Now we will no longer just add draconian on-line activation to the games, we will no longer give you the game itself. Even with steam you get the game data, which could still be cracked and used if steam would go belly-up.
And there is of course the latency issues mentioned in other replies. Unless somebody breaks the laws of physics, latency will always be there. It takes roughly 40ms to cross the atlantic, making for a 80ms RTT. Routers add more as it goes, not much per each but it all adds up.
There are two ways of selling game time in EVE. One is to use the forum and the game time code transfer system available on the character screen, which is what the writer did. The other is to convert the GTC into ingame items called PLEX (Pilot License EXtension) which is then traded on the market like any other ingame item. This is not only the preferred way, it is also more profitable to the seller; netting around 720 million ISK per GTC compared to about 600 million on the forums.
The other thing is that while you could certainly buy ISK from farming operations it comes with a risk. CCP has been known to ban not only ISK sellers but also buyers in transactions not using the condoned methods.
The reason behind there not being any easy way to convert ingame currency into real money is that this would open a whole can of legal worms for CCP. Tax departments, money laundring etc. etc. Not something a games company would want to deal with.
For many years I have been using separate components instead of a single does-it-all box.
Right now it consists of:
ADSL2+ modem
ASUS eeeBox with USB network adapter running debian (fast enough, quiet, low power)
Cisco wireless access point (replaced a WAP54G linksys)
Netgear gigswitch
Never had any performance related issues, even on the 24Mbps I had back in Sweden.
The homebrew debian firewall can be replaced with m0n0wall, pf sense or similar if you prefer web based administration.
Fastest backbone router that I know of is the Cisco CRS-1. It can scale to a system capacity of 92 Tbps in total, using 72 42U rack units as one large router. Still, the fastest interfaces on that machine is OC-768 at roughly 40 Gbps.
Is that the 13th of January year 2007, or is it January 7 year 2013?
ISO 8601 is clear and logical. YYYY-MM-DD, in order of most significant to least significant just like normal decimal numbers. Incidentally, Sweden where I live use 8601 dates for everything.
Wrong. Cisco IOS does nearly everything in software actually. Only on the big iron and catalyst based routers do you have dedicated hardware for packet forwarding. Try storming a cisco box with massive amounts of small UDP packets and see how well it copes. UDP is done in full software mode, you can't use CEF etc on UDP. Might have changed in the two years I've been away from the networking world, but I don't really think so. The slightly older 3600 series for example is just a normal PC in essence. RISC MIPS CPU, PCI for the network modules, flash for the OS. What the do is distribute load instead. Same thing there, the older 7500 series has the CyBys architecture, where each line card is basically a separate router talking to each other over a backplane and a RSP to hold master databases and keep sync.
Yes, the Cisco 7600 has dedicated hardware for forwarding, but that is because it really is a catalyst 6500 switch under the hood.
Granted, many of the interface cards do a lot of processing for that media, framing etc, which keeps load of the main CPU. But what it comes down to is that IOS is quite efficient at doing what it does, which is forward packets.
If you want to learn more, I can strongly recommend the book "Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture" from Cisco Press, ISBN: 1578701813
Running "sfc/purgecache" to empty the system file checker cache. Emptying the folder "C:\windows\prefetch" to clean the prefecth buffer. Defragging. And the usual things like removing spyware etc.
Sure, it costed a lot. On the other hand the things I will use the most with my computer is the keyboard, is it not? Nowadays I'm so used to the keyboard being programmable, I really could not live without it.
Oh, and no friggin' windows keys. Never liked those.
Nah.
Most of the times support is outsourced to another company. So there is no staff for them to educate, just another bill to be payd to another company.
Granted, the bill will vary in size depending on the amount of supported products, but not much. The only thing that really counts is call statistics. The more calls, the more you pay.
Ohh boy!
It just couldn't get better. Someone with an xyz@atari.org is complaining about
an Amiga article. Time to dig out the old waraxes, ehh?:)
Seriously though, Amiga is still a nice system lagging behind in functionality.
Name one OS which can adapt so easily to the users skillevel, I dare you.
Oh for fsck's sake. This is not a problem for the industry. The base problem here is parents. If parents would engage a bit more
into their childrens lives, things like this would not happen.
What I am saying is that if parents exercised some more control,
and perhaps encouraged their kids to do more sporting and less TV
watching, I think the likelyhood of these things would go down.
But this is just an utopia, since the western civilization per se is
lazy. It just a lot easier to put your kids in front of the TV than
to actually engage them with something and play part of what they
are doing, is it not?
And of course the always present issue of guncontrol. In sweden where
I live guns are heavily controlled. You would not find a gun in the
average household, and if you do it would to 98% be a huntingrifle that
has to be locked in according to law.
Alsom, movies and TV is also more dangerous than videogames IMHO. It is not like
DOOM has very lifelike qualities now, does it? This is ofcourse changing and
I would not put my son in front of soldier of fortune exactly.
Cheating is still widespread in Counterstrike. The latest patch to halflife fixed the network proxy cheat, disallowing customized models. So instead some bast**d created a new opengl32.dll file. This file acts as a OpenGL proxy by modifying the OGL API calls on the fly. This will give you transparent walls with full framerate in almost any FPS using OpenGL. This is different from the ASUS drivers leaked, since they had a severe FPS impact.
And yes, it is annoying that if you are becoming good at CS, people start labelling you as a cheater. (Taken as a compliment since you know you are not cheating:)
I am currently running Halflife CS on my GF2 using FSAA. By just using 2xFSAA at 800x600 the image quality is noticably improved while still having raw speed needed. Most of the time I see 85 fps with the occasional drop down to 60-65, which is fully acceptable for me. And no, using 1024x768 does not look better. This is using the Detonator3 v6.18 drivers in WinME though.
IXFR is incremental zone transfers. Instead of transfering the entire zone every time it has been update, the slave will just pull the diff, so to speek. Real handy feature that.
It kind of exists already. Take a look at AROS. I have been coding in man different OSes, and AmigaOS IMHO is the nicest one to work with, especially in combination with MUI. I find it so easy to whip stuff together in A-OS.
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Because the certificate authorities have a really proven track record.
Also, it really helps against buffer overrun exploits which in now way is a common thing...
The usual bollocks, in other words.
Now we will no longer just add draconian on-line activation to the games, we will no longer give you the game itself.
Even with steam you get the game data, which could still be cracked and used if steam would go belly-up.
And there is of course the latency issues mentioned in other replies. Unless somebody breaks the laws of physics, latency will always be there. It takes roughly 40ms to cross the atlantic, making for a 80ms RTT. Routers add more as it goes, not much per each but it all adds up.
Presumably you spent time on making it work on the iPhone in the first place, why not be paid for that.
Also, if this was against the "spirit" of GPL, why are people not complaining about commercial distributions?
The writer has not done his research well enough.
There are two ways of selling game time in EVE.
One is to use the forum and the game time code transfer system available on the character screen, which is what the writer did.
The other is to convert the GTC into ingame items called PLEX (Pilot License EXtension) which is then traded on the market like
any other ingame item. This is not only the preferred way, it is also more profitable to the seller; netting around 720 million
ISK per GTC compared to about 600 million on the forums.
The other thing is that while you could certainly buy ISK from farming operations it comes with a risk. CCP has been known to ban
not only ISK sellers but also buyers in transactions not using the condoned methods.
The reason behind there not being any easy way to convert ingame currency into real money is that this would open a whole can of
legal worms for CCP. Tax departments, money laundring etc. etc. Not something a games company would want to deal with.
Never had any performance related issues, even on the 24Mbps I had back in Sweden. The homebrew debian firewall can be replaced with m0n0wall, pf sense or similar if you prefer web based administration.
So instead IDLE as a category allows you to read the item and then post pointless drivel as a reply, obviously not by mistake.
Fastest backbone router that I know of is the Cisco CRS-1. It can scale to a system capacity of 92 Tbps in total, using 72 42U rack units as one large router. Still, the fastest interfaces on that machine is OC-768 at roughly 40 Gbps.
Is that the 13th of January year 2007, or is it January 7 year 2013?
ISO 8601 is clear and logical. YYYY-MM-DD, in order of most significant to least significant just like normal decimal numbers.
Incidentally, Sweden where I live use 8601 dates for everything.
I've used NMIS to good effect, really love this tool. Also don't forget something like rancid either, it will save your life at some point.
Wrong.
Cisco IOS does nearly everything in software actually. Only on the big iron and catalyst based routers do you have dedicated hardware for packet forwarding. Try storming a cisco box with massive amounts of small UDP packets and see how well it copes. UDP is done in full software mode, you can't use CEF etc on UDP.
Might have changed in the two years I've been away from the networking world, but I don't really think so.
The slightly older 3600 series for example is just a normal PC in essence. RISC MIPS CPU, PCI for the network modules, flash for the OS.
What the do is distribute load instead. Same thing there, the older 7500 series has the CyBys architecture, where each line card is basically a separate router talking to each other over a backplane and a RSP to hold master databases and keep sync.
Yes, the Cisco 7600 has dedicated hardware for forwarding, but that is because it really is a catalyst 6500 switch under the hood.
Granted, many of the interface cards do a lot of processing for that media, framing etc, which keeps load of the main CPU. But what it comes down to is that IOS is quite efficient at doing what it does, which is forward packets.
If you want to learn more, I can strongly recommend the book "Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture" from Cisco Press, ISBN: 1578701813
Regularely doing these things:
/purgecache" to empty the system file checker cache.
Running "sfc
Emptying the folder "C:\windows\prefetch" to clean the prefecth buffer.
Defragging.
And the usual things like removing spyware etc.
All operating systems suck
Pegasos
Should be available now AFAIK.
There is also the Amiga One which right now is mostly vapor (E.g. not purchasable at the moment)
See, I mentioned both.
Yes indeed. I'm so bloody new to computers that I am involved in writing hardware drivers for the open source clone of AmigaOS, AROS
:)
OTOH, It might just be that I fell for YHBT, YHL, HAND.
And that is why I got one of these:
MCK-142 Pro
Sure, it costed a lot. On the other hand the things I will use the most with my computer is the keyboard, is it not? Nowadays I'm so used to the keyboard being programmable, I really could not live without it.
Oh, and no friggin' windows keys. Never liked those.
Ahh, but most people seems to not know about the ext2/3 file attributes. /tmp/.a /tmp/.a /tmp/.a
:)
Something like:
touch
chmod 000
chattr +i
would make that file immutable. Not even root can touch it until root does chattr -i.
And now you know why I run ext3
Oh, you mean like this:
Cisco 12000 10Gb line card
or like this:
Catalyst 6500 10Gb line card
Cisco did announce these a while ago.
Bah.
[ogun@ns2 ogun]$ uptime
3:23pm up 350 days, 4:14, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.03, 0.01
[ogun@ns2 ogun]$ uname -a
Linux ns2.mycorp.com 2.2.18 #1 Thu Feb 1 11:28:20 CET 2001 i686 unknown
It is you who do not get it.
Nah.
Most of the times support is outsourced to another company. So there is no staff for them to educate, just another bill to be payd to another company.
Granted, the bill will vary in size depending on the amount of supported products, but not much. The only thing that really counts is call statistics. The more calls, the more you pay.
Ohh boy! It just couldn't get better. Someone with an xyz@atari.org is complaining about an Amiga article. Time to dig out the old waraxes, ehh? :)
Seriously though, Amiga is still a nice system lagging behind in functionality.
Name one OS which can adapt so easily to the users skillevel, I dare you.
What I am saying is that if parents exercised some more control, and perhaps encouraged their kids to do more sporting and less TV watching, I think the likelyhood of these things would go down. But this is just an utopia, since the western civilization per se is lazy. It just a lot easier to put your kids in front of the TV than to actually engage them with something and play part of what they are doing, is it not?
And of course the always present issue of guncontrol. In sweden where I live guns are heavily controlled. You would not find a gun in the average household, and if you do it would to 98% be a huntingrifle that has to be locked in according to law.
Alsom, movies and TV is also more dangerous than videogames IMHO. It is not like DOOM has very lifelike qualities now, does it? This is ofcourse changing and I would not put my son in front of soldier of fortune exactly.
Just my SEK 0.02
This is different from the ASUS drivers leaked, since they had a severe FPS impact.
And yes, it is annoying that if you are becoming good at CS, people start labelling you as a cheater. (Taken as a compliment since you know you are not cheating :)
I am currently running Halflife CS on my GF2 using FSAA. By just using 2xFSAA at 800x600 the image quality is noticably improved while still having raw speed needed. Most of the time I see 85 fps with the occasional drop down to 60-65, which is fully acceptable for me. And no, using 1024x768 does not look better.
This is using the Detonator3 v6.18 drivers in WinME though.
IXFR is incremental zone transfers. Instead of transfering the entire zone every time it has been update, the slave will just pull the diff, so to speek. Real handy feature that.