the guarantee that the program is absolutely not installing any spyware or compromising your privacy.
Have you scrutinized every single line of Firefox source? No? Then you really don't have that guarantee. Don't get me wrong, I love open source -- I was a Gentoo dev until I got sick of the politics, and now I contribute to various projects. But it's a bad idea to claim that "open source = no malware", because you can't make that promise unless the code has truly been audited.
Also, the more complex the platform is, the harder it is to be certain that your program takes into account all the idiosyncracies it may encounter.
Back in the days of DOS, this was extremely important. Now it's almost irrelevant. Everyone writes their games using DirectX and/or OpenGL, and it's overwhelmingly the responsibility of the libraries and drivers to ensure compatibility, not the game.
Bluetooth technology will suffer from new viruses..major viruses..nothing like the paris hilton fiasco. This will lead way to a technology that will make bluetooth obsolete. watch and see.
Huh? "Bluetooth technology" can't be affected by viruses any more than TCP/IP can. Bluetooth devices, maybe. There's absolutely no reason to scrap the technology due to poor implementations, though.
By the way, "Correlation != Causality" is a logical flaw that has been named by the academic community: post hoc ergo propter hoc.
While we're being anal, that's just Latin for "correlation == causation", a logical fallacy. When dealing with these kinds of fallacies, it's much clearer to just say "correlation does not imply causation", rather than dragging out the Latin.
If you think about it, its a hard thing to create a MMORPG based on Star Wars.
Yeah. My idea, way back in the early days of Ultima Online, was a massive strategy/combat/trading game set in the Star Wars universe. Sort of a blend of Master of Orion, Privateer, and the X-Wing games. Unfortunately, I think even with broadband, the latency of the Internet is too unpredictable to make a game with real-time combat involving hundreds of players work.
When players miss their target, it is because of stat-based calculations and not because they didn't aim right. You know when you've targeted a demon, and once that has occurred, it is all down to RPG mechanics.
He also mentions that there's unlimited ammunition. The interview is surprisingly light on details about what gameplay will actually involve, besides running around killing demons.
And there should be a model for the propagation of news- did anyone in the village actually see you setting the person on fire? Who did they tell next? Minor events wouldn't travel very far, so if you ruin your name in one place you should be able to start over somewhere else, unless you've committed so great a vile act that the news will eventually reach everywhere (but maybe you can beat the news by travelling fast).
Exactly! This is just the kind of reputation/communication/trading system I'm building for my little open-source game. I imagine Bethesda can take some liberties because their world is full of magic, but with all their hype about Radiant AI, I would hope they'd do interesting things with it.
yup, filter and transform everything live all the time. caching transformations in the first place is for complete losers.
Do you really think that the GP doesn't understand this? Caching the files generated is blatantly obvious. If you can write decent XML-handling code, I don't know how you could not understand caching. Don't assume that people are stupid just because they didn't mention an implementation detail.
This is the sort of bullshit that happens when you allow the balance of power between the three branches of government to be degraded by filibusters and the like. They impede the government's ability to do the work it's intended for.
So does a multi-party system. We could have a dictatorship and government would be very efficient indeed.
Filibusters are one of the few tools that prevent a slight majority from ramming through whatever legislation they want. Did you pass high school civics? They are in fact a critical part of checks and balances, or balance of power as you call it.
Yeah, it really depends on who wrote it. I've seen some excellent ones, with handwritten tablature and comments about the artist's playing, and then I've seen the mass-produced kind with tons of omissions, if not outright errors. Unless it was written with assistance from the original artist, it is nothing more than a transcription.
I think because it eats into sales of songbooks (music & lyrics). Go into any Guitar Center and you'll see racks and racks of songbooks.
Sorry, but are you a musician? The point of songbooks is not the lyrics. It's the notes, chords, and tablature that's interesting. The lyrics are just a point of reference, which are typically provided with the music anyway (one of the many benefits of buying CDs or vinyl instead of from iTunes).
I don't know why he doesn't just buy the music, scan the sheets, and print copies at leisure.
Because it's illegal? Read the copyright notice on any piece of sheet music.
Y'know, not everyone defines "cultural malaise" as originating from "Hollywood liberalism." Personally, I think the anti-gay bigotry being written into law and serious discussion about the merits of torture are far more important than the usual cycle of sex/drugs/violence in our entertainmenet, which is nothing new (read Beowulf or Oedipus Rex). For more insight, understand what culture means.
Nice to see someone with a similar blend of interests/skills on Slashdot. I'd say come here to New York or even New England if you want a sane environment; there are a number of pharmaceutical research labs in the region. Personally, I'm heading to Germany or Switzerland after I finish up my education.
It's not that they don't have original and good ideas, it's that they hide those ideas under layers of menus and accept the Windows way by default.
Wrong. Your distro is obviously screwing with the defaults. Install KDE from scratch, and you get the single-click to run by default. You also get some strange stuff, like double-clicking the title bar will "fade" the window.
In today's 3GHz plus dual-core world, I'd happily give up, say, 5% worth of performance in exchange for a completely stable, secure system.
Says someone who probably hasn't done much serious programming. Crashes and security problems are possible in any language. If you can write an infinite loop, you can have a bug that locks up your OS.
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Have you scrutinized every single line of Firefox source? No? Then you really don't have that guarantee. Don't get me wrong, I love open source -- I was a Gentoo dev until I got sick of the politics, and now I contribute to various projects. But it's a bad idea to claim that "open source = no malware", because you can't make that promise unless the code has truly been audited.
More likely a competent electrician, if some of the outlets are fine and some aren't.
Back in the days of DOS, this was extremely important. Now it's almost irrelevant. Everyone writes their games using DirectX and/or OpenGL, and it's overwhelmingly the responsibility of the libraries and drivers to ensure compatibility, not the game.
Huh? "Bluetooth technology" can't be affected by viruses any more than TCP/IP can. Bluetooth devices, maybe. There's absolutely no reason to scrap the technology due to poor implementations, though.
I remember playing Dune II, widely considered the first true RTS, on my Sega Genesis. The control would have been better with a mouse, but it worked.
While we're being anal, that's just Latin for "correlation == causation", a logical fallacy. When dealing with these kinds of fallacies, it's much clearer to just say "correlation does not imply causation", rather than dragging out the Latin.
Yeah. My idea, way back in the early days of Ultima Online, was a massive strategy/combat/trading game set in the Star Wars universe. Sort of a blend of Master of Orion, Privateer, and the X-Wing games. Unfortunately, I think even with broadband, the latency of the Internet is too unpredictable to make a game with real-time combat involving hundreds of players work.
Uh, well, give it a couple years. :-)
He also mentions that there's unlimited ammunition. The interview is surprisingly light on details about what gameplay will actually involve, besides running around killing demons.
Exactly! This is just the kind of reputation/communication/trading system I'm building for my little open-source game. I imagine Bethesda can take some liberties because their world is full of magic, but with all their hype about Radiant AI, I would hope they'd do interesting things with it.
Not so much, really. From the article: all quests take place in private instances.
Take it back a step: FireWire is popular because there is no viable alternative. It's the fastest thing available.
Do you really think that the GP doesn't understand this? Caching the files generated is blatantly obvious. If you can write decent XML-handling code, I don't know how you could not understand caching. Don't assume that people are stupid just because they didn't mention an implementation detail.
So does a multi-party system. We could have a dictatorship and government would be very efficient indeed.
Filibusters are one of the few tools that prevent a slight majority from ramming through whatever legislation they want. Did you pass high school civics? They are in fact a critical part of checks and balances, or balance of power as you call it.
You know, you can download Cygwin and get a real shell.
Yeah, it really depends on who wrote it. I've seen some excellent ones, with handwritten tablature and comments about the artist's playing, and then I've seen the mass-produced kind with tons of omissions, if not outright errors. Unless it was written with assistance from the original artist, it is nothing more than a transcription.
Sorry, but are you a musician? The point of songbooks is not the lyrics. It's the notes, chords, and tablature that's interesting. The lyrics are just a point of reference, which are typically provided with the music anyway (one of the many benefits of buying CDs or vinyl instead of from iTunes).
I don't know why he doesn't just buy the music, scan the sheets, and print copies at leisure.
Because it's illegal? Read the copyright notice on any piece of sheet music.
Y'know, not everyone defines "cultural malaise" as originating from "Hollywood liberalism." Personally, I think the anti-gay bigotry being written into law and serious discussion about the merits of torture are far more important than the usual cycle of sex/drugs/violence in our entertainmenet, which is nothing new (read Beowulf or Oedipus Rex). For more insight, understand what culture means.
Nice to see someone with a similar blend of interests/skills on Slashdot. I'd say come here to New York or even New England if you want a sane environment; there are a number of pharmaceutical research labs in the region. Personally, I'm heading to Germany or Switzerland after I finish up my education.
Only if they have a Nielsen box.
Wrong. Your distro is obviously screwing with the defaults. Install KDE from scratch, and you get the single-click to run by default. You also get some strange stuff, like double-clicking the title bar will "fade" the window.
Says someone who probably hasn't done much serious programming. Crashes and security problems are possible in any language. If you can write an infinite loop, you can have a bug that locks up your OS.
Nobody cares about "GNU/Linux". I believe the slash comes from OS/2.
So it's a monolithic kernel that tries to behave like a microkernel internally. Could work.
Its funny how we can always come up with money to kill, but there's never enough money for science.