Couldn't technology like this help with random number generators? If we can take useless "electrosmog" and use it to create structures within a game, I'm sure something like this could be used to generate something more towards 'true random'. If it has come down to things like the windows random number generator security problem http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/12/1528211 and attempts at simple methods of circumvention http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/147238, maybe it's time to look at elements outside of normal human control?
CIWS works just fine nowadays, except for the amount of maintenance require per actual usage. The require maintenance is and always will be insane, as CIWS (pronounced seawiz) stands for 'closed in weapon system', it's the full package. Radar, weapon, tracking system, and cooling. Everything it needs to shoot except for its own power source. Some of the technology is dated but it's proven, especially in Iraq nowadays. They're sending CIWS tech Fire Controlman to Iraq to work on truck mounted CIWS that can shoot mortar out of the air.
This is getting blown out of proportion. This isn't some sort of extra ad-ware program that installs itself with Hellgate: London, this is a method of changing the texture for in game objects, like a sheet of paper on the wall, or a can lying on the ground, to display a specified picture. This doesn't effect entire objects in the game as the article claims, I doubt it ever will. If it did, I think people would become a bit enraged and then we could start the lynching process.
As it stands, everyone is making something out of little to nothing. I appreciate Slashdot looking out for peoples rights to be free of corporate harassment and all, but these guys have a lot of ground to cover on a game such as World of Warcraft, or even Eve: Online. If a few hardly noticeable ads are in the game, then what difference does it make? Oh.. they'll be able to fund more money for Q&A and development. Which aren't big issues at all, right?
With games these days.. people are finding more and more reasons to despise them. If a few posters with nVidia on them in a railway station bother you that much.. I'd recommend never using any real train station. You'll feel the instant need to smother yourself in hand sanitizer.
If you don't like the game, or its method of doing things, go back to playing World of Warcraft. Not like they couldn't use the competition anyhow.
Why though? You do realize they're offering a free service as well, free accounts for people to sign into and use? Go read the pricing model they have outlined. Don't lynch them because they have a few ads within, mostly.. I've only ever noticed an nVidia ad and haven't noticed any others. This hardly detracts from the gameplay. I doubt there's a need to be puritanical because these guys have a lot of ground to cover on the likes of World of Warcraft. I honestly wouldn't mind them making some extra money to help further the games progress and improve the development cycle. Stop fearing the ads in games, fear the ones that actually detract from gameplay.
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Couldn't technology like this help with random number generators? If we can take useless "electrosmog" and use it to create structures within a game, I'm sure something like this could be used to generate something more towards 'true random'. If it has come down to things like the windows random number generator security problem http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/12/1528211 and attempts at simple methods of circumvention http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/147238, maybe it's time to look at elements outside of normal human control?
CIWS works just fine nowadays, except for the amount of maintenance require per actual usage. The require maintenance is and always will be insane, as CIWS (pronounced seawiz) stands for 'closed in weapon system', it's the full package. Radar, weapon, tracking system, and cooling. Everything it needs to shoot except for its own power source. Some of the technology is dated but it's proven, especially in Iraq nowadays. They're sending CIWS tech Fire Controlman to Iraq to work on truck mounted CIWS that can shoot mortar out of the air.
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This is getting blown out of proportion. This isn't some sort of extra ad-ware program that installs itself with Hellgate: London, this is a method of changing the texture for in game objects, like a sheet of paper on the wall, or a can lying on the ground, to display a specified picture. This doesn't effect entire objects in the game as the article claims, I doubt it ever will. If it did, I think people would become a bit enraged and then we could start the lynching process.
As it stands, everyone is making something out of little to nothing. I appreciate Slashdot looking out for peoples rights to be free of corporate harassment and all, but these guys have a lot of ground to cover on a game such as World of Warcraft, or even Eve: Online. If a few hardly noticeable ads are in the game, then what difference does it make? Oh.. they'll be able to fund more money for Q&A and development. Which aren't big issues at all, right?
With games these days.. people are finding more and more reasons to despise them. If a few posters with nVidia on them in a railway station bother you that much.. I'd recommend never using any real train station. You'll feel the instant need to smother yourself in hand sanitizer.
If you don't like the game, or its method of doing things, go back to playing World of Warcraft. Not like they couldn't use the competition anyhow.
Why though? You do realize they're offering a free service as well, free accounts for people to sign into and use? Go read the pricing model they have outlined. Don't lynch them because they have a few ads within, mostly.. I've only ever noticed an nVidia ad and haven't noticed any others. This hardly detracts from the gameplay. I doubt there's a need to be puritanical because these guys have a lot of ground to cover on the likes of World of Warcraft. I honestly wouldn't mind them making some extra money to help further the games progress and improve the development cycle. Stop fearing the ads in games, fear the ones that actually detract from gameplay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate:_London#Pricing