Check this statement out: Despite the howls of anger this statement will provoke from musicians, AI specialists and physics fanatics, at the end of the day videogames are all about pretty visuals.
This was discussed here on Slashdot a week or so ago, and fortunately the statement is only partially correct. I see nothing wrong in game makers creating cool graphics, it's not like when a new game comes out to my playstation 2, I have to get the latest geforce card to get maxfps. By all means, the game makers SHOULD make use of the capabilities that lie in the graphics card. However, there are fortunately still games that rely on a great story. Finaly Fantasy would have been half the game it is if it weren't for the story. Gameplay and challenges are also important parts of a game. That statement is nothing more than BS, like most of the article.
Also, who gets to decide what products should be included ? I don't use media player, I use zoom player, but I seriously doubt I'll have anything to say on what products should be included instead.
IMHO, instead of including other products etc, let the user choose whether or not he/she wants to install media player during the installation of Windows.
Linux needs LiveCDs, but the BSDs certainly stand on their own.
Why is this ? IMHO, Linux stands just fine on its own. People have been talking on slashdot about how they use the Live CDs to show people what Linux can do, and to run Linux where you cannot install etc, I can't see why it should be any different with a BSD live cd. My guess is that it will be used as the Linux live cd's, to test and try. I think it's a good idea, and I will most certainly try it, I don't buy your idea that BSD stands better on its own than Linux though.
It certainly seems that way... I beat "Call of duty" after just a couple of days playing, and that was even though I didn't sit in front of my comp all the time. The game was great, but I was really disappointed about the lack of real challeneg in it. Also, FFX... you can play it for 150 hours and still there will be new challenges, but the game isn't really that hard, it's just very very big. I have not once actually died in combat in FFX, while older FF games would have you dead in a heartbeat if you hadn't collected enough experience on your way.
There's a bit of a difference between an orbiter and a rover located on the actual planet.
I doubt you this kind of evidence from an orbiter: Other images show the rover tracks clearly are being made in "mud", with water being pressed out of that material, Levin said. "That water promptly freezes and you can see reflecting ice. That's clearly ice. It could be nothing else," he said, "and the source is the water that came out of the mud."
Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award!
I don't always agree with the Oscars on who should receive it, but IMHO Return of the King deserved each and everyone of them! Kudos to the jury for finally giving Peter Jackson the recognition he rightfully earned after creating (again IMHO) one of the most memorable film projects ever!
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They're really really good at times and stories are worth comparing with the commercial counterparts. IMHO, stories are becoming less important for commercial games. Great graphics seems to matter a the most. I like eyecandy as well, but I miss games with a great story, and lots of humor, like the Monkey Island games and others from LucasArts.
Exactly how does the criminals (I take it you talk about the writer) profit from these viruses ? Most viruses destroy stuff on your computer, gets you access to their machines or starts DOS attacks. That doesn't give the writer much profit does it ?
Viruses don't die ..
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Old viruses don't die, it seems, they just run out of potential targets as software choices change and security holes are patched.
"You might think that there are some that will almost certainly never be seen again but it is surprising... we still occasionally see viruses from 1995," Ducklin says.
There's a reason enough to be on your toes and patch your new install as soon as possible.
Maybe I should've posted more of the text - Itself replete with radiation sensors, the canister's interior supports an oxygen environment to better mirror its human space suit counterparts.
Also, this is just the torso, not an entire dummy. No arms or legs.
The space mannequin's "skin" is a coat of multi-layer insulation containing thermo-luminescence dosimeters, detectors that glow in proportion to the amount of radiation they receive. Those detectors are distributed about every inch (2.5 centimeters) throughout the torso to give scientists a depth-dose profile of radiation exposure. (...) Encapsulating the Phantom torso is a protective canister of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic.
The reason for this is that one of the reasons that the xbox has been a success is the ability to rip your music onto it and play it in your favorite games.
Do you have any source to back that up ? All of my friends who bought x-boxes got it modded and inserted a bigger hard-drive, not buying a single game for it. As I've mentioned in a previous post today, MS doesn't make money of the x-box sale itself. I seriously doubt that ripping cd's onto a harddrive and using it in your game is a huge reason people have for buying an x-box. I could be wrong though.
Not only that:
"The hard drive became a liability in relation to those units that were hacked," Doherty said.
Seems like they are willing to go further to stop the modding of the x-boxes. IIRC, Microsoft didn't make any money on the x-box itself, but wanted to make that up selling enough games. I have a couple of friends which have switched the standard hard drive in an x-box with one having 120gb disk space (I understand it's even possible to have more). This will perhaps make this kind of hack more difficult. Though I am fairly sure the x-box 2 will also be modded fairly easy.
From the article: The Windows 2000 code is a 203MB chunk that expands to about 600MB - enough to fill one CD.
Microsoft has said that this represents about 15% of the total source code for the operating system. It is not enough to recreate the operating system.
What's vague about this ? I agree they don't say WHICH 15%, but it's clearly win2k they are talking about.
BBC also has a Q&A on the recent event, including thoughts on how this may impact Microsoft themselves.
Microsoft has said that this represents about 15% of the total source code for the operating system. It is not enough to recreate the operating system.
For some time RealPlayer was the only "free" plug-in to support SMIL. Fortunately, we now have Ambulant.
There are still, like you mentioned, several places which offer.rm formats to view their contents. Annoying, but then again, it appears only Quicktime and WMV are the alternatives.
The flaws, found by U.K.-based Next-Generation Security Software, can affect RealNetworks' RealOne Player, RealOne Player version 2, RealPlayer 8, RealPlayer 10 Beta, and the company's RealOne Enterprise products. To exploit them, an attacker crafts the data in a media file in a certain way. When people play or stream the corrupted file in a vulnerable version of RealPlayer, the attacker's code will run, compromising the PC. The vulnerabilities are in the player, not the codec it seems.
The gaming is indeed in focus, with Counterstrike, Quake 3 etc tournaments, and the prices are actually really cool. But IIRC there are also programming contests, flash design contests, and stuff like that.
The police are in the vicinity at least, I can't remember (nor find the link) exactly how many, but last year some people got arrested for selling (sharing) pirated games and software..
The event takes place in Vikingskipet (The Viking ship) which was used under the Winter olympics at Lillehammer in 1994, so yeah, it's big:)
Me, I'll be attending the the Inferno festival which takes place just a few miles south. Easter is traditionally a time when there are lots of things happening in Norway, and a lot of people will be travelling up in the mountains to ski, snowboard etc.
The only way I can think of is to go overly bureaucratic and assign tracking numbers to everything.
Bureaucracy can be annoying, and seem unnecessary at times, but when dealing with human lives like this, I agree with you that the bureacracy is perhaps needed. What you mentioned is a mistake that just sounds unbelievable, and very unfortunate. The paperwork will just have to be taken care of, there are human lives at stake.
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Check this statement out: Despite the howls of anger this statement will provoke from musicians, AI specialists and physics fanatics, at the end of the day videogames are all about pretty visuals.
This was discussed here on Slashdot a week or so ago, and fortunately the statement is only partially correct. I see nothing wrong in game makers creating cool graphics, it's not like when a new game comes out to my playstation 2, I have to get the latest geforce card to get maxfps. By all means, the game makers SHOULD make use of the capabilities that lie in the graphics card.
However, there are fortunately still games that rely on a great story. Finaly Fantasy would have been half the game it is if it weren't for the story. Gameplay and challenges are also important parts of a game. That statement is nothing more than BS, like most of the article.
And what about outlook express ? Windows Messenger ?
This thing seems to me to have been blown out of proportion long ago.
Also, who gets to decide what products should be included ? I don't use media player, I use zoom player, but I seriously doubt I'll have anything to say on what products should be included instead.
IMHO, instead of including other products etc, let the user choose whether or not he/she wants to install media player during the installation of Windows.
Linux needs LiveCDs, but the BSDs certainly stand on their own.
Why is this ? IMHO, Linux stands just fine on its own. People have been talking on slashdot about how they use the Live CDs to show people what Linux can do, and to run Linux where you cannot install etc, I can't see why it should be any different with a BSD live cd. My guess is that it will be used as the Linux live cd's, to test and try. I think it's a good idea, and I will most certainly try it, I don't buy your idea that BSD stands better on its own than Linux though.
It certainly seems that way ... ... you can play it for 150 hours and still there will be new challenges, but the game isn't really that hard, it's just very very big.
I beat "Call of duty" after just a couple of days playing, and that was even though I didn't sit in front of my comp all the time. The game was great, but I was really disappointed about the lack of real challeneg in it. Also, FFX
I have not once actually died in combat in FFX, while older FF games would have you dead in a heartbeat if you hadn't collected enough experience on your way.
There's a bit of a difference between an orbiter and a rover located on the actual planet.
I doubt you this kind of evidence from an orbiter:
Other images show the rover tracks clearly are being made in "mud", with water being pressed out of that material, Levin said. "That water promptly freezes and you can see reflecting ice. That's clearly ice. It could be nothing else," he said, "and the source is the water that came out of the mud."
He sure wasn't nominated this year:
Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams
Djimon Hounsou, In America
Tim Robbins, Mystic River
Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai.
Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award!
I don't always agree with the Oscars on who should receive it, but IMHO Return of the King deserved each and everyone of them! Kudos to the jury for finally giving Peter Jackson the recognition he rightfully earned after creating (again IMHO) one of the most memorable film projects ever!
I use it for news sites, meaning I get the news as soon as it is updated, and most news sites (at least not in Norway) doesn't require any form of log-on etc, so no cookies.
Also, some rss readers have browser capabilities, enabling them to store cookies iirc
They're really really good at times and stories are worth comparing with the commercial counterparts.
IMHO, stories are becoming less important for commercial games. Great graphics seems to matter a the most. I like eyecandy as well, but I miss games with a great story, and lots of humor, like the Monkey Island games and others from LucasArts.
Exactly how does the criminals (I take it you talk about the writer) profit from these viruses ? Most viruses destroy stuff on your computer, gets you access to their machines or starts DOS attacks. That doesn't give the writer much profit does it ?
Old viruses don't die, it seems, they just run out of potential targets as software choices change and security holes are patched. ... we still occasionally see viruses from 1995," Ducklin says.
"You might think that there are some that will almost certainly never be seen again but it is surprising
There's a reason enough to be on your toes and patch your new install as soon as possible.
Maybe I should've posted more of the text -
Itself replete with radiation sensors, the canister's interior supports an oxygen environment to better mirror its human space suit counterparts.
Also, this is just the torso, not an entire dummy. No arms or legs.
Here's how they do it:
The space mannequin's "skin" is a coat of multi-layer insulation containing thermo-luminescence dosimeters, detectors that glow in proportion to the amount of radiation they receive. Those detectors are distributed about every inch (2.5 centimeters) throughout the torso to give scientists a depth-dose profile of radiation exposure. (...) Encapsulating the Phantom torso is a protective canister of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic.
The reason for this is that one of the reasons that the xbox has been a success is the ability to rip your music onto it and play it in your favorite games.
Do you have any source to back that up ? All of my friends who bought x-boxes got it modded and inserted a bigger hard-drive, not buying a single game for it. As I've mentioned in a previous post today, MS doesn't make money of the x-box sale itself. I seriously doubt that ripping cd's onto a harddrive and using it in your game is a huge reason people have for buying an x-box. I could be wrong though.
Not only that:
"The hard drive became a liability in relation to those units that were hacked," Doherty said.
Seems like they are willing to go further to stop the modding of the x-boxes. IIRC, Microsoft didn't make any money on the x-box itself, but wanted to make that up selling enough games. I have a couple of friends which have switched the standard hard drive in an x-box with one having 120gb disk space (I understand it's even possible to have more). This will perhaps make this kind of hack more difficult. Though I am fairly sure the x-box 2 will also be modded fairly easy.
From the article:
The Windows 2000 code is a 203MB chunk that expands to about 600MB - enough to fill one CD.
Microsoft has said that this represents about 15% of the total source code for the operating system. It is not enough to recreate the operating system.
What's vague about this ? I agree they don't say WHICH 15%, but it's clearly win2k they are talking about.
Actually, it's supposedly only 15% of the source code. See here.
BBC also has a Q&A on the recent event, including thoughts on how this may impact Microsoft themselves.
Microsoft has said that this represents about 15% of the total source code for the operating system. It is not enough to recreate the operating system.
For some time RealPlayer was the only "free" plug-in to support SMIL. Fortunately, we now have Ambulant.
.rm formats to view their contents. Annoying, but then again, it appears only Quicktime and WMV are the alternatives.
There are still, like you mentioned, several places which offer
The flaws, found by U.K.-based Next-Generation Security Software, can affect RealNetworks' RealOne Player, RealOne Player version 2, RealPlayer 8, RealPlayer 10 Beta, and the company's RealOne Enterprise products. To exploit them, an attacker crafts the data in a media file in a certain way. When people play or stream the corrupted file in a vulnerable version of RealPlayer, the attacker's code will run, compromising the PC.
The vulnerabilities are in the player, not the codec it seems.
The gaming is indeed in focus, with Counterstrike, Quake 3 etc tournaments, and the prices are actually really cool. But IIRC there are also programming contests, flash design contests, and stuff like that.
The police are in the vicinity at least, I can't remember (nor find the link) exactly how many, but last year some people got arrested for selling (sharing) pirated games and software..
The event takes place in Vikingskipet (The Viking ship) which was used under the Winter olympics at Lillehammer in 1994, so yeah, it's big :)
Me, I'll be attending the the Inferno festival which takes place just a few miles south. Easter is traditionally a time when there are lots of things happening in Norway, and a lot of people will be travelling up in the mountains to ski, snowboard etc.
The only way I can think of is to go overly bureaucratic and assign tracking numbers to everything.
Bureaucracy can be annoying, and seem unnecessary at times, but when dealing with human lives like this, I agree with you that the bureacracy is perhaps needed. What you mentioned is a mistake that just sounds unbelievable, and very unfortunate.
The paperwork will just have to be taken care of, there are human lives at stake.