Here how Corruption Works in ITALY

Today I will show to you how corruption in Italy works, with a simple video. Just Look it now!

This POST supports the Beppe Grillo's Post about corruption in Italy, that reached a very repsectable (in negative) level thanks to the Parliament caste that autoelected itself deleting the "direct preference of the candidate" , using instead just a "political party preference".
Just 1 law and we are fucked .
But be carefull , the caste is so convincted that wants to expand this law to the European Parliament!

Ah, This means that Videogame Sector will never grow down here...

Ciao to Everyone.

Links:
Post di Beppe Grillo
Posizione dell'Italia a livello Mondiale per corruzione.

Lord Hol Napult

Poll : "Have you ever Bought a Shareware Game ?"

At the poll: "Have you ever Bought a Shareware Game ?" you answered as follow:

• Yes , Often : 0
• Yes, barely : 1
• Not : 4
• I hate Shareware: 0
• What? Shareware!? : 0

Well, we cannot say that the result is incredible for this "hidden" market... fortunately no one hates Shareware or worst, doesn't know what they are.

Anyway, Shareware is, in my opinion, the best market for indipendent developers.
It's a microcosm where it's not important how much graphics there is or how much billions has been spent in advertising... in Shareware it's important the immediacy and the PATHOS.

Now take thsi Shareware game, and tell to me if it doesn't deserve as well as many other titles advertised: AQUARIA

I also put a good video, just to not waste your time for nothing:




Aloha to everyone, and take a look to the next Poll!

Lord Hol Napult

The Shit Alibi

In these days I often hear speaking about crap, and every time it's used in a negative way.
"You are a Shit One!", "Piece of Crap!", "Crappy One!", "We are up Shit creek!", "U undestand less than a Crap!"... and so on.
The vulgars are capable to associate the most coloured and twisted associations using this word:"Crap!".
It seems that this faecal substance, colourful brown and with horrific smell, was an emblem of what is most negative we have, and surely, surround us.

Anyway, I've put myself the following question: Is shit so negative for sure ?

Well, if I think the usefulness that higly placed man does, it's truly negative. He sits on the Shit-throne and began to push, trying to restrict the practice to a short period, because it's not so appropriate to his class. If he find inside public toilets, he moderates also the emitted noises with skilled movements of the chest, reproaching himself at the first mistake.

Sportsmen instead obtain a good regularity and boast themselves about the fact that they cannot carry too much, because they have a carved and dry physic...

Even the baby rejects this harmful substance infecting various white collectors that parents insist to substitute, perhaps to put baby to the test: can you make dirty also this one?

But I return to my question. Is Shit so negative ?
When the answer is too difficult Wiki is ready!

Even without the extreme wisdom advantage on the subject is right to consider one thing: we are a small ring in the life cycle. If we wouldn't defecate, we could not be part of this cycle.
Why?
Simple, because our output, the shit, becomes input for something else.
For example, if I dig a pit, then I shit inside and I let fall 2 sunflower seeds, and I well cover everything with good land, occasionally watering, I'll obtain that from viscid excrement born a flower, colorful, beautiful, radiant.

Try the same thing using a Suv!
You can obtain at Max a sanction for landfill diversion.
The shit is so useful that if it would be used to produce electricity we would live a world filled with oxygen and smelling of violets. Somebody has decided that coal and toxic waste and non ecologic ashes gave less in the eye.

But still, if I take a nice kilo of shit still hot, and I stretch it with hay and yeast, making it dry under the sun, I get the famous "pan of dung", which represents a valuable food in poor countries.
Try the same thing with yogurt. Of course, that's good, but the plastic container and protection in aluminium where do they finish? Of course, in the dustbin, that goes into an Incinerator furnace.
And then, after you burned them, what do they produce? Of course Carcinogenic toxins and ash. In practice, we eat for a second time that container, breathing by the nose and dying of cancer.

The shit is life! Think about information it holds. A piece of shit identifies everything about a person, even uses, customs and habits ... scientific analysis in this sense can guarantee.

Finally, the shit gains value by time passing, with exponential curve! It is called coprolite!
To understand that, if the resin of trees becomes in the centuries an amber, the shit become fossil Coprolite. I would not surprise myself if one day I would see a gold ring with coprolite carved in the center, sold for thousands euros.

I, in short, I propose that the shit must be revalued.
At least, in comparison with the powder and its derivatives.Are this last useful for what ?
I just hope that whoever reads this lines wouldn't be a "face powder!"

I conclude with a parable that will homage for sure Sergio Leone:
There was a little bird that wasn't able to fly. During the winter, it fell from the nest and finished on the ground. It was very cold and so It begins to whirr: CIIIIP! CIIIIP!
At that time, a cow went by the way, and noticing it so cold and suffering, raised his tail and "Plaf!", a beautiful intestinal daisy, hot and smoking, fell on the little bird. Now the little bird was happy and warm. It was very happy so It begins to whirr again: CIIIIP! CIIIIP!
Suddenly, a fox heard it and approached। She saw the little bird inside the shit and she extracted it, cleaned it very well then .... GNAM! She ates it in one bite.

Morale ? Not all those who bring you in the shit are evils। Not all those that pull you out from the shit are goods. But, above all, if you're in the shit, shut up!


Lord Hol Napult

The Man 'Debugs' the World

Let's open our informatics minds:

[INPUT]
- The human race and is just one of the many races that populates the Earth.
- The aliens exist, and they know about our existence.
- God and the Genesis are written in about every ancient sacred Tomes.
- "Nothing can be Created and Nothing can be Destroyed, but everything changes" [Antoine Lavoisier]

[HEURISTIC PROCESSING]
The man, inhabitant of the Earth, has many receptors that constitute his inputs; he has eyes to see, the nose to smell, the ears and the mouth.
The man sees, eats, hears, processes the inputs, and return them to the world, or he responds accordingly to the demand. Similarly are animals, each one covering a certain habitats, each one processing some inputs, some in the jungle, some in the desert, some more in the sky or in the water. Even worms and other inhabitants of the underground processes a particular input and return an output.
The living beings, at the end, die, change and restart the cycle of life.
Biodegrading themselves, they return to be another input for other beings. For example, the lion eats gazelles it just killed. If it doesn't eat them, the land will take again the rests restarting the cycle of life with different phenomenon's.
It is clear that there is a regenerating process on the surface of the Earth, and perhaps even in the depths where the man isn't yet arrived, but it appears that at each imbalance wilderness, there is an equal and opposite reaction of the living beings, providing Control of the Planet.

But what all of this means?

[OUTPUT]
The living terrestrial is an instrument, invented by superior minds, programmed by superior minds, tried by the "Time-Life," and with a purpose.
To every being the Overall (or superior) purpose can be prevented, or results too complex, and then, let's try to open our minds and remove the trivial reasons that bind man… suppose we are "just an instrument of Control".
We, living beings, are retaining something. We're protecting something that can be enclosed at the center of the Earth, in the nucleus, or we are probably preserving the Earth for the arrival of someone, as we were guardians.
God might be an abstract concept of an Alien race, existing even on the physical level, but not necessarily. Those who govern the "Time-Life" did not require to roam the physical plans, I suppose.
The unknown factor that remains to be discovered and 'What are we protecting inside the Earth? Maybe the Earth itself?
What keeps a Tool like the sum of all the races? And for Who?

[CONCLUSION (without solution)]
Man cannot yet understand the Absolute meanings of his existence, but he can grasp many facets that must remember him to take care about the environment, the life, and the cycle of continuity where he is, because these are his only certainty to have done everything for what he has been created.
The man must understand that he's completely on the wrong road…

Lord Hol Napult

Farewell, Goodbye, Aloha Bill Gates!!!

A particular goodbye to one of the best informatic persons over the Earth and a thanks for the work done in Microsoft!

The movie is very Funny !!!
Ciao

Lord Hol Napult

RSS FEED - Here's how I update myself about my favorite sites!

What 'an RSS feed (o Atom Feed) ? Simple, It’s the faster and more efficient way to reach the News and always keep ourselves updated.

Internet, among other things, is a huge information portal.

His power is now valued by RSS feed, which are pages of text in code built by the site operator, but with the particularity of being PORTABLES and rather AGILE to download.
The format of these pages is called XML, an international standard for portability of data.
This means that any FeedReader RSS (Software for managing the feeds) can download the XML file chosen, and manage them at the best, showing in a list of folders (eg: Blog, magazines, download) the names of sites that in turn contain the Arguments, which in turn contain text and images…To put this, it seems complex, but the result is that you can reach, for example, all the day's news of the major newspapers that you have choosen, with an easy opportunity to scroll and read what we you think it’s interesting. Just an update of your Feeds after launching the application and you're done.

For Example, Online Newspapers feeds report the day's news.
About Blogs, they report the listing "Post", and so on.
The symbol that identifies RSS feeds on a site is on of the following, but sometimes it’s not so easy to find :



The softwares that manage feeds also allow you to easily highlight the news from those already READED by those which are NEW, returning a navigation much more streamlined.
Unlike , It should be very different scrolling site by site, loading advertising, banners, pop-up ads and dodging false news (now the bad way is this…) to find out if there is something that interests us.

In any case if the news reported by the feed is incomplete or not enough complete, it should be generally require just a double click to open the address of the site and read the news from the official source…

At Last, I give a series of FREEWARE software very useful to manage Feeds! Some are integrated with your web browser (they are called PLUG-IN and go upon Firefox or Internet Explorer) but, as counsel, it is better to install a dedicated software about Feed Reading because the performance management is the best…

So, what are you waiting for?! Install an RSS Feed Reader and link your first feed, the one of this BLOG!
Just copy and paste the link below in the list of your Feeds, perhaps in a "FeedFolder" such as "Favorites BLOGs" :) :
LHN's Blog English version:
http://lordholnapult.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
LHN's Blog English version:
http://nooneshootsforever.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Freeware Feed Reader RSS:

1. GreatNews Windows (USB - no Install!!)
2. Snarfer Windows
3. Sage plug-ins FireFox/ThunderBird
4. Urss plug-ins Mozilla
5. Straw Linux
6. Netnewswire Lite Mac OS X

Lord Hol Napult

In Italy everyone against Games Developers

Open Letter to Punto Informatico (Informatic Online Magazine)

I've sent a letter to an Online Italian Magazine about Information and Communication Technology, called PUNTO INFORMATICO.
It is titled: In Italy everyone against Games Developers.
I thank P.I. and all those who have watched and commented with their views this article.
Sincerely Thanks,
Lord Hol Napult

- In Italy everyone against Games Developers - Rome -
Hello Punto Informatico, I'am a fan of video games since I was a child and I would say my opinion about Video Games, as we work in Italy?
I have already created a video game, and it has already been published by you about one year ago; it is called "No One Shoots Forever."
Inside the video games there is its history (Main / credits / history) and I decided to keep it inside because I've thought it was interesting; it describes the effort I made developing that game.
I came from a group of people from Italy in touch via Internet (which in fact was too dispersive) and I fell to do everything alone.

Sadly, I did not find fans like me who gave me an hand, and so I arranged to make code, graphics, sound, level design, beta testing and all that is necessary to reach at what I consider a good freeware product (free of charge) . The fact that after 2 years and some months of work, the product is released as freeware, was due to purpose that I wanted to reach a little reputation in this sector, but not between videogame players, but between the Italian software house that produces video games.

I thought, int the past, that there was some attention for developers emerging ...
Incredibly, there wasn't just a poor attention, there wasn't even the software house in Italy!
In addition, I must admit that people who would like to make videogames are thousands ... those who actually have the capacity and desire are a many less.

This videogame should be my true calling card! Unfortunately, things went differently.

I had to suspend the "video coding" (now I'm working inside financial IT) for lack of time and money need, but nobody (and I say NONE!) has really contacted me for a job.
Strange, since I received a corner inside various magazines (The Games Machine in 2005 and some European magazines).
The sum of Downloads (about 30,000) took nothing good to me. The road in Italy is really uphill, such as a climbing for climbers.

This also means that everything that KOALA GAMES have said is correct... they seek for state funds, become developers and publishers at the same time, in short, create themselves this new sector because neither institutions nor entrepreneurship benefits to the cause.

Now take two aspects of the problem. For example, the SIAE (Italian society for Authors and Publishers) problem, because I've tried to register at least one software in my short career.
Here's how they register a software in Italy:
1) The registration of a Software is optional.
2) The software must have a "SIAE sticker" upon each CD, and this is available only recording software (but wasn't it optional?). This legislation stickers are even in CONTRAST with European directives.
3) To register a software you must obtain that the software has been "PUBLISHED", that is made with a publicly exposure and then distribution to a client.
4) If I register to SIAE, it is because I want to be sure that in case of PUBLICATION the software will results uniquely mine, and nobody could thief the idea, the CD or whatever else about the Software.
5) If the recording have succeed (about a costs of 130 euro!) you will receive the confirmation of registration with the reg. number, otherwise... heh, otherwise,I have not received anything. Neither YES, or NOT. For 130 euro a silly postcard that said: "REFUSED because ..." could also be sent.
6) The provincial SIAE offices didn't know anything about Software registration, and the only ones who know are in ROME, in the "Software Registration Office"
7) The telephonic help desk suggest to call Tuesday or Friday for 2 hours. Incredible, but even in those days and in those hours the automatic voice is the same! But you cannot say it:"Hey! But it is NOW!".

Then there is the question that assails the bureaucratic italian softwarehouse.

Abstract: Shareware market (where Shareware is often the single solution for small software house just born ...) is made by trial programmes that are unlocked and become fully operational by registering on the site, upon payment of the amount.

Question: How could a developer or a small development team to risk the financial activity, pay a regular accountant, self-development (we speak about years of work, eh ...), issue invoices "to myself" (in case of sales) and throw away about 50% / 60% of the price of software in various taxes and charges, when not even know if it will sell a copy of their program?
And I haven't talked about the costs of the offices, hardware, software, and anything else is required to create a Software.

They would like tho call this a "risk business"? I think his true name is LEGALIZED FAILURE FOR SURE.

It should also be considered that wealthy entrepreneurs are indicatively "elder" and is not easy that they would pay in advance a team of young boys that use young technologies that entrepreneurs don't know and don't understand, in order to archieve (if thing goes right) some results on the marked, such as the sale of video games.
It also must be considered that the extra-Italian reality they touch is very advanced from the Italian Reality.

That is why the Koala Games pay much attention to their REGIONAL contributions (blessed them, I should wait for eons some NATIONAL contributions), they persuade investors to finance them (I do not know how they reach that and using what of their vodoo practice), they die under hours of work and produce in strict times their games.
I conclude by saying that as a programmer I refuse to make Videogames in strict times, because I've an high respect of what I consider a new modern ART, and modern art needs its time to be created.

Now it is better than I lower my voice tone and I return to make my good stand-alone freeware ... but "if I would like to write seriously my videogames, I would have written this message in a non Italian language... " .
Best regards.

Useful Links:

1. Publication of the letter upon Punto Informatico
2. Comments and Replies to Letter
3. RSS FEED

Lord Hol Napult

Poll - How many Raindrops fall upon your soul ?

At the Poll - How many Raindrops fall upon your soul ? - you have answered as follow:

1. None - I'm always happy = 0
2. Some - I'm quite happy = 4
3. Many - I feel tyred = 1
4. Infinite - I'm in Sadness = 1

What to say... battles make us tired, but sometimes we win!

Lord Hol Napult

Pure Code

I travel free through the code,
a surreal vault,
inside the debug of my mind,
I almost see the Great Equation.

The dynamic has linked,
an infinite virtual World,
and in the foolish of this jump
I also look for my identity.

As a condor in his desert,
I reach its limits,
but I see sand unscripted,
or just space for my future.

Lord Hol Napult

Fuck Off Day 2 - 25 April 2008 (Vaffanculo Day 2)

Here we are again, as time before in a not so far 8 September 2007, to send our governing board to the appropriate place.
Governing board.
Isolating these words increase the disgustive feelings inside. If it wasn't for the sacrifice (and the money) of so many italians the governing board shouldn't be able to administrate even a Roost; where to put the fodder, when clear the crap... or sell it to the near farmer that could use it as plant food....

Not even a Roost they should be able to manage, and this is UNCONFORTABLE.

I wasn't agree to write this post, this is my Blog and I want to speak about videogames and technology down here.
The pressure about economical condition, social , ambiental, cultural, territorial and everything finishing in "AL" that make sense , well, this bad conditions, disgregate itself thanks to our Governing board.

There are 3 powers inside a democracy, and a fourth more ; I list them to you:
Legislative Power: create laws that move the Country
Jiudiciary Power: judging the citizens with the established laws in a Country
Executive Power: the Police, that make to respect the laws of the Country
and, what about the Fourth?
Informative Power: TV, Radio, are tools for Mass Information.

What about the situation in Italy?
The Legislative Power put its hands upon the Jiudiciary Power ( law to suspend magistrates, when uncomfortables), put its hands also upon the Executive Power ( indulge law 2007 = insufficient police and high crime), and , could be miss, put its hands also upon the Informative Power.

If , today, Berlusconi has been elected again is because people live without true information (and he holds 6 on 7 televisions and many magazines).

I recall to you the sentence of the MEROVINGIO inside The Matrix: Cause and Effect.
Nothing can be decided, because decisions has been already got from who that hold the Power, and all the rest is a chain effect, an obvious consequence, a flood, a progressive and UNAVOIDABLE reaction .

Whith the V2-Day we, poor martyrs of the net, we who have choosen the RED PILL to know the TRUTH, we who tire ourself beyond our jobs time, well, we start from the hole of the situation: INFORMATION!

I think that if a programmer, a whitewasher, a butcher or a gate-keeper must worry in the evening about POLITIC is because those who should worry about POLITIC don't do it, and so there must be someone else to think about.

I'm Tired.

So , let we see Friday 25 April 2008, in every Italian town, but this time, behind the finger, they will find us!



Lord Hol Napult