I play Medal of Honor Allied Assault. The clan I'm in has several different groups within the whole. We have around 70 members and we host 2 games servers. Someone in the clan ran across ServerMonitor.com and so we thought it'd be cool to try it out. It is a pay service so one of the clan members decided to contribute by paying the monthly fee. After three weeks of trying to contact ServerMonitor because the player stats weren't functioning properly I decided to try something else. Another member found a php based player stat system that someone had written and it was free. So after some setup and tweaking the scripts to suit our needs these stats are far better than teh pay service. The pay service scored a player based on the team victory and the overall time that player spent in teh game. Once the new system was in place the clan member that had been ranked #1 dropped to 65. Seems his kill to death ratio was lower than he though. We don't use them to say one person is better than another. Machine power and connection speeds have as much to do with your overall skill level than actual skill does. I have noticed an improvement in my overall score, yet I do not like the level of competitiveness it has brought out in me. Overall I don't think stats are a bad thing, but I have noticed they make me try harder.
accept to get paid to carry it out. I though in the insect world, body language had as much to do with it as pheromones and looks did. I mean, the painted wasps had no idea they had "royal" markings, so how can you expect them to act dominant if their role is normally subordinant? If the painted wasps could have mimiced movements of the dominant insects then the results may have been different.
However the conclusion that cheaters in nature dont prosper, what about the thousands of plants animals and insects that mimic other species, because that species is poisonous? EX: Coral snake and a Milk snake, the latter is non-venomous, but keeps from bieng eaten by animals and other snakes because it mimics a poisonous snake. Seems to me that is more than prospering from cheating.
The 3am infomecial toughting the benefits of getting your IT Certification because over 1 million "IT Professionals" will be needed in the US by the year 2006.
How does the saying go? "Even bad publicity is good publicity" If I read the article correctly, Nintendo was pissed because a user had posted those on their private user page, as their favorite videogames. What I want to know is how Nintendo found out? Was the CEO doing his regular cruise of the SG website when he stumbled across the users page? Or did the user have links to those games posted in the profile? Regardless of how they found out, how many games were sold as a result of that? How many hits does the SG site recieve that is pushing those games FREE OF CHARGE for Nintendo?
Grow up people. A quote saying my fave games are: "blah" and "blah", is not grounds for a lawsuit. Had they posted sourcecode yeah I could see, had they been pushing pirated copies ok I can get with that, but a user profile, grow up. I just lost respect for Nintendo. Don't forget who is your target group guys. It isn't children. It's the pockets of the these kids parents you are looking to get into.
I imagine from marketing to distributors everyone that has their hands in the pot want their share. If a video card 64 meg generic, costs $40 new, how much does this card cost to mass produce per unit? $5? If you think about the way supply and demand works, if someone could get on board with some manufacturers and could assume several different roles, distributor, in house marketing they could drastically reduce the price. American consumers, myself included at times, often will avoid a product offered at a drastic discount for fear of a lack of quality.
This $100 PC could be done I'm sure, but to what end? Is there really a market for a $100 machine? Who would the target demographic be, mom and dad? Grandparents? Schools, or foriegn peoples? And what tech support would this PC offer if any? At $100 per unit would the cost of running tech support outweigh the cost of just buying a new one? What of a warranty? Would the warranty be to just give them a new one?
Bottom line, the $100 PC will never hit the shelves unless money can be made from the venture.
Had Christopher Reeves not passed to have had him a freind of Supermans and made him like a Tech geek that SM looked to for all things technical and had him monitoring world radio transmissions for trouble. Kinda SM's sidekick. Though it was never really in any of the SM stories, I think it would have ruled. Having grown up with CR playing SM and all.
At the number of users who post I use yadda yadda behind a multi booger flick this. Linked to OS bleh, and a Such and such WIFI AP.
Yet they make no mention of having their WIFI network using any type of WEP.
Yeah you guys are safe!.
No offense to anyone, but any of you in IT know a system is only as safe as the people who use it keep it.
Unless you are the only one using it, it probably isn't secure.
I run no firewall, no AV, just linux configured as SNAT using iptable magic. And in 8 years on the net, I got my second virus ( I seem to average 1 per 4 years ). Doesn't really make me see the need to pay for a AV software license.
Considering kids could be addicted to worse things than sitting in your house, rampaging on a virtual killing spree, be glad you know where they are.
As a long time gaming addict myself, last night I suffered as my gaming box went through hardware failures. After a few hours of trying this and that, it was painfully obious that giving up the ghost was the only solution. Here I am 6 hours later, middle of the workday, still have 4 hours of school after that and my day is crap, because I know when its all said and done I cant go home and blow off some steam in my favorite gaming server.
have in common? Is Yoko really a terminator built by Lennon to be unleashed on the world? Is Julian really JFK's son?
Come on people he made music, some good, some bad. What threat this man can pose to National Security decades after his death are a mystery to me, unless the Government had him killed.
Gartner's making a bold prediction that the number of machines sold as Linux desktops may eclipse the number of machines actually running Linux."
What about the number of Windows machines sold, but are actually running Linux?
Or the number of home built desktops running Linux?
I run both, I use Windows primarily for games, do all my websurfing emailing from Linix.
Donovan predicts that phishing and spam will increase by the next report, and open-source software, such as Linux, will become a bigger target on the hacker agenda.
Seeing as how/. claims Apache owns the web, this would olnly make sense. You compromise the web server you get more info, or go for the user and get the one time score.
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Nice job, I find myself in the same situation. Remeber the old bicycle locks, the kind with the ring style tumblers? That was my first lock. Since then I have worked part time for a locksmith for a few years. There isn't a car I can't get into with little more than a coat hanger. If that doesn't work a few bobbi pins will do. Though the Mercedes security locks trouble me. The only household locks I can't do are Baldwin and Medico. Pretty much everything else is fair game. In school Master combination locks made me popular. Some kid next to me would forget his locker combo and start to go get the janitor. I'd stop em and ask for one of their shoelaces and procede to open their locker with it. True security is like a dragon, it's a mythilogical beast.
Offtopic, but I thought it relevant for those of you who have never messed with one. Doctalk is a Text to Speech program, you can have hours of laughs with these. http://rksa.no-ip.com:8008/files/DocTalk/
In 7 years on the web, no anti-virus, I have had one virus. It was CIH and destroyed image files. Woopee.
Common sense would stop this stuff. Also there should be a competency test, like a driving test in order to use a computer. If you can't use the computer proficiently without a mouse, you shouldn't be allowed to use one.
Interesting theory, but won't work.
Drugs are illegal, people still buy, sell, use them.
Murder is illegal, people still kill. Despite a hefty death penalty in some states. What makes you think this would deter these people?
It is also a matter of jurisdiction. If the worm came from Walla Walla, New Zealand. What can a San Fransico cop do about it? Does his jurisdiction extend below the Equator?
In order to pay you have to havesomething in the first place. They can try and sue all they want. What you have is a violent criminal, who knowingly eentered a house with the occupants home, and had a weapon. You show me a jury that would convict someone.
Slashdot Mirror
It actually made ./ back in May.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25
I play Medal of Honor Allied Assault. The clan I'm in has several different groups within the whole. We have around 70 members and we host 2 games servers. Someone in the clan ran across ServerMonitor.com and so we thought it'd be cool to try it out. It is a pay service so one of the clan members decided to contribute by paying the monthly fee. After three weeks of trying to contact ServerMonitor because the player stats weren't functioning properly I decided to try something else. Another member found a php based player stat system that someone had written and it was free. So after some setup and tweaking the scripts to suit our needs these stats are far better than teh pay service. The pay service scored a player based on the team victory and the overall time that player spent in teh game. Once the new system was in place the clan member that had been ranked #1 dropped to 65. Seems his kill to death ratio was lower than he though. We don't use them to say one person is better than another. Machine power and connection speeds have as much to do with your overall skill level than actual skill does. I have noticed an improvement in my overall score, yet I do not like the level of competitiveness it has brought out in me. Overall I don't think stats are a bad thing, but I have noticed they make me try harder.
accept to get paid to carry it out. I though in the insect world, body language had as much to do with it as pheromones and looks did. I mean, the painted wasps had no idea they had "royal" markings, so how can you expect them to act dominant if their role is normally subordinant? If the painted wasps could have mimiced movements of the dominant insects then the results may have been different.
However the conclusion that cheaters in nature dont prosper, what about the thousands of plants animals and insects that mimic other species, because that species is poisonous? EX: Coral snake and a Milk snake, the latter is non-venomous, but keeps from bieng eaten by animals and other snakes because it mimics a poisonous snake. Seems to me that is more than prospering from cheating.
I agree all the best maps are made by the players and not the developers.
The 3am infomecial toughting the benefits of getting your IT Certification because over 1 million "IT Professionals" will be needed in the US by the year 2006.
Yet another example of how our government is way outta control.
How does the saying go? "Even bad publicity is good publicity" If I read the article correctly, Nintendo was pissed because a user had posted those on their private user page, as their favorite videogames. What I want to know is how Nintendo found out? Was the CEO doing his regular cruise of the SG website when he stumbled across the users page? Or did the user have links to those games posted in the profile? Regardless of how they found out, how many games were sold as a result of that? How many hits does the SG site recieve that is pushing those games FREE OF CHARGE for Nintendo?
Grow up people. A quote saying my fave games are: "blah" and "blah", is not grounds for a lawsuit. Had they posted sourcecode yeah I could see, had they been pushing pirated copies ok I can get with that, but a user profile, grow up. I just lost respect for Nintendo. Don't forget who is your target group guys. It isn't children. It's the pockets of the these kids parents you are looking to get into.
I imagine from marketing to distributors everyone that has their hands in the pot want their share. If a video card 64 meg generic, costs $40 new, how much does this card cost to mass produce per unit? $5? If you think about the way supply and demand works, if someone could get on board with some manufacturers and could assume several different roles, distributor, in house marketing they could drastically reduce the price.
American consumers, myself included at times, often will avoid a product offered at a drastic discount for fear of a lack of quality.
This $100 PC could be done I'm sure, but to what end? Is there really a market for a $100 machine? Who would the target demographic be, mom and dad? Grandparents? Schools, or foriegn peoples? And what tech support would this PC offer if any? At $100 per unit would the cost of running tech support outweigh the cost of just buying a new one? What of a warranty? Would the warranty be to just give them a new one?
Bottom line, the $100 PC will never hit the shelves unless money can be made from the venture.
Had Christopher Reeves not passed to have had him a freind of Supermans and made him like a Tech geek that SM looked to for all things technical and had him monitoring world radio transmissions for trouble. Kinda SM's sidekick. Though it was never really in any of the SM stories, I think it would have ruled. Having grown up with CR playing SM and all.
Any future need to read CS.
Hard Edge was the only decent column in the mag.
I say you two are better off without that Ragazine.
From reading the descriptions it sounds an aweful lot like bigfoot.
At the number of users who post I use yadda yadda behind a multi booger flick this. Linked to OS bleh, and a Such and such WIFI AP.
Yet they make no mention of having their WIFI network using any type of WEP.
Yeah you guys are safe!.
No offense to anyone, but any of you in IT know a system is only as safe as the people who use it keep it.
Unless you are the only one using it, it probably isn't secure.
I run no firewall, no AV, just linux configured as SNAT using iptable magic. And in 8 years on the net, I got my second virus ( I seem to average 1 per 4 years ). Doesn't really make me see the need to pay for a AV software license.
Considering kids could be addicted to worse things than sitting in your house, rampaging on a virtual killing spree, be glad you know where they are.
As a long time gaming addict myself, last night I suffered as my gaming box went through hardware failures. After a few hours of trying this and that, it was painfully obious that giving up the ghost was the only solution. Here I am 6 hours later, middle of the workday, still have 4 hours of school after that and my day is crap, because I know when its all said and done I cant go home and blow off some steam in my favorite gaming server.
have in common? Is Yoko really a terminator built by Lennon to be unleashed on the world? Is Julian really JFK's son?
Come on people he made music, some good, some bad. What threat this man can pose to National Security decades after his death are a mystery to me, unless the Government had him killed.
True, but that is what the article implied.
Seeing as how
i am also in a state of euphoria.
considering California is the sunshine state.
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Nice job, I find myself in the same situation. Remeber the old bicycle locks, the kind with the ring style tumblers? That was my first lock. Since then I have worked part time for a locksmith for a few years. There isn't a car I can't get into with little more than a coat hanger. If that doesn't work a few bobbi pins will do. Though the Mercedes security locks trouble me. The only household locks I can't do are Baldwin and Medico. Pretty much everything else is fair game. In school Master combination locks made me popular. Some kid next to me would forget his locker combo and start to go get the janitor. I'd stop em and ask for one of their shoelaces and procede to open their locker with it. True security is like a dragon, it's a mythilogical beast.
"There is no spoon"
./xmms
Offtopic, but I thought it relevant for those of you who have never messed with one.
Doctalk is a Text to Speech program, you can have hours of laughs with these.
http://rksa.no-ip.com:8008/files/DocTalk/
In 7 years on the web, no anti-virus, I have had one virus. It was CIH and destroyed image files. Woopee.
Common sense would stop this stuff.
Also there should be a competency test, like a driving test in order to use a computer.
If you can't use the computer proficiently without a mouse, you shouldn't be allowed to use one.
Interesting theory, but won't work.
Drugs are illegal, people still buy, sell, use them.
Murder is illegal, people still kill. Despite a hefty death penalty in some states.
What makes you think this would deter these people?
It is also a matter of jurisdiction. If the worm came from Walla Walla, New Zealand. What can a San Fransico cop do about it? Does his jurisdiction extend below the Equator?
In order to pay you have to havesomething in the first place. They can try and sue all they want. What you have is a violent criminal, who knowingly eentered a house with the occupants home, and had a weapon. You show me a jury that would convict someone.