my Windows computer(2 Firewalls) is broadcasting my IP to my linux box(which has been secured and not left in the default configuration, and has another couple firewalls), which is in turn broadcasting its IP to my routers(the s after router intended, NAT works great), which is then broadcasting that IP to a small selection of Proxy Servers(better yet). those servers are broadcasting their IP to the websites I visit.
could you get my IP? sure, but you got your work cut out for you...
thats what the Library is for. Unless, of course, it becomes law that all public terminals require a fingerprint or retina scan before use to garantee that the user is known.
Privacy doesn't exist regardless of what "laws" are in place. the Constitution(U.S.A) and Charter of Rights and Freedoms(Canada) has been violated over and over again with little to no reprecussion. Polititians and other people with power use the most important documents in the "free" world to wipe their collective asses with. people aern't voiceing their rights anymore...
DEMOCARACY IS DEAD!
wheres the lineup to join the liberation front, its time for a revolution!!
Right off the bat I will admit I don't have a 4 year degree, but that does not mean I am not capable of getting one. My problem is the money involved, i can't afford to spend $5000/year for four years, it just isn't feasable for me. However, I have taken many mock technical exams and passed them with flying colors with little to no studying involved. I am self taught with the exception of my High School years(which i remain 3 credits short of my Diploma to this day) yet i can add a list of programming languages and technical capabilities to my resume that equals or, in some cases, exceeds some BCS grad's resume.
Let me be blunt, education does not imply intelligence; assuming genetic or hierarchical superiority due to your education level is an elitist, and assholish, standpoint to take. IQ and logic tests are, as well, not a correct means of judging the intelligence level of a human being.
Want to see genious in action? I suggest you watch a couple potheads turn a household water heater into a bong.
when you have the God given right to define what is or isn't art, then you can tell me that games are not a form of art, until then i will confidently claim that any and all man or nature created objects are in their own ways art.
art is not a definate thing, it grows, evolves and ultimately defines the universe.
that thing is too odd for me, i prefer the previous generation Trackman Marble. much more ergonomic, i have never had any wrist problems with it, and i can sit at my computer for several hours playing Civilisation without ever having any discomfort in my right hand.
i'll be dead and 6' below ground before you'll pry this mouse from my hands, hell, you just might have to bury me with it http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004L8IG/002-04 25879-7990434?v=glance&n=172282&v=glance
perhaps you don't understand the term "Load Testing", to properly stabilise a persistant world you have to put the servers under conditions that are similar to how they would be after release. The only real way to Load test an MMO is to have actual people playing the game, sure, you could populate the world with a basic AI, but you wouldn't get the same situations that a human would get into.
perhaps the Article Writer knows next to nothing about MMO development and is just pissed off because he couldn't get a Beta copy of City of Villians or something.
as a Canadian, all i can say is that i'm drunk right now... as a matter of fact, i was drunk when i woke up, i was drunk at work, and i was drunk after work
i don't recall being sober at any time in the past 3 years... i love being a Canadian
first of all, i have played the mod, i wanted to find out what all the crap was about, and i found nothing that the ESRB would have classified as AO, the content is obviously well within the M rating(not to mention being a shitty minigame that we should all be thankful requires more work to access than its worth)
this isn't about "saving the children", this is about Political bolstering. Clinton is using this little debackle to put her name in the limelight so that millions of non-gamers that have no idea whats going on can cry about the ramifications on society that a mini-game specifically removed from a final product will have. sure, the Minigame is still there, but the technical requirements needed to access it are far beyond what your typical "non-geek" 13 year old can do on a computer.
why don't we start going after TV channels like Showcase? their movies are damn near pornographic some nights and its a readily avaliable medium to anyone with cable, that means your 4 year old that just learned how to use the remote could inadvertantly watch an entire movie composed of gay orgies while your 15 year old is still trying to figure out how to get the badly made, clothed sex, "Hot Coffee" mod to work.
nonetheless, Grand theft Auto in general should not, and is not intended for, nor sold to, gamers under the age of of 17. therefore, in order for a child to play hot coffee, the parent must give his/her child permission to play GTA, a game intended for an older audience, and then the child must break the law in order to access the Sex Scene. Rockstar removed access to the minigame before shipping, every game has content that is unused due to features that where removed or altered, this content is almost always hidden away deep within the code and all access to it without a 3rd party program removed. just because its GTA its different? wake up and smell the Hot Coffee the minigame is not a part of the final product, it is not intended to be accessed by anyone, at anytime, for any reason within the limits of the law
you want to save the children? try being a parent!
you must live a seriously boring life... seriously boring...
if i ever lived in a place with blank white walls and a few tidbits of furniture i would go completely out of my mind. I strive to cover up all the white area on my walls with everything from Star Wars posters to Cars and my prized John Wayne Tapestry. theres always something to look at in my place.
IMO, Art exist everywhere and anywhere, its just a matter of how you look at it
P.S. - if my girlfriend bought me a filing cabinet i would seriously be questioning why i'm dating her
i do use Mac... and Windows... and Linux...
they all have different purposes, and i use them all differently. if i had to pick one to get rid of, i can see more reasons to stick with Windows over Mac (mainly games, but then again, i'm a gamer)
and you won't find my parting with my Debian Distro anytime soon
Gee, but everybody on Slashdot already knows that manned space exploration just isn't worth it!
a robot can only do so much in space, its decision making capabilities are limited by what is programmed into it, a human being is flexible enough to change the plan if the need arises. robots in space can only show us so much, i'm all for manned space exploration, 100% behind it.
besides, maybe this is the swift kick in the ass that the U.S. needs in order to get their space program moving at a faster pace.
"Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure Gran Turismo 4 will just be a marginal improvement on Gran Turismo 3. Increasing polygon counts is not innovation."
HAH... HAH... i'm sorry, i tried to laugh at your joke, but that was all i could get.
Gran Turismo 4 is a complete redesign of the entire physics and A.I. core of the engine, not to mention detailed to a near perfection in all models and features beyond features(to the point where i honsetly don't think there will be even a close competitor to it the current Generation, even Forza will bow to it, no, the only thing that will best GT4... will be GT5)
i can understand why you might think that though, gran turismo 3 WAS just Gran Turismo 2 with some tweaks and less cars, as a matter of fact, Gran Turismo 3 was supposed to be Gran Turismo 2000, a direct port of GT2 from PS to PS2 but Sony decided it was better marketting strategy to call it a sequel.
hey, you think Microsoft is the only mega-corporation out there? Sony has thrown just as much money into the Playstation series and i can garantee you that they'll be throwing large truck sized wads of cash into getting the PSP to be the market center-peice.
i decided a while ago that i don't owe my alleigance to any company, i have a GC for GC games, and XBX for XBX games and a PS2 for PS2 games. i garantee you i'll have a PSP for PSP games and a DS for DS games.
as for those of you that insist on being picky and only having one.. reasearch, reasearch, reasearch, and when you've reasearched everything decide what suits your playing style and get it and ignore the fanboys, they're just unpaid PR reps for their individual companies anyways
my experience is roughly the same, i didn't really focus my life on anything until i hit rock bottom and spent my unemployed time playing video games, it was around that time that i realised that i had dozens of ideas come to me at any given moment surrounding video games and that developing them would be absolutely great. its been 3 years since i made that realisation and i'm currently attending a technical institute to get my Bachelors degree in Applied Information Systems Technology, i completely turned my life around because of my Video Game addictions, i went from having no Future, to having a future that alot of people only wish they could have. and i still play 20-30hrs of games/week on average
i mentioned this in another post, but would it be possible for developers to make use of the usb 2.0 capability to pre-load to a memory stick(optional of couse, not everyone has or wants a memory stick for their game system)
maybe its just because i have shaky hands, but i actually prefer the D-pad for entering anything over a stylus, me writing something on my PDA is a combination of hitting the wrong letter and hitting backspace. and those writing recognition programs are useless to me and my extraordinarily bad writing/printing.
and some part of me agrees with you about the UMDs, but still, you can get 1GB SD cards now, why can Nintendo come up with its own 1GD memory card format for the DS(unless thats what the DS's carts have, in which case i revoke my anti-cart statements, i'm assuming they're more like 256MB-512MB.
nonetheless, you have your opinions, i have mine, i don't think either of us stands a chance of changing those opinions so we'll call it a draw
When Vice City came around most retailers expected it to sell like hotcakes so there were few stock problems
really? well, then that explains why i couldn't find a copy for a week after it was released, every day the same thing
them: "sorry, we sold out already"
me: "but its only 10:00, you just opened an hour ago"
them: "sorry, try again tommorrow"
GTA: San Andreas == pre-ordered for me, same goes for GT4
a: not as well as PSP
b: they aren't really preventing it, but take a good look at the current GB selection, for every 10 mario games, NES/SNES remakes, clones, or Pokeman games, you'll find maybe 1 truly original game
i ignored the stylus because i honestly hate the fucking things, my PDA has one and at any chance i can get id rather use my damn finger, i'd rather it have a trackball or something integrated, a Stylus is just something else to lose. as for a 6" screen in my pocket, i've never put my SP in my pocket, i keep it in my backpack, i don't care about putting it in my pocket
as for the wireless part, maybe you missed why i added it twice, the PSP and DS are both 802.11 wireless, and the PSP also has infra-red. i gave them a tie because of that fact.
cartidriges are a plague of the handheld gaming world, i'd rather them use pretty much anything else, good for you if you want your backwards compatability, but i have and SP already, i'd rather have innovation
as for your last point: yes, i'd like longer battery life, but i'll probably spend most of my play time within reach of a power supply anyways save for the 1h/day on the bus. once again, for the stylus, just another thing to lose
well, i couldn't find a good place to put this comment so i'll make it here, i'm not directing this to the parent directly. and sorry for the length, this is some stuff i've been wanting to get off my chest for a long time.
i have to laugh at alot of Nintendo Fanboys, i really do, they're talking about how "innovative" the DS is, why? cuz its got duals screens and wireless? the DS is far from Innovative
1: the Dual Screens is a gimmick that, IMO, will become merely a neato thing, i'd rather have a single screen and have better games
2: wireless isn't exactly that new in the handheld world, hell, cell phones have been doing it for more than a decade, and PDAs have been doing it for a few years too. now that a gaming machine has it, all of a sudden its innovative? its not pushing technology forwards, its merely riding piggyback on an established technology.
3: cart gaming? since when was a Cartridge innovative, i've had them for my Atari 2600 for 20 years, at least sony its gutsy enough to try something like not using a cartidge.
4: nintendo and its unpaid promoters(ie. Fanboys) are so wrapped up in the idea that handhelds are only good for short games that they've forgotten that some people actaully want to play a long epic scale game from a portable, not just the entire line up of nintendo games that where released on the NES over a decade ago.
sony has the balls to say "hey, lets really give a portable some juice so that it can really give the gamers something concrete to play with, lets squeeze so much high tech into a little device that you'll be wondering how we did it all"
pardon me for rambling a bit more here
Dual Screen - Gimmick
1.8GB DVD in a handheld - innovative
point: Sony
wireless portable - done before
wireless portable - done before
point: tie
stereo - still havn't reached the 60 have we?
7.1 3d audio in a handheld - innovative
point: sony
ARM9 and ARM7 chip - good, but...
MIPS R4000 32-Bit Core - innovative(for a portable
point: sony
more mario games - got any other charactors? or is the plumber the only one making you money
ports from PS2, and completely new 3D games with real content - innovative for Portables
point: sony
10 hour battery life - not innovative, but good
2-10 hour battery life depending on use and programmer skills - so far, the PSP's only shortcoming
point: DS
winner: Sony - 3/4
the DS's successful marketting iss just proof that the Nintendo Hype machine too big for its own good and is standing in the way of real innovation.
that all being said, i'm probably gonna buy both, but i'll wait for when the "real" innovation comes out fo the woodworking from the big N before i get a DS
one final question kinda off-topic, being that the PSP has usb 2.0 support, would it be possible for developers to program a way to make use of a memory stick to cache more data for shorter load times?(not requred of course). it seems to me that if you could, you'd be able to conserve battery life, while at the same time have good load times for people who have a spare Memory stick laying around.
BTW, i'm not gonna bother proof reading all that, just follow the directions in my sig
GT3 was far from Perfect my Friend, GT3 was the rushed re-hash and re-tooled GT2 engine, it was rushed to meet the PS2's launch date, which it missed anyways. GT3 was originally called GT2000 as it was supposed to be an expansion of GT2 but Sony decided it would be a better marketting Strategy to call it GT3.
GT4 on the other hand, is a complete redesign and reimplementation of the engine, its not just a "re-tooled" GT3.
as for online... if it was implemented i would probably use it for a while, until the skill-less cheats took over, then i'd happily play offline anyways, the loss of Online is no big deal to me, i play GT for the cars, and to challenge myself, not to get told i'm not "ub3r 1337" by some 12 year old wannahack
Slashdot Mirror
could you get my IP? sure, but you got your work cut out for you...
my point exactly...
technology is nuetral, its the people controlling the technology that choose a side.
i'll garantee you the biggest backing for this technology comes from the RIAA, MPAA and the CIA
if things keep going this way...
DEMOCARACY IS DEAD!
wheres the lineup to join the liberation front, its time for a revolution!!
oh, and First Post(though i've probably failed it, i have Karma to burn so do whatever to me)
Let me be blunt, education does not imply intelligence; assuming genetic or hierarchical superiority due to your education level is an elitist, and assholish, standpoint to take. IQ and logic tests are, as well, not a correct means of judging the intelligence level of a human being.
Want to see genious in action? I suggest you watch a couple potheads turn a household water heater into a bong.
art is not a definate thing, it grows, evolves and ultimately defines the universe.
that thing is too odd for me, i prefer the previous generation Trackman Marble. much more ergonomic, i have never had any wrist problems with it, and i can sit at my computer for several hours playing Civilisation without ever having any discomfort in my right hand.4 25879-7990434?v=glance&n=172282&v=glance
i'll be dead and 6' below ground before you'll pry this mouse from my hands, hell, you just might have to bury me with it
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004L8IG/002-0
perhaps you don't understand the term "Load Testing", to properly stabilise a persistant world you have to put the servers under conditions that are similar to how they would be after release. The only real way to Load test an MMO is to have actual people playing the game, sure, you could populate the world with a basic AI, but you wouldn't get the same situations that a human would get into. perhaps the Article Writer knows next to nothing about MMO development and is just pissed off because he couldn't get a Beta copy of City of Villians or something.
i don't recall being sober at any time in the past 3 years... i love being a Canadian
this isn't about "saving the children", this is about Political bolstering. Clinton is using this little debackle to put her name in the limelight so that millions of non-gamers that have no idea whats going on can cry about the ramifications on society that a mini-game specifically removed from a final product will have. sure, the Minigame is still there, but the technical requirements needed to access it are far beyond what your typical "non-geek" 13 year old can do on a computer.
why don't we start going after TV channels like Showcase? their movies are damn near pornographic some nights and its a readily avaliable medium to anyone with cable, that means your 4 year old that just learned how to use the remote could inadvertantly watch an entire movie composed of gay orgies while your 15 year old is still trying to figure out how to get the badly made, clothed sex, "Hot Coffee" mod to work.
nonetheless, Grand theft Auto in general should not, and is not intended for, nor sold to, gamers under the age of of 17. therefore, in order for a child to play hot coffee, the parent must give his/her child permission to play GTA, a game intended for an older audience, and then the child must break the law in order to access the Sex Scene. Rockstar removed access to the minigame before shipping, every game has content that is unused due to features that where removed or altered, this content is almost always hidden away deep within the code and all access to it without a 3rd party program removed. just because its GTA its different? wake up and smell the Hot Coffee the minigame is not a part of the final product, it is not intended to be accessed by anyone, at anytime, for any reason within the limits of the law
you want to save the children? try being a parent!
you must live a seriously boring life... seriously boring...
if i ever lived in a place with blank white walls and a few tidbits of furniture i would go completely out of my mind. I strive to cover up all the white area on my walls with everything from Star Wars posters to Cars and my prized John Wayne Tapestry. theres always something to look at in my place.
IMO, Art exist everywhere and anywhere, its just a matter of how you look at it
P.S. - if my girlfriend bought me a filing cabinet i would seriously be questioning why i'm dating her
i do use Mac... and Windows... and Linux...
they all have different purposes, and i use them all differently. if i had to pick one to get rid of, i can see more reasons to stick with Windows over Mac (mainly games, but then again, i'm a gamer)
and you won't find my parting with my Debian Distro anytime soon
a robot can only do so much in space, its decision making capabilities are limited by what is programmed into it, a human being is flexible enough to change the plan if the need arises. robots in space can only show us so much, i'm all for manned space exploration, 100% behind it.
besides, maybe this is the swift kick in the ass that the U.S. needs in order to get their space program moving at a faster pace.
HAH... HAH... i'm sorry, i tried to laugh at your joke, but that was all i could get.
Gran Turismo 4 is a complete redesign of the entire physics and A.I. core of the engine, not to mention detailed to a near perfection in all models and features beyond features(to the point where i honsetly don't think there will be even a close competitor to it the current Generation, even Forza will bow to it, no, the only thing that will best GT4... will be GT5)
i can understand why you might think that though, gran turismo 3 WAS just Gran Turismo 2 with some tweaks and less cars, as a matter of fact, Gran Turismo 3 was supposed to be Gran Turismo 2000, a direct port of GT2 from PS to PS2 but Sony decided it was better marketting strategy to call it a sequel.
i decided a while ago that i don't owe my alleigance to any company, i have a GC for GC games, and XBX for XBX games and a PS2 for PS2 games. i garantee you i'll have a PSP for PSP games and a DS for DS games.
as for those of you that insist on being picky and only having one.. reasearch, reasearch, reasearch, and when you've reasearched everything decide what suits your playing style and get it and ignore the fanboys, they're just unpaid PR reps for their individual companies anyways
my experience is roughly the same, i didn't really focus my life on anything until i hit rock bottom and spent my unemployed time playing video games, it was around that time that i realised that i had dozens of ideas come to me at any given moment surrounding video games and that developing them would be absolutely great. its been 3 years since i made that realisation and i'm currently attending a technical institute to get my Bachelors degree in Applied Information Systems Technology, i completely turned my life around because of my Video Game addictions, i went from having no Future, to having a future that alot of people only wish they could have. and i still play 20-30hrs of games/week on average
i mentioned this in another post, but would it be possible for developers to make use of the usb 2.0 capability to pre-load to a memory stick(optional of couse, not everyone has or wants a memory stick for their game system)
and some part of me agrees with you about the UMDs, but still, you can get 1GB SD cards now, why can Nintendo come up with its own 1GD memory card format for the DS(unless thats what the DS's carts have, in which case i revoke my anti-cart statements, i'm assuming they're more like 256MB-512MB.
nonetheless, you have your opinions, i have mine, i don't think either of us stands a chance of changing those opinions so we'll call it a draw
really? well, then that explains why i couldn't find a copy for a week after it was released, every day the same thing
them: "sorry, we sold out already"
me: "but its only 10:00, you just opened an hour ago"
them: "sorry, try again tommorrow" GTA: San Andreas == pre-ordered for me, same goes for GT4
a: not as well as PSP b: they aren't really preventing it, but take a good look at the current GB selection, for every 10 mario games, NES/SNES remakes, clones, or Pokeman games, you'll find maybe 1 truly original game
as for the wireless part, maybe you missed why i added it twice, the PSP and DS are both 802.11 wireless, and the PSP also has infra-red. i gave them a tie because of that fact.
cartidriges are a plague of the handheld gaming world, i'd rather them use pretty much anything else, good for you if you want your backwards compatability, but i have and SP already, i'd rather have innovation
as for your last point: yes, i'd like longer battery life, but i'll probably spend most of my play time within reach of a power supply anyways save for the 1h/day on the bus. once again, for the stylus, just another thing to lose
i have to laugh at alot of Nintendo Fanboys, i really do, they're talking about how "innovative" the DS is, why? cuz its got duals screens and wireless? the DS is far from Innovative
1: the Dual Screens is a gimmick that, IMO, will become merely a neato thing, i'd rather have a single screen and have better games
2: wireless isn't exactly that new in the handheld world, hell, cell phones have been doing it for more than a decade, and PDAs have been doing it for a few years too. now that a gaming machine has it, all of a sudden its innovative? its not pushing technology forwards, its merely riding piggyback on an established technology.
3: cart gaming? since when was a Cartridge innovative, i've had them for my Atari 2600 for 20 years, at least sony its gutsy enough to try something like not using a cartidge.
4: nintendo and its unpaid promoters(ie. Fanboys) are so wrapped up in the idea that handhelds are only good for short games that they've forgotten that some people actaully want to play a long epic scale game from a portable, not just the entire line up of nintendo games that where released on the NES over a decade ago. sony has the balls to say "hey, lets really give a portable some juice so that it can really give the gamers something concrete to play with, lets squeeze so much high tech into a little device that you'll be wondering how we did it all"
pardon me for rambling a bit more here
Dual Screen - Gimmick
1.8GB DVD in a handheld - innovative
point: Sony
wireless portable - done before
wireless portable - done before
point: tie
stereo - still havn't reached the 60 have we?
7.1 3d audio in a handheld - innovative
point: sony
ARM9 and ARM7 chip - good, but...
MIPS R4000 32-Bit Core - innovative(for a portable
point: sony
more mario games - got any other charactors? or is the plumber the only one making you money
ports from PS2, and completely new 3D games with real content - innovative for Portables
point: sony
10 hour battery life - not innovative, but good
2-10 hour battery life depending on use and programmer skills - so far, the PSP's only shortcoming
point: DS
winner: Sony - 3/4
the DS's successful marketting iss just proof that the Nintendo Hype machine too big for its own good and is standing in the way of real innovation.
that all being said, i'm probably gonna buy both, but i'll wait for when the "real" innovation comes out fo the woodworking from the big N before i get a DS
one final question kinda off-topic, being that the PSP has usb 2.0 support, would it be possible for developers to program a way to make use of a memory stick to cache more data for shorter load times?(not requred of course). it seems to me that if you could, you'd be able to conserve battery life, while at the same time have good load times for people who have a spare Memory stick laying around.
BTW, i'm not gonna bother proof reading all that, just follow the directions in my sig
GT4 on the other hand, is a complete redesign and reimplementation of the engine, its not just a "re-tooled" GT3.
as for online... if it was implemented i would probably use it for a while, until the skill-less cheats took over, then i'd happily play offline anyways, the loss of Online is no big deal to me, i play GT for the cars, and to challenge myself, not to get told i'm not "ub3r 1337" by some 12 year old wannahack