With TRON and now Plan 9 falling into the hands of OSS the move to have the operating systems of computers taken over by old sci-fi movies is happening.
Except based on studies less then 15% of the MUD/MMORPG users want or do PKing.
The book _Developing Online Game_ reviewed a while ago in/. goes a little into this.
If they guy just sat in a chair, drank beer, and watched sports during the time he plays the game, he would be considered normal.
Throw in that he players games on his computer and he is considered wierd.
This was/is a huge government system, and will not go into names.
The new system release was suppose to be released in mid-late 2000, and by late 1999 was on good track to be ready by; then after over 2 years of development. Needless to say it was a major change in the system, atlot of other systems were waiting for it.
Come January 2000 the office decided that they would move everything to a new location 25 miles away, and instead of being in the far outer subburbs of washington DC, they would now be right in the middle of the some of the busiest traffic area. The whole development team(devs, dbas, sub-project leaders) except for around 4 people, decided not to face the traffic each day and quit or took other jobs.
So the project leader got stuck with hiring a whole new team while at the same time having to do the move. It took over 6 months to start get enough new people.
It is now 2003 and they still have not released the new software, they are expecting a release by late this year. Which is great news to all the other software that has been delayed since it was developed to the specificiations of the new software.
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However if you go to the site where they are hosting all thier legal stuff, it is running on windows with IIS.
I tends to see the difference of a mud and mmorpg is that a mmorpg has a graphical interface instead of being text based.
In which case they old Plato system had a graphical mud that predates 'The Realm' however I would give 'The Realm' the distinction of being the first modern one.
If you are interested in MMORGPs and this topic get a copy of Developing Online Games.
It goes into a lot more detail then this chart, and provides alot more info on the people who play MMORPGs.
The problem with lineage is that most of thier sales are group accounts to cafes instead of individuals.
So a cafe might have 10 accounts but thoses 10 accounts are used by 500 users, each with thier own character.
So do you count the number of accounts sold, or the number of characters?
This is slowly changing as more people get home connections.
How many people want to rewire thier houses with a plug system that provides more features or capabilities, but with the added costs of all electronics you purchase at target need an adapter?
Or how about having to worry when you go into the gas station if the nozzle is compatable with your car?
Sure standards slow down innovation, but the costs that the standards provide can be worth it.
> Consider another movie like 'Brazil'.
I must consider going and purchasing a copy to replace my VHS, Love it and must watch it soon Anyway...;-)
They released a great 3 or 4 DVD collection of Brazil, with multiple version, and a whole lot of other stuff. Nice collection if you liked the film.
Kind of interested if thier is a solution for this already.
What happens if I have one of theses CR set up and a friend has another one we are not on each others lists. I send him mail, which gets me a piece of mail asking for a responce, since my system does not know the address it then replys, and so on......
I presume with the same product they watch thier know thier own responces so they can put a stop to this.
One of the best examples is the Congressional Black Caucus, which assembles all the African-American congresspeople do discuss issues they feel are important.
Actually you have to be a black liberal to discuss issues, black conservatives have joined and have been told to sit in the back and shut up.
Kidnapping of the future as the same problems of current kidnapping, and why kidnapping in the US is basicly a dead crime. How do you collect the money and get away.
Where it could be really usful is with carjacking, since they are so small could contain thier own power, you can stick large amounts of them in a vehicle.
Get a duplicate of your keyholder and place that in a corner of your desk, or so other promenant location. Works even better if you wear a hat and have a duplicate of that.
Women get it even easier with a duplicate purse.
Just remember to remove it at nights or when you know you will not be thier.
If you had a legal right to get the property you could then present the papers to the UK, and based on agreements between the US and the UK go that way.
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With TRON and now Plan 9 falling into the hands of OSS the move to have the operating systems of computers taken over by old sci-fi movies is happening.
I am going later this week, so will have to see it.
If any thing decent will post.
Except based on studies less then 15% of the MUD/MMORPG users want or do PKing. /. goes a little into this.
The book _Developing Online Game_ reviewed a while ago in
If they guy just sat in a chair, drank beer, and watched sports during the time he plays the game, he would be considered normal.
Throw in that he players games on his computer and he is considered wierd.
But it does give them a better track record then the New York Times.
This was/is a huge government system, and will not go into names.
The new system release was suppose to be released in mid-late 2000, and by late 1999 was on good track to be ready by; then after over 2 years of development. Needless to say it was a major change in the system, atlot of other systems were waiting for it.
Come January 2000 the office decided that they would move everything to a new location 25 miles away, and instead of being in the far outer subburbs of washington DC, they would now be right in the middle of the some of the busiest traffic area. The whole development team(devs, dbas, sub-project leaders) except for around 4 people, decided not to face the traffic each day and quit or took other jobs.
So the project leader got stuck with hiring a whole new team while at the same time having to do the move. It took over 6 months to start get enough new people.
It is now 2003 and they still have not released the new software, they are expecting a release by late this year. Which is great news to all the other software that has been delayed since it was developed to the specificiations of the new software.
However if you go to the site where they are hosting all thier legal stuff, it is running on windows with IIS.
This page now has no info in it, just they standard page template.
Got a copy of it somewhere?
MOD PARENT UP.
For a something as interesting, watch SCOX stock price, it is jumping up and down with all theses announcements.
Santa Cruz but the two are the same.
I tends to see the difference of a mud and mmorpg is that a mmorpg has a graphical interface instead of being text based.
In which case they old Plato system had a graphical mud that predates 'The Realm' however I would give 'The Realm' the distinction of being the first modern one.
If you are interested in MMORGPs and this topic get a copy of Developing Online Games.
It goes into a lot more detail then this chart, and provides alot more info on the people who play MMORPGs.
The problem with lineage is that most of thier sales are group accounts to cafes instead of individuals. So a cafe might have 10 accounts but thoses 10 accounts are used by 500 users, each with thier own character.
So do you count the number of accounts sold, or the number of characters?
This is slowly changing as more people get home connections.
The Sims also has game cards that can be purchased.
How many people want to rewire thier houses with a plug system that provides more features or capabilities, but with the added costs of all electronics you purchase at target need an adapter?
Or how about having to worry when you go into the gas station if the nozzle is compatable with your car?
Sure standards slow down innovation, but the costs that the standards provide can be worth it.
> Consider another movie like 'Brazil'. I must consider going and purchasing a copy to replace my VHS, Love it and must watch it soon Anyway... ;-)
They released a great 3 or 4 DVD collection of Brazil, with multiple version, and a whole lot of other stuff. Nice collection if you liked the film.
But how do you smuggle in the cable?
Kind of interested if thier is a solution for this already.
What happens if I have one of theses CR set up and a friend has another one we are not on each others lists. I send him mail, which gets me a piece of mail asking for a responce, since my system does not know the address it then replys, and so on......
I presume with the same product they watch thier know thier own responces so they can put a stop to this.
One of the best examples is the Congressional Black Caucus, which assembles all the African-American congresspeople do discuss issues they feel are important.
Actually you have to be a black liberal to discuss issues, black conservatives have joined and have been told to sit in the back and shut up.
Lets get one, that way we can slashdot the poor thing and see what happens.
You just go the simple route, include an EULA saying that doing this is against the DCMA.
Then sue.
Kidnapping of the future as the same problems of current kidnapping, and why kidnapping in the US is basicly a dead crime. How do you collect the money and get away.
Where it could be really usful is with carjacking, since they are so small could contain thier own power, you can stick large amounts of them in a vehicle.
Get a duplicate of your keyholder and place that in a corner of your desk, or so other promenant location. Works even better if you wear a hat and have a duplicate of that.
Women get it even easier with a duplicate purse.
Just remember to remove it at nights or when you know you will not be thier.
There you did it.
Now michael moores next movie is going to be a comparision of Linux and nazism.
If you had a legal right to get the property you could then present the papers to the UK, and based on agreements between the US and the UK go that way.