Not everything is black and white. Theres stuff that the IP owners will dislike. Stuff that some people will think is right, and others will think is wrong, and laws will say nothing or a unknowm thing.
To avoid gray areas Free Software work with greats effors, and avoid to "tain the kernel" and other ideas to work on white area. Modders cant avoid "tainting the kernel", because his work mean redistributing stuff that is already owned by somehome. Most modding is wellcome by the ip owner, so you can continue on the gray. But If the owner attack, you can be kicked...
Imho, Is nothing of the bussiness of the author of a game the mods. Mods is how the customer use the game, I think people souldt not stop people from having fun with mods, thats evil.
Is like technology growing old all around me. 2002 is like the year I started with Wiki, and now looks almost like the good old days. Dont let me start with 1995 and my commodore 64 computer....
Having all this medias to play with, will be really helpfull to zillions of open source proyects. And people can really start to make different games out of this engine + medias.
You still use one and only one way to do things. So It still is monoculture. You can describe this as a "defense in deep", not as a solution, or a real safe protection. Anyway: Wellcome!
Is amazing how we are stuck on 3 letters style of games. I remenber the old god times, on the 64 bits, most games are widly different each another. Yes nowdays all seems 2D and mostly platform based, but that whas not trued then. I blame the inventation of RTS and FPS nicknames for two gameplay styles:(
Firearms are simple like bows and crossbows. Nothing complex on a MMORPG. It feels Ok. You can simply download and play Anarchy Online to test how feel.
A TV only show a static imagen, then replace this image with the next, etc. Is a simple task, easy. A computer load zillions of "images" you never see in-memory. Then execute most of these images, in a way that mean the computer need to understand that images (=executing his code). And once everything has been loaded, you have something much more flexible than a TV. As you see, a computer do more stuff while booting, than a TV.
You can speedup a computer boot? maybe, but that may mean loading less "images" or only one "image". Often on a computer a "memory image" can be 512 MB, while a TV "image" is only 2MB. And the PC hardware is not optimized to "load up 512MB memory images" while the TV is optimized to hardcore for years and years to show that "2 MB" image.
Imagine a smart hot blondie. What will you notice first? she is smart of he is blondie? Of course, you will notice first the hot factor. And that also work for Code and Games. Even If some engine is smart, you will notice first and next how Hot and Blondie is. Theres even some very very smart blondies out here that are angry because not one notice how smart are, and people only notice how blondie is. EA is right here. People do make bad choices, and dev's follow.
"It's all about efficency. I don't know anyone who would say would use negative numbers in equation where non-negatives would accomplish the same thin"
! is nothing to do with negative, but with "zero" or "!= zero". "!bad" can be as fast as "good" because can be translated to different opcodes, of equal size and speed. Example: "beq" branch if equal, "bnq" branch if not equal.
Is not the ability to customize, but the lack of confirmation, or a captcha. Because If you allowed to run movies trough flash,... that mean you allowed to run javascript. Running javascript as yourself mean other people can make ajax call, or whatever, to mimick yourself. Having captchas will stop that thing. But will make editing that profiles slighty slow, of course.
I have played the game, and I like it. I get not lag and seems a very good implementation of the MPORPG idea. Good work boys!.
Also the open souce is a interesting thing. I am open source game enginer myself and I admit that the Catedrall works very well. Is hard for a open source proyect to have soo good medias that Ryzon have because art-talented people are mosly not-FOSS friendly, are other culture.
Yes. A guy with a vision can move fast a FOSS proyect. The bazar is good, and the catedral has some nice features you can use on a FOSS proyect. So, I mostly agree TFA.
2. Wasting money on the wrong company's tech. There are graphics companies that specialize in these types of projects that can provide custom tech that matches what they are trying to accomplish with the goals of this project for much less money.
I mostly agree with you. But show us one of these, that use normal hardware, is multiuser (multiplayer?), as sound, and has good tools to create content. Yea,that, give us urls.
Is sony that create stuff like that. If you have that low numbers of units, you can sell then online, or by pre-order, so you can make a reservation for your unit. That way no one can get your unit, theres can be lines, but not pushing.
Take KPDF, for instance. It manages to be much faster and more stable than Adobe's Acrobat Reader, yet performs the very same functionality.
I disagree. KDPF is really nice, and the next version will be impresive. But still theres minimal support for some advanced features, like scripting. Yea, only a subset of users need some byzarre features like that one, but still.. seems that adobe support a lot of these, maybe 99% of what PDF mean. As a example (scripting) you need a javascript engine, maybe Spidermonkey, and add it to KPDF. Theres actually no javascript engine on KPDF, and adding spidermonkey is somewhat easy, but still is some work to do.
Seems... that is reallly hard to create a good parsing engine for pdf. This why KPDF is based on XPDF and theres only a few PDF viewers. And once you can parse a PDF file and render simple stuff, is enough for 90% of people. But theres still that 10% that use advanced features, that need HUGE ammounts to work.
I only know 3 pdf engines:
- XPDF engine (that KPDF and Evince use). Fast but not complete.
- Foxit engine. Fast but not complete.
- Adobe engine. Slow but complete.
Once you add more features to a application. You need to do more stuff on startup. Maybe init some static arrays, load and parse config files, dynamically call more librarys that also need build stuff...
Imho, theres out here a engineer on Adobe that is frustrated because Adobe reader at core is lighting fast, but all the CRAP that need to load slowdown the whole thing to the actual mud-style.
note to self: Ask the Okula developpers to support CBR.
The wikipedia is a very good source for new information, but not trust. So you get here, collect info, and use check that info with facts elsewhere.
Also the wikipedia is not a tool to dectect if something is false. Wrong ideas can be supported there. Seems that people use all encyclopedias to avoid thinking. That iself is wrong.
I dont understand. If I buy a machine, I can do everything to that machine. Is mine. Microsoft has nothing to do with it. Maybe can block me from enter his online services, but even that is doubfull.
Or maybe people "rented" the machine to microsoft?? That story is scary, has these drm terror tales:I
I have no IE7 myself, but I guest his heuristic is somewhat flawed, and image search is tryiing to cheat the user in some way... that and of course, no one on the IE7 beta testing was searching images on google, thats kind of sad. Poor bastards:D
I think this is stupid. Security trough obscurity... again?... I do think the crackers are mostly assemblers coders that dont need the manual or the c++ source code. So the bad guys will know the internals of the kernel anyway, and If this obscurity is to hidden bad practices, this will harm anyway.
If you hate enough some random guy, create a small application that will rename boot.ini something else (boot.dat?). Nothing more, nothing else. This will cross any antivirus, is not a virus. Will kill that poor bastard on the next reboot.
Of course, with WGA will be much more espectacular and fun, but you can already cripple a system with a simple change.
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Not everything is black and white. Theres stuff that the IP owners will dislike. Stuff that some people will think is right, and others will think is wrong, and laws will say nothing or a unknowm thing.
To avoid gray areas Free Software work with greats effors, and avoid to "tain the kernel" and other ideas to work on white area. Modders cant avoid "tainting the kernel", because his work mean redistributing stuff that is already owned by somehome. Most modding is wellcome by the ip owner, so you can continue on the gray. But If the owner attack, you can be kicked...
Imho, Is nothing of the bussiness of the author of a game the mods. Mods is how the customer use the game, I think people souldt not stop people from having fun with mods, thats evil.
Is like technology growing old all around me. 2002 is like the year I started with Wiki, and now looks almost like the good old days. ....
Dont let me start with 1995 and my commodore 64 computer
Having all this medias to play with, will be really helpfull to zillions of open source proyects. And people can really start to make different games out of this engine + medias.
You still use one and only one way to do things. So It still is monoculture. You can describe this as a "defense in deep", not as a solution, or a real safe protection. Anyway: Wellcome!
".. how much of it to allow through their networks."
Wait. I pay for these networkes, Is ME who decide anithing. And I decide with my money to have P2P in full use, and not as 2th or 3th level.
Is amazing how we are stuck on 3 letters style of games. I remenber the old god times, on the 64 bits, most games are widly different each another. Yes nowdays all seems 2D and mostly platform based, but that whas not trued then. I blame the inventation of RTS and FPS nicknames for two gameplay styles :(
Firearms are simple like bows and crossbows. Nothing complex on a MMORPG. It feels Ok. You can simply download and play Anarchy Online to test how feel.
A TV only show a static imagen, then replace this image with the next, etc. Is a simple task, easy.
A computer load zillions of "images" you never see in-memory. Then execute most of these images, in a way that mean the computer need to understand that images (=executing his code). And once everything has been loaded, you have something much more flexible than a TV. As you see, a computer do more stuff while booting, than a TV.
You can speedup a computer boot? maybe, but that may mean loading less "images" or only one "image". Often on a computer a "memory image" can be 512 MB, while a TV "image" is only 2MB. And the PC hardware is not optimized to "load up 512MB memory images" while the TV is optimized to hardcore for years and years to show that "2 MB" image.
Apples and oranges.
Morons don't build atomic bombos. Theres stuff on gaming that freshouts can't do. You absolutelly need a bunch of gurus. Imho.
Imagine a smart hot blondie. What will you notice first? she is smart of he is blondie? Of course, you will notice first the hot factor. And that also work for Code and Games. Even If some engine is smart, you will notice first and next how Hot and Blondie is.
Theres even some very very smart blondies out here that are angry because not one notice how smart are, and people only notice how blondie is.
EA is right here. People do make bad choices, and dev's follow.
Well.. some people tried binary code. And failed. Maybe because you are wrong and non-text code is a horrible painfull idea.
"It's all about efficency. I don't know anyone who would say would use negative numbers in equation where non-negatives would accomplish the same thin"
! is nothing to do with negative, but with "zero" or "!= zero". "!bad" can be as fast as "good" because can be translated to different opcodes, of equal size and speed. Example: "beq" branch if equal, "bnq" branch if not equal.
Anyway I mostly agree with you.
Is not the ability to customize, but the lack of confirmation, or a captcha. Because If you allowed to run movies trough flash,... that mean you allowed to run javascript. Running javascript as yourself mean other people can make ajax call, or whatever, to mimick yourself. Having captchas will stop that thing. But will make editing that profiles slighty slow, of course.
"DX10 doesn't really add any new features to the graphics capability of a system since that is largely dependent on hardware."
:( and DX10 have new features that upgrade DX, and that will push other stuff to hell. DX9 users and OGL users.
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Please, mod parent down.
*UNFORTUNALLY* is not true
I have played the game, and I like it. I get not lag and seems a very good implementation of the MPORPG idea. Good work boys!.
Also the open souce is a interesting thing. I am open source game enginer myself and I admit that the Catedrall works very well. Is hard for a open source proyect to have soo good medias that Ryzon have because art-talented people are mosly not-FOSS friendly, are other culture.
Again, THANKS for your contribution!!!!.
Yes. A guy with a vision can move fast a FOSS proyect. The bazar is good, and the catedral has some nice features you can use on a FOSS proyect. So, I mostly agree TFA.
2. Wasting money on the wrong company's tech. There are graphics companies that specialize in these types of projects that can provide custom tech that matches what they are trying to accomplish with the goals of this project for much less money.
I mostly agree with you. But show us one of these, that use normal hardware, is multiuser (multiplayer?), as sound, and has good tools to create content. Yea,that, give us urls.
Is sony that create stuff like that. If you have that low numbers of units, you can sell then online, or by pre-order, so you can make a reservation for your unit. That way no one can get your unit, theres can be lines, but not pushing.
Take KPDF, for instance. It manages to be much faster and more stable than Adobe's Acrobat Reader, yet performs the very same functionality.
I disagree. KDPF is really nice, and the next version will be impresive. But still theres minimal support for some advanced features, like scripting. Yea, only a subset of users need some byzarre features like that one, but still.. seems that adobe support a lot of these, maybe 99% of what PDF mean.
As a example (scripting) you need a javascript engine, maybe Spidermonkey, and add it to KPDF. Theres actually no javascript engine on KPDF, and adding spidermonkey is somewhat easy, but still is some work to do.
Seems... that is reallly hard to create a good parsing engine for pdf. This why KPDF is based on XPDF and theres only a few PDF viewers. And once you can parse a PDF file and render simple stuff, is enough for 90% of people. But theres still that 10% that use advanced features, that need HUGE ammounts to work.
I only know 3 pdf engines:
- XPDF engine (that KPDF and Evince use). Fast but not complete.
- Foxit engine. Fast but not complete.
- Adobe engine. Slow but complete.
Once you add more features to a application. You need to do more stuff on startup. Maybe init some static arrays, load and parse config files, dynamically call more librarys that also need build stuff...
Imho, theres out here a engineer on Adobe that is frustrated because Adobe reader at core is lighting fast, but all the CRAP that need to load slowdown the whole thing to the actual mud-style.
note to self: Ask the Okula developpers to support CBR.
The wikipedia is a very good source for new information, but not trust. So you get here, collect info, and use check that info with facts elsewhere.
Also the wikipedia is not a tool to dectect if something is false. Wrong ideas can be supported there. Seems that people use all encyclopedias to avoid thinking. That iself is wrong.
I dont understand. If I buy a machine, I can do everything to that machine. Is mine. Microsoft has nothing to do with it. Maybe can block me from enter his online services, but even that is doubfull.
:I
Or maybe people "rented" the machine to microsoft??
That story is scary, has these drm terror tales
I have no IE7 myself, but I guest his heuristic is somewhat flawed, and image search is tryiing to cheat the user in some way... that and of course, no one on the IE7 beta testing was searching images on google, thats kind of sad. Poor bastards :D
I think this is stupid. Security trough obscurity... again?... I do think the crackers are mostly assemblers coders that dont need the manual or the c++ source code. So the bad guys will know the internals of the kernel anyway, and If this obscurity is to hidden bad practices, this will harm anyway.
yes, indeeed, but is a sad state of the world. I hope OpenGL return again and force the Neverwinter Nights to develop Nwn 3 with a OpenGL path again :I
If you hate enough some random guy, create a small application that will rename boot.ini something else (boot.dat?). Nothing more, nothing else. This will cross any antivirus, is not a virus. Will kill that poor bastard on the next reboot.
Of course, with WGA will be much more espectacular and fun, but you can already cripple a system with a simple change.