Assuming the idea is to allow Joe User to setup a home email & website all via google, would it be possible to leverage the infamous google cookie?
Since the cookie would already provide information on how said Joe User searches, could tracking him back to his homepage provide solid, real-life demographics (45% of Joe's who like beer have a family page etc...)
Could this be where they're going with this?
Whether or not this is the shroud that wrapped jesus in the tomb, there's still a sufficiently large body of historical evidence that a man called jesus was alive at the time. Validating or invalidating the claim that this is the cloth he was wrapped in has little or no impact upon proving or disproving the existence of jesus.
Actually, the industry is very interested in "utilising" the recent professional-level modding community. I wouldn't be surprised if they release the game in a rough-and-ready format, and let the community polish it up, or take it in directions the team could never have envisaged. Civ has a large following, espeically amongst the type of people likely to use the coding facility, it makes sense.
Yes, even less original considering you could do similar things with a text file in Duke Nukem 3D. I remember fiddling with the rocket damage and my values. I could kill almost all the enemies, and uncover the shootable secrets by firing one rocket:)
I think many of you misunderstand their motives - they're not trying to lure in the "cool" kids.
When someone decides something is boring or difficult to learn, it is. This isn't just with high-school kids, 75% of my engineering class decided the mandatory programming course was boring, difficult and irrelevant. After a full four semesters of tuition, solely in Java, most of them couldn't write a simple program at all.
If you create a positive image of the subject, there's more chance the student will approach the material with an open mind, be more likely to learn, and like, and become a scientist.
This is stirring vague recollections of the "Internet Computer" that was going to be everywhere in the next few years way back in 1995. Most people may have no desire to be sys-admins, but they generally have a lesser desire to pay more money than they have to.
Also, sys-admin access-rights data for thousands of machines is oh-so-secure ISP databases? *shudder*
I think part of the problems with games like these is the franchise is now a little stale. The first time I saw the films, I wanted to be an X-wing pilot with all my heart. I read the paperbacks, I payed close attention to the dogfights. When I played X-Wing I was ecstatic - this was a dream come true!
Similarly the first time I read LOTR, I wanted to be one of the Fellowship, and had there been a game around back then, it would have been great. Likewise with Star Trek.
But all of these have been flogged to death, there's no magic left, the initial urge has been fulfilled long ago, and that's why it feels like something is missing.
Google cache the pictures as well, that's what the fuss was about a few weeks ago - they cached a site that had pirated pics, hence they served pirated pics
If I'm not mistaken, vast quantities of tv archive, much of it from the "golden age" when people expected their educational programs to be presided over by professors, is in the public domain. I'd love to be able to dig up some early BBC2.
So, rather than use the wealth of audible data that's just there, they'd like blind people to listen to a machine that pops and pings to gauge their distance to objects? What about listening out for traffic, trouble etc? Seems to me like the system would just handicap another sense.
I think you'll find the overworked programmers have very little to do with the plot, and very much to do with the bits that are so good you take them for granted, like the graphics and physics engines.
This is perhaps true if you get compensated in some way for the long hours. I love my job, and frequently lose track of time, and though I can't claim overtime, I can take that time off at my discresion. This doesn't happen in the game industry, and that is wrong, pure and simple.
I hope that this leads the way to sensory prosthetics. People are looking into ways to directly control prosthetics using signals from the brain, but a major difficulty for people with prosthetics is how to use a limb that has no sensory output whatsoever. Anyone who has ever had their leg "fall asleep" on them, and tried to walk it off will begin to appreciate the difficulties involved.
Surely the problem is with the mirrors, rather than the search engine? If Google were to be held accountable for the legality of every site and image they point to, well that would be the end of Google.
I'm pretty sure lots of banners and links are going to have a minimal effect. Considering that the bill will be decided by politicians, how come they don't organise an email campaign, where you can find your relevant politician, and send him an email?
I was a big mini-disc fan up until the advent of the Open MG "Net MDs". This software puts such ridiculous restrictions on your music (the discs cannot be re-written by anything other than the original machine, the discs' contents cannot be removed by anything other than the original machine, and the original SP "full quality" recordings are no longer available with media transfered using this software.
I am in the unenviable position of having 20 discs of music in this country, all my cds in another along with the original laptop, and no way to transfer the music back to pc.
I realise that I could just record from the line out, but in this digital age, that's quite distasteful, and I don't have an optical port on my soundcard.
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Assuming the idea is to allow Joe User to setup a home email & website all via google, would it be possible to leverage the infamous google cookie? Since the cookie would already provide information on how said Joe User searches, could tracking him back to his homepage provide solid, real-life demographics (45% of Joe's who like beer have a family page etc...) Could this be where they're going with this?
Whether or not this is the shroud that wrapped jesus in the tomb, there's still a sufficiently large body of historical evidence that a man called jesus was alive at the time. Validating or invalidating the claim that this is the cloth he was wrapped in has little or no impact upon proving or disproving the existence of jesus.
Be careful, you may become dissatisfied with every other language you (have to) program in. :)
Actually, the industry is very interested in "utilising" the recent professional-level modding community. I wouldn't be surprised if they release the game in a rough-and-ready format, and let the community polish it up, or take it in directions the team could never have envisaged. Civ has a large following, espeically amongst the type of people likely to use the coding facility, it makes sense.
Yes, even less original considering you could do similar things with a text file in Duke Nukem 3D. I remember fiddling with the rocket damage and my values. I could kill almost all the enemies, and uncover the shootable secrets by firing one rocket :)
that I find so addictive
Perhaps there is more use for these cards even at a consumer level?"
Is it just me, or has almost every second story today had some kind of spurious leading comment tagged on to the end?
Give me facts dammit, I can make my own opinions from there!
Indeed. "We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia". It does sometimes feel like only a minority are actually sentient.
Hot damn! I'm going to start a row with my neighbour, then invite him to my place and dictate what he can, and cannot say!
If der linken ist geslashdotted, relaxen und watchen der blinkenlights
I think many of you misunderstand their motives - they're not trying to lure in the "cool" kids.
When someone decides something is boring or difficult to learn, it is. This isn't just with high-school kids, 75% of my engineering class decided the mandatory programming course was boring, difficult and irrelevant. After a full four semesters of tuition, solely in Java, most of them couldn't write a simple program at all.
If you create a positive image of the subject, there's more chance the student will approach the material with an open mind, be more likely to learn, and like, and become a scientist.
My advice to anyone looking for a new phone is to buy an N-Gage. It is the cheapest way to get a Series60 phone, and Series60 is the shit.
Is it just me, or did some genius just post a troll on the main page?
...until you get to: Integrated graphics...
This is stirring vague recollections of the "Internet Computer" that was going to be everywhere in the next few years way back in 1995. Most people may have no desire to be sys-admins, but they generally have a lesser desire to pay more money than they have to.
Also, sys-admin access-rights data for thousands of machines is oh-so-secure ISP databases? *shudder*
I'll believe it when I see it
-Thomas
I think part of the problems with games like these is the franchise is now a little stale. The first time I saw the films, I wanted to be an X-wing pilot with all my heart. I read the paperbacks, I payed close attention to the dogfights. When I played X-Wing I was ecstatic - this was a dream come true!
Similarly the first time I read LOTR, I wanted to be one of the Fellowship, and had there been a game around back then, it would have been great. Likewise with Star Trek.
But all of these have been flogged to death, there's no magic left, the initial urge has been fulfilled long ago, and that's why it feels like something is missing.
Google cache the pictures as well, that's what the fuss was about a few weeks ago - they cached a site that had pirated pics, hence they served pirated pics
If I'm not mistaken, vast quantities of tv archive, much of it from the "golden age" when people expected their educational programs to be presided over by professors, is in the public domain. I'd love to be able to dig up some early BBC2.
So, rather than use the wealth of audible data that's just there, they'd like blind people to listen to a machine that pops and pings to gauge their distance to objects? What about listening out for traffic, trouble etc? Seems to me like the system would just handicap another sense.
I think you'll find the overworked programmers have very little to do with the plot, and very much to do with the bits that are so good you take them for granted, like the graphics and physics engines.
This is perhaps true if you get compensated in some way for the long hours. I love my job, and frequently lose track of time, and though I can't claim overtime, I can take that time off at my discresion. This doesn't happen in the game industry, and that is wrong, pure and simple.
I hope that this leads the way to sensory prosthetics. People are looking into ways to directly control prosthetics using signals from the brain, but a major difficulty for people with prosthetics is how to use a limb that has no sensory output whatsoever. Anyone who has ever had their leg "fall asleep" on them, and tried to walk it off will begin to appreciate the difficulties involved.
Surely the problem is with the mirrors, rather than the search engine? If Google were to be held accountable for the legality of every site and image they point to, well that would be the end of Google.
I'm pretty sure lots of banners and links are going to have a minimal effect. Considering that the bill will be decided by politicians, how come they don't organise an email campaign, where you can find your relevant politician, and send him an email?
I was a big mini-disc fan up until the advent of the Open MG "Net MDs". This software puts such ridiculous restrictions on your music (the discs cannot be re-written by anything other than the original machine, the discs' contents cannot be removed by anything other than the original machine, and the original SP "full quality" recordings are no longer available with media transfered using this software.
I am in the unenviable position of having 20 discs of music in this country, all my cds in another along with the original laptop, and no way to transfer the music back to pc.
I realise that I could just record from the line out, but in this digital age, that's quite distasteful, and I don't have an optical port on my soundcard.
Additional commentary can be found at
http://www.minidisc.org/NetMD_faq.html#_q83