Michaels continued, "This new guy, Rich, our cryptologist, is working on brute forcing the 12 bit encryption algorythym used in the MS Word protection scheme we are running across so frequently. The other day he looks at me and says, 'You know, it would really make my job easier if we could do something like this automatically, the numbers are hurting my head.'
Bingo! Right there we knew we had something. We got together with the brightest minds in the industry to create something truly special."
PRESS RELEASE: REDMOND WASHINGTON Microsoft announces MS Carnivore 2000...
Look, if I'm going to be spending MY money out of MY own pocket I want some cooler robots. I know some people think Boba Fett is pretty cool, but damn, imagine an R2-D2, or Han Solo. Heck, even a Chewbacca would be cooler. Imagine seeing his fur burning on re-entry...
People say Diablo 2's system requirements are really special. "I can play this on my I-opener!" you hear them explain with glee. "Wow, Blizzard rocks!"
Yeah they did a real nice job making sure all the sprites stayed non-CPU intensive. Hell, Doom's sprites just killed my system. And don't even get me started on limiting you to a 640x480 resolution! That's two times higher than Doom. Take that ID! Genius, sheer genius.
It's like having my cake, and freakin' eating it too. Here's an excerpt from a conversation I had with my friend while playing the stress test.
Me: "Damn this game sure looks like hell." My Friend: "You suck man, it's about the gameplay." Me: "You mean like when I'm frantically hitting the left mouse button in an attempt to 'battle' my enemies?" My Friend:Stares blankly "It's got depth." Me: "Yeah, so does my left mouse button. You should hear the stories it tells. Hey button, remember that time I got that new weapon, you know, the one with bigger stats and stuff? Remember, it caused more damage when I pounded on you?" Left Mouse Button:Whimpers "Please God let the frantic clicking stop."
And so on for hours. I can only imagine the full game - I can frantically click with two new characters on my 133 megahertz Celeron with 8 megs of RAM. I look forward to being player killed on such a low end system and replacing my mouse due to wear every couple of days.
Congratulations Blizzard, you're only 2 years past schedule and current technology. Kudos.
One web site's opinion on a game that has become trendy to make fun of makes this news official?
Seems kind of subjective to me, but hell I thought it sucked me down too.
Ah hell, this whole post is coming out the wrong way, just like all those games that get released early.
But what I really find sad is that Paul Steed closed Looking Glass. They made THIEF man. What the hell was he thinking? It's no wonder ID fired him.
This is my understanding of the current situations in game world. WooH, maybe burning these Microsoft CD's in my office was a bad idea, the fumes are starting to brun my trhota.
I have been playing the hell out of this game, and all I can say is WOW! Nobody makes better games than Looking Glass and I am sad, disappointed, and a little pissed off that they will be gone.
I remember sitting home on Saturday mornings. Enduring all the 'Fox Kids' commercials with Ronald McDonald and Barbie. I remember reminiscing about my childhood whilst laughing my head off. The Tick was and is a very funny show, but how many adults can say they watched a children's cartoon religiously?
I worked as a tech support agent for AT&T@Home for about 4 months before I got a job as a creative consultant and programmer at iNetz. I got paid to sit in a small cubicle and get yelled at for eight hours a day. For the first month the job was great; I helped people get connected and they were happy. It was at that time that we started a cross-promotion with AOL. We pitched how well their Bring Your Own Access program worked with @Home's high-speed service. Then I started getting calls from AOL users who I was also able to get connected. They loved the speed, my job was good.
Then one day the number of calls coming into our center exploded. We usually had hold times between 10-20 seconds. When I arrived at work the hold time was around 30 minutes with 100's of people waiting in line. What caused this? How did this happen?
AOL 5.0 -- It took a while for us to realize what was going on. We had partnered with AOL and offered a $10 discount to people who used our bandwidth to connect to their network. Millions of dollars were spent on flyers and TV spots promoting this concept. In essence, we were spending enough money to make our lives a living hell.
Customers who had been using our service with AOL 4.0 often called in simply to tell us how happy they were to be able to connect so quickly with no busy signals. These same customers were bombarded with the constant upgrade reminders the minute 5.0 went live. Many of them upgraded, and in doing so they disconnected everything. The flyers kept coming, the promotion was ongoing, and AOL in a stroke of genius made each computer it's personal slave, shutting down the TCP/IP stack and slamming the connection through the cable modem. None of the tech support agents knew what was going on, and for a few days we handled a call volume hundreds of times higherthan usual having to resort to "We don't know" as our answer. Nothing linked the problems to AOL 5. People became mean, bitter, and angry when they called. Work was never the same. I could trace the quality of my work direct to the moment AOL 5 was released. I left my job and found another.
Keep in mind this is just one ISP. One wonders how much time and productivity AOL cost it's competitors in the tech support area alone. Add to the fact that changes to the TCP/IP stack beyond the ability of normal users were needed to return things to normal, and what AOL did was just wrong. They hurt their customers, they hurt their competitors, and by our example, they even hurt their strategic partners.
Perhaps the greatest irony of all is now that people know about it, they hurt their image. If these are the kind of decisions we can look forward to from AOL Time Warner then the quality of entertainment and business in this Country is now lower than ever.
America On-Line - So manipulative, no wonder it's #1!
First of all I would like to say how happy I am with my @Home service. I am capped at 100kb a second up, and routinely get 250kb+ download even at peak times. I also have noticed no packet loss as I am an avid gamer. Unfortunately these speeds make it easier for people to post large amounts of material on the news servers. That is spam, but I think it is more a result of users taking advantage of their fast connection rather than @Home's deliberate negligence. Hopefully there is a way to keep legitimate satisfied users (like me) on newsgroups. I'd hate to see a few people abusing their service ruin it for the rest of us.
I've been a Windows user my whole life. I just tried this linux thing for the first time using Caldera, and I've gotta tell ya. It's refreshing for an install to be stable enough to not crash at 95%. I'm definately impressed, and honored to be part of the Open Source community.
Better check the spec list again buddy. Bump mapping is there. In fact there are 3 different types of bump-mapping. "Will it look better?" The specs speak for themselves. This thing is revolutionary.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks pretty disappointing so far. Let me get this straight:
1. There are 500,000+ computers all crunching the exact same data. In addition different results are produced.
2. Even if/when they fix the identical 'work unit' problem there is still too high a ratio between participants and the total amount of work that can be done.
3. The team stats are messed up, S@H has acknowleged this.
So if I understand correctly 500,000 people are processing the same information all in the hope of 'beating' another team when team stats are openly acknowleged to be buggy. *Sarcasm* Sounds cool, where do I sign up? */Sarcasm*
This player was announced a long time ago. I bet Samsung just felt like they had to do something so that people wouldn't give up on the whole thing. It appears that no major features have been added with the exception of a phone/address book which is just about the strangest thing you could put in a walkman. Aside from that it really isn't too much different from the Rio. Add to that the fact that Creative's Nomad is exactly the same and I'm pretty disappointed with this offering. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
I have posted a mirror on my server to make downloading this song easier for everyone. All that I ask is that you help me pay for the bandwidth by clicking on the little banner. Thanks for downloading, and may the force be with you. http://www.redpoint.nu/duelofthefates/ ---------------- May 19th is gonna kick ass.
I recall reading an article in The Industry Standard a while back that made a very clever statement: "The Redbook Audio CD format that is used by ever CD player has no encryption. This means that each CD is essentially a gold master with which to make MP3's." Even if IBM's Area 51-esque Madison Project succeeded at creating a hack-proof 128bit encrypted music file, you could still get the MP3 simply because there is no way record companies can stop selling CDs and continue to survive. I don't support piracy, but eventually this format will win. It's already the standard, and it gives the consumer the flexibility they want. If record companies made it easier to download legitimate MP3s for a nominal fee, I'd be the first in line. Just my 2 cents.
Slashdot Mirror
Or maybe like a Tangerine or Blueberry colored light. That would be sweet.
Bingo! Right there we knew we had something. We got together with the brightest minds in the industry to create something truly special."
PRESS RELEASE: REDMOND WASHINGTON ...
Microsoft announces MS Carnivore 2000
What the heck is NASA thinking? Why hasn't this been developed. They should be ashamed for being beaten by David Hasselhoff.
Look, if I'm going to be spending MY money out of MY own pocket I want some cooler robots. I know some people think Boba Fett is pretty cool, but damn, imagine an R2-D2, or Han Solo. Heck, even a Chewbacca would be cooler. Imagine seeing his fur burning on re-entry...
People say Diablo 2's system requirements are really special. "I can play this on my I-opener!" you hear them explain with glee. "Wow, Blizzard rocks!"
Yeah they did a real nice job making sure all the sprites stayed non-CPU intensive. Hell, Doom's sprites just killed my system. And don't even get me started on limiting you to a 640x480 resolution! That's two times higher than Doom. Take that ID! Genius, sheer genius.
It's like having my cake, and freakin' eating it too. Here's an excerpt from a conversation I had with my friend while playing the stress test.
Me: "Damn this game sure looks like hell."
My Friend: "You suck man, it's about the gameplay."
Me: "You mean like when I'm frantically hitting the left mouse button in an attempt to 'battle' my enemies?"
My Friend: Stares blankly "It's got depth."
Me: "Yeah, so does my left mouse button. You should hear the stories it tells. Hey button, remember that time I got that new weapon, you know, the one with bigger stats and stuff? Remember, it caused more damage when I pounded on you?"
Left Mouse Button: Whimpers "Please God let the frantic clicking stop."
And so on for hours. I can only imagine the full game - I can frantically click with two new characters on my 133 megahertz Celeron with 8 megs of RAM. I look forward to being player killed on such a low end system and replacing my mouse due to wear every couple of days.
Congratulations Blizzard, you're only 2 years past schedule and current technology. Kudos.
1. What a stupid patent. I wish I had some respect for the Government.
2. What a stupid patent.
3. What the hell were they thinking issuing this?
4. Now I only have one ad serving big brother. It's like Doubleclick and 24/7 have left for college and I don't even get their stereo.
Seems kind of subjective to me, but hell I thought it sucked me down too.
Ah hell, this whole post is coming out the wrong way, just like all those games that get released early.
But what I really find sad is that Paul Steed closed Looking Glass. They made THIEF man. What the hell was he thinking? It's no wonder ID fired him.
This is my understanding of the current situations in game world.
WooH, maybe burning these Microsoft CD's in my office was a bad idea, the fumes are starting to brun my trhota.
I have been playing the hell out of this game, and all I can say is WOW! Nobody makes better games than Looking Glass and I am sad, disappointed, and a little pissed off that they will be gone.
Shut the hell up. Now moderate this up as "insightful."
I remember sitting home on Saturday mornings. Enduring all the 'Fox Kids' commercials with Ronald McDonald and Barbie. I remember reminiscing about my childhood whilst laughing my head off. The Tick was and is a very funny show, but how many adults can say they watched a children's cartoon religiously?
Then one day the number of calls coming into our center exploded. We usually had hold times between 10-20 seconds. When I arrived at work the hold time was around 30 minutes with 100's of people waiting in line. What caused this? How did this happen?
AOL 5.0 -- It took a while for us to realize what was going on. We had partnered with AOL and offered a $10 discount to people who used our bandwidth to connect to their network. Millions of dollars were spent on flyers and TV spots promoting this concept. In essence, we were spending enough money to make our lives a living hell.
Customers who had been using our service with AOL 4.0 often called in simply to tell us how happy they were to be able to connect so quickly with no busy signals. These same customers were bombarded with the constant upgrade reminders the minute 5.0 went live. Many of them upgraded, and in doing so they disconnected everything. The flyers kept coming, the promotion was ongoing, and AOL in a stroke of genius made each computer it's personal slave, shutting down the TCP/IP stack and slamming the connection through the cable modem. None of the tech support agents knew what was going on, and for a few days we handled a call volume hundreds of times higherthan usual having to resort to "We don't know" as our answer. Nothing linked the problems to AOL 5. People became mean, bitter, and angry when they called. Work was never the same. I could trace the quality of my work direct to the moment AOL 5 was released. I left my job and found another.
Keep in mind this is just one ISP. One wonders how much time and productivity AOL cost it's competitors in the tech support area alone. Add to the fact that changes to the TCP/IP stack beyond the ability of normal users were needed to return things to normal, and what AOL did was just wrong. They hurt their customers, they hurt their competitors, and by our example, they even hurt their strategic partners.
Perhaps the greatest irony of all is now that people know about it, they hurt their image. If these are the kind of decisions we can look forward to from AOL Time Warner then the quality of entertainment and business in this Country is now lower than ever.
America On-Line - So manipulative, no wonder it's #1!
=-Josh www.inetz.com
First of all I would like to say how happy I am with my @Home service. I am capped at 100kb a second up, and routinely get 250kb+ download even at peak times. I also have noticed no packet loss as I am an avid gamer. Unfortunately these speeds make it easier for people to post large amounts of material on the news servers. That is spam, but I think it is more a result of users taking advantage of their fast connection rather than @Home's deliberate negligence. Hopefully there is a way to keep legitimate satisfied users (like me) on newsgroups. I'd hate to see a few people abusing their service ruin it for the rest of us.
Nice logos huh? I wonder if there will be a copyright war.
I've been a Windows user my whole life. I just tried this linux thing for the first time using Caldera, and I've gotta tell ya. It's refreshing for an install to be stable enough to not crash at 95%. I'm definately impressed, and honored to be part of the Open Source community.
Better check the spec list again buddy. Bump mapping is there. In fact there are 3 different types of bump-mapping. "Will it look better?" The specs speak for themselves. This thing is revolutionary.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks pretty disappointing so far. Let me get this straight:
1. There are 500,000+ computers all crunching the exact same data. In addition different results are produced.
2. Even if/when they fix the identical 'work unit' problem there is still too high a ratio between participants and the total amount of work that can be done.
3. The team stats are messed up, S@H has acknowleged this.
So if I understand correctly 500,000 people are processing the same information all in the hope of 'beating' another team when team stats are openly acknowleged to be buggy.
*Sarcasm*
Sounds cool, where do I sign up?
*/Sarcasm*
Is there anything you can't sell at eBay? Any day now we'll probably be bidding on illegally imported cases of Cuban cigars. Crazy.
This player was announced a long time ago. I bet Samsung just felt like they had to do something so that people wouldn't give up on the whole thing. It appears that no major features have been added with the exception of a phone/address book which is just about the strangest thing you could put in a walkman. Aside from that it really isn't too much different from the Rio. Add to that the fact that Creative's Nomad is exactly the same and I'm pretty disappointed with this offering. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
I have posted a mirror on my server to make downloading this song easier for everyone. All that I ask is that you help me pay for the bandwidth by clicking on the little banner. Thanks for downloading, and may the force be with you. http://www.redpoint.nu/duelofthefates/ ---------------- May 19th is gonna kick ass.
I recall reading an article in The Industry Standard a while back that made a very clever statement: "The Redbook Audio CD format that is used by ever CD player has no encryption. This means that each CD is essentially a gold master with which to make MP3's." Even if IBM's Area 51-esque Madison Project succeeded at creating a hack-proof 128bit encrypted music file, you could still get the MP3 simply because there is no way record companies can stop selling CDs and continue to survive. I don't support piracy, but eventually this format will win. It's already the standard, and it gives the consumer the flexibility they want. If record companies made it easier to download legitimate MP3s for a nominal fee, I'd be the first in line. Just my 2 cents.