I am a capitalist. And as a capitalism is obvious to me that the warez networks are distribution channels. I have see people download free software from these networks, stuff like openoffice, that is a free download elsewhere, and would download faster. This means to me that people is using these networks purelly for the convenience.
ABSOLUTELLY NOTHING will stop people from download whatever want from the internet. What we can do, as a society, is to ask for a reform of the bussines model. Theres a busines model that seems to work, the one of App Store, Netflix, Steam, etc... a wide range access to very cheap or free content. If things like Netflix are not profiteable enough, then change the tax systems, etc... so these type of systems are more profitable. That way the "old economy" that don't work anymore can move to a new economy that work.
I don't want to lose my rights, like free expresion, privacity, etc.. so I will work to protect then,even if that means protecting people that want to warez stuff. Don't force me to fight this war.
I think pastebin works somewhat like AnonOps news and Twitter. Withouth the size limits of Twitter.
Some dude X can upload a text to pastebin. And some dude Y can link to it, and make it public. Is anonymous and searchable (google index it). Since is indexed in google Y can be a person that don't know X. X could have find the paste in google, and be one of the first to be reporting it. Since soon a lot of people will cite the link, no one can know whos the first poster of the link.
That it supports ASCII art is just icy on the cake:D
I don't like how Wolfram use existing formats. How hyperlinking graphics from Wolfram break, and so on. Don't seems fair players on the internet.
Creating a new file format? cool. Where is the extensive documentation site online?... what is this, a formulary to enter my data? WTF?, This smell like a propietery format to solve his problem: Wolfram don't want to play by the internet rules, don't want people from hotlinking his graphics, and stuff, so don't want to use GIF and PNG. Want internet to change to adapt to thenselves.
Videogames are videogames, and don't need to have a defined "lenght". You play then as much is fun. Think chess. You don't finish chess.
Videogames that deliver a "movielike" experience, like FMV games, or games designed like Modern Warfare 2 or LA Noire, are highly scripted and linear, and must have a end, because the production cost are very high. But I think is a economical problem. Gamers would enjoy a historyline as long as The Wire or Babylon 5. But is to expensive to produce so much hours of enteirnament... and whold need to produce more than one "finale" to feel good.
The other problem is how some console gamers consume games. Play a game, and sell it, to buy the next, in very quick succession. Theres also the dude that don't really have time to play videogames, so want super-short videogames to be able to see the end. If you are making videogames for this public, you must make short games. Not everyone is like that, but a big enough group of people is like that, so is influential, and spawn this type of discussion from some Game Devs (mostly these making FMV type of experiences, the people making videogames for that people).
All videogames, to this date, are "derivative work" from older titles. You take the mechanic of a old game, or older games, and you recreate the formula, tryiing to make it better. Just adding things that already exist, may feel "short" and get poor reviews from both critics and public. It would really feel like a bad game.
So from your point of view as game engine programmer It can be ok to iterate the same game, with better graphics, but this is going to fail wen the public opinion will find your game a "rehash" of old stuff.
Carmack next title is not just Doom3 enhanced. He has added vehicles, a new way to author maps for mapper artist, some RPG elements, and a imaginative new world. He is not doing what he is talking about. He is doing what all game devs in the history has always been doing: improving gaming.
We have moved very far and very fast away from the original asteroids/tanks/galaga; games are now gigantic, or deep, or wide,.. this process is going to continue, and is a good process.
The newspapers asked to be delisted from the "News" service, not the other.
I think Google has acted in retalation, and that is right ( I would have loved to be myself the one to press the big red "FUCK YOU" button), but lets be fair here. The newspapers are right in that this is not what where asking (delisting from News) but a delist from everything google.
AAA publishers are focused on the ONE most popular type of videogame. This is like all movies released during two years being clones of Deep Impact.
On the other hand, gaming is big, billion of dollars big, millions of players big. Since publishers abandon a lot of ground of gaming, this space is filled by smaller studios, indies, and other people. Big AAA don't want or can't risk his money in creativity, and want to "adquire customers" buying and selling "IP". Smaller publishers, indies and the like, don't fear innovation, and create lots of creative and interesting games.
It has not ben always like that. Publishers use to provide a more diverse range of games, and not be all that focused on "Manshooter IV". The game with a version 4 or 5 use to be rare. Now is the norm, and the rare... almost not existing, is a new "IP". Wen a big publisher create a new "IP" is newswhorty!.
This is bad news if you are a console gamer, or you are the type of casual gamer that only want these publishers AAA titles,... or maybe not. People seems to enjoy consuming the lowest common denominator product.
But if you are a PC user, and want creative games, are exciting times. Yesterday week Minecraft was Terraria, this week Minecraft is Dungeons of Dredmor. Is very fun to be a PC gamer atm.
If you ask me, AAA publishers are abandoning money on the table by not having smallers teams making games for niche markets. But I suppose these type of companies want to make fat games, because fat produce the type of stuff executives need. So these companies are driven by what is best for his executives, and this is "big Hits". Even if that means abandoning money on the table. Or maybe I am too cinic, I don't know.
I have used a iPod and a iPad under horrible conditions of dust and dirty hands (don't ask), and the screen is readable.. mostly because is a glass (probably of a special type) and the screen is good, very, very, good.
And I have used these machines to read long books, games, and browse, for very long hours, too.
What you comment, is not a problem at all,... at least for Apple devices, or devices with the quality of Apple hardware.
I am confused by the notion that this thing is a netbook. And the comment about having a poor file manager. My iPad do 90% of the things I want from a computer, and don't even have a file manager. Why a good Web OS have a filemanager? Is because this thing is a netbook, and not a tablet pc?
Most of the./ comments seems offtopic of weak. Ahead of his time, need constant conection. I already know, everybody knows. But you know what? my iPad (sorry to tell you again about it) is also ahead of his time by maybe 10 or 15 years, and is useful.
I feel I must discart TFA and all./ comments has none I have read here is informative.
Is hard to see how this is a issue. A pistol don't need a permanent conexion to the internet. As much, can have a firmware, that can only be updated manually. Or can have a secure protection to a protected and encrypted lan, completelly separated from the net.
If we are talking about military people in a office, with computers. All normal rules apply. Just don't chose real security or feel good security. Feel good security is done buying products. Real security involve thinking, doing things right, hiring good personal, having rules and following these rules.
Cyberwarfare is a bit dramatic, is not? sounds like the fearmongering people selling "feel good security" would do.
There are a lot of unwritten and written stories that are worth translating to movies. The frame of invaders is not.
I hope Hollywood achieve some economical bankrupt to acompany the creativity bankrupt and the paralizing fear to tell new stories. I know is because money is coward, but I feel I am allowed to hate this cowardize.
You can write it again.... ooops.. you don't need to write it again. Is unfair, but is like stealing some customized pants that only work for you. It will be a disavengate to try to use these pants.
I don't think giving your real name on the internet is a good idea, at all. Because of the special way Internet work, some criminal can collect a lot of information about you, and use that information against you. Where you live, what are you friends, what is the name of your childrens, his age,... maybe you don't provide that information in one place, but using your name and other bits, people can get all the information. Is no safe. If you have a antivirus and a firewall to product your computer, why you don't have a "firewall" to protect your childrens or yourself? this firewall is Gratis, is the anonymity. Using your real name break that protection. Using a nickname on the internet use to be common sense. But then this type of wallet gardens make popular to use your name. And what happends wen you remove one of the walls of the wallet garden? all the asumptions that where true at first, are not true anymore. A public profile is a wallet garden withouth the wallet. You can, and you will, get your information indexed. Deleting private profiles is like deleting people that use antivirus. Is removing the option to do the things the right way. Is a bad idea. There will be tears, and I will be there to say: I told you so.
I hope the existence of this closed gardens are a temporal phenomenom on the internet. We will learn as much as possible about how people want to interact on the internet (because everything is possible), then we could implement that as a open protocol, so it avoid all the problem of closed gardens.
Anyway, seems to me that is not the time for open protocols, not yet.
I use to own a XP. and Is easy to shutdown it using only the keyboard. Even with the monitor off. I have done it daily. Something like "ctrl+esc up enter right enter"
Now I "upgraded" to Windows 7, and the same key combo don't seems to work. Any suggestion? What combinations of keys will result on W7 to shutdown?
The other day I trought that could be interesting to have a open wifi with SSID "Play GalaxyMerchant", with this router not connected to the internet, and redirecting all the trafic to himself, then having on itself a copy of the open source web game Galaxy Merchant. This way, everyone near the router can play on it as a sorta... dedicated server. The problem is that to do so, would need to stay offline:-P..so is not a great idea.
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you mispelled flash developers or designers. These that don't want HTML, to begin first, and Flash give other "option".
I am a capitalist. And as a capitalism is obvious to me that the warez networks are distribution channels. I have see people download free software from these networks, stuff like openoffice, that is a free download elsewhere, and would download faster. This means to me that people is using these networks purelly for the convenience.
ABSOLUTELLY NOTHING will stop people from download whatever want from the internet. What we can do, as a society, is to ask for a reform of the bussines model. Theres a busines model that seems to work, the one of App Store, Netflix, Steam, etc... a wide range access to very cheap or free content. If things like Netflix are not profiteable enough, then change the tax systems, etc... so these type of systems are more profitable. That way the "old economy" that don't work anymore can move to a new economy that work.
I don't want to lose my rights, like free expresion, privacity, etc.. so I will work to protect then,even if that means protecting people that want to warez stuff. Don't force me to fight this war.
I have noticed, too.
I think pastebin works somewhat like AnonOps news and Twitter. Withouth the size limits of Twitter.
Some dude X can upload a text to pastebin. And some dude Y can link to it, and make it public. Is anonymous and searchable (google index it).
Since is indexed in google Y can be a person that don't know X. X could have find the paste in google, and be one of the first to be reporting it. Since soon a lot of people will cite the link, no one can know whos the first poster of the link.
That it supports ASCII art is just icy on the cake :D
We need more 40's based memes here on the internet.
Thats very slow.
Also, please, better technical expertise writing the articles.
I don't like how Wolfram use existing formats. How hyperlinking graphics from Wolfram break, and so on. Don't seems fair players on the internet.
Creating a new file format? cool. Where is the extensive documentation site online? ... what is this, a formulary to enter my data? WTF?, This smell like a propietery format to solve his problem: Wolfram don't want to play by the internet rules, don't want people from hotlinking his graphics, and stuff, so don't want to use GIF and PNG. Want internet to change to adapt to thenselves.
I think I say here DO NOT WANT.
Videogames are videogames, and don't need to have a defined "lenght". You play then as much is fun. Think chess. You don't finish chess.
Videogames that deliver a "movielike" experience, like FMV games, or games designed like Modern Warfare 2 or LA Noire, are highly scripted and linear, and must have a end, because the production cost are very high. But I think is a economical problem. Gamers would enjoy a historyline as long as The Wire or Babylon 5. But is to expensive to produce so much hours of enteirnament... and whold need to produce more than one "finale" to feel good.
The other problem is how some console gamers consume games. Play a game, and sell it, to buy the next, in very quick succession. Theres also the dude that don't really have time to play videogames, so want super-short videogames to be able to see the end. If you are making videogames for this public, you must make short games. Not everyone is like that, but a big enough group of people is like that, so is influential, and spawn this type of discussion from some Game Devs (mostly these making FMV type of experiences, the people making videogames for that people).
All videogames, to this date, are "derivative work" from older titles. You take the mechanic of a old game, or older games, and you recreate the formula, tryiing to make it better. Just adding things that already exist, may feel "short" and get poor reviews from both critics and public. It would really feel like a bad game.
So from your point of view as game engine programmer It can be ok to iterate the same game, with better graphics, but this is going to fail wen the public opinion will find your game a "rehash" of old stuff.
Carmack next title is not just Doom3 enhanced. He has added vehicles, a new way to author maps for mapper artist, some RPG elements, and a imaginative new world. He is not doing what he is talking about. He is doing what all game devs in the history has always been doing: improving gaming.
We have moved very far and very fast away from the original asteroids/tanks/galaga; games are now gigantic, or deep, or wide,.. this process is going to continue, and is a good process.
The newspapers asked to be delisted from the "News" service, not the other.
I think Google has acted in retalation, and that is right ( I would have loved to be myself the one to press the big red "FUCK YOU" button), but lets be fair here. The newspapers are right in that this is not what where asking (delisting from News) but a delist from everything google.
AAA publishers are focused on the ONE most popular type of videogame. This is like all movies released during two years being clones of Deep Impact.
On the other hand, gaming is big, billion of dollars big, millions of players big. Since publishers abandon a lot of ground of gaming, this space is filled by smaller studios, indies, and other people. Big AAA don't want or can't risk his money in creativity, and want to "adquire customers" buying and selling "IP". Smaller publishers, indies and the like, don't fear innovation, and create lots of creative and interesting games.
It has not ben always like that. Publishers use to provide a more diverse range of games, and not be all that focused on "Manshooter IV". The game with a version 4 or 5 use to be rare. Now is the norm, and the rare... almost not existing, is a new "IP". Wen a big publisher create a new "IP" is newswhorty!.
This is bad news if you are a console gamer, or you are the type of casual gamer that only want these publishers AAA titles,... or maybe not. People seems to enjoy consuming the lowest common denominator product.
But if you are a PC user, and want creative games, are exciting times. Yesterday week Minecraft was Terraria, this week Minecraft is Dungeons of Dredmor. Is very fun to be a PC gamer atm.
If you ask me, AAA publishers are abandoning money on the table by not having smallers teams making games for niche markets. But I suppose these type of companies want to make fat games, because fat produce the type of stuff executives need. So these companies are driven by what is best for his executives, and this is "big Hits". Even if that means abandoning money on the table. Or maybe I am too cinic, I don't know.
I have used a iPod and a iPad under horrible conditions of dust and dirty hands (don't ask), and the screen is readable.. mostly because is a glass (probably of a special type) and the screen is good, very, very, good.
And I have used these machines to read long books, games, and browse, for very long hours, too.
What you comment, is not a problem at all, ... at least for Apple devices, or devices with the quality of Apple hardware.
I am confused by the notion that this thing is a netbook. And the comment about having a poor file manager. My iPad do 90% of the things I want from a computer, and don't even have a file manager. Why a good Web OS have a filemanager? Is because this thing is a netbook, and not a tablet pc?
Most of the ./ comments seems offtopic of weak. Ahead of his time, need constant conection. I already know, everybody knows. But you know what? my iPad (sorry to tell you again about it) is also ahead of his time by maybe 10 or 15 years, and is useful.
I feel I must discart TFA and all ./ comments has none I have read here is informative.
Is hard to see how this is a issue. A pistol don't need a permanent conexion to the internet. As much, can have a firmware, that can only be updated manually. Or can have a secure protection to a protected and encrypted lan, completelly separated from the net.
If we are talking about military people in a office, with computers. All normal rules apply. Just don't chose real security or feel good security. Feel good security is done buying products. Real security involve thinking, doing things right, hiring good personal, having rules and following these rules.
Cyberwarfare is a bit dramatic, is not? sounds like the fearmongering people selling "feel good security" would do.
Can this technology be applied to food, please? using a 3D printer, maybe.
There are a lot of unwritten and written stories that are worth translating to movies. The frame of invaders is not.
I hope Hollywood achieve some economical bankrupt to acompany the creativity bankrupt and the paralizing fear to tell new stories. I know is because money is coward, but I feel I am allowed to hate this cowardize.
You can write it again.... ooops.. you don't need to write it again. Is unfair, but is like stealing some customized pants that only work for you. It will be a disavengate to try to use these pants.
I don't think giving your real name on the internet is a good idea, at all. Because of the special way Internet work, some criminal can collect a lot of information about you, and use that information against you. Where you live, what are you friends, what is the name of your childrens, his age,... maybe you don't provide that information in one place, but using your name and other bits, people can get all the information. Is no safe. If you have a antivirus and a firewall to product your computer, why you don't have a "firewall" to protect your childrens or yourself? this firewall is Gratis, is the anonymity. Using your real name break that protection.
Using a nickname on the internet use to be common sense. But then this type of wallet gardens make popular to use your name. And what happends wen you remove one of the walls of the wallet garden? all the asumptions that where true at first, are not true anymore. A public profile is a wallet garden withouth the wallet. You can, and you will, get your information indexed. Deleting private profiles is like deleting people that use antivirus. Is removing the option to do the things the right way. Is a bad idea. There will be tears, and I will be there to say: I told you so.
I hope the existence of this closed gardens are a temporal phenomenom on the internet. We will learn as much as possible about how people want to interact on the internet (because everything is possible), then we could implement that as a open protocol, so it avoid all the problem of closed gardens.
Anyway, seems to me that is not the time for open protocols, not yet.
If you want to see more images about this, the keyword seems "floating officials". Anyway I can't see much.
Theres some flash games that did this.
One of then was this humurous game:
http://www.indiegames.com/2009/08/browser_game_pick_you_only_liv.html
Other was this touching one:
http://www.indiegames.com/2010/12/browser_game_pick_one_chance_a.html
I use to own a XP. and Is easy to shutdown it using only the keyboard. Even with the monitor off. I have done it daily. Something like "ctrl+esc up enter right enter"
Now I "upgraded" to Windows 7, and the same key combo don't seems to work. Any suggestion? What combinations of keys will result on W7 to shutdown?
Oh... you are right. Seems a extension for the existing panels on the browser.
Writting complex webpages is already complex enough withouth having to check against any type of antivirus, "protection" plugin, etc...
And what protection is a system so one user is not afected, wen all others that use the same page will be afected? Is better to fix the page first.
Compilers, Dictionaries, Debuggers, Keyboards, Computers, Internet, ... and whatever revision system the kernel hackers use.
The other day I trought that could be interesting to have a open wifi with SSID "Play GalaxyMerchant", with this router not connected to the internet, and redirecting all the trafic to himself, then having on itself a copy of the open source web game Galaxy Merchant. This way, everyone near the router can play on it as a sorta... dedicated server. The problem is that to do so, would need to stay offline :-P ..so is not a great idea.