Haven't you read The Lords Of The Ring? Things can be very exciting when you cross the line of your country and venture in the wild lands...
I didn't say it would be impossible to have adventures. It will be HARD, and that's the amusing part. The whole point of having a "good neighbor" life back in The Shire, is to enjoy the contrast when you leave home and get trapped in a dangerous trip, discovering new wonders and peoples and magic at very each step.
Besides that, there ARE people who really ENJOY playing a text-based life simulation with fantasy elements. And as I said, those will be our main players. But it won't be the only possibility.
We are a group developing from scratch a GPL'ed MUD/MUSH in Spanish based on Tolkien's Middle Earth. Of course it's not intended to be 'massive'. But we expect it to be fairly populated, and in spite of that we think that people in it will remain mainly in character.
We are working hard to achieve that goal, and we have some guidelines and ideas that hopefully will aid us to get rid of l33t people.
First of all, our targeted audience is people in the Spanish Tolkien Society. That give us a strongly motivated public, which will surely enjoy themselves more from a good role-playing than from a killing session.
Second, it will be quite a bad idea to go out there carelessly hunting orcs... because the damage/healing system is intended to be reallistic. It means that if you get hurt it won't be just some Life Points down, you'll have a broken leg or a poisoned injury, and you'll have to be in bed for in-game months to be healthfull again. And only if you don't get killed. No magic potions (remember Frodo?). So, only warrior characters will go to battle, and it will be dangerous.
Third, it will be difficult and dangerous to travel. People will stay at home, and will have social intercourse with their neighbours. Of course there will be adventures, but mostly those that just delay dinner!
Fourth, we will not ban out-of-character speaking... but we will mean it to be rude! 8-D (This is an idea of mine). We hope to introduce a culture in which newcomers, that are not aware of this social rule, will talk about not Middle Earth subjects, and then everyone will get scandalized!
In summary: our game will not be a huge graphical chat room, because it will be socially designed to be a parallel reality not a videogame, and only people in character will enjoy it. Wish me luck!
That's pure metaphysics (i.e. bullshit). What's more free, the freedom to take away the other's freedom or the prohibition to do it?
The "Free software" license is intended to build code that will always stay free, and the "Open Source" licenses that you advocate simply don't guarantee that.
I have no moderation points, so i'll bite the troll.
How can a voluntarily adopted license "force" anybody? As you say, you just have to reject the use of GPLed software if you don't like it. And remember that the GPL must only be accepted if you redistribute another's program, not just if you use it. A programmer should be aware of the terms in which the code she relies upon is licensed, right?
The whole point of the GPL is to build a community of people freely sharing code and donating it to each other. The license is tuned and tweaked to do just that, and do it really well.
If someone want to use the GPL for a different purpose (like, say, earning some money), hey, the code it's free! They can do it, but they should be very aware that the license is not intended to do that. So, it's not the FSF fault if they got it wrong, as their goals are cristal clear.
An aproach with I think is promissing for co-design is to use Constraint Programming. You build a declarative model (the algorithm you want to partition) and the intelligent system find through search the optimal partition, much in the same way as layout is currently done.
This game is like one of those trifold medical brochures: a nice way to teach general culture. And with this format, children would be more inclined to read it all and it will have a good time, if the game is funny and the information in it is accurate. A good idea overall.
The basic problem with the O-STEP license is the same one with copyright. If goverment puts a limit on the money gained by the developer before the software goes OS, big corporations can lobby to raise that limit before it is reached.
O-STEP may seem a nice idea right now, but its a baaad movement for the free software in the long term.
yes, you have a point there. This "mind expansion" technique would be useful to people doing intelectual work (scientists, engineers, politicians...) but not to the same people doing routine tasks with "automatic pilot" on.
As i have posted in a comment elsewhere, I think nowadays it's only a matter of having the right tools.
When the next release Mozilla 1.# came with semantic agents and Composer has semantic publishing tags, a few bloggers will start the snowball by semantically decorating their posts. The rest of readers will notice these additional feature and will want to copy it.
how do they decide which tags to use in which circumstances, and how will every semantic browser know all the tags?
I suggest you to read about ontologies. Every "Semantic Web Server" might publish an ontology which describes what objects knows and how they are related. When a client or search engine wants to read the remote web, has also to check the published ontology and compare it to its own.
but it's more work.
So it's necessary to have good authoring tools that minimizes the overhead to publish content. Anyway, businesses will have the incentive to spend that more work in order to have a correct ontology that accurately describes its products, so they may be the initial providers of meta-content.
It's a simile. The author equates the ability of Tolkien to create worlds based on made up languages with the ability of Tim Berners-Lee to produce a new "web" by inventing those "programming languages" on which the Semantic Web is to be based.
Nope. The Semantic Web has technically more to do with the blogsphere and its RSS that with the current TBL's WWW. Currently it only lacks the automatic info searching (a Google-like blog search), the publishing is already there.
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Haven't you read The Lords Of The Ring? Things can be very exciting when you cross the line of your country and venture in the wild lands...
I didn't say it would be impossible to have adventures. It will be HARD, and that's the amusing part. The whole point of having a "good neighbor" life back in The Shire, is to enjoy the contrast when you leave home and get trapped in a dangerous trip, discovering new wonders and peoples and magic at very each step.
Besides that, there ARE people who really ENJOY playing a text-based life simulation with fantasy elements. And as I said, those will be our main players. But it won't be the only possibility.
I didn't read your message before posting mine. I will use this as advice for the social MUD we are trying to build (see below).
We are a group developing from scratch a GPL'ed MUD/MUSH in Spanish based on Tolkien's Middle Earth. Of course it's not intended to be 'massive'. But we expect it to be fairly populated, and in spite of that we think that people in it will remain mainly in character.
We are working hard to achieve that goal, and we have some guidelines and ideas that hopefully will aid us to get rid of l33t people.
First of all, our targeted audience is people in the Spanish Tolkien Society. That give us a strongly motivated public, which will surely enjoy themselves more from a good role-playing than from a killing session.
Second, it will be quite a bad idea to go out there carelessly hunting orcs... because the damage/healing system is intended to be reallistic. It means that if you get hurt it won't be just some Life Points down, you'll have a broken leg or a poisoned injury, and you'll have to be in bed for in-game months to be healthfull again. And only if you don't get killed. No magic potions (remember Frodo?). So, only warrior characters will go to battle, and it will be dangerous.
Third, it will be difficult and dangerous to travel. People will stay at home, and will have social intercourse with their neighbours. Of course there will be adventures, but mostly those that just delay dinner!
Fourth, we will not ban out-of-character speaking... but we will mean it to be rude! 8-D (This is an idea of mine). We hope to introduce a culture in which newcomers, that are not aware of this social rule, will talk about not Middle Earth subjects, and then everyone will get scandalized!
In summary: our game will not be a huge graphical chat room, because it will be socially designed to be a parallel reality not a videogame, and only people in character will enjoy it. Wish me luck!
...is that one funny or insightful?
That's pure metaphysics (i.e. bullshit). What's more free, the freedom to take away the other's freedom or the prohibition to do it?
The "Free software" license is intended to build code that will always stay free, and the "Open Source" licenses that you advocate simply don't guarantee that.
How can a voluntarily adopted license "force" anybody? As you say, you just have to reject the use of GPLed software if you don't like it. And remember that the GPL must only be accepted if you redistribute another's program, not just if you use it. A programmer should be aware of the terms in which the code she relies upon is licensed, right?
The whole point of the GPL is to build a community of people freely sharing code and donating it to each other. The license is tuned and tweaked to do just that, and do it really well.
If someone want to use the GPL for a different purpose (like, say, earning some money), hey, the code it's free! They can do it, but they should be very aware that the license is not intended to do that. So, it's not the FSF fault if they got it wrong, as their goals are cristal clear.
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It has been previously discussed in Slashdot.
about this subject.
You have been logged on. X-D
But it's really superior! It rotates the current desktop out of view while the incoming account desktop rotates into view on another side of the cube!
And it has a slogan too: Because we can! Only for that it deserves a patent!
If you have access to IEEE papers you can read an article about codesign with Constraint Satisfaction, or if not you can always ask Google about the subject.
This game is like one of those trifold medical brochures: a nice way to teach general culture. And with this format, children would be more inclined to read it all and it will have a good time, if the game is funny and the information in it is accurate. A good idea overall.
O-STEP may seem a nice idea right now, but its a baaad movement for the free software in the long term.
The difference is, of course, that you can break the contract. That simply can't be done by a slave (owned).
yes, you have a point there. This "mind expansion" technique would be useful to people doing intelectual work (scientists, engineers, politicians...) but not to the same people doing routine tasks with "automatic pilot" on.
is a MYTH. Besides that, it has no scientific meaning saying that "90% of brain capacity is unused", since brain capacity can not really be measured.
You've just described the whole idea of open source software at first.
As i have posted in a comment elsewhere, I think nowadays it's only a matter of having the right tools.
When the next release Mozilla 1.# came with semantic agents and Composer has semantic publishing tags, a few bloggers will start the snowball by semantically decorating their posts. The rest of readers will notice these additional feature and will want to copy it.
Or so I hope it'll happen... 8)
I suggest you to read about ontologies. Every "Semantic Web Server" might publish an ontology which describes what objects knows and how they are related. When a client or search engine wants to read the remote web, has also to check the published ontology and compare it to its own.
but it's more work.
So it's necessary to have good authoring tools that minimizes the overhead to publish content. Anyway, businesses will have the incentive to spend that more work in order to have a correct ontology that accurately describes its products, so they may be the initial providers of meta-content.
It's a simile. The author equates the ability of Tolkien to create worlds based on made up languages with the ability of Tim Berners-Lee to produce a new "web" by inventing those "programming languages" on which the Semantic Web is to be based.
Yeah, as if Google hadn't ever discovered important web pages automatically.
Nope. The Semantic Web has technically more to do with the blogsphere and its RSS that with the current TBL's WWW. Currently it only lacks the automatic info searching (a Google-like blog search), the publishing is already there.
8-) Im happy