Online Play is a blessing and a curse for all Gamers, everywhere.
It allows Splinter Cell:PT to be infinitely amusing. It allows four gamers to form a sponsored CounterStrike team and WORK playing CS.
It gives WarCraft III more playability. Yadda yadda yadda...it's great.
HOWEVER...
...as more and more games become more and more based around online play, the overwhelmingly large amounts of players that don't have any internet access at all are left out.
I think that in order to get more people playing in Online communities, game makers are leaving behind those without LOADS of cash to tack onto a monthly bill along with Rent, Food and Phone.
I'm glad Nintendo hasn't forgotten those who don't have DSL.
I'm just syaing we have a responsibility as the IT community to protect others who havent made the good choices of switching to open, free, secure software.
...as you ALL have said, they dont' know anything else. Until they find it...help them keep their money in their banks.
Hey man, I'm not saying it wouldn't be a thankless job, and had I the skills I'd jump in on it myself.
However, I'm just trying to offer an alternative to complicating peoples live even more than they already are. If we can handle it we should.
If someone exploited the fact that American's drive on the right, would you want all American's to start driving on the left...or fix the exploit? Just because you don't know how the road is made, doens't mean you can't make the car drive properly on it.
IE is a very robust, useful program...a fact that many people miss.
I could also get petty and go this direction:
Linux is supported and patched by a community. Volunteers for the most part. Imagine what could happen if we turned that power towards something everyone ALREADY uses like Windows/IE. Come at me with the 'source code' argument if you want, but what I'm proposing is a simple quick fix system while we wait for MS to get moving.
If you are willing to do it for Linux...but not Windows...wouldn't that make you elitist?
...thats why I said 'patches'. These would need to be small, running processes that protected various elements of the known holes.
A temporary fix until the large, slow, but effective MS machine got around to closing them.
Here's a thought for all of you brain-washed linux-geeks: If every end-user is an idiot, as you all so condescendingly post day in and down day out, fix it for them.
Bust out all your mad coding skills and throw up a rogue Windows patch site to install your own 'patches' onto the Windows OS/IE to fix these problems.
You sit here and spout about how much MS ruins the world, and make fun of your end-users (without whom you would have no JOB) to the point of weary. Yet, you do nothing to FIX these problems. According to you they don't know any better...so instead of worry their feeble little minds with learning a new broswer, put your dual 4.5 Ghz Biological thinking machines to work and fix the BHO/SSL problem along with world hunger.
As I posted on the Utah Spam law...uh...thing, it's one or the other.
We either deregulate spammers completely and filter at the client end to free everything up to preserve legitmate practices and/or keep our personal freedoms.
Or we go balls to the wall with it and regulate everything so tightly that e-mail simply stops being a form of communication.
I said it before, I'll say it again...trying to regulate the internet and keep it's most promising quality (freedom) is impossible.
So, why are we suprised that soccer mom's computers are full of Spyware?
Between junior's net games and husband's porn I'm suprised any computers are still working today.
I run ad-aware and SpybotSD every two weeks out of habit.
I'm suprised if I have three pieces of Spyware. Usually, if any, I'll have one or two. It's not that hard to avoid folks (yes, even with Windows.)
Spyware, like durnk driving, is a problem for idiots. I can handle having a few pieces of spyware that are caught relatively quickly in order to never have to sign 18 government documents to post a webpage.
It's the relative calm before the storm folks and we need to keep the storm OUT...either the internet will be UNREGULATED or the US government will have complete control over what its citizens view.
Posture and cry 'Constitution' all you want, but I will not be held responsible for setting the regulatory precedent.
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It allows Splinter Cell:PT to be infinitely amusing. It allows four gamers to form a sponsored CounterStrike team and WORK playing CS. It gives WarCraft III more playability. Yadda yadda yadda...it's great.
HOWEVER...
I think that in order to get more people playing in Online communities, game makers are leaving behind those without LOADS of cash to tack onto a monthly bill along with Rent, Food and Phone.
I'm glad Nintendo hasn't forgotten those who don't have DSL.
While that maybe be true the article makes it sound like he's just pushing the Indian Navy (that could bea cool band name) to do it at this point.
Unfortunately I doubt this will heavily impact any nations/businesses tech policies outside of India. But at least it's a step in the right direction
I'M NOT BASHING LINUX!!!
I'm just syaing we have a responsibility as the IT community to protect others who havent made the good choices of switching to open, free, secure software.
TROLL?! TROLL?! ARE you kidding me?! I try to bring an alternative solution and I'm a TROLL?!
However, I'm just trying to offer an alternative to complicating peoples live even more than they already are. If we can handle it we should.
If someone exploited the fact that American's drive on the right, would you want all American's to start driving on the left...or fix the exploit? Just because you don't know how the road is made, doens't mean you can't make the car drive properly on it.
IE is a very robust, useful program...a fact that many people miss.
I could also get petty and go this direction:
Linux is supported and patched by a community. Volunteers for the most part. Imagine what could happen if we turned that power towards something everyone ALREADY uses like Windows/IE. Come at me with the 'source code' argument if you want, but what I'm proposing is a simple quick fix system while we wait for MS to get moving.
If you are willing to do it for Linux...but not Windows...wouldn't that make you elitist?
Just a thought
...thats why I said 'patches'. These would need to be small, running processes that protected various elements of the known holes. A temporary fix until the large, slow, but effective MS machine got around to closing them.
Bust out all your mad coding skills and throw up a rogue Windows patch site to install your own 'patches' onto the Windows OS/IE to fix these problems.
You sit here and spout about how much MS ruins the world, and make fun of your end-users (without whom you would have no JOB) to the point of weary. Yet, you do nothing to FIX these problems. According to you they don't know any better...so instead of worry their feeble little minds with learning a new broswer, put your dual 4.5 Ghz Biological thinking machines to work and fix the BHO/SSL problem along with world hunger.
Or we go balls to the wall with it and regulate everything so tightly that e-mail simply stops being a form of communication.
I said it before, I'll say it again...trying to regulate the internet and keep it's most promising quality (freedom) is impossible.
So, why are we suprised that soccer mom's computers are full of Spyware?
Between junior's net games and husband's porn I'm suprised any computers are still working today.
I run ad-aware and SpybotSD every two weeks out of habit.
I'm suprised if I have three pieces of Spyware. Usually, if any, I'll have one or two. It's not that hard to avoid folks (yes, even with Windows.)
Spyware, like durnk driving, is a problem for idiots. I can handle having a few pieces of spyware that are caught relatively quickly in order to never have to sign 18 government documents to post a webpage.
It's the relative calm before the storm folks and we need to keep the storm OUT...either the internet will be UNREGULATED or the US government will have complete control over what its citizens view.
Posture and cry 'Constitution' all you want, but I will not be held responsible for setting the regulatory precedent.