I've been working on a "campaign setting" or just "setting" recently. The premise is somewhat similar to "Ready Player One" which was recommended to me as a book to read after I started working on the idea with a friend.
The concept is basically that ephemeralization leads to a lack of demand for labor. Traditional "employment" reduces comparably, there's just not enough demand for human labor to keep the majority of people employed. Even the usual industries that can expand in those circumstances (entertainment, service, research) are full to capacity with people fighting for these jobs.
Technology has advanced such that really elaborate and complex MMO-games are fairly diverse and fairly common; games much bigger and more robust than Eve, Second Life, or World of Warcraft. And as such, the market for digital goods and services is huge through these games. Gold farming like we already see in China essentialy becomes a basic profession of the poor. Gathering raw materials, refining resources, and day trading of goods on the in-game markets become basic careers. Other less acceptable careers as privateers, mercenaries, adventurers, brigands, and bandits also crop up to some degree. Wealthy individuals in the real world can spend just a little bit of their money on the game to be powerful kings and queens, to buy goods and services, and to control the games they play. So the wealth sort-of trickles down from the real world into the game world, with everybody taking a cut.
Wait, Rym has a facebook? I thought he was all "heh, you kids and your facebooks. Why would I ever need one of those?"
Might not really be him, I suggest.
EDIT - No, I must be mistaken, I don't know if there are fake-ryms on facebook anymore, and I don't doubt there are people who look somewhat like him in a thumbnail sized picture, doubtless there are other people who share at least one combination of his names. Eh, Mea Culpa, either way, I should have remembered, foolish boy.
The rabbit hole gets deeper. Facebook recommended me Emily as a friend. XD
Yeah, Facebook is creepy that way. I remember WindUpBird mentioning how he got FRCF people recommended to him even though he wasn't already friends with ANYONE from here.
The rabbit hole gets deeper. Facebook recommended me Emily as a friend. XD
Yeah, Facebook is creepy that way. I remember WindUpBird mentioning how he got FRCF people recommended to him even though he wasn't already friends with ANYONE from here.
Mmmmmmmyep. Also, it gets creepier. You can use the friend finder and select friends to base the search on. I just tried that using Sail and Churba as my two mutual contacts. If you're on Facebook, and you network with people from this board at all, I found your profile.
What is someone made that optimus keyboard (the one with screens in every key) using e-ink? That would be so much more power efficient but would still have the same benefits.
What is someone made that optimus keyboard (the one with screens in every key) using e-ink? That would be so much more power efficient but would still have the same benefits.
The nature of E-ink makes it rather unsuitable for use on such areas due to the fact that the screens have to be small, there need to be a lot of them, and they need to react with some rapidness. E-ink is quite slow to refresh (which is fine for a book) and animation is pretty much impossible.
Edit: Not to mention the fact you wouldn't have colors and that energy consumption isn't the biggest drawback (it's the high cost).
They do? I can't really envision why they need to react quickly. I don't think the point of the keyboard is to play animations, it is to have the ability to easily change layouts and have customizable buttons.
energy consumption isn't the biggest drawback (it's the high cost).
Is e-ink that expensive? More expensive that OLED?
They do? I can't really envision why they need to react quickly. I don't think the point of the keyboard is to play animations, it is to have the ability to easily change layouts and have customizable buttons.If you hold down Cmd and Alt, it changes every key to what it will do, so you can see what is going to happen. OSX has a "keyboard viewer" app that lets you see this onscreen already, and the Optimus Keyboard takes that functionality to the keyboard itself.
They do? I can't really envision why they need to react quickly. I don't think the point of the keyboard is to play animations, it is to have the ability to easily change layouts and have customizable buttons.
energy consumption isn't the biggest drawback (it's the high cost).
Is e-ink that expensive? More expensive that OLED?
Looking at a Nook, and a Nook Color ... the Nook with e-ink is incredibly easy to read, and I like it a lot. The color is just another tablet. Which I also like.
I get annoyed when people make computer history claims that are inaccurate. The most recent one I read was someone claiming that Windows 3.1 was the "first real version of Windows" because it was the first version that was a complete operating environment that didn't require a separate version of DOS. This is untrue -- Windows 95 was the first mainstream one that didn't require a separate version of DOS. Hell, Windows NT 3.1 came out after regular Windows 3.1 and was the first of the Windows line that includes XP, Vista, and 7 and it also came out before Windows 95.
Another thing that annoys me is people misunderstanding the differences between the 386DX and 386SX, mostly due to confusion when comparing it to the 486 family. The difference between the 486DX and 486SX was that the math coprocessor on the 486SX was disabled. However, this is different from the 386es because none of them had on-chip math coprocessors -- you had to purchase a separate 387 coprocessor if you wanted accelerated floating point. The difference between the 386DX and 386SX is that the SX only had 24 bits of physical address space, just like the older 286, giving it a theoretical maximum RAM of 16MB. The DX had the full 32-bit physical address space for a theoretical maximum RAM of 4GB. In fact, Intel designed the 386SX so that it was more or less plug-compatible with the 286 while letting you run 386 software as the SX and DX were pretty much identical internally. They did this in the early days of trying to squash AMD and other chip cloners who were making 286 chips that were significantly faster than Intel's 286es and even some of their 386es at running ordinary DOS software.
There are probably a few more things that annoy me, but I can't remember them right now.
Dealextreme is has US and UK warehouses now so it won't take a Goddamn month for everything to get shipped. Not everything is in them yet, because they just got them but its still nice. Just thought you guys would be interested.
Dealextreme is has US and UK warehouses now so it won't take a Goddamn month for everything to get shipped. Not everything is in them yet, because they just got them but its still nice. Just thought you guys would be interested.
Oh yeah, NOW it gets the US warehouses, AFTER I ordered that SATA cable. I have the best timing, don't I?
Dealextreme is has US and UK warehouses now so it won't take a Goddamn month for everything to get shipped. Not everything is in them yet, because they just got them but its still nice. Just thought you guys would be interested.
Oh yeah, NOW it gets the US warehouses, AFTER I ordered that SATA cable. I have the best timing, don't I?
Well, its only certain items so you might not have horrible timing. In the future just make sure you check if its in a US warehouse first, and separate orders from the US and China so its faster.
Really? As far as I know here at NMU they don't give a fuck. Unless you're like torrenting shit or something illegal, everything is free game. Yay 'merca.
Really? As far as I know here at NMU they don't give a fuck. Unless you're like torrenting shit or something illegal, everything is free game. Yay 'merca.
I'm not sure how they could possibly enforce that shit. I mean, inappropriate is entirely subjective; I could claim that I find puppies lewd and offensive and report my roommate. And don't get me started on the incredibly shaky "definition" of pornography.
You can buy them, but they are hella expensive. I've only seen them at Meijer here in Michigan. I've always bought the polish ripoff brand because they were like a third of the price.
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The concept is basically that ephemeralization leads to a lack of demand for labor. Traditional "employment" reduces comparably, there's just not enough demand for human labor to keep the majority of people employed. Even the usual industries that can expand in those circumstances (entertainment, service, research) are full to capacity with people fighting for these jobs.
Technology has advanced such that really elaborate and complex MMO-games are fairly diverse and fairly common; games much bigger and more robust than Eve, Second Life, or World of Warcraft. And as such, the market for digital goods and services is huge through these games. Gold farming like we already see in China essentialy becomes a basic profession of the poor. Gathering raw materials, refining resources, and day trading of goods on the in-game markets become basic careers. Other less acceptable careers as privateers, mercenaries, adventurers, brigands, and bandits also crop up to some degree. Wealthy individuals in the real world can spend just a little bit of their money on the game to be powerful kings and queens, to buy goods and services, and to control the games they play. So the wealth sort-of trickles down from the real world into the game world, with everybody taking a cut.
I've been having some fun with the idea.
EDIT - No, I must be mistaken, I don't know if there are fake-ryms on facebook anymore, and I don't doubt there are people who look somewhat like him in a thumbnail sized picture, doubtless there are other people who share at least one combination of his names. Eh, Mea Culpa, either way, I should have remembered, foolish boy.
Edit: Not to mention the fact you wouldn't have colors and that energy consumption isn't the biggest drawback (it's the high cost).
Another thing that annoys me is people misunderstanding the differences between the 386DX and 386SX, mostly due to confusion when comparing it to the 486 family. The difference between the 486DX and 486SX was that the math coprocessor on the 486SX was disabled. However, this is different from the 386es because none of them had on-chip math coprocessors -- you had to purchase a separate 387 coprocessor if you wanted accelerated floating point. The difference between the 386DX and 386SX is that the SX only had 24 bits of physical address space, just like the older 286, giving it a theoretical maximum RAM of 16MB. The DX had the full 32-bit physical address space for a theoretical maximum RAM of 4GB. In fact, Intel designed the 386SX so that it was more or less plug-compatible with the 286 while letting you run 386 software as the SX and DX were pretty much identical internally. They did this in the early days of trying to squash AMD and other chip cloners who were making 286 chips that were significantly faster than Intel's 286es and even some of their 386es at running ordinary DOS software.
There are probably a few more things that annoy me, but I can't remember them right now.
How delightfully quaint.
Also, it still does my head in that Brian Cranston is Both Hal, the dad from Malcom in the Middle, and Walter White from Breaking Bad.