That is a shady matter. There are many species that does not have a centralized nervous system, yet that are acceptably complex, responsive to their environment. This defines that in order to live, you do not need a central nerve system. What we dont know is that, if a high level consciuosness can exist in a body that does not have a central nervous system.
We do not know at what point the consciousness starts to develop in human embryo. Without knowing this, in fact without not even knowing human psyche, it is plain murder to commit such 'research'.
Yes, diablo gets many patches. But its because blizzard respects its games and players. However with starcraft, as you said, it is more like how fifa is with football.
Starcraft is the first game in the world to present 3 races, that each different from each other in EVERY way (not only unit stats with similar unit types like in aoe series), yet still the races are balanced with each other overall.
There are 3 levels to playing starcraft :
single player/lan level - which is noobie level. Game looks lame.
multiplayer-battle.net level - which is where you get what the game is really made of. It is a really intricate game that allows you to win with 3 units as well as 200, if you play right.
The gosu-progamer level - world of wonders. wonders never cease.
Such thing is unheard of - i have been playing blizz games since 92, and i run a turkish starcraft community. Definitely it is a problem with where you got your copy.
See, starcraft is a big game in worldwide gaming championships.
It has been balanced, patched so much that it is now almost the most delicately tended game in history.
In korea, its a national sport, even.
The article has it right in almost all aspects
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It has increasingly become so - some companies do this to increase the 'hours' to show the game as competent, some (especially mmog companies) do it to tie the player to the game and continually cash the cow.
Ugly trend started to show itself with the advent of 3d, and increased industrialization of gaming.
This was back in 95.
Big money flowed into the industry, and big money wanted to make big profits, the software houses now "bought" by people totally unrelated to gaming (most never played games, they were just investors) were pushed to churn out loads of titles that would appeal to public (or seem to appeal) and sell.
THIS killed THE GAMEPLAY, and THE FUN.
Now, like the one who cuts his own throat, gaming industry is in aches and tries to innovate.
Too little, too late ?
Maybe not.
Time and again we are seeing great titles come up in a blaze of glory and rule the market. What kind of titles ?
Titles that offer SUPERIOR GAMEPLAY.
But, as cautious 'investors' would do, big houses are trying to just imitate a new concept and reap some cash securely, instead of innovating.
Which is just normal, because they are owned by INVESTORS, who might not know even how to turn a computer/gaming console on.
This is a problem with our economic model in today's civilization. It leads to quality decline in almost all sectors, because people who are just playing with the money come in, buy something, and try to reap big cash out of it.
I want cross-investing in fields should be banned, if it is going to reach the extent that a party (or person) controls the company to be bought. Majority share would go with a party/person who at least worked in the field for some considerable time, or who can prove that s/he/they have interest and experience with the service/goods it produces.
A very raw proposal in this state i admit, but its the lawmakers' job to refine it. And not in a RIAA beneficial way.
A flawed article the slashdot link is pointing to
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And the reason for this is that the article does not ever mention Starcraft, which is one of the biggest rts hits of the time, and which is what took blizzard from being 'producer of a few hit titles' to 'producer of quality-only' titles.
Well, it is certain that there has been scarce examples that it would be possible to attribute a general behaviour to the whole of particular societies.
But what matters, i think, is the fraction of the society who are in position of being the 'driving' force - Ie, the active part of society. Like the white population in u.s., who sit in lawmaker and adminstrative positions and control the media, army, and the public opinion (what public can see and what they can not). I reckon it is logical to assume that this driving factor's ethics and morals are a definite factor in where a society is headed, although not single handedly, definitely.
Like in puritan morals in early american settlers - the 'core' was puritan, work hard, build hard, and newcomers and the others in the society who would 'sway' in other directions were somehow forced to take their example by the society.
This is the basis of the idea which makes me believe in this 'moral decline' view on roman civilization - once we had the romans who hated the concept of kings, worked hard and benefited the society in whole, (just like some of the later consuls who would lay sword and helmet aside and turn to their latifundia, leaving the power to the senate again once a threat passes) and then later on we are faced with patricii who are exceedingly relying on slave labor to fuel extravagant lifestyle, and in expense of the public. The public in turn, would definitely take their example, as they were the prominent social strata desirable to be within, to achieve, even if not being actually a patrician, but equalling them in wealth and lifestyle. Something kinda like victorian 'gentleman' concept - not noble, but lives like a noble.
Actually the empire in the aforementioned sentence refers to the roman empire as a 'civilizational entity', as a 'power' in existence.
In fact recent ideas attribute fall of the rome to much earlier, to era of punic wars, where the almost-puriten "work hard, do not pursue fun, be beneficial to society" understanding that was common in rome earlier - which had given the basis to the extravaganza of the later imperial age.
Some historians say that fall of the roman empire started in around 100-50 bc.
That is, when senato has become a hive of corrupt senators that exceedingly cater to the needs of wealthy elite, be it their family be it a bribing party, ignoring and debasing the public, despite many laws that are passed to calm the public down.
Public was too annoyed with this, there was much discontent. Senato and public were at discord.
Time and again grandeur/power-hungry prominent men tried to exploit this discontent to their ends, and one of them, julius caesar had succeeded.
He didnt single handedly destroy the republic, he just became the instrument. Republic was already destroyed by corrupt senators.
Well, in much resemblance to the situation at hand eh ? Just, we are at the stage of corrupt senators now.
Nay exploit there is not in the technical meaning as we know it - ie usage of holes and bugs to accomplish something. I told it as it is in dictionary meaning.
I was referring to planting of trojans, viruses, etc to clients' pc through using legitimate commands and routines. Ie like in many porn sites. - 5 Popup windows open, they spawn another 10 popup window and redirect to another 5, and despite youre loaded with patches, zonealarm, karspersky anti vir, closed dcom, and so on, you get infected.
I dont see any lights going out. In the software area i am working in, ecommerce, lamp is becoming the framework at an increased rate, mainly because of oscommerce and its variants. In community/publishing sector, nuke, mambo, phpbb variants rule the day, and it is impossible to track mods and additions coming out every day.
All else talk is crap, as the experience shows otherwise.
First, Ajax is not going to reduce your database load, if you do not use it like a cache for already performed query results in remote client pc. And even in that case, if you use query caching (in mysql for example), as most common queries will have been already cached, they wouldnt incur as much load as they would as they will be pulled out of the cache without an extra new query. Even if you go for "using as a cache to store the content in remote client pc" route, than there is the matter of uploading loads of content that many clients will not be even attempting to view, and in congested network routes your site might seem as being slow to come up.
As for security matter, there is indeed no way out i believe :
You, no matter what you use, are utilizing a remote processing power in a remote pc to process the content. That is actual compilaton of some sort of code to do something, and that is not just getting a plain text format html code and visually putting it in place.
As we have experienced that even images can be used to embed viruses, it is no joke or no surprise that there will come up viruses/exploits that are going to use such and such procedures of Ajax in ways unimaginable now to do mischief. Java is already something that the anti-virus guys and people are wary about, it is widely exploited to plant a phletora of stuff in visitor pcs. Just type "porn" to google, and visit the 10 sites that come up, or go deeper from a link, and voila, an example for the above situation.
Anti virus is never going to be easy and happy with ajax, that is for sure.
Anything that takes the work to client pcs can be exploited for mischief.
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Nay, for the opposite is true too.
You cant commit an act that has the possibility of being a murder by declaring 'we dont know if it is or not yet'.
That is a shady matter. There are many species that does not have a centralized nervous system, yet that are acceptably complex, responsive to their environment. This defines that in order to live, you do not need a central nerve system. What we dont know is that, if a high level consciuosness can exist in a body that does not have a central nervous system.
This will be a first in this scale.
It might be so that we might need to ask vatican to bestow sainthood on google at this rate.
I have to admit im impressed.
We do not know at what point the consciousness starts to develop in human embryo. Without knowing this, in fact without not even knowing human psyche, it is plain murder to commit such 'research'.
Yes, diablo gets many patches. But its because blizzard respects its games and players. However with starcraft, as you said, it is more like how fifa is with football.
I agree with "war wha ?". Back then war 1 was rather "some good game from a runner-up obscure company" in the community's eyes.
No kidding. Once there was a nation-wide debate in s.korea that the top starcraft players should be exempt from military service.
Nay.
Starcraft is the first game in the world to present 3 races, that each different from each other in EVERY way (not only unit stats with similar unit types like in aoe series), yet still the races are balanced with each other overall.
There are 3 levels to playing starcraft :
single player/lan level - which is noobie level. Game looks lame.
multiplayer-battle.net level - which is where you get what the game is really made of. It is a really intricate game that allows you to win with 3 units as well as 200, if you play right.
The gosu-progamer level - world of wonders. wonders never cease.
Such thing is unheard of - i have been playing blizz games since 92, and i run a turkish starcraft community. Definitely it is a problem with where you got your copy.
That is definitely a step in the right direction - no doubt. Kudos for marketing, strategic planning staff at emi.
The problems they need to eliminate now are the inter-operability between devices, the 'expire' annoyance.
It definitely was and it still is, in a sense.
See, starcraft is a big game in worldwide gaming championships.
It has been balanced, patched so much that it is now almost the most delicately tended game in history.
In korea, its a national sport, even.
It has increasingly become so - some companies do this to increase the 'hours' to show the game as competent, some (especially mmog companies) do it to tie the player to the game and continually cash the cow.
Ugly trend started to show itself with the advent of 3d, and increased industrialization of gaming.
This was back in 95.
Big money flowed into the industry, and big money wanted to make big profits, the software houses now "bought" by people totally unrelated to gaming (most never played games, they were just investors) were pushed to churn out loads of titles that would appeal to public (or seem to appeal) and sell.
THIS killed THE GAMEPLAY, and THE FUN.
Now, like the one who cuts his own throat, gaming industry is in aches and tries to innovate.
Too little, too late ?
Maybe not.
Time and again we are seeing great titles come up in a blaze of glory and rule the market. What kind of titles ?
Titles that offer SUPERIOR GAMEPLAY.
But, as cautious 'investors' would do, big houses are trying to just imitate a new concept and reap some cash securely, instead of innovating.
Which is just normal, because they are owned by INVESTORS, who might not know even how to turn a computer/gaming console on.
This is a problem with our economic model in today's civilization. It leads to quality decline in almost all sectors, because people who are just playing with the money come in, buy something, and try to reap big cash out of it.
I want cross-investing in fields should be banned, if it is going to reach the extent that a party (or person) controls the company to be bought. Majority share would go with a party/person who at least worked in the field for some considerable time, or who can prove that s/he/they have interest and experience with the service/goods it produces.
A very raw proposal in this state i admit, but its the lawmakers' job to refine it. And not in a RIAA beneficial way.
And the reason for this is that the article does not ever mention Starcraft, which is one of the biggest rts hits of the time, and which is what took blizzard from being 'producer of a few hit titles' to 'producer of quality-only' titles.
Nay, for he is no caesar and on the contrary, the patrician's man.
Well, it is certain that there has been scarce examples that it would be possible to attribute a general behaviour to the whole of particular societies.
But what matters, i think, is the fraction of the society who are in position of being the 'driving' force - Ie, the active part of society. Like the white population in u.s., who sit in lawmaker and adminstrative positions and control the media, army, and the public opinion (what public can see and what they can not). I reckon it is logical to assume that this driving factor's ethics and morals are a definite factor in where a society is headed, although not single handedly, definitely.
Like in puritan morals in early american settlers - the 'core' was puritan, work hard, build hard, and newcomers and the others in the society who would 'sway' in other directions were somehow forced to take their example by the society.
This is the basis of the idea which makes me believe in this 'moral decline' view on roman civilization - once we had the romans who hated the concept of kings, worked hard and benefited the society in whole, (just like some of the later consuls who would lay sword and helmet aside and turn to their latifundia, leaving the power to the senate again once a threat passes) and then later on we are faced with patricii who are exceedingly relying on slave labor to fuel extravagant lifestyle, and in expense of the public. The public in turn, would definitely take their example, as they were the prominent social strata desirable to be within, to achieve, even if not being actually a patrician, but equalling them in wealth and lifestyle. Something kinda like victorian 'gentleman' concept - not noble, but lives like a noble.
Well,
Actually the empire in the aforementioned sentence refers to the roman empire as a 'civilizational entity', as a 'power' in existence.
In fact recent ideas attribute fall of the rome to much earlier, to era of punic wars, where the almost-puriten "work hard, do not pursue fun, be beneficial to society" understanding that was common in rome earlier - which had given the basis to the extravaganza of the later imperial age.
Some historians say that fall of the roman empire started in around 100-50 bc.
That is, when senato has become a hive of corrupt senators that exceedingly cater to the needs of wealthy elite, be it their family be it a bribing party, ignoring and debasing the public, despite many laws that are passed to calm the public down.
Public was too annoyed with this, there was much discontent. Senato and public were at discord.
Time and again grandeur/power-hungry prominent men tried to exploit this discontent to their ends, and one of them, julius caesar had succeeded.
He didnt single handedly destroy the republic, he just became the instrument. Republic was already destroyed by corrupt senators.
Well, in much resemblance to the situation at hand eh ? Just, we are at the stage of corrupt senators now.
And half of them would put Ralph Nader and the greens to the white house.
So ?
And how many taxpayers are they willing to alienate by enforcing this bill ?
Yea this is correct, i meant javascript. Late was the hour of my posting. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=15476737
What happens to the piled up requests if you get a connectivity loss or something ? Discarded ?
Nay exploit there is not in the technical meaning as we know it - ie usage of holes and bugs to accomplish something. I told it as it is in dictionary meaning.
I was referring to planting of trojans, viruses, etc to clients' pc through using legitimate commands and routines. Ie like in many porn sites. - 5 Popup windows open, they spawn another 10 popup window and redirect to another 5, and despite youre loaded with patches, zonealarm, karspersky anti vir, closed dcom, and so on, you get infected.
I dont see any lights going out. In the software area i am working in, ecommerce, lamp is becoming the framework at an increased rate, mainly because of oscommerce and its variants. In community/publishing sector, nuke, mambo, phpbb variants rule the day, and it is impossible to track mods and additions coming out every day.
All else talk is crap, as the experience shows otherwise.
Plain bullshit rant.
anyways ?? So if we try to use our bw to the fullest, will it cause a meltdown ?
So what are these telcos trying to say - that they were guaranteeing us bandwidth they would never be able to provide ?
Was it "sweet profits", "easy money", "yet-not-defined scam" ?
First, Ajax is not going to reduce your database load, if you do not use it like a cache for already performed query results in remote client pc. And even in that case, if you use query caching (in mysql for example), as most common queries will have been already cached, they wouldnt incur as much load as they would as they will be pulled out of the cache without an extra new query. Even if you go for "using as a cache to store the content in remote client pc" route, than there is the matter of uploading loads of content that many clients will not be even attempting to view, and in congested network routes your site might seem as being slow to come up.
As for security matter, there is indeed no way out i believe :
You, no matter what you use, are utilizing a remote processing power in a remote pc to process the content. That is actual compilaton of some sort of code to do something, and that is not just getting a plain text format html code and visually putting it in place.
As we have experienced that even images can be used to embed viruses, it is no joke or no surprise that there will come up viruses/exploits that are going to use such and such procedures of Ajax in ways unimaginable now to do mischief. Java is already something that the anti-virus guys and people are wary about, it is widely exploited to plant a phletora of stuff in visitor pcs. Just type "porn" to google, and visit the 10 sites that come up, or go deeper from a link, and voila, an example for the above situation.
Anti virus is never going to be easy and happy with ajax, that is for sure.
Anything that takes the work to client pcs can be exploited for mischief.