I'm interested to hear from people who actually think 9 keys is enough for your average first person shooter.
All of the configs I have seen from the best Quake players use a whole lot more than 9 keys. I mean, you've got at least the following: 4 for movement, 1 for jump, 1 for walking speed (stealthy!). Maybe even 1 for crouch and 1 for zoom if you're so inclined.
On top of that, you need to be able to switch weapons. Nobody I know that is anywhere close to good uses two (or one) key to cycle through weapons. With weapon switch times the way they are, you need one button for each weapon or you face swallowing a rocket without any ability to return fire while you browse your gun collection. So in Quake3, that gives us at least 6 more keys to bind.
If you're playing team deathmatch, or ctf, you're going to need teamsay binds, so you don't have to stop and drop the console to tell your team where you are, where enemies are, etc. That's another three or four keys, minimum.
I use about 20 keys, give or take a few. Give me a controller that has under half that many, and I'm pretty sure I'd do a lot worse.
Everyone's already pointed out the flaws of his so-called G.E.N.E.S.I.S. plan, so I'll not delve into that. I'd just like to take a minute to describe an even more effective anti-DOS countermeasure that I invented back in '94 (patent pending).
Rather than encrypting the state within the SYN/ACK, my design never actually sends the SYN/ACK to DOS attackers, since it automatically detects a spoofed SYN sent by the attacker. It does this in a complicated, yet non-CPU crunching process involving an algorithm I specifically designed called U.N.C.L.E. For all of you laymen, that stands for Unplug the Network Cable from your Local Ethernet adapter.
Use of this algorithm can be licensed from me for the low cost of $1,000 per machine it is used on.
Hey Taco, did you try this out after disabling the "Automatically check for Internet Explorer updates" option in your preferences (advanced tab)?
I'm not exactly sure, but maybe they're just harmlessly checking your version, in the hopes that you're behind on updates, so they can shove a new bug release (not bugfix) down your throat.
I always turn this option off, and I'm pretty sure my browser doesn't hop to MS before hitting Altavista.
Scroll down the page till you get to the bit titled "Who really killed Looking Glass Studios."
It discusses the circumstances that led to Eidos losing lotsa cashola, and the truth is, the 30 Million they dumped into Ion Storm was chump change.
Whoever wrote "The irony was, their publisher, Eidos Interactive, was pumping all their money into Ion Storm's effort to finish Daikatana." should really have done a bit more research.
I guess I expected this. Everyone's too busy bashing C# because it came out of Microsoft to realize one simple fact.
Regardless of where it came from, In spite of the fact that it was almost absolutely meant to be a "Java Killer", I'm still probably going to use it.
Why? It's like a new tool for my toolbox. Sure, I've already got 3 different screwdrivers I'm very fond of (Torx, Flathead, and Phillips), but what if a problem comes along where I a hex 'driver would be easiest? I'll be ready for it.
Even if it's not my programming language of choice, I'll still be competent enough to use it if necessary. All this zealotry and MS bashing is fun, but denying the usefulness of a language just because it came from MS is just narrow-minded, even if it's only a niche language for COBOL programmers to wrap their code in so it'll embed into an asp page.
I mean, someday YOU might need to wrap a chunk of COBOL into an ASP page.
I doubt adding the ability to filter out gifs of height and width of 1 will do anything. They'll just bump their images sizes up. What we need is a browser option that will disable 3rd party content.
When I create a web site, pretty much all the media I use is centralized. Either it's all on one box in an organized directory structure(/images,/flash, etc), or it's on separate machines on the same subnet.
Someone should write a utility that ignores any reference on a website to an ouside server. I mean, if you're visiting www.blitheringfool.com (123.45.67.89), it should be easy to filter out a gif being loaded from www.maliciousAdAgency.com (243.20.43.219).
Come to think of it... I'm not doing anything productive right now... I think I'll write it myself...
This is just another case of the same biased reporting that/. is becoming quite fond of publishing.
Look at the title. "Suck says Mozilla is Dead"
I like how CmdrTaco seeminly avoids taking sides in the issue, but Capitalized the d in Dead in order to emphasize his hatred for the ever-late, bloated piece of beast-ware.
And look at the verb in the title. "Says". Merriam-Webster defines the word "Say" as "to say", or "to speak". I'll not be fooled by this veiled bias.
Try to refrain from promoting your own ideas and political agendas, and just report the news, or I'll be forced to kill-file you, like I do JohnKatz!
If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?
Ms. Peters has been weighing arguments by copyright holders who contend they will have no incentive to produce digital material without the assurance of such protection
Conversation between Big Media and their programmer consultant, circa 1990
Big time Author / MPAA bigwig / RIAA fatcat: "We'll produce digital material if and only if it is protected by the first amendment and copyright law."
Programmer: Sounds good. But isn't it hypocritical that YOUR media, when changed into 1's and 0's, is protected, but MY media, which, in the form of.h,.c,.java files, and binary executables, ISN'T protected?
But that would also mean that the digital algorithm used to encrypt your format ISN'T protected, meaning anyone can flat out copy it and distribute it. Rampant piracy wound ensue.
Big time Author / MPAA bigwig / RIAA fatcat: You're right. All digital media should be protected.
Programmer : In that case, The "hackers" will just reverse engineer your algorithm under fair use and as before, distribute it.
Did anyone guess what the industry fatcats said next? If you said "Buy legislation that eliminates fair use from digital media" You've correctly identified the DMCA! BOB, TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON!
Is why anyone in their right mind would use an object-oriented language where ALL objects are COM objects to develop web-based applications. I'm a java developer (who am I kidding? I'm a Code Monkey) working on the web team for a big company, and the major recurring theme is SECURITY.
Obviously, you wouldn't want a function to read text from an html header file be able to open up the passwerds.txt file if you "accidentally" pass it the right filepath.
Obviously, you wouldn't want EVERY FREAKING OBJECT you create to be able to access EVERY AUTOMATABLE function in the windows API.
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I'm interested to hear from people who actually think 9 keys is enough for your average first person shooter.
All of the configs I have seen from the best Quake players use a whole lot more than 9 keys. I mean, you've got at least the following: 4 for movement, 1 for jump, 1 for walking speed (stealthy!). Maybe even 1 for crouch and 1 for zoom if you're so inclined.
On top of that, you need to be able to switch weapons. Nobody I know that is anywhere close to good uses two (or one) key to cycle through weapons. With weapon switch times the way they are, you need one button for each weapon or you face swallowing a rocket without any ability to return fire while you browse your gun collection. So in Quake3, that gives us at least 6 more keys to bind.
If you're playing team deathmatch, or ctf, you're going to need teamsay binds, so you don't have to stop and drop the console to tell your team where you are, where enemies are, etc. That's another three or four keys, minimum.
I use about 20 keys, give or take a few. Give me a controller that has under half that many, and I'm pretty sure I'd do a lot worse.
Just my 2c.
Everyone's already pointed out the flaws of his so-called G.E.N.E.S.I.S. plan, so I'll not delve into that. I'd just like to take a minute to describe an even more effective anti-DOS countermeasure that I invented back in '94 (patent pending).
Rather than encrypting the state within the SYN/ACK, my design never actually sends the SYN/ACK to DOS attackers, since it automatically detects a spoofed SYN sent by the attacker. It does this in a complicated, yet non-CPU crunching process involving an algorithm I specifically designed called U.N.C.L.E. For all of you laymen, that stands for
Unplug the
Network
Cable from your
Local
Ethernet adapter.
Use of this algorithm can be licensed from me for the low cost of $1,000 per machine it is used on.
Hey Taco, did you try this out after disabling the "Automatically check for Internet Explorer updates" option in your preferences (advanced tab)?
I'm not exactly sure, but maybe they're just harmlessly checking your version, in the hopes that you're behind on updates, so they can shove a new bug release (not bugfix) down your throat.
I always turn this option off, and I'm pretty sure my browser doesn't hop to MS before hitting Altavista.
And it's on Old Man Murray. Seriously.
OMM
Scroll down the page till you get to the bit titled "Who really killed Looking Glass Studios."
It discusses the circumstances that led to Eidos losing lotsa cashola, and the truth is, the 30 Million they dumped into Ion Storm was chump change.
Whoever wrote "The irony was, their publisher, Eidos Interactive, was pumping all their money into Ion Storm's effort to finish Daikatana." should really have done a bit more research.
I guess I expected this. Everyone's too busy bashing C# because it came out of Microsoft to realize one simple fact.
/sarcasm
Regardless of where it came from, In spite of the fact that it was almost absolutely meant to be a "Java Killer", I'm still probably going to use it.
Why? It's like a new tool for my toolbox. Sure, I've already got 3 different screwdrivers I'm very fond of (Torx, Flathead, and Phillips), but what if a problem comes along where I a hex 'driver would be easiest? I'll be ready for it.
Even if it's not my programming language of choice, I'll still be competent enough to use it if necessary. All this zealotry and MS bashing is fun, but denying the usefulness of a language just because it came from MS is just narrow-minded, even if it's only a niche language for COBOL programmers to wrap their code in so it'll embed into an asp page.
I mean, someday YOU might need to wrap a chunk of COBOL into an ASP page.
Oh, and by the way,
I doubt adding the ability to filter out gifs of height and width of 1 will do anything. They'll just bump their images sizes up. What we need is a browser option that will disable 3rd party content.
/flash, etc), or it's on separate machines on the same subnet.
When I create a web site, pretty much all the media I use is centralized. Either it's all on one box in an organized directory structure(/images,
Someone should write a utility that ignores any reference on a website to an ouside server. I mean, if you're visiting www.blitheringfool.com (123.45.67.89), it should be easy to filter out a gif being loaded from www.maliciousAdAgency.com (243.20.43.219).
Come to think of it... I'm not doing anything productive right now... I think I'll write it myself...
This is just another case of the same biased reporting that /. is becoming quite fond of publishing.
Look at the title. "Suck says Mozilla is Dead"
I like how CmdrTaco seeminly avoids taking sides in the issue, but Capitalized the d in Dead in order to emphasize his hatred for the ever-late, bloated piece of beast-ware.
And look at the verb in the title. "Says". Merriam-Webster defines the word "Say" as "to say", or "to speak". I'll not be fooled by this veiled bias.
Try to refrain from promoting your own ideas and political agendas, and just report the news, or I'll be forced to kill-file you, like I do JohnKatz!
If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?
Ms. Peters has been weighing arguments by copyright holders who contend they will have no incentive to produce digital material without the assurance of such protection
:
.h, .c, .java files, and binary executables, ISN'T protected?
:
Conversation between Big Media and their programmer consultant, circa 1990
Big time Author / MPAA bigwig / RIAA fatcat
"We'll produce digital material if and only if it is protected by the first amendment and copyright law."
Programmer:
Sounds good. But isn't it hypocritical that YOUR media, when changed into 1's and 0's, is protected, but MY media, which, in the form of
But that would also mean that the digital algorithm used to encrypt your format ISN'T protected, meaning anyone can flat out copy it and distribute it. Rampant piracy wound ensue.
Big time Author / MPAA bigwig / RIAA fatcat
You're right. All digital media should be protected.
Programmer :
In that case, The "hackers" will just reverse engineer your algorithm under fair use and as before, distribute it.
Did anyone guess what the industry fatcats said next?
If you said "Buy legislation that eliminates fair use from digital media" You've correctly identified the DMCA! BOB, TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON!
Is why anyone in their right mind would use an object-oriented language where ALL objects are COM objects to develop web-based applications. I'm a java developer (who am I kidding? I'm a Code Monkey) working on the web team for a big company, and the major recurring theme is SECURITY.
Obviously, you wouldn't want a function to read text from an html header file be able to open up the passwerds.txt file if you "accidentally" pass it the right filepath.
Obviously, you wouldn't want EVERY FREAKING OBJECT you create to be able to access EVERY AUTOMATABLE function in the windows API.
i have no sig.