Real Player got better. It's still pretty awfull, but it's not that steaming pile of shit, that behaves more like a virus than an application, anymore.
Most importantly: It's actually possible to uninstall it without calling an excorcist;)
Players will still be able to cause each other's characters to die by bringing hordes of monsters down on them, but that can be prevented by banning it in the T&C.
Just for clarification: In WoW that's not possible since a mob that has been chasing you will go back to its usual position, without caring about what's on his way, as long as nobody attacks it (i.e. its aggro range is zero). Only then it will attack other players again (i.e. its aggro goes turns back to default).
Even though that's pretty unrealistic (which the game isn't meant to be in the first place), it's preventing exactly that kind of lame PKing.
Are you guys just making up excuses for exploiting or do you actually believe what you write there (and mod "insightful")?
Being able to get to a place where you can't be shot sure isn't what the map designer had in mind. It's a bug. You know that it's a bug, you are abusing it and bug abusing is cheating.
You realize that the stuff you complain about has nothing to with the shell but with the filesystem and utility names?
It's not that I don't agree with you. The whole drive letter thing is beyond stupid. They actually tried to fix the backslash and almost succeeded. You can use "/" in about 99% of all cases in windows (the remaining 1% will bite you when you least expect it which makes the whole issue even worse than before). But that's not the shells problem.
Take a look at GTR, which is almost as awesome as Grand Prix Legends. There is a demo version to try out.
But I have to agree. An GPL'ed version of GPL (haha) would be great. The game has such a good fan community, that I think it would also do well as a mod community.
You Forgot the crucial step: Have a track record of developing excellent games and supporting them forever.
Seriously, there are a lot of people who would buy any game from Blizzard without even having heard anything about it before (including me), because they know they will get an almost perfect gaming experience.
I bet there are a lot of people among the 600.000 that have never before payed a monthly fee for any game (including me, as soon as it's released in Germany).
Where does this "German Scheiße Film" stereotype come from? I've encountered it the first time in the South Park movie but I'm sure they didn't invent it.
I'm not bitching around, I really would like to know. Looking around on the Internet it doesn't seem to me all (or even the majority) of that stuff comes from Germany.
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Actually there is no such thing as a "calling convention" in assembly itself. In x86 machine code a call is pushing the instruction pointer to the stack and jumping to the adress of desired function. I guess it's about the same in other machine codes (anybody know?)
Deciding how to pass the parameters and the return code (the important things about a calling convetion) is up to the compiler. This can happen on the stack, in registers etc. in any order.
This is why you have to use such things as __declspec in Windows. It says "This function expects its parameters to be on the stack, in the order they apear in the declaration and puts its return value in eax". The C compiler knows what to do then but assembly is to low level to give a damn.
All you need for running.NET apps is an implementation of the.NET Framework (be it the MS one or Mono).
Yeah, that's extra crap but not more than you would have with a Java solution.
I found a few games five or six years ago that entertainingly offer infinite replay value and have strong communities that keep them up to date. One of them supports internet play with a direct connection so I'm not even dependant on company servers for that one.
Uh, would you like to tell us what these games are? Just interested.
This is because the game loads an actual map to show behind the main menu. I got the following fix from the PA forums:
Go into your Steamapps folder, open the folder that is your user name, then hl2, then gcf, then open the valve.rc file with notepad and add "//" to the beginning of the last line that says "startmenu" or something.
Theoretically what you described possible, but your IP address would get banned pretty fast for querying the frontpage every ten seconds. Slashcode works that way.
Probably because a C++ interface is a pain to access from any other language than C++. Or perhaps because the Win32 API is a C library and cluttering it by adding C++ interface would be much more screwy.
Actually most APIs that need to be used by alot of people have a C interface, no matter in what language they where written in. Has nothing to do with them being "MICROS~1"...
1.) Linux is small in number, so it's hard to get a 'wave' effect with a self replicating exploit.
Yeah, there wouldn't be a lot of client machines going down, but think of the servers.
A virus that could infect a Linux box with Apache running and then replicate itself on the next box it finds, would cause a huge wave of web sites going down.
Since this would be a great "achievement" for a viruswriter, I'm almost sure that a lot of people have tried something like this already but nobody managed to. Ok, perhaps I'm wrong and nobody bothered to try it yet, but the "no wave"-argument doesn't really count IMHO.
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First off, if you can read this then lucky you !, my ISP is logging me off every few minutes so apologies to those of you who cannot see these screenshots. "
...or at least something similiar: They released four or five new screenshots for HL2 and allowed only magazines that would make a cover story out of it to print them.
So, most of the magazines just took an old story about the game, rearanged the words a little and put the new screenshots in it. On the Cover you could read "NEW SECRET INFO ABOUT HL2. EXCLUSIVE IN $MAGNAME!".
I don't know if I should find this disgusting or ridiculous.
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Real Player got better. It's still pretty awfull, but it's not that steaming pile of shit, that behaves more like a virus than an application, anymore.
;)
Most importantly: It's actually possible to uninstall it without calling an excorcist
Players will still be able to cause each other's characters to die by bringing hordes of monsters down on them, but that can be prevented by banning it in the T&C.
Just for clarification: In WoW that's not possible since a mob that has been chasing you will go back to its usual position, without caring about what's on his way, as long as nobody attacks it (i.e. its aggro range is zero). Only then it will attack other players again (i.e. its aggro goes turns back to default).
Even though that's pretty unrealistic (which the game isn't meant to be in the first place), it's preventing exactly that kind of lame PKing.
Are you guys just making up excuses for exploiting or do you actually believe what you write there (and mod "insightful")?
Being able to get to a place where you can't be shot sure isn't what the map designer had in mind. It's a bug. You know that it's a bug, you are abusing it and bug abusing is cheating.
You realize that the stuff you complain about has nothing to with the shell but with the filesystem and utility names?
It's not that I don't agree with you. The whole drive letter thing is beyond stupid. They actually tried to fix the backslash and almost succeeded. You can use "/" in about 99% of all cases in windows (the remaining 1% will bite you when you least expect it which makes the whole issue even worse than before). But that's not the shells problem.
Beyond Good An Evil?
Doesn't the ActiveX control in the Windows Update site also need to be run as a member of Administrators?
Well, if it updates the Operating System I hope so...
This is unbelievable (have a look at the date of that post).
I wasn't aware that you could actually do that.
Take a look at GTR, which is almost as awesome as Grand Prix Legends. There is a demo version to try out.
But I have to agree. An GPL'ed version of GPL (haha) would be great. The game has such a good fan community, that I think it would also do well as a mod community.
You Forgot the crucial step: Have a track record of developing excellent games and supporting them forever.
Seriously, there are a lot of people who would buy any game from Blizzard without even having heard anything about it before (including me), because they know they will get an almost perfect gaming experience.
I bet there are a lot of people among the 600.000 that have never before payed a monthly fee for any game (including me, as soon as it's released in Germany).
Where does this "German Scheiße Film" stereotype come from? I've encountered it the first time in the South Park movie but I'm sure they didn't invent it.
I'm not bitching around, I really would like to know. Looking around on the Internet it doesn't seem to me all (or even the majority) of that stuff comes from Germany.
Actually there is no such thing as a "calling convention" in assembly itself. In x86 machine code a call is pushing the instruction pointer to the stack and jumping to the adress of desired function. I guess it's about the same in other machine codes (anybody know?)
Deciding how to pass the parameters and the return code (the important things about a calling convetion) is up to the compiler. This can happen on the stack, in registers etc. in any order.
This is why you have to use such things as __declspec in Windows. It says "This function expects its parameters to be on the stack, in the order they apear in the declaration and puts its return value in eax". The C compiler knows what to do then but assembly is to low level to give a damn.
All you need for running .NET apps is an implementation of the .NET Framework (be it the MS one or Mono).
Yeah, that's extra crap but not more than you would have with a Java solution.
Yes, MSCORLIB is a part of .NET. Both dotGNU and Mono have their own implementation of it.
So, it probably means nothing.
I found a few games five or six years ago that entertainingly offer infinite replay value and have strong communities that keep them up to date. One of them supports internet play with a direct connection so I'm not even dependant on company servers for that one.
Uh, would you like to tell us what these games are? Just interested.
This is because the game loads an actual map to show behind the main menu. I got the following fix from the PA forums:
Go into your Steamapps folder, open the folder that is your user name, then hl2, then gcf, then open the valve.rc file with notepad and add "//" to the beginning of the last line that says "startmenu" or something.
Works like a charm.
Tron 2.0 is really funny. I couldn't stop laughing when a guard programm asked me, "Hey what's up, you script!?".
Theoretically what you described possible, but your IP address would get banned pretty fast for querying the frontpage every ten seconds. Slashcode works that way.
That FP script has probably been done before...
Probably because a C++ interface is a pain to access from any other language than C++. Or perhaps because the Win32 API is a C library and cluttering it by adding C++ interface would be much more screwy.
Actually most APIs that need to be used by alot of people have a C interface, no matter in what language they where written in. Has nothing to do with them being "MICROS~1"...
These "ideas" you speak of that come from Object Pascal... where are they? Can you name _any_ of them?
Properties. Nuff said.
But then you can't play the downloaded version of Halo 2 any more.
Well, there still is Half-Life 1: Source which will be released with HL2 on Steam.
:)
Hopefully it will have multiplayer, so we can can get to crush really good looking heads with really good looking crowbars
1.) Linux is small in number, so it's hard to get a 'wave' effect with a self replicating exploit.
Yeah, there wouldn't be a lot of client machines going down, but think of the servers.
A virus that could infect a Linux box with Apache running and then replicate itself on the next box it finds, would cause a huge wave of web sites going down.
Since this would be a great "achievement" for a viruswriter, I'm almost sure that a lot of people have tried something like this already but nobody managed to. Ok, perhaps I'm wrong and nobody bothered to try it yet, but the "no wave"-argument doesn't really count IMHO.
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" First off, if you can read this then lucky you !, my ISP is logging me off every few minutes so apologies to those of you who cannot see these screenshots. "
I wonder why...
...or at least something similiar: They released four or five new screenshots for HL2 and allowed only magazines that would make a cover story out of it to print them.
So, most of the magazines just took an old story about the game, rearanged the words a little and put the new screenshots in it. On the Cover you could read "NEW SECRET INFO ABOUT HL2. EXCLUSIVE IN $MAGNAME!".
I don't know if I should find this disgusting or ridiculous.
The summary points to the last page of the article. Here is the link to the first one.