If you criticize governments, they may silence you. If you criticize people's religions, they may torture then kill you. This resolution is just a healthy reminder that we should be thankful for free speech in the United States.
Your information on the Internet will never go away unless the server dies. In which case there is probably a backup somewhere if you said anything incriminating.
What would twice as much money bought me 10 years ago? Then I realize I can probably build a better computer than it for 1/20 the cost today. It isn't really an investment when you buy a supercharged computer, but more of a passing fling.
Yes, and Terrorism is such a bad thing that one can justify,"Well if they can bomb us, we can spend as much as the damage the nuke would do in prevention." And the scary/weird thing is that logic isn't entirely incorrect. As bad of a rep that Bush got, we didn't get hit again on US soil during his term. So all that prevention money may have done its job, but there is no way to ever know.
I personally don't like overspending to protect us from terrorism, I'd rather invest in infrastructure and the economy. Here is my logic: If we get hit, we can rebuild. The loss is measured in human lives. If we don't get hit, we're in a much better place in terms of humanity. I guess it depends if you're an optimist or a pessimist.
Starcraft is probably the best video game ever made when the ladder worked, hackers were not around, and win traders did not exist. In the $25,000 Blizzard world champion ships, I finished in the semi finals.:( I was world class level. I plan on bringing it with Starcraft 2. I have 3 teammates who are all world class level. When you're top notch, you sometimes run across people who are doing amazing things against you that don't fit into what everyone does. I've been fortunate to have some of them as friends. In Warcraft3, I was also extremely good as I got #1 1v1,2v2 and 3v3 in ladder at one point and first to 1500 wins. My 3v3 friends also shared the same status as having #1 in all three too at one point. The nice thing is that in 1v1, you may be a 80% player and beat the top ladder players 80% of the time. If you have 4 players in a team that are all 80%, they help each others odds even more. Like in my 3v3 team, we went 200-1-0, and the loss was due to them being bored with winning so much. I really hope Starcraft 2 is a good team game. In Starcraft 1, 2v2 or higher involves everyone 5 pooling and double teaming someone. If Starcraft 2 has something like town portal or everyone starting near each other, it could help it be a team game.
Starcraft 2 beta is just around the corner, and everyone who's done indepth analysis or gamed at a top level should be there helping them to make sure SC2 is as good as the first. I've been paying close attention to it, and I can't wait for beta. I just want to get famous in Starcraft 2 and I hope there is an emerging US pro scene so I don't have to move to South Korea. I don't mind learning a new programming language, but a real language is tough for me.
Thanks for your information. I'll have a look at some of that stuff especially the free text books. The price of free is the development time, but the rewards are invaluable when complete.
If you believe in Sesame Street for kids, you should be interested in online education for adults. The reason why you can't do every subject known to man on television is that there is only limited air time and people would be uninterested in stuff they already know. But you can make an online education school which has videos of lectures for every level of education. Throw in some tests and written course(book) work, and you can guide people through education if they have the drive. You put in a lot of redundancy so there are many ways of looking at the same subject matter if it doesn't click with the student asap. And then you have a pay service where you can ask a teacher question through IM or email.
I don't know how to start this though. I considered being a jerk and just linking everyone's educational videos on a site that is just a giant index to start... But I don't want people complaining that it is their Intellectual property. The task is too big for me to tackle alone because even though you only have to make a years worth of videos one time for a subject, it still takes a lot of time to do this. To make an online education school with videos would take a lot of work, but I think it'd be worth it for society. Anyone have ideas on how to start something like this?
There are ranked games and that appeals to me. I like to know how good I am in relation to the general populace. In the old quake, you could be top dog on a server, but still not know how good you are in relation to the world. I waited 3 hours through bugs, crashes and the queue to get it to work. It didn't work on IE6 or Firefox because the mouse wouldn't move, but I did get it to work on IE7. I played the training missions, but I was not able to play live because I was looking through the options to see how I can set weapon priorities. I always find it annoying when I am wielding a rocket launcher for me to switch to a shot gun just because I walk over it. While I was looking through my options and browsing the QuakeLive forums for help, I timed out. I'll wait until tomorrow if someone has an answer how I can set weapon priorities on the forums. It may just be another FPS, but it is a classy enough one that it is worth playing if for no other reason than to enhance your FPS skill.
Homer: [watching vending machine] Apple... Apple... Apple... come on, Candy Bar... [looking at an apple in the machine] Hey, I know you! You're that first apple I didn't want! That sinks it! I'm really gonna get let them have it this time! [writing on a notepad next to the suggestion box] No more apples in the vending machine PLEASE!!
Then Mr. Burns gets it and reads it in a demeaning voice
"Oh, don't worry, there will be plenty of apples in the vending machine."
There is a lot of room for super hero action MMORPGS. I used to look at the situation like the game Magic Carpet 2 where you could do a lot with destructible terrains. My favorite thing in Magic Carpet 2 was to summon a volcano, then tunnel a hole in it to fight someone inside. It is the scale of battling someone else at an epic level that really gives you a thrill. The problem will be balancing the thing for like PVP. Super heroes were never balanced which was painfully obvious the day Superman came to chat with Aquaman about how swimming isn't the same as flying.(just made that one up)
Anyway, I was in the run for making an action MMORPG there for a while, but I lost interest in the whole affair. I think another couple hundred hours of work and I could have released a Tekken style clone except instead of just 2 players, you could have 1500. I have very little interest in the artificial dice rolling of CRPGS anymore. The only reason the dice were in Dungeons and Dragons to begin with was they couldn't simulate an actual battle. Turns out computer games are good for simulating battles.
Bring on the action MMOGs! I'd even play PlanetSide 2.
I hear that argument all the time. Protectionism would bring industry back from overseas and would create jobs. When the cost of producing something overseas + tariffs > cost of producing something in the native land, companies will build their new plants at home.
To continue a talk about the current affairs: Keynesian economics will get you out of a recession or depression if used correctly. I strongly feel that our congressmen don't get it. They're paying private bankers taxpayer money that we don't even have. If that doesn't work, we're coming close to the point where we can't borrow more money if the US drops into a full blown depression.
Sure, using the lessons of history are good, but sometimes you can make new mistakes that are far worse than the original mistakes, especially in the hands of congress.
1,000,000,000 bits/second.
Assuming you aggressively go to 50ms updates, that means you get 20 default updates a second for your position.
50,000,000 bits / 50 ms
It takes about 50 bits to encode your position/velocity vector.
1,000,000 bits/50 ms * 50 moves/bit
So I didn't do a good job with my units, but that was the calculations for a single player. So you can have a million other players in the game where everyone is just moving around. You'd have a bit less when you factor in their actual play moves in. If you do an aggressive melee only algorithm where you don't update the people near you as often, you'll see you can get upwards of 10 billion people playing an action game with no lag.
If you go serverless, you can half your latency. Not many companies do this because you need to write months worth of antihacking. I'm just putting this out there because 50ms latency is fast enough to allow fighting games even.
For the number of people who will actually play a game on this planet, you don't need much more than 1GBS to get everyone who wants to play all on at the same time. This means even new concepts for games are possible... But they'll be slow to be made because the game design abilities of corporations aren't what they were in the early days. Probably the first thing we'll see is 1000 player capture the flag in a game like quake. But this is Korea who likes their long dry grinding MMORPGS so I'm not sure what route they'd go... probably they'll just spend less when hosting a server. You could totally make an action MMORPG with that nice of broadband, but no one wants to risk their entire MMO on a skill based combat system because it conflicts with the concreteness of a stat based system.
I think we concluded that if we can write off losses in the virtual world, and pay our real tax in WOW dollars that it would be welcomed by all gamers.
In a university they'll tell you that there is no such thing as a mad scientist because one rogue scientist can't use the wealth of knowledge that a group has. It sounds reasonable, but will that hold up over time? When more and more knowledge gets fed onto the net, and technology goes down in cost(lab materials), won't the barrier to entry of mad scientist get broken down? So maybe the mad scientist isn't far away... especially when there are benefits to going against what some laws prevent.
More energy equates to cheaper food, water, and transportation. I always thought we should cover the Earth in Solar before making our way into space and eventually creating a Dyson sphere. I'd be impressed if someone started this technology in my lifetime, let alone in this administration. I'm all about technology as a means to solving the world's poverty and disease problems. The easy solution to much of it is simply more energy.
Check it: I know everyone is dissing him on his solution to global warming as it doesn't work... But what if it did work? He has it patented. This means we couldn't make it unless we payed him royalties. He'd have the fate of Earth for ransom.
There are a lot of people who could be working for the betterment of humanity on research. Because there is no profit in research(unless you make a breakthrough), it is basically a field where you can't support yourself. Research is something that could be funded by the government like public roads.
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Heh, I just want to clarify that I'm not threatening people! I'm just saying some fake religions aren't all about love and forgiveness.
If you criticize governments, they may silence you. If you criticize people's religions, they may torture then kill you. This resolution is just a healthy reminder that we should be thankful for free speech in the United States.
Your information on the Internet will never go away unless the server dies. In which case there is probably a backup somewhere if you said anything incriminating.
What would twice as much money bought me 10 years ago? Then I realize I can probably build a better computer than it for 1/20 the cost today. It isn't really an investment when you buy a supercharged computer, but more of a passing fling.
Nah, but Crazyassassin was my 2v2 and 3v3 partner.
Yes, and Terrorism is such a bad thing that one can justify,"Well if they can bomb us, we can spend as much as the damage the nuke would do in prevention." And the scary/weird thing is that logic isn't entirely incorrect. As bad of a rep that Bush got, we didn't get hit again on US soil during his term. So all that prevention money may have done its job, but there is no way to ever know.
I personally don't like overspending to protect us from terrorism, I'd rather invest in infrastructure and the economy. Here is my logic: If we get hit, we can rebuild. The loss is measured in human lives. If we don't get hit, we're in a much better place in terms of humanity. I guess it depends if you're an optimist or a pessimist.
Starcraft is probably the best video game ever made when the ladder worked, hackers were not around, and win traders did not exist. In the $25,000 Blizzard world champion ships, I finished in the semi finals. :( I was world class level. I plan on bringing it with Starcraft 2. I have 3 teammates who are all world class level. When you're top notch, you sometimes run across people who are doing amazing things against you that don't fit into what everyone does. I've been fortunate to have some of them as friends. In Warcraft3, I was also extremely good as I got #1 1v1,2v2 and 3v3 in ladder at one point and first to 1500 wins. My 3v3 friends also shared the same status as having #1 in all three too at one point. The nice thing is that in 1v1, you may be a 80% player and beat the top ladder players 80% of the time. If you have 4 players in a team that are all 80%, they help each others odds even more. Like in my 3v3 team, we went 200-1-0, and the loss was due to them being bored with winning so much. I really hope Starcraft 2 is a good team game. In Starcraft 1, 2v2 or higher involves everyone 5 pooling and double teaming someone. If Starcraft 2 has something like town portal or everyone starting near each other, it could help it be a team game.
Starcraft 2 beta is just around the corner, and everyone who's done indepth analysis or gamed at a top level should be there helping them to make sure SC2 is as good as the first. I've been paying close attention to it, and I can't wait for beta. I just want to get famous in Starcraft 2 and I hope there is an emerging US pro scene so I don't have to move to South Korea. I don't mind learning a new programming language, but a real language is tough for me.
Thanks for your information. I'll have a look at some of that stuff especially the free text books. The price of free is the development time, but the rewards are invaluable when complete.
If you believe in Sesame Street for kids, you should be interested in online education for adults. The reason why you can't do every subject known to man on television is that there is only limited air time and people would be uninterested in stuff they already know. But you can make an online education school which has videos of lectures for every level of education. Throw in some tests and written course(book) work, and you can guide people through education if they have the drive. You put in a lot of redundancy so there are many ways of looking at the same subject matter if it doesn't click with the student asap. And then you have a pay service where you can ask a teacher question through IM or email.
I don't know how to start this though. I considered being a jerk and just linking everyone's educational videos on a site that is just a giant index to start... But I don't want people complaining that it is their Intellectual property. The task is too big for me to tackle alone because even though you only have to make a years worth of videos one time for a subject, it still takes a lot of time to do this. To make an online education school with videos would take a lot of work, but I think it'd be worth it for society. Anyone have ideas on how to start something like this?
There are ranked games and that appeals to me. I like to know how good I am in relation to the general populace. In the old quake, you could be top dog on a server, but still not know how good you are in relation to the world. I waited 3 hours through bugs, crashes and the queue to get it to work. It didn't work on IE6 or Firefox because the mouse wouldn't move, but I did get it to work on IE7. I played the training missions, but I was not able to play live because I was looking through the options to see how I can set weapon priorities. I always find it annoying when I am wielding a rocket launcher for me to switch to a shot gun just because I walk over it. While I was looking through my options and browsing the QuakeLive forums for help, I timed out. I'll wait until tomorrow if someone has an answer how I can set weapon priorities on the forums. It may just be another FPS, but it is a classy enough one that it is worth playing if for no other reason than to enhance your FPS skill.
The first and third links in this article take me to a blank page. Does anyone else get this effect?
No one has the balls to do that though because they know they'd lose sales.
Homer: [watching vending machine] Apple... Apple... Apple... come on, Candy Bar... [looking at an apple in the machine] Hey, I know you! You're that first apple I didn't want! That sinks it! I'm really gonna get let them have it this time! [writing on a notepad next to the suggestion box] No more apples in the vending machine PLEASE!! Then Mr. Burns gets it and reads it in a demeaning voice "Oh, don't worry, there will be plenty of apples in the vending machine."
I remember the Atari 2600 one, but like most Atari 2600 games, it wasn't very fun.
There is a lot of room for super hero action MMORPGS. I used to look at the situation like the game Magic Carpet 2 where you could do a lot with destructible terrains. My favorite thing in Magic Carpet 2 was to summon a volcano, then tunnel a hole in it to fight someone inside. It is the scale of battling someone else at an epic level that really gives you a thrill. The problem will be balancing the thing for like PVP. Super heroes were never balanced which was painfully obvious the day Superman came to chat with Aquaman about how swimming isn't the same as flying.(just made that one up)
Anyway, I was in the run for making an action MMORPG there for a while, but I lost interest in the whole affair. I think another couple hundred hours of work and I could have released a Tekken style clone except instead of just 2 players, you could have 1500. I have very little interest in the artificial dice rolling of CRPGS anymore. The only reason the dice were in Dungeons and Dragons to begin with was they couldn't simulate an actual battle. Turns out computer games are good for simulating battles.
Bring on the action MMOGs! I'd even play PlanetSide 2.
I hear that argument all the time. Protectionism would bring industry back from overseas and would create jobs. When the cost of producing something overseas + tariffs > cost of producing something in the native land, companies will build their new plants at home.
To continue a talk about the current affairs: Keynesian economics will get you out of a recession or depression if used correctly. I strongly feel that our congressmen don't get it. They're paying private bankers taxpayer money that we don't even have. If that doesn't work, we're coming close to the point where we can't borrow more money if the US drops into a full blown depression.
Sure, using the lessons of history are good, but sometimes you can make new mistakes that are far worse than the original mistakes, especially in the hands of congress.
For the swarm
1,000,000,000 bits/second. Assuming you aggressively go to 50ms updates, that means you get 20 default updates a second for your position. 50,000,000 bits / 50 ms It takes about 50 bits to encode your position/velocity vector. 1,000,000 bits /50 ms * 50 moves/bit
So I didn't do a good job with my units, but that was the calculations for a single player. So you can have a million other players in the game where everyone is just moving around. You'd have a bit less when you factor in their actual play moves in. If you do an aggressive melee only algorithm where you don't update the people near you as often, you'll see you can get upwards of 10 billion people playing an action game with no lag.
If you go serverless, you can half your latency. Not many companies do this because you need to write months worth of antihacking. I'm just putting this out there because 50ms latency is fast enough to allow fighting games even.
For the number of people who will actually play a game on this planet, you don't need much more than 1GBS to get everyone who wants to play all on at the same time. This means even new concepts for games are possible... But they'll be slow to be made because the game design abilities of corporations aren't what they were in the early days. Probably the first thing we'll see is 1000 player capture the flag in a game like quake. But this is Korea who likes their long dry grinding MMORPGS so I'm not sure what route they'd go... probably they'll just spend less when hosting a server. You could totally make an action MMORPG with that nice of broadband, but no one wants to risk their entire MMO on a skill based combat system because it conflicts with the concreteness of a stat based system.
Stop! Collaborate and listen. Gates is back with a brand new invention.
I meant WOW gold.
I think we concluded that if we can write off losses in the virtual world, and pay our real tax in WOW dollars that it would be welcomed by all gamers.
In a university they'll tell you that there is no such thing as a mad scientist because one rogue scientist can't use the wealth of knowledge that a group has. It sounds reasonable, but will that hold up over time? When more and more knowledge gets fed onto the net, and technology goes down in cost(lab materials), won't the barrier to entry of mad scientist get broken down? So maybe the mad scientist isn't far away... especially when there are benefits to going against what some laws prevent.
More energy equates to cheaper food, water, and transportation. I always thought we should cover the Earth in Solar before making our way into space and eventually creating a Dyson sphere. I'd be impressed if someone started this technology in my lifetime, let alone in this administration. I'm all about technology as a means to solving the world's poverty and disease problems. The easy solution to much of it is simply more energy.
Check it: I know everyone is dissing him on his solution to global warming as it doesn't work... But what if it did work? He has it patented. This means we couldn't make it unless we payed him royalties. He'd have the fate of Earth for ransom.
There are a lot of people who could be working for the betterment of humanity on research. Because there is no profit in research(unless you make a breakthrough), it is basically a field where you can't support yourself. Research is something that could be funded by the government like public roads.