It's cool technology and all, but WTF? He's a freak and a geek and a performance artist - what the hell does he expect to happen? Next thing you know someone will have a simulacrum of a large TNT device emplanted in their body - just the shape, not the real thing. And boo hoo, won't understand why some people get kinda pissed about it.
Klink, I understand where you're coming from with that comment, but really that's not valid. Why? Because you can falsly the same comment/argument to many aspects of "Human Controled Devices" on a platform such as a ship. I worked for 13 years on research ships, and believe you me - the most important thing in my book was that the guy/gal behind the wheel, the crane, or the off switch on the device I was working on was more important than anything else.
That said, here's the falacy: there are tons of (good) rules and regulations about the control and safety of devices those humans are using. And a smart ship doesn't just hire someone to fill a role RE your "former NT administrator" comment.
So, I guess to conclude, I gotta say "Hmm, that's a good question!" (which means I don't have an answer). HOWEVER, I gotta say if you're on a ship or any other environment where you can't just call the SA guys on the phone and have 'em drop in to help you out, you'd better have a really failsafe system, AND you'd better train your crew so they know and respect the computer system much like any other mission critical device on the ship. You don't want the ECDIS to "go offline" when really it's the guy not knowing how to turn the monitor back on.
I'm amused by all the yawns, the "so what" comments, the "at least I don't see that kid|jarjar|whatever". Cause you're probably all gonna go see it. Right? Right?:^)
Maybe languages are close to the same because a) they evolved from the same root, or b) they are settling in to some pattern that meets most of the needs of programmers.
I'm part of the Day of Defeat development team. A few days ago we got hit with the following email...
From: FmlyTreenutATaolDOTcom To: (various DoD developers), cssupport@vuinteractive.com CC: hovatterg@emh1.ftmeade.army.mil, LanhamP@tioh.belvoir.army.mil, haasw@tioh.belvoir.army.mil, HonoringVets@aol.com Subject: Day of Defeat Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:11:16 EST
Dear Sirs:
Due to the fact there are laws protecting the use of military insignia and due to the fact your membership has shown absolute lack of respect for those laws and to the veterans and current military personnel who have earned the right to wear those insignia, I am asking that you implement the following:
1) That, in the future, if any of your members or players choose to participate in your on-line combat game, that, as a rule, they will be barred from playing if they use the official names and insignia of military units and divisions. 2) That a disclaimer appear on your website making it clear the use of these insignia and names are in violation of the law. 3) If any member or player has used your game to discredit, disrespect or misrepresent any of these military units and divisions, that they also be barred from participating.
These requirements will only enhance the on-line game experience and will also eliminate any possible law suits that might be filed against your company for the illegal and unauthorized use of military insignia. They will also enhance the on-line experience in that they will further educate and honor those military units that you represent in your game.
I thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Marsha Sears
So what she's basically saying is, she wants us to make the players of our game stop using any kind of military insignia/unit name in their online names. She's also been emailing various DoD "clans" asking the same thing. As you might expect of flame ready teens, some have started bombarding her with some pretty interesting (as I'm guessing) responses.
Now she's writing to us (the DoD Team) and Sierra (who we have ZERO connection with) asking us to make them stop emailing her.
Sheesh!
So - thank GOD for that website. I feel like we're not alone anymore after having it to read!
Two problems with that. First, they're clearly just asswipes for their own laywers: "Blizzard products are intellectual property, and we are well within our legal rights to protect our products from software piracy" [translation: "You know that EULA you clicked through? Go and read it. You don't own a 'game', you own a 'license', the first clause of which is that we can change or revoke it at any time. How funny is that, butt monkey?" ]
Hehe. Clearly you've never created IP that had a fair amount of market value.
Another thing Blizzard can guaruntee by being the only one running servers is quality. Suppose I launch my poor mans bnet clone on my cable modem. People start playing through it. It runs like crap. Fickle gamers (and there are a ton of 'em) start spouting off, 'THIS BLIZZARD STUFF SUCKS!" when really it's just my cheezy PC and cable modem.
Why should the on-line piracy validation be integrated with the server? It is "relatively" easy to split the actual battle.net serving with the vadidation process.
Why? Because it won't be. Sure maybe some people will run "legit" servers, but you know darn well that "pirate friendly" servers will rapidly come online. The net is full of people more than willing to put up huge amounts of bandwidth and disk space for illegal material.
Actually i'll tout a map of my own that had a few ads and digs at a former company I used to work for. In "de_waterworks", there is a large billboard for Rogue Wave Software. Also, there's some graffiti on a wall which says "RIP Scalley" - a tribute to the not very liked CEO that got sacked by the board. Oh no, excuse me. He resigned:^)
I knew I'd read it somewhere -thanks for pointing out someone has ripped off someone elses "insightful writing". I'd love to see this moderated way down. Or labeled as TROLL:^)
If you thought the RTCW beach test map was "exciting", then you're gonna piss your pants like a real soldier when you see Day of Defeat's DOG1 and Overlord maps. WAY more intensity than RTCW's maps.
OK so I'm biased being on the Day of Defeat mod, but why play this when you can play Day of Defeat (DOD)? It's a HL mod, and the most popular mod under CS and TFC right now - most popular non-retail/commercial mod there is.
DoD 2 will be released in a few weeks, and I gotta tell you, if you like what the "professionals" have done w/MOH and RTCW, wait till you see what the "amateurs" have done with DoD.
So some of us DoD ppl played around w/the MOH demo BTW. One thing we noticed? You can rocket jump with the bazooka! I know my grandpappy used to tell me stories....
"Ya sonney, let me tell you about the time I did a rocket jump right over a german squad's head! Landed on their bunker, stuffed some grenades down the stack, and caught 'em all with their hands on their weinerschnitzel!"
Seriously. If you like this kinda game, want one that runs on a LOT more servers, and kicks more ass, play Day of Defeat. I'm sure the MOH and RTCW dev teams have been playing it:^)
What if a well funded/organized terrorist group were to launch a massive series of attacks on the network infrastructure/etc. of the US? I mean, if script kiddies can make our day bad - what would the net be like if we REALLY got slammed? If the internet equivalent of Sept. 11 happens, we wont necessarily be here on Slashdot talking about it, now will we?
Face reality, money talks. It talks ALOT. But I think it (money) should be spread out to the "little people" on the net, not to the "big mega corps". How can we take the idea of "the paying internet" and make it profit the RIGHT people not the WRONG ones?
OK, so here's my thesis.
The way the internet is set up now, your average Mom & Pop shop that could and should profit from the internet can't. The little sandwich shop down the street from me should be able to have a menu online where they can take orders, and it should work. I should be able to use the internet in my town here just like I use my phone: call my barber for an apointment, call in the pizza order, check the store hours, etc. I don't care too much about mega-corps making money on the net, but I do think the Mom & Pops of the world should be able to profit off it.
OK, that said, what if internet use were modeled after telephone system - where "local" browsing was free, and "long distance" browsing cost something? Then all of a sudden instead of being served up the vast eden/wasteland of content that the web is, your average user will be steered to surf LOCAL content. Suddenly, there's huge incentive to create that content. Huge incentive to create USEABLE and USEFUL content. Now the local Mom & Pop will want to put up a website that WORKS for the COMMUNITY. And people will USE it! Imagine if you really COULD order that sandwich from the place down the street from your office, then walk down and pick it up. "Prank" security becomes a minor issue for one thing - after all, who's gonna pay to make long distance crank phone calls?
Now I'd assume that companies can still run "toll free" websites so you can still surf the greater world. After all, who's gonna pay to surf Yahoo?
OK, so this is not perfect and has horrible holes in the logic, but the fact is you're never gonna beat the big corporations.
If someone in the Open Source community came out with this, we'd all be ooohing and aaaahing and getting webishly orgasmic over the greatness of it all. "It will completely change the web and strike a blow for Free Speech", says Any No'nemus. Etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah.
Don't get so whacked out on anti-microsoft juice that you can't see some value in it. Rule of thumb: if you repackage the book to be pretty/ugly, is it still a good/bad book?
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It's cool technology and all, but WTF? He's a freak and a geek and a performance artist - what the hell does he expect to happen? Next thing you know someone will have a simulacrum of a large TNT device emplanted in their body - just the shape, not the real thing. And boo hoo, won't understand why some people get kinda pissed about it.
Klink, I understand where you're coming from with that comment, but really that's not valid. Why? Because you can falsly the same comment/argument to many aspects of "Human Controled Devices" on a platform such as a ship. I worked for 13 years on research ships, and believe you me - the most important thing in my book was that the guy/gal behind the wheel, the crane, or the off switch on the device I was working on was more important than anything else.
That said, here's the falacy: there are tons of (good) rules and regulations about the control and safety of devices those humans are using. And a smart ship doesn't just hire someone to fill a role RE your "former NT administrator" comment.
So, I guess to conclude, I gotta say "Hmm, that's a good question!" (which means I don't have an answer). HOWEVER, I gotta say if you're on a ship or any other environment where you can't just call the SA guys on the phone and have 'em drop in to help you out, you'd better have a really failsafe system, AND you'd better train your crew so they know and respect the computer system much like any other mission critical device on the ship. You don't want the ECDIS to "go offline" when really it's the guy not knowing how to turn the monitor back on.
I'm amused by all the yawns, the "so what" comments, the "at least I don't see that kid|jarjar|whatever". Cause you're probably all gonna go see it. Right? Right? :^)
...the NSA has been doing it for 20 years.
Maybe languages are close to the same because a) they evolved from the same root, or b) they are settling in to some pattern that meets most of the needs of programmers.
So what she's basically saying is, she wants us to make the players of our game stop using any kind of military insignia/unit name in their online names. She's also been emailing various DoD "clans" asking the same thing. As you might expect of flame ready teens, some have started bombarding her with some pretty interesting (as I'm guessing) responses.
Now she's writing to us (the DoD Team) and Sierra (who we have ZERO connection with) asking us to make them stop emailing her.
Sheesh!
So - thank GOD for that website. I feel like we're not alone anymore after having it to read!
Two problems with that. First, they're clearly just asswipes for their own laywers: "Blizzard products are intellectual property, and we are well within our legal rights to protect our products from software piracy" [translation: "You know that EULA you clicked through? Go and read it. You don't own a 'game', you own a 'license', the first clause of which is that we can change or revoke it at any time. How funny is that, butt monkey?" ]
Hehe. Clearly you've never created IP that had a fair amount of market value.
Another thing Blizzard can guaruntee by being the only one running servers is quality. Suppose I launch my poor mans bnet clone on my cable modem. People start playing through it. It runs like crap. Fickle gamers (and there are a ton of 'em) start spouting off, 'THIS BLIZZARD STUFF SUCKS!" when really it's just my cheezy PC and cable modem.
Why should the on-line piracy validation be integrated with the server? It is "relatively" easy to split the actual battle.net serving with the vadidation process.
Why? Because it won't be. Sure maybe some people will run "legit" servers, but you know darn well that "pirate friendly" servers will rapidly come online. The net is full of people more than willing to put up huge amounts of bandwidth and disk space for illegal material.
Dust 2 has an ad in it I believe - kinda tacky.
:^)
Actually i'll tout a map of my own that had a few ads and digs at a former company I used to work for. In "de_waterworks", there is a large billboard for Rogue Wave Software. Also, there's some graffiti on a wall which says "RIP Scalley" - a tribute to the not very liked CEO that got sacked by the board. Oh no, excuse me. He resigned
Yes, but it's ROMERO's car. Killcreek may have been buck naked in there!
I knew I'd read it somewhere -thanks for pointing out someone has ripped off someone elses "insightful writing". I'd love to see this moderated way down. Or labeled as TROLL :^)
If you thought the RTCW beach test map was "exciting", then you're gonna piss your pants like a real soldier when you see Day of Defeat's DOG1 and Overlord maps. WAY more intensity than RTCW's maps.
OK so I'm biased being on the Day of Defeat mod, but why play this when you can play Day of Defeat (DOD)? It's a HL mod, and the most popular mod under CS and TFC right now - most popular non-retail/commercial mod there is.
:^)
DoD 2 will be released in a few weeks, and I gotta tell you, if you like what the "professionals" have done w/MOH and RTCW, wait till you see what the "amateurs" have done with DoD.
So some of us DoD ppl played around w/the MOH demo BTW. One thing we noticed? You can rocket jump with the bazooka! I know my grandpappy used to tell me stories....
"Ya sonney, let me tell you about the time I did a rocket jump right over a german squad's head! Landed on their bunker, stuffed some grenades down the stack, and caught 'em all with their hands on their weinerschnitzel!"
Seriously. If you like this kinda game, want one that runs on a LOT more servers, and kicks more ass, play Day of Defeat. I'm sure the MOH and RTCW dev teams have been playing it
Can edit quake 3 maps. Can't do much else. Kind of "chicken and egg" - won't use it until it support Half-Life maps/models/etc.
:^/
OK, so here's my thesis. The way the internet is set up now, your average Mom & Pop shop that could and should profit from the internet can't. The little sandwich shop down the street from me should be able to have a menu online where they can take orders, and it should work. I should be able to use the internet in my town here just like I use my phone: call my barber for an apointment, call in the pizza order, check the store hours, etc. I don't care too much about mega-corps making money on the net, but I do think the Mom & Pops of the world should be able to profit off it.
OK, that said, what if internet use were modeled after telephone system - where "local" browsing was free, and "long distance" browsing cost something? Then all of a sudden instead of being served up the vast eden/wasteland of content that the web is, your average user will be steered to surf LOCAL content. Suddenly, there's huge incentive to create that content. Huge incentive to create USEABLE and USEFUL content. Now the local Mom & Pop will want to put up a website that WORKS for the COMMUNITY. And people will USE it! Imagine if you really COULD order that sandwich from the place down the street from your office, then walk down and pick it up. "Prank" security becomes a minor issue for one thing - after all, who's gonna pay to make long distance crank phone calls?
Now I'd assume that companies can still run "toll free" websites so you can still surf the greater world. After all, who's gonna pay to surf Yahoo?
OK, so this is not perfect and has horrible holes in the logic, but the fact is you're never gonna beat the big corporations.
If someone in the Open Source community came out with this, we'd all be ooohing and aaaahing and getting webishly orgasmic over the greatness of it all. "It will completely change the web and strike a blow for Free Speech", says Any No'nemus. Etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. Don't get so whacked out on anti-microsoft juice that you can't see some value in it. Rule of thumb: if you repackage the book to be pretty/ugly, is it still a good/bad book?