I was wondering where the tem 'w00t' came from, lol. Obviously they took that from the Damascans as well as the Carbon swords from the Phantasy Star series on good old Sega Genesis. Must be the basis for a +1 sword in D&D too. So what's Drizzt Du Erden's +5 scimitar based on in reality you ask? Well that's simple, it's a carbon nanotube enhanced, antimatter bladed, quantum slash enhanced, electric current carrying, Ruby on Rails using blade:)
give each item a unique ID attribute not viewable to players and test for multiples on the item creation sub. Or have protections on when the item creation sub or inventory amount change subs. Or have some investigative logic if two very unique or expensive items are all of a sudden in the same radius without players having just walked into that radius. Or make a better protection software. Or stop lazily using public variables. Or detect certain phrases similar to bragging about hacking tools. Or have temporary bans followed by an investigation associated with in-game user reports in large numbers against individuals (like Runescape except it'd work.) Or use my imfamous and yet to be broken trap setting technique to catch hackers where you purposely leave a security hole open but really code it so it's a trap that will catch them and ban them. It's really not that hard, the programmers just have to either get their heads out of the clouds (our game is perfect! Duplication could never happen! let's not protect against it!) or out of their asses (duuuhhhh...Iunno how to protect against that so let's just not)
after like a year of constant 140F-ish temps, my laptop hard drive finally died. Then I replaced it lol. Other than that why would you put yourself through the hell of reinstalling XP and all your software? Imaging rarely works cuz of XP protections for OS drives and you'll often find yourself talking to Indian people about why you're reinstalling XP. There's just no reason to replace them until they break, just back up your data often.
well duh, they have cameras and a satellite uplink. You don't think they "just kinda hope" that all the tapes from the 30+ days survive the trip back the US for editing. You're just hatin, go away.
anyone else think this would be the best freakin idea for the next location of Survivor ever:
Survivor: That Iceburg Floating Past New Zealand
They could vote each other off as it gets smaller and smaller in warmer water:P
and to think about 10 lines of code could have prevented it. Game makers need to stop thinking their game is perfect and will never be hacked and put in code to prevent things that are never supposed to happen.
this is extra funny cuz I just ate 3 cookies for breakfast. But I don't have a problem dammit!;) but seriously, who cares if they track where I go when I don't look at their banner ads anyway. Targetted ads are slightly less annoying than the random ones (click here to win your free xbox 360!), just look at google's intelligent ads.
well this may sound a bit odd but trust me, it works. If you try to change a couple things, they'll of course reject it. But if you change a bunch of unimportant things too, it will actually encourage them to change overall. It's kinda like telling someone to clean this room then that room and organize their FPS game CD's in their house and they never really get to it but then they move into a new house and since the whole environment is different and better, they act different and finally do what they should. So first, give the whole set of changes a name; I don't care how stupid it it cuz historically, it works. Then change every insignificant thing you possibly can. Paint the office, move stuff around in the break room, get ppl new keyboards, and redo the company newsletter layout. With so many changes, everyone will be thinking "hey, those are a lot of changes" and it will become more premonent in their minds and they'll be more active about noticing the changes and coping with them accordingly. Then sneak all the guidelines for new policies or things you want to change in there somewhere and stick to them and enforce them heavily and keep linking them to the overall changing theme and you'll have massively better results. I'm sure I pretty much murdered that strategy compared to the textbooks I read about it in but hopefully you get the overall idea and seriously, it works! Now mod this post already, it's more usefull and thoughtful than the average one!
You'd think everyone working on the project would have done a little better than most teams because of all those crazy amounts of cameras watching them all the time over in Britain cuz of that psychological effect that makes people work harder when they know they're being watched. But I think I speak for everyone here when I say it's obviously the non-IT upper management's fault!
according to some study, the hole in the ozone layer is causing people to receive significantly higher amounts of radiation on Earth and if it gets any worse, we'd be seeing bad problems because of it. So let's say the ozone layer and atmoshphere were gone completely. We'd pretty much be dead even with the Earth's giant magnetic field so apparently that's not enough. But the good news is that lead suits weigh less on the moon and would be just enough to prevent muscle deterioration:)
yay! they're going to announce what the heck happened to the master chief life size statue thingy at the Media Play that closed down in my city! He had a little nacklace that said "Sorry, not for sale" after they got like 10,000 offers for it but refused to explain to anyone where it was going or if anyone already bought it or what. Everyone has been wondering that for months now.
but seriously, I hope they announce that Halo 2 for the PC won't be Vista only cuz that's a terrible idea and I'm not upgrading until SP1 at the earliest.
was also good enough to point out that some people can put up with playing games that lack sound
If the original Dance Dance Revolution for the PS1 is in that list of ones that don't work or at least don't have sound, fat but surprisingly athletic people are going to be throwing their PS3's at him for saying that.
if they're just going to go with the order that they received the pre-orders in then obviously people are going to camp out and wait in line for the date that they start accepting pre-orders then just stop by whenever when they're actually released. Kinda takes all the fun out of it though.
yeah it's blue and pretty but it's 20 mW. That may be double the legal limit already in the US as far as I've heard, but apparently you can get a blue laser diode on Ebay that's 100 mW, that's right I said 100 mW for $3,100 and are suggested for "aerial output." I'd go with the upgrade. And of course dual 500 mW green lasers are about $5,800 and are meant for aerial displays also. Reccomended use is outdoors:P Who knew you could buy ridiculously overly-powerful laser products on Ebay?
I can crank this monitor up to 3000 and something pixels by whatever and it will actually display on the monitor but just because it can display it like that doesn't mean it's actually displaying it in that quality. You need to check on how many pixels the monitor itself is actually displaying regardless of the resolution. That's why I haven't seen many actual HD monitors that show every pixels, not just display big resolutions. I think it's due to the fact that most HD LCD TV's are like 30+ inches so they can make each pixel bigger. When you try to fit that many pixels into a 17" area for example, they have to be so small and thus expensive that it's really not worth it.
well, since I'm sure this will be a story here eventually, I'll just post it now.
OMG! The internet as a whole is going to crash and burn and we're all going to have to live in trees and eat berries and nuts because the 110% of internet traffic that's bittorent traffic is now carrying even larger HD resolution movie files! AHHH!!
this certainly proves that the players can and should be a lot cheaper because the hardware required doesn't cost too much. And clearly the maker of the drive for the 360 could be selling them to PC users if they took the time to write a driver. Why don't they? I bet Microsoft is behind it somehow with an exclusivity contract or whatever. But really, what's the point since I've never even seen an actual computer monitor (not LCD TV/monitor) that can display in full HD. So yay you can watch HD-DVDs but they won't look a whole lot better, right?
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I was wondering where the tem 'w00t' came from, lol. Obviously they took that from the Damascans as well as the Carbon swords from the Phantasy Star series on good old Sega Genesis. Must be the basis for a +1 sword in D&D too. So what's Drizzt Du Erden's +5 scimitar based on in reality you ask? Well that's simple, it's a carbon nanotube enhanced, antimatter bladed, quantum slash enhanced, electric current carrying, Ruby on Rails using blade :)
here's a summary of his answer: "we're an asian company...what, you've never seen anime?"
give each item a unique ID attribute not viewable to players and test for multiples on the item creation sub. Or have protections on when the item creation sub or inventory amount change subs. Or have some investigative logic if two very unique or expensive items are all of a sudden in the same radius without players having just walked into that radius. Or make a better protection software. Or stop lazily using public variables. Or detect certain phrases similar to bragging about hacking tools. Or have temporary bans followed by an investigation associated with in-game user reports in large numbers against individuals (like Runescape except it'd work.) Or use my imfamous and yet to be broken trap setting technique to catch hackers where you purposely leave a security hole open but really code it so it's a trap that will catch them and ban them. It's really not that hard, the programmers just have to either get their heads out of the clouds (our game is perfect! Duplication could never happen! let's not protect against it!) or out of their asses (duuuhhhh...Iunno how to protect against that so let's just not)
after like a year of constant 140F-ish temps, my laptop hard drive finally died. Then I replaced it lol. Other than that why would you put yourself through the hell of reinstalling XP and all your software? Imaging rarely works cuz of XP protections for OS drives and you'll often find yourself talking to Indian people about why you're reinstalling XP. There's just no reason to replace them until they break, just back up your data often.
well duh, they have cameras and a satellite uplink. You don't think they "just kinda hope" that all the tapes from the 30+ days survive the trip back the US for editing. You're just hatin, go away.
anyone else think this would be the best freakin idea for the next location of Survivor ever: :P
Survivor: That Iceburg Floating Past New Zealand
They could vote each other off as it gets smaller and smaller in warmer water
and to think about 10 lines of code could have prevented it. Game makers need to stop thinking their game is perfect and will never be hacked and put in code to prevent things that are never supposed to happen.
this is extra funny cuz I just ate 3 cookies for breakfast. But I don't have a problem dammit! ;) but seriously, who cares if they track where I go when I don't look at their banner ads anyway. Targetted ads are slightly less annoying than the random ones (click here to win your free xbox 360!), just look at google's intelligent ads.
well this may sound a bit odd but trust me, it works. If you try to change a couple things, they'll of course reject it. But if you change a bunch of unimportant things too, it will actually encourage them to change overall. It's kinda like telling someone to clean this room then that room and organize their FPS game CD's in their house and they never really get to it but then they move into a new house and since the whole environment is different and better, they act different and finally do what they should. So first, give the whole set of changes a name; I don't care how stupid it it cuz historically, it works. Then change every insignificant thing you possibly can. Paint the office, move stuff around in the break room, get ppl new keyboards, and redo the company newsletter layout. With so many changes, everyone will be thinking "hey, those are a lot of changes" and it will become more premonent in their minds and they'll be more active about noticing the changes and coping with them accordingly. Then sneak all the guidelines for new policies or things you want to change in there somewhere and stick to them and enforce them heavily and keep linking them to the overall changing theme and you'll have massively better results. I'm sure I pretty much murdered that strategy compared to the textbooks I read about it in but hopefully you get the overall idea and seriously, it works! Now mod this post already, it's more usefull and thoughtful than the average one!
didn't they ever hear about aliens doing cow mutilations? They're obviously more of the McDonalds type crowd.
You'd think everyone working on the project would have done a little better than most teams because of all those crazy amounts of cameras watching them all the time over in Britain cuz of that psychological effect that makes people work harder when they know they're being watched. But I think I speak for everyone here when I say it's obviously the non-IT upper management's fault!
according to some study, the hole in the ozone layer is causing people to receive significantly higher amounts of radiation on Earth and if it gets any worse, we'd be seeing bad problems because of it. So let's say the ozone layer and atmoshphere were gone completely. We'd pretty much be dead even with the Earth's giant magnetic field so apparently that's not enough. But the good news is that lead suits weigh less on the moon and would be just enough to prevent muscle deterioration :)
yay! they're going to announce what the heck happened to the master chief life size statue thingy at the Media Play that closed down in my city! He had a little nacklace that said "Sorry, not for sale" after they got like 10,000 offers for it but refused to explain to anyone where it was going or if anyone already bought it or what. Everyone has been wondering that for months now.
but seriously, I hope they announce that Halo 2 for the PC won't be Vista only cuz that's a terrible idea and I'm not upgrading until SP1 at the earliest.
if they're just going to go with the order that they received the pre-orders in then obviously people are going to camp out and wait in line for the date that they start accepting pre-orders then just stop by whenever when they're actually released. Kinda takes all the fun out of it though.
yeah it's blue and pretty but it's 20 mW. That may be double the legal limit already in the US as far as I've heard, but apparently you can get a blue laser diode on Ebay that's 100 mW, that's right I said 100 mW for $3,100 and are suggested for "aerial output." I'd go with the upgrade. And of course dual 500 mW green lasers are about $5,800 and are meant for aerial displays also. Reccomended use is outdoors :P Who knew you could buy ridiculously overly-powerful laser products on Ebay?
I'll have to look through that list and find one near me so I can outsource my Vista booting.
I can crank this monitor up to 3000 and something pixels by whatever and it will actually display on the monitor but just because it can display it like that doesn't mean it's actually displaying it in that quality. You need to check on how many pixels the monitor itself is actually displaying regardless of the resolution. That's why I haven't seen many actual HD monitors that show every pixels, not just display big resolutions. I think it's due to the fact that most HD LCD TV's are like 30+ inches so they can make each pixel bigger. When you try to fit that many pixels into a 17" area for example, they have to be so small and thus expensive that it's really not worth it.
I think that guy who bombed Paypal's HQ should be on that list. It takes a real hero to do what everyone was thinking but was afraid to do themselves.
well, since I'm sure this will be a story here eventually, I'll just post it now.
OMG! The internet as a whole is going to crash and burn and we're all going to have to live in trees and eat berries and nuts because the 110% of internet traffic that's bittorent traffic is now carrying even larger HD resolution movie files! AHHH!!
this certainly proves that the players can and should be a lot cheaper because the hardware required doesn't cost too much. And clearly the maker of the drive for the 360 could be selling them to PC users if they took the time to write a driver. Why don't they? I bet Microsoft is behind it somehow with an exclusivity contract or whatever. But really, what's the point since I've never even seen an actual computer monitor (not LCD TV/monitor) that can display in full HD. So yay you can watch HD-DVDs but they won't look a whole lot better, right?