Well, CNN had their 2000 coverage, and they showed midnight hitting in every timezone.. anyway, they were laughing about the wheel not working when everyone thought it did. However, it sounded more like they _decided_ not to turn it on for safety reasons, because a precheck had revealed a problem with a clutch on one of the spinning bits or something. No details anyway. I don't remember them saying anything about a fizzle when the guy tried to turn it on.. Pretty funny anyway.
He's not that bad, dude.. Sure, his voice is a bit annoying, but we really don't have any clue about whether or not he can act. I mean, in SW:TPM he didn't really have a large part. Heck, there wasn't a lot of acting to be done in that flick at all.
Agreed... but the question is, how do you get someone who's unhappy where they are to consider moving to where you are?
Okay, the original question seemed more geared to how you keep people around, but I'll give this a shot too..
Simple answer: Money.
Non-simple answer: The majority of people I have seen graduate got many offers. I did too. I ended up taking the one that gave the the most bang for the buck. The job I took gave me the best pay in the area with the best cost of living. All the people I know (with a few exceptions) did the same thing. Sure, the graduate tries to look at everything, to see the big picture, but when you get right down to it cash speaks loudest. Even if that's not the concious (sp?) reason for accepting the position, the results are the same.
Accept the fact that most students, while in college, don't really pay a lot of attention to the amazing amount of companies in their field. Look at computer science. I got offers from companies I never even heard of. Big names don't figure into it (although there were those too). You're looking at the bottom line. Cash. Benefits. Well, not benefits so much, but cash for sure. The whole point of college was to be able to make the big bucks, right? And to party, of course. Anyway, lure them in with the bottom line. Cash, stock options, whatever. Once they're there for a while, they're like it or hate it. Simple. If the dude likes it, he'll stick for a while. But not forever. Nobody stays in one job (hardly even one place) for their whole lives anymore. Hell, I expect to move out of this town in under two years, and I like this place a lot.
But again, that may just be me. Damn, I'm rambling.
A person will stay in an area if he is happy there. Period.
Happiness is brought about in various ways, to various people.
For example, I just graduated from school in May. Now, I'm getting paid a lot to do a job that I find quite easy. I live in a good neighborhood, where it's relatively quiet. After 5 years of living in a fraternity house, I figure I could really enjoy a couple of years of peace and quiet. I'm pretty happy with it. There's some minor things to bar my happiness, such as all this damn debt I've accumlated over 5 years of school, but still, life is good.
However, that's me. Other people graduating look for other things, and what they look for is as varied as the people themselves. There is no one true "geek" profile to go by.
First off, I agree with most of his points, except number 5.
5. Who needs a Fricking Manual? It is remarkable that, in an era of holograms, high-quality video, and million-color graphics, people still think we should all be learning by reading words scratched on parchment.
Ray, with this one statement you invalidated everything else you had to say. First off, who said the manual was a printed document? Secondly, if you are too stupid to read and comprehend words, even poorly written ones, you shouldn't be using a computer. Hell, in my view you should be shot, and decrease the surplus population.:-)
Now, lets analyse the types of guys who know the things you want to learn. Essentially, these are the kind of people who don't read the frickin' manual. They don't need to. It's instinctive, man. They might look at a man page every now and again, but that's a pretty rare event. They've never looked at a HOWTO, usually because they like to figure it out themselves, to gain deeper insight into the way the system works. Hell, these kind of people look at the code more often than the manual. Their English often isn't the best and their people skills are pretty few and far between (although there are notable exceptions). And you honestly expect these people to write a manual a person who doesn't even want to read it can understand?
Here's my new advice for you, Ray. GWTFM. Go write the friggin' manual if you really want one that bad. Just saying that there is a need for a manual doesn't get one made. You're quite free to write one and distribute it however the hell you like. Welcome to the the land of the free (as in beer).
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
Also, even if it was federal court, 5 of the named defendants aren't even in the US.
21. DVD CCA is informed and believes, and based thereon alleges, that defendant Cameron Simpson ("Simpson") resides in Dundas Valley, Australia, and operates an Internet web site addressed as www.zip.com.au/~cs. 22. [blah] Tom Vogt ("Vogt") resides in Wedel, Denmark. 23. Cyril Amsellem ("Amsellem") resides in Val de Marne, France. 24. Thorsten Fenk ("Fenk") resides in the country of Germany. 25. Adrian Baugh ("Baugh") resides in Oxford, England.
I blasted(kindly) the Boston Globe through their feedback form about their biased and erroneous article.
Well, other than the title, the Boston Globe article didn't seem actually erroneous, just biased.
I mean, this part is good, "But in November, computer hackers in Norway unveiled a program called DeCSS that breaks the DVD encryption system. " However, it only mentions that the breaking of the encryption is good for copying a DVD. It fails to state that the actual point was to enable playing of DVD's on other platforms.
The rest of the article just describes why this could set a bad precedent for linking issues...
If he doesn't live in California, is he subject to California law? This injuction is there, so how does that work anyway? I'm not sure of the legal aspects.
These actually are not bad stories.. They don't say what NPR did (that DeCSS is a means of "copying" DVD's and so on). Instead, mostly they say that the suit is BS, since they're nailing sites that reported the news. Not bad reads.
However, there is a counterpoint to your argument - the dreaded "shrink wrap" license (which you pretty much "agree" to upon using the software); it prohibits reverse engineering (maybe this case is about contractual breach?)
None of the defendants named wrote the DeCSS software. Hell, several of them aren't even distributing it.
This is simply a case of the big guy trying to stomp the little guy. I'm really not sure of the intent of this case. Are they really stupid enough to think you can put the cat back in the bag? Get real...
Anyway, the simple position that should be taken is that the software itself was written with the intention of furthering development of DVD player software on other platforms (which is true). Just because a thing can be used for an illegal purpose doesn't make the thing itself illegal. It's the act of using it for that illegal purpose that is illegal.
In other words, you shouldn't arrest a person for having a gun for hunting, you should arrest him for intending to shoot a person with it.
Seriously. I cheered when I heard the news yesterday. Some clown for Barnum and Bailey was killed when their train wrecked. I felt kind of bad when they showed his family, but secretly, deep down, I felt that it served him right for being a clown.
Yes friends, clowns are the spawn of evil, straight from the nethermost regions of hell.
Do your kids a favor. Kill a clown today.
P.S. okay, this was a joke.. well.. partially a joke anyway... ---
The millennium ends this year. No question about it. You are absolutely wrong. Jan 1, 2000 is the beginning of the 3rd millennium.
Sure. Every day is the beginning of a new millenium. Come to think of it, every day is the end of one too. Ain't that a bitch?
However, if you say that Jan 1, 2000 is the beginning of the 3rd millenium since Jan 1, 1 AD, then you are in fact wrong.
More importantly, everyone damn well knows it. It been in the press and the news so much that everyone understands it. It's a simple concept.
Even more importantly, it's not going to interfere with the party. I'm not celebrating a new millenium, I'm gonna be there for the party, man... Time to kick back and drink myself stupid. I sure won't let the fact that the next millenium is a year later screw up my buzz, that's for sure.
Oh, and the 1997 thing: Who cares? The majority of the world doesn't believe in Christ, so piss off already.
Question: what was with the two tasty numbers in black swimsuits? It didn't have any commentary at the bottom of the picture, just some very nice pictures.:-)
Also, those devices looked pretty stupid, except for the "SQUI" which looked interesting..
Giving PC's or Unix credit for the internet is silly. Why don't we just give electricity credit for it, after all, without electricity there would be no internet. The point is, that the what the internet has become is far more than the sum of it's hardware. It would be like giving the television-tube credit for Jerry Seinfeld episodes.
Why don't we just cut out the middle man? The Sun gives the majority of this planet's energy to it. Without the sun, there would be no life, no humans, no electric lines, no internet.
Therefore, it's all the sun's fault.
Of course, the sun only exists because of the big bang a few billion years ago....;-)
First time I got on was in 1992, using a friends Amiga 500.
Hmm, 1992.. Let's see.. the internet was around for, how long before that? Oh, yes, 20 years or so.. It may have been called bitnet or arpa, but that's about right. Wake up dude. ---
Ohh yes, I do remember this quote. However I do believe that my original statement is true. Originally multiplayer quake was just between clients before quakeworld and dedicated servers came about. I started playing quake online after quakeworld had come out. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that multiplayer was secondary to single player when quake was being developed.
Now that's hardly a fair statement. Internet multiplayer was the main point of the game in fact. Quake world was developed "to test new ideas in internet multiplayer capabilities". That's it. Nothing more. Quake could do servers and dedicated servers from the beginning (Although the dedicated server was a separate executable).
Ahh back in the day.. John always hated talking to people to get feedback because he never really thought of security issues on his own, you see. I recall the reply he gave when someone suggested making a skin the same texture as the wall so as to not be seen. He replied, "I really wish you hadn't brought that up."
Anyway, the idea of bots was created by someone when the game was still under development, in alt.games.quake. I participated quite a bit in that discussion. Our idea was essentially to create a bot using the networking code. The proxy bot didn't occur to us, nor did we know that the "quakescript" language was powerful enough to do it. We thought, hey, why not just write a program that reads the network protocol, and can compete on the server? Simple, no? Anyway, then it evolved into ideas of putting different bots against each other, to see who had the best bot.
Anyway, the Stooge bot came out later, and it was essentially what we were thinking of, except that it did no navigation, requiring a human to do that. Also, we had thought that the server was more robust in not allowing players to break the rules of the world (rapid firing, instant precision spins, etc).
Essentially, Carmack relied too much on the client for the integrity of the game. Not that that's terrible, I would have probably done the same, because it made the game faster and therefore better. But it also opened up that door to cheating.
How about differentiating between the Engine and the Game? The engine should be open but the game's content (graphics, sounds, etc.) could be paid for!
To a certain extent, this is how id has been doing it anyway.. Not releasing the source, but the engine freely. Check ftp.idsoftware.com... You can download the linux version of the engine for the quake games quite easily. All you have to do is plug in the pak files (art, sound, levels) and the game works.
However, I thought of a possible solution - one way to stop AimBots might be for the server to send a few "fake" players to the client with either transparent skins, or embedded in the walls, or perhaps randomly "clone" the user just behind himself every now and then. A real player would never see these "shadows" but an AimBot would fire at these pahntom targets and that could trigger the server to shut him down.
Good idea, but not going far enough.
Here's a fairly simple way to detect aimbots... From the server, send a packet that says to a client "there's a guy right behind you". Not a fake guy, make it real. The guy doesn't really have to exist.. The server keeps track of things like that, so as long as the server knows it's fake, no biggie. Plus, the server doesn't broadcast one message to all clients, it's quite easy for the server to send "there's a guy right behind you" only to the guy that has the guy right behind him. Since it's right behind him, he'll never see it. Since other clients aren't told about it, they'll never see it.
But that pesky bot will see it and fire away.
Two things can happen then. The server can detect that this guy keeps flipping 180 degrees to fire on the guy he's not supposed to be able to see, and kick/ban him, OR, you can watch this idiot flip back and forth and laugh until he goes away.
There is a possibility of a normal player seeing the fake guy, if he's lagged a bit and makes a fast turn. So, i suggest only telling the client that the player is there every so often.. just inserting the player into a packet once in a while to see if the guy fires at it very fast. That way, the chance of someone spinning around and seeing the fake guy is minimal, but the bot will be fast enough to fire at it.
One other possibility.. Put the fake guy UNDER the real guy, half in the floor.. Then the bot will fire at the ground directly under the player, possibiliy splash damaging the hell out of him.
No, what's even more entertaining is that, according to the document itself, posting of the document is an indictable offense since it contains all those handy url's.:-)
Also, they obviously just typed CSS into a good search engine.. A Slashdot discussion is Doe #57, a post on dejanews is #60... Gimme a break..
I'm not going to claim that I'm a specialist or anything like that, but didn't it say that he worked "free for Transmeta" and not "for free for Transmeta"? One can debate the difference of course, but the point the editor is trying to make I guess is that Linus isn't bound to Linux or any of the distributions.
I think that the point was supposed to be that he works on Linux freely, and for Transmeta.. Odd way of wording that though.. I'm sure Transmeta pays the man.:-)
For crying out loud people.. get this through your skull, 'kay?
Slashdot is not CNN. It is not Time, nor is it ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, the BBC, or even the Weather channel.
Slashdot is NOT NEWS in the conventional sense. It is a site run by a bunch of guys who post stuff they find interesting. Complaining about rumors being spread on/. is a bit like complaining about rumors being spread on IRC. If you don't like what Slashdot posts, stop reading it.
Slashdot is not mass media and has no "journalistic obligations" whatsoever. Deal with it.
In my copy of the book (and all the short stories), it was U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men. Not "robotics"..
However, Asimov is credited for inventing the term "robotics" when he used it for the first time in a short story back in the 30's (40's?). Of course, he thought the word already existed, and didn't realize that he'd made it up.
Another thing in the book that may not have made it to the movie: world government. The world was divided into dictorates, and the book mainly occured in the North American Dictorate, as I recall.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, CNN had their 2000 coverage, and they showed midnight hitting in every timezone.. anyway, they were laughing about the wheel not working when everyone thought it did. However, it sounded more like they _decided_ not to turn it on for safety reasons, because a precheck had revealed a problem with a clutch on one of the spinning bits or something. No details anyway. I don't remember them saying anything about a fizzle when the guy tried to turn it on.. Pretty funny anyway.
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He's not that bad, dude.. Sure, his voice is a bit annoying, but we really don't have any clue about whether or not he can act. I mean, in SW:TPM he didn't really have a large part. Heck, there wasn't a lot of acting to be done in that flick at all.
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That was reported on CNN. I saw the whole thing. Some problem with a clutch or something.
Very neat looking wheel, BTW.. They got it running yet?
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Agreed... but the question is, how do you get someone who's unhappy where they are to consider moving to where you are?
Okay, the original question seemed more geared to how you keep people around, but I'll give this a shot too..
Simple answer: Money.
Non-simple answer: The majority of people I have seen graduate got many offers. I did too. I ended up taking the one that gave the the most bang for the buck. The job I took gave me the best pay in the area with the best cost of living. All the people I know (with a few exceptions) did the same thing. Sure, the graduate tries to look at everything, to see the big picture, but when you get right down to it cash speaks loudest. Even if that's not the concious (sp?) reason for accepting the position, the results are the same.
Accept the fact that most students, while in college, don't really pay a lot of attention to the amazing amount of companies in their field. Look at computer science. I got offers from companies I never even heard of. Big names don't figure into it (although there were those too). You're looking at the bottom line. Cash. Benefits. Well, not benefits so much, but cash for sure. The whole point of college was to be able to make the big bucks, right? And to party, of course.
Anyway, lure them in with the bottom line. Cash, stock options, whatever. Once they're there for a while, they're like it or hate it. Simple. If the dude likes it, he'll stick for a while. But not forever. Nobody stays in one job (hardly even one place) for their whole lives anymore. Hell, I expect to move out of this town in under two years, and I like this place a lot.
But again, that may just be me. Damn, I'm rambling.
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A person will stay in an area if he is happy there. Period.
Happiness is brought about in various ways, to various people.
For example, I just graduated from school in May. Now, I'm getting paid a lot to do a job that I find quite easy. I live in a good neighborhood, where it's relatively quiet. After 5 years of living in a fraternity house, I figure I could really enjoy a couple of years of peace and quiet. I'm pretty happy with it. There's some minor things to bar my happiness, such as all this damn debt I've accumlated over 5 years of school, but still, life is good.
However, that's me. Other people graduating look for other things, and what they look for is as varied as the people themselves. There is no one true "geek" profile to go by.
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First off, I agree with most of his points, except number 5.
:-)
5. Who needs a Fricking Manual? It is remarkable that, in an era of holograms, high-quality video, and million-color graphics, people still think we should all be learning by reading words scratched on parchment.
Ray, with this one statement you invalidated everything else you had to say. First off, who said the manual was a printed document? Secondly, if you are too stupid to read and comprehend words, even poorly written ones, you shouldn't be using a computer. Hell, in my view you should be shot, and decrease the surplus population.
Now, lets analyse the types of guys who know the things you want to learn. Essentially, these are the kind of people who don't read the frickin' manual. They don't need to. It's instinctive, man. They might look at a man page every now and again, but that's a pretty rare event. They've never looked at a HOWTO, usually because they like to figure it out themselves, to gain deeper insight into the way the system works. Hell, these kind of people look at the code more often than the manual. Their English often isn't the best and their people skills are pretty few and far between (although there are notable exceptions). And you honestly expect these people to write a manual a person who doesn't even want to read it can understand?
Here's my new advice for you, Ray. GWTFM. Go write the friggin' manual if you really want one that bad. Just saying that there is a need for a manual doesn't get one made. You're quite free to write one and distribute it however the hell you like. Welcome to the the land of the free (as in beer).
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"Fox turned into a hardcode porn channel so gradually, I never even noticed..." - Marge
"Slashdot.org turned into a hardcore porn site so fast, I sure as hell liked it!" - Rob Malda
:-)
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No, it's the state court:
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
Also, even if it was federal court, 5 of the named defendants aren't even in the US.
21. DVD CCA is informed and believes, and based thereon alleges, that defendant Cameron Simpson ("Simpson") resides in Dundas Valley, Australia, and operates an Internet web site addressed as www.zip.com.au/~cs.
22. [blah] Tom Vogt ("Vogt") resides in Wedel, Denmark.
23. Cyril Amsellem ("Amsellem") resides in Val de Marne, France.
24. Thorsten Fenk ("Fenk") resides in the country of Germany.
25. Adrian Baugh ("Baugh") resides in Oxford, England.
I mean seriously, this is just plain stupid.
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I blasted(kindly) the Boston Globe through their feedback form about their biased and erroneous article.
Well, other than the title, the Boston Globe article didn't seem actually erroneous, just biased.
I mean, this part is good, "But in November, computer hackers in Norway unveiled a program called DeCSS that breaks the DVD encryption system. " However, it only mentions that the breaking of the encryption is good for copying a DVD. It fails to state that the actual point was to enable playing of DVD's on other platforms.
The rest of the article just describes why this could set a bad precedent for linking issues...
So.. not terrible, just incomplete.
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Question for the legal people:
If he doesn't live in California, is he subject to California law? This injuction is there, so how does that work anyway? I'm not sure of the legal aspects.
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CNN Link: /TECH/ptech/12/28/dvd.crack/index.html
t ml?chkpt=zdnntop
http://www.cnn.com/1999
ZDNet:
http://ww w.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2414488,00.h
These actually are not bad stories.. They don't say what NPR did (that DeCSS is a means of "copying" DVD's and so on). Instead, mostly they say that the suit is BS, since they're nailing sites that reported the news. Not bad reads.
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However, there is a counterpoint to your argument - the dreaded "shrink wrap" license (which you pretty much "agree" to upon using the software); it prohibits reverse engineering (maybe this case is about contractual breach?)
None of the defendants named wrote the DeCSS software. Hell, several of them aren't even distributing it.
This is simply a case of the big guy trying to stomp the little guy. I'm really not sure of the intent of this case. Are they really stupid enough to think you can put the cat back in the bag? Get real...
Anyway, the simple position that should be taken is that the software itself was written with the intention of furthering development of DVD player software on other platforms (which is true). Just because a thing can be used for an illegal purpose doesn't make the thing itself illegal. It's the act of using it for that illegal purpose that is illegal.
In other words, you shouldn't arrest a person for having a gun for hunting, you should arrest him for intending to shoot a person with it.
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I say, death to all clowns!
Seriously. I cheered when I heard the news yesterday. Some clown for Barnum and Bailey was killed when their train wrecked. I felt kind of bad when they showed his family, but secretly, deep down, I felt that it served him right for being a clown.
Yes friends, clowns are the spawn of evil, straight from the nethermost regions of hell.
Do your kids a favor. Kill a clown today.
P.S. okay, this was a joke.. well.. partially a joke anyway...
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The millennium ends this year. No question about it. You are absolutely wrong. Jan 1, 2000 is the beginning of the 3rd millennium.
Sure. Every day is the beginning of a new millenium. Come to think of it, every day is the end of one too. Ain't that a bitch?
However, if you say that Jan 1, 2000 is the beginning of the 3rd millenium since Jan 1, 1 AD, then you are in fact wrong.
More importantly, everyone damn well knows it. It been in the press and the news so much that everyone understands it. It's a simple concept.
Even more importantly, it's not going to interfere with the party. I'm not celebrating a new millenium, I'm gonna be there for the party, man... Time to kick back and drink myself stupid. I sure won't let the fact that the next millenium is a year later screw up my buzz, that's for sure.
Oh, and the 1997 thing: Who cares? The majority of the world doesn't believe in Christ, so piss off already.
Just my $2E-2...
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Mmmmmm models..
:-)
Question: what was with the two tasty numbers in black swimsuits? It didn't have any commentary at the bottom of the picture, just some very nice pictures.
Also, those devices looked pretty stupid, except for the "SQUI" which looked interesting..
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Giving PC's or Unix credit for the internet is silly. Why don't we just give electricity credit for it, after all, without electricity there would be no internet. The point is, that the what the internet has become is far more than the sum of it's hardware. It would be like giving the television-tube credit for Jerry Seinfeld episodes.
;-)
Why don't we just cut out the middle man? The Sun gives the majority of this planet's energy to it. Without the sun, there would be no life, no humans, no electric lines, no internet.
Therefore, it's all the sun's fault.
Of course, the sun only exists because of the big bang a few billion years ago....
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First time I got on was in 1992, using a friends Amiga 500 .
Hmm, 1992.. Let's see.. the internet was around for, how long before that? Oh, yes, 20 years or so.. It may have been called bitnet or arpa, but that's about right. Wake up dude.
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Ohh yes, I do remember this quote. However I do believe that my original statement is true. Originally multiplayer quake was just between clients before quakeworld and dedicated servers came about. I started playing quake online after quakeworld had come out. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that multiplayer was secondary to single player when quake was being developed.
Now that's hardly a fair statement. Internet multiplayer was the main point of the game in fact. Quake world was developed "to test new ideas in internet multiplayer capabilities". That's it. Nothing more. Quake could do servers and dedicated servers from the beginning (Although the dedicated server was a separate executable).
Ahh back in the day.. John always hated talking to people to get feedback because he never really thought of security issues on his own, you see. I recall the reply he gave when someone suggested making a skin the same texture as the wall so as to not be seen. He replied, "I really wish you hadn't brought that up."
Anyway, the idea of bots was created by someone when the game was still under development, in alt.games.quake. I participated quite a bit in that discussion. Our idea was essentially to create a bot using the networking code. The proxy bot didn't occur to us, nor did we know that the "quakescript" language was powerful enough to do it. We thought, hey, why not just write a program that reads the network protocol, and can compete on the server? Simple, no? Anyway, then it evolved into ideas of putting different bots against each other, to see who had the best bot.
Anyway, the Stooge bot came out later, and it was essentially what we were thinking of, except that it did no navigation, requiring a human to do that. Also, we had thought that the server was more robust in not allowing players to break the rules of the world (rapid firing, instant precision spins, etc).
Essentially, Carmack relied too much on the client for the integrity of the game. Not that that's terrible, I would have probably done the same, because it made the game faster and therefore better. But it also opened up that door to cheating.
Oh well.
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How about differentiating between the Engine and the Game? The engine should be open but the game's content (graphics, sounds, etc.) could be paid for!
To a certain extent, this is how id has been doing it anyway.. Not releasing the source, but the engine freely. Check ftp.idsoftware.com... You can download the linux version of the engine for the quake games quite easily. All you have to do is plug in the pak files (art, sound, levels) and the game works.
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However, I thought of a possible solution - one way to stop AimBots might be for the server to send a few "fake" players to the client with either transparent skins, or embedded in the walls, or perhaps randomly "clone" the user just behind himself every now and then. A real player would never see these "shadows" but an AimBot would fire at these pahntom targets and that could trigger the server to shut him down.
Good idea, but not going far enough.
Here's a fairly simple way to detect aimbots... From the server, send a packet that says to a client "there's a guy right behind you". Not a fake guy, make it real. The guy doesn't really have to exist.. The server keeps track of things like that, so as long as the server knows it's fake, no biggie. Plus, the server doesn't broadcast one message to all clients, it's quite easy for the server to send "there's a guy right behind you" only to the guy that has the guy right behind him. Since it's right behind him, he'll never see it. Since other clients aren't told about it, they'll never see it.
But that pesky bot will see it and fire away.
Two things can happen then. The server can detect that this guy keeps flipping 180 degrees to fire on the guy he's not supposed to be able to see, and kick/ban him, OR, you can watch this idiot flip back and forth and laugh until he goes away.
There is a possibility of a normal player seeing the fake guy, if he's lagged a bit and makes a fast turn. So, i suggest only telling the client that the player is there every so often.. just inserting the player into a packet once in a while to see if the guy fires at it very fast. That way, the chance of someone spinning around and seeing the fake guy is minimal, but the bot will be fast enough to fire at it.
One other possibility.. Put the fake guy UNDER the real guy, half in the floor.. Then the bot will fire at the ground directly under the player, possibiliy splash damaging the hell out of him.
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No, what's even more entertaining is that, according to the document itself, posting of the document is an indictable offense since it contains all those handy url's. :-)
Also, they obviously just typed CSS into a good search engine.. A Slashdot discussion is Doe #57, a post on dejanews is #60... Gimme a break..
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I'm not going to claim that I'm a specialist or anything like that, but didn't it say that he worked "free for Transmeta" and not "for free for Transmeta"? One can debate the difference of course, but the point the editor is trying to make I guess is that Linus isn't bound to Linux or any of the distributions.
:-)
I think that the point was supposed to be that he works on Linux freely, and for Transmeta.. Odd way of wording that though.. I'm sure Transmeta pays the man.
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For crying out loud people.. get this through your skull, 'kay?
/. is a bit like complaining about rumors being spread on IRC. If you don't like what Slashdot posts, stop reading it.
Slashdot is not CNN. It is not Time, nor is it ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, the BBC, or even the Weather channel.
Slashdot is NOT NEWS in the conventional sense. It is a site run by a bunch of guys who post stuff they find interesting. Complaining about rumors being spread on
Slashdot is not mass media and has no "journalistic obligations" whatsoever. Deal with it.
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Okay, I decided to scroll down to the bottom of this post, and saw the "Moderation Slurp" going on..
That's it. It's over folks. I swore I never would do it, but from now on I read at 1 and up.
Goodbye Anonymous Cowards, we hardly knew ye..
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Minor correction:
In my copy of the book (and all the short stories), it was U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men. Not "robotics"..
However, Asimov is credited for inventing the term "robotics" when he used it for the first time in a short story back in the 30's (40's?). Of course, he thought the word already existed, and didn't realize that he'd made it up.
Another thing in the book that may not have made it to the movie: world government. The world was divided into dictorates, and the book mainly occured in the North American Dictorate, as I recall.
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