Woah. I though I was decent at OpFlash, but that's real determination to finish a FUBARed mission right there. I think the expansion you're talking about was Red Hammer, which was pretty good despite some bugs.
I'm not suggesting you're a liar (in fact I'm sure sure this crap happens to unfortunate people every now and then). But I'd bet money it's still statistically insignificant to the number of users who use social network services harmlessly and fruitfully.
On that note, if the authorities have a problem with someone, the information they used to profile said individual could come from anywhere, not such social networking services. Authorities can be dicks, yes, and staying hidden away from any social interaction on the net is a way to remain reasonably hidden, but we shouldn't bow down to such demands, particularly since we're doing nothing wrong.
But wait until you try and do something about the world. Maybe you'll run for political office. Or want to help out at child care center down the street. Wanted that teacher's license? Maybe someone will find out that people that google Cheerios, fucktards, and pantyhose are statistically proven to be terrorists and need to be rounded up and vilified. They'll look around for a while until that one row in one table in one database outs you. Then you're toast.
The fact you had to use hyperbole to make you point, in fact destroys your point. Act sensibly on the net and you'll be fine for the most part. These 'what if' scenarios are so statistically insignificant, particularly if you follow the sensible part I mentioned, that it's basically a barrier to being able to use technically in a useful and fun manner.
How can it be an obligatory reference when few people will have ever heard of Schlock Mercencary? An obligatory reference is something from Futurama, Simpsons, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.
Please don't do this Anonymous. If you take Facebook down for even just one day, once people find out who's responsible, any remaining respect or sympathy the average non-geek person has with Anonymous will disappear down the drain.
Not to mention the fact that you have no right to lecture me about choice and then take it away from me. I don't use Facebook that much anymore, but I still have an account for the occasional linkups. I'm trading the limited info I provide on it for the benefits it provides me, and I'm conscious of that trade, hence I keep things civil and use appropriate privacy settings. Now fuck of Anon and stop playing games.
So old you can't buy a copy of it in stores. At least when Q3A was sourcedropped you could still buy it in stores. When was the last time anyone saw a copy of Doom 3 on store shelves?
There is a reason why services such as Steam and Good Old Games are so popular - they allow you to buy games that retail stores don't stock anymore. Forget brick-and-mortar stores, it's all digital distribution nowadays. And for all their disadvantages, they do have the benefit of being able (in the case of Steam at least) to sell Doom 3 and even older games like X-COM.
Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 or Microsoft Windows XP SP3
No Linux? So what's the point about it being open-source then? Yes I know Windows has plenty of open-source software (lots of it pretty good too), but Microsoft has no trust in the FLOSS community left. This is hardly going to help if they can't even bother to make it officially support Mono (since it uses C#).
I don't even use Linux anymore and I don't see the point of using this instead of something established and mature like Arduino. Yet anyway.
It's not always a virtue to be ignorant of pop culture (and yes, blockbuster movies are part of that culture). You don't have to watch them of course, just as you don't have to listen to Lady Gaga or whatever. But it helps to have least have a cursory knowledge of what's out there for reasons of social interaction (i.e. gives you something to talk about).
Interesting. I disliked Oblivion and Fallout 3 mainly because they were open worlds and didn't have the tight narrative that a closed world game such as Half-Life 2 has. I suppose I might be in the minority (which is fine), but a tightly-scripted linear game to me is more interesting than an open world, or "hiking simulator" as Oblivion became to be known.
On the other hand I enjoyed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl significantly, which was kind of a hybrid between open and closed worlds. I think atmosphere also has a lot to do with it. Oblivion to me felt extremely generic and stale. Fallout 3... was better, but I didn't finish it. I dunno, it just didn't click with me. I think the NPCs needed better animation.
Agree 100% with this. I'm exactly in the same situation - too many games I want to play (damn Steam and its sales/catalog) and not enough time to play them all.
Well, I could play them all, but then there'd end up with more games down the line to play, so I'd eternally be keeping up.
Carmack, I like you. I respect you and appreciate what you've done for 3D gaming. But it's clear your strength is in engine design and not game design. Stay in your niche please, and don't pretend to believe that indie developers are somehow being 'snooty' so much as in offering an alternative gaming experience compared to the big-budget studios who are afraid to risk trying anything different.
I have a gross mistrust with cloud technology (except for the the cloud you aren't running at least, which technically isn't a cloud anymore), but if there's one good thing about it, it's the increasing number of consumer devices which can automatically upload photos, movies, audio to various cloud sources once captured. Great for those pig fucks who think by confiscating your gear you don't have any evidence.
Then install an Ad-Block. This will eliminate the vast majority of ads in the first place (including the annoying ones and most of the ones that are likely to be exploited), leaving it for the more useful stuff like YouTube.
Stop whining like you're a geek without the ability to take control of things.
From what I understand, the Flash platform is so damn complicated with integrated JIT compilers and other tech within the plugin, that simply running a 64-bit compiler on the codebase isn't quite that simple as the code was never designed to work in 64-bit architectures. Most code should, assuming it's well designed and the developers weren't taking shortcuts by assuming the lengths of various types, but we're talking about Adobe here.
The main problem with using 32-bit wrapped Flash player on Linux wasn't primarily the glitches or performance, but that unlike Windows, most Linux flavors don't force install 32-bit libraries. If you have a 64-bit system, you have a 64-bit system, not necessarily a hybrid 32/64 system as in the Windows world. So installing just the 32-bit flash meant installing all the 32-bit compatibility libraries too, and see a huge chunk of memory go up in smoke just for a single plugin.
Not only that, but the 32-bit libraries are only loaded into memory upon the first instance of running 32-bit code. This means that if your current session has only used 64-bit binaries and you go to a page using the 32-bit Flash plugin, your browser will stall for several seconds while all the necessary libs are brought into memory (assuming you aren't using an SSD of course).
The article has a link to the developer's blog which outlines the various companies which are abusing VLC by distributing it with malware. I noticed two interesting things about the blog posting:
(1) The developer refers twice to 'our IP' (violate our IP, enforce our IP). That's fine, but I imagine some Linux fanatics will be pissed that the developers consider intellectual property as a real thing and not an abstract constructed to be ignored, as some people want to believe. (2) Someone asked in the comments if the developers have tried contacting Google to see if they can remove the companies which are abusing AdWords by running these scams. Google apparently doesn't care, because they make a lot of money out of them regardless of their obvious intent. I really wish people didn't hold them up to be bastions of good in the world.
Actually, since I intensely dislike most social/casual games
Off-topic, but why do you intensely dislike these games? I'll agree with you if we're talking about the bullshit that comes out of companies like Zynga, but I know hard-core multiplayer FPS, the completely opposite end of the spectrum, who fall in love with Plants vs Zombies for example.
Must suck doing business these days if all you want to do is simply develop products for the end user without being hassled all the time. The time/effort/money wasted on the legal wrangling is getting ridiculous.
It's probably a reference to how Fedora 15 uses GNOME 3 as the default DE even though it's still young and hasn't stood up to any length of real-world use yet, just like Ubuntu 11.04 uses Unity as the default despite the same issues with it.
Agreed. There are plenty of legitimately beneficial uses for Facebook, but Slashdot folks are naturally drawn to the anti-social because of our lifestyle and group culture, and so they don't bother thinking that maybe, just maybe, social networking can be rather useful.
There are some people (particularly on Neowin.net) who say there's nothing wrong with Microsoft pursuing these agreements to obtain money from each Android phone sold, because of the argument that if you create something and I want to use it, obviously you'd want to be paid for all that research and development costs.
What's the best way to debunk what at first sounds like a completely logical statement? I know it sounds rather like an xkcd comic (particularly http://xkcd.com/386), but still.
Assuming this report is accurate (who knows what details have been left out, journalism these days), this even denies the original purchaser a second playthrough. What if you want to play it again on a harder difficulties, or with a different play style? Nope, you're screwed buddy.
FFS. If companies are going to disrespect their customers like this, they shouldn't be surprised when the lack of respect goes both ways (i.e. pirating).
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Woah. I though I was decent at OpFlash, but that's real determination to finish a FUBARed mission right there. I think the expansion you're talking about was Red Hammer, which was pretty good despite some bugs.
Who? Source(s)?
I'm not suggesting you're a liar (in fact I'm sure sure this crap happens to unfortunate people every now and then). But I'd bet money it's still statistically insignificant to the number of users who use social network services harmlessly and fruitfully.
On that note, if the authorities have a problem with someone, the information they used to profile said individual could come from anywhere, not such social networking services. Authorities can be dicks, yes, and staying hidden away from any social interaction on the net is a way to remain reasonably hidden, but we shouldn't bow down to such demands, particularly since we're doing nothing wrong.
The fact you had to use hyperbole to make you point, in fact destroys your point. Act sensibly on the net and you'll be fine for the most part. These 'what if' scenarios are so statistically insignificant, particularly if you follow the sensible part I mentioned, that it's basically a barrier to being able to use technically in a useful and fun manner.
How can it be an obligatory reference when few people will have ever heard of Schlock Mercencary? An obligatory reference is something from Futurama, Simpsons, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.
Please don't do this Anonymous. If you take Facebook down for even just one day, once people find out who's responsible, any remaining respect or sympathy the average non-geek person has with Anonymous will disappear down the drain.
Not to mention the fact that you have no right to lecture me about choice and then take it away from me. I don't use Facebook that much anymore, but I still have an account for the occasional linkups. I'm trading the limited info I provide on it for the benefits it provides me, and I'm conscious of that trade, hence I keep things civil and use appropriate privacy settings. Now fuck of Anon and stop playing games.
So old you can't buy a copy of it in stores. At least when Q3A was sourcedropped you could still buy it in stores. When was the last time anyone saw a copy of Doom 3 on store shelves?
There is a reason why services such as Steam and Good Old Games are so popular - they allow you to buy games that retail stores don't stock anymore. Forget brick-and-mortar stores, it's all digital distribution nowadays. And for all their disadvantages, they do have the benefit of being able (in the case of Steam at least) to sell Doom 3 and even older games like X-COM.
Let me see...
No Linux? So what's the point about it being open-source then? Yes I know Windows has plenty of open-source software (lots of it pretty good too), but Microsoft has no trust in the FLOSS community left. This is hardly going to help if they can't even bother to make it officially support Mono (since it uses C#).
I don't even use Linux anymore and I don't see the point of using this instead of something established and mature like Arduino. Yet anyway.
It's not always a virtue to be ignorant of pop culture (and yes, blockbuster movies are part of that culture). You don't have to watch them of course, just as you don't have to listen to Lady Gaga or whatever. But it helps to have least have a cursory knowledge of what's out there for reasons of social interaction (i.e. gives you something to talk about).
Interesting. I disliked Oblivion and Fallout 3 mainly because they were open worlds and didn't have the tight narrative that a closed world game such as Half-Life 2 has. I suppose I might be in the minority (which is fine), but a tightly-scripted linear game to me is more interesting than an open world, or "hiking simulator" as Oblivion became to be known.
On the other hand I enjoyed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl significantly, which was kind of a hybrid between open and closed worlds. I think atmosphere also has a lot to do with it. Oblivion to me felt extremely generic and stale. Fallout 3... was better, but I didn't finish it. I dunno, it just didn't click with me. I think the NPCs needed better animation.
Agree 100% with this. I'm exactly in the same situation - too many games I want to play (damn Steam and its sales/catalog) and not enough time to play them all.
Well, I could play them all, but then there'd end up with more games down the line to play, so I'd eternally be keeping up.
Carmack, I like you. I respect you and appreciate what you've done for 3D gaming. But it's clear your strength is in engine design and not game design. Stay in your niche please, and don't pretend to believe that indie developers are somehow being 'snooty' so much as in offering an alternative gaming experience compared to the big-budget studios who are afraid to risk trying anything different.
I have a gross mistrust with cloud technology (except for the the cloud you aren't running at least, which technically isn't a cloud anymore), but if there's one good thing about it, it's the increasing number of consumer devices which can automatically upload photos, movies, audio to various cloud sources once captured. Great for those pig fucks who think by confiscating your gear you don't have any evidence.
This seems like a lot of time/effort/trouble for what you even admit doesn't get any result or feedback from the owners of the offending site.
Then install an Ad-Block. This will eliminate the vast majority of ads in the first place (including the annoying ones and most of the ones that are likely to be exploited), leaving it for the more useful stuff like YouTube.
Stop whining like you're a geek without the ability to take control of things.
From what I understand, the Flash platform is so damn complicated with integrated JIT compilers and other tech within the plugin, that simply running a 64-bit compiler on the codebase isn't quite that simple as the code was never designed to work in 64-bit architectures. Most code should, assuming it's well designed and the developers weren't taking shortcuts by assuming the lengths of various types, but we're talking about Adobe here.
Not only that, but the 32-bit libraries are only loaded into memory upon the first instance of running 32-bit code. This means that if your current session has only used 64-bit binaries and you go to a page using the 32-bit Flash plugin, your browser will stall for several seconds while all the necessary libs are brought into memory (assuming you aren't using an SSD of course).
Don't forget - lizard also beats Spock.
The article has a link to the developer's blog which outlines the various companies which are abusing VLC by distributing it with malware. I noticed two interesting things about the blog posting:
(1) The developer refers twice to 'our IP' (violate our IP, enforce our IP). That's fine, but I imagine some Linux fanatics will be pissed that the developers consider intellectual property as a real thing and not an abstract constructed to be ignored, as some people want to believe.
(2) Someone asked in the comments if the developers have tried contacting Google to see if they can remove the companies which are abusing AdWords by running these scams. Google apparently doesn't care, because they make a lot of money out of them regardless of their obvious intent. I really wish people didn't hold them up to be bastions of good in the world.
Off-topic, but why do you intensely dislike these games? I'll agree with you if we're talking about the bullshit that comes out of companies like Zynga, but I know hard-core multiplayer FPS, the completely opposite end of the spectrum, who fall in love with Plants vs Zombies for example.
EA's gonna destroy PopCap. I can just imagine it...
Plants vs. Zombies 2:
The base game only has plants. The zombies are DLC.
Must suck doing business these days if all you want to do is simply develop products for the end user without being hassled all the time. The time/effort/money wasted on the legal wrangling is getting ridiculous.
It's probably a reference to how Fedora 15 uses GNOME 3 as the default DE even though it's still young and hasn't stood up to any length of real-world use yet, just like Ubuntu 11.04 uses Unity as the default despite the same issues with it.
Agreed. There are plenty of legitimately beneficial uses for Facebook, but Slashdot folks are naturally drawn to the anti-social because of our lifestyle and group culture, and so they don't bother thinking that maybe, just maybe, social networking can be rather useful.
There are some people (particularly on Neowin.net) who say there's nothing wrong with Microsoft pursuing these agreements to obtain money from each Android phone sold, because of the argument that if you create something and I want to use it, obviously you'd want to be paid for all that research and development costs.
What's the best way to debunk what at first sounds like a completely logical statement? I know it sounds rather like an xkcd comic (particularly http://xkcd.com/386), but still.
Assuming this report is accurate (who knows what details have been left out, journalism these days), this even denies the original purchaser a second playthrough. What if you want to play it again on a harder difficulties, or with a different play style? Nope, you're screwed buddy.
FFS. If companies are going to disrespect their customers like this, they shouldn't be surprised when the lack of respect goes both ways (i.e. pirating).