next thing you know they'll SFTP a red swingline stapler away from the wrong guy and the whole mail server will mysteriously go up in flames a day later.
For about a dollar more (including shipping) at overstock you can buy Road Warrior on physical medium thats uncompressed and higher resolution than any download they'd probably provide.
Plus they have "Batman Forever" listed for $10. I seriously hope this is just a mockup using current video pictures/prices or that they are considering paying me $10 to watch that movie.
You make good observations. A lot of older generations may not understand such experiences with a games not having played them a lot or while growing up, so there is a novelty.
I can relate to what you are describing about witnessing the remenants of a life from their activity on the internet. There is a certain black irony to that as well, given the topic of the article... in the opposite case where piece of media/game/account/data/etc survives and a person does not, that media gains an "emotional gravity or weight" instead of losing it.
to rebroaden the scope:
it is only significant to owners of possessions.
anyone else would be a subscriber to philsophies of certain buddhist or taoist sects and probably wouldn't have possessions to begin with. Besides, you can buy a new XBox, it is a lot more difficult (and expensive) to duplicate the physical terrain of a destroyed golf course.
And having everything gone is a lot different then the inconvience of needing a battery.
I suppose I should have verbalized the concept more clearly:
... They smash that universal belief that objects intrinsically carry some emotional gravity or weight.
As the article suggests that the physical destruction of a piece of media reminds us that the media doesn't really possess "emotional gravity or weight", I am suggesting that the irrevercible loss of the media's local data can achieve the same effect.
Consider me insensitive, but how does it take a hurricane to realize this? You can get the same effect from having an SNES cartridge battery die, losing a memory card, or looking at a 200 hour FF7 game save years later and thinking about that lost excessive time. At least that's how I reacted to all of the above.
I also don't understand how this is a specific to games. Any person who has survived a catastrophe (hurricane, fire, car collision) can realize the insignificance of material posessions when they walk out of wreckage with the important stuff, like their life and health.
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Virtural surgery is not a new concept...I remember being in Junior High School and having the option in science class to disect a frog or to use a program on a 386 to move around.bmp's of a frog's anatomy.
The 3D model is an interesting way to put the MRI / CAT data on a computer screen (and far better than the.bmp's of a frog's organs) but what advantage (besides eye-candy) does this offer over looking at the raw MRI or CAT results?
One thing that could make this a great learning tool is an interesting interface that would help one practice a surgery with something more than a mouse or touch screen. Nintendo and Altus have already created a toy that does this, a far more intricate and realisitic version could be of use:
http://ds.ign.com/objects/695/695152.html
Jeez, the guy says the s*** word once and he can't get a break. He was perfectly paying attention to the three (yes, three!) things blair was talking about in order to give that response, profanity or not. Now he's blocking an investigation which must mean he had to read something to realize an investigation on those papers is a bad idea. Someone give this man a medal for all the hard work and stop the bullying.
"We may do an open-source version of some elements of our software, as a way of allowing more people to benefit from and contribute to that particular area of functionality. But in general we are not an open-source play," Maritz says. ...
"The battle is shifting beyond Windows and Linux," he says. "Google isn't concerned about what executes down on the client machine, whether it's Windows or Linux. The action has moved up a level....It's occurring in applications that reside in the broader Web. The interesting innovations are going to occur around different ways to organize and share and access information."
I don't think he really understands "the battle". A web app can run on any system but being closed-source can hinder the sharing and accessing information if the developer isn't thoughtful. Google seemed to care about the client machine when they ported Picassa to linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/26/031022 9 and also managed to aid the open-source community by adding to WINE http://code.google.com/wine.html even when developing their own proprietary software.
A colleague of mine majors in Mathematics and Computer Science and I major in Music and Computer Science. He told me one day that he thought math was most closely related to computer science. I had to argue, saying that math was more closely related to music due to the extensive use of pattern relations (sequences, etc). While this also applies to a computer, I told him CS more closely matched philosophy, where languages (for a human or computer) break down to consensual binary logic. Additionally, it seems that all problems in computer science are solvable by adding (the right) layer of abstraction. In this regard, one could group CS, philosophers, and modern physicists as those who work to find new ways of thinking to solve current problems.
Was the point to produce full-fledged software or to give students a chance to learn more? If google wanted finished and functional software, I'm sure they'd hire the experts to get it done in time. The point of the summer of code is to grant computer science students the opportunity to do something in their field for a summer job instead of flipping burgers.
So before you call the Summer of Code a failure, question what the student workers _learned_ instead of how many stable releases they built.
The navigation systems, in-car entertainement systems (DVD players, etc.), finite oil supplies, and reasearch in self-driving automobile technologies makes me question if we're actually leaning toward an obfuscated train made out of
"smart" cars. Is the focus with these technologies to help us drive or to help us ride?
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I read "pom poms" as "porn porns". That'll makes for a serious double take when you hit "pipe cleaners".
next thing you know they'll SFTP a red swingline stapler away from the wrong guy and the whole mail server will mysteriously go up in flames a day later.
At least with the publishers it was more like price gouging. Ad-based e-text books seems more like exploitation of that price gouging.
Plus they have "Batman Forever" listed for $10. I seriously hope this is just a mockup using current video pictures/prices or that they are considering paying me $10 to watch that movie.
You make good observations. A lot of older generations may not understand such experiences with a games not having played them a lot or while growing up, so there is a novelty.
I can relate to what you are describing about witnessing the remenants of a life from their activity on the internet. There is a certain black irony to that as well, given the topic of the article... in the opposite case where piece of media/game/account/data/etc survives and a person does not, that media gains an "emotional gravity or weight" instead of losing it.
it is only significant to owners of possessions.
anyone else would be a subscriber to philsophies of certain buddhist or taoist sects and probably wouldn't have possessions to begin with. Besides, you can buy a new XBox, it is a lot more difficult (and expensive) to duplicate the physical terrain of a destroyed golf course.
And having everything gone is a lot different then the inconvience of needing a battery.
I suppose I should have verbalized the concept more clearly: As the article suggests that the physical destruction of a piece of media reminds us that the media doesn't really possess "emotional gravity or weight", I am suggesting that the irrevercible loss of the media's local data can achieve the same effect.
Consider me insensitive, but how does it take a hurricane to realize this? You can get the same effect from having an SNES cartridge battery die, losing a memory card, or looking at a 200 hour FF7 game save years later and thinking about that lost excessive time. At least that's how I reacted to all of the above. I also don't understand how this is a specific to games. Any person who has survived a catastrophe (hurricane, fire, car collision) can realize the insignificance of material posessions when they walk out of wreckage with the important stuff, like their life and health.
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The 3D model is an interesting way to put the MRI / CAT data on a computer screen (and far better than the .bmp's of a frog's organs) but what advantage (besides eye-candy) does this offer over looking at the raw MRI or CAT results?
One thing that could make this a great learning tool is an interesting interface that would help one practice a surgery with something more than a mouse or touch screen. Nintendo and Altus have already created a toy that does this, a far more intricate and realisitic version could be of use: http://ds.ign.com/objects/695/695152.html
wild amazonians purchase rights to stolen boy!
movies of this exploit to be sold online, leaving authorities confused and aghast!
stocks plummet.
Jeez, the guy says the s*** word once and he can't get a break. He was perfectly paying attention to the three (yes, three!) things blair was talking about in order to give that response, profanity or not. Now he's blocking an investigation which must mean he had to read something to realize an investigation on those papers is a bad idea. Someone give this man a medal for all the hard work and stop the bullying.
I don't think he really understands "the battle". A web app can run on any system but being closed-source can hinder the sharing and accessing information if the developer isn't thoughtful. Google seemed to care about the client machine when they ported Picassa to linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/26/031022 9 and also managed to aid the open-source community by adding to WINE http://code.google.com/wine.html even when developing their own proprietary software.
A colleague of mine majors in Mathematics and Computer Science and I major in Music and Computer Science. He told me one day that he thought math was most closely related to computer science. I had to argue, saying that math was more closely related to music due to the extensive use of pattern relations (sequences, etc). While this also applies to a computer, I told him CS more closely matched philosophy, where languages (for a human or computer) break down to consensual binary logic. Additionally, it seems that all problems in computer science are solvable by adding (the right) layer of abstraction. In this regard, one could group CS, philosophers, and modern physicists as those who work to find new ways of thinking to solve current problems.
So before you call the Summer of Code a failure, question what the student workers _learned_ instead of how many stable releases they built.
The navigation systems, in-car entertainement systems (DVD players, etc.), finite oil supplies, and reasearch in self-driving automobile technologies makes me question if we're actually leaning toward an obfuscated train made out of "smart" cars. Is the focus with these technologies to help us drive or to help us ride?
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