Im with you on this - my problem is that every one has been pimped on games.slashdot.org If we wanted to read gamespy, we would go to www.gamespy.com.......
- using tunneling software to play games against friends directly (emulates a direct crossover cable via the internet) - try www.xbox-scene.com for 7 different flavours.
- run linux on the machine and connect it to the internet, then reboot the machine to play a game with the cable still plugged in... (it happens)
That being said, the clever move is to firewall the xbox off at your router from talking to any non-approved IP ranges to stop any 'accidents' happening....
But every once in a while, a great game such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic will come along, and be available only for Xbox...and I begin to reconsider.
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.
1960's timesharing has been reinvented!!!!
Woohoo!!!
Oh wait. *yawn*
They renamed it GRID computing and you all fell for it, *points and laughs* hahahahahahhahahahaha
Duncan3, if you are still laughing and pointing, go stand in front of a mirror. One word for you : WRONG!
Timesharing is multiple people/jobs connecting to one mainframe or computer and "sharing" the useage of that single computer. Grid computing (aka distributed computing) is sharing one job over multiple computers. Totally different concept, completely different target audience.
now how did it go again? Ah, thats right....
*points and laughs* hahahahahahahahahahahaha
(I have mod points, but there is no -1 WRONG.... so I decided to take the piss instead:D)
With all the changes to the language, I'm confused... are these kids from France or something? If so, how do they justify using the moniker "Warriors" ???
I'm not a fan of the DVD players you refer to, however the primary reason they are successful is due to battery life. A slimline standalone DVD player has enough juice for 8+ hrs of watching, compared to a laptops 3 hrs tops. For international flights I have a few colleagues who use and swear by portable DVD players, and carry them in in their laptop bags on all international trips.
An analogy is a screwdriver vs a swiss army knife - dedicated tools tend to do their job better, but lack flexibility.
Eve Of Destruction (EOD) is a BF1942 Vietnam mod that has been released - its up to version.12, or as they say its "12% of what they expect the final version to play like". I've been playing it for a week now and its an excellent mod - you can tell its still got rough edges, however some of the EOD specific maps are particularly good, with dense forest fighting (something that BF1942 has none of) and great vehicles. Bonus marks for the music on loading:). I'm not sure what this announcement will do to/for this mod - I'm hoping it doesn't stop the development of an outstanding mod. EOD is already quite playable and enjoyable - if EOD is complete before Battlefield Vietnam is released, it may severely impact sales of BFV.....
I'm surprised there was no mention of Americas Army in that article - I'm aware that the games primary focus is as a PR tool, however I would have thought it could also be used as an effective tool for training and simulation. Hell, even better on the PR angle, let the players who clock up 10+ hrs of AA per week that they can continue playing the game when they join up and it counts towards their training time, and watch them line up......
I agree with you on interaction with the current generation of electronic devices, but in future eye contact with "virtual people" will become a key driver. This is true in two arenas - in a 'virtual human' environment (ala Evercrack), and for interaction with computer generated faces (think the ads in Minority Report that look you in the eye, and talk directly to you using your name, and personally tailored messages)
Wondering if this study could shape some ideas in driving Video Conferencing technology - I know from my experiences the most offputting aspect of participating in VCs is people not looking at you while talking, due to the locations of monitors and cameras not synching.
As an aside, why was the link from the main page to the ScienceDaily web site, when the article clearly has a link to the original from Queens University ????
Slightly OT, but worth mentioning - Ive had a SS51g for 4 weeks now and it is perfect - P4, 2Gig of ram and an AGP port with an asus Ti4600 = a serious "real" PC, with a tiny form factor. Also really convenient for lanning, and garanteed to pull a crowd (the full-tower crew tends to shut up veeery quickly when you pop the top and they see what goodies are inside;)
The added convenience of being able to use all standard PC componentry, very quiet and efficient internal cooling (my biggest concern with the new machine) and more ports than you can poke a stick at make it the perfect machine IMHO.
Now there is the ability to Beam messages directly into peoples heads, its simple to get a beer - just beam "this is God - get your man a beer" into your loving wife/gf's head, and voila! And then after a few beers, well, you are all a creative bunch. I'll leave it up to you;)
The antigames links are down... and on their front page, the following message;
"This site has been taken down due to a denial service attack which keeps persisting, sorry for the incovenience"
My guess is the poor site admins have been slashdotted.... pretty much a DDOS for anyone not running an industrial strength server with serious bandwidth....
I'm in the process of building a DIY digital VCR. I personally feel it's the best way to get all the functionality I want, without being exposed to any issues like this. Bonus is the machine automatically encodes/plays to divX when it's not recording shows, so my collections are all nice and small:) Ethernet in the back of it connected to my other PCs also enables me to swap in/out files with ease.
I was thinking with his time in the industry this guy's got a claim at more than a few of the bounties at www.bountyquest.com (www.bountyquest.com) - and I hope noone else can claim based on his revelations!
Mindstorms is a great start - now all we need is the same technology embedded in Nerf guns, and I've finally got an excuse for ALL the toys on my desk at work:)
Telstra IS currently using a transparent proxy. But internal network traffic is not free for Telstra, so the only benefit is faster repeat-downloads inside the network.
Why is it that "globalisation" is a great thing for the (1st world) corperates and governments, but as soon as it means cutting in to artificially set profit structures, a new technology has to be implemented to prevent what is effectively "consumer globalisation"? If corperates really believe in globalisation then they have no reason to implement this technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Its 1998? Quick everyone, grab a low Slash UID!!!
Im with you on this - my problem is that every one has been pimped on games.slashdot.org If we wanted to read gamespy, we would go to www.gamespy.com .......
- using tunneling software to play games against friends directly (emulates a direct crossover cable via the internet) - try www.xbox-scene.com for 7 different flavours.
- run linux on the machine and connect it to the internet, then reboot the machine to play a game with the cable still plugged in... (it happens)
That being said, the clever move is to firewall the xbox off at your router from talking to any non-approved IP ranges to stop any 'accidents' happening....
But every once in a while, a great game such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic will come along, and be available only for Xbox...and I begin to reconsider.
... that being said, I got one ;)
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.
Timesharing is multiple people/jobs connecting to one mainframe or computer and "sharing" the useage of that single computer. Grid computing (aka distributed computing) is sharing one job over multiple computers. Totally different concept, completely different target audience.
now how did it go again? Ah, thats right....
*points and laughs* hahahahahahahahahahahaha
(I have mod points, but there is no -1 WRONG.... so I decided to take the piss instead
With all the changes to the language, I'm confused... are these kids from France or something? If so, how do they justify using the moniker "Warriors" ???
I'm not a fan of the DVD players you refer to, however the primary reason they are successful is due to battery life. A slimline standalone DVD player has enough juice for 8+ hrs of watching, compared to a laptops 3 hrs tops. For international flights I have a few colleagues who use and swear by portable DVD players, and carry them in in their laptop bags on all international trips.
An analogy is a screwdriver vs a swiss army knife - dedicated tools tend to do their job better, but lack flexibility.
Eve Of Destruction (EOD) is a BF1942 Vietnam mod that has been released - its up to version .12, or as they say its "12% of what they expect the final version to play like". I've been playing it for a week now and its an excellent mod - you can tell its still got rough edges, however some of the EOD specific maps are particularly good, with dense forest fighting (something that BF1942 has none of) and great vehicles. Bonus marks for the music on loading :). I'm not sure what this announcement will do to/for this mod - I'm hoping it doesn't stop the development of an outstanding mod. EOD is already quite playable and enjoyable - if EOD is complete before Battlefield Vietnam is released, it may severely impact sales of BFV.....
I'm surprised there was no mention of Americas Army in that article - I'm aware that the games primary focus is as a PR tool, however I would have thought it could also be used as an effective tool for training and simulation. Hell, even better on the PR angle, let the players who clock up 10+ hrs of AA per week that they can continue playing the game when they join up and it counts towards their training time, and watch them line up......
I don't know what hurts more, my ears or my eyes!
I agree with you on interaction with the current generation of electronic devices, but in future eye contact with "virtual people" will become a key driver. This is true in two arenas - in a 'virtual human' environment (ala Evercrack), and for interaction with computer generated faces (think the ads in Minority Report that look you in the eye, and talk directly to you using your name, and personally tailored messages)
Wondering if this study could shape some ideas in driving Video Conferencing technology - I know from my experiences the most offputting aspect of participating in VCs is people not looking at you while talking, due to the locations of monitors and cameras not synching.
As an aside, why was the link from the main page to the ScienceDaily web site, when the article clearly has a link to the original from Queens University ????
How long until we see a rival corperation bump off the author to get the work into the public domain quicker?
Slightly OT, but worth mentioning - Ive had a SS51g for 4 weeks now and it is perfect - P4, 2Gig of ram and an AGP port with an asus Ti4600 = a serious "real" PC, with a tiny form factor. Also really convenient for lanning, and garanteed to pull a crowd (the full-tower crew tends to shut up veeery quickly when you pop the top and they see what goodies are inside ;)
The added convenience of being able to use all standard PC componentry, very quiet and efficient internal cooling (my biggest concern with the new machine) and more ports than you can poke a stick at make it the perfect machine IMHO.
Now there is the ability to Beam messages directly into peoples heads, its simple to get a beer - just beam "this is God - get your man a beer" into your loving wife/gf's head, and voila! And then after a few beers, well, you are all a creative bunch. I'll leave it up to you ;)
The antigames links are down... and on their front page, the following message;
"This site has been taken down due to a denial service attack which keeps persisting, sorry for the incovenience"
My guess is the poor site admins have been slashdotted.... pretty much a DDOS for anyone not running an industrial strength server with serious bandwidth....
I'm in the process of building a DIY digital VCR. I personally feel it's the best way to get all the functionality I want, without being exposed to any issues like this. Bonus is the machine automatically encodes/plays to divX when it's not recording shows, so my collections are all nice and small :) Ethernet in the back of it connected to my other PCs also enables me to swap in/out files with ease.
I was thinking with his time in the industry this guy's got a claim at more than a few of the bounties at www.bountyquest.com (www.bountyquest.com) - and I hope noone else can claim based on his revelations!
Mindstorms is a great start - now all we need is the same technology embedded in Nerf guns, and I've finally got an excuse for ALL the toys on my desk at work :)
Telstra IS currently using a transparent proxy. But internal network traffic is not free for Telstra, so the only benefit is faster repeat-downloads inside the network.
Why is it that "globalisation" is a great thing for the (1st world) corperates and governments, but as soon as it means cutting in to artificially set profit structures, a new technology has to be implemented to prevent what is effectively "consumer globalisation"? If corperates really believe in globalisation then they have no reason to implement this technology.