These guys (digital domain) rock. Too bad This movie will be directed by the guy behind tomb raider...
Basically it's going to be a big FX-packed movie with crappy story (I just hope it won't be as bad as battlefield earth, that's the 0 in a scale from 0-10 in this category), of course we can always WISH the guy learned but seeing the hollywood trend since a few years, I seriously doubt it.
>nV News has a brief article about the long-awaited NV25-based video adapters.
Games supporting the new features of the Geforce3 or using the Geforce2 potential to the maximum are long awaited... having a new chipset that renders the previous obsolete without even making full use of it, before being phased out, is kinda... well... what's the word:)
last time I used Mcboboche stuff was back in the DOS days...
Oh wait... I did once under win95, when it killed my system (isn't that the job of a VIRUS anyways?:) ) I've been on norton since then.
Now the thing that scares me the most is that norton will probably pull the same thing... it starts with one hole, and you end up being the big ass at the end;)
Now let's picture this (sorry if it's redundant)
First, your job is to kill viralware, now you blattanly say you won't...One MAJOR loophole is just what it takes to pull another redalert/codered/etc type of attack...
Second, how many time do you think it will take for ANY hackers to find that bitch and slap it? how many milliseconds after that will it take to make a load of varient based on that same code that passes right thru the system you're supposed to protect?
Before I didn't really see the need for open-source stuff, I didn't NEED opensource tools to do my job, the commercial alternative were cheap enought to be worth the timesaving they would bring me, so you can picture me as a Blind Microsoft cash cow IT administrator, but with enough IQ to pull out when we milk me before I can even eat my wheat (goes well with my nick, no?:)).
The IDEA of my comment is the following: The more I see this stuff going, the more you're completely losing my trust, hense, my buisness, I've started learning NetBSD to replace that new Microsoft Firewall server that I was supposed to buy when I've found out it was as bad as the rest of Microsoft's product security-wise (i.e. Codered infecting your supposely secure firewall, you would have thought that even if it's using windows technology, they would have worked out the loophole for that expensive product). Now I know that viruses can go thru a firewall, but INFECTING your firewall server at the same time? and spreading across your users as well? that's bad:) it's even worse when you get hit twice within 2 months with about the same virus!.
Now, this is making me losing my confidence in a product... but you might give them a chance, you've invested enough and a lot of companies depend on their software so you'd assume that they would address it quickly and do their best to not pull that kind of thing a second time, but what's next, product activation (A NIGHTMARE for administrators that do upgrades to users from pro to developper or to upgrade their machines and putting the older one with something that let's say doesn't require Developper but the small buisness license could do).. anyways that's just an example, I've boycotted windowsXP after my horrible officeXP XPrience, and if major companies continue pulling that kind of stunt, they will create their own recession. I won't put the company I am working for at risk because some guy somewhere chose to blattantly put holes in every single security steps. If you want a backdoor to hack, a lot of kids will find the keys, and they will drive it down the road till they hit something, I won't risk the company's IP because of people that are powertripping somewhere.
And besides, the point of a SECURE SERVER/FIREWALL/DESKTOP/OS/NAMEIT is to have 0.00000 Known defect, putting a hole into it makes it NON-SECURE. If you want to fool customers and do false advertising, you can continue using Secure desktop terminology, but if y a virus writer goes thru that security hole of yours and smash systenms and posts it publicly, you will get Shafted so bad by a class-action suit that you'll be sorry that you ever made that decision! This is so depressing, someone should really start doing an opensource antivirus software for the win32 platform, seems like there's a nice new niche here.
I wonder where all this will stop.. speeding photoradar, gps phones, encryption backdoor, spycams everywhere, IP confidential mail getting opened "in case there's some anthrax"?, phone tapping without court approval, carnivore, heh , heck, with this logic, I can see the day where having a dildocam on every dildo or condoms be mandatory in case you're hiding drugs somewhere...:)
let's spend 200$ more for a case that will make us overclock our CPU to the next one available for 200$ more...
Before I used to get the drill of overclocking, I even did it myself with my BP6 overclocking dual 366mhz to 550mhz and stable, THAT was worth it because it would give me a 50% boost in frequency PER processors, and the celeron 550 weren't out at that time... but now, overclocking an 1.4ghz to what, 1.6 or 1.7?... is it really worth the trouble?
I mean, don't get me wrong, overclocking can be fun, but practically, I'd be impressed only if there could be a system that would make my athlon XP1700+ (1.46ghz) go like a 2500+ for not too expensive, but right now, I don't see why it would be worth all the trouble to get 10 or 20% increase in frequency. (exept for looking cool in lan parties or making a website about it).
For those of you who are wondering the minimal requirements, it works fine here on both my Tiger K7 and my trusty old BP6 with 366Mhz celeron and geforce2MX 400, I can play at 1024x768 with compressed textures, high details, but I've putted the display to 16bits (anyways, it's not like you'd notice a big difference from 16 to 32 in a fast-paced game). It's smooth, it rocks...
Of course if you're planning on joining a 40 people server you might want a bigger cpu than a Celeron 366mhz:) but for single player and 10-20 people it works okay... worse case scenario, you reduce the resolution from a notch.
As for the graphics, it's about like Q3A (same engine) but there are a lot of visible changes, one that you will notice right away is the details on the characters, and also all the motion, probably John will step in and talk about some of the aspects of the design, it looks like motion capture applied to the characters. The graphics aren't a big step up like from quake 1 to quake 3, but the overall mood and gameplay is really good. When I first played the demo, I thought that game would really suck because of the respawn time and the choice of weapons, but when you get to know it and get a well-balanced team that knows how to play, the level, and use special habilities like medic, or engineers defusing,etc.. it's really starting to get addictive. So to anyone who didn't like the test, do like I did, play it a bit more, and if you like the quake style and the RTS style, wolf is a good balance of both.
The single player is good, when I read the interviews, I was expecting a "max payne"-like story line in between each level, it's not as good, but the mood is really there and the levels are really nice. Like I said, it's not a Revolution, but it's an evolution. It's worth to buy if you're into that kind of games.
If they dare put a virus that logs everything I'm doing and it DARE slowing down my p0rn downloading, it could put me (or especially anyone around me) in a life threatening situation. Good Job!
I applied for the.BIZ domain for my company,
I've had nothing but troubles with NSI.
First: The application, they gave me a customer #, a login and a password... few days later, I couldn't log back in the account to see if my application passed, if my domain was accepted or if my company credit card was billed (although I could see it from the receipt generated by the CC company).
Second: Tech support, forget about their email reply, they NEVER reply
Third: I went online with their chatroom stuff, I thought "hey that's a good service" (I hate using the phone), finally they answer your question, it makes sense (I asked why my account wasn't working, they replied they didn't have an account or domain under what I registered, but if I check the neulevel whois database, I'm there (?) , so they told me they would send a password back within a day... of course it never happened).
After a week, I went back to check with them what was happening with the BIZ domain, they told me they didn't have my account and no record of me applying... funny, my credit card does!
I asked what the Fsck was going on, how come I couldn't access my.BIZ domain, they told me they aren't administering it, it's neulevel that takes care of it...(that sounded like a ping pong game is about to start).. I asked who to contact at neulevel, neulevel told me NSI would take care of it (ARGH), anyways last time I tried was 2 weeks ago when the.BIZ was supposed to be online, asked them what was wrong, they told me they had a database screwup (good timing guys) and they would get the Neulevel transfer within a week and mail me the new password... that was around november 8th if I recall.... so it's more than a week now and still nothing... god...
This brings me to stargate Inc, saw them by a pure coincidence, guess what? 8$/domain when you register at least 2... you get: Email fowarding, static web page, unlimited DNS/NS changing with a nice configuration toolbox, *FAST* service, *FAST* confirmation, heck, Why are companies like NSI still around when you get that kind of royal treatment for a mere 8$??? I was really shocked (and still pissed at NSI). If you can't carry a buisness, let the others do it, we don't have to pay for their incompetence nor the fact that their tech support people don't even know the earth is round yet (so imagine anything having to do with your account).
Anyways, thanks for bringing this up, I almost forgot about it, I'll ask stargate if they can transfer the authorization, and if I'm lucky, maybe I'll be able to actually USE that domain before it expires and I have to renew it...
I don't know about you guys, but they claim software piracy costs BILLIONS per year, but calculare how much is lost in time wasted if we calculate 1-2 hours a week per IT administrator such as myself times the amount of companies that went thru NSI. 35$/yr for a domain might be cheap for corporate usage, but 2 hours/week to fix domain issues and bouncing paperwork around adds to quite a lot, this could almost be worth a class action suit, maybe the management would wake up.
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These guys (digital domain) rock. Too bad This movie will be directed by the guy behind tomb raider...
Basically it's going to be a big FX-packed movie with crappy story (I just hope it won't be as bad as battlefield earth, that's the 0 in a scale from 0-10 in this category), of course we can always WISH the guy learned but seeing the hollywood trend since a few years, I seriously doubt it.
is it just me or it's kinda ironic? :)
...Is to track terrorists... with all that publicity, it *WILL* miss the point....
Good job FBI, with all the public awareness you got recently, I'm sure your secret is safe with us... 6 billion population.
Of course if it was to spy on those evil aliens.... it's another story.
>What I wanted then was a "moderate" button I could click beside the link to indicate that it was spam
Just look at here how the moderation (and metamoderation) works out sometimes, and you'll figure out why this isn't the greatest idea.
>Everyone else gets the fruits of IBM's and Redhat's labors in the form of GPL and other open-license software. Win-Win-Win
:)
Win WIn WIn... think about it...
>nV News has a brief article about the long-awaited NV25-based video adapters.
:)
Games supporting the new features of the Geforce3 or using the Geforce2 potential to the maximum are long awaited... having a new chipset that renders the previous obsolete without even making full use of it, before being phased out, is kinda... well... what's the word
> system designed to enrich the experience of going to bed, sleeping and waking up."
:)
Woah... get a girl man
Taliban registered in advance itsnot.us
Oh wait... I did once under win95, when it killed my system (isn't that the job of a VIRUS anyways? :) ) I've been on norton since then.
Now the thing that scares me the most is that norton will probably pull the same thing... it starts with one hole, and you end up being the big ass at the end ;)
Now let's picture this (sorry if it's redundant)
First, your job is to kill viralware, now you blattanly say you won't...One MAJOR loophole is just what it takes to pull another redalert/codered/etc type of attack...
Second, how many time do you think it will take for ANY hackers to find that bitch and slap it? how many milliseconds after that will it take to make a load of varient based on that same code that passes right thru the system you're supposed to protect?
Before I didn't really see the need for open-source stuff, I didn't NEED opensource tools to do my job, the commercial alternative were cheap enought to be worth the timesaving they would bring me, so you can picture me as a Blind Microsoft cash cow IT administrator, but with enough IQ to pull out when we milk me before I can even eat my wheat (goes well with my nick, no? :)).
The IDEA of my comment is the following: The more I see this stuff going, the more you're completely losing my trust, hense, my buisness, I've started learning NetBSD to replace that new Microsoft Firewall server that I was supposed to buy when I've found out it was as bad as the rest of Microsoft's product security-wise (i.e. Codered infecting your supposely secure firewall, you would have thought that even if it's using windows technology, they would have worked out the loophole for that expensive product). Now I know that viruses can go thru a firewall, but INFECTING your firewall server at the same time? and spreading across your users as well? that's bad :) it's even worse when you get hit twice within 2 months with about the same virus!.
Now, this is making me losing my confidence in a product... but you might give them a chance, you've invested enough and a lot of companies depend on their software so you'd assume that they would address it quickly and do their best to not pull that kind of thing a second time, but what's next, product activation (A NIGHTMARE for administrators that do upgrades to users from pro to developper or to upgrade their machines and putting the older one with something that let's say doesn't require Developper but the small buisness license could do).. anyways that's just an example, I've boycotted windowsXP after my horrible officeXP XPrience, and if major companies continue pulling that kind of stunt, they will create their own recession. I won't put the company I am working for at risk because some guy somewhere chose to blattantly put holes in every single security steps. If you want a backdoor to hack, a lot of kids will find the keys, and they will drive it down the road till they hit something, I won't risk the company's IP because of people that are powertripping somewhere.
And besides, the point of a SECURE SERVER/FIREWALL/DESKTOP/OS/NAMEIT is to have 0.00000 Known defect, putting a hole into it makes it NON-SECURE. If you want to fool customers and do false advertising, you can continue using Secure desktop terminology, but if y a virus writer goes thru that security hole of yours and smash systenms and posts it publicly, you will get Shafted so bad by a class-action suit that you'll be sorry that you ever made that decision! This is so depressing, someone should really start doing an opensource antivirus software for the win32 platform, seems like there's a nice new niche here.
I wonder where all this will stop.. speeding photoradar, gps phones, encryption backdoor, spycams everywhere, IP confidential mail getting opened "in case there's some anthrax"?, phone tapping without court approval, carnivore, heh , heck, with this logic, I can see the day where having a dildocam on every dildo or condoms be mandatory in case you're hiding drugs somewhere... :)
I don't wanna sound like a troll but...
let's spend 200$ more for a case that will make us overclock our CPU to the next one available for 200$ more...
Before I used to get the drill of overclocking, I even did it myself with my BP6 overclocking dual 366mhz to 550mhz and stable, THAT was worth it because it would give me a 50% boost in frequency PER processors, and the celeron 550 weren't out at that time... but now, overclocking an 1.4ghz to what, 1.6 or 1.7?... is it really worth the trouble?
I mean, don't get me wrong, overclocking can be fun, but practically, I'd be impressed only if there could be a system that would make my athlon XP1700+ (1.46ghz) go like a 2500+ for not too expensive, but right now, I don't see why it would be worth all the trouble to get 10 or 20% increase in frequency. (exept for looking cool in lan parties or making a website about it).
Just my 0.02$
Happy Reading.
For those of you who are wondering the minimal requirements, it works fine here on both my Tiger K7 and my trusty old BP6 with 366Mhz celeron and geforce2MX 400, I can play at 1024x768 with compressed textures, high details, but I've putted the display to 16bits (anyways, it's not like you'd notice a big difference from 16 to 32 in a fast-paced game). It's smooth, it rocks...
:) but for single player and 10-20 people it works okay... worse case scenario, you reduce the resolution from a notch.
:)
Of course if you're planning on joining a 40 people server you might want a bigger cpu than a Celeron 366mhz
As for the graphics, it's about like Q3A (same engine) but there are a lot of visible changes, one that you will notice right away is the details on the characters, and also all the motion, probably John will step in and talk about some of the aspects of the design, it looks like motion capture applied to the characters. The graphics aren't a big step up like from quake 1 to quake 3, but the overall mood and gameplay is really good. When I first played the demo, I thought that game would really suck because of the respawn time and the choice of weapons, but when you get to know it and get a well-balanced team that knows how to play, the level, and use special habilities like medic, or engineers defusing,etc.. it's really starting to get addictive. So to anyone who didn't like the test, do like I did, play it a bit more, and if you like the quake style and the RTS style, wolf is a good balance of both.
The single player is good, when I read the interviews, I was expecting a "max payne"-like story line in between each level, it's not as good, but the mood is really there and the levels are really nice. Like I said, it's not a Revolution, but it's an evolution. It's worth to buy if you're into that kind of games.
Hope this is useful to anyone out there
If they dare put a virus that logs everything I'm doing and it DARE slowing down my p0rn downloading, it could put me (or especially anyone around me) in a life threatening situation. Good Job!
(Job as in the Bill.... you horny minded you!)
>I was actually surprised just how much Internet penetration there was
I knew there was a Male/Female ratio problem in China, but this is just plain sick...
I applied for the .BIZ domain for my company,
.BIZ domain, they told me they aren't administering it, it's neulevel that takes care of it...(that sounded like a ping pong game is about to start).. I asked who to contact at neulevel, neulevel told me NSI would take care of it (ARGH), anyways last time I tried was 2 weeks ago when the .BIZ was supposed to be online, asked them what was wrong, they told me they had a database screwup (good timing guys) and they would get the Neulevel transfer within a week and mail me the new password... that was around november 8th if I recall.... so it's more than a week now and still nothing... god...
I've had nothing but troubles with NSI.
First: The application, they gave me a customer #, a login and a password... few days later, I couldn't log back in the account to see if my application passed, if my domain was accepted or if my company credit card was billed (although I could see it from the receipt generated by the CC company).
Second: Tech support, forget about their email reply, they NEVER reply
Third: I went online with their chatroom stuff, I thought "hey that's a good service" (I hate using the phone), finally they answer your question, it makes sense (I asked why my account wasn't working, they replied they didn't have an account or domain under what I registered, but if I check the neulevel whois database, I'm there (?) , so they told me they would send a password back within a day... of course it never happened).
After a week, I went back to check with them what was happening with the BIZ domain, they told me they didn't have my account and no record of me applying... funny, my credit card does!
I asked what the Fsck was going on, how come I couldn't access my
This brings me to stargate Inc, saw them by a pure coincidence, guess what? 8$/domain when you register at least 2... you get: Email fowarding, static web page, unlimited DNS/NS changing with a nice configuration toolbox, *FAST* service, *FAST* confirmation, heck, Why are companies like NSI still around when you get that kind of royal treatment for a mere 8$??? I was really shocked (and still pissed at NSI). If you can't carry a buisness, let the others do it, we don't have to pay for their incompetence nor the fact that their tech support people don't even know the earth is round yet (so imagine anything having to do with your account).
Anyways, thanks for bringing this up, I almost forgot about it, I'll ask stargate if they can transfer the authorization, and if I'm lucky, maybe I'll be able to actually USE that domain before it expires and I have to renew it...
I don't know about you guys, but they claim software piracy costs BILLIONS per year, but calculare how much is lost in time wasted if we calculate 1-2 hours a week per IT administrator such as myself times the amount of companies that went thru NSI. 35$/yr for a domain might be cheap for corporate usage, but 2 hours/week to fix domain issues and bouncing paperwork around adds to quite a lot, this could almost be worth a class action suit, maybe the management would wake up.