yeah, it is bar code and the camera has software to interpret and it is actually pretty cool. other than that, cell phones here (2 hours south of tokyo) have horrible coverage. the infrastructure is simply not there.
or Realmcrafter http://www.realmcrafter.com/ or Garage Games Torque engine or well any of all that stuff that has been out there for a while. Nothing new here imo.
GW has added content without charging extra for it. Sorrow's Furnace comes to mind and a few others that slip my mind at the moment. invalidates your title a bit.
Now where this will get interesting is that as high school students they are still underage and as such cannot enter into a legal agreement without the consent of their parents (or guardian but that is usually the parents) so the school can try to force this on the students but it wouldn't be binding. Now what happens if the student is a ward of the state? If the state forces them to sign away their rights to personal property that can be considered a taking and subject to eminent domain or reimbursement by the government. In fact that argument could probably be extended to any public school or university that demands that you sign it over to get a grade. the government simply cannot take private property without reimbursement. Aren't most seniors in high school 18 years old and legally adults in the US or did they change that to 21 as part of gaming the whole system against upward mobility? In any case there is very little procedural or functional difference between having the parents sign on behalf of the students or the students signing themselves?
if this is anything like their ethics for treating women, girls, foreigners, half-koreans, or anyone who advocates ethical treatment of the aforementioned then it isn't even worth wiping your buttocks with.
the only thing i could find the treaty about stored data is this which just pretty much states that any data the provider ALREADY HAS is retained in an expedited manner so it doesn't get over written.
[quote]Article 16 - Expedited preservation of stored computer data
1 Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to enable its competent authorities to order or similarly obtain the expeditious preservation of specified computer data, including traffic data, that has been stored by means of a computer system, in particular where there are grounds to believe that the computer data is particularly vulnerable to loss or modification.[/quote]
Then article 20 refers to compelling a provider to do real time collection for a specific investigation within the limits of article 14 and 15 which is something the FBI has been doing for years and that ISP have been complying with for just as long.
[quote] Article 20 - Real-time collection of traffic data
1 Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to empower its competent authorities to:
a collect or record through the application of technical means on the territory of that Party, and
b compel a service provider, within its existing technical capability:
i to collect or record through the application of technical means on the territory of that Party; or
ii to co-operate and assist the competent authorities in the collection or recording of,
traffic data, in real-time, associated with specified communications in its territory transmitted by means of a computer system.
2 Where a Party, due to the established principles of its domestic legal system, cannot adopt the measures referred to in paragraph 1.a, it may instead adopt legislative and other measures as may be necessary to ensure the real-time collection or recording of traffic data associated with specified communications transmitted in its territory, through the application of technical means on that territory.
3 Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to oblige a service provider to keep confidential the fact of the execution of any power provided for in this article and any information relating to it.
4 The powers and procedures referred to in this article shall be subject to Articles 14 and 15.[/quote]
in the end, this cioinsight article is so NOT slashworthy, the guy should probably be laughed out of the business for straight up plagiarizing a 2004 article.
this treaty is old news but as far as i can tell not enforced as such, i.e. we don't have terabytes of packet captures laying around my cubicle.
bleh. just read the article and it doesn't even link the treaty
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html /185.htm
happy reading!
oh and for the USA signing it, we did back in 2004! can you say old news? how do i get to tag stuff? OFN!
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8529
agreed. what is needed is balance. teens are young adults they need to learn responsibility not how to slack. Parents who let their schools ban homework need to do a reality check. Don't know if you taught at a hagwon over here but my niece is out till 10pm every weekday and goes to school on weekends just to stay near the top of her class so she can get into a decent college so she can marry a doctor. I will leave Korea soon. No way I want my children to be educated here. I had already crossed all of Cali off my list of place never to go back to. Hopefully, Californication hasn't ruined Arizona yet.
this makes me want to make a game based in the 21st century, the main action will be around a shopping a mall. maybe, call it "Clerks" and all the players have one secret power and they got to do these missions without alerting the normals or they will lose their jobs. all kinds of opp for product placement. could probably do without sub fees.
another case of pure hype served up by some clever slashmarketing techniques. the truly scary part is some moron in the ranks above is going to read this and decide that we will need to be frisked when entering and exiting our work area. bad enough that no portable electronic devices are permitted. all the usb ports on all our machines have tamper evident seals on them (read scotch tape).
hmm, i think i am going to to to this conference with a notebook from the 80s and tell everyone it is my new secure notebook because it has no wireless internet and no usb ports. then i am going to collect huge govt and govt contractor orders for it. then buy slashdot. then stop all the ads that show up as news on this site.
in business school way back whenever we were told that if we were rejected for a job; to send a note to the interviewer thanking them for the opportunity and asking them if they had any advice for our next interview and that we would like them to keep us in mind for future positions in their organization.
I usually didn't bother. sometimes, if i had them on the phone and they told me i didn't get the job i would ask them the main reason.
I remember one interviewer told me that they didn't like that i laughed when they asked me, "Which is more secure FAT32 or NTFS?" They were of the opinion that it was rude to laugh during an interview. How was I supposed to know that they actually thought this and the other questions they asked me were serious attempts to access my technical prowess. Their loss imo.
they are standardizing the tools for building MMOs. they actually aren't deving the MMO themselves. the part that bothers me is that the multiverse MMO tools and engine are years from being production worthy so the firefly MMO is probably 5-7 years away. the other thing that bothers me is that according to this thread in the multiverse forums.
http://update.multiverse.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t =34&highlight=quad&theme=multiverse
it is not a very good engine for a space based MMO so it is probably going to another SWG with all planetside gameplay. bleh
you don't have a clue. North Korea and Kim Jr would never even dream of launching nukes to the south. He would probably threaten to and is most likely to nuke japan if anywhere. most chinese and south koreans still resent the upstart japanese barbarians.
i just hope that this will shake the people here in the south about their complacency towards their cousins in the north but noooo, they are proud that the north has a nuke and say that U.S. has kept the south down for so long and prevented them from having them too because we are afraid of the strength of korea. you see they share the same inferiority complex along with the same language, and culture, 50ish years of separation is nothing compared to thier shared 5000 years of justified xenophobia as the doormat of asia.
i had an idea where you set up small rooms with 8-16 workstations in them. have some with recessed monitors. so, you could rent the rooms during the day to small business for training seminars, or for other groups to have meetings with presentations and also let gaming clans or guilds rent them out for raid weekends.
i personally hate the whole food end of things and think you should focus on the computers. but i think you could probably cut a deal with someplace nearby for a menu that your customers could order off of and have delivered or let people order-in.
i have been to exactly 2 of these e-sport events here in korea. with physical sports, watching on TV is nowhere near as much fun as actually going to a game. it is the exact opposite with e-sport events. spend most of your time trying to tune out the annoying MC and waiting for someone to play a game that you know and then crowd around a plasma screen.
the only plus side is that the computers and software are provided by the organizers and presumed to be hack free so the losers can't scream "hax!" as they get crushed.
i would much rather just watch from the comfort of my couch on tv or download matches i am interested in and watch them.
totally agree. i think the emphasis on machine here is all wrong. if anything, it will be advances in the biological sciences that will trigger the singularity.
i actually think the limitation is more that MMO developers restrict player action and creativity too much. the scripted NPC actions come off as more original because they are not under the same limitations imposed on human players.
AF has the best reputation of all the services for enlisted MOS and computers. if there are any contractors in your facility/base in your field then let them know you are getting out. most of them will get a referral bonus if you get hired. I can honestly say that nobody treats ex-military better than the DOD contractors. On the flipside, at the highest ranks they all prior service officers and as a former enlisted you may rise far into middle management but the senior positions for most DoD contractors will be out of your grasp. There is some Dilbertisms going on but for the most part its the Dilberting that you know as opposed to the ones you don't.
As fas as going government, I did that for 5 years went through grades of GS9-12 as 0443 now changed to 2210. Inside DOD, is about 90% Dilbert with most of them trying to pass off their work to co-workers, subordinates and/or contractors. In and out of DoD, most of the supervisors took this career path; either data entry or secretarial work ->office automation specialist->information technician->supervisor. truly bizarre.
on the flipside, i saw a lot of supervisors try to fire people and one person in particular was blatantly malignering, i.e. using sick leave to take days off and come in late, claiming doctor's appointments but never having any proof. after 3 years of documentation and counseling, the supervisor managed to get the person transferred. it was the best he could do.
if you really want to go government; if you don't have a bachelor in something get one, if you do get a masters MBA or just generic MOM (aka Masters of Management) somewhere and skip the GS and apply straight to the SES http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/ses.asp
beyond the military-industrial complex, I don't know I have never really left it.
as a guy making a game as a hobby, i pay 75$ a month for a server (it would be less if Realmcrafter ran on Linux), i paid 55$ for the Realmcrafter engine. I pay anywhere from 5-50$ for model packs. I have a team of 3 people who work for the promise of future profits someday. total cost over 2 years of dev will be 4k with a recurring costs at just under 1k once we go 'gold' so in order to cover recurring costs we only need 500 subscribers paying 2$ a year. To recover costs, we need them to pay 4$ a year and to make a small profit. We would have to convince 500 subscribers to pay a whopping 5$ a year.
more and more the tools needed to make games are in the hands of little guy. the suits are worried and are closing ranks. next they will be telling us that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
unlike the airforce which has bandwith to spare, there is absolutely no way anyone in the Army or Marine Corps is 'hacking military firewalls' to play. heck, if ther unit imo has half a brain cell, most troops wouldn't have the user permissions to be able to install the game in the first place. even if they did and the ports were somehow magically open on the firewall, the network IDS would catch and log the activity and that soldier would be up for displinary action.
perhaps, some play from an AAFES or MWR provided cybercafe. either that, or the people claiming to be troops are in fact faking it with terms and lingo they learned playing America's Army.
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i get to fight charr without going to pre-searing. runner up goes to battle for wesnoth.
um, some guy modded the user interface just for people like you GimpShop at http://plasticbugs.com/
yeah, it is bar code and the camera has software to interpret and it is actually pretty cool. other than that, cell phones here (2 hours south of tokyo) have horrible coverage. the infrastructure is simply not there.
or Realmcrafter http://www.realmcrafter.com/ or Garage Games Torque engine or well any of all that stuff that has been out there for a while. Nothing new here imo.
GW has added content without charging extra for it. Sorrow's Furnace comes to mind and a few others that slip my mind at the moment. invalidates your title a bit.
if this is anything like their ethics for treating women, girls, foreigners, half-koreans, or anyone who advocates ethical treatment of the aforementioned then it isn't even worth wiping your buttocks with.
the only thing i could find the treaty about stored data is this which just pretty much states that any data the provider ALREADY HAS is retained in an expedited manner so it doesn't get over written. [quote]Article 16 - Expedited preservation of stored computer data 1 Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to enable its competent authorities to order or similarly obtain the expeditious preservation of specified computer data, including traffic data, that has been stored by means of a computer system, in particular where there are grounds to believe that the computer data is particularly vulnerable to loss or modification.[/quote] Then article 20 refers to compelling a provider to do real time collection for a specific investigation within the limits of article 14 and 15 which is something the FBI has been doing for years and that ISP have been complying with for just as long. [quote] Article 20 - Real-time collection of traffic data 1 Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to empower its competent authorities to: a collect or record through the application of technical means on the territory of that Party, and b compel a service provider, within its existing technical capability: i to collect or record through the application of technical means on the territory of that Party; or ii to co-operate and assist the competent authorities in the collection or recording of, traffic data, in real-time, associated with specified communications in its territory transmitted by means of a computer system. 2 Where a Party, due to the established principles of its domestic legal system, cannot adopt the measures referred to in paragraph 1.a, it may instead adopt legislative and other measures as may be necessary to ensure the real-time collection or recording of traffic data associated with specified communications transmitted in its territory, through the application of technical means on that territory. 3 Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to oblige a service provider to keep confidential the fact of the execution of any power provided for in this article and any information relating to it. 4 The powers and procedures referred to in this article shall be subject to Articles 14 and 15.[/quote] in the end, this cioinsight article is so NOT slashworthy, the guy should probably be laughed out of the business for straight up plagiarizing a 2004 article.
this treaty is old news but as far as i can tell not enforced as such, i.e. we don't have terabytes of packet captures laying around my cubicle. bleh. just read the article and it doesn't even link the treaty http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html /185.htm
happy reading!
oh and for the USA signing it, we did back in 2004! can you say old news? how do i get to tag stuff? OFN!
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8529
agreed. what is needed is balance. teens are young adults they need to learn responsibility not how to slack. Parents who let their schools ban homework need to do a reality check. Don't know if you taught at a hagwon over here but my niece is out till 10pm every weekday and goes to school on weekends just to stay near the top of her class so she can get into a decent college so she can marry a doctor. I will leave Korea soon. No way I want my children to be educated here. I had already crossed all of Cali off my list of place never to go back to. Hopefully, Californication hasn't ruined Arizona yet.
this makes me want to make a game based in the 21st century, the main action will be around a shopping a mall. maybe, call it "Clerks" and all the players have one secret power and they got to do these missions without alerting the normals or they will lose their jobs. all kinds of opp for product placement. could probably do without sub fees.
another case of pure hype served up by some clever slashmarketing techniques. the truly scary part is some moron in the ranks above is going to read this and decide that we will need to be frisked when entering and exiting our work area. bad enough that no portable electronic devices are permitted. all the usb ports on all our machines have tamper evident seals on them (read scotch tape).
hmm, i think i am going to to to this conference with a notebook from the 80s and tell everyone it is my new secure notebook because it has no wireless internet and no usb ports. then i am going to collect huge govt and govt contractor orders for it. then buy slashdot. then stop all the ads that show up as news on this site.
doh. i meant assess but access almost works.
in business school way back whenever we were told that if we were rejected for a job; to send a note to the interviewer thanking them for the opportunity and asking them if they had any advice for our next interview and that we would like them to keep us in mind for future positions in their organization. I usually didn't bother. sometimes, if i had them on the phone and they told me i didn't get the job i would ask them the main reason. I remember one interviewer told me that they didn't like that i laughed when they asked me, "Which is more secure FAT32 or NTFS?" They were of the opinion that it was rude to laugh during an interview. How was I supposed to know that they actually thought this and the other questions they asked me were serious attempts to access my technical prowess. Their loss imo.
they are standardizing the tools for building MMOs. they actually aren't deving the MMO themselves. the part that bothers me is that the multiverse MMO tools and engine are years from being production worthy so the firefly MMO is probably 5-7 years away. the other thing that bothers me is that according to this thread in the multiverse forums. http://update.multiverse.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t =34&highlight=quad&theme=multiverse
it is not a very good engine for a space based MMO so it is probably going to another SWG with all planetside gameplay. bleh
guild wars is a much better game than wow and it has no monthly fees.
bah. will they ever learn? i guess we will see the prez of epic running for prez of US sometime soon as well.
you don't have a clue. North Korea and Kim Jr would never even dream of launching nukes to the south. He would probably threaten to and is most likely to nuke japan if anywhere. most chinese and south koreans still resent the upstart japanese barbarians. i just hope that this will shake the people here in the south about their complacency towards their cousins in the north but noooo, they are proud that the north has a nuke and say that U.S. has kept the south down for so long and prevented them from having them too because we are afraid of the strength of korea. you see they share the same inferiority complex along with the same language, and culture, 50ish years of separation is nothing compared to thier shared 5000 years of justified xenophobia as the doormat of asia.
i had an idea where you set up small rooms with 8-16 workstations in them. have some with recessed monitors. so, you could rent the rooms during the day to small business for training seminars, or for other groups to have meetings with presentations and also let gaming clans or guilds rent them out for raid weekends. i personally hate the whole food end of things and think you should focus on the computers. but i think you could probably cut a deal with someplace nearby for a menu that your customers could order off of and have delivered or let people order-in.
i have been to exactly 2 of these e-sport events here in korea. with physical sports, watching on TV is nowhere near as much fun as actually going to a game. it is the exact opposite with e-sport events. spend most of your time trying to tune out the annoying MC and waiting for someone to play a game that you know and then crowd around a plasma screen. the only plus side is that the computers and software are provided by the organizers and presumed to be hack free so the losers can't scream "hax!" as they get crushed. i would much rather just watch from the comfort of my couch on tv or download matches i am interested in and watch them.
totally agree. i think the emphasis on machine here is all wrong. if anything, it will be advances in the biological sciences that will trigger the singularity.
i actually think the limitation is more that MMO developers restrict player action and creativity too much. the scripted NPC actions come off as more original because they are not under the same limitations imposed on human players.
AF has the best reputation of all the services for enlisted MOS and computers. if there are any contractors in your facility/base in your field then let them know you are getting out. most of them will get a referral bonus if you get hired. I can honestly say that nobody treats ex-military better than the DOD contractors. On the flipside, at the highest ranks they all prior service officers and as a former enlisted you may rise far into middle management but the senior positions for most DoD contractors will be out of your grasp. There is some Dilbertisms going on but for the most part its the Dilberting that you know as opposed to the ones you don't. As fas as going government, I did that for 5 years went through grades of GS9-12 as 0443 now changed to 2210. Inside DOD, is about 90% Dilbert with most of them trying to pass off their work to co-workers, subordinates and/or contractors. In and out of DoD, most of the supervisors took this career path; either data entry or secretarial work ->office automation specialist->information technician->supervisor. truly bizarre. on the flipside, i saw a lot of supervisors try to fire people and one person in particular was blatantly malignering, i.e. using sick leave to take days off and come in late, claiming doctor's appointments but never having any proof. after 3 years of documentation and counseling, the supervisor managed to get the person transferred. it was the best he could do. if you really want to go government; if you don't have a bachelor in something get one, if you do get a masters MBA or just generic MOM (aka Masters of Management) somewhere and skip the GS and apply straight to the SES http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/ses.asp beyond the military-industrial complex, I don't know I have never really left it.
as a guy making a game as a hobby, i pay 75$ a month for a server (it would be less if Realmcrafter ran on Linux), i paid 55$ for the Realmcrafter engine. I pay anywhere from 5-50$ for model packs. I have a team of 3 people who work for the promise of future profits someday. total cost over 2 years of dev will be 4k with a recurring costs at just under 1k once we go 'gold' so in order to cover recurring costs we only need 500 subscribers paying 2$ a year. To recover costs, we need them to pay 4$ a year and to make a small profit. We would have to convince 500 subscribers to pay a whopping 5$ a year. more and more the tools needed to make games are in the hands of little guy. the suits are worried and are closing ranks. next they will be telling us that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
unlike the airforce which has bandwith to spare, there is absolutely no way anyone in the Army or Marine Corps is 'hacking military firewalls' to play. heck, if ther unit imo has half a brain cell, most troops wouldn't have the user permissions to be able to install the game in the first place. even if they did and the ports were somehow magically open on the firewall, the network IDS would catch and log the activity and that soldier would be up for displinary action. perhaps, some play from an AAFES or MWR provided cybercafe. either that, or the people claiming to be troops are in fact faking it with terms and lingo they learned playing America's Army.