WoW used to do this. You'd lose honor for killing low level players and npc's. Not sure why they changed this. WoW these days is - help me if you are around, if not - better switch characters while someone camps your corpse.
Lineage 2 has a system in place to prevent people from killing low level players. You lose karma, and if you lose enough (3-4 dishonorable kills - I forget...) people can take your hard earned epics when you die and guards from cities will attack you.
Best/easiest way to disable gameguard? Load it on 64 bit windows. Patchguard won't let it patch the kernel, so while it loads - it can't do anything against cheating. So if you are a hacker or botter - get Windows X64 and have at it.
No doubt about it - it is a rootkit. On 32 bit machine I've watched it read window titles, intercept I/O - stuff like that. One of the ways around gameguard on 32 bit machine is to build a rootkit that sits below it.
They should find it valuable. Having done technical support for a number of years on the front lines I was always amazed by the amount of contempt the parent company treated us - especially as we did the vast majority of their PR work for them.
Yes... the sods doing technical support for 350$ a month (or less) in India are often the first people they will ever contact and talk to from your company.
CS3 doesn't use safecast - it uses Flexnet (vmware, autodesk etc - use the same tech). Now CS2 did use safecast.
Not that it matters - Flexnet stores security info on track 0 as well. Flexnet is however a bit better because safecast didn't work as a restricted user.
Having supported a lot of adobe apps before they moved a good chunk of their support to India - many updates, patches or new versions of OSX broke little things, and sometimes big things (printing is a good example). Not sure if Apple changed the way api's work or whatever - but it happened. Oddly enough I really can't think of a single version of Windows or Windows updates or service packs that broke any Adobe apps (probably because Microsoft - unlike Apple used to test Adobe apps in their internal QA departments - honestly not flaming or anything, this just happens to be true!).
Anyhow its a moot point. When CS5 comes out - CS3 will be eol'd for ALL Mac/Windows users since they only support current version and one version back (yes - read the support agreement...) - so if it still works - great, if not - they have a pretty good deal on upgrades for current users - even if you purchased in volume.
Having been to England a bunch of times its really strange. Petrol is sold by the liter, but the cars it goes into the odometer, speedometer is mph.
Grocery stores sometimes list the metric weight or SI, or both - I guess it depends where the product came from. Maps, GPS and distance seems to be measured dependent on what mode of transport you are using.
You know there's oil inside electric cars right? Oil is used in lubrication and in those rather large transformers you see in the telephone poles around your neighborhood.
Sorry, but I use a Mac (typing on one now) and to be honest it has as many ui annoyances as Windows does - maybe even more. Its online help is awful, it has a hard time remembering window positions and views and its horribly non intuitive. I remember once I accidentally clicked away on a save dialogue when it popped up "file already exists" - getting that window back to the front was nearly impossible.
That said - its the only mainstream OS that I think is mature enough to actually compete with Windows since it has applications people actually want to use - shame it only runs on drm laden machines made by Apple. Steve had it right strangely and people made fun of him - it really is the developers who make it all come together.
That's nice for anyone who buys another one;). I still think its retarded.
Its not a pinky away btw - the *only* control button is on the left hand side of the keyboard and I use the touchpad with my right hand. So yes - I have to mouse with two hands on my mac powerbook.
The commission regulates telephone companies (wire and cellular) and competition between those companies - so its well within their right to ask these kinds of questions and get answers.
I've run into this on closed source internal projects - the difference is you rarely see the emails in public. Most developers take crucial app breaking bugs as a personal affront to their skill or ability, where in reality its just the way things work in big projects. In other words - every product out there has loads of awful bugs, please get over yourself and help me fix them.
I think the jury is still out on whether its safe or not - and most evidence so far suggests its actually safer. I know if traffic is crawling along it seems safe enough to me - the biggest problem is being cut off by arse holes who are pissed off you're filtering through traffic despite the fact they are sitting there.
I know in the UK you can only do it when traffic is flowing below a certain speed, and that they ask you questions about it if you are getting a regular drivers license (yes - hard to believe they'd want drivers of cars to be aware of motorcycles) - of course license requirements there are much much more stringent than they are in the USA.
Thing is - on a hot day sitting on a hot bike in full gear (its like wearing your fur coat to the beach...) not moving can be really miserable. It can contribute to fatigue, bike failure - all kinds of stuff that I would figure would be more dangerous to traffic than filtering.
I think its fair to single Apple out because of their hard line on applications - many of these decisions have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BASEBAND DEVICE (which is why a lot of people are unlocking them)! I can run ad-hoc applications on my Symbian device (nokia n95 - yeah its old), java, flash, developer tools and even emulators for the Nintendo/C64 - devices that access the phone itself have to be signed with a special developer key (from what I understand), but that's it. I don't know about iphone's really (only seen them in the ads), but my smartphone is every way as flexible as my PDA (sans the touchscreen sadly....) - it will let me do anything and run anything and connect to anything.
I can even run skype and some other voip apps on it - which have been banned on the iphone (thats what I understand from reading slashdot - feel free to correct me).
The corporations would just do a cost benefit analysis and figure out how much it really costs if a plane is taken over by fanatical terrorists and then provide the minimum amount of security necessary to financially mitigate that risk.
There still is a public concern over this actually - for instance what if a guy wanted to fly a plane into a populated area or building?
I'm sure it depends - first time in my life I ever saw a cop carrying a sub-machine gun was in London - granted it was at the outside gate of parliament, but he was definitely a police man.
Still surprising though - that NASA themselves didn't realize they pulled off the greatest journey in mankind's history, and didn't feel it was necessary to save the recording.
There's really nothing all that spectacular about the game in my opinion. So far from all the closed betas all comments about how the client works, how the controls work etc have been ignored (it doesn't have any camera options for example, and it will not let you map any mouse buttons). It really seems the game is fully in Korea's control, and the US distributor (NCSoft WEST) has little to no control over the actual game system.
Every single quest - every single one was an incomprehensible request to collect x amount of rare drop, or y amount of monsters - no variety what-so-ever - and none of the quests actually have anything to do with lore until you reach level 10 and start working on your sub class quest, and even then the writing is atrocious.
The combat system borrows from FFO where you have skill chain combo's, and who gets to loot the monster is purely based on who damages it more - prepare to be griefed a lot by DPS classes anyone who dares play a healer or a tank.
Flight is incredibly lame. Not only is it on a timer (which means when you're "tired" you'll either glide down or fall to your death), but there are visblocks in places that you can't fly - not even WoW has this in places you are allowed to fly. The other thing - one of the core materials to collect Aether is only in the sky - one forum post commented it was "the mmo equivalent of cutting yourself".
You'd think in 20 years of multiplayer rpg games there would be something more revolutionary come along, but no Aion isn't it.
It means 41% of IT people ARE going to deploy it, and that is a lot of machines.
I imagine btw - the headline for this if this were Linux would be - 41% of companies will deploy Unbuntu next year and it would be a wonderful thing. Flame away.
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WoW used to do this. You'd lose honor for killing low level players and npc's. Not sure why they changed this. WoW these days is - help me if you are around, if not - better switch characters while someone camps your corpse.
Lineage 2 has a system in place to prevent people from killing low level players. You lose karma, and if you lose enough (3-4 dishonorable kills - I forget...) people can take your hard earned epics when you die and guards from cities will attack you.
Best/easiest way to disable gameguard? Load it on 64 bit windows. Patchguard won't let it patch the kernel, so while it loads - it can't do anything against cheating. So if you are a hacker or botter - get Windows X64 and have at it.
No doubt about it - it is a rootkit. On 32 bit machine I've watched it read window titles, intercept I/O - stuff like that. One of the ways around gameguard on 32 bit machine is to build a rootkit that sits below it.
They should find it valuable. Having done technical support for a number of years on the front lines I was always amazed by the amount of contempt the parent company treated us - especially as we did the vast majority of their PR work for them.
Yes... the sods doing technical support for 350$ a month (or less) in India are often the first people they will ever contact and talk to from your company.
CS3 doesn't use safecast - it uses Flexnet (vmware, autodesk etc - use the same tech). Now CS2 did use safecast.
Not that it matters - Flexnet stores security info on track 0 as well. Flexnet is however a bit better because safecast didn't work as a restricted user.
Having supported a lot of adobe apps before they moved a good chunk of their support to India - many updates, patches or new versions of OSX broke little things, and sometimes big things (printing is a good example). Not sure if Apple changed the way api's work or whatever - but it happened. Oddly enough I really can't think of a single version of Windows or Windows updates or service packs that broke any Adobe apps (probably because Microsoft - unlike Apple used to test Adobe apps in their internal QA departments - honestly not flaming or anything, this just happens to be true!).
Anyhow its a moot point. When CS5 comes out - CS3 will be eol'd for ALL Mac/Windows users since they only support current version and one version back (yes - read the support agreement...) - so if it still works - great, if not - they have a pretty good deal on upgrades for current users - even if you purchased in volume.
Cry me a river...
Having been to England a bunch of times its really strange. Petrol is sold by the liter, but the cars it goes into the odometer, speedometer is mph.
Grocery stores sometimes list the metric weight or SI, or both - I guess it depends where the product came from. Maps, GPS and distance seems to be measured dependent on what mode of transport you are using.
You know there's oil inside electric cars right? Oil is used in lubrication and in those rather large transformers you see in the telephone poles around your neighborhood.
finder?
Sorry, but I use a Mac (typing on one now) and to be honest it has as many ui annoyances as Windows does - maybe even more. Its online help is awful, it has a hard time remembering window positions and views and its horribly non intuitive. I remember once I accidentally clicked away on a save dialogue when it popped up "file already exists" - getting that window back to the front was nearly impossible.
That said - its the only mainstream OS that I think is mature enough to actually compete with Windows since it has applications people actually want to use - shame it only runs on drm laden machines made by Apple. Steve had it right strangely and people made fun of him - it really is the developers who make it all come together.
Proof?
puncture repair kit on standby...
That's nice for anyone who buys another one ;). I still think its retarded.
Its not a pinky away btw - the *only* control button is on the left hand side of the keyboard and I use the touchpad with my right hand. So yes - I have to mouse with two hands on my mac powerbook.
It's 12% in Oregon :(.
The laptops still have only one button - I have one still, but its the one reason I'll never get another one.
The commission regulates telephone companies (wire and cellular) and competition between those companies - so its well within their right to ask these kinds of questions and get answers.
I've run into this on closed source internal projects - the difference is you rarely see the emails in public. Most developers take crucial app breaking bugs as a personal affront to their skill or ability, where in reality its just the way things work in big projects. In other words - every product out there has loads of awful bugs, please get over yourself and help me fix them.
I think the jury is still out on whether its safe or not - and most evidence so far suggests its actually safer. I know if traffic is crawling along it seems safe enough to me - the biggest problem is being cut off by arse holes who are pissed off you're filtering through traffic despite the fact they are sitting there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_splitting#Relevant_research
I know in the UK you can only do it when traffic is flowing below a certain speed, and that they ask you questions about it if you are getting a regular drivers license (yes - hard to believe they'd want drivers of cars to be aware of motorcycles) - of course license requirements there are much much more stringent than they are in the USA.
Thing is - on a hot day sitting on a hot bike in full gear (its like wearing your fur coat to the beach...) not moving can be really miserable. It can contribute to fatigue, bike failure - all kinds of stuff that I would figure would be more dangerous to traffic than filtering.
I think its fair to single Apple out because of their hard line on applications - many of these decisions have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BASEBAND DEVICE (which is why a lot of people are unlocking them)! I can run ad-hoc applications on my Symbian device (nokia n95 - yeah its old), java, flash, developer tools and even emulators for the Nintendo/C64 - devices that access the phone itself have to be signed with a special developer key (from what I understand), but that's it. I don't know about iphone's really (only seen them in the ads), but my smartphone is every way as flexible as my PDA (sans the touchscreen sadly....) - it will let me do anything and run anything and connect to anything.
I can even run skype and some other voip apps on it - which have been banned on the iphone (thats what I understand from reading slashdot - feel free to correct me).
The corporations would just do a cost benefit analysis and figure out how much it really costs if a plane is taken over by fanatical terrorists and then provide the minimum amount of security necessary to financially mitigate that risk.
There still is a public concern over this actually - for instance what if a guy wanted to fly a plane into a populated area or building?
I'm sure it depends - first time in my life I ever saw a cop carrying a sub-machine gun was in London - granted it was at the outside gate of parliament, but he was definitely a police man.
Still surprising though - that NASA themselves didn't realize they pulled off the greatest journey in mankind's history, and didn't feel it was necessary to save the recording.
There's really nothing all that spectacular about the game in my opinion. So far from all the closed betas all comments about how the client works, how the controls work etc have been ignored (it doesn't have any camera options for example, and it will not let you map any mouse buttons). It really seems the game is fully in Korea's control, and the US distributor (NCSoft WEST) has little to no control over the actual game system.
Every single quest - every single one was an incomprehensible request to collect x amount of rare drop, or y amount of monsters - no variety what-so-ever - and none of the quests actually have anything to do with lore until you reach level 10 and start working on your sub class quest, and even then the writing is atrocious.
The combat system borrows from FFO where you have skill chain combo's, and who gets to loot the monster is purely based on who damages it more - prepare to be griefed a lot by DPS classes anyone who dares play a healer or a tank.
Flight is incredibly lame. Not only is it on a timer (which means when you're "tired" you'll either glide down or fall to your death), but there are visblocks in places that you can't fly - not even WoW has this in places you are allowed to fly. The other thing - one of the core materials to collect Aether is only in the sky - one forum post commented it was "the mmo equivalent of cutting yourself".
You'd think in 20 years of multiplayer rpg games there would be something more revolutionary come along, but no Aion isn't it.
It means 41% of IT people ARE going to deploy it, and that is a lot of machines.
I imagine btw - the headline for this if this were Linux would be - 41% of companies will deploy Unbuntu next year and it would be a wonderful thing. Flame away.
Knowing apple its going to be proprietary :).