The open source MMO business model should be similar to Linux. A commercial company similar to RedHat can use server fees to fund development of engine improvements which are then contributed back to the open source development. They shouldn't have to contribute back all the artwork or the data sets.
The biggest problem is resistance based on the perceived lack of cheat detection/prevention. The current thinking on this in commercial MMOs is firmly in the security by obscurity camp, and we all know how thoroughly that has been debunked.
This model would allow those who wouldn't pay to play, and those that wanted to show off their investment in a recognizable manner to do so. If cheating and the economy are not managed, you will lose the second group.
Duty cycle?! I saw that the other week. Some new car used 100% for brakes, some lower duty cycle for running lights. The thing is, when you turn your head or move your eyes, they strobe like crazy. The frequency they run em at better be in the kilohertz range.
Ok, that's it. Just bloody encrypt ALL RAM! CPU hashes key in BIOS with key in memory controller and key in ram chip. Yank the ram and the key no longer matches.
I dunno about you, but I miss 3.1. I don't miss the crashes, but the UI on 3.1 was consistent and not being reinvented every time I turn around. It takes me about 10 minutes to convert my XP back to looking like 3. (Old style start menu, don't hide buttons, turn off fade effects, etc etc etc)
No. It's more like you a put a child-proof cap on the new carton (UAC), narrowed the opening so much that it takes a lot longer for them to pour the milk out (poorer performance), added an LCD display to the carton (Aero), and upped the price, then refused to revert to the old packaging because you said the new packaging was "better". Oh and besides all that you own all the cows, and use a secret process to extract the milk and no-one can get the milk to taste the same without you suing them out of existence (monopoly). Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, you penalize anyone that sells any other kind of milk by pricing the milk much higher if they do (illegal anti-competitive business practices).
I thought this was Slashdot, and privacy trumped all? Any time we give information away it gets used against us. Thanks to one of the previous posters as of today I now use RefControl.
Welding rig? Uh-uh. Turn it into a 6 wheeled vehicle.
Build the IC engine into a shell that latches onto the rest of the car. The trick will be getting the proper alignment so that when you back the car into the shell neither will be damaged and it will latch up properly. With electrically driven wheels on the expansion section and not having solid axles, you should get crazy good performance and stability. If you allowed the shell to pivot up and down you could get better traction on poor road conditions.
Go play http://natural-selection.org/ Marines vs Aliens. In CO mode you "level up" to jetpacks or power armor, as Aliens into a heavily armored rhinoceros sized behemoth. In NS mode one rine is top down RTS, rest FPS. IMO most teamplay oriented computer game _ever_. (Well, I haven't played Eve Online)
That's nice, but lets not forget what they did to BnetD. They were one of the very early abusers of the DMCA hammer, and they used it to shut down the source of what could have been a huge thriving mod scene. That there are as many mods available for Diablo 2 now is in spite of the travesty the committed.
- I bought my copy of D2, so don't accuse me of being a pirate. I'm a programmer and not being able to innovate on what was one of the most entertaining 3rd person online RPGs during that era caused me to intensely dislike the company. (Play http://anarchy-online.com/ instead of that noob fest which is WoW)
Hear hear! My mom taught us (home school) and she had this wonderful stash of old science books. Inside them was a treasure trove of experiments and neat stuff to try. How many kids do you know that built their own flamethrower, electric motor, light bulb, throwing knives, cannon, hydrogen cracker, hang glider by the time they were 14?
Now that I'm an uncle I'm gonna be buying my nephews Real chemistry sets, erector sets and electronics kits. I've been saving links to stuff like that for a while: Thank-you slashdot.
BTW, I'm having a hard time settling on which is the best erector set to get. Meccano seems to be the best but can't get new ones now. Erector has this funky new automated way of attaching stuff. Any suggestions?
That attitude hasn't hindered every other technical and scientific innovation during the last thousand years or so (well except for stem cell research and that's a crying shame). Somehow the tech gets out there, people use it and everyone benefits. I'm sure the same arguments were used when TVs first came out, when computers came out, etc etc. Do you look down on older people with blinking 12:00 vcrs? Natural selection will weed out the hidebound cretins from our society eventually. We'll only have a problem if we solve that pesky immortality problem.
The amount of destruction should be minimal because by doing invasive the sensor size can be absolutely tiny. The small amount of damage will probably not be noticed due to the way the brain can rewire itself. As far as finding out which bits do what, you're thinking about the problem the wrong way. My point is that if you put it in early enough it isn't very critical where you stick it, the brain will rewire itself to make it work.
Too many programmers try to make the computer work for the human. They're missing the point. The computer is a TOOL used by the human. The human-computer mix is a hybrid, and in order get the most efficiency out of it you need to play on the strengths of the human and computer and minimize the impact of each of their weaknesses.
Humans are slow, computers are fast. Humans are error prone but awesome at error recovery. Computer errors are extremely rare (hardware failures), but are so bad at error recovery they will repeat errors infinitely. Humans are inaccurate, but very good at comparing apples to oranges. Computers are very precise, but have to be told exactly how to compare apples to oranges.
As an earlier poster said he had 50 gigs of memory and a calculator already inside his head. Yeah right, unless he's what they call an idiot savants he won't be able to multiply 30 digit numbers in his head. The point is that the memory I'm talking about can be searched very rapidly for long sequences of symbols that a human would have a very hard time memorizing. Show me anyone that can memorize every phone book in the world and then search it by name and give you the number and I'll take back what I said. As stated above, use the computer for what it's good at, use the human for what it's good at. The more intimately you join them the more powerful the combination will be.
Brain-computer interfaces need to be implanted and active before the child learns to speak. Some feedback needs to be given to the child in terms of flashing lights the child can see. Adults will take many years of training to approach what a child will learn during their early stages of development.
I would hazard a guess that the most inane of enhancements will have the most impact. Instantaneous access to a simple calculator and 50 gigs of ram/flash storage alone would enable uncanny abilities in humans. The ability to carry on simultaneous conversations with N other similarly enhanced humans, or even the concept of conversation using wide symbols rather than very narrow and slow bandwidth communications protocols such as speech would also have a huge impact on society.
This research has been going on for far too long with the squeamish ones of you holding it back waiting for non-invasive. Requiring non-invasive is like trying to build a Tempest device to access a computer inside a faraday cage instead of just putting in an Ethernet card and running a cable out.
The number of uses an enhanced human will use the implant for will make the rest of us all look like deaf and dumb quadriplegics by comparison. Having an interface in place before an injury would greatly shorten the rehabilitation time of an unfortunate amputee.
It could be argued that they were not used out of anger but out of compassion, to prevent the deaths of millions of Japanese citizens and soldiers and American soldiers. Using them got the Japanese to sign a peace agreement months earlier.
A foreign government killing its own citizens is not our problem. They chose to live there, they can either clean up their government or leave. Now if they're being prevented from leaving AND they're killing them then you would have a point.
Governments at times must punish and even kill its citizens. This is called rule of law. To decide that there is no punishment for any crime is anarchy. Deciding the balance between the two is a very difficult choice that is made by how each countries people build their government.
To step in and destroy a countries government and to institute something more favorable to your own interests is doing evil not to said government, but to the people who set it up.
That we decide not to accept immigrants into our country is to implicitly accept tyranny by foreign governments.
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The open source MMO business model should be similar to Linux.
A commercial company similar to RedHat can use server fees to fund development of engine improvements which are then contributed back to the open source development. They shouldn't have to contribute back all the artwork or the data sets.
The biggest problem is resistance based on the perceived lack of cheat detection/prevention. The current thinking on this in commercial MMOs is firmly in the security by obscurity camp, and we all know how thoroughly that has been debunked.
This model would allow those who wouldn't pay to play, and those that wanted to show off their investment in a recognizable manner to do so. If cheating and the economy are not managed, you will lose the second group.
Actually it's WAY easier to get off the moon than any other planet with an atmosphere.
Mass drivers work wonderfully on the moon.
Just one Orion launch would do it. We just need laser-triggered fusion bombs, not fission triggered.
Duty cycle?! I saw that the other week. Some new car used 100% for brakes, some lower duty cycle for running lights. The thing is, when you turn your head or move your eyes, they strobe like crazy. The frequency they run em at better be in the kilohertz range.
Ok, that's it.
Just bloody encrypt ALL RAM!
CPU hashes key in BIOS with key in memory controller and key in ram chip.
Yank the ram and the key no longer matches.
Cache misses will be a bear though...
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I dunno about you, but I miss 3.1.
I don't miss the crashes, but the UI on 3.1 was consistent and not being reinvented every time I turn around.
It takes me about 10 minutes to convert my XP back to looking like 3. (Old style start menu, don't hide buttons, turn off fade effects, etc etc etc)
You ... activate Windows? What are you, a heathen?
Hand in your geek card.
No.
It's more like you a put a child-proof cap on the new carton (UAC), narrowed the opening so much that it takes a lot longer for them to pour the milk out (poorer performance), added an LCD display to the carton (Aero), and upped the price, then refused to revert to the old packaging because you said the new packaging was "better". Oh and besides all that you own all the cows, and use a secret process to extract the milk and no-one can get the milk to taste the same without you suing them out of existence (monopoly).
Am I missing anything?
Oh yeah, you penalize anyone that sells any other kind of milk by pricing the milk much higher if they do (illegal anti-competitive business practices).
You get a Vista downgrade CD with it.
Fixed.
I thought this was Slashdot, and privacy trumped all?
Any time we give information away it gets used against us. Thanks to one of the previous posters as of today I now use RefControl.
Change it back! His stuff was more entertaining :p
Welding rig? Uh-uh. Turn it into a 6 wheeled vehicle.
Build the IC engine into a shell that latches onto the rest of the car. The trick will be getting the proper alignment so that when you back the car into the shell neither will be damaged and it will latch up properly.
With electrically driven wheels on the expansion section and not having solid axles, you should get crazy good performance and stability. If you allowed the shell to pivot up and down you could get better traction on poor road conditions.
I think that's the "Lower the gravitational constant of the universe" type answer. It worked with a few modifications IIRC.
Go play http://natural-selection.org/
Marines vs Aliens. In CO mode you "level up" to jetpacks or power armor, as Aliens into a heavily armored rhinoceros sized behemoth. In NS mode one rine is top down RTS, rest FPS. IMO most teamplay oriented computer game _ever_. (Well, I haven't played Eve Online)
Then may the Forth be with you!
Can we blackhole all of Sweden?
No new Swedish DNS registries.
No DNS resolutions that resolve to any site in Sweden.
No email to Swedish addresses.
That's nice, but lets not forget what they did to BnetD.
They were one of the very early abusers of the DMCA hammer, and they used it to shut down the source of what could have been a huge thriving mod scene. That there are as many mods available for Diablo 2 now is in spite of the travesty the committed.
- I bought my copy of D2, so don't accuse me of being a pirate. I'm a programmer and not being able to innovate on what was one of the most entertaining 3rd person online RPGs during that era caused me to intensely dislike the company. (Play http://anarchy-online.com/ instead of that noob fest which is WoW)
Hear hear!
My mom taught us (home school) and she had this wonderful stash of old science books. Inside them was a treasure trove of experiments and neat stuff to try. How many kids do you know that built their own flamethrower, electric motor, light bulb, throwing knives, cannon, hydrogen cracker, hang glider by the time they were 14?
Now that I'm an uncle I'm gonna be buying my nephews Real chemistry sets, erector sets and electronics kits. I've been saving links to stuff like that for a while: Thank-you slashdot.
BTW, I'm having a hard time settling on which is the best erector set to get. Meccano seems to be the best but can't get new ones now. Erector has this funky new automated way of attaching stuff.
Any suggestions?
Another way to do it would be to have "charging lanes" on the freeway.
That attitude hasn't hindered every other technical and scientific innovation during the last thousand years or so (well except for stem cell research and that's a crying shame). Somehow the tech gets out there, people use it and everyone benefits. I'm sure the same arguments were used when TVs first came out, when computers came out, etc etc. Do you look down on older people with blinking 12:00 vcrs?
Natural selection will weed out the hidebound cretins from our society eventually. We'll only have a problem if we solve that pesky immortality problem.
The amount of destruction should be minimal because by doing invasive the sensor size can be absolutely tiny. The small amount of damage will probably not be noticed due to the way the brain can rewire itself. As far as finding out which bits do what, you're thinking about the problem the wrong way. My point is that if you put it in early enough it isn't very critical where you stick it, the brain will rewire itself to make it work.
Too many programmers try to make the computer work for the human. They're missing the point. The computer is a TOOL used by the human. The human-computer mix is a hybrid, and in order get the most efficiency out of it you need to play on the strengths of the human and computer and minimize the impact of each of their weaknesses.
Humans are slow, computers are fast.
Humans are error prone but awesome at error recovery. Computer errors are extremely rare (hardware failures), but are so bad at error recovery they will repeat errors infinitely.
Humans are inaccurate, but very good at comparing apples to oranges. Computers are very precise, but have to be told exactly how to compare apples to oranges.
As an earlier poster said he had 50 gigs of memory and a calculator already inside his head. Yeah right, unless he's what they call an idiot savants he won't be able to multiply 30 digit numbers in his head. The point is that the memory I'm talking about can be searched very rapidly for long sequences of symbols that a human would have a very hard time memorizing. Show me anyone that can memorize every phone book in the world and then search it by name and give you the number and I'll take back what I said. As stated above, use the computer for what it's good at, use the human for what it's good at. The more intimately you join them the more powerful the combination will be.
Brain-computer interfaces need to be implanted and active before the child learns to speak. Some feedback needs to be given to the child in terms of flashing lights the child can see. Adults will take many years of training to approach what a child will learn during their early stages of development.
I would hazard a guess that the most inane of enhancements will have the most impact. Instantaneous access to a simple calculator and 50 gigs of ram/flash storage alone would enable uncanny abilities in humans. The ability to carry on simultaneous conversations with N other similarly enhanced humans, or even the concept of conversation using wide symbols rather than very narrow and slow bandwidth communications protocols such as speech would also have a huge impact on society.
This research has been going on for far too long with the squeamish ones of you holding it back waiting for non-invasive. Requiring non-invasive is like trying to build a Tempest device to access a computer inside a faraday cage instead of just putting in an Ethernet card and running a cable out.
The number of uses an enhanced human will use the implant for will make the rest of us all look like deaf and dumb quadriplegics by comparison. Having an interface in place before an injury would greatly shorten the rehabilitation time of an unfortunate amputee.
It could be argued that they were not used out of anger but out of compassion, to prevent the deaths of millions of Japanese citizens and soldiers and American soldiers.
Using them got the Japanese to sign a peace agreement months earlier.
A foreign government killing its own citizens is not our problem.
They chose to live there, they can either clean up their government or leave. Now if they're being prevented from leaving AND they're killing them then you would have a point.
Governments at times must punish and even kill its citizens. This is called rule of law. To decide that there is no punishment for any crime is anarchy. Deciding the balance between the two is a very difficult choice that is made by how each countries people build their government.
To step in and destroy a countries government and to institute something more favorable to your own interests is doing evil not to said government, but to the people who set it up.
That we decide not to accept immigrants into our country is to implicitly accept tyranny by foreign governments.