With microsoft head first into a new console, the nintendo machine at $99 and now more xbox only titles, when is sony going to break down and drop the price of the ps2 to $99 too. seems to me that the fall will be too late. people will start waiting for the ps3 and not want to spend 1/3rd of the new machines price when they can get a better(faster) xbox for around the same price.
I personally like the idea of game developers pushing the limits of my system. I dont ever want to hear a game dev say "this courtyard would have looked realy nice with all the extra textures and lighting, and the water would have been acutaly simulated......but we didnt think joes machine could handle it..plus it plays the same either way".
A FPS is not a browser. We need new features constantly or its the same game as the last 10. Push the limits. What do you think has driven the hardware boom of the last 10 years??..spreadsheets? I think not.
What about the idea of assigning people to particular things? maybe another player(newb trainer, battalion commander) who would act as a semi-uniuqe home base...maybe have one leader per 10-20 players, or separated by class. this way they could be "auto paired" to get interaction going in different instances. this would also allow players to be assigned tasks by the characters or people near his base(creating more unique quests). make it so that a player who is one of these trainers could have a feeling of accomplishment...maybe even put them in a mission creator position thru some predefined menu or something... make an area for mass communication, and make moving to another "base" an option that can be granted easily.
I like what you said about mission/world items being used in more complicated, combigned ways. helps to esablish an economy.
the other thing to consider may be the Level situation. with predefined lvls granting predefined points to skills you have a situation where older players that should be playing with and teaching newer players are distanced dramaticly. there needs to be another way to signify strength/experience/knowlege and still keep people attached to one another. perhaps a more litteral training method. if you completed more study activities....represented in a non redundant way....you would raise your int. did workouts, more strength. in turn use that to gain your lvls.
I have more ideas but as i thought of them they seemed to have some holes..need a bit more thought.
I have been playing the Knight Online beta for a few weeks now and am to a point where I have nothing new to do. There may be new areas to explore, but I wouldn't know or care. I've already reached the point of boredom...sure I can kill bigger monsters, but those monsters are just like the ones that I was just killing...stupid hamster wheel.
Anyway I got to thinking about what would make it better. The first thing I thought of was to get rid of the teleporting in the game. Town portal spells are ok, but general transit just takes away from the locales.
Next I was thinking about quests. Every quest for every player is the same. Most are just collecting an amount of an item and delivering it. Pizza boy quests are boring. Why not, once you are in a party, have an npc generated that comes looking for you...to ask for help, or pay your party to do something for him. Make it so there was a reason to visit the towns other than dumping goods or buying potions. Having clan or personal structures for those npcs to visit would help that too. quests could even involve a smaller clan bringing a message to a larger clan... "there is a big bad xxx in xxx and we need uberclans help". Maybe make it so that the monsters/npc's/items for the quest are only viewable to your party...to avoid uberclan stumbling upon your target and wiping it out before you can.
Make things more personal in the game instead of treating each player the same. make the quests unique enough where there is a story to tell others. "Man you should have seen what we did the other day!!!" More important may be permanent world consequences for actions. If your quest is to go find and destroy a group of xxx's camped somewhere in the woods like you were asked, some sort of proliferation should take place if you fail..more come...they move closer..increase the ammount of cause and affect. that could generate other quests...
Overall there needs to be less "random acts of violence" and more personal involvement.
The idea of weapons needs to change too. why does everyone get an uberweaponofdeath? fantasy? it just makes it boring. make it so that monsters don't drop unrealistic things... why does a large doglike creature carry 2k worth of money? or a worm creature with a full plate helm +3 super fire attack? make it so that if you want cash you have to find a quest where money is involved. let the npc's pay for more stuff. and not in the way they do now. more services need to be generated that players want to buy. in most of these games you cannot sell your services, or even buy them for that matter. If I need to get a specific item from a specific place, its hard to pay a group of ppl to help you. maybe its because the money if not that valuable.
Anyway...endless rant. id like to hear others ideas.
When I first started reading the article I declared it FUD, then I read a little more into the first paragraph and thought "Inserting seemingly harmless yet malicious code into a project...not too terribly far fetched". Then I read on to discover that his examples were way further out of the realm of reason than where I was going. The idea that a subversive group would create an entire distribution expressly intent on undermining security is just sorta silly (based purely on my view that a distribution is not an easy thing to put together, let alone get people to adopt.)
That being said, I can see someone inserting malicious code into a certain program for devious acts at a later date.
Maybe the question(s) should have been: What measures are taken to ensure that app included with a distribution has been certified "on the level"?? Is there a point ever where the intentions of an open source FTP server or Media Player(for example) are questioned?
This seems likely to be taken advantage of in the vein of adware, but "attacks" still seem possible.
Don't you have a webcam?? Seems to me that in this day and age anyone can broadcast content. Wouldn't take more than a cheap camera, some decent editing and some sort of bandwidth friendly sreaming video server.
I read some of the posts and the wikipedia entry and started thinking..
I've been looking for a secure way to have preproduction versions of my bands recordings online. FTP is ok, but most people have access to a client and guessing a url is not hard. If I could set up a gopher server with the data there and instruct whoever needed access that they would have to install either mozilla or a special client to get it, they could. Also since most people don't even know gopher exists they could do very little with the mailed out url even if they got it. It wont work in IE.
Third post on one subject. Thats a record for me..
Imagine for a minute that the entire cbs library of tapes was a big room full of disk arays. What would it cost to maintain that for 50 years? make sure you include drives that have failed, electrical power, man power, upgrades(as we will no doubt be raving about some other data storage method in the not to distant future)...
None of this is even taking into accound that tape produces a full sound spectrum. Even awesome pro-tools systems that record at 192k do not reach that goal...
I dont have a cd over 10 years old that still works. Im sure that its partialy due to mishandeling, but if you just let tape sit in its can for 60 years it will sound almost identical as when it was put in the can. Show me a drive that will even operate in 50 years or 10 for that matter. In my ten years of general computer experience I have bought 3 computers and 11 hard drives. I have never bought a drive to gain space..its always to replace a busted one.
As a musician I believe that tubes will never die. The only thing that solid state and digital amps do well is suck. I use a Marshall JCM2000 DSL100, and i wouldnt have it any other way.
Along the same lines is 2 inch tape. The article touches on the fact that studios love it, but the reason is the same as why I and lots of others like tubes. They sound alive. You can run a million filters to emulate speakers and amps, but it never has the flaws that make a good natural recording. You need subtle faults or everything sounds sterile. I like pro-tools, but it's way better as an editing platform than a recording platform. Plus, Disk drives have a mean time to failure of what???...18 months or so? We can now remaster analog tapes from the 50s with no problem. Try to get the original tracks for a linkin park session in 50 or 60 years..good luck.
I also followed the "technologies that didn't manage to hang on" link only to find a highly ranked post speaking negativly of ribbon mics. I just used 2 awesome ribbon mics for a drum session and they sounded so incredible that they are at the top of my list of pro audio gear.
Don't confuse "Wouldn't live without" with "won't die"... Please.
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I don't understand why they paraphrased McBride's comments? Why give a full quote of the question and then joke about the answer? Seems to make a serious discusion in an intimate setting look a bit high school. Sorry.
Now while i understand the camera issue, I do not realy agree with the idea that phones are bloated. I have an ericsson t610 thru t-mobile and it is silly awesome. The address book is more full featured than any phone ive seen yet(except for the pda/phone variety) and the display is 10 times better than a gameboy advance(IMO). I went out and bought a usb bluetooth adapter so that i could use my phone for internet access from anywhere i get decent service. I like the fact that i can download and install a java applet with no trouble at all. I like that i can play a pretty good version of bust-a-move/puzzle bobble whilst on the crapper. The camera has also come in handy af few times(although not in the same situation as puzzle bobble:)).
I think that the features on this particular phone are perfect. they help me to do things that i couldnt do before with my other phones. I would suggest that if you believe that cell phones are bloated overall, you check out another provider/vendor.
Why not start broadcasting the game....you could break to show the players reactions but mainly concentrate on the game. There are so many damn cable sports networks that play mostly filler anyway(I think ive seen the same billiards trick shot challenge like 5 times on espn2). Sponsorship for the even is obvious.
Now to the personal stuff. Madden is so much better than gameday, and the New Orleans Saints will crush all next year:).
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With microsoft head first into a new console, the nintendo machine at $99 and now more xbox only titles, when is sony going to break down and drop the price of the ps2 to $99 too. seems to me that the fall will be too late. people will start waiting for the ps3 and not want to spend 1/3rd of the new machines price when they can get a better(faster) xbox for around the same price.
Plus, what if the new GTA sucks? sony=doom?
I personally like the idea of game developers pushing the limits of my system. I dont ever want to hear a game dev say "this courtyard would have looked realy nice with all the extra textures and lighting, and the water would have been acutaly simulated......but we didnt think joes machine could handle it..plus it plays the same either way".
..spreadsheets? I think not.
A FPS is not a browser. We need new features constantly or its the same game as the last 10. Push the limits. What do you think has driven the hardware boom of the last 10 years??
Solo was just practicing pre-emptive self defence.
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These are not the edits you are looking for.
Maybe they considered it an Easter Egg???
You must be new here. Welcome.
..anyone wanna go ride bikes?
I pay for a subscription, so I only see one of the ads :)
Tang?
Velcro??(actualy not sure about that one..)
Those pens that let you write in bed??
Were you a writer for the Sandler version of Mr. Deeds?
The article mentions that they dont use software to cheat. Does that mean that any sort of matching via a database is not "real" AI??
What about the idea of assigning people to particular things? maybe another player(newb trainer, battalion commander) who would act as a semi-uniuqe home base...maybe have one leader per 10-20 players, or separated by class. this way they could be "auto paired" to get interaction going in different instances. this would also allow players to be assigned tasks by the characters or people near his base(creating more unique quests). make it so that a player who is one of these trainers could have a feeling of accomplishment...maybe even put them in a mission creator position thru some predefined menu or something... make an area for mass communication, and make moving to another "base" an option that can be granted easily.
I like what you said about mission/world items being used in more complicated, combigned ways. helps to esablish an economy.
the other thing to consider may be the Level situation. with predefined lvls granting predefined points to skills you have a situation where older players that should be playing with and teaching newer players are distanced dramaticly. there needs to be another way to signify strength/experience/knowlege and still keep people attached to one another. perhaps a more litteral training method. if you completed more study activities....represented in a non redundant way....you would raise your int. did workouts, more strength. in turn use that to gain your lvls.
I have more ideas but as i thought of them they seemed to have some holes..need a bit more thought.
Some ideas:
I have been playing the Knight Online beta for a few weeks now and am to a point where I have nothing new to do. There may be new areas to explore, but I wouldn't know or care. I've already reached the point of boredom...sure I can kill bigger monsters, but those monsters are just like the ones that I was just killing...stupid hamster wheel.
Anyway I got to thinking about what would make it better. The first thing I thought of was to get rid of the teleporting in the game. Town portal spells are ok, but general transit just takes away from the locales.
Next I was thinking about quests. Every quest for every player is the same. Most are just collecting an amount of an item and delivering it. Pizza boy quests are boring. Why not, once you are in a party, have an npc generated that comes looking for you...to ask for help, or pay your party to do something for him. Make it so there was a reason to visit the towns other than dumping goods or buying potions. Having clan or personal structures for those npcs to visit would help that too. quests could even involve a smaller clan bringing a message to a larger clan... "there is a big bad xxx in xxx and we need uberclans help". Maybe make it so that the monsters/npc's/items for the quest are only viewable to your party...to avoid uberclan stumbling upon your target and wiping it out before you can.
Make things more personal in the game instead of treating each player the same. make the quests unique enough where there is a story to tell others. "Man you should have seen what we did the other day!!!" More important may be permanent world consequences for actions. If your quest is to go find and destroy a group of xxx's camped somewhere in the woods like you were asked, some sort of proliferation should take place if you fail..more come...they move closer..increase the ammount of cause and affect. that could generate other quests...
Overall there needs to be less "random acts of violence" and more personal involvement.
The idea of weapons needs to change too. why does everyone get an uberweaponofdeath? fantasy? it just makes it boring. make it so that monsters don't drop unrealistic things... why does a large doglike creature carry 2k worth of money? or a worm creature with a full plate helm +3 super fire attack? make it so that if you want cash you have to find a quest where money is involved. let the npc's pay for more stuff. and not in the way they do now. more services need to be generated that players want to buy. in most of these games you cannot sell your services, or even buy them for that matter. If I need to get a specific item from a specific place, its hard to pay a group of ppl to help you. maybe its because the money if not that valuable.
Anyway...endless rant. id like to hear others ideas.
When I first started reading the article I declared it FUD, then I read a little more into the first paragraph and thought "Inserting seemingly harmless yet malicious code into a project...not too terribly far fetched". Then I read on to discover that his examples were way further out of the realm of reason than where I was going. The idea that a subversive group would create an entire distribution expressly intent on undermining security is just sorta silly (based purely on my view that a distribution is not an easy thing to put together, let alone get people to adopt.)
That being said, I can see someone inserting malicious code into a certain program for devious acts at a later date.
Maybe the question(s) should have been:
What measures are taken to ensure that app included with a distribution has been certified "on the level"?? Is there a point ever where the intentions of an open source FTP server or Media Player(for example) are questioned?
This seems likely to be taken advantage of in the vein of adware, but "attacks" still seem possible.
Don't you have a webcam?? Seems to me that in this day and age anyone can broadcast content. Wouldn't take more than a cheap camera, some decent editing and some sort of bandwidth friendly sreaming video server.
I read some of the posts and the wikipedia entry and started thinking..
I've been looking for a secure way to have preproduction versions of my bands recordings online. FTP is ok, but most people have access to a client and guessing a url is not hard. If I could set up a gopher server with the data there and instruct whoever needed access that they would have to install either mozilla or a special client to get it, they could. Also since most people don't even know gopher exists they could do very little with the mailed out url even if they got it. It wont work in IE.
Thoughts, Questions?
Third post on one subject. Thats a record for me..
Imagine for a minute that the entire cbs library of tapes was a big room full of disk arays. What would it cost to maintain that for 50 years? make sure you include drives that have failed, electrical power, man power, upgrades(as we will no doubt be raving about some other data storage method in the not to distant future)...
None of this is even taking into accound that tape produces a full sound spectrum. Even awesome pro-tools systems that record at 192k do not reach that goal...
I dont have a cd over 10 years old that still works. Im sure that its partialy due to mishandeling, but if you just let tape sit in its can for 60 years it will sound almost identical as when it was put in the can. Show me a drive that will even operate in 50 years or 10 for that matter. In my ten years of general computer experience I have bought 3 computers and 11 hard drives. I have never bought a drive to gain space..its always to replace a busted one.
Maybe its me though.
As a musician I believe that tubes will never die. The only thing that solid state and digital amps do well is suck. I use a Marshall JCM2000 DSL100, and i wouldnt have it any other way.
Along the same lines is 2 inch tape. The article touches on the fact that studios love it, but the reason is the same as why I and lots of others like tubes. They sound alive. You can run a million filters to emulate speakers and amps, but it never has the flaws that make a good natural recording. You need subtle faults or everything sounds sterile. I like pro-tools, but it's way better as an editing platform than a recording platform. Plus, Disk drives have a mean time to failure of what???...18 months or so? We can now remaster analog tapes from the 50s with no problem. Try to get the original tracks for a linkin park session in 50 or 60 years..good luck.
I also followed the "technologies that didn't manage to hang on" link only to find a highly ranked post speaking negativly of ribbon mics. I just used 2 awesome ribbon mics for a drum session and they sounded so incredible that they are at the top of my list of pro audio gear.
Don't confuse "Wouldn't live without" with "won't die"... Please.
I don't understand why they paraphrased McBride's comments? Why give a full quote of the question and then joke about the answer? Seems to make a serious discusion in an intimate setting look a bit high school.
Sorry.
Now while i understand the camera issue, I do not realy agree with the idea that phones are bloated. I have an ericsson t610 thru t-mobile and it is silly awesome. The address book is more full featured than any phone ive seen yet(except for the pda/phone variety) and the display is 10 times better than a gameboy advance(IMO). I went out and bought a usb bluetooth adapter so that i could use my phone for internet access from anywhere i get decent service. I like the fact that i can download and install a java applet with no trouble at all. I like that i can play a pretty good version of bust-a-move/puzzle bobble whilst on the crapper. The camera has also come in handy af few times(although not in the same situation as puzzle bobble :)).
I think that the features on this particular phone are perfect. they help me to do things that i couldnt do before with my other phones. I would suggest that if you believe that cell phones are bloated overall, you check out another provider/vendor.
Freedom Fighters??
Doh!
Isn't that how penthouse letters start??
What do you do when your girlfriend comes home and finds you yelling at yourself in front of the tv??
Why not start broadcasting the game....you could break to show the players reactions but mainly concentrate on the game. There are so many damn cable sports networks that play mostly filler anyway(I think ive seen the same billiards trick shot challenge like 5 times on espn2). Sponsorship for the even is obvious.
:).
Now to the personal stuff. Madden is so much better than gameday, and the New Orleans Saints will crush all next year
You mean an ounce of content for a pound of Ads and "navigational elements"??