Which makes most C-RPGs even worse - esp the MMOG junk. I never really had the benefit of the experiences you're talking about, but I heard about them like some distant imaginary land when I attended Gen Con a few times.
Games with imagination? Storytelling? Where did it all go?
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Mechs do exist - from Toyota!
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No, not true Mechs(tm!), but tiny working versions (er, I assume):
Yesterday I'd just been looking in wftv.com's photo-whatever, and saw Toyota's i-Foot and i-Unit AP photo. The page has this caption:
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s new concept vehicles, i-foot, left, and one-seater i-units line up during their unveiling ceremony. The two-legged i-foot, operated by a rider mounted on a seat with a joystick, and the i-unit that resembled a wheelchair, both designed to help people get around, will be displayed at an exposition in Aichi, central Japan, next year. (12/03/04 AP photo)
Google for
Toyota +"i-Foot" and you get a page with even better photos - lLooks like scaled-up housings from the Honda pictures (or earlier generation?):
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/toyoto-ifo ot -and-iunit-026866.php
I'd like to agree with you, but I think I'll need some more time to digest your suggestion. I know that the current content providers don't go for it, but your idea could still fit into a non-standard eco-socio-structure in a valid manner.
Thanks for the feedback *and* the example!
8-PP
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Metered HTTP Proxy?
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Remember the Malcolm in the Middle episode where the parents' kept trying to punish Reese - except that Reese didn't care about anything they did. At least not until after he took a cooking class and found that he both had a talent for it and loved it?
IIRC, the last scene was them denying him kitchen privileges.
Not that I've decided one way or the other on this very complicated issue, but how about this future connundrum:
You make your artistic work. Everything is stored digitally so it exists in the computer exactly.
Early on the shopping mall has the only industrial fabricator in town (later there is one in every home), but someone goes there, identifies your artistic work and the fabricator spits it out after the checkout person debiting their credit card.
Now an employ wanders over to the machine and downloads a copy of your artistic work he downloaded, and has it make him a copy which he takes home. Perhaps your original artistic data had to be run through a converter for the fabricator, perhaps not. It may have been downloaded off a P2P, ftp site, web page, or someone sent it via an IM, e-mail, or they found it on a DVD on the street or in the garbage.
Maybe your work was a painting, fabricated with all the pigmentation and brushstrokes of Da Vinci (you were able to study his paintings closely in person, or you borrowed the code for those strokes from someone else). Maybe it was a bookmark, maybe a watch or a car. Maybe the employee combined your online comic with his favorite shirt design and created a new product no one has ever seen or conceptualized before. What if it was your song he combined with a mini-CD? Or with his new design for a digital medium which the employee has never shared with anyone else.
Actually, does it matter what the object was?
Where are the "rights" for this creation? Perhaps the employee also brought in or otherwise purchased the raw materials and energy used by the fabricator. Was something stolen?
What are the deciding points of the above story which should determine whether the employee - or even you the artist - should/could be charged, either criminally or in civil actions?
I'm just not sure - it's difficult to know where morality (common or otherwise) and even laws (possibly no existing ones) judge these kind of actions. I'd love to hear some constructive discussion.
Of course I would also enjoy a more precise legal system where it doesn't take a lawyer to, well, do or understand anything. A system where law and politics are for the common man and money is for... uh...
"A society in which people can do and say what they want..., rather than those sponsored by the most influential people."
I'm afraid you just confused yourself. If it is the influential people controlling it, then obviously people will do what the influencers want.
You have to qualify that for it to make any logical sense, and "..politically influential.." may still not pass.
In what sort of system where there are influencers and influencees do the influencees decide? [some philosophers might say "In all of them"]
And how in the world would X number of random people come to the same efficient solution? I thought there was some entropy principle at work in everything...
Typically co-workers are the pool for mentors, but it is a pretty sad state of affairs that almost no one either has a mentor or does mentoring in IT. Some people [pragmaticprogramming.com] say we are craftsmen, but still pander to the nomadic programmer.
A question is: where is the community about programming? Where is the Programming Community?
Or are we really just a bunch of consumers: Come buy our books, come purchase our training and seminars, come be our employee and sign over all your rights to us!
There are projects which create community, but I would guess that they are focused on getting their project done rather than educating people to enable them to participate in the project. Stories of trial-by-fire for things like Linux kernel submissions can make it sound freaky-hard to have a chance of contributing something useful.
Anyone?
[As a shameless plug for some friends, http://workingknowledge.org/ is attempting to provide IT mentoring to disadvantaged kids. Now how about the rest of us?]
Thanks for the insights - I will definitely have to make it part of my toolset, then, and prove all of your statements!
8-PP
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Okay, I need to get more informed about Hibernate et al., but it has so far seemed like an object generator based on tables. My current project has been using XML/XSL to generate Vo/Dao/DaoFactory objects for 4 years. Meh, it has it's uses.
The problem with such frameworks is: 1) One VO class per table, 1 object per row = tons of objects 2) Returning more fields than needed = more objects instantiated 3) joins = separate query/DB connection for every related^N table, esp. on proxy/delayed-instantiation objects
It seems that for any amount of performance on a big-system DB you need SQL. Then again maybe I just need to read more Hibernate and create new objects for every query - as long as searches can use conditionally-set fields that might work, or fields in the WHERE not actually returned in results, etc...
You forgot the all important 3rd option:
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Granted, they can't reduce their use of the 'junked' items now, but why don't they have an on-board smelter or other mechanism to at least be able to reuse the metal or extract other minerals/etc. from 'junk'?
Why not use differently-made items which even if they fail for primary use A can have that part removed and still be useful? Because of the limited resources, every object should really start as multi-use.
How about things which would break down in the station's atmosphere (with no harmful side effects)? Do they even *have* plants in the station?
Other posts mention how the space program contributes to the environment - well how about all these proof-of-concepts being used extensively on the space station and eliminate eliminations?
So if Diebold is fined, and they give CA election machines to pay the fine (a la M$), can they then be immediately charged under criminal law? Or since CA doesn't have to *use* the machines they just act as a commodity and CA has to try pawning off (state-illegal) merchandise to another state or country...
That is the one freedom -- the freedom to restrict freedom -- that a free society cannot permit, because that is the worm that can eat it from within.
It sounds like that is one special case of "your freedom ends where mine beings." Now if only we could enumerate the rest of them and get the government to accept it!
Reoccurring story. That makes it no less relevant:
U.S. President elected! Terrorism committed! Company defending their patent/copyright/trademark/IP claim/bought-off congresscritters...
Could be that if it happens again and again that there is something important here. Maybe even something we should try learning from. Perhaps even something which needs attention and needs to be changed.
The Wired article says "people in France" - what if other nationalities are visiting France and attempt to use a web browser there? "Oh, look honey, the French can't see the whole intarweb." It will lead to proxies for users, then I suppose these groups will attempt to shut the proxies down or have them filtered too...
If it is "French users", then they could be located anywhere in the world and Yahoo has to block them?! Sounds like a DNA sample keyed to an ID record with Nationality defined...
I'd love to have some of those running around the events which have stated they are smoke free, yet the attendants light up (cigars even!). That would make me very happy.
As for *everywhere*... Maybe we just have swarms of tiny robots shooting fire-retardant until those fires go out. Having the 10-ton industrial road-paving robot try to crush out their operator's cigarette sounds like a new reality series:)
Alright, not that I desire it to be this way (I do still retain some of my hopefulness even though I think of these things), but here's a different line of reasoning:
How many bad decisions does it take to spoil (the results of) any amount of good ones?
Not that this is an absolute question with the same answer in every circumstance, but cogitate on it and tell me what you come up with.
Some people say that colleges are just a puppet of the corporate world, but even if you don't subscribe to that theory here's a question for you:
Are you working in the field you studied in college? Did you ever work in that field after finishing school? Did you even graduate in that field of study?
The BeBox was PPC, never x86. BeOS's x86 support came later - unless you mean you took some old x86 box and installed BeOS on it to make a BeBox-ish clone. Pop the hood and look at your chip(s). Or look here: http://www.bebox.nu/
And if it is running slow for you, I have to think you've bloated it somehow - though I probably have been using mine less that you have yours, and I also never upgraded to the last couple OS releases.
I've seen others out there still developing - some sourceforge projects and such, and if I ever got my butt in gear...:) It seems like there is still a community, though as with Amiga I find the most based in Europe.
The website forwards to cPanel which gives this message "There is no website configured at this address" when using Mozilla, but seems to work with IE variants!
Ugh. Too bad. But that is what's wrong.
Thanks for the reply! I may decide to use IE to give them a chance.
Slashdot Mirror
Which makes most C-RPGs even worse - esp the MMOG junk. I never really had the benefit of the experiences you're talking about, but I heard about them like some distant imaginary land when I attended Gen Con a few times.
:-PP
Games with imagination? Storytelling? Where did it all go?
No, not true Mechs(tm!), but tiny working versions (er, I assume):
o ot -and-iunit-026866.php
Yesterday I'd just been looking in wftv.com's photo-whatever, and saw Toyota's i-Foot and i-Unit AP photo. The page has this caption:
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s new concept vehicles, i-foot, left, and one-seater i-units line up during their unveiling ceremony. The two-legged i-foot, operated by a rider mounted on a seat with a joystick, and the i-unit that resembled a wheelchair, both designed to help people get around, will be displayed at an exposition in Aichi, central Japan, next year. (12/03/04 AP photo)
Google for
Toyota +"i-Foot"
and you get a page with even better photos - lLooks like scaled-up housings from the Honda pictures (or earlier generation?):
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/toyoto-if
8-PP
[Sorry, I've been out for a while]
I'd like to agree with you, but I think I'll need some more time to digest your suggestion. I know that the current content providers don't go for it, but your idea could still fit into a non-standard eco-socio-structure in a valid manner.
Thanks for the feedback *and* the example!
8-PP
Remember the Malcolm in the Middle episode where the parents' kept trying to punish Reese - except that Reese didn't care about anything they did. At least not until after he took a cooking class and found that he both had a talent for it and loved it?
IIRC, the last scene was them denying him kitchen privileges.
Not so far from the truth of some families.
8-PP
Not that I've decided one way or the other on this very complicated issue, but how about this future connundrum:
You make your artistic work. Everything is stored digitally so it exists in the computer exactly.
Early on the shopping mall has the only industrial fabricator in town (later there is one in every home), but someone goes there, identifies your artistic work and the fabricator spits it out after the checkout person debiting their credit card.
Now an employ wanders over to the machine and downloads a copy of your artistic work he downloaded, and has it make him a copy which he takes home. Perhaps your original artistic data had to be run through a converter for the fabricator, perhaps not. It may have been downloaded off a P2P, ftp site, web page, or someone sent it via an IM, e-mail, or they found it on a DVD on the street or in the garbage.
Maybe your work was a painting, fabricated with all the pigmentation and brushstrokes of Da Vinci (you were able to study his paintings closely in person, or you borrowed the code for those strokes from someone else). Maybe it was a bookmark, maybe a watch or a car. Maybe the employee combined your online comic with his favorite shirt design and created a new product no one has ever seen or conceptualized before. What if it was your song he combined with a mini-CD? Or with his new design for a digital medium which the employee has never shared with anyone else.
Actually, does it matter what the object was?
Where are the "rights" for this creation? Perhaps the employee also brought in or otherwise purchased the raw materials and energy used by the fabricator. Was something stolen?
What are the deciding points of the above story which should determine whether the employee - or even you the artist - should/could be charged, either criminally or in civil actions?
I'm just not sure - it's difficult to know where morality (common or otherwise) and even laws (possibly no existing ones) judge these kind of actions. I'd love to hear some constructive discussion.
Of course I would also enjoy a more precise legal system where it doesn't take a lawyer to, well, do or understand anything. A system where law and politics are for the common man and money is for... uh...
8-PP
Dude, he said "all the cliches about MMORPGs definitely apply".
Nothing about storytelling, just the game's mechanics/rules/possible actions/character types/levelling treadmill/etc.
Sounds like something pretty serious has been bothering you to come up with such a verbose response.
8-PP
You have to qualify that for it to make any logical sense, and "..politically influential.." may still not pass.
In what sort of system where there are influencers and influencees do the influencees decide? [some philosophers might say "In all of them"]
And how in the world would X number of random people come to the same efficient solution? I thought there was some entropy principle at work in everything...
8-PP
Anyone?
Typically co-workers are the pool for mentors, but it is a pretty sad state of affairs that almost no one either has a mentor or does mentoring in IT. Some people [pragmaticprogramming.com] say we are craftsmen, but still pander to the nomadic programmer.
A question is: where is the community about programming? Where is the Programming Community?
Or are we really just a bunch of consumers: Come buy our books, come purchase our training and seminars, come be our employee and sign over all your rights to us!
There are projects which create community, but I would guess that they are focused on getting their project done rather than educating people to enable them to participate in the project. Stories of trial-by-fire for things like Linux kernel submissions can make it sound freaky-hard to have a chance of contributing something useful.
Anyone?
[As a shameless plug for some friends, http://workingknowledge.org/ is attempting to provide IT mentoring to disadvantaged kids. Now how about the rest of us?]
Thanks for the insights - I will definitely have to make it part of my toolset, then, and prove all of your statements!
8-PP
Okay, I need to get more informed about Hibernate et al., but it has so far seemed like an object generator based on tables. My current project has been using XML/XSL to generate Vo/Dao/DaoFactory objects for 4 years. Meh, it has it's uses.
The problem with such frameworks is:
1) One VO class per table, 1 object per row = tons of objects
2) Returning more fields than needed = more objects instantiated
3) joins = separate query/DB connection for every related^N table, esp. on proxy/delayed-instantiation objects
It seems that for any amount of performance on a big-system DB you need SQL. Then again maybe I just need to read more Hibernate and create new objects for every query - as long as searches can use conditionally-set fields that might work, or fields in the WHERE not actually returned in results, etc...
8-PP
You forgot the all important 3rd option:
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Granted, they can't reduce their use of the 'junked' items now, but why don't they have an on-board smelter or other mechanism to at least be able to reuse the metal or extract other minerals/etc. from 'junk'?
Why not use differently-made items which even if they fail for primary use A can have that part removed and still be useful? Because of the limited resources, every object should really start as multi-use.
How about things which would break down in the station's atmosphere (with no harmful side effects)? Do they even *have* plants in the station?
Other posts mention how the space program contributes to the environment - well how about all these proof-of-concepts being used extensively on the space station and eliminate eliminations?
8-PP
So if Diebold is fined, and they give CA election machines to pay the fine (a la M$), can they then be immediately charged under criminal law? Or since CA doesn't have to *use* the machines they just act as a commodity and CA has to try pawning off (state-illegal) merchandise to another state or country...
Ow. My brain hurts.
8-PP
3 = 2 + 2...
BOOOM!
[head explodes]
8-PP
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Reoccurring story. That makes it no less relevant:
U.S. President elected!
Terrorism committed!
Company defending their patent/copyright/trademark/IP claim/bought-off congresscritters...
Could be that if it happens again and again that there is something important here. Maybe even something we should try learning from. Perhaps even something which needs attention and needs to be changed.
8-PP
That is so wrong. Factually correct, but absurd.
The Wired article says "people in France" - what if other nationalities are visiting France and attempt to use a web browser there? "Oh, look honey, the French can't see the whole intarweb." It will lead to proxies for users, then I suppose these groups will attempt to shut the proxies down or have them filtered too...
If it is "French users", then they could be located anywhere in the world and Yahoo has to block them?! Sounds like a DNA sample keyed to an ID record with Nationality defined...
What was "reasonable" again?
8-PP
I'd love to have some of those running around the events which have stated they are smoke free, yet the attendants light up (cigars even!). That would make me very happy.
:)
As for *everywhere*... Maybe we just have swarms of tiny robots shooting fire-retardant until those fires go out. Having the 10-ton industrial road-paving robot try to crush out their operator's cigarette sounds like a new reality series
8-PP
Uh... have you ever visited IBM's website?
8-PP
Alright, not that I desire it to be this way (I do still retain some of my hopefulness even though I think of these things), but here's a different line of reasoning:
How many bad decisions does it take to spoil (the results of) any amount of good ones?
Not that this is an absolute question with the same answer in every circumstance, but cogitate on it and tell me what you come up with.
8-PP
Protests: The Million Man March?
Protesters: Martin Luther King, Jr? Ghandi?
8-PP
Some people say that colleges are just a puppet of the corporate world, but even if you don't subscribe to that theory here's a question for you:
Are you working in the field you studied in college? Did you ever work in that field after finishing school? Did you even graduate in that field of study?
8-PP
You misspelled 'tried' as 'refused'
8-PP
The BeBox was PPC, never x86. BeOS's x86 support came later - unless you mean you took some old x86 box and installed BeOS on it to make a BeBox-ish clone. Pop the hood and look at your chip(s). Or look here: http://www.bebox.nu/
:) It seems like there is still a community, though as with Amiga I find the most based in Europe.
And if it is running slow for you, I have to think you've bloated it somehow - though I probably have been using mine less that you have yours, and I also never upgraded to the last couple OS releases.
I've seen others out there still developing - some sourceforge projects and such, and if I ever got my butt in gear...
8-PP
Odd that, as mine says:
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Maybe it's time for me to upgrade?
Thanks again for answering
Whoa!
The website forwards to cPanel which gives this message "There is no website configured at this address" when using Mozilla, but seems to work with IE variants!
Ugh. Too bad. But that is what's wrong.
Thanks for the reply! I may decide to use IE to give them a chance.
8-PP