Maybe its time to reconsider Chrome? It does what Firefox does, but without the added band width of grinning show offs.
Did you miss the whole plugin debacle going on with Chrome?
You know, the "you need to rewrite your plugin using one of our APIs" thing?
Don't even get me started about NaCl and the brillant idea to allow any C/C++ system calls except a few that are blacklisted. Because what could possibly go wrong with that idea?
I'm not sure about the OP, but on my work Windows 7 computer, I have no less than 13 versions of Microsoft's C++ libraries installed.
And that's with the versions from Visual Studio 2013 not being listed in Programs and Features for whatever reason. I know they're installed as one of the programs I needed to compile requires them because they're the first versions that have C++11 support.
The point is that each time Microsoft releases a new version, the old versions also stick around. I have 4 x86 and 2 x64 versions of the Visual C++ 2008 / 9.0.x libraries for example.
Was the year 2003 specifically mentioned or did you just pull that out of your a... hat?
Last I checked, there have been 3 new versions of Windows since 2001: Vista, 7, and 8. If you choose not to use them, that's not Microsoft breaking the contract...
And, of course, streaming and "let's plays." Why are people sitting around watching OTHER PEOPLE play games that they themselves could be playing? But they do!
I didn't understand this around 7-8 years ago when I posted a video of the opening of a game just for the music content.
A person asked me if I'd post videos of me playing the game. I declined thinking no one would ever want to watch that sort of thing. Keep in mind, this is from back before "Lets Play" was even a term.
I look back at popular "Lets Play"ers now and think "that could have been me!"
lists all installed packages on Debian-based distributions. sudo is there because it requires superuser privileges to use.
I should probably mention that there's also the "aptitude" package that can be run from the command-line to show a menu-based system for viewing and installing packages on Debian based systems, including searching for packages.
Among other things, it has options for showing you currently Installed packages and Searching for new packages.
Anyone remember the good old days when we were playing Doom and Monkey Island? 'Cause I don't. Wish there was a possibility to replay those classic originals in a legal way.
I'm assuming this is sarcasm since both of these games are still available for sale on sites like GOG and Steam.
Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition is a remake, but the remake is frame-per-frame compatible with the original. You can switch between the original graphics/UI and the new graphics/UI at the press of a button (F11 for the PC version I think).
For DOOM, not only can you buy it independently on Steam, but buying DOOM 3 BFG Edition also includes both Doom 1 and 2, plus the new Doom 2 campaign released in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game.
And yet by your own admission, DX9 is not the minimum requirement for all games. Therefore if you want to play a game for which you don't match the minimum requirement... Go on, guess what I'm going to say next! That's right, you could use a service like OnLive!
DirectX 9 is antiquated technology at this point. It was released 12 years ago. Even DX10 (Windows Vista and newer) is 8 years old at this point and DX11 (Windows 7 and newer) is 4.5 years old.
Unless you're stuck on Windows XP, chances are you have a system that supports DirectX 11.
Incidentally, relatively few new games use DX9 any more. XP's death finally removed the restriction.
I was under the impression that the CA only gets used for verification *if* the site's cert claims to be from that CA.
How often do you stop and look at which CA signed the certificate for the HTTPS site you're using?
As long as the certificate is signed by a CA certificate the browser has in its CA store, the browser won't show any warnings. Browser makers are also notoriously bad at checking if certificates are on Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), of which each CA has (at least?) one.
In the 1980s they sued game developers who made their own game cartridges for the NES without paying for Nintendo for their "IP" to manufacture the cartridge.
In this court case, Atari and their subsidiary Tengen were found guilty of copyright infringement after using false pretenses to obtain the code Nintendo used to lockout clone cartridges from the copyright office.
Java performance numbers did not change when the concatenation order was reversed in the code in Appendix 1. However, using a mutable data type such as StringBuilder or StringBuffer dramatically improved the results.
What's worse is that there are warnings all over the 'net to not use string concatenation in a loop in Java. So, despite these warnings, they did that anyway and tout incorrect assumptions based on their faulty testing.
That's without even considering the other flaw you pointed out (not flushing after each write).
If you're comparing UE4 with Source 1, I'd like to point out that while Source has been updated over the years, its core technology is still a decade behind UE4's.
Then there's Aliens:Colonial Marines. Gear Box ripped them off. Period. It's painfully obvious that they took Sega's money and spent it on Borderlands 2. It would cost more to litigate that than Sega would ever get back though, so they're screwed. You could argue Sega should have kept a closer eye on Gearbox, but games like Aliens:CM were Gearbox's bread and butter. It's ridiculous that they'd pull that on Sega, since it pretty much burns every bridge they'll ever have in the industry.
It sounds like Sega kept a closer eye on Creative Assembly during the development of Alien: Isolation, likely because they had gotten burned by Gearbox.
Then again, Alien: Isolation is its own problem. While it sold over a million copies, Sega was hoping that it would sell much, much more than that.
Alien: Colonial Marines likely didn't help these sales numbers. I know I was initially hesitant on getting Alien: Isolation due to how poor Colonial Marines was..
No clue about Seattle, but where I live (Michigan), I can't even renew my driver's license until they send me the renewal thing approximately a month prior to my birthdate.
Not even online, because that requires a code number from the form they send you (because, you know, someone might randomly log in using the number off my driver's license and pay it for me or something).
4 different Credit Card companies in the US (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) will no longer cover fraudulent charges on non-chip transactions starting in October 2015.
Visa:
Effective 1 October 2015, Visa's global counterfeit liability shift will be instituted in the U.S for POS transactions. With this liability shift, the party that is the cause of a chip transaction not occurring (i.e., either the issuer or the merchant's acquirer processor) will be held financially liable for any resulting card present counterfeit fraud losses. The shift helps to better protect all parties by encouraging chip transactions that use unique, dynamic authentication data.
The April 2013 acquirer readiness date is the first step in preparation for MasterCardâ(TM)s liability shift, which takes effect October 1, 2015. This liability shift directly affects acquirers and issuers as it pertains to counterfeit fraud. This means that the party, either the issuer or merchant, who does not support EMV, assumes liability for counterfeit card transactions. In addition, MasterCard supports a liability shift for lost, stolen, and never received or issued (NRI) cards to the party that does not support PIN as a cardholder verification method. If neither party supports PIN, only the counterfeit liability shift rules apply. The liability shift does not apply to Automated Fuel Dispensers (AFDs) until October 1, 2017
Effective October 2015, American Express will institute a Fraud Liability Shift (FLS) policy that will transfer liability for certain types of fraudulent transactions away from the party that has the most secure form of EMV technology. U.S. fuel merchants will have an additional two years, until October 2017, before the FLS takes effect for transactions generated from automated fuel dispensers.
In alignment with U.S. EMV migration timelines, Discover is introducing Fraud Liability Shift for Discover Network (in the U.S., Canada and Mexico) and PULSE (in the U.S.), effective October 1, 2015 at point-of-sale terminals and Oct. 1, 2017 at automated fuel dispensers. This Fraud Liability Shift policy will be a risk-based payments hierarchy that benefits the entity that leverages the highest level of available payments security. As Fraud Liability Shift is already in place for Diners Club International (effective December 31, 2012 for mandated Participants), Discover will have one standard liability shift policy in place across all networks by October 1, 2015.
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Maybe its time to reconsider Chrome? It does what Firefox does, but without the added band width of grinning show offs.
Did you miss the whole plugin debacle going on with Chrome?
You know, the "you need to rewrite your plugin using one of our APIs" thing?
Don't even get me started about NaCl and the brillant idea to allow any C/C++ system calls except a few that are blacklisted. Because what could possibly go wrong with that idea?
Windows has used something called Terminal Services to do remote connections for the last 20 years or so.
They renamed it "Remote Desktop Services" at some point, but if you put a pig in a dress, it's still a pig.
I'm not sure about the OP, but on my work Windows 7 computer, I have no less than 13 versions of Microsoft's C++ libraries installed.
And that's with the versions from Visual Studio 2013 not being listed in Programs and Features for whatever reason. I know they're installed as one of the programs I needed to compile requires them because they're the first versions that have C++11 support.
The point is that each time Microsoft releases a new version, the old versions also stick around. I have 4 x86 and 2 x64 versions of the Visual C++ 2008 / 9.0.x libraries for example.
Was the year 2003 specifically mentioned or did you just pull that out of your a... hat?
Last I checked, there have been 3 new versions of Windows since 2001: Vista, 7, and 8. If you choose not to use them, that's not Microsoft breaking the contract...
And, of course, streaming and "let's plays." Why are people sitting around watching OTHER PEOPLE play games that they themselves could be playing? But they do!
I didn't understand this around 7-8 years ago when I posted a video of the opening of a game just for the music content.
A person asked me if I'd post videos of me playing the game. I declined thinking no one would ever want to watch that sort of thing. Keep in mind, this is from back before "Lets Play" was even a term.
I look back at popular "Lets Play"ers now and think "that could have been me!"
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
A security researcher who studies airplane security saying that he plans on hacking the airplane security while he's physically on said airplane.
How is taking his electronic devices "unreasonable" in this instance, particularly when you're waiting for a warrant to be issued?
lists all installed packages on Debian-based distributions. sudo is there because it requires superuser privileges to use.
I should probably mention that there's also the "aptitude" package that can be run from the command-line to show a menu-based system for viewing and installing packages on Debian based systems, including searching for packages.
Among other things, it has options for showing you currently Installed packages and Searching for new packages.
Uh what, you're kidding right?
I mean, 3652 is SO yesterday. We're on version 4023 this microsecond! 4077 I mean... damn it, it changes faster than I can type.
Well, no, let them use their date based numbering versions.
Just remind them that Windows was at version 2000 sixteen years ago...
Now if only Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/DebianCloneOfTheMonth had some way to do keyword searches on the package list from the command-line.
Garry's Mod has online game modes. The most famous ones are Trouble in Terrorist Town, Prop Hunt, and Deathrun.
I read the question as more of a "where can I legally acquire the game" as opposed to "how can I legally play the game".
Otherwise I would have mentioned ScummVM for Secret of Monkey Island.
Anyone remember the good old days when we were playing Doom and Monkey Island? 'Cause I don't. Wish there was a possibility to replay those classic originals in a legal way.
I'm assuming this is sarcasm since both of these games are still available for sale on sites like GOG and Steam.
Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition is a remake, but the remake is frame-per-frame compatible with the original. You can switch between the original graphics/UI and the new graphics/UI at the press of a button (F11 for the PC version I think).
For DOOM, not only can you buy it independently on Steam, but buying DOOM 3 BFG Edition also includes both Doom 1 and 2, plus the new Doom 2 campaign released in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game.
Similarly if companies hire H1-B workers they lay off fewer domestic workers.
This is a huge duh.
Say family A has 5 cats and 2 dogs.
Say family B has 2 cats and 5 dogs.
Each family can only keep 2 pets.
Which family gets rid of more cats, the one with 5 cats or the one with 2 cats?
Now replace "family" with "company", "cats" with "domestic workers", and "dogs" with "H1-B workers"
Which company gets rid of more domestic workers, the one with 5 domestic workers or the one with 2 domestic workers?
And yet by your own admission, DX9 is not the minimum requirement for all games. Therefore if you want to play a game for which you don't match the minimum requirement... Go on, guess what I'm going to say next! That's right, you could use a service like OnLive!
DirectX 9 is antiquated technology at this point. It was released 12 years ago. Even DX10 (Windows Vista and newer) is 8 years old at this point and DX11 (Windows 7 and newer) is 4.5 years old.
Unless you're stuck on Windows XP, chances are you have a system that supports DirectX 11.
Incidentally, relatively few new games use DX9 any more. XP's death finally removed the restriction.
I was under the impression that the CA only gets used for verification *if* the site's cert claims to be from that CA.
How often do you stop and look at which CA signed the certificate for the HTTPS site you're using?
As long as the certificate is signed by a CA certificate the browser has in its CA store, the browser won't show any warnings. Browser makers are also notoriously bad at checking if certificates are on Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), of which each CA has (at least?) one.
In the 1980s they sued game developers who made their own game cartridges for the NES without paying for Nintendo for their "IP" to manufacture the cartridge.
Are you attempting to revise history?
The court case in question is Atari Games Corp v. Nintendo of America, Inc,.
In this court case, Atari and their subsidiary Tengen were found guilty of copyright infringement after using false pretenses to obtain the code Nintendo used to lockout clone cartridges from the copyright office.
Java performance numbers did not change when the concatenation order was reversed in the code in Appendix 1. However, using a mutable data type such as StringBuilder or StringBuffer dramatically improved the results.
What's worse is that there are warnings all over the 'net to not use string concatenation in a loop in Java. So, despite these warnings, they did that anyway and tout incorrect assumptions based on their faulty testing.
That's without even considering the other flaw you pointed out (not flushing after each write).
UE4 is the better engine
Really? Can you provide comparisons?
Actually, I'll answer that for you:
No, you can't, because Source 2 isn't out yet.
If you're comparing UE4 with Source 1, I'd like to point out that while Source has been updated over the years, its core technology is still a decade behind UE4's.
I'm going to toss a big [Citation needed] and at the same time point out that Source 1 doesn't have this requirement for its free version.
As an example, the original mod version of The Stanley Parable was distributed through ModDB.
Then again, Source 1's free version has licensing terms that prevent you from selling anything you produce with it at all.
You're confusing widening conversions with operator overloading.
Then there's Aliens:Colonial Marines. Gear Box ripped them off. Period. It's painfully obvious that they took Sega's money and spent it on Borderlands 2. It would cost more to litigate that than Sega would ever get back though, so they're screwed. You could argue Sega should have kept a closer eye on Gearbox, but games like Aliens:CM were Gearbox's bread and butter. It's ridiculous that they'd pull that on Sega, since it pretty much burns every bridge they'll ever have in the industry.
It sounds like Sega kept a closer eye on Creative Assembly during the development of Alien: Isolation, likely because they had gotten burned by Gearbox.
Then again, Alien: Isolation is its own problem. While it sold over a million copies, Sega was hoping that it would sell much, much more than that.
Alien: Colonial Marines likely didn't help these sales numbers. I know I was initially hesitant on getting Alien: Isolation due to how poor Colonial Marines was..
I just assumed the codename thing is a jab at Ubuntu. After all, it only exists in the Makefile and nowhere in the actual code. ...
Yes, I'm aware that Debian started the code name thing, but Ubuntu changes theirs every 6 months so it's way more noticeable.
No clue about Seattle, but where I live (Michigan), I can't even renew my driver's license until they send me the renewal thing approximately a month prior to my birthdate.
Not even online, because that requires a code number from the form they send you (because, you know, someone might randomly log in using the number off my driver's license and pay it for me or something).
4 different Credit Card companies in the US (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) will no longer cover fraudulent charges on non-chip transactions starting in October 2015.
Visa:
Effective 1 October 2015, Visa's global counterfeit liability shift will be instituted in the U.S for POS transactions. With this liability shift, the party that is the cause of a chip transaction not occurring (i.e., either the issuer or the merchant's acquirer processor) will be held financially liable for any resulting card present counterfeit fraud losses. The shift helps to better protect all parties by encouraging chip transactions that use unique, dynamic authentication data.
-- Source (PDF)
MasterCard:
The April 2013 acquirer readiness date is the first step in preparation for MasterCardâ(TM)s liability shift, which takes effect October 1, 2015. This liability shift directly affects acquirers and issuers as it pertains to counterfeit fraud. This means that the party, either the issuer or merchant, who does not support EMV, assumes liability for counterfeit card transactions. In addition, MasterCard supports a liability shift for lost, stolen, and never received or issued (NRI) cards to the party that does not support PIN as a cardholder verification method. If neither party supports PIN, only the counterfeit liability shift rules apply. The liability shift does not apply to Automated Fuel Dispensers (AFDs) until October 1, 2017
-- Source (PDF)
American Express:
Effective October 2015, American Express will institute a Fraud Liability Shift (FLS) policy that will transfer liability for certain types of fraudulent transactions away from the party that has the most secure form of EMV technology. U.S. fuel merchants will have an additional two years, until October 2017, before the FLS takes effect for transactions generated from automated fuel dispensers.
-- Source
Discover:
In alignment with U.S. EMV migration timelines, Discover is introducing Fraud Liability Shift for Discover Network (in the U.S., Canada and Mexico) and PULSE (in the U.S.), effective October 1, 2015 at point-of-sale terminals and Oct. 1, 2017 at automated fuel dispensers. This Fraud Liability Shift policy will be a risk-based payments hierarchy that benefits the entity that leverages the highest level of available payments security. As Fraud Liability Shift is already in place for Diners Club International (effective December 31, 2012 for mandated Participants), Discover will have one standard liability shift policy in place across all networks by October 1, 2015.
-- Source
So, I expect everyone in the US will start seeing new cards issued this year even if their card isn't set to expire.