If you look at their status page, http://www.steampowered.com/status/status.h tml you will see that they have plenty of bandwidth available. The 'available' bandwidth is actually pretty accurate from what I've seen. They can pump out more than they're doing right now.
It asked you to try again long before it came onto slashdot.
They are intentionally throttling the number of downloaders for it because there is no great rush to make sure everyone has it right now (it won't be coming out for a few weeks at the very least, many retailers are speculating Nov. 1st, but I wouldn't hold much weight in their dates). They are throttling them because they don't want to degrade the quality of service for games already released on Steam (HL series of games).
Try again in a few days, and you'll be no worse off.
Who wants to bet that it is 3D Realms that is the unnamed licencesee? DNF has been in development for so long that I'm sure the engine has been scrapped multiple times. The Doom 3 engine should provide plenty of headroom, and I'm assuming that all of their content has been being made at high resolution anyways.
Then why not set the price point to where players get X number of free months until it equals the cost of the game.
For instance, say you charge $10/month and the game sells for $40. Include 4 free months, and you're set. Of course, I'm sure retailers are happy to sell 'bargain games', so is there really no way to set the initial price at $20 and include two months free?
Lots of companies use different manufacturers from time to time.
I had a second generation 2.4x DVD burnder from them. Turns out it was actually Ricoh than manufactured it. The thing was a piece of crap, burns would fail all of the time, not much would read it, et cetera. Finally I got fed up and found a trick for flashing it to be the Ricoh brand.
Ricoh's site had 3-4 versions after the version of firmware that Sony offered. A relatively simple trick switched it over and it's been working great ever since.
TMBG was one of the really early adopters of Emusic.com's service which was around long before iTunes and the new Napster. They even released an Emusic-only album.
It looks like they're using some company named "Back Office Music" to provide the actual payment/delivery system. It would be interesting to know what kind of a cut they take for this service.
Correct. The reason VT wasn't on the most recent top 500 supercomputers list was that they were still bringing in the XServes. Less heat, less space, and ECC memory.
I concur...on top of that, do you really want your keyboard distracting you if you don't ever look at it? On top of that, even if you did need to look down from time to time, the only time you wouldn't be able to see it is at night (and even then, your monitor would probably illuminate it enough).
You shouldn't be using a computer in the dark anyways, the contrast between the sceen and the wall is far too high. It hurts your vision.
Exactly, I2 is used 'automagically'...when you are connecting to someone else on I2. This application does nothing more than restrict users to those actually on the Internet2 backbone.
No offense, but you clearly just skimmed the last article on iTunes and then regurgitated it and added a bit without actually knowing what you're talking about. A Windows version of iTunes has been out for quite some time.
From my experience, textbooks were rarely more than 6-7 years old. I think that is the cycle they tend to replace them on (every 5 years or so). My AP Chemistry textbook only went back about 5-6 years, and my teacher was looking through the available selection in order to choose which book to use for the future.
I can't imagine the shape my textbooks would have been if they were even 15 years old.
Well, obviously you adjust your encryption to what you think people will be throwing at it. That goes without saying.
Like it said, the next one is not expected to be cracked for some time because it is far more complicated to brute force.
If it's valuable- determine how valuable it is to others, and encrypt based on that plus some.
For instance, this would work fine for credit cards, seeing as the cost of cracking the number would be far greater than the cost of processing power. Most of the time, however, it is far easier to avoid encryption altogether and hit those who do not bother.
The cost of bandwidth and time to send to Gmail would be far more than tapes or hard drives.
There is a 10MB/attachment max, I believe. If you're talking warez, you'd have to be giving people access to the password, at which point someone will delete the files or just change the password.
This new format can be written using even a normal CD-R in under 5 seconds. The procedure works on pretty much any DVD #$%!!!GODDAMMIT!$#&*@!!!+R burner from any company; to record, simply:
- Place CD-R or DVD-R/+R disc into microwave. - Set DVD #$%!!!GODDAMMIT!$#&*@!!!+R burn time to 5 seconds. - Press "Start" or "Begin" to start the burning process.
Some major game companies are already using Ogg Vorbis for sound. Others have used MP3, but why pay the royalties if the end-user can't tell the difference (and indeed, you would be paying more for less).
Of course, PC game cut-scenes are going less and less from video files to actually in-game scenes.
Don't forget quite a few other companies seem to use Clevo too...or at least the same cases... If you remember Liebermann Computers (a lot of people thought they might be a hoax with some of their products), even their laptops look the same.
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I wouldn't exactly call it a slashdotting.
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If you look at their status page,
http://www.steampowered.com/status/status.
you will see that they have plenty of bandwidth available. The 'available' bandwidth is actually pretty accurate from what I've seen. They can pump out more than they're doing right now.
It asked you to try again long before it came onto slashdot.
They are intentionally throttling the number of downloaders for it because there is no great rush to make sure everyone has it right now (it won't be coming out for a few weeks at the very least, many retailers are speculating Nov. 1st, but I wouldn't hold much weight in their dates). They are throttling them because they don't want to degrade the quality of service for games already released on Steam (HL series of games).
Try again in a few days, and you'll be no worse off.
I was about to copy that URL into my browser, but then I realized I didn't have a copy nor a paste hotkey.
Who wants to bet that it is 3D Realms that is the unnamed licencesee? DNF has been in development for so long that I'm sure the engine has been scrapped multiple times. The Doom 3 engine should provide plenty of headroom, and I'm assuming that all of their content has been being made at high resolution anyways.
Makse sense to me...
Then why not set the price point to where players get X number of free months until it equals the cost of the game.
For instance, say you charge $10/month and the game sells for $40. Include 4 free months, and you're set. Of course, I'm sure retailers are happy to sell 'bargain games', so is there really no way to set the initial price at $20 and include two months free?
Lots of companies use different manufacturers from time to time.
I had a second generation 2.4x DVD burnder from them. Turns out it was actually Ricoh than manufactured it. The thing was a piece of crap, burns would fail all of the time, not much would read it, et cetera. Finally I got fed up and found a trick for flashing it to be the Ricoh brand.
Ricoh's site had 3-4 versions after the version of firmware that Sony offered. A relatively simple trick switched it over and it's been working great ever since.
TMBG was one of the really early adopters of Emusic.com's service which was around long before iTunes and the new Napster. They even released an Emusic-only album.
It looks like they're using some company named "Back Office Music" to provide the actual payment/delivery system. It would be interesting to know what kind of a cut they take for this service.
Correct. The reason VT wasn't on the most recent top 500 supercomputers list was that they were still bringing in the XServes. Less heat, less space, and ECC memory.
Yes, but I'm just a simple caveman...your modern world frightens and confuses me!
I would have replied sooner, but I was still trying to add those two numbers without a calculator.
I think the answer is 124.
I concur...on top of that, do you really want your keyboard distracting you if you don't ever look at it? On top of that, even if you did need to look down from time to time, the only time you wouldn't be able to see it is at night (and even then, your monitor would probably illuminate it enough).
You shouldn't be using a computer in the dark anyways, the contrast between the sceen and the wall is far too high. It hurts your vision.
Exactly, I2 is used 'automagically'...when you are connecting to someone else on I2. This application does nothing more than restrict users to those actually on the Internet2 backbone.
Nothing more, nothing less.
No offense, but you clearly just skimmed the last article on iTunes and then regurgitated it and added a bit without actually knowing what you're talking about. A Windows version of iTunes has been out for quite some time.
From my experience, textbooks were rarely more than 6-7 years old. I think that is the cycle they tend to replace them on (every 5 years or so). My AP Chemistry textbook only went back about 5-6 years, and my teacher was looking through the available selection in order to choose which book to use for the future.
I can't imagine the shape my textbooks would have been if they were even 15 years old.
The cycle continues...(this is really not supposed to be funny).
Well, obviously you adjust your encryption to what you think people will be throwing at it. That goes without saying.
Like it said, the next one is not expected to be cracked for some time because it is far more complicated to brute force.
If it's valuable- determine how valuable it is to others, and encrypt based on that plus some.
For instance, this would work fine for credit cards, seeing as the cost of cracking the number would be far greater than the cost of processing power. Most of the time, however, it is far easier to avoid encryption altogether and hit those who do not bother.
Oh, come now. You don't think Google would be able to catch ~50 seperate emails each containing files just 10MB being forwarded all over the place?
Your scheme works fine in theory, any number of fairly simple checks make it infeasible.
With all of the tracking and saving of messages they will be doing, how smart is it to even attempt something like this?
The cost of bandwidth and time to send to Gmail would be far more than tapes or hard drives.
There is a 10MB/attachment max, I believe. If you're talking warez, you'd have to be giving people access to the password, at which point someone will delete the files or just change the password.
Change the title to: "Are Computers Able to Verify Mathematical Proofs Beyond All Doubt?"
Yeah...or what about calling him a coward?
I keep seeing things about him being French...
I concur, reading /. is much more productive.
This new format can be written using even a normal CD-R in under 5 seconds. The procedure works on pretty much any DVD #$%!!!GODDAMMIT!$#&*@!!!+R burner from any company; to record, simply:
- Place CD-R or DVD-R/+R disc into microwave.
- Set DVD #$%!!!GODDAMMIT!$#&*@!!!+R burn time to 5 seconds.
- Press "Start" or "Begin" to start the burning process.
Some major game companies are already using Ogg Vorbis for sound. Others have used MP3, but why pay the royalties if the end-user can't tell the difference (and indeed, you would be paying more for less).
Of course, PC game cut-scenes are going less and less from video files to actually in-game scenes.
yes, but what happens when I ONLY want to SEE your gibs covering those sunflowers?
Don't forget quite a few other companies seem to use Clevo too...or at least the same cases...
If you remember Liebermann Computers (a lot of people thought they might be a hoax with some of their products), even their laptops look the same.
Alienware also looks the same.