About open source games

[silverhat]

What do you think about open source games? Please share your ideas by joining this SURVEY
I'm a student and this survey is a part of my scientific project in school. All data and information collected will be used for educational purposes. Would you please spend few minutes to participate it? I'm glad to receive your responses. Thanks.
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For more information please visit my website: www.gameoss-06ctt.co.nr

[Rman Virgil]

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* What is the exact name of the educational institution you imply.

* Do they have a web page ? If so what is the addy ?

* In these type projects there is always an official sanction that is made public by the supporting institution. Where is that ?

* I ask these questions to eliminate any doubts that who you are & what you're ostensibly doing here isn't entirely BOGUS & actually serving another undeclared end.

* Make sense ?

- Regards, RV

[EvilGuru]

Their sites contact page lists:

CONTACT


We are three students of The University of Natural Sciences
(Hochiminh city, Vietnam)
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Lam Buu Bui Huynh(silverhat)
[email protected]

Huy Tran Phuong (loveslowly07)
[email protected]

Nam Tang Bao
[email protected]

Although I would normally disagree with your suspicious demeanour, in this case it seems to be well placed.

Firstly, why would students at a Vietnam university (.vn) have a Nauru (.nr) domain name. Furthermore .co.nr is not in the official hierarchy. This also causes WHOIS look-ups on the domain to fail. Subsequently why are the e-mail addresses provided not associated with the institution that they belong? All British universities (and from what I can gather, most foreign ones as well) provide students with an e-mail address exactly for this purpose.

Surely they don't want their personal inboxes being cluttered up with work-related queries.

Regards, Freddie.

[DevUrandom]

The actual survey is hosted on some vietnamese server.
Some tip for you: If you want a lot of people to fill the survey, you should not use huge images... Maybe that is just because of the distance, but the page loads extremely slowly here.

[Rman Virgil]

Their sites contact page lists:
Although I would normally disagree with your suspicious demeanour, in this case it seems to be well placed.

Firstly, why would students at a Vietnam university (.vn) have a Nauru (.nr) domain name. Furthermore .co.nr is not in the official hierarchy. This also causes WHOIS look-ups on the domain to fail. Subsequently why are the e-mail addresses provided not associated with the institution that they belong? All British universities (and from what I can gather, most foreign ones as well) provide students with an e-mail address exactly for this purpose.

Surely they don't want their personal inboxes being cluttered up with work-related queries.

Regards, Freddie.

* Yep....EG, there was an analysis behind my suspicion.

* One thing (among several) that didn't strike me as very scholarly was - "loves slowly"....

* Now as a motto I can support the wisdom and benefits of that, let's say, approach over "slam, bam, thank ya mam.."

* However it just doesn't fit FOSS games..... unless you are very loose with the metaphor & in that remote possibility I just don't see it unless your a Kinseian scholar seeking some sort of correlation between playing games & having (or not having).... well, I'm sure you can fill-in the "S" word..

- RV

[EvilGuru]

One thing that completely surpassed me the first time around was perhaps the biggest discrepancy of them all: why would natural science students (so using the scientific method) do a survey on open source software (namely games), which is very much a social/cultural thing. (And therefore belonging to the social sciences.)

The entire thing has very little verisimilitude, yet, I can think of no nefarious intentions which would lead one to conduct such a survey. Something of a paradox.

Regards, Freddie.

[Rman Virgil]

The entire thing has very little verisimilitude, yet, I can think of no nefarious intentions which would lead one to conduct such a survey. Something of a paradox.

Regards, Freddie.

* "Follow the money..." (Deepthroat Watergate informant)

* Lots of ways to make money on the web through this sort of scheme. I have to give them props on their cleverness however... like any forensic specialist will tell ya, even evil geniuses fu*k-up know and then on some seemingly trivial detail. And while clever, these bozzos ain't genusis.

* The irony here is that even thoulgh this has some half-wit traits,we have given them a lot of fodder to perfect their modus for future ploys.

- RV

[EvilGuru]

As right as you may be, I am (attempting) to reserve judgement until s/he gets a chance to rebuttal what we have said/brought up.

Regards, Freddie.

[Rman Virgil]

As right as you may be, I am (attempting) to reserve judgement until s/he gets a chance to rebuttal what we have said/brought up.

Regards, Freddie.

* There is that possibility they can come with a credible set of reasons for the whole host anomalies.

* In which case I will humbly & publically apologize for being "ye of little faith"... AND I will actually tell them WHERE the best place is on the net to set-up such a legit survey. No offense, but this ain't the site.

* Btw, there's a Bar in San Fransico called "Silver Hat" that's said to be a really kwel place for the "steely dan" sub-culture. And no I ain't talkin M. Fagen's fusion-jazz group of the same name from the '70s thru today - awesome group & catalog of tunes..

* When all is said & done this has been very amusing.

- RV

[silverhat]

I'm so tired with your doubts. As I said I'm a student of The University of Natural Sciences in Vietnam.you can visit my school website(Vietnamese | English)
And my courses: www.apcs.hcmuns.edu.vn/course (but you can't visit without an account)
I registered .co.nr to shorten my long domain. Is it illegal?
I and my friends learn IT in university, so can we do research in open source games?
And what are the matters with our nick-names? I don't know any bar in  San Fransico.
Ok ,if you don't believe us, You can throw it away. Maybe I lost some responses but no matter.
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I would like to say thanks with other people who participated my survey.

[Rman Virgil]

* Well, I'm not entirely convinced for a number of reasons but that doesn't really matter & so  I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and pass-on a tip that could be very useful to your stated goal.

* Surveys are very much about amassing the largest possible sample before crunching your data within statistical protocols. But of course you know that.

* Here's how you can get your largest possible sample pool:

* THIS site is the largest clearinghouse for purely FOSS Games on the Web

* It's run by Charlie & you can drop him an email HERE

* If you can persuade Charlie to give your survey coverage then you will get a sample pool that will exceed anything you done to this point. Without a doubt. And that's what it's all about - right ?

- Regards, RV