Decypher neuralogical impulses with high accuracy? Oh oh.
Appearing on a computer screen near you, soon: "Gotta go to the bathroom. Hummm dee dummm, yeah, I'd hit that. That, too. Oh yeah, doggie style'd be just what the doctor ordered for her. Oh, I wonder what that tastes like. Son, there's nuthin' wrong with wanting to lick it until it don't stink no more. Oh yeah, that mom-n-daughter, that'd be sweet. Hit that. And that. And that..."
So what this is not is someone taking things using legitimate, or even buggy, in-game mechanics. Rather it is getting someone's password, whether legally or not, and then taking their in-game items without the account owner's permission.
I'm fine with that.
I wonder if Butters struggles whether to ask Daddy to pay for Habbo Hotel or Hello, Kitty! Online Adventures.
It's like coming up with challenges for Superman. There are more challenges to Superman than just:
1. Other Kryptonians
2. Guys with Kryptonite in their pocket
Like saving the girl from the speeding train -- can it be done in time? Can he defeat a horde of bad guy attacking something in time? Etc.
Everything doesn't have to boil down to a magnificent, glowing, humming laser sword that is secretly a wiffle bat. Let it be the awesome thing it is, then come up with other challenges than suddenly having girraffes with force-resistant skin omnipresent.
I don't even wanna see "force resistant" stuff. That's a "hack" to give Jedi a challenge in games. Yet they have many challenges besides turning their awesome light saber into a wiffle bat.
Like deflecting tons of blaster fire, or taking on many opponents at once.
If they built a game right such that, if someone got behind you, they won, then tactics would make a much bigger difference. In all games I've seen, if someone is behind you, it's your AC minus a little bit. I.e. stupid and completely unrealistic.
I thought of doing something like this years ago for EverQuest. Presume it used the standard random number generator as published by Knuth, among others. Get a series, then crank through seeds until you found the sequence that matched it, done.
Never got beyond the thought stage because the problem was that those random values were probably shared amongst many clients, and thus it would be impossible to get a pure sequence without losing some values to other clients. And this assumes such a calculation would be doable in something less than many times the age of the universe. But in theory it could have worked.
Then just wait for a high string of good hits to be in the pipeline, and jump into battle.
> The article explores the various ways save-games can be backed up, and calculates > how much the average saved game is worth based on your age and income.
Do they correlate it with laziness?
I'll save ya some time, and, apparently, money: Congratulations! You win your game, with infinite points, infinite gear, infinite gold, and before you even touch the controller, all the bad guys immediately die of fright.
> This is in response to serious attacks reported in recent years against cryptographic > hash algorithms, including SHA-1, and because SHA-1 and the SHA-2 family share a > similar design. Submissions are being accepted through October 2008, and the competition timeline > indicates that a winner will be announced in 2012...to follow in early 2013 with a competition to develop SHA-4.
Regardless of how slobberingly religious the holy belief in Big Government, the point is valid.
Intel doesn't have to spend hundreds of millions to billions [i]before[/i] some official decides to allow them to sell that chip. Intel [i]doesn't[/i] have politicians running around trying to get elected by telling the masses how evil Intel is -- and I'm sure their profit percentage is a hell of a lot larger than a drug company's.
It's like the gas companies -- gas prices are so high more because of refinery shortages than barrel prices. Yet politicians want them to spend billions to make new refineries, all the while telling how they, the politicians, are gonna get those evil oil companies by having development of new energy sources, thus making no way for the oil companies to pay for their expensive new refineries a few years down the road. If I were an oil company, I'd drag ass building new infrastructure or repairing old, either. Do that to make the people happy, only to see them reward politicians by electing them to office on a plan of reducing oil use?
Maybe Intel and others of the "tech juggernaut" would be singing a different tune if they had to:
1. Get government approval before selling anything. This approval only comes after spending hundreds of millions to billions to open a new fabrication plant and start cranking out brand new designs of chips.
2. Had Hillary and other politicians running around talking about the "unconscionable profits of Intel", and how the government should nationalize Intel and other high tech corporations "for the common good." Or nationalize in all but name only, with the government deciding how much profit Intel should be "permitted" to make, so computers don't cost so much to people (which is ridiculous, but if people believe that about drugs and medicine, why not bleeding edge electronics?)
"Youth is wasted on the young", in case nobody was paying attention. Oh, the places I'd have buried my face if I could go back to my high school or college years...
> It's a calculated shift designed to move beyond the hard-core gaming crowd and court the mainstream audience
The childishly and embarassingly easy World of Warcraft is the "hard-core gaming crowd"?!?!?!
Good god, what would this new game entail? Portable guards who look like Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still, following you around to kill your rat if it looks like the rat is going to win? Auto flying-carpet back to your body in the unlikely event the rat gets a quadruple-crit just before Gort decides to take action? Everyone born as the King's son or daughter, and sent out into the world with the Gleamming Armor Of Indestructibility and the Singing Sword of Assramming, both of which are in fonts that glow a golden shine with flecks of rainbow in it?
> about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% > of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation.
Hmmm. Maybe Marvel's character The Sentry, with the energy of "a million exploding suns" (not just plain old suns burning away) is evidence of highly retarded-level scientific illiteracy in comic book authors.
Gotta love a group of six guys, five with laser blasters and one with a flamethrower, surrounding a dog in the wilderness and shooting it for sixty seconds to get it to die.
"But you have to have a challenge!"
Yeah, has any animal smaller than a skyscraper ever been a challenge to a guy with a gun or lightsaber in Star Wars? What? No?
Then leave the wilderness crap out of it, thanks. Elephant-sized animals should go down to one blast, like a level 1 critter in World of Warcraft. This is Star Wars, not reskinned EverQuest.
And we won't even get into the issue of a Jedi being either weak but omnipresent among players, something you have to spend months unlocking, or hard to unlock and weak. Good luck solving that issue.
> said the senator. "By keeping Internet access tax-free and affordable, Congress can > encourage Internet use for distance learning, telemedicine, commerce and other important services."
Gosh! He sounds like he's doing us a favor, not heaving the bon-bon eating lardass that is government on yet another thing.
I think what he meant to say was, "By keeping Internet access tax-free and affordable, Congress can avoid getting our asses handed to ourselves at the next election."
"Math" is pronounced the same way in both England and NA. "Maths" is also pronounced the same way in both places. Perhaps you're thinking of the potato po-tah-to thing?
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Decypher neuralogical impulses with high accuracy? Oh oh.
Appearing on a computer screen near you, soon: "Gotta go to the bathroom. Hummm dee dummm, yeah, I'd hit that. That, too. Oh yeah, doggie style'd be just what the doctor ordered for her. Oh, I wonder what that tastes like. Son, there's nuthin' wrong with wanting to lick it until it don't stink no more. Oh yeah, that mom-n-daughter, that'd be sweet. Hit that. And that. And that..."
So what this is not is someone taking things using legitimate, or even buggy, in-game mechanics. Rather it is getting someone's password, whether legally or not, and then taking their in-game items without the account owner's permission.
I'm fine with that.
I wonder if Butters struggles whether to ask Daddy to pay for Habbo Hotel or Hello, Kitty! Online Adventures.
It's like coming up with challenges for Superman. There are more challenges to Superman than just:
1. Other Kryptonians
2. Guys with Kryptonite in their pocket
Like saving the girl from the speeding train -- can it be done in time? Can he defeat a horde of bad guy attacking something in time? Etc.
Everything doesn't have to boil down to a magnificent, glowing, humming laser sword that is secretly a wiffle bat. Let it be the awesome thing it is, then come up with other challenges than suddenly having girraffes with force-resistant skin omnipresent.
I don't even wanna see "force resistant" stuff. That's a "hack" to give Jedi a challenge in games. Yet they have many challenges besides turning their awesome light saber into a wiffle bat.
Like deflecting tons of blaster fire, or taking on many opponents at once.
If they built a game right such that, if someone got behind you, they won, then tactics would make a much bigger difference. In all games I've seen, if someone is behind you, it's your AC minus a little bit. I.e. stupid and completely unrealistic.
Let the countdown to Google taking over the Evil Empire from Microsoft, as Microsoft did from IBM begin!
T minus 477 days until Slashdotters knee-jerk hatred of Google and counting...
I thought of doing something like this years ago for EverQuest. Presume it used the standard random number generator as published by Knuth, among others. Get a series, then crank through seeds until you found the sequence that matched it, done.
Never got beyond the thought stage because the problem was that those random values were probably shared amongst many clients, and thus it would be impossible to get a pure sequence without losing some values to other clients. And this assumes such a calculation would be doable in something less than many times the age of the universe. But in theory it could have worked.
Then just wait for a high string of good hits to be in the pipeline, and jump into battle.
> The article explores the various ways save-games can be backed up, and calculates
> how much the average saved game is worth based on your age and income.
Do they correlate it with laziness?
I'll save ya some time, and, apparently, money: Congratulations! You win your game, with infinite points, infinite gear, infinite gold, and before you even touch the controller, all the bad guys immediately die of fright.
> This is in response to serious attacks reported in recent years against cryptographic ...to follow in early 2013 with a competition to develop SHA-4.
> hash algorithms, including SHA-1, and because SHA-1 and the SHA-2 family share a
> similar design. Submissions are being accepted through October 2008, and the competition timeline
> indicates that a winner will be announced in 2012
> Players are almost never eliminated from the [German board] game[s], for example.
Unless they're...
oh, don't go there, girl!
Regardless of how slobberingly religious the holy belief in Big Government, the point is valid.
Intel doesn't have to spend hundreds of millions to billions [i]before[/i] some official decides to allow them to sell that chip. Intel [i]doesn't[/i] have politicians running around trying to get elected by telling the masses how evil Intel is -- and I'm sure their profit percentage is a hell of a lot larger than a drug company's.
It's like the gas companies -- gas prices are so high more because of refinery shortages than barrel prices. Yet politicians want them to spend billions to make new refineries, all the while telling how they, the politicians, are gonna get those evil oil companies by having development of new energy sources, thus making no way for the oil companies to pay for their expensive new refineries a few years down the road. If I were an oil company, I'd drag ass building new infrastructure or repairing old, either. Do that to make the people happy, only to see them reward politicians by electing them to office on a plan of reducing oil use?
Nah. Suffer.
Maybe Intel and others of the "tech juggernaut" would be singing a different tune if they had to:
1. Get government approval before selling anything. This approval only comes after spending hundreds of millions to billions to open a new fabrication plant and start cranking out brand new designs of chips.
2. Had Hillary and other politicians running around talking about the "unconscionable profits of Intel", and how the government should nationalize Intel and other high tech corporations "for the common good." Or nationalize in all but name only, with the government deciding how much profit Intel should be "permitted" to make, so computers don't cost so much to people (which is ridiculous, but if people believe that about drugs and medicine, why not bleeding edge electronics?)
"Youth is wasted on the young", in case nobody was paying attention. Oh, the places I'd have buried my face if I could go back to my high school or college years...
> Warhammer Online Delayed Again
Says the lead developer, "We didn't realize it at first, but it turns out Warhammer sucks."
> It's a calculated shift designed to move beyond the hard-core gaming crowd and court the mainstream audience
The childishly and embarassingly easy World of Warcraft is the "hard-core gaming crowd"?!?!?!
Good god, what would this new game entail? Portable guards who look like Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still, following you around to kill your rat if it looks like the rat is going to win? Auto flying-carpet back to your body in the unlikely event the rat gets a quadruple-crit just before Gort decides to take action? Everyone born as the King's son or daughter, and sent out into the world with the Gleamming Armor Of Indestructibility and the Singing Sword of Assramming, both of which are in fonts that glow a golden shine with flecks of rainbow in it?
Colonel: Sargeant, your men are all bedraggled looking! I thought they were in tip top shape! A 40 mile march shouldn't have them this beaten.
Sargeant: I don't know what could be wrong, sir. We just gave them these new shirts so they don't even have to carry their batteries anymore.
Microsoft: If you do this, we'll stop selling our games through your hundred thousand Walmart stores.
Walmart: Bye
Microsoft: Let's not get hasty, boys.
> about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1%
> of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation.
Hmmm. Maybe Marvel's character The Sentry, with the energy of "a million exploding suns" (not just plain old suns burning away) is evidence of highly retarded-level scientific illiteracy in comic book authors.
> Google plans to announce an open API for social networking
Yeah, it's called your mouth.
> 1up is reporting that despite numerous reports of its death, the Halo movie isn't quite completely cancelled
Ummm, yay?
Gotta love a group of six guys, five with laser blasters and one with a flamethrower, surrounding a dog in the wilderness and shooting it for sixty seconds to get it to die.
"But you have to have a challenge!"
Yeah, has any animal smaller than a skyscraper ever been a challenge to a guy with a gun or lightsaber in Star Wars? What? No?
Then leave the wilderness crap out of it, thanks. Elephant-sized animals should go down to one blast, like a level 1 critter in World of Warcraft. This is Star Wars, not reskinned EverQuest.
And we won't even get into the issue of a Jedi being either weak but omnipresent among players, something you have to spend months unlocking, or hard to unlock and weak. Good luck solving that issue.
> said the senator. "By keeping Internet access tax-free and affordable, Congress can
> encourage Internet use for distance learning, telemedicine, commerce and other important services."
Gosh! He sounds like he's doing us a favor, not heaving the bon-bon eating lardass that is government on yet another thing.
I think what he meant to say was, "By keeping Internet access tax-free and affordable, Congress can avoid getting our asses handed to ourselves at the next election."
...and when it doesn't, people die en masse, worse than pigs in Hell, unable to legally escape.
Well, the people who landed the US on the moon studied "math", not "maths".
Oh, wait. They studied "Mathematik".
n/m
"Math" is pronounced the same way in both England and NA. "Maths" is also pronounced the same way in both places. Perhaps you're thinking of the potato po-tah-to thing?
"Maths" is Englandese for "math". Presumably it's short for "mathematics". See also "aluminium", "biscuit", "chip", and "fag".