Many, if not most, game players now exclusively play online against other human beings. Other humans provide an originality to each gaming session that tends to be better than that the reactions of a computer.
So game designers have pretty much given up. Instead of having a game to challenge you, they publish games which allow people to challenge each other.
They have taken this to the point of laziness though. Game content is suffering in favour of the almighty online.
It would be nice to see a game that did let you interact with lots of people online, but was also a good game in itself. I'm not holding out much hope though.
The rich countries got rich by ruthless protectionism. Now we insist that developing countries put our current neoliberal dogma into practice. This is called kicking away the ladder.
Furthermore, I have the feeling that these women don't have any bloody saving accounts. They aren't working themselves out of poverty - at best they are working themselves out of malnutrition.
No amount of Capitalist idealism can shake the fact that we, in the west, are ruthlessly exploiting the rest of the world. And one day its going to bite us on the arse.
I wasn't refering to the web and linux as startups, but as innovations. I.e. the end products not the methods of getting there.
Whilst I'm sure profits mean a lot to those making them, they don't generally help anybody else. Its the quality of the ideas that do that. Profitable does not equate to worthy.
"If you haven't heard of a university, it's likely that it's because little research has come out of it of note."
I laughed out loud here, honestly.
The limits of your own knowledge don't make a difference to the reality of the situation.
There seems to be some kind of cultural bias (at least, amongst people like the author) that only sandal-wearing californians are capable of creating innovative IT.
Linux was created by a Finnish student.
The WWW was created by an Englishman working at a public institute in Switzerland.
Yes, i'm typing this on an Apple. But there is no technological reason I'm not typing this on an Acorn instead.
It may seem like the EU member states get on like cats in a sack, but that only tends to go so far as cultural and economic competition. Violating the privacy of European citizens in the collective interests of every EU government.
This might be getting into tinfoil hat territory, but given that it is possible to encrypt your sensitive data before sending it over a network in most cases, would you really want to take a chance?
Oh, don't get me wrong - I don't trust the US government not to do the exact same thing. I just trust the CCP even less.
Either way, I wouldn't entrust my privacy to any standard pushed by a government, as all governments are in the business of espionage.
PS Is a random number generator moderating or something?
From the article:
"This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer"
No problem! We'll just install the ability to recognise a human being in the next software version. Shouldn't take us too long.
Hey! I wear tan slacks and a blue shirt! I also make adverts as part of my job.
However, I agree with you. The power of the net is not that big corporations have another medium of transmission - they were doing just fine with TV before the internet and the web became popular - the power of it is that everyone can transmit and not just receive. That is what is threatened here.
The US government, and some corporations, see the net as simply a means to sell people things. The whole global-community-where-everyone-has-a-voice thing is just an annoying side effect to them, one they seek to eliminate.
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Many, if not most, game players now exclusively play online against other human beings. Other humans provide an originality to each gaming session that tends to be better than that the reactions of a computer.
So game designers have pretty much given up. Instead of having a game to challenge you, they publish games which allow people to challenge each other.
They have taken this to the point of laziness though. Game content is suffering in favour of the almighty online.
It would be nice to see a game that did let you interact with lots of people online, but was also a good game in itself. I'm not holding out much hope though.
This is what passes for insightful today?
The rich countries got rich by ruthless protectionism. Now we insist that developing countries put our current neoliberal dogma into practice. This is called kicking away the ladder.
Furthermore, I have the feeling that these women don't have any bloody saving accounts. They aren't working themselves out of poverty - at best they are working themselves out of malnutrition.
No amount of Capitalist idealism can shake the fact that we, in the west, are ruthlessly exploiting the rest of the world. And one day its going to bite us on the arse.
I wasn't refering to the web and linux as startups, but as innovations. I.e. the end products not the methods of getting there.
Whilst I'm sure profits mean a lot to those making them, they don't generally help anybody else. Its the quality of the ideas that do that. Profitable does not equate to worthy.
As well as 'most admired' he also said 'great' which means that 'good' is a perfectly acceptable term to summarise what he was talking about.
If you aren't American, I don't know what your problem is. You don't seem to actually have a point at all.
My comment was only meaningless to somebody who didn't understand it.
Once again, you mistake 'something you don't know' for 'something that isn't there'
I think many of the American professors referred to in the article must have had similar attitidues to yours.
The article did say just that, perhaps you should've read it.
I'm sorry if my comment offended your national pride, but everyone else seems to have considered it to be appropriate.
"If you haven't heard of a university, it's likely that it's because little research has come out of it of note." I laughed out loud here, honestly. The limits of your own knowledge don't make a difference to the reality of the situation.
There seems to be some kind of cultural bias (at least, amongst people like the author) that only sandal-wearing californians are capable of creating innovative IT. Linux was created by a Finnish student. The WWW was created by an Englishman working at a public institute in Switzerland. Yes, i'm typing this on an Apple. But there is no technological reason I'm not typing this on an Acorn instead.
The guys evidence that there aren't any good Universities in Europe, is that American professors can't name any aside from Cambridge?
Does this say more about higher education in Europe or the US?
It may seem like the EU member states get on like cats in a sack, but that only tends to go so far as cultural and economic competition. Violating the privacy of European citizens in the collective interests of every EU government.
This might be getting into tinfoil hat territory, but given that it is possible to encrypt your sensitive data before sending it over a network in most cases, would you really want to take a chance?
On what basis are European governments more trustworthy in this regard than the Chinese or US governments?
It is never a good idea to trust technology supplied to you by people with a vested interest in spying on you.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I don't trust the US government not to do the exact same thing. I just trust the CCP even less. Either way, I wouldn't entrust my privacy to any standard pushed by a government, as all governments are in the business of espionage. PS Is a random number generator moderating or something?
Isn't it possible the Chinese could be pushing an encryption standard because they know a flaw in it they can exploit?
Never mind the shuttle has trouble getting launched these days. No matter that no human being has gone further than LEO since the 1960s.
Just make sure our space tourists are well dressed and all will be well.
From the article: "This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer" No problem! We'll just install the ability to recognise a human being in the next software version. Shouldn't take us too long.
Hey! I wear tan slacks and a blue shirt! I also make adverts as part of my job.
However, I agree with you. The power of the net is not that big corporations have another medium of transmission - they were doing just fine with TV before the internet and the web became popular - the power of it is that everyone can transmit and not just receive. That is what is threatened here.
The US government, and some corporations, see the net as simply a means to sell people things. The whole global-community-where-everyone-has-a-voice thing is just an annoying side effect to them, one they seek to eliminate.