BF 1942 demo was 130 megs for me, dont know what you downloaded unless you are including the patch wich would be unfair sense I am sure it over writes things already in the original download, and evey game has patches, I hope. UT2003 will have a patch I am sure BF1942 demo just been out longer.
I find it amazing that a amateur found this. You would think that with all the money that must be spent by governments etc... that this kind of thing would be discovered by someone else first!
From the article An amateur astronomer may have found another moon of the Earth And It was discovered by Bill Yeung from his observatory in Arizona
Um I am not sure but I really cant belive what you are saying. Maybe the the mail server you used to send mail through was by DNS name called POP.DOMAIN.COM and you could send through it? Alot of ISPdo this, maybe cause they actully have 1 email server and like to make it look like seperate servers, so SMTP.DOMAIN.COM points to the same IP as POP.DOMAIN.COM. So in your email program you could just as well put either name in either smtp or pop3 server feild. and it will work. It used to be very common and still is in bigger ISP's to use seperate servers for POP and SMTP cause the POP3 protocal does not allow for sending mail, I belive it is that simple.
No matter what POP3 uses port 110 and SMTP uses port 25. might be what was happening was that as long as you checked mail first you were added to the allow ip list to send smtp mail, for a matter of 30 min or something. This is done alot also.
This is the reply I got from the email I sent to the email on the website of this article, and my rely back. Even though I understand what it is you are saying about the blacklist operators, I am totally on their side on this, I work for a ISp and have been working for ISP's for sometime now, The only way I can think to stop SPAM or to at least calm it down some is to hold the Mails server that send the SPAM liable for their actions. I don't see any problem with someone doing the test that you have a problem with, it is a simple test to see if the mail server is setup to send mail from anyone with their domain in the FROM field. Sense maybe you don't understand that most SPAM does use this to send mail through a mail server. I can remember when allot of this mess was first started. At first the ISP I used to work for used to let anyone forward mail through the mail server, Back then SPAM was not a problem. Then it did become a problem, first thing that we did was do what you are doing, only let mail coming from people with our domain in the FROM field forward mail, unfortunately that only work for a short time, people who send SPAM figured that out pretty fast. So then it became normal to only let the IPs that a ISP was responsible for send mail through the mail server. This does cause a headache for the ISP, I cant tell you how many people bought email services through us that where connected via another ISP's connection, and requested to have their IP range added to the allow list of the mail server. Today most ISP's do not provide for this, they just tell you to use the SMTP server of the people you are connected to directly, and still use their POP3 or IMAP server to get mail. We still do on occasion added others ip ranges to our list just to help though. With all the headaches this causes for the ISP, you better believe that I do stand behind the idea of stopping open relay's in hope that one day most SPAM will go away or that server will be a Banned list. Your mail server ports are BTW open to the whole internet, and don't think the people who send spam don't test mail servers constantly to see who allows the above problems. I do think that if you want to allow the world to send mail through your mail server that is fine with me, as long as I have the right to BAN that server from sending mail to me, if it is deemed a problem. The test you are referring to is the best way to find these problems and simply add the servers to that list. I guess you wont understand, But i really wish a service like this could be kept up and running even in the US and be let alone to do this test. I feel like you are wrong in this issue and really should just fix the problem. This really is a good idea. Please reconsider any ideas of suing or trying to cause problems for these companies, I find the service to be very valuable, and am afraid that you might do allot more harm than good.
Bret Fausett wrote: > > Thanks for the note. I'm sure you won't be surprised that I've received a > lot of comments about this article, not only from today's Slashdot post but > from when the article was originally printed in the magazine. Here's my > response to the original letters, printed in New Architect's current > edition: > > When it comes to mail administration, it appears I was > several years behind the curve. Since my mail server > software, circa 1996, had been purring along quietly > without problems since it was new, I had never upgraded > it to a version capable of a higher degree of authentication. > I'm also old enough to remember when an "open relay" was > a relay intentionally left open for anyone to use, not > one merely susceptible to misuse. Thanks to all of the > readers who wrote to bring me into the new millennium. > Both my software and my definition are now upgraded. > > At the same time, I labeled the blackhole list operators > "vigilantes" for good reason. It was always my understanding > that if you lie about your identity to gain access to > something that would be closed to you if you told the truth, > you've done something wrong. Thats true whether you intend > to send spam or prevent it. As vile as spam is, the ends > dont justify the means. Regardless of whether my mail > server used to be "open" or not, I stand by the legal > analysis that placed fault on the blackhole operators who > forged their identity. > > Aside from the proper definition of an "open relay," the point made in the > Slashdot introduction is at the heart of the problem with blackhole lists: > if we accept "blackholes" for spam, what will happen when ISPs are > strong-armed into blacklisting sites engaged in peer-to-peer file-sharing or > other things deemed "offensive" by a segment of the community? > > I plan to read to all of the messages that I received today in more detail > (and I'll try to respond to all of those that weren't intended as an insult. >;-) > > Thanks again for writing, > > Bret > > -- > Bret Fausett | fausett@lextext.com | http://www.lextext.com > Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft, LLP Los Angeles, California > __________________________________________________ _________ > > jeffd wrote: > > > Dude, not tring to be a jerk here, but you should just admit you were wrong > > and fix the problem. > > If you actully need help fixing your Open Relay, please let me know I will try > > to help. > > There are several ways to actully fix the problem, But allowing your server to > > send mail only from people with your domain name in > > thier email address is pretty bad.
What should he have done, well there are ways to do this, ISP's have been doing it for years. Block by IP address! and if you dont like that I think you can even use login name and password for SMTP, even though I have never used this.
the guy says from his article "You see, my mail servers were set up to pass mail only from a domain name of which I am the only user. It blocks everything else. That's not an open relay. Unless you're a user in my domain, you can't use it. " HAHAHAHAHAHA what a retard this guy is, so all you have to do is put in your email program, that your email address is from joeblow@hisdomain.com and his mail server passes it. a Spammer will never figure that out. People they figure that out along time ago. and that is why the Black list service checks this.
I for one think a email server should be responsible for the peopel that send mail from it. Maybe not legaly but I mean they should only been sending email from thier server that is from users that belong to that email server. that way email servers that send SPAM can actully do something about the spammers that send mail through it.
Needless to say this guy is a idiot and it does go to show you that people will belive him, even though he dont know what he is talking about.
Glad to see some people on here understand that his mail server is definitly a open relay though.
No such thing as a legal monopoly? In the USA there are monopolies everywhere! Duke Power where I live in NC is definitly a Legal Monopoly If I want to buy power I buy fromt hem in this city. Alot of cable companies in my eye are legal monoplies, they are granted right to be the only people in a certain area that can offer cable to make it work running the cable in the area. There are alot more examples of legal monopolies. To say there is no suck thing is crazy!
Hmmm I agree that the mag is a good read, I have only read maybe 5 issues though, so I cant say but what I have read and that was some time ago. Used to have a guy that worked with me work for them on the side. So got some mags a T shirt etc... I would order it for sure only thing is it makes me alittle nervous, in todays atmosphere I am waiting for hacking to get more and more looked into and dont want to give anyone a reason to come stiffing around my PC or internet transactions. The mag is not a bad as it sounds, teh hacking quarterly or whater dont sound good to people who dont uderstand what the mag is about they just think you are doing all the bad things they here about no the news.
I agree man, I have to be on call 24/7 in a sense, even when not on call I AM ON CALL, alot of people are like this, it simply doesnt make sense to say I am not able to be reached at all period for a couple hours, If I go on vacation it is different people know I am not able to be reached and others make sure they are more reachable etc... But I really dont want to have to call my supervisers evey time I go to a movie, They know they can page me and I wont get a page unless it is serious shit happening. I use Vibrate on my pager I thought any person that wasnt stupid would, and in a way I do want to know if all shit is really breaking lose at work, I take my job serious I guess, but again to say I am chained is nuts, it isnt that it happens alot, it is if it does I need to know about it.
Also what ever happen to people just getting told to leave a movie theater? I think maybe socitiey is alittle to passive sometimes, and tends to try to take the easy way out of not having to deal with a issue. just have them removed if they are causing a problem, it truly isnt a issue if the people running the place got balls.
I once wwent to see a movie, cant remember what one, but this ladys baby cried for awhile and no one said nothing for about 5 min it was hideious, then finally a guy told the lady to please shut her fucking kid up and everyone claped, then the ladies husband got up and kicked the guys ass, and the peopel that owned the theater or security I guess never came and did anything, teh guy just got mad and left. haha It used to seem like security in theaters was alot mroe strick years ago, you didnt see that muchof this stuff happening, or maybe its just people are alot more rude, or alot less scared to break a rule. I really dont think children shold be tolerated also but alot of time I think this is over looked. I have yet to run into a cell phone issue, but I do try to go to the best theater in town, when I go, cause it is worth the extra money to be left alone to watch movie.
Doom was ful of upside down bloddy bodies and stanic looking alters and stuff liek that. Quake was just awkward at first the first quake was probally the most demented but still not as bad as Doom. Quake 2 and 3 were hardly that scary but more of space marine settings. This is a good going back to that first Doom feeling of scaryness. I personally love being scared, I love a good horror movie and love the new scariness of this E3 trailer. I only hope it scares me enough. The fact that I worship the darklord has nothing to do with it really:P
It sems like to me people are looking at this the wrong way. As is they have a right to build mods for this game. In all these peoples examples they state that it would be like building a peogram with a compiler etc.. etc.. But if a company wanted to make a compiler that worked that way PEOPLE wouldnt buy it! people wouldnt use it at all. so why make one? This is different people may actully use the tool set to have fun and play with friends. If they dont want to give away thier content DONT USE IT. It your choice to use it or not. Those people are the ones I am going to complain to when I get cancer from smoking!
Besides maybe if you make somthing you think is really neat, dont put it on anything but a home server or something, and maybe contact the company and ask them if you can work a deal, hardly a free one though.
This will atleast stop people from seelling a disk full of junk in stores. Like when I first bought some of those doom levels on cd in the store released from people on the net and they all sucked. I even think in that case there was a middle company that pretty much ripped off the people that built the maps, want even id that got paid or the peopel that created the maps. So I am sure there is good reason for this to be this way.
The problem with thier website is why I will NEVER by another ABIT motherbord ever! I cant stand any tech company that dont maintain thier own website. Its slow, there is a USA site, I think www.abit-usa.com maybe? But I couldnt get any bios udates from either site, and its dont look like they keep up with it at all. I judge alot of hardware by the support I get and hardware updates I can download.
I love it when people throw equations out in the forums and I just got to take thier word for it they proved thier point for good!
HAHA sorry I aint to bright i guess.
I could fill up 400 gigs like it aint nothing.
Between MP3 (currently 20 gigs)
Divx Movies (Currently about 20 gigs now)
PORN (pictures and Movies for days)
Video Games (1 gig a install if you lucky now adays)
I could fill up 400 gigs easy just give me a week.
Ill dump every DVD movie I got on my pc just for kicks.
I think it would be nice to have that much space sitting there just so I can abuse it:)
Blah install someone elses win98 cd, jesus stop bitching
then as long as you still in the old world the worse you might have to do is get a new video card, all it has to do is support directx8.1 i am sure you could get a crappy card that works with directx8.1 to work. If i looked into it more i bet it would be cheap.
I agree, HERE HERE!
it could have been done better than this, and to some extent they thried to leave old game alone, they could have just said everyone gets new modles liek it or not, really made people made there. But this leaves it up to the peole. If some people gat to go buy the Hardware that most of us buy because we like too, then tough
Alot has been fixed, take a couple weeks off man, they may have fixed mroe by them, you dont sound like you like they can, back when the old forums where up and people posted freely, it was full of people like you that had nothing good to say but i always saw them posting.
Dont play the game if you dont like it, it like a kid eating something he hates and crying while he keeps eating it.
Gets old. if you dont like the game EQ leave, if you keep playing the game, and like it for some reason, why you got to hate the people that make it. they cant be that bad of programers, obviously there was some bad mistakes etc.. I was pissed realyl bad at the patch thing, but knew that it would probally be better the next day, but also knew it was all me that had to keep sitting there and hitting the patch button over and over like a lab rat.
Maybe it is nice that when you quite EQ you get some money back for the time spent, but dont try to make it sound like you would be making money here, unless you figure you time and effort is worth 1 dollar a hour.
Ok I play alot of EQ, But I am not tring to be biased here.
Just want to say, I understand the person that went to the store and bought the game , only looking at the system requirements on the box, and now 2 years later is made cause they have to change their OS or video card.
Also I really dont think that SOE ment to mess up this badly, but that, is that.
I for one understand that this not being a single player game means everyone has to upgrade at once, that has its good and bad side. They updates can be god you know.
But for just a second look at the huge achivement SOE has went through to provide a backwards compatable game like this, The models in the game have the ability to be seen in 2 different ways LOW poly and now HIGH poly, that means alot of things have 2 models for everything. and also means that I can have a brand new fast pc and if I want someone else to play with me and thier pc isnt as nice , it can still work. they can use the old models and I can use the new ones, very nice really. sure alot of people are going to say of course that can be done DUH, but alot of times this kind of option is passed off as too much work to do.
As long as me and the guy with the older system stay in the older citys and areas we can play together with the lower polygon zones, and have a fun time.
Now the win95 stuff is silly, just go ask someone that has a win98 cd if you can borrow it, install it over win95 and get over it. it wont take long and it easy to do, dont cost NOTHING, everyone does it, EVERYONE does it. why you running win95 anyway is just lazy, this is 2001 people dont run win95 for games. I dont know about going to XP yet, alot about that OS sucks, you know what I mean there. win98 is a good medium for now.
The new video card, can suck, I for one bought SOL and will probally upgrade my voodoo 5500 to a Geforce3 , cause I want it to run really nice, It dont bother me, I for one do not mind in the least if I have to upgrade , I love more polygons, shit up it again soon! the better the graphics the better! I love the gaems to push the scale, and I wish to some extent people that dont want to upgrade would just live with it, and do it for the whole community of the game, the game gets better, it dont fade away.
I got my Voodoo 5500 to work had to upgrade drivers etc... but it works now , and it didnt when I first tried. you might have to go download a new driver people, reinstall DX8.1 or something big deal.
Alot of the whinning comes from people that really might be having a hard time because they dont know how to do shit.
BTW the new models look great! some of them better than others , but some so cool and so much different foor each other its really cool. you really would have to see to understand, the new animations also are really nice. new zone pretty cool, and i am sure the new drops will be awsome.
Bugs will be fixed. I am sure there wasnt anyone else that was cussing like made more than me on the 4th while tring to patch, it has happened before, I always seem to get over it, I do agree is is BS they can afford to do it better than that, I dont care if they got to buy more servers more bandwidth etc... for a launch they could do it right, and not make you sit there liek you dont have anyhting better to do on a launch night while you just got home with you new SOL game bax and are ready to play. I think it I could do it, best thing would be just to wait a week before you buy this expansion let the bug get worked out first. But most cant wait, that says something about the game.
YEa that is what I am saying every one exagerates $10,000 ?? where you get that figure you can get a 56" thats a good sized one for around 2,000$ and I can remember when a nice monitor that did 10.24/768 was more than 2,000$ its a matter of time before prices drop, wait one more year you can get one for 1,000 i bet yea, but generly this is what people always say, yea i aint spending 25,000$ on a TV! or some crap. 2 thousand dollars might not be cheap but for people that know how this stuff useualyl goes, that price is not bad for a technology that is just now catching on. it will get better.
Actully I read different about this I belive, anything useing that firewire, is useing a new standard i think it is called DVI (digital video interface) ???, if thats it, maybe i know why i might have remembered it:)
On the webpage they call the actual interface IEEE-1394.
I think this is not good, I have read several people saying that this interface is there pretty much to not allow people to copy the signal, it is suposed to encypt the data that goes between any hardware and you TV, and that there will be no adapter like you where mentioning , simply cause that would pretty much negate the whole idea.
I think/. had a story about someone breaking the encryption on this , but that the companies said that it would serve its perpose.
Eitherway , it is BS mostly cause alot of people with TV's are going to be upset, and here is another example where the customer comes second when it comes to thier security of copyrighted material.
Does anyone else out there have any info on this?
I agree , I love my setup I watch alot of movies in HDTV that are on HBO and SHO, and cant wait to see Toy Story 2 just cause I have herd it is really neat in HD, I watched some other disney movie animation on it recently and the picture was so clean that it was like watching the original cells glowing in front of you.
I watch all the Sapronos also, great shows. got to love Tony!
Now I got to figure out a way to save alot of this stuff in its Pure HD format, I dont know about this way yet.
I think there are VHS type stuff out there that you can by but they around $2,000 ?
Might be worth it though, since I could have the stuff on tape backed up not filling up hard drives then forced to delete stuff that I like.
Once you see some of these movies in HD you will want a copy! I think thats whats holding up this whole mess more than people buying it. The big boys upstairs dont want me to have a copy as good as they got.
The reason alot of the HBOS and SHO original series stuff if better in HD is cause the used either better equipment converting to HD from film of they used HD cameras to record it like on PBS or the Jay Leno show I belive.
I swae rI dont think Band of Brothers was converted and the later Sapronos shows might be pure HD cameras also.
No it isnt dead, I have plenty of stuff I watch,
I dont know why people want to fight the tranfer to a better format, it is so much better, and less noisy, It would be like going from 640/480 on your PC to 1024/768 and people saying that 640/480 is better you would perfer that people jsut make better software and not worry about the resolution. cant we have both?
It has been along time coming, NTSC is how old now? but people dont seem to see a reason to go ahead in this time and age to something better, is wwe can do so, why not? it is not as expensive as people think, I got a 56" Toshiba for around $2,500 that isnt ba compared to what you get, regular NTSC 56" TV used to be just as much.
I am sure you can go with something not as big that is HD and pay less, but the screen has to be somewhat big cause I dont belive they have figured out how to make the TV's small and also show that much detail yet.
TV sucks?
you cant think of maybe 1 or 2 movies you have watched that was worth watching?
Didnt like Pulp Fiction?
or Matrix?
something you must have watched must have appealed to you.
Personaly I love to sit back watching the Big Screen TV with sourrond sound and get into a really good movie but that just me maybe
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BF 1942 demo was 130 megs for me, dont know what you downloaded unless you are including the patch wich would be unfair sense I am sure it over writes things already in the original download, and evey game has patches, I hope.
UT2003 will have a patch I am sure BF1942 demo just been out longer.
I find it amazing that a amateur found this.
You would think that with all the money that must be spent by governments etc... that this kind of thing would be discovered by someone else first!
From the article
An amateur astronomer may have found another moon of the Earth
And
It was discovered by Bill Yeung from his observatory in Arizona
Seems like it would be embarrassing to others
Um I am not sure but I really cant belive what you are saying.
Maybe the the mail server you used to send mail through was by DNS name called POP.DOMAIN.COM and you could send through it?
Alot of ISPdo this, maybe cause they actully have 1 email server and like to make it look like seperate servers, so SMTP.DOMAIN.COM points to the same IP as POP.DOMAIN.COM.
So in your email program you could just as well put either name in either smtp or pop3 server feild. and it will work.
It used to be very common and still is in bigger ISP's to use seperate servers for POP and SMTP
cause the POP3 protocal does not allow for sending mail, I belive it is that simple.
No matter what POP3 uses port 110 and SMTP uses port 25.
might be what was happening was that as long as you checked mail first you were added to the allow ip list to send smtp mail, for a matter of 30 min or something.
This is done alot also.
This is the reply I got from the email I sent to the email on the website of this article, and my rely back.
;-)_ _________
Even though I understand what it is you are saying about the blacklist operators, I am totally on their side on this, I work for a
ISp and have been working for ISP's for sometime now, The only way I can think to stop SPAM or to at least calm it down some is to
hold the Mails server that send the SPAM liable for their actions.
I don't see any problem with someone doing the test that you have a problem with, it is a simple test to see if the mail server is
setup to send mail from anyone with their domain in the FROM field.
Sense maybe you don't understand that most SPAM does use this to send mail through a mail server.
I can remember when allot of this mess was first started.
At first the ISP I used to work for used to let anyone forward mail through the mail server, Back then SPAM was not a problem.
Then it did become a problem, first thing that we did was do what you are doing, only let mail coming from people with our domain
in the FROM field forward mail, unfortunately that only work for a short time, people who send SPAM figured that out pretty fast.
So then it became normal to only let the IPs that a ISP was responsible for send mail through the mail server.
This does cause a headache for the ISP, I cant tell you how many people bought email services through us that where connected via
another ISP's connection, and requested to have their IP range added to the allow list of the mail server.
Today most ISP's do not provide for this, they just tell you to use the SMTP server of the people you are connected to directly,
and still use their POP3 or IMAP server to get mail.
We still do on occasion added others ip ranges to our list just to help though.
With all the headaches this causes for the ISP, you better believe that I do stand behind the idea of stopping open relay's in
hope that one day most SPAM will go away or that server will be a Banned list.
Your mail server ports are BTW open to the whole internet, and don't think the people who send spam don't test mail servers
constantly to see who allows the above problems.
I do think that if you want to allow the world to send mail through your mail server that is fine with me, as long as I have the
right to BAN that server from sending mail to me, if it is deemed a problem.
The test you are referring to is the best way to find these problems and simply add the servers to that list.
I guess you wont understand, But i really wish a service like this could be kept up and running even in the US and be let alone to
do this test.
I feel like you are wrong in this issue and really should just fix the problem. This really is a good idea.
Please reconsider any ideas of suing or trying to cause problems for these companies, I find the service to be very valuable, and
am afraid that you might do allot more harm than good.
Bret Fausett wrote:
>
> Thanks for the note. I'm sure you won't be surprised that I've received a
> lot of comments about this article, not only from today's Slashdot post but
> from when the article was originally printed in the magazine. Here's my
> response to the original letters, printed in New Architect's current
> edition:
>
> When it comes to mail administration, it appears I was
> several years behind the curve. Since my mail server
> software, circa 1996, had been purring along quietly
> without problems since it was new, I had never upgraded
> it to a version capable of a higher degree of authentication.
> I'm also old enough to remember when an "open relay" was
> a relay intentionally left open for anyone to use, not
> one merely susceptible to misuse. Thanks to all of the
> readers who wrote to bring me into the new millennium.
> Both my software and my definition are now upgraded.
>
> At the same time, I labeled the blackhole list operators
> "vigilantes" for good reason. It was always my understanding
> that if you lie about your identity to gain access to
> something that would be closed to you if you told the truth,
> you've done something wrong. Thats true whether you intend
> to send spam or prevent it. As vile as spam is, the ends
> dont justify the means. Regardless of whether my mail
> server used to be "open" or not, I stand by the legal
> analysis that placed fault on the blackhole operators who
> forged their identity.
>
> Aside from the proper definition of an "open relay," the point made in the
> Slashdot introduction is at the heart of the problem with blackhole lists:
> if we accept "blackholes" for spam, what will happen when ISPs are
> strong-armed into blacklisting sites engaged in peer-to-peer file-sharing or
> other things deemed "offensive" by a segment of the community?
>
> I plan to read to all of the messages that I received today in more detail
> (and I'll try to respond to all of those that weren't intended as an insult.
>
>
> Thanks again for writing,
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Fausett | fausett@lextext.com | http://www.lextext.com
> Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft, LLP Los Angeles, California
> _________________________________________________
>
> jeffd wrote:
>
> > Dude, not tring to be a jerk here, but you should just admit you were wrong
> > and fix the problem.
> > If you actully need help fixing your Open Relay, please let me know I will try
> > to help.
> > There are several ways to actully fix the problem, But allowing your server to
> > send mail only from people with your domain name in
> > thier email address is pretty bad.
PLEASE, this guy is definitly a open relay!
What should he have done, well there are ways to do this, ISP's have been doing it for years.
Block by IP address! and if you dont like that I think you can even use login name and password for SMTP, even though I have never used this.
the guy says from his article
"You see, my mail servers were set up to pass mail only from a domain name of which I am the only user. It blocks everything else. That's not an open relay. Unless you're a user in my domain, you can't use it.
"
HAHAHAHAHAHA what a retard this guy is, so all you have to do is put in your email program, that your email address is from joeblow@hisdomain.com and his mail server passes it. a Spammer will never figure that out.
People they figure that out along time ago. and that is why the Black list service checks this.
I for one think a email server should be responsible for the peopel that send mail from it.
Maybe not legaly but I mean they should only been sending email from thier server that is from users that belong to that email server.
that way email servers that send SPAM can actully do something about the spammers that send mail through it.
Needless to say this guy is a idiot and it does go to show you that people will belive him, even though he dont know what he is talking about.
Glad to see some people on here understand that his mail server is definitly a open relay though.
I almost tried to clear my browsers cache, I thought maybe I was seeing old pages or something.
Maybe I should anyway.
No such thing as a legal monopoly?
In the USA there are monopolies everywhere!
Duke Power where I live in NC is definitly a Legal Monopoly If I want to buy power I buy fromt hem in this city.
Alot of cable companies in my eye are legal monoplies, they are granted right to be the only people in a certain area that can offer cable to make it work running the cable in the area.
There are alot more examples of legal monopolies.
To say there is no suck thing is crazy!
Hmmm I agree that the mag is a good read, I have only read maybe 5 issues though, so I cant say but what I have read and that was some time ago.
Used to have a guy that worked with me work for them on the side. So got some mags a T shirt etc... I would order it for sure only thing is it makes me alittle nervous, in todays atmosphere I am waiting for hacking to get more and more looked into and dont want to give anyone a reason to come stiffing around my PC or internet transactions.
The mag is not a bad as it sounds, teh hacking quarterly or whater dont sound good to people who dont uderstand what the mag is about they just think you are doing all the bad things they here about no the news.
I agree man, I have to be on call 24/7 in a sense, even when not on call I AM ON CALL, alot of people are like this, it simply doesnt make sense to say I am not able to be reached at all period for a couple hours, If I go on vacation it is different people know I am not able to be reached and others make sure they are more reachable etc... But I really dont want to have to call my supervisers evey time I go to a movie, They know they can page me and I wont get a page unless it is serious shit happening. I use Vibrate on my pager I thought any person that wasnt stupid would, and in a way I do want to know if all shit is really breaking lose at work, I take my job serious I guess, but again to say I am chained is nuts, it isnt that it happens alot, it is if it does I need to know about it.
Also what ever happen to people just getting told to leave a movie theater? I think maybe socitiey is alittle to passive sometimes, and tends to try to take the easy way out of not having to deal with a issue. just have them removed if they are causing a problem, it truly isnt a issue if the people running the place got balls.
I once wwent to see a movie, cant remember what one, but this ladys baby cried for awhile and no one said nothing for about 5 min it was hideious, then finally a guy told the lady to please shut her fucking kid up and everyone claped, then the ladies husband got up and kicked the guys ass, and the peopel that owned the theater or security I guess never came and did anything, teh guy just got mad and left. haha
It used to seem like security in theaters was alot mroe strick years ago, you didnt see that muchof this stuff happening, or maybe its just people are alot more rude, or alot less scared to break a rule.
I really dont think children shold be tolerated also but alot of time I think this is over looked.
I have yet to run into a cell phone issue, but I do try to go to the best theater in town, when I go, cause it is worth the extra money to be left alone to watch movie.
Doom was ful of upside down bloddy bodies and stanic looking alters and stuff liek that. :P
Quake was just awkward at first the first quake was probally the most demented but still not as bad as Doom. Quake 2 and 3 were hardly that scary but more of space marine settings.
This is a good going back to that first Doom feeling of scaryness.
I personally love being scared, I love a good horror movie and love the new scariness of this E3 trailer.
I only hope it scares me enough.
The fact that I worship the darklord has nothing to do with it really
It sems like to me people are looking at this the wrong way.
As is they have a right to build mods for this game.
In all these peoples examples they state that it would be like building a peogram with a compiler etc.. etc..
But if a company wanted to make a compiler that worked that way PEOPLE wouldnt buy it! people wouldnt use it at all. so why make one?
This is different people may actully use the tool set to have fun and play with friends.
If they dont want to give away thier content DONT USE IT. It your choice to use it or not.
Those people are the ones I am going to complain to when I get cancer from smoking!
Besides maybe if you make somthing you think is really neat, dont put it on anything but a home server or something, and maybe contact the company and ask them if you can work a deal, hardly a free one though.
This will atleast stop people from seelling a disk full of junk in stores.
Like when I first bought some of those doom levels on cd in the store released from people on the net and they all sucked.
I even think in that case there was a middle company that pretty much ripped off the people that built the maps, want even id that got paid or the peopel that created the maps.
So I am sure there is good reason for this to be this way.
The problem with thier website is why I will NEVER by another ABIT motherbord ever!
I cant stand any tech company that dont maintain thier own website.
Its slow, there is a USA site, I think www.abit-usa.com maybe? But I couldnt get any bios udates from either site, and its dont look like they keep up with it at all.
I judge alot of hardware by the support I get and hardware updates I can download.
I love it when people throw equations out in the forums and I just got to take thier word for it they proved thier point for good!
HAHA sorry I aint to bright i guess.
I could fill up 400 gigs like it aint nothing. :)
Between MP3 (currently 20 gigs)
Divx Movies (Currently about 20 gigs now)
PORN (pictures and Movies for days)
Video Games (1 gig a install if you lucky now adays)
I could fill up 400 gigs easy just give me a week.
Ill dump every DVD movie I got on my pc just for kicks.
I think it would be nice to have that much space sitting there just so I can abuse it
Blah install someone elses win98 cd, jesus stop bitching
then as long as you still in the old world the worse you might have to do is get a new video card, all it has to do is support directx8.1 i am sure you could get a crappy card that works with directx8.1 to work. If i looked into it more i bet it would be cheap.
I agree, HERE HERE!
it could have been done better than this, and to some extent they thried to leave old game alone, they could have just said everyone gets new modles liek it or not, really made people made there. But this leaves it up to the peole. If some people gat to go buy the Hardware that most of us buy because we like too, then tough
Alot has been fixed, take a couple weeks off man, they may have fixed mroe by them, you dont sound like you like they can, back when the old forums where up and people posted freely, it was full of people like you that had nothing good to say but i always saw them posting.
Dont play the game if you dont like it, it like a kid eating something he hates and crying while he keeps eating it.
Gets old. if you dont like the game EQ leave, if you keep playing the game, and like it for some reason, why you got to hate the people that make it. they cant be that bad of programers, obviously there was some bad mistakes etc.. I was pissed realyl bad at the patch thing, but knew that it would probally be better the next day, but also knew it was all me that had to keep sitting there and hitting the patch button over and over like a lab rat.
Maybe it is nice that when you quite EQ you get some money back for the time spent, but dont try to make it sound like you would be making money here, unless you figure you time and effort is worth 1 dollar a hour.
Ok I play alot of EQ, But I am not tring to be biased here.
Just want to say, I understand the person that went to the store and bought the game , only looking at the system requirements on the box, and now 2 years later is made cause they have to change their OS or video card.
Also I really dont think that SOE ment to mess up this badly, but that, is that.
I for one understand that this not being a single player game means everyone has to upgrade at once, that has its good and bad side. They updates can be god you know.
But for just a second look at the huge achivement SOE has went through to provide a backwards compatable game like this, The models in the game have the ability to be seen in 2 different ways LOW poly and now HIGH poly, that means alot of things have 2 models for everything. and also means that I can have a brand new fast pc and if I want someone else to play with me and thier pc isnt as nice , it can still work. they can use the old models and I can use the new ones, very nice really. sure alot of people are going to say of course that can be done DUH, but alot of times this kind of option is passed off as too much work to do.
As long as me and the guy with the older system stay in the older citys and areas we can play together with the lower polygon zones, and have a fun time.
Now the win95 stuff is silly, just go ask someone that has a win98 cd if you can borrow it, install it over win95 and get over it. it wont take long and it easy to do, dont cost NOTHING, everyone does it, EVERYONE does it. why you running win95 anyway is just lazy, this is 2001 people dont run win95 for games. I dont know about going to XP yet, alot about that OS sucks, you know what I mean there. win98 is a good medium for now.
The new video card, can suck, I for one bought SOL and will probally upgrade my voodoo 5500 to a Geforce3 , cause I want it to run really nice, It dont bother me, I for one do not mind in the least if I have to upgrade , I love more polygons, shit up it again soon! the better the graphics the better! I love the gaems to push the scale, and I wish to some extent people that dont want to upgrade would just live with it, and do it for the whole community of the game, the game gets better, it dont fade away.
I got my Voodoo 5500 to work had to upgrade drivers etc... but it works now , and it didnt when I first tried. you might have to go download a new driver people, reinstall DX8.1 or something big deal.
Alot of the whinning comes from people that really might be having a hard time because they dont know how to do shit.
BTW the new models look great! some of them better than others , but some so cool and so much different foor each other its really cool. you really would have to see to understand, the new animations also are really nice. new zone pretty cool, and i am sure the new drops will be awsome.
Bugs will be fixed. I am sure there wasnt anyone else that was cussing like made more than me on the 4th while tring to patch, it has happened before, I always seem to get over it, I do agree is is BS they can afford to do it better than that, I dont care if they got to buy more servers more bandwidth etc... for a launch they could do it right, and not make you sit there liek you dont have anyhting better to do on a launch night while you just got home with you new SOL game bax and are ready to play. I think it I could do it, best thing would be just to wait a week before you buy this expansion let the bug get worked out first. But most cant wait, that says something about the game.
YEa that is what I am saying every one exagerates $10,000 ?? where you get that figure you can get a 56" thats a good sized one for around 2,000$ and I can remember when a nice monitor that did 10.24/768 was more than 2,000$ its a matter of time before prices drop, wait one more year you can get one for 1,000 i bet yea, but generly this is what people always say, yea i aint spending 25,000$ on a TV! or some crap. 2 thousand dollars might not be cheap but for people that know how this stuff useualyl goes, that price is not bad for a technology that is just now catching on. it will get better.
Actully I read different about this I belive, anything useing that firewire, is useing a new standard i think it is called DVI (digital video interface) ???, if thats it, maybe i know why i might have remembered it :)
/. had a story about someone breaking the encryption on this , but that the companies said that it would serve its perpose.
On the webpage they call the actual interface IEEE-1394.
I think this is not good, I have read several people saying that this interface is there pretty much to not allow people to copy the signal, it is suposed to encypt the data that goes between any hardware and you TV, and that there will be no adapter like you where mentioning , simply cause that would pretty much negate the whole idea.
I think
Eitherway , it is BS mostly cause alot of people with TV's are going to be upset, and here is another example where the customer comes second when it comes to thier security of copyrighted material.
Does anyone else out there have any info on this?
I agree , I love my setup I watch alot of movies in HDTV that are on HBO and SHO, and cant wait to see Toy Story 2 just cause I have herd it is really neat in HD, I watched some other disney movie animation on it recently and the picture was so clean that it was like watching the original cells glowing in front of you.
I watch all the Sapronos also, great shows. got to love Tony!
Now I got to figure out a way to save alot of this stuff in its Pure HD format, I dont know about this way yet.
I think there are VHS type stuff out there that you can by but they around $2,000 ?
Might be worth it though, since I could have the stuff on tape backed up not filling up hard drives then forced to delete stuff that I like.
Once you see some of these movies in HD you will want a copy! I think thats whats holding up this whole mess more than people buying it. The big boys upstairs dont want me to have a copy as good as they got.
The reason alot of the HBOS and SHO original series stuff if better in HD is cause the used either better equipment converting to HD from film of they used HD cameras to record it like on PBS or the Jay Leno show I belive.
I swae rI dont think Band of Brothers was converted and the later Sapronos shows might be pure HD cameras also.
No it isnt dead, I have plenty of stuff I watch,
I dont know why people want to fight the tranfer to a better format, it is so much better, and less noisy, It would be like going from 640/480 on your PC to 1024/768 and people saying that 640/480 is better you would perfer that people jsut make better software and not worry about the resolution. cant we have both?
It has been along time coming, NTSC is how old now? but people dont seem to see a reason to go ahead in this time and age to something better, is wwe can do so, why not? it is not as expensive as people think, I got a 56" Toshiba for around $2,500 that isnt ba compared to what you get, regular NTSC 56" TV used to be just as much.
I am sure you can go with something not as big that is HD and pay less, but the screen has to be somewhat big cause I dont belive they have figured out how to make the TV's small and also show that much detail yet.
Watched Band of Brothers last night in 56" HD
was awsome!
Full Dolby Digital surround sound, cranked!
feel sorry for those that watched it in NTSC
TV sucks?
you cant think of maybe 1 or 2 movies you have watched that was worth watching?
Didnt like Pulp Fiction?
or Matrix?
something you must have watched must have appealed to you.
Personaly I love to sit back watching the Big Screen TV with sourrond sound and get into a really good movie but that just me maybe