Something that you could use with special keywords to issue commands, open comm links of special channels, etc. complete with command macros so that you code speak code words and initiate very complex sequences.
I'm sure that everyone here can see it now, and imagine the possibilities for enhanced game play.
Some TV's were lying around - various people were trying to kick the TV tube's face in - one huy was wearing steel toe boots - it took about twenty extremely hard kicks before the tube would implode.
That is why you kick them in at the back. The neck is really easy to break, even accidentally.
And then it dawned on Seyk why the software and support were so bad: That's the way vendors make money. They push products on the market before they've been adequately tested, demand payment up front and then are often not available to deal with the sequelae of poorly performing products. [...] now many CIOs are beginning to realize that the root of the problem may lie in the economics of the industry. Vendors generate most of their revenues through perpetual licensing agreements, which force CIOs to pay up front for an application. In return, CIOs own the software and the right to use it "in perpetuity." The problem with this model is that in reality, CIOs are lucky if they can get three years out of a product before vendors release entirely new versions of their software.
people here have been bitching about this for ages. Finally these guys are waking up.
I wonder if they could get a lawsuit or something for fraud.
Or maybe, since the licenses are in perpetuity, tech support forever (the length of the License), or for a sight longer than 3 years.
Let's face it, I would not expect Lotus to support me on Visicalc. But I would want Microsoft to stop selling Updates marketed as new versions, when the gui modification is probably the sdmallest part of the code.
... that there is no way that something as complex...
Actually the shear diversity is excellent proof that there is no way that any one single entity could have masterminded it all.
You would have to have an almost infinite diversity of intelligent beings planning and taking advantadge of the opportunities to account for what is around you.
Somehow I do not think that this is where you are going, however...
You need to remeber even a single cell has the equivalent of Autonomic functions that are used to keep going. It does not probbably do the equivalent of deciding "shall I digest food now?"
This means that we would need modular units in a network, say, that would be autonomic. The desktop PCs would have to be autonomic before you could bet the network to truly be so.
It would be a whole new way of computer design for software, and I doubts that some of the OSs out there would have code bases that could be viable in this regard.
Note that you can do this sort of thing as an optical illusion. You can pretend that everything is doing all right, when in fact it is going to hell in a hand basket. The vaporware diagnostic that merely pretends everything is all right, or the repair that cause more damage than was present in the first place.
But I think we have had enough of that over the past decade or two to know to avoid it. And, of course, the guilty have not been named because everyone knows who they are already.
The page in the Google cache is hanging on the graphics files, text only viewing works fine. That said, here are the contents of the page from the Google Cache:
At Oct 14 2001 16:53:42 GMT, there are 191444
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Their demise is attributed not just to a failure to keep up with digital, but to a string of bad business decisions. Their business decisions also didn't spot the truck the digital photography is.
So the effect is similar to a drunk stumbling out of a bar out into heavy traffic. BLAM!
They got into some things that screwed them up, then got nailed.
Unfortunately, one solution warks in the direction of a US Government Digital Passport (not the MS solution) where the rep or senator only accepts emails from constituents, from his list of constituent ID numbers. Processed similar to a credit card.
The problem all along is here we are with a solution the regulates the law abiding people, because some jerks want to abuse the system.
This goes back to my idea of a spam licensing system, so that the pressure is put on the spammers, not the decent folk.
At least that would mean that our representatives in government might start actually reading email.
uh, no.
Simply put the reps are all spammed out. Every single interest group in the country country can send thousands of email to a rep, complete with slightly varied names and subject lines, and content. It is a trivial programing problem to generate sentences and paragraphs out of a database with calibration for education level and other demographics. Any programmer competent in databases could set something like this up.
So the only way reps can verify that the input is legit is if it is postmarked from their district, hand written, etc.
You think you get Junk Mail? multiply what you get by a factor of a thousand or two for snail mail, especially if you live in an important district.
So the odds of them actually reading email are slim and none. Think of them being under a continous DDOS attack for the past 5+ years, if not more. They probably pick out one out of every 100 or 200 or so at random, and use that as a sample of what they get
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I think a realistic game engine MUST allow for things the game designer didn't intend.
Precisely the point. In that case, I would have made the mines sufficiently small or narrow or rounded that they would have been a precarious ledge at best.
but a very large world with lot of possibilities would allow the flexibility that you had with the old paper and pencil games, where you at least had a referee to judge to the long term consequences. Or to take advantadge of the possibilities that were opened up.
To some extent, some of the problems you have with games like everquest comes when you have people running around looting stuff from other people, without an easy place of safety at hand.
I wonder what would happen if social stations were handed out more at random instead of having to come up just through the levels. The equivalent of "You are 13 years old, and have reached Manhood. You are a member of the Royal House of Saud, one of 5,000 plus people running the Kingdom." In this case, you are rich, but you have political responsibilities as well. Don't mess up!
The advantadge of a world of truly huge size, as mentioned above, is that you could have a thousand such kingdoms to be affiliated with, and yet you could travel elsewhere if someone really messed up the kingdom or the war went badly.
but now we are getting into the specifics of a game design
For instance, some clever players figured out that they could attach a proximity mine
to the wall and hop up onto it (because it was physically solid and therefore became a small ledge, essentially). So then these players would attach a second mine a bit higher, hop up onto the prox mine, reach back and remove the
first proximity mine, replace it higher on the wall, hop up one step higher, and then repeat, thus climbing any wall in the game, escaping our carefully predefined boundaries.
This is a continued problem in some forms of game design, an alternate version of the one million monkeys typing. Any huge number of gamers will find holes in the system.
I think that eventually you'll have to have some system that can be used to implement an indefinitely large world.
My own idea / fantasy project is to have an earth type planet that would have the suerface area of Jupiter. Then you could effectively block off areas, at least for lower levels by having vast areas of ocean or desert or whatever.
The point being is that you would have to have a completely different system to manage something that is that large scale
radio free nation might be cool if they didn't ask you to sign away your soul before trying it.
knowing the guys there I can offer this:
Basically the contract says
If you post stuff, you promise that you have the right to post it. You also promise that it is not somebody else's If you want to use your stuff on your own site (like a weblog), or in another venue (like in print), go ahead. It's yours anyhow. When you post stuff to the site, you give the site owners permission to use it. If you are not the original author, and want to use stuff from the site, you got to ask nicely first. There are big penalties so that big companies don't rip folks off or quote out of context.
Other small legal details include the idea that the admins can change stuff around, stuff to stop slap suits, stuff to stop litigation from other jurisdictions, etc. Some things like liability for viruses, etc are there because of legal requirements from advertisers that will be coming down the road.
You know someone is going to say retarded, which might not be completely fair.
It has been said that no-one ever got fired for buying IBM (long ago), or Microsoft. This may be slowing changing. I don't know of many people who want to put their jobs on the line to protect the reputation of some other company.
I question this assertion. Think about it this way, maybe you could spent $1M on an advertising campaign to ten million people via
traditional media, it costs $0.10 to communicate with each person. Or, you could spend $10M on fancy technology, and show your
message to the million visitors to your web site, costing you $10 per person.
I was thinking that the cost of individualizing and tailoring the ads to a million people on a one by one basis would be more than the costs of for a broad demographic. As in "this one responds better to red, that one to blue" etc.
Earlier marketing models and research have been devoted to controlling the market. This has been done using the very best methods using the best techniques that modern psychology has to offer. This is where the vast majority of the marketing money has gone.
Yes, If you want to be paranoid, you can call this mind control. Or you can give some other politically correct name and feel better about it.
But in any case what has happened with the internet is that the monkeys have escaped from their cages, so to speak. This is what the concept of micromarketing has tapped into, but it is more global than that.
This is because marketing is not just for business. It is also used for political agendas.
Marketing tries to aggregate people into masses. This is because it is easier to deal with the demographics of large groups of people. Also, large masses of people are easier to manipulate with images and emotions such as fear, sex, etc.
If you cut the visceral reactions to various images out of the loop, then there is a problem. Then you end up with dealing with individuals with individual thoughts and ideas and experiences. It is far easier to market to a million people as a mass market that to market to a million independent thinking individuals.
The scale of impact I have seen usually goes like:
First,br>
Warm body with monetary contribution
Warm female body [joke?]
Warm body
Then
Hand written letter
Letter
Telephone call
Fax
finally,
email
The problem is similar to the problem you see in banner ads and spam on the net.
Banner ads used to work great because of the novelty, now everyone ignores them.
And Reps get masses of email and mail from professional lobbyists trying to influence a vote. You think you get spam? The reps are basically DDOS'd by the stuff.
So the warm body approach is best. and do not forget to use small words. Many of these guys are not used to reading books without pictures.
By tinkering with Linux, IBM has reduced
the amount of memory required to run the OS. In turn, this has helped increase the battery life
to six hours. IBM has predicted all-day battery life will appear in a year or so.
I would hope so.
That kind of battery life I would expect from another OS.
Sadly, the IBM page link is ead:
dead link -> http://www.research.ibm.com/MobileComputing/WatchP ad.html
The prototype wristwatch, thinner than most current calculator watches, features
a 720 dpi VGA display that makes 6-point type (about half the size of typical
newspaper type) legible to the user. This allows the screen to show about as
much type as the larger screen of a Palm handheld. Because of the high resolution
of the display, the text can be read easily by the wearer, Karidis said. The device
would offer organizing and messaging functions and could be navigated by touch,
with just four or five touch areas.
"Your watch knows what time it is. It certainly should be able to tell you where
your next appointment is," Karidis said.
Using Bluetooth, the WatchPad can communicate with a PC. As a demonstration,
Karidis used the touchscreen controls to move through his presentation, which ran
on an IBM ThinkPad notebook computer.
Researchers at IBM Japan have developed a prototype motherboard for the
watch, about 1.25 inches across, with 8MB of DRAM. It runs a version of
embedded Linux. The device could be commercialized within two years, Karidis
said in an interview Wednesday.
Slashdot Mirror
Something that you could use with special keywords to issue commands, open comm links of special channels, etc. complete with command macros so that you code speak code words and initiate very complex sequences.
I'm sure that everyone here can see it now, and imagine the possibilities for enhanced game play.
That is why you kick them in at the back. The neck is really easy to break, even accidentally.
And then it dawned on Seyk why the software and support were so bad: That's the way vendors make money. They push products on the market before they've been adequately tested, demand payment up front and then are often not available to deal with the sequelae of poorly performing products. [...] now many CIOs are beginning to realize that the root of the problem may lie in the economics of the industry. Vendors generate most of their revenues through perpetual licensing agreements, which force CIOs to pay up front for an application. In return, CIOs own the software and the right to use it "in perpetuity." The problem with this model is that in reality, CIOs are lucky if they can get three years out of a product before vendors release entirely new versions of their software.
people here have been bitching about this for ages. Finally these guys are waking up.
I wonder if they could get a lawsuit or something for fraud.
Or maybe, since the licenses are in perpetuity, tech support forever (the length of the License), or for a sight longer than 3 years.
Let's face it, I would not expect Lotus to support me on Visicalc. But I would want Microsoft to stop selling Updates marketed as new versions, when the gui modification is probably the sdmallest part of the code.
heck, cars have 7 years/70,000 miles, and more.
Actually the shear diversity is excellent proof that there is no way that any one single entity could have masterminded it all.
You would have to have an almost infinite diversity of intelligent beings planning and taking advantadge of the opportunities to account for what is around you.
Somehow I do not think that this is where you are going, however...
This means that we would need modular units in a network, say, that would be autonomic. The desktop PCs would have to be autonomic before you could bet the network to truly be so.
It would be a whole new way of computer design for software, and I doubts that some of the OSs out there would have code bases that could be viable in this regard.
Note that you can do this sort of thing as an optical illusion. You can pretend that everything is doing all right, when in fact it is going to hell in a hand basket. The vaporware diagnostic that merely pretends everything is all right, or the repair that cause more damage than was present in the first place.
But I think we have had enough of that over the past decade or two to know to avoid it. And, of course, the guilty have not been named because everyone knows who they are already.
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It feels a lot longer to me.
It must be the dog years phenomena, where 5 years = 30 dog years.
somehow, that feels alot closer to the truth.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4185744181. html
Goofed that up.
Nice discussion, from Sept 6, with related links
[sigh]
- Linux Devices Article detailed, very nice, on this issue from Sept 6
- Kernel Hacking How-to Page on this again, very detailed.
- The Kernel SpinLock metering FAQ
All around useful stuff, enough to get you started destro^H^H^H^H^H^H hacking your own kernelSo the effect is similar to a drunk stumbling out of a bar out into heavy traffic. BLAM!
They got into some things that screwed them up, then got nailed.
The problem all along is here we are with a solution the regulates the law abiding people, because some jerks want to abuse the system.
This goes back to my idea of a spam licensing system, so that the pressure is put on the spammers, not the decent folk.
but good luck finding any.
I can imagine this article causing more religious arguments than almost anything else recently
uh, no.
Simply put the reps are all spammed out. Every single interest group in the country country can send thousands of email to a rep, complete with slightly varied names and subject lines, and content. It is a trivial programing problem to generate sentences and paragraphs out of a database with calibration for education level and other demographics. Any programmer competent in databases could set something like this up.
So the only way reps can verify that the input is legit is if it is postmarked from their district, hand written, etc.
You think you get Junk Mail? multiply what you get by a factor of a thousand or two for snail mail, especially if you live in an important district.
So the odds of them actually reading email are slim and none. Think of them being under a continous DDOS attack for the past 5+ years, if not more. They probably pick out one out of every 100 or 200 or so at random, and use that as a sample of what they get
Precisely the point. In that case, I would have made the mines sufficiently small or narrow or rounded that they would have been a precarious ledge at best.
but a very large world with lot of possibilities would allow the flexibility that you had with the old paper and pencil games, where you at least had a referee to judge to the long term consequences. Or to take advantadge of the possibilities that were opened up.
To some extent, some of the problems you have with games like everquest comes when you have people running around looting stuff from other people, without an easy place of safety at hand.
I wonder what would happen if social stations were handed out more at random instead of having to come up just through the levels. The equivalent of "You are 13 years old, and have reached Manhood. You are a member of the Royal House of Saud, one of 5,000 plus people running the Kingdom." In this case, you are rich, but you have political responsibilities as well. Don't mess up!
The advantadge of a world of truly huge size, as mentioned above, is that you could have a thousand such kingdoms to be affiliated with, and yet you could travel elsewhere if someone really messed up the kingdom or the war went badly.
but now we are getting into the specifics of a game design
This is a continued problem in some forms of game design, an alternate version of the one million monkeys typing. Any huge number of gamers will find holes in the system.
I think that eventually you'll have to have some system that can be used to implement an indefinitely large world.
My own idea / fantasy project is to have an earth type planet that would have the suerface area of Jupiter. Then you could effectively block off areas, at least for lower levels by having vast areas of ocean or desert or whatever.
The point being is that you would have to have a completely different system to manage something that is that large scale
knowing the guys there I can offer this:
Basically the contract says
If you post stuff, you promise that you have the right to post it.
You also promise that it is not somebody else's
If you want to use your stuff on your own site (like a weblog), or in another venue (like in print), go ahead. It's yours anyhow.
When you post stuff to the site, you give the site owners permission to use it.
If you are not the original author, and want to use stuff from the site, you got to ask nicely first.
There are big penalties so that big companies don't rip folks off or quote out of context.
Other small legal details include the idea that the admins can change stuff around, stuff to stop slap suits, stuff to stop litigation from other jurisdictions, etc. Some things like liability for viruses, etc are there because of legal requirements from advertisers that will be coming down the road.
Very detailed stuff, but that's the idea.
You know someone is going to say retarded, which might not be completely fair.
It has been said that no-one ever got fired for buying IBM (long ago), or Microsoft. This may be slowing changing. I don't know of many people who want to put their jobs on the line to protect the reputation of some other company.
I would like to see your comment modded up. Nicely done
Of course string order can be arbitrary as long as the pattern is parsable by the language.
I was thinking that the cost of individualizing and tailoring the ads to a million people on a one by one basis would be more than the costs of for a broad demographic. As in "this one responds better to red, that one to blue" etc.
Yes, If you want to be paranoid, you can call this mind control. Or you can give some other politically correct name and feel better about it.
But in any case what has happened with the internet is that the monkeys have escaped from their cages, so to speak. This is what the concept of micromarketing has tapped into, but it is more global than that.
This is because marketing is not just for business. It is also used for political agendas.
Marketing tries to aggregate people into masses. This is because it is easier to deal with the demographics of large groups of people. Also, large masses of people are easier to manipulate with images and emotions such as fear, sex, etc.
If you cut the visceral reactions to various images out of the loop, then there is a problem. Then you end up with dealing with individuals with individual thoughts and ideas and experiences. It is far easier to market to a million people as a mass market that to market to a million independent thinking individuals.
First,br> Warm body with monetary contribution
Warm female body [joke?]
Warm body
Then
Hand written letter
Letter
Telephone call
Fax
finally,
email
The problem is similar to the problem you see in banner ads and spam on the net.
Banner ads used to work great because of the novelty, now everyone ignores them.
And Reps get masses of email and mail from professional lobbyists trying to influence a vote. You think you get spam? The reps are basically DDOS'd by the stuff.
So the warm body approach is best. and do not forget to use small words. Many of these guys are not used to reading books without pictures.
Now I am starting to get scared.
I would hope so.
That kind of battery life I would expect from another OS.
Sadly, the IBM page link is ead:
dead link -> http://www.research.ibm.com/MobileComputing/WatchP ad.html
But there is some info in this earlier Infoworld article:
Nice technology!