Now is the time - now that you have been warned. It'll be a miracle if this doesn't rubbish the book in some respect so just do yourself a favour and read A Scanner Darkly before it gets Keanu'd and you can never think of it without, uh, like, you know, dude.
Rubbish - so long as you make sure that the community and group building aspects are compelling enough.
Let's face it, the Hello Kitty MMO has the potential to be much bigger than any MMO so far. After all, grinding up trolls and beheading orcs with a magic axe are niche activities too
It's positively Darwinian - gene pool safety in action, right before our eyes. That's 25 years where the bored and action/consequence-less people in society will have a chance to breed:)
It's in danger of becoming a bit like the Emperor's new clothers. Tagging has been around for a long time, it's just that we all got bored of doing it - meta tags that is.
For evey page on your website you'd create a bunch of meta tags and then cross yourself three times in the hope that a decent search engine would make sense of it all.
Of course, then Google came along and made the content of the page much more important than the author's chosen keywords, which is right, in my opinion.
No, I understand the difference between an author's chosen tags and these folksonomies and I'm for the folksonomy but it's hard work - I don't see a future in user-defined tags. I do, however, see a future in scripting all this - be it by a personal proxy server or a branch of Google.
I love Bayes stuff - and there's a very nice Python module written by divmod.
I was playing around with AIML to cobble together a basic chat bot when I realised that I could use a Bayesian parser to radically cut down the amount of AIML that I needed to write. AIML is an XML style of chat bot repsonses, it's clever in that it's highly recursive but the downside is that you need to create a rule for every eventuality.
By adding in a bit of Bayesian guessing before the AIML parser got it hands on the conversation, I'm able to keep the AIML files very focused and give the chat bot a bit more sparkle - you don't have to train him about everything. After a while he realised that 'yo', 'hi' and 'hello' are all the same thing, so he just guesses that you're saying hello and pulls out the correct response from the AIML file (rather than creating an AIML rule to deal with all the variations on 'hello').
If you're interested I'd strongly recommend installing GrokitBot. You can get the source and a bit more explanation at my site, Suttree.com
..if you're a Flash developer these sorts of games are far from over. Same goes if you're a mobile game developer. You just have to look at the Shareware game market to see that innovation in classic games is still strong. Sure, it's the same basic idea but these you do get the 'superbombs' included.
These kids aren't trashing my gaming history - they've given me a stack of new ideas for the kind of games that I can write the bare bones of in a week:)
See, this is where they ought to concentrate - PHP4 is bound to Apache 1.x but with PHP5 on the horizon and PHP being so tied to shared host, they ought to get PHP5 and Apache2 working together.
If the shared hosts offer Apache2 + PHP5 as the default, it'll get used, Remember, PHP programmers generally don't handle the sys-admin duties, so make the decision for them and your problem is solved. Since RedHat already ship Apache2, get them to add PHP5 as the default and you're there. Easy:)
Agreed - I've written simple arcade games quickly and I've fleshed out puzzle games in no time.
PyGame is where the Python and SDL integration really got me interested though - I was concerned about performance but I never ran into a problem with that, PyGame is a fast as you'll need.
The best thing with these new controls is not only are they going to have a big say in the future of the web, if you disable Javascript the whole thing still works - it degrades very nicely.
alhtough it's not the most in depth study ever.
Teh Gruaniad just seem to have hassled the usual suspects at UCL for some opinons to back up their article in the wake if I, Robot being released over here.
Yes but the current widgets for web forms really suck.
Custom widgets for credit card numbers, telephone numbers, email address and birthdates could be so much more user friendly than the current text box that serves pretty much all of those.
Just look at the upcoming slider widget demoed in the new Mac OS, things could be so much better.
The same sort of thing has happened before in the UK with Godfrey vs. Demon internet.
I worked for a few ISPs during that time and when he rang up, you certainly didn't want to bluff your way through the call.
I don't know if I agree with attacking the ISP for this sort of thing, but it does give the individual a great deal of power.
well, one of the Athlon versions and I'm very happy. I started off thinking I wouldn't like it as I always tinker with the insides of my computers but to be honest, I don't anymore. And I like that, for some strange reasons things have stopped breaking too. Surely a coincidence;-)
The only bad point is the noise - the cooling systems are innovative but they are noisy. I know a lot of people mod their cases to remove the grill at the back and fit more air-holes around the case. On a good day the thing is near silent, but playing any games or doing any heavy work means you have to put up with the revving of the auto-fan thingy.
It's not a living room PC and the cat can't fall asleep on it anymore, but it's tidied up my desk and stopped me from tinkering needlesly.
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Now is the time - now that you have been warned. It'll be a miracle if this doesn't rubbish the book in some respect so just do yourself a favour and read A Scanner Darkly before it gets Keanu'd and you can never think of it without, uh, like, you know, dude.
Playaholics : Online games and scoreboards
Exactly right - in the same way that every one think that the ned headless iMac is going to be cheap, lining up as a '2nd PC' alternative.
Playaholics: Free online games and scoreboards
Rubbish - so long as you make sure that the community and group building aspects are compelling enough.
Let's face it, the Hello Kitty MMO has the potential to be much bigger than any MMO so far. After all, grinding up trolls and beheading orcs with a magic axe are niche activities too
Playaholics : Free Flash Games
It's positively Darwinian - gene pool safety in action, right before our eyes. That's 25 years where the bored and action/consequence-less people in society will have a chance to breed :)
Install your own proxy server and let that do the searching and indexing.
Like this: Python proxy server - a proxy server, written in Python, that uses Lucene/Lupy to do the indexing and searching.
It's in danger of becoming a bit like the Emperor's new clothers. Tagging has been around for a long time, it's just that we all got bored of doing it - meta tags that is.
For evey page on your website you'd create a bunch of meta tags and then cross yourself three times in the hope that a decent search engine would make sense of it all.
Of course, then Google came along and made the content of the page much more important than the author's chosen keywords, which is right, in my opinion.
No, I understand the difference between an author's chosen tags and these folksonomies and I'm for the folksonomy but it's hard work - I don't see a future in user-defined tags. I do, however, see a future in scripting all this - be it by a personal proxy server or a branch of Google.
A personal proxy server written in Python
The problem with tagging
Playaholics : Great online games
I think you just outed Pete Townshed..
Playaholics : Free online games and scoreboards
I love Bayes stuff - and there's a very nice Python module written by divmod.
I was playing around with AIML to cobble together a basic chat bot when I realised that I could use a Bayesian parser to radically cut down the amount of AIML that I needed to write. AIML is an XML style of chat bot repsonses, it's clever in that it's highly recursive but the downside is that you need to create a rule for every eventuality.
By adding in a bit of Bayesian guessing before the AIML parser got it hands on the conversation, I'm able to keep the AIML files very focused and give the chat bot a bit more sparkle - you don't have to train him about everything. After a while he realised that 'yo', 'hi' and 'hello' are all the same thing, so he just guesses that you're saying hello and pulls out the correct response from the AIML file (rather than creating an AIML rule to deal with all the variations on 'hello').
If you're interested I'd strongly recommend installing GrokitBot. You can get the source and a bit more explanation at my site, Suttree.com
Playaholics : Free Online Games
It's my favourite meme of the moment, the Uncanny Valley:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley
Playaholics: Free online games: Boat Rider
These kids aren't trashing my gaming history - they've given me a stack of new ideas for the kind of games that I can write the bare bones of in a week :)
Playaholics: Free online games: Driving MadAhahha - good luck!
Playaholics: Free online games: Lightning Pool
The new Shuttle's can handle _real_ graphics cards and they put the power supply on the outside - which makes the whole thing much quieter too
Playaholics: Free online flash games: Lightning Break
It's been known about and fixed since sometime in November - part of the howdark exploit I think.
:(
As has been mentioned before though, you'd have to *go to* phpBB to know that - it would be nice if they have a mailing list
Playaholics: Free online flash games: Driving Mad
See, this is where they ought to concentrate - PHP4 is bound to Apache 1.x but with PHP5 on the horizon and PHP being so tied to shared host, they ought to get PHP5 and Apache2 working together.
If the shared hosts offer Apache2 + PHP5 as the default, it'll get used, Remember, PHP programmers generally don't handle the sys-admin duties, so make the decision for them and your problem is solved. Since RedHat already ship Apache2, get them to add PHP5 as the default and you're there. Easy :)
Playaholics: Way of the exploding stick
Agreed - I've written simple arcade games quickly and I've fleshed out puzzle games in no time.
PyGame is where the Python and SDL integration really got me interested though - I was concerned about performance but I never ran into a problem with that, PyGame is a fast as you'll need.
Playaholics - Free online games, scoretables and a whole host player stats
and please, stop making words up, it's worse than boswollox
Lightning Pool
Please, stop making words up, it's worse than boswollox
Lightning Pool
It looks like a Google version of these new XMLHTTPRequest objects that most modern browser have now.
We've used this on Playaholics for our help pages:
Playaholics: Help - using XMLHTTPRequest
The best thing with these new controls is not only are they going to have a big say in the future of the web, if you disable Javascript the whole thing still works - it degrades very nicely.
Then go play your games at playaholics www.playaholics.com :D
alhtough it's not the most in depth study ever.
Teh Gruaniad just seem to have hassled the usual suspects at UCL for some opinons to back up their article in the wake if I, Robot being released over here.
Yes but the current widgets for web forms really suck.
Custom widgets for credit card numbers, telephone numbers, email address and birthdates could be so much more user friendly than the current text box that serves pretty much all of those.
Just look at the upcoming slider widget demoed in the new Mac OS, things could be so much better.
The same sort of thing has happened before in the UK with Godfrey vs. Demon internet. I worked for a few ISPs during that time and when he rang up, you certainly didn't want to bluff your way through the call. I don't know if I agree with attacking the ISP for this sort of thing, but it does give the individual a great deal of power.
They've already done some filming in London: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2004/05/batman_in_ bloom.html
well, one of the Athlon versions and I'm very happy. I started off thinking I wouldn't like it as I always tinker with the insides of my computers but to be honest, I don't anymore. And I like that, for some strange reasons things have stopped breaking too. Surely a coincidence ;-)
The only bad point is the noise - the cooling systems are innovative but they are noisy. I know a lot of people mod their cases to remove the grill at the back and fit more air-holes around the case. On a good day the thing is near silent, but playing any games or doing any heavy work means you have to put up with the revving of the auto-fan thingy.
It's not a living room PC and the cat can't fall asleep on it anymore, but it's tidied up my desk and stopped me from tinkering needlesly.
Play!
So long as the install process detects Nvidia based on-board networks cards, I'll be happy.
Part of the fun is taking your time over installing the thing, but having to jump through more hoops when the Live CD has problems wasn't fun.
Bunch!