After scanning through the list I think it went like this:
Manager: We need a list of future predictions. Everyone go to your desk and list 10 of them. I will then combine the lists and categorize them.
Most of them have no though to them, and others look like them came out of sci-fi movie plots.
You need only look at SWG or Sims Online, both are advertised with one of thier features being good chatting and social capabilities.
Besides if I really wanted to just chat I would load up IRC, or call up real life friends, or even see if any of thoses avatar chatting systems of years ago is still around.
"I think paper ballots probably are the best. The process is more transparent. Although fraud can be committed with paper ballots."
All this talk about electronic ballots came about because of paper ballots.
Remember it was the electon in florida where in a handfull of conties the people who were in charge of thoses areas were to lazy or incapable of empting so trays where chads from a paper ballot went into.
Thier have been services in the past the just purchased currency. Most current games prevent regular admins from creating items, and also keep track of what they create or modify.
Thier have been a few times were they have been caught, usally because they do it to often and people talk.
I see RFID as a good example of why the paper is correct.
Say I own a big country wide seller like Kmart or Target, in the US. What is RFID it is current state really going to give me?
I am far better off waiting for Walmart to take all the arrows for the PR, talk the suppliers into using it and solve alot of the initial technical problems, then a few months after they have solved them, implement the system. Besides my supplies are alot of the same one Walmart uses.
All the extra costs needed because you are the first person implementing RFID will delay any profit you would gain from them, however with me being second I can advoid your problems and costs and save money when I implement in the future.
Stole this from off the UUNET, search if you want the original author.
FYI.
Why they do genealogy:
1) Mormons believe that any Mormon can act in the place of any person,
living or dead, to receive the Sacraments. If they have these
Sacraments (I believe they call them holy seals) performed for them
then when they go to the afterlife, it will be just like they were
a good Mormon all their life.
2) It is the responsibility of each Mormon to have the seals performed
for all of their ancestors.
Because of these two things, Mormons have an incredible data base of genealogy.
First to help you locate your ancestors, and secondly, to find out if someone
has already had the seals performed for them. Several of my ancestors have
been "sealed in marriage" and "sealed to their parents". There are a couple
other seals that I don't remember. First, ALL Mormons must marry. It is
a command to them. But they must also have their marriage "sealed" which
means that the couple will remain married for all eternity.
The biggest place, and the one place where I use ms player, is at work.
With systems being locked down so that no new software can be installed it is great to have piece of software that can play CDs, as part of the default install.
The reason for the big press releases is that SOE needed to do something to keep people paying and maybe get some new people to purchase the game. Also the game is just being released in Europe.
People are leaving and have left the game so much that it some major cities are now ghost towns.
Something changed.
Because of the lack of people repaying for the game and even less joining the game they needed to do something to try to keep people in. So they changed from the original "We will provide no clues, everyone has a chance." To a "Here is what you need to do, provided you want to camp."
That changed the predictions from next year to a few week from when they did it.
This work was done by one of the person who did the work Australia.
The difference is that they made it more deadly, moved the killing part to a new region of the gene, and they did some work with cowpox.
Check the history of the Mousepox IL-4.
back in 2001, if I recall correctly, most of this is from memory of _Devil_in_the_freezor_ this was discovered by scientist in Australia.
Even back then countries such as Cuba had copies of it.
Granted it was not as bad as what was reported today but is rather scary.
Not really sure what the purpose of the message was, that you don't enjoy MMORPGs(to each thier own) or the financial reasons for developing a MMORPG. I will answer the financial one.
Simple answer why everyone and thier mother is developing a MMORPG is simple money, money,money.
With your average game with a $50+ price range the makes of the game will only see around $15 after all is said and done. So over the time it takes for the game to be developed for an average game you will see a time value of money in the 12-15% considering the amount you could of made from putting the money in the bank and just getting interest it is still worth it.
Now for your average MMORPG, you still have that $15 from the package, but you are collecting an additional amount each month, and for alot of people even years. Even with higher costs the quess is that the average MMORPGs has around 19% return on money with the bigger ones in the 30%+ range. Throw in yearly expansion packs and it is really nice money.
One of the smaller developers said they need around 50K players to break even with paying themselves a small amount,running the game and paying investors. It was guessed they had around 70K subscribers so that would be a nice chunk of change.
The reason raph is considered the worse thing to happen to UO is that it was not until he left and the stuff he had done was no longer in the pipline did game sales and population take off.
The same thing can be said about SWG, now that he has less contact alot of stuff is being proposed that is against what raph originally planned and is getting wide support and design.
BTW raph was put in charge of all SOE games and based on current messages in now messing with EQ2, he has delayed it to make changes he wants.
It is really nice, I was using amazon right as they switched it one.
I was searching for books on Object Role Modeling(ORM), I had first done a search for ORM and did not find anything of interest. They then switched it on while I did a search of 'Object Role Modeling', this poped up a few books with the text where it was being used.
IANAL, but I have worked on contracts long enough to know similar cases, and work in something similar.
Provided thier is no language forbiding subcontracting this is all legal, don't count on that almost no one does this. The hospital only legal problem is with the original company, it is with who they have the contract and it is they who is responsible for the work done. It does not matter to the hospital who does the work as long as it is done in accordance to the contract.
Now the top contractor after being sued could go and sue the next one down if they did not live up to the thier end of the contract and then on down until the final person.
Depending on the contract they should of had some language about protection of the data. If they didn't then everything is out the window.
Goto a hobby store they and will sell you all the stuff you need to shrinkwrap something.
basicly it is just the special plastic and a hotair gun. It is used in alot of hobbies and with stuff such as remote controlled planes.
Since this is all about the pedophiles which I guess means MS is saying they are using MS products, why is MS waiting 30+ days? Don't they care enough about the children to be a stop to this right now? How many more children are going to be hurt because MS does not stop this right as they have identified that it was a problem?
For your average game the devs,actually thier company, are going to see around $15 for each box sold, then they have to pay all thier costs. MMORPGs have higher costs and development and also setup fees, all the servers etc. However they do not sell as many copies; EQ has sold over 1 million copies but something like madden footfalls will sell close if not over 20 million, and you average will game will sell a million.
Now why everyone is producing a MMORPG is because because all thoses hardcore players will subscribe for $12-$15 a month and will do it for a long time. Over the life of the product the decent standalone game will average a decent 12-15% return on the money which is good. However for a MMORPG you are talking an average of 19%+ with some people saying that the bigger games like EQ/UO/DaOC are doing close or over 30%.
As for the costs, some of the smaller companies making MMORPG have said they need to average around 50K-60K subscribers a month to break even and pay back all loanes
LegendMUD was good, but his graphical MMORPG have sucked.
UO his first only got good and started to attract people once he left. SWG has terrible design problems, alot of stuff you have to wonder if he every played any type of game.
The only good thing about him and SWG is that he was promoted in Sony so now he will have part of this time messing up EQ2 and make it available for competent people to start fixing SWG.
And in other news...
on
Cracking GSM
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
The US CIA, UK M5 and Israel Mossad are now hiring people with experience with GSM and crypto experience.
Grab a copy of "developing online games: an insider view" it was review by slashdot a while ago.
More from a technical standpoint, but does not get into code. Interesting if you are into playing MMORPGs.
Slashdot Mirror
After scanning through the list I think it went like this:
Manager: We need a list of future predictions. Everyone go to your desk and list 10 of them. I will then combine the lists and categorize them.
Most of them have no though to them, and others look like them came out of sci-fi movie plots.
They also say a global electronic currency in 2005; I would count if lucky if the UK switched to the EU by 2015.
You need only look at SWG or Sims Online, both are advertised with one of thier features being good chatting and social capabilities.
Besides if I really wanted to just chat I would load up IRC, or call up real life friends, or even see if any of thoses avatar chatting systems of years ago is still around.
"I think paper ballots probably are the best. The process is more transparent. Although fraud can be committed with paper ballots."
All this talk about electronic ballots came about because of paper ballots.
Remember it was the electon in florida where in a handfull of conties the people who were in charge of thoses areas were to lazy or incapable of empting so trays where chads from a paper ballot went into.
Thier have been services in the past the just purchased currency. Most current games prevent regular admins from creating items, and also keep track of what they create or modify.
Thier have been a few times were they have been caught, usally because they do it to often and people talk.
I see RFID as a good example of why the paper is correct.
Say I own a big country wide seller like Kmart or Target, in the US. What is RFID it is current state really going to give me?
I am far better off waiting for Walmart to take all the arrows for the PR, talk the suppliers into using it and solve alot of the initial technical problems, then a few months after they have solved them, implement the system. Besides my supplies are alot of the same one Walmart uses.
All the extra costs needed because you are the first person implementing RFID will delay any profit you would gain from them, however with me being second I can advoid your problems and costs and save money when I implement in the future.
Stole this from off the UUNET, search if you want the original author.
FYI.
Why they do genealogy:
1) Mormons believe that any Mormon can act in the place of any person, living or dead, to receive the Sacraments. If they have these Sacraments (I believe they call them holy seals) performed for them then when they go to the afterlife, it will be just like they were a good Mormon all their life.
2) It is the responsibility of each Mormon to have the seals performed for all of their ancestors.
Because of these two things, Mormons have an incredible data base of genealogy. First to help you locate your ancestors, and secondly, to find out if someone has already had the seals performed for them. Several of my ancestors have been "sealed in marriage" and "sealed to their parents". There are a couple other seals that I don't remember. First, ALL Mormons must marry. It is a command to them. But they must also have their marriage "sealed" which means that the couple will remain married for all eternity.
The biggest place, and the one place where I use ms player, is at work.
With systems being locked down so that no new software can be installed it is great to have piece of software that can play CDs, as part of the default install.
The biggest problem is that it comes out the same day as the sequal to secret weapon of the luftwaft.
But after playing star wars galaxies I need a game with a star wars feel.
The reason for the big press releases is that SOE needed to do something to keep people paying and maybe get some new people to purchase the game. Also the game is just being released in Europe.
People are leaving and have left the game so much that it some major cities are now ghost towns.
Something changed.
Because of the lack of people repaying for the game and even less joining the game they needed to do something to try to keep people in. So they changed from the original "We will provide no clues, everyone has a chance." To a "Here is what you need to do, provided you want to camp."
That changed the predictions from next year to a few week from when they did it.
This work was done by one of the person who did the work Australia.
The difference is that they made it more deadly, moved the killing part to a new region of the gene, and they did some work with cowpox.
Check the history of the Mousepox IL-4.
back in 2001, if I recall correctly, most of this is from memory of _Devil_in_the_freezor_ this was discovered by scientist in Australia.
Even back then countries such as Cuba had copies of it.
Granted it was not as bad as what was reported today but is rather scary.
lazy link
Around a month ago he moved from Austin to San Diego.
Not really sure what the purpose of the message was, that you don't enjoy MMORPGs(to each thier own) or the financial reasons for developing a MMORPG. I will answer the financial one.
Simple answer why everyone and thier mother is developing a MMORPG is simple money, money,money.
With your average game with a $50+ price range the makes of the game will only see around $15 after all is said and done. So over the time it takes for the game to be developed for an average game you will see a time value of money in the 12-15% considering the amount you could of made from putting the money in the bank and just getting interest it is still worth it.
Now for your average MMORPG, you still have that $15 from the package, but you are collecting an additional amount each month, and for alot of people even years. Even with higher costs the quess is that the average MMORPGs has around 19% return on money with the bigger ones in the 30%+ range. Throw in yearly expansion packs and it is really nice money.
One of the smaller developers said they need around 50K players to break even with paying themselves a small amount,running the game and paying investors. It was guessed they had around 70K subscribers so that would be a nice chunk of change.
The reason raph is considered the worse thing to happen to UO is that it was not until he left and the stuff he had done was no longer in the pipline did game sales and population take off.
The same thing can be said about SWG, now that he has less contact alot of stuff is being proposed that is against what raph originally planned and is getting wide support and design.
BTW raph was put in charge of all SOE games and based on current messages in now messing with EQ2, he has delayed it to make changes he wants.
It is really nice, I was using amazon right as they switched it one.
I was searching for books on Object Role Modeling(ORM), I had first done a search for ORM and did not find anything of interest. They then switched it on while I did a search of 'Object Role Modeling', this poped up a few books with the text where it was being used.
IANAL, but I have worked on contracts long enough to know similar cases, and work in something similar.
Provided thier is no language forbiding subcontracting this is all legal, don't count on that almost no one does this. The hospital only legal problem is with the original company, it is with who they have the contract and it is they who is responsible for the work done. It does not matter to the hospital who does the work as long as it is done in accordance to the contract.
Now the top contractor after being sued could go and sue the next one down if they did not live up to the thier end of the contract and then on down until the final person.
Depending on the contract they should of had some language about protection of the data. If they didn't then everything is out the window.
I do wonder who are the teachers that are going to use this material?
Goto a hobby store they and will sell you all the stuff you need to shrinkwrap something.
basicly it is just the special plastic and a hotair gun. It is used in alot of hobbies and with stuff such as remote controlled planes.
Since this is all about the pedophiles which I guess means MS is saying they are using MS products, why is MS waiting 30+ days? Don't they care enough about the children to be a stop to this right now? How many more children are going to be hurt because MS does not stop this right as they have identified that it was a problem?
For your average game the devs,actually thier company, are going to see around $15 for each box sold, then they have to pay all thier costs. MMORPGs have higher costs and development and also setup fees, all the servers etc. However they do not sell as many copies; EQ has sold over 1 million copies but something like madden footfalls will sell close if not over 20 million, and you average will game will sell a million.
Now why everyone is producing a MMORPG is because because all thoses hardcore players will subscribe for $12-$15 a month and will do it for a long time. Over the life of the product the decent standalone game will average a decent 12-15% return on the money which is good. However for a MMORPG you are talking an average of 19%+ with some people saying that the bigger games like EQ/UO/DaOC are doing close or over 30%.
As for the costs, some of the smaller companies making MMORPG have said they need to average around 50K-60K subscribers a month to break even and pay back all loanes
LegendMUD was good, but his graphical MMORPG have sucked.
UO his first only got good and started to attract people once he left. SWG has terrible design problems, alot of stuff you have to wonder if he every played any type of game.
The only good thing about him and SWG is that he was promoted in Sony so now he will have part of this time messing up EQ2 and make it available for competent people to start fixing SWG.
The US CIA, UK M5 and Israel Mossad are now hiring people with experience with GSM and crypto experience.
Grab a copy of "developing online games: an insider view" it was review by slashdot a while ago.
More from a technical standpoint, but does not get into code. Interesting if you are into playing MMORPGs.