$200 MORE!?!? and that price you could buy a laptop and/or skip paying the extra $200 and get one of the multitude of other devices that have the exact same capabilities already.
Jesus Jumping Christ on a Pogo stick, I just read through that page. If people already have enough trouble telling time as it is, imagine what it'd be like with this.
The thing falling and crashing into another thing risky. The thing exploding on launch, blowing up the B-52 with people on it risky. I dunno, take your pick.
Yes this might sound like a rant, but somehow (partly my fault), the MSN Spider bot found one of my joke cgi scripts that translate pages to my own imaginary language. It's linked nowhere on my site, and maybe 3-4 places on the entire web. Said MSNBot began to pull PDF after PDF through the script, in addition to other large files, it also tried mailto: links. All in all said spider pulled about 1GB of data in a single day. My site's previous average was about maybe 300-400MB a Month. Let's just say that entire M$ IP Netblock was quickly filtered through iptables.
In the future (if this takes off), these lists will simply contain the hashes along with the addresses. This temporarily makes the spammers lives a bit difficult, but doesn't have a long term impact.
Did you even RTFA? If there is *any* sort of time lag from when the Supplier A generated the hashes and sent to the Spammer B and the spammer sends the mail the hash's will become invalid.
3. The date (and time) a stamp was minted. Stamps in the future and those too far in the past may be judged invalid.
They get a good developer for the next SW Game. Battlefront was good . . . for the first ten minutes. Then it just got so repetitive it wasn't funny. Not to mention the fact of the numerous bugs in multiplayer.
Replace football with almost most any other sport/singer/band/dead person/alive person and you'd still have pretty much the same film. Would you still consider these people 'obsessively sad' though?
I think this follow-up to the post in the NG fits nicely:
Keep in mind that even though the core protocols haven't changed that
much, actual TCP/IP deployments have drastically changed since the early 80s. Efficient packet forwarding algorithms (which are necessary in Gigabit networks and beyond) are certainly subject to patents today.
And also many clients (like Azereus) have IP Filtering, filter out known **AA blocks, of course they doesn't prevent them from using a different address, but will cut down on their ability to find you.
[Author's
note: What I'm calling virtual worlds, you might call MMORPGs or MMOGs or (if
you're a real old-timer) MUDs. Macro replace with your preference accordingly.
Got that? Then I'll begin...]
Introduction
Virtual
worlds are being designed by know-nothing newbies, and there's not a damned
thing anyone can do about it. I don't mean newbie designers, I mean newbie players
- first timers. They're dictating design through a twisted survival of
the not-quite-fittest form of natural selection that will lead to a long-term
decay in quality, guaranteed. If you think some of today's offerings are garbage,
just you wait...
Yeah,
yeah, you want some justification for this assertion. Even though I'm in Soapbox
mode, I can see that, so I will explain - only not just yet. First, I'm going
to make four general points that I can string together to build my case. Bear
with me on this...
The
Newbie Stream
Here's
a quote from Victorian author Charles Dickens:
Annual income
£20/-/-, annual expenditure £19/19/6, result happiness.
Annual income £20/-/-, annual expenditure £20/-/6, result misery.
Annual income £0, annual expenditure £20,000,000, result There.com.
OK,
so maybe he didn't actually write that last line.
What
Dickens was actually saying is that, so long as you don't lose more than you
gain, things are good. In our particular case, we're not talking olde English
money, we're talking newbies, although ultimately, the two amount to one and
the same thing.
Now
I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news, people, but here goes anyway: even
for the most compelling of virtual worlds, players will eventually leave.
Don't blame me, I didn't invent reality.
If
oldbies leave, newbies are needed to replace them. The newbies must arrive at
the same rate (or better) that the oldbies leave; otherwise, the population
of the virtual world will decline until eventually no-one will be left to play
it.
Point
#1: Virtual worlds live or die by their ability to attract newbies
Newbie
Preconceptions
Another
quote, this time from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams:
If we build
it, they will come.
Well,
maybe if you're an Iowa corn farmer who hears voices inside your head telling
you to construct a baseball stadium, but otherwise...
A
virtual world can be fully functioning and free of bugs, but still be pretty
well devoid of players. There are plenty of non-gameplay reasons why this could
happen, but I'm going to focus on the most basic: lack of appeal. Some virtual
worlds just aren't attractive to newbies. There are some wonderfully original,
joyous virtual worlds out there. They're exquisitely balanced, rich in depth,
abundant in breadth, alive with subtleties, and full of wise, interesting, fun
people who engender an atmosphere of mystique and marvel without compare. Newbies
would love these virtual worlds, but they're not going to play them.
Why
not? Because they're all text. Newbies don't do text.
Newbies
come to virtual worlds with a set of preconceptions acquired from other virtual
worlds; or, failing that, from other computer games; or, failing that, from
gut instinct. They will not consider virtual worlds that confront these expectations
if there are others around that don't.
Put
another way, if a virtual world has a feature that offends newbies, the developers
will have to remove that feature or they won't get any newbies. This is irrespective
of what the oldbies think: they may adore a feature, but if newbies don't like
it then (under point #1) eventually there won't be anyone left to adore
it.
Point
#2: Newbies won't play a virtual world that has a major feature they don
#1 The Kerry supporters (and, by proxy, the Gore supporters from 2000) should agree not to whine for the next four years. It's okay not to be happy about the result, but one can voice one's displeasure without whining.
Heh you know damn well this isn't going to happen, atleast not here on Slashdot.
As the parent poster notes, coffee doesn't stay that temperature for long. By the time I get to work - say 20 minutes later - it's starting to cool down to the point where I won't drink it.
McDonalds asserted that customers buy coffee on their way to work or home, intending to consume it there. However, the companys own research showed that customers intend to consume the coffee immediately while driving.
Reports also indicate that McDonald's consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
The lady in the lawsuit put the coffee between her legs and drove off, thus spilling it.
a) She wasn't driving B) it wasn't between her legs
The plaintiff, Sean Burke, said his console stopped reading any and all discs after less than a year of use, whether those discs were games, CDs or DVDs.
Not to feed the troll or anything, From what I read in the article Kerry said "Bush is stupid, he didnt secure these weapons." The White House responded with "Weapons were already gone when we got there, NBC was there, they can corroborate". And here comes Mr. Lockhart with "OMG U STILL LIES!" even after being soundly proved wrong. Furthermore, why blame Bush? Why not blame the IAEA for securing or destroying the material? Oh wait, that's because Kerry is a U.N. lapdog, and dont want to piss off the U.N.
Slashdot Mirror
So . . how do you differentiate between begware and shareware then?
$200 MORE!?!? and that price you could buy a laptop and/or skip paying the extra $200 and get one of the multitude of other devices that have the exact same capabilities already.
Jesus Jumping Christ on a Pogo stick, I just read through that page. If people already have enough trouble telling time as it is, imagine what it'd be like with this.
The thing falling and crashing into another thing risky. The thing exploding on launch, blowing up the B-52 with people on it risky. I dunno, take your pick.
The B-52, the American workhorse for over 50 years. So called 'Weapons of War' can be used for other, good purposes, like this.
No, they'll use the microphone attachment and act like *they're* the radio station.
Yes this might sound like a rant, but somehow (partly my fault), the MSN Spider bot found one of my joke cgi scripts that translate pages to my own imaginary language. It's linked nowhere on my site, and maybe 3-4 places on the entire web. Said MSNBot began to pull PDF after PDF through the script, in addition to other large files, it also tried mailto: links. All in all said spider pulled about 1GB of data in a single day. My site's previous average was about maybe 300-400MB a Month. Let's just say that entire M$ IP Netblock was quickly filtered through iptables.
In the future (if this takes off), these lists will simply contain the hashes along with the addresses. This temporarily makes the spammers lives a bit difficult, but doesn't have a long term impact.
Did you even RTFA? If there is *any* sort of time lag from when the Supplier A generated the hashes and sent to the Spammer B and the spammer sends the mail the hash's will become invalid.
3. The date (and time) a stamp was minted. Stamps in the future and those too far in the past may be judged invalid.
There already was a Star Wars Battle Chess. Not *exactly* what they were playing but almost.
They get a good developer for the next SW Game. Battlefront was good . . . for the first ten minutes. Then it just got so repetitive it wasn't funny. Not to mention the fact of the numerous bugs in multiplayer.
Replace football with almost most any other sport/singer/band/dead person/alive person and you'd still have pretty much the same film. Would you still consider these people 'obsessively sad' though?
That's why you submit a Non-Paying-Bidder report and get^H^H^H try to get their account suspended.
Why? . . because all the .torrent contains in the hash information of the file and some IP's. Nothing illegal is contained in the .torrent itself.
And also many clients (like Azereus) have IP Filtering, filter out known **AA blocks, of course they doesn't prevent them from using a different address, but will cut down on their ability to find you.
[Author's note: What I'm calling virtual worlds, you might call MMORPGs or MMOGs or (if you're a real old-timer) MUDs. Macro replace with your preference accordingly. Got that? Then I'll begin...]
Introduction
Virtual worlds are being designed by know-nothing newbies, and there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it. I don't mean newbie designers, I mean newbie players - first timers. They're dictating design through a twisted survival of the not-quite-fittest form of natural selection that will lead to a long-term decay in quality, guaranteed. If you think some of today's offerings are garbage, just you wait...
Yeah, yeah, you want some justification for this assertion. Even though I'm in Soapbox mode, I can see that, so I will explain - only not just yet. First, I'm going to make four general points that I can string together to build my case. Bear with me on this...
The Newbie Stream
Here's a quote from Victorian author Charles Dickens:
OK, so maybe he didn't actually write that last line.
What Dickens was actually saying is that, so long as you don't lose more than you gain, things are good. In our particular case, we're not talking olde English money, we're talking newbies, although ultimately, the two amount to one and the same thing.
Now I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news, people, but here goes anyway: even for the most compelling of virtual worlds, players will eventually leave. Don't blame me, I didn't invent reality.
If oldbies leave, newbies are needed to replace them. The newbies must arrive at the same rate (or better) that the oldbies leave; otherwise, the population of the virtual world will decline until eventually no-one will be left to play it.
Point #1: Virtual worlds live or die by their ability to attract newbies
Newbie Preconceptions
Another quote, this time from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams:
Well, maybe if you're an Iowa corn farmer who hears voices inside your head telling you to construct a baseball stadium, but otherwise...
A virtual world can be fully functioning and free of bugs, but still be pretty well devoid of players. There are plenty of non-gameplay reasons why this could happen, but I'm going to focus on the most basic: lack of appeal. Some virtual worlds just aren't attractive to newbies. There are some wonderfully original, joyous virtual worlds out there. They're exquisitely balanced, rich in depth, abundant in breadth, alive with subtleties, and full of wise, interesting, fun people who engender an atmosphere of mystique and marvel without compare. Newbies would love these virtual worlds, but they're not going to play them.
Why not? Because they're all text. Newbies don't do text.
Newbies come to virtual worlds with a set of preconceptions acquired from other virtual worlds; or, failing that, from other computer games; or, failing that, from gut instinct. They will not consider virtual worlds that confront these expectations if there are others around that don't.
Put another way, if a virtual world has a feature that offends newbies, the developers will have to remove that feature or they won't get any newbies. This is irrespective of what the oldbies think: they may adore a feature, but if newbies don't like it then (under point #1) eventually there won't be anyone left to adore it.
Point #2: Newbies won't play a virtual world that has a major feature they don
#1 The Kerry supporters (and, by proxy, the Gore supporters from 2000) should agree not to whine for the next four years. It's okay not to be happy about the result, but one can voice one's displeasure without whining.
Heh you know damn well this isn't going to happen, atleast not here on Slashdot.
What is the 'teel' you speak of? Is this related at all to the people who think they are 1337?
Yes, *BREWED* at 195 to 205F not *KEPT* at that high temperature.
As the parent poster notes, coffee doesn't stay that temperature for long. By the time I get to work - say 20 minutes later - it's starting to cool down to the point where I won't drink it.
McDonalds asserted that customers buy coffee on their way to work or home, intending to consume it there. However, the companys own research showed that customers intend to consume the coffee immediately while driving.
Source
Reports also indicate that McDonald's consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
The lady in the lawsuit put the coffee between her legs and drove off, thus spilling it.
a) She wasn't driving
B) it wasn't between her legs
Read
Coffee is not supposed to cause 3rd Degree burns out of the coffee pot. That is 'unsafe temperatures' (tm)
The plaintiff, Sean Burke, said his console stopped reading any and all discs after less than a year of use, whether those discs were games, CDs or DVDs.
He probably scratched the hell out of the lens.
Oh no, 3 or 4 times a year that's just HORRIBLE!
</sarcasm>
Not to feed the troll or anything,
From what I read in the article Kerry said "Bush is stupid, he didnt secure these weapons." The White House responded with "Weapons were already gone when we got there, NBC was there, they can corroborate". And here comes Mr. Lockhart with "OMG U STILL LIES!" even after being soundly proved wrong. Furthermore, why blame Bush? Why not blame the IAEA for securing or destroying the material? Oh wait, that's because Kerry is a U.N. lapdog, and dont want to piss off the U.N.