Flash is not Flash. Pages designed for Flash 10 don't necessarily work in Flash 7 or Flash 8. I agree that getting HTML and javascript to work the same in FireFox and IE is like herding cats, but I don't think Flash is the solution.
Opera on the Wii only supports Flash 7, most videos on the 'net are using a later version of Flash. As far as I know, Flash 10 runs only on Windows, Linux, and MacOS on an x86.
I explained they could just hit print screen, but I think it was lost on them. Sure, but then if the image is smaller than their display resolution, they need to crop it. If it is larger than their display resolution, then they don't have the whole image. The people that really want to make it hard for you to copy their images are the ones publishing in much higher resolution than your display. My argument was that Flash is often used to let people stream videos but not save them, but ultimately anything can be copied just by pointing a camera at your monitor and a microphone at your speakers. (Some loss of quality may occur.)
Flash can be added to just about every browser by downloading a plug in.
Really? Please send me instructions for adding Flash 9 to the Opera browser running on my Wii, or the browser running in my Android G1 phone. I think you mean "Flash can be added to just about every browser running in Windows or MacOS on an X86," which is a considerably smaller set of supported devices. The PC has peaked; the future is internet appliances. When will people stop assuming browser = PC?
I would also not want to be the guinea pig used when they learned the structure of the tooth. Right, because teeth to study never become available by falling out naturally! Don't you think there is a good chance these "dentists" practiced on already removed teeth before trying something on teeth still firmly embedded in a live patients gums? Granted, they probably did some experimenting on captured slaves too.
I've looked all over WoW, and I've yet to find a single bathroom, outhouse, toilet, shower, or even a reasonable way of putting on clean undies. Where does a level 50 Dwarf go to take a dump, anyway??? All those griffins flying overhead, and yet not a speck of griffin doo-doo falls anywhere??? Corpses that fade away in 60 seconds, leaving nothing but a patch of pristine snow??? What the heck!
Most people would rather play 2, because it feels more like you are actually accomplishing something, despite the fact that in both cases you are merely moving 1's and 0's around. But 2 can result in some really messed-up worlds. Somebody could get really powerful and deliberately try to create a boring, depressing environment. Unlike the real world, most players would then move to a different server, leaving a world populated only by the corrupt high level player and any noobs too new to know any better... (which is not necessarily an undesirable outcome.)
In essence, I agree with you. Not having any lasting effect on your world, and knowing that every other player at your level or above has done all the same super-duper, king of the world quests that you have is one of the most disappointing aspects of WoW and other MMORPGs. However, if you don't allow everyone to do the same quests, then you need to allow player-created content. And of course the authors of player-created content will game the system to benefit their own guild. I still think player-created is the way to go, but you need some mechanism for separating the wheat from the chaff.
There is a very simple way to achieve this: make it so that all entities in the world, players and NPCs, are constrained by the same rules, making it thus a true virtual world. Cool. So, the first one to get to an NPC and complete the quest gets to kill the NPC afterward, making sure nobody else can complete that quest in that world?
Many people have longed for a virtual world that behaves more like the physical world. If I chop down a tree or kill a mob, it is really annoying to have it pop up again fully grown in 90 seconds. What you would like to be able to do is exterminate mobs to extinction, raze all the cities, rape and plunder all you can, then jump through a gateway and move to another time and/or place and start all over again. But with 100,000 players, that leaves a lot of devastated worlds and smoldering ruins behind, and few players are going to want to spend all their time cleaning up the mess you've left behind! One way around this would be to force all the noobs to be creators before they can become destroyers (which would also make them a bit more reluctant to reduce everything to smoldering ruins). But balancing creation and destruction in a virtual world where you are allowed to make lasting changes in your environment sounds really hard.
The other annoying thing is, why does every MMORPG insist on following in the footsteps of D&D and building on the same Norse/British mythology? There are many other cultures in the world, each with their own rich mythology (Hindu, Buddhist, African, Japanese, cowboy western, sci-fi, etc.) I would love to design a MMORPG with a karma system in which doing good makes it easier to win dice rolls and doing bad makes it harder. Camp out a new player spawn point long enough, and you eventually become so unlucky you can't defeat a noob no matter what your level.
Which brings me to another one of my complaints: most current games are completely amoral. Simply killing everything you meet and taking their stuff should NOT be a good long-term strategy! Helping others should have long term benefits, and griefing should have long term consequences.
The FCC doesn't need to physically inspect your gear. All they need to do is park their white van in your driveway, turn on the spectrum analyzer, and make sure the emissions are coming from your house. Then they issue you a $10,000 fine. You can use whatever kind of unauthorized transmitters you want, as long as you keep everything inside a well-constructed Faraday cage with no detectable emissions.
Or special case it to not find The Kama Sutra and resubmit, then offer a patch later to undo the special case. If "it allows people looking for porn to find porn" is a valid criteria for rejecting an app, I suspect Apple is going to have to reject a lot more apps.
You are assuming Oracle want MySQL to continue to thrive. Personally, I believe the bought Sun just to get control of MySQL so they could kill it, since it was taking sales away from them. But this won't be totally effective; we need to get all the MySQL users to rally behind one of the forks not controlled by Oracle.
We learned this trick as kids that allows you to take down people much bigger than you: simply drop down, wrap your arms around both their legs as low as possible and squeeze them together; they become unstable and fall over. Anyway, I was about 16 when my dad got mad at me one day and started coming at me, so I did that. He didn't expect it, and went down so hard he hurt his back (which I regret), but he never threatened me with physical violence after that. So yes, there does come a time in every parent-child relationship where they both suddenly realize that the parent is no longer reliably able to kick the child's ass, and their relationship is profoundly changed after that point. My daughter is still 8, I figure I've still got a few years. Most kids are able to understand reason and realize that actions have consequences long before the point where they become stronger than their parent.
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My dachshund used to make valiant efforts to mate with neighborhood huskies. Obviously he didn't consider it dating outside his species.
Flash is not Flash. Pages designed for Flash 10 don't necessarily work in Flash 7 or Flash 8. I agree that getting HTML and javascript to work the same in FireFox and IE is like herding cats, but I don't think Flash is the solution.
I take that back; it also runs on a Power PC Mac and under Solaris 10. Still, nowhere close to supporting "All browsers".
Opera on the Wii only supports Flash 7, most videos on the 'net are using a later version of Flash. As far as I know, Flash 10 runs only on Windows, Linux, and MacOS on an x86.
"Wanna find the targets in the US most vulnerable to terrorist attack? There's an app for that!"
I explained they could just hit print screen, but I think it was lost on them. Sure, but then if the image is smaller than their display resolution, they need to crop it. If it is larger than their display resolution, then they don't have the whole image. The people that really want to make it hard for you to copy their images are the ones publishing in much higher resolution than your display. My argument was that Flash is often used to let people stream videos but not save them, but ultimately anything can be copied just by pointing a camera at your monitor and a microphone at your speakers. (Some loss of quality may occur.)
Flash can be added to just about every browser by downloading a plug in.
Really? Please send me instructions for adding Flash 9 to the Opera browser running on my Wii, or the browser running in my Android G1 phone. I think you mean "Flash can be added to just about every browser running in Windows or MacOS on an X86," which is a considerably smaller set of supported devices. The PC has peaked; the future is internet appliances. When will people stop assuming browser = PC?
The "good" thing about Flash is that it is a plug in.
Why can't HTML5 be implemented as a plug in?
"The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club." Somehow, I don't think this applies to NDAs.
I would also not want to be the guinea pig used when they learned the structure of the tooth. Right, because teeth to study never become available by falling out naturally! Don't you think there is a good chance these "dentists" practiced on already removed teeth before trying something on teeth still firmly embedded in a live patients gums? Granted, they probably did some experimenting on captured slaves too.
And you wouldn't need even half as much content. Mostly because the first time a player died, they would quit and never come back.
I've looked all over WoW, and I've yet to find a single bathroom, outhouse, toilet, shower, or even a reasonable way of putting on clean undies. Where does a level 50 Dwarf go to take a dump, anyway??? All those griffins flying overhead, and yet not a speck of griffin doo-doo falls anywhere??? Corpses that fade away in 60 seconds, leaving nothing but a patch of pristine snow??? What the heck!
Most people would rather play 2, because it feels more like you are actually accomplishing something, despite the fact that in both cases you are merely moving 1's and 0's around. But 2 can result in some really messed-up worlds. Somebody could get really powerful and deliberately try to create a boring, depressing environment. Unlike the real world, most players would then move to a different server, leaving a world populated only by the corrupt high level player and any noobs too new to know any better... (which is not necessarily an undesirable outcome.)
In essence, I agree with you. Not having any lasting effect on your world, and knowing that every other player at your level or above has done all the same super-duper, king of the world quests that you have is one of the most disappointing aspects of WoW and other MMORPGs. However, if you don't allow everyone to do the same quests, then you need to allow player-created content. And of course the authors of player-created content will game the system to benefit their own guild. I still think player-created is the way to go, but you need some mechanism for separating the wheat from the chaff.
Next time, don't download the movie from bittorrent; instead, go to the nearest video store, shove a DVD down your pants, and run like hell!
Just Great... as if we didn't have enough problems with people using their mobile while driving already!
There is a very simple way to achieve this: make it so that all entities in the world, players and NPCs, are constrained by the same rules, making it thus a true virtual world. Cool. So, the first one to get to an NPC and complete the quest gets to kill the NPC afterward, making sure nobody else can complete that quest in that world?
Many people have longed for a virtual world that behaves more like the physical world. If I chop down a tree or kill a mob, it is really annoying to have it pop up again fully grown in 90 seconds. What you would like to be able to do is exterminate mobs to extinction, raze all the cities, rape and plunder all you can, then jump through a gateway and move to another time and/or place and start all over again. But with 100,000 players, that leaves a lot of devastated worlds and smoldering ruins behind, and few players are going to want to spend all their time cleaning up the mess you've left behind! One way around this would be to force all the noobs to be creators before they can become destroyers (which would also make them a bit more reluctant to reduce everything to smoldering ruins). But balancing creation and destruction in a virtual world where you are allowed to make lasting changes in your environment sounds really hard.
The other annoying thing is, why does every MMORPG insist on following in the footsteps of D&D and building on the same Norse/British mythology? There are many other cultures in the world, each with their own rich mythology (Hindu, Buddhist, African, Japanese, cowboy western, sci-fi, etc.) I would love to design a MMORPG with a karma system in which doing good makes it easier to win dice rolls and doing bad makes it harder. Camp out a new player spawn point long enough, and you eventually become so unlucky you can't defeat a noob no matter what your level.
Which brings me to another one of my complaints: most current games are completely amoral. Simply killing everything you meet and taking their stuff should NOT be a good long-term strategy! Helping others should have long term benefits, and griefing should have long term consequences.
The FCC doesn't need to physically inspect your gear. All they need to do is park their white van in your driveway, turn on the spectrum analyzer, and make sure the emissions are coming from your house. Then they issue you a $10,000 fine. You can use whatever kind of unauthorized transmitters you want, as long as you keep everything inside a well-constructed Faraday cage with no detectable emissions.
I take it that you're a Lisp programmer, then?
Think you've got problems after that transition? Wait 'till you make the transition from watching porn online to living with a real live woman!
Or special case it to not find The Kama Sutra and resubmit, then offer a patch later to undo the special case. If "it allows people looking for porn to find porn" is a valid criteria for rejecting an app, I suspect Apple is going to have to reject a lot more apps.
The question is not "Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair?", but rather "Has MySQL been Forked Up Beyond All Repair?"
One thing I can say for SQL Server: it sure beats the hell out of Access!
You are assuming Oracle want MySQL to continue to thrive. Personally, I believe the bought Sun just to get control of MySQL so they could kill it, since it was taking sales away from them. But this won't be totally effective; we need to get all the MySQL users to rally behind one of the forks not controlled by Oracle.
You mean like "Those MySQL users are really forked now that Oracle has control of MySQL!"?
We learned this trick as kids that allows you to take down people much bigger than you: simply drop down, wrap your arms around both their legs as low as possible and squeeze them together; they become unstable and fall over. Anyway, I was about 16 when my dad got mad at me one day and started coming at me, so I did that. He didn't expect it, and went down so hard he hurt his back (which I regret), but he never threatened me with physical violence after that. So yes, there does come a time in every parent-child relationship where they both suddenly realize that the parent is no longer reliably able to kick the child's ass, and their relationship is profoundly changed after that point. My daughter is still 8, I figure I've still got a few years. Most kids are able to understand reason and realize that actions have consequences long before the point where they become stronger than their parent.