Maybe database servers (like MySQL) are safer than stuff like access (or sqlite), since is possible and easy to copy a whole database file mistakely put on/www, while is very rare to put/var/mysql/data on/www
Remember this point when defending database server against database files.
Movies are tales can be written down in 2 pages, maybe one.
Games are interactive experience, that often have worldbuilding.
Games are not tryiing to write a story, but can be the result, would be a side effect of the worldbuilding and gameplay.
There are games that have zero lore, and zero story to it. Think... Minecraft.
But is this important? Not, because you can make a awesome movie inspired in Minecraft. Key word here is inspired. The less material Minecraft have, the better movie a inspired moviemaker have, because is free to do his own thing.
The translation? you can't translate gameplay to a movie, or no one know how to do that, so you can't translate games to movies. And gameplay is the core of a videogame. You can get a videogames about spaceships in space, replace the space by a grass land, and the ships by wizards, and will still be the same exact game.
Theres is deep in videogames, but if often user made, and that depends on the player creativity and attitude. You can't make a good movie out of a 16 years old playing to win, but you can make a good movie out of two slighty dumb guys goofing around in a game (the type of dudes you would love to drink a beers with). Games like Morrowind would best be served as serials, like Battlestart Galactica or Babylon 5. But has a movie? maybe not.
What probably is happening, is that the Smarthphone gaming is gaining inertia, while the PSP and DS is has not expanded. This don't mean the people on PSP and DS is "changing" to smartphones, since probably most of the smartphones games have not appeal to these people. Most smarhphones games feel like flash games.
...only 50% of Mass Effect 2 players finished the campaign
The completion of most games is much less than 50%. Mass Effect 2 is special game here, and a big achievement (he) for his creators because managed to have this completion. A very high completion in a decent lenght game means a lot of people seems to like it enough to stick to it to finish. So ME2 is a very good game for a lot of people (?) is a objetive fact.
You can see the average completion of games in Steam, looking at general achievements,...most games have achievements for finishing levels (or similar). Is a very depressing thing, since most gamers never finish the games, you have decent games where less than 10% of the people finish, it, and you have very bad games with smalligh completion ratio ( maybe 1% ).
That "only 50%" in the article is wrong because of that. Is like "I drive at only 180 Km/h in my car".
Obsidian make buggy or uncomplete games, but is about the only company that write decent characters and story. The people that know anything about gaming know this, so wen you buy a obsidian game, you know you will see a lot of bugs, but also a excellent game. "Ugly, but the sex is fantastic".
I have played New Vegas for about 45 hours, and I have loved it. It works any cents I have invested in it.
the chinese have problems to learn his own language, because have all that signs, it make it unncesary complex.
26 letter lets you write anything, you dont need more letters, really. ask any novelist.
also, programming languages are something international, and not all keyboards have all keys, even keys like { or } are not on all keyboards, so tryiing to use funny characters like ñ would make programming for some people really hard.
If USA want to disable free information disemination in a disaster, can plug the cable on his "house", but sould not touch other countries free roam of information. Is not USA what have to decide that.
Corporations seems to have money to have a hand on all potential markets, so wen these markets develop, can claim FRIST, like a lowlife slashdot troll. Bause of his size, is not significat expensive to then for the most part, or becuase some side effect, can have a net positive (Xbox 360 lose a lot of money, but probably generate it by other side effects).
So I read this news as "Microsoft abandon the web".
These documents are colaborative. This means any change and status are redistributed in a pseudo-P2P network. Probably the system can work optimally with 30 persons "editing" the same document. But 15000 or whatever is the number of slashdotters,... the browser can't, and the systems on google servers seems not designed for that. Wen It was the last time you needed to have real time cooperative editing of a document with other 15.000 dudes? Theres wikipedia, but thats not realtime, and at most 2 persons are editing the same page,....
The emergent markets will probably use the last version of Office, as soon as is launched, since on these markets warez is rampant. These markets are more slaves of Microsoft than our market.
Anyone can fake the origin of a attack, so the basic rule about this is: never attack the attackers. If you do this, you can be used as a means to attack others!.. like your cpu power be used as part of a DDoS against a third party.
We all live in a capitalist system, is the people that work for less that don't understand it. If you are not paid enough, don't accept the job, or try to move to something else. The execs are playing the economic game, why all these people is not playing it? we don't live in a communist system!!. why people is not playing by the rules we have: capitalist!.
Still you probably uses a lot of AJAX websites. And ajax means pooling, and pooling is bad, lame, evil, and dumb. Commet and these means server initiated communication. So you removes pooling from the equation. So all your AJAX powered websites become faster, less dumber, get more responsive, waste less resources, etc...
Do I really need to make a argument why pooling is bad? the web has reasons to get away from pooling, and comet and stuff like that is how to do it.
a obvious use for Bittorrent would be serve big backups of wikipedia as bittorrent. but the backups of Wikipedia are not served that way, because make no sense, since at the speed that change, you will have people seeding a old version no one wants anymore.
bittorrent has not appeal for files that can change often.
The way the DNS system work now, If you buy the domain cocacolacoacola.com , It will get from you from the corporation cocacola. You don't see something strange in that?, a city can name of the streets "coca cola", and the corporation will not own the street. But I digress...
If social networks continue to be important, and one is more important than all others, maybe judges will look at this the same way,and will see in very bad light if you create a account for Michael Jackson or Walt Disney. And I mean a crime to just create a empty one. Even if your name is Walter M. Disney (he.. names are not unique!)
I remenber there was once a ban in europe to read the bible, other by sanctioned sources. So a dude ( Lutero ) made a version in a language (german) that everyone can read.
I don't remenber how the DMCA back then worked. Did the pope stopped him?
We have built this information highway to transport "raw" information. This raw information is packages that have inside packages that have inside packages of other information. Some of these packages can be encrypted, the final information encrypted. You can't really censor internet on topic X for people that really want X, since theres no absolute way to stop all X on the internet, more than theres to stop it on the real world.
Studies that overlap with common sense, and are pure statistical bias, are useless. Common sense already give us the tip that a young CEO will be more prone to see things as a "fight". But that tip is not usefull, THE ceo we have here can be young, and still be inclined to accept a merge. Statistical bias means nothing wen we face individuals. Only if we where doing 900 merges daily, will mean something.
Slashdot Mirror
I have about 4600 science-fiction books in my ereader (the worst and cheapest of the market), so the true comparation is eBook Reader vs Library.
Can you have 4500 books on your pockets? Wen I finish reading one book, I can choose any other, I don't have to wait.
Maybe database servers (like MySQL) are safer than stuff like access (or sqlite), since is possible and easy to copy a whole database file mistakely put on /www, while is very rare to put /var/mysql/data on /www
Remember this point when defending database server against database files.
Movies are tales can be written down in 2 pages, maybe one.
Games are interactive experience, that often have worldbuilding.
Games are not tryiing to write a story, but can be the result, would be a side effect of the worldbuilding and gameplay.
There are games that have zero lore, and zero story to it. Think... Minecraft.
But is this important? Not, because you can make a awesome movie inspired in Minecraft. Key word here is inspired. The less material Minecraft have, the better movie a inspired moviemaker have, because is free to do his own thing.
The translation? you can't translate gameplay to a movie, or no one know how to do that, so you can't translate games to movies. And gameplay is the core of a videogame. You can get a videogames about spaceships in space, replace the space by a grass land, and the ships by wizards, and will still be the same exact game.
Theres is deep in videogames, but if often user made, and that depends on the player creativity and attitude. You can't make a good movie out of a 16 years old playing to win, but you can make a good movie out of two slighty dumb guys goofing around in a game (the type of dudes you would love to drink a beers with).
Games like Morrowind would best be served as serials, like Battlestart Galactica or Babylon 5.
But has a movie? maybe not.
What probably is happening, is that the Smarthphone gaming is gaining inertia, while the PSP and DS is has not expanded. This don't mean the people on PSP and DS is "changing" to smartphones, since probably most of the smartphones games have not appeal to these people. Most smarhphones games feel like flash games.
Wellcome to the Wallet Garden, ... or maybe you was born there, so you don't know what you miss.
Freedom is something you learn.
...only 50% of Mass Effect 2 players finished the campaign
The completion of most games is much less than 50%. Mass Effect 2 is special game here, and a big achievement (he) for his creators because managed to have this completion. A very high completion in a decent lenght game means a lot of people seems to like it enough to stick to it to finish. So ME2 is a very good game for a lot of people (?) is a objetive fact.
You can see the average completion of games in Steam, looking at general achievements, ...most games have achievements for finishing levels (or similar). Is a very depressing thing, since most gamers never finish the games, you have decent games where less than 10% of the people finish, it, and you have very bad games with smalligh completion ratio ( maybe 1% ).
That "only 50%" in the article is wrong because of that. Is like "I drive at only 180 Km/h in my car".
Heres the class that draw the stuff
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/Grid3b.class
In JPG format.
Heres the original source (you skip two useless blogs)
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/index.html
My suggestion is to have tiny crates all around with scraps metal and drugs.
Obsidian make buggy or uncomplete games, but is about the only company that write decent characters and story. The people that know anything about gaming know this, so wen you buy a obsidian game, you know you will see a lot of bugs, but also a excellent game. "Ugly, but the sex is fantastic".
I have played New Vegas for about 45 hours, and I have loved it. It works any cents I have invested in it.
the chinese have problems to learn his own language, because have all that signs, it make it unncesary complex.
26 letter lets you write anything, you dont need more letters, really. ask any novelist.
also, programming languages are something international, and not all keyboards have all keys, even keys like { or } are not on all keyboards, so tryiing to use funny characters like ñ would make programming for some people really hard.
all in all, this is not a very smart idea , imho
USA don't own internet. Is a global thing.
If USA want to disable free information disemination in a disaster, can plug the cable on his "house", but sould not touch other countries free roam of information. Is not USA what have to decide that.
he can't use browsers
Corporations seems to have money to have a hand on all potential markets, so wen these markets develop, can claim FRIST, like a lowlife slashdot troll. Bause of his size, is not significat expensive to then for the most part, or becuase some side effect, can have a net positive (Xbox 360 lose a lot of money, but probably generate it by other side effects).
So I read this news as "Microsoft abandon the web".
Weird.
These documents are colaborative. This means any change and status are redistributed in a pseudo-P2P network. ... the browser can't, and the systems on google servers seems not designed for that. ....
Probably the system can work optimally with 30 persons "editing" the same document. But 15000 or whatever is the number of slashdotters,
Wen It was the last time you needed to have real time cooperative editing of a document with other 15.000 dudes?
Theres wikipedia, but thats not realtime, and at most 2 persons are editing the same page,
The emergent markets will probably use the last version of Office, as soon as is launched, since on these markets warez is rampant. These markets are more slaves of Microsoft than our market.
Anyone can fake the origin of a attack, so the basic rule about this is: never attack the attackers. If you do this, you can be used as a means to attack others!.. like your cpu power be used as part of a DDoS against a third party.
Internet just don't work like that.
You are blaming the wrong people.
We all live in a capitalist system, is the people that work for less that don't understand it. If you are not paid enough, don't accept the job, or try to move to something else. The execs are playing the economic game, why all these people is not playing it? we don't live in a communist system!!. why people is not playing by the rules we have: capitalist!.
Still you probably uses a lot of AJAX websites. And ajax means pooling, and pooling is bad, lame, evil, and dumb.
Commet and these means server initiated communication. So you removes pooling from the equation. So all your AJAX powered websites become faster, less dumber, get more responsive, waste less resources, etc...
Do I really need to make a argument why pooling is bad? the web has reasons to get away from pooling, and comet and stuff like that is how to do it.
Art exist to create controverse. This is the good art.
The bad art just enforce the status quo (like religious art), this is the bad art.
a obvious use for Bittorrent would be serve big backups of wikipedia as bittorrent.
but the backups of Wikipedia are not served that way, because make no sense, since at the speed that change, you will have people seeding a old version no one wants anymore.
bittorrent has not appeal for files that can change often.
just saying...
The way the DNS system work now, If you buy the domain cocacolacoacola.com , It will get from you from the corporation cocacola. You don't see something strange in that?, a city can name of the streets "coca cola", and the corporation will not own the street. But I digress...
If social networks continue to be important, and one is more important than all others, maybe judges will look at this the same way,and will see in very bad light if you create a account for Michael Jackson or Walt Disney. And I mean a crime to just create a empty one. Even if your name is Walter M. Disney (he.. names are not unique!)
I remenber there was once a ban in europe to read the bible, other by sanctioned sources. So a dude ( Lutero ) made a version in a language (german) that everyone can read.
I don't remenber how the DMCA back then worked. Did the pope stopped him?
We have built this information highway to transport "raw" information. This raw information is packages that have inside packages that have inside packages of other information. Some of these packages can be encrypted, the final information encrypted.
You can't really censor internet on topic X for people that really want X, since theres no absolute way to stop all X on the internet, more than theres to stop it on the real world.
Studies that overlap with common sense, and are pure statistical bias, are useless. Common sense already give us the tip that a young CEO will be more prone to see things as a "fight". But that tip is not usefull, THE ceo we have here can be young, and still be inclined to accept a merge. Statistical bias means nothing wen we face individuals. Only if we where doing 900 merges daily, will mean something.