I really hope they pull this off, one of the things I really liked about Asherons Call from Turbine was the monthly updates and I played that for years thanks to the constant "hit" of new stuff.
From what I've seen of the engine (In both Cryptic games), I think they have some very good tools and can add stuff very quickly, so I think they may actually do it
1. Sony/BMG does a rootkit and/. goes nuts flipping into hate mode, Blizzard does it and/shrug.
2. How long before some agency realises Blizzard has what amounts to a 9 million+ botnet/spy that can control/interrogate machines even in places like China? Wonder what they'll do...I wonder if China even realises WoW/Warden can do that, I doubt they'd be that impressed either...
The plasma is contained in a glass, neon light, like tube.
I was picturing a 30-40' foot long spear of flaming hot plasma death that you could turn on your enemies to turn them into smouldering piles of charcoal....and radio in to mom at the same time!!!
I disagree that patent and copyright laws are anachronistic. It would be true to say, however, that the current form of them is not what their creators meant them to be.
Copyright and patents are actually the future of the United States economy.
Every day less "stuff" is made in the US and more "stuff" manufacturing is shipped offshore. About the only thing the US still actually makes is "ideas", and it's government/powers-that-be are going to do everything in their power to make sure those "ideas" stay US owned and controlled using such things as Copyrights, Patents, "Free Trade Agreements" and the like.
I don't agree with "the system" myself, but it's still heading that way...
They've actually resolved the "cheating-dev" thing enough that I re-subbed. The fact that BoB is collapsing shows that whatever they've done is working;o)
I'm really looking forward to the Trinity upgrade (some time this month, or maybe early Dec) as they're updating the graphics and adding optimisations and other performance fixes.
"This module has been developed to enable users without Windows(TM) administrator rights the ability to access all SecuROM(TM) features."
How many groups do you suppose are out there working on "borrowing" SecuROM for admin level access?
Even if it's technically not a rootkit, I still don't want crap like that on my system, thanks very much. Kudos to the blogger for bringing it to peoples attention before they went and bought Bioshock, even if he did get it a little wrong originally (he's corrected the article since the original post).
Anyone know if someone's had a look over the XBox version to see if it does anything "funky"?
I think the fail rate for them is just a lot higher than you'd expect from a traditional hardware vendor. Of the three people I know that bought 360's, 2 have failed. Sure, small sample size, etc, but it's matching a lot of the stories I've been hearing (like this one).
Heck, it IS Microsoft after all, they'll be fine after their first Service Pack!
Seems to me that there is a great opportunity for Google to step in, but NOT just limit itself to producing/compiling the TV data lists, but also to team/partner with the MythTV team to provide a GoogleTV (GoogleVision??) version of MythTV.
"What was considered was splitting Telstra wholesale and Telstra retail, but that was shelved, and I'm not sure why."
Liberals canned the idea cause it would have meant they got less money from the T3 sale. They need to get a good return for their investors...er...wait a minute...
Actually, I don't think CCP is "bad" per se. Their (CCP) biggest problem seems to be they don't seem to be interested in adding checks in game to look for, avoid and/or catch individual devs that go "bad".
I said what the point was Hatto, you can be overly negative;) (Understandable in an environment like SV though, and I apologise if you took any offence from it.)
For example, in the context of what I quoted (from a thread that the VG devs have been quiet since the take over), you seem to assume that it's now company policy to keep the devs silenced and only operate/communicate through CR. The devs are still actually posting (though not as much recently, but the take over is only weeks old and it was during a long week end in a lot of places) and Smed is on record saying that he will encourage the devs to talk to players:
"We are also officially opening up forums. In the past, our deal with Sigil didn't allow for this, but as with our other games we feel this is an important part of communicating with the playerbase. You can expect a strong presence from our community team as well as the development team members. While we realize that Sigil had said they wouldn't open up general forums, at SOE we feel this hampers our efforts to communicate effectively with the players. We will continue to support the fansites in a big way, and will be contacting many of them directly to discuss what this change means. By no means do we want to lose the strong fansite support by making this change, but we do think it's important to have a forum for players to communicate directly with SOE."
At the end of the day, it's quite possible you may be right and Smed is just dishing us "spin" about dev communication, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of doubt until I see different.
Shame you posted as an AC, seems to me your comments are not just fair, but very relevant.
The day CCP add the same systems other MMO companies use for their games (No Dev client access on live servers, GM access only from supervised company headquarters ) is the day I'll consider resubbing...
And your taking other people to task about being negative?
The Hatto that says stuff like" "The devs got silenced of course, every sane company cuts ties between the players and the devs and uses a special person to talk to players. Its nice to talk to the people of a garage company, but with todays communities the other way just works better and avoids getting your own words turned and spoon fed back."
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I really hope they pull this off, one of the things I really liked about Asherons Call from Turbine was the monthly updates and I played that for years thanks to the constant "hit" of new stuff.
From what I've seen of the engine (In both Cryptic games), I think they have some very good tools and can add stuff very quickly, so I think they may actually do it
1. Sony/BMG does a rootkit and /. goes nuts flipping into hate mode, Blizzard does it and /shrug.
2. How long before some agency realises Blizzard has what amounts to a 9 million+ botnet/spy that can control/interrogate machines even in places like China? Wonder what they'll do...I wonder if China even realises WoW/Warden can do that, I doubt they'd be that impressed either...
Crush China?
They can't even get a pissy little fight in Afghanistan/Iraq/Vietnam sorted out, what hope would they have with a country like China??
The plasma is contained in a glass, neon light, like tube.
I was picturing a 30-40' foot long spear of flaming hot plasma death that you could turn on your enemies to turn them into smouldering piles of charcoal....and radio in to mom at the same time!!!
I disagree that patent and copyright laws are anachronistic. It would be true to say, however, that the current form of them is not what their creators meant them to be.
Copyright and patents are actually the future of the United States economy.
Every day less "stuff" is made in the US and more "stuff" manufacturing is shipped offshore. About the only thing the US still actually makes is "ideas", and it's government/powers-that-be are going to do everything in their power to make sure those "ideas" stay US owned and controlled using such things as Copyrights, Patents, "Free Trade Agreements" and the like.
I don't agree with "the system" myself, but it's still heading that way...
They've actually resolved the "cheating-dev" thing enough that I re-subbed. The fact that BoB is collapsing shows that whatever they've done is working ;o)
I'm really looking forward to the Trinity upgrade (some time this month, or maybe early Dec) as they're updating the graphics and adding optimisations and other performance fixes.
From the SecuROM site:
"This module has been developed to enable users without Windows(TM) administrator rights the ability to access all SecuROM(TM) features."
How many groups do you suppose are out there working on "borrowing" SecuROM for admin level access?
Even if it's technically not a rootkit, I still don't want crap like that on my system, thanks very much. Kudos to the blogger for bringing it to peoples attention before they went and bought Bioshock, even if he did get it a little wrong originally (he's corrected the article since the original post).
Anyone know if someone's had a look over the XBox version to see if it does anything "funky"?
You know you can go to your prefs->homepage and turn off any/all story types you don't want to see, right?
But being a TECHNICAL user I'm guessing you know that and this is more a political statement?
He who has the gold, makes the rules.
The PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 allows the use of a keyboard/mouse.
and the article is about the iPhone and ...oh...never mind, damn my immature sense of humour!!
I think the fail rate for them is just a lot higher than you'd expect from a traditional hardware vendor. Of the three people I know that bought 360's, 2 have failed. Sure, small sample size, etc, but it's matching a lot of the stories I've been hearing (like this one).
Heck, it IS Microsoft after all, they'll be fine after their first Service Pack!
Hmm...having "ir" and "less" on the same word does seem a bit irredundent...
Seems to me that there is a great opportunity for Google to step in, but NOT just limit itself to producing/compiling the TV data lists, but also to team/partner with the MythTV team to provide a GoogleTV (GoogleVision??) version of MythTV.
That way they can provide a nice tidy package.
"What was considered was splitting Telstra wholesale and Telstra retail, but that was shelved, and I'm not sure why."
Liberals canned the idea cause it would have meant they got less money from the T3 sale. They need to get a good return for their investors...er...wait a minute...
"Apple is hoping to replicate the success of iTunes"
Only this time around, iTunes downloads tunes from you!!
"You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Yes you can. In fact, you'd _have_ to "have" a cake _before_ you could eat it...
But to "eat your cake, and have it too"...now there's a trick...
Actually, I don't think CCP is "bad" per se. Their (CCP) biggest problem seems to be they don't seem to be interested in adding checks in game to look for, avoid and/or catch individual devs that go "bad".
He's likes all that alphabet soup too!
I said what the point was Hatto, you can be overly negative ;) (Understandable in an environment like SV though, and I apologise if you took any offence from it.)
For example, in the context of what I quoted (from a thread that the VG devs have been quiet since the take over), you seem to assume that it's now company policy to keep the devs silenced and only operate/communicate through CR. The devs are still actually posting (though not as much recently, but the take over is only weeks old and it was during a long week end in a lot of places) and Smed is on record saying that he will encourage the devs to talk to players:
"We are also officially opening up forums. In the past, our deal with Sigil didn't allow for this, but as with our other games we feel this is an important part of communicating with the playerbase. You can expect a strong presence from our community team as well as the development team members. While we realize that Sigil had said they wouldn't open up general forums, at SOE we feel this hampers our efforts to communicate effectively with the players. We will continue to support the fansites in a big way, and will be contacting many of them directly to discuss what this change means. By no means do we want to lose the strong fansite support by making this change, but we do think it's important to have a forum for players to communicate directly with SOE."
At the end of the day, it's quite possible you may be right and Smed is just dishing us "spin" about dev communication, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of doubt until I see different.
IRS has access to transactions in Iceland? Interesting (feigned)...what was that you were saying about misleading Mr AC?
Shame you posted as an AC, seems to me your comments are not just fair, but very relevant.
The day CCP add the same systems other MMO companies use for their games (No Dev client access on live servers, GM access only from supervised company headquarters ) is the day I'll consider resubbing...
I'd mod you funny, but I have no points :(
O...M...F...G...
Is this Hatto from Vanguard SV forums??
And your taking other people to task about being negative?
The Hatto that says stuff like"
"The devs got silenced of course, every sane company cuts ties between the players and the devs and uses a special person to talk to players. Its nice to talk to the people of a garage company, but with todays communities the other way just works better and avoids getting your own words turned and spoon fed back."
Oh, the irony...
np, commenting on stuff you haven't even read is even better, and so much more digg...er... ./ ;)