Having said that, I hate having to program with Visual Studio. It's like a great big book of usefull spells, but they are written in invisble ink:o)
Well, I guess that's what the wizards are for...
Installing the SAV 10 client caused a bluescreen on the next boot but the system recovered on its own after a power-off and restart.
Weren't they going to be red? here goes the last of the new features...
And not only that, we must know the way to modify the game to make this material appear, in order to judge whose fault it is.
Not to do it ourselves, of course, just for the sake of judgement...
For future iPods, they could make the screen larger and offer a separate stylus if the screens were touch sensitive
Or they could make an iPod with a square touchpad, which seems quite plausible if they plan on doing something like this.
This may seem silly, but it's really very important to keep things like this in mind when designing a game. Many games nowadays take more into account the technical aspects and forget the basical principles about gaming.
You must allways offer choices to the players. You can make some of this choices random to add uncertainty (like in the third case), but you must add some problems where the player can evaluate the conditions and try to take an informed decision, which must be rewarded if it's good (like the first case).
Also you must tease the player with rewards but at some risks, so he cannot go on trying everything that there is in the game without risking something.
Thought these principles seem very easy, there are many games that fail to implement them.
Man, the parent poster longed for old Lucasart adventures, do you think he wants logical puzzles which can be solved by thinking rather than randomly trying to apply items??
For god's sake, you had to use the steps of a dance as a map, and a chicken with a pulley inside to cross a bridge! How's that logical??
I also think the best chances are that the G8 reunion is the motivation for this attack, but OTOH, having a team ready in all the candidate cities and activating just the one in the winner city would be a very impressive demonstration of power from Al Qaeda.
Then one day I met this beautiful, smart and young lady who lost a big sum of money when she got phished.
I wonder what is the importance that this lady was beautiful in the fact that she got phished? or did you write it just to attract slashdotters atention?
and it will be withdrawn about 30 seconds later after Apple mobilizes all Mac OS X 10.4 machines into a botnet to DDOS the living crap out of any server which serves a copy of said patch.
That wouldn't be needed, posting it in Slashdot would do the job.
I really learned a lot of historical facts while playing civilization, by reading the descriptions about civilization advances and wonders in the "civilopedia", but I suppose that not all students playing this game would be willing to do that, unless doing so would have a benefitial effect in gameplay (maybe including tactics as how to use a military unit or when to build a city improvement).
Anyway, I think this kind of games can be really educational, althought not everyone enjoys playing them, so I guess the solution would be to have various kinds of games to allow the kids to choose (remember, the real target of trying to use games in education is that users have fun playing them, if they get as bored with the game as with a class, you lose the point.)
Could this approach be used in natuaral language recognition software?
The system could be made to learn the translation between common language structures into well formed, parseable sentences that it could then process.
Just a thought, maybe i'm being a bit too optimistic here.
Really, were have gone all that multidisciplinar games that there were in the beginning, games that were at the same time an RPG, a graphic adventure, an strategy game and some action/arcade, like Dune, Sword of the samurai or Defender of the crown?
I know every part of those games wasn't top of the art even in their times nor very complex (like the knights tournaments in DotC or the duels in Sword of the samurai), but they added a great immersive component to the game and some needed variation.
What I would really like to see, was a turn based strategy game that allowed you to resolve the battles in RTS (something like the Total war series) but also with the ability to set individual epic missions which could be resolved like FPS, for instance.
Imagine for a moment that the missions in SW Rebellion could be resolved playing a Jedi Knight level, and the galactic battles piloting a fighter like in X-Wing or Tie Fighter.
The "command" needed is, according to the article, the digital key to decrypt the file: A ransom note left behind included an e-mail address, and the attacker using the address later demanded $200 for the digital keys to unlock the files.
So I guess that the virus encripts the file using a selected public key from a group of keys (or generating it with a seed) and then the virus writer can generate the matching private key and send it to you to decrypt the files (assuming that the virus is telling the truth, as you say, which probably isn't).
Thought I agree with you in that all the publicity campaign and merchandising surrounding the SW franchise can be quite annoying, I believe it's compensated by some of the novels, comics and specially videogames that have appeared as part of this hype surrounding the entire Star Wars phenomenon.
I really liked the first tree movies, but I think I have still liked more, and spent more hours with, playing games like KOTOR, Jedi Knight, X-wing or even Rebellion.
I believe that SW wouldn't have had so much of an impact on me (and surely on more people) if not for this hype, so, all in all, I'm quite thankful for it.
His goal, and you gotta love the guy for it, was that people should be using Microsoft software 24 hours a day.
God, are they planning for a software to help us record our dreams or something??
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Shhh, don't say that too loud, I'm sure there are enough geeks with old machines to spare...
Having said that, I hate having to program with Visual Studio. It's like a great big book of usefull spells, but they are written in invisble ink :o)
Well, I guess that's what the wizards are for...
Installing the SAV 10 client caused a bluescreen on the next boot but the system recovered on its own after a power-off and restart.
Weren't they going to be red? here goes the last of the new features...
Man, at first I hoped to find in your comment an illuminated quote from the Iliad or the Odyssey... then I remembered this was slashdot...
And not only that, we must know the way to modify the game to make this material appear, in order to judge whose fault it is.
Not to do it ourselves, of course, just for the sake of judgement...
For future iPods, they could make the screen larger and offer a separate stylus if the screens were touch sensitive
Or they could make an iPod with a square touchpad, which seems quite plausible if they plan on doing something like this.
This may seem silly, but it's really very important to keep things like this in mind when designing a game. Many games nowadays take more into account the technical aspects and forget the basical principles about gaming.
You must allways offer choices to the players. You can make some of this choices random to add uncertainty (like in the third case), but you must add some problems where the player can evaluate the conditions and try to take an informed decision, which must be rewarded if it's good (like the first case).
Also you must tease the player with rewards but at some risks, so he cannot go on trying everything that there is in the game without risking something.
Thought these principles seem very easy, there are many games that fail to implement them.
Man, the parent poster longed for old Lucasart adventures, do you think he wants logical puzzles which can be solved by thinking rather than randomly trying to apply items??
For god's sake, you had to use the steps of a dance as a map, and a chicken with a pulley inside to cross a bridge! How's that logical??
I also think the best chances are that the G8 reunion is the motivation for this attack, but OTOH, having a team ready in all the candidate cities and activating just the one in the winner city would be a very impressive demonstration of power from Al Qaeda.
hmm, I knew it.. but.. did she really have large breasts?? ;P
Then one day I met this beautiful, smart and young lady who lost a big sum of money when she got phished.
I wonder what is the importance that this lady was beautiful in the fact that she got phished? or did you write it just to attract slashdotters atention?
Great, that would be a perfect character for Jolie's acting skills, then!
and it will be withdrawn about 30 seconds later after Apple mobilizes all Mac OS X 10.4 machines into a botnet to DDOS the living crap out of any server which serves a copy of said patch.
That wouldn't be needed, posting it in Slashdot would do the job.
I really learned a lot of historical facts while playing civilization, by reading the descriptions about civilization advances and wonders in the "civilopedia", but I suppose that not all students playing this game would be willing to do that, unless doing so would have a benefitial effect in gameplay (maybe including tactics as how to use a military unit or when to build a city improvement).
Anyway, I think this kind of games can be really educational, althought not everyone enjoys playing them, so I guess the solution would be to have various kinds of games to allow the kids to choose (remember, the real target of trying to use games in education is that users have fun playing them, if they get as bored with the game as with a class, you lose the point.)
Could this approach be used in natuaral language recognition software?
The system could be made to learn the translation between common language structures into well formed, parseable sentences that it could then process.
Just a thought, maybe i'm being a bit too optimistic here.
Yes, you're right, people should be able to turn off the interactivity of certain parts and make them automatically resolved by the computer.
Really, were have gone all that multidisciplinar games that there were in the beginning, games that were at the same time an RPG, a graphic adventure, an strategy game and some action/arcade, like Dune, Sword of the samurai or Defender of the crown?
I know every part of those games wasn't top of the art even in their times nor very complex (like the knights tournaments in DotC or the duels in Sword of the samurai), but they added a great immersive component to the game and some needed variation. What I would really like to see, was a turn based strategy game that allowed you to resolve the battles in RTS (something like the Total war series) but also with the ability to set individual epic missions which could be resolved like FPS, for instance.
Imagine for a moment that the missions in SW Rebellion could be resolved playing a Jedi Knight level, and the galactic battles piloting a fighter like in X-Wing or Tie Fighter.
You mean, like SimEarth ?
or more like Populous?
At this rate we will be seeing an anouncement of a film based in KOTOR in a few years!!
Moderated interesting? huh I guess I'm never going to understand the humor sense of slashdot moderators...
I'm not sure if I want to know why you switched to your left hand at home...
The "command" needed is, according to the article, the digital key to decrypt the file:
A ransom note left behind included an e-mail address, and the attacker using the address later demanded $200 for the digital keys to unlock the files.
So I guess that the virus encripts the file using a selected public key from a group of keys (or generating it with a seed) and then the virus writer can generate the matching private key and send it to you to decrypt the files (assuming that the virus is telling the truth, as you say, which probably isn't).
when Longhorn is released, right?
Thought I agree with you in that all the publicity campaign and merchandising surrounding the SW franchise can be quite annoying, I believe it's compensated by some of the novels, comics and specially videogames that have appeared as part of this hype surrounding the entire Star Wars phenomenon.
I really liked the first tree movies, but I think I have still liked more, and spent more hours with, playing games like KOTOR, Jedi Knight, X-wing or even Rebellion.
I believe that SW wouldn't have had so much of an impact on me (and surely on more people) if not for this hype, so, all in all, I'm quite thankful for it.
His goal, and you gotta love the guy for it, was that people should be using Microsoft software 24 hours a day.
God, are they planning for a software to help us record our dreams or something??