Well imagine if such devices became commonplace? Imagine 1 in 5 people had them, each of which is surrounded by a bubble of no-radio transmission. Your radio would be stop and start just walking down the street, or as people walked by your office.
There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many.
Because it's bigger for the same weight it doesn't "feel" heavy. Your brain looks at it and guesses a weight based on size. It's lighter than that. A small phone that weighs 150 g feels heavier.
Napster was guaranteed to happen no matter what the RIAA did. Do you honestly think people would have not bothered to pirate songs even it was so unbelievably trivial, just because the RIAA put up some well designed pay for tunes service?
Not a chance in hell.
Napster was waiting to happen and Fanning was the first lucky guy to stumble across it.
It's apparent that you've never played such a game for any appreciable length of time. When it's kept reasonable in length, the treadmill is very rewarding (and not just in an addictive/fix kind of way).
It's *fun* to be scared of those little orcs at first. It's fun when you can first start killing them. It's fun to reduce killing them to a methodical science (shortly before you move on to killing trolls). And it's the most fun to return to a dungeon that used to have you twitching in fear and be able to walk through it with orcs bouncing off you like spitballs.
Someone who buys a high level character misses this experience entirely. The spitball effect is only truly rewarding when you remember being scared of those things 2 months ago.
I'm not against player auctions by any means. Different strokes and all, but you are completely missing a huge part of the appeal of MMOG's.
Furthermore, there's a huge skill component gained in levelling your own character. Back in the EQ beta days, a brother of the CEO (kelly Flock) and a friend of his came through Runnyeye decked out in top notch gear.
They were a disaster. They had no idea what they were doing, fell off ledges, got surrounded by goblins that they would have been able to handle easily if fought properly, and ended up dead. We were a few levels lower than they were, relatively poorly equipped, and helped them get their corpses if memory serves.
It's like giving a 10 year old boy an M1 Abrams tank. They just don't do well.
Disclaimer: I am not a treadmill player kicking Innoruuk's head around at level 60. I bailed out at level 28. I think the treadmill gets far too flat at the upper levels of EQ.
By its very nature, Open source will tend to fix important bugs and leave unimportant ones unfixed, while standard QA processes associated with commercial software will tend to fix little UI issues during the release schedule before dealing with vulnerabilities.
So seems pretty clear to me that in Open source, the ratio of showstopper bugs to miscolored widget bugs will be much lower than for commercial software.
This is by far one of the most naive posts I've ever read on/. and it gets a 5? It's hard to believe so many mods would believe this guy.
The problem with addiction is that your choice becomes not to break it. Just because you yourself may have overcome an addiction of some sort (and are very proud of it apparently), doesn't mean that everyone can. Brains are wired differently. In some people, concious, directed behavior takes a backseat to addictive processes.
This doesn't seem like a magic nice application top me. I'd have trouble justifying its purchase even if the subscription were free, but $10 a mo?
If I want to walk around with access to stock reports and weather, I'll get a wireless PDA or something.
I mean, how useful can the information be when filtered through a watch? I can't web browse, I can't type or read emails, I can't even tell it what kind of food I want to eat for it to send me to an appropriate restaraunt (assuming it knows where I am).
The whole problem with watches comes down to user input: there isn't one. This make communication decidedly one-way. So with this in mind, the only real input the user has (assuming they're not beaming IR to it from their PDA in which case why not just use a cellular internet connection), is their location in the real world. Context sensitive help has come a long way, but it's not going to let me control a watch by walking down the street in a certain pattern.
You might want to tell these people, as well as the authors of the calculus textbook in my lap, that a geometric progression is x^2 (or 1/X^2). I'm sure they'd be thrilled to hear your input.
http://www.ping.be/~ping1339/sequences.htm#Arith me tic-and-Geome
Daft enough to say stupid things while trying to sound smart.
"Set the AirPort up as close to the center of the house as possible, because wireless signal strength fades geometrically with distance."
Isn't it decreasing exponentially? (x^3)
And Airports? a "little" more expensive? Crikey I can get b WAP's for $40 or less that are configurable from any platform's web browser and he's blanketing his house with $200 routers that can only be configured by a mac?
Slashdot Mirror
And?
Those technical issues are going to drive technology in voice compression technology as well as bandwidth.
There will be some inevitable failures of course, but those are just stepping stones.
But I find it hard to associate the words "biggest", "baddest" and "behemoth" to a 20 foot tall rollercoaster.
Maybe "miniature" and "for toddlers" are better ways to describe it...
Software like this should be able to reboot midflight without a hitch.
Flight control software has been rebootable on the fly since the earliest days of the space program.
Well imagine if such devices became commonplace? Imagine 1 in 5 people had them, each of which is surrounded by a bubble of no-radio transmission. Your radio would be stop and start just walking down the street, or as people walked by your office.
This ruling makes alot of sense.
I give you the poster child of psychosomatism.
It's all in your head man.
He's got a good point. Bike ride to work.
It works for me. Saves me money in car gas and parking and depending on how far you have to go, takes the same amount of time as driving.
Also, you make the earth cleaner, or some crap like that, but who cares. This is about YOU.
There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many.
Outer Space
There's value in tradition.
bullcocky.
The only reason IRC trading hasn't penetrated to the middle market is that it's complicated.
Napster is successful because of convenience.
Besides, I bet 90% of the people using napster when it was still on the upswing (before the media coverage) didn't even realize it was illegal.
Because it's bigger for the same weight it doesn't "feel" heavy. Your brain looks at it and guesses a weight based on size. It's lighter than that. A small phone that weighs 150 g feels heavier.
Perhaps you've picked up objects before?
If not, just take my word for it.
I'm getting it for the 500 anytime/xnetwork minutes for £25/m. That's a truly unbeatable deal.
They are bending over backwards to sell these things and I'll deal with it for a year for those numbers.
You are a drunken, idealistic fool.
Napster was guaranteed to happen no matter what the RIAA did. Do you honestly think people would have not bothered to pirate songs even it was so unbelievably trivial, just because the RIAA put up some well designed pay for tunes service?
Not a chance in hell.
Napster was waiting to happen and Fanning was the first lucky guy to stumble across it.
yes
But does it look like an S?
Looks like he gave up without even trying on that one....
It's apparent that you've never played such a game for any appreciable length of time. When it's kept reasonable in length, the treadmill is very rewarding (and not just in an addictive/fix kind of way).
It's *fun* to be scared of those little orcs at first.
It's fun when you can first start killing them.
It's fun to reduce killing them to a methodical science (shortly before you move on to killing trolls).
And it's the most fun to return to a dungeon that used to have you twitching in fear and be able to walk through it with orcs bouncing off you like spitballs.
Someone who buys a high level character misses this experience entirely. The spitball effect is only truly rewarding when you remember being scared of those things 2 months ago.
I'm not against player auctions by any means. Different strokes and all, but you are completely missing a huge part of the appeal of MMOG's.
Furthermore, there's a huge skill component gained in levelling your own character. Back in the EQ beta days, a brother of the CEO (kelly Flock) and a friend of his came through Runnyeye decked out in top notch gear.
They were a disaster. They had no idea what they were doing, fell off ledges, got surrounded by goblins that they would have been able to handle easily if fought properly, and ended up dead. We were a few levels lower than they were, relatively poorly equipped, and helped them get their corpses if memory serves.
It's like giving a 10 year old boy an M1 Abrams tank. They just don't do well.
Disclaimer: I am not a treadmill player kicking Innoruuk's head around at level 60. I bailed out at level 28. I think the treadmill gets far too flat at the upper levels of EQ.
By its very nature, Open source will tend to fix important bugs and leave unimportant ones unfixed, while standard QA processes associated with commercial software will tend to fix little UI issues during the release schedule before dealing with vulnerabilities.
So seems pretty clear to me that in Open source, the ratio of showstopper bugs to miscolored widget bugs will be much lower than for commercial software.
This is by far one of the most naive posts I've ever read on /. and it gets a 5? It's hard to believe so many mods would believe this guy.
The problem with addiction is that your choice becomes not to break it. Just because you yourself may have overcome an addiction of some sort (and are very proud of it apparently), doesn't mean that everyone can. Brains are wired differently. In some people, concious, directed behavior takes a backseat to addictive processes.
This doesn't seem like a magic nice application top me. I'd have trouble justifying its purchase even if the subscription were free, but $10 a mo?
If I want to walk around with access to stock reports and weather, I'll get a wireless PDA or something.
I mean, how useful can the information be when filtered through a watch? I can't web browse, I can't type or read emails, I can't even tell it what kind of food I want to eat for it to send me to an appropriate restaraunt (assuming it knows where I am).
The whole problem with watches comes down to user input: there isn't one. This make communication decidedly one-way. So with this in mind, the only real input the user has (assuming they're not beaming IR to it from their PDA in which case why not just use a cellular internet connection), is their location in the real world. Context sensitive help has come a long way, but it's not going to let me control a watch by walking down the street in a certain pattern.
And again, something's screwing with it...
Penny Arcade Goodness
There was a problem and it got an extra space (thx IE!)
- 06 -22&res=l
Those of you who didn't get it, didn't get it for good reason.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-06 -22&res=l
Penny arcade's finest ever.
A perfect example of dialog between artists becoming an art form in itself.
He didn't say you couldn't be a programmer, he said you couldn't be a GOOD programmer.
You might want to tell these people, as well as the authors of the calculus textbook in my lap, that a geometric progression is x^2 (or 1/X^2). I'm sure they'd be thrilled to hear your input.
h me tic-and-Geome
http://www.ping.be/~ping1339/sequences.htm#Arit
I was mistaken, it's X^2 not 3 (surface area of a sphere), and yes it's exponential Zork.
Geometric would be 2^X.
Pretty big difference.
Daft enough to say stupid things while trying to sound smart.
"Set the AirPort up as close to the center of the house as possible, because wireless signal strength fades geometrically with distance."
Isn't it decreasing exponentially? (x^3)
And Airports? a "little" more expensive? Crikey I can get b WAP's for $40 or less that are configurable from any platform's web browser and he's blanketing his house with $200 routers that can only be configured by a mac?
Color me unimpressed.