I wonder if Gartner or anyone else does any serious quantitative study of the true "value" of having a new distro via the net.
If I go to download Fedora or Debian via ISO images, and burn them, I often have a maintained distrobution that is very young. Less than a month old.
If I go and buy Windows XP via Amazon and have it delivered next day, I still have an OS image which is over a year old, even the new one that rolls up SP1.
I don't have to make a CD up with 30+ patches on it, before it is safe to plug my machine on a network.
If I worked at Redmond, and was thinking about this problem, I think what I may do is work an installation script that combines with the firewall - and keeps all inbound connections out until a "tunnel" is established to Windowsupdate, and all patches are applied before "releasing" the IP stack.
Many of these systematic advantages come from the fact that Linux doesn't need a license key to install the OS. If Microsoft gave Windows away, there would be 0-day distros on their website as well.
The Derek Smart, Ph.D flamewar keeps Usenet warm at night. It's about the closest thing to a steady stream of drive-bys you will find, with constant threats and counter-threats of legal action.
Was it a UC prank or part of the hunt, when several UC students stole a Chicago Police Department cruiser (maybe stole is the wrong word), dismantled it, and reassembled it on the roof of the Museum of Science and Industry?
The story goes they started the lights and siren up before leaving, thus insuring attention, as if people might not notice a cop car on the roof otherwise.
Is this an urban legend or did it happen? I'm not having much luck with trying to Google it.
Got ANY facts for ANY of your assertions? Any at all? I'll help...
The % of gross revenues last quarter for iPOD as opoosed to other hardware.
Sun's quarter over quarter margins over the last year.
Microsoft's 10Q statement, in terms of revenue generated from desktop licenses as opposed to other revenue streams last quarter.
AOL's balance sheets over the last 5 years, showing the number of payed subscribers over time, and a chart of their internal expense structure, to show that they survived "only" through tricky accounting.
I was using the term "punishment for his crime" in a sarcastic manner. He didn't commit any crime, as another poster pointed out, he converted speculative value into real value. He cashed out of a bubble. And, as another poster stretched the analogy, converting 'dirty' money into 'clean' money is laundering. Personally, I don't consider doing acquisitions for stock using 'dirty' money - it's just business. Time Warner got jobbed.
As to your 2nd point, it's moot. As the other poster pointed out, most land in Hawaii is owned by trusts or REITs. The fact he cashed out and took a big plot isn't what made me sick, it's that he's rewarded so hansomely for what amounts to a swindle.
And as for privately held land doing less damage than do the environment than a state park, that was summed up best by the guy who responded to you.
I recently took a ATV tour around some farms in Kauai. Gorgeous place. It has a Star Wars missile defense research facility, and other areas that remind you that it isn't an unspoiled paradise.
But nothing made the pit of my stomach fall farther than when the Hawaiian tour guide brought us up to a fence and made a huge gesture with his arm. "All this land here, over 5,000 acres, was bought as a private estate by Steve Case."
Just remember, his money laundering brought him enough money to buy a huge portion of land that should be a state park. He gets to live in absolute paradise, in a gigantic mansion, as punishment for his crime.
Guys - I am 36 years old and have made it as far as I can in IT without a real CS degree. I am the "senior architect" for networking and security at a Fortune 100 company. Pays pretty well - about $150k/yr. Alot of work and responsibility. I have a Cisco CCIE and was working on my SANS certification.
I'm stopping to go back and get a M.S. in C.S. from a real university program. At this age, I get to sit in undergrad classes to make up for the fact that my bullshit CIS degree didn't have the proper mathematical foundation classes, like Linear Algebra and Calc IV. because it's a real program, and not some B.S. do-it-from-home program, I leave my wife and kids at home and drag my ass into the 7pm class 3 nights a week, setaed with guys who are nearly half my age. It's a bitch, frankly. Takes your ego down several notches.
I could - maybe - have skated by on certs. I have a good cert to have. Nobody else at my company with my background is doing anything like that. But I want to understand databases, and network programming inside and out. My coding is limited to C, makefiles, shell scripting, and a bunch of Network Perl programming. Basically, junior grade O'Reilly School of Computing stuff. It's time to be a real professional.
If your age still begins with a 2, be smart - get a real CS degree. Get through the entire Calc path & linear algebra. Get a tutor. Use online resources. In the late-80s when I was in school, I was taught math by TAs from China, nearly exclusively. Most of us couldn't understand them. We didn't complain, and we should have. I wish I was a thorn in my alma mater's side, but I was 18-21, I was a sheep. Don't be. Get tutoring.
I should do a public service announcement. "Hi, my name is Dan, and I've been a fake IT employee for 15 years."...."Say hi to Dan, people..."
I was working on a car powered by nitro-glycerin. It runs great, but blows up a city block if you get into accident. I originally deemed this as a feature. A sort of deterrent against tailgating. Better re-evaluate...
A small company with a large E-business element had a guy who was the chief IT guru, a greybeard who did pretty much everything. He died.
Well, they didn't outsource PKI, they ran a Root CA. The Root CA was created and promptly taken offline. To the guy's house. Actually, the whole server wasn't taken - just the hard drive. The house was a pigpen, and that's being nice. They didn't know if he had stuck the drive in a safety deposit box, nothing.
To make an ugly story short, they pulled all the certs they used, and re-issued new ones, updated the CRL list to all their business partners, asked them to delete the imported cert. PITA.
The irony was, they didn't need to be doing PKI. They just had a few SSL web servers. Shoulda just bought em.
I was going to post this myself. I regularly update my password list to my lawyer, who appends the update in the will. I have trading accounts and other assets that would get tied up in probate for a long time, and my wife might not see any of it, if I hadn't done that.
Oh yeah, I'm having a usb interface installed on my urn as well.:-)
I need to clarify my post, sorry. The article states that the formatting would prevent a player from sending the signal to an analog out method. What I meant is, will the new DRM media be playable at all on pre-DRM hardware? I think the answer is no, and if so - better grab some Sony stock, since that means the whole world is going to chuck their existing DVD players? How to construct an opt-in strategy like that?
What happens to a DVD player that can output a standard VGA signal? Will we see the encryption of every type of signal, to prevent going to buy a simple hardware MPEG encoder? Maybe I'm just not getting it, but what is preventing people fom simply using legacy output methods to encode their stuff?
Bouncing or proxying? Routers don't change the src-ip of the packets. Proxys do, though. I fear anybody who sets up an anonymous socket proxy will get hammered even harder than anonymous SMTP remailers got hammered. Anybody remember anon.penet.fi?
I have a child that is a year or so away from entering Kindergarten, and another one on the way. I am leaving to go back to a better state (in the U.S.) where the public education sector has better funding. But, as i look for homes to buy and check the education rankings, I am disheartened. How many of you parents out there send your kids to public schools? How many send their kids to Montessori schools? Private? How many of you send your kids to a private school WITHOUT a religious designation?
I agree with you. Kids I know that were home schooled have a sickeningly high tendency to renounce evolution, and have been brainwashed as fundamentalist bible thumpers. It's very Children of the Corn-esque.
Get ready for Bittorrent that uses IPSEC or SSL. No more matching port numbers with taps. Then what? Well, the farming tools that the RIAA are using aren't going to be foiled. They will download the client, particpate - handshake with your machine, see you have that Britney Spears vid, and nail you by your IP address. So, encryption isn't really going to help.
I posted this game elsewhere on this topic.
A Tale in the Desert
http://egenesis.centralserver.net/
A game without any combat. Unlike a game designer like Sid Meier who can create fixed values for "happyness", and make you give the people bread and circuses, the interaction and social structure is 100% player driven. The only way to advance is to enter a social structure and work towards achieving it. People who play more and "work" harder, get ahead. Meritocracy at it's finest, or a bullshit representation?
In the other post, I speculated what would happen if you injected racism into the game design. I think an even more interesting scenario is the idea of birth. After two players, a man and a women, agree to mate (The whole virtual sex thing is not interesting, it could be optional) they can have a 'child'. For game purposes, the child can enter the world at age 10 or so. THen, the "slot" is created, and can be sold on Ebay.
You can buy with real money, the "privledge" of being born into a wealthy family. Or instead of auction, simply make people compete by putting them into a contract to "work hard". If you fail, you could be disowned by the family and become an orphan. No access to the bank account.
Lots of different ways to use that game to... let's say... create a kind of political enlightenment. I doubt many people would play. I don't even know how popular the game is.
I find the opposite is true. Like film makers who rarely depict minorities as criminals, the game industry wants to avoid politics per se as much as possible. The Sopranos runs a kind of "air cover" for Rockstar games depiction of Italians as mobsters. It's acceptable to do that. You can also make the Chinaman a laundramat owner or the Indian run the 7-11 (see Simpson's Apu).
Your next point is more interesting. I don't play SWG or any other MMORPG, but I have a question. In EQ and SWG, there are different races or species, I guess. Yet, does racism crop up? Are the big white giant people in EQ considered an elite class, while the big troll people have a harder time joining clans? Somehow, I don't think so. And I think the reason that is, is because there is no economic incentive to be racist. In fact, mixing skills is a good thing and helps clans or parties advance faster. Ultimately, this is probably a good lesson to teach young people, to mix classes to gain fortune.
There is a game that could introduce the idea that being a certain skin color would marry you to a group with economic incentives to stick together and exclude others. That game is A Tale in the Desert.
http://egenesis.centralserver.net/
Again, my co-workers like this game, I don't play it. But I'm fascinated to hear their stories of playing it. There is no conflict or combat. Cooperation and building and advancing your society is the only way to "win" or "get ahead", unless your idea of a good time is building virtual mud huts all day. It would be absolutely fascinating to insert an economic incentive to only partner with people of your own race. You'd need somehow to have your characters grow old and die, with a system that when you are "re-born", the only way to keep your acquired wealth was to insure it stayed within your lineage system.
I think people would see the direct correlation between politics and economics in a big hurry.
What you don't understand is that the International Monetary Fund is the Illuminati. They control the world's money supply, based on a secret arrangement they made with the Swiss during WW2, to horde the majority of the world's gold under a mountain controlled by SPECTRE.
Were your parents liberal? I don't mean Birkenstock Women's Studies, tie-dyed, teaching at Columbia liberal - I mean they taught you ideas about equality, the facts about slavery in the US, etc etc.
Did they teach you how a liberal, free press changed the outcome of the Vietnam conflict? Did they teach you why Vietnam was fought? Do they think Iraq is a war predicated on terror?
I just see a lot of 21-30yr olds with a sort of liberal backlash mentality. Want to know where it comes from. Maybe it's as simple as rebellion against whatever the parents believed in.
You may wish to read the biography of Deming, the US industrialist sent to Japan to help them rebuild after the war. He invented TQM, Total Quality Management. What you hear about Japanese management styles, and Kan-Sei engineering was largely derived from his work in TQM.
He spoke about the profound effect that dropping two nukes on Japan had to the culture. All traces of Imperialistic thought and Japanese place in the World Order simply vanished. They only wanted to emulate the United States and western industrialism.
I was playing a new FPS last night. I am an American. The game is called "Far Cry", many of you are probably playing it. It features a mind-blowing realistic 3D engine, esp. with regards to outdoors. Trees sway in the wind, water laps up on beaches. You need a new-ish rig to run it, but it does inspire awe at times.
The game takes place on what appears to be south pacific chain of islands, and has an "Island of Dr. Moreu" storyline to it.
The game features stunningly realistic gun violence. Lots of sniping through the trees, and running into rooms with a SMG on full auto blowing people away. But the game engine practically SCREAMS for a WW2 game to be build with it. In fact, in parts of the Islands you see old Japanese Zeros, rusting in the bush.
Yet, with the flood of games featuring the US Airborne, or Marines, you could NOT build the game featuring the Japanese soldier as the protagonist. Even though it would be an interesting spin, esp. since the game engine supports boats and vehicles, you could had Japanese tanks and simply epic battles in the bush against Marines at Iwo Jima or other battles of the Pacific.
Americans would not stand for a game like that. Even though games like World War 2 Online allow you to play Germans, and I think you can play Germans in some Wolfenstein mods, nobody would buy a game where you played a Japanese soldier and fought like that. Least of all, the Japanese. They would never buy a game like that.
I used to play a game called Warbirds, an online flight sim. There was a super pilot online who flew Japanese planes exclusively. His handle was "Garner". Turns out, he lived in Tokyo. He once noted to our group that what he did was considered socially unacceptable. He didn't tell people he flew a flight sim or pretended to be a Japanese pilot (and was the best damn pilot in Warbirds to boot). He kept it secret, he was a 30-something Japanese "salaryman", i.e. a middle class businessman/salesman, and it was his secret.
You see many online squadrons and online troop groups that warp themselves in the mystique of the Luftwaffe or Kreigsmarine, whathaveyou. You don't see a SINGLE squadron or group online that wraps themselves in the IJA.
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I wonder if Gartner or anyone else does any serious quantitative study of the true "value" of having a new distro via the net.
If I go to download Fedora or Debian via ISO images, and burn them, I often have a maintained distrobution that is very young. Less than a month old.
If I go and buy Windows XP via Amazon and have it delivered next day, I still have an OS image which is over a year old, even the new one that rolls up SP1.
I don't have to make a CD up with 30+ patches on it, before it is safe to plug my machine on a network.
If I worked at Redmond, and was thinking about this problem, I think what I may do is work an installation script that combines with the firewall - and keeps all inbound connections out until a "tunnel" is established to Windowsupdate, and all patches are applied before "releasing" the IP stack.
Many of these systematic advantages come from the fact that Linux doesn't need a license key to install the OS. If Microsoft gave Windows away, there would be 0-day distros on their website as well.
The Derek Smart, Ph.D flamewar keeps Usenet warm at night. It's about the closest thing to a steady stream of drive-bys you will find, with constant threats and counter-threats of legal action.
Was it a UC prank or part of the hunt, when several UC students stole a Chicago Police Department cruiser (maybe stole is the wrong word), dismantled it, and reassembled it on the roof of the Museum of Science and Industry?
The story goes they started the lights and siren up before leaving, thus insuring attention, as if people might not notice a cop car on the roof otherwise.
Is this an urban legend or did it happen? I'm not having much luck with trying to Google it.
Got ANY facts for ANY of your assertions? Any at all? I'll help...
The % of gross revenues last quarter for iPOD as opoosed to other hardware.
Sun's quarter over quarter margins over the last year.
Microsoft's 10Q statement, in terms of revenue generated from desktop licenses as opposed to other revenue streams last quarter.
AOL's balance sheets over the last 5 years, showing the number of payed subscribers over time, and a chart of their internal expense structure, to show that they survived "only" through tricky accounting.
I was using the term "punishment for his crime" in a sarcastic manner. He didn't commit any crime, as another poster pointed out, he converted speculative value into real value. He cashed out of a bubble. And, as another poster stretched the analogy, converting 'dirty' money into 'clean' money is laundering. Personally, I don't consider doing acquisitions for stock using 'dirty' money - it's just business. Time Warner got jobbed.
As to your 2nd point, it's moot. As the other poster pointed out, most land in Hawaii is owned by trusts or REITs. The fact he cashed out and took a big plot isn't what made me sick, it's that he's rewarded so hansomely for what amounts to a swindle.
And as for privately held land doing less damage than do the environment than a state park, that was summed up best by the guy who responded to you.
I recently took a ATV tour around some farms in Kauai. Gorgeous place. It has a Star Wars missile defense research facility, and other areas that remind you that it isn't an unspoiled paradise.
But nothing made the pit of my stomach fall farther than when the Hawaiian tour guide brought us up to a fence and made a huge gesture with his arm. "All this land here, over 5,000 acres, was bought as a private estate by Steve Case."
Just remember, his money laundering brought him enough money to buy a huge portion of land that should be a state park. He gets to live in absolute paradise, in a gigantic mansion, as punishment for his crime.
Guys - I am 36 years old and have made it as far as I can in IT without a real CS degree. I am the "senior architect" for networking and security at a Fortune 100 company. Pays pretty well - about $150k/yr. Alot of work and responsibility. I have a Cisco CCIE and was working on my SANS certification.
I'm stopping to go back and get a M.S. in C.S. from a real university program. At this age, I get to sit in undergrad classes to make up for the fact that my bullshit CIS degree didn't have the proper mathematical foundation classes, like Linear Algebra and Calc IV. because it's a real program, and not some B.S. do-it-from-home program, I leave my wife and kids at home and drag my ass into the 7pm class 3 nights a week, setaed with guys who are nearly half my age. It's a bitch, frankly. Takes your ego down several notches.
I could - maybe - have skated by on certs. I have a good cert to have. Nobody else at my company with my background is doing anything like that. But I want to understand databases, and network programming inside and out. My coding is limited to C, makefiles, shell scripting, and a bunch of Network Perl programming. Basically, junior grade O'Reilly School of Computing stuff. It's time to be a real professional.
If your age still begins with a 2, be smart - get a real CS degree. Get through the entire Calc path & linear algebra. Get a tutor. Use online resources. In the late-80s when I was in school, I was taught math by TAs from China, nearly exclusively. Most of us couldn't understand them. We didn't complain, and we should have. I wish I was a thorn in my alma mater's side, but I was 18-21, I was a sheep. Don't be. Get tutoring.
I should do a public service announcement. "Hi, my name is Dan, and I've been a fake IT employee for 15 years."...."Say hi to Dan, people..."
Oprah follows a quantum prediction formula E(a,b) = P++(a,b) - P++(a,b) - P++(a,b) + P++(a,b)
I was working on a car powered by nitro-glycerin. It runs great, but blows up a city block if you get into accident. I originally deemed this as a feature. A sort of deterrent against tailgating. Better re-evaluate...
I sprinkled some currant powder in my Tandori Chicken recipe. Was delicious!
Facts vague to protect the innocent (and dead):
A small company with a large E-business element had a guy who was the chief IT guru, a greybeard who did pretty much everything. He died.
Well, they didn't outsource PKI, they ran a Root CA. The Root CA was created and promptly taken offline. To the guy's house. Actually, the whole server wasn't taken - just the hard drive. The house was a pigpen, and that's being nice. They didn't know if he had stuck the drive in a safety deposit box, nothing.
To make an ugly story short, they pulled all the certs they used, and re-issued new ones, updated the CRL list to all their business partners, asked them to delete the imported cert. PITA.
The irony was, they didn't need to be doing PKI. They just had a few SSL web servers. Shoulda just bought em.
I was going to post this myself. I regularly update my password list to my lawyer, who appends the update in the will. I have trading accounts and other assets that would get tied up in probate for a long time, and my wife might not see any of it, if I hadn't done that.
:-)
Oh yeah, I'm having a usb interface installed on my urn as well.
I need to clarify my post, sorry. The article states that the formatting would prevent a player from sending the signal to an analog out method. What I meant is, will the new DRM media be playable at all on pre-DRM hardware? I think the answer is no, and if so - better grab some Sony stock, since that means the whole world is going to chuck their existing DVD players? How to construct an opt-in strategy like that?
What happens to a DVD player that can output a standard VGA signal? Will we see the encryption of every type of signal, to prevent going to buy a simple hardware MPEG encoder? Maybe I'm just not getting it, but what is preventing people fom simply using legacy output methods to encode their stuff?
Bouncing or proxying? Routers don't change the src-ip of the packets. Proxys do, though. I fear anybody who sets up an anonymous socket proxy will get hammered even harder than anonymous SMTP remailers got hammered. Anybody remember anon.penet.fi?
I have a child that is a year or so away from entering Kindergarten, and another one on the way. I am leaving to go back to a better state (in the U.S.) where the public education sector has better funding. But, as i look for homes to buy and check the education rankings, I am disheartened. How many of you parents out there send your kids to public schools? How many send their kids to Montessori schools? Private? How many of you send your kids to a private school WITHOUT a religious designation?
I agree with you. Kids I know that were home schooled have a sickeningly high tendency to renounce evolution, and have been brainwashed as fundamentalist bible thumpers. It's very Children of the Corn-esque.
Get ready for Bittorrent that uses IPSEC or SSL. No more matching port numbers with taps. Then what? Well, the farming tools that the RIAA are using aren't going to be foiled. They will download the client, particpate - handshake with your machine, see you have that Britney Spears vid, and nail you by your IP address. So, encryption isn't really going to help.
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." -- G. K. Chesterton
I think most fundamentalist terrorists have this quote scrawled in their caves.
I posted this game elsewhere on this topic.
A Tale in the Desert
http://egenesis.centralserver.net/
A game without any combat. Unlike a game designer like Sid Meier who can create fixed values for "happyness", and make you give the people bread and circuses, the interaction and social structure is 100% player driven. The only way to advance is to enter a social structure and work towards achieving it. People who play more and "work" harder, get ahead. Meritocracy at it's finest, or a bullshit representation?
In the other post, I speculated what would happen if you injected racism into the game design. I think an even more interesting scenario is the idea of birth. After two players, a man and a women, agree to mate (The whole virtual sex thing is not interesting, it could be optional) they can have a 'child'. For game purposes, the child can enter the world at age 10 or so. THen, the "slot" is created, and can be sold on Ebay.
You can buy with real money, the "privledge" of being born into a wealthy family. Or instead of auction, simply make people compete by putting them into a contract to "work hard". If you fail, you could be disowned by the family and become an orphan. No access to the bank account.
Lots of different ways to use that game to... let's say... create a kind of political enlightenment. I doubt many people would play. I don't even know how popular the game is.
I find the opposite is true. Like film makers who rarely depict minorities as criminals, the game industry wants to avoid politics per se as much as possible. The Sopranos runs a kind of "air cover" for Rockstar games depiction of Italians as mobsters. It's acceptable to do that. You can also make the Chinaman a laundramat owner or the Indian run the 7-11 (see Simpson's Apu).
Your next point is more interesting. I don't play SWG or any other MMORPG, but I have a question. In EQ and SWG, there are different races or species, I guess. Yet, does racism crop up? Are the big white giant people in EQ considered an elite class, while the big troll people have a harder time joining clans? Somehow, I don't think so. And I think the reason that is, is because there is no economic incentive to be racist. In fact, mixing skills is a good thing and helps clans or parties advance faster. Ultimately, this is probably a good lesson to teach young people, to mix classes to gain fortune.
There is a game that could introduce the idea that being a certain skin color would marry you to a group with economic incentives to stick together and exclude others. That game is A Tale in the Desert.
http://egenesis.centralserver.net/
Again, my co-workers like this game, I don't play it. But I'm fascinated to hear their stories of playing it. There is no conflict or combat. Cooperation and building and advancing your society is the only way to "win" or "get ahead", unless your idea of a good time is building virtual mud huts all day. It would be absolutely fascinating to insert an economic incentive to only partner with people of your own race. You'd need somehow to have your characters grow old and die, with a system that when you are "re-born", the only way to keep your acquired wealth was to insure it stayed within your lineage system.
I think people would see the direct correlation between politics and economics in a big hurry.
What you don't understand is that the International Monetary Fund is the Illuminati. They control the world's money supply, based on a secret arrangement they made with the Swiss during WW2, to horde the majority of the world's gold under a mountain controlled by SPECTRE.
This isn't meant as flamebait.
Were your parents liberal? I don't mean Birkenstock Women's Studies, tie-dyed, teaching at Columbia liberal - I mean they taught you ideas about equality, the facts about slavery in the US, etc etc.
Did they teach you how a liberal, free press changed the outcome of the Vietnam conflict? Did they teach you why Vietnam was fought? Do they think Iraq is a war predicated on terror?
I just see a lot of 21-30yr olds with a sort of liberal backlash mentality. Want to know where it comes from. Maybe it's as simple as rebellion against whatever the parents believed in.
You may wish to read the biography of Deming, the US industrialist sent to Japan to help them rebuild after the war. He invented TQM, Total Quality Management. What you hear about Japanese management styles, and Kan-Sei engineering was largely derived from his work in TQM.
He spoke about the profound effect that dropping two nukes on Japan had to the culture. All traces of Imperialistic thought and Japanese place in the World Order simply vanished. They only wanted to emulate the United States and western industrialism.
I was playing a new FPS last night. I am an American. The game is called "Far Cry", many of you are probably playing it. It features a mind-blowing realistic 3D engine, esp. with regards to outdoors. Trees sway in the wind, water laps up on beaches. You need a new-ish rig to run it, but it does inspire awe at times.
The game takes place on what appears to be south pacific chain of islands, and has an "Island of Dr. Moreu" storyline to it.
The game features stunningly realistic gun violence. Lots of sniping through the trees, and running into rooms with a SMG on full auto blowing people away. But the game engine practically SCREAMS for a WW2 game to be build with it. In fact, in parts of the Islands you see old Japanese Zeros, rusting in the bush.
Yet, with the flood of games featuring the US Airborne, or Marines, you could NOT build the game featuring the Japanese soldier as the protagonist. Even though it would be an interesting spin, esp. since the game engine supports boats and vehicles, you could had Japanese tanks and simply epic battles in the bush against Marines at Iwo Jima or other battles of the Pacific.
Americans would not stand for a game like that. Even though games like World War 2 Online allow you to play Germans, and I think you can play Germans in some Wolfenstein mods, nobody would buy a game where you played a Japanese soldier and fought like that. Least of all, the Japanese. They would never buy a game like that.
I used to play a game called Warbirds, an online flight sim. There was a super pilot online who flew Japanese planes exclusively. His handle was "Garner". Turns out, he lived in Tokyo. He once noted to our group that what he did was considered socially unacceptable. He didn't tell people he flew a flight sim or pretended to be a Japanese pilot (and was the best damn pilot in Warbirds to boot). He kept it secret, he was a 30-something Japanese "salaryman", i.e. a middle class businessman/salesman, and it was his secret.
You see many online squadrons and online troop groups that warp themselves in the mystique of the Luftwaffe or Kreigsmarine, whathaveyou. You don't see a SINGLE squadron or group online that wraps themselves in the IJA.