Personally I think the whole Duke Nukem scam/thingy is the most brilliant con ever created by programmers. Think! There are people who have had salaried positions for what....over 10 YEARS without ever shipping a product. Why ship it, just keep saying "It's commin soon!" and go back to your cube, eat cheetos, fart and play another round of other videogames.
HA! yea...right (wink wink). Next you'll be telling me that Apple is going to be switching to Intel and TV shows will be legally available for download on the web.......
Do yourself a favor and go read some studies on the history of climate change over the last 100,000 years (taken from ice samples). I don't argue that dumping stuff into the atmosphere is bad, but fluctuations in global climate is rather common. There have been times in the planet's past (within the last 100,000) years where the climate was MUCH warmer with much higher concentrations of C02.
It's laudable and and a worthy goal to reduce the crap being put into the atmosphere, but to attribute current climate conditions over the last 20 years or even 40 with human activity is more politics than science (there is SOME science but it's VERY anecdotal and inconclusive).
"A brain is nothing but a computer and emotions are nothing but a function of the mind"
You have a rather simplistic view that many people in cognitive science and artificial intelligence disagree with. Compute-rs are linear mathematic systems based on logic. There is NO evidence thus far to support that the brain in any way approximates this type of processing other than the fact that neurons fire on and off.
Peter Lynds theorizes that subjective conception of a progressive present moment in time and that of conscious awareness are actually one and the same thing and may be the result neuronal induced nonconscious cognitive manipulation.
I'd agree with you....with the exception that the "Theory" only applies to games in which the computer is the only real opponant (in the sense that the player is figuring out the logic of the game".
If you had a smaller game (just a thought, it would not work in WoW) where a GM or Ref had complete control over the rules at all times, a referee could monitor and adjust rules accordingly.
For example, in pencil and paper roleplaying games where stats are hidden, a GM will often change the results of combat (in secret) in the interest of gameplay and storyline.
Seeing that your post had numbers throughout.....maybee you should think twice about your statement. Would you care as much about the +15, +8 gloves if you did'nt KNOW it was +15, +8? or the +5 Ice socks?
One thing that REALLY pisses me off. Watching my brother who is a multi-tasking madman with two monitors playing WoW. I was standing behind him the other day and told him - paraphrased of course - that since he's SO good at multi-tasking and tweaking numbers that he could probably make a BOATLOAD of money as a day trader working at some stock firm on Wall Street. Tweaking numbers is basically what they do, trying to make money by understanding the system in real time by watching real time statistical monitoring - which is EXACTLY what you are doing in WoW. Only you PAY other people to do it.
Oh I absolutely agree with you. It DEFINITELY would not sell. The 14 year old (and 33 year old) players would get bored because the reward system they are used to (levels, stats, exp points) would be missing.
When I played pencil and paper roleplaying games way back when (Aeons ago) we experimented with taking player stat sheets away from everybody and having the GM do all the dice rolls behind a piece of cardboard. Some players loved it, the ones that liked to "tweak" their characters and play as "rules lawyers" hated it. Overall I think it was an improvement.
A) Kill Monster - Get exp points B) Get money C) Use A&B to "level up" D) Use results of "level up" to do A&B faster!
All these games are (WoW, DaOC, STG, ect..) are big statistical simulations where the players do nothing but tweak numbers (player stats). I'd like to see a game where NOBODY get's to see ANY numeric values for ANYTHING. The only player indication should be health which should be some sort of description at the bottom of the page which says something like "you feel awful" or "the pain in my leg hurts like hell!".
No "levels" for the players to work toward. All you could know is that you used that cool two-handed sword to kill the troll and it was kinda easy....should you go attack that dragon? These games would REALLY be interesting then.
The game producers KNOW that numeric stats addict people because people naturally like to make systems efficient.
I would imagine that even though steve will have a MAJOR role in Disney his work load will go down from what it is at the moment. Wasn't he actually running both companies as CEO (Apple and Pixar) at the same time? This will allow him to concentrate more on Apple and have major influence (but let others do the dirty work) at apple.
When looking at theories stating that if OS X had larger market share than windows we would see many more OS X viruses one might thing this is a reasonable assumption. The problem with thinking in this way is that it uses Windows as it's case example. With windows as the only data set for comparison there is no evidence to support that with similar market share we would see a dramatic increase of viruses on OS X.
You can definitely argue that there might be more ATTEMPTS at writing more viruses/malware/ect due to a percieved increase in the target market size, but the differences between windows and OS X are such that you really can't say that because with X product Y happened, so with A product Y will also happen.
Show me ONE...just ONE OS X VIRUS...not UNIX worm, not 10 year old Office VB script, or somebody just writing a shell script with "sudo rm -rf/" and I might listen.
Until I see one in the wild everything else is conjecture.
It's the same thing as Firearms....if everybody was REQUIRED to keep a loaded firearm on them at all times (and required to pass a course to use it), everybody would be a LOT nicer to each other.
Knowing that everybody has root means that if you screw up someone else....provided you have'nt rm -rf'd / you can go screw them up! (yea! baby!). If if they did rm -rf / well....then you can get together with your pals, pull out your firearms and shoot the bastard!
The biggest mistake people make when looking at Microsoft's monopoly is to mistake what EXACTLY the market of their monopoly is.
It's actually quite narrow, commercial closed source desktop operating systems running on x86 compatible microprocessors.
That excludes the Mac (until next year), excludes consoles, excludes LINUX, BSD...
Name me ONE viable (with more than 5% market share) commercial closed source desktop/workstation operating system that runs on Intel x86 compatible microprocessors. There aren't any. In this market Microsoft has a monopoly. Until their grip on that market is loosened there will BE no competition that you can go out and buy thats supportable as windows for your PC.
The fact that only FREE alternatives (LINUX, BSD, ect) have been able to get marketshare on x86 points to the fact that there is no capitalistic market.
Imagine what windows might be like today if another vendor had say 40% of the desktop market. It's my opinion they would not of been able to get away with all the crap (security, bugs) for as long as they have.
The people who are technically stealing content off of the net will continue to so no matter how many laws there are. Just as it's technically illegal to buy a region free DVD player you'll still be able to buy equipment (from the far east) that will copy analog content.
It's enforcement that's the issue.
Once jack booted FBI/DOJ/ATF/FCC whatever start breaking down people's front doors to their houses THEN I'll be impressed.
Go ahead...pass another law. It only helps chinese/korean manufacturers who will take up the slack.
It will play on just about any hardware platform known to man. Uses itty bitty power. Will suck you in and spit you back out when Xmas is over, gauranteed.
The users on slashdot should use this story to get the editors attention. EVERYBODY should submitt the same story if we can get at least a couple of hundred people to submit (or maybe a couple of thousand people to submit) the same story day after day maybe they'll get the message.
The majority of people don't have access to multiple brodband ISP's. Most people are locked into a single ISP who can do whatever they please (satelite does not count since latency sucks).
In my neighborhood cable is it. DSL will NEVER get here because of distance, and fiber is about as likely as UFO's landing on my front lawn.
If adelphia decides to throttle traffic, I'm screwed and there is'nt a damn thing I can do short of buying my own network bandwidth and getting it hauled to my house for $10K
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absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence.
BUT
Just because I can't PROVE flying pink elephants don't exist does NOT mean that they DO in-fact exist.
Summary: You can say absolutely NOTHING about that which you have NO direct information about.
Personally I think the whole Duke Nukem scam/thingy is the most brilliant con ever created by programmers. Think! There are people who have had salaried positions for what....over 10 YEARS without ever shipping a product. Why ship it, just keep saying "It's commin soon!" and go back to your cube, eat cheetos, fart and play another round of other videogames.
Damn! I wish I worked there!
HA! yea...right (wink wink). Next you'll be telling me that Apple is going to be switching to Intel and TV shows will be legally available for download on the web.......
Do yourself a favor and go read some studies on the history of climate change over the last 100,000 years (taken from ice samples). I don't argue that dumping stuff into the atmosphere is bad, but fluctuations in global climate is rather common. There have been times in the planet's past (within the last 100,000) years where the climate was MUCH warmer with much higher concentrations of C02.
It's laudable and and a worthy goal to reduce the crap being put into the atmosphere, but to attribute current climate conditions over the last 20 years or even 40 with human activity is more politics than science (there is SOME science but it's VERY anecdotal and inconclusive).
Now as a followup I'd REALLY like to see the same interview (possibly even the same questions) put to the guy in charge of security at Apple.
That would really put things in perspective
"A brain is nothing but a computer and emotions are nothing but a function of the mind"
You have a rather simplistic view that many people in cognitive science and artificial intelligence disagree with. Compute-rs are linear mathematic systems based on logic. There is NO evidence thus far to support that the brain in any way approximates this type of processing other than the fact that neurons fire on and off.
Peter Lynds theorizes that subjective conception of a progressive present moment in time and that of conscious awareness are actually one and the same thing and may be the result neuronal induced nonconscious cognitive manipulation.
http://cogprints.org/3125/
yea yea....I hear ya saying "sounds like a load of crap". Read the paper carefully.
I'd agree with you....with the exception that the "Theory" only applies to games in which the computer is the only real opponant (in the sense that the player is figuring out the logic of the game".
If you had a smaller game (just a thought, it would not work in WoW) where a GM or Ref had complete control over the rules at all times, a referee could monitor and adjust rules accordingly.
For example, in pencil and paper roleplaying games where stats are hidden, a GM will often change the results of combat (in secret) in the interest of gameplay and storyline.
Seeing that your post had numbers throughout.....maybee you should think twice about your statement. Would you care as much about the +15, +8 gloves if you did'nt KNOW it was +15, +8? or the +5 Ice socks?
Very interesting. I'll be sure to check them out.
One thing that REALLY pisses me off. Watching my brother who is a multi-tasking madman with two monitors playing WoW. I was standing behind him the other day and told him - paraphrased of course - that since he's SO good at multi-tasking and tweaking numbers that he could probably make a BOATLOAD of money as a day trader working at some stock firm on Wall Street. Tweaking numbers is basically what they do, trying to make money by understanding the system in real time by watching real time statistical monitoring - which is EXACTLY what you are doing in WoW. Only you PAY other people to do it.
Sigh...
Oh I absolutely agree with you. It DEFINITELY would not sell. The 14 year old (and 33 year old) players would get bored because the reward system they are used to (levels, stats, exp points) would be missing.
When I played pencil and paper roleplaying games way back when (Aeons ago) we experimented with taking player stat sheets away from everybody and having the GM do all the dice rolls behind a piece of cardboard. Some players loved it, the ones that liked to "tweak" their characters and play as "rules lawyers" hated it. Overall I think it was an improvement.
A) Kill Monster - Get exp points
B) Get money
C) Use A&B to "level up"
D) Use results of "level up" to do A&B faster!
All these games are (WoW, DaOC, STG, ect..) are big statistical simulations where the players do nothing but tweak numbers (player stats). I'd like to see a game where NOBODY get's to see ANY numeric values for ANYTHING. The only player indication should be health which should be some sort of description at the bottom of the page which says something like "you feel awful" or "the pain in my leg hurts like hell!".
No "levels" for the players to work toward. All you could know is that you used that cool two-handed sword to kill the troll and it was kinda easy....should you go attack that dragon? These games would REALLY be interesting then.
The game producers KNOW that numeric stats addict people because people naturally like to make systems efficient.
I would imagine that even though steve will have a MAJOR role in Disney his work load will go down from what it is at the moment. Wasn't he actually running both companies as CEO (Apple and Pixar) at the same time? This will allow him to concentrate more on Apple and have major influence (but let others do the dirty work) at apple.
When looking at theories stating that if OS X had larger market share than windows we would see many more OS X viruses one might thing this is a reasonable assumption. The problem with thinking in this way is that it uses Windows as it's case example. With windows as the only data set for comparison there is no evidence to support that with similar market share we would see a dramatic increase of viruses on OS X.
/" and I might listen.
You can definitely argue that there might be more ATTEMPTS at writing more viruses/malware/ect due to a percieved increase in the target market size, but the differences between windows and OS X are such that you really can't say that because with X product Y happened, so with A product Y will also happen.
Show me ONE...just ONE OS X VIRUS...not UNIX worm, not 10 year old Office VB script, or somebody just writing a shell script with "sudo rm -rf
Until I see one in the wild everything else is conjecture.
I would have NO problem with wikipida using google style ads. They are unobtrusive and they could generate a lot of cash to keep the project going.
Ads are NOT a problem if they are useful and not a pain in the ass.
Why can't web site developers understand that most people (it seems) are perfectly fine with ads if they are done right?
It's the same thing as Firearms....if everybody was REQUIRED to keep a loaded firearm on them at all times (and required to pass a course to use it), everybody would be a LOT nicer to each other.
Knowing that everybody has root means that if you screw up someone else....provided you have'nt rm -rf'd / you can go screw them up! (yea! baby!). If if they did rm -rf / well....then you can get together with your pals, pull out your firearms and shoot the bastard!
It's as secure as SSL bank transactions over the web. I doubt you'd be able to hack through an SSL based VPN being used OVER that wireless connection.
You forgot to add
$100 million dollars: SuperComputer needed to crack Industrial strength SSL being used with their wireless
Why? Because Putin and W are buddy pals. One phone call from Putin to W will have that Veto pen out and ready to trash the bill. Guaranteed.
The biggest mistake people make when looking at Microsoft's monopoly is to mistake what EXACTLY the market of their monopoly is.
It's actually quite narrow, commercial closed source desktop operating systems running on x86 compatible microprocessors.
That excludes the Mac (until next year), excludes consoles, excludes LINUX, BSD...
Name me ONE viable (with more than 5% market share) commercial closed source desktop/workstation operating system that runs on Intel x86 compatible microprocessors. There aren't any. In this market Microsoft has a monopoly. Until their grip on that market is loosened there will BE no competition that you can go out and buy thats supportable as windows for your PC.
The fact that only FREE alternatives (LINUX, BSD, ect) have been able to get marketshare on x86 points to the fact that there is no capitalistic market.
Imagine what windows might be like today if another vendor had say 40% of the desktop market. It's my opinion they would not of been able to get away with all the crap (security, bugs) for as long as they have.
The people who are technically stealing content off of the net will continue to so no matter how many laws there are. Just as it's technically illegal to buy a region free DVD player you'll still be able to buy equipment (from the far east) that will copy analog content.
It's enforcement that's the issue.
Once jack booted FBI/DOJ/ATF/FCC whatever start breaking down people's front doors to their houses THEN I'll be impressed.
Go ahead...pass another law. It only helps chinese/korean manufacturers who will take up the slack.
It will play on just about any hardware platform known to man. Uses itty bitty power. Will suck you in and spit you back out when Xmas is over, gauranteed.
Even more interesting is if this will encourage apple to make ichat compatible with google talk since it's already compatible with AIM.
The users on slashdot should use this story to get the editors attention. EVERYBODY should submitt the same story if we can get at least a couple of hundred people to submit (or maybe a couple of thousand people to submit) the same story day after day maybe they'll get the message.
Interesting point....Where does the Steve do his banking?
The majority of people don't have access to multiple brodband ISP's. Most people are locked into a single ISP who can do whatever they please (satelite does not count since latency sucks).
In my neighborhood cable is it. DSL will NEVER get here because of distance, and fiber is about as likely as UFO's landing on my front lawn.
If adelphia decides to throttle traffic, I'm screwed and there is'nt a damn thing I can do short of buying my own network bandwidth and getting it hauled to my house for $10K