Punkbuster is clean. It was created by a bunch of gamers tired of griefers ruining their fun in FPSes. IIRC The Punkbuster guys have been hired by a few FPS publishing companies to help build Punkbuster support directly into some newer FPSes.
So yeah, I'd let them get it. From what I remember from Penny-Arcade.com's discussion on the matter, it really does improve the experience.
Installing Firefox requires downloading an unsigned binary from a random web server
Installing unsigned extensions is the default action in the Extensions dialog
There is no way to check the signature on downloaded program files
There is no obvious way to turn off plug-ins once they are installed
There is an easy way to bypass the "This might be a virus" dialog
1. Off an official website, hashed, with checksums to make sure you're safe.
2. No, it's not.
3. Yes, there is. There are several internet standards, including MD5 hashing. Question -- why doesn't Firefox show the MD5 has automatically for any files it finishes downloading (in the download box?) Perhaps some good can come from this troll for hire.
4. Just because he didn't look doesn't mean there isn't a way.
5. As opposed to all the multitude of ways IE spyware can bypass user intervention alltogether? Right.
I wish I could get paid to troll the intarweb. Maybe Somethingawful's hiring.:P
Think bigger. Think "Sorry you didn't register with real information, Mr. Nigerian_Prince_4413. You lose your domain."
Gamespot says 90 minutes in real life tests
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· Score: 5, Informative
Accordig to reports from Gamespot, the battery lasts approximately an hour and a half to 3 hours playing a complex 3d game like Ridge Racer. The benchmarks from Sony apparently come from using non-graphically intense, small games that don't require much CPU, VPU, or disc read time.
Sony did similar things when they were releasing benchmarks of the Playstation 2 -- they turned off all lights in the room, and rendered a black triangle polygon in a black room. The numbers were amazing. But they weren't real at all.
So yeah. PSP Battery Life: 90 minutes. This drops further if you enable WIFI.
Q: How long does the PSP's battery last?
A: The short answer is that it depends on what you're doing. The longer answer is that Sony has stated that the battery should last around six hours. With simpler-looking games, like Lumines or Mahjong Fight Club, that definitely seems to be the case. But with more graphically intensive games, like Ridge Racers, the battery doesn't last quite as long. Based on our estimates and a few battery-draining tests, Ridge Racers seems to last somewhere between 90 minutes and three hours. Playing with the wireless networking switch flipped on will also further reduce your battery life. The system has an auto-sleep function that stops the wireless drain, but that switch is there for a reason. Turn it off when you're not using it.
You heard wrong. Even by Sony's inflated estimates, when they will even give an answer, it's 4-6. In reality it'll probably be closer to 1-2.
A recent public showing of the PSP (at TGS) had Sony reps being caught swapping batteries on the PSP every 2 hours to avoid the battery warning light coming on.
The absolute best art learning book I've ever seen is "[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ -/0874774241/qid=1100569243/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/10 2-9640388-0042521?v=glance&s=books&n=507846]Drawin g on the Right Side of the Brain[/url]" by [url=http://www.drawright.com/]Dr. Betty Edwards[/url]. It teaches "how to see" instead of "how to draw"... rather, instead of saying "see this? draw it. keep going, eventually you'll figure it out. Maybe"; it teaches you how to start seeing the same way artists see (which is ultimately what allows people to draw well).
I highly reccomend it. The before and after images are just asounding -- in just 5 days Dr. Edwards' students show simply AMAZING progress.
>>If they don't want to sell things at the lowest-price, then they shouldn't pledge to. Problem solved. But of course, that's no good, because what they really want is to give people the perception that they can get things for the lowest prices, without actually following through on it. My heart bleeds for them.
There's a huge difference between lowest price promises and having to undercut the entire internet.
Every local store here specifically states their lowest price HAS to be in a published, printed paper -- like a local ad. No printouts. Why? Because Internet stores don't have to have staff, a brick and mortar, etc. If I buy up 10,000 300GB HDDs at rock bottom prices and resell them online at $150, I could make a profit if I was lucky enough to get them for a low enough price. Bestbuy could do something similar, but they have to pay workers, location rent, advertisment, etc. Their overhead prevents them from effectively price-matching those types of stores -- but you get the benefit of being able to return it, being able to punch the blue-shirt in the face if they won't, etc.
There is no way they should be expected to price-match some random twit with a garage and a website. Especially when any other random twit could just, make a fake printout and come in.
>>On the other hand I just shutdown my EQ1 account after the announcement that despite Beta tester's please they decided to rush it out the door. And decided to not follow through with my preorder of EQ2.
You mean the people playing it for free got upset that they were suddenly going to charge them for it? Gosh Gee Wilickers Batman, what a complete shock.;)
I will admit it's a bit early, but, lets be honest -- most people complaining just don't want to have to start over and start paying.
Release something that's really cool and geeky, and we'll get back to you.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned XM fighting tooth and nail and lawsuit against that poor bastard who rigged up something like this XM MyFI thing with a connector cable and a recording program on his computer. Was on Slashdot YRO a few months ago...
The theory was that if MS controls the client, they can influence other things.
Here are the two ideas:
If MS controlls the browser 99% of people use, then they can change the HTML spec at will. Add a few MS only extensions, a few "nifty things" that other browsers can't do, like pipelining and activex. The theory is that people will be stuck with your OS, your web editor, your browser, and -- possibly -- your Server, all because somewhere down the line it becomes too painful NOT to.
The other theory is the ActiveX thing. If the browser becomes a platform for actual programs, for example web based games, shopping systems, etc, then people are going to be locked in to that format if they are going to want to go to that website. So if they can sucker enough programmers into using ActiveX or some other MS-extended mess, then the users are going to be stuck with IE in order to view that content. Of course, how do they keep the programmers stuck using ActiveX? By suckering enough users to use IE in the first place. Fortunately, PHP, Java, and the general suckyness of ActiveX kinda stopped that in it's tracks.
Then of course, you can make these things patiented, and prevent other people from even trying to beat you at your own game.
So yeah. The idea of MS losing a good 50% or market share -- which is very much a real possibility, since most tech grunts who work at ISPs *MUCH* prefer customers who don't use Outlook and IE (MUCH MUCH easier calls) is a good thing, because it will have a snowball effect.
And who's to say the barcode has to line up with what it prints in plain english? If I were going to fix an election, I'd let the voter walk away thinking he picked whoever he wanted, then just credit it as a count for my guy. And I'd keep it EXTREMELY close, but just barely over the margin of error.
Come to think of it, *IS* Linus running this year?;)
The problem is most of the internet is payed for in part by the monthly fees the general public pays to get online. If there's no money to be made in it, the majority of the networks out there (including some of the backbone servers) will pack up and go home.
I donno. It's already a pain in the ass to find anything generic on Google, Yahoo, what have you. Instead you get a thousand and one fake "Search Engine" sites, that have googlebombed their way up the rankings. It works for very, VERY specific querys still, but even then, you'll get at least 1 page in the top 10 that's like www.findsearchmonkey-hotwomansex-freetvfreesatteli tefreecabletv-makemoneynow.com/.html
Email is slowly going the way of Usenet -- there's discussion going on, but there's a lot more junk than discussion. Eventually Email will be that crazy thing those old time geeks use, while everyone else uses, well, something else.
So if you can't communicate because of spam, and you can't find anything because of spam, then it becomes a pain in the ass to use the Internet, and that's what he means by Public Pain Threshold. When the general public decides that it's too big of a pain in the ass to do anything on the Internet, the Internet will start to shrink.
I read part of the article, I'm glad to hear it won't cause interference. But then again, 2.4 ghz phones do now, so I imagine 5.2 ghz phones will screw up WiMAX.
And yes, it's Line of Sight for our Wireless.
You know, you don't have to be such a typical abrasive Republican.:P
My proof is the fact that every major media outlet has given Bush a free ride for his entire presidency. Doesn't take a genius to realize something's up when Bush can get away with cutting soldiers pay, sending them to combat without armor for their vehicles and bodies, and cutting veterain benifits... and still somehow be known in the media as being the one who supports the troops better.
1. Sony was swapping out the battery packs on the demo PSP units every 2 hours when they were finally shown live at TGS. They have also announced 2.5 hour battery life with constant disc reading. In other words -- if your game has music, levels, movies, or really anything in it bigger than the PSP's ram, it's going to have MUCH lower battery life than 6 hours.
2. There are no link cables for the DS, and the 8 hour battery life is assuming constant Wireless access (since the DS broadcasts and receives constantly while it's on).
3. Oh, they don't have anything TO be backwards compatable with. That's the problem. It's also a major advantage for Nintendo.
4. MP3s but only on Sony's proprietary Memory stick format, and movies only on their proprietary UMD format. Oh, and no UMD burners.
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Punkbuster is clean. It was created by a bunch of gamers tired of griefers ruining their fun in FPSes. IIRC The Punkbuster guys have been hired by a few FPS publishing companies to help build Punkbuster support directly into some newer FPSes.
So yeah, I'd let them get it. From what I remember from Penny-Arcade.com's discussion on the matter, it really does improve the experience.
1. Off an official website, hashed, with checksums to make sure you're safe.
2. No, it's not.
3. Yes, there is. There are several internet standards, including MD5 hashing. Question -- why doesn't Firefox show the MD5 has automatically for any files it finishes downloading (in the download box?) Perhaps some good can come from this troll for hire.
4. Just because he didn't look doesn't mean there isn't a way.
5. As opposed to all the multitude of ways IE spyware can bypass user intervention alltogether? Right.
I wish I could get paid to troll the intarweb. Maybe Somethingawful's hiring.
Think bigger. Think "Sorry you didn't register with real information, Mr. Nigerian_Prince_4413. You lose your domain."
Sony did similar things when they were releasing benchmarks of the Playstation 2 -- they turned off all lights in the room, and rendered a black triangle polygon in a black room. The numbers were amazing. But they weren't real at all.
So yeah. PSP Battery Life: 90 minutes. This drops further if you enable WIFI.
You heard wrong. Even by Sony's inflated estimates, when they will even give an answer, it's 4-6. In reality it'll probably be closer to 1-2.
A recent public showing of the PSP (at TGS) had Sony reps being caught swapping batteries on the PSP every 2 hours to avoid the battery warning light coming on.
Unfortunately, you linked to arcive.com, which is some right wing AOL hate monger's site. The correct link, of course, is www.archive.org.
AMD has no identity? Howso? Intel is copying AMD's archetecture, at least now anyways. I'd say that gives them a pretty good identity, myself. :)
Blah. When you post on enough webforums, you forget which ones are still living in the 1980s sometimes.
... Why oh why doesn't Slashdot have a edit button? ;)
The absolute best art learning book I've ever seen is "[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ -/0874774241/qid=1100569243/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/10 2-9640388-0042521?v=glance&s=books&n=507846]Drawin g on the Right Side of the Brain[/url]" by [url=http://www.drawright.com/]Dr. Betty Edwards[/url]. It teaches "how to see" instead of "how to draw"... rather, instead of saying "see this? draw it. keep going, eventually you'll figure it out. Maybe"; it teaches you how to start seeing the same way artists see (which is ultimately what allows people to draw well).
I highly reccomend it. The before and after images are just asounding -- in just 5 days Dr. Edwards' students show simply AMAZING progress.
>>If they don't want to sell things at the lowest-price, then they shouldn't pledge to. Problem solved. But of course, that's no good, because what they really want is to give people the perception that they can get things for the lowest prices, without actually following through on it. My heart bleeds for them.
There's a huge difference between lowest price promises and having to undercut the entire internet.
Every local store here specifically states their lowest price HAS to be in a published, printed paper -- like a local ad. No printouts. Why? Because Internet stores don't have to have staff, a brick and mortar, etc. If I buy up 10,000 300GB HDDs at rock bottom prices and resell them online at $150, I could make a profit if I was lucky enough to get them for a low enough price. Bestbuy could do something similar, but they have to pay workers, location rent, advertisment, etc. Their overhead prevents them from effectively price-matching those types of stores -- but you get the benefit of being able to return it, being able to punch the blue-shirt in the face if they won't, etc.
There is no way they should be expected to price-match some random twit with a garage and a website. Especially when any other random twit could just, make a fake printout and come in.
>>On the other hand I just shutdown my EQ1 account after the announcement that despite Beta tester's please they decided to rush it out the door. And decided to not follow through with my preorder of EQ2.
;)
You mean the people playing it for free got upset that they were suddenly going to charge them for it? Gosh Gee Wilickers Batman, what a complete shock.
I will admit it's a bit early, but, lets be honest -- most people complaining just don't want to have to start over and start paying.
Wow, I never knew that. The webmaster of electoral-vote.com is the same guy who was behind MINUX. Crazy! :D
-Insert stupid joke about Linus making electoral-vote.org here-
Release something that's really cool and geeky, and we'll get back to you.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned XM fighting tooth and nail and lawsuit against that poor bastard who rigged up something like this XM MyFI thing with a connector cable and a recording program on his computer. Was on Slashdot YRO a few months ago...
The theory was that if MS controls the client, they can influence other things.
Here are the two ideas:
If MS controlls the browser 99% of people use, then they can change the HTML spec at will. Add a few MS only extensions, a few "nifty things" that other browsers can't do, like pipelining and activex. The theory is that people will be stuck with your OS, your web editor, your browser, and -- possibly -- your Server, all because somewhere down the line it becomes too painful NOT to.
The other theory is the ActiveX thing. If the browser becomes a platform for actual programs, for example web based games, shopping systems, etc, then people are going to be locked in to that format if they are going to want to go to that website. So if they can sucker enough programmers into using ActiveX or some other MS-extended mess, then the users are going to be stuck with IE in order to view that content. Of course, how do they keep the programmers stuck using ActiveX? By suckering enough users to use IE in the first place. Fortunately, PHP, Java, and the general suckyness of ActiveX kinda stopped that in it's tracks.
Then of course, you can make these things patiented, and prevent other people from even trying to beat you at your own game.
So yeah. The idea of MS losing a good 50% or market share -- which is very much a real possibility, since most tech grunts who work at ISPs *MUCH* prefer customers who don't use Outlook and IE (MUCH MUCH easier calls) is a good thing, because it will have a snowball effect.
And who's to say the barcode has to line up with what it prints in plain english? If I were going to fix an election, I'd let the voter walk away thinking he picked whoever he wanted, then just credit it as a count for my guy. And I'd keep it EXTREMELY close, but just barely over the margin of error.
;)
Come to think of it, *IS* Linus running this year?
The problem is most of the internet is payed for in part by the monthly fees the general public pays to get online. If there's no money to be made in it, the majority of the networks out there (including some of the backbone servers) will pack up and go home.
Yeah, but NAT is it's own huge problem all on it's own. To really fix the problem, we need to move to IPv6, as soon as possible.
I donno. It's already a pain in the ass to find anything generic on Google, Yahoo, what have you. Instead you get a thousand and one fake "Search Engine" sites, that have googlebombed their way up the rankings. It works for very, VERY specific querys still, but even then, you'll get at least 1 page in the top 10 that's like www.findsearchmonkey-hotwomansex-freetvfreesatteli tefreecabletv-makemoneynow.com/.html
Email is slowly going the way of Usenet -- there's discussion going on, but there's a lot more junk than discussion. Eventually Email will be that crazy thing those old time geeks use, while everyone else uses, well, something else.
So if you can't communicate because of spam, and you can't find anything because of spam, then it becomes a pain in the ass to use the Internet, and that's what he means by Public Pain Threshold. When the general public decides that it's too big of a pain in the ass to do anything on the Internet, the Internet will start to shrink.
Sounds like a middle of the road Democrat to me. :)
I read part of the article, I'm glad to hear it won't cause interference. But then again, 2.4 ghz phones do now, so I imagine 5.2 ghz phones will screw up WiMAX.
:P
And yes, it's Line of Sight for our Wireless.
You know, you don't have to be such a typical abrasive Republican.
And you're a pompous right wing fascist. :)
My proof is the fact that every major media outlet has given Bush a free ride for his entire presidency. Doesn't take a genius to realize something's up when Bush can get away with cutting soldiers pay, sending them to combat without armor for their vehicles and bodies, and cutting veterain benifits... and still somehow be known in the media as being the one who supports the troops better.
1. Sony was swapping out the battery packs on the demo PSP units every 2 hours when they were finally shown live at TGS. They have also announced 2.5 hour battery life with constant disc reading. In other words -- if your game has music, levels, movies, or really anything in it bigger than the PSP's ram, it's going to have MUCH lower battery life than 6 hours.
2. There are no link cables for the DS, and the 8 hour battery life is assuming constant Wireless access (since the DS broadcasts and receives constantly while it's on).
3. Oh, they don't have anything TO be backwards compatable with. That's the problem. It's also a major advantage for Nintendo.
4. MP3s but only on Sony's proprietary Memory stick format, and movies only on their proprietary UMD format. Oh, and no UMD burners.
* 2 hour Battery Life
* No Wireless Multiplayer
* Unprotected Screen
* No Backwards Compatability
* Proprietary Music, Video formats
I'm not having ANY problems forgetting about it.