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MMORPGs vs. MUDs
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Saving MUDs?
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MUDs are essentially MMORPGs without graphics. MUDs allow for greater developer depth (the Avatar MUD has 23 races which can be mixed with around 10 classes, and a huge world to explore) and player depth (you can be a lot more creative in a game with text instead of graphics), but it's not easy to go up against the fancy graphics and content factories of big companies like Sony Online. It's not just fun to look at better graphics, but can be easier on the eyes, and a lot easier for people with mild dyslexia (a surprisingly common problem). I think a lot of MUDs are going to dissapear, but I also think that they'll be around for a lot longer, and maybe never fully dissapear.
Yay, now the internet can finally be free of hackers, viruses, bugs, spam, and every "cyber" problem that plagues the republicans! Um, I mean, American citizens!
What they need is a new mail protocol. One that would probably be much the same, but carry with it some basic, enforcable restrictions. Like all advertisements, solicited or not, are labeled as such. And all unrequested ads have to be labeled as such. Thus, the E-Mail programs can identify them and place them in different Inbox folders appropriately.
Of course, people are going to want to mark messages as non-ads, which is why it needs to be enforcable. It would be a standard that a country would have to agree to uphold in order for access to that system to be available, so that when spammers break the rules, regardless of where they are, they get in trouble. Also a great help would be if all E-Mails in this system had more definite information about their origins, meaning headers can't be forged. How this would happen, I don't know. Maybe it's a myth like "unbreakable encryption".
Can anyone else think of ideas along these lines? Or has E-Mail simply outlived it's usefulness? Should we all just resort to Instant Messaging and forums?
Seems quite worrisome to me... There's a great potential for abuse when dealing with this many people on this scale. And it also could provide easier access to sensitive information for terrorists. The problem with terrorists is that they can pass as normal citizens. So who's to say that they won't sneak themselves in to these programs to give themselves access to these areas?
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Grab on to the right breast, and... er, I mean dome...
MUDs are essentially MMORPGs without graphics. MUDs allow for greater developer depth (the Avatar MUD has 23 races which can be mixed with around 10 classes, and a huge world to explore) and player depth (you can be a lot more creative in a game with text instead of graphics), but it's not easy to go up against the fancy graphics and content factories of big companies like Sony Online. It's not just fun to look at better graphics, but can be easier on the eyes, and a lot easier for people with mild dyslexia (a surprisingly common problem). I think a lot of MUDs are going to dissapear, but I also think that they'll be around for a lot longer, and maybe never fully dissapear.
Yay, now the internet can finally be free of hackers, viruses, bugs, spam, and every "cyber" problem that plagues the republicans! Um, I mean, American citizens!
So.. much.. cool.. stuff.. can't.. take it.. *blacks out*
Is WINHEC where you go if you're darned for all eternity after pirating windows?
No, that's where you go when you install Windows.
What they need is a new mail protocol. One that would probably be much the same, but carry with it some basic, enforcable restrictions. Like all advertisements, solicited or not, are labeled as such. And all unrequested ads have to be labeled as such. Thus, the E-Mail programs can identify them and place them in different Inbox folders appropriately.
Of course, people are going to want to mark messages as non-ads, which is why it needs to be enforcable. It would be a standard that a country would have to agree to uphold in order for access to that system to be available, so that when spammers break the rules, regardless of where they are, they get in trouble. Also a great help would be if all E-Mails in this system had more definite information about their origins, meaning headers can't be forged. How this would happen, I don't know. Maybe it's a myth like "unbreakable encryption".
Can anyone else think of ideas along these lines? Or has E-Mail simply outlived it's usefulness? Should we all just resort to Instant Messaging and forums?
Seems quite worrisome to me... There's a great potential for abuse when dealing with this many people on this scale. And it also could provide easier access to sensitive information for terrorists. The problem with terrorists is that they can pass as normal citizens. So who's to say that they won't sneak themselves in to these programs to give themselves access to these areas?
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