The AI is dumbed down. Etc, etc. These are facts - look it up
I have, and the AI in Halo, a console shooter, is some of the most sophisticated of any FPS. You can see this by viewing technical talks about the AI, or by just playing the game. They are leaps and bounds ahead of nearly every other FPS, console OR PC.
Your red dwarf and muppets tapes are protected under the time shifting ruling many years ago, that established that taping shows off of broadcast tv is not infringement. I also personally believe that the only people engaging in semantics are those who say that downloading music/movies isn't theft. Yes, to the letter it may no be, but you're enjoying a commodity without paying for it (and it otherwise isn't free), which is in spirit theft.
Predictions like this have been made in past, and not even come close. This one is no different. The bottom line is that humans process some information in a non-representational way, while computers must operate representationally. So even if the computation theory of mind is true, a microchip can't mimick it. Hubert Dreyfus has wrote a great deal on this topic, and provides extremely compelling arguments as to why we'll never have human type AI. Of course, AI can do a lot of "smart" things and be extremely sophisticated, but it will never pass am unrestricted turring test.
You seem to be positing an argument that violence negates art. Not the case. I reference Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Silence of the Lambs and more... all acclaimed movies that use violence/man's inhumanity to man as the central driver for their plots
Violence isn't driving the plot, the internal character struggles are. Violence may be a part of the whole to enhance the theme, but it's not the core of the movie. Violence is the core of many games, as the gameplay portion is what people buy the games for. You play games to PLAY a game, not watch it or hear it or read it.
Only if videogames learn to use gameplay mechanisms that don't involve violence. Right now, the majority of videogames are violent, whether that be shooting, punching, or stomping enemies. If the games industry were hollywood, this would belike having 70% of the films be action movies. Of course, 70% of movies are not action movies. Video games need to diversify.
Not everybody is even good at the gameplay mechanisms required. Portal is intellectually challenging with its puzzles, but the coordination required makes it hard for a lot of people to play it. I think adventure games had this right all allong: a simple interface, gameplay that involves puzzle solving and curiosity, and the opportunity to create a good story driven by the player. Instead we have shoot shoot, a cutscene with story here, shoot shoot more shooting.
You can simply download an older version of quicktime, like 7.3.x, and use the package extractor Pacifist to install the older version. I had issues with the update, and went back this way. Totally fixed the problems.
Your 1080p HDTV is probably not bigger than 60 inches, while in a theatre, the screen is 25 feet long. If you were to display a 1080p signal 25 feet across, it certainly will not look as good as a 35mm projection of the same size. Conversely, 35mm projected to 60 inches will absolutely look better than an HDTV signal.
The original negative is rarely ever touched, except to make more intermediate positives. Even when they remastered the star wars trilogy, they did so from the intermediate positives made from the negative. The original negative should stay in good shape for a very long time, as it's really only accessed to make intermediate positives, usually 3 or so after the negative has been cut. You can always make more inter-negs and release prints from these, which means that the negative will probably NOT degrade due to usage, but from the natural wear of the dyes.
Also, the line in the article regarding digital editing is incorrect. Films are edited in digital form on the computer, but the edit decision list is given to a negative cutter who cuts the negative. There is no loss of quality editing digitally.
The point I was trying to make, is that the PC version of Orange box did not suffer at all from the existance of the console version. You argued that because bioshock was for PCs AND Consoles, the game suffered on the PC side. This does not have to be the case.
All of the failed game mechanics mentioned can be at least partially because of their multiplatform status (console vs. PC). That's not a line to toe with first person perspective play, as console are vastly inferior in that regard (except, maybe the Wii)
That's the fault of the developer then, not the platform. Look at orange box. Plays wonderfully on both the 360, and the PC.
Life's 90% work and 10% play. The kids that learn that early on have a better chance at being successful and self-controlled.
Says you! Some people happen to have jobs that are... FUN! You know, the movie stars, the skydiving insturctors, the mythbusters, and maybe just maybe video game developers?
If your child has an intrest in video games, I think it's entirely possible to make that into a career someday.
One thing you're forgetting is that american auto workers are the most efficient in the world. Per worker, put out more cars than any other country. Highly trained and paid workers are efficient, which saves a company money.
I think the game deserves the praise it gets. It was a lot of fun, and very original. But as far as storytelling goes, I don't think it's fair to heap the praise. For one thing, the story is extremely simplistic. It's a story of survival and not much else. It's along the lines of Half Life, in that it's essentially action, connected by plot points. There are no complex relationships or emotional character struggles. It's all manifested physically, essentially a run and (portal)gun action movie. As an interactive world, it is fantastic, but as a story, it's rather simple. Compare the characters in Portal (or even HL2) to those in say, Metal Gear Solid, and they are shallow by comparison. Where portal and HL2 succeed, it that they give us so much with so little. However, there is only so far you can go unless spice up the world with non-interactive elements.
My 500mhz G4 with an upgraded graphics card (64MB Radeon 8550) works with Quartz extreme. So while no stock mac under 800mhz can run it, those like me are left out in the cold.
Please stop with the whole EVIL mantra. Serving flash ads is not EVIL. Murder, rape etc are EVIL. Google might be doing something DUMB or LAME, but it's not EVIL.
It's interesting to hear this argument, when I don't know of any videogame that actually DOES explore, in depth and in complexity, homosexuality, for that matter, a heterosexual relationship. The complexity of relationships in even the best videogame, does not compare AT ALL to that of the best cinema. At best, all I've seen in videogames is the equivilent of a fairly tale love story. There aren't really any standouts that I know of.
But yes, perhaps it is a problem. If I wanted to make a game about the horrors of children in combat, that might require the player to target and kill children. From what I gather, this is a huge no-no for the ESRB. This is probably because of what I elude to above: there really aren't any games that use violence and sex in a way that is socially enlightening, and so they are percieved as a less serious medium. So it's sort of a catch 22: you can't make provocative games (and have them rated properly) unless you're taken seriously, yet you can't be taken seriously unless your games are provocative...
What are you talking about? Get a TV with rabbit ears, and flip around. There's quite a few different stations you can pick up. Every major broadcast channel, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS etc still does this.
Yeah, we were founded by scoffing at unjust, unfair and immoral laws. The idea that you shouldn't steal copyrighted work doesn't quite seem to fit in those catagories...
1 to 1 copies don't work? That's odd, because I've made a disk image of a DVD in OS X and burned it (using a dual layer burner), and had it play absolutely fine in a DVD player. Not once did I crack the CSS.
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There will never be proper industry controls in China. Do you honestly think the Party will allow workers to unionize?
The AI is dumbed down. Etc, etc. These are facts - look it up
I have, and the AI in Halo, a console shooter, is some of the most sophisticated of any FPS. You can see this by viewing technical talks about the AI, or by just playing the game. They are leaps and bounds ahead of nearly every other FPS, console OR PC.
Your red dwarf and muppets tapes are protected under the time shifting ruling many years ago, that established that taping shows off of broadcast tv is not infringement. I also personally believe that the only people engaging in semantics are those who say that downloading music/movies isn't theft. Yes, to the letter it may no be, but you're enjoying a commodity without paying for it (and it otherwise isn't free), which is in spirit theft.
What prevents a computer from emulating this "non-representational" processing? Or is the human brain not subject to the laws of physics?
Because computers MUST use representation in order to compute. Those 1s and 0s have to stand for something.
Predictions like this have been made in past, and not even come close. This one is no different. The bottom line is that humans process some information in a non-representational way, while computers must operate representationally. So even if the computation theory of mind is true, a microchip can't mimick it. Hubert Dreyfus has wrote a great deal on this topic, and provides extremely compelling arguments as to why we'll never have human type AI. Of course, AI can do a lot of "smart" things and be extremely sophisticated, but it will never pass am unrestricted turring test.
You seem to be positing an argument that violence negates art. Not the case. I reference Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Silence of the Lambs and more... all acclaimed movies that use violence/man's inhumanity to man as the central driver for their plots
Violence isn't driving the plot, the internal character struggles are. Violence may be a part of the whole to enhance the theme, but it's not the core of the movie. Violence is the core of many games, as the gameplay portion is what people buy the games for. You play games to PLAY a game, not watch it or hear it or read it.
Only if videogames learn to use gameplay mechanisms that don't involve violence. Right now, the majority of videogames are violent, whether that be shooting, punching, or stomping enemies. If the games industry were hollywood, this would belike having 70% of the films be action movies. Of course, 70% of movies are not action movies. Video games need to diversify.
Not everybody is even good at the gameplay mechanisms required. Portal is intellectually challenging with its puzzles, but the coordination required makes it hard for a lot of people to play it. I think adventure games had this right all allong: a simple interface, gameplay that involves puzzle solving and curiosity, and the opportunity to create a good story driven by the player. Instead we have shoot shoot, a cutscene with story here, shoot shoot more shooting.
It's gettign better, but it's not there yet.
Anti matter has been detected an observed. It's pretty 'real".
You can simply download an older version of quicktime, like 7.3.x, and use the package extractor Pacifist to install the older version. I had issues with the update, and went back this way. Totally fixed the problems.
As a mac user who ahs things "just work", I'm reminded of fake steve jobs' post about this... http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/news-flash-grown-man-able-to-use-xo.html#links
Your 1080p HDTV is probably not bigger than 60 inches, while in a theatre, the screen is 25 feet long. If you were to display a 1080p signal 25 feet across, it certainly will not look as good as a 35mm projection of the same size. Conversely, 35mm projected to 60 inches will absolutely look better than an HDTV signal.
The original negative is rarely ever touched, except to make more intermediate positives. Even when they remastered the star wars trilogy, they did so from the intermediate positives made from the negative. The original negative should stay in good shape for a very long time, as it's really only accessed to make intermediate positives, usually 3 or so after the negative has been cut. You can always make more inter-negs and release prints from these, which means that the negative will probably NOT degrade due to usage, but from the natural wear of the dyes.
Also, the line in the article regarding digital editing is incorrect. Films are edited in digital form on the computer, but the edit decision list is given to a negative cutter who cuts the negative. There is no loss of quality editing digitally.
Ogg takes more CPU power to decode than mp3 or AAC. That means less battery life for powerbooks/iPods/whatever.
The point I was trying to make, is that the PC version of Orange box did not suffer at all from the existance of the console version. You argued that because bioshock was for PCs AND Consoles, the game suffered on the PC side. This does not have to be the case.
All of the failed game mechanics mentioned can be at least partially because of their multiplatform status (console vs. PC). That's not a line to toe with first person perspective play, as console are vastly inferior in that regard (except, maybe the Wii)
That's the fault of the developer then, not the platform. Look at orange box. Plays wonderfully on both the 360, and the PC.
Life's 90% work and 10% play. The kids that learn that early on have a better chance at being successful and self-controlled.
Says you! Some people happen to have jobs that are... FUN! You know, the movie stars, the skydiving insturctors, the mythbusters, and maybe just maybe video game developers?
If your child has an intrest in video games, I think it's entirely possible to make that into a career someday.
One thing you're forgetting is that american auto workers are the most efficient in the world. Per worker, put out more cars than any other country. Highly trained and paid workers are efficient, which saves a company money.
I think the game deserves the praise it gets. It was a lot of fun, and very original. But as far as storytelling goes, I don't think it's fair to heap the praise. For one thing, the story is extremely simplistic. It's a story of survival and not much else. It's along the lines of Half Life, in that it's essentially action, connected by plot points. There are no complex relationships or emotional character struggles. It's all manifested physically, essentially a run and (portal)gun action movie. As an interactive world, it is fantastic, but as a story, it's rather simple. Compare the characters in Portal (or even HL2) to those in say, Metal Gear Solid, and they are shallow by comparison. Where portal and HL2 succeed, it that they give us so much with so little. However, there is only so far you can go unless spice up the world with non-interactive elements.
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My 500mhz G4 with an upgraded graphics card (64MB Radeon 8550) works with Quartz extreme. So while no stock mac under 800mhz can run it, those like me are left out in the cold.
Please stop with the whole EVIL mantra. Serving flash ads is not EVIL. Murder, rape etc are EVIL. Google might be doing something DUMB or LAME, but it's not EVIL.
It's interesting to hear this argument, when I don't know of any videogame that actually DOES explore, in depth and in complexity, homosexuality, for that matter, a heterosexual relationship. The complexity of relationships in even the best videogame, does not compare AT ALL to that of the best cinema. At best, all I've seen in videogames is the equivilent of a fairly tale love story. There aren't really any standouts that I know of.
But yes, perhaps it is a problem. If I wanted to make a game about the horrors of children in combat, that might require the player to target and kill children. From what I gather, this is a huge no-no for the ESRB. This is probably because of what I elude to above: there really aren't any games that use violence and sex in a way that is socially enlightening, and so they are percieved as a less serious medium. So it's sort of a catch 22: you can't make provocative games (and have them rated properly) unless you're taken seriously, yet you can't be taken seriously unless your games are provocative...
What are you talking about? Get a TV with rabbit ears, and flip around. There's quite a few different stations you can pick up. Every major broadcast channel, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS etc still does this.
Disclaimer: I'm in my late 20's, so maybe my concept of what was on TV in the 50's is totally hosed.
TV was cleaner, but the cinema was pretty dirty. Not in overtly obvious ways, but it was still pretty dirty.
Yeah, we were founded by scoffing at unjust, unfair and immoral laws. The idea that you shouldn't steal copyrighted work doesn't quite seem to fit in those catagories...
1 to 1 copies don't work? That's odd, because I've made a disk image of a DVD in OS X and burned it (using a dual layer burner), and had it play absolutely fine in a DVD player. Not once did I crack the CSS.