Grow some balls and quit posting behind an anonymous coward. If you're going to insult someone, and try to compare yourself to others, make yourself and your identity known. Otherwise how do we know that you yourself aren't the bad person you are crying about?
While running a distributed computing project like BOINC (SETI@home, rosetta@home, FOLDIT@home, etc.).
That way you can feel like you are contributing it to something while you are wasting electricity. Not to mention how cool would it be saying: my picture frame is currently curing cancer.
I suppose, but this was cruel intent:
Megan hanged herself at home in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her. Cruel intent from an adult. "Protect the children" comes into play.
At least when it comes to graphics/games, I have noticed that half of the work is making the engine (physics/game) and the other half is the actual graphics nowadays (from textures - models). Story-writers/musicians fall far behind in the necessity for these jobs, since a game tends be based off a story already as is (so fine tuning it is all that's left), and musicians can be a dime a dozen believe it or not.
Regardless of copyright infringement (although it has a lot more legal backing power). The fact that I am paying my ISP should mean they provide me a service (ONE service, that we agreed to). Last I checked I didn't pay someone to mow my yard or deliver something and have them give me a speech about buying someone else.
At the risk of losing karma, I dare to speak the truth.
Does anyone feel that this actually might be a "good" thing in a sense that this could be a wake up call to force encryption on every single packet being sent online so that the government/ISPs/average Joe cop doesn't see what you're doing every day?
Imagine a world where you actually spoke to just 1 other computer...
You don't say... I could imagine a movie going into this concept even deeper though:
6 * 6 * 6 = 216
666 in hex = 29A
1+2+3...+36 = 666
1638 = 666 in hex = 3146 in oct
Or my favorite 66 = 42 in hex (the answer to everything), + 6 = 48, so 48 = 666!
Please note: this can go on forever, if you wish to find a conspiracy in anything you will eventually find it.
When asked to comment on the flag, the neighbor said "The history of the ninja, in fact, is marked by a strong code of moral and just behavior that applies not only to the fighting or military aspects, but also to the everyday life and birthday parties. Learning to attain sei shin (or right mind) is essential to becoming a ninja and virtually impossible with the flag of your enemy flying next door."
I've looked at TFA, but nowhere do I see this. Is this a misleading summary? Are.. are... these things common on slashdot?
Not to mention... why blacklist them? It sounds reasonable at first, but blacklisting an IP cause it has a botnet is a poor idea of security, because all it takes is a new IP/new machine. If you are that afraid of getting hit by one, just try to keep up to date on your security information(at least patch monthly).
Like parent stated, it will only slow down your packets. No real benefits will be gained.
They had no choice really, game designers have to assume you have a 3 button mouse (a few years ago they didn't assume you had a scroll or middle mouse). So they ran out of choices, but at least they let you reassign all of your keys nowadays (a few years ago you had to use the keys they assigned in half the games, but thankfully half life/quake allowed you to do "bind" commands). The only thing you could yell at a game designer for currently is not supporting 8 button mice (it's no extra effort to code for DXInput2).
Although with the release of XNA studio and the jump towards it, I believe it only supports up to like 5 buttons or something for the XBOX360 controller... Don't quote me on that though.
I disagree. Sure "fancy" stuff won't make you game better, but functionality DEFINITELY has a huge effect on gameplay.
The functionality of your mouse makes the greatest difference in a FPS: binding the extra buttons to prevent keyboard movement allowing you to continuously move/jump/crouch etc. to dodge instead of "press whatever key to throw grenade/use good gun". This assumes you have 2-3 fingers for movement, 1-2 for movement actions, you only have at best 1-2 random fingers lingering for a select few keys.
My personal example would be playing spy in TF2, before I had my 8 button mouse I had issues stabbing engies while placing sappers immediately. Now, I can do it with 90% success - meaning I don't die. Why? Cause all I have to do is press left click, thumb click, left click, while maneuvering with keyboard effectively.
I caught one blatantly checking me and one ex-girlfriend "making out" (let's say) in a park once. The dirty bastard on the end... How is he a "dirty bastard" for liking what you like? That's almost like going INTO a strip club and calling everyone else dirty bastards.
No kidding, those pictures are just "colorful" at best. Definitely wouldn't be a dream for any person who deals with computers most of the day. Wheres the big screens? Where's the DUAL(+) monitors (okay, there was 1 pic with them, but they were facing away)?!
I would like to think multiple monitors would be about the best thing, in fact... it's what keeps me happy at my job. Browse slashdot and code.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't explaining well enough. The reason Blizzard is pushing this is because of bots within their games. Their software was being altered/reverse engineered in some way to allow it to abuse their system/service. Now, they can keep banning players, but that can never stop someone from proxying, spoofing, etc.
To put it in a simpler analogy. It's like they keep getting DDOSed (abuse of service), but they can't do anything about it. How would you like to be a company that has someone constantly trying to break your system (in this case finally succeeding). Don't say you can prevent everything, there's a reason why there's private networks.
What's the best solution? Sue anyone who uses bots? The only way to stop bad people online seems to be through physical/legal actions right? What other solutions can you think of?
All RPG online games are ruined by cheats/bots (name one that is popular and has no cheating/botting if you disagree), how can one possibly defend against it?
I'm not in favor of this bill especially calling it copyright infringement, but feel there should be something similar (but heavily modified and reviewed)
Yes, we all know how bad this can become, and the potential harm to both parties (players and blizzard), but how would YOU fix this? We know the problem, but no one seems to offer a valid SOLUTION to something like this.
was delayed years just because some dumbass saw shiny electronics in a studio and walked off with them. Jimmy Page had all his tapes for Outrider stolen, and was forced to rerecord the entire album from scratch. Nothing against Jimmy page or the people having their work stolen, but perhaps the burglar just felt the work could be better, or just plain sucked and felt a rewrite from scratch could improve their work? Although I imagine Britney spears will still be on her 5th rewrite.
Seeing how processing becomes faster and faster: in batch file processing (just an example) where tens of files get processed in a single second. It may be useful to know which files processed in what order, in which case the precision could be useful. Think of it more as a feature than a necessity though I suppose.
I don't think you understood the GP. He's talking more about the crowd where a person is ALWAYS on their cell phone (no offense, but I've seen this more in the teenage females, and it does get quite annoying).
When I say always, I mean every second of their day talking. While walking down the street, while DRIVING a car, while in a store purchasing something (imagine how hard it is for the employee to ask a question when they dont shut up), etc. etc. The thing is glued to their ear and they hardly pay attention half the time because you don't feel like speaking louder than them/smashing your car into theirs cause they don't know what the hell a turn signal is when switching lanes.
It's even more infuriating to see this happen in residential areas when kids are around playing in the street and they are talking away on their phones cruising 25-30. Think of the children indeed.
particularly suited to professional gamers Once they've sold to all 6 of them, then what? No offense, but... only 5 buttons? DirectX supports up to 8. How is this professional?
I still have yet to find a decent mouse with a decent 8 button setup. It's incredible how many 8+ button mice you find that have the weirdest setups (4 buttons under left click?!)
A decent setup would be: left/right/middle click, 2 buttons of the left (thumb) 1 under left, 1 under right, 1 above middle, and finally a button under the pinkie (making 9).
At first glance it sounds cool, but imagine this:
You move your eyes left, so the screen reads this and "moves". Now you are still "moving" left cause your eyes were left until your eyes react quick enough to move back right.
You would have to add reactionary time into things, and if the user looks too far in 1 direction, they have to move back, causing a very "shaky" effect which can become very nauseating. Now add screen rendering lag/eye input reader lag
Next time you ride in a car, try focusing on NEARBY objects that are going by and see how dizzy/disoriented you become after a few minutes.
Disclaimer: this is just my interpretation of how it might happen, and not meant to poke holes in your cloud. I too am just as hopeful:P
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Grow some balls and quit posting behind an anonymous coward. If you're going to insult someone, and try to compare yourself to others, make yourself and your identity known. Otherwise how do we know that you yourself aren't the bad person you are crying about?
While running a distributed computing project like BOINC (SETI@home, rosetta@home, FOLDIT@home, etc.).
That way you can feel like you are contributing it to something while you are wasting electricity. Not to mention how cool would it be saying: my picture frame is currently curing cancer.
To be honest, he may be right.
At least when it comes to graphics/games, I have noticed that half of the work is making the engine (physics/game) and the other half is the actual graphics nowadays (from textures - models). Story-writers/musicians fall far behind in the necessity for these jobs, since a game tends be based off a story already as is (so fine tuning it is all that's left), and musicians can be a dime a dozen believe it or not.
Kudos to you being an artist, and good luck.
I would hate to be the grammar nazi who has to clean up that post...
Regardless of copyright infringement (although it has a lot more legal backing power). The fact that I am paying my ISP should mean they provide me a service (ONE service, that we agreed to). Last I checked I didn't pay someone to mow my yard or deliver something and have them give me a speech about buying someone else.
Stem-cells require fetus' (matured embryos in the wombs)
This research is just an embryo (not even with the womb)
The only public that will be outraged is people who don't understand.
Besides the government shouldn't be pushing its moral agenda on it's citizens, that's how we've been stepping into so many messes here lately.
At the risk of losing karma, I dare to speak the truth.
Does anyone feel that this actually might be a "good" thing in a sense that this could be a wake up call to force encryption on every single packet being sent online so that the government/ISPs/average Joe cop doesn't see what you're doing every day?
Imagine a world where you actually spoke to just 1 other computer...
Why NASA...? Why not the DOD, this sounds more suited for a stealth plane.
Sorry - forgot the html formatting :S
You don't say... I could imagine a movie going into this concept even deeper though:
6 * 6 * 6 = 216
666 in hex = 29A
1+2+3...+36 = 666
1638 = 666 in hex = 3146 in oct
Or my favorite 66 = 42 in hex (the answer to everything), + 6 = 48, so 48 = 666!
Please note: this can go on forever, if you wish to find a conspiracy in anything you will eventually find it.
You don't say... I could imagine a movie going into this concept even deeper though: 6 * 6 * 6 = 216 666 in hex = 29A 1+2+3...+36 = 666 1638 = 666 in hex = 3146 in oct Or my favorite 66 = 42 in hex (the answer to everything), + 6 = 48, so 48 = 666! Please note: this can go on forever, if you wish to find a conspiracy in anything you will eventually find it.
I've looked at TFA, but nowhere do I see this. Is this a misleading summary? Are.. are... these things common on slashdot?
Not to mention... why blacklist them? It sounds reasonable at first, but blacklisting an IP cause it has a botnet is a poor idea of security, because all it takes is a new IP/new machine. If you are that afraid of getting hit by one, just try to keep up to date on your security information(at least patch monthly).
Like parent stated, it will only slow down your packets. No real benefits will be gained.
They had no choice really, game designers have to assume you have a 3 button mouse (a few years ago they didn't assume you had a scroll or middle mouse). So they ran out of choices, but at least they let you reassign all of your keys nowadays (a few years ago you had to use the keys they assigned in half the games, but thankfully half life/quake allowed you to do "bind" commands). The only thing you could yell at a game designer for currently is not supporting 8 button mice (it's no extra effort to code for DXInput2).
Although with the release of XNA studio and the jump towards it, I believe it only supports up to like 5 buttons or something for the XBOX360 controller... Don't quote me on that though.
I disagree. Sure "fancy" stuff won't make you game better, but functionality DEFINITELY has a huge effect on gameplay.
The functionality of your mouse makes the greatest difference in a FPS: binding the extra buttons to prevent keyboard movement allowing you to continuously move/jump/crouch etc. to dodge instead of "press whatever key to throw grenade/use good gun". This assumes you have 2-3 fingers for movement, 1-2 for movement actions, you only have at best 1-2 random fingers lingering for a select few keys.
My personal example would be playing spy in TF2, before I had my 8 button mouse I had issues stabbing engies while placing sappers immediately. Now, I can do it with 90% success - meaning I don't die. Why? Cause all I have to do is press left click, thumb click, left click, while maneuvering with keyboard effectively.
No kidding, looking at how we got the prefixes in the first place we may run out of greek/latin words.
Hopefully it will come down to unobyte, dosbyte, or something with a number convention, otherwise we might be hearing "crazybyte" or "uberbyte".
No kidding, those pictures are just "colorful" at best. Definitely wouldn't be a dream for any person who deals with computers most of the day. Wheres the big screens? Where's the DUAL(+) monitors (okay, there was 1 pic with them, but they were facing away)?!
I would like to think multiple monitors would be about the best thing, in fact... it's what keeps me happy at my job. Browse slashdot and code.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't explaining well enough. The reason Blizzard is pushing this is because of bots within their games. Their software was being altered/reverse engineered in some way to allow it to abuse their system/service. Now, they can keep banning players, but that can never stop someone from proxying, spoofing, etc.
To put it in a simpler analogy. It's like they keep getting DDOSed (abuse of service), but they can't do anything about it. How would you like to be a company that has someone constantly trying to break your system (in this case finally succeeding). Don't say you can prevent everything, there's a reason why there's private networks.
What's the best solution? Sue anyone who uses bots? The only way to stop bad people online seems to be through physical/legal actions right? What other solutions can you think of?
All RPG online games are ruined by cheats/bots (name one that is popular and has no cheating/botting if you disagree), how can one possibly defend against it?
I'm not in favor of this bill especially calling it copyright infringement, but feel there should be something similar (but heavily modified and reviewed)
Yes, we all know how bad this can become, and the potential harm to both parties (players and blizzard), but how would YOU fix this? We know the problem, but no one seems to offer a valid SOLUTION to something like this.
Seeing how processing becomes faster and faster: in batch file processing (just an example) where tens of files get processed in a single second. It may be useful to know which files processed in what order, in which case the precision could be useful. Think of it more as a feature than a necessity though I suppose.
I don't think you understood the GP. He's talking more about the crowd where a person is ALWAYS on their cell phone (no offense, but I've seen this more in the teenage females, and it does get quite annoying).
When I say always, I mean every second of their day talking. While walking down the street, while DRIVING a car, while in a store purchasing something (imagine how hard it is for the employee to ask a question when they dont shut up), etc. etc. The thing is glued to their ear and they hardly pay attention half the time because you don't feel like speaking louder than them/smashing your car into theirs cause they don't know what the hell a turn signal is when switching lanes.
It's even more infuriating to see this happen in residential areas when kids are around playing in the street and they are talking away on their phones cruising 25-30. Think of the children indeed.
I still have yet to find a decent mouse with a decent 8 button setup. It's incredible how many 8+ button mice you find that have the weirdest setups (4 buttons under left click?!)
A decent setup would be: left/right/middle click, 2 buttons of the left (thumb) 1 under left, 1 under right, 1 above middle, and finally a button under the pinkie (making 9).
At first glance it sounds cool, but imagine this:
:P
You move your eyes left, so the screen reads this and "moves". Now you are still "moving" left cause your eyes were left until your eyes react quick enough to move back right.
You would have to add reactionary time into things, and if the user looks too far in 1 direction, they have to move back, causing a very "shaky" effect which can become very nauseating. Now add screen rendering lag/eye input reader lag
Next time you ride in a car, try focusing on NEARBY objects that are going by and see how dizzy/disoriented you become after a few minutes.
Disclaimer: this is just my interpretation of how it might happen, and not meant to poke holes in your cloud. I too am just as hopeful