"I want to be snarky and point out that this guy obvious has no idea how these games are designed, but I think he pretty much nails what every MMOG player really wants out of a game. Now, if only it were feasible within the bounds of money, time, and talent."
But it's hard to actually read much into that because its hard to understand if he means "its not possible because its blizzard" or "its not possible anywhere". If its the latter then Zonk should probably not post about mmo's in the future. If you look at a game like eve-online then it is very very played controlled (I do play eve online myself, im in BoB if your wondering). BoB is considered the best pvp'ers in the entire game, but we own territory we've had for over a year now and we take more, alot of what happens in the game is a direct consequence of things we're resposible for. A few weeks ago we declared war on one our close lying alliances and the biggest aliance in the game (which is what i would say is "all hell breaking loose"). Its resulted in a new ship type being used a couple of times that hasn't been used until now (titans), and the ship itself costs so much and takes so much to be built its hard for anyone but an aliance to do it (actually, its impossible due to the game mechanics themselves). CCP claim eve's market is player controled, but thats not really true (imho), Star wars gallaxies is the only true player-controlled economy in the mmo landscape as far as im concerned.
But, people hate that too. Eve is really the type of place where you need to have friends and be able to influence real people and those consequences can affect the game the way no other mmo allows. Its quite impressive, but theres lots of people in game that complain "if you dont join an alliance you cant be anything in this game". So it has two sides (player controlled hell, that is).
"if only it had worked, you could go back in time and tell yourself not to waste time on it";)
seriously though, could you imagine be able to perform an experiment in a way that you test something 10 times on exactly the same ingredients?
Its not to do with money, you cant modify a copyrighted work without the authors permission. Nor are you allowed to remove their copyright notices either.
If the US can invent its own form of english cause they couldn't handle real (british) english, then why not i say!
Maybe it'll be the new "international language". Although it is comically familiar of the "microsoft english" joke where they "own" english and transform it into a pseudo-german sounding language...
One very large company in Australia i know does use biometric finger prints... the desktops/laptops all have them and you print 2 fingers (in case you loose one? ewww) and can fall-back to passwords.
It works very well and im quite impressed with it myself...
Alot of people have worked for big, small and medium companies so its not supprise im one of them.
One thing I always consider when taking a job is "will this be something that'll effect what i do for fun?". My first job was working as a 3d graphic artist (i LOVED doing modelling and rendering). But doing that job for 8 hours a day totally killed my inner graphics child within 6 months.
I dont code for a living, but I do it for fun and i'd probably never code for a living because of that experience. Having said all that There seems to be 2 types of people in this world, those that take one job and fret they should have taken the other job for the next 2 years and those that take one with no regrets for the other.
One more point, i learnt c# in about 10 minutes (being a c++/java and having used the mfc and various other MS dev environments for "fun" for some time). But perl I often find im re-training myself everytime I need to use it, and thats not a bad thing.
I'll end with this though, a job (IMHO) is simply something you do for 8 hours a day to stop you from getting bored during the day (or to stop you from sleeping 100% of the time), it is important to at least be confortable with your job but a the end of the day its just a job and chances are you'll probably be doing a different one 5-6 years from now.
We face a problem that we have no way of knowing or proving incontrovertibly that greenhouse gasses are responsible for global climate change, or that global climate change even exists. The really sad part is, if it is reponsible we probably wont know until its too late. Either that or it will cost alot of people alot of money for something that didnt exist in the first place.
I know one thing, this year australia had 2 days of 38 (celsius) weather at the end of october (the highest ever recorded temperature for this period) and 15 above the average (a swing of more than 16 degrees in 24 hours). Amazing. Thats not proof though, and im neither for against the whole argument.
But, what the hell are we arguing for anyway? greenhouse gasses cause numerous other health and environmental problems. It makes no sence to me.
Dont get me wrong though, gcw is a problem unto itself and seems like the author is really kind of lost as to the real problem.
As much as I have no problem with "surveilance" as such, what I do hate is the thought of joe the highly underpaid security staff watching me pick my nose when I thought no one is looking and finding it on youtube...
matrix be-damned, when robots rule the earth i'll be happy to see cameras watching everything I do!
If you knew the history, you'd know that warhammer was actually before war craft... and as most warhammer 40k board-gammers will know, warcraft was (kind of) a rip-off of it... not the other way around.
But i would expect that warhammer online will be as much a rip off of wow as wow was to daoc, daoc was to everquest... etc etc..
But having said that I would expect warhammer online to be very unlike wow/warcraft in the same way wow was from daoc and the same-genre games. In fact, im hoping its going to have elements similar to eve-online. But, we shall see..
It wasn't AMD doing anything wrong, it was intel doing something right.
AM2 was a natural progression from the 939. But intel came out with conroe, a low-power, low-heat-output and blisteringly fast that made AM2 look lacklaster and even worse comparing the bang per buch factor.
939 was so popular because of things like prescott (a cpu that had such a huge heat output a new case spec was required), add to that power consumption and lackluster performance (while trying to maintain the same price-point) and the 939 was hot (figuratively speaking).
So where too from now? AMD have already hinted at multi-core cpu's that "look" like single core cpu's and i suspect that will be a killer feature that will rocket AMD back into the lead again, consider a cpu that has the power of 4 cpu's while allowing a single threaded application to take full advantage of it... that would be dam impressive.
On a side note, anyone else find it very amusing the evolution of computing since the PC? We've swung from serial to parallel since the dawn and hopefully we will continue to.
I have a nice big plasma hooked up to a digital tuner... and in Australia digital tv is very prevalent (as in, every station that used to transmit analog now also transmit's digital with very very few exceptions). On top of that alot of progs are 1080p, and a htpc looks great at that res too:)
if these things every did leed to some kind of "problem" in the subject.. And not just a simple "dam, these things give you cancer" type problem, but things like (as has been sugested), "the bastard cut my arm of because i couldnt give him my tag"
My god i'd not want to be on the wrong end of that lawsuit...
Among the most popular, the windows one rates probably highest.. but it really has quite a significant ease of use factor... unfortunately...
Also the various verisign services, onsite, etc.
But the one i liked the most personally was the sun/iplanet implementation, which they decided to kill which was a real shame cause it was easy to administer and caused very frew problems...
it seems that alot of people just jumped in with idiot comments without actually reading what the article was about, or knowing (for that matter) either language..
which is a pity..
i've worked on j2ee in the "enterprise" since one of the first version of dynamo atg (quite a long long time ago), since then i've used practically every application server their is. Now, PHP i've done for fun... (and btw, if you dont know what php stands for, you probably shouldn't be posting in the first place). Similarly, if you dont know how to code in php in a structured way and didnt realise php was OO as well, you probably shouldnt have posted either.
But the point is simply this, everything i've done in j2ee (which is a hell of a lot more prevelant where i am) i've been able to do in php... php aint just a web language, which is something i think alot of posters dont even realise.
Again, both have massive (and extendable) frameworks. The only difference in my view is the syntax of the languages involved, now i've taken a look at the lamp structure and i find my self hard-pressed to really call it an application server in sense of the j2ee word, but it doesnt mean its any less functional for that either. In reality, i think the only thing j2ee embeds that php doesnt is the security model and how many j2ee folk out there finding them granting java.lang.AllPermissions to the grant block?;)
is this a competitor to j2ee? who knows, and who cares. With any luck it'll just be another tool for the job... and you can never have enough tools (there seem to be quite a few who posted comments in fact)
while samba is the closest thing in the open source area in the form of a competitor to ms (in its own territory). Its really becoming less and less of a competitor all the time. can we spell active directory...
most big corporates i've work in have either ads or (to a very much lesser extend) novell. in none of them have i been allowed to add a samba server as a ads member, and thats where it really hurts.
In smaller companies, you can get away with samba, but i've always found trying to map between unix and windows is so painfull.
But, thats whats so wrong with the whole situation, ms should be FORCED to open up any and EVERY protocol they are using, not just for O/S reasons, but for everyone who wants to make money trying to make a competitor in one of ms's (increasinly) large circle od self-dependence.
To me its like if ford made gas tank nozzles so that you could only fill up at shell, both of them would be sued into non-existence, yet ms get away with this on a daily basis. Its sickening.
considering most of the poeple i know who'd use this application would actually have to get their kids to install it, i wonder how many buyers they'll get?
Personally i think this whole article should have been marked up as a troll... someone has almost certainly decided to see how many sites are willing to publish something that does nothing and proves nothing we didnt know before my own birth...
I find it highly amusing to read peoples comments though.. some of the funniest comments yet!
Now for the next experiment, lets see if the nintendo DS works across the vacuum of space!! *GASP*!! that'll make it on ripleys believe it or not!
Just about all the tv stations now broadcast digital and analog.. cutting off analog is probably a little bit away yet...
But when it came out, the first thing i bought was the vision plus tv card, and an epia, which sits in my home theatre cabnet. Add WebScheduler on top of that and i've not looked back... later. i bought a AU$100 sd set top box as a sideline to it (which i've had for nearly 2 years now)...
When you consider that was AU$100 to turn my analog tv into a digital tv (two years ago), and those prices have definitely dropped since then, i would have thought that 2006/2007 wouldnt be such a horribly short period of time...
Of course, when you compare that against what the epia + digital tv card + extra's cost me (nearly the price of a reasonable tv, back then) it looks bad, but my epia does many many things and consumes small amount of power..
my $0.02 (no import duties to the US due to the free trade agreement, extra for Canadians)
Did anyone else read the article and feel very confused...?
At some points its hard to even know what exactly he's refering to, desktop, server?
take for instance this: "Businesses and organizations of all sizes need consistent, predictable, scalable, self-contained platforms for server solutions. Windows wins. Linux doesn't lose, because it can continue the legacy of another nonplatform, namely Unix, that needs to be refreshed and extended"
If i were talking the desktop, then what has scalability to do with it?? adding more users/desktops? well, windows win's on the desktop by sheer weight of numbers... But he says server solutions.. what kind of servers is he refering to?
the.net platform is consistent and scalable? oh REALLY? sql server can span across multiple nodes? like oracle RAC? to name but a few...
and the whole middle of the article is just so very vague.. The the last 2 paragraphs make no sense what so ever... he mentions "linux and windows dont compete" yet he also mentions j2ee... my god, does he even bother actually doing any research for this? if your going to mention j2ee and your talking servers, this is exactly where unix and windows compete... and unix wins...
Then his closing comment... "There is only one platform that can stand toe-to-toe with Windows, and that's the combination of OS X and Java"... what exactly about OS X + Java is a competitor to windows? Or, windows + something_else?
i've never seen a (published) article that was at once so extremely vague and mis-directed, it felt like george bush writing an article in dr dobbs...
Never again will i use an RBL on a mail system...
we had a rather unfortunate incident on our own mailsystems... we got a new piece of firewall hardware, and when it was setup it changed (to some degree) how natting was handled..
Anywayss, to cut a long story short, we have two layers in our mail system, a bunch or internet facing relays and a bunch of mail systems behind them...
the updated firewall made the relays think everything was local and so ignored all the anti-relaying stuff... we picked this up pretty quickly... but unfortuantely one of the rbl's picked it up even quicker... they rbl'd us... unfortuantely, it was also the rbl we use...
unfortunately, roughly 20k emails inbound were lost before we figured that one out cause the mail systems were ignoring mails from our own front-end relays...
it was a black day, to say the least...
Personally, i use RUNT, which (as far as i can tell) is the only truely useable usb bootable distro... and yes, im with you, i think having a bootable usb linux is much more usefull than a cd distro, if only cause of size..
The best part of runt is the fact it boots off the key using umsdos rather than various knoppix distro's that boot off the key and load into ram... the advantage of this is the filesystem on the key is "live"... i.e. anything you do on it, stays on it.. (its based on slackware 10 fyi)
Runt's also not busybox based which fits one of the uses i have for it perfectly... a robot... an epia (or similar) based robot, booting off a usb key running native linux... (so much lower power req's than a hd or cdrom drive)
OK, so a cd is 0.50c, and a 512m usb flash is only AU$90, buts its so much more usefull...
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Zonk says this:
"I want to be snarky and point out that this guy obvious has no idea how these games are designed, but I think he pretty much nails what every MMOG player really wants out of a game. Now, if only it were feasible within the bounds of money, time, and talent."
But it's hard to actually read much into that because its hard to understand if he means "its not possible because its blizzard" or "its not possible anywhere". If its the latter then Zonk should probably not post about mmo's in the future. If you look at a game like eve-online then it is very very played controlled (I do play eve online myself, im in BoB if your wondering). BoB is considered the best pvp'ers in the entire game, but we own territory we've had for over a year now and we take more, alot of what happens in the game is a direct consequence of things we're resposible for. A few weeks ago we declared war on one our close lying alliances and the biggest aliance in the game (which is what i would say is "all hell breaking loose"). Its resulted in a new ship type being used a couple of times that hasn't been used until now (titans), and the ship itself costs so much and takes so much to be built its hard for anyone but an aliance to do it (actually, its impossible due to the game mechanics themselves). CCP claim eve's market is player controled, but thats not really true (imho), Star wars gallaxies is the only true player-controlled economy in the mmo landscape as far as im concerned.
But, people hate that too. Eve is really the type of place where you need to have friends and be able to influence real people and those consequences can affect the game the way no other mmo allows. Its quite impressive, but theres lots of people in game that complain "if you dont join an alliance you cant be anything in this game". So it has two sides (player controlled hell, that is).
"if only it had worked, you could go back in time and tell yourself not to waste time on it" ;)
seriously though, could you imagine be able to perform an experiment in a way that you test something 10 times on exactly the same ingredients?
Why is it that whenever anyones says "... Bush's vision ..." I think of crayons, preschool and cirlces of paper?
Its not to do with money, you cant modify a copyrighted work without the authors permission. Nor are you allowed to remove their copyright notices either.
If the US can invent its own form of english cause they couldn't handle real (british) english, then why not i say!
Maybe it'll be the new "international language". Although it is comically familiar of the "microsoft english" joke where they "own" english and transform it into a pseudo-german sounding language...
One very large company in Australia i know does use biometric finger prints... the desktops/laptops all have them and you print 2 fingers (in case you loose one? ewww) and can fall-back to passwords.
It works very well and im quite impressed with it myself...
Alot of people have worked for big, small and medium companies so its not supprise im one of them.
One thing I always consider when taking a job is "will this be something that'll effect what i do for fun?". My first job was working as a 3d graphic artist (i LOVED doing modelling and rendering). But doing that job for 8 hours a day totally killed my inner graphics child within 6 months.
I dont code for a living, but I do it for fun and i'd probably never code for a living because of that experience. Having said all that There seems to be 2 types of people in this world, those that take one job and fret they should have taken the other job for the next 2 years and those that take one with no regrets for the other.
One more point, i learnt c# in about 10 minutes (being a c++/java and having used the mfc and various other MS dev environments for "fun" for some time). But perl I often find im re-training myself everytime I need to use it, and thats not a bad thing.
I'll end with this though, a job (IMHO) is simply something you do for 8 hours a day to stop you from getting bored during the day (or to stop you from sleeping 100% of the time), it is important to at least be confortable with your job but a the end of the day its just a job and chances are you'll probably be doing a different one 5-6 years from now.
I hate reading articles like this.
We face a problem that we have no way of knowing or proving incontrovertibly that greenhouse gasses are responsible for global climate change, or that global climate change even exists. The really sad part is, if it is reponsible we probably wont know until its too late. Either that or it will cost alot of people alot of money for something that didnt exist in the first place.
I know one thing, this year australia had 2 days of 38 (celsius) weather at the end of october (the highest ever recorded temperature for this period) and 15 above the average (a swing of more than 16 degrees in 24 hours). Amazing. Thats not proof though, and im neither for against the whole argument.
But, what the hell are we arguing for anyway? greenhouse gasses cause numerous other health and environmental problems. It makes no sence to me.
Dont get me wrong though, gcw is a problem unto itself and seems like the author is really kind of lost as to the real problem.
But, I gotta say i'm way more interested in samba 4 hitting a stable release then seeing vista ship myself... its something unix really does need...
As much as I have no problem with "surveilance" as such, what I do hate is the thought of joe the highly underpaid security staff watching me pick my nose when I thought no one is looking and finding it on youtube...
matrix be-damned, when robots rule the earth i'll be happy to see cameras watching everything I do!
If you knew the history, you'd know that warhammer was actually before war craft... and as most warhammer 40k board-gammers will know, warcraft was (kind of) a rip-off of it... not the other way around.
But i would expect that warhammer online will be as much a rip off of wow as wow was to daoc, daoc was to everquest... etc etc..
But having said that I would expect warhammer online to be very unlike wow/warcraft in the same way wow was from daoc and the same-genre games. In fact, im hoping its going to have elements similar to eve-online. But, we shall see..
Cluster and grid arent multually exclusive either... personally, I tend to think of grid computer as "this generations MPAR" ;)
It wasn't AMD doing anything wrong, it was intel doing something right. AM2 was a natural progression from the 939. But intel came out with conroe, a low-power, low-heat-output and blisteringly fast that made AM2 look lacklaster and even worse comparing the bang per buch factor. 939 was so popular because of things like prescott (a cpu that had such a huge heat output a new case spec was required), add to that power consumption and lackluster performance (while trying to maintain the same price-point) and the 939 was hot (figuratively speaking). So where too from now? AMD have already hinted at multi-core cpu's that "look" like single core cpu's and i suspect that will be a killer feature that will rocket AMD back into the lead again, consider a cpu that has the power of 4 cpu's while allowing a single threaded application to take full advantage of it... that would be dam impressive. On a side note, anyone else find it very amusing the evolution of computing since the PC? We've swung from serial to parallel since the dawn and hopefully we will continue to.
I have a nice big plasma hooked up to a digital tuner... and in Australia digital tv is very prevalent (as in, every station that used to transmit analog now also transmit's digital with very very few exceptions). On top of that alot of progs are 1080p, and a htpc looks great at that res too:)
USPS can make a bomb on shipping peoples teleporters around, then complain about how they're going to go out of buisness..
if these things every did leed to some kind of "problem" in the subject.. And not just a simple "dam, these things give you cancer" type problem, but things like (as has been sugested), "the bastard cut my arm of because i couldnt give him my tag"
My god i'd not want to be on the wrong end of that lawsuit...
Among the most popular, the windows one rates probably highest.. but it really has quite a significant ease of use factor... unfortunately...
Also the various verisign services, onsite, etc.
But the one i liked the most personally was the sun/iplanet implementation, which they decided to kill which was a real shame cause it was easy to administer and caused very frew problems...
it seems that alot of people just jumped in with idiot comments without actually reading what the article was about, or knowing (for that matter) either language..
which is a pity..
i've worked on j2ee in the "enterprise" since one of the first version of dynamo atg (quite a long long time ago), since then i've used practically every application server their is. Now, PHP i've done for fun... (and btw, if you dont know what php stands for, you probably shouldn't be posting in the first place). Similarly, if you dont know how to code in php in a structured way and didnt realise php was OO as well, you probably shouldnt have posted either.
But the point is simply this, everything i've done in j2ee (which is a hell of a lot more prevelant where i am) i've been able to do in php... php aint just a web language, which is something i think alot of posters dont even realise.
Again, both have massive (and extendable) frameworks. The only difference in my view is the syntax of the languages involved, now i've taken a look at the lamp structure and i find my self hard-pressed to really call it an application server in sense of the j2ee word, but it doesnt mean its any less functional for that either. In reality, i think the only thing j2ee embeds that php doesnt is the security model and how many j2ee folk out there finding them granting java.lang.AllPermissions to the grant block?;)
is this a competitor to j2ee? who knows, and who cares. With any luck it'll just be another tool for the job... and you can never have enough tools (there seem to be quite a few who posted comments in fact)
while samba is the closest thing in the open source area in the form of a competitor to ms (in its own territory). Its really becoming less and less of a competitor all the time. can we spell active directory... most big corporates i've work in have either ads or (to a very much lesser extend) novell. in none of them have i been allowed to add a samba server as a ads member, and thats where it really hurts. In smaller companies, you can get away with samba, but i've always found trying to map between unix and windows is so painfull. But, thats whats so wrong with the whole situation, ms should be FORCED to open up any and EVERY protocol they are using, not just for O/S reasons, but for everyone who wants to make money trying to make a competitor in one of ms's (increasinly) large circle od self-dependence. To me its like if ford made gas tank nozzles so that you could only fill up at shell, both of them would be sued into non-existence, yet ms get away with this on a daily basis. Its sickening.
considering most of the poeple i know who'd use this application would actually have to get their kids to install it, i wonder how many buyers they'll get?
Personally i think this whole article should have been marked up as a troll... someone has almost certainly decided to see how many sites are willing to publish something that does nothing and proves nothing we didnt know before my own birth...
I find it highly amusing to read peoples comments though.. some of the funniest comments yet!
Now for the next experiment, lets see if the nintendo DS works across the vacuum of space!! *GASP*!! that'll make it on ripleys believe it or not!
Just about all the tv stations now broadcast digital and analog.. cutting off analog is probably a little bit away yet...
But when it came out, the first thing i bought was the vision plus tv card, and an epia, which sits in my home theatre cabnet. Add WebScheduler on top of that and i've not looked back... later. i bought a AU$100 sd set top box as a sideline to it (which i've had for nearly 2 years now)...
When you consider that was AU$100 to turn my analog tv into a digital tv (two years ago), and those prices have definitely dropped since then, i would have thought that 2006/2007 wouldnt be such a horribly short period of time...
Of course, when you compare that against what the epia + digital tv card + extra's cost me (nearly the price of a reasonable tv, back then) it looks bad, but my epia does many many things and consumes small amount of power..
my $0.02 (no import duties to the US due to the free trade agreement, extra for Canadians)
Did anyone else read the article and feel very confused...?
.net platform is consistent and scalable? oh REALLY? sql server can span across multiple nodes? like oracle RAC? to name but a few...
At some points its hard to even know what exactly he's refering to, desktop, server?
take for instance this: "Businesses and organizations of all sizes need consistent, predictable, scalable, self-contained platforms for server solutions. Windows wins. Linux doesn't lose, because it can continue the legacy of another nonplatform, namely Unix, that needs to be refreshed and extended"
If i were talking the desktop, then what has scalability to do with it?? adding more users/desktops? well, windows win's on the desktop by sheer weight of numbers... But he says server solutions.. what kind of servers is he refering to?
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and the whole middle of the article is just so very vague.. The the last 2 paragraphs make no sense what so ever... he mentions "linux and windows dont compete" yet he also mentions j2ee... my god, does he even bother actually doing any research for this? if your going to mention j2ee and your talking servers, this is exactly where unix and windows compete... and unix wins...
Then his closing comment... "There is only one platform that can stand toe-to-toe with Windows, and that's the combination of OS X and Java"... what exactly about OS X + Java is a competitor to windows? Or, windows + something_else?
i've never seen a (published) article that was at once so extremely vague and mis-directed, it felt like george bush writing an article in dr dobbs...
truely bizare...
Never again will i use an RBL on a mail system... we had a rather unfortunate incident on our own mailsystems... we got a new piece of firewall hardware, and when it was setup it changed (to some degree) how natting was handled.. Anywayss, to cut a long story short, we have two layers in our mail system, a bunch or internet facing relays and a bunch of mail systems behind them... the updated firewall made the relays think everything was local and so ignored all the anti-relaying stuff... we picked this up pretty quickly... but unfortuantely one of the rbl's picked it up even quicker... they rbl'd us... unfortuantely, it was also the rbl we use... unfortunately, roughly 20k emails inbound were lost before we figured that one out cause the mail systems were ignoring mails from our own front-end relays... it was a black day, to say the least...
Personally, i use RUNT, which (as far as i can tell) is the only truely useable usb bootable distro... and yes, im with you, i think having a bootable usb linux is much more usefull than a cd distro, if only cause of size.. The best part of runt is the fact it boots off the key using umsdos rather than various knoppix distro's that boot off the key and load into ram... the advantage of this is the filesystem on the key is "live"... i.e. anything you do on it, stays on it.. (its based on slackware 10 fyi) Runt's also not busybox based which fits one of the uses i have for it perfectly... a robot... an epia (or similar) based robot, booting off a usb key running native linux... (so much lower power req's than a hd or cdrom drive) OK, so a cd is 0.50c, and a 512m usb flash is only AU$90, buts its so much more usefull...