When huge, already established corporate entities and institutions will have monopoly on making money, we will be thrown into another period of medieval dark ages.
Let's hope a revolution will take place before that.
When did humans lose out in significance in favour of corporations?
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Review: Spore
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· Score: 1
The biggest disappointment imo is that it's not the toy it was supposed to be. I was looking forward to and incredibly fun an educational experience, as seen here:
Sadly, nearly all of the dynamic, procedural, scientific and in-depth content is removed from the game that was released.
I so wanted to shape my own planet and play with a fully dynamic ecosystem, but everything about that is either removed or reduced to a static command.
It's a series of linear mini-games with a couple of static actions in each. Not even the only sandbox environment left, the creature editor, is fully dynamic anymore, using canned animations with just a little interpolation instead of something fully procedural.
The released game is sadly stuck between being a toy and a game, without being educational at all now.
If I can't invent without being stifled, why should anyone else? How about finding a way, doing the right thing, doing it for humanity?
I mean, if you won't and instead do what you said you would, you're no better than the loathesome trolls and in that case, what do you contribute to society?
Sadly, not many are willing to put in the effort required to do great things, so it becomes even harder for those few who try.
Me and my father have probably together bought over 500 games since the days of the Commodore 64. Even back then, the pirates were better off:
A store bought a game took up a whole tape and was slow to load. If pirated, you could fit dozens of games on a single tape and they all had fast, home brewed "turbo" loaders.
The only difference today, is that the corporations have gotten greedier.
Granted the investments may be bigger, but then again, the budget title and indie scene is thriving so well that that it's broken into the mainstream (with Microsoft and Nintendo offering indie titles for purchase online, and even then there's cell phones and the iPhone with their breed of titles).
So I wonder, if we legitimate users get fed up of being treated like thieves by the companies, will the situation only get worse if we stop paying them?
With the amount of money the industry (despite piracy) have generated since the 80s, the corporations have gotten so big and powerful, that they have the power to put the blame where they want, and DRM and the DMCA proves that they can essentially lobby consumers into a situation that I would like to call being a slave to capitalism.
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WinXP on a Mac, Hoax?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Narf has claimed to be using a partial CMS implementation, which to me sounds a lot cleaner and faster than BIOS emulation lifted from Bochs (last time I checked, that emulator was slow as hell, and people claim that the BIOS in Bochs have trouble with Linux and BeOS).
The reason I want XP on my Apple hardware is because the application I use professionally isn't availible on OS X (yet) and then, of course... games.
I do think Windows works for the most part, but when you have been using it every day for years, it's the little things that get to you (like windows moving themselves on top of other windows, focus stealing applications, inability/slow killing of zombie processes, slow-downs due to leftover files from uninstallations, etc. etc. etc). I'm hoping that OS X is as clean as BeOS (which I used until Be died) and won't even need a reinstall, merely a wipe of a/home/ dir.
Well, Arthur C Clarke said:
"Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I think it might be amongst his 'laws of science'...
Yup, found them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
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Johnny Depp would make a great Spike.
But if they change the soundtrack, I don't care who plays him, because I probably won't watch the movie.
When huge, already established corporate entities and institutions will have monopoly on making money, we will be thrown into another period of medieval dark ages.
Let's hope a revolution will take place before that.
When did humans lose out in significance in favour of corporations?
The biggest disappointment imo is that it's not the toy it was supposed to be. I was looking forward to and incredibly fun an educational experience, as seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dvMDFOFnA
Sadly, nearly all of the dynamic, procedural, scientific and in-depth content is removed from the game that was released.
I so wanted to shape my own planet and play with a fully dynamic ecosystem, but everything about that is either removed or reduced to a static command.
It's a series of linear mini-games with a couple of static actions in each. Not even the only sandbox environment left, the creature editor, is fully dynamic anymore, using canned animations with just a little interpolation instead of something fully procedural.
The released game is sadly stuck between being a toy and a game, without being educational at all now.
I mean, if you won't and instead do what you said you would, you're no better than the loathesome trolls and in that case, what do you contribute to society?
Sadly, not many are willing to put in the effort required to do great things, so it becomes even harder for those few who try.
Me and my father have probably together bought over 500 games since the days of the Commodore 64. Even back then, the pirates were better off:
A store bought a game took up a whole tape and was slow to load. If pirated, you could fit dozens of games on a single tape and they all had fast, home brewed "turbo" loaders.
The only difference today, is that the corporations have gotten greedier.
Granted the investments may be bigger, but then again, the budget title and indie scene is thriving so well that that it's broken into the mainstream (with Microsoft and Nintendo offering indie titles for purchase online, and even then there's cell phones and the iPhone with their breed of titles).
So I wonder, if we legitimate users get fed up of being treated like thieves by the companies, will the situation only get worse if we stop paying them?
With the amount of money the industry (despite piracy) have generated since the 80s, the corporations have gotten so big and powerful, that they have the power to put the blame where they want, and DRM and the DMCA proves that they can essentially lobby consumers into a situation that I would like to call being a slave to capitalism.
Narf has claimed to be using a partial CMS implementation, which to me sounds a lot cleaner and faster than BIOS emulation lifted from Bochs (last time I checked, that emulator was slow as hell, and people claim that the BIOS in Bochs have trouble with Linux and BeOS).
/home/ dir.
The reason I want XP on my Apple hardware is because the application I use professionally isn't availible on OS X (yet) and then, of course... games.
I do think Windows works for the most part, but when you have been using it every day for years, it's the little things that get to you (like windows moving themselves on top of other windows, focus stealing applications, inability/slow killing of zombie processes, slow-downs due to leftover files from uninstallations, etc. etc. etc). I'm hoping that OS X is as clean as BeOS (which I used until Be died) and won't even need a reinstall, merely a wipe of a
Well, Arthur C Clarke said: "Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I think it might be amongst his 'laws of science'... Yup, found them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws