MP3.com used to do, before they sold out to CNet. I became a fan of a couple of dozen new bands through the old MP3.com...But I will not deign to sign onto something owned by Rupert Murdoch. Who knows what nefarious uses he would have for even the browsing info he got from my trips to the site:P.
WTF difference is their between a "Casual Gamer" and a "Leisure Gamer"?
You will see that what many of us define as a "casual" gamer is what the article defines as a "leisure" gamer. The article also defines as the "power" gamer what we would commonly refer to as the "hardcore" gamer. Of the other 4 types of gamer listed in the article, 2 are subsets of the casual gamer, as we define it: the "dormant" gamer is a casual gamer who has too many RL responsibilities (for instance, they should get a divorce and sell the kids on the white slave market to create free time), the "incidental" gamer is the casual gamer, only more bored than usual.
The "occasional" gamer is poorly labeled, but correctly defined: they play puzzle, word, and board games almost exclusively, which means they live on yahoo games; that doesn't mean they aren't hardcore (have you seen how long some of these people stay logged in?). It just means that they don't like a wide variety of games. Kind of like the guy who will only play FPS games, or RTS games because they suck at eveything else.
Finally, they define the "social" gamer: someone who play for interaction with friends/people. In truth, this is the kind of gamer that only modern online games best fulfill the needs of. They can be either hardcore or casual, but they game because of the attachment they feel to the people the game with, not just because they like the game.
What the article really seems to be saying is that game developers are ignoring the needs of casual gamers. An arguement that has been heard over and over on every game related message board in the world, with nasty rejoinders and fevered rhetoric from both the casual and hardcore gamer.
My theorem: The longer any party or group remains in power the closer they come to corrupt.
Change that to "the more corrupt they become," and I'll agree with you. I believe that you have to be a little corrupt to engage in politics in our system in the first place, unless you are actively trying to sever the major party hold on ballot access.
We can expect a lot of red faces when same bi-partisan muck-rakers get their hands on the online database and equally glib Senators and Representatives have to answer for decades of funny business which has passed beneath the radar in a long game of "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine."
That's making the assumption that the bill will pass. Just because it was introduced in a bi-partisan fashion doesn't mean that it will pass. Certainly, Bill Frist and the Democrat from Nevada would have a vested interest, as party leadership, in not seeing it pass, as it would reduce the leadership's hold on the rank and file. After all, if people can monitor the nonsensical spending that comes out of D.C., they will begin to more vigorously object when they see spending they don't like. In the end, it might create greater turn over in the leadership, as leaders lose their seats for spending that constituents object to and will ultimately pin on the leadership. And I have no faith in the leaders of either party, so I fully expect them to pull out all the stops to get this bill defeated.
Nixon. government overreach, presidential misconduct to the greatest possible extremes, authoritarian agenda in the guise of "protecting Americans" from various social groups that we ignored anyway...
Every MMORPG that I have played comes down to one or both of these issues in the end. I will admit that I haven't played them all (skipped Dark Age of Camelot, Final Fantasy, and Lineage). But the Gear-vs-gear equation is one that no MMoRPG hs completely escaped. And the games that aren't specifically targetted to small groups (DDO, Guild Wars) always seem to have to include raiding of some sort.
They have already mentioned that Druids will have more options for tanking in the expansion. I would expect that some of the new talents for Druids would address that role.
The POWER5 is one of the worst offenders in this; it gets great performance (although not necessarily on the kind of workloads buyers are looking for), but it generates a huge amount of heat.
Man, is this ever true. I got a 550 last year and put it down in my basement and hooked a fan up to it. Ran my website and heated my house to nice and toasty 72 degrees all winter.
sentence him to not touch a computer until his 18th birthday? With lockup being the penalty for violating this rule? Now granted, they should have taken the kid out in a field somewhere and left him on the ground in a shower of crows, but, denying a teenager computer access is almost equivelent these days.
To understand why this is a scandal in EVE. The game environment is almost designed to encourage things like this, in my experience. Now, I grant you, I didn't play very long, but this game is about as free for all as MMORPGs come right now. This guy connived 700B ISK out of people. Well, boo hoo, but you shouldn't give ISK to someone you don't personally know won't rip you off.
Heh...I've only worked for one company where the IT people controlled how internet access was set up, ultimately. Everywhere else, the decision has been handed down from some idiot that has never used a computer in his life, even at work, and still makes his secretary use a type-writer because he doesn't trust an ink jet.
As for the email reader, he probably got that email on his work email account, so unless you are restricting all email (which most companies do not), he would have still infected the network.
I'm not advocating a blanket opening of the internet in the work environment. Most work places do not need to leave porn sites open, for instance. Heck, even parts of/. are mostly unnecessary (like this thread, for instance). But, it is better a too loose policy than a too restrictive. At the company I work for right now, their internet blocking is usually a pain in the ass. I could get more work done if every other site in my searches didn't come up Access Restricted.
There's a reason that 18 is the age of majority, and not 15, 16, or even 17.
What is that reason? No, really. I want to know.
It's just an arbitrary age that Americans chose at some point. Probably because our educational system at one point ended for the vast majority of us around that age. Are you going to bump the "age of majority" to 22 now that so many of us are going to college? Are you going to bump it to the early 30s because that's when the last vestiges of the deifferences between the "adolescent" and "adult" brains disappear?
The real problem with American teens, and most Americans overall, comes down to the fact that personal responsibility hasn't been a tenet of the American upbringing since Dr. Spock wrote his (in)famous book.
Can you imagine how often this kid is going to get beat up if parents start using this tech? I expect some jock has this kid's head shoved down a toilet for just thinking about developing this.
Okay...here's the obligatory:
What if you job is pretty much all about the internet? Blanket statements...
Anyway, if you have a tech job, it is almost guaranteed that you will use the internet in the course of your work. Sys admins use it to look up solutions to problems. Programmers use it to "not reinvent the wheel". Etc. Etc. Etc.
Primarily because the DoD mandates that people developing trusted software/oses have security clearances, which simply won't happen with open source development. And someone with a security clearance would probably be prosecuted if they released DoD trusted code out to the open source community.
All sick jokes aside, this would be fine for applications such as word processing and maybe calendar clients or something. But I seriously doubt the DoD will certify open source software as "trusted" in the sense that they will use it for secure applications.
Given that a)Microsoft has the largest market share for the office suite type product (though, most people primarly use Word and Excel) and b) that Microsoft's domination in that market is a factor that drives corporate purchase of Windows and c) corporate purchase of Microsoft's products (including MS Windows OSes) is where, regardless what protestations to the contrary MS may exhibit, MS makes the largest portion of its profits, I don't really see where MS has any real incentive to create a version of Office for Linux.
Linux may have made inroads in certain areas for servers, but I forsee, if for no other reason than Microsoft will indemnify it's OS and Office products, most large corporate players sticking with Windows for the desktop. There aren't really any companies that I'm aware of that will indemnify Linux (not even IBM, at this point), and really large corporations want their software vendors to pay for business interuption if the purchased software causes any sort of extended business outage.
I believe that this system would/will suffer similar problems to the current process: It will be dominated by players with deep pockets. If you can just pay a sufficient number of people to log on and work for your patent, odds are you will win it with a forum/wiki/discussion group/whatever. Just as you can now persuade the USPTO by throwing money into lobbying them.
to use vmware? Could what you are trying to accomplish be done with remote desktop to a terminal server? If you are already running Windows 2K3, that might be a better option for you. And the terminal server license isn't, as I remember, all that expensive compare to a lot of the other options.
At my last job, we used term services extensively for people wanting access to either secure applications or applications requiring a specific software that we didn't want to roll out to individual desktops. There are some vaguries to installing software on a term server (I'm a unix admin so I don't know what they are), but it seems like a workable solution for your basic problem.
However, you can use VMware for free and Citrix is REALLY expensive. Even if you are paying for VMware support, it is still quite a bit cheaper than Citrix. If this is a small business, then he is probably running a on price point and Citrix would not be a workable solution for him.
if microsoft had done something like this, people would be screaming bloody murder.
Yes, if Microsoft had refused to provide evidence required at discovery, refused to provide any evidence at all, everyone would be screaming bloody murder. On the other hand, only the most ardent Microsoft haters would scream if Microsoft had insisted on seeing the evidence against them, insisted on the rules of discovery, insisted that the company suing them prove that they had a case.
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MP3.com used to do, before they sold out to CNet. I became a fan of a couple of dozen new bands through the old MP3.com...But I will not deign to sign onto something owned by Rupert Murdoch. Who knows what nefarious uses he would have for even the browsing info he got from my trips to the site:P.
Once we stop looking at sexual activity as something wrong or dirty, pornography becomes less interesting.
It just changes the name from pornography to erotica.
WTF difference is their between a "Casual Gamer" and a "Leisure Gamer"?
You will see that what many of us define as a "casual" gamer is what the article defines as a "leisure" gamer. The article also defines as the "power" gamer what we would commonly refer to as the "hardcore" gamer. Of the other 4 types of gamer listed in the article, 2 are subsets of the casual gamer, as we define it: the "dormant" gamer is a casual gamer who has too many RL responsibilities (for instance, they should get a divorce and sell the kids on the white slave market to create free time), the "incidental" gamer is the casual gamer, only more bored than usual.
The "occasional" gamer is poorly labeled, but correctly defined: they play puzzle, word, and board games almost exclusively, which means they live on yahoo games; that doesn't mean they aren't hardcore (have you seen how long some of these people stay logged in?). It just means that they don't like a wide variety of games. Kind of like the guy who will only play FPS games, or RTS games because they suck at eveything else.
Finally, they define the "social" gamer: someone who play for interaction with friends/people. In truth, this is the kind of gamer that only modern online games best fulfill the needs of. They can be either hardcore or casual, but they game because of the attachment they feel to the people the game with, not just because they like the game.
What the article really seems to be saying is that game developers are ignoring the needs of casual gamers. An arguement that has been heard over and over on every game related message board in the world, with nasty rejoinders and fevered rhetoric from both the casual and hardcore gamer.
My theorem: The longer any party or group remains in power the closer they come to corrupt.
Change that to "the more corrupt they become," and I'll agree with you. I believe that you have to be a little corrupt to engage in politics in our system in the first place, unless you are actively trying to sever the major party hold on ballot access. We can expect a lot of red faces when same bi-partisan muck-rakers get their hands on the online database and equally glib Senators and Representatives have to answer for decades of funny business which has passed beneath the radar in a long game of "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine."
That's making the assumption that the bill will pass. Just because it was introduced in a bi-partisan fashion doesn't mean that it will pass. Certainly, Bill Frist and the Democrat from Nevada would have a vested interest, as party leadership, in not seeing it pass, as it would reduce the leadership's hold on the rank and file. After all, if people can monitor the nonsensical spending that comes out of D.C., they will begin to more vigorously object when they see spending they don't like. In the end, it might create greater turn over in the leadership, as leaders lose their seats for spending that constituents object to and will ultimately pin on the leadership. And I have no faith in the leaders of either party, so I fully expect them to pull out all the stops to get this bill defeated.
True, but Bush wouldn't have an idea of what to aim for if it weren't for Nixon.
Nixon. government overreach, presidential misconduct to the greatest possible extremes, authoritarian agenda in the guise of "protecting Americans" from various social groups that we ignored anyway...
raiding garbage and Gear-vs-Gear "action"
Every MMORPG that I have played comes down to one or both of these issues in the end. I will admit that I haven't played them all (skipped Dark Age of Camelot, Final Fantasy, and Lineage). But the Gear-vs-gear equation is one that no MMoRPG hs completely escaped. And the games that aren't specifically targetted to small groups (DDO, Guild Wars) always seem to have to include raiding of some sort.
They have already mentioned that Druids will have more options for tanking in the expansion. I would expect that some of the new talents for Druids would address that role.
Porn is trash? Since when?
The POWER5 is one of the worst offenders in this; it gets great performance (although not necessarily on the kind of workloads buyers are looking for), but it generates a huge amount of heat.
Man, is this ever true. I got a 550 last year and put it down in my basement and hooked a fan up to it. Ran my website and heated my house to nice and toasty 72 degrees all winter.
sentence him to not touch a computer until his 18th birthday? With lockup being the penalty for violating this rule? Now granted, they should have taken the kid out in a field somewhere and left him on the ground in a shower of crows, but, denying a teenager computer access is almost equivelent these days.
To understand why this is a scandal in EVE. The game environment is almost designed to encourage things like this, in my experience. Now, I grant you, I didn't play very long, but this game is about as free for all as MMORPGs come right now. This guy connived 700B ISK out of people. Well, boo hoo, but you shouldn't give ISK to someone you don't personally know won't rip you off.
Heh...I've only worked for one company where the IT people controlled how internet access was set up, ultimately. Everywhere else, the decision has been handed down from some idiot that has never used a computer in his life, even at work, and still makes his secretary use a type-writer because he doesn't trust an ink jet. As for the email reader, he probably got that email on his work email account, so unless you are restricting all email (which most companies do not), he would have still infected the network. I'm not advocating a blanket opening of the internet in the work environment. Most work places do not need to leave porn sites open, for instance. Heck, even parts of /. are mostly unnecessary (like this thread, for instance). But, it is better a too loose policy than a too restrictive. At the company I work for right now, their internet blocking is usually a pain in the ass. I could get more work done if every other site in my searches didn't come up Access Restricted.
There's a reason that 18 is the age of majority, and not 15, 16, or even 17. What is that reason? No, really. I want to know.
It's just an arbitrary age that Americans chose at some point. Probably because our educational system at one point ended for the vast majority of us around that age. Are you going to bump the "age of majority" to 22 now that so many of us are going to college? Are you going to bump it to the early 30s because that's when the last vestiges of the deifferences between the "adolescent" and "adult" brains disappear?
The real problem with American teens, and most Americans overall, comes down to the fact that personal responsibility hasn't been a tenet of the American upbringing since Dr. Spock wrote his (in)famous book.
Can you imagine how often this kid is going to get beat up if parents start using this tech? I expect some jock has this kid's head shoved down a toilet for just thinking about developing this.
Okay...here's the obligatory: What if you job is pretty much all about the internet? Blanket statements... Anyway, if you have a tech job, it is almost guaranteed that you will use the internet in the course of your work. Sys admins use it to look up solutions to problems. Programmers use it to "not reinvent the wheel". Etc. Etc. Etc.
Primarily because the DoD mandates that people developing trusted software/oses have security clearances, which simply won't happen with open source development. And someone with a security clearance would probably be prosecuted if they released DoD trusted code out to the open source community.
All sick jokes aside, this would be fine for applications such as word processing and maybe calendar clients or something. But I seriously doubt the DoD will certify open source software as "trusted" in the sense that they will use it for secure applications.
Given that a)Microsoft has the largest market share for the office suite type product (though, most people primarly use Word and Excel) and b) that Microsoft's domination in that market is a factor that drives corporate purchase of Windows and c) corporate purchase of Microsoft's products (including MS Windows OSes) is where, regardless what protestations to the contrary MS may exhibit, MS makes the largest portion of its profits, I don't really see where MS has any real incentive to create a version of Office for Linux.
Linux may have made inroads in certain areas for servers, but I forsee, if for no other reason than Microsoft will indemnify it's OS and Office products, most large corporate players sticking with Windows for the desktop. There aren't really any companies that I'm aware of that will indemnify Linux (not even IBM, at this point), and really large corporations want their software vendors to pay for business interuption if the purchased software causes any sort of extended business outage.
what the current radio lag is from Vger? Are we talking weeks? months?
No, it's stuck with BSDi.
I believe that this system would/will suffer similar problems to the current process: It will be dominated by players with deep pockets. If you can just pay a sufficient number of people to log on and work for your patent, odds are you will win it with a forum/wiki/discussion group/whatever. Just as you can now persuade the USPTO by throwing money into lobbying them.
to use vmware? Could what you are trying to accomplish be done with remote desktop to a terminal server? If you are already running Windows 2K3, that might be a better option for you. And the terminal server license isn't, as I remember, all that expensive compare to a lot of the other options. At my last job, we used term services extensively for people wanting access to either secure applications or applications requiring a specific software that we didn't want to roll out to individual desktops. There are some vaguries to installing software on a term server (I'm a unix admin so I don't know what they are), but it seems like a workable solution for your basic problem.
However, you can use VMware for free and Citrix is REALLY expensive. Even if you are paying for VMware support, it is still quite a bit cheaper than Citrix. If this is a small business, then he is probably running a on price point and Citrix would not be a workable solution for him.
if microsoft had done something like this, people would be screaming bloody murder.
Yes, if Microsoft had refused to provide evidence required at discovery, refused to provide any evidence at all, everyone would be screaming bloody murder. On the other hand, only the most ardent Microsoft haters would scream if Microsoft had insisted on seeing the evidence against them, insisted on the rules of discovery, insisted that the company suing them prove that they had a case.