As an avid RPG fan, IMHO this approach to enemy generation is very appealing. Let's look at it this way. If I have a reason to battle a specific foe (often generated by hotspot X) it would be fun to travel in the "Real World" to a specific location as opposed to some place within the game. This is just a simple example. I'm sure there are more intuitive ways to apply this. I'm not saying that all RPG's should adapt to this approach but it would be neat on some, or in certain aspects of the game.
Actually, technology like this does the opposite of a random number generator or, at least something different. The layout of hotspots is static, that is, it doesn't move...at least none that I know of. In a game like the one from TFA, certain hotspots generate certain enemies. For example, say I'm playing some sort of RPG and I want to battle a specific opponent; I can say something like "Hey, I know exactly where I can find some Mega-Goblins! Starbucks!!" You get the picture.
The world is round, and what goes around comes around. And what came around for this guy was more spam than his body could handle!! (get it? the spam is bullets!!!!) Nevermind.:(
How about letting us put whatever OS we want on it instead?
You can't seriously think that ASUS made a motherboard where installing an OS to disk would be restricted. Please, say it ain't so! Of course, you might be talking about putting your own OS on the flash chip itself which would be great if ASUS' business model was to not cater their products to regular (and by that I mean non-geek) end users whatsoever.
How about Minux? OpenBSD? FreeBSD? ExoKernel?
Alright, I can see maybe OpenBSD or FreeBSD, although not with brand new hardware, but Minix and ExOS (Exokernel is a type of kernel, MIT's versions include XOK and ExOS) are probably a bit too premature to be a primary OS. That is, unless you have to live on the edge and refuse to use a stable operating system, especially with ExOS being in alpha stage. Minix is obviously more mature since it's been around for a pretty long time, but to quote the Minix3 homepage, "It [Minix] is nowhere near as mature as FreeBSD or Linux right now."
With name-drops like ExoKernel I'm led to believe that you're a far-superior computer user. I'm sorry that I've wasted your time.
Good luck putting ExOS on your brand new P5E3 Deluxe-based rig, you little computer wizard you.
I wasn't going to go into the comments for this one due to the topic, but I'm glad I did.
For some reason this made me laugh, but not because I use vim....because I don't.
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Yes, you're right. I wasn't thinking straight and could only think of a literal "infection" of the code. Microsoft has indeed proven to be very crooked competitor and I would, by nature, distrust any sort of Microsoft application/library/whatever being integrated into a GNU/Linux environment. I wouldn't be surprised if they randomly decided to file suit for intellectual property infringement.
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Why would I be joking? Apart from any legal aspects, if the code is clean what do you have to worry about?
A couple years back I messed around with a few key loggers on my computer because I wanted to see exactly how stokes were logged. What I mean is that I wanted to see if the logger just dumped the input from the keyboard character for character or if there was any formatting. Turns out all of the key loggers I tried used some kind of formatting and dumped information into the log such as which program had focus, what time it had focus, etc. So, in this case, it seems likely that one could still get personal info, credit card numbers, etc. by piecing it all together.
I don't understand where Linux users are doomed if flash isn't installed. Wouldn't this be the optimum choice for surfing google if they started using video ads? A little notification that flash isn't installed across the top and, lo and behold, no annoying video ad!
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How is that bullshit in any way related to the topic?
I'm pretty pumped about that.
Totally going to happen.
Wait..
Where am I?
I think you should change,
"Bring hackers to their knees"
to...
"Bring hackers to their fucking knees"
It just flows better.
Oh, not cool, I was TOTALLY logged in.
"Everybody else is doing it!"
Jesus man, I totally LOLed when I read that and my boss gave me The Look. I'm not supposed to be on slashdot and you almost blew my cover!
Should have been named "NASA Plans to get Hott".
Yeah.
That would have grabbed my attention. Hott... with 2 t's.
On a serious note, I hope this will be a manned mission?
It seems this "Free Agent" was aptly named! Looks like this player won't be signing any contracts any time soon!!
As an avid RPG fan, IMHO this approach to enemy generation is very appealing. Let's look at it this way. If I have a reason to battle a specific foe (often generated by hotspot X) it would be fun to travel in the "Real World" to a specific location as opposed to some place within the game. This is just a simple example. I'm sure there are more intuitive ways to apply this. I'm not saying that all RPG's should adapt to this approach but it would be neat on some, or in certain aspects of the game.
Actually, technology like this does the opposite of a random number generator or, at least something different. The layout of hotspots is static, that is, it doesn't move...at least none that I know of. In a game like the one from TFA, certain hotspots generate certain enemies. For example, say I'm playing some sort of RPG and I want to battle a specific opponent; I can say something like "Hey, I know exactly where I can find some Mega-Goblins! Starbucks!!" You get the picture.
The world is round, and what goes around comes around. :(
And what came around for this guy was more spam than his body could handle!! (get it? the spam is bullets!!!!)
Nevermind.
I wasn't going to go into the comments for this one due to the topic, but I'm glad I did. For some reason this made me laugh, but not because I use vim....because I don't.
Who gives a shit about being able to see magnetic fields? My eyes have x-ray vision. http://www.spy.th.com/goggles.html
Yes, you're right. I wasn't thinking straight and could only think of a literal "infection" of the code. Microsoft has indeed proven to be very crooked competitor and I would, by nature, distrust any sort of Microsoft application/library/whatever being integrated into a GNU/Linux environment.
I wouldn't be surprised if they randomly decided to file suit for intellectual property infringement.
Why would I be joking? Apart from any legal aspects, if the code is clean what do you have to worry about?
Uh......Well, umm....What?
If you're so afraid of some kind of "Microsoft infection" why don't you try reading the source?
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.8/tomboy-0.8.0.tar.gz
A couple years back I messed around with a few key loggers on my computer because I wanted to see exactly how stokes were logged. What I mean is that I wanted to see if the logger just dumped the input from the keyboard character for character or if there was any formatting. Turns out all of the key loggers I tried used some kind of formatting and dumped information into the log such as which program had focus, what time it had focus, etc. So, in this case, it seems likely that one could still get personal info, credit card numbers, etc. by piecing it all together.
I don't understand where Linux users are doomed if flash isn't installed. Wouldn't this be the optimum choice for surfing google if they started using video ads? A little notification that flash isn't installed across the top and, lo and behold, no annoying video ad!