I see a lot of disputes arising out of this. Current XXX site owners on.com or.org etc. should get a free transfer to.xxx. Otherwise I see the competition registering the same site with.xxx on the end to draw away the competition. I hope ICANN is willing to deal with these problems.
Of course, they'll cite the ease with which children could be shielded from the obscenities of the internet...Still, I've heard worse ideas.
Care to explain. The only problem I see is policing the whole thing. Other than that, we don't need to worry about offending the porn industry, they display their movies behind black curtains at the video store right? Just tell them to get a xxx domain or get out.
So if I understand this correctly, does that mean there can be several C's in this chain? Therefore, the only liable party is the original distributer (B), but there can be several C's involved making it difficult to hunt down B.
Either that or it was submitted by a person who just found it... and that seems more likely. The editorial system here usually catches that sort of thing.
No, that seems unlikely. The submitter uses linuxisotorrent.org as contact instead of the email address. More likely, the user built the site, registered it, and used slashdot to advertise it to the public (and there are adverts on the page). I had a site the slashdot crowd would be interested but I didn't submit it to slashdot because I knew it would be rejected for trying to get free advertising. Maybe I should have submitted.
for providing free advertising. I thought the story sounded like an advertisement:
whois linuxisotorrent.com...
Updated Date: 27-may-2005
Creation Date: 27-may-2005
Expiration Date: 27-may-2006... As if these things aren't hard enough to find anyway. To the story submitter: I know your new site applies and is a good idea, but don't hijack Slashdot's power for your own gain.
Users have used Netscape since NS 4 days. They don't feel comfortable trying anything else. NS7.2 tells them they have an outdated browser so they just upgrade. That's why they download it.
However, this means GreaseMonkey becomes thus a Geek-only tool. I can not ask of my mother or wife to know about such problems and manually configure exceptions if things don't work.
Great lets keep it this way. Same goes for the adblock extension. If everyone uses it, it'll be outlawed for hiding advertisements.
Tell the user about those environment variables. I had a lot of fun just checking what they all say and changing a few of them.
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And I disagree with pretty much all of your statements WRT female gaming. Hang out with female gamers, watch them, listen to how people treat them and interact with them, and watch most modern games through their eyes. Watch how quickly they lose interest in Silent Hill 4 when your job becomes protecting the helpless bandaged woman, or how much they're turned off to SNK vs Capcom 2 by Mai's giant bouncing chest. You may not be sensitive to it because it's not focused on you all of the time, but basically everything the grandparent said is correct.
This statement is about girls who are gamers. They are the exception to the gender. I'm talking about getting female gamers who are not inclined to do any gaming at all.
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A good start would be to design a mod for an existing game and have it achieve popularity
Ah damn, that means I have to invest time outside of work, school, and gaming!
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Disclaimer: I'm not female
Male gamers create an enviornment hostile to female gamers, both actively and passively. Examples: telling women that they wont like Doom 3 but they will certainly like DDR (AHEM!); Asking a women who's gaming if she actually likes games (of course she does you dope, she's playing one now!)
This is all assuming girls do online gaming. Plenty of gamers are just as content to play against (or with) the AI. How do they relate? If you are referring to the way society treats female gamers, see point 3.
Game creators and especially marketers create disincentives for women to play through sexist or oversexualized portrayals of females. Examples: Hijacking Lara Croft's image from female Indy to Drips-With-Sex-Balloon-Boobs; Bloodrayne; too many to list.
These are games designed for men and they by no means flood the market (much like GTA is designed for adults). There are more than enough games that do not follow this form but girls still aren't interested in them.
Women in positions of influence tell young women not to game because it is "not a girl thing to do." I still see (younger and older) mothers tell their daughters not to game (in whatever form) and to play with Barbie. And at the risk of getting shot, I tell them off every time.
I would agree that girls are influenced into thinking gaming isn't a feminant, but not as directly so as you suggest. I have never even heard a single woman in authority suggest gaming is un-girl like. Do you have sources on this?
Most of this is observation of my sister who has three gaming brothers.
Men are into gaming because games give the player a chance to absolutely annihilate the competition. Women (generally) don't seem to have that desire to annihilate and would much rather see some success and progress from the time they've wasted. The reason why games aren't getting to women is because games are designed to defeat the competition. Heck, why stop at video games? How many women do you know played Risk or even Monopoly in their spare time? That's why the Sims has become so popular with women. There is no competition, and there's no real end to the game. It's just constant improvement. I think Maxis stumbled on success without even expecting it. Most other sim games followed the same form, but they still had some sort of "beat the game" point. Seems like if games are to appeal to the other sex, there needs to be games that allow the player to become successful without requiring a lot of thinking to get there.
A list of games I tried to get my sister on:
Age of..., C&C series, Warcraft - she liked the chance to control what your villagers do, but she had no desire to start amassing soldiers and destroy the opponent.
Super Mario Brothers - found the difficult levels too frustrating
Morrowind - like Sims, it was fun to accessorize but the game was too complex and required too much patience and thinking. (Never seen her show a liking for the fantasy genre so that came as no surprise)
Constructor (mid 90's strategy - cartoonish) - found it funny and entertaining but rather complicated.
Tetris - Winner! She finds the game challenging without being frustrating. No competition, no annihilation. A game you can just pick up and play.
Sims - loves it for the same reasons all women do
Seems to me that for a game to score with females, it needs to be:
Very simple - I mean any idiot can figure this game out
Provides the ability to customize/accessorize
Either no competition or a purely cooperative competition
The player must be able to make progress simply, but not to achieve set goals (like perfection, or annihilating the competition).
Female gaming needs to be considered normal. That's probably the toughest challenge.
Anyway, food for thought. Again, that's all my opinion. I'm sure as a game designer, you've researched this stuff so I don't mean to snub what you've said entirely.
P.S. I'd love to be a game designer! What do I need to do to become one?
Slashdot Mirror
But if it comes to tabs, does it still work?
I see a lot of disputes arising out of this. Current XXX site owners on .com or .org etc. should get a free transfer to .xxx. Otherwise I see the competition registering the same site with .xxx on the end to draw away the competition. I hope ICANN is willing to deal with these problems.
Of course, they'll cite the ease with which children could be shielded from the obscenities of the internet...Still, I've heard worse ideas.
Care to explain. The only problem I see is policing the whole thing. Other than that, we don't need to worry about offending the porn industry, they display their movies behind black curtains at the video store right? Just tell them to get a xxx domain or get out.
So if I understand this correctly, does that mean there can be several C's in this chain? Therefore, the only liable party is the original distributer (B), but there can be several C's involved making it difficult to hunt down B.
That is just for Mute? Rodi?
Did any one else have visions of Milton's radio on Office Space?
Either that or it was submitted by a person who just found it... and that seems more likely. The editorial system here usually catches that sort of thing.
No, that seems unlikely. The submitter uses linuxisotorrent.org as contact instead of the email address. More likely, the user built the site, registered it, and used slashdot to advertise it to the public (and there are adverts on the page). I had a site the slashdot crowd would be interested but I didn't submit it to slashdot because I knew it would be rejected for trying to get free advertising. Maybe I should have submitted.
for providing free advertising.
... ...
I thought the story sounded like an advertisement:
whois linuxisotorrent.com
Updated Date: 27-may-2005
Creation Date: 27-may-2005
Expiration Date: 27-may-2006
As if these things aren't hard enough to find anyway. To the story submitter: I know your new site applies and is a good idea, but don't hijack Slashdot's power for your own gain.
I don't even like Opera but I'm very surprised Opera 8 never got mentioned in the article. NS8 over Opera?! Sub-par... sub-par...
I work the helpdesk part time at my University.
Users have used Netscape since NS 4 days. They don't feel comfortable trying anything else. NS7.2 tells them they have an outdated browser so they just upgrade. That's why they download it.
On a related topic. For anyone who hasn't found it yet, there is a HD trailer online:
http://morrowind.com/downloads/media_movies.htm
The ability to switch between rendering engines is great
That's a bad idea. Web developers will continue to make webpages for IE instead of finding more proper solutions.
You have to edit your user.js to show you the additional option to force any window to open in a new tab.b eh_reuse
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips.html#
However, this means GreaseMonkey becomes thus a Geek-only tool. I can not ask of my mother or wife to know about such problems and manually configure exceptions if things don't work.
Great lets keep it this way. Same goes for the adblock extension. If everyone uses it, it'll be outlawed for hiding advertisements.
Ah, checked out tanooki on wikipedia and that kind of helps.
Racoons can't fly!?
I was thrown for a loop there for a second but now I get the joke.
er, "too" - To stop the grammer police.
but it easier to doze off while lying down to.
Bye bye CVS. It was nice knowing you.
Why is CVS dying? Why is subversion better than CVS? And why isn't CVS working to keep pace with the competition?
Recent sales are low because everyone is anticipating XBOX2. Why not?
Make sure every key works the way it's expected. Start with this as an inputrc file:u torials/G09/inputrc.html
u torials/G09/prompt.html
http://meta.csd.uwo.ca/~wade/Courses/cs307/Html/T
And here's a script I made that will make a kickass prompt:
http://meta.csd.uwo.ca/~wade/Courses/cs307/Html/T
Tell the user about those environment variables. I had a lot of fun just checking what they all say and changing a few of them.
And I disagree with pretty much all of your statements WRT female gaming. Hang out with female gamers, watch them, listen to how people treat them and interact with them, and watch most modern games through their eyes. Watch how quickly they lose interest in Silent Hill 4 when your job becomes protecting the helpless bandaged woman, or how much they're turned off to SNK vs Capcom 2 by Mai's giant bouncing chest. You may not be sensitive to it because it's not focused on you all of the time, but basically everything the grandparent said is correct.
This statement is about girls who are gamers. They are the exception to the gender. I'm talking about getting female gamers who are not inclined to do any gaming at all.
A good start would be to design a mod for an existing game and have it achieve popularity
Ah damn, that means I have to invest time outside of work, school, and gaming!
Male gamers create an enviornment hostile to female gamers, both actively and passively. Examples: telling women that they wont like Doom 3 but they will certainly like DDR (AHEM!); Asking a women who's gaming if she actually likes games (of course she does you dope, she's playing one now!)
This is all assuming girls do online gaming. Plenty of gamers are just as content to play against (or with) the AI. How do they relate? If you are referring to the way society treats female gamers, see point 3.
Game creators and especially marketers create disincentives for women to play through sexist or oversexualized portrayals of females. Examples: Hijacking Lara Croft's image from female Indy to Drips-With-Sex-Balloon-Boobs; Bloodrayne; too many to list.
These are games designed for men and they by no means flood the market (much like GTA is designed for adults). There are more than enough games that do not follow this form but girls still aren't interested in them.
Women in positions of influence tell young women not to game because it is "not a girl thing to do." I still see (younger and older) mothers tell their daughters not to game (in whatever form) and to play with Barbie. And at the risk of getting shot, I tell them off every time.
I would agree that girls are influenced into thinking gaming isn't a feminant, but not as directly so as you suggest. I have never even heard a single woman in authority suggest gaming is un-girl like. Do you have sources on this?
Most of this is observation of my sister who has three gaming brothers. Men are into gaming because games give the player a chance to absolutely annihilate the competition. Women (generally) don't seem to have that desire to annihilate and would much rather see some success and progress from the time they've wasted. The reason why games aren't getting to women is because games are designed to defeat the competition. Heck, why stop at video games? How many women do you know played Risk or even Monopoly in their spare time? That's why the Sims has become so popular with women. There is no competition, and there's no real end to the game. It's just constant improvement. I think Maxis stumbled on success without even expecting it. Most other sim games followed the same form, but they still had some sort of "beat the game" point. Seems like if games are to appeal to the other sex, there needs to be games that allow the player to become successful without requiring a lot of thinking to get there.
A list of games I tried to get my sister on:
Age of ..., C&C series, Warcraft - she liked the chance to control what your villagers do, but she had no desire to start amassing soldiers and destroy the opponent.
Super Mario Brothers - found the difficult levels too frustrating
Morrowind - like Sims, it was fun to accessorize but the game was too complex and required too much patience and thinking. (Never seen her show a liking for the fantasy genre so that came as no surprise)
Constructor (mid 90's strategy - cartoonish) - found it funny and entertaining but rather complicated.
Tetris - Winner! She finds the game challenging without being frustrating. No competition, no annihilation. A game you can just pick up and play.
Sims - loves it for the same reasons all women do
Seems to me that for a game to score with females, it needs to be:
Very simple - I mean any idiot can figure this game out
Provides the ability to customize/accessorize
Either no competition or a purely cooperative competition
The player must be able to make progress simply, but not to achieve set goals (like perfection, or annihilating the competition).
Female gaming needs to be considered normal. That's probably the toughest challenge. Anyway, food for thought. Again, that's all my opinion. I'm sure as a game designer, you've researched this stuff so I don't mean to snub what you've said entirely.
P.S. I'd love to be a game designer! What do I need to do to become one?
No viruses on BeOS. Actually, no virus checkers either...
No users either...