Imagine walking down the street when your phone rings. You answer it only to be greeted by an advertisement for the resturaunt your standing in front of.
Abandoned Realms is a roleplay enforced MUD (a text based MMORPG). I played a thief character there at one point and befriended another thief. We ran into eachother alot and traveled around relieving other players of their hard won items. One day I was showing him a particularly nice item I had stolen earlier when he suddenly knocked me out, stole the item, and left the area. I felt so betrayed. I couldn't understand why he would sacrifice our friendship for a paltry item. Then I stopped for a moment and remembered I was playing a game. Fancy graphics and sound are nice and all, but they just can't compete with text when it comes to immersiveness.
It doesn't matter so much now that I am approaching level 60, but I had hoped the honor system would function as a deterrent for people killing players half their level. It seems that no penalties will be introduced for dishonorable kills. If anything, this system will only exacerbate the problem. Large groups of players roaming about killing soloers will no doubt be the norm as the benefits for high honor seem very nice. If this system changes anything, it certainly won't be making things any more honorable. On the contrary, expect to be farmed like mobs once this goes live.
A similar number of people are killed by automobiles every year. Why aren't you lobbying to have automobiles banned? Guns have legitimate and iligitemate uses. Just because you don't personally have any legitimate uses for guns doesn't mean that noone should be able to own them. Nobody ever calls for a ban on automobiles because most people make use of them regularly. How would you feel if the government took your car away because a group of public transportation users got together and managed to pass a ban?
When you are working on a commercial project and you finish the fun stuff, you keep working on the boring code because its your job and you need that paycheck. When you are working on an open source project and you finish the fun stuff, you just move on to the next project.
Prevent spyware? Spyware is generally legitimate code. It has malicious intent, but to expect the operating system to actively detect all malicious code is ludicrous. Linux does not prevent spyware, unless being looked over by deployers of such software because it is the minority is considered prevention.
Nintendo has been rereleasing alot of their classic games for different systems. If I worked at Nintendo I would certainly look at something like this as a threat to profit. Were it an original game within the zelda mythos it would be harder to make that argument (well, not for their lawyers I imagine).
I wonder what the local ISPs think about this. If it's wrong for microsoft to include a free web browser, is it wrong for the government to provide free internet access?
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I, for one, welcome our new super-intelligent jar dwelling overlords.
Compiling isn't just for finding syntax errors. You can't find runtime errors until you compile the code and run it. Besides, we're talking about students here.
When I was less experienced I sat down and wrote a whole lot of code for a project that used a vector of classes. Other classes needed pointers to these classes. Imagine my surprise when I realised adding new classes to my vector changed all the addresses, breaking all the pointers. Had I compiled earlier, I would have noticed the crash and fixed it with a trivial change. As it were I had to slog through a lot of code fixing tedious mistakes.
And then you find that one of those errors requires you to restructure your entire design. You just threw away a few hours of work. If your project is sufficiently modular, compiling takes little time. Do things one feature at a time and it will save you from rewriting alot of code.
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Imagine walking down the street when your phone rings. You answer it only to be greeted by an advertisement for the resturaunt your standing in front of.
Abandoned Realms is a roleplay enforced MUD (a text based MMORPG). I played a thief character there at one point and befriended another thief. We ran into eachother alot and traveled around relieving other players of their hard won items. One day I was showing him a particularly nice item I had stolen earlier when he suddenly knocked me out, stole the item, and left the area. I felt so betrayed. I couldn't understand why he would sacrifice our friendship for a paltry item. Then I stopped for a moment and remembered I was playing a game. Fancy graphics and sound are nice and all, but they just can't compete with text when it comes to immersiveness.
It doesn't matter so much now that I am approaching level 60, but I had hoped the honor system would function as a deterrent for people killing players half their level. It seems that no penalties will be introduced for dishonorable kills. If anything, this system will only exacerbate the problem. Large groups of players roaming about killing soloers will no doubt be the norm as the benefits for high honor seem very nice. If this system changes anything, it certainly won't be making things any more honorable. On the contrary, expect to be farmed like mobs once this goes live.
They have those. They're called "PC"s. You should try them out.
A similar number of people are killed by automobiles every year. Why aren't you lobbying to have automobiles banned? Guns have legitimate and iligitemate uses. Just because you don't personally have any legitimate uses for guns doesn't mean that noone should be able to own them. Nobody ever calls for a ban on automobiles because most people make use of them regularly. How would you feel if the government took your car away because a group of public transportation users got together and managed to pass a ban?
When you are working on a commercial project and you finish the fun stuff, you keep working on the boring code because its your job and you need that paycheck. When you are working on an open source project and you finish the fun stuff, you just move on to the next project.
Prevent spyware? Spyware is generally legitimate code. It has malicious intent, but to expect the operating system to actively detect all malicious code is ludicrous. Linux does not prevent spyware, unless being looked over by deployers of such software because it is the minority is considered prevention.
He came back with pictures after being accused of lying, but they have been debunked. Info avaialable here.
Finally, a use for all those colorful tubes of light.
Nintendo has been rereleasing alot of their classic games for different systems. If I worked at Nintendo I would certainly look at something like this as a threat to profit. Were it an original game within the zelda mythos it would be harder to make that argument (well, not for their lawyers I imagine).
I wonder how long before Steve gets shipped to India with all the other jobs...
I wonder what the local ISPs think about this. If it's wrong for microsoft to include a free web browser, is it wrong for the government to provide free internet access?
I, for one, welcome our new super-intelligent jar dwelling overlords.
Compiling isn't just for finding syntax errors. You can't find runtime errors until you compile the code and run it. Besides, we're talking about students here.
When I was less experienced I sat down and wrote a whole lot of code for a project that used a vector of classes. Other classes needed pointers to these classes. Imagine my surprise when I realised adding new classes to my vector changed all the addresses, breaking all the pointers. Had I compiled earlier, I would have noticed the crash and fixed it with a trivial change. As it were I had to slog through a lot of code fixing tedious mistakes.
I wonder who is responsible for a botched surgery, the untrained proxy or the doctor on the other end of the line?
And then you find that one of those errors requires you to restructure your entire design. You just threw away a few hours of work. If your project is sufficiently modular, compiling takes little time. Do things one feature at a time and it will save you from rewriting alot of code.