The act of mimicking something is interesting. It’s one part empathy, another part motivation. Empathy is of course feeling what someone else feels, often because we have similar personal experiences. Part of our brain is dedicated to this function, and it helps make us the social creatures we are. One side-effect of this is how [...]
Arthur C Clarke died today, the last of the big 3. We have him to thank for the idea of telecom satellites, and we’ll still be singing his praises when we finally develop space elevators. In the mean time, people can occupy themselves reading his books, such as 2001 and the Rama series.
We’re now definitely in a new era of game development. No longer is the games industry languishing in perpetual geekdom – it’s going mainstream in a big way. Investment dollars are pouring in, and the hype dial is cranked up very high. A lot of this money is going into massively multiplayer games, for better [...]
I just made the switch to Apple this past week, with the acquisition of a shiny new Macbook Pro. As an experienced PC guy who’s built his own computers since he was 12 and has run everything from DOS to Vista, with dabbling in OS9, BeOS, and OS/2, I have to say this is by [...]
