After playing Left4Dead, I cant really bitch about its match-making system either tho. There are no server lists and you can easily just jump in to game. But if you like to, you can also invite your friends via steam to same server, or set up your own lobby where they join (and then open it up for others to fill rest of the player slots if you dont have as many)
Granted, with MW1 there was some servers I liked and I added them to my favourites list - mostly because they were administrated good, they had (usually) nice people playing and good gameplay settings. But if the match-making system is good, it should be fairly trivial to filter servers based on such and making a friend server should be possible too (like with Left4Dead, which initially got bashing about it because it was a new system for players)
Added convenience is to just jump in and play.
I rather see how it works out before bitch about it.
How do you plan to financially support Open Source games? Coding, arts, music, running servers and so on cost *a lot*. Add to that the fact that even open source applications usually lack in GUI design and it doesn't really sound like a good plan.
Linux, open source apps and standards get financing for development because they help companies in other aspects. Nokia opened up Qt because they are a hardware developer and having a community developing Qt too helps their bottom line. I just can't see that happening with games, it barely helps other companies revenue who could support it (except maybe NVIDIA and ATI, but they're not going to throw millions of development money in to random, uncoordinated projects, especially when game industry is already working good)
And even any indie developer (we have many here on slashdot) can tell that developing even indie games cost in range of $100,000+
There's a reason why all the open source games you see are still something like TuxRacer and LinCity. You are not going to develop something like Modern Warfare 2 that way.
Exactly. Consoles have always been a locked down device versus the openness of PC. I dont know why people are surprised when this kind of stuff happens.
Isn't that exactly what they're doing here? Locking out unauthorized storage.
For that matter I dont know why anyone would buy the Arcade version. If you're already putting that kind of money for it, you might just put the little extra and get the version that has all the features. (and before someone starts ranting about "you shouldn't pay for extra features", look at it the other way around - the best version is the standard version, if you get anything below it you dont get all the features)
Privacy should only be assumed if you control the wires, or if you encrypt the message YOURSELF. To simply say "this is private, you can't listen" is silly.
Maybe so, but there's no way one can build and maintain all of that themself. They would also have to be on their own internets thats only on their own lines. It's just not possible to do that.
Thats *why we have privacy laws in place*. Like any other law, yeah they could be broken by someone. But there will be consequences for the people breaking them. When goverments will remove those laws and actually start breaking them by themself you will have problems. That is what we're trying to prevent here.
No one, and they know that. But they also know that they have to bring it in slowly. Take just little bits of privacy away from time to time and no one will notice we've soon lost it all.
Aren't cell phones fair game, as they're broadcast over open airwaves, while stuff transmitted over a landline has that "reasonable expectation of privacy" that no one's listening?
Please explain why you think so. It's still listening over to people's private conversation, just the transmit is done via air instead of landline.
A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime prevention and threat prediction.
If this doesn't sound like breaking privacy, I dont know what does. And I bet it's UK that is trying to bring this into all EU countries.
Over a third of participants thought the lower bit rate sounded better.
Another thing is that majority of people actually have quite crappy speakers, atleast on computers. Lower bitrate sounds "better" on cheap speakers because it dumbs down highest frequency changes in the song.
Well, if you do actually want to get nerdy about it.. Wizards of the Coast is the most "evil" company for roleplaying. Their games and rules bring down the other, actually great, games down to something like Wii level. And now they're suing publishers who sell their handbooks for a reason I still dont understand. Most people getting into roleyplaying actually would *want* to get those. So what is the reason to ban the sales?
Not that Wizards of the Coast and D&D is extremely nerdy already, but then this kind of shit too. I am a nerd myself, but I always have to tell other people that I'm not that kind of nerd.
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The hardware solutions I've found are expensive for a small business.
And leasing the line is too if you want multiple ISP's on it. One is easy, after that it gets hard.
If you want something fail-proof, just go for co-location in an established datacenter with many peers.
The more interesting question here is that if someone has done *peering* outside of major datacenters? It's of course costly, but it's something the submitter is looking for.
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Exactly. Both systems rely on the master servers being available, so this argument doesn't really hold any ground. If it dies, both systems die.
After playing Left4Dead, I cant really bitch about its match-making system either tho. There are no server lists and you can easily just jump in to game. But if you like to, you can also invite your friends via steam to same server, or set up your own lobby where they join (and then open it up for others to fill rest of the player slots if you dont have as many)
Granted, with MW1 there was some servers I liked and I added them to my favourites list - mostly because they were administrated good, they had (usually) nice people playing and good gameplay settings. But if the match-making system is good, it should be fairly trivial to filter servers based on such and making a friend server should be possible too (like with Left4Dead, which initially got bashing about it because it was a new system for players)
Added convenience is to just jump in and play.
I rather see how it works out before bitch about it.
How do you plan to financially support Open Source games? Coding, arts, music, running servers and so on cost *a lot*. Add to that the fact that even open source applications usually lack in GUI design and it doesn't really sound like a good plan.
Linux, open source apps and standards get financing for development because they help companies in other aspects. Nokia opened up Qt because they are a hardware developer and having a community developing Qt too helps their bottom line. I just can't see that happening with games, it barely helps other companies revenue who could support it (except maybe NVIDIA and ATI, but they're not going to throw millions of development money in to random, uncoordinated projects, especially when game industry is already working good)
And even any indie developer (we have many here on slashdot) can tell that developing even indie games cost in range of $100,000+
There's a reason why all the open source games you see are still something like TuxRacer and LinCity. You are not going to develop something like Modern Warfare 2 that way.
Exactly. Consoles have always been a locked down device versus the openness of PC. I dont know why people are surprised when this kind of stuff happens.
Isn't that exactly what they're doing here? Locking out unauthorized storage.
For that matter I dont know why anyone would buy the Arcade version. If you're already putting that kind of money for it, you might just put the little extra and get the version that has all the features. (and before someone starts ranting about "you shouldn't pay for extra features", look at it the other way around - the best version is the standard version, if you get anything below it you dont get all the features)
Privacy should only be assumed if you control the wires, or if you encrypt the message YOURSELF. To simply say "this is private, you can't listen" is silly.
Maybe so, but there's no way one can build and maintain all of that themself. They would also have to be on their own internets thats only on their own lines. It's just not possible to do that.
Thats *why we have privacy laws in place*. Like any other law, yeah they could be broken by someone. But there will be consequences for the people breaking them. When goverments will remove those laws and actually start breaking them by themself you will have problems. That is what we're trying to prevent here.
And maybe UK too..
Oh, they are actually developing this.
No one, and they know that. But they also know that they have to bring it in slowly. Take just little bits of privacy away from time to time and no one will notice we've soon lost it all.
I hope it takes longer than my lifetime tho.
The funny thing is that NWO conspiracy theories are starting to look even more and more valid every day...
Russia or Japan are starting to look like a nice candidates.
Aren't cell phones fair game, as they're broadcast over open airwaves, while stuff transmitted over a landline has that "reasonable expectation of privacy" that no one's listening?
Please explain why you think so. It's still listening over to people's private conversation, just the transmit is done via air instead of landline.
A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime prevention and threat prediction.
If this doesn't sound like breaking privacy, I dont know what does. And I bet it's UK that is trying to bring this into all EU countries.
Over a third of participants thought the lower bit rate sounded better.
Another thing is that majority of people actually have quite crappy speakers, atleast on computers. Lower bitrate sounds "better" on cheap speakers because it dumbs down highest frequency changes in the song.
Well, if you do actually want to get nerdy about it.. Wizards of the Coast is the most "evil" company for roleplaying. Their games and rules bring down the other, actually great, games down to something like Wii level. And now they're suing publishers who sell their handbooks for a reason I still dont understand. Most people getting into roleyplaying actually would *want* to get those. So what is the reason to ban the sales?
Could someone please explain wtf is the purpose for this and the earlier case of taking those PDF's off. I cant find a reason for it.
Not that Wizards of the Coast and D&D is extremely nerdy already, but then this kind of shit too. I am a nerd myself, but I always have to tell other people that I'm not that kind of nerd.
Yeah it's a great idea to try to listen more closely where the flying devices with saw blades are coming from.
I knew the
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that is tattooed on my ass would come handy.
Good luck with that.
Article just has some videos, but here's a few pictures of it.
And I suggest a good behaviour when they fly in - otherwise these machines will come in.
It's nice to see the Mozilla folks say "NOPE, you...'re NOT doing this to our browser, now get lost"
You seem quite lost. They're not blocking it for that reason, but because it had a security vulnerability.
Because Microsoft is not only creating or competing with Internet Explorer. The addon adds .NET version in to useragent so websites can see if it's installed.
All the addon did was to add a piece of text in useragent that told the website .NET version. How do you manage to fuck up that?
Didn't Intel just a while ago discontinue some of their largest product line too?
And IBM only supports the enterprise companies.
Even if Google just today reported great increase in profits, maybe recression still has something to do with it.
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The hardware solutions I've found are expensive for a small business.
And leasing the line is too if you want multiple ISP's on it. One is easy, after that it gets hard.
If you want something fail-proof, just go for co-location in an established datacenter with many peers.
The more interesting question here is that if someone has done *peering* outside of major datacenters? It's of course costly, but it's something the submitter is looking for.