"They chose to buy proprietary software in the first place. If their chose ignorance has as a result people getting harmed, and copyright violations, then their ignorance is responsible. As they chose to be ignorant, they are responsible for that."
So for example if Linux contained copyrighted code (lets say, stuff from SCO), we should all be liable for using and redistributing Linux? I'll get my check for $699
Thats not an addiction, thats trying to prove something and making an ass out of yourself. As a "gaming addict" I can tell you that theres no way you'd play for 24 hours straight without actually intending to do so. The most is maybe 12 hours of a really good game, but eventually you get tired or just straight up bored. He was probably trying to impress his friends, or for that matter a cute gaming chick who honestly wouldnt have cared about it. This is no different from people street racing and getting in an accident and dying-- You set out to do something, it has unintended results, but weighs nothing onto the basis of the original act.
People already pay to spectate the major competitions (WCG, CPL), but what needs to happen is spectating needs to be more fun. You can't do that as long as all the progamers are jumping to the newest games that arn't even ready yet. CPL is especially bad for this, they went from Painkiller to Doom to FEAR to quake4, each time switching before the next game was even out. What should happen is switching to something custom made for competition/spectating, like a modified quakeworld. Get the right automated camera tracking stuff, a good shoutcaster (TSN does this nice for cs), and you could make it actually enjoyable to spec.
Of course the game is important too, not just the engines specability-- CS (The biggest online competitive game) is actually one of the most boring to spectate considering how long people can spend waiting for the round to end to save a weapon, or other long periods of inaction. Plus using a round based system instead of a timelimit makes it hard to schedule, which is important for speccing.
Not to mention how much more comfortable sitting around would be without gravity. without all that gravity forcing your weight down into an uncomfortable position (sitting in a chair), you'd not end up with a neckache/backache after a while. Of course, a better chair helps too.. but could you imagine zero-g floating around with a laptop infront of you?(I know, moon has gravity, that was more for spacestation living)
With their own voicechat hacked on, and with server to server messaging turned off. It would be like if AIM went open by switching to IRC as their backend, but still released no specs as to how direct connections/file sharing/webcams/voice chat worked. Sounds open in theory, is worthless in practice. Google does nothing by using jabber. We can already use third party clients for all other IM systems, thats not where jabber means anything, where jabber is useful is in server to server messaging (as in, my friends and i on our local jabber server being able to message gtalk users.) Google doesn't allow this, and thus is pretty irrelivant in the jabber world, and already irrelivant in the IM world due to lack of features.
Its a catch in that it makes it effectively useleff for people with monthly internet caps, shared connections(Alright, nobody actually cares that they're ruining the college line, but still), etc.
Which wont help you much if its just a laptop used as a thin client with all the important data on a server. Or if its all encrypted with the key on a thumbdrive, or any other setting in which physical access just helps, but isnt all you need.
"The next Intranet is being built by a half dozen teenage kids in their darkend bedrooms around the world. It isn't anything now, but will be the biggest thing the world has seen." *spits out jolt* WHO LET YOU IN ON IT?
I think they should focus more on the dumb terminal side of things. Let each machine be capable of running vim or gcc(slowly) if they want to, but have the main use be connecting to the schools main computer (which could easily be a 2ghz dell sitting in a corner). Or another idea would be to use something like klusternix or whatever that beowolf cluster knoppix fork was so that every computer shares resources with the machines around it.
Fully agreed-- A text book is always a text book, but a laptop can be every text book they need, and an environment to test what they learned on. As long as they build these to really last, it could be a godsend to a developing country. Would you rather pay $20 per book (an insanely cheap price for school books, but lets pretend they got cut a deal) per year * every year the kid has left in school, or the price of a laptop that can just be upgraded with the new programs every year?
I always thought an RF shielded backpack would be a nice idea, and after a lot of googling I found This would work nicely. Would also make it easy to shoplift from stores that use RF to track items.
Probably worth stocking up on before someone finds a way to make them illegal. Word it right and you could get a lot of people behind a bill banning them (you know, the "What do you have to hide?" crowd mixed with some aforementioned stealing possibility)
My problem with this isnt the invasion so much as the stupidity. Thats how the very first(and a lot of the current) anticheat in counter-strike worked. Well, that worked for a whole 2 weeks or so before people just randomized all their names (exe, window title, etc). Now some of the more modern "undefeatable" cheats go a step further(laugh) and look for strings like "Aimbot" in memory and ban for that. It's funny what people put their faith in.
Day of Defeat: Source takes the classic gameplay of the original Day of Defeat and improves the experience with Source, the advanced engine technology Valve created for Half-Life 2. With this technology, DoD: Source offers state of the art graphics (including support for HDR lighting) in optimized versions of popular maps, plus redesigned sound and all new player, weapon, and world models.
Not that valve hasnt blatantly lied about features before. Like the great dynamic terrain they showed off in the e3 demo..that doesnt even change the bounding box (as in, if you raised the floor up 32 units, you'd just be waste high in floor rather than actually standing 32 units higher.)
Thats a good way to widen your audience -- Just misclassify things as SciFi.
Laura Croft is no more SciFi than Indiana Jones -- Its adventure. Buffy/Xena is Mytho. No Science involved at all, just adjusted beliefs leading to an alternate reality.
Sounds like it was classified too soon, which brings up an interesting point-- Why not have a govt hardware supplier that buys these things in bulk and can custom build per security level needed? Could even do things far better than IBM/Dell as far as security is concerned (think RF emmisions and the like)
"My current ISP verizon costs me $40 a month with a 45kps upload. In one year if used for nothing else I can send 1419gb of data. For a grand total of $480 dollars and one year of transfer time. You could add another $100 for electricity as well."
You're buying the wrong service from verizon. Verizon FiOS For that same $40/mo, up it to 2mbit/s Google calculator says 2 megabits per second * 1 year = 7.52375745 terabytes
Granted, you can match that with a sizable quantity of 500gig harddrives in the mail, but thats point to point. You can't split that bandwidth between multiple sources with different stuff.
My current videocard is below the minimum system requirements of most games. My keyboard, mouse, monitor, case, headphones, speakers, OS, router, cable modem, internet connection, UPS, electricity, TV to watch while I wait for a friend to join, and cat that sleeps on my monitor are all perfectly capable of new games.
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Have you tried running your monitor at a higher refresh rate? I can spot a huge difference between 144fps @ 144hz and 60fps @ 60hz.
What most gamers don't realise the importance of is sync. Ideally you want the refresh rate of everything to match-- FPS, Monitor, mouse refresh, game engine updates, etc.
While I normally agree, theres comes a time when the game itself is so easy that theres no skill in that, so its just as pointless and you'd waste less time on it by noclipping through to see what is essentially a techdemo.
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"They chose to buy proprietary software in the first place.
If their chose ignorance has as a result people getting harmed, and copyright violations, then their ignorance is responsible. As they chose to be ignorant, they are responsible for that."
So for example if Linux contained copyrighted code (lets say, stuff from SCO), we should all be liable for using and redistributing Linux? I'll get my check for $699
Thats not an addiction, thats trying to prove something and making an ass out of yourself. As a "gaming addict" I can tell you that theres no way you'd play for 24 hours straight without actually intending to do so. The most is maybe 12 hours of a really good game, but eventually you get tired or just straight up bored. He was probably trying to impress his friends, or for that matter a cute gaming chick who honestly wouldnt have cared about it. This is no different from people street racing and getting in an accident and dying-- You set out to do something, it has unintended results, but weighs nothing onto the basis of the original act.
People already pay to spectate the major competitions (WCG, CPL), but what needs to happen is spectating needs to be more fun. You can't do that as long as all the progamers are jumping to the newest games that arn't even ready yet. CPL is especially bad for this, they went from Painkiller to Doom to FEAR to quake4, each time switching before the next game was even out. What should happen is switching to something custom made for competition/spectating, like a modified quakeworld. Get the right automated camera tracking stuff, a good shoutcaster (TSN does this nice for cs), and you could make it actually enjoyable to spec.
Of course the game is important too, not just the engines specability-- CS (The biggest online competitive game) is actually one of the most boring to spectate considering how long people can spend waiting for the round to end to save a weapon, or other long periods of inaction. Plus using a round based system instead of a timelimit makes it hard to schedule, which is important for speccing.
Not to mention how much more comfortable sitting around would be without gravity. without all that gravity forcing your weight down into an uncomfortable position (sitting in a chair), you'd not end up with a neckache/backache after a while. Of course, a better chair helps too.. but could you imagine zero-g floating around with a laptop infront of you?(I know, moon has gravity, that was more for spacestation living)
With their own voicechat hacked on, and with server to server messaging turned off. It would be like if AIM went open by switching to IRC as their backend, but still released no specs as to how direct connections/file sharing/webcams/voice chat worked. Sounds open in theory, is worthless in practice. Google does nothing by using jabber. We can already use third party clients for all other IM systems, thats not where jabber means anything, where jabber is useful is in server to server messaging (as in, my friends and i on our local jabber server being able to message gtalk users.) Google doesn't allow this, and thus is pretty irrelivant in the jabber world, and already irrelivant in the IM world due to lack of features.
Its a catch in that it makes it effectively useleff for people with monthly internet caps, shared connections(Alright, nobody actually cares that they're ruining the college line, but still), etc.
And I might leave my tv or radio on, but might not actually be watching or listening. Why should this be any different?
Which wont help you much if its just a laptop used as a thin client with all the important data on a server. Or if its all encrypted with the key on a thumbdrive, or any other setting in which physical access just helps, but isnt all you need.
In the preferences page you can set threshhold to -1 and Anonymous bonus to -6, which should hide all AC posts that arnt +5
"The next Intranet is being built by a half dozen teenage kids in their darkend bedrooms around the world. It isn't anything now, but will be the biggest thing the world has seen."
*spits out jolt*
WHO LET YOU IN ON IT?
I think they should focus more on the dumb terminal side of things. Let each machine be capable of running vim or gcc(slowly) if they want to, but have the main use be connecting to the schools main computer (which could easily be a 2ghz dell sitting in a corner).
Or another idea would be to use something like klusternix or whatever that beowolf cluster knoppix fork was so that every computer shares resources with the machines around it.
Fully agreed-- A text book is always a text book, but a laptop can be every text book they need, and an environment to test what they learned on. As long as they build these to really last, it could be a godsend to a developing country. Would you rather pay $20 per book (an insanely cheap price for school books, but lets pretend they got cut a deal) per year * every year the kid has left in school, or the price of a laptop that can just be upgraded with the new programs every year?
I always thought an RF shielded backpack would be a nice idea, and after a lot of googling I found This would work nicely.
Would also make it easy to shoplift from stores that use RF to track items.
Probably worth stocking up on before someone finds a way to make them illegal. Word it right and you could get a lot of people behind a bill banning them (you know, the "What do you have to hide?" crowd mixed with some aforementioned stealing possibility)
My problem with this isnt the invasion so much as the stupidity. Thats how the very first(and a lot of the current) anticheat in counter-strike worked. Well, that worked for a whole 2 weeks or so before people just randomized all their names (exe, window title, etc). Now some of the more modern "undefeatable" cheats go a step further(laugh) and look for strings like "Aimbot" in memory and ban for that. It's funny what people put their faith in.
Day of Defeat: Source takes the classic gameplay of the original Day of Defeat and improves the experience with Source, the advanced engine technology Valve created for Half-Life 2. With this technology, DoD: Source offers state of the art graphics (including support for HDR lighting) in optimized versions of popular maps, plus redesigned sound and all new player, weapon, and world models.
From http://www.dayofdefeat.com/
Not that valve hasnt blatantly lied about features before. Like the great dynamic terrain they showed off in the e3 demo..that doesnt even change the bounding box (as in, if you raised the floor up 32 units, you'd just be waste high in floor rather than actually standing 32 units higher.)
"This new video/gaming graphics technology is expected to debut soon with Valve's Half-Life 2: Lost Coast title."
Its okay to post old news, but Lost Coast is already out, as is DoD:S which also uses HDR.
Not to mention overclock your videocard, and on some mobos even flash your bios.
Thats a good way to widen your audience -- Just misclassify things as SciFi.
Laura Croft is no more SciFi than Indiana Jones -- Its adventure.
Buffy/Xena is Mytho. No Science involved at all, just adjusted beliefs leading to an alternate reality.
Sounds like it was classified too soon, which brings up an interesting point-- Why not have a govt hardware supplier that buys these things in bulk and can custom build per security level needed? Could even do things far better than IBM/Dell as far as security is concerned (think RF emmisions and the like)
"My current ISP verizon costs me $40 a month with a 45kps upload. In one year if used for nothing else I can send 1419gb of data. For a grand total of $480 dollars and one year of transfer time. You could add another $100 for electricity as well."
You're buying the wrong service from verizon.
Verizon FiOS
For that same $40/mo, up it to 2mbit/s
Google calculator says 2 megabits per second * 1 year = 7.52375745 terabytes
Granted, you can match that with a sizable quantity of 500gig harddrives in the mail, but thats point to point. You can't split that bandwidth between multiple sources with different stuff.
My current videocard is below the minimum system requirements of most games.
My keyboard, mouse, monitor, case, headphones, speakers, OS, router, cable modem, internet connection, UPS, electricity, TV to watch while I wait for a friend to join, and cat that sleeps on my monitor are all perfectly capable of new games.
Have you tried running your monitor at a higher refresh rate? I can spot a huge difference between 144fps @ 144hz and 60fps @ 60hz.
What most gamers don't realise the importance of is sync. Ideally you want the refresh rate of everything to match-- FPS, Monitor, mouse refresh, game engine updates, etc.
While I normally agree, theres comes a time when the game itself is so easy that theres no skill in that, so its just as pointless and you'd waste less time on it by noclipping through to see what is essentially a techdemo.
"The vast majority of them are horrible."
Same is true about games being made with profit motives.
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