's position is always the worst for the customer.
The only impression I got out of that was that she had no idea what half the stuff they were saying meant.
Especially. "The games will be on regular CD"
At the size they're using (12 cm), they would be wise to use DVD data density. I imagine that it is, and this marketdroid just doesn't know what the difference is.
And if she didn't understand something that important, maybe she didn't have any official word and just played it by ear. Whoops.
None of you have posted in 4chan's b section, have you. THAT is the finest example of anonymous surfing's drawbacks.
Now we need the Death Star, a glass supermall, and Lucius Warbaby.
I remember that too. I think the problem was, even with using the 64's graphics capabilities, one couldn't feasibly live-render FF7's cutscenes. If they had made that game, it'd end up taking a stack of cartridges just to get in all the content. I remember the nightmare switching cd's for Riven was. Imagine, go back to Midgard and the game comes up with a box that says "Please insert cartridge 3". No, that wouldn't work. But NOW, maybe it might be feasible to just create textures and wireframes, map files, and just render the entire areas. The upside to that would be, it would even look better than it did on the PSX.
Seems he ascribes to the David Lister school of beer drinking. Which is to say, the best way.
On second thought, quaffing means the beer doesn't end mostly soaked into your current shirt and pants, from that description.
I do it all the time in windows. this is an XP-only solution, but meta-l-s or logout/switch user leaves your windows untouched to open an admin account. And if that's too much work, there's a 'Run As' box that (on my system) automatically appears when something that requires admin powers to install is run. Not to mention you can also do something like I do, install it in a folder with it's ACL set to child inheritance and rwx for your user account, which doesn't even require admin power to install in.
So it's not as hard as you make it out to be, but requires a little bit more setup.
Actually, from what I remember about viruses, they are NOT mobile. They have no flagella or cilia to self-locomote. Rather, they allow whatever medium's natural motion move them. Blood motion and sneezing being the two bodily motions it capitalizes on the most.