What worries me all the time is security concepts being opened to the public.
If there are public information on how to build an ATM. Doesn't that technically make the ATM crackable from a reverse engineering standpoint. This pretty much can apply to anything.
SMB for NES never made any sense to me. You go around jumping on mushroom to rescue a princess. After going thru 7 castles you are only able to save Toad. It took Mario 8 levels before he finds the right castle, hello?
And what the hell flowers can let you shoot fireballs. And what the hell mushroom makes you two times bigger.
And why is there coins hidden everywhere? I am confused.
People sound surprise that their data end up in some third world country facilities. To be honest, big companies have had terabytes of data stored in other countries for years. Usually it's the historical data beyond a 1 year full backup that ends up in some other countries.
Granted yes, it takes efforts to dig it up. But still, the data is theorectically outsourced.
I remember going to reel.com (premiere DVD selling site online) way back and they eventually merged with buy.com.
They still don't sell enough of the niche products like Amazon, and they charge sales tax in way too many states. If it wasn't these two factors I'd buy from them alot more.
Sure you can introduce a brand new type of genre with unbelievable creativity. But people fear wasting $50 on something they end up no enjoying or understand.
In the end, everyone buys and support the same games. It may sound stereotypical, but only hardcore gamers are experimental consumers. Until their word of mouth get on the street, these "newly creative" games go no where in the market.
Ok the heart of PC gaming is 80-90% correlated with graphics card and its problems.
I have had top ranked cards from both of these companies. I'll tell you right now... if you game hardcore.... open case and giant fans still doesn't cut it. The driver problems just never ever stop. Look at rage3d forum, it's ridiculous.
If the API is so incompatible with this and that, they should just wait. Wait a long ass time until they can get a solid product out the door. I have returned my new ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in 3 months. My previous Geforce4 card overheated on a weekly basis. I am not alone in this arena.
Windows has made things easier with the GUI. We need to go back to that world when unix and wang computers dominated the scene. Things were ugly and only techies have the answers.
Windows has made things harder with all these security BS. Unfortunately HR don't give a fuck, they won't hire people just to install patches. Security folks I think, have too much on their hands nowadays.
In the end, windows put IT folks in a shitty situation. Abandoned by HR, abandoned by economy, screwed by viruses and hackers on a daily basis.
Ok java has its good, but game programming is definitely a bad idea. That's like asking M$ to sponser a contest to write the most encrypted security software using VB.
In the end the winner of the game can port their pacman to every browser and OS. It'll need 3Ghz 64bit processors to run the game, and it'll still be slow.
When I hear incredibly stupid mistake about AOL, it's like hearing the word patch associated with M$.
Seriously a spam report is the least of AOL's problem. As soon as the rest of the internet noobs figure out how to use the internet via a regular ISP, AOL is history.
Seriously Apple should withdraw from the desktop business. It had a "graphic edge" over windows and linux for years. But even that position doesn't seem so solid now that adobe releases everything equally as good on windows.
Here they are for a year and a half battling the changes for upcoming directX9. We already have a sinking PC game industry flooded with graphics card compatibility driver problems and API calls for directX8 games.
Now M$ is moving into another gaming project. I find it hard to believe that M$ has infinite resources.
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What worries me all the time is security concepts being opened to the public.
If there are public information on how to build an ATM. Doesn't that technically make the ATM crackable from a reverse engineering standpoint. This pretty much can apply to anything.
Meanwhile at Sony headquarters, execs are releasing PS2 with a new slogan
"Live in Microsoft world, but play in ours".
You got PDAs trying to play MP3s.
You got iPod trying to play games.
In the end it comes down to who reaches the other side first. Why doesn't iPod just skip to the end and at windows CE.
Novell is taking the worst approach of "if you can't beat them, join them." I have never seen a company more desperate to adopt another OS's feature.
In the end when you reinstall Novell, you are really installing a Linux OEM.
SMB for NES never made any sense to me. You go around jumping on mushroom to rescue a princess. After going thru 7 castles you are only able to save Toad. It took Mario 8 levels before he finds the right castle, hello?
And what the hell flowers can let you shoot fireballs. And what the hell mushroom makes you two times bigger.
And why is there coins hidden everywhere? I am confused.
IF I got rid of my comcast cable modem, I would have no choice left besides phone modems.
Even if they bundle or unbundle it makes no difference, since I'll be begging at comcast's door either way.
We don't need any nuclear disaster here. Last thing we need is a service pack or patch to fix a catastrophe.
People sound surprise that their data end up in some third world country facilities. To be honest, big companies have had terabytes of data stored in other countries for years. Usually it's the historical data beyond a 1 year full backup that ends up in some other countries.
Granted yes, it takes efforts to dig it up. But still, the data is theorectically outsourced.
No matter what you do to patent, the big boys like M$ will still copy your interface. Save your lawyer expense and move on.
I remember going to reel.com (premiere DVD selling site online) way back and they eventually merged with buy.com.
They still don't sell enough of the niche products like Amazon, and they charge sales tax in way too many states. If it wasn't these two factors I'd buy from them alot more.
Sure you can introduce a brand new type of genre with unbelievable creativity. But people fear wasting $50 on something they end up no enjoying or understand.
In the end, everyone buys and support the same games. It may sound stereotypical, but only hardcore gamers are experimental consumers. Until their word of mouth get on the street, these "newly creative" games go no where in the market.
Try these titles:
Getting Started with Lego Ron Jeremy
Getting Started with Lego M16 and AK47
Getting Started with Lego Playboy Mansion
Getting Started with Lego Cult
How about just finishing Doom 3 by this decade.
Does Id have infinite budget or something? How the hell can they stretch a project forever.
And why remix Quake 2? If anything remix Quake 1 or 3, both of which are more popular by all accounts.
Ok the heart of PC gaming is 80-90% correlated with graphics card and its problems.
I have had top ranked cards from both of these companies. I'll tell you right now... if you game hardcore.... open case and giant fans still doesn't cut it. The driver problems just never ever stop. Look at rage3d forum, it's ridiculous.
If the API is so incompatible with this and that, they should just wait. Wait a long ass time until they can get a solid product out the door. I have returned my new ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in 3 months. My previous Geforce4 card overheated on a weekly basis. I am not alone in this arena.
Windows has made things easier with the GUI. We need to go back to that world when unix and wang computers dominated the scene. Things were ugly and only techies have the answers. Windows has made things harder with all these security BS. Unfortunately HR don't give a fuck, they won't hire people just to install patches. Security folks I think, have too much on their hands nowadays. In the end, windows put IT folks in a shitty situation. Abandoned by HR, abandoned by economy, screwed by viruses and hackers on a daily basis.
Wasn't ICO the game that everyone claims to have the saddest ending they have ever seen in video games?
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Ok java has its good, but game programming is definitely a bad idea. That's like asking M$ to sponser a contest to write the most encrypted security software using VB.
In the end the winner of the game can port their pacman to every browser and OS. It'll need 3Ghz 64bit processors to run the game, and it'll still be slow.
When I hear incredibly stupid mistake about AOL, it's like hearing the word patch associated with M$.
Seriously a spam report is the least of AOL's problem. As soon as the rest of the internet noobs figure out how to use the internet via a regular ISP, AOL is history.
I wouldn't open source something this valuable when M$ is still standing.
Let's face it if M$ can release their own nasty versions of java before, they can do it again.
RIAA Fan: Hey I heard a number of 2006 album went quadruple platinum. And you made a fortune.
RIAA Exec: Yes a number of albums went extra overtime platinum.
RIAA Fan: You must be pimping the new ride.
RIAA Exec: No.
RIAA Fan: Why not.
RIAA Exec: Ever since walmart and other competition came in we sold songs for $.01 each.
RIAA Fan: Damn
RIAA Exec: Next year mom's and pop's pizza place will be offering downloads for a quarter of a penny.
RIAA Fan: Yes!!!!
When I hear Fibre optics network a home it is just too good to be true. I can't imagine U.S. EVER getting 100mbits nevermind 1000.
I have heard a rumor that it's mainly to slow piracy down. Anyone know if that's complete BS?
Apple still has the iPod.
Seriously Apple should withdraw from the desktop business. It had a "graphic edge" over windows and linux for years. But even that position doesn't seem so solid now that adobe releases everything equally as good on windows.
Here they are for a year and a half battling the changes for upcoming directX9. We already have a sinking PC game industry flooded with graphics card compatibility driver problems and API calls for directX8 games.
Now M$ is moving into another gaming project. I find it hard to believe that M$ has infinite resources.
But this sounds like another project wearing the name "linux" thin?