They're going to end up giving to Apple anyway, so might as well describe it in terms they'll be familiar with. This is THAT Palo Alto Research Center, right?? Er...is it, actually?
Went to Second Life, for the most part! Can be Land Tycoon, Mall Tycoon, BDSM Gear Tycoon, whatever you want! You'll need a store, products, a marketing plan, heck, servers! A lot of the concerns and requirements of a real business are present in the SL enterprise, if on a smaller scale. For a 'business sim', it's pretty complete, and the money is real!
Every 12, 16 months or so I go "Oh yeah, Freenet exists...I should check it out again." But every time, I can't answer the question: Is there anything actually HERE?
Freenet: Is there actually anything worthwhile on it?
Show up at the next public meeting and pass out bread, chocolate desserts, and steak, all of which were made without salt. They'll go 'wow, what is this Martian pig slop from hell' and that'll be the last we hear about it.
"And all this leads us to today's exciting news: we've just been acquired by Google! What does this mean for Picnik? It means we can think BIG. Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found. Under the Google roof we'll reach more people than ever before, impacting more lives and making more photos more awesome. What does this mean for you Picnikers? Nothing is changing right away, but Picnik now has more potential than ever before. The team that built Picnik from the grass up will continue making advanced and powerful photo-editing easier, more intuitive and more fun, so stay tuned to hear about all the cool new stuff we're working on."
Chief Legal Counsel: "The bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, is when we win these lawsuits, we will be Google." Chairman of the Board: "And you're sure it will work?" Chief Legal Counsel: "It cannot fail. We have.............The Patents." All: "Aaah...." Chief Financial Officer: "Are you sure we waited long enough to enforce our patents? Perhaps if we wait a bit longer..." Chief Legal Counsel: "NO! The time to strike is now! We will be rich beyond our wildest dreams" Chief Operating Officer: "Has anybody ever tried something like this before? How did they fare?" Chief Legal Counsel: "Other companies have tried this approach, but their claims were weak and meaningless, and they met with failure and the derision of the world. Our patents are strong. Bulletproof even. Any intelligent judge in the world will see that we invented web search. We will succeed beyond our wildest dreams. We here will all buy Maybachs so we have something nice to drive to the Bugatti dealership." Chairman of the Board: "Then......let us begin."
I can only assume this is how this discussion tends to go every time.
Anybody know where to get back issues or scanned issues of Mondo 2000? Whole thing seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, except for a few single issues that surface occasionally on Amazon.
It sounds nice, but it won't work in practice because people are min-maxers. They kind of have to be, unfortunately. If you put together a spec that's 'interesting' but 'doesn't put out more DPS than the other guy', the other guy is going to get all the runs, and all the gear, so they can do other, harder runs for different, better gear. Unless somebody puts up a build for a hybrid spec that is good enough to make itself indispensable, they're going to fall by the wayside while the gear-addicted min-max DPS/Tank/Heal groups plow through 97% of the content that doesn't require some exotic build to et through.
That's the only way this will work, if the designers really wrack their brains to come up with actually novel encounter styles and bosses that actually require something other than tank/dps/heal. Otherwise, the current Tripartite Model works reasonably well, and the Min-Maxers are just going to take your 'universal character system' and make a tank, a healer, or a DPSer because it'll get the job done better than a class who does a couple different things less well.
Is this that thing where they take away channels I've been paying for until I rent a set-top box to get them back, but my bill doesn't go down in the meantime?
"The winning design was eventually built in Chicago. The 200x400 meter building was 32 meters tall, had three levels, no windows (a bold choice!), no visible internal load-bearing structure, and no stairs because winning architect HeyBaby4U Lauterbrunnen decided 'they take up too many prims, and really, you just fly up anyway, so who cares?' A rotating 10x10x10 cube, which glows day and night while hovering over the building announced to the world that 'VIP Strip Club and Mall and Escort Service' is open for business! Space is available to rent for sixteen cents a day."
Guess racing is easier to pick up from a game, especially one with good physics (and, one would hope, good damage modeling!) I've designed a nice looking building or two for SL, and mine even had plausible-looking (looking!) load-bearing structure for the big open parts everybody seems so fond of (camera angles and the fact that the average avatar is about seven and a half feet tall have interesting effects on pragmatic architecture in SL), but never a self-congratulatory 'you know? I could do this for REAL!' moment!
Works the other way, though: I know real architects and jewelery designers who create products in the game.
Oh, also made a 430-some prim replica of an Audi R10 three years ago (before sculpted prims, I hasten to add), but never scripted it to drive, so no Le Mans for me, sadly:(
And radical conservatives want their followers to have as many children as possible (Ex: The Quiverfull movement) to be a Christian army for Jesus with the stated goal of taking over the country politically in a couple generations. This is somehow better?....Incidentally though, I'm with you on 'if we don't get the metals, China will.' That doesn't do us any good at all.
The first time I had it, Delirium Tremens tasted purple to me. "If I poured this beer into a glass* it wouldn't surprise me if it was purple." Seven is an interesting shade of mauve.
*I know, it was at a chain sports bar and they didn't give us glasses
McConnell adds that a similar attack to the one in Brazil is poised to take place on US soil and that it may take some horrific event to get the country focused on shoring up cyber security. 'If the power grid was taken off line in the middle of winter and it caused people to suffer and die, that would galvanize the nation. I hope we don't get there.'"
"That's an awfully nice power grid you've got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. Maybe you should look into some security. Before it's too late."
Another allegorical bogeyman to add to the list of things about to destroy everything we hold dear. This whole 'scare us into action' thing is getting tedious. Is it a sad look into our current state of affairs that people in charge don't seem to think we can be reasoned with on an intelligent level to the point where they have to take a page out of "ACT NOW!! Call within the next TEN minutes or you may miss out! Operators are STANDING BY!" book of marketing? Hey, guess what.....you NEVER miss out! They just want you to *CALL NOW* because they don't trust your lazy ass will remember by the end of Springer. You ever have to listen to daytime TV for a day or two? I did when I was painting the hallway outside an elderly gent with failing hearing apartment and let me tell you, if you listen to the ads a certain way, those guys do NOT take a very high view of their target demographic. But it must work, like so many things, or they wouldn't do it, and our government wouldn't sit up and take notice. On the other cynical hand, if we're all such panicky idiots, shouldn't they space these things out more? Getting a backlog of nonspecific stuff I'm supposed to be terrified of.
Finally, can a 'cyber-terror' attack be 'poised'? "Hacker Leader, the attack is poised and ready." "Good work, all that's left is to press 'enter'. When the time is right. Which isn't for a while. I don't know when, just not now." "Cool. Halo?" Then...how do they know? "Security Leader, there have been numerous probes and break ins around the periphery of the power grid system. What should we do?" "Nothing....yet...." "Cool. Madden?"
If we know an attack is 'poised' we know that something happened that presumably is being used to stage some larger event when the Hacker Leader and his Evil Hackers get bored of playing Halo. In the meantime, put down Madden and upgrade that OpenSSL or reimage that box they were poking around on (and THEN upgrade that OpenSSL or whatever it was they used to get in). The general public, of course, don't know this, so the scare tactic works, and for some reason, we as a society have grown rather accustomed to people talking down to us and trying to appeal to our better judgment through nonspecific threats of bad things that are about to happen.
"I don't care about Sandia or the Department of Justice or any of them," General Jabiri said. "I know more about this issue than the Americans do. In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the world."
Sound pretty defensive about the devices. As if they paid a fortune that could have been spent on just about anything else, and found out that they're worthless, but doesn't want to let on.
No, I believe you could give them $0.00 and you'd get the game. Also, once you donated, you could download for whatever platforms you wanted. I gave near asking price and got both Windows and Linux. Would have given more if I thought everybody was going to stiff them. Come on, average price of $2.03?
Can I opt out of the ads in the beginning? Like, I start up a game, and a screen pops up and I affirm that "Yes, I'm aware that Coca Cola exists." And the ads go away!
I know you guys exist. I PROMISE! You all do a great job getting inside our heads. Seriously! Can I play my game in peace now?
That's it?? That's nothing....when Ginko Financial in Second Life went down, the losses were reported around $750,000. Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand US Dollars.
I had the same thought when the big Second Life bank fell: Why did anybody trust this? Besides the obviously unsustainable interest rates, which should have raised a red flag with any thinking person, consider this: It's a bank in a computer game. It's a BANK in a GAME run by PLAYERS. Why would anybody with that understanding want to give their game money, which is bought with real currency (or earned with quite a bit of effort) to some 'bank' in a game? And then they're mad when the whole house of cards falls over. To me, the whole thing was fishy so I stayed well away.
(That, and I never had enough Linden laying around to be that big a deal:/ )
Could the therapist be a tank* or a healer? Because that would be great. Not addicted or anything, but there's a shortage of tanks and healers, so I could pretend if they wanted to run, say, daily heroic, or fill in on a Naxx 10.
* The person can be as non-threatening as they want as long as the toon can/generate/ it, youknowhatI'msaying?
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I'm relatively sure that's a Han Solo paraphrase. Laugh sometimes, it's good for you.
They're going to end up giving to Apple anyway, so might as well describe it in terms they'll be familiar with. This is THAT Palo Alto Research Center, right?? Er...is it, actually?
Went to Second Life, for the most part! Can be Land Tycoon, Mall Tycoon, BDSM Gear Tycoon, whatever you want! You'll need a store, products, a marketing plan, heck, servers! A lot of the concerns and requirements of a real business are present in the SL enterprise, if on a smaller scale. For a 'business sim', it's pretty complete, and the money is real!
Every 12, 16 months or so I go "Oh yeah, Freenet exists...I should check it out again." But every time, I can't answer the question: Is there anything actually HERE?
Freenet: Is there actually anything worthwhile on it?
Show up at the next public meeting and pass out bread, chocolate desserts, and steak, all of which were made without salt. They'll go 'wow, what is this Martian pig slop from hell' and that'll be the last we hear about it.
That's so cute!
Chief Legal Counsel: "The bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, is when we win these lawsuits, we will be Google."
Chairman of the Board: "And you're sure it will work?"
Chief Legal Counsel: "It cannot fail. We have.............The Patents."
All: "Aaah...."
Chief Financial Officer: "Are you sure we waited long enough to enforce our patents? Perhaps if we wait a bit longer..."
Chief Legal Counsel: "NO! The time to strike is now! We will be rich beyond our wildest dreams"
Chief Operating Officer: "Has anybody ever tried something like this before? How did they fare?"
Chief Legal Counsel: "Other companies have tried this approach, but their claims were weak and meaningless, and they met with failure and the derision of the world. Our patents are strong. Bulletproof even. Any intelligent judge in the world will see that we invented web search. We will succeed beyond our wildest dreams. We here will all buy Maybachs so we have something nice to drive to the Bugatti dealership."
Chairman of the Board: "Then......let us begin."
I can only assume this is how this discussion tends to go every time.
Does anybody know anybody who has one? They don't exactly have to be members of the Better Business Bureau.
Anybody know where to get back issues or scanned issues of Mondo 2000? Whole thing seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, except for a few single issues that surface occasionally on Amazon.
Read some of your book. Interesting stuff!
It sounds nice, but it won't work in practice because people are min-maxers. They kind of have to be, unfortunately. If you put together a spec that's 'interesting' but 'doesn't put out more DPS than the other guy', the other guy is going to get all the runs, and all the gear, so they can do other, harder runs for different, better gear. Unless somebody puts up a build for a hybrid spec that is good enough to make itself indispensable, they're going to fall by the wayside while the gear-addicted min-max DPS/Tank/Heal groups plow through 97% of the content that doesn't require some exotic build to et through.
That's the only way this will work, if the designers really wrack their brains to come up with actually novel encounter styles and bosses that actually require something other than tank/dps/heal. Otherwise, the current Tripartite Model works reasonably well, and the Min-Maxers are just going to take your 'universal character system' and make a tank, a healer, or a DPSer because it'll get the job done better than a class who does a couple different things less well.
Is this that thing where they take away channels I've been paying for until I rent a set-top box to get them back, but my bill doesn't go down in the meantime?
Second Life architects!
"The winning design was eventually built in Chicago. The 200x400 meter building was 32 meters tall, had three levels, no windows (a bold choice!), no visible internal load-bearing structure, and no stairs because winning architect HeyBaby4U Lauterbrunnen decided 'they take up too many prims, and really, you just fly up anyway, so who cares?' A rotating 10x10x10 cube, which glows day and night while hovering over the building announced to the world that 'VIP Strip Club and Mall and Escort Service' is open for business! Space is available to rent for sixteen cents a day."
Guess racing is easier to pick up from a game, especially one with good physics (and, one would hope, good damage modeling!) I've designed a nice looking building or two for SL, and mine even had plausible-looking (looking!) load-bearing structure for the big open parts everybody seems so fond of (camera angles and the fact that the average avatar is about seven and a half feet tall have interesting effects on pragmatic architecture in SL), but never a self-congratulatory 'you know? I could do this for REAL!' moment!
Works the other way, though: I know real architects and jewelery designers who create products in the game.
Oh, also made a 430-some prim replica of an Audi R10 three years ago (before sculpted prims, I hasten to add), but never scripted it to drive, so no Le Mans for me, sadly :(
And radical conservatives want their followers to have as many children as possible (Ex: The Quiverfull movement) to be a Christian army for Jesus with the stated goal of taking over the country politically in a couple generations. This is somehow better? ....Incidentally though, I'm with you on 'if we don't get the metals, China will.' That doesn't do us any good at all.
The first time I had it, Delirium Tremens tasted purple to me. "If I poured this beer into a glass* it wouldn't surprise me if it was purple." Seven is an interesting shade of mauve.
*I know, it was at a chain sports bar and they didn't give us glasses
McConnell adds that a similar attack to the one in Brazil is poised to take place on US soil and that it may take some horrific event to get the country focused on shoring up cyber security. 'If the power grid was taken off line in the middle of winter and it caused people to suffer and die, that would galvanize the nation. I hope we don't get there.'"
"That's an awfully nice power grid you've got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. Maybe you should look into some security. Before it's too late."
Another allegorical bogeyman to add to the list of things about to destroy everything we hold dear. This whole 'scare us into action' thing is getting tedious. Is it a sad look into our current state of affairs that people in charge don't seem to think we can be reasoned with on an intelligent level to the point where they have to take a page out of "ACT NOW!! Call within the next TEN minutes or you may miss out! Operators are STANDING BY!" book of marketing? Hey, guess what.....you NEVER miss out! They just want you to *CALL NOW* because they don't trust your lazy ass will remember by the end of Springer. You ever have to listen to daytime TV for a day or two? I did when I was painting the hallway outside an elderly gent with failing hearing apartment and let me tell you, if you listen to the ads a certain way, those guys do NOT take a very high view of their target demographic. But it must work, like so many things, or they wouldn't do it, and our government wouldn't sit up and take notice. On the other cynical hand, if we're all such panicky idiots, shouldn't they space these things out more? Getting a backlog of nonspecific stuff I'm supposed to be terrified of.
Finally, can a 'cyber-terror' attack be 'poised'? "Hacker Leader, the attack is poised and ready." "Good work, all that's left is to press 'enter'. When the time is right. Which isn't for a while. I don't know when, just not now." "Cool. Halo?" Then...how do they know? "Security Leader, there have been numerous probes and break ins around the periphery of the power grid system. What should we do?" "Nothing....yet...." "Cool. Madden?"
If we know an attack is 'poised' we know that something happened that presumably is being used to stage some larger event when the Hacker Leader and his Evil Hackers get bored of playing Halo. In the meantime, put down Madden and upgrade that OpenSSL or reimage that box they were poking around on (and THEN upgrade that OpenSSL or whatever it was they used to get in). The general public, of course, don't know this, so the scare tactic works, and for some reason, we as a society have grown rather accustomed to people talking down to us and trying to appeal to our better judgment through nonspecific threats of bad things that are about to happen.
"I don't care about Sandia or the Department of Justice or any of them," General Jabiri said. "I know more about this issue than the Americans do. In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the world."
Sound pretty defensive about the devices. As if they paid a fortune that could have been spent on just about anything else, and found out that they're worthless, but doesn't want to let on.
No, I believe you could give them $0.00 and you'd get the game. Also, once you donated, you could download for whatever platforms you wanted. I gave near asking price and got both Windows and Linux. Would have given more if I thought everybody was going to stiff them. Come on, average price of $2.03?
Can I opt out of the ads in the beginning? Like, I start up a game, and a screen pops up and I affirm that "Yes, I'm aware that Coca Cola exists." And the ads go away!
I know you guys exist. I PROMISE! You all do a great job getting inside our heads. Seriously! Can I play my game in peace now?
We're not going to have the Olympics in the U.S. again, ever.
That's it?? That's nothing....when Ginko Financial in Second Life went down, the losses were reported around $750,000. Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand US Dollars.
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2007/08/virtual_bank
I had the same thought when the big Second Life bank fell: Why did anybody trust this? Besides the obviously unsustainable interest rates, which should have raised a red flag with any thinking person, consider this: It's a bank in a computer game. It's a BANK in a GAME run by PLAYERS. Why would anybody with that understanding want to give their game money, which is bought with real currency (or earned with quite a bit of effort) to some 'bank' in a game? And then they're mad when the whole house of cards falls over. To me, the whole thing was fishy so I stayed well away.
(That, and I never had enough Linden laying around to be that big a deal :/ )
Huh, so that's who bought all those PS3s.
"See this? It may LOOK like a silver record, but it's NOT! This is a 'laser disc'"
Could the therapist be a tank* or a healer? Because that would be great. Not addicted or anything, but there's a shortage of tanks and healers, so I could pretend if they wanted to run, say, daily heroic, or fill in on a Naxx 10.
* The person can be as non-threatening as they want as long as the toon can /generate/ it, youknowhatI'msaying?