Unless your some fanatical religuous zealot, what good reason do you have to be stopping yourself or your peers from browsing "objectional content" including Porn sites?
I can see filters for stopping kids from getting porn spam, or viewing porn sites, but once your of a consulting age, why not tell everyone to bugger off and mind their own business?
Read the comments above before talking out of your arse, eh? My information was based off of early Itanium results, and I was just a little uninformed over the past year or so when this has changed.
Ahh, and I like to be proved wrong in situations like this. This makes me feel a lot more comfortable with 64bit hardware if I know it can do 32bit apps at the same performance (or even a small drop) as the 64's (grain of salt taken).
What kind of service (line speed) is this running on though? And remember this is Counterstrike we're talking about, which is 5 year old technology driving a game that you can run on 3 year old hardware with no differences in performance than on a brand spanking new uber-box.
When you get into a game like SOF2 on the Q3 engine, I can tell you that I see a HUGE difference even between a 24 slot server on a AMD XP 1800+ with a gig of 2700 ram and the new server which is a dual xeon with a gig of ecc. Big boost there in playtime, lag, load times, etc....
Well I can say from experience that -some- people could and would notice the difference between a server running on a dual Xeon server vs. a home-boxed athlon with 133 ram and a 5400rpm drive. The big push is when your running more current games (SOF2, Q3A, etc) as opposed to older games like CS, and you get your total clients in excess of 40+... And for those hardcore tournament players who notice and freak out over a difference of 3ms in ping, of course it will matter.
But it all depends on how much you play, how you play, and how into the game you are. For the most part a casual player will -never- notice the differences listed above, but a OGL, CAL, TWL ladder climber like myself would of course see it...
But I agree, bandwidth is still much more important over all of the above!:)
I'm still rather confused where this gigantic push towards 64bit desktop processors is coming from, as I would think the software compatibility with 32bit apps should be the first thing on the manufacturers mind. I could care less if I could run an uber CS, SOF2 or UT2K3 server on a 64bit machine, especially when I have to use an older 32bit machine to play on that server... Why spend all the money for the server alone? Why not focus on making a performance gain come from running the game clients on the 64bit desktop machines (rather than the current HORRIBLE emulation performance of 32bit apps on 64bit hardware).
Perhaps I missed this gigantic discovery over the past year or so, and in which case I retract my statement. But if it's still an issue, this really seems like putting the cart before the horse.
No taste = no diseases?
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So does this mean that people who smoke and thusly have lost most of their sense of taste run no risk of heart disease now?:)
So does having the story duped no more than 5 posts apart mean that poor Tom has to do double duty to prevent a heft slashdotting today? The page seems a little sluggish to me today, so I'd vote for yes.
So I can see from a "greedy" standpoint why they would only tell select customers, but the "moral" side of me is aghast that -if they knew- they didn't tell.... Horrible!
With all these knuckleheads with too much time on their hands, trying to find as many holes, exploits and bugs in commercial and os software... It's about time they finally started popping up in games and entertainment as well. I find it rather funny that this hasn't happened more often, but I suppose that if you were to break it down, people who are hardcore gamers are probably a fair bit more knowledgable about exploits and the like than your average sysadmin.
(I'm serious! And you know it's true... even if you deny it!):)
Google's got the right idea.
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Reply I've run into similar situations with clients of mine, when trying to figure out for them which the best solution for their new servers/etc would be.
Time and time again, it always comes down to;
Buy them small and cheap, put them all together, and that way if one dies, it's a hell of a lot easier and less expensive to replace/repair/forget.
So Google's got the right idea, they're just confirming it for the rest of us!:)
So after trying to patent anything with the word "Windows" in it and getting shot down, and trying to patent everything from the GUI on through to how to click a mouse (read:sarcasm), they're going to try to patent a philosophy and theory that has been in place in Unix structures from time eternal.... 10:1 odds they get shot down.
And me in my semi-braindead fashion mistyped the word... When I say Google Caching I really meant to say "Google Dance" or "The Google Dance" or otherwise known as "googledance".
I read an article on K5 regarding this, about a week or two ago... Very interesting stuff, and although the article was regarding the timed (monthly, quarterly, etc) synching between these different google datacenters, it was an interesting read and relevant to the point none-the-less.
Having just purchased TWO sets of the Z680 speakers for myself (to replace two previous sets of Z560's) I'd like to remind all you "figure comparison specialists" that it's best to listen for youself before you cut them down. These speakers are fantastic and are even better than Logitech's previous series the Z560's (which were a hard act to top for their price range). Well worth the rather large portion of your paycheque none-the-less, so wander down to your local computer store (CompuSmart, CompUsa, FutureShop, BestBuy, etc) and take a listen... You won't be sorry.
Sounds like an interesting project, but the problem I always see with stuff like this is how often will people think "ewww.. a living battery" when going into a store and looking at something to power their equipment.
I was first introduced to this game by a colleague about a year ago, and promptly forgot about it even though I had found it a very interesting idea. After reading the news post today on Slashdot, I'm very eager and excited to see a public release for this.
I do hope that this game will stand a good chance at making an incredibly popular open source game. I know of a -lot- of people who would be interested in playing this, and from the look of the screenshots, ParSec appears to be commercial quality work.
Good job guys, and thanks for doing the right thing and making it Open Source!
I was first introduced to your story by reading "The Fugitive Game" written my Jonathan Littman, and I wanted to ask you how close Mr. Littman came to showing your side of the events. The impression I got from the book was that it was rather egocentrically oriented around the author, and put him in a light of being a hero while you were put in a somewhat-villian like set. What are your thoughts in the way you were portrayed in this book, and how close to the truth does it fall?
Offtopic I know, but no worries... Being a manager with a large-box franchised computer retailer in Canda, I've had to field COUNTLESS customer inquiries regarding this issue with that particular router (which we sell more than any other brand/model). So I am and was fairly confident that the information I was giving them was correct and up-to-date.
I didn't say that previous revisions of the firmware update fixed the problems, as the knowledge of the issue only became mainstream in the fall, -BUT- v.143 is known to and been proven to have fixed the exploit.
For coming up with a rather ingenious DDOS attack style. Mind you I wonder how many gamers on those servers were complaining about ping times when that was happening.
Way to go GameSpy, yet another ounce of proof of a useless service for idjits.
I posted a similar response to another subthread on this news post, but I want to ask again here.
Where does everyone get this information that CD media is being taxed in Canada (other than LondonDrugs and other big-box retailers trying to pull the wool over your eyes and milk you for a few cents more).
I am a manager with CompuSmart in Canada, and thusly heavily involved with the purchasing process for our franchised store. I see no taxes levied on the media we purchase (infact prices keep dropping) nor do we levy a retail level or post sale tax on any cd media.
So why does everyone seem to think that they are being taxed?
I keep hearing people whine about media taxation in Canada, but I for one (as one involved with the purchasing process of CD's for a large volume corporate computer franchise) have yet to see hide nor hair of it. The costs of blank media continues to drop, and there's no post-purchase or reseller levied taxation that I've seen.
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Unless your some fanatical religuous zealot, what good reason do you have to be stopping yourself or your peers from browsing "objectional content" including Porn sites?
:)
I can see filters for stopping kids from getting porn spam, or viewing porn sites, but once your of a consulting age, why not tell everyone to bugger off and mind their own business?
Sheesh... some people!
I'm such a matrix nut, I would have bought both (and everything else in DVD format with the word Matrix on it!) :)
Read the comments above before talking out of your arse, eh? My information was based off of early Itanium results, and I was just a little uninformed over the past year or so when this has changed.
Ahh, and I like to be proved wrong in situations like this. This makes me feel a lot more comfortable with 64bit hardware if I know it can do 32bit apps at the same performance (or even a small drop) as the 64's (grain of salt taken).
What kind of service (line speed) is this running on though? And remember this is Counterstrike we're talking about, which is 5 year old technology driving a game that you can run on 3 year old hardware with no differences in performance than on a brand spanking new uber-box.
When you get into a game like SOF2 on the Q3 engine, I can tell you that I see a HUGE difference even between a 24 slot server on a AMD XP 1800+ with a gig of 2700 ram and the new server which is a dual xeon with a gig of ecc. Big boost there in playtime, lag, load times, etc....
Well I can say from experience that -some- people could and would notice the difference between a server running on a dual Xeon server vs. a home-boxed athlon with 133 ram and a 5400rpm drive. The big push is when your running more current games (SOF2, Q3A, etc) as opposed to older games like CS, and you get your total clients in excess of 40+... And for those hardcore tournament players who notice and freak out over a difference of 3ms in ping, of course it will matter.
:)
But it all depends on how much you play, how you play, and how into the game you are. For the most part a casual player will -never- notice the differences listed above, but a OGL, CAL, TWL ladder climber like myself would of course see it...
But I agree, bandwidth is still much more important over all of the above!
I'm still rather confused where this gigantic push towards 64bit desktop processors is coming from, as I would think the software compatibility with 32bit apps should be the first thing on the manufacturers mind. I could care less if I could run an uber CS, SOF2 or UT2K3 server on a 64bit machine, especially when I have to use an older 32bit machine to play on that server... Why spend all the money for the server alone? Why not focus on making a performance gain come from running the game clients on the 64bit desktop machines (rather than the current HORRIBLE emulation performance of 32bit apps on 64bit hardware).
Perhaps I missed this gigantic discovery over the past year or so, and in which case I retract my statement. But if it's still an issue, this really seems like putting the cart before the horse.
So does this mean that people who smoke and thusly have lost most of their sense of taste run no risk of heart disease now? :)
So does having the story duped no more than 5 posts apart mean that poor Tom has to do double duty to prevent a heft slashdotting today? The page seems a little sluggish to me today, so I'd vote for yes.
So I can see from a "greedy" standpoint why they would only tell select customers, but the "moral" side of me is aghast that -if they knew- they didn't tell.... Horrible!
With all these knuckleheads with too much time on their hands, trying to find as many holes, exploits and bugs in commercial and os software... It's about time they finally started popping up in games and entertainment as well. I find it rather funny that this hasn't happened more often, but I suppose that if you were to break it down, people who are hardcore gamers are probably a fair bit more knowledgable about exploits and the like than your average sysadmin.
:)
(I'm serious! And you know it's true... even if you deny it!)
Reply I've run into similar situations with clients of mine, when trying to figure out for them which the best solution for their new servers/etc would be.
:)
Time and time again, it always comes down to;
Buy them small and cheap, put them all together, and that way if one dies, it's a hell of a lot easier and less expensive to replace/repair/forget.
So Google's got the right idea, they're just confirming it for the rest of us!
So after trying to patent anything with the word "Windows" in it and getting shot down, and trying to patent everything from the GUI on through to how to click a mouse (read:sarcasm), they're going to try to patent a philosophy and theory that has been in place in Unix structures from time eternal.... 10:1 odds they get shot down.
And me in my semi-braindead fashion mistyped the word... When I say Google Caching I really meant to say "Google Dance" or "The Google Dance" or otherwise known as "googledance".
My bad! Apologies all around.
I read an article on K5 regarding this, about a week or two ago... Very interesting stuff, and although the article was regarding the timed (monthly, quarterly, etc) synching between these different google datacenters, it was an interesting read and relevant to the point none-the-less.
Go take a peek! Worth the read!
Having just purchased TWO sets of the Z680 speakers for myself (to replace two previous sets of Z560's) I'd like to remind all you "figure comparison specialists" that it's best to listen for youself before you cut them down. These speakers are fantastic and are even better than Logitech's previous series the Z560's (which were a hard act to top for their price range). Well worth the rather large portion of your paycheque none-the-less, so wander down to your local computer store (CompuSmart, CompUsa, FutureShop, BestBuy, etc) and take a listen... You won't be sorry.
Sounds like an interesting project, but the problem I always see with stuff like this is how often will people think "ewww.. a living battery" when going into a store and looking at something to power their equipment.
I was first introduced to this game by a colleague about a year ago, and promptly forgot about it even though I had found it a very interesting idea. After reading the news post today on Slashdot, I'm very eager and excited to see a public release for this.
I do hope that this game will stand a good chance at making an incredibly popular open source game. I know of a -lot- of people who would be interested in playing this, and from the look of the screenshots, ParSec appears to be commercial quality work.
Good job guys, and thanks for doing the right thing and making it Open Source!
Kevin,
I was first introduced to your story by reading "The Fugitive Game" written my Jonathan Littman, and I wanted to ask you how close Mr. Littman came to showing your side of the events. The impression I got from the book was that it was rather egocentrically oriented around the author, and put him in a light of being a hero while you were put in a somewhat-villian like set. What are your thoughts in the way you were portrayed in this book, and how close to the truth does it fall?
Offtopic I know, but no worries... Being a manager with a large-box franchised computer retailer in Canda, I've had to field COUNTLESS customer inquiries regarding this issue with that particular router (which we sell more than any other brand/model). So I am and was fairly confident that the information I was giving them was correct and up-to-date.
Cheers!
*sigh*
I didn't say that previous revisions of the firmware update fixed the problems, as the knowledge of the issue only became mainstream in the fall, -BUT- v.143 is known to and been proven to have fixed the exploit.
Pull Your Head Out Of Your Arse = Security
Or you could just flash your BEFSR41 Linksys router and not have to worry;
i d= 1
http://www.linksys.com/download/firmware.asp?fw
Intelligence = Security folks.
For coming up with a rather ingenious DDOS attack style. Mind you I wonder how many gamers on those servers were complaining about ping times when that was happening.
Way to go GameSpy, yet another ounce of proof of a useless service for idjits.
I posted a similar response to another subthread on this news post, but I want to ask again here.
Where does everyone get this information that CD media is being taxed in Canada (other than LondonDrugs and other big-box retailers trying to pull the wool over your eyes and milk you for a few cents more).
I am a manager with CompuSmart in Canada, and thusly heavily involved with the purchasing process for our franchised store. I see no taxes levied on the media we purchase (infact prices keep dropping) nor do we levy a retail level or post sale tax on any cd media.
So why does everyone seem to think that they are being taxed?
I keep hearing people whine about media taxation in Canada, but I for one (as one involved with the purchasing process of CD's for a large volume corporate computer franchise) have yet to see hide nor hair of it. The costs of blank media continues to drop, and there's no post-purchase or reseller levied taxation that I've seen.
So where does this information come from?