Let's move to Antarctica -- if everyone's against that (I know it's cold, but think of the overclocking you could do on stock air cooling!) we could always build a giant barge from old PC's (it would also be a functional beowulf cluser).
I'm not sure I'm understanding him clearly... it sounds to me like he's not just making one game without a story, but sticking to an ideal that he's going to be different by making no games with stories. The way I see it, stories CAN be an integral part to a game -- it depends on the type of game though. Let's say you're playing DDR... it's not the type of game that would go well with a story ("Okay... uhm... street-toughs took your girl and you have to dance to free her!"). Now, take that same "story = bad" mentality and apply it to a game like Half-Life ("I have a gun... uh... I guess I'll go shoot some people....'nah, I'll just sit here at my desk and sip coffee -- a resonance cascade is only theoretical anyways"). Story can make or break a game, but it whole-heartedly falls on the game type.
I personally enjoy story games, particularly open-ended or multi-pathed ones where there is a good base story but your character doesn't stick to a script.
Stories in games are like stories in movies -- if the cinematography is a certain type, it's fine to not have a story... but it is not possible to apply a blanket policy of story/no story to every piece of film.
Exactly, open source is just a tool. Like guns. Guns don't kill people, dangerous minorities do (it's from Family Guy). Tools may make it easier, put it takes people with malicious intent to do harm (3 people in my town got stabbed last year... I blame knives... sitting around all pointy like that, it's a wonder we're not ALL dead!).
I've been driving with a Creative Nomad (well, now it's a Zen Sleek) since I started driving over 5 years ago... it's never caused me to be in an accident. It's called common sense -- use it! "Oh, I want to find that one album by so-and-so and play it right now teheheheh" Well, have your passenger do it / pull over into a parking spot or onto the shoulder / hit the "next track" button until you hear it (Creative has a menu action when a song is playing called "play album"... I'm guessing there's an iPod equivalent) / decide that not getting in an accident is a little more important than listening to some certain song. Personally, I use my sense of touch instead of sight when I'm using my Creative while driving -- I think it's a very simple thing to do, iPods don't need to scan your retinas in order to change the song or up the volume... so in theory, iPod users should be able to do the same (in fact, I know they can because I've seen friends do it).
Didn't you see the article summary? It's not coincidence that the chip is "the size of a grain of rice". You know that last batch of chicken fried rice you had? Yes, it has already begun... my theory is that the chip logs information on your stomach contents, then when it gets flushed back to the sewage treatment plant it updates your data -- the government increased the levels of fat and other unhealthy materials in the most eaten foods, that's what Americans are growing fatter and fatter every year. Their plan? To make Americans so fat, they cannot resist when the government comes in with force. Thankfully I only eat paint chips and mountain dew, so I'm unaffected. Ssshhh, I hear the black helicopters coming, I must make my escape.
A fellow IS worker had me clean up her computer (she had a doozy of an AdArson) didn't have Firefox on her computer so I had to install it for her and went through my 30 minute spiel about how much better it is than IE (she was like "oh I don't want this I love IE" before my speech). There are still a few (though very few) people "in the know" who use IE as their standard browser (then again, how "in the know" is she if she had to have someone else fix her computer). It amazes me that there are still people stuck on IE, even when they know about Firefox, Opera, and all the other good browsers out there. More functionality + safer + FREE = why not switch?
Basically it's the "I do it because I can". It's handy because you can run emulators on it and play NES/SNES/Genesis/etc games... but in the future (they're still working on it [I think there are 3 different developments of it]) there should be wireless support (internet!), stereo mp3 playback (right now it's just mono), and... that's all I can think of.
I'm surprised the software industry equiavalent of the RIAA didn't try to pin this on the temporary shutdown of piratebay. Honestly, you have to admit that when Nintendo comes out with a portable console that I think about buying, it is playing its cards correctly. Explanation why I don't consider handheld consoles useful to me: I'm a college student who isn't exposed to situations for long periods of time where I wouldn't be able to access a computer / real console... the DS is different because it has games I would actually want to play, it's not just a rehash of a console [two screens = different game elements!], it is pretty cheap [ouch PSP, you are expensive!], it's got built in wireless for instant LAN possibilities, and it is possible to run Linux on it [definitely an appeal to my hardcore geek side].
So they're going to target ANY RFID tag? Well aside from the fact that there're many other things with RFID tags, still comes the problem of scanning it (range on battery-less passive tags is very low and scanners to pick them up from a distance would have to be huge)... Even if a terrorist/criminal is going to go through the effort of getting a massive RFID scanner powerful enough to scan for ID tags at a distance they would still have to basically guess whether the person they were pointing at was an American or just a European carrying something with an RFID tag (assuming they're white). Without breaking the encryption, they won't know whether it's a passport, laptop, or what-not that the scanner is picking up.
Exactly. It's like (oh boy, analogy time) taking a vehicle that people really like to drive on the road and trying to make it float on water or fly. It requires a lot of adjustments to get it to work right... though it still needs to stick to the over-all original design (like the car analogy, if people mainly liked it because it was roomy and you go in and make the flying version not roomy... it's gonna piss people off). As long as Ew Blows (yes, intentionally spelled incorrectly) isn't directing the Halo movie, it has promise!
There are passive and active RFID transmitters. The ones they're referring to be used in the passports would be passive. Passive transmitters can have batteries, but these ones would not, meaning the reader would have to be very close to read them... or VERY powerful (car-sized). Furthermore, RFID chips have security protocols and they are fairly safe (nothing is unhackable). The only safety concern is the possibility that someone with either a very large and powerful reader could read you at range or someone with a smaller human-held reader could get up close to you (they would have to be RIGHT next to you... maybe even put their hand on your heiny) and read your data... they would have to break heavy encryption to read any actual information about you. They could not alter your information (depending on the type of RFID chips used, there are RW [Read-write, multiple times] and WO [write-once] flavors of RFID).
Even if it worked technologically (it doesn't), there is no business-case for it. Everyone who wanted to use it would have to buy a new monitor -- not everyone is going to use it, maybe 10% of people who want to have crisp graphics... any monitor manufacturing company would have to completely alter their process, create a chip, code the instructions, etc... a big under-taking just to hit a small target market... who wouldn't buy the product anyways because the monitors would be extremely expensive where-as the user could just spend that money on a quad-SLI system and then would be able to keep their already-awesome monitor.
It would completely depend on how they implemented it. There is pretty much NOTHING that can't be bypassed/spoofed/hacked... it's just a matter of how long it takes and how much it costs to do it.
What does nerdcore need to bring it in the the mainstream?... MATERIAL ITEMS -- yes I'm referring to "bling". With the ultra-materialistic and ego-centric minds of the masses, having a piece of "bling" makes one feel special (just like everyone else). What will the nerdcore "bling" be? Diamond-studded pocket protectors? Gold-capped braces? Keyboards with hydraulics? Segways with rims?
In all reality, I don't think nerdcore is geared to ever become mainstream... which is good, because mainstream usually means "mindless crap to please the masses and get them to buy things".
I don't think it would be very easy to just "break off" (you're talking about powerful electron-proton bonds). You could try and get the atom to bond with another atom... but it already has a pretty cozy home. A knife made of this would probably be pretty bendy at the blade... but it would still have a mean cut!
As the other reply-ee stated -- I wouldn't want to work for an employer who said "no" to me just because of my tastes in music, so in a way, it acts as a way for me to screen employers:]
"2. Never disclose any information under your profile that you wouldn't want your mother/employer/dog to know especially if you violated rule 1."
I have no problem disclosing information on the net about me -- I'm pretty much AWESOME so the only thing a potential employer would have to gain from my myspace/etc would be the knowledge that I'm a hardworker, don't drink, and I like music.
I don't care who knows any of that information about me... however, I don't put some information about myself up on the interweb, like that I'm not actually Clark Kent, I'm really supe... I mean... yes, I'm Clark Kent.
"Teachers? I've seen plenty that are just there to get their paycheck and let their union protect them from being fired."
Oh yes, they are just soooo lazy. Actually, most teachers are hard working. What teachers do you know? Both of my parents are teachers and they usually go in to work around 7 in the morning and don't get back until 5 or 6 at night. I have worked for 3 different schools through tech consultant jobs and dealt with a lot of teachers -- almost every teacher I met seemed like the hard-working type with a "make the world better"-esque goal in life. Oh yeah, it's just sooooooooooo hard for teachers to get fired -- actually, it's VERY easy for teachers to get fired (if they're not doing their job). Once they have been doing their job, they get tenure... then their job security is much more firm... however, the trade-off of long hours and low appreciation just to get tenure and then get... more low pay is not worth it (you don't have to be an economics major to realize that -- also, yes, there is NO fucking debating that their pay is low -- I, with a bachelors degree, would make more money the first year of a job than my parents currently make [they've both been working at the same school for over 30 years, both have masters degrees, and are both department heads]).
I DON'T care what people do for entertainment purposes -- watch baseball, watch bondage videos, dance, eat tub upon tub of cool whip!!! It's not about entertainment when someone gets paid over a million dollars per point (divide some professional athlete's salaries by the number of points they score) in a GAME (games are suppossed to be about fun, not money) while people in real life are dying for little to no recognition (think of all the firefighters, soldiers in Iraq, etc.) it sickens me.
What's entertaining to me? I enjoy playing games (for fun, not for millions of dollars), talking, long walks on the beach, music, dancing, singing, living life to its fullest!
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*MrSquirrel challenges you to a duel*
I cast... magic missile!
Let's move to Antarctica -- if everyone's against that (I know it's cold, but think of the overclocking you could do on stock air cooling!) we could always build a giant barge from old PC's (it would also be a functional beowulf cluser).
I'm not sure I'm understanding him clearly... it sounds to me like he's not just making one game without a story, but sticking to an ideal that he's going to be different by making no games with stories. The way I see it, stories CAN be an integral part to a game -- it depends on the type of game though. Let's say you're playing DDR... it's not the type of game that would go well with a story ("Okay... uhm... street-toughs took your girl and you have to dance to free her!"). Now, take that same "story = bad" mentality and apply it to a game like Half-Life ("I have a gun... uh... I guess I'll go shoot some people. ...'nah, I'll just sit here at my desk and sip coffee -- a resonance cascade is only theoretical anyways"). Story can make or break a game, but it whole-heartedly falls on the game type.
I personally enjoy story games, particularly open-ended or multi-pathed ones where there is a good base story but your character doesn't stick to a script.
Stories in games are like stories in movies -- if the cinematography is a certain type, it's fine to not have a story... but it is not possible to apply a blanket policy of story/no story to every piece of film.
Or if you're into gambling, now might be a good time to switch to stocks. The stock market is just legalized gambling anyways.
Censor me once, shame on you. Censor me twice, *censored*.
Exactly, open source is just a tool. Like guns. Guns don't kill people, dangerous minorities do (it's from Family Guy). Tools may make it easier, put it takes people with malicious intent to do harm (3 people in my town got stabbed last year... I blame knives... sitting around all pointy like that, it's a wonder we're not ALL dead!).
I've been driving with a Creative Nomad (well, now it's a Zen Sleek) since I started driving over 5 years ago... it's never caused me to be in an accident. It's called common sense -- use it! "Oh, I want to find that one album by so-and-so and play it right now teheheheh" Well, have your passenger do it / pull over into a parking spot or onto the shoulder / hit the "next track" button until you hear it (Creative has a menu action when a song is playing called "play album"... I'm guessing there's an iPod equivalent) / decide that not getting in an accident is a little more important than listening to some certain song. Personally, I use my sense of touch instead of sight when I'm using my Creative while driving -- I think it's a very simple thing to do, iPods don't need to scan your retinas in order to change the song or up the volume... so in theory, iPod users should be able to do the same (in fact, I know they can because I've seen friends do it).
First rule of driving -- don't be an idiot!
Didn't you see the article summary? It's not coincidence that the chip is "the size of a grain of rice". You know that last batch of chicken fried rice you had? Yes, it has already begun... my theory is that the chip logs information on your stomach contents, then when it gets flushed back to the sewage treatment plant it updates your data -- the government increased the levels of fat and other unhealthy materials in the most eaten foods, that's what Americans are growing fatter and fatter every year. Their plan? To make Americans so fat, they cannot resist when the government comes in with force. Thankfully I only eat paint chips and mountain dew, so I'm unaffected. Ssshhh, I hear the black helicopters coming, I must make my escape.
A fellow IS worker had me clean up her computer (she had a doozy of an AdArson) didn't have Firefox on her computer so I had to install it for her and went through my 30 minute spiel about how much better it is than IE (she was like "oh I don't want this I love IE" before my speech). There are still a few (though very few) people "in the know" who use IE as their standard browser (then again, how "in the know" is she if she had to have someone else fix her computer). It amazes me that there are still people stuck on IE, even when they know about Firefox, Opera, and all the other good browsers out there. More functionality + safer + FREE = why not switch?
Basically it's the "I do it because I can". It's handy because you can run emulators on it and play NES/SNES/Genesis/etc games... but in the future (they're still working on it [I think there are 3 different developments of it]) there should be wireless support (internet!), stereo mp3 playback (right now it's just mono), and... that's all I can think of.
I'm surprised the software industry equiavalent of the RIAA didn't try to pin this on the temporary shutdown of piratebay. Honestly, you have to admit that when Nintendo comes out with a portable console that I think about buying, it is playing its cards correctly. Explanation why I don't consider handheld consoles useful to me: I'm a college student who isn't exposed to situations for long periods of time where I wouldn't be able to access a computer / real console... the DS is different because it has games I would actually want to play, it's not just a rehash of a console [two screens = different game elements!], it is pretty cheap [ouch PSP, you are expensive!], it's got built in wireless for instant LAN possibilities, and it is possible to run Linux on it [definitely an appeal to my hardcore geek side].
So they're going to target ANY RFID tag? Well aside from the fact that there're many other things with RFID tags, still comes the problem of scanning it (range on battery-less passive tags is very low and scanners to pick them up from a distance would have to be huge)... Even if a terrorist/criminal is going to go through the effort of getting a massive RFID scanner powerful enough to scan for ID tags at a distance they would still have to basically guess whether the person they were pointing at was an American or just a European carrying something with an RFID tag (assuming they're white). Without breaking the encryption, they won't know whether it's a passport, laptop, or what-not that the scanner is picking up.
Exactly. It's like (oh boy, analogy time) taking a vehicle that people really like to drive on the road and trying to make it float on water or fly. It requires a lot of adjustments to get it to work right... though it still needs to stick to the over-all original design (like the car analogy, if people mainly liked it because it was roomy and you go in and make the flying version not roomy... it's gonna piss people off). As long as Ew Blows (yes, intentionally spelled incorrectly) isn't directing the Halo movie, it has promise!
There are passive and active RFID transmitters. The ones they're referring to be used in the passports would be passive. Passive transmitters can have batteries, but these ones would not, meaning the reader would have to be very close to read them... or VERY powerful (car-sized). Furthermore, RFID chips have security protocols and they are fairly safe (nothing is unhackable). The only safety concern is the possibility that someone with either a very large and powerful reader could read you at range or someone with a smaller human-held reader could get up close to you (they would have to be RIGHT next to you... maybe even put their hand on your heiny) and read your data... they would have to break heavy encryption to read any actual information about you. They could not alter your information (depending on the type of RFID chips used, there are RW [Read-write, multiple times] and WO [write-once] flavors of RFID).
Surely you have seen the video of the monkey (okay, an ape) playing Ms. PacMan:p lay-ms-pacman-186031.php
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/retro/watch-a-chimp-
Even if it worked technologically (it doesn't), there is no business-case for it. Everyone who wanted to use it would have to buy a new monitor -- not everyone is going to use it, maybe 10% of people who want to have crisp graphics... any monitor manufacturing company would have to completely alter their process, create a chip, code the instructions, etc... a big under-taking just to hit a small target market... who wouldn't buy the product anyways because the monitors would be extremely expensive where-as the user could just spend that money on a quad-SLI system and then would be able to keep their already-awesome monitor.
It would completely depend on how they implemented it. There is pretty much NOTHING that can't be bypassed/spoofed/hacked... it's just a matter of how long it takes and how much it costs to do it.
What does nerdcore need to bring it in the the mainstream?... MATERIAL ITEMS -- yes I'm referring to "bling". With the ultra-materialistic and ego-centric minds of the masses, having a piece of "bling" makes one feel special (just like everyone else). What will the nerdcore "bling" be? Diamond-studded pocket protectors? Gold-capped braces? Keyboards with hydraulics? Segways with rims?
In all reality, I don't think nerdcore is geared to ever become mainstream... which is good, because mainstream usually means "mindless crap to please the masses and get them to buy things".
*sarcasm detector explodes*
I don't think it would be very easy to just "break off" (you're talking about powerful electron-proton bonds). You could try and get the atom to bond with another atom... but it already has a pretty cozy home. A knife made of this would probably be pretty bendy at the blade... but it would still have a mean cut!
I have a strange urge to possess a gadget that can measure the level of this "gadget disease" in people.
I guess it's a good thing NASA doesn't outsource.
As the other reply-ee stated -- I wouldn't want to work for an employer who said "no" to me just because of my tastes in music, so in a way, it acts as a way for me to screen employers :]
Your rules need ammending:
"2. Never disclose any information under your profile that you wouldn't want your mother/employer/dog to know especially if you violated rule 1."
I have no problem disclosing information on the net about me -- I'm pretty much AWESOME so the only thing a potential employer would have to gain from my myspace/etc would be the knowledge that I'm a hardworker, don't drink, and I like music.
I don't care who knows any of that information about me... however, I don't put some information about myself up on the interweb, like that I'm not actually Clark Kent, I'm really supe... I mean... yes, I'm Clark Kent.
"Teachers? I've seen plenty that are just there to get their paycheck and let their union protect them from being fired."
Oh yes, they are just soooo lazy. Actually, most teachers are hard working. What teachers do you know? Both of my parents are teachers and they usually go in to work around 7 in the morning and don't get back until 5 or 6 at night. I have worked for 3 different schools through tech consultant jobs and dealt with a lot of teachers -- almost every teacher I met seemed like the hard-working type with a "make the world better"-esque goal in life. Oh yeah, it's just sooooooooooo hard for teachers to get fired -- actually, it's VERY easy for teachers to get fired (if they're not doing their job). Once they have been doing their job, they get tenure... then their job security is much more firm... however, the trade-off of long hours and low appreciation just to get tenure and then get... more low pay is not worth it (you don't have to be an economics major to realize that -- also, yes, there is NO fucking debating that their pay is low -- I, with a bachelors degree, would make more money the first year of a job than my parents currently make [they've both been working at the same school for over 30 years, both have masters degrees, and are both department heads]).
I DON'T care what people do for entertainment purposes -- watch baseball, watch bondage videos, dance, eat tub upon tub of cool whip!!! It's not about entertainment when someone gets paid over a million dollars per point (divide some professional athlete's salaries by the number of points they score) in a GAME (games are suppossed to be about fun, not money) while people in real life are dying for little to no recognition (think of all the firefighters, soldiers in Iraq, etc.) it sickens me.
What's entertaining to me? I enjoy playing games (for fun, not for millions of dollars), talking, long walks on the beach, music, dancing, singing, living life to its fullest!