That saddened me, because Peter Molyneux really has nothing to apologise for. In the design process of ANY game, cool features are conceived, and tossed about, and then pulled because they used too much CPU time or weren't worth the amount of time they would have taken to implement.
Peter Molyneux has a passion for computer game design. He will talk to anybody about the cool ideas. At no point does he ever 'Overpromise'; he rarely promises anything. He just tells the public what his design team are coming up with and playing with. He's not deliberately hyping his games, he's simply talking passionately about his job. It's the fault of the media and the general public if they interpret this wrongly, and then act disappointed when certain features don't make it, as though they 'deserve' to see these features; as though they have some sort of right to be part of the design process.
I am very glad to see Lionhead and their satellites staying close to their community and fanbase. It disappoints me to see the fanbase taking the developers' words as gospel and later being outraged and making demands about features and release dates. The consequence of this behaviour is that the developers will learn their lesson and stop sharing an insight into the design process with us. That would suck.
I can't see that it does work. It's the most pointless bit of legislation ever. Better would be new standard whereby a signal can be used to tell phones to set themselves to silent mode. Or just remove the fucking ringtones entirely from all phones... I don't understand why everybody can't just use the vibrate function.
This is ridiculous, what they're saying is, "We'll pay you for your laptop if someone bruteforces their way through the lock, but if they exploit one of our design flaws, then we won't pay out."
How the hell can they get away with that?
Wow, I was going to write in with almost the same question: I've actually won the computing book prize, which is a voucher... for 15. I'm wondering what I should spend it on, looking for an book in the general area of computer science that'll be interesting. Slashdot is pre-emptively satisfying my needs:-)
Recently a friend was trying to get a game working, and during the troubleshooting process I made his PC a dimilitarized zone on his gateway, to see if it was just gateway configuration that was making life difficult.
Big mistake.
The idiot "technician" who had come around to set up his new PC didn't think to set up windows update. My friend was oblivious, and it turned out his entire network was using unpatched Windows XP installs.
The problem was, I was using Remote Assistance to do all this, and the moment I opened his PC to the internet, it melted into a fetid pile of propogating viruses and spam relays. His connection wasn't stable enough to support remote assistance any more.
Even with an up to date virus scanner, it was 3 hours before his computer was virus free...
The moral of the story if not to assume that a Windows computer set up by someone who charges large sums for that very job is any more secure than one set up by someone's nephew.
I suppose some might say the moral is not to use Windows XP:-)
Oh yeah, and this one time, at band camp... I threw a shoe at my computer, and the shoe hit my computer, and my hard drive clicked loudly, and my hard drive died, and I had to get a new hard drive, and a new shoe...
TBH I didn't RTFA. But I'm going to guess it works like this, as fantasy football usually does. So, FYI:
Users create their own team using a budget to buy players. These players then go and play real matches in real life. The users' teams are then rated based on the performance of the chosen players. The values of these players may go up or down based on their performance. Users' teams probably score points and are ranked. Being as it's being paid for, one would assume there are prizes available for top managers.
Points are given for good play such as scoring, and deducted for fouls. At various points users can transfer players in light of new information. This would either cost points or real money.
Whether or not there is a market for sports management sims in the US, partaking in a 'Fantasy' management competition generally adds a new dimension to enjoying a sport. This is not a computer game in the conventional sense, and no doubt the participation of EA may confuse that matter in some people's minds. As such it would not necessarily appeal to gamers, but rather sports fans. Once money is involved, it is essentially glorified, overcomplicated gambling.
If you take a look at the second link and investigate the patents, you'll see it's really not as simple as 'downloading software'. Although it's plain to see that BTG are a bunch of immoral patent-grabbing bastards, it looks as though these particular patents might just be specific enough to circumvent your scorn. Maybe just.
It's a shame he doesn't accept PayPal. I still have a few hundred thousand knocking about in my PayPal account from that time I clicked the wrong button and accidentally sold Sega...
When you leave negative feedback, ebay gives you a warning screen. Heck, even when you leave NEUTRAL feedback, it does this. That's what's discouraging people from ruffling feathers. Furthermore it's completely impossible to write anything meaningful in the tiny space they give you to comment. I usually attempt to explain everything, but end up having to resort to SMS-language just to fit it in. People need to be encouraged to say things like "Seller shipped promptly but it would have been nice if he bothered to clean the item up a bit first, the lazy bastard, and the envelope wasn't even padded"... instead they have to resort to "OMGYAY Thanks!!" (ok, perhaps that's bit of an exaggeration)
I'm not sure this makes an appropriate stepping stone. What comes under the umbrella of 'Popular Microsoft Fare' which isn't already provided by OO.org in an almost identical fashion to the Microsoft applications?
In the UK (in London, at least), the police have these devices in their cars. They check the numberplate of every car that goes past in the opposite direction against car tax databases and suchlike, and if the police are good enough drivers, I guess they can identify a criminal realtime and then go off and chase them. I've also heard there are cameras with a similar purpose in petrol stations - and to catch people who have previously driven off without paying for their petrol.
Savage is a team FPS where one player commands the team RTS style. There's a linux version available which I've found tends to run faster than its windows counterpart. As far as this game goes, the balance is so subtle that any changes made by server admins can completely ruin the dynamics of the game... fortunately this rarely happens and I think s2games run quite a number of servers themselves (though I don't use them because I'm in europe).
Why not just pay us to receive it?
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Great, so now they're paying us to send spam. If only they'd just pay us to receive it, there'd be no problem...
If I was paid $1 for every hour I spent deleting junk mail, why... I'd have at least 2 dollars by now!
Also, to anyone who's tempted, I would say remember they're paying you per CPU hour, and it doesn't take an awfully long time to send emails, so they probably won't actually use your CPU for more than a dozen minutes every day.
I can't see how a robot will be able to do anything like the sort of things your hired help does right now, and unless their eyesight is really really terrible, your folks are probably going to start to get a little lonely once you replace their human helper with a robot.
I worry about this. There are so many things I can't envisage anybody being able to program a robot to do for hundreds of years yet.
Still, I guess it's not like anybody's just going to hire this thing without understanding what it can do first. But of all the jobs to replace with technology, home carers really aren't an appropriate one.
This is pretty standard. You should probably steer clear of any ISP hosting an open relay, being as you'll probably find it gets blacklisted before long. Why can't you use the SMTP server of whoever you're connected with at the time?
The amusement from sysadmin/techsupport vs luser websites is usually derived from the consistent insanity of the guy requiring help, and the tolerant, patient way in which the sysadmin tries to deal with it. Unfortunately this site does a better job of highlighting how impatient, intolerant, and disdainful some sysadmins feel they have a right to be. The blurb uses the word "hilarious" twice. I'm not really sure why - I found it quite sad.
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That saddened me, because Peter Molyneux really has nothing to apologise for. In the design process of ANY game, cool features are conceived, and tossed about, and then pulled because they used too much CPU time or weren't worth the amount of time they would have taken to implement.
Peter Molyneux has a passion for computer game design. He will talk to anybody about the cool ideas. At no point does he ever 'Overpromise'; he rarely promises anything. He just tells the public what his design team are coming up with and playing with. He's not deliberately hyping his games, he's simply talking passionately about his job. It's the fault of the media and the general public if they interpret this wrongly, and then act disappointed when certain features don't make it, as though they 'deserve' to see these features; as though they have some sort of right to be part of the design process.
I am very glad to see Lionhead and their satellites staying close to their community and fanbase. It disappoints me to see the fanbase taking the developers' words as gospel and later being outraged and making demands about features and release dates. The consequence of this behaviour is that the developers will learn their lesson and stop sharing an insight into the design process with us. That would suck.
I can't see that it does work. It's the most pointless bit of legislation ever. Better would be new standard whereby a signal can be used to tell phones to set themselves to silent mode. Or just remove the fucking ringtones entirely from all phones... I don't understand why everybody can't just use the vibrate function.
This is ridiculous, what they're saying is, "We'll pay you for your laptop if someone bruteforces their way through the lock, but if they exploit one of our design flaws, then we won't pay out." How the hell can they get away with that?
Yes, about as Ironic as RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY.
Thanks, Alanis.
Wow, I was going to write in with almost the same question: I've actually won the computing book prize, which is a voucher... for 15. I'm wondering what I should spend it on, looking for an book in the general area of computer science that'll be interesting. Slashdot is pre-emptively satisfying my needs :-)
Recently a friend was trying to get a game working, and during the troubleshooting process I made his PC a dimilitarized zone on his gateway, to see if it was just gateway configuration that was making life difficult. :-)
Big mistake.
The idiot "technician" who had come around to set up his new PC didn't think to set up windows update. My friend was oblivious, and it turned out his entire network was using unpatched Windows XP installs.
The problem was, I was using Remote Assistance to do all this, and the moment I opened his PC to the internet, it melted into a fetid pile of propogating viruses and spam relays. His connection wasn't stable enough to support remote assistance any more.
Even with an up to date virus scanner, it was 3 hours before his computer was virus free...
The moral of the story if not to assume that a Windows computer set up by someone who charges large sums for that very job is any more secure than one set up by someone's nephew.
I suppose some might say the moral is not to use Windows XP
Oh yeah, and this one time, at band camp... I threw a shoe at my computer, and the shoe hit my computer, and my hard drive clicked loudly, and my hard drive died, and I had to get a new hard drive, and a new shoe...
Users create their own team using a budget to buy players. These players then go and play real matches in real life. The users' teams are then rated based on the performance of the chosen players. The values of these players may go up or down based on their performance. Users' teams probably score points and are ranked. Being as it's being paid for, one would assume there are prizes available for top managers.
Points are given for good play such as scoring, and deducted for fouls. At various points users can transfer players in light of new information. This would either cost points or real money.
Whether or not there is a market for sports management sims in the US, partaking in a 'Fantasy' management competition generally adds a new dimension to enjoying a sport. This is not a computer game in the conventional sense, and no doubt the participation of EA may confuse that matter in some people's minds. As such it would not necessarily appeal to gamers, but rather sports fans. Once money is involved, it is essentially glorified, overcomplicated gambling.
If you take a look at the second link and investigate the patents, you'll see it's really not as simple as 'downloading software'. Although it's plain to see that BTG are a bunch of immoral patent-grabbing bastards, it looks as though these particular patents might just be specific enough to circumvent your scorn. Maybe just.
It's a shame he doesn't accept PayPal. I still have a few hundred thousand knocking about in my PayPal account from that time I clicked the wrong button and accidentally sold Sega...
I'd pay about $0.02
Just my $0.02
When you leave negative feedback, ebay gives you a warning screen. Heck, even when you leave NEUTRAL feedback, it does this. That's what's discouraging people from ruffling feathers. Furthermore it's completely impossible to write anything meaningful in the tiny space they give you to comment. I usually attempt to explain everything, but end up having to resort to SMS-language just to fit it in. People need to be encouraged to say things like "Seller shipped promptly but it would have been nice if he bothered to clean the item up a bit first, the lazy bastard, and the envelope wasn't even padded"... instead they have to resort to "OMGYAY Thanks!!" (ok, perhaps that's bit of an exaggeration)
I'm not sure this makes an appropriate stepping stone. What comes under the umbrella of 'Popular Microsoft Fare' which isn't already provided by OO.org in an almost identical fashion to the Microsoft applications?
...between a rotten apple and Windows XP?
One's probably infested with worms,
and the other one's a rotten apple.
What were you asking slashdot?
In the UK (in London, at least), the police have these devices in their cars. They check the numberplate of every car that goes past in the opposite direction against car tax databases and suchlike, and if the police are good enough drivers, I guess they can identify a criminal realtime and then go off and chase them. I've also heard there are cameras with a similar purpose in petrol stations - and to catch people who have previously driven off without paying for their petrol.
Savage is a team FPS where one player commands the team RTS style. There's a linux version available which I've found tends to run faster than its windows counterpart. As far as this game goes, the balance is so subtle that any changes made by server admins can completely ruin the dynamics of the game... fortunately this rarely happens and I think s2games run quite a number of servers themselves (though I don't use them because I'm in europe).
Great, so now they're paying us to send spam. If only they'd just pay us to receive it, there'd be no problem...
If I was paid $1 for every hour I spent deleting junk mail, why... I'd have at least 2 dollars by now!
Also, to anyone who's tempted, I would say remember they're paying you per CPU hour, and it doesn't take an awfully long time to send emails, so they probably won't actually use your CPU for more than a dozen minutes every day.
So Slashdot, what is a concerned student to do?
this?
I can't see how a robot will be able to do anything like the sort of things your hired help does right now, and unless their eyesight is really really terrible, your folks are probably going to start to get a little lonely once you replace their human helper with a robot. I worry about this. There are so many things I can't envisage anybody being able to program a robot to do for hundreds of years yet. Still, I guess it's not like anybody's just going to hire this thing without understanding what it can do first. But of all the jobs to replace with technology, home carers really aren't an appropriate one.
This is nothing new, George Bush has been doing it for years... and the effects of such behaviour are evident.
This is pretty standard. You should probably steer clear of any ISP hosting an open relay, being as you'll probably find it gets blacklisted before long. Why can't you use the SMTP server of whoever you're connected with at the time?
The amusement from sysadmin/techsupport vs luser websites is usually derived from the consistent insanity of the guy requiring help, and the tolerant, patient way in which the sysadmin tries to deal with it. Unfortunately this site does a better job of highlighting how impatient, intolerant, and disdainful some sysadmins feel they have a right to be. The blurb uses the word "hilarious" twice. I'm not really sure why - I found it quite sad.
NYT are trying to have their cake and eat it!
In that case, NYT can fix the 'problem' very easily. :-)
How does Google manage to cache a page which requires free registration anyway? Are the crawlers that smart?