until MMORPGs actually have an advanced enough engine where real-time world updates are possible, then you won't get the storylines that you want.
The game engines that are avaliable don't seem to have too much a cause-effect relationship to provide the in-depth immersion that is neccesary for good storytelling.
I mean, you can kill a monster 100 times in a row... and nothing happens.
No matter what they say, womem programmers will never get the mentality of 'killers': those teenage (and older!) young men that find the most fun in online games griefing, killing, and exploiting the games.
There will never again be a game world where 'Trammelites' and 'Pkers' can co-exist in the world like they did in Ultima Online. Things have just progressed to a point where the user base knows what they want out of games, and specialized games are coming out to grab up a specific type of player group, instead of mashing everyone together like the early UO (and NVN on AOL) did. Never again.
its more that sony is the only real computer manufacturer that provides content along with the machines to play it on. off the top of my head, I can't think of any other company that spans such a broad range of products.
in fact, I forget the guys name, but there was a push by one of the CMFICs at sony to provide mainly content and move away from the hardware level like 10 or so years ago. i dont think that it was implemented well, so you still have the conflict within the company.
You're dead on that the post I was replying to was pointing out that the guy who wrote the article is in the computer entertainment business. He also interjected some skepticism of the author's ability to comment on the topics the article was about. My reply post was stating my opinion that the author, due to his background, has a legitamate position to comment on the topic, be it if he is in the entertainment industry or not.
Remember that Ronald Regan was an entertainer. He was also a President of the United States.
Don't overlook people or thier ideas because of the way that they pay thier bills.
P.S. "Almost saying" is a polite way to say 'my interpretation'.
You are almost saying that because he writes fiction he can't think about the state of the world. That seems a very limited view. I mean, what special knowledge MUST one have to be able to criticize or comment on something? The author, it seems, has made a life studying technology, its ramifications, and plausible futures. So, when commenting on said technology, I would actually not take his comments "with a grain of salt" but rather as an educated opinion of the state of the world's technology.
I can't think of a better background for a person to have to comment on the things that he is commenting on.
you've basically hit the nail on the head about why time seems to pass so fast online.
1/ Things are only relevant if they're being talked about. 2/ Things are only linked if they are talked about. 3/ Therefore, things are only relevant when they are linked.
The links (i.e. 'see also') in the dictionary never change, so relevancy is pretty much set during its publishing. When links online change every day or every hour, then things seem to come and go: definitions change.
Isn't that what the article about: definitions changing?
It seems the whole article is based on the assumption that "Because the LAN operators are smart enough to install the P2P software, they have to know that it will be used to share copyrighted music." (paraphrased)
Disclaimer: I don't write php for a living, but I do write C/Perl.
People need a book that lets them understand what the hell is going on when they re-use someone else's code. Everything I've ever done for myself or others in php has basically been code-reuse. Download the phpnuke or postnuke scripts, configure it then edit the ones to fit some dynamic modules that you need specific on your site. I have never ran into anyone that has ever written a php/mySQL application from scratch, and why would you when there are plenty of code-bases out there that do 85% of the work for you.
This book is basically to understand poorly commented php code, so that the average php scripter can understand whats going on.
Is the company focused on developing a cross-platform engine (with a complete scripting language) and then using an instance of that engine to create The Best Game in the World? Or are they just going to code up the game itself (with minimal re-usability)?
People that don't read old articles would like to know.;)
Yeah, a fellow gamer has boasted (and also shown pictures) of his new truck that he bought through selling MMORPG items on ebay (and through private transactions).
I have no problem when he makes money through hard work and dedication to playing the game, but the items that he was selling on ebay were duplicated through the use of a client-server exploit of the game. The 'dupe' allowed him to get multiple copies of some of the rarest (and unique!) items in the game that he could sell for hundreds of dollars each.
Now, in that sense cheating does prosper the same way that the parent post assumes that the ebay sales of the individual mentioned are all duped items.
If you can dupe virtual items and sell the use of them on a server you do not even own to unsuspecting individuals to make thousands of dollars, would you?
considering that the 3 times I've had to call Earthlink support i've waited on average about 70 minutes per call, the extra $5 per month isn't such a bad idea. Thats an hour and a half waiting on hold while the customer service person gets to me, its not including the 10-20 minutes actually spent getting the person to undestand my problem and doing what they can to fix it.
Thats not a very good number...
[The last time I used thier web/java-based instant message service and I was in and out in 10 minutes with my account problem solved... but it uses web-access, so if there is a problem with that you're hosed.]
Stuff seems to come and go so fast nowadays, if you're not on the razor edge of technology then it seems that your stuff is outdated before it is released.
Innovation takes time, and when people get bored of crap that took 2 years to build in like 2 days, then there will not be an influx of quality products.
The same patriotism that Americans feel for thier country is probably prevalent in Iraqui nationals. Thier propaganda machine does a good job of making the US look like an evil empire, and the current Iraqui government a beacon of prosperity. Soldiers are willing to fight and die for things that they believe in, no matter which side they are on.
That is also why the propagation of information is so important: If you can give the common soldier an alternate viewpoint on thier beliefs, then they might end up doubting them. If they aren't 100% sure that they are fighting for something worth fighting (and dying) for, then they might not fight, which is I think what everyone wants.
Summation: Don't suppose becasuse you're a WASP with an educated opinion (albeit a public school one) that other people have had the same expose to ideas and information as you have.
It would seem to me, that for 'enterprise' level government work (i.e. defense related software) that stability would be more of a requirement than speed, portability or feature-set.
You don't want your tank software blue-screening in the middle of a fight. "Hold on guys, don't fire at me for a second, I need to reboot my tank."
Alot of UNIX vendors have realized this, and they know that if they make products that the gov'ment likes that contains the features that they need, then they will continue to sell products. Lots of products. Its not so much a niche market, more like market share.
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"What if the word first needed to be bold?"
That is more data. If the Xml contained that additional data, it might be formed like this:
my title
This is the first paragraph
another
Note that the xml does nothing other than specify that the word 'first' has the characteristic 'bold'. It could also have the characteristic 'IHATEPEOPLE' if that wascontained the xml data. The formatting stylesheet (or whatever program you are using to display the xml data) determines how to make the characteristics for the appropriate appear on your screen.
If the text displaying program knew that the text inbetween the tags was actually to be displayed as bold text onscreen, then it would make it so. If data with the tag was to be displayed in green in 10 point font, then it would display any words that way.
The program decides what to do with the data, the data doesnt decide what to do with the data.
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until MMORPGs actually have an advanced enough engine where real-time world updates are possible, then you won't get the storylines that you want.
The game engines that are avaliable don't seem to have too much a cause-effect relationship to provide the in-depth immersion that is neccesary for good storytelling.
I mean, you can kill a monster 100 times in a row... and nothing happens.
No matter what they say, womem programmers will never get the mentality of 'killers': those teenage (and older!) young men that find the most fun in online games griefing, killing, and exploiting the games.
There will never again be a game world where 'Trammelites' and 'Pkers' can co-exist in the world like they did in Ultima Online. Things have just progressed to a point where the user base knows what they want out of games, and specialized games are coming out to grab up a specific type of player group, instead of mashing everyone together like the early UO (and NVN on AOL) did. Never again.
its more that sony is the only real computer manufacturer that provides content along with the machines to play it on. off the top of my head, I can't think of any other company that spans such a broad range of products.
in fact, I forget the guys name, but there was a push by one of the CMFICs at sony to provide mainly content and move away from the hardware level like 10 or so years ago. i dont think that it was implemented well, so you still have the conflict within the company.
You're dead on that the post I was replying to was pointing out that the guy who wrote the article is in the computer entertainment business. He also interjected some skepticism of the author's ability to comment on the topics the article was about. My reply post was stating my opinion that the author, due to his background, has a legitamate position to comment on the topic, be it if he is in the entertainment industry or not.
Remember that Ronald Regan was an entertainer. He was also a President of the United States.
Don't overlook people or thier ideas because of the way that they pay thier bills.
P.S. "Almost saying" is a polite way to say 'my interpretation'.
No.
You are almost saying that because he writes fiction he can't think about the state of the world. That seems a very limited view. I mean, what special knowledge MUST one have to be able to criticize or comment on something? The author, it seems, has made a life studying technology, its ramifications, and plausible futures. So, when commenting on said technology, I would actually not take his comments "with a grain of salt" but rather as an educated opinion of the state of the world's technology.
I can't think of a better background for a person to have to comment on the things that he is commenting on.
'Fanatical PC gamers' are the only ones driving the video card industry.
I would NOT say they are a small minority, as ATI and nVidia are multi-million dollar businesses.
they can't open source thier application because there are too many hardcoded references to ads.
you've basically hit the nail on the head about why time seems to pass so fast online.
:D
1/ Things are only relevant if they're being talked about.
2/ Things are only linked if they are talked about.
3/ Therefore, things are only relevant when they are linked.
The links (i.e. 'see also') in the dictionary never change, so relevancy is pretty much set during its publishing. When links online change every day or every hour, then things seem to come and go: definitions change.
Isn't that what the article about: definitions changing?
P.S. 4/ PROFIT!
It seems the whole article is based on the assumption that "Because the LAN operators are smart enough to install the P2P software, they have to know that it will be used to share copyrighted music." (paraphrased)
Bad, bad assumption.
Disclaimer: I don't write php for a living, but I do write C/Perl.
People need a book that lets them understand what the hell is going on when they re-use someone else's code. Everything I've ever done for myself or others in php has basically been code-reuse. Download the phpnuke or postnuke scripts, configure it then edit the ones to fit some dynamic modules that you need specific on your site. I have never ran into anyone that has ever written a php/mySQL application from scratch, and why would you when there are plenty of code-bases out there that do 85% of the work for you.
This book is basically to understand poorly commented php code, so that the average php scripter can understand whats going on.
thats 'evil bit' bad, not 'least bit' bad. thx
Its nice when you can give access to write some of those html files to your 'friends' without giving them FTP access to your server.
Dynamic content with web-based multi-user editing is why I use php/sql on my somewhat smallish site.
Is the company focused on developing a cross-platform engine (with a complete scripting language) and then using an instance of that engine to create The Best Game in the World? Or are they just going to code up the game itself (with minimal re-usability)?
;)
People that don't read old articles would like to know.
it would be like goatse day on slashdot. ;0
Trolls modded up +1, informative posts modded -1.
How to develop phpNuke!
Yeah, a fellow gamer has boasted (and also shown pictures) of his new truck that he bought through selling MMORPG items on ebay (and through private transactions).
I have no problem when he makes money through hard work and dedication to playing the game, but the items that he was selling on ebay were duplicated through the use of a client-server exploit of the game. The 'dupe' allowed him to get multiple copies of some of the rarest (and unique!) items in the game that he could sell for hundreds of dollars each.
Now, in that sense cheating does prosper the same way that the parent post assumes that the ebay sales of the individual mentioned are all duped items.
If you can dupe virtual items and sell the use of them on a server you do not even own to unsuspecting individuals to make thousands of dollars, would you?
considering that the 3 times I've had to call Earthlink support i've waited on average about 70 minutes per call, the extra $5 per month isn't such a bad idea. Thats an hour and a half waiting on hold while the customer service person gets to me, its not including the 10-20 minutes actually spent getting the person to undestand my problem and doing what they can to fix it.
Thats not a very good number...
[The last time I used thier web/java-based instant message service and I was in and out in 10 minutes with my account problem solved... but it uses web-access, so if there is a problem with that you're hosed.]
You're right. It should be "New Material Science" since the theory and physics (i.e. equations) of the objects were specified years ago.
A category pioneered by the (in)famous "Parapa The Rappa".
You talk about getting songs stuck in your head for days...
Do to you're consul, they will site you're principal bank account two the affect of too million dollars.
You loose.
Thats because 1 internet day is 100 RL days.
Stuff seems to come and go so fast nowadays, if you're not on the razor edge of technology then it seems that your stuff is outdated before it is released.
Innovation takes time, and when people get bored of crap that took 2 years to build in like 2 days, then there will not be an influx of quality products.
Disclaimer: IANI (I am not iraqi)
Not neccesarily.
The same patriotism that Americans feel for thier country is probably prevalent in Iraqui nationals. Thier propaganda machine does a good job of making the US look like an evil empire, and the current Iraqui government a beacon of prosperity. Soldiers are willing to fight and die for things that they believe in, no matter which side they are on.
That is also why the propagation of information is so important: If you can give the common soldier an alternate viewpoint on thier beliefs, then they might end up doubting them. If they aren't 100% sure that they are fighting for something worth fighting (and dying) for, then they might not fight, which is I think what everyone wants.
Summation: Don't suppose becasuse you're a WASP with an educated opinion (albeit a public school one) that other people have had the same expose to ideas and information as you have.
It would seem to me, that for 'enterprise' level government work (i.e. defense related software) that stability would be more of a requirement than speed, portability or feature-set.
You don't want your tank software blue-screening in the middle of a fight. "Hold on guys, don't fire at me for a second, I need to reboot my tank."
Alot of UNIX vendors have realized this, and they know that if they make products that the gov'ment likes that contains the features that they need, then they will continue to sell products. Lots of products. Its not so much a niche market, more like market share.
"What if the word first needed to be bold?"
That is more data. If the Xml contained that additional data, it might be formed like this:
my title
This is the first paragraph
another
Note that the xml does nothing other than specify that the word 'first' has the characteristic 'bold'. It could also have the characteristic 'IHATEPEOPLE' if that wascontained the xml data. The formatting stylesheet (or whatever program you are using to display the xml data) determines how to make the characteristics for the appropriate appear on your screen.
If the text displaying program knew that the text inbetween the tags was actually to be displayed as bold text onscreen, then it would make it so. If data with the tag was to be displayed in green in 10 point font, then it would display any words that way.
The program decides what to do with the data, the data doesnt decide what to do with the data.
you think that you are 'more correct' because you are arrogant. ;)