I had meant to say, the gaming industry hasn't been terribly innovative itself lately.
Yes, Commander Keen, Doom and Quake were all great technological innovations. Keen had excellent side scrolling. Though really wasn't it Wolfenstein which really broke the FPS genre? Doom was simply another technological innovation and again with Quake. We added slightly more levels of depth which nearly the same level of play.
I'm not quite sure how BF1942 becomes classified as an innovation. It was a good engine, with lots of players and some nice vehicle code. All of which had already been done. I think you are confusing popularity with innovation.
In fact, the only one on your list I'll dare grant you is GTA3, but really that was just a pretty version of GTA.
Evercrack is just a MUD with a graphical layer on top.
I have no idea what PopCap games are.
We seem to be argueing different points though and as such I'll return to the original point.
The entire OSS vs closed software development model is still senseless. It's an arguement developed profession station alone. In the end it's an odd motto to live by, "Our way is better because we are paid."
You are certainly correct most players don't pay attention to polygon count or monitor speeds as play progresses. They aren't aware that the code has been optimized or the coders took time to use those SSE pipelines they paid bookoo bucks for.
This is highest horse to ride I'm afraid, simply being angry players don't understand the things they can't see nor were ever told about. However, what tends to count more in terms of innovation points, original gameplay and not simple rehashes of aging models.
It's not like the gaming industry has been terribly innovative in itself either.
In a very real sense, they are all incredible knock offs of each others products with a wee bit of modification.
Hell, the top games in the industry are merely there to act as a advertisement to sale their wonderful new engine.
The whole arguement is senseless anyway. There is no true difference between an open source and a closed source creation of a game. Depending on the project size, you may need a few people or a team of individuals to handle the task.
The difference in the end being, one project may or may not have been made by professionals and the other project was indeed created by professionals. The added bonus is the open source project has freely available code.
Some of the greatest games we have seen to date were not made by professionals. Remember, Counter-Strike is just a modification and was made by some people via the free Half-Life SDK.
Again, it's a senseless arguement, the developement cycle can be nearly the same with an open source project. They imply there are strict management stereotypes which are followed when a project is not created outside of the work place.
His halo disc is unplayable and I'm quite certain a number of his other popular titles are unusable as well.
I think Bungie wants like 35 or 30 to replace the game.
This is the exact same reason I don't keep CD's in the car. People look surprised when I toss everything around and throw my cdr from the front to the back. (BTW, how do they manage to find themselves back in the front seat?)
If a cdr becomes unplayable... it means its time to put a new mix together from my collection. I don't lose the originals. Now, given I have an mp3 player in the car... a single disc lasts about 3 or 4 months before I ruin it or just get tired of it.
Currently, I don't have a traditional wired phone at the house. There isn't much of a need since everyone at the house has a cell pone.
For me, my job requires a mobile phone and they pay the bill. I'm not even home often enough to worry about having a land line.
I would have gotten one anyway, just for the security, but the phone company wants $80~ (US) to simply turn the bastard on.
Now, if the telecom industry was to try to lure me back, it would simply be with affordability.
I'm not even going to start on all the things I hate about the telecom service, but whats with charging not to have long distance? Someone tell me the logic in this one.
If you check out Toms Hardware you can see a small chunk of cube pc's which already feature this.
Not a bad option if you are like me and looking for a portable everything box with an alternate plan of being a PVR in its spare time.
However, after looking over the prices I decided I would rather have a mini-itx solution.
A nice C3 board with tv out and a PCI slot for capture ended up being my pick. Thankfully, I alraady have most of the components to slap into this little beast. The final product should measure about 7 x 2 x 10 (w x h x l).
Yeah, it won't have instant on dvd support, but I'm not going to nit pick when my savings was in the 300+ range.
As an individual from Ohio I do have to say... finally.
I've wondered for so long how Best Buy gets away with the "Bait and Switch" tactic. I've had a friend who was the first person in the door the day of the sale to find NO instance of the item mentioned in the paper.
He was eventually told, they were only given so many of the particular sale item and it was most likely purchased by an employee before the doors opened.
Well great thing about TA... he doesn't let that kind of crap get past him. So, eventually, after enough griping they usually give himt he same deal on something else.
I don't have a half hour to waste and then of course getting the rebate stuff as well is just as much a pain.
The whole advantage to opengroupware is the web client works and is in sync with your local client (via ximian connector for evolution, or exchange connector... or one of the many other things it supports).
You are right, it has a limited scope of functionality, but that is all some of us want.
moregroupware does a semi-decent job of doing everything, but the project is still in the early stages.
What I would love to see... is some collaboration between all these group ware folks. We have so much talent, going so many directions, it would be nice if they set a common frame work and expanded on that.
Once some of these projects mature, they will have something to rival the best packages out there.
It should be interesting to see open xchange in action.
Yeah, you could proxy DNS and use source address verification. Still, the installation this wasn't a problem.
We were actually limiting access from the internal to external network. So, all DNS requests were only allowed to a target server. (Our servers of course).
Specifically, this was implemented to prevent IP over DNS so users couldn't get passed the firewall.
Yeah... it's stupid we had to police our own staff . If people were doing their jobs... they could have had their fun too. However, this was not the case.
For some reason, I couldn't pull up the link information. I'm guessing their java gave mozilla the willys or maybe it was because I have status bar no touchy option turned on. (That is technical jargon)
Either way, I gave up because I couldn't make an informed decision by examining the link. I'm also too tired to fool with it.
Any time things like this come up... ie.. Earthlink emailing me to say my credit card is about to expire (very easy to verify... look at card)... I don't follow links... I goto the website in question.
I do 95% of my bill management online and I have never had a scam come my way. However, I'm horribly cautious with email and I'm very paranoid with everything else.
A worm that actually fixes the problem is going to do just as much harm as the malovent worm. However, because it's only feeding on that worms food supply.... it's not causing any extra!
I think it's a good thing.
You can't complain that it caused problems... you were just as liable for getting infected with the maleovent payloaded worm.
Should make the process a little faster and at least there will be some documentation.
As far as your root problem.... all very much political when you get down to it. Too bad for you.
Not just annoying.... a complete ass.
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I pride myself on my ability to piss people off at work. I make whitty comments and constantly look for ways to aggravate my coworkers. If I can get them worked up then I resort to a few high kicks and an other light tap to the back or elbow.
I find it's best to work my magic just when someone has come from a meeting or has failed at doing some task.
Once I've earned their rage, then I briskly walk away and my laughter can be heard throughout the work area.
I had an arguement with the General Sales Manager, he said he was a bigger asshole then me and of course I disagree. I prove him wrong every day.
Gotta love IT.... they might hate me sometimes, but they certainly can't live without me.
Some would say, what I do is a bad idea and that I should fear my for my job security. There is no replacement for me I'm afraid (at least not at my pay rate... the joy of being overqualified and then dependance on that exact overqualification)
I do in part some good things and all the girls do enjoy my office massages.
Provided it's a true eBay scam, they have lawyers you can hire for 25$.
I recently had a problem with something like this. Basically, my boss didn't consult me and got ripped off.
Fake emails and the whole bit. I tracked everything down as best I could without court orders for information, but I'm only IT and not a lawyer.
In this particular instance, my manager did everything wrong. He followed links that looked like an ebay page (provided via email), didn't question the cost (too cheap), sent a money order, and didn't consult me when he should have been suspicious.
I'm not privy on a lot of the details, but in the end ebay had said the account was compromised and the final trasaction did not occur through ebay.
Far too many scammers online... people need to be cautious. I guess the real trick is being able to track someone back to some real identity and pray it wasn't a stolen one at that.
I've been using prototyping services since college. Nothing like 3d molding or other such things, but basic circuit board stuff.
I took one look at an embedded board with the design to expand the ram via bank switching and decided this was going to be really messy no matter how good I was able to do the layout.
So, I grabbed a layout program recommended by a company I found online and eventually sent them my board design.
I was half expecting the professor to piss and moan, but he didn't.
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I did make one mistake...
I had meant to say, the gaming industry hasn't been terribly innovative itself lately.
Yes, Commander Keen, Doom and Quake were all great technological innovations. Keen had excellent side scrolling. Though really wasn't it Wolfenstein which really broke the FPS genre? Doom was simply another technological innovation and again with Quake. We added slightly more levels of depth which nearly the same level of play.
I'm not quite sure how BF1942 becomes classified as an innovation. It was a good engine, with lots of players and some nice vehicle code. All of which had already been done. I think you are confusing popularity with innovation.
In fact, the only one on your list I'll dare grant you is GTA3, but really that was just a pretty version of GTA.
Evercrack is just a MUD with a graphical layer on top.
I have no idea what PopCap games are.
We seem to be argueing different points though and as such I'll return to the original point.
The entire OSS vs closed software development model is still senseless. It's an arguement developed profession station alone. In the end it's an odd motto to live by, "Our way is better because we are paid."
You are certainly correct most players don't pay attention to polygon count or monitor speeds as play progresses. They aren't aware that the code has been optimized or the coders took time to use those SSE pipelines they paid bookoo bucks for.
This is highest horse to ride I'm afraid, simply being angry players don't understand the things they can't see nor were ever told about. However, what tends to count more in terms of innovation points, original gameplay and not simple rehashes of aging models.
Woah there thunder....
It's not like the gaming industry has been terribly innovative in itself either.
In a very real sense, they are all incredible knock offs of each others products with a wee bit of modification.
Hell, the top games in the industry are merely there to act as a advertisement to sale their wonderful new engine.
The whole arguement is senseless anyway. There is no true difference between an open source and a closed source creation of a game. Depending on the project size, you may need a few people or a team of individuals to handle the task.
The difference in the end being, one project may or may not have been made by professionals and the other project was indeed created by professionals. The added bonus is the open source project has freely available code.
Some of the greatest games we have seen to date were not made by professionals. Remember, Counter-Strike is just a modification and was made by some people via the free Half-Life SDK.
Again, it's a senseless arguement, the developement cycle can be nearly the same with an open source project. They imply there are strict management stereotypes which are followed when a project is not created outside of the work place.
My friends child is horrible on games.
His halo disc is unplayable and I'm quite certain a number of his other popular titles are unusable as well.
I think Bungie wants like 35 or 30 to replace the game.
This is the exact same reason I don't keep CD's in the car. People look surprised when I toss everything around and throw my cdr from the front to the back. (BTW, how do they manage to find themselves back in the front seat?)
If a cdr becomes unplayable... it means its time to put a new mix together from my collection. I don't lose the originals. Now, given I have an mp3 player in the car... a single disc lasts about 3 or 4 months before I ruin it or just get tired of it.
Nah, I'm just going to record myself singing!
Royalty free... for me!b
You can download pre-cached versions of steam.
This is rather popular for counter-strike.
I always hated reinstalling from steam itself, but I suppose those were the early days and things have changed quite a bit since then.
Despite all of this, I'm still going to buy the retail copy as I really need somewhere to securely store my cd key.
I should have mentioned, I initially decided on a personal cell phone (before work paid for it) because of the convenience.
Because my cellular phone essentially already includes my long distance charges I started using it even more then the home phone.
When I moved, I just couldn't justify the service being turned on.
Currently, I don't have a traditional wired phone at the house. There isn't much of a need since everyone at the house has a cell pone.
For me, my job requires a mobile phone and they pay the bill. I'm not even home often enough to worry about having a land line.
I would have gotten one anyway, just for the security, but the phone company wants $80~ (US) to simply turn the bastard on.
Now, if the telecom industry was to try to lure me back, it would simply be with affordability.
I'm not even going to start on all the things I hate about the telecom service, but whats with charging not to have long distance? Someone tell me the logic in this one.
Although, it's mentioned in the article and horribly obvious upon inspection.
A good chunk of those cube pc's with instant on DVD and audio CD support have front shuttle controls.
I can't believe I failed to mention that and I also don't understand why I mispelled already.
If you check out Toms Hardware you can see a small chunk of cube pc's which already feature this.
Not a bad option if you are like me and looking for a portable everything box with an alternate plan of being a PVR in its spare time.
However, after looking over the prices I decided I would rather have a mini-itx solution.
A nice C3 board with tv out and a PCI slot for capture ended up being my pick. Thankfully, I alraady have most of the components to slap into this little beast. The final product should measure about 7 x 2 x 10 (w x h x l).
Yeah, it won't have instant on dvd support, but I'm not going to nit pick when my savings was in the 300+ range.
As an individual from Ohio I do have to say... finally.
I've wondered for so long how Best Buy gets away with the "Bait and Switch" tactic. I've had a friend who was the first person in the door the day of the sale to find NO instance of the item mentioned in the paper.
He was eventually told, they were only given so many of the particular sale item and it was most likely purchased by an employee before the doors opened.
Well great thing about TA... he doesn't let that kind of crap get past him. So, eventually, after enough griping they usually give himt he same deal on something else.
I don't have a half hour to waste and then of course getting the rebate stuff as well is just as much a pain.
It's not my fault it's a whole different ball game.
The writing in the ACT is very specific and doesn't include works stored in a digital format. It deals with tape.
It even excludes low loss recordings via DAT decks.
I'm just pointing out... you can still make copies via regular old tape decks legally.
It's not difficult to find all of those items in aluminum versions.
l um inum_keyboard.php
For instance, a quick search turned up this keyboard
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/zippy_a
A nice aluminum keyboard. I think I'm going to get one to match the brushed aluminum case I was looking at.
Actually, if you read the act this is all fairly permissiable.
However, it is specicificallly talking about taped copies and doesn't deal with digital works.
The digital stuff is a whole different ball game.
However, I can legally tape some stuff and give it to you.
But she said she was 18.....
The whole advantage to opengroupware is the web client works and is in sync with your local client (via ximian connector for evolution, or exchange connector... or one of the many other things it supports).
You are right, it has a limited scope of functionality, but that is all some of us want.
moregroupware does a semi-decent job of doing everything, but the project is still in the early stages.
What I would love to see... is some collaboration between all these group ware folks. We have so much talent, going so many directions, it would be nice if they set a common frame work and expanded on that.
Once some of these projects mature, they will have something to rival the best packages out there.
It should be interesting to see open xchange in action.
Yep....
A while ago...
People were dialing up to MSN's 800 service (the number your system dial's before you have an account) and DNS was completely open.
Thus spawned IP over DNS. There was a previous slashdot story concerning this. Free dial-up provided you had a modified DNS server.
Neat huh.
Yeah, you could proxy DNS and use source address verification. Still, the installation this wasn't a problem.
We were actually limiting access from the internal to external network. So, all DNS requests were only allowed to a target server. (Our servers of course).
Specifically, this was implemented to prevent IP over DNS so users couldn't get passed the firewall.
Yeah... it's stupid we had to police our own staff . If people were doing their jobs... they could have had their fun too. However, this was not the case.
I've set control lists for DNS for a long long time.
After the IP over DNS tunnel came out... it was actually a bit necessary. Our staff would do anything to get out of doing work...
Ah....
For some reason, I couldn't pull up the link information. I'm guessing their java gave mozilla the willys or maybe it was because I have status bar no touchy option turned on. (That is technical jargon)
Either way, I gave up because I couldn't make an informed decision by examining the link. I'm also too tired to fool with it.
Any time things like this come up... ie.. Earthlink emailing me to say my credit card is about to expire (very easy to verify... look at card)... I don't follow links... I goto the website in question.
I do 95% of my bill management online and I have never had a scam come my way. However, I'm horribly cautious with email and I'm very paranoid with everything else.
A worm that actually fixes the problem is going to do just as much harm as the malovent worm. However, because it's only feeding on that worms food supply.... it's not causing any extra!
I think it's a good thing.
You can't complain that it caused problems... you were just as liable for getting infected with the maleovent payloaded worm.
Get a ticket tracking system installed...
Should make the process a little faster and at least there will be some documentation.
As far as your root problem.... all very much political when you get down to it. Too bad for you.
I pride myself on my ability to piss people off at work. I make whitty comments and constantly look for ways to aggravate my coworkers. If I can get them worked up then I resort to a few high kicks and an other light tap to the back or elbow.
I find it's best to work my magic just when someone has come from a meeting or has failed at doing some task.
Once I've earned their rage, then I briskly walk away and my laughter can be heard throughout the work area.
I had an arguement with the General Sales Manager, he said he was a bigger asshole then me and of course I disagree. I prove him wrong every day.
Gotta love IT.... they might hate me sometimes, but they certainly can't live without me.
Some would say, what I do is a bad idea and that I should fear my for my job security. There is no replacement for me I'm afraid (at least not at my pay rate... the joy of being overqualified and then dependance on that exact overqualification)
I do in part some good things and all the girls do enjoy my office massages.
Precisely....
I don't know why the parent posters couldn't reach this understanding.
Oh where are my mod points....
Provided it's a true eBay scam, they have lawyers you can hire for 25$.
I recently had a problem with something like this. Basically, my boss didn't consult me and got ripped off.
Fake emails and the whole bit. I tracked everything down as best I could without court orders for information, but I'm only IT and not a lawyer.
In this particular instance, my manager did everything wrong. He followed links that looked like an ebay page (provided via email), didn't question the cost (too cheap), sent a money order, and didn't consult me when he should have been suspicious.
I'm not privy on a lot of the details, but in the end ebay had said the account was compromised and the final trasaction did not occur through ebay.
Far too many scammers online... people need to be cautious. I guess the real trick is being able to track someone back to some real identity and pray it wasn't a stolen one at that.
I've been using prototyping services since college. Nothing like 3d molding or other such things, but basic circuit board stuff.
I took one look at an embedded board with the design to expand the ram via bank switching and decided this was going to be really messy no matter how good I was able to do the layout.
So, I grabbed a layout program recommended by a company I found online and eventually sent them my board design.
I was half expecting the professor to piss and moan, but he didn't.