Computer games even if legal downloads are not legitimate traffic for college network. It is certainly not desirable as far as purporse of campus network goes (information access).
College has no obligation to allow students to waste time with wow/cod/whatever.
"School will not let us download computer games we want to play!". Yeah. That does not really sound as if you are being repressed but more as spoiled kid whining. You could vote with your feet and go to more waster-friendly place, but good luck explaining parents (or pretty much anyone) why you'd change school because of that and one that will let you download games is better.
I wonder... why do they even bother allowing game traffic through? I'd say blocking all mmo traffic could be interesting experiment. It has certain potential to improve education.
You know, it is actually awesome way to fight casual piracy.
After three pages of rebranded "Post contents - HD Download - [CLICK HERE], Post contents - Fast Download - [CLICK HERE]" link nests most people will simply give up before finding site with actual downloads
He is a fucking great idea: If want your kids to be properly sheltered, emotionally stable and unscarred, spend some time with them. You know, parenting. Your job as parent to be there and prevent damage/do damage control.
You could also ask: Why allow someone to watch video in US of A and not in Europe?
I guess it is about what is goal of your video. Is it viral ad? Virals over PC are resent, Virals on mobile are shown in person (depriving watchers a link he could resend). Is it straight ad? Maybe mobile users are not part of your intended audience. It is traffic souce? You do not want some sites to be visited by mobile user (eshops for example).
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Did... did it finally grow up? Sell out? Get brainwashed? Recieved ms-paid escort service? All of it in one hectic night?
Your egalitarian pov is amusing with proper social context:
People do not shy from admiring people of power and celebrities. Becoming part of VIP royalty is desired. Of course people envy and as result of enying hate, but do not think for a moment they would pass opportunity to ascend. People choose villainy because it is unrestrained power and actually going to achieve something (that is, inherently anti-egalitarian) unlike hero that is going to waste his power and stay in mud.
> it's a morally perilous situation; the person with more power is expected to express humility and restraint.
No, it is not. Best thing extraordinary person can do is to excercise his power for good of other people.
Nothing good has even come from taking best and brightest and telling them to tone it down so that dumb and slow do not feel bad about themselves. Communist regimes usually tried it and it always resulted in much evil.
That assumes that he is actually weak: afraid of goverment? afraid of being turned down on date? placing his self value to hands of others?
Sound like a typical comic book nerd:) Yeah, such person should not get to power.
In reality, powerfull being would be asset that goverment will pamper and know better than piss off in any way. And he will know it too.
He will have no shortage of women in bed, and one refusal would be just "whatever, next in line please" because power is sexy, he will never be frustrated in this department.
No shortage of money or anything. Goverment would be smart enough to recognize that you need to have all your needs met because consequences of you being frustrated are not goign to be pretty.
Narcisism is not issue if you are going to get dedicated folowers - hypothetical "superman" would easily spring many cults, fandom and people ready to die for him. All it would that is little showmanship and good PR (given free by goverment that whats you to work for them), and possibly not even that.
Smart society will be able to handle powerfull human if he is still human. Of course, failure to handle him well would be... most unfortunate. But people were able to handle Kings, Emperors and others just fine as well as those rulers were able to handle their power.
In fact, if you really like developing games, you ought to take 8/5 corporate soul-crushing job (that will crush your soul much, much less) and just make games in your spare time (or at work during downtime) for fun.
Being full-time game devs is not any more glorious than producing yet another client address screen. It is easy to get excited by stuff like playing throught HL2 episodes with commentary on or by reading blog of some lead dev/indie dev/wanabee-dev-smartass, but kids should realize that they are not going to be the ones making interesting decidions and artfully crafting game but peons building someone elses vision under incredible time constraint. Each company only needs few people who say "At this point, we will add x to enforce dramatic tension.". Becoming one of them is unlikely.
It is not protection from naughty stuff, it is protection from embarassing searches.
Say you are googling "Amateur Astronomy" with someone looking over your shoulder - do they really need to see "Amateur As" partial result (lots of porn links on that page)?
They don't, neither do you. If you really want that result, press enter.
Pretty much all of those terms lead to porn results on first page of searches (lots of seo power...).
Ever heard of someone with replitian pets or tropical fish? Farmers with chicken? You want light AND heat. From same source ideally so that you do not mess with their instincts. Incadescent is quite efficient there.
Another service that needs to be developed, integrated, maintained and admined, have hw to run on? It gives ISP nothing except possiblity of loosing customer.
It is expensive. It can look like you can hack something like that overnight, but that is quite naive.
Hell, if it only cost 1$ it is still too expensive for ISP when net benefit is zero.
Too bad I am not really interested in playing other new-ish games. This is where it falls apart. Something that will be outdated next time you want to use is not really going to be amortized or subject to planning ahead (plan: maybe play som game two years down the line? yeah, todays 100$ card will work reall nice for that)
Let me paraphase:
SHOCK HORROR, it's unheard that someone might not really play more than one (modern) videogame a year.
Anyhow, I wonder what graphics dark age you are afraid of. Funny how best games have little graphics to write home about and how all those drool-inducing things get forgotten because goddamn perfect shaddow does not make game fun.
Wrap your mind over the fact that cost of game is not just what you pay for box if you did not bother to keep up with silly arms race and if you will not really use that hw for anything else.
For me, wired connection is not really that great.
If you plug in/unplug device daily (charging smartphone), you are going to see damage and suddenly you notice that you have to apply some pressue on side to make sure connection is made.. Not to mention that there is danger of prying connector loose from board - something you do not want to happen.
Wireless means there is going to be less mechanical damage. Thingie is going to have a bit increased lifespan. That seems worth it.
On contrary, your experience is still easily shared, frustrations voiced and strategies discused.
Few examples:
* Ever talked to someone about your Diablo session? How you like to use skill X against oponent Y, how that Z item dropped?
* YASD - Yet Another Stupied Death (in ADOM or your roguelike of choice) stories. Thats about as much frustration sharing as it can get.
* Dwarf Fortress - no two "levels" are alike, hell, everyone gets their personalised game world so one can easily play on dead planet where only few titan colosi and demons roam looking for sentiend beign to kill while someone else might be playing in populated and developed world. Yet people talk about their strategies, share tip and tricks.
Given that there is actually more to talk about (two people talking experienced game differently) and it is more personal (when someone tells you about their experience, you will hear his unique story), i'd welcome that.
1) Multiplayer foss gmes are more common because it is easier to get into touch with other people who like to play (and) code multiplayer games. Which is blessing as they can agree on game design and mechanics because they usually want to clone one specific game (which is good thing because project where developers can not agree on basic mechanics die fast.).
2) Decent detailed 3D model of one humanoid creature can take month or more. Skilled artists simply do not have enough free time to do it as hobby. At best, you either end up with quickly made models of low quality by someone experienced.
3) Storyline is major pain and i frankly prefer f/oss games without story because if they have one, it is pretty terrible thanks to internal group dynamics where plot is decided by comitee (where everyone wants to have "his" contribution, especially people who do not know much about to how to create good story but which were nursed by whatever crap paperbacks local game store had). You really need able writer and devs that do not mess it up.
4) It is very hard to dismiss submissions as low quality. Hurt feelings, vendetas, splintering of groups. Game eventually end up being mess of assets that you can not get rid of without major political struggle.
Are you sure that that teller lady would be as nice to you if she discovered that (for example) your stolen cc was used to pay for some omghewillmolestourchildrenburnthewitch pornography? Hate, fear and anger comes easily and you are likely to be thought as "he did it, he just lies in attempt to get out of trouble" guy.
Of course people don't have to thing about tech or jump hoops anymore.
That is whole damn point of developlment - to turn toys of selected few into something that everyone can benefit from using. To turn geeky toys to tools.
Old knowledge being obsolete and noone bothering with it anymore? Too bad, my heart bleeds for you. (I too grew up with modem sounds btw) But who in right mind would bother with it? Other than satisfying innner clique of gumpy aged guys, there is no point.
Just accept that computers and internet are no longer your and your peers exclusive playground and move on. Just accept that Computer is not any more magical than TV, Oven or Vaccum Cleaner: Just something ordinary people use when aproriate and do not obsess about.
"Next Gen" has simply learned true worth of computers (= it is not worth it to learn how they work, leave it to someone who does it profesionally) and how to use them (= turn it on, do your stuff, turn it off and continue having life).
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... And nothing of value would be lost.
Computer games even if legal downloads are not legitimate traffic for college network. It is certainly not desirable as far as purporse of campus network goes (information access).
College has no obligation to allow students to waste time with wow/cod/whatever.
"School will not let us download computer games we want to play!". Yeah. That does not really sound as if you are being repressed but more as spoiled kid whining. You could vote with your feet and go to more waster-friendly place, but good luck explaining parents (or pretty much anyone) why you'd change school because of that and one that will let you download games is better.
I wonder ... why do they even bother allowing game traffic through? I'd say blocking all mmo traffic could be interesting experiment. It has certain potential to improve education.
Unless you make millions from just selling alpha version access...
You know, it is actually awesome way to fight casual piracy.
After three pages of rebranded "Post contents - HD Download - [CLICK HERE], Post contents - Fast Download - [CLICK HERE]" link nests most people will simply give up before finding site with actual downloads
He is a fucking great idea: If want your kids to be properly sheltered, emotionally stable and unscarred, spend some time with them. You know, parenting. Your job as parent to be there and prevent damage/do damage control.
You could also ask: Why allow someone to watch video in US of A and not in Europe?
I guess it is about what is goal of your video. Is it viral ad? Virals over PC are resent, Virals on mobile are shown in person (depriving watchers a link he could resend). Is it straight ad? Maybe mobile users are not part of your intended audience. It is traffic souce? You do not want some sites to be visited by mobile user (eshops for example).
Hey, it could be awesome sitcom. Something actually funny.
Funny, MY android phone woke me up one hour early.
Gotta fix that bug this evening.
Formal proof is very important - if taught well, it teaches people to think in different way.
One of most enlightening moments when i was at university was excercise where we were given few claims and told to prove/disprove them formally.
What makes Earth so special that data obtained here are no so good as some other unnamed location?
What is going on today on /.?
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Did ... did it finally grow up? Sell out? Get brainwashed? Recieved ms-paid escort service? All of it in one hectic night?
I suggest Sky Burial then.
Fun for for friends and foes.
Your egalitarian pov is amusing with proper social context:
People do not shy from admiring people of power and celebrities. Becoming part of VIP royalty is desired. Of course people envy and as result of enying hate, but do not think for a moment they would pass opportunity to ascend. People choose villainy because it is unrestrained power and actually going to achieve something (that is, inherently anti-egalitarian) unlike hero that is going to waste his power and stay in mud.
> it's a morally perilous situation; the person with more power is expected to express humility and restraint.
No, it is not. Best thing extraordinary person can do is to excercise his power for good of other people.
Nothing good has even come from taking best and brightest and telling them to tone it down so that dumb and slow do not feel bad about themselves. Communist regimes usually tried it and it always resulted in much evil.
That assumes that he is actually weak: afraid of goverment? afraid of being turned down on date? placing his self value to hands of others?
Sound like a typical comic book nerd :) Yeah, such person should not get to power.
In reality, powerfull being would be asset that goverment will pamper and know better than piss off in any way. And he will know it too.
He will have no shortage of women in bed, and one refusal would be just "whatever, next in line please" because power is sexy, he will never be frustrated in this department.
No shortage of money or anything. Goverment would be smart enough to recognize that you need to have all your needs met because consequences of you being frustrated are not goign to be pretty.
Narcisism is not issue if you are going to get dedicated folowers - hypothetical "superman" would easily spring many cults, fandom and people ready to die for him. All it would that is little showmanship and good PR (given free by goverment that whats you to work for them), and possibly not even that.
Smart society will be able to handle powerfull human if he is still human. Of course, failure to handle him well would be ... most unfortunate. But people were able to handle Kings, Emperors and others just fine as well as those rulers were able to handle their power.
In fact, if you really like developing games, you ought to take 8/5 corporate soul-crushing job (that will crush your soul much, much less) and just make games in your spare time (or at work during downtime) for fun.
Being full-time game devs is not any more glorious than producing yet another client address screen. It is easy to get excited by stuff like playing throught HL2 episodes with commentary on or by reading blog of some lead dev/indie dev/wanabee-dev-smartass, but kids should realize that they are not going to be the ones making interesting decidions and artfully crafting game but peons building someone elses vision under incredible time constraint. Each company only needs few people who say "At this point, we will add x to enforce dramatic tension.". Becoming one of them is unlikely.
It is not protection from naughty stuff, it is protection from embarassing searches.
Say you are googling "Amateur Astronomy" with someone looking over your shoulder - do they really need to see "Amateur As" partial result (lots of porn links on that page)?
They don't, neither do you. If you really want that result, press enter.
Pretty much all of those terms lead to porn results on first page of searches (lots of seo power...).
Ever heard of someone with replitian pets or tropical fish? Farmers with chicken? You want light AND heat. From same source ideally so that you do not mess with their instincts. Incadescent is quite efficient there.
Interesting, eh?
Another service that needs to be developed, integrated, maintained and admined, have hw to run on? It gives ISP nothing except possiblity of loosing customer.
It is expensive. It can look like you can hack something like that overnight, but that is quite naive.
Hell, if it only cost 1$ it is still too expensive for ISP when net benefit is zero.
Great math you have over there.
Too bad I am not really interested in playing other new-ish games. This is where it falls apart. Something that will be outdated next time you want to use is not really going to be amortized or subject to planning ahead (plan: maybe play som game two years down the line? yeah, todays 100$ card will work reall nice for that)
Let me paraphase:
SHOCK HORROR, it's unheard that someone might not really play more than one (modern) videogame a year.
Anyhow, I wonder what graphics dark age you are afraid of. Funny how best games have little graphics to write home about and how all those drool-inducing things get forgotten because goddamn perfect shaddow does not make game fun.
Well, I will be happy with civ iii.
Guess what?
That makes $50 game a 150$ game.
Wrap your mind over the fact that cost of game is not just what you pay for box if you did not bother to keep up with silly arms race and if you will not really use that hw for anything else.
You want to cache important stuff otherwise I/O will cripple your cpu...
For me, wired connection is not really that great.
If you plug in/unplug device daily (charging smartphone), you are going to see damage and suddenly you notice that you have to apply some pressue on side to make sure connection is made.. Not to mention that there is danger of prying connector loose from board - something you do not want to happen.
Wireless means there is going to be less mechanical damage. Thingie is going to have a bit increased lifespan. That seems worth it.
On contrary, your experience is still easily shared, frustrations voiced and strategies discused.
Few examples:
* Ever talked to someone about your Diablo session? How you like to use skill X against oponent Y, how that Z item dropped?
* YASD - Yet Another Stupied Death (in ADOM or your roguelike of choice) stories. Thats about as much frustration sharing as it can get.
* Dwarf Fortress - no two "levels" are alike, hell, everyone gets their personalised game world so one can easily play on dead planet where only few titan colosi and demons roam looking for sentiend beign to kill while someone else might be playing in populated and developed world. Yet people talk about their strategies, share tip and tricks.
Given that there is actually more to talk about (two people talking experienced game differently) and it is more personal (when someone tells you about their experience, you will hear his unique story), i'd welcome that.
1) Multiplayer foss gmes are more common because it is easier to get into touch with other people who like to play (and) code multiplayer games. Which is blessing as they can agree on game design and mechanics because they usually want to clone one specific game (which is good thing because project where developers can not agree on basic mechanics die fast.).
2) Decent detailed 3D model of one humanoid creature can take month or more. Skilled artists simply do not have enough free time to do it as hobby. At best, you either end up with quickly made models of low quality by someone experienced.
3) Storyline is major pain and i frankly prefer f/oss games without story because if they have one, it is pretty terrible thanks to internal group dynamics where plot is decided by comitee (where everyone wants to have "his" contribution, especially people who do not know much about to how to create good story but which were nursed by whatever crap paperbacks local game store had). You really need able writer and devs that do not mess it up.
4) It is very hard to dismiss submissions as low quality. Hurt feelings, vendetas, splintering of groups. Game eventually end up being mess of assets that you can not get rid of without major political struggle.
But hey, sites like this: http://opengameart.org/ exist and they are awesome!
Are you sure that that teller lady would be as nice to you if she discovered that (for example) your stolen cc was used to pay for some omghewillmolestourchildrenburnthewitch pornography? Hate, fear and anger comes easily and you are likely to be thought as "he did it, he just lies in attempt to get out of trouble" guy.
Of course people don't have to thing about tech or jump hoops anymore.
That is whole damn point of developlment - to turn toys of selected few into something that everyone can benefit from using. To turn geeky toys to tools.
Old knowledge being obsolete and noone bothering with it anymore? Too bad, my heart bleeds for you. (I too grew up with modem sounds btw) But who in right mind would bother with it? Other than satisfying innner clique of gumpy aged guys, there is no point.
Just accept that computers and internet are no longer your and your peers exclusive playground and move on. Just accept that Computer is not any more magical than TV, Oven or Vaccum Cleaner: Just something ordinary people use when aproriate and do not obsess about.
"Next Gen" has simply learned true worth of computers (= it is not worth it to learn how they work, leave it to someone who does it profesionally) and how to use them (= turn it on, do your stuff, turn it off and continue having life).