The OP's comment is not a gratuitous Microsoft bashing but a reasonable point made about Microsoft's more-than-common errors resulting from having their technology decisions made by the marketing department. The only error the OP made was citing a specific instance of the behavior instead of the overall attitude of Microsoft towards their customers.
If anyone is reasonably out of line here, it is you with the over-the-top description of the OP's remark which you then attack: Strawman much?
Yeah, I once killed Melkor with a shovel (Angband) simply because I was worried he might have the ability to disenchant weapons. I since discovered this isn't a concern.
This article is interesting but is heavily weighted towards the consumer gamer, but interesting developments are happening elsewhere as well.
Perhaps the author will do another article with a different focus? Here's a place to start. It's valuable to remember that approximately ninty percent (90%) of all PCs sold are sold with Intel onboard graphics chips.
The reviewers who actually do performance evaluations of Windows 7 continue to make this point: The performance between Windows 7 and Vista is marginal at best and often indistinguishable.
Windows 7 is Vista with a marketing make over. It's being pushed from the bottom up in a faux ground swell astroturfers saying "Windows 7 is great!" but ignoring the performance evaluations.
The best that can be said for Windows 7 is that its true name should be Vista SP2.
Time travel is lazy science, leading Science Fiction's devolution into Fantasy. The purists rage and fume, the common crowd goos and gaws, the studios make bank. Not to say Science Fantasy can't be great entertainment, but this is Space Opera Fantasy, not Science Fiction: Any clown can write Space Opera (Star Wars?) but not so good Science Fiction.
Everyone seems to be focusing on the density of the printing onto the paper, but the key is probably the colors. The encoding algorithm probably uses color as symbolic representation of data.
x,y,z(color depth)
Assign color to represent data in the color range provided along with a coordinate system and viola, you have a practical, two dimensional representation of a three dimensional coordinate system with data depth provided on the z axis.
Most people are not fooled thrice (PHBs excepted) and new crops of folks who have yet to be burned by MS' business ethics and exceptionally bloated software products are shrinking rapidly -- MS is running out of suckers. Which explains much about MS's Playstation and iPod knockoffs: At least MS knows their con is running out of conees in the PC software racket.
New product lines we might see from MS in the near future:
- Pointy, singing tin-foil hats stamped with "PHBs Rule!" and an image of Dilbert's boss -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder - Lapel pins which sing out screechy fortunes -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder - Singing tires for your automobile -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder - Singing Toilet paper -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder (I might buy this one, hmm.)
The list is endless, the point is made, I'm outta here.
And for molesting constitutions. And then there's the whole issue of molesting the Middle East; these neo-confidence men must have balls the size of Jupiter and brains the size of peas. And yet, perhaps they have a wickedly cunning plan which is simply beyond the ken of mere mortals -- but I have a great many reasons to suspect it's simply the balls/brains issue.
"...but what I think ends up happening with a tiered system is that the lower tier always ends up being a ghetto...do not want to wade through...."
I've not yet seen a tiered system such as this, so I'm not sure as to how it would play out. If Slashdot, for example, were to implement this on top of their current system, the top-tiered folks would not be the ones determining who gets into the top tier -- the readership in general gets points to hand out for worthy posts. A restriction on those in the common tier in how they spend their points might be good, allowing them to assign points to common tier posts only. Top tier folks can assign their points as they choose.
"Lots of people have said on Slashdot they value replies more highly than high moderation...."
Yes, but do all good posts warrant a reply? Not always, no.
"I just don't think any forum that doesn't let a user spontaneously join and start commenting is going to have an easy time attracting new members, the lifeblood of online forums."
I think my suggestion addresses this by providing a general commons for anyone while also providing readers with options for reading either or both the top and common tiers and at the same time gives the posters incentive to post quality and limit trash posting.
I think Fark -- for all its' faults -- has a recipe that really works for them. Granted, there is a lot of trash posted there, but Fark regularly has the funniest posts to be found on the net. My suggestion is an attempt to have both high quality and "farkiness" in the same place with options for the readers/posters to decide how they want to play.
Use a double-tiered forum for reading and writing.
The top tier (the privileged tier) permits only those who have earned the privilege to read/write to the top tier forum. Top tiered folks can read and write in the bottom tier forum as well.
The bottom tier (common tier) grants anyone read and write access. Bottom tiered folks can read the top tier and quote from it, but can only write to the second tier until they earn top tier privileges. Use your karma system to measure worth?
By making the bottom tier forum a commons with granted access, you get the value of all input; by making top tier forum write access an earned privilege, posters are encouraged to post quality. By using your karma system, you let the readers determine who earns the privilege.
Provide all readers means to select either one or both tiers when reading posts.
It was after you hacked in and completely removed the pixel, but before _I_ hacked in and turned your tiny hole into a _black_ hole which will spread over the net, sucking in everyone's monitors.
These games have broken economies; they are using the wrong economic model, imposing pseudo-scarcity where there is in fact no scarcity at all. It's the game design that's the problem, not the fact that users are finding ways of working around this annoying fact: Don't blame the users, blame the designers.
What's the solution? The Second Life folks seem to have a good one but I suspect it's not readily transportable to other types of worlds. Perhaps the solution for other types of worlds is to base the advancement of characters on something other than that which can be collected and transferred to another character: No gold or items, accomplishments only. Just an idea.
Any chance there will be a way to weed out the, um, weeds? Otherwise, I'll have to say no. Unless, PK is allowed, in which case the weeds have a purpose in the game.
That depends on the software you choose to use. I'm not seeing any bloating problems on the software side (2.4 kernel, Slackware, WindowMaker, Opera.)
If you're using commercial software from Redmond, then yes, that particular corpse is bloated like a five day old dead Australian.
Disclaimer: I choose to use an Australian because they tend to have a good sense of humor, there's no politically correct downside to choosing them, and they make good belts.
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You must be the new guy I heard about.
The OP's comment is not a gratuitous Microsoft bashing but a reasonable point made about Microsoft's more-than-common errors resulting from having their technology decisions made by the marketing department. The only error the OP made was citing a specific instance of the behavior instead of the overall attitude of Microsoft towards their customers.
If anyone is reasonably out of line here, it is you with the over-the-top description of the OP's remark which you then attack: Strawman much?
Yeah, I once killed Melkor with a shovel (Angband) simply because I was worried he might have the ability to disenchant weapons. I since discovered this isn't a concern.
Get DVDs working on the shuttle? They are rocket scientists, not Linux gurus, so give them a break already.
I have a bad feeling about this: Smells like Same-pig-different-lipstick effect -- and it smells bad.
This article is interesting but is heavily weighted towards the consumer gamer, but interesting developments are happening elsewhere as well.
Perhaps the author will do another article with a different focus? Here's a place to start. It's valuable to remember that approximately ninty percent (90%) of all PCs sold are sold with Intel onboard graphics chips.
http://www.google.com/search?q=intel+3D+graphics+history&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=o0&sa=G&tbs=tl:1&tbo=1&ei=fw0TSru0OY7msgODneX4CQ&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11
The reviewers who actually do performance evaluations of Windows 7 continue to make this point: The performance between Windows 7 and Vista is marginal at best and often indistinguishable.
Windows 7 is Vista with a marketing make over. It's being pushed from the bottom up in a faux ground swell astroturfers saying "Windows 7 is great!" but ignoring the performance evaluations.
The best that can be said for Windows 7 is that its true name should be Vista SP2.
One would expect the MPAA to suggest teachers use pantomime since this would please both themselves and the RIAA.
True: Slavery in all its guises comes to mind.
Samsung has begun manufacture of their PRAM which promises to be a replacement for NAND:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/samsungs-pram-chips-go-into-mass-production-in-june/
Wikipedia writeup on PRAM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_memory
This type of "flash" memory will make much better SSD drives in the near future.
Time travel is lazy science, leading Science Fiction's devolution into Fantasy. The purists rage and fume, the common crowd goos and gaws, the studios make bank. Not to say Science Fantasy can't be great entertainment, but this is Space Opera Fantasy, not Science Fiction: Any clown can write Space Opera (Star Wars?) but not so good Science Fiction.
What did the farmer do when he couldn't sell the pig wearing lipstick?
He changed the color of the lipstick.
Microsoft would have to pay me to put their garbage software on my hardware.
Everyone seems to be focusing on the density of the printing onto the paper, but the key is probably the colors. The encoding algorithm probably uses color as symbolic representation of data.
x,y,z(color depth)
Assign color to represent data in the color range provided along with a coordinate system and viola, you have a practical, two dimensional representation of a three dimensional coordinate system with data depth provided on the z axis.
Most people are not fooled thrice (PHBs excepted) and new crops of folks who have yet to be burned by MS' business ethics and exceptionally bloated software products are shrinking rapidly -- MS is running out of suckers. Which explains much about MS's Playstation and iPod knockoffs: At least MS knows their con is running out of conees in the PC software racket.
New product lines we might see from MS in the near future:
- Pointy, singing tin-foil hats stamped with "PHBs Rule!" and an image of Dilbert's boss -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder
- Lapel pins which sing out screechy fortunes -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder
- Singing tires for your automobile -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder
- Singing Toilet paper -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder (I might buy this one, hmm.)
The list is endless, the point is made, I'm outta here.
Happy Monday to all.
And for molesting constitutions. And then there's the whole issue of molesting the Middle East; these neo-confidence men must have balls the size of Jupiter and brains the size of peas. And yet, perhaps they have a wickedly cunning plan which is simply beyond the ken of mere mortals -- but I have a great many reasons to suspect it's simply the balls/brains issue.
"...but what I think ends up happening with a tiered system is that the lower tier always ends up being a ghetto...do not want to wade through...."
I've not yet seen a tiered system such as this, so I'm not sure as to how it would play out. If Slashdot, for example, were to implement this on top of their current system, the top-tiered folks would not be the ones determining who gets into the top tier -- the readership in general gets points to hand out for worthy posts. A restriction on those in the common tier in how they spend their points might be good, allowing them to assign points to common tier posts only. Top tier folks can assign their points as they choose.
"Lots of people have said on Slashdot they value replies more highly than high moderation...."
Yes, but do all good posts warrant a reply? Not always, no.
"I just don't think any forum that doesn't let a user spontaneously join and start commenting is going to have an easy time attracting new members, the lifeblood of online forums."
I think my suggestion addresses this by providing a general commons for anyone while also providing readers with options for reading either or both the top and common tiers and at the same time gives the posters incentive to post quality and limit trash posting.
I think Fark -- for all its' faults -- has a recipe that really works for them. Granted, there is a lot of trash posted there, but Fark regularly has the funniest posts to be found on the net. My suggestion is an attempt to have both high quality and "farkiness" in the same place with options for the readers/posters to decide how they want to play.
Use a double-tiered forum for reading and writing.
The top tier (the privileged tier) permits only those who have earned the privilege to read/write to the top tier forum. Top tiered folks can read and write in the bottom tier forum as well.
The bottom tier (common tier) grants anyone read and write access. Bottom tiered folks can read the top tier and quote from it, but can only write to the second tier until they earn top tier privileges. Use your karma system to measure worth?
By making the bottom tier forum a commons with granted access, you get the value of all input; by making top tier forum write access an earned privilege, posters are encouraged to post quality. By using your karma system, you let the readers determine who earns the privilege.
Provide all readers means to select either one or both tiers when reading posts.
Just an idea.
It was after you hacked in and completely removed the pixel, but before _I_ hacked in and turned your tiny hole into a _black_ hole which will spread over the net, sucking in everyone's monitors.
Oh, and before I forget: YO MAMA!
Cheers
These games have broken economies; they are using the wrong economic model, imposing pseudo-scarcity where there is in fact no scarcity at all. It's the game design that's the problem, not the fact that users are finding ways of working around this annoying fact: Don't blame the users, blame the designers.
What's the solution? The Second Life folks seem to have a good one but I suspect it's not readily transportable to other types of worlds. Perhaps the solution for other types of worlds is to base the advancement of characters on something other than that which can be collected and transferred to another character: No gold or items, accomplishments only. Just an idea.
Happy Monday to all!
squeaky kid voice: "And I was like, so into it, ya know? We pwned that baby dragon like it was your little brother, hehehe. LOL"
seasoned adventurer voice: "Are you supposed to say LOL or just laugh?"
squeaky kid voice: "Huh?"
seasoned adventurer voice: "Here, drink this swirly potion, it'll fix that voice problem you have."
squeaky kid voice: "'Kay."
seasoned adventurer voice: "Bye now, have a nice day."
squeaky kid voice: *gulp* "Wha..Aiiieeeeee......." (squishy sound)
Any chance there will be a way to weed out the, um, weeds? Otherwise, I'll have to say no. Unless, PK is allowed, in which case the weeds have a purpose in the game.
Cheers.
So which one is the "We've screwed you six times already but you keep comin' back for more!" edition?
Inquiring minds wanna know.
Happy Monday to all.
...it sucks to be you!
But seriously, I mean it.
Best wishes and lots o' luck, bubba -- you really gonna need it.
That depends on the software you choose to use. I'm not seeing any bloating problems on the software side (2.4 kernel, Slackware, WindowMaker, Opera.)
If you're using commercial software from Redmond, then yes, that particular corpse is bloated like a five day old dead Australian.
Disclaimer: I choose to use an Australian because they tend to have a good sense of humor, there's no politically correct downside to choosing them, and they make good belts.
Cheers.
It's a form of DRM, so STFU already.
Cheers.
Damn dude, that was seriously funny but you've not gotten the mod. Sheesh, must be serious night on /.
Thanks for the laugh!