Intel also blatantly stole patented technology from DEC. The Pentium onward, IIRC, ripped off entire designs. When Compaq eventually acquired DEC, they cancelled all of the lawsuits and gave Intel complete access to DEC’s patents. They also gave Intel DEC’s raced out ARM chip that they built for Apple.
I’m imagining that without ownership, car companies would begin to operate like the worst American companies.
You’d have super complex mileage caps. Per-minute surcharges for peak & late night hours. Early subscription termination fees. Zoning issues: Only Kia & Suzuki will service your neighborhood, while your neighbor down the block can get a Toyota with twice the range allowance at half the cost. The median income for your particular area may not justify building charging center hubs by other manufacturers.
In the event of a power or telecommunication outage, the centralization will undoubtedly strand people wherever they are.
Then, the moralists. Since you don’t own the vehicle, they can dictate how you use it. No driving to the strip club or liquor store on Sunday. Arbitrary restrictions on what you’re allowed to transport. It can be a new vector to govern behavior and control populations.
You’re probably right, but doesn’t Apple kind of seem like a company that would be well positioned to reduce all these issues for a luxury price? Well, perhaps besides moralist issues, if the App Store is any indication.
It’ll all be wasted. When gasoline prices plummet, everyone buys 8mpg SUVs. If power & performance gets cheaper, it’ll be wasted. Blockchain in your refrigerator.
I’m able to consciously enter dreams from waking state. Basically, lucid dreaming on hard mode. Like going through sleep paralysis on purpose.
Dreams are so close to waking state, I’m always in awe when I successfully transition. Touch, taste, smell, every sense. It’s like waking reality, but with god mode.
That said, vision is really really weird. If you pull your sight into your dream body (hard to explain), then it’s just like you’d expect. It’s like it’s possible to see multiple perspectives at once, and it’s visual, but it’s all like one continuous field of view. Sometimes I don’t even really notice that I’m looking forward, backward, and from above all at once.
When I’m just playing around, I like to smash things and jump so high that I fly above the clouds, feeling the cold air above and the weightlessness at the apex. It’s no more visual primary than waking, IMHO.
I use my own secular simplified technique inspired by Tibetan dream yoga and wake induced lucid dreaming (WILD).
It’s as “simple” as learning to remain aware and observant when falling asleep, without rousing oneself. No deity worship or chakra alignments necessary.
Meditation practice helps tremendously, but my first success, I accomplished by trial and error.
A lot of instruction on the Internet suggests focusing on something, visualizing something, counting, eating supplements, etc. I have found all of that unnecessary.
As a developer, a huge reason I don’t mind walled gardens is the massive reduction in piracy. I’m glad people want to download & pirate the apps I poured blood, sweat, and tears into... but I’m not down with theft. Each dollar I earn represents the time I’ve spent away from friends & family.
I’ve worked on games that have been copied outright. All assets and artwork, but a new name and “publisher” being sold elsewhere. It eats into profits.
When the walls come down, developers will be knocked off. This will hurt indys far more than larger companies, as “developers” opportunistically exploit the work of others.
Apple & Google are great at reducing and shutting down this kind of activity. If people can install the Pirate Bay store and install anything for free, many folks will.
If users can be coaxed into privileging an app, malware will control the majority of phones. People are still falling for the Nigerian prince scam.
All games on computer are piratable. On mobile they are not as easy to pirate as you noticed. Do you think the gaming environment is better on mobile? Are dev better paid on mobile? From what I have seen I could answer no to both, and would even say the walled garden is really really not helping indie devs break through on mobile.
I see actually many ways in which devs are impacted :
- discovery is basically null, both on Android and Apple. You need to just pay ads if you want people finding your game. Steam is much MUCH better at it.
- you can't really have a good mod environment or a hackable game, which is very important for a lot of indie games
- you cannot do some kinds of game. Right now that include gore and sexual games (see kawaii killer for instance) but also some other things like a weed growing simulator. Who knows what it will be tomorrow
- as Google is going into gaming, and who knows maybe Apple at some point, you are basically on the hands of a competitor many times your size with no alternative
Sleep paralysis is a state right on the edge of a dream. If you desire & expect a unicorn to poop rainbow ice cream on your chest, it’ll happen (with not very much practice either). If you get scared and start thinking about aliens or demons, then that’ll happen. Instead of relaxing into the experience, just change it.
