I didn't see anything that mentioned "Prizes" for tournament... They did mention pay for downloads though...
The company also plans to offer consumers the opportunity to purchase downloadable content for its games
I don't think that will fly for roster updates/etc for the sports game... actually, I don't think that will fly with too many of EA's games.... EA thinks that also, that's why they are going to try it with NBA Live instead of Madden...
If they wanted to test it for the supply chain side, they would put them tags in a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk. Something high volume that would let them track some real sales and put their system through its paces. not some gimmicky, expensive razor blades that maybe a couple people per day purchase.
I can see the press conferences now...
Shop Spokesman: We are not using these RFID tags for security purposes. It is just pure coincidence that we happen to pick the "most shoplifted" item in Britain to test these on. A very important link in our supply chain entails comparing photos of who picked up an item and who is exiting the store with that item. We are not interested in testing this technology to track the location of something like a case of these razor blades in our warehouse.
1. Hit them where it hurts. Don't buy anymore of their precious copyrighted material. boycott-riaa.com has a RIAA membership list. Don't let them see a penny of your money.
2. Get educated and vote. Vote politicians out of office that support these morons. These ignorant assholes are going to ruin our country. Standing up and voting will send a message that we are sick of these friggin lobbyists.
Are you sure it isn't because you are a flaming homosexual? Studies show that most mac users are flaming homosexuals.
Oh yeah... could be that as well... I never really thought of it that way.... if studies show its true, then it has to be, right? I mean if it wan't true, then the studies would say that mac bashing pc/linux people are flaming fags...
America's army uses the Unreal Engine, which has already been ported to the Mac platform... why not release a mac version?
Also, I use a Mac not for the 'hippie' aspects, or fsck M$ reasons, but simply because I like them better... I am not a gun toting liberal, but I play paintball and first person shooters on my consoles (and Mac when I can)..
Why do Mac users buy MS Office? Because it's good? Nope. So they can open up.doc files made on a PC.
Actually it is good. It does not conform 100% to the apple OSX guidelines, but it is close enough for me. Its also fast and stable.
It is also nice to be able to create documents and share them with those less fortunate (Windows people). There is no spreadsheet program that is near what Excel does.
Openoffice.org is great and all that, but until they can get it to run outside of an X window system, it can't compete with MS Office on the mac.
If Apple wants to kick MS square in the nuts, they need to put out some kind of competitive office suite that opens up, and saves MS office files. It would not surprise me if they did the same thing with OOo as they did with safari. Apple has been burning alot of bridges lately with MS and there is only one left that I can see hat matters any (MS Office)
why not let the gamer cause the injury and then hit a key and switch into paramedic mode... you could go on a "GTA3" style rampage of clubbing, carjacking and snipering and then go on a "Florence Nightingale" style rampage of suturing, bandaging and splinting...
That would be fun!!!
"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real," said Holly Shevenock, a postal worker from Harrisburg, Pennsylania.
Note to self: don't mess with the postal worker to much... She might finish that thought....
"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real, and they bleed just like all those impatient people that all come in the post office at exactly 12:01 pm every day and want instantaneous service!!!! those same people are the ones that bitch when we raise the price of the stamp by a friggin penny to put more people at the counter!!! They make me so mad, I just want to kill something!!!
we have all heard the end of that story one to many times...
you are still right. Zipper should have forseen this and put some mechanism in place to prevent this. Cheating in online games is not a new/undocumented thing. There are compnies that make their living trying to prevent this. You can't be a player in the online FPS genre without encountering cheaters. People have been doing it since the mid 90's
And doesn't Sony get some kind of final QC/QA approval on the game? Are they not to blame a little for letting their online flagship title be ruined in the first couple months? Couldn't they issue replacement discs (trade in your original SOCOM disc at a nearby retailer)? I would buy SOCOM 2 for sure if they proved to me that they could fix the cheating problem.
I would hesitate on buyng SOCOM 2 without them proving they can fix the problem. Especially if I had Xbox Live with it's abundance of good quality online shooter games: RTCW, Ghost Recon, Unreal Champ, Mechassault.
They can and do already ban people. My nephew had a gamertag that someone considered offensive (PeterLove) and microsoft banned him for it. One time when he tried to access live with that gamertag, he was forced to exit the game and enter a new gamertag through the dashboard interface. His friend list remained the same, and his new gamertag (Krazzy88) appeared on my friend list.
Regardless of who is hosting the games (MS or P2P), you still have to log in through an Xbox Live server. As long as you are logging in through live, MS has the opportunity to deny you access to the network (hence not allowing you to join games). So I think the parent article is correct.
I am sure that there is a way to detect "official" cheating devices (like people use for SOCOM) and deny acces to the live network on that basis. They already do that with mod chips. You have to switch off your mod chip if you want to play on Xbox Live.
Glitching is another issue altogether. THe glitches in Unreal Tournament were fixed with the latest mandatory content download. Unfortunately fo SOCOM, there is no way to easily require the storage large chunks of downloaded content(no HDD) like you can on the xbox.
they're using FrontPage to make a website promoting Linux
doesn't that violate the frontpage EULA? They mentioned the word Linux... M$ will yank their frontpage license for publishing a site that disparages them by mentioning the word Linux...
A flock of angry homing pigeons descended upon
unsuspecting tennis fans today at centre court.
Why were the pigeons angry you ask? Apparently
some asshat company spray painted them. The
company then trained them to home in on the tennis
fans. Many fans had to have the beaks of these
angry pigeons surgically removed from their eye.
Are you suggesting that U.K. spammers should be beaten with a baseball bat if they send explicit material to an 18 year old in the USA, despite it being perfectly reasonable material for somebody of that age in their own country?
beaten with a baseball bat? no. held responsible for offering adult oriented items to minors? yes.
Here is a question for you..
Should someone from the netherlands get in trouble for smoking pot on the sidewalks of london just because it is legal where he comes from?
I didn't submit this article to give you all teh idea that I keep my kids in a cage like veal.. I just thought this is a court friendly way we can sue spammers and make it stick.
one way a spammer could verify the age of a recipient would be to have an opt-in mailing list. that could cripple the spam industry in the us (if we can catch them).
I _mostly_ agree as well. I had an N64 instead of a PS1. My brother had a PS1 and used to tell me about how many games he had for his PS1 vs my N64. Sure, he had more games to choose from, but I believe a higher percentage of N64 games were high quality in comparison to PS1's library.
I bought a Cube instead of a PS2 or Xbox because of this. I was frustrated the first year with a lack of a Mario title, but hung in there. The breaking point for me was when I looked a xmas 2002 lineup and saw a bunch of crap mostly (with the exception of Metroid and Star Fox). I looked at PS2 and saw Vice City, SOCOM, online play and a plethora of other games. I looked at Xbox and saw Mechassault, Unreal Champ, Splinter Cell, Xbox Live (and knew Halo2 would be coming soon).
I bought an Xbox last fall and now have lot's of Xbox games. Don't get me wrong, I still play the cube, but good games are few and far bwetween.
Yeah, all the body searches are over the top (if ya didn't find anything the first time...) But what is the big deal? Should "journalists" be allowed to enter a country with out the proper parperwork just because they are "journalists"?
A couple years ago, we may have said the same thing about a bunch of people form the middle east that wanted to go to airline pilot school in Florida... We all know what happened to those guys...
I'm not trying to keep this going, but.... Are you talking about the Ico that came out a couple years ago, or the sequel they are pushing now?
Speaking of innovation from last year... Did you ever hear of a game called blinx (yeah, I know it sucks). Blinx uses the HD in xbox to record what you are doing... if you need help beating a boss, you can record yourself doing some attacks, rewind and play it back and attack somewhere else alongside the recorded "you"...
don't know about other people but I usually only play one game at a time.
I agree that it is not a good deal. How many of these addictive_as_crack games can a person play at any given time? Sure you are only paying for about 2 of them, but is there enough time in the day/week/month to play 2 (or more) games of this type?
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I didn't see anything that mentioned "Prizes" for tournament... They did mention pay for downloads though...
The company also plans to offer consumers the opportunity to purchase downloadable content for its games
I don't think that will fly for roster updates/etc for the sports game... actually, I don't think that will fly with too many of EA's games.... EA thinks that also, that's why they are going to try it with NBA Live instead of Madden...
I was just looking for an app like this a couple weeks ago.. nice to see that it's freeware to boot!
I was gonna say that too.
If they wanted to test it for the supply chain side, they would put them tags in a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk. Something high volume that would let them track some real sales and put their system through its paces. not some gimmicky, expensive razor blades that maybe a couple people per day purchase.
I can see the press conferences now...
Shop Spokesman: We are not using these RFID tags for security purposes. It is just pure coincidence that we happen to pick the "most shoplifted" item in Britain to test these on. A very important link in our supply chain entails comparing photos of who picked up an item and who is exiting the store with that item. We are not interested in testing this technology to track the location of something like a case of these razor blades in our warehouse.
1. Hit them where it hurts. Don't buy anymore of their precious copyrighted material. boycott-riaa.com has a RIAA membership list. Don't let them see a penny of your money.
2. Get educated and vote. Vote politicians out of office that support these morons. These ignorant assholes are going to ruin our country. Standing up and voting will send a message that we are sick of these friggin lobbyists.
Are you sure it isn't because you are a flaming homosexual? Studies show that most mac users are flaming homosexuals.
/closet
Oh yeah... could be that as well... I never really thought of it that way.... if studies show its true, then it has to be, right? I mean if it wan't true, then the studies would say that mac bashing pc/linux people are flaming fags...
thanks for clearing that up for me...
Coward.
America's army uses the Unreal Engine, which has already been ported to the Mac platform... why not release a mac version?
Also, I use a Mac not for the 'hippie' aspects, or fsck M$ reasons, but simply because I like them better... I am not a gun toting liberal, but I play paintball and first person shooters on my consoles (and Mac when I can)..
I never used (or thought to) to share copyrighted files...
I used it for downloading things like the halo2 e3 trailer...
I hope ike hell that bittorrent makes it through this... I think its great for people that don't have huge amounts of bandwidth...
Why do Mac users buy MS Office? Because it's good? Nope. So they can open up .doc files made on a PC.
Actually it is good. It does not conform 100% to the apple OSX guidelines, but it is close enough for me. Its also fast and stable.
It is also nice to be able to create documents and share them with those less fortunate (Windows people). There is no spreadsheet program that is near what Excel does.
Openoffice.org is great and all that, but until they can get it to run outside of an X window system, it can't compete with MS Office on the mac.
If Apple wants to kick MS square in the nuts, they need to put out some kind of competitive office suite that opens up, and saves MS office files. It would not surprise me if they did the same thing with OOo as they did with safari. Apple has been burning alot of bridges lately with MS and there is only one left that I can see hat matters any (MS Office)
why not let the gamer cause the injury and then hit a key and switch into paramedic mode... you could go on a "GTA3" style rampage of clubbing, carjacking and snipering and then go on a "Florence Nightingale" style rampage of suturing, bandaging and splinting... That would be fun!!!
"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real," said Holly Shevenock, a postal worker from Harrisburg, Pennsylania.
Note to self: don't mess with the postal worker to much... She might finish that thought....
"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real, and they bleed just like all those impatient people that all come in the post office at exactly 12:01 pm every day and want instantaneous service!!!! those same people are the ones that bitch when we raise the price of the stamp by a friggin penny to put more people at the counter!!! They make me so mad, I just want to kill something!!!
we have all heard the end of that story one to many times...
I think Unreal Tournament handles it this way on CHSP enabled servers (whatever that acronym menas).
you are still right. Zipper should have forseen this and put some mechanism in place to prevent this. Cheating in online games is not a new/undocumented thing. There are compnies that make their living trying to prevent this. You can't be a player in the online FPS genre without encountering cheaters. People have been doing it since the mid 90's
And doesn't Sony get some kind of final QC/QA approval on the game? Are they not to blame a little for letting their online flagship title be ruined in the first couple months? Couldn't they issue replacement discs (trade in your original SOCOM disc at a nearby retailer)? I would buy SOCOM 2 for sure if they proved to me that they could fix the cheating problem.
I would hesitate on buyng SOCOM 2 without them proving they can fix the problem. Especially if I had Xbox Live with it's abundance of good quality online shooter games: RTCW, Ghost Recon, Unreal Champ, Mechassault.
They can and do already ban people. My nephew had a gamertag that someone considered offensive (PeterLove) and microsoft banned him for it. One time when he tried to access live with that gamertag, he was forced to exit the game and enter a new gamertag through the dashboard interface. His friend list remained the same, and his new gamertag (Krazzy88) appeared on my friend list.
Regardless of who is hosting the games (MS or P2P), you still have to log in through an Xbox Live server. As long as you are logging in through live, MS has the opportunity to deny you access to the network (hence not allowing you to join games). So I think the parent article is correct.
I am sure that there is a way to detect "official" cheating devices (like people use for SOCOM) and deny acces to the live network on that basis. They already do that with mod chips. You have to switch off your mod chip if you want to play on Xbox Live.
Glitching is another issue altogether. THe glitches in Unreal Tournament were fixed with the latest mandatory content download. Unfortunately fo SOCOM, there is no way to easily require the storage large chunks of downloaded content(no HDD) like you can on the xbox.
they're using FrontPage to make a website promoting Linux
doesn't that violate the frontpage EULA? They mentioned the word Linux... M$ will yank their frontpage license for publishing a site that disparages them by mentioning the word Linux...
I second that motion... Also on Xbox is Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which has a co-op as well.. (I do not have PS2, so I can't speak for that)
AP - Wimbledon
A flock of angry homing pigeons descended upon
unsuspecting tennis fans today at centre court.
Why were the pigeons angry you ask? Apparently
some asshat company spray painted them. The
company then trained them to home in on the tennis
fans. Many fans had to have the beaks of these
angry pigeons surgically removed from their eye.
I guess they will change the fish market vans into hot dog carts...
Are you suggesting that U.K. spammers should be beaten with a baseball bat if they send explicit material to an 18 year old in the USA, despite it being perfectly reasonable material for somebody of that age in their own country?
beaten with a baseball bat? no. held responsible for offering adult oriented items to minors? yes.
Here is a question for you..
Should someone from the netherlands get in trouble for smoking pot on the sidewalks of london just because it is legal where he comes from?
They can (and have done, and are planning to) publish extra content for xbox games through the official xbox magazine (it includes a cd every month).
In the next couple of months, the cd will include a patch and a couple of extra maps for unreal championship.
In the past, extra content for Dead or Alive (the fighting game, not the swimsuit issue) was published this same way.
I didn't submit this article to give you all teh idea that I keep my kids in a cage like veal.. I just thought this is a court friendly way we can sue spammers and make it stick.
one way a spammer could verify the age of a recipient would be to have an opt-in mailing list. that could cripple the spam industry in the us (if we can catch them).
I _mostly_ agree as well. I had an N64 instead of a PS1. My brother had a PS1 and used to tell me about how many games he had for his PS1 vs my N64. Sure, he had more games to choose from, but I believe a higher percentage of N64 games were high quality in comparison to PS1's library.
I bought a Cube instead of a PS2 or Xbox because of this. I was frustrated the first year with a lack of a Mario title, but hung in there. The breaking point for me was when I looked a xmas 2002 lineup and saw a bunch of crap mostly (with the exception of Metroid and Star Fox). I looked at PS2 and saw Vice City, SOCOM, online play and a plethora of other games. I looked at Xbox and saw Mechassault, Unreal Champ, Splinter Cell, Xbox Live (and knew Halo2 would be coming soon).
I bought an Xbox last fall and now have lot's of Xbox games. Don't get me wrong, I still play the cube, but good games are few and far bwetween.
Yeah, all the body searches are over the top (if ya didn't find anything the first time...) But what is the big deal? Should "journalists" be allowed to enter a country with out the proper parperwork just because they are "journalists"?
A couple years ago, we may have said the same thing about a bunch of people form the middle east that wanted to go to airline pilot school in Florida... We all know what happened to those guys...
I'm not trying to keep this going, but.... Are you talking about the Ico that came out a couple years ago, or the sequel they are pushing now?
Speaking of innovation from last year... Did you ever hear of a game called blinx (yeah, I know it sucks). Blinx uses the HD in xbox to record what you are doing... if you need help beating a boss, you can record yourself doing some attacks, rewind and play it back and attack somewhere else alongside the recorded "you"...
Sorry if I sound a little fanboyish..
don't know about other people but I usually only play one game at a time.
I agree that it is not a good deal. How many of these addictive_as_crack games can a person play at any given time? Sure you are only paying for about 2 of them, but is there enough time in the day/week/month to play 2 (or more) games of this type?