The good thing is, you won't find tape all over your living room. And DVD players are a bit harder to stuff with food. But that may be a non-issue around age 5? I forget.
MS needs to find and add some sort of "must have" feature before people will be willing to jump.
Support. Should be pretty easy to add percieved value by simply treating users of the older OS'es worse, maybe realising patches to them even slower, even letting a few known spyware gates linger. And complete abandonment, of course, as soon as it is legally feasible.
Of course you need a basic understanding of math to use a calculation device, but calculators can obscure the details. It is possible to understand, say for integration/derivation, what it does and when to apply it, without actually knowing the spesific rules for exponentation, division, etc.
(I am also not convinced that "+25% free" means anything at all.)
Prosedy^H^H^Hidure^H^H^H^H^H^Hcadu^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Computer generated content is kind of promising in that regards. It won't do proper art, but it is used succesfully for simple level design in roguelikes.
To be fair, he did mention Huffman compression only once, and what he meant was that the most commonly used letters are shorter to type than the more infrequent ones.
Well, maybe you don't want to own it? You wouldn't be releasing it under the GPL if you wanted to strictly enforce your sole ownership of it. Different if you are offering the code non-GPL'ed for a fee. Hm... What is the legal status on that? Would you have to refuse any patch contributions, or would you have people sign away their right to the code, or contact all contributors and ask for permission?
No, it will make big game companies to get broad patents for their game, and then release the same game for 17 years, with no fear of competing products actually improving on the genre And independant development cost skyrockets when you have to have to produce ridiculous workarounds for problems that have perfectly common-sense solutions, not to mention, the more patents, the more expensive patent research.
Or, potentially, religious or political scriptures that are otherwise illegal to obtain in your country. Then again, if you live in such a country, you probably get no such thing as 'reasonable doubt' and 'fair trial'. Still, nice to have the tech around for when USA flip over and unleash the tought police.
Where there's a will, there's a way, no?:) Really, though, AI is a complex subject, but that does not mean it wont suck noticably worse if it is downprioritized. Out of curiosity, are there any open source projects with decent AI out there?
It allows you to stop playing the game if it stops being fun? Granted, 20$ sounds a bit on the expensive side, but 10$ for 2 hours entertainment does not sound that bad. Hm... worse when you factor in the initial purchase of the console.
A lot of people have good game ideas, and a lot of game programmers would love to challenge themselves writing damn good AI's. Thing is, the designers need to sell their game ideas to a company, and because of today's huge development costs, they are very cautious of funding a game they're not sure will sell. (Leaving mostly licenced games, doom clones, and fad genres, like MMORPG's) The programmers are given resource allowances, both in time spent on development, and cpu and memory usage. In FPS's it will be deprioritized for graphics. (Good AI doesn't show up in screenshots.) Sure, they will hype their revolutionary AI, but words are cheap. When was the last time an AI lived up to the promises? But, hey, by the time you discover that, you already bought the game! If there is an percieved interest in innovation and believable foes, and if rehashes stop selling, games will be made to accommodate the market.
(This is my understanding of things, I Am Not A Game Programmer. All above info may be wrong.)
There are very few plants in service that were built after Chernobyl lost containment, and none of those are in the USA - the "univac mainframe" is what you have.
And it is all we will get if people do not appreciate the differences in security and efficiency between the new designs and the old ones. Chernobyl made it really difficult to get people to accept the building of new and more secure reactor plants to relieve and eventually replace the old, shoddy ones.
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The good thing is, you won't find tape all over your living room. And DVD players are a bit harder to stuff with food. But that may be a non-issue around age 5? I forget.
A company consists of the people working in it, and all of them have moral obligations and rights, as individuals and as a group.
MS needs to find and add some sort of "must have" feature before people will be willing to jump.
Support.
Should be pretty easy to add percieved value by simply treating users of the older OS'es worse, maybe realising patches to them even slower, even letting a few known spyware gates linger.
And complete abandonment, of course, as soon as it is legally feasible.
In the "public perception" way.
Of course you need a basic understanding of math to use a calculation device, but calculators can obscure the details. It is possible to understand, say for integration/derivation, what it does and when to apply it, without actually knowing the spesific rules for exponentation, division, etc.
(I am also not convinced that "+25% free" means anything at all.)
Oh, yeah. From the article:
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It can also move on its own accord
Spooky!
User files should have their own partition anyway, separate from the programs.
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Computer generated content is kind of promising in that regards. It won't do proper art, but it is used succesfully for simple level design in roguelikes.
To be fair, he did mention Huffman compression only once, and what he meant was that the most commonly used letters are shorter to type than the more infrequent ones.
Well, maybe you don't want to own it? You wouldn't be releasing it under the GPL if you wanted to strictly enforce your sole ownership of it. Different if you are offering the code non-GPL'ed for a fee. Hm... What is the legal status on that? Would you have to refuse any patch contributions, or would you have people sign away their right to the code, or contact all contributors and ask for permission?
No, it will make big game companies to get broad patents for their game, and then release the same game for 17 years, with no fear of competing products actually improving on the genre
And independant development cost skyrockets when you have to have to produce ridiculous workarounds for problems that have perfectly common-sense solutions, not to mention, the more patents, the more expensive patent research.
Or, potentially, religious or political scriptures that are otherwise illegal to obtain in your country. Then again, if you live in such a country, you probably get no such thing as 'reasonable doubt' and 'fair trial'.
Still, nice to have the tech around for when USA flip over and unleash the tought police.
You already know, they'd have the child and then try to lovingly beat the gay out of him/her.
Are you still talking about sexual preference?
Which, of course, is a really good argument for allowing genetic diversity.
Where there's a will, there's a way, no? :)
Really, though, AI is a complex subject, but that does not mean it wont suck noticably worse if it is downprioritized.
Out of curiosity, are there any open source projects with decent AI out there?
It allows you to stop playing the game if it stops being fun?
Granted, 20$ sounds a bit on the expensive side, but 10$ for 2 hours entertainment does not sound that bad. Hm... worse when you factor in the initial purchase of the console.
A lot of people have good game ideas, and a lot of game programmers would love to challenge themselves writing damn good AI's. Thing is, the designers need to sell their game ideas to a company, and because of today's huge development costs, they are very cautious of funding a game they're not sure will sell. (Leaving mostly licenced games, doom clones, and fad genres, like MMORPG's)
The programmers are given resource allowances, both in time spent on development, and cpu and memory usage. In FPS's it will be deprioritized for graphics. (Good AI doesn't show up in screenshots.) Sure, they will hype their revolutionary AI, but words are cheap. When was the last time an AI lived up to the promises? But, hey, by the time you discover that, you already bought the game!
If there is an percieved interest in innovation and believable foes, and if rehashes stop selling, games will be made to accommodate the market.
(This is my understanding of things, I Am Not A Game Programmer. All above info may be wrong.)
There are very few plants in service that were built after Chernobyl lost containment, and none of those are in the USA - the "univac mainframe" is what you have.
And it is all we will get if people do not appreciate the differences in security and efficiency between the new designs and the old ones.
Chernobyl made it really difficult to get people to accept the building of new and more secure reactor plants to relieve and eventually replace the old, shoddy ones.
So, could you do something useful with a structured light source and a structured receiver? Or would you just get redundant information?