It's still dangerous, though. I'm surprised it's tolerated in a country where so many refuse to give up their guns, for fear the government will go mad with power.
Can't give up your guns, but giving up mobility is fine?
I wonder what'll happen when someone cracks it and starts broadcasting a signal to shut down all the GM cars?
I'll stick with my 20 year old Toyota. As long as I stick gas in it, it continues to pur.
Net Neutrality prevents them from charging $0.25 for a 200MB video, but $0.00 for a 200MB download. All data has equal value, even if it has different priorities.
Your ISP is free to QOS shape all those things you listed, but they have to apply it to all their customers, and all the servers on the other end. If they offer a Gamer plan, it has to compete by offering more bandwidth, higher caps, etc.
Net Neutrality also prevents content blocking. Ex: A company wants to push its $15/mo IPTV on its customers, so it blocks Youtube unless it's paid $3/mo for access to it, or you have their TV plan.
500? Maybe in an MMO, anything over 200 in an FPS is enough to get you kicked from most servers.
I play TF2 quite a bit. It's not the amount of ping - it's how stable your connection is.
I've played with Aussies that had 300 ping, but they walk around smoothly and play decently.
Then one day I encounted a lagging scout with 25 ping. Every time I got near him to cut off his head, he'd disappear from under my blade. Apparently he was dancing to the side, but when he lags he stops moving until the packets catch up, then teleports to the new location.
His shots would catch up all at once, killing me instantly. Very irritating. It wouldn't be so bad if I was using a gun, since I could just shoot him whenever he paused, but I was using a sword, so I had a disadvantage.
We didn't have an admin to kick him, so I just got an ally to watch him and snipe him whenever he stopped moving. Didn't take long before his lag went away, and I could resume cutting his head off.;)
P.S. My playskill seems to go up at 65 ping, and 140 ping. I must have the most experience at those amounts?
Plus, most javascript doesn't have huge memory leaks. You can do things that leak, like deleting and recreating functions over and over - but mostly it should be okay.
Flash games tend to spiral upward in memory and CPU usage. I remember on my old Athlon XP, games at ArmorGames would start smooth, but get choppy within 20 minutes. I had to restart the browser to fix it.
Firefox has had the best Javascript debugging environment for a long time.
I highly value addons like Adblock Plus, Snaplinks, Greasemonkey, Menu Editor, Lazarus (if my browser crashed right at this instant, all this text would be recoverable with a simple right-click), FireFTP, etc.
And what did Opera implement first? A half-featured torrent client?
Opera unite is an interesting idea. They're starting to innovate again - but Firefox extensions have definitely added a lot of cool features before other browsers could.
After the main disaster cleanup is done, and the areas are safe, then offer yourself up as a volunteer, but till then, stay out of dangerous areas.
The airflight isn't worth it. If you want to help, donate $3k instead. They can feed a lot of people on that kind of money, and probably train some Haitians to start rebuilding.
I foresee a construction boom when this is all over.
Flash tends to run very long-running things, like games which use a big chunk of CPU for several minutes at a time.
LOL! I haven't found a flash game yet that doesn't leak memory like crazy and slow down over time. On an Athlon XP, give any flash movie 30 mins and it'll be unplayable - even if the framerate started the same as on an Athlon II.
You got one thing right - flash applets are designed to run for several minutes!..
Javascript leaks less memory, and with a fast JIT compiler like V8, it's easy to avoid the 10-second function call timeout. After all, if something locks up a flash movie interpretted with javascript for 10 seconds, it's probably an endless loop. With the flash plugin that would turn into a browser crash, rather than just an unresponsive script whose window you have to close.
So, SHOULD they break away from Google? Probably. CAN they break away from them (and maintain their quality)? Probably not. So, like a bad marriage of convenience, Mozilla is probably stuck with Google until the day (possibly) comes when Google themselves decide to break it off.
Why do they need to? Unlike some companies, which buy out the competition and stop innovating, ( *cough* Microsoft *cough* ) some companies like to push innovation by encouraging competition.
if anything, firefox has mighe have been closing the feature gap with opera, which had absolute majority of the features first.
Yes and no.
Opera innovated a lot with stuff like tabs, mouse gestures, and fast page rendering.
But ever since Firefox 1.5 - which is roughly when a strong community had been built up - extensions/addons have been leading the way for relevant new browser features.
HDMI is not fine. It's a patent ridden expensive mess with less bandwidth than Dual-Link DVI, which means it can't drive the best monitors.
Plus, DisplayPort is older. They just took their sweet time delivering it in actual products.
DisplayPort is an advancement. You can have one cable going to your TV, which handles everything. No more snakenests for 5.1 audio, HTPC/NAS streaming, etc.
I never played the demo. It's quite possible it was shit.
The game though? Seemed like the pinnacle of stability at the time. I got the game in early 2007, and it was well worth it.
Around the same time BF2142 got patched to be unstable, and Bioshock/MassEffect came out a bit later with crash issues. Unlike Titan Quest, they don't seem to have been resolved. I have them on Steam.:/
That really depends on your point of view. It's actually a pretty scary idea that google thinks it has enough power to change the governing policy of one of the biggest countries in the world. Sure, to our (western) point of view it makes a lot of sense to try to give citizens the freedom to express their opinion, but they ARE trying to infringe upon the sovereignty of a country. A country cannot work if they have to change their laws according to the wishes of a company. I cannot vote for Google, so they do not rule.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!...
Do you live in the US? Many of your laws were lobbied for by multi-national corporations. Your copyright laws are the result of the big entertainment companies demanding extensions. Your oil companies control innovation of electric vehicles (They had electric cars decades ago, and companies like GM even sold some -_- ) and apparently some people feel they control city design too. And more and more over the counter drugs are becoming "dangerous medications". Down there you need a prescription to get two particularly strong painkillers, but up here (Canada) you can walk into any drug store and pick up a 300+ pill bottle, pay with cash, and they don't even need your name.
Recently I was watching a documentary on nutrition. It was detailing stuff like calcium absorption going down throughout your lifespan - but also that calcium sucks harmful stuff out of food, so is best taken with a meal. It went over the necessity of CoQ10 when taking many drugs, to avoid them leeching stuff out of your body. What I found most interesting was when it mentioned a lot of vitamin supplements are considered drugs in the US. What you can buy at a healthfood store here might require a doctor's prescription and expensive pills down there.
So yeah, the US is the posterchild for a country changing their laws according to the wishes of companies.
The point was, if a serious incident did occur(and it could with so many million players), forcing more elaborate behaviour leaves more markers behind.
Blizzard would be crazy to do anything if all someone is doing is/who'ing people a bit.
Not the most popular game - but there's no crack for the latest patch, released years back. If you want to play, you need the old version, which has no multiplayer support. (Just LAN)
Titan Quest?
Most (all?) of the pirated versions crashed at certain points, thanks to their impressive copy protection, or perhaps the laziness of the cracker. Ironically, lots of game "reviewers" mentioned the crashes. This is irony because it was quite possibly the most stable game released in 2006. It's literally never crashed on my computer. It also never crashed for any of my friends that bought it. (We like hack'n'slash:P )
So it's not like it wouldn't already be possible to gather those playing habits.
Yeah, but you leave a strange stalker trace if you're doing that. Why would you be/who'ing someone 48 times per day at 30 min intervals, for several days? If it goes to court, log files could help the victim.
Visiting that armory page a couple times per day for a few days seems like completely normal behaviour. This is dangerous not because it encourages stalking - but because if there is a stalker incident, it doesn't provide any markers to indicate abnormal behaviour. Plus, it's convenient, and available to stalkers that can't write LUA or effectively search Google.:P
And do keep in mind that stalking aside - bots and crawlers are archiving everything. Info on when you were online could be around forever. How long it remains relevant is debatable, but in situations where there could be unknown repercussions, it's often better to err on the side of caution.
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The cyclists in Leidem are maniacs. They don't pay attention to other traffic, violate all traffic rules and sometimes seem suicidal in the way they behave in traffic. That's why truckdrivers sometimes stop for bycicles. They want to keep their truck clean. I know this to be true because I'm one of the cyclists there.
So you can replace the vehicle, but not the drivers?;)
Europe seems to be leading the way in bike paths. There's no less than a dozen cities that have dedicated bike paths going all around them. I don't know any of their names, but Europe keeps coming up in documentaries and articles about green city designs.
It seems to me that sooner or later, every sound or piece of music will be a repeat of an older piece.
What are we going to do when every possible piece of music (words excluded) exists? Sure hope the copyright overlords don't get their hands on all the tunes.
Oh, slightly OT, but a few days ago I was watching a rerun of Psych when I recognized one of the Stargate Atlantis gate sounds. I can't count the number of times I've heard Starcraft noises in TV shows.
Have memory slower than your GPU needs, and it'll be bottlenecking the GPU. However have it faster, and you gain nothing while increasing cost. So the idea is to get it right at the level that the GPU can make full use of it, but not be slowed down.
My old 7900GS was the first card where I felt like the memory wasn't being fully utilized by the GPU.
It had a near negligible performance impact running 4xAA on most games.
My next card (8800GS) had a higher framerate, but also a bigger hit from 4xAA.
4-5mbit is great, unless you have multiple people in your home.
Do you know how annoying it is playing games when people are watching Youtube or downloading email? Ping spikes from 65ms to 500ms. That's ignoring torrenting and the like.
I make do with 3mbit, because I like my DSL ISP and Cable blows here - but I really would jump on 12mbit if it was available. I download enough linux distros (FTP:P ) that I could use that extra downstream.
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It's still dangerous, though. I'm surprised it's tolerated in a country where so many refuse to give up their guns, for fear the government will go mad with power.
Can't give up your guns, but giving up mobility is fine?
I wonder what'll happen when someone cracks it and starts broadcasting a signal to shut down all the GM cars?
I'll stick with my 20 year old Toyota. As long as I stick gas in it, it continues to pur.
That's not really what Net Neutrality is about.
Net Neutrality prevents them from charging $0.25 for a 200MB video, but $0.00 for a 200MB download. All data has equal value, even if it has different priorities.
Your ISP is free to QOS shape all those things you listed, but they have to apply it to all their customers, and all the servers on the other end. If they offer a Gamer plan, it has to compete by offering more bandwidth, higher caps, etc.
Net Neutrality also prevents content blocking. Ex: A company wants to push its $15/mo IPTV on its customers, so it blocks Youtube unless it's paid $3/mo for access to it, or you have their TV plan.
500? Maybe in an MMO, anything over 200 in an FPS is enough to get you kicked from most servers.
I play TF2 quite a bit. It's not the amount of ping - it's how stable your connection is.
I've played with Aussies that had 300 ping, but they walk around smoothly and play decently.
Then one day I encounted a lagging scout with 25 ping. Every time I got near him to cut off his head, he'd disappear from under my blade. Apparently he was dancing to the side, but when he lags he stops moving until the packets catch up, then teleports to the new location.
His shots would catch up all at once, killing me instantly. Very irritating. It wouldn't be so bad if I was using a gun, since I could just shoot him whenever he paused, but I was using a sword, so I had a disadvantage.
We didn't have an admin to kick him, so I just got an ally to watch him and snipe him whenever he stopped moving. Didn't take long before his lag went away, and I could resume cutting his head off. ;)
P.S. My playskill seems to go up at 65 ping, and 140 ping. I must have the most experience at those amounts?
Plus, most javascript doesn't have huge memory leaks. You can do things that leak, like deleting and recreating functions over and over - but mostly it should be okay.
Flash games tend to spiral upward in memory and CPU usage. I remember on my old Athlon XP, games at ArmorGames would start smooth, but get choppy within 20 minutes. I had to restart the browser to fix it.
User JS wasn't exploited nearly as much as Greasemonkey. I don't know if it's as powerful.
So you only value features that show up in every single browser?
I value features that make the browsing experience better, regardless of weather they show up in another browser.
It took years for tabs to catch on. Maybe in a half-decade all these extensions will be present by default in your Opera. ;)
That depends entirely on what you value.
Firefox has had the best Javascript debugging environment for a long time.
I highly value addons like Adblock Plus, Snaplinks, Greasemonkey, Menu Editor, Lazarus (if my browser crashed right at this instant, all this text would be recoverable with a simple right-click), FireFTP, etc.
And what did Opera implement first? A half-featured torrent client?
Opera unite is an interesting idea. They're starting to innovate again - but Firefox extensions have definitely added a lot of cool features before other browsers could.
After the main disaster cleanup is done, and the areas are safe, then offer yourself up as a volunteer, but till then, stay out of dangerous areas.
The airflight isn't worth it. If you want to help, donate $3k instead. They can feed a lot of people on that kind of money, and probably train some Haitians to start rebuilding.
I foresee a construction boom when this is all over.
The redirects don't bug me. I would've hit quite a few malware infested sites if not for them.
I was looking up the chip used in an older device - the GP2X - when Google informed me the website was infested with malware.
I don't mind a bit of behaviour harvesting if it saves my computer. Thanks Google!
Flash tends to run very long-running things, like games which use a big chunk of CPU for several minutes at a time.
LOL! I haven't found a flash game yet that doesn't leak memory like crazy and slow down over time. On an Athlon XP, give any flash movie 30 mins and it'll be unplayable - even if the framerate started the same as on an Athlon II.
You got one thing right - flash applets are designed to run for several minutes!..
Javascript leaks less memory, and with a fast JIT compiler like V8, it's easy to avoid the 10-second function call timeout. After all, if something locks up a flash movie interpretted with javascript for 10 seconds, it's probably an endless loop. With the flash plugin that would turn into a browser crash, rather than just an unresponsive script whose window you have to close.
So, SHOULD they break away from Google? Probably. CAN they break away from them (and maintain their quality)? Probably not. So, like a bad marriage of convenience, Mozilla is probably stuck with Google until the day (possibly) comes when Google themselves decide to break it off.
Why do they need to? Unlike some companies, which buy out the competition and stop innovating, ( *cough* Microsoft *cough* ) some companies like to push innovation by encouraging competition.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1484058&cid=30500264
I suspect Google is quite happy to have Mozilla working on Firefox and their internal teams working on Chrome.
Plus, it's a good deal for Google. Firefox doesn't have as much value to Google as a browser - but as an advertising market its value is increasing.
if anything, firefox has mighe have been closing the feature gap with opera, which had absolute majority of the features first.
Yes and no.
Opera innovated a lot with stuff like tabs, mouse gestures, and fast page rendering.
But ever since Firefox 1.5 - which is roughly when a strong community had been built up - extensions/addons have been leading the way for relevant new browser features.
HDMI is not fine. It's a patent ridden expensive mess with less bandwidth than Dual-Link DVI, which means it can't drive the best monitors.
Plus, DisplayPort is older. They just took their sweet time delivering it in actual products.
DisplayPort is an advancement. You can have one cable going to your TV, which handles everything. No more snakenests for 5.1 audio, HTPC/NAS streaming, etc.
I never played the demo. It's quite possible it was shit.
The game though? Seemed like the pinnacle of stability at the time. I got the game in early 2007, and it was well worth it.
Around the same time BF2142 got patched to be unstable, and Bioshock/MassEffect came out a bit later with crash issues. Unlike Titan Quest, they don't seem to have been resolved. I have them on Steam. :/
That really depends on your point of view. It's actually a pretty scary idea that google thinks it has enough power to change the governing policy of one of the biggest countries in the world. Sure, to our (western) point of view it makes a lot of sense to try to give citizens the freedom to express their opinion, but they ARE trying to infringe upon the sovereignty of a country. A country cannot work if they have to change their laws according to the wishes of a company.
I cannot vote for Google, so they do not rule.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! ...
Do you live in the US? Many of your laws were lobbied for by multi-national corporations. Your copyright laws are the result of the big entertainment companies demanding extensions. Your oil companies control innovation of electric vehicles (They had electric cars decades ago, and companies like GM even sold some -_- ) and apparently some people feel they control city design too. And more and more over the counter drugs are becoming "dangerous medications". Down there you need a prescription to get two particularly strong painkillers, but up here (Canada) you can walk into any drug store and pick up a 300+ pill bottle, pay with cash, and they don't even need your name.
Recently I was watching a documentary on nutrition. It was detailing stuff like calcium absorption going down throughout your lifespan - but also that calcium sucks harmful stuff out of food, so is best taken with a meal. It went over the necessity of CoQ10 when taking many drugs, to avoid them leeching stuff out of your body. What I found most interesting was when it mentioned a lot of vitamin supplements are considered drugs in the US. What you can buy at a healthfood store here might require a doctor's prescription and expensive pills down there.
So yeah, the US is the posterchild for a country changing their laws according to the wishes of companies.
would probably not get you in trouble
That wasn't the point.
The point was, if a serious incident did occur(and it could with so many million players), forcing more elaborate behaviour leaves more markers behind.
Blizzard would be crazy to do anything if all someone is doing is /who'ing people a bit.
Kohan II?
Not the most popular game - but there's no crack for the latest patch, released years back. If you want to play, you need the old version, which has no multiplayer support. (Just LAN)
Titan Quest?
Most (all?) of the pirated versions crashed at certain points, thanks to their impressive copy protection, or perhaps the laziness of the cracker. Ironically, lots of game "reviewers" mentioned the crashes. This is irony because it was quite possibly the most stable game released in 2006. It's literally never crashed on my computer. It also never crashed for any of my friends that bought it. (We like hack'n'slash :P )
That's all I've got. Maybe someone else has more?
So it's not like it wouldn't already be possible to gather those playing habits.
Yeah, but you leave a strange stalker trace if you're doing that. Why would you be /who'ing someone 48 times per day at 30 min intervals, for several days? If it goes to court, log files could help the victim.
Visiting that armory page a couple times per day for a few days seems like completely normal behaviour. This is dangerous not because it encourages stalking - but because if there is a stalker incident, it doesn't provide any markers to indicate abnormal behaviour. Plus, it's convenient, and available to stalkers that can't write LUA or effectively search Google. :P
And do keep in mind that stalking aside - bots and crawlers are archiving everything. Info on when you were online could be around forever. How long it remains relevant is debatable, but in situations where there could be unknown repercussions, it's often better to err on the side of caution.
The cyclists in Leidem are maniacs. They don't pay attention to other traffic, violate all traffic rules and sometimes seem suicidal in the way they behave in traffic. That's why truckdrivers sometimes stop for bycicles. They want to keep their truck clean.
I know this to be true because I'm one of the cyclists there.
So you can replace the vehicle, but not the drivers? ;)
Europe seems to be leading the way in bike paths. There's no less than a dozen cities that have dedicated bike paths going all around them. I don't know any of their names, but Europe keeps coming up in documentaries and articles about green city designs.
A quick trip to google for some proof... http://www.wired.com/autopia/2007/11/where-are-the-m/
Documentary example: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_Nature_of_Things/ID=1233750794 (may only work in Canada)
It seems to me that sooner or later, every sound or piece of music will be a repeat of an older piece.
What are we going to do when every possible piece of music (words excluded) exists? Sure hope the copyright overlords don't get their hands on all the tunes.
Oh, slightly OT, but a few days ago I was watching a rerun of Psych when I recognized one of the Stargate Atlantis gate sounds. I can't count the number of times I've heard Starcraft noises in TV shows.
While they're there, I hope they'll take out this nasty Candida yeast infection!
Have memory slower than your GPU needs, and it'll be bottlenecking the GPU. However have it faster, and you gain nothing while increasing cost. So the idea is to get it right at the level that the GPU can make full use of it, but not be slowed down.
My old 7900GS was the first card where I felt like the memory wasn't being fully utilized by the GPU.
It had a near negligible performance impact running 4xAA on most games.
My next card (8800GS) had a higher framerate, but also a bigger hit from 4xAA.
Google Earth across 6 monitors from a single $100 card? Seems like technology is heading in the right direction!
4-5mbit is great, unless you have multiple people in your home.
Do you know how annoying it is playing games when people are watching Youtube or downloading email? Ping spikes from 65ms to 500ms. That's ignoring torrenting and the like.
I make do with 3mbit, because I like my DSL ISP and Cable blows here - but I really would jump on 12mbit if it was available. I download enough linux distros (FTP :P ) that I could use that extra downstream.
LOL NOOB