There are rules on civilization, and one is privacy. Maybe it will be a good idea to let then see one bank account, If a judge able it, but not at random... that would be outlawdish!
One man can love Elfen Lied and Les Luthiers. Or hate both.
I imagine some dude playing with IE4 "Web desktop" mode playing...a Web OS. He.. maybe Microsoft was visionary!, by mistake!.
I am (of course) looking forward for this. I am on the list of people that will murder the guy that is before it on the queue (PRO-TIP: be the latest one to join, that will guaranted your survival from the purge).
One thing I would love to see is "Internet: World Wide Web" integrated in a website, because Feedback make a good job with these tiny-ity "add a link" and "add a movie". But I WANT MOAR!.. I want to integrate streamed videos!.. illegal stream videos of all Japan animes!. RAWR!.
Imagine, everything cool of the internet, inside a website that is a OS. Can I say pocket dimension?
For html (webpages) is considered has a bad idea to use the latest technology (with something like CSS as a exception, because was a *HUGE* upgrade).
You write pages that are compatible with standards, that don't break in the mayor browser (firefox and.. *sight* IE), but you have to avoid nice CSS3 features, that are not well supported (like css '3 colums' type of align).
Embeded font is there. Is unusable for a long period of time, maybe 5, maybe 10 years. Once the old browsers are forgothen and the new browsers dominate.
"People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year."
This is what pass for common sense in the windows universe?. I have XP at home, and was able to use it straigh for years withouth need to reinstall. A good managed system don't need reinstalls that often. Also, reinstalling windows is a pain. Is not as automatic as Linux.
Also, Botting is a social problem, not a tecnical one, so sould be stoped by Game Masters, not by a rootkit program. So I think this gameguard is stupid. But again... I have AION, and nothing has stoped to w|
One way to design a RPG, is using a database, where you manually create the characters. This takes time, but is interesting. Another is a algoritm that randomly create items. It works. I think Diablo used that system.
Procedurall created stuff may work in more ways than just "enviroment heightfields". Like... how the Director in L4D create a changing enviroment for players.
Really, is something very interesting to explore, for players and for devs.
Probably people that would do something similar, will never touch that code, for fear of be "tainted".
And anyway.. most code create new stuff that is worthy a patent. But not because most programmers are genius, but because the patent system is crap. No one sould care about what is on that code, because any professional can recreate the code anyway with the same features. There are not "sacred" code in this world. More the other stuff... Is really hard to make other people look at your code. The bussines type of guys dont want to look at your code. The users don't want to look at your code. Often, others programmers don't want to look at your code. Maybe is more valuable and interesting the features, and the documentation, the analysys of the problem, than the fucking source code. I do like to read source code, but I am one in a million (of programmers) and theres probably around 7 million programmers, so probably theres only another 7 dudes like me:-I
Chess is not a "King murder simulator"/"King murder strategy planner".
You don't "GET IT". Games are not simulations, except these that are simulations (like ArmA 3 or American Army, Flight Simulator, etc). Games are... games, and his conexion with reality is just...settings. There are rules on a videogame, much like there are rules on a table game. These rules "remenber" how the world work in some ways, but are way too artificial to be a real world, more like separate the game from real world.
In esence, all videogames are still... Games!.. the fact that could be visually modeling a city, or a battefield, is just eyecandy, the reality is that these games are not citys-like or battlefields-like that any "Tag" game you have played with other childrens at 11 years old.
So games are nor real, nor simulations. And share traits with stuff everything else on our civilization, movies, books, everything. Helll... as children I use to play "cops and thiefs", a game that is much like counter-strike... nope, a game that is counter-strike.
I started my quake engine from a different engine. There are like 3 different designs for a quake engine: faifhfull to the original, eyecandy and e-sport. Faifhfull engines are as similar to the carmack one as posible,...as similar as what is delivered, since the intention of carmack is unknom. Eyecandy engines are as pretty as posible, with better textures, particles, colors and effects. And e-sport engines make the game as fast as posible, easy to sport enemyes,... most screenshots of a e-sport engine look somewhat like Tron from the disney Tron movie.
Since I am in the eyecandy camp, my first release whas the original engine (tomazquake) with different "defaults". Most stuff that can be modified, was setting to "eyecandy". Like shadows-on, use better particles, etc.. That was already a different engine. A project start with a different taste, and everything grows around it. And a "Default" is this taste in the world.
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Bonus comment:
Some applications grows soo big (soo bloated), that the "defaults" is what define the application, since most people will play with the default, but changing these can be something else. In some ways (not really true)a "distro" is a different "defaults" for Linux.
join a irc chat room with the name of your city, so you will know these people guys and gals, and when theres a meeting (here in spain we call it 'kedada') go there!.. so you will meet in person people you already know. guys and gals with you can have a laught and cross-invite some beers.
This remind me the daily "attack" from java to the W3C site. Theres like 160.000.000 request for the DTD, from dumb applications. In one case, a site was asking the DTD 100 times for second. Muahahaha...
Is soo bad, that the W3C has started to give 503 errors to people that ask that document.
I am writting this from version 3.0.182.0 from the ubuntu repositories. I kind of like Chromium/Chrome over Firefox. And this is from a guy that develop XUL applications (lol!).
Reason to install chromium?
The ability to expand a textarea. Is usefull to edit some SQL in phpMyAdmin... I can probably add a plugin to firefox to do that, but with chromium/chrome is a standard feature.
"How can Google be taken seriously in an enterprise environment if their most stable and successful offshoot project takes 5 years to come out of beta?"
The Beta tag let Google make changes that judge will make the service much better. These changes withouth the Beta tag are mostly "disallowed". Removing the Beta tag is much like a pact "We will not make mayor changes to the service, that will break your work". In my book great changes to make a service better is a good thing, the level of breaks of Gmail is high, but I can live with it. I will feel sad that the tag will be removed, because will mean maybe much less errors (or maybe not), but It will sure mean less and less enhancements of the service. And I blame the people like YOU.
{{Can we collectively as a community agree to stop answering these with things like "here's a solution: don't do what you're trying to do"?}}
Is a fine solution, often is the right solution, maybe the 60% of the times. Think about a newbie tryiing to put a square peg into a circle hole. Google will *NOT* tell to stop searching that. Yahooo will *NOT* tell then to stop. No machine will stop and think.. "Wait.. what you are tryiing is stupid, maybe is feasible but even If you make it works, it will suck". And here is another difference Man vs Machine. We can reject questions that are erroneous.
So, obviusly, once a newbie as ask all machines, and all machine-soluble problems are done, there are a few no-machine-soluble problems. Most of these are "the error is the questions" type.
"It may seem sad that giving the players what they want is detrimental to the player's overall length of enjoyment of the game, but that's the truth. Once you reached that top of the hill, if there's nothing left to do or see, players are likely to move on."
If your game has not intereting endgame, or is linear. Probabbly sandbox games don't have this problem.
When I think about AOC, I get angry, and think about LIARS and LAZY BASTARDS. These guys can't code a quit button, or a math formula to save his life. And AOC itself is a linear theme park with a bad end. Theres a reason people that has not played the game will tell you "I'll be damned if I give Funcom any money to try it again". And is not what our friend piggydoggy suggest.
AOC is the only MMO I have deleted from my harddisk, and I have played all, even the really bad ones.
On the other hand, there are pay services for porn. Where quality and quantity is enough, a pay service is doable. Probably newspapers are near the quality and quantity needed to make it feasible. And with quantity, I mean how often you need the service. No one in the right mind will pay for a online encyclopedia, with the better one free. But for daily news, and porn, maybe.
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There are rules on civilization, and one is privacy. Maybe it will be a good idea to let then see one bank account, If a judge able it, but not at random... that would be outlawdish!
One man can love Elfen Lied and Les Luthiers.
Or hate both.
I imagine some dude playing with IE4 "Web desktop" mode playing ...a Web OS. He.. maybe Microsoft was visionary!, by mistake!.
I am (of course) looking forward for this. I am on the list of people that will murder the guy that is before it on the queue (PRO-TIP: be the latest one to join, that will guaranted your survival from the purge).
One thing I would love to see is "Internet: World Wide Web" integrated in a website, because Feedback make a good job with these tiny-ity "add a link" and "add a movie". But I WANT MOAR!.. I want to integrate streamed videos!.. illegal stream videos of all Japan animes!. RAWR!.
Imagine, everything cool of the internet, inside a website that is a OS. Can I say pocket dimension?
But If you make a photo of yourself. Is that original research? Wikipedia don't want person A to write a article about person A.
For html (webpages) is considered has a bad idea to use the latest technology (with something like CSS as a exception, because was a *HUGE* upgrade).
You write pages that are compatible with standards, that don't break in the mayor browser (firefox and.. *sight* IE), but you have to avoid nice CSS3 features, that are not well supported (like css '3 colums' type of align).
Embeded font is there. Is unusable for a long period of time, maybe 5, maybe 10 years. Once the old browsers are forgothen and the new browsers dominate.
"People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year."
This is what pass for common sense in the windows universe?. I have XP at home, and was able to use it straigh for years withouth need to reinstall. A good managed system don't need reinstalls that often. Also, reinstalling windows is a pain. Is not as automatic as Linux.
I have AION, and none of these problems.
Also, Botting is a social problem, not a tecnical one, so sould be stoped by Game Masters, not by a rootkit program. So I think this gameguard is stupid. But again... I have AION, and nothing has stoped to w|
One way to design a RPG, is using a database, where you manually create the characters. This takes time, but is interesting. Another is a algoritm that randomly create items. It works. I think Diablo used that system.
Procedurall created stuff may work in more ways than just "enviroment heightfields". Like... how the Director in L4D create a changing enviroment for players.
Really, is something very interesting to explore, for players and for devs.
What you suggest, is a primitive way of how Skill based system work (as oposed of level based systems).
It almost totally describe a skill based game: Morrowind.
Probably people that would do something similar, will never touch that code, for fear of be "tainted".
And anyway.. most code create new stuff that is worthy a patent. But not because most programmers are genius, but because the patent system is crap. No one sould care about what is on that code, because any professional can recreate the code anyway with the same features. There are not "sacred" code in this world. More the other stuff... Is really hard to make other people look at your code. The bussines type of guys dont want to look at your code. The users don't want to look at your code. Often, others programmers don't want to look at your code. Maybe is more valuable and interesting the features, and the documentation, the analysys of the problem, than the fucking source code. I do like to read source code, but I am one in a million (of programmers) and theres probably around 7 million programmers, so probably theres only another 7 dudes like me :-I
Chess is not a "King murder simulator"/"King murder strategy planner".
You don't "GET IT". Games are not simulations, except these that are simulations (like ArmA 3 or American Army, Flight Simulator, etc). Games are... games, and his conexion with reality is just ...settings. There are rules on a videogame, much like there are rules on a table game. These rules "remenber" how the world work in some ways, but are way too artificial to be a real world, more like separate the game from real world.
In esence, all videogames are still ... Games!.. the fact that could be visually modeling a city, or a battefield, is just eyecandy, the reality is that these games are not citys-like or battlefields-like that any "Tag" game you have played with other childrens at 11 years old.
So games are nor real, nor simulations. And share traits with stuff everything else on our civilization, movies, books, everything. Helll... as children I use to play "cops and thiefs", a game that is much like counter-strike... nope, a game that is counter-strike.
Is true.
I started my quake engine from a different engine. There are like 3 different designs for a quake engine: faifhfull to the original, eyecandy and e-sport. Faifhfull engines are as similar to the carmack one as posible, ...as similar as what is delivered, since the intention of carmack is unknom. Eyecandy engines are as pretty as posible, with better textures, particles, colors and effects. And e-sport engines make the game as fast as posible, easy to sport enemyes,... most screenshots of a e-sport engine look somewhat like Tron from the disney Tron movie.
Since I am in the eyecandy camp, my first release whas the original engine (tomazquake) with different "defaults". Most stuff that can be modified, was setting to "eyecandy". Like shadows-on, use better particles, etc.. That was already a different engine. A project start with a different taste, and everything grows around it. And a "Default" is this taste in the world.
----
Bonus comment:
Some applications grows soo big (soo bloated), that the "defaults" is what define the application, since most people will play with the default, but changing these can be something else. In some ways (not really true)a "distro" is a different "defaults" for Linux.
join a irc chat room with the name of your city, so you will know these people guys and gals, and when theres a meeting (here in spain we call it 'kedada') go there!.. so you will meet in person people you already know. guys and gals with you can have a laught and cross-invite some beers.
is that energy extracted from the cars? then is not magically created, but just a inefficient way to suck energy from other people use of oil.
This remind me the daily "attack" from java to the W3C site. Theres like 160.000.000 request for the DTD, from dumb applications. In one case, a site was asking the DTD 100 times for second. Muahahaha...
Is soo bad, that the W3C has started to give 503 errors to people that ask that document.
"Novody would want a battery powered exoskeleton with a 10 minutes charge."
You probably missed all the Evangelion episodes?
I am jealous of these people posting relead XKCD and Cyanide comics, so I will post a related episode from SMBC.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1535#comic
Ok, not soo much related probably. But, who cares? no one read this messages anyway.
I just did..
$ apt-get install chromiunm
I am writting this from version 3.0.182.0 from the ubuntu repositories. I kind of like Chromium/Chrome over Firefox. And this is from a guy that develop XUL applications (lol!).
Reason to install chromium?
The ability to expand a textarea. Is usefull to edit some SQL in phpMyAdmin... I can probably add a plugin to firefox to do that, but with chromium/chrome is a standard feature.
"How can Google be taken seriously in an enterprise environment if their most stable and successful offshoot project takes 5 years to come out of beta?"
The Beta tag let Google make changes that judge will make the service much better. These changes withouth the Beta tag are mostly "disallowed". Removing the Beta tag is much like a pact "We will not make mayor changes to the service, that will break your work". In my book great changes to make a service better is a good thing, the level of breaks of Gmail is high, but I can live with it. I will feel sad that the tag will be removed, because will mean maybe much less errors (or maybe not), but It will sure mean less and less enhancements of the service. And I blame the people like YOU.
I feel like we are reading here only the 50% of the history.
{{Can we collectively as a community agree to stop answering these with things like "here's a solution: don't do what you're trying to do"?}}
Is a fine solution, often is the right solution, maybe the 60% of the times. Think about a newbie tryiing to put a square peg into a circle hole. Google will *NOT* tell to stop searching that. Yahooo will *NOT* tell then to stop. No machine will stop and think.. "Wait.. what you are tryiing is stupid, maybe is feasible but even If you make it works, it will suck". And here is another difference Man vs Machine. We can reject questions that are erroneous.
So, obviusly, once a newbie as ask all machines, and all machine-soluble problems are done, there are a few no-machine-soluble problems. Most of these are "the error is the questions" type.
So you are wrong.
"It may seem sad that giving the players what they want is detrimental to the player's overall length of enjoyment of the game, but that's the truth. Once you reached that top of the hill, if there's nothing left to do or see, players are likely to move on."
If your game has not intereting endgame, or is linear. Probabbly sandbox games don't have this problem.
When I think about AOC, I get angry, and think about LIARS and LAZY BASTARDS. These guys can't code a quit button, or a math formula to save his life. And AOC itself is a linear theme park with a bad end. Theres a reason people that has not played the game will tell you "I'll be damned if I give Funcom any money to try it again". And is not what our friend piggydoggy suggest.
AOC is the only MMO I have deleted from my harddisk, and I have played all, even the really bad ones.
Alternate title:
"EU return back to re-send a law to spy users communications, and let the ISP ban users based on his habits"
On the other hand, there are pay services for porn. Where quality and quantity is enough, a pay service is doable. Probably newspapers are near the quality and quantity needed to make it feasible. And with quantity, I mean how often you need the service. No one in the right mind will pay for a online encyclopedia, with the better one free. But for daily news, and porn, maybe.
If is not a fullrewrite of IE,we must expect basically the same level as the infamous "IE6".
Here is a application, with some poor design decissions, that will never be safe, if not with a fullrewrite, with different design guidelines.