The mechanics were solid (if easily exploitable, at best), the gameplay was reasonably thought out (to an extent), and the environment was pretty engaging (and at least 5% of the population weren't complete morons). When I saw the preview for Cataclysm, with its "challenge" of a +5 level cap, new "features" (YOU CAN NOW FLY IN AZEROTH!), "professions" (let's dig around in the dirt for hours on end!), I stopped playing.
Instead of actually being able to build a hybrid character, you could only choose to implement one spec at a time. "Talent Tree?" More like, how would you like your eggs, with a side of undulating pustules, or with an ice pick and a cyanide capsule?
OK, so it's a rake, and it's made of game-dev poo. That tells me exactly fuck-all about why you think it sucks.
I think you're pulling my leg, here. Nobody can lack that much reading comprehension. I didn't even *hide* my reasoning for why MoP is an even worse idea than cataclysm. If you play the game at all, my explanation makes perfect sense. I play an affliction warlock that pulls a sustained 80-120K dps with an average item level of 474. That's not even close to being top tier gear, buddy: I'm pretty sure I'm qualified to make an assessment of the game whether anyone else agrees with my analysis or not.
I used to be an avid WoW player. WOTLK was the best expansion they made, hands down. The mechanics were solid (if easily exploitable, at best), the gameplay was reasonably thought out (to an extent), and the environment was pretty engaging (and at least 5% of the population weren't complete morons). When I saw the preview for Cataclysm, with its "challenge" of a +5 level cap, new "features" (YOU CAN NOW FLY IN AZEROTH!), "professions" (let's dig around in the dirt for hours on end!), I stopped playing.
At that point, I realized that Blizzard was headed on a downward spiral pretty quickly, and nothing short of angrying up the blood of Ted Turner and sacrificing a chicken in a non-denominational ceremony would stop this quickly approaching trainwreck from happening. Several of my close friends asked me why I thought it was a bad idea. I told them that I knew it was a bad idea because it was *clearly* a BAD idea. I know them when I see them, and this was no exception. My current roommate convinced me to start playing again, and reluctantly I did. It turned out not to be as bad of a trainwreck as I thought it would be, but it was still pretty bad. Everything had been dumbed down, and repetitively grinding rep, dungeons and more dungeons became the focus of the game. We were also able to actually BUILD a character, and things looked promising enough that Blizzard might actually have the chance to redeem themselves.
Man, was I in for a surprise when MoP came out, which I'm pretty sure a mop is what they used as a template for this particular expansion. This legendary, mythical mop wasn't made of anything fancy, like polished, pressure treated oak, a handle made of Corinthian leather, a titanium reinforced head with gold lief, and appropriate mopping fabric material made from the finest imported silk that one would be proud to caress their nether-regions with after a hard day's work. That one just happened to be the high priced, maximum quality mop that was shown on the Home Shopping Network for just 8 easy payments of $99.95. Clearly, this was too rich for their blood. After rustling up the town drunkard, they gave him a 12 pack of Blatz, a jug of cheap wine, and a 6 pack of Natty Light, and set him to the task of finding a mop of this quality. But really, quality didn't matter, they really just needed a mop, and there weren't any good sales going on that particular year.
Several years later, the drunkard returned with a rake. "I couldn't *hic* remember what you were looking for, but didn't you say something about toilets? I think *hic* this is a plunger."
Swing and a miss, Blizzard. 3 for a valiant effort, though. After obtaining this artifact of non-descript antiquity, the development team went to work. Behind closed doors, they agreed that it was most likely a rake picked up out of a dumpster or maybe someone's toolshed that lived down the street. They weren't sure, but there was no turning back now. Best not to let the public know, they also agreed, lest The Almighty Wrath of Tom Selleck's Moustache rear its head again. One of the leads suggested that since it wasn't a mop, perhaps they could make the offcast drippings of churning a poop vat into a mediocre product that would suffice in temporarily plugging the gaping hole in a quickly sinking ship. But it would need to be concentrated.
What was released with Mists Of Pandaria was percolated fecal matter of the highest caliber. That wasn't even from the bowels of the unsuspecting public. This was from Blizzard's own septic tank, full of late night tacos, half-digested food from Grampy's Greasy Spoon Diner (home of the 1/2lb Grampyburger for 89 cents, cheese is 10 cents extra), and empty ketchup packets that had been chewed up by the family dog and evacuated onto a moderately expensive accent rug that had once decorated the lot of the local carwash for 15+ years.
This was progress. This was the trainwreck that everyone said would never happen. Sweet glory of Jesus this was specta
Statistically, most of the applicants are males, and not really too many attractive looking women of the opposite sex. Going to the mars mission is *probably* not going to get you laid, and you'll probably wind up mating every 7 years or so like the Vulcans. Or just using your hand. Even though I'm not one to point fingers, most of the applicants (men AND women) seem to be a little bit psychologically unstable. Quite frankly, I think I would rather be on a single person mission that results in being locked in a decaying orbit around neptune wherein I only have my own thoughts to drive me over the edge, and headfirst into the gaping void of insanity. That's just my two cents, though.
I wouldn't so much as call it a security chasm, as a slow descent into the fissure that is known to some ancient civilizations as The Crack Of Oblivion.
Map the human genome with a parallel database. The only "downtime" would be sequencing, but query times to test for different factors in a particular splice would be relatively short. The downside to this would be the amount of space required to group, and tie together relevant data. Something like this would probably be a start, which I still haven't gotten around to releasing in its entirety yet, given that I don't have much free time nowadays.
As a data analyst/software engineer, it makes me glad to see these kind of actual strides are being made to ensure that both data and software will eventually start being designed properly from their inception. To have a single cluster database with anything more than a few thousand entries is nothing short of incompetence, and I believe anyone who does this should be publicly shamed and flogged. When dealing with excessively large amounts of data, it quickly becomes a necessity to have a paralleled database design to ensure that searches aren't hampered by long query times. It genuinely makes me thrilled to see someone else use this kind of design other than me, so when I put out numbers on my end, maybe my results won't seem as fantastical or unbelievable. Even though I don't know you personally, keep up the good work, Todd.
NSRL is also a pretty good site to get a comprehensive whitelist from. Best of all, the whitelist database is free, and used for forensic file analysis. The only mildly difficult part is sometimes keeping up with the release of new malware, but that's why I implement several other databases, including one based on API calls in known hostile applications. The really interesting thing with API groups, is that you can identify which piece of new malware most likely belongs to a specific family. So far, I've had no false positives on whitelisted files checked against the API database. ( http://www.tot-ltd.org/API )
Is the fact that these competing antimalware companies do not openly publish and/or share detection methods or datasets. This ultimately does little more than give the users a false sense of security no matter which product is being used. What should be done (and what I've been attempting to do for quite some time) is to have a centralized/universal database of definitions, and from there, the real competition would be who, or what company can write the most effective *scanner*, thus benefiting the user, and weeding out ineffective coding practices, half-baked theories and groundless conjecture. To illustrate what I'm referring to, here are the datasets I maintain on a fairly regular basis. Keep in mind that 0-F is not an actual URL, but some of the datasets are defined as single characters, and sorted accordingly.
In the end, sure, there are several million files, but each specific group is only a few hundred bytes in size, which reduces a LOT of overhead and brings individual scantimes to near zero with a halfway decent connection speed. By doing this, a single scan is limited only by your hardware and internet latency.
Given that it seems about every other year, there's some sort of price fixing scheme that's discovered. Considering the price of LCD/Plasma/Flatscreens have never really come down that much from their original price when they first hit the market, it seems that this kind of news is more of a defacto standard we've come to expect from a capitalist scheme where every company that churns over profits whines about how poor they are. For the record, I'm not really a fan of HP either, considering their business model attempts to lock in consumers with half-assed printers and artifically high priced ink cartridges. As a side note, fining companies that rip off consumers is no way to handle the market in a reasonable, logical manner. If anything, these companies should be forced to pay a class action settlements to anyone who bought their products at artificially high prices. Then again, that might just be rewarding stupidity.
Give me the funding to take care of my basic bills, and I CAN create the internet's fully viable sentient "immune system" within three months of inception. I'm not even joking.
Wait until they discover the universe *IS* the Higgs-Boson. Their so-called scientific "theories" and "methods" will be left in utter shambles in accordance with the prophecy. The stars fall from the sky and the heavens will be aligned, properly allowing the opening of The Dark Portal, which will allow The Ancients to be summoned from the other side of The Great Cosmic Divide, unleashing 10000 years of darkness upon the land and skies. Only then will The Keeper Of The Threshold be satisfied with a crop most bountiful. Pray that you will be eaten first. PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE EATEN FIRST.
If you think you're too old to learn something new, then it's not your age... it's your mindset. In which case, a career change would be inevitable anyways. If you're truly committed to what you do in a particular field, you grab the problem by the lapels and rape it into a state of perpetual subservience. With your experience, I hope that only one of your parents was a deep roller.
As a side note, you will need to manually install the dependencies if you're running Vista or 7. Run the command prompt as an administrator, then use regsvr32 as you normally would to register the.ocx files. As I have the free time, I'm currently working on a newer version that a lot more streamlined. Once it's done, TT Livescan should consume about half as many resources as it currently does, and run about 20%-25% faster. Also keep in mind that an internet connection of some kind is required in order to use TT Livescan.
But wouldn't that be the purpose from the inception for a search engine provider to market its own services in the first place? Correct me if I'm wrong, but self-promotion is HOW MONEY IS MADE. And unless a competitor is offering Google more money than it would make from its own services in order to slant search results, I see this as pretty much a non-issue, in the same sense that you don't see one car dealership recommending the services of a competing dealership. That's now how this shit works in the real world. If this somehow upsets a competitor, then the competitor should be building a better product if they hope to compete and come out on top. If EU is actually going to so fine Google for promoting its own services... that it provides... FOR FREE... then perhaps they should also start going after companies that design products on store shelves that are too eye catching or colorful, and specifically targeting those companies AND corporations that allow these colorful, fancy (and sometimes superior quality) products to be placed at eye level in the supermarket.
This is why when I develop applications with VB6, if I'm not satisfied with the speed, I typically use ASM as a back engine, and have the main interface and said engine communicate back and forth via commandlines and/or files. It might not be the most elegant solution, but it works in terms of stability and usability.
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The mechanics were solid (if easily exploitable, at best), the gameplay was reasonably thought out (to an extent), and the environment was pretty engaging (and at least 5% of the population weren't complete morons). When I saw the preview for Cataclysm, with its "challenge" of a +5 level cap, new "features" (YOU CAN NOW FLY IN AZEROTH!), "professions" (let's dig around in the dirt for hours on end!), I stopped playing.
Instead of actually being able to build a hybrid character, you could only choose to implement one spec at a time. "Talent Tree?" More like, how would you like your eggs, with a side of undulating pustules, or with an ice pick and a cyanide capsule?
OK, so it's a rake, and it's made of game-dev poo. That tells me exactly fuck-all about why you think it sucks.
I think you're pulling my leg, here. Nobody can lack that much reading comprehension. I didn't even *hide* my reasoning for why MoP is an even worse idea than cataclysm. If you play the game at all, my explanation makes perfect sense. I play an affliction warlock that pulls a sustained 80-120K dps with an average item level of 474. That's not even close to being top tier gear, buddy: I'm pretty sure I'm qualified to make an assessment of the game whether anyone else agrees with my analysis or not.
I used to be an avid WoW player. WOTLK was the best expansion they made, hands down. The mechanics were solid (if easily exploitable, at best), the gameplay was reasonably thought out (to an extent), and the environment was pretty engaging (and at least 5% of the population weren't complete morons). When I saw the preview for Cataclysm, with its "challenge" of a +5 level cap, new "features" (YOU CAN NOW FLY IN AZEROTH!), "professions" (let's dig around in the dirt for hours on end!), I stopped playing.
At that point, I realized that Blizzard was headed on a downward spiral pretty quickly, and nothing short of angrying up the blood of Ted Turner and sacrificing a chicken in a non-denominational ceremony would stop this quickly approaching trainwreck from happening. Several of my close friends asked me why I thought it was a bad idea. I told them that I knew it was a bad idea because it was *clearly* a BAD idea. I know them when I see them, and this was no exception. My current roommate convinced me to start playing again, and reluctantly I did. It turned out not to be as bad of a trainwreck as I thought it would be, but it was still pretty bad. Everything had been dumbed down, and repetitively grinding rep, dungeons and more dungeons became the focus of the game. We were also able to actually BUILD a character, and things looked promising enough that Blizzard might actually have the chance to redeem themselves.
Man, was I in for a surprise when MoP came out, which I'm pretty sure a mop is what they used as a template for this particular expansion. This legendary, mythical mop wasn't made of anything fancy, like polished, pressure treated oak, a handle made of Corinthian leather, a titanium reinforced head with gold lief, and appropriate mopping fabric material made from the finest imported silk that one would be proud to caress their nether-regions with after a hard day's work. That one just happened to be the high priced, maximum quality mop that was shown on the Home Shopping Network for just 8 easy payments of $99.95. Clearly, this was too rich for their blood. After rustling up the town drunkard, they gave him a 12 pack of Blatz, a jug of cheap wine, and a 6 pack of Natty Light, and set him to the task of finding a mop of this quality. But really, quality didn't matter, they really just needed a mop, and there weren't any good sales going on that particular year.
Several years later, the drunkard returned with a rake. "I couldn't *hic* remember what you were looking for, but didn't you say something about toilets? I think *hic* this is a plunger."
Swing and a miss, Blizzard. 3 for a valiant effort, though. After obtaining this artifact of non-descript antiquity, the development team went to work. Behind closed doors, they agreed that it was most likely a rake picked up out of a dumpster or maybe someone's toolshed that lived down the street. They weren't sure, but there was no turning back now. Best not to let the public know, they also agreed, lest The Almighty Wrath of Tom Selleck's Moustache rear its head again. One of the leads suggested that since it wasn't a mop, perhaps they could make the offcast drippings of churning a poop vat into a mediocre product that would suffice in temporarily plugging the gaping hole in a quickly sinking ship. But it would need to be concentrated.
What was released with Mists Of Pandaria was percolated fecal matter of the highest caliber. That wasn't even from the bowels of the unsuspecting public. This was from Blizzard's own septic tank, full of late night tacos, half-digested food from Grampy's Greasy Spoon Diner (home of the 1/2lb Grampyburger for 89 cents, cheese is 10 cents extra), and empty ketchup packets that had been chewed up by the family dog and evacuated onto a moderately expensive accent rug that had once decorated the lot of the local carwash for 15+ years.
This was progress. This was the trainwreck that everyone said would never happen. Sweet glory of Jesus this was specta
Statistically, most of the applicants are males, and not really too many attractive looking women of the opposite sex. Going to the mars mission is *probably* not going to get you laid, and you'll probably wind up mating every 7 years or so like the Vulcans. Or just using your hand. Even though I'm not one to point fingers, most of the applicants (men AND women) seem to be a little bit psychologically unstable. Quite frankly, I think I would rather be on a single person mission that results in being locked in a decaying orbit around neptune wherein I only have my own thoughts to drive me over the edge, and headfirst into the gaping void of insanity. That's just my two cents, though.
I wouldn't so much as call it a security chasm, as a slow descent into the fissure that is known to some ancient civilizations as The Crack Of Oblivion.
Map the human genome with a parallel database. The only "downtime" would be sequencing, but query times to test for different factors in a particular splice would be relatively short. The downside to this would be the amount of space required to group, and tie together relevant data. Something like this would probably be a start, which I still haven't gotten around to releasing in its entirety yet, given that I don't have much free time nowadays.
As a data analyst/software engineer, it makes me glad to see these kind of actual strides are being made to ensure that both data and software will eventually start being designed properly from their inception. To have a single cluster database with anything more than a few thousand entries is nothing short of incompetence, and I believe anyone who does this should be publicly shamed and flogged. When dealing with excessively large amounts of data, it quickly becomes a necessity to have a paralleled database design to ensure that searches aren't hampered by long query times. It genuinely makes me thrilled to see someone else use this kind of design other than me, so when I put out numbers on my end, maybe my results won't seem as fantastical or unbelievable. Even though I don't know you personally, keep up the good work, Todd.
http://tot-ltd.org/techinf.html
NSRL is also a pretty good site to get a comprehensive whitelist from. Best of all, the whitelist database is free, and used for forensic file analysis. The only mildly difficult part is sometimes keeping up with the release of new malware, but that's why I implement several other databases, including one based on API calls in known hostile applications. The really interesting thing with API groups, is that you can identify which piece of new malware most likely belongs to a specific family. So far, I've had no false positives on whitelisted files checked against the API database. ( http://www.tot-ltd.org/API )
Good luck with that, Councilman.
Is the fact that these competing antimalware companies do not openly publish and/or share detection methods or datasets. This ultimately does little more than give the users a false sense of security no matter which product is being used. What should be done (and what I've been attempting to do for quite some time) is to have a centralized/universal database of definitions, and from there, the real competition would be who, or what company can write the most effective *scanner*, thus benefiting the user, and weeding out ineffective coding practices, half-baked theories and groundless conjecture. To illustrate what I'm referring to, here are the datasets I maintain on a fairly regular basis. Keep in mind that 0-F is not an actual URL, but some of the datasets are defined as single characters, and sorted accordingly.
http://www.tot-ltd.org/blacklist/0-F/
http://www.tot-ltd.org/whitelist/0-F/
http://www.tot-ltd.org/API
http://www.tot-ltd.org/heuristics.dat
http://www.tot-ltd.org/installation.db
http://www.tot-ltd.org/packer.db
http://www.tot-ltd.org/files-wl/
http://www.tot-ltd.org/files-bl/
In the end, sure, there are several million files, but each specific group is only a few hundred bytes in size, which reduces a LOT of overhead and brings individual scantimes to near zero with a halfway decent connection speed. By doing this, a single scan is limited only by your hardware and internet latency.
There's no money to be made in fixing these "problems". However, there is a boatload of money to be made by offering treatments for these problems.
http://www.tot-ltd.org/API/
Actually, I did. But there's a lot of assmad ITT that needs to be quelled. I'll return in kind someday ;)
If you don't like the secureboot idea, THEN DON'T BUY PRODUCTS THAT INCLUDE IT. Seriously, not that difficult of a concept to understand.
I don't see what the issue is. If she wants to spend that much money on iPhones, let her.
Given that it seems about every other year, there's some sort of price fixing scheme that's discovered. Considering the price of LCD/Plasma/Flatscreens have never really come down that much from their original price when they first hit the market, it seems that this kind of news is more of a defacto standard we've come to expect from a capitalist scheme where every company that churns over profits whines about how poor they are. For the record, I'm not really a fan of HP either, considering their business model attempts to lock in consumers with half-assed printers and artifically high priced ink cartridges. As a side note, fining companies that rip off consumers is no way to handle the market in a reasonable, logical manner. If anything, these companies should be forced to pay a class action settlements to anyone who bought their products at artificially high prices. Then again, that might just be rewarding stupidity.
Give me the funding to take care of my basic bills, and I CAN create the internet's fully viable sentient "immune system" within three months of inception. I'm not even joking.
is that a vote outside of the mainstream two party system ends up being a wasted vote in the end. It has been this way since 1853. Get used to it.
Wait until they discover the universe *IS* the Higgs-Boson. Their so-called scientific "theories" and "methods" will be left in utter shambles in accordance with the prophecy. The stars fall from the sky and the heavens will be aligned, properly allowing the opening of The Dark Portal, which will allow The Ancients to be summoned from the other side of The Great Cosmic Divide, unleashing 10000 years of darkness upon the land and skies. Only then will The Keeper Of The Threshold be satisfied with a crop most bountiful. Pray that you will be eaten first. PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE EATEN FIRST.
If you think you're too old to learn something new, then it's not your age... it's your mindset. In which case, a career change would be inevitable anyways. If you're truly committed to what you do in a particular field, you grab the problem by the lapels and rape it into a state of perpetual subservience. With your experience, I hope that only one of your parents was a deep roller.
I've been working on this beast since around 2002.
.ocx files. As I have the free time, I'm currently working on a newer version that a lot more streamlined. Once it's done, TT Livescan should consume about half as many resources as it currently does, and run about 20%-25% faster. Also keep in mind that an internet connection of some kind is required in order to use TT Livescan.
http://www.tot-ltd.org/
http://www.tot-ltd.org/TT-Livescan-2011.rar
Technical information - http://www.tot-ltd.org/techinf.html
As a side note, you will need to manually install the dependencies if you're running Vista or 7. Run the command prompt as an administrator, then use regsvr32 as you normally would to register the
But wouldn't that be the purpose from the inception for a search engine provider to market its own services in the first place? Correct me if I'm wrong, but self-promotion is HOW MONEY IS MADE. And unless a competitor is offering Google more money than it would make from its own services in order to slant search results, I see this as pretty much a non-issue, in the same sense that you don't see one car dealership recommending the services of a competing dealership. That's now how this shit works in the real world. If this somehow upsets a competitor, then the competitor should be building a better product if they hope to compete and come out on top. If EU is actually going to so fine Google for promoting its own services... that it provides... FOR FREE... then perhaps they should also start going after companies that design products on store shelves that are too eye catching or colorful, and specifically targeting those companies AND corporations that allow these colorful, fancy (and sometimes superior quality) products to be placed at eye level in the supermarket.
Your mom is a virus. ;-)
This is why when I develop applications with VB6, if I'm not satisfied with the speed, I typically use ASM as a back engine, and have the main interface and said engine communicate back and forth via commandlines and/or files. It might not be the most elegant solution, but it works in terms of stability and usability.
That might be what they're saying, but that's probably not what actually transpired. Therein lies the difference.
Won't someone please think of the children?