It's about time. We knew the release date had to be soon, as Blizzard's WoW Updater has already pushed out 4.8GB of updates to each user for the upcoming version (4.0.0).
The BSD license was a consequence of being the product of a public university, receiving federal funds to work on projects. Even without the GPL, I suspect it is highly likely that the BSD license would have been created as-is anyway.
An early version of the BSD license was already in use before the GPLv1 was released. Granted, since then, there have been many modifications of it, including what's often referred to as the "Modified BSD License" that removes the advertising requirement.
WinXP: Double-click network adapter in systray, double-click TCP/IP, enter an IP address.
Wired Network adapters don't appear in the systray on Windows XP by default, so this answer is extremely misleading. Likewise, My Network Places is also not shown by default.
That would make it like this... WinXP: Start, Control Panel, (skip this if you have Classic Mode on) Network and Internet Connections, Network Connections, Local Area Connection, Change settings of this connection (or right-click and choose Properties).
How about a DHCP release/renew? WinXP: Win+R->'cmd'->Enter->'ipconfig/release'->'ipconfig/renew' Vista: Win+R->'cmd'->CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER->Approve UAC prompt->'ipconfig/release'->'ipconfig/renew' (CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER is the biggest shortcut I can find so I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard, right-click, and pick 'run as administrator' followed by clicking OK.)
I don't have a Vista machine, but this worked on my (UAC-enabled) Win:
For the record I stopped playing TF2 around the time they started introducing upgrades. Partly because I didn't like the upgrades and couldn't be bothered to keep track of- and grind in order to get new weapons but mainly because I just got bored of the game.
You didn't play the game for very long, then. Upgrades* were introduced 7 months or so after the game launched, in April 2008's Goldrush update. This update introduced 3 new items for the medic and a new game type. It was clear then that Valve planned on doing one update for each class, which they finally completed when the Engineer Update was introduced in mid-2010.
Originally, you did need to grind to get the new items, but with the Spy vs. Sniper update in mid-2009, Valve introduced the random drop system to help alleviate this. When they did add a way to get the new Sniper and Spy items through achievements as well, they were at drastically lower number of achievements than the previous updates... 7, 12, and 17 achievements rather than 11, 18, and 25 (I believe; I can't currently check the TFWiki).
As of right now, I have nearly every weapon unlock in the game, including the new ones. This gives me lots of different ways of playing each class.
Strangely, one of my favorite items is the Gunslinger... which allows an Engineer to build non-upgradeable mini-sentries that are less powerful than a level 1 sentry, but go up in less time.
* I use the word upgrade loosely, as TF2's new items tend to have both positives and negatives. Valve finally released the final TF2 class update a few months ago.
the side effect of the PS3 hack was to push Sony into locking down the system more tightly (impairing its legitimate use by scientists for computing purposes).
Since the newer slim PS3 didn't support OtherOS when Sony removed OtherOS from the older PS models, this wouldn't affect scientists at all.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 Slim didn't support OtherOS simply on IBM's request, in order to force scientific computing to actually pay for an IBM Cell computer system if they wanted one for research.
I was looking at the store last night and most of the items have "abilities". The soldier for example can get an Anti-Sentry rocket launcher and a backpack that causes nearby mates to take 35% less damage.
Those items can be crafted (Direct Hit + Reclaimed Metal = Black Box rocket launcher, Buff Banner + Reclaimed Metal = Battalion's Backup backpack) and drop from the random drop system.
The hats for the set bonus are what hurt, as there's no way of crafting a specific hat,
Even without trading, you can turn 1 refined metal into 3 reclaimed metal. Each of the 12 new non-hat Polycount items require 1 Reclaimed Metal + whatever item it's the most similar to in effect... TF2Items has a list of recipes (new items are above the legend near the bottom).
Unfortunately, if you crafted away all your items... sucks to be you. Of course, some people are willing to give away their extra base items if you need them.
However, being able to *BUY* an advantage in a game is the equivalent to permissible cheating.
All of the items in TF2 have some sort of tradeoff. The new Spy knife does an instant disguise (of the "blink and you missed it" type), but removes the Spy's disguise kit; once the Spy with the new knife is undisguised, he *has* to backstab someone to redisguise. This makes the Revolvers significantly less useful.
You can get every single weapon in the game through the game's random drop system. The Polycount packs all have weapons that can be crafted, and word on the street is that the other 3 new weapons will have crafting recipes added to the game sometime today.
If you're an existing player, you can craft all the weapons using the game's crafting system... if you were smart, you would have stocked up on extra items knowing that this patch was coming. I personally had enough metal + items to craft 7 of the new weapons already, and they just came out yestsreday.
The hats (and set bonuses that require them) are the part that will piss people off. Some of the set bonuses have no downs, other than being forced to use a particular set of equipment.
For example, the Sniper's set has the set bonus of being immune to headshots. However, the Sydney Sleeper Sniper Rifle can't do headshots, so it's not like it's a free win.
Another example: The Scout's set gives the wearer an extra +25 health. The downside is having a less powerful primary gun (Shortstop), no secondary gun (Mad Milk instead), and being forced to use the fish melee weapon... the fish has no extra stats, so it's just a more humiliating version of the Bat.
The only item I have seen consistently equipped that's not achievement based is the Sniper's Tribalman's Shiv. It's not a huge upgrade but you will need a couple of random drops to craft it.
I have a Shiv, but I don't use it. It's just not worth it, as in the few instances a Sniper is meleeing with someone, the decreased damage in favor of bleed is useful against exactly one class: Spy.
Having said that, there's a new Sniper melee weapon that causes you to take +20% fire damage, but when you'd mini-crit, it will crit instead... useful if you Jarate opponents first.
Honestly, though, I was under the impression that the Polycount Pack ($50, includes all 5 sets including hats) were for people like me who have played the game for hundreds of hours and are still playing the game. I've clocked somewhere over 800 hours of actual play time for a game that I essentially spent $10 on. I'm willing to pay another $50 to Valve, no problem.
But don't expect me to buy individual items, those are WAY too expensive. Up to $17 for a hat? Pssh, I'll simply see if people want to trade for the ones I want (Towering Pillar of Hats, Frenchman's Beret*)
*Solely so I have every Spy hat. I had them all prior to its addition.:/
His system was simple. Send me your stuff and I get to keep it all. If he didn't like your stuff he would say so or just not write about it. If he did like your stuff it was fantastic for you.
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Now that would be considered not legit
Why? Game companies give review copies to reviewers all the time.
We've raked in quite a few prestigious rewards and gained a solid reputation with our inhouse titles like Ikariam
Oh lord, does this mean we're going to start out on a space station near a single luxury resource and have to make more space stations in other solar systems if we want more than one luxury resource?
There's quite a few people, myself included, that only play single-player games, and have never played multiplayer with a console (multiplayer gaming is boring to me...you play the same map over and over. I want to go through a story, reach the end, and move on to the next game). The only thing I used the playstation network for is to buy some PSN games, but if Sony doesn't want my money, I'm fine playing just the disc-based games.
Disc-based games can and do have firmware updates on the disc itself. Don't be surprised if Castlevania: Lords of Shadow forces you to install firmware 3.42 (if you don't have that or newer) to run it; 3.50 is too new to be on the disc as the game goes on sale in less than two weeks.
Now I am in the same situation: a couple of years old, bottom of the high-end class video card (NVidia 8800 GTS). Wonder if I should wait till I decide I need a new computer...
Yes, seeing as how Civ5 lists the minimum requirements as being a GeForce 9800.
I feel stupid, I was looking at the recommended requirements, not the minimum requirements. Minimum is a 7900 GS.
Valve is a Slashdot sponsor, they advertise here, so they aren't allowed to tell everyone what a huge turd Steam is.
Really? Even before I started blocking ads, I don't recall ever seeing a Valve ad. Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just talking out your ass?
I already have my pirated copy. I refuse to buy any game that takes measures to prevent me from playing it.
You could buy it then crack it, but instead you just choose to pirate it? If more people did that, do you really think they'd make another sequel?
Bah, forget it, I doubt you actually buy any games anyway, instead you just pirate them all and are just using Steam as an excuse in this case.
Now I am in the same situation: a couple of years old, bottom of the high-end class video card (NVidia 8800 GTS). Wonder if I should wait till I decide I need a new computer...
Yes, seeing as how Civ5 lists the minimum requirements as being a GeForce 9800.
Still, even the 200 line of cards (nVidia went back to 100 after 9000) are dropping in price now that the 400 line is out. For reference, the 100 and 300 cards are OEM-only cards based on the chips from the previous generation (9000 and 200 respectively), with the 200 and 400 cards being new models.
Nobody was *seriously* inconvenienced, and if you were, it is because you didn't save your purchased games, and you didn't get to play them for a few days, boo hoo.
Nobody would *seriously* be inconvenienced if Netflix locks out their video streaming for 6 days. Or if Microsoft kills their Xbox Live access for 6 days. Or if their email provider/ISP locks out SMTP/POP3/IMAP/Webmail for 6 days. Or if FexEx/UPS refused to deliver anything to them for 6 days.
Would you seriously consider using any of those in the future?
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It's about time. We knew the release date had to be soon, as Blizzard's WoW Updater has already pushed out 4.8GB of updates to each user for the upcoming version (4.0.0).
An early version of the BSD license was already in use before the GPLv1 was released. Granted, since then, there have been many modifications of it, including what's often referred to as the "Modified BSD License" that removes the advertising requirement.
Wired Network adapters don't appear in the systray on Windows XP by default, so this answer is extremely misleading. Likewise, My Network Places is also not shown by default.
That would make it like this...
WinXP: Start, Control Panel, (skip this if you have Classic Mode on) Network and Internet Connections, Network Connections, Local Area Connection, Change settings of this connection (or right-click and choose Properties).
I don't have a Vista machine, but this worked on my (UAC-enabled) Win:
Win7: Win->'cmd'->Enter->'ipconfig /release'->'ipconfig /renew'
Did you notice it was one less character typed and had no UAC prompts?
You didn't play the game for very long, then. Upgrades* were introduced 7 months or so after the game launched, in April 2008's Goldrush update. This update introduced 3 new items for the medic and a new game type. It was clear then that Valve planned on doing one update for each class, which they finally completed when the Engineer Update was introduced in mid-2010.
Originally, you did need to grind to get the new items, but with the Spy vs. Sniper update in mid-2009, Valve introduced the random drop system to help alleviate this. When they did add a way to get the new Sniper and Spy items through achievements as well, they were at drastically lower number of achievements than the previous updates... 7, 12, and 17 achievements rather than 11, 18, and 25 (I believe; I can't currently check the TFWiki).
As of right now, I have nearly every weapon unlock in the game, including the new ones. This gives me lots of different ways of playing each class.
Strangely, one of my favorite items is the Gunslinger... which allows an Engineer to build non-upgradeable mini-sentries that are less powerful than a level 1 sentry, but go up in less time.
* I use the word upgrade loosely, as TF2's new items tend to have both positives and negatives. Valve finally released the final TF2 class update a few months ago.
I DON'T KNOW. YOU TELL ME WHICH OF THESE IS HARDER TO READ.
I don't know. You tell me which of these is harder to read.
Oh, and of course, to post this, I have to type extra paragraphs because /. has a "lameness filter."
Since the newer slim PS3 didn't support OtherOS when Sony removed OtherOS from the older PS models, this wouldn't affect scientists at all.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 Slim didn't support OtherOS simply on IBM's request, in order to force scientific computing to actually pay for an IBM Cell computer system if they wanted one for research.
Those items can be crafted (Direct Hit + Reclaimed Metal = Black Box rocket launcher, Buff Banner + Reclaimed Metal = Battalion's Backup backpack) and drop from the random drop system.
The hats for the set bonus are what hurt, as there's no way of crafting a specific hat,
No, they and the Name Tag also drop randomly.
The only item that doesn't appear to randomly drop is the supply crate key.
Even without trading, you can turn 1 refined metal into 3 reclaimed metal. Each of the 12 new non-hat Polycount items require 1 Reclaimed Metal + whatever item it's the most similar to in effect... TF2Items has a list of recipes (new items are above the legend near the bottom).
Unfortunately, if you crafted away all your items... sucks to be you. Of course, some people are willing to give away their extra base items if you need them.
All of the items in TF2 have some sort of tradeoff. The new Spy knife does an instant disguise (of the "blink and you missed it" type), but removes the Spy's disguise kit; once the Spy with the new knife is undisguised, he *has* to backstab someone to redisguise. This makes the Revolvers significantly less useful.
You can get every single weapon in the game through the game's random drop system. The Polycount packs all have weapons that can be crafted, and word on the street is that the other 3 new weapons will have crafting recipes added to the game sometime today.
If you're an existing player, you can craft all the weapons using the game's crafting system... if you were smart, you would have stocked up on extra items knowing that this patch was coming. I personally had enough metal + items to craft 7 of the new weapons already, and they just came out yestsreday.
The hats (and set bonuses that require them) are the part that will piss people off. Some of the set bonuses have no downs, other than being forced to use a particular set of equipment.
For example, the Sniper's set has the set bonus of being immune to headshots. However, the Sydney Sleeper Sniper Rifle can't do headshots, so it's not like it's a free win.
Another example: The Scout's set gives the wearer an extra +25 health. The downside is having a less powerful primary gun (Shortstop), no secondary gun (Mad Milk instead), and being forced to use the fish melee weapon... the fish has no extra stats, so it's just a more humiliating version of the Bat.
I have a Shiv, but I don't use it. It's just not worth it, as in the few instances a Sniper is meleeing with someone, the decreased damage in favor of bleed is useful against exactly one class: Spy.
Having said that, there's a new Sniper melee weapon that causes you to take +20% fire damage, but when you'd mini-crit, it will crit instead... useful if you Jarate opponents first.
Honestly, though, I was under the impression that the Polycount Pack ($50, includes all 5 sets including hats) were for people like me who have played the game for hundreds of hours and are still playing the game. I've clocked somewhere over 800 hours of actual play time for a game that I essentially spent $10 on. I'm willing to pay another $50 to Valve, no problem.
But don't expect me to buy individual items, those are WAY too expensive. Up to $17 for a hat? Pssh, I'll simply see if people want to trade for the ones I want (Towering Pillar of Hats, Frenchman's Beret*)
*Solely so I have every Spy hat. I had them all prior to its addition. :/
Why? Game companies give review copies to reviewers all the time.
More pedantic: Only if you're expressing it as a whole number.
Slashdot has been around for 1.3 decades.
Oh lord, does this mean we're going to start out on a space station near a single luxury resource and have to make more space stations in other solar systems if we want more than one luxury resource?
This logic falls down when you consider the PS3 is/was fairly popular and yet took 4 years to hack.
This is both a security advisory about the bug and a security bulletin about the upcoming patch on Microsoft's site. Does that make you happier?
Disc-based games can and do have firmware updates on the disc itself. Don't be surprised if Castlevania: Lords of Shadow forces you to install firmware 3.42 (if you don't have that or newer) to run it; 3.50 is too new to be on the disc as the game goes on sale in less than two weeks.
You don't think the Mac version will use the Mac version of Steam? How naive.
I feel stupid, I was looking at the recommended requirements, not the minimum requirements. Minimum is a 7900 GS.
Really? Even before I started blocking ads, I don't recall ever seeing a Valve ad. Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just talking out your ass?
You could buy it then crack it, but instead you just choose to pirate it? If more people did that, do you really think they'd make another sequel?
Bah, forget it, I doubt you actually buy any games anyway, instead you just pirate them all and are just using Steam as an excuse in this case.
Yes, seeing as how Civ5 lists the minimum requirements as being a GeForce 9800.
Still, even the 200 line of cards (nVidia went back to 100 after 9000) are dropping in price now that the 400 line is out. For reference, the 100 and 300 cards are OEM-only cards based on the chips from the previous generation (9000 and 200 respectively), with the 200 and 400 cards being new models.
What non-profit-manufacturer-X?
Why would any manufacturer eat their sunk costs just to produce something for you for the price it costs them to produce it?
I've never heard of a non-profit company in the manufacturing segment, simply because manufacturing has a ton of sunk costs.
That depends on what you mean by one-up.
The AMD Athlon was significantly faster than the Pentium IIIs of the time, simply by changing the FPU design.
Nobody would *seriously* be inconvenienced if Netflix locks out their video streaming for 6 days. Or if Microsoft kills their Xbox Live access for 6 days. Or if their email provider/ISP locks out SMTP/POP3/IMAP/Webmail for 6 days. Or if FexEx/UPS refused to deliver anything to them for 6 days.
Would you seriously consider using any of those in the future?