I agree and i hope too that Civ doesn't turn into yet another RTS game. However i'm much more worried about the whole "continuous immersive 3D" thingie, and the idea of ditching 'unfun' concepts and generally making things too simple. Reminds me of how they killed the fantastic Railroad Tycoon 2 and turned it into a horrible, horrible game (RT3).
I can't really see how this means better software, or more competition, given that they have just banned foreign software, which includes also much of open source software. They could just develop some local chinese lousy product. Or alternatively, they could throw in a few highly skilled thousand chinese software developers and develop good products. Either way, it wouldnt be an outcome of free market or competition, and i'd rather not see that product come out of China...
If I remember correctly the platform at Hutchison made it over 400 days without a reboot.
I do remember correctly the Unified Messaging platform (voicemail, email, wap, everything really... in theory) deployed by my former employer on a number of major GSM carriers across Europe, and based on W2K.
Uptimes of 12 hours were not rare. I even saw 24 hours once. Not more than that, because every morning we would reboot all the boxes, just in case. Better be safe!
... that would mean that *finally* someone in the Pentagon thinks that problems can be solved in Battle.Net, as the rest of the civilized people do! Think about it, to nuke some nasty loser's command center is far more rewarding and FUN than getting all muddy dirty and bruised after a fight in the alley next to school. Cheaper too...
Would that be called virtual reality wars, or real virtuality wars??
In our not-so-perfect world sounds like aBigNonsense, unless thay plan to use AI bots + sensors + a linux box running quake3 (or whatever they develop now) + armored crash dummies, in some next-generation-wars...
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I agree and i hope too that Civ doesn't turn into yet another RTS game. However i'm much more worried about the whole "continuous immersive 3D" thingie, and the idea of ditching 'unfun' concepts and generally making things too simple.
Reminds me of how they killed the fantastic Railroad Tycoon 2 and turned it into a horrible, horrible game (RT3).
100 glasses (~20 litres) of water would. Can't see how coffee would make it any better (or worse).
I can't really see how this means better software, or more competition, given that they have just banned foreign software, which includes also much of open source software.
They could just develop some local chinese lousy product. Or alternatively, they could throw in a few highly skilled thousand chinese software developers and develop good products. Either way, it wouldnt be an outcome of free market or competition, and i'd rather not see that product come out of China...
One Microsoft is enough!
If I remember correctly the platform at Hutchison made it over 400 days without a reboot.
I do remember correctly the Unified Messaging platform (voicemail, email, wap, everything really... in theory) deployed by my former employer on a number of major GSM carriers across Europe, and based on W2K.
Uptimes of 12 hours were not rare. I even saw 24 hours once. Not more than that, because every morning we would reboot all the boxes, just in case. Better be safe!
... that would mean that *finally* someone in the Pentagon thinks that problems can be solved in Battle.Net, as the rest of the civilized people do! Think about it, to nuke some nasty loser's command center is far more rewarding and FUN than getting all muddy dirty and bruised after a fight in the alley next to school. Cheaper too...
Would that be called virtual reality wars, or real virtuality wars??
In our not-so-perfect world sounds like aBigNonsense, unless thay plan to use AI bots + sensors + a linux box running quake3 (or whatever they develop now) + armored crash dummies, in some next-generation-wars...
Can't wait to see that!!