Everyone who works in Software and deals in Quality knows that SAP is a piece of JUNK!! It's crap software and it never works out of the box. It's not Linux that was the problem, it was SAP.
Second life is free to play. Didn't you know that? There are several free graphical MMO's out there. There is code in the public domain for running them as well.
It doesn't take that much money to run an MMO on your own unless you want to do something incredibly fancy. What it takes is time. If I wanted to have no life at all, I could run something like second life for probably a grand a month and offer it free to all. You're really only paying for the net connection once you've gone online.
Hey, if you're a stupid person, you deserve what you get! All of these people wanted something for nothing, and all got scammed because they were greedy. In short they learned a valuable life lesson for almost nothing.
MMO's ARE NOT safe little games. They're almost as nasty as living in Real Life because there are just as many people there preying on others as out your front door.
To go with your example, it's like buying a bottle of cockroach soda and being surprised when *GASP* there's a cockroach in there!!
Anyone who joins into any multiplayer game comprised of more than one person they do not know, who doesn't expect to get abused or ripped off if not careful is a complete fool and deserves what they get. -That's- why the games are so popular, because they're just like Real Life in your interactions with other people. And yes there are evil people in the world. Deal.
This journalist aparently cannot. (And yes I've read not only the PDF, but his journal. And you'll notice that he's just as big a bastard towards other players as they are to each other).
I've not only read the PDF, I read his Journal. He seems to think he has the right to not only bitch to the owners of the game about everything that is wrong, but to demand that they fix it!
And we're not just talking game bugs here.
As someone who has run his own MMO, and who has run an extremely popular area on a fairly popular MMO for almost a decade, I know what I'm talking about. I run into people like this all the time. They want to 'help' you by telling you what to do to make things 'better'.
I know what people want, I know how to please the majority, I know how to get a thousand people a day to pass through my place. Can you or this journalist do that?
It takes about a grand to set up an MMO if you're going with text based, and not much more for a graphical user one. There are A LOT of MMO games in the public domain.
If you knew anything about the medium, you'd know that.
And just how much would it cost to set up his own version of second life? Not nearly as much as you seem to think.
It never occurs to him that he doesn't own the server. In any gaming world you only have the rights that the -owners- allow you to have. For them to risk lawsuits and legal charges solely to satisfy a single user's bizarre sense of entitlement is stupid.
Even more so when he's now playing on a system where it is FREE.
This is like the guy who comes into your store, and buys a soda (or nothing at all), and thinks he can now start telling everyone what to do and how to do it. It's pretty damn arrogant if you ask me, and shows just how clueless this guy is about the internet, the law, and business in general.
If he really had any clue at all, he'd start his own game world.
Oh you are so completely right! I hate the fact that they keep trying to make Perl something it isn't: A programming language. Do we really need all the migration pains again? Perl 5 broke all of the Perl 4 scripts. Perl 6 will undoubtedly do the same.
Why? Will there be any benefit? No, none at all.
Somebody needs to take Perl away from Larry. We don't need to relearn this language for the 6th time!! (or 7th like me if you played with it's predecessor). It's stupid, it's pointless.
We need to start a 'Save Perl from Larry Wall' foundation or something.
Think of it, we have one company now that will soon be selling rides on a sub-orbital craft. How long will it be before a competitor steps up and offers LEO rides?
If Virgin Galactic makes money at this, you know others will enter the business. I hope this turns into something really cool... and hopefully something I can afford!
The only reason I even -have- a landline to my house is so I can get DSL service. So as long as I got the land line I signed up for unlimited service, it's not that expensive.
Now if I can't get DSL, why do I need a landline? I'll just cancel it and use a cellphone.
That is the market pressure we can apply, and the one (hopefully) which can be used to bring the telco's to heel. They want us to buy phone service from them? Then they continue to give us the DSL access we want.
A lot of people are already forsaking landlines for Cell Phones. Without DSL, who really needs the telco's anymore?
The Russian's abandoned their quest to the moon about the same time we stopped going. I don't think they stopped because we 'got there first'. Notice they did not give up on it until about 1974, not 1969.
Yes, they have sent probes to the moon. Yes they even managed to retrieve some of those probes.
However, those were not manned craft. They did not have to provide a living environment, food, water, oxygen, temperature control, and radiation shielding. Those are major issues, they add a lot of size and weight to the spacecraft and any lander vehicles. Your logistics change drastically. With a probe you can let it sit in orbit a few extra weeks or months if need be. With Human's you have limited mission time and you cannot make those kinds of changes.
The USA has been to every planet in the solar system. Would you say if the USA made an offer of a private flight to any of those planets and back, for a price that costs less (or even the same) as one of their probes to that planet, was a realistic one?
I disagree. If they could have done it, they would have done it. Risks be damned. Remember they (the USSR politicians) covered up several fatal crashes and accidents during the space race. They covered up (or tried to) accidents that cost thousands their lives. So the 'danger' issue I beleive to not be a valid one. The political advantages that could have been gained by a successful lunar orbit would have done a lot for the prestige of the former Soviet Union.
During the Cold War, the Soviets would have done this in a heartbeat, no matter what the cost, if they had the capability. Saying they can do it now, for only a hundred million dollars, when they have never done it before, just sounds untrue.
Yes the Russians build one of the best throw away capsules ever made. Yes they have done some wonderful things in space. But there is a big difference between Earth orbit and going to the Moon. Even if you're not landing there.
I won't mention the muds involved, because frankly I don't want to publicize them.
As for the 18 and over policy, it's simple. When you sign up you state you are over 18, and if found to be lying, you are immediately toaded. This protects the muck on legal aspects, and to be honest, kids tend to be pretty stupid and almost always blab what their true age is, usually sooner than later. Plus you can usually tell when dealing with someone interactively if they're an adult or not. Yes some kids probably do get by, but they're the well behaved exceptions and not the rule.
(And remember, a large percentage of the user's will report someone underage when they have found them).
I've been to the NASA office that holds these machines. They're just old DEC tape drives and DEC PDP's. They are by no means 'rare' though I will admit they're harder to find then they used to be.
Why this data hasn't been transfered to a different medium for easier access and storage? Funding and Politics I'd suspect, the two biggest banes of NASA these days.
I've been playing on MUDs for over a decade, And while I pretty much only socialize these days and maintain some real estate I built about 8 years ago, I still prefer it to most MMO's. The biggest reason is that you have better interaction with the other characters in a MUD than on an MMO, plus your imagination just does a better job. On top of that people who cause problems tend to get the boot very quickly, and there aren't any people there who's sole purpose is to rape the game so they can make money off of it. Also, there are damn few children. The better MUDs these days are all 18 and over so you tend to have a larger percentage of people who know how to behave socially.
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I don't think I'd waste the money on one. All flights have been on a 'tether' because they're afraid of 'wrecking the prototype'.
In short the design still has serious stability and control issues and this car WILL crash and probably KILL YOU.
Until Moeller is willing to actually FLY the thing, I wouldn't get near, much less IN, one.
Everyone who works in Software and deals in Quality knows that SAP is a piece of JUNK!! It's crap software and it never works out of the box. It's not Linux that was the problem, it was SAP.
Second life is free to play. Didn't you know that? There are several free graphical MMO's out there. There is code in the public domain for running them as well.
It doesn't take that much money to run an MMO on your own unless you want to do something incredibly fancy. What it takes is time. If I wanted to have no life at all, I could run something like second life for probably a grand a month and offer it free to all. You're really only paying for the net connection once you've gone online.
Hey, if you're a stupid person, you deserve what you get! All of these people wanted something for nothing, and all got scammed because they were greedy. In short they learned a valuable life lesson for almost nothing.
MMO's ARE NOT safe little games. They're almost as nasty as living in Real Life because there are just as many people there preying on others as out your front door.
To go with your example, it's like buying a bottle of cockroach soda and being surprised when *GASP* there's a cockroach in there!!
Anyone who joins into any multiplayer game comprised of more than one person they do not know, who doesn't expect to get abused or ripped off if not careful is a complete fool and deserves what they get. -That's- why the games are so popular, because they're just like Real Life in your interactions with other people. And yes there are evil people in the world. Deal.
This journalist aparently cannot. (And yes I've read not only the PDF, but his journal. And you'll notice that he's just as big a bastard towards other players as they are to each other).
I've not only read the PDF, I read his Journal. He seems to think he has the right to not only bitch to the owners of the game about everything that is wrong, but to demand that they fix it!
And we're not just talking game bugs here.
As someone who has run his own MMO, and who has run an extremely popular area on a fairly popular MMO for almost a decade, I know what I'm talking about. I run into people like this all the time. They want to 'help' you by telling you what to do to make things 'better'.
I know what people want, I know how to please the majority, I know how to get a thousand people a day to pass through my place. Can you or this journalist do that?
Heck no.
It takes about a grand to set up an MMO if you're going with text based, and not much more for a graphical user one. There are A LOT of MMO games in the public domain.
If you knew anything about the medium, you'd know that.
And just how much would it cost to set up his own version of second life? Not nearly as much as you seem to think.
It never occurs to him that he doesn't own the server. In any gaming world you only have the rights that the -owners- allow you to have. For them to risk lawsuits and legal charges solely to satisfy a single user's bizarre sense of entitlement is stupid.
Even more so when he's now playing on a system where it is FREE.
This is like the guy who comes into your store, and buys a soda (or nothing at all), and thinks he can now start telling everyone what to do and how to do it. It's pretty damn arrogant if you ask me, and shows just how clueless this guy is about the internet, the law, and business in general.
If he really had any clue at all, he'd start his own game world.
Other than most places will pull support? Just like they did for Perl 4 when 5 came out?
Oh you are so completely right! I hate the fact that they keep trying to make Perl something it isn't: A programming language. Do we really need all the migration pains again? Perl 5 broke all of the Perl 4 scripts. Perl 6 will undoubtedly do the same.
Why? Will there be any benefit? No, none at all.
Somebody needs to take Perl away from Larry. We don't need to relearn this language for the 6th time!! (or 7th like me if you played with it's predecessor). It's stupid, it's pointless.
We need to start a 'Save Perl from Larry Wall' foundation or something.
I admit they have a long way to go, but as the old saying goes, 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'.
I'm hoping this is the first step.
Think of it, we have one company now that will soon be selling rides on a sub-orbital craft. How long will it be before a competitor steps up and offers LEO rides?
If Virgin Galactic makes money at this, you know others will enter the business. I hope this turns into something really cool... and hopefully something I can afford!
The only reason I even -have- a landline to my house is so I can get DSL service. So as long as I got the land line I signed up for unlimited service, it's not that expensive.
Now if I can't get DSL, why do I need a landline? I'll just cancel it and use a cellphone.
That is the market pressure we can apply, and the one (hopefully) which can be used to bring the telco's to heel. They want us to buy phone service from them? Then they continue to give us the DSL access we want.
A lot of people are already forsaking landlines for Cell Phones. Without DSL, who really needs the telco's anymore?
I'm a Uinx / win-tel user. Forgive me :-)
Just the wires are. The MAC is under the cabinent.
This isn't innovative at all.
Okay, I know, but I just couldn're resist :-)
The Russian's abandoned their quest to the moon about the same time we stopped going. I don't think they stopped because we 'got there first'. Notice they did not give up on it until about 1974, not 1969.
Yes, they have sent probes to the moon. Yes they even managed to retrieve some of those probes.
However, those were not manned craft. They did not have to provide a living environment, food, water, oxygen, temperature control, and radiation shielding. Those are major issues, they add a lot of size and weight to the spacecraft and any lander vehicles. Your logistics change drastically. With a probe you can let it sit in orbit a few extra weeks or months if need be. With Human's you have limited mission time and you cannot make those kinds of changes.
The USA has been to every planet in the solar system. Would you say if the USA made an offer of a private flight to any of those planets and back, for a price that costs less (or even the same) as one of their probes to that planet, was a realistic one?
I disagree. If they could have done it, they would have done it. Risks be damned. Remember they (the USSR politicians) covered up several fatal crashes and accidents during the space race. They covered up (or tried to) accidents that cost thousands their lives. So the 'danger' issue I beleive to not be a valid one.
The political advantages that could have been gained by a successful lunar orbit would have done a lot for the prestige of the former Soviet Union.
During the Cold War, the Soviets would have done this in a heartbeat, no matter what the cost, if they had the capability. Saying they can do it now, for only a hundred million dollars, when they have never done it before, just sounds untrue.
Yes the Russians build one of the best throw away capsules ever made. Yes they have done some wonderful things in space. But there is a big difference between Earth orbit and going to the Moon. Even if you're not landing there.
You have a valid point. But I think you'll agree there is less of it in MUDs, and it is usually dealt with much faster than on the MMO's.
BTW, was my post a Troll? I didn't think so, but lately everything I post seems to get modded that way.
I won't mention the muds involved, because frankly I don't want to publicize them.
As for the 18 and over policy, it's simple. When you sign up you state you are over 18, and if found to be lying, you are immediately toaded. This protects the muck on legal aspects, and to be honest, kids tend to be pretty stupid and almost always blab what their true age is, usually sooner than later. Plus you can usually tell when dealing with someone interactively if they're an adult or not. Yes some kids probably do get by, but they're the well behaved exceptions and not the rule.
(And remember, a large percentage of the user's will report someone underage when they have found them).
I've been to the NASA office that holds these machines. They're just old DEC tape drives and DEC PDP's. They are by no means 'rare' though I will admit they're harder to find then they used to be.
Why this data hasn't been transfered to a different medium for easier access and storage? Funding and Politics I'd suspect, the two biggest banes of NASA these days.
How many hollywood hunks she drools over when she goes to the movies.
Yeah men are often sexist, but women are too.
I've been playing on MUDs for over a decade, And while I pretty much only socialize these days and maintain some real estate I built about 8 years ago, I still prefer it to most MMO's. The biggest reason is that you have better interaction with the other characters in a MUD than on an MMO, plus your imagination just does a better job. On top of that people who cause problems tend to get the boot very quickly, and there aren't any people there who's sole purpose is to rape the game so they can make money off of it.
Also, there are damn few children. The better MUDs these days are all 18 and over so you tend to have a larger percentage of people who know how to behave socially.
Yeah, well, they moderated me a 'Troll'. How I was a troll though is beyond me...