Maybe they're just sore about computers since they've had several failures in computer gaming. Not nearly as much as Star Trek, but Warhammer has tried a few computer games which (by and large) didn't turn out too well. I did like the fantasy battle one - it was on PC and some consoles - but it didn't keep me interested beyond the first couple battles. There were a few others I didn't play - a mid 90's Space Marine game (looked cool), and one based on the Titans group of miniatures. I only saw them in bargain bins a long time ago. Maybe there were others, too?
They are, however, coming out with a MMOG possibly like EverQuest and/or Warcraft's future offering. Time will tell if it works out better than their past projects.
Sounds a lot like Magic the Gathering to me, except I think they outlaw old cards faster than a couple years old - from standard tournements, at least.
Haven't seen them try to take over the secondary market, though I've (mostly) stayed away from that stuff for a few years now.
#2 seems incorrect to me: TCP/IP has all the interface's requirements completely spec'd out. However those standards say nothing about the implementation or development process. Any books, seminars, experiences, etc. which would contribute to the development process knowledge were available to closed and open source teams (barring $$/availability limits) and each team member of their respective teams brought that knowledge.
Even so, I don't think Scott's reasoning is quite right, though I can't put my finger on what's amiss.
Okay, so you refute my analogy and then use it as if it was true?
Also, when I mentioned the alternative USPS I was referring to the Internet as the USPS: it's just a stupid resource. You pay to use it, and currently it's setup such that no one has a choice: if someone puts something through your bandwidth, you pay for it. Exactly like having to pay for every piece of junkmail sent to you physically (minus a certain weight your monthly fee covers).
If you wish to refute me, please do.
As far as clickthrough on advertising, that's one-step back from the above analogy and while it does look like a reversal of my USPS analogy it's not talking about the same thing. When the users click through the ads and are sent to the respective sites, that use of bandwidth is what is covered and talked about in the analogy and in the article itself. Payments made by an advertiser each time their ad is clicked is another subject.
Considering other posters' comments, I'm starting to wonder if this last breath from SCO is a favor to M$ to expose a similar piece of knowledge to use against Linux in some later legal battle. I haven't been following things, so I don't know if M$ has tried suing anyone over Linux yet, but this would be a fine first-sue to test the waters without harming M$'s rep. And if they acquired the dead SCO after the legal battle, who would suspect anything?
Imagine you used the US Postal Service. Imagine that instead of paying for a stamp to send your envelope that you instead paid to receive every envelope - and you had no ability to refuse anything sent to you. Now note all the junkmail you get through the USPS.
There were the common potions to restore mana, but unless it was way late in the game, I don't remember a potion to raise someone's Mana level. But there may have been an object that raised that level, it wasn't near the start, though.
I think it was you. The characters seemed pretty accurate, though there were a couple differences I didn't pin them down. Maybe some graphics, but the attributes/skills seemed spot on.
Years of not playing it, though, as with all those classic games added a sense of mystique I kind of lost after I looked at the map files after getting stuck in one position. After seeing where everything was mapped out, I lost the sense of new discovery (even though some of the first levels seemed the same)...
The short answer is "No, they don't teach programmers anything useful anymore."
A different answer includes the fact that there aren't #ifdef's in Java, and that you don't have to put them in there in the first place using AOP.
Then again the review mentions not being able to use it in production systems. And there's the old problem of changing any existing system to incorporate it. The papers I've read say that AspectJ add a negligible amount of time to the execution, but that doesn't mean it can't hurt - even if you don't make any infinite loops:)
1> Distance, too: you move a lever, hear it move, and hear a door move in the distance, or a fireball "foom", or a slew of new skeletons appear!
3> This was true except for that brute who couldn't practice magic because he had no mana. Maybe there was an object which gave some mana, but it seemed like he had a problem with it.
4> Very cool, but slightly painful for anything except the spells you already discovered. Ultima Underworld later had this too, right?
5> Also cool - when you were surrounded the poor back characters automatically turned to fight the baddies there, which could mean dead spellcasters.
There was also: 6> Each character had a time limit after they did something (cast spell, shoot arrow, hit baddie)before they could do something else. I've seen that a lot nowadays
7> without keyboard shortcuts it also could become a clickfest when you wanted everyone to attack at the same time.
8> An inventory system with a paperdoll, ammunition, AND backpacks/bags/etc. which could hold other objects!! It took Bioware a while to implement that feature:)
Q20: Does the PCI Express Architecture compete against HyperTransport? A20: No. The PCI-SIG views HyperTransport and PCI Express Architecture as complementary, not competing, technologies.
Q19: What impact will the PCI Express Architecture have on 1394b, USB 2.0, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, SCSI, Ethernet, and/or other popular I/O technologies? A19:... OEMs and IHVs will determine which of these technologies are bridged to the PCI Express Architecture.
A16 says PCI-X's first generation is already twice AGP 8x, which makes me wonder what's the 2nd generation going to be? And how long do they expect this one to last. More specifically, will PCI-X finally jump to the next levels when AGP/video cards need it to?
Also, 32 X 2Gbps = 64Gbps = 8GBps, so it's 8GBps dual channelled, but that's still a max of 8GBps one-way communications, right? Granted, if both points are talking to the other at the max they will reach 16GBps, but I'm not use to thinking of intra-PC situations like that.
Oh yeah, baby, there's been so few since that amazing manual. Granted it would have been nice to have all that spell and unit stat information in the regular manual, but then I would have had to print it out when I finally got a copy of the game in the "Play the Universe" collection.
Still a pain to get it installed, since it needs revised autoexec.bat and config.sys files I've long since forgotten how to edit:(
The Uber-poster is right, though, way the heck too many games have the barest of manuals included while many strategy guides are now adding just the basic information which should have been included in the first place.
Considering these venues, I'm going to bet the Pong AI is better at the game since there's so few variable while the Quake 3 AI may be very very good at Quake, I'll guess it's a very, very big set of code to be about as good as a human player (according to comments I've heard, though I'm sure it would toast me if I played).
So which AI makes the game more fun? Or is it more dependant on the game for fun-quotient?
I saw the linked comment, too, and immediately thought of the mid-90's when I saw in a few MacMall catalogs a minidisc drive which I almost got for my Powerbook. Then after a couple months they just disappeared, never to be seen again. I always thought that was too bad, and yours and that linked post reinforce the positives about the media. Seemed like at least one version had non-cartridge versions of the discs, too.
Of course if they upped the discs to the new light spectrums, got a few orders of magnitude improvement in storage... Hmm, I thought someone else did have a tiny-disc product along those lines, holding a DVD or so size of data.
I always knew what the size was going to be with int32 and int64 and the like. I've always wondered why more groups (OSes? PLs?) don't make these kinds of types explicit. I mean, for a 64-bit arch, what do you use for a 32-bit int? Do they add another primitive type to C/C++/Java/any other PL?
They're revolutionizing the industry just about their speed ratings! Since it isn't a fully functioning computer you follow the number by a minus, but since it's a future prediction you add an additional plus sign. I didn't read the article for a prediction as to WHEN it will run that fast, perhaps that goes between the signs: 330000000-365+ Or maybe you just divide it out: 1000000-+ Hmmm, I wonder what AMD has to say about this.
I've only read what others have written (most rated 3+), and it seems that the SIAI keeps respawning people after they die. My problem with this is that it doesn't fit the 3 laws:
Dying is not harm. Being killed is, but dying is not. We need a better definition of harm.
And just how many kinds of harm are there? Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual certainly. Are there others? Could a computer have any idea of how to stop these kinds of harm? How about an AI?
Then there's the balance between each of the harms: is the worse harm the person cutting their skin or the internal struggles which push them to cutting themselves? Suffering spiritual slings and arrows to follow professional goals?
From what's been posted here, it sounds like death is a sweet release from all the violence the insane characters unleash upon themselves and others.
It is a brief article, so it brought up a lot of questions for me:
So this is supposed to connect *all* our phone lines with *all* our e-mail addresses and *all* our domains? Or is it that everyone suddenly has these new e-mail accounts and websites which each of us needs to manage and check because the government or other superpowers might decide to leave us notice there instead of, say, on my voicemail machine or sending me a form letter?
How do the e-mail addresses fit into it again?
And so now when my phone company tells me it will take 1 week to move my phone when I move, are my e-mail and domain out for that time, too, or are they required to provide an outside-accessible secured e-mail server and access so I can update my website? How about if I move out of their broadband service area? How about if I change my ISP to cable or satellite? Or if I move into another phone service's area? Does the phone company host my e-mail and website, or my ISP?
And do we get to choose our phone numbers, or do they magically decide at one point in history that *that's* the phone number you keep for the rest of your life? Or do you keep the number for your lifespan?
When they have to extend the phone numbers to 11 digits or more, are they going to revise all old numbers so they start with additional 1's or 9's or something (thinking mostly about the DNS)?
"could be routed to a telephone, an e-mail inbox or a fax machine, depending on the application."
Who decides these routings? Or are we all going to be required to have a magical box to connect us to the outside world? Or are we all issued passwords so we can remotely configure our preferences (yeah, like 99% of the country is going to want to do that, let alone keep their passwords).
Which organization is going to coordinate all of this? Government? Public? Private? Verisign?
We are talking about doing this for everyone, right? Who's going to do the tech support?
In my experience Netscape Navigator always resubmits the page when the user hits the back button. Sometimes that's a good thing(tm), other times it's just plain horrible, like when they're returning to a LONG list of retreived and/or calculated values.
All versions of IE I've programmed against refuse to hit the server on a back button push. For those long lists, that's a good thing. Whenever they've given input they wanted to keep or going "Back" means going to an earlier/out-of-date version of the data, the user and app are foobar'd.
I still haven't read the article, but when it said it's improved the back button I thought there would be some new communication protocol to include certain behaviour settings from the HTML to the browser, such as explicitly defining the above: If someone back-buttons to this page, should the browser go hit the server again (and if so, with the same or different parameters), or should it just redisplay the locally cached page?
Even that is a terribly tiny improvement, as there would still need some kinds of predictive technologies. Perhaps it could also allow the page displayed to indicate another server function (servlet, ASP, etc.) to hit to determine if the website wants the page reloaded.
Yes, some other better defined set of interactions for page-browser-servlets could be a boon to web developers. Of course then it could also be twisted to nefarious purposes as well : (
While working at the VLW in the Media Lab in 1993 I'd heard about hyperlinking and programmed a way that text or objects on the screen could be clicked and initiate a new page being displayed. The text and (picture) objects could either be static or could be programmed to be moveable. But like I said, I'd already heard about it from someone else in the lab, though I don't know that I saw it demo'd for me. It was a class project in C++, so I must have finished it before summer.
What kind of proof is needed to support this? And where does it get sent?
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PA should have done "American McGee's Moby Dick"
What does the adjective "moby" mean, anyways?
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"Sorry you're getting spanked by some company's legal department"
And they can just use PA's cartoon then!
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Maybe they're just sore about computers since they've had several failures in computer gaming. Not nearly as much as Star Trek, but Warhammer has tried a few computer games which (by and large) didn't turn out too well. I did like the fantasy battle one - it was on PC and some consoles - but it didn't keep me interested beyond the first couple battles. There were a few others I didn't play - a mid 90's Space Marine game (looked cool), and one based on the Titans group of miniatures. I only saw them in bargain bins a long time ago. Maybe there were others, too?
They are, however, coming out with a MMOG possibly like EverQuest and/or Warcraft's future offering. Time will tell if it works out better than their past projects.
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Sounds a lot like Magic the Gathering to me, except I think they outlaw old cards faster than a couple years old - from standard tournements, at least.
Haven't seen them try to take over the secondary market, though I've (mostly) stayed away from that stuff for a few years now.
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Actually, the USA does as it has always been a representational republic. Never a democracy.
But it's possible to make excuses anywhere, anywhen, if you want. It's just another statistic.
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Even so, I don't think Scott's reasoning is quite right, though I can't put my finger on what's amiss.
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Also, when I mentioned the alternative USPS I was referring to the Internet as the USPS: it's just a stupid resource. You pay to use it, and currently it's setup such that no one has a choice: if someone puts something through your bandwidth, you pay for it. Exactly like having to pay for every piece of junkmail sent to you physically (minus a certain weight your monthly fee covers).
If you wish to refute me, please do.
As far as clickthrough on advertising, that's one-step back from the above analogy and while it does look like a reversal of my USPS analogy it's not talking about the same thing. When the users click through the ads and are sent to the respective sites, that use of bandwidth is what is covered and talked about in the analogy and in the article itself. Payments made by an advertiser each time their ad is clicked is another subject.
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Now imagine it with packets and the internet
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(You didn't say the Dell had to be running/displaying the moving)
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I think it was you. The characters seemed pretty accurate, though there were a couple differences I didn't pin them down. Maybe some graphics, but the attributes/skills seemed spot on.
Years of not playing it, though, as with all those classic games added a sense of mystique I kind of lost after I looked at the map files after getting stuck in one position. After seeing where everything was mapped out, I lost the sense of new discovery (even though some of the first levels seemed the same)...
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A different answer includes the fact that there aren't #ifdef's in Java, and that you don't have to put them in there in the first place using AOP.
Then again the review mentions not being able to use it in production systems. And there's the old problem of changing any existing system to incorporate it. The papers I've read say that AspectJ add a negligible amount of time to the execution, but that doesn't mean it can't hurt - even if you don't make any infinite loops
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3> This was true except for that brute who couldn't practice magic because he had no mana. Maybe there was an object which gave some mana, but it seemed like he had a problem with it.
4> Very cool, but slightly painful for anything except the spells you already discovered. Ultima Underworld later had this too, right?
5> Also cool - when you were surrounded the poor back characters automatically turned to fight the baddies there, which could mean dead spellcasters.
There was also:
6> Each character had a time limit after they did something (cast spell, shoot arrow, hit baddie)before they could do something else. I've seen that a lot nowadays
7> without keyboard shortcuts it also could become a clickfest when you wanted everyone to attack at the same time.
8> An inventory system with a paperdoll, ammunition, AND backpacks/bags/etc. which could hold other objects!! It took Bioware a while to implement that feature
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A20: No. The PCI-SIG views HyperTransport and PCI Express Architecture as complementary, not competing, technologies.
Q19: What impact will the PCI Express Architecture have on 1394b, USB 2.0, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, SCSI, Ethernet, and/or other popular I/O technologies?
A19:
A16 says PCI-X's first generation is already twice AGP 8x, which makes me wonder what's the 2nd generation going to be? And how long do they expect this one to last. More specifically, will PCI-X finally jump to the next levels when AGP/video cards need it to?
Also, 32 X 2Gbps = 64Gbps = 8GBps, so it's 8GBps dual channelled, but that's still a max of 8GBps one-way communications, right? Granted, if both points are talking to the other at the max they will reach 16GBps, but I'm not use to thinking of intra-PC situations like that.
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*That* would be an accomplishment. Or how about backing up the portable's HD by burning a library of DVD*XX's? All on battery power.
Not that I've tried either with any current laptops.
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This is an uninformed post. Move along. If this was an informed post flames would start shooting out of your ears.
Oh yeah, baby, there's been so few since that amazing manual. Granted it would have been nice to have all that spell and unit stat information in the regular manual, but then I would have had to print it out when I finally got a copy of the game in the "Play the Universe" collection.
:(
Still a pain to get it installed, since it needs revised autoexec.bat and config.sys files I've long since forgotten how to edit
The Uber-poster is right, though, way the heck too many games have the barest of manuals included while many strategy guides are now adding just the basic information which should have been included in the first place.
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Considering these venues, I'm going to bet the Pong AI is better at the game since there's so few variable while the Quake 3 AI may be very very good at Quake, I'll guess it's a very, very big set of code to be about as good as a human player (according to comments I've heard, though I'm sure it would toast me if I played).
So which AI makes the game more fun? Or is it more dependant on the game for fun-quotient?
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Or was I just imagining that?
I saw the linked comment, too, and immediately thought of the mid-90's when I saw in a few MacMall catalogs a minidisc drive which I almost got for my Powerbook. Then after a couple months they just disappeared, never to be seen again. I always thought that was too bad, and yours and that linked post reinforce the positives about the media. Seemed like at least one version had non-cartridge versions of the discs, too.
Of course if they upped the discs to the new light spectrums, got a few orders of magnitude improvement in storage... Hmm, I thought someone else did have a tiny-disc product along those lines, holding a DVD or so size of data.
Here's hoping for something sturdy and usable,
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I always knew what the size was going to be with int32 and int64 and the like. I've always wondered why more groups (OSes? PLs?) don't make these kinds of types explicit. I mean, for a 64-bit arch, what do you use for a 32-bit int? Do they add another primitive type to C/C++/Java/any other PL?
Why not use the obvious?
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They're revolutionizing the industry just about their speed ratings! Since it isn't a fully functioning computer you follow the number by a minus, but since it's a future prediction you add an additional plus sign. I didn't read the article for a prediction as to WHEN it will run that fast, perhaps that goes between the signs:
330000000-365+
Or maybe you just divide it out:
1000000-+
Hmmm, I wonder what AMD has to say about this.
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I've only read what others have written (most rated 3+), and it seems that the SIAI keeps respawning people after they die. My problem with this is that it doesn't fit the 3 laws:
Dying is not harm. Being killed is, but dying is not. We need a better definition of harm.
And just how many kinds of harm are there? Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual certainly. Are there others? Could a computer have any idea of how to stop these kinds of harm? How about an AI?
Then there's the balance between each of the harms: is the worse harm the person cutting their skin or the internal struggles which push them to cutting themselves? Suffering spiritual slings and arrows to follow professional goals?
From what's been posted here, it sounds like death is a sweet release from all the violence the insane characters unleash upon themselves and others.
8-PP
It is a brief article, so it brought up a lot of questions for me:
So this is supposed to connect *all* our phone lines with *all* our e-mail addresses and *all* our domains? Or is it that everyone suddenly has these new e-mail accounts and websites which each of us needs to manage and check because the government or other superpowers might decide to leave us notice there instead of, say, on my voicemail machine or sending me a form letter?
How do the e-mail addresses fit into it again?
And so now when my phone company tells me it will take 1 week to move my phone when I move, are my e-mail and domain out for that time, too, or are they required to provide an outside-accessible secured e-mail server and access so I can update my website? How about if I move out of their broadband service area? How about if I change my ISP to cable or satellite? Or if I move into another phone service's area? Does the phone company host my e-mail and website, or my ISP?
And do we get to choose our phone numbers, or do they magically decide at one point in history that *that's* the phone number you keep for the rest of your life? Or do you keep the number for your lifespan?
When they have to extend the phone numbers to 11 digits or more, are they going to revise all old numbers so they start with additional 1's or 9's or something (thinking mostly about the DNS)?
"could be routed to a telephone, an e-mail inbox or a fax machine, depending on the application."
Who decides these routings? Or are we all going to be required to have a magical box to connect us to the outside world? Or are we all issued passwords so we can remotely configure our preferences (yeah, like 99% of the country is going to want to do that, let alone keep their passwords).
Which organization is going to coordinate all of this? Government? Public? Private? Verisign?
We are talking about doing this for everyone, right? Who's going to do the tech support?
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In my experience Netscape Navigator always resubmits the page when the user hits the back button. Sometimes that's a good thing(tm), other times it's just plain horrible, like when they're returning to a LONG list of retreived and/or calculated values.
All versions of IE I've programmed against refuse to hit the server on a back button push. For those long lists, that's a good thing. Whenever they've given input they wanted to keep or going "Back" means going to an earlier/out-of-date version of the data, the user and app are foobar'd.
I still haven't read the article, but when it said it's improved the back button I thought there would be some new communication protocol to include certain behaviour settings from the HTML to the browser, such as explicitly defining the above: If someone back-buttons to this page, should the browser go hit the server again (and if so, with the same or different parameters), or should it just redisplay the locally cached page?
Even that is a terribly tiny improvement, as there would still need some kinds of predictive technologies. Perhaps it could also allow the page displayed to indicate another server function (servlet, ASP, etc.) to hit to determine if the website wants the page reloaded.
Yes, some other better defined set of interactions for page-browser-servlets could be a boon to web developers. Of course then it could also be twisted to nefarious purposes as well : (
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html
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While working at the VLW in the Media Lab in 1993 I'd heard about hyperlinking and programmed a way that text or objects on the screen could be clicked and initiate a new page being displayed. The text and (picture) objects could either be static or could be programmed to be moveable. But like I said, I'd already heard about it from someone else in the lab, though I don't know that I saw it demo'd for me. It was a class project in C++, so I must have finished it before summer.
What kind of proof is needed to support this? And where does it get sent?
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