Sure, it's an independent software developer, who cares? He's charging money for a program that explicitly violates the TOS that a user agrees to when signing up for World of Warcraft.
It's just one bot program out of many, but maybe the others will get the picture and GTFO also. I'm tired of trying to play legitimately, having bots always stealing my kills.:(
The first guy in line was an employee of the store. Behind him was a doting mother of 3, behind her, was me. I got there two hours before the store opened. The employee had already printed out preorder game and accessory lists, and was extremely well-informed.
The guys I were in line with were the sweaty fat gamer nerd type - one wouldn't shut up about how he got 120 stars in Mario 64.. *yawn*
Anyway, I put down full price on a Wii, two classic controllers, an extra nunchuck/Wiimote, and Red Steel, Trauma Center, Zelda:TP, and Excite Truck.
Thanksgiving is going to be awesome this year, having a nice shiny Wii to tote to the in-law's house to show to the kids.:)
The PSP possesses the ability to make streamed content (such as movies and music) much smaller, using better compression.
For instance, take Valkyrie Profile. It took two CDs for PSX, but manages to fit in under 600MB for PSP. That, and it contains even more new streamed video.
I could see all of FF7 in 500MB with resampled video, easily. Hell, they have the technology to realtime render all of that crap now... 300MB. The entire musical score took under 1MB.:)
Sony's not looking to reinvent each game though; they're just going to probably emulate it the best they can. I don't see multi-disc games like FF7 and FF8 being playable on this PSP/PSX emulator or whatever the crap it's going to be.
Hasn't anyone gone to bluesecurity.com to actually see what THEY have to say about this "security breach"?
I have two other email address that WERE NOT signed up with BlueFrog also getting this spam.
BlueSecurity's official statement is this:...which I would be pasting here if I could get to the goddamned site. Thanks a lot, slashdot. I'll be back to post the full text once I can get in the bloody site.
In short, the spammers are PISSED and they'll do anything to get people to unsubscribe from BlueFrog, including sending spams with lies. Don't fall for it. Keep fighting spam.
By most QA standards, a product should be considered "feature complete" once it hits beta. If a feature doesn't make it in by that point, too bad. The rest of the development time should be spent in QA, and the product should ship when all of the bugs that were found have been fixed, or reasonably addressed.
Companies that do otherwise need to address perhaps a bigger problem. *points to management*
Communication between development and marketing is key.
Hurry up and grab it before the Chinese leechers suck down all my bandwidth.
You're welcome.
SuperFetch? Great for the end-users, crap for devs
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From TFA:
SuperFetch also takes advantage of external memory devices--plug in that spare 256MB USB key (any size will work, really) and Windows can cache a lot of the working set to it. It's not as fast as your system RAM, but it's much faster than randomly grabbing small bits of data from all over your hard drive.
...Yeah, and what about the USB 1.1 bottleneck? What would be even cuter would be if that could steal 224MB from your 256MB PCI-E videocard and use THAT for superfetch.
Lots of hype, but I bet it's going to flop and make life difficult for everyone. Windows PCs are slowly but surely going the way of the "everything's integrated, just plug it in and it works" mindset that Macs use. Sure, that's great if you're a numbskulled end-user, but if you're a developer, look forward to a whole lot more red tape.
I can see it now... review sites all over the 'net mention this as the first item in a review of a piece of software:
Spyware: YES
Then again... there may be some problems related to what is considered spyware and what's not. For example, is a piece of software that "phones home" for ANY reason considered spyware?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Square-Enix is going to try to appeal to the mass-market here, instead of the niche of hardcore Final Fantasy fans who have probably already downloaded this movie.
It is very possible to do a GOOD job dubbing a foreign film. Any of Miyazaki's movies are prime examples. In most cases, the English dubs are done by talented well-known voice actors, and that only will contribute to the success of the film.
Also...
>There are a lot of foreign films that get released with subtitles
I can't think of any anime series off the top of my head that is released in America in mainstream markets (ie: you'll see it on the shelves of Best Buy) that has only English subtitles and no English dub track. Wait, I take that back... Sailor Moon, complete seasons 1 and 2, uncut. They went out of print after about a year, probably because only the hardest of hardcore fans bought them.:)
Once upon a time, I was the member of an ISP called Vroom Wireless. This ISP blocked all P2P traffic except between the hours of midnight and 6am. This was not listed anywhere in their TOS. The upside to that (which was pointless) was that our upstream was basically unlimited (2mbit each way)...... and ALSO, every single bloody incoming port was blocked except NTP.
Aside from that, we basically got no signal between 4pm and 10pm anyway, so we canned that stupid idea and went with SBC, which only offers their lowest tier of service where we live.
Cute little independent podunk ISPs are probably doing the types of things mentioned in TFA, and will continue to do them... because they don't appear to be regulated.
I'm "only" 25 hours into the game, but I've experienced everything the reviewer has and much much more.
Despite the paper-thin plot (as it appears to me currently, at least) the game is challenging, and encourages the players to utilize tactics other than "button mashing" to get through battles.
The monsters are detailed and adorable, and the Bestiary feature allows you to look at monsters you've already fought and reply their battle animations as many times as you'd like if you just can't get enough.;D
The voice acting and the localization effort are top-notch. I can't remember feeling sorry for a character in recent memory except while playing DragonQuest VIII. Additionally, some of the jokes are incredible.
I'm glad I bought this game, and I am extremely happy that one of my favorite console RPG series is pulling in such stellar reviews in America. I look forward to many copies being sold so the game is re-released as part of the Greatest Hits series in 6-12 months.
Yeah, let's see this chip be seen through my SSH session. Nice idea, but if computers and operating systems remain the way they are, there will always be ways around such things.
I'm sure some CEO is making his pockets fat because of this idea, though...;)
As an owner of a Treo 650, I am sick and tired of going to any website (ahem, slashdot) that takes 2-3 minutes to load... and then after it loads, renders the text like t h i s.
I look forward to a more mobile-friendly chunk of the Internet, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Go to myspace.com and look for people who attended that school during the affected year. If you come up with any firstname+lastname combos (firstname in profile, lastname in comments or something - passive social engineering by observation, my favorite kind), give the ol' search skills a whirl.
I found a few, but I think I'll leave you guys to do the detective work yourselves. >:D
Slashdot Mirror
Go out to that graveyard near the flight point in Western Plaguelands.
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If you see a hunter with a boar pet, just hang out and watch it for a while. Chances are, it's probably a bot.
Once you know what to look for, you start seeing them EVERYWHERE. I even saw one in Westfall the other day.
I'm glad to hear of this.
:(
Sure, it's an independent software developer, who cares? He's charging money for a program that explicitly violates the TOS that a user agrees to when signing up for World of Warcraft.
It's just one bot program out of many, but maybe the others will get the picture and GTFO also. I'm tired of trying to play legitimately, having bots always stealing my kills.
*to little nephew*
Hey, let me show you my Wii! You can play with it all night if you want!
*nephew's face turns pale as he starts crying and runs out of the room*
This is a GameStop in Sugarland, TX.
:)
The first guy in line was an employee of the store. Behind him was a doting mother of 3, behind her, was me. I got there two hours before the store opened. The employee had already printed out preorder game and accessory lists, and was extremely well-informed.
The guys I were in line with were the sweaty fat gamer nerd type - one wouldn't shut up about how he got 120 stars in Mario 64.. *yawn*
Anyway, I put down full price on a Wii, two classic controllers, an extra nunchuck/Wiimote, and Red Steel, Trauma Center, Zelda:TP, and Excite Truck.
Thanksgiving is going to be awesome this year, having a nice shiny Wii to tote to the in-law's house to show to the kids.
I don't think a global block on MySpace and Facebook would be causing any problems.
I wish more companies would do that.
You'd better read this then.
http://www.lostlevels.org/200510/
The PSP possesses the ability to make streamed content (such as movies and music) much smaller, using better compression.
:)
For instance, take Valkyrie Profile. It took two CDs for PSX, but manages to fit in under 600MB for PSP. That, and it contains even more new streamed video.
I could see all of FF7 in 500MB with resampled video, easily. Hell, they have the technology to realtime render all of that crap now... 300MB. The entire musical score took under 1MB.
Sony's not looking to reinvent each game though; they're just going to probably emulate it the best they can. I don't see multi-disc games like FF7 and FF8 being playable on this PSP/PSX emulator or whatever the crap it's going to be.
*peer*
The site hasn't been hacked.
...which I would be pasting here if I could get to the goddamned site. Thanks a lot, slashdot. I'll be back to post the full text once I can get in the bloody site.
Hasn't anyone gone to bluesecurity.com to actually see what THEY have to say about this "security breach"?
I have two other email address that WERE NOT signed up with BlueFrog also getting this spam.
BlueSecurity's official statement is this:
In short, the spammers are PISSED and they'll do anything to get people to unsubscribe from BlueFrog, including sending spams with lies. Don't fall for it. Keep fighting spam.
By most QA standards, a product should be considered "feature complete" once it hits beta. If a feature doesn't make it in by that point, too bad. The rest of the development time should be spent in QA, and the product should ship when all of the bugs that were found have been fixed, or reasonably addressed.
Companies that do otherwise need to address perhaps a bigger problem. *points to management*
Communication between development and marketing is key.
I ripped it last night, to PSF2 format. If you don't know what PSF2s are, you should probably research. They're the greatest thing since sliced bread.
:) I think it's track 91.
Watch out for the remix of "Clash on the Big Bridge"
http://oddigy.com/
Hurry up and grab it before the Chinese leechers suck down all my bandwidth.
You're welcome.
From TFA:
...Yeah, and what about the USB 1.1 bottleneck? What would be even cuter would be if that could steal 224MB from your 256MB PCI-E videocard and use THAT for superfetch.
SuperFetch also takes advantage of external memory devices--plug in that spare 256MB USB key (any size will work, really) and Windows can cache a lot of the working set to it. It's not as fast as your system RAM, but it's much faster than randomly grabbing small bits of data from all over your hard drive.
Lots of hype, but I bet it's going to flop and make life difficult for everyone. Windows PCs are slowly but surely going the way of the "everything's integrated, just plug it in and it works" mindset that Macs use. Sure, that's great if you're a numbskulled end-user, but if you're a developer, look forward to a whole lot more red tape.
Don't shame the coders, they merely do as they're told in most cases. The real culprits are the ruthless cross-eyed marketing executives.
Yes, it is.
I can see it now... review sites all over the 'net mention this as the first item in a review of a piece of software:
Spyware: YES
Then again... there may be some problems related to what is considered spyware and what's not. For example, is a piece of software that "phones home" for ANY reason considered spyware?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Square-Enix is going to try to appeal to the mass-market here, instead of the niche of hardcore Final Fantasy fans who have probably already downloaded this movie.
:)
It is very possible to do a GOOD job dubbing a foreign film. Any of Miyazaki's movies are prime examples. In most cases, the English dubs are done by talented well-known voice actors, and that only will contribute to the success of the film.
Also...
>There are a lot of foreign films that get released with subtitles
I can't think of any anime series off the top of my head that is released in America in mainstream markets (ie: you'll see it on the shelves of Best Buy) that has only English subtitles and no English dub track. Wait, I take that back... Sailor Moon, complete seasons 1 and 2, uncut. They went out of print after about a year, probably because only the hardest of hardcore fans bought them.
If they're going to actually sync the characters' facial movements to the new English dubbed speech, it'll be worth the wait.
I'm probably one of three people in the country who haven't downloaded the subtitled version... I hope that doesn't hurt sales at all.
> Take a look at your dollar bills "In god we thrust"
*chuckle*
ZOMG TORRENT PLS!!!
Once upon a time, I was the member of an ISP called Vroom Wireless. This ISP blocked all P2P traffic except between the hours of midnight and 6am. This was not listed anywhere in their TOS. The upside to that (which was pointless) was that our upstream was basically unlimited (2mbit each way) ... ... and ALSO, every single bloody incoming port was blocked except NTP.
Aside from that, we basically got no signal between 4pm and 10pm anyway, so we canned that stupid idea and went with SBC, which only offers their lowest tier of service where we live.
Cute little independent podunk ISPs are probably doing the types of things mentioned in TFA, and will continue to do them... because they don't appear to be regulated.
Sucks that they're called Chimaeras in DQ8 though... confused me for a little while.
"Chimaera's Wing? WTF?" "Oh... hrm."
I'm "only" 25 hours into the game, but I've experienced everything the reviewer has and much much more.
;D
Despite the paper-thin plot (as it appears to me currently, at least) the game is challenging, and encourages the players to utilize tactics other than "button mashing" to get through battles.
The monsters are detailed and adorable, and the Bestiary feature allows you to look at monsters you've already fought and reply their battle animations as many times as you'd like if you just can't get enough.
The voice acting and the localization effort are top-notch. I can't remember feeling sorry for a character in recent memory except while playing DragonQuest VIII. Additionally, some of the jokes are incredible.
I'm glad I bought this game, and I am extremely happy that one of my favorite console RPG series is pulling in such stellar reviews in America. I look forward to many copies being sold so the game is re-released as part of the Greatest Hits series in 6-12 months.
Yeah, let's see this chip be seen through my SSH session. Nice idea, but if computers and operating systems remain the way they are, there will always be ways around such things.
;)
I'm sure some CEO is making his pockets fat because of this idea, though...
As an owner of a Treo 650, I am sick and tired of going to any website (ahem, slashdot) that takes 2-3 minutes to load... and then after it loads, renders the text like
t
h
i
s.
I look forward to a more mobile-friendly chunk of the Internet, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Go to myspace.com and look for people who attended that school during the affected year. If you come up with any firstname+lastname combos (firstname in profile, lastname in comments or something - passive social engineering by observation, my favorite kind), give the ol' search skills a whirl.
I found a few, but I think I'll leave you guys to do the detective work yourselves. >:D
That sounds like a great idea. Give it a try and let me know how it works out.