I just wanted to share my experience with two of your points;
"Dexterity required or bugs?" I think they wanted you to "catch and throw" instead of just trying to deflect. And this is why I had a problem with how inconsistant the Ggun worked. Why am I able to *catch* big chunks of falling platform or rip equipment off the wall, but I can't pull a vehicle (even though you can 'punt' one). Why can I zap antlions but I can't zap zombies?
"Unfair insertion" I dont have a problem with this; having every challenge advertised in advance sort of spoils the excitement. I think having some events come out of left field makes the game much more engrossing (try either one of the Call of Duty games). You probably hated every encounter with the striders in either game since they all came at inopportune moments.
My only gripe was with the overused 'high dynamic range' lighting. Sure, it looked really nice for the first 5 minutes. I ended up just turning it off because framerate was more important then looking at an ubercomplex flare effect. I just dont see how functional it really is; its like they're trying to say "Look at the great new lighting effect we designed, now we're going to use it EVERYWHERE!"
It really depends on how much you have control over.
If you live in Cisco land, and you have switch/router access, you can use "private vlans" to stick every client on its own/30 network. The only host they can talk to is their default gateway. It's a major infrastructure change and it eats a lot of ip space, but its worth it if your network is chaos.
There's a slick product called Perfigo that was bought by Cisco that will put new clients on a 'quarantine' vlan while they get scanned by Nessus. Once it determines that the client is 'clean', it'll change their port's vlan so they're on the production network. Otherwise they get stuck on a vlan that can either do nothing, or limited to get virus updates or whatnot. It's rather slick, but it's bucks (>$20,000).
If you have enough of an understanding of vlans, switches, snmp, dhcp, and nessus, you might be able to roll your own for cheap.
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I thought that after finishing the game, the storyline was pretty apparent. I wont post my interpretation here for fear of the spoiler gestapo.
Was it just not the story that you were expecting? Granted there is minimal "alien" interaction that we havn't seen before, I thought the ending (as well as some not-so-sublte clues along the way) gave a pretty good indication of Earth's predicament.
The game is obviously a bridge into HL3, or perhaps it was part of a much larger game that they knew they couldn't finish at once.
There were a lot of clues that explained why the "xenians" were friendly this time around. How about asking one of them directly?. You just had to do more than switch on god mode and blast your way through all the levels.
I'm not sure what the ACs point is, and nobody should be made to regret having children, but I am certainly glad I didn't spend my 20s chasing after a kid(s).
I think you have St Helens confused with Mt Ranier.
Have you looked at a map lately? The closest "large" metropolis is Portland, Oregon.
The only people in legitimate danger are the folks living around Spirit Lake, or the Toutle River, or anyone one of the other stupid towns nearby like Cougar or Amboy.
Even though we wish that all of the Microsoft campuses were situated smack dab on the lava dome, the worst they're going to see is a slightly greyer day.
But if you were really from around here, that wouldn't be anything new.
I work for what you would consider a "large company". In the 9 years I've been there (and travelling), I have never known any of my coworkers to have doubled up with anyone while on the road. While our expenses are closely reviewed, Management has never asked us to even think about doubling up. Thank god for that.
Then again, we don't send 15,000 people away at once.
If the "dungeon of a dark sorcerer" happened to be on the same planet, I could see your point.
The fact that they had to leave one planet to fly to another (twice, if you count the assault on the death star) pretty much counts it as sci-fi. Maybe you could still qualify that as "travel a great distance".
But you can't count out the weird holographic monster chess game on the Falcon.
Weird bionic encapsulations are 'neat' until you're the one trying to justify the bandwidth bill.
It's neat until you've gone into the next higher pricing bracket because someone decided to piggyback a bunch of other protocols on top of dns to your external name servers. Aside from breaking rfc, or causing a self-inflicted DOS, there isn't much you can do about it. (On the other hand, this is a prime example why allowing recursive DNS requests externally is a bad idea.)
What I think is neat is stuff that's going to save me bandwidth, not increase freeloader traffic.
"DNS backchannel through the firewall" is addressed by sensible design and a good security policy. Wrapping a server around an enforcement point like you described in your presentation is horrible design; any nutcase that implements that solution deserves problems.
You talk like multiple layers of encapsulation is something new. This just reeks of yet another way to dodge The Man and hide your filesharing traffic.
And by the way, I categorize somebody potentially using my internet facing DNS servers for covert file transfers in the "abuse", not "cool" category.
The only good that could come out of this is to force some sort of validation of your dns cache so it's truely a name resolution cache, and not a cache of pieces of some chump's favourite dvd.
419 is the code used in the Nigerian Govt for advance fee fraud.
I don't think the 420 people are as susceptible, because you actually have to have money for the 419s to steal. Also, the 419s don't accept munchies as payment.
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I just wanted to share my experience with two of your points;
"Dexterity required or bugs?"
I think they wanted you to "catch and throw" instead of just trying to deflect.
And this is why I had a problem with how inconsistant the Ggun worked. Why am I able to *catch* big chunks of falling platform or rip equipment off the wall, but I can't pull a vehicle (even though you can 'punt' one). Why can I zap antlions but I can't zap zombies?
"Unfair insertion"
I dont have a problem with this; having every challenge advertised in advance sort of spoils the excitement. I think having some events come out of left field makes the game much more engrossing (try either one of the Call of Duty games). You probably hated every encounter with the striders in either game since they all came at inopportune moments.
My only gripe was with the overused 'high dynamic range' lighting. Sure, it looked really nice for the first 5 minutes. I ended up just turning it off because framerate was more important then looking at an ubercomplex flare effect. I just dont see how functional it really is; its like they're trying to say "Look at the great new lighting effect we designed, now we're going to use it EVERYWHERE!"
~dlb
I wish I could mod you "-1 Didn't Preview"
Nobody will read your rant, let alone see it.
The bounties I can see don't even add up to two weeks of salary.
It really depends on how much you have control over.
/30 network. The only host they can talk to is their default gateway. It's a major infrastructure change and it eats a lot of ip space, but its worth it if your network is chaos.
If you live in Cisco land, and you have switch/router access, you can use "private vlans" to stick every client on its own
There's a slick product called Perfigo that was bought by Cisco that will put new clients on a 'quarantine' vlan while they get scanned by Nessus. Once it determines that the client is 'clean', it'll change their port's vlan so they're on the production network. Otherwise they get stuck on a vlan that can either do nothing, or limited to get virus updates or whatnot. It's rather slick, but it's bucks (>$20,000).
If you have enough of an understanding of vlans, switches, snmp, dhcp, and nessus, you might be able to roll your own for cheap.
So you'd rather wait for someone (from Slashdot) to explain it to you instead of plugging "TSA" into Google?
uhh... Paranoia?
I feel really old now.
I thought that after finishing the game, the storyline was pretty apparent. I wont post my interpretation here for fear of the spoiler gestapo.
Was it just not the story that you were expecting?
Granted there is minimal "alien" interaction that we havn't seen before, I thought the ending (as well as some not-so-sublte clues along the way) gave a pretty good indication of Earth's predicament.
The game is obviously a bridge into HL3, or perhaps it was part of a much larger game that they knew they couldn't finish at once.
There were a lot of clues that explained why the "xenians" were friendly this time around. How about asking one of them directly?.
You just had to do more than switch on god mode and blast your way through all the levels.
I'm not sure what the ACs point is, and nobody should be made to regret having children, but I am certainly glad I didn't spend my 20s chasing after a kid(s).
All of us here on the eastside hope and pray that the earth opens up one day and swallows the area that is Kent, Covington, and Des Moines.
I think you have St Helens confused with Mt Ranier.
Have you looked at a map lately? The closest "large" metropolis is Portland, Oregon.
The only people in legitimate danger are the folks living around Spirit Lake, or the Toutle River, or anyone one of the other stupid towns nearby like Cougar or Amboy.
Even though we wish that all of the Microsoft campuses were situated smack dab on the lava dome, the worst they're going to see is a slightly greyer day.
But if you were really from around here, that wouldn't be anything new.
I work for what you would consider a "large company".
In the 9 years I've been there (and travelling), I have never known any of my coworkers to have doubled up with anyone while on the road. While our expenses are closely reviewed, Management has never asked us to even think about doubling up. Thank god for that.
Then again, we don't send 15,000 people away at once.
To the rest of the world, it's like wearing a sign that says "Kick my ass, please".
Uh yeah.
Secureid key fobs are nothing new.
try decaf
If the "dungeon of a dark sorcerer" happened to be on the same planet, I could see your point.
The fact that they had to leave one planet to fly to another (twice, if you count the assault on the death star) pretty much counts it as sci-fi.
Maybe you could still qualify that as "travel a great distance".
But you can't count out the weird holographic monster chess game on the Falcon.
~dlb
You must've missed the TV series too. (one whole season!)
(not that you really 'missed' anything, but still...)
Weird bionic encapsulations are 'neat' until you're the one trying to justify the bandwidth bill.
It's neat until you've gone into the next higher pricing bracket because someone decided to piggyback a bunch of other protocols on top of dns to your external name servers. Aside from breaking rfc, or causing a self-inflicted DOS, there isn't much you can do about it.
(On the other hand, this is a prime example why allowing recursive DNS requests externally is a bad idea.)
What I think is neat is stuff that's going to save me bandwidth, not increase freeloader traffic.
"DNS backchannel through the firewall" is addressed by sensible design and a good security policy.
Wrapping a server around an enforcement point like you described in your presentation is horrible design; any nutcase that implements that solution deserves problems.
~dlb
Um, So?
You talk like multiple layers of encapsulation is something new. This just reeks of yet another way to dodge The Man and hide your filesharing traffic.
And by the way, I categorize somebody potentially using my internet facing DNS servers for covert file transfers in the "abuse", not "cool" category.
The only good that could come out of this is to force some sort of validation of your dns cache so it's truely a name resolution cache, and not a cache of pieces of some chump's favourite dvd.
What's next? Voice over VRRP?
You say that like being 30 is like being dead. You've been watching too much Logan's Run.
Being male and in your early 30s is a very VERY good thing.
419 is the code used in the Nigerian Govt for advance fee fraud.
I don't think the 420 people are as susceptible, because you actually have to have money for the 419s to steal.
Also, the 419s don't accept munchies as payment.
Finally a good use for frickin sharks with lasers on their heads.
Any advice here will probably make things worse.
Go see a physician.
Even consulting a nurse would be magnitudes more help than the "health experts" on slashdot.
~dlb
They aren't remote controlled. The car has to figure how to go the entire route without human intervention.