I think you've left out the lost revenue from having more synchronization artifacts
One of us doesn't know what that means. I'm pretty sure that neither of us could put a dollar figure on it.
higher client bandwidth requirements
Irrelevant, as it's not really playable over diallup anyway. Server bandwidth, maybe, but I'm not going to make your argument for you.
and also the additional cost from having more server CPU requirements to meet a given level of player load. Moving processing from the client CPUs to the server CPUs isn't free.
That I'll grant you, but clock cycles are cheap compared to salaries. The fact that online games require GMs of any sort demonstrates that they're badly designed.
I want to play a game where hackers and cheaters are caught and banned.
I'd rather play a game where cheating was designed out of the architecture, but each to their own. I guess some people get off on the whole Crime and Punishment lark.
If you had a WoW account, you would already voluntarily have given Blizzard your full name, snail address, email address, and credit card number. What else is it that you think they'd be interested in, precisely?
If you start your architectural design from the assumption that the client is a malicious bot, then you can design out vulnerability. Blizzard chose not to do that. They thought that they could enforce trust on the client side, and let clients make decisions about (oh, just for example) player position. Well, that makes them idiots. Idiot savants, maybe, but idiots none-the-less.
The client cannot be trusted. Clients request, servers decide and dictate. Let the client anticipate and drift its local world state all you like, but the server must never, ever, accept a state change from the client, only requests. That's the way it has to be, unless you - demonstrably - want to play catchup for ever and a day. And if you get caught in that hole, then you need a spade the size of WOW's playerbase and Blizzard's resources in order to keep digging it deeper.
And as long as throwing things away is free (or charged at a flat rate) thus it will continue. And that's why there's little point in charging manufacturers a disposal levy up-front; once they've passed that on to the customer, there's no disincentive to dispose of the item.
This is an example where copyright is fundamentally broken and hinders our culture
Hang on there a second, Sparky. If your argument is that a Potty Lexicon for children and creepy middle aged wierdos advances our culture, then it's moot, as Rowling appears intent on producing one. The issue is whether this lexicon hinders her incentive to produce one which would, presumably, be superior.
This seems like a clear case that does match the actual goal of copyright, to "promote the progress of science and useful arts". It's not like Disney or Fox suing the pants off of people purely out of meanness.
It's not a problem. You just call it scrith (remember to use the italics) then before anyone gets a chance to ask you what its chemical composition actually is, you quickly go back to talking about alien sex again, which is, let's face it, what we're really interested in.
venus is a better terraforming candidate than mars. oh sure, if you want to get somewhere as quickly as possible that is vaguely hospitable to settlement, mars beats venus hands down
The best candidate for terraforming is terra. Perhaps we should start here first, given that if we don't, then the Venus/Mars discussion may become moot.
Hey, thanks; I was pretty much ready to fetch my torch and pitchfork over this fucking travesty, but now that I know that it's pissing off Harlan "Fuck off" Ellison, I may even pre-order a ticket.
Further evidence that "Slashdot editors" are neither editors, nor do they even read Slashdot. The only reason that I believe that they haven't been replaced with very small shell scripts is that I find it hard to believe that a script could do such a bad job.
walking up to people and deliberately annoying them as part of an experiment, without getting consent... would they have been allowed to do it? Should it be any different in VR?
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I never pegged you as a masochist before now, but it does explain a lot.
They are, but just like library books, each one comes with an RFID tracker implanted by the Department of Homeland Security. Surely you knew that!
They'd have made a more profitable game, yes, unless you think that the guys maintaining Warden work for free.
That's a hidden disincentive to buy a new toy, not an overt disincentive to discard the old one. It's very different.
I'd rather play a game where cheating was designed out of the architecture, but each to their own. I guess some people get off on the whole Crime and Punishment lark.
That's so... so... pragmatically mercenary of you.
I'm so proud of you. Really. I even forgive you for the whole, you know, Mac thing.
If you had a WoW account, you would already voluntarily have given Blizzard your full name, snail address, email address, and credit card number. What else is it that you think they'd be interested in, precisely?
If you start your architectural design from the assumption that the client is a malicious bot, then you can design out vulnerability. Blizzard chose not to do that. They thought that they could enforce trust on the client side, and let clients make decisions about (oh, just for example) player position. Well, that makes them idiots. Idiot savants, maybe, but idiots none-the-less.
The client cannot be trusted. Clients request, servers decide and dictate. Let the client anticipate and drift its local world state all you like, but the server must never, ever, accept a state change from the client, only requests. That's the way it has to be, unless you - demonstrably - want to play catchup for ever and a day. And if you get caught in that hole, then you need a spade the size of WOW's playerbase and Blizzard's resources in order to keep digging it deeper.
And as long as throwing things away is free (or charged at a flat rate) thus it will continue. And that's why there's little point in charging manufacturers a disposal levy up-front; once they've passed that on to the customer, there's no disincentive to dispose of the item.
Hang on there a second, Sparky. If your argument is that a Potty Lexicon for children and creepy middle aged wierdos advances our culture, then it's moot, as Rowling appears intent on producing one. The issue is whether this lexicon hinders her incentive to produce one which would, presumably, be superior.
This seems like a clear case that does match the actual goal of copyright, to "promote the progress of science and useful arts". It's not like Disney or Fox suing the pants off of people purely out of meanness.
Let the dissembling begin...
It's not a problem. You just call it scrith (remember to use the italics) then before anyone gets a chance to ask you what its chemical composition actually is, you quickly go back to talking about alien sex again, which is, let's face it, what we're really interested in.
Hint: "sunshade" = "huge solar collector" = "constant power source".
That's great, but the "somethings" better look and feel like Alyson Hannigan, because my "brain and senses" don't get their jollies from groping R2D2.
The best candidate for terraforming is terra. Perhaps we should start here first, given that if we don't, then the Venus/Mars discussion may become moot.
Hey, Harlan, you finally figured out these intartubes things! How's the future looking now?
Hey, thanks; I was pretty much ready to fetch my torch and pitchfork over this fucking travesty, but now that I know that it's pissing off Harlan "Fuck off" Ellison, I may even pre-order a ticket.
Further evidence that "Slashdot editors" are neither editors, nor do they even read Slashdot. The only reason that I believe that they haven't been replaced with very small shell scripts is that I find it hard to believe that a script could do such a bad job.
And it wasn't that he bypassed WGA, it was that he helped someone.
Hey, I like how you just copied a post directly off the story site! That's the spirit of re-use in action.
Why the sudden interest in my son? What's your agenda here, you sick pervert?
You must really have to beat the girls off with a shitty stick, is all I can say to that.
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