Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-02-14, at 07:52, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote: The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free, and comes with

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
That's roughly accurate, and DIS doesn't really stand alone. The basic model is as follows: - DIS is used to support real-time simulation, most commonly of a battlespace - each simulator (e.g., a tank, an F16) maintains a local world model (geodata, imagery) and it's own behavioral/physics

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread Alan Kay
: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread John Carlson
systems. Cheers, Alan -- *From:* Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:52 PM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text The next big thing probably won't

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread John Carlson
:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:52 PM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread John Carlson
:* Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:52 PM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if Minecraft is really awesome

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2013-02-14, at 16:22, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote: That is, can one make money with Open Cobalt? I'm pretty sure you chose the wrong mailing list for this question. - Bert - ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-14 Thread John Carlson
Perhaps. I believe for anything to truly succeed, it should support secure commerce. Does the current text infrastructure support secure commerce? Or are we lying to ourselves? On Feb 14, 2013 12:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 2013-02-14, at 16:22, John Carlson

[fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-13 Thread John Carlson
Miles wrote: There's a pretty good argument to be made that what works are powerful building blocks that can be combined in lots of different ways; So the next big thing will be some version of minecraft? Or perhaps the older toontalk? Agentcubes? What is the right 3D metaphor? Does anyone

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Carlson wrote: Miles wrote: There's a pretty good argument to be made that what works are powerful building blocks that can be combined in lots of different ways; So the next big thing will be some version of minecraft? Or perhaps the older toontalk? Agentcubes? What is the right

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-13 Thread John Carlson
Ah, I thought DIS only sent id, position, orientation, velocity and acceleration. Do objects own their properties, or can anyone on the network provide them? I've heard of people mixing X3D with DIS. I thought that X3D provided all the modelling and visualization, and DIS provided the above.

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-13 Thread John Carlson
There is more to the DIS (Distributed *Interactive* Simulation) than I originally thought. I found this in the X3D standard: http://www.web3d.org/files/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/dis.html if one can set up isNetworkWriter, it would seem like anything on the network would be

Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text

2013-02-13 Thread Casey Ransberger
The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free, and comes with _source code_.