What the hell is this claptrap and what does it actually have to do with the real art of putting together good, successful games that people actually want to play?
I have a very difficult time with the idea that game designers sit down and plan a game around the modification of social dynamics and provable theory. Maybe a few niche games are like that, but I can't imagine that is part of the ingredients for an entertaining game.
Maybe, in the future, it will be like the movie industry, and we'll have Art Games (that no one will actually play) and Experimental Games, and then the things that people actually enjoy.
Beyond that, I wouldn't be surprised if we get enjoyable, artistic masterpieces, but those are a long way off. At this point we have a new technology, a new sector in the game industry, and we're having fun with it.
They're trying to protect the idiots who can't figure out that the window that just popped up with no warning isn't an official document from "a person's doctor or accountant"?
And what kind of demon names animals "Buffy, Skip and Jack Daniels"?
More seriously, the more vocal Microsoft becomes about Palladium and its lovely beautiful wonderful security features, the more it drives me (and, I imagine, many others) far far away from them.
I actually like XP. I like playing games on XP. I even don't mind writing code while in XP. It does normal everyday functions almost as well as I'd like. As soon as XP gets replaced, though, I'm gone, and back to using Wine to play my games.
I suppose the best way to look at this is that it'll give a great boost to open source.
Apparently it's necessary for absolutely everything written by this guy to have an article on Slashdot.
Wonderful. Even though half of us are trolls, I think the average slashdot reader is at least as smart as he is.
Oh well. Can't have useful things on Slashdot *all* the time.
Now how about getting some servers that can handle the load?
Sigh.
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It sounds like a good idea, until you start trying to explain it to the public.
Salesguy: "Okay, yeah, the first thousand people to pay for this, get it... and so does everyone else." Customer: "Even the people that don't pay for it?" Salesguy: "Yup! That's how it works." Customer: "... Why would I pay, then? I can just wait for someone else to."
Unless the ransom's low enough that the few people that really want it do pony up right away make the difference, it seems like people will end up waiting indefinitely. And forget about it when it doesn't come out.
You could maybe make the case that the instant gratification urge will win, and they'll want it right now even though they could have it free later, but I wouldn't be sure enough of that to put money on it.
This wouldn't apply to libraries and such, though, so maybe -- but what's really in it for those sorts of developers? The biggest draw I can see for this sort of license is for people who are going to deliver straight to the public. The cut-down version for the small fee draws them in, provides funding, and then once the ransom is met, you get a full release.... But that can be done without a Ransom License anyway!
This place makes those hideous 4- or 5-line URLs that you want to post into e-mails or whatever into much, much shorter URLs. It's nice, it's quick, it's easy, it's good.
The use of 802.11b isn't actually specified on any of the referenced sites, so no one needs to worry too much about the 3-channel problem. I live in Edmonton, and I've only ever heard it described as a huge all-inclusive fibre optic network to every Alberta community. Perhaps they'll use wireless in the [two] dense cities. I look forward to some more specific details from Axia, the company contracted to lay down the infrastructure.
I'm moving out of the province in the summer, after being here for six years. Ow, the irony.
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Aah! That was the best reply I've seen on slashdot in a long time.
Way to go.
Searched the web for a steaming chunk of goat turd by any other name. ....
Results 1 - 10 of about 21.
Search took 0.97 seconds.
While I was checking it out, and seeing how difficult it would be to read Quicksilver... they deleted it.
Not entirely, you can still make the searches, but when you go to read the excerpts, they 404 on you.
That was fast.
That's a micrometer and a nanoamp.
Really, that's what prefixes are for, you can do better than that. Thanks.
... Okay, so, I was convinced that this had to be something to do with anime featuring pirates. ... Fansub section, which also covers Digisubs.
Do those not sound like the titles of anime series to you?
Arr, it's driving me nuts...
What the hell is this claptrap and what does it actually have to do with the real art of putting together good, successful games that people actually want to play?
I have a very difficult time with the idea that game designers sit down and plan a game around the modification of social dynamics and provable theory. Maybe a few niche games are like that, but I can't imagine that is part of the ingredients for an entertaining game.
Maybe, in the future, it will be like the movie industry, and we'll have Art Games (that no one will actually play) and Experimental Games, and then the things that people actually enjoy.
Beyond that, I wouldn't be surprised if we get enjoyable, artistic masterpieces, but those are a long way off. At this point we have a new technology, a new sector in the game industry, and we're having fun with it.
Because they're games. Really. Just games.
He said "ATM Machine". Why? Why do people insist on doing that?
Argh.
They're trying to protect the idiots who can't figure out that the window that just popped up with no warning isn't an official document from "a person's doctor or accountant"?
And what kind of demon names animals "Buffy, Skip and Jack Daniels"?
More seriously, the more vocal Microsoft becomes about Palladium and its lovely beautiful wonderful security features, the more it drives me (and, I imagine, many others) far far away from them.
I actually like XP. I like playing games on XP. I even don't mind writing code while in XP. It does normal everyday functions almost as well as I'd like. As soon as XP gets replaced, though, I'm gone, and back to using Wine to play my games.
I suppose the best way to look at this is that it'll give a great boost to open source.
With that in mind: Go MS!
I'd just like to point out that Issaquah not only has all the stuff listed in the post, but it also has the only Krispy Kreme in the Seattle area.
Mmmmm, donuts.
This is a great idea, I think, and I'm .. attempting.. to use it right now. But the servers seem to be clogged up and completely useless.
Um.
I suppose eventually we'll be genetically engineering bacteria to make us this semiconducting gel. Perhaps it'll be useful for nanorobotics.
Last time I tried reading this story, it disappeared. Not to mention the horrible load times lately. Can we get some news about what's up?
They're using it to power their army of giant robots to take over the earth.
Duh.
Why is this here again? Are you people trying to outdo your own stupidity daily?
Apparently it's necessary for absolutely everything written by this guy to have an article on Slashdot. Wonderful. Even though half of us are trolls, I think the average slashdot reader is at least as smart as he is. Oh well. Can't have useful things on Slashdot *all* the time.
Now how about getting some servers that can handle the load? Sigh.
It sounds like a good idea, until you start trying to explain it to the public.
... But that can be done without a Ransom License anyway!
Salesguy: "Okay, yeah, the first thousand people to pay for this, get it... and so does everyone else."
Customer: "Even the people that don't pay for it?"
Salesguy: "Yup! That's how it works."
Customer: "... Why would I pay, then? I can just wait for someone else to."
Unless the ransom's low enough that the few people that really want it do pony up right away make the difference, it seems like people will end up waiting indefinitely. And forget about it when it doesn't come out.
You could maybe make the case that the instant gratification urge will win, and they'll want it right now even though they could have it free later, but I wouldn't be sure enough of that to put money on it.
This wouldn't apply to libraries and such, though, so maybe -- but what's really in it for those sorts of developers? The biggest draw I can see for this sort of license is for people who are going to deliver straight to the public. The cut-down version for the small fee draws them in, provides funding, and then once the ransom is met, you get a full release.
More importantly, it's just really fun to say 'Baconian'.
"... if I have to wade through 100 narrow-minded people for every 1 useful human being." Welcome to reality. There are a lot of stupid people.
This place makes those hideous 4- or 5-line URLs that you want to post into e-mails or whatever into much, much shorter URLs. It's nice, it's quick, it's easy, it's good.
CNN really sucks about things like this. The New Scientist article is much better.
"Removing them would result in a slower, much-less user friendly Windows that would be a support nightmare."
We can't have that! Not an operating system that runs slowly and is complete pain in the ass to support! Gasp.
The use of 802.11b isn't actually specified on any of the referenced sites, so no one needs to worry too much about the 3-channel problem.
I live in Edmonton, and I've only ever heard it described as a huge all-inclusive fibre optic network to every Alberta community. Perhaps they'll use wireless in the [two] dense cities. I look forward to some more specific details from Axia, the company contracted to lay down the infrastructure.
I'm moving out of the province in the summer, after being here for six years. Ow, the irony.
Obviously Lucas' integrity was already in question. N*Sync was a horrible idea in the first place.
But at least have the courage to stick with something if you decide on it in spite of its obvious idiocy.
We might as well be getting congressmen to make movies now.