Wood is quite an impressive building material. You seem to be forgetting that the H-4 flew successfully. In fact, it flew better than this X-wing will: it landed w/o a chute.
With a supersonic nozzle, won't that thing be insanely loud? Did you see the 90lb recoil!! Oh my goodness, so in Star Wars when they showed the laser weapons recoiling they weren't wrong???
Laws are exactly like code. Every rev should get smaller and faster. Instead every rev is pushed to have more features and bloat until they all conflict with each other and bugs are crawling all over the place.
The problem with your whole elitist voting scheme is who decides who the elite is. There will always be a more well informed bunch that will try to squelch the very slightly less informed. This comes down to being a dictatorship or anarchy, depending on how much influence the individuals have.
Don't make things difficult for the cops.... If you piss them off, they will find some way to arrest you, whether the charges stick or not. What the...? Are you saying that making a cop angry is justification for them to arrest/jail you?
I have 3 times had 12 accounts filled with characters and mules.. and Bnet deleted them all.
Quote: I don't see how this is even an issue unless you enjoyed hanging out in the chat channels. Spambots didn't join anything but the main channels, mostly the trade channels, and couldn't join your game if you gave it a password.
Allowing spam bots onto chat channels guarantees that nice players will no longer join chat channels. Spam bots joined public games too. It's not so much about hosting a private server, if I wanted to do that I'd just connect directly. More along the lines of control: I want to control who I play with. Sometimes I want to play with new/random people, AND I want abusive people permbanned more quickly than Blizzard was doing.
As Hoknor said, Open Battle.net is a hackfest. That's not what I want. I want to be able to choose a server with more reasonable rules, for example: Maphack is OK, hacked chars & duping are not. Future BnetD mods could be created that would implement full MMO.
Most of the same arguments used for Open Source vs Closed Source can be applied to BnetD too.
The whole point behind BnetD is control and freedom. That they happened to be pirates was very unfortunate.
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Here's my top 4 reasons for wanting BnetD (and notice that they DO NOT include piracy): 5 - Store characters on a server that will last longer than 90 days AND are non hackable. 4 - Allow/disallow Maphack at MY choosing. (Maphack is not a hacking tool, it is a UI improvement) 3 - Choose who can join my server. (No Spambots, just my friends + their friends) 1 - Mod support. All of the really great games were that way because of the Modding community.
Another reason Blizzard shut down BnetD besides piracy is that they would lose their ad revenue.
Today at 17:30 WST the dimunitive object noted orbiting us has completed its descent. First World Militia leader Perov Nekormick noted signs of intelligent life aboard, including the appearance of small eyestalks that look to be used by the object to navigate its environment. "Although it lacks true locomotion that our slimepads provide, the device does appear to be capable of some limited locomotion" Perov stated. "We may have some fun, err Run some scientific experiments on it before we topple it upside down into a crater." Appearance of the object was backtracked to the brightly lit object first observed through the Hibble intragalactic telescope. Hibble stated that its track was reminiscent of the flares described by his great-great grandfather Hindle near the time of Pretty Bright Flashes on our ugly neighbor. These flares were also the ones that brought the Huge-Ugly-Meat-And-Nylon-Suits down in the Hosgevarten district in 10034.5. For those that don't remember the incidents, the HUMANS were responsible for severe environmental disturbances in the 10030 era. Our world preservationist organization KOWS (Keep Our World Safe) released a press release stating in part "We must not disturb any marks from the new landing, just like we did for the earlier HUMANS encroachment. Otherwise they might know we're here and disturb us too in their clumsy methods of scientific discovery. Remember that they did kidnapp many members of our quiet and peaceful Rock neighbors during their last visit." The local Rock spokesman has been asked for comment and it is believed we will have the answer some time around 10099. Meanwhile KOWS is urging that citizens stay indoors, and not to earth the visitor before it has been neutralized by the FWM.
Instead of modding parent underrated, I think his points should be re-defined in terms of the talk given:
1: PvP in Wow is limited to ganking. Community: Bad. Only ganking is detrimental to the community. Also getting ganked lowers the opinion of the community. Non-ganking PvP is helpful to the community. Game: Bad. Detrimental too because this limits the gaming choices. World: Assassins exist, so ganking should exist, however so does other forms of PvP.
2: Economy is simplistic. Community: Bad. Simple economies means that anyone can supply a good or service, which means less interaction. Game: Bad. duh... complex economies have more depth. World: Bad. Doesn't match our expectation of a world.
3. Character transfers between realms. Community: Depends on the size of the realms. Probably bad, because it limits your interaction. Game: Good. Improves responsiveness for the game. World: What... do they have parallel universes? You've just split one world and community into fragments... Bad.
4: Server maintenance Community: Bad Game: Good. Uhh.. server maintenance improves "Gameplay" right? World: Bad.
I like his breakdown of Community, Game, World. It might be missing some concepts, but you start to see how the different tradeoffs made in game design were driven by the different needs.
You know, they went after the supply side of the system... It would be a lot more effective if they used a bit of FUD to influence the demand side. Start banning people that bought money. They already have a list of people that were RMT's, just ban all the people the RMT's gave money to.
I have never bought money online. I don't even like to receive money or help from friends unless I've tried to do it before myself.
I ran a KT7-Raid mobo for 8 months or so with debian, then pulled it out to give to my sister. Tried to install windows --- lockup. Tried again (Windows XP Pro). Again (Windows XP Home) Again (Windows 2000 Pro) Again (Windows 98). All locked up during install or shortly thereafter. Turned around, installed Debian. Rock Solid, ran all night. I threw up my hands and figured that the mobo just "Doesn't Do Windows". Must be in the habit of running linux.
My swiss army knife does that too. Also includes: Ear Floss. Portable Angiogram. X-ray laser.
Why not put a delay in the protocol.
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Instead of a time delay on the client side why not put the time delay on the server side? Require the sending client to wait 10 seconds for a response from the server.
How about we all get together and hard code each of our DNS servers to point to Mikes MikeRoweSoft.com IP address. Who says we have to be held hostage by big money companies? The Internet is OURS not theirs!
While we're at it, how about a votable markup list of addresses like these. Add a web-site administerable list of which DNS entries you want corrected for your server, then point your DNS to the corrected DNS.
Sound like we need to have a Freenet style Sourceforge archive. Nobody can take it down & the authors woiuld be protected from these types of silly lawsuits.
Pay for bandwith to the internet backbone?
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Solution #1: QOS
I just started playing with the Quality of Service stuff in linux, & you could set it up so that traffic to/from the wireless net was at the bottom of the dogpile priority wise, and assuming that you are paying a fixed amount per month, it's not a problem.
Solution #2: Why connect to the backbone?
If both stations are on the wireless network, why does the traffic need to hit the internet backbone? This was how the internet started: Bob wants to talk to Sue, but Sue is too far away so Charlie helps out. (Ok, so it's a tree of Charlies that help out, but u get the picture.)
The management of the box should be handled by Hints and Directives. A Hint is a category you like, as evidenced by viewing time, voting etc. A Directive is explicit instructions about what to save.
Peer-to-Peer
The other thing needed is moderate bandwith between devices, so that peer to peer works. I.e. You missed a show, so you click on it & hit Get This, & probably some box has it on the net, & it'll be streamed to you to play. In fact, a schedule could be set up so that boxes with extra space would archive selected (or random) portions for just such requests.
The founding fathers put no such "Fire in a crowded theatre" language in the First Amendment. So that is just plain Poppycock (legal poppycock, but poppycock none the less).
Yes you have every right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theater.
Yes you have every right to post peoples credit card numbers.
Yes you have every right to publish how to make bombs, politicians & doctors home addresses, etc.
Yes you have every right to say ANYTHING!
It's what the person DOES with that information that is punishable.
Mental Exercise:
Think about it this way: Let's say the speech is in French, & no-one can read french -- Is it still illegal?. Repeat for encrypted, repeat for private.
Note on Home Addresses: (if you're that popular you should have a security guard) Or for that matter, submit false information everywhere.
Note on Credit Card Numbers: DOH, WHY are those idiot credit card companies using such a heinously insecure method to transfer money?!?! Come on, give me a credit card with a keypad on the front for a pin, & (while they're at it) a "current balance" display!
The underlying protocol can be IRC, and to handle DOS attacks, run a different server network. Encryption, etc can all be hidden beneath a nice cutesy user interface.
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Wood is quite an impressive building material. You seem to be forgetting that the H-4 flew successfully. In fact, it flew better than this X-wing will: it landed w/o a chute.
With a supersonic nozzle, won't that thing be insanely loud?
Did you see the 90lb recoil!! Oh my goodness, so in Star Wars when they showed the laser weapons recoiling they weren't wrong???
Laws are exactly like code. Every rev should get smaller and faster. Instead every rev is pushed to have more features and bloat until they all conflict with each other and bugs are crawling all over the place.
The problem with your whole elitist voting scheme is who decides who the elite is. There will always be a more well informed bunch that will try to squelch the very slightly less informed. This comes down to being a dictatorship or anarchy, depending on how much influence the individuals have.
I have 3 times had 12 accounts filled with characters and mules.. and Bnet deleted them all.
Quote: I don't see how this is even an issue unless you enjoyed hanging out in the chat channels. Spambots didn't join anything but the main channels, mostly the trade channels, and couldn't join your game if you gave it a password.
Allowing spam bots onto chat channels guarantees that nice players will no longer join chat channels.
Spam bots joined public games too. It's not so much about hosting a private server, if I wanted to do that I'd just connect directly. More along the lines of control: I want to control who I play with. Sometimes I want to play with new/random people, AND I want abusive people permbanned more quickly than Blizzard was doing.
As Hoknor said, Open Battle.net is a hackfest. That's not what I want. I want to be able to choose a server with more reasonable rules, for example: Maphack is OK, hacked chars & duping are not. Future BnetD mods could be created that would implement full MMO.
Most of the same arguments used for Open Source vs Closed Source can be applied to BnetD too.
Wups on the numbering being messed up.
The whole point behind BnetD is control and freedom. That they happened to be pirates was very unfortunate.
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Here's my top 4 reasons for wanting BnetD (and notice that they DO NOT include piracy):
5 - Store characters on a server that will last longer than 90 days AND are non hackable.
4 - Allow/disallow Maphack at MY choosing. (Maphack is not a hacking tool, it is a UI improvement)
3 - Choose who can join my server. (No Spambots, just my friends + their friends)
1 - Mod support. All of the really great games were that way because of the Modding community.
Another reason Blizzard shut down BnetD besides piracy is that they would lose their ad revenue.
Play Anarchy Online instead for free.
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Today at 17:30 WST the dimunitive object noted orbiting us has completed its descent. First World Militia leader Perov Nekormick noted signs of intelligent life aboard, including the appearance of small eyestalks that look to be used by the object to navigate its environment. "Although it lacks true locomotion that our slimepads provide, the device does appear to be capable of some limited locomotion" Perov stated. "We may have some fun, err Run some scientific experiments on it before we topple it upside down into a crater."
Appearance of the object was backtracked to the brightly lit object first observed through the Hibble intragalactic telescope. Hibble stated that its track was reminiscent of the flares described by his great-great grandfather Hindle near the time of Pretty Bright Flashes on our ugly neighbor. These flares were also the ones that brought the Huge-Ugly-Meat-And-Nylon-Suits down in the Hosgevarten district in 10034.5. For those that don't remember the incidents, the HUMANS were responsible for severe environmental disturbances in the 10030 era. Our world preservationist organization KOWS (Keep Our World Safe) released a press release stating in part "We must not disturb any marks from the new landing, just like we did for the earlier HUMANS encroachment. Otherwise they might know we're here and disturb us too in their clumsy methods of scientific discovery. Remember that they did kidnapp many members of our quiet and peaceful Rock neighbors during their last visit." The local Rock spokesman has been asked for comment and it is believed we will have the answer some time around 10099.
Meanwhile KOWS is urging that citizens stay indoors, and not to earth the visitor before it has been neutralized by the FWM.
Instead of modding parent underrated, I think his points should be re-defined in terms of the talk given:
1: PvP in Wow is limited to ganking.
Community: Bad. Only ganking is detrimental to the community. Also getting ganked lowers the opinion of the community. Non-ganking PvP is helpful to the community.
Game: Bad. Detrimental too because this limits the gaming choices.
World: Assassins exist, so ganking should exist, however so does other forms of PvP.
2: Economy is simplistic.
Community: Bad. Simple economies means that anyone can supply a good or service, which means less interaction.
Game: Bad. duh... complex economies have more depth.
World: Bad. Doesn't match our expectation of a world.
3. Character transfers between realms.
Community: Depends on the size of the realms. Probably bad, because it limits your interaction.
Game: Good. Improves responsiveness for the game.
World: What... do they have parallel universes? You've just split one world and community into fragments... Bad.
4: Server maintenance
Community: Bad
Game: Good. Uhh.. server maintenance improves "Gameplay" right?
World: Bad.
I like his breakdown of Community, Game, World. It might be missing some concepts, but you start to see how the different tradeoffs made in game design were driven by the different needs.
You know, they went after the supply side of the system... It would be a lot more effective if they used a bit of FUD to influence the demand side. Start banning people that bought money. They already have a list of people that were RMT's, just ban all the people the RMT's gave money to.
I have never bought money online. I don't even like to receive money or help from friends unless I've tried to do it before myself.
I ran a KT7-Raid mobo for 8 months or so with debian, then pulled it out to give to my sister. Tried to install windows --- lockup.
Tried again (Windows XP Pro).
Again (Windows XP Home)
Again (Windows 2000 Pro)
Again (Windows 98).
All locked up during install or shortly thereafter.
Turned around, installed Debian. Rock Solid, ran all night.
I threw up my hands and figured that the mobo just "Doesn't Do Windows". Must be in the habit of running linux.
My swiss army knife does that too.
Also includes:
Ear Floss.
Portable Angiogram.
X-ray laser.
Instead of a time delay on the client side why not put the time delay on the server side?
Require the sending client to wait 10 seconds for a response from the server.
How about we all get together and hard code each of our DNS servers to point to Mikes MikeRoweSoft.com IP address. Who says we have to be held hostage by big money companies? The Internet is OURS not theirs!
While we're at it, how about a votable markup list of addresses like these. Add a web-site administerable list of which DNS entries you want corrected for your server, then point your DNS to the corrected DNS.
Step 1: Create unbeatable CD-key mechanism. Ala Diablo 2.
Step 2: Create an RBL style list of cheaters.
Cheat = global ban, means that no-one would dare run cheats.
Sound like we need to have a Freenet style Sourceforge archive. Nobody can take it down & the authors woiuld be protected from these types of silly lawsuits.
Solution #1: QOS
I just started playing with the Quality of Service stuff in linux, & you could set it up so that traffic to/from the wireless net was at the bottom of the dogpile priority wise, and assuming that you are paying a fixed amount per month, it's not a problem.
Solution #2: Why connect to the backbone?
If both stations are on the wireless network, why does the traffic need to hit the internet backbone? This was how the internet started: Bob wants to talk to Sue, but Sue is too far away so Charlie helps out. (Ok, so it's a tree of Charlies that help out, but u get the picture.)
Doesn't necessarily have to consume bandwith.
Put another way, the router used has to handle all that bandwith anyway, just make it a little smarter.
Upgrade to a PC.
:) )
Muahhaahahaaa (if this doesn't get marked flamebait....
Peer-to-Peer
The other thing needed is moderate bandwith between devices, so that peer to peer works. I.e. You missed a show, so you click on it & hit Get This, & probably some box has it on the net, & it'll be streamed to you to play. In fact, a schedule could be set up so that boxes with extra space would archive selected (or random) portions for just such requests.
I have one, & it's really nice but the AGP video is worse than useless. The directx drivers are buggy for the ATI Rage Mobility Pro, so both OpenGL and Direct3D lock up randomly. Update the drivers, you say? Oook, I go to the ATI site & get: The RAGE MOBILITY drivers supplied with a given laptop or notebook have been specially modified to work in conjunction with the flat panel display and any other graphics or video options installed in that specific computer. As a result of these modifications, ATI Technical Support is unable to make a "generic" RAGE MOBILITY driver available for download.
Fine, go to the Fujitsu page & Wups! The latest drivers were shipped with the laptop.
[Rock] You Are Here [Hard Place]
Yes you have every right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theater.
Yes you have every right to post peoples credit card numbers.
Yes you have every right to publish how to make bombs, politicians & doctors home addresses, etc.
Yes you have every right to say ANYTHING!
It's what the person DOES with that information that is punishable.
Mental Exercise:
Think about it this way: Let's say the speech is in French, & no-one can read french -- Is it still illegal?. Repeat for encrypted, repeat for private.
Note on Home Addresses: (if you're that popular you should have a security guard) Or for that matter, submit false information everywhere.
Note on Credit Card Numbers: DOH, WHY are those idiot credit card companies using such a heinously insecure method to transfer money?!?!
Come on, give me a credit card with a keypad on the front for a pin, & (while they're at it) a "current balance" display!
Have you ever heard of MEMS?
It's mech-tv all over again.
The underlying protocol can be IRC, and to handle DOS attacks, run a different server network. Encryption, etc can all be hidden beneath a nice cutesy user interface.
... Should be done through Freenet :) )
Come on, let's hear it, Distributed, Free, Secure (not yet been hacked