I liked xen, but I think people dislike xen for the same reason people hate the quake3 space levels -- Falling to your death and dying. Some of those xen levels were really just time based jump puzzles which got old if you feel all the way back down.
Aside from that though, I liked the xen lights (imagine those raytraced..) and the 'feal' of it all.
Its really pretty simple -- Set up a few 100mbit 'master seeds' (not trackers). These new 'Master Seeds' only kick in when then peer/seed ratio falls below a certain number, so while everyone can download The Matrix off of eachother Waking Life would probably be sent mostly over the master seeds.
"why not. the majority of icq users (at it's peak and wane) were all 8 or 9 + numbers. that's frigging lame to say "hey that's profiling" when for the majority of it is correct (like 95%)"
The same could be said for any other profiling. If 95% of the people stealing from your store are black or mexican, whats wrong with having security follow them around?
"They are not psychics, if they were, I doubt they would use their powers to write code, they would probably use them to pick the winning Lotto numbers."
Being psychic has a lot more to do with human interaction than predicting 'random' numbers. I'd say someone with a good enough math background would pick the lotto numbers before a psycic. Now, psycics on the other hand have more important things to do -- Get chicks.
Took a screenshot of a random application (nothing complex, not fullscreen or a video overlay.), paste into mspaint, save, leave it open for a few hours out of lazyness.. all of a sudden my counterstrike drops to 15fps so i check for any leaking apps considering I've rendered and encoded to xvid while playing cs before without my fps droppping, and then I notice the only app taking any abnormal cpu was mspaint. I'd submit a bug report, but I don't think MS keeps any public BUTS.
And microsofts never had a memory leak. I've had mspaint leak memory and take up as much cpu as it could atleast twice now, might still have the screenshot.
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"Call me silly, when I go FPS, for audio I go headphones. Laptops amazingly enough are much closer to you then your 21inch screen. I'm a full yard back from my 20inch and am perfectly comfortable. Most people i've observed choose a monitor placement that is roughly the same as a piece of paper letter sized at arms lengh."
Not at all silly. As a 'Professional Gamer' (as in, I compete in leauges and attend large lan competitions), I can safely say any gamer worth anything has headphones. Most popular are the plantronics Audio.90's which are nice, decent quality, and insanely cheap($30). A lot of people say theirs broke easy, but at $30, its worth the risk. Then theres more expensive stuff like the pc150's and other high end phones. Pretty much anything listed here is good for gaming.
My oppinion is a nice high end desktop for gaming, maybe a lower end shuttle for lanning (which can double as your desktop, depending on pricerange), and a fujitsu lifebook for actually working. The only gaming I'd want on a laptop would be simple things like 16bit console emulation, anything more just wouldn't work. Laptop lcds are small and can ghost/have dead pixels. Laptop keyboards are flimsy plastic (as is the Logitech Elite keyboard which has became standard, but of course I won't abandon my model-m). And of course you'll need an external mouse and power source for any real use.
If you really wanted to make a FragBook (LanBook?) I'd say build a laptop without a keyboard and just a real nice screen thats durable, easy access to plug in keyboard/mouse/cat5/power, and just market it for the lanners.
"Now, if we just BLOCK connections from windows boxes to our machines except for (say) WWW or DNS, then our lives are better. pf (in openbsd and now freebsd 5) can do it."
At what cost? Maybe your 500mhz k6-2 can block your sister and moms wintendo box from accessing kazaa, or even route all windows wifi users to a page that autoexploits all ie versions, but what kind of cpu power do you think it will take for an entire ISP to start routing tens of thousands of hosts based on OS version? I'll give you a hint: theres a reason it hasn't happened yet.
Borland free c/c++ compile is not Free Software(see fsf.org). PINE/PICO are free and opensource, but neither are Free Software(bad license). There are commercial contributed Free Software (see the Quake series) thats not 'free' as in $0, though at the same time theres also much better examples of commercial companies that will give you the source under a restrictive license when you purchase their product, but this is more enterprise level.
Because of the massive slowdown induced by constantly having programs open scanning your machine? You can't do that if you play games, the lag it causes makes it unplayable. What needs to happen is your computer to have certain 'modes', such as gaming, development, afk, whatever else. Each mode should have appropriate actions, like putting up away messages on your chat clients, stopping the visuals in your media player, changing the rate limiting on your bandwidth, pausing the execution of programs, etc.
"I mean, is there any useful use for this device at all?"
Obviously they sent her to an all girl school, and frankly, if creating a sexually repressed teenager whos destened to rebel by sleeping with everyone and doing porn, AND giving her a hot schoolgirl uniform isn't useful, I don't know what is.
Easy -- Make the 'money' be not real money, but a lack of ads/nagging.
Imagine getting prompted upon installing an application whether you want to A) pay B) have ads or C) donate cpu cycles. This would then allow developers to make money off of their software without making it unusable due to ad annoyance (xfire, aim, most shareware)
Exactly. The only redeeming factor is you can add additional files (.nfo/.txt, maybe the demos used if its a game movie, that kind of stuff), but thats not at all relevant on bittorrent because one torrent can have multiple files in it, and clients can even prioritize what files they want first.
This is exactly what we need, as it makes companies like FilePlanet, FileFront, etc all less required while at the same time letting the users still get their files.
If all of those annoying webbased 'portal' like downloads would just start seeding torrents, we'd all get great download speeds and they would have users helping them share the files.
Now if only I could show people why its a stupid idea to zip a large file before torrenting it.. (Hint: if I've got a 300meg movie(for this example, I'll say something off of csflicks.net), and the torrent is for a.rar, I'm not going to keep the rar and the actual movie around (2x diskspace), and since I can't directly play the rar, the file won't get seeded nearly as long.)
You're downloading it regardless of preorder, but they do warn you so you can go in there and disable it. The files are all encrypted with what looks like some weak 128bit encryption, and considering how many files you have to compare from the previous CZ leak, it looks like something anyone into cryptanalysis could break.
"The main way to cheat in those kind of games is to macro. Some MMORPGs are suscptible to the same speedhack program people use in CS, which mucks with the computer's clocking instead of the program itself, but for the most part, there's nothing client side to hack."
Just to elaborate on this a bit -- He means EXACTLY the same program. The speedhack that was floating around back in the cs 1.3 days works fine for speedbuilding in (war/star)craft, speed running in a MMORPG, or even slowing down the clock in minesweeper. The program still works to this day in counterstrike (with all forms of anticheat you can find enabled), it's just that tricky. The only way to counter is for the server to see the timing inconsistency and correct it for the player like a lot of modern games (including hl, see below) do.
Regarding HalfLife, like I said, It still works, But you'll be forced back to a previous position and stuck waiting out the duration of your speedhack if you just leave it on. You're stuck toggleing it on every 8seconds, or using something more advanced like the old OGC10 hook that would never speedhack when it wasn't "safe", and would do things like only turn it on when you start shooting. Of course, this anti-speed hack only works if you're speeding up the timers, I can just as easily lower the speed and jump off a tall building and gracefully fall all the way down nuke at 1/5th speed (And still lose health when I land, and only be able to get one shot off due to how slow my client is, but its funny. Another player (that is legit) can just as easily jump on top of you and safely float down)
In counterstrike, there are plenty of cheats that 'even the playing field'.
Off the top of my head:
Fullbright (add an insanely bright light where the players origin is, removing any shadows making it easier to see anything)
Skinhacks (make all cts blue and all terrorists red, use is obvious).
Soundpakcs (replace default sounds with more distinguishable noises, for example giant 'OUCH' sounds when someone gets hit, making it easier to tell if you hit someone through a wall)
Whitewalls (remove all textures, making players contrast better).
No Recoil ( compensate for gun recoil making it easier for newbies to spray)
Its not all wallhacks and aimbots. For the record, I don't cheat (I'll be at CPL this summer), nor do I have any respect for anyone who does even if it is just to even the playing field.
I have that problem with playing strategy based games too though. When your strategy gets too powerful, wheres the fun? Back in the old Natural Selection 1.0 days you could win any game as marines by just dropping an armory, drop shotguns for your whole team, recycle armory, then send your team off to the other teams hive. They're too low level to defend themselfs properly, so you promptly destroy the team.
Atleast in a game like counterstrike even the best strat depends highly on your team being able to pull it off, and a lot of luck as far as what the other team does.
Play a game like UnrealTourney singleplayer (bots) and just scale the bot difficulty. The problem is of course bots tend to fail in comparison to real people, but every new generation of game has gotten better at that in some degree.
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I liked xen, but I think people dislike xen for the same reason people hate the quake3 space levels -- Falling to your death and dying. Some of those xen levels were really just time based jump puzzles which got old if you feel all the way back down.
Aside from that though, I liked the xen lights (imagine those raytraced..) and the 'feal' of it all.
Its really pretty simple -- Set up a few 100mbit 'master seeds' (not trackers). These new 'Master Seeds' only kick in when then peer/seed ratio falls below a certain number, so while everyone can download The Matrix off of eachother Waking Life would probably be sent mostly over the master seeds.
"why not.
the majority of icq users (at it's peak and wane) were all 8 or 9 + numbers. that's frigging lame to say "hey that's profiling" when for the majority of it is correct (like 95%)"
The same could be said for any other profiling. If 95% of the people stealing from your store are black or mexican, whats wrong with having security follow them around?
"They are not psychics, if they were, I doubt they would use their powers to write code, they would probably use them to pick the winning Lotto numbers."
Being psychic has a lot more to do with human interaction than predicting 'random' numbers. I'd say someone with a good enough math background would pick the lotto numbers before a psycic. Now, psycics on the other hand have more important things to do -- Get chicks.
Took a screenshot of a random application (nothing complex, not fullscreen or a video overlay.), paste into mspaint, save, leave it open for a few hours out of lazyness.. all of a sudden my counterstrike drops to 15fps so i check for any leaking apps considering I've rendered and encoded to xvid while playing cs before without my fps droppping, and then I notice the only app taking any abnormal cpu was mspaint. I'd submit a bug report, but I don't think MS keeps any public BUTS.
And microsofts never had a memory leak. I've had mspaint leak memory and take up as much cpu as it could atleast twice now, might still have the screenshot.
"Call me silly, when I go FPS, for audio I go headphones. Laptops amazingly enough are much closer to you then your 21inch screen. I'm a full yard back from my 20inch and am perfectly comfortable. Most people i've observed choose a monitor placement that is roughly the same as a piece of paper letter sized at arms lengh."
Not at all silly. As a 'Professional Gamer' (as in, I compete in leauges and attend large lan competitions), I can safely say any gamer worth anything has headphones. Most popular are the plantronics Audio.90's which are nice, decent quality, and insanely cheap($30). A lot of people say theirs broke easy, but at $30, its worth the risk. Then theres more expensive stuff like the pc150's and other high end phones. Pretty much anything listed here is good for gaming.
That site(thegamercompany.com) is filled with great hardware for gaming.
My oppinion is a nice high end desktop for gaming, maybe a lower end shuttle for lanning (which can double as your desktop, depending on pricerange), and a fujitsu lifebook for actually working. The only gaming I'd want on a laptop would be simple things like 16bit console emulation, anything more just wouldn't work. Laptop lcds are small and can ghost/have dead pixels. Laptop keyboards are flimsy plastic (as is the Logitech Elite keyboard which has became standard, but of course I won't abandon my model-m). And of course you'll need an external mouse and power source for any real use.
If you really wanted to make a FragBook (LanBook?) I'd say build a laptop without a keyboard and just a real nice screen thats durable, easy access to plug in keyboard/mouse/cat5/power, and just market it for the lanners.
"Now, if we just BLOCK connections from windows boxes to our machines except for (say) WWW or DNS, then our lives are better. pf (in openbsd and now freebsd 5) can do it."
At what cost? Maybe your 500mhz k6-2 can block your sister and moms wintendo box from accessing kazaa, or even route all windows wifi users to a page that autoexploits all ie versions, but what kind of cpu power do you think it will take for an entire ISP to start routing tens of thousands of hosts based on OS version? I'll give you a hint: theres a reason it hasn't happened yet.
I fooled your mom.
Free is free, but free is not Free(tm).
Borland free c/c++ compile is not Free Software(see fsf.org).
PINE/PICO are free and opensource, but neither are Free Software(bad license).
There are commercial contributed Free Software (see the Quake series) thats not 'free' as in $0, though at the same time theres also much better examples of commercial companies that will give you the source under a restrictive license when you purchase their product, but this is more enterprise level.
Because of the massive slowdown induced by constantly having programs open scanning your machine? You can't do that if you play games, the lag it causes makes it unplayable. What needs to happen is your computer to have certain 'modes', such as gaming, development, afk, whatever else. Each mode should have appropriate actions, like putting up away messages on your chat clients, stopping the visuals in your media player, changing the rate limiting on your bandwidth, pausing the execution of programs, etc.
Unless you consider growing up in a gay household more harmful than foster homes.
I personally don't, but there are people who do, and they get to vote also.
"I mean, is there any useful use for this device at all?"
Obviously they sent her to an all girl school, and frankly, if creating a sexually repressed teenager whos destened to rebel by sleeping with everyone and doing porn, AND giving her a hot schoolgirl uniform isn't useful, I don't know what is.
Easy -- Make the 'money' be not real money, but a lack of ads/nagging.
Imagine getting prompted upon installing an application whether you want to A) pay B) have ads or C) donate cpu cycles.
This would then allow developers to make money off of their software without making it unusable due to ad annoyance (xfire, aim, most shareware)
Which goes to show you - Try to beat respect into your child and they'll grow to despise you.
This is the same location as this years Cyberathlete Professional Leauge.
Looks like a great place, some pictures are here
" I usually need both installed if I want to be able to run any application without too many problems"
I've neather installed, and everything I run runs fine. All you need is the qt and gtk libs and you're fine.
Exactly. The only redeeming factor is you can add additional files (.nfo/.txt, maybe the demos used if its a game movie, that kind of stuff), but thats not at all relevant on bittorrent because one torrent can have multiple files in it, and clients can even prioritize what files they want first.
This is exactly what we need, as it makes companies like FilePlanet, FileFront, etc all less required while at the same time letting the users still get their files.
.rar, I'm not going to keep the rar and the actual movie around (2x diskspace), and since I can't directly play the rar, the file won't get seeded nearly as long.)
If all of those annoying webbased 'portal' like downloads would just start seeding torrents, we'd all get great download speeds and they would have users helping them share the files.
Now if only I could show people why its a stupid idea to zip a large file before torrenting it.. (Hint: if I've got a 300meg movie(for this example, I'll say something off of csflicks.net), and the torrent is for a
You're downloading it regardless of preorder, but they do warn you so you can go in there and disable it.
The files are all encrypted with what looks like some weak 128bit encryption, and considering how many files you have to compare from the previous CZ leak, it looks like something anyone into cryptanalysis could break.
Or you could cut out the middleman and run UML on cygwin (it works)
"The main way to cheat in those kind of games is to macro. Some MMORPGs are suscptible to the same speedhack program people use in CS, which mucks with the computer's clocking instead of the program itself, but for the most part, there's nothing client side to hack."
Just to elaborate on this a bit -- He means EXACTLY the same program. The speedhack that was floating around back in the cs 1.3 days works fine for speedbuilding in (war/star)craft, speed running in a MMORPG, or even slowing down the clock in minesweeper. The program still works to this day in counterstrike (with all forms of anticheat you can find enabled), it's just that tricky. The only way to counter is for the server to see the timing inconsistency and correct it for the player like a lot of modern games (including hl, see below) do.
Regarding HalfLife, like I said, It still works, But you'll be forced back to a previous position and stuck waiting out the duration of your speedhack if you just leave it on. You're stuck toggleing it on every 8seconds, or using something more advanced like the old OGC10 hook that would never speedhack when it wasn't "safe", and would do things like only turn it on when you start shooting. Of course, this anti-speed hack only works if you're speeding up the timers, I can just as easily lower the speed and jump off a tall building and gracefully fall all the way down nuke at 1/5th speed (And still lose health when I land, and only be able to get one shot off due to how slow my client is, but its funny. Another player (that is legit) can just as easily jump on top of you and safely float down)
In counterstrike, there are plenty of cheats that 'even the playing field'.
Off the top of my head:
Fullbright (add an insanely bright light where the players origin is, removing any shadows making it easier to see anything)
Skinhacks (make all cts blue and all terrorists red, use is obvious).
Soundpakcs (replace default sounds with more distinguishable noises, for example giant 'OUCH' sounds when someone gets hit, making it easier to tell if you hit someone through a wall)
Whitewalls (remove all textures, making players contrast better).
No Recoil ( compensate for gun recoil making it easier for newbies to spray)
Its not all wallhacks and aimbots. For the record, I don't cheat (I'll be at CPL this summer), nor do I have any respect for anyone who does even if it is just to even the playing field.
I have that problem with playing strategy based games too though. When your strategy gets too powerful, wheres the fun? Back in the old Natural Selection 1.0 days you could win any game as marines by just dropping an armory, drop shotguns for your whole team, recycle armory, then send your team off to the other teams hive. They're too low level to defend themselfs properly, so you promptly destroy the team.
Atleast in a game like counterstrike even the best strat depends highly on your team being able to pull it off, and a lot of luck as far as what the other team does.
HUK HUK ZERG RUSH!
Play a game like UnrealTourney singleplayer (bots) and just scale the bot difficulty. The problem is of course bots tend to fail in comparison to real people, but every new generation of game has gotten better at that in some degree.