Please mod this and the parent down, if the poster wants to find a reply, he'll know where to dig.
Please take religious discussions off the Slashdot board, and email me directly at James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com
I don't think its appropriate to talk OT on Slashdot. I'm more than willing to create an email correspondence for weeks or years about God if you want to, but not here. I'll do this for anybody, who knows, you may make a friend in the process.
And finally to answer your accusation, the bible isn't one book, its a collection of sixty six books, written by different people, but all guided by God.
The only reason he wants to create glass in space is to one day fashion a giant magnifying glass in space. After calibrating it on ants, he plans to bring the world to its knees.
Next big thing will be direct to computer downloads. Sure people are doing it illegally, but if you make a store, it will make ph@t l3vvt. Just look at any itune clone for this. It won't just stop at movies either, it will be a virtual on demand for any television show ever made. Now how it will play out with many rights holders is the question. But undoubtably, in the next 20 years, home entertainment systems will be hooked up directly to the internet. If you think on demand from cable is cool, you haven't seen anything yet.
C&C attacks are the staple of today's military. An organized, centralized effort should do wonders for laying waste to the economic value (and motivation) behind such behavior.
The best way to lay waste to someone's economic power in C&C is to destroy their harvesters. Make sure not to send infantry units because they'll suffer tiberium poisoning, or merely be run over by the harvester. Another great way to wreak havoc is to send the engineer into the harvesting facility as the harvester is unloading, you'll get the building, harvester and the tiberium thats being unloaded at the time. Of course, many believe engineering cheese is the cheap way to play C&C, but of course there are too many cheesy plays to count in that game. I suggest you play something like Starcraft. Or Starcraft2, which I have a chance of actually helping with.
The graphics were great. I could see they put thousands of hours into modeling all the 3d items.
The game was programmed moderately well, with a great deal of bugs still. Still the guys know how to somewhat program.
Animation makers were good.
But the game design was extremely sub par. It was like watching the guys first day out on the golf course. For a game that could have ruled, all you did was run from building to building, room to room, over and over again. Sure the first five times you infiltrate a building its fun. Or the first few times you learn how to do a mission without fighting an enemy is fun. But to do it hundreds of times is boring. Straight up, mind numbingly boring. Heck getting a real life pizza delivery job would be more exciting and pay well. Theres a million ways they could have done the Matrix Online right, but they didn't pick any of them.
I get emails from ebay.com, but they're sent from hackers who want my ebay information. If I was to block the email, I wouldn't get anything else further from ebay when they sent legitamate emails.
If I wasn't moral, I'd have been doing this crap since the early 90s. Luckily, so few people do it, that the FEDS could generally bust people by simply walking into the trap, then tracing the information.
The problem comes when the attack is from oversea. The feds want to bust them, but they people they want to bust are foreign hackers, hired by the government. When someone is doing some sort of trivial hate crime at you, you can't do anything but say,"please stop it." Its like little kids on the playground that get poked by someone else. Its not worthy of a punch in return, but its still annoying.
I think theres as many MMOGs that weren't finished as there are 1% of the total population of programmers. I know I had 2 MMOGS that underwent development and didn't finish. One was being written before Ultima Online came to be.
"Do you really expect luddite social-activist types to actually understand what it is that they are protesting against?"
My friend once saw some protesters holding the wrong sign up at a rally because they go to so many rallys they forgot what they were protesting at the time.
If they can trace down who's hacking them, they deserve a stiff jail time. Any one who attempts to hack homeland security computers knows that they're going to get serious jail time. Basically the only people who want to hack homeland security computers would be terrorists.
Some people think imbalances are fun because if you find them early, you can advance your character faster, or inflate your ranking vs other players. But in the long run, everyone uses the same imbalances, which results in people not using other parts of the game.
Glitches are sometimes fun. For example,"In Stunts, the old racing game, you could get a car to go flying." Or in Super Mario bros, there was the minus world, where you could go swimming forever.
For the most part, glitches suck, but sometimes they're amusing. If you want your game to be amusing, its best to design for it, not hope for glitches.
If you want to bust a phisher, be a phish. Basically give them false information, made up credit cards etc. Flag the credit card as stolen, and retrieve where it was used. I'd guess this stuff would be easy to catch.
The reason online game play sucked in FF11 is that its a new genre. Give it 10-30 years and online play will be so sickenly addictive it will be used in methodone clinics.
It was funny that the only game developer to interview me and fly me to E3 in the late 90s was also the company that Verant split to make Everquest. I didn't know this at the time, and when they asked me about the future... I said,"MMOGS are the future!" Basically I shot myself in the foot. I was right, but they didn't want to hire me because they just lost half their development team to Verant.
Yeah, thats probably a better solution than a super expensive infrastructure. I really didn't put a lot of thought into the whole thing. As you say, I do understand the governments aren't doing all they could.
The African pipeline system. I think one of the ultimate feats of engineering and humanitarian events would be to supply fresh water to villiages in Africa. The proposed system would be simple: Create desalinzation plants on the coast and then pipe water inland. The cost of such a system would be astronomical, but when you calculate what you earned in human lives bettered and saved then you can see its one of the best buys ever.
Instead of 'BUYING AMERICAN', you should focus on the core problem: Industries leaving the US.
When an industry is completely wiped out in America because of overseas tactical price gouging, one should take a hard look at Tariffs. Sure, maybe 100% of your industry shouldn't be conserved because some may not be efficient, but shouldn't you conserve at least 10% of your industry like you conserve an endangered species?
When you lose all your industry, then you're presented with the problem that the overseas people can overcharge you due to monopolistic power. But if you charge tariffs and protect weak, domestic industry then they can never get to the point to overcharge you. Indeed you actually make money for your own government on the imported goods.
I once said if I was frozen til the year 3000, I'd like to spend a year of my life watching non-stop Futurama episodes.
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Please mod this and the parent down, if the poster wants to find a reply, he'll know where to dig.
Please take religious discussions off the Slashdot board, and email me directly at James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com
I don't think its appropriate to talk OT on Slashdot. I'm more than willing to create an email correspondence for weeks or years about God if you want to, but not here. I'll do this for anybody, who knows, you may make a friend in the process.
And finally to answer your accusation, the bible isn't one book, its a collection of sixty six books, written by different people, but all guided by God.
The only reason he wants to create glass in space is to one day fashion a giant magnifying glass in space. After calibrating it on ants, he plans to bring the world to its knees.
Next big thing will be direct to computer downloads. Sure people are doing it illegally, but if you make a store, it will make ph@t l3vvt. Just look at any itune clone for this. It won't just stop at movies either, it will be a virtual on demand for any television show ever made. Now how it will play out with many rights holders is the question. But undoubtably, in the next 20 years, home entertainment systems will be hooked up directly to the internet. If you think on demand from cable is cool, you haven't seen anything yet.
C&C attacks are the staple of today's military. An organized, centralized effort should do wonders for laying waste to the economic value (and motivation) behind such behavior.
The best way to lay waste to someone's economic power in C&C is to destroy their harvesters. Make sure not to send infantry units because they'll suffer tiberium poisoning, or merely be run over by the harvester. Another great way to wreak havoc is to send the engineer into the harvesting facility as the harvester is unloading, you'll get the building, harvester and the tiberium thats being unloaded at the time. Of course, many believe engineering cheese is the cheap way to play C&C, but of course there are too many cheesy plays to count in that game. I suggest you play something like Starcraft. Or Starcraft2, which I have a chance of actually helping with.
The graphics were great. I could see they put thousands of hours into modeling all the 3d items.
The game was programmed moderately well, with a great deal of bugs still. Still the guys know how to somewhat program.
Animation makers were good.
But the game design was extremely sub par. It was like watching the guys first day out on the golf course. For a game that could have ruled, all you did was run from building to building, room to room, over and over again. Sure the first five times you infiltrate a building its fun. Or the first few times you learn how to do a mission without fighting an enemy is fun. But to do it hundreds of times is boring. Straight up, mind numbingly boring. Heck getting a real life pizza delivery job would be more exciting and pay well. Theres a million ways they could have done the Matrix Online right, but they didn't pick any of them.
I get emails from ebay.com, but they're sent from hackers who want my ebay information. If I was to block the email, I wouldn't get anything else further from ebay when they sent legitamate emails.
If I wasn't moral, I'd have been doing this crap since the early 90s. Luckily, so few people do it, that the FEDS could generally bust people by simply walking into the trap, then tracing the information.
The problem comes when the attack is from oversea. The feds want to bust them, but they people they want to bust are foreign hackers, hired by the government. When someone is doing some sort of trivial hate crime at you, you can't do anything but say,"please stop it." Its like little kids on the playground that get poked by someone else. Its not worthy of a punch in return, but its still annoying.
If we moved there would we live to be 10,000 years old, or die in 160 days? Before you get your brain all twisted, I meant this as a joke.
I have a built in web browser in my phone, but I never fired it up because it has fees that go along with its use.
Any attempt to upgrade the basic paint program that comes bundled with windows is a good idea.
I think theres as many MMOGs that weren't finished as there are 1% of the total population of programmers. I know I had 2 MMOGS that underwent development and didn't finish. One was being written before Ultima Online came to be.
"Do you really expect luddite social-activist types to actually understand what it is that they are protesting against?"
My friend once saw some protesters holding the wrong sign up at a rally because they go to so many rallys they forgot what they were protesting at the time.
So thats what you need to do to your server to avoid it being slashdotted.
If they can trace down who's hacking them, they deserve a stiff jail time. Any one who attempts to hack homeland security computers knows that they're going to get serious jail time. Basically the only people who want to hack homeland security computers would be terrorists.
Some people think imbalances are fun because if you find them early, you can advance your character faster, or inflate your ranking vs other players. But in the long run, everyone uses the same imbalances, which results in people not using other parts of the game.
Glitches are sometimes fun. For example,"In Stunts, the old racing game, you could get a car to go flying." Or in Super Mario bros, there was the minus world, where you could go swimming forever.
For the most part, glitches suck, but sometimes they're amusing. If you want your game to be amusing, its best to design for it, not hope for glitches.
If they made it MMOG, and had an actual galactic struggle going on where your mini battles affect the overall campaign then it'd rock.
If you want to bust a phisher, be a phish. Basically give them false information, made up credit cards etc. Flag the credit card as stolen, and retrieve where it was used. I'd guess this stuff would be easy to catch.
The reason online game play sucked in FF11 is that its a new genre. Give it 10-30 years and online play will be so sickenly addictive it will be used in methodone clinics.
It was funny that the only game developer to interview me and fly me to E3 in the late 90s was also the company that Verant split to make Everquest. I didn't know this at the time, and when they asked me about the future... I said,"MMOGS are the future!" Basically I shot myself in the foot. I was right, but they didn't want to hire me because they just lost half their development team to Verant.
Yeah, thats probably a better solution than a super expensive infrastructure. I really didn't put a lot of thought into the whole thing. As you say, I do understand the governments aren't doing all they could.
The African pipeline system. I think one of the ultimate feats of engineering and humanitarian events would be to supply fresh water to villiages in Africa. The proposed system would be simple: Create desalinzation plants on the coast and then pipe water inland. The cost of such a system would be astronomical, but when you calculate what you earned in human lives bettered and saved then you can see its one of the best buys ever.
Gas stations always have a message: For a good time call (###)###-####
Interviewer: Where do you think the future of gaming is going?
EA: We feel that we'll dominate the market and the competition will fall to the way side. So all in all, we're happy.
Instead of 'BUYING AMERICAN', you should focus on the core problem: Industries leaving the US.
When an industry is completely wiped out in America because of overseas tactical price gouging, one should take a hard look at Tariffs. Sure, maybe 100% of your industry shouldn't be conserved because some may not be efficient, but shouldn't you conserve at least 10% of your industry like you conserve an endangered species?
When you lose all your industry, then you're presented with the problem that the overseas people can overcharge you due to monopolistic power. But if you charge tariffs and protect weak, domestic industry then they can never get to the point to overcharge you. Indeed you actually make money for your own government on the imported goods.
I once said if I was frozen til the year 3000, I'd like to spend a year of my life watching non-stop Futurama episodes.
There are buttons along the side of the phone that cancel the call. You go and grab the phone to answer it and sometimes you cancel the call. Good phone otherwise.