Communes work, communist countries don't. Private restrooms are cleaner than public ones, even the private restrooms of the people who mess up the public ones are cleaner. The honor system works in small communities and villages, but big cities overflow with crime regardless of penalties.
Whenever you open something to the public you ruin it. More specifically a couple people out of 100 ruin it. The internet magnifies this by allowing the assholes to script themselves, like a mirror image spell in Baldur's Gate.
I think gaming has become a little like the car industry in that it has become standardized. Everyone knows what RPG and FPS stand for now, and the industry, for better or for worse, uses DirectX as the default base (I know this is widening). But one thing game makers need to deal with is that it is already harder to pry my money out of my wallet for a game than it was 5 years ago.
I still play horribly outdated games like Warcraft 2 because they are fun, and in the day of amazon.com I can actually find out what lots of other people think of the game in about 5 seconds. Then there are the game forums where you find out exactly how buggy the game is before they release the first patch.
Bottom-line - standards are going up, at least mine are. I expect something high-quality for my $50 and I can easily research past the marketing. Having said that, I plan on gaming for decades to come.
I don't care what OS you replace M$ with, I don't see why a general, multi-purpose OS was used on these machines at all. I guess our corporate friends didn't feel like investing any time at all in making a quality product, they just slapped some little progy together to run on their fellow MBAs told them too.
Ideally electronic voting should be undertaken by a group of geeks in a non-partisan, govt-funded geek squad like DARPA and should take 3-5 years to come out with anything they are willing to put their name on. Then, after independent code reviews and penetration tests I might trust it. Might. It's too late now though, the MBAs have gotten ahold of it. Anyone wanna throw in 3 million votes for Linus?
Is this a good thing? I seem to see a lot of fat little kids riding on self-propelled doodads nowadays. Future Atkins suckers I guess. Get off your lazy ass you monkey.
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Communes work, communist countries don't. Private restrooms are cleaner than public ones, even the private restrooms of the people who mess up the public ones are cleaner. The honor system works in small communities and villages, but big cities overflow with crime regardless of penalties.
Whenever you open something to the public you ruin it. More specifically a couple people out of 100 ruin it. The internet magnifies this by allowing the assholes to script themselves, like a mirror image spell in Baldur's Gate.
I think gaming has become a little like the car industry in that it has become standardized. Everyone knows what RPG and FPS stand for now, and the industry, for better or for worse, uses DirectX as the default base (I know this is widening). But one thing game makers need to deal with is that it is already harder to pry my money out of my wallet for a game than it was 5 years ago.
I still play horribly outdated games like Warcraft 2 because they are fun, and in the day of amazon.com I can actually find out what lots of other people think of the game in about 5 seconds. Then there are the game forums where you find out exactly how buggy the game is before they release the first patch.
Bottom-line - standards are going up, at least mine are. I expect something high-quality for my $50 and I can easily research past the marketing. Having said that, I plan on gaming for decades to come.
Hack the Planet! Hack the Plaannnneeeeet!
I don't care what OS you replace M$ with, I don't see why a general, multi-purpose OS was used on these machines at all. I guess our corporate friends didn't feel like investing any time at all in making a quality product, they just slapped some little progy together to run on their fellow MBAs told them too.
Ideally electronic voting should be undertaken by a group of geeks in a non-partisan, govt-funded geek squad like DARPA and should take 3-5 years to come out with anything they are willing to put their name on. Then, after independent code reviews and penetration tests I might trust it. Might. It's too late now though, the MBAs have gotten ahold of it. Anyone wanna throw in 3 million votes for Linus?
That's just because you don't know any computer professionals being paid by Diebold. ;)
Is this a good thing? I seem to see a lot of fat little kids riding on self-propelled doodads nowadays. Future Atkins suckers I guess. Get off your lazy ass you monkey.