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There have been a few companies that have tried this with computers in the past: http://www.apple.com/ http://www.apple.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ http://

There have been a few companies that have tried this with computers in the past: http://www.apple.com/ http://www.apple.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ I think it just may work out!

jiggy2011 14y ago
Joking aside, it will be interesting to see how the defacto sharing of source code ends up. Will it be open source in nature with people freely sharing code or will people guard their source to gain a competitive advantage?
eupharis 14y ago
Reply to jiggy: A great point. I can't wait for the first trojan that takes control of your ship and transfers control to a different player. Will people be able to share binaries or just source?
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  IIRC the game emulates a CPU (either 8 or 16 bit can't remember), which means that at a basic level the binaries and source will be the same thing since the only language supplied with the game will be a form of assembler. Of course we can expect people will create compilers (I believe some already have) to compile other languages down to the assembly used in the game. The viruses/trojans will be an interesting thing, I believe notch said that it will be up to players to protect themselves from these. There's a risk here though for essentially turing complete griefing, so hopefully there will be something to help protect newbies from accidentally running some horrible code.
  - eupharis 14y ago
    Well, I'm sure Norton will put out something. Of course, when running it, your ship's hyperdrive will become 50% slower. (Sidenote: Ah ok. So that's how to reply on HN once a comment thread has reached a certain depth: click link then reply.)
    - lmm 14y ago
      >(Sidenote: Ah ok. So that's how to reply on HN once a comment thread has reached a certain depth: click link then reply.) I don't think it's about depth; you can't reply to very new comments (presumably to give people a chance to delete mistakes?) but if you refresh the page a minute or two later the reply link will be there as normal.
      - icebraining 14y ago
        The reply link takes more time to appear as the thread becomes deeper. The purpose is to create a 'cool off' period to avoid very heated discussions.
        eupharis 14y ago
        Ah, good to know. Still, seems silly when you can just click link then type in a reply.
  - Zecc 14y ago
    The viruses/trojans will be an interesting thing, I believe notch said that it will be up to players to protect themselves from these. -- Indeed: https://twitter.com/notch/status/187474819980328962 https://twitter.com/notch/status/187474819980328962 And I won't stop viruses, the players will have to do that themselves. -- And https://twitter.com/notch/status/187451555384004610 https://twitter.com/notch/status/187451555384004610 : @Kyle_Baran: Is it possible for players to give malicious code that negatively affects their ship? This should be encouraged in multi. @notch: yes. It's a fully functioning computer.
thedufer 14y ago
And we spend an incredible number of cycles on anti-virus. A 100kHz machine can't afford this. My "how well" comment was about whether the system will break down due to trust issues.

jiggy2011 14y ago

Joking aside, it will be interesting to see how the defacto sharing of source code ends up. Will it be open source in nature with people freely sharing code or will people guard their source to gain a competitive advantage?

eupharis 14y ago

Reply to jiggy: A great point. I can't wait for the first trojan that takes control of your ship and transfers control to a different player. Will people be able to share binaries or just source?

jiggy2011 14y ago
IIRC the game emulates a CPU (either 8 or 16 bit can't remember), which means that at a basic level the binaries and source will be the same thing since the only language supplied with the game will be a form of assembler. Of course we can expect people will create compilers (I believe some already have) to compile other languages down to the assembly used in the game. The viruses/trojans will be an interesting thing, I believe notch said that it will be up to players to protect themselves from these. There's a risk here though for essentially turing complete griefing, so hopefully there will be something to help protect newbies from accidentally running some horrible code.
- eupharis 14y ago
  Well, I'm sure Norton will put out something. Of course, when running it, your ship's hyperdrive will become 50% slower. (Sidenote: Ah ok. So that's how to reply on HN once a comment thread has reached a certain depth: click link then reply.)
  - lmm 14y ago
    >(Sidenote: Ah ok. So that's how to reply on HN once a comment thread has reached a certain depth: click link then reply.) I don't think it's about depth; you can't reply to very new comments (presumably to give people a chance to delete mistakes?) but if you refresh the page a minute or two later the reply link will be there as normal.
    - icebraining 14y ago
      The reply link takes more time to appear as the thread becomes deeper. The purpose is to create a 'cool off' period to avoid very heated discussions.
      - eupharis 14y ago
        Ah, good to know. Still, seems silly when you can just click link then type in a reply.
- Zecc 14y ago
  The viruses/trojans will be an interesting thing, I believe notch said that it will be up to players to protect themselves from these. -- Indeed: https://twitter.com/notch/status/187474819980328962 https://twitter.com/notch/status/187474819980328962 And I won't stop viruses, the players will have to do that themselves. -- And https://twitter.com/notch/status/187451555384004610 https://twitter.com/notch/status/187451555384004610 : @Kyle_Baran: Is it possible for players to give malicious code that negatively affects their ship? This should be encouraged in multi. @notch: yes. It's a fully functioning computer.

thedufer 14y ago

And we spend an incredible number of cycles on anti-virus. A 100kHz machine can't afford this. My "how well" comment was about whether the system will break down due to trust issues.