Right, and the stock market still crashed because of bad faith. It could happen again. There is great merit to public opinion, and public trust. Thats what the economy is, correct? The dollar and the other international currencies are based vaguely on market performance, and the rest on opinion of the global community. Things are only worth what people want them to. The 20's before the crash in 1929 were a time of great prosperity. Luckily, i dont think that could happen again. Have faith, and much will happen... --jay
Ahh yes, the ingorant bliss of the self-fulfilling propehcy. This boom that we are feeling in the markets today is a very strong one. The momentum gained from this is in fact from a feeling of optimism that the current wave of technological improvements will usher in waves upon waves of greater socital change and prosperity. And how much of this so far has turned out to be false? We have seen the wide reaching impacts of greater technology: more jobs, lesser unemployment, and a greater ecomonmy. In our capitalist society, this direct translates into greater prosperity and ease of life on the household level. Companies like Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and IBM have seen and largely contributed to this gain? Why? Because their enthusiasm has spread throughout the marketplace.
What i believe Mr. Shilling's folly to be is that he is assuming because of his pessimism and dissatisfaction with technology, that the markets innovation with the Web is somehow grossly unjustified. Right now, i will agree that there are surreal feelings of this prosperity, and thus comes with it a large doubt: "Is this boom for real?", or "Are we doing the right thing?" In such a situation, the market is justified in making a reality check, but i believe only to find out that yes, we have made considerable progress and the technology saturation is unbelievable to the extent that small changes and updates to our technology base will affect millions of people.
Innovation is defined as the application of a new solution to a situation. TCP/IP is a perfect example. We have used this technology for years in the US. The government designed it so that information would not get lost on their networks. Today we trade stock with it! That is an innovation. The failure of the "dot-com's", as they are called, is that they fail to innovate. Companies such as e-bay, or e-trade, or amazon.com, have hung in there (sometimes very narrowly), because of that innovation.
Mr Shiller, to you i say this: perception is reality in the sense that you are only as important as people think you are. The political and social ramifications of technology are such that it by default, makes it important to our lives. Technology needs time to mature, and its getting its day. People are starting to see the reality of the situation past the initial phase of excitement. The Microsoft trial, along with other checking factors, such as the dissatisfaction that you display, are going to weed out the strong from the weak. Afterwards, the few technology bases that will survive the boom will come out to be strong industry leaders.
Investing in tech these days means investing in the velocity of our future. By making your statements you in essense say, we cant move as fast as we want to because we dont know whats going to happen long term. That is the very strength of innovation, the force that you seem to overlook so easily.
Chip ID numbers are nothing new. Everyone has (had) them. Its because thats the way it works. Like your car, or your MAC address, everything has its own unique number, because thats the way it works! Sun, SGI, etc, they all use (used?) chip ID numbers!
Only when Intel started saying, we have this identification system, lets start using it, did it become a problem.. and only because the safegaurds were not used well. It has been a great blunder for the under-informed among us.
So id bet the "boycott" did nothing. Teh amount of consumer flack, did.
So we are all geeks, right? I end my computer modifications when the soldering iron, tin snips, or a multitester comes out.. call me a coward, but id like the thing to turn on later.
A friend of mine replaced his bios battery with a commerical one from a store.. personally, i was a tad afriad. It worked.. kinda
Whats the moral of the story? Im glad that someone has figured out how to do all of these neat things.. however, im also glad its not me.
Its kinda weird, hearing about Terminus now in the news. I remember when chuck was working on it three years ago and telling us how the AI was doing retarded things, and how some of his schemes sucked, and the like. Its kinda another geek success story to see that come along.
A good friend of mine used to be chuck's suitemate at WPI... so its been really awesome to see how this game has come along from in the gleam in chuck's sleepless eye to something that is actually going to do REALLY well.
I caught up with him a few months ago, at which point he was complaining about the ports.. hehe.. its been a long hard process, and i wish them all luck. And hopefully ill get an advance copy =).. please!
Not that im bitter, but i posted this story a few weeks ago, and it got declined. *shakes head* heheh.. oh well, i glad someone else found it funny =) its really quite amusing --jay
When i say top of the food chain, we are talking markey value. There are stocks in the hundreds of dollars. Doenst mean they are worth more than MSFT, and CSCO have a highter market value than Intel.
It has nothing to do with current stock price, you should know that.
I do some with stocks right now, and the reason for all the money in the market right now is the baby boomers. All of the people in that age bracket are putting money into 401ks, which in turn invest in the "stability of a market" These 401k plan managers have millions upon millions to make money with. The volume in the markey has been crazy recently, because of all of it.
What does this come down to for news for nerds... be careful of the market... be careful of the players, and keep your money some place safe for right now... My confidence in tech is slightly low right now..
The market impact of the MS decision is undeniable, and to say that everything isnt impacted by this is naive ignorant. Microsoft, Cisco, and GE are the top of the food chain down on the street. If you mess with them, then you are looking at a large loss of faith in tech stocks. People have been dumping the hot techs to go to old blue chip standbies ever since people got word that something bad MIGHT happen to MS. Even RDHT and LNUX (the business "champions" of most of this site's patrons) are not doing so hot.
Point is... lets take market value a little more seriously, and please, leave the conspiracy at the door. Whether or not the software is free is one thing... but a business has to make money and be valued for things to be a success.
Yup. A lot of companies had inside jokes and unprofessional things that leak out. If you remember a few months back, apple's iTools had an inflammatory statement about Internet Explorer.
Code is only as good as people who make it, or the build engineers who let it slip through. Im not defening it, but it stuff happens.. one rogue coder ruins it for everyone else
The whole point of the NT Bugtraq community is to help the IT departments of the world spot and repair holes. No one would believe if they "lied" about the bug. Ive been a member of the community on NT Bugtraq for almost a year now, and ive seen some very awesome work done by the people there. They are committed to help, and i think so is Microsoft's security response team, which has played a huge role in that community, along with people like Rain Forest Puppy , who really know their stuff.
How feasible is that? Everyone does something different with their systems... some people are huge fans of shell scripts.. are you going to write them in perl, or python? Do you want to script? Do you want to re-code your daemons? How do you want to use your groups? Tuning X anyone *shudder* Not something that is particularly the easiest thing to explain to anyone
Linux is too diverse for even an interactive tutorial to truely give it justice. And it would be difficult with all the distros in mind.
Besides how marketable is that. Linux right now is only used by those in the know. And they all like "man" better anyway....
This would make great advancements in medical treatments, and personal care departments.
First, the patch could be used on civilians to help monitor and balance their daily diet with nutrients that they may not get normally. This would help children develop more completely when young... you know all of that like "a good breakfast..." so on and so forth, well we can make sure it happens with these things.
This could also be used as a non-invasive mediacal treatment to get people healthy, instead of an IV (cant replace hydration, but not bad for nourishment).
It always seems that the military comes up with the most innovative and useful things...
Linux has not yet met the "seedy" software market, and has not yet done anything to expose itself to viruses. This will come when Linux finally accepts the inevitability of large scale closed source software on their machines. The linux community will eventually have to unravel into a user base if it is to be successful.
Well there are two debates in that last statement, and ill get to them both.
First. Linux has to accept Closed Source for this to happen. There is going to be no way that applications are going to make it to the penguin without this.. and when they do.. there are going to be the people who are going to not want to pay for them. Boom.. viruses will come that way
Second, the linux community is a fairly clean one, with people out there to help and promote the OS. Windows, is just a bunch of people using the easiest software. What if linux overthrows Windows? Its gonna trade places. Malicious code is going to go from the hands of the bored to the machines of the unwitting. RIght now the community is actively involved with the good of the community, and there are very few people "forced" into using the software.
It will come with the degradation of the user base, if linux gets to that point. Linux cant sell without marketing to the masses.. the same masses that will bring troubles to this group.
It almost seems like linux does better with MS around... food for thought
This has got to be some sort of weird performance issue with a universal driver.
How could you write low-level code for various devices and get ANY sort of compatability, especially Windows CE, which doesnt traditionally run on x86 systems while most of the others do.
Point here is, i dont think this is such a miracle bullet. How could it possible do all of that without some sort of emulation, or a REALLY REALLY good object model to compile down with.
It could work if you abstracted basic commands and stuff, but since things like SoftICE and DDKs that sort of thing are still highly used in making driver code, then i dont think this product is a miracle.
Of course it always comes down to marketing, i suppose.
Let them Appeal. Its MS's right. If they want to pick someone to lobby for them, so be it. Why is it such a shock to anyone? In the US , all the freedom people seem to feel MS has threated, there is also something called rights of the accused.
All companies lobby. Why shouldnt they? MS has a big impact on the economy in a lot of ways. All companies are affected by political decisions. Now im not saying a corporation should make huge decisions about our lives, but they should have a stake in their survival.
Sure money talks, but so does the justice department. Let things play themselves out...
Corel is hardly "sucker punching" Microsoft. MS does not make any high end graphical tools... Photodraw does not count, neither does picture-it. They are looking for market share, and greater acceptance in the linux community perhaps, IMO. They also know that Wordperfect has an incredibly hard time competing against Office...
It would be interesting to see if MS would port linux to office. That would really bring out some competition.
Yeah, i agree that bryce is nice. Its gonna come down to who has the "home" system. What system was the code written for. As a person who has been involved with the porting of major application software, porting from Windows to Macintosh is not easy. Porting to Windows is not bad, but back, is harder. Linux, on the other hand, can be quite difficult. If anyone has used a professional compiler (no knock against gcc, but i am referring to a development ide / package, such as VSS, Borland, or Metrowerks), you know that there are different things you have to do to get code to behave under these environments than than gcc.
For instance, the windows Abode products (AFAIK... i could have been taught incorrectly) were at one time Macintosh applications, written and maintaned in Codewarrior, and then ported to Windows. The Mac versions were leaner, nicer, more stable applications, because of its home.
Java, in the heyday of its glory, was supposed to solve this problem. We all know how this turned out.
Software porting is no easy task. Like porting software from windows to windows CE is no easy re-compile, and oftentimes even the most well abstracted UNIX code needs many tweaks for efficiency on different platforms.
Well i wish them luck in any porting endeavor. Its a good thing for appearances, but the marketing will have to pick up the slack in the linux user base, and the current enterprise state of Mac and Windows.
More accessable software on more platforms is a good step, but they are gonna need to port the thing first! That is a hell of an effort, in development and testing. You gotta think you are going across a compiler and across to a different paradigm OS. Its gonna take some serious re-thinking in certain poits to push it over to linux, if that is indeed what they are gonna do.
In time, the ports will come, but the manpower will be pretty large. Nobody dump your macs or windows partitions yet...
Its an okay feature, but i think that there are better places to advance the quicktime technology. Currently it is kinda developing towards a non-lingo type of Macromedia, in a way. Where there are interactive elements, along with the notion of a "beginning" and an end. Is quicktime and apple going to try to take up the interactive TV niche? Its an obvious step from where it is going now. The QT streaming servers are opened up now for more people to take advantage of the media control elements, but as far as a player itself... Quicktime is too vital to macOS strategy to reveal to "free loaders". It probably wont happen.
Apple has really started to turn things around with their recent quicktime improvements. They even have a really sweet wavetable emulator included with it. Before, old versions were neat, but a compatability nightmare. With the maturity of some experience in the multiplatform world behind them, they seem to be seeing a bigger vision for QT, and the QT streaming technologies, and are probably looking to unseat Microsoft and Real as the big two currently, with the biggies of a few years ago, the bluky MPEG engines and the obscure Vivo players, coming up short recently.
Luckily for Jobs, he has wooed hollywood in to his world of chic computing. In this war of the streaming servers, it seems that the winner will come out on top, not because of superior technology, but because of widely accepted content. Quicktime is the only good cross platform solution, and stands strongly on that ground for now. The technologies are too similal to really judge one against the other on any valuable outstanding metric, so we shall see whose marketing department prevails.
Good luck. The web has come a long way. And Lord of the Rings should be one HELL of a movie
The only way to get complete security is to design a powerful system with an incredibly thin client. Who has the advantage in a BBS game? No one! There is a certain advantge to those who have computers above 33 Mhtz, but still.
I believe (am im going to start developing) an online game where the server takes most of the work, and the client is merely a renderer of the server's description.
Very little is perfect, open source or not. The integrity of a game is important, which is why bugs get fixed and people get upset over cheaters. In a MUD, people exploit bugs. In an online RPG, in the tradition UO or Everquest sense, they use cheating tools or hardware advantages.
When a game is driven by marketing, this is what happens. When a game is truely driven by the ultimate sense of good gaming, then we shall see what happens.
Slashdot Mirror
Right, and the stock market still crashed because of bad faith. It could happen again. There is great merit to public opinion, and public trust. Thats what the economy is, correct? The dollar and the other international currencies are based vaguely on market performance, and the rest on opinion of the global community. Things are only worth what people want them to. The 20's before the crash in 1929 were a time of great prosperity. Luckily, i dont think that could happen again. Have faith, and much will happen... --jay
Ahh yes, the ingorant bliss of the self-fulfilling propehcy. This boom that we are feeling in the markets today is a very strong one. The momentum gained from this is in fact from a feeling of optimism that the current wave of technological improvements will usher in waves upon waves of greater socital change and prosperity. And how much of this so far has turned out to be false? We have seen the wide reaching impacts of greater technology: more jobs, lesser unemployment, and a greater ecomonmy. In our capitalist society, this direct translates into greater prosperity and ease of life on the household level. Companies like Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and IBM have seen and largely contributed to this gain? Why? Because their enthusiasm has spread throughout the marketplace.
What i believe Mr. Shilling's folly to be is that he is assuming because of his pessimism and dissatisfaction with technology, that the markets innovation with the Web is somehow grossly unjustified. Right now, i will agree that there are surreal feelings of this prosperity, and thus comes with it a large doubt: "Is this boom for real?", or "Are we doing the right thing?" In such a situation, the market is justified in making a reality check, but i believe only to find out that yes, we have made considerable progress and the technology saturation is unbelievable to the extent that small changes and updates to our technology base will affect millions of people.
Innovation is defined as the application of a new solution to a situation. TCP/IP is a perfect example. We have used this technology for years in the US. The government designed it so that information would not get lost on their networks. Today we trade stock with it! That is an innovation. The failure of the "dot-com's", as they are called, is that they fail to innovate. Companies such as e-bay, or e-trade, or amazon.com, have hung in there (sometimes very narrowly), because of that innovation.
Mr Shiller, to you i say this: perception is reality in the sense that you are only as important as people think you are. The political and social ramifications of technology are such that it by default, makes it important to our lives. Technology needs time to mature, and its getting its day. People are starting to see the reality of the situation past the initial phase of excitement. The Microsoft trial, along with other checking factors, such as the dissatisfaction that you display, are going to weed out the strong from the weak. Afterwards, the few technology bases that will survive the boom will come out to be strong industry leaders.
Investing in tech these days means investing in the velocity of our future. By making your statements you in essense say, we cant move as fast as we want to because we dont know whats going to happen long term. That is the very strength of innovation, the force that you seem to overlook so easily.
--jay bonci
Chip ID numbers are nothing new. Everyone has (had) them. Its because thats the way it works. Like your car, or your MAC address, everything has its own unique number, because thats the way it works! Sun, SGI, etc, they all use (used?) chip ID numbers!
Only when Intel started saying, we have this identification system, lets start using it, did it become a problem.. and only because the safegaurds were not used well. It has been a great blunder for the under-informed among us.
So id bet the "boycott" did nothing. Teh amount of consumer flack, did.
--jay
So we are all geeks, right? I end my computer modifications when the soldering iron, tin snips, or a multitester comes out.. call me a coward, but id like the thing to turn on later.
A friend of mine replaced his bios battery with a commerical one from a store.. personally, i was a tad afriad. It worked.. kinda
Whats the moral of the story? Im glad that someone has figured out how to do all of these neat things.. however, im also glad its not me.
--jay
hehe.. no problem. I remember that freshman year though.. do i get an advance copy ? heh --jay
Its kinda weird, hearing about Terminus now in the news. I remember when chuck was working on it three years ago and telling us how the AI was doing retarded things, and how some of his schemes sucked, and the like. Its kinda another geek success story to see that come along.
A good friend of mine used to be chuck's suitemate at WPI... so its been really awesome to see how this game has come along from in the gleam in chuck's sleepless eye to something that is actually going to do REALLY well.
I caught up with him a few months ago, at which point he was complaining about the ports.. hehe.. its been a long hard process, and i wish them all luck. And hopefully ill get an advance copy =).. please!
--jay
Oh well..all in all, its a decent site =) keep up the good work, but hey, some credit might be cool.. *shrug* --jay
Not that im bitter, but i posted this story a few weeks ago, and it got declined. *shakes head* heheh.. oh well, i glad someone else found it funny =) its really quite amusing --jay
When i say top of the food chain, we are talking markey value. There are stocks in the hundreds of dollars. Doenst mean they are worth more than MSFT, and CSCO have a highter market value than Intel.
It has nothing to do with current stock price, you should know that.
--jay
I do some with stocks right now, and the reason for all the money in the market right now is the baby boomers. All of the people in that age bracket are putting money into 401ks, which in turn invest in the "stability of a market" These 401k plan managers have millions upon millions to make money with. The volume in the markey has been crazy recently, because of all of it.
What does this come down to for news for nerds... be careful of the market... be careful of the players, and keep your money some place safe for right now...
My confidence in tech is slightly low right now..
--jay
The market impact of the MS decision is undeniable, and to say that everything isnt impacted by this is naive ignorant. Microsoft, Cisco, and GE are the top of the food chain down on the street. If you mess with them, then you are looking at a large loss of faith in tech stocks. People have been dumping the hot techs to go to old blue chip standbies ever since people got word that something bad MIGHT happen to MS. Even RDHT and LNUX (the business "champions" of most of this site's patrons) are not doing so hot.
Point is... lets take market value a little more seriously, and please, leave the conspiracy at the door. Whether or not the software is free is one thing... but a business has to make money and be valued for things to be a success.
--jay
Yup. A lot of companies had inside jokes and unprofessional things that leak out. If you remember a few months back, apple's iTools had an inflammatory statement about Internet Explorer.
Code is only as good as people who make it, or the build engineers who let it slip through. Im not defening it, but it stuff happens.. one rogue coder ruins it for everyone else
--jay
The whole point of the NT Bugtraq community is to help the IT departments of the world spot and repair holes. No one would believe if they "lied" about the bug. Ive been a member of the community on NT Bugtraq for almost a year now, and ive seen some very awesome work done by the people there. They are committed to help, and i think so is Microsoft's security response team, which has played a huge role in that community, along with people like Rain Forest Puppy , who really know their stuff.
Lets give them a little more credit, please
--jay
How feasible is that? Everyone does something different with their systems... some people are huge fans of shell scripts.. are you going to write them in perl, or python? Do you want to script? Do you want to re-code your daemons? How do you want to use your groups? Tuning X anyone *shudder* Not something that is particularly the easiest thing to explain to anyone
Linux is too diverse for even an interactive tutorial to truely give it justice. And it would be difficult with all the distros in mind.
Besides how marketable is that. Linux right now is only used by those in the know. And they all like "man" better anyway....
--jay
This would make great advancements in medical treatments, and personal care departments.
First, the patch could be used on civilians to help monitor and balance their daily diet with nutrients that they may not get normally. This would help children develop more completely when young... you know all of that like "a good breakfast..." so on and so forth, well we can make sure it happens with these things.
This could also be used as a non-invasive mediacal treatment to get people healthy, instead of an IV (cant replace hydration, but not bad for nourishment).
It always seems that the military comes up with the most innovative and useful things...
--jay
Linux has not yet met the "seedy" software market, and has not yet done anything to expose itself to viruses. This will come when Linux finally accepts the inevitability of large scale closed source software on their machines. The linux community will eventually have to unravel into a user base if it is to be successful.
Well there are two debates in that last statement, and ill get to them both.
First. Linux has to accept Closed Source for this to happen. There is going to be no way that applications are going to make it to the penguin without this.. and when they do.. there are going to be the people who are going to not want to pay for them.
Boom.. viruses will come that way
Second, the linux community is a fairly clean one, with people out there to help and promote the OS. Windows, is just a bunch of people using the easiest software. What if linux overthrows Windows? Its gonna trade places. Malicious code is going to go from the hands of the bored to the machines of the unwitting. RIght now the community is actively involved with the good of the community, and there are very few people "forced" into using the software.
It will come with the degradation of the user base, if linux gets to that point. Linux cant sell without marketing to the masses.. the same masses that will bring troubles to this group.
It almost seems like linux does better with MS around... food for thought
--jay
This has got to be some sort of weird performance issue with a universal driver.
How could you write low-level code for various devices and get ANY sort of compatability, especially Windows CE, which doesnt traditionally run on x86 systems while most of the others do.
Point here is, i dont think this is such a miracle bullet. How could it possible do all of that without some sort of emulation, or a REALLY REALLY good object model to compile down with.
It could work if you abstracted basic commands and stuff, but since things like SoftICE and DDKs that sort of thing are still highly used in making driver code, then i dont think this product is a miracle.
Of course it always comes down to marketing, i suppose.
--jay
Let them Appeal. Its MS's right. If they want to pick someone to lobby for them, so be it. Why is it such a shock to anyone? In the US , all the freedom people seem to feel MS has threated, there is also something called rights of the accused.
All companies lobby. Why shouldnt they? MS has a big impact on the economy in a lot of ways. All companies are affected by political decisions. Now im not saying a corporation should make huge decisions about our lives, but they should have a stake in their survival.
Sure money talks, but so does the justice department. Let things play themselves out...
--jay
In the dictionary (one of them at least)... calculus is defined as not only math, but any problem that is ornery and obtuse, and generally difficult.
And as my girlfriend would readily agree, the two go perfect together.
--jay
Corel is hardly "sucker punching" Microsoft. MS does not make any high end graphical tools... Photodraw does not count, neither does picture-it. They are looking for market share, and greater acceptance in the linux community perhaps, IMO. They also know that Wordperfect has an incredibly hard time competing against Office...
It would be interesting to see if MS would port linux to office. That would really bring out some competition.
--jay
Yeah, i agree that bryce is nice. Its gonna come down to who has the "home" system. What system was the code written for. As a person who has been involved with the porting of major application software, porting from Windows to Macintosh is not easy. Porting to Windows is not bad, but back, is harder. Linux, on the other hand, can be quite difficult. If anyone has used a professional compiler (no knock against gcc, but i am referring to a development ide / package, such as VSS, Borland, or Metrowerks), you know that there are different things you have to do to get code to behave under these environments than than gcc.
For instance, the windows Abode products (AFAIK... i could have been taught incorrectly) were at one time Macintosh applications, written and maintaned in Codewarrior, and then ported to Windows. The Mac versions were leaner, nicer, more stable applications, because of its home.
Java, in the heyday of its glory, was supposed to solve this problem. We all know how this turned out.
Software porting is no easy task. Like porting software from windows to windows CE is no easy re-compile, and oftentimes even the most well abstracted UNIX code needs many tweaks for efficiency on different platforms.
Well i wish them luck in any porting endeavor. Its a good thing for appearances, but the marketing will have to pick up the slack in the linux user base, and the current enterprise state of Mac and Windows.
--jay
More accessable software on more platforms is a good step, but they are gonna need to port the thing first! That is a hell of an effort, in development and testing. You gotta think you are going across a compiler and across to a different paradigm OS. Its gonna take some serious re-thinking in certain poits to push it over to linux, if that is indeed what they are gonna do.
In time, the ports will come, but the manpower will be pretty large. Nobody dump your macs or windows partitions yet...
--jay
Its an okay feature, but i think that there are better places to advance the quicktime technology. Currently it is kinda developing towards a non-lingo type of Macromedia, in a way. Where there are interactive elements, along with the notion of a "beginning" and an end. Is quicktime and apple going to try to take up the interactive TV niche? Its an obvious step from where it is going now. The QT streaming servers are opened up now for more people to take advantage of the media control elements, but as far as a player itself... Quicktime is too vital to macOS strategy to reveal to "free loaders". It probably wont happen.
Apple has really started to turn things around with their recent quicktime improvements. They even have a really sweet wavetable emulator included with it. Before, old versions were neat, but a compatability nightmare. With the maturity of some experience in the multiplatform world behind them, they seem to be seeing a bigger vision for QT, and the QT streaming technologies, and are probably looking to unseat Microsoft and Real as the big two currently, with the biggies of a few years ago, the bluky MPEG engines and the obscure Vivo players, coming up short recently.
Luckily for Jobs, he has wooed hollywood in to his world of chic computing. In this war of the streaming servers, it seems that the winner will come out on top, not because of superior technology, but because of widely accepted content. Quicktime is the only good cross platform solution, and stands strongly on that ground for now. The technologies are too similal to really judge one against the other on any valuable outstanding metric, so we shall see whose marketing department prevails.
Good luck. The web has come a long way. And Lord of the Rings should be one HELL of a movie
--jay
Paul allen started transmeta. Its his venture capital. Here is the proof ... its an old c|net article, but it shows my point.
--jay
The only way to get complete security is to design a powerful system with an incredibly thin client. Who has the advantage in a BBS game? No one! There is a certain advantge to those who have computers above 33 Mhtz, but still.
I believe (am im going to start developing) an online game where the server takes most of the work, and the client is merely a renderer of the server's description.
Very little is perfect, open source or not. The integrity of a game is important, which is why bugs get fixed and people get upset over cheaters.
In a MUD, people exploit bugs. In an online RPG, in the tradition UO or Everquest sense, they use cheating tools or hardware advantages.
When a game is driven by marketing, this is what happens. When a game is truely driven by the ultimate sense of good gaming, then we shall see what happens.
--jay