Toshiba and NEC are newcomers to the Blu Ray Consortium.
The original members were:
Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson Multimedia.
Dell & HP were not original members of the BD consortium either, they only joined in the last year or so.
The Netrek model, while good, still suffered from hacked clients sitting between the client and server, as you well know since you wrote one. And even though I was in the same lab, I never used it.;)
That's the trouble with online gaming, if the game is successful enough, sooner or later there will be a smart guy who spends all his time trying to cheat. The games companies have to walk a thin line between putting in enough cheat prevention measures to disuade casual crackers, while not making the game suffer for the honest players.
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The Netrek model, while good, still suffered from hacked clients sitting between the client and server, as you well know since you wrote one. And even though I was in the same lab, I never used it. ;)
That's the trouble with online gaming, if the game is successful enough, sooner or later there will be a smart guy who spends all his time trying to cheat. The games companies have to walk a thin line between putting in enough cheat prevention measures to disuade casual crackers, while not making the game suffer for the honest players.