Oh, don't worry - Sony is relying on that mental bandwidth to sell the PS3. Should it fail to live to hype, most people won't notice because most people are oblivious to hype and listen only to adverts and word-of-mouth. However, should word-of-mouth turn bad - as it already has amongst geeks - then that mental bandwidth will quickly be replaced by the words "Three-Sixty" and "Wii".
You're 95% right - the majority of AMVs suck. But I gotta take issue with any sweeping blanket statements, and they wouldn't exist if at least a small minority of them weren't outright hysterical. Although you're probably not interested, ones like "Bounty Hunters who don't do Anything" is a pretty funny example of matching appropriate animation/scenes to lyrics, as well as spot-on lip synching. Additionally, it just happens to be of one of my favourite series, so it's even funnier for fans like me. It does bring some originality - especially if it completely changes the tone of the entire show. Hell, even if it doesn't benefit anyone, at the very least it's a tribute. And what part of the world ISN'T clogged with fans and fanart? YouTube just allows another logical step "forward", fan-videos.
I've often wondered how valuable these Web 2.0 products are, especially their clones which offer identical functionality, and how they'll actually grow, develop, compete, etc. and how scalable they are once they get past the 100-10,000 initial users, ramping up into the millions where bandwidth per user becomes a serious isssue.
The blame train should not stop at the first station it encounters. Nor should it go to the end of the line, where all blame inevitably falls on the species and the planet and Life in general. It should go to the heart of the issue, the cause, making only passing stops at secondary effects.
Second pretty much typifies what Slashdot is about: geek stuff and real stuff. This article fairly much sums up that the real-world businesses are moving into Second Life; it's news, it matters, it's nerdy. Slashdot has covered SL no more than it's covered Debian and "IceWeasel".
Sigh. Sadly reflective of 95% of the game world, but the other 5% is good. It's just hard to find, like on the internet itself - what is the internet if not filled with porn and idiots trying to earn a pittance of cash? The social aspect is good once you find the right kinda people. At that point it becomes a 3D chatroom. Now learn to build and collaborate. Now learn to script and mess with inworld behaviours - maybe go to your desktop, make animations and sell them inworld? There's a lot of possibilities. You've scratched the surface and not even attempted to dig into it. It's no fun and easy game, it's a world and a time investment. There's a lot to see and do, albeit a lot of it shallow. With more and more businesses setting up shop proper, hopefully it'll drive the world in a new direction.
Although honestly I'd wait before jumping back in - the world has been damn near unusable recently due to mass-griefing. Tighter security is a different issue, albeit an important one.
Second Lif is very different to the social networking sites you mentioned. They have no purpose OTHER than social networking. Second Life is more like a 3D design client and scripting engine, spliced with IRC. Many people use the former and stay for the latter.
I'd just like to pick up on your "game" point - some games are of cinematic quality, and would be enhanced by a single screen. Others, especially classics like Doom or slow-paced games like Civilization, are definitely multi-screeners. Like you said, it really comes down to usage, and different games are suited to different setups.
The best and worst forms of government are forms of dictatorship, be they by monarch, militia, or single-party constitutions. Democracy is the most mediocre system, ruling by the law of averages.
Eeey, to you as a rep of Harmonix, I just gotta say, your stuff rocks. I can't count the number of times I've replayed Amplitude. Although the network features and the weird multiplayer setup bugged me at times, damn if it don't rock. Can't wait for Guitar Hero II. Can't wait to enter the game dev/programming field myself after university.
On the early Japanese discs I owned, you could put them in a normal CD player. The first track would always be blank and of varying length (ie. data) but the rest of the disc would actually contain all the songs and music from within the game.
How could I NOT see them? It's no wonder PHP hits the top so quickly with wordlists and anti-IE rants in the same place. Also, there's a tendancy to do silly things like put said wordlists in a.php document, or to pre-organize them into an array so that another PHP script can just include it directly.
I wouldn't be suprised if some aircraft pilots have already been tested with this kind of system - in simulators only, of course, but it's ideal for any work that requires ridiculous physical pressures AND high reaction speeds. Removing the limiter of hand-eye coordination decreases lag time between identifying the problem and acting upon it.
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There's also IETab, which lets you run IE windows inside firefox tabs. Very useful for web-design, especially doing what I call the "flicker test", rapidly switching back and forth between the two to see the major differences.
That's actually a good point. To install anything on Linux, you pretty much need root access and a few years of experience working with the damnable thing. Security-wise, that's a definite advantage, requiring the user to know what they're doing. Application-wise, it's the reason I still haven't switched over. It's too damn inconvenient.
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Would that be "Dap"?
Meesa tinkin youssum be writin' a letta.
Wooja be laikin' help?
Oh, don't worry - Sony is relying on that mental bandwidth to sell the PS3. Should it fail to live to hype, most people won't notice because most people are oblivious to hype and listen only to adverts and word-of-mouth.
However, should word-of-mouth turn bad - as it already has amongst geeks - then that mental bandwidth will quickly be replaced by the words "Three-Sixty" and "Wii".
If only I had mod points. Whoever rated this troll needs to get some Tactical Espionage Action rammed up their ass.
You're 95% right - the majority of AMVs suck. But I gotta take issue with any sweeping blanket statements, and they wouldn't exist if at least a small minority of them weren't outright hysterical. Although you're probably not interested, ones like "Bounty Hunters who don't do Anything" is a pretty funny example of matching appropriate animation/scenes to lyrics, as well as spot-on lip synching. Additionally, it just happens to be of one of my favourite series, so it's even funnier for fans like me. It does bring some originality - especially if it completely changes the tone of the entire show.
Hell, even if it doesn't benefit anyone, at the very least it's a tribute. And what part of the world ISN'T clogged with fans and fanart? YouTube just allows another logical step "forward", fan-videos.
re-read the section you've quoted and I'll you see why he has to use an acronym that needs explaining.
I've often wondered how valuable these Web 2.0 products are, especially their clones which offer identical functionality, and how they'll actually grow, develop, compete, etc. and how scalable they are once they get past the 100-10,000 initial users, ramping up into the millions where bandwidth per user becomes a serious isssue.
The blame train should not stop at the first station it encounters. Nor should it go to the end of the line, where all blame inevitably falls on the species and the planet and Life in general.
It should go to the heart of the issue, the cause, making only passing stops at secondary effects.
Damnable ratling. Squig food, that's what you are.
*herds Squigs in your general direction*
Second pretty much typifies what Slashdot is about: geek stuff and real stuff. This article fairly much sums up that the real-world businesses are moving into Second Life; it's news, it matters, it's nerdy. Slashdot has covered SL no more than it's covered Debian and "IceWeasel".
Sigh. Sadly reflective of 95% of the game world, but the other 5% is good. It's just hard to find, like on the internet itself - what is the internet if not filled with porn and idiots trying to earn a pittance of cash?
The social aspect is good once you find the right kinda people. At that point it becomes a 3D chatroom. Now learn to build and collaborate. Now learn to script and mess with inworld behaviours - maybe go to your desktop, make animations and sell them inworld? There's a lot of possibilities. You've scratched the surface and not even attempted to dig into it. It's no fun and easy game, it's a world and a time investment. There's a lot to see and do, albeit a lot of it shallow.
With more and more businesses setting up shop proper, hopefully it'll drive the world in a new direction.
Although honestly I'd wait before jumping back in - the world has been damn near unusable recently due to mass-griefing. Tighter security is a different issue, albeit an important one.
This post is probably the greatest use of "Post Anonymously" ever.
What you need is some context...
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I thought only Carol and Eve were interested in their conversations.
Second Lif is very different to the social networking sites you mentioned. They have no purpose OTHER than social networking. Second Life is more like a 3D design client and scripting engine, spliced with IRC. Many people use the former and stay for the latter.
I'd just like to pick up on your "game" point - some games are of cinematic quality, and would be enhanced by a single screen. Others, especially classics like Doom or slow-paced games like Civilization, are definitely multi-screeners. Like you said, it really comes down to usage, and different games are suited to different setups.
The best and worst forms of government are forms of dictatorship, be they by monarch, militia, or single-party constitutions.
Democracy is the most mediocre system, ruling by the law of averages.
Eeey, to you as a rep of Harmonix, I just gotta say, your stuff rocks. I can't count the number of times I've replayed Amplitude. Although the network features and the weird multiplayer setup bugged me at times, damn if it don't rock. Can't wait for Guitar Hero II.
Can't wait to enter the game dev/programming field myself after university.
On the early Japanese discs I owned, you could put them in a normal CD player. The first track would always be blank and of varying length (ie. data) but the rest of the disc would actually contain all the songs and music from within the game.
How could I NOT see them? It's no wonder PHP hits the top so quickly with wordlists and anti-IE rants in the same place. .php document, or to pre-organize them into an array so that another PHP script can just include it directly.
Also, there's a tendancy to do silly things like put said wordlists in a
That and PHP is used for a lot of bulletin boards, forums, etc - the majority of those "fuck" counts would be on swearlist fliters hardcoded in.
I wouldn't be suprised if some aircraft pilots have already been tested with this kind of system - in simulators only, of course, but it's ideal for any work that requires ridiculous physical pressures AND high reaction speeds. Removing the limiter of hand-eye coordination decreases lag time between identifying the problem and acting upon it.
There's also IETab, which lets you run IE windows inside firefox tabs. Very useful for web-design, especially doing what I call the "flicker test", rapidly switching back and forth between the two to see the major differences.
That's actually a good point. To install anything on Linux, you pretty much need root access and a few years of experience working with the damnable thing.
Security-wise, that's a definite advantage, requiring the user to know what they're doing.
Application-wise, it's the reason I still haven't switched over. It's too damn inconvenient.
Try going to New Mexico. Their laws regarding homosexual age of consent.... well.
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
Just Ctrl+F for "New Mexico"