Didn't everyone know this? games are essentially written for a slightly (if at all) modified version of DirectX8 from what I read somewhere.
which is a good thing, since that means the time it'll take to port HALO to PC should be very short. I'm just hopeing they revise it from feedback from the X-Box first.
The Xbox being a PC inside really isn't a bad thing anyway, except it brings up the price. this way total know-nothings can play PC-quality games on their TV too:)
I'm positive. you don't have to call @Home, get told you've been unbound and have to fix the problem, wait until the weekend is over for the Security team to get back to work so you can call them to ask to have your modem rebound on probabtion (they monitor your connection for 24 hours or something like that) IF you haven't in fact been unbound.
/me knows my sh!t. dun worry 'bout me. Ugh
(Got told by a caller (I work in tech support) today that spool32 errors in mmsystem.dll wasn't a software issue and that he wanted to speak to a more competant tech.. *sigh*. where's my kill button?!)
Apparently @home is monitoring it's customers for Code Red.
I'd JUST reinstalled Win2k Pro on a new system, I'd added IIS for my own purposes and before I had a chance to run the service pack and patch, I got the Code Red worm (ok, so I was lazy and tired and was going to leave it for the morning)
@home unbound my cablemodem until I'd cleared the worm (disable IIS, reboot).
normally, I'd be a little annoyed at @home for monitoring my connection and cutting my connection rather than just block all traffic to that IP at router level. but hey, it saved me from contributing to a problem.
Hey, We've got Nuclear weapons too! (shhhhh, don't tell anyone though)
Canada's too good to be just another American state. and I can't believe we lost #1 place to Norway and #2 to Australia! (in the 'best place in the world to live ratings)
sheesh.
I must say, being Canadian I really don't like it when people play us up to be nothing but the 'great white north'. keep in mind we have regions with california-like weather all year round, and the south of Ontario (the most densely populated area) has weather identical to New York, so NYA!;)
but we do have too many monopolies for our own good *cough*broadband-cable-telephone-etc*cough*
pardon my cold.
Reminds me of the quote "Linux is user friendly, it's just more picky about who it's friends are"
everyone repeat after me. "Linux is NOT a desktop operating system. Linux is NOT a generally productive environment. (excepting server and other relatively obscure non-user (read:sysadmin) functions)"
while you're at it, chant "GPL is not good for the pocket-book of the programmer" too. cause God knows I dont' want software written by someone that wasn't motivated by survival (the almighty buck) to write it.
Grc, oh please. the guy is a gimp. I'm sure not crying about the DDos he's suffereing.
as for portscanning being an attack, it's not. someone may simply be trying to find out what services are available on your system out of curiosity. it's an information gathering tool, if you wanna outlaw those, you might as well limit yourself to JUST surfing the web. forget all the OTHER stuff there is to do on the internet and the hundreds of valid reasons to portscan an IP.
I have to say you have a point. Everyone in the world should have the priviledge of being connected to the internet, even if it isn't important enough for them to sacrafice HARD EARNED money for it. some people can't spare $15 all that easily, yet they still have a 486, netscape and a modem. I worked for Netzero for a long time and saw all kinds of people needing help getting connected (albeit considering the number of subscribers there were and how many calls we got it BLOWS my mind. less than 0.01% ever calling for support)
It's people like those in this forum saying Netzero users have no right to bandwidth that are taking on the 3 year old 'gimme gimme gimme' attitude. it's Immature and small minded.
Free dailup service is remarkably good for the price, and if only more advertisers would take interest these companies wouldn't be struggling.
funny, but it's more of an issue that a govt appointed corp decided to do something that obviously the public is far less than impressed about. if the corp is federally appointed, it should act like a branch of the federal government.
Government employess are called 'PUBLIC SERVANTS' for a reason. They SERVE public interest. Hence, this is a violation of public trust:)
or have I been sniffing too much glue?
alright adolf, I'll bite.
first off the point if the internet is interconnectivity, borderless ungoverned freedom, and no ghestapo Government breathing down your back. The government shouldn't even be involved in the internet as far as I'm concerned. Nationality has little bearing on it.
the usage of.com is for 'commercial' sites only, see how the US gov slipped into making it more of a 'default' domain, leaving even the.net and.org TLD's as second rate.
Perhaps the solution is to make a new TLD governed by an administration that's more responcible about freedom, justice and liberty (wait, wasn't that supposed to be those things americas were so proud of?)
Whoa, insightfull, well stated. You'll note that when I made my post I specified 'we the people of earth'. this is because I'm Canadian and although it's not MY Government that's acting like it owns the internet (sure, the US Gov started DARPA, but still. it's evolved into something that belongs to the world.)
I don't see any way to pry.com out of the US Gov's greedy hands though. maybe the UN should deligate a commitee to finding a solution to the Internet domain monopoly. I'm sure all the people in foreign countries are irritated about having to shell dollars into the US for domain registration.
You've got my support on that one.
I agree entirely. Seti can have that much of my personal info, and if they catch a cheater in my area they can call on me to 'take out the trash'.:-)
You can't say though, that most people aren't signing up for the novelty of being in the race. if it weren't for the stats, I wouldn't be participating at all, and neither would 90% of their userbase. I'm contributing for the good of the Halo Seti Marines, and damned proud of it.
Get rid of scorekeeping, you get rid of the major motivation.
I didn't like the quality of battlenet play in the original, in the second one it was improved, but still wasn't up to what I really wanted, which was a LITTLE more MMPORPG. hopefully this is the direction Blizzard intends to go in for Diablo 3. I can only pray.
What ever happened to that animation based Warcraft game that was planned after Warcraft 2? I have a preview of it on CD somewhere but I dont' think Blizzard ever actually made it.
We the people of earth have enTRUSTed Verisign with the charter to act responcibly with the power of.com.
They can do what they want, but only if they don't want a firm @$$ kicking by the community that cares about it.
I'm not pleased with their actions and as far as I'm concerned.com belongs to everybody, if the corperation put in charge of it wants to act like a 3 year old screaming 'MINE MINE MINE' then perhaps we the cardcarrying-guntoteing-people should make it clear that we have something to say about it. Verisign should be behaving more like a public service than a company when it comes to domains.
people paying for free software. find these people, toss them in my direction, I've got some Grade A oxygen that I'll let them have at a reasonable rate.
I can code relatively well. it's not a point of skill though, I work with others on occation, in that case I comment appropriately and obviously I show THEM my code, but outside of the development team on any particular project? no-one has any right to see my code.
Oh, Open source isn't bad for society OR evil, that's just crack-filled. but what pisses me off is when people try to get MS to release their API source, or pick on.. who was it.. Nvidia? for accidently including some GPL source in their linux driver. People tried to pressure Nvidia into releasing their source because of the GPL agreement. Well it's none of anyone's business how Nvidia's drivers work, if they WANTED people to know, they'd release the source!
Companies are involved in software to make money, like we're supposed to. so your statment about IF you wanna make a profit is exactly right. if you're coding for fun, sure do it open source. Companies aren't in the business for fun.
I don't let anyone see my code unless it's for an audit, but they stopped that a while back. I create a component and it works how it's supposed to. HOW I got it to work that way is none of anyone's business. (with the exception of my employer)
I've heard about encrypted executables that can't be decompiled without extreme effort. I'd like to see some style of binaries that aren't decompileable at all, some form of hardware implimented restriction.
True, you make some very valid points. but reverse engineering is, in my opinion, unfair. If I spend 8 months developing something that I intend to make a profit off of and someone reverse engineers it for their or anyone elses purposes, I would consider that a violation of my hard work.
I'm not talking about protocols though, those are completely open for reproduction. But the actual code for an application/game should be considered private.
Obviously, even without being able to see the code you can still find exploits in software, but it isn't as easy.
And yes, I wholey believe that software should be payed for (with the exception of free software projects like linux, etc. if they want to work for free, let them. I don't see a point in it though). Programming is work, work should be profittable, otherwise why bother.
IMHO, Open Source really isn't a good thing in general. Sure, as it relates to Linux and other free products, sure. However, in any software development I'm involved in, I wouldn't let anyone know how I do what I do.
You can't make nearly as much money off something if you're showing how it's done and the software industry is a market for money to be made in!
Sure, open source leads to the finding of bugs, the patching of said bugs and general neato evolution in the software, BUT it also leads to exploits, stolen ideas/code, etc.
*nix open source? Yay. MS Open source? frankly their source code is none of my business or anyone elses.
and Yes, I'm one of those people that believes MS is not a monopoly and is the success it is today because of good marketting and half (hey, I said Half, I'm not giving them TOO much credit) decent programs.
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Didn't everyone know this? games are essentially written for a slightly (if at all) modified version of DirectX8 from what I read somewhere.
:)
which is a good thing, since that means the time it'll take to port HALO to PC should be very short. I'm just hopeing they revise it from feedback from the X-Box first.
The Xbox being a PC inside really isn't a bad thing anyway, except it brings up the price. this way total know-nothings can play PC-quality games on their TV too
Acceptable losses do exist.
we don't have the technology to be so specific as to guarantee no innocent deaths.
preferably the innocent afghanistans would have left the country already.
I'm positive. you don't have to call @Home, get told you've been unbound and have to fix the problem, wait until the weekend is over for the Security team to get back to work so you can call them to ask to have your modem rebound on probabtion (they monitor your connection for 24 hours or something like that) IF you haven't in fact been unbound.
/me knows my sh!t. dun worry 'bout me. Ugh
(Got told by a caller (I work in tech support) today that spool32 errors in mmsystem.dll wasn't a software issue and that he wanted to speak to a more competant tech.. *sigh*. where's my kill button?!)
Apparently @home is monitoring it's customers for Code Red.
I'd JUST reinstalled Win2k Pro on a new system, I'd added IIS for my own purposes and before I had a chance to run the service pack and patch, I got the Code Red worm (ok, so I was lazy and tired and was going to leave it for the morning)
@home unbound my cablemodem until I'd cleared the worm (disable IIS, reboot).
normally, I'd be a little annoyed at @home for monitoring my connection and cutting my connection rather than just block all traffic to that IP at router level. but hey, it saved me from contributing to a problem.
Hey, We've got Nuclear weapons too! (shhhhh, don't tell anyone though) Canada's too good to be just another American state. and I can't believe we lost #1 place to Norway and #2 to Australia! (in the 'best place in the world to live ratings) sheesh.
I'd mod you up if I could, I agree completely. doesn't take much for the linux zealots to come out of the woodwork.
funny how most of the really good points were pointing how how small of a 'big deal' this is.
I must say, being Canadian I really don't like it when people play us up to be nothing but the 'great white north'. keep in mind we have regions with california-like weather all year round, and the south of Ontario (the most densely populated area) has weather identical to New York, so NYA! ;)
but we do have too many monopolies for our own good *cough*broadband-cable-telephone-etc*cough*
pardon my cold.
Reminds me of the quote "Linux is user friendly, it's just more picky about who it's friends are"
everyone repeat after me. "Linux is NOT a desktop operating system. Linux is NOT a generally productive environment. (excepting server and other relatively obscure non-user (read:sysadmin) functions)"
while you're at it, chant "GPL is not good for the pocket-book of the programmer" too. cause God knows I dont' want software written by someone that wasn't motivated by survival (the almighty buck) to write it.
Grc, oh please. the guy is a gimp. I'm sure not crying about the DDos he's suffereing.
as for portscanning being an attack, it's not. someone may simply be trying to find out what services are available on your system out of curiosity. it's an information gathering tool, if you wanna outlaw those, you might as well limit yourself to JUST surfing the web. forget all the OTHER stuff there is to do on the internet and the hundreds of valid reasons to portscan an IP.
how you got moded as insightfull I'll never know.
I have to say you have a point. Everyone in the world should have the priviledge of being connected to the internet, even if it isn't important enough for them to sacrafice HARD EARNED money for it. some people can't spare $15 all that easily, yet they still have a 486, netscape and a modem. I worked for Netzero for a long time and saw all kinds of people needing help getting connected (albeit considering the number of subscribers there were and how many calls we got it BLOWS my mind. less than 0.01% ever calling for support) It's people like those in this forum saying Netzero users have no right to bandwidth that are taking on the 3 year old 'gimme gimme gimme' attitude. it's Immature and small minded. Free dailup service is remarkably good for the price, and if only more advertisers would take interest these companies wouldn't be struggling.
funny, but it's more of an issue that a govt appointed corp decided to do something that obviously the public is far less than impressed about. if the corp is federally appointed, it should act like a branch of the federal government. Government employess are called 'PUBLIC SERVANTS' for a reason. They SERVE public interest. Hence, this is a violation of public trust :)
or have I been sniffing too much glue?
alright adolf, I'll bite. first off the point if the internet is interconnectivity, borderless ungoverned freedom, and no ghestapo Government breathing down your back. The government shouldn't even be involved in the internet as far as I'm concerned. Nationality has little bearing on it. the usage of .com is for 'commercial' sites only, see how the US gov slipped into making it more of a 'default' domain, leaving even the .net and .org TLD's as second rate.
Perhaps the solution is to make a new TLD governed by an administration that's more responcible about freedom, justice and liberty (wait, wasn't that supposed to be those things americas were so proud of?)
Whoa, insightfull, well stated. You'll note that when I made my post I specified 'we the people of earth'. this is because I'm Canadian and although it's not MY Government that's acting like it owns the internet (sure, the US Gov started DARPA, but still. it's evolved into something that belongs to the world.) I don't see any way to pry .com out of the US Gov's greedy hands though. maybe the UN should deligate a commitee to finding a solution to the Internet domain monopoly. I'm sure all the people in foreign countries are irritated about having to shell dollars into the US for domain registration.
bah, it's midnight, go easy on me ;) you get my point though. corperate entities that don't serve the public trust really piss me off.
Another Excellent idea. Kudos on this one! This way everyone wins except the cheater who's killing his cpu for nothing :)
You've got my support on that one. I agree entirely. Seti can have that much of my personal info, and if they catch a cheater in my area they can call on me to 'take out the trash'. :-)
You can't say though, that most people aren't signing up for the novelty of being in the race. if it weren't for the stats, I wouldn't be participating at all, and neither would 90% of their userbase. I'm contributing for the good of the Halo Seti Marines, and damned proud of it. Get rid of scorekeeping, you get rid of the major motivation.
I didn't like the quality of battlenet play in the original, in the second one it was improved, but still wasn't up to what I really wanted, which was a LITTLE more MMPORPG. hopefully this is the direction Blizzard intends to go in for Diablo 3. I can only pray. What ever happened to that animation based Warcraft game that was planned after Warcraft 2? I have a preview of it on CD somewhere but I dont' think Blizzard ever actually made it.
We the people of earth have enTRUSTed Verisign with the charter to act responcibly with the power of .com.
.com belongs to everybody, if the corperation put in charge of it wants to act like a 3 year old screaming 'MINE MINE MINE' then perhaps we the cardcarrying-guntoteing-people should make it clear that we have something to say about it. Verisign should be behaving more like a public service than a company when it comes to domains.
They can do what they want, but only if they don't want a firm @$$ kicking by the community that cares about it.
I'm not pleased with their actions and as far as I'm concerned
people paying for free software. find these people, toss them in my direction, I've got some Grade A oxygen that I'll let them have at a reasonable rate.
I can code relatively well. it's not a point of skill though, I work with others on occation, in that case I comment appropriately and obviously I show THEM my code, but outside of the development team on any particular project? no-one has any right to see my code.
Oh, Open source isn't bad for society OR evil, that's just crack-filled. but what pisses me off is when people try to get MS to release their API source, or pick on.. who was it.. Nvidia? for accidently including some GPL source in their linux driver. People tried to pressure Nvidia into releasing their source because of the GPL agreement. Well it's none of anyone's business how Nvidia's drivers work, if they WANTED people to know, they'd release the source!
Companies are involved in software to make money, like we're supposed to. so your statment about IF you wanna make a profit is exactly right. if you're coding for fun, sure do it open source. Companies aren't in the business for fun.
I don't let anyone see my code unless it's for an audit, but they stopped that a while back. I create a component and it works how it's supposed to. HOW I got it to work that way is none of anyone's business. (with the exception of my employer)
I've heard about encrypted executables that can't be decompiled without extreme effort. I'd like to see some style of binaries that aren't decompileable at all, some form of hardware implimented restriction.
True, you make some very valid points. but reverse engineering is, in my opinion, unfair. If I spend 8 months developing something that I intend to make a profit off of and someone reverse engineers it for their or anyone elses purposes, I would consider that a violation of my hard work.
I'm not talking about protocols though, those are completely open for reproduction. But the actual code for an application/game should be considered private.
Obviously, even without being able to see the code you can still find exploits in software, but it isn't as easy.
And yes, I wholey believe that software should be payed for (with the exception of free software projects like linux, etc. if they want to work for free, let them. I don't see a point in it though). Programming is work, work should be profittable, otherwise why bother.
IMHO, Open Source really isn't a good thing in general. Sure, as it relates to Linux and other free products, sure. However, in any software development I'm involved in, I wouldn't let anyone know how I do what I do.
You can't make nearly as much money off something if you're showing how it's done and the software industry is a market for money to be made in!
Sure, open source leads to the finding of bugs, the patching of said bugs and general neato evolution in the software, BUT it also leads to exploits, stolen ideas/code, etc.
*nix open source? Yay. MS Open source? frankly their source code is none of my business or anyone elses.
and Yes, I'm one of those people that believes MS is not a monopoly and is the success it is today because of good marketting and half (hey, I said Half, I'm not giving them TOO much credit) decent programs.