I remember writing simple choose your own adventure games with my big brother, when I was just old enough to read/write, good times. Then we got the PC Jr. and I was blown away by the CGA graphics that weren't even used in my favorite game (Wizardry). Then along came EGA (black cauldrun, Lesure suit larry and other sierra games corrupted my pre-pubescent mind). Then at some point we got the 8086 (or was it an 8088) and the modem... and bbs.
Never heard of this LoRD, but did spend many a night playing tradewars and Murder Motel. Waiting till midnight so I could take two turns in a row =P
good times.
I want to end the constant upping of levels/abilitys (endgame inflation to end?).
I have two ideas that seem oxymoronic at first but I think in the end fit together nicely. One players need to make a mark in the game, they need to contribute to the landscape (phsycially and historically to the game). Two players need to die/be lost the server should be "reset" so that first adapters, and power players aren't always at the top sucking up time from developers (power inflation), don't disseminate all the uber-loot to down the chain (which ruins the game for newbies).
My solution (involves pvp)... Let there be multiple sides and multiple "endings." I say endings but its more like the end of an age. The server resets buts who/why/how the server resets influences the landscape the next time the server starts up (history- statues of the heroes? spells named after pc sages? grove of trees dedicated druids/rangers.., weapons of heros become magic).
Players could start the next age with the players children (family names to keep some continuity). Additionally I would rather like to see certain things kept rare (maybe player races or certain classes). Only players that reached the level cap during a particular "age" (each age length is determined by server resets) would be eligible for certain "prestige" races (elves?gnomes?) or classes( insert whatever here). Possibly these races would be allowed to live more than one "age" (maybe 2 or 3, possibly have a progression here? playe a dwarf for 2 ages then play a gnome that lasts 5 ages). Ok I'm rambling...
Refuse to sign it, and talk to the other 10 employees and tell them what they're getting into and tell them not to sign it.
This happened to a friend of mine (very similiar situation). Appearently a lawyer wrote the contract and the boss didn't even read it himself. Needless to say when everyone (but one tool) refused to sign it, they changed it.
Again do *NOT* sign it and try to talk anyone else out of signing away their life.
I use lots of open source projects at my work (GPL, bsd, etc). Whatever it takes to get the project done. I just make it extremely clear to my boss that we *cannot* sell the software with out giving all the source code to the customer. Its not really a problem since our business model is more along the lines of providing a service and the software I develop is used by us to make our process cheaper/faster.
I haven't had to modify any code yet (mostly I just plug it in/use the api's provided), but if I ever saw the need or had to improve a particulary piece of os software I would gladly offer the "enhancement/improvements" back to the community (provided it wasn't horribly specific to the work we perform in which case it would really only be of interest to competitors).
No, was it published this year? Until very recently I've not read anything beyond techmanuals / programming books (just finished Ira Levin's "This Perfect Day") and now I'm looking for some more "recreational" books to read.
Has Cadigan written anything other than Mindplayers worth reading? I really enjoyed that book several years ago, but haven't seen/heard anything else about/from the author. Although oddly enough I did find/buy a t-shirt at some rave with the cover art on it. Damn how old is that book? at least 10 years?
Does anyone else think Gibsons stuff went down hill after burning chrome? I mean neuromancer, count zero and burning chrome are the only books of his I really enjoyed. I found the others to be tolerable.
I think some of the stuff EQ2 might be worthwhile, I guess the number one question is why hasn't it been done yet? Destructible environment, moveable items, be able to scale cliffs etc (shouldn't rogues be able to climb walls?). I stopped playing eq over a year ago... some of these things might make me pick up eqII (especially if they add zek-type servers). Still I want to be able to dig trenches, mine shafts, build walls cut down trees (or pay mercenaries to do these things). I want cities that feel like cities (scale a town home run across the roof tops attract the notice of hte guard). I want to see the world change as its marked by the players. Forests could rise/fall, the flow of rivers be changed./Then again I think perma-death and pvp are good ideas too.
I think I may have to check this out and see if it can't be re implemented in swing. I'm assuming this is an FOSS software (didn't read the article, I just assume its FOSS its on/. and isn't negative;)
I'm thinking I've touched upon most the concepts neeeded to implement such a program (in my limited experience) with the exception of the "discovery" of other machines running the app which is something I'd like to learn, the idea of clients communicating directly to eachother vs straight client/server is something I'd like to get more into as I think communications on the "edges" are often more beneifical but I'm rambling....
I mean dvd-/+r and then the dual layer burners can all pretty much be read on the same dvd players (yes?) as most commercial movie releases are "dual layer" dvds? or am I way off here? Also I'm assuming any dvd player that is going to play High Def movies would have to be "new" do they even exist?/has a high def tv at home//frustrated by lack of programming, seems All I ever get to watch on it is Lost and the occaisional Discovery special
Well we weren't really discussing open-source at that point. We were discussing the fact that laws were (and are copy righted) by people not willing to share them. I guess ultimately we could say "open source" laws are bad because it implies someone owns the copy right to the law. Laws should be by necessity's sake public domain. This isn't always the case.
I don't understand why the biggest criticism of wal-mart isn't the fact that everytime you shop there you are supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship. Which is truly Ironic considering that their biggest criticism happens to be their "business practices" to which the "right-wing" conservative answer is always find a better business model and compete better "thats how capitalism works." To underscore what should be obvious its not capitalism bringing you those low low prices instead is a repressive (ultra-left-wing communist style) dictatorship.
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I was/am talking about the federal government (military to be more precise). I guess my question if what you said is true, how can nasa release anything under a GPL (the license on the linked site appears to be fairly identical to the GPL). I would think if what you said is true if they're going to release anything it would have to be under something more BSD (although if its Public domain can they even do that?)./IANAL nor an expert on licenses
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I worked under a programmer as part of a government contract and he said "everything we code is public domain, b/c we work for the govt." There are/were a few different classes of private contractors ones that worked on site and those that didn't. We worked on site and were often introduced as "government" to off-site contractors. But still I would think that the govt. could retain rights(ownership) to the code (and this would seem to support that).
It'd be nice if the government open sourced all code it developed that wasn't necessarily "secret."
Actually I did play a lot of those games. I grew up with Pc's to a degree (Might and Magic, Wizardry, pinbal construction set etc on 8088 & 8086 machines). I did some bbsing, never had my own was getting to the point where I was attempting to set one up but I was fairly young easily distracted. Then I went to college and experienced the brief joys of Mosaic, telnet chats, pine and news groups.
The difference between now and then in the internet, or more precisely the size/relevance of the internet and its functionality. Now its pretty trivial to buy/pay for stuff online, back then paying for shareware meant mailing a check or cash.
Enough nostalgia, the concept is kind of the same but I like the piece-meal (the game could ultimately cost you anywhere between 5 and 100 dollars depending on how much you enjoyed it).
But you can continue to play the game all year with out purchasing one. I really like the concept. I would love to see more games follow this model. Spend 5 bucks download the first level to Doom X, you like it you spend another 5 or so on level2 add infintum.
I don't want my java apps looking like windows apps. I want them as responsive. I like the ability to change look and feel.
I just wish laying out the gui was easier and classes like swingworker (or the foxtrot stuff) was built in and more transparent.
Um often is the case where codes are created/published by a corporation and the city/state government legislative body votes to adopt said published codes as law.
Then comes the problem who owns it? is it copy-righted?
So the law is then copyrighted.
Don't blame the technology when you don't know how to use it properly.
How does an obvious troll (AC no less) get modded Interesting? Hell go with informative or insightful if you honestly believe what he/she is saying. Interesting? FUD and four letter words seems more like it.
If its really all that bad, how/why is there a market for it?
Go to your court house and ask for a copy of building codes (for wiring your house etc).
Don't be suprised to find that codes (laws actually) are owned/copyrighted by a firm.
So no the laws are not "open source."
I'd be willing to do this as long as the pay/timescale was reasonable (20k for 6 months and they charge nothing for room and board and this in a clear contract enforced by who?). Would I be required to pay taxes on it? that would impact my decision. Even if I had to leave the money in offshore accounts to avoid taxation it would be tempting. 6 months with no expenses and 20 thousand would almost make it worthwhile (provided they were trustworthy hah)
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I remember writing simple choose your own adventure games with my big brother, when I was just old enough to read/write, good times. Then we got the PC Jr. and I was blown away by the CGA graphics that weren't even used in my favorite game (Wizardry). Then along came EGA (black cauldrun, Lesure suit larry and other sierra games corrupted my pre-pubescent mind). Then at some point we got the 8086 (or was it an 8088) and the modem... and bbs. Never heard of this LoRD, but did spend many a night playing tradewars and Murder Motel. Waiting till midnight so I could take two turns in a row =P good times.
I want to end the constant upping of levels/abilitys (endgame inflation to end?).
I have two ideas that seem oxymoronic at first but I think in the end fit together nicely. One players need to make a mark in the game, they need to contribute to the landscape (phsycially and historically to the game). Two players need to die/be lost the server should be "reset" so that first adapters, and power players aren't always at the top sucking up time from developers (power inflation), don't disseminate all the uber-loot to down the chain (which ruins the game for newbies).
My solution (involves pvp)... Let there be multiple sides and multiple "endings." I say endings but its more like the end of an age. The server resets buts who/why/how the server resets influences the landscape the next time the server starts up (history- statues of the heroes? spells named after pc sages? grove of trees dedicated druids/rangers.., weapons of heros become magic).
Players could start the next age with the players children (family names to keep some continuity).
Additionally I would rather like to see certain things kept rare (maybe player races or certain classes). Only players that reached the level cap during a particular "age" (each age length is determined by server resets) would be eligible for certain "prestige" races (elves?gnomes?) or classes( insert whatever here). Possibly these races would be allowed to live more than one "age" (maybe 2 or 3, possibly have a progression here? playe a dwarf for 2 ages then play a gnome that lasts 5 ages). Ok I'm rambling...
Refuse to sign it, and talk to the other 10 employees and tell them what they're getting into and tell them not to sign it. This happened to a friend of mine (very similiar situation). Appearently a lawyer wrote the contract and the boss didn't even read it himself. Needless to say when everyone (but one tool) refused to sign it, they changed it. Again do *NOT* sign it and try to talk anyone else out of signing away their life.
I use lots of open source projects at my work (GPL, bsd, etc). Whatever it takes to get the project done. I just make it extremely clear to my boss that we *cannot* sell the software with out giving all the source code to the customer. Its not really a problem since our business model is more along the lines of providing a service and the software I develop is used by us to make our process cheaper/faster.
I haven't had to modify any code yet (mostly I just plug it in/use the api's provided), but if I ever saw the need or had to improve a particulary piece of os software I would gladly offer the "enhancement/improvements" back to the community (provided it wasn't horribly specific to the work we perform in which case it would really only be of interest to competitors).
Yeah, ok but will Windows boot on the appl-Intel machines?
No, was it published this year? Until very recently I've not read anything beyond techmanuals / programming books (just finished Ira Levin's "This Perfect Day") and now I'm looking for some more "recreational" books to read.
Has Cadigan written anything other than Mindplayers worth reading? I really enjoyed that book several years ago, but haven't seen/heard anything else about/from the author. Although oddly enough I did find/buy a t-shirt at some rave with the cover art on it. Damn how old is that book? at least 10 years?
Does anyone else think Gibsons stuff went down hill after burning chrome? I mean neuromancer, count zero and burning chrome are the only books of his I really enjoyed. I found the others to be tolerable.
I really enjoyed project m and thought EQ needed an "under dark" expansion.
MMORPG, with perma-death and insanity effects... set in the early 20th century and two main worlds (the normal one and the dreaming).
I think some of the stuff EQ2 might be worthwhile, I guess the number one question is why hasn't it been done yet? Destructible environment, moveable items, be able to scale cliffs etc (shouldn't rogues be able to climb walls?). I stopped playing eq over a year ago... some of these things might make me pick up eqII (especially if they add zek-type servers). Still I want to be able to dig trenches, mine shafts, build walls cut down trees (or pay mercenaries to do these things). I want cities that feel like cities (scale a town home run across the roof tops attract the notice of hte guard). I want to see the world change as its marked by the players. Forests could rise/fall, the flow of rivers be changed. /Then again I think perma-death and pvp are good ideas too.
I think I may have to check this out and see if it can't be re implemented in swing. I'm assuming this is an FOSS software (didn't read the article, I just assume its FOSS its on /. and isn't negative ;)
I'm thinking I've touched upon most the concepts neeeded to implement such a program (in my limited experience) with the exception of the "discovery" of other machines running the app which is something I'd like to learn, the idea of clients communicating directly to eachother vs straight client/server is something I'd like to get more into as I think communications on the "edges" are often more beneifical but I'm rambling....
So you'll need a new dvd player?
/has a high def tv at home //frustrated by lack of programming, seems All I ever get to watch on it is Lost and the occaisional Discovery special
I mean dvd-/+r and then the dual layer burners can all pretty much be read on the same dvd players (yes?) as most commercial movie releases are "dual layer" dvds? or am I way off here? Also I'm assuming any dvd player that is going to play High Def movies would have to be "new" do they even exist?
Is that really true? If so thats kind of frightening is that soley an Outlook "feature"?
Well we weren't really discussing open-source at that point. We were discussing the fact that laws were (and are copy righted) by people not willing to share them. I guess ultimately we could say "open source" laws are bad because it implies someone owns the copy right to the law. Laws should be by necessity's sake public domain. This isn't always the case.
I don't understand why the biggest criticism of wal-mart isn't the fact that everytime you shop there you are supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship. Which is truly Ironic considering that their biggest criticism happens to be their "business practices" to which the "right-wing" conservative answer is always find a better business model and compete better "thats how capitalism works." To underscore what should be obvious its not capitalism bringing you those low low prices instead is a repressive (ultra-left-wing communist style) dictatorship.
I was/am talking about the federal government (military to be more precise). I guess my question if what you said is true, how can nasa release anything under a GPL (the license on the linked site appears to be fairly identical to the GPL). I would think if what you said is true if they're going to release anything it would have to be under something more BSD (although if its Public domain can they even do that?). /IANAL nor an expert on licenses
I worked under a programmer as part of a government contract and he said "everything we code is public domain, b/c we work for the govt." There are/were a few different classes of private contractors ones that worked on site and those that didn't. We worked on site and were often introduced as "government" to off-site contractors. But still I would think that the govt. could retain rights(ownership) to the code (and this would seem to support that). It'd be nice if the government open sourced all code it developed that wasn't necessarily "secret."
Because it does what you want it to do. Old code isn't necessarily broken code.
Actually I did play a lot of those games. I grew up with Pc's to a degree (Might and Magic, Wizardry, pinbal construction set etc on 8088 & 8086 machines). I did some bbsing, never had my own was getting to the point where I was attempting to set one up but I was fairly young easily distracted. Then I went to college and experienced the brief joys of Mosaic, telnet chats, pine and news groups. The difference between now and then in the internet, or more precisely the size/relevance of the internet and its functionality. Now its pretty trivial to buy/pay for stuff online, back then paying for shareware meant mailing a check or cash. Enough nostalgia, the concept is kind of the same but I like the piece-meal (the game could ultimately cost you anywhere between 5 and 100 dollars depending on how much you enjoyed it).
But you can continue to play the game all year with out purchasing one. I really like the concept. I would love to see more games follow this model. Spend 5 bucks download the first level to Doom X, you like it you spend another 5 or so on level2 add infintum.
I don't want my java apps looking like windows apps. I want them as responsive. I like the ability to change look and feel. I just wish laying out the gui was easier and classes like swingworker (or the foxtrot stuff) was built in and more transparent.
Um often is the case where codes are created/published by a corporation and the city/state government legislative body votes to adopt said published codes as law. Then comes the problem who owns it? is it copy-righted? So the law is then copyrighted.
Don't blame the technology when you don't know how to use it properly. How does an obvious troll (AC no less) get modded Interesting? Hell go with informative or insightful if you honestly believe what he/she is saying. Interesting? FUD and four letter words seems more like it. If its really all that bad, how/why is there a market for it?
Go to your court house and ask for a copy of building codes (for wiring your house etc). Don't be suprised to find that codes (laws actually) are owned/copyrighted by a firm. So no the laws are not "open source."
I'd be willing to do this as long as the pay/timescale was reasonable (20k for 6 months and they charge nothing for room and board and this in a clear contract enforced by who?). Would I be required to pay taxes on it? that would impact my decision. Even if I had to leave the money in offshore accounts to avoid taxation it would be tempting. 6 months with no expenses and 20 thousand would almost make it worthwhile (provided they were trustworthy hah)