Its like trying to put a celebrity in jail, won't happen. There needs to be a big swing taken first by someone who packs a lot of punch to open a wound big enough for this type of lawsuit to have more teeth. Torrentspy does not have that kind of clout to land one:\
good to see an ignorant voter holds part of the future of our planet in their grasp::sigh::
you're disgusted with the Kerry campaign.....
.. But apparently not disgusted with Nader taking money from Republicans under the table not because they support him but simply because the majority of votes he takes from the major parties happens to be from the democrats. This isonly the tip of the iceberg on this issue and it runs as deep as a vein found in the motherlode lol.
.. Apparently not disgusted he had been taking money from the Swift Boat veterans because they are righteous, honest, hard-working American::eye roll::
All you're arguing about is the steps the Democrats have had to take openly to counter the back door politics the Republicans have used for at least a decade to try and boost their winfall. It's simply part of politics, albeit reprehensible by both sides. I don't think in issues like this you could take a side because both sides do just as much as the other, some things get press... some don't.... which then falls to the organization you're reading. The NY Times, sponsoring Kerry officially, obviously would take a different stance than if they supported Bush officially. It's all common sense.
the better message to send to people is READ, STUDY, INGEST, DISCUSS as much of the political goings-ons that you can. Read cnn, slashdot, foxnews... get perspectives from 1000 sides then form you're own edicated decision, don't just take the talking points you saw on foxnews.com as the bible and come here preaching as though you have all the facts. It's silly.
well I've owned a Karma for a little bit now and here are my impressions.
I have never had any lockups at all but I am really careful with the Karma and I've never dropped it or put it through any rough stuff, just have it on my desk at work and with me in the car, and when I go other places. Nothing out of the ordinary.
DOCKING STATION the docking station is a definite selling point. USB 2.0, ethernet, and stereo inputs AND it glows a crystal blue when plugged in..... AND you can adjust the intensity of the gloe slightly OR have it pulsate with your music. The ethernet cable is obviously a bonus for the Linux users.
INTERFACE I like the thumbstick and the wheel and using both in unison I can do most functions quickly and with one hand. I can see how some people wouldnt like the laptop like nub but you can use the wheel almost wholly in its place or use them in unison for a quicker experience.
DESIGN
it is a little bulkier than it's counterparts but all in all I prefer it to the IPod (I owned a 3rd gen). I think stylistically it's a bit better and has some indivduality.... because I don't consider a boring white rectangle to be stylish personally.
SOFTWARE
the rio software is pretty good. Lets you rip, transfer and synch your tunes like any good one should. You can creat playlists on your computer to transfer to the Karma and vice versa (the downside to this is a playlist on my puter has songs not available on my karma whihc is weird)
PLAYLIST
I dig the Rio DJ. Crossfading is built in and the user can choose from 1- 6 seconds of crossfade between songs. Playlist generation can be made by artist, song, album, or genre.... all based on ID3 tag. You can also generate from the least played, most played, of all of the above as well.... etc etc etc
OTHER FEATURES - Rio Taxi for file xfer support. nothing exciting but function and useful. - Web Interface. same thing basically but for Linux users I would imagine its more important. - OGG, MP3, FLAC support. can you say ogg ?:) - Equalizer. Your basic stuff here. From all accounts the Karma's audio quality surpassed my 3rd gen ipod to my ear. Without seeing technical jargon and crap it's hard to say. - comes with earbuds. - replacement docking stations are about $35 bucks. - Left or Right Hand orientation setting in the menu. Haven't played much with this one but it sounds useful lol.
I think it's great the p2p community can stand with each other and donate to help those who are targeted but that's not what it's going to take in the end.
Given that most of our political leaders will not stand up to any of the privacy issues or heavy handed tactice given that most are bankrolled by entertainment and media companies it comes down to the end user being the empowered one to stop this nonsense. Is copyright infringement illegal? Yes. Does the resolutions need to be carried out this way in a 'I have more money than you so I will squash you over time in a legal system so you may as well just give me your life savings now' method ?? NO.
Unfortunately until consumers cease buying CD's completely to send a message - the RIAA will use file sharing as the cop out everytime for CD sales declining. The reality is if they updated their 10yr old business model they know full and well their usefullness would be at an end in the digital age. they are nothing more than a middle man and a bankroll sometimes and direct distribution would make them cease to exist
the bulk of artists on mp3.com aren't under the umbrella of the RIAA and the artists and their independant labels allow those songs to be put up there for copyright release. If they don't allow a realease but want them up there - they offer the streaming alternative only.
There are major label artists on mp3.com but they are sanctioned by their labels. A prime example would be the band Flickerstick. they had an mp3.com site before they got signed - once they were signed all the songs were removed and only 1-3 were put up as teasers to buy their album off Epic [note: I'm not saying I'm a flickerstick fan - it was just a good example =X ]
You are right tho - eventually the artists will not need the labels since they will have direct distribution once they pry those rights from the clutching, cold,death grasp of the labels. The first to go however will be the RIAA since their job will be ousted by the the direct marketing that digital distribution will bring about. The second to go later on [imho much later on] will be the labels. Most bands still need the labels now to front studio time etc.
>>>>> "In the end, consumers and artists are brought together by this amazing technology, and they have a level of interactivity they've never had before," she said. "And the music industry is going to benefit, and the movie industry is gonna benefit, and emerging artists, and independent artists, and people who just want to share their views. They're all going to benefit. This technology is here to stay."
>>>
There you have it - the entire reason the RIAA is doing what it is doing - all summed up in one neat, tiny paragraph. Everyone will benefit from this...except the RIAA. This added level of interactivity will render the RIAA completely, utterly useless to all the record labels and put them out of business. plain and simple.
you are correct about the search enghine student, I was being vague; I apologize. I meant in the initial round of filings the sharers who were sharing 5,000 + music files there wasn't much leeway with.
unfortunately in the search engine case, there wasn't as much media hype because it simply affected only that one student. The tech world was pretty informed on it, however the 'mass sheep' were not for the most part. This case is completely different because it affects so many and is a big media story.
albeit [IMHO anyhow], the public would still be somewhat in the dark if TechTV and the like hadn't gone digging thru the legal system to find what suits the RIAA had brought up.
to answer the first post - it took this long because now is the perfect opportunity for a politician to finally speak out and garner some public support for their election given the latest round of subpoena's has indicted innocent victims or third party individuals who were a matter of circumstance. It's best summed up in this paragraph:
>>>
"The industry seems to have adopted a 'shotgun' approach that could potentially cause injury and harm to innocent people who may simply have been victims of circumstance, or possessed a lack of knowledge of the rules related to digital sharing of files," Coleman wrote.
>>>
Before it was students etc they were filiong against and the claims were pretty justified - there wasn't much leeway for a politician to step up - now there is a distinct case to be made and popular support to be garnered from it.
>>> That said, in the cases we prosecute, we believe that using the term theft is not misleading. While there may be technical differences between certain types of infringing activity, conduct that triggers the criminal statutes is analogous to theft.
>>>
in a profession where technicalities and wording mean the difference between jail and freedom or life and death - or paying out your life savings..... I'm not really clear why his answer was so pro to the marketing engine. The dinstinct, direct, EXACT definition of those terms are clear, as clear as the fact the marketing machine abuses the term 'theft' because it's mental association with the general public is more harsh than if they used the term 'copyright infringement'.
I guess sometimes a two way street really can be one-way
I'm not saying you're wrong on anything - it's all your opinions which you're entitled to but I think 2 weeks out the door people are bashing an unfinished product.
I'll assume a lot of people playing swg played UO or EQ and were around at rollout time to know what that includes. I'm not saying it's right of the company, or it's smart to spend your money that way etc etc but it's all your choice. So wait a year then sign up, that's your choice and probably in 6 months or a year this game will be great - right now you're getting more marketing info out of SOE than game stuff because it's a release time.
1GB of ram expensive ?? I had 512 with my machine and popped another 512 in. It cost me less than SWG and 6 months of service will....
DAOC - DAOC is nothing but a big levelfest. All you do is the equivalent of macroing. my friend played for 6 months casually before he qualified to be able to PVP. I'm not saying DAOC sucks - but it's ignorant to say it didn't[doesn't] have it's share of problems. Take a look through their dev notes and archived forums posts and see them all - I never played the game and I can point out a handful from 4 minutes of surfing.
it boils down to whatever makes you happy. 15/mo for SWG is more than other MMORPG's but consider this UO bumped to 13/month and those are 5-6 year old graphics and gameplay issues. I'd take my wookiee over that any day;)
too many people whining. the game is what you make of it
when you first start a char in ANY mmorpg what do you do - mind numbing macroing until you uber out your character - that's to be expected
If all you're doing is destroy and delivery missions - who's fault is that ? your own - there are other things you can do on other planets. [take a trip to the SWG forums and check out the theme park stuff and other hidden places posts]
now the game is indeed full of bugs - and IMHO the most annoying features of the game are it's upto5minute bootup time and it's 3 minute log off time. If you're graphics are bad or your town lagging add more ram or get a better video card. I have 1GB of ram and an FX5900 and everything looks great to me on
anyone who plays an MMORPG knows that the first 6 months usually sucks off any game because it's rushed out, bugs needs squashing and other elements not deemed 'priority' still need to be added. but the rewards years down the line usually pay off with veteran rewards etc etc
I'm afraid this article seems to spin it's wheels in circles and never really seems to go anywhere past a hashing together of slashdot buzzwords and zeldman.com facts about different browsers.
I think the reality is that while a small minority of the planet may migrate to other browsers such as opera, mozilla, konqueror, etc - the majority of the world will stick with IE6.0 and not notice the difference - those upgrading to the new windows will get 7.0 but not care or notice the difference either.
As far as netscape goes - the author misses a key point . Sure 4.x is a terrible browser with rendering considered to be the bane of the ddevil to web developers - but you forget one critical fact. Many people still use it. Take for instance the nbr 1 contracting client entity in the free world[possibly the whole world] - still using netscape 4.78 as a default browser. Some of us don't have a choice but to follow bad practices, and that will continue years from now - 'browser war' or not [which ATM doesn't even exist contrary to this article].
>>>>
The old king, once great and mighty but now becoming somewhat stiff of leg.....etc
>>>>>
sounds like someone finished the new harry potter book before writing... =)
I'm always wary of amazon reviews anyhow though, half the time their anonymous and most likely the publishers, authors, and editors. With my lack of trust does that mean I'm as knowledgeable as I would be from reading the book ?;)
given that no care in MMORPG is ever given to do server rollback's when they crash or just whimsically decide to [ala OSI / UO] they should just do a rollback of 24 hours and learn from their mistakes. hopefully some screenshots will popup from it soon, that sounds hilarious!
If it was that easy and quick for someone to break into their system that is something the mgmt team needs to explore as the competency of their QA and programmers.
that doesn't work at all
ex. -
I have a 3 - 30 round clips and kill 9 people in 10 shots but then empty all the rest of my ammo into the air like many people so in CS;)
kills
9/10 = 90% kill accuracy
total for round
9/90 = 10% accuracy
and there is three themes to the site you can click the buttons to apply a
-light grey on white
-black on orange
-or black on white
foreground to background scheme.
sure maybe at 7000 x 7000 resolution it doesn't take up everything on your screen - however his compatible design works in all browsers and WAP out there currently - including Safari.
>
One (unfortunate?) thing about the Web is that its "architecture" (if you can even call it that) evolved and grew piece by piece. The design goals people had in mind back in 1993, or even in 1999, have been blown away by what has happened on the ground. Inter-company politics have also been a big factor - never helpful for promoting standardization, or sound design.
>
I couldn't agree with this more from a web development area as well, so many designers are still using hack and slash methods from the early 90's it's sad[although not always their fault!]. It correlates to the same principles used to build the architecture itself.
side note: if you're interested in learning more about forward compatible web design you should check out Jeffrey Zeldman's new book 'Designing With Web Standards' you can find him at www.zeldman.com - I just finished this book and it was well worth the $24.50 - all you nested table designers should pick this one up or those looking to bridge the gap from using tabled design. =)
our cs server now has an anti cheat that the admin developed. It runs locally on your machine and checks your hard drive for common cheat files, it will also take screenshots of your game running and ftp them to an ftp server. IT also checks the md5 hash as you play. It's found a lot of h4x's already
you can check it out at www.wnygames.com - it's similar to creeping death imho, but more tailored to the server we play on.
blockbuster still continues the practice of stocking only widescreen formats. My local BB here in CNY had like 40 some copies of harry potter 2 on dvd. the entire group was widescreen only. I've noticed this for several other titles.
not that I'm saying widescreen isn't better, but it seems in my head wouldn't that impair a studies nbrs a bit if some big new releases aren't even sotcked with an option ?!?
Slashdot Mirror
Its like trying to put a celebrity in jail, won't happen. There needs to be a big swing taken first by someone who packs a lot of punch to open a wound big enough for this type of lawsuit to have more teeth. Torrentspy does not have that kind of clout to land one :\
good to see an ignorant voter holds part of the future of our planet in their grasp ::sigh::
you're disgusted with the Kerry campaign.....
.. But apparently not disgusted with Nader taking money from Republicans under the table not because they support him but simply because the majority of votes he takes from the major parties happens to be from the democrats. This isonly the tip of the iceberg on this issue and it runs as deep as a vein found in the motherlode lol.
.. Apparently not disgusted he had been taking money from the Swift Boat veterans because they are righteous, honest, hard-working American ::eye roll::
All you're arguing about is the steps the Democrats have had to take openly to counter the back door politics the Republicans have used for at least a decade to try and boost their winfall. It's simply part of politics, albeit reprehensible by both sides. I don't think in issues like this you could take a side because both sides do just as much as the other, some things get press ... some don't .... which then falls to the organization you're reading. The NY Times, sponsoring Kerry officially, obviously would take a different stance than if they supported Bush officially. It's all common sense.
the better message to send to people is READ, STUDY, INGEST, DISCUSS as much of the political goings-ons that you can. Read cnn, slashdot, foxnews... get perspectives from 1000 sides then form you're own edicated decision, don't just take the talking points you saw on foxnews.com as the bible and come here preaching as though you have all the facts. It's silly.
well I've owned a Karma for a little bit now and here are my impressions.
:)
I have never had any lockups at all but I am really careful with the Karma and I've never dropped it or put it through any rough stuff, just have it on my desk at work and with me in the car, and when I go other places. Nothing out of the ordinary.
DOCKING STATION
the docking station is a definite selling point. USB 2.0, ethernet, and stereo inputs AND it glows a crystal blue when plugged in..... AND you can adjust the intensity of the gloe slightly OR have it pulsate with your music. The ethernet cable is obviously a bonus for the Linux users.
INTERFACE
I like the thumbstick and the wheel and using both in unison I can do most functions quickly and with one hand. I can see how some people wouldnt like the laptop like nub but you can use the wheel almost wholly in its place or use them in unison for a quicker experience.
DESIGN
it is a little bulkier than it's counterparts but all in all I prefer it to the IPod (I owned a 3rd gen). I think stylistically it's a bit better and has some indivduality.... because I don't consider a boring white rectangle to be stylish personally.
SOFTWARE
the rio software is pretty good. Lets you rip, transfer and synch your tunes like any good one should. You can creat playlists on your computer to transfer to the Karma and vice versa (the downside to this is a playlist on my puter has songs not available on my karma whihc is weird)
PLAYLIST
I dig the Rio DJ. Crossfading is built in and the user can choose from 1- 6 seconds of crossfade between songs. Playlist generation can be made by artist, song, album, or genre.... all based on ID3 tag. You can also generate from the least played, most played, of all of the above as well.... etc etc etc
OTHER FEATURES
- Rio Taxi for file xfer support. nothing exciting but function and useful.
- Web Interface. same thing basically but for Linux users I would imagine its more important.
- OGG, MP3, FLAC support. can you say ogg ?
- Equalizer. Your basic stuff here. From all accounts the Karma's audio quality surpassed my 3rd gen ipod to my ear. Without seeing technical jargon and crap it's hard to say.
- comes with earbuds.
- replacement docking stations are about $35 bucks.
- Left or Right Hand orientation setting in the menu. Haven't played much with this one but it sounds useful lol.
all these products are supposed to enrich the quality of the living web ::not:: cause more pain by inflicting pop up warnings and alert boxes.
so now I need to accept 3 alert boxes before I can hit skip on your flash splash page ?? ;)
I generally listen to only indie music so I always forget that part ;)
I think it's great the p2p community can stand with each other and donate to help those who are targeted but that's not what it's going to take in the end.
Given that most of our political leaders will not stand up to any of the privacy issues or heavy handed tactice given that most are bankrolled by entertainment and media companies it comes down to the end user being the empowered one to stop this nonsense. Is copyright infringement illegal? Yes. Does the resolutions need to be carried out this way in a 'I have more money than you so I will squash you over time in a legal system so you may as well just give me your life savings now' method ?? NO.
Unfortunately until consumers cease buying CD's completely to send a message - the RIAA will use file sharing as the cop out everytime for CD sales declining. The reality is if they updated their 10yr old business model they know full and well their usefullness would be at an end in the digital age. they are nothing more than a middle man and a bankroll sometimes and direct distribution would make them cease to exist
the bulk of artists on mp3.com aren't under the umbrella of the RIAA and the artists and their independant labels allow those songs to be put up there for copyright release. If they don't allow a realease but want them up there - they offer the streaming alternative only.
There are major label artists on mp3.com but they are sanctioned by their labels. A prime example would be the band Flickerstick. they had an mp3.com site before they got signed - once they were signed all the songs were removed and only 1-3 were put up as teasers to buy their album off Epic [note: I'm not saying I'm a flickerstick fan - it was just a good example =X ]
You are right tho - eventually the artists will not need the labels since they will have direct distribution once they pry those rights from the clutching, cold ,death grasp of the labels. The first to go however will be the RIAA since their job will be ousted by the the direct marketing that digital distribution will bring about. The second to go later on [imho much later on] will be the labels. Most bands still need the labels now to front studio time etc.
"In the end, consumers and artists are brought together by this amazing technology, and they have a level of interactivity they've never had before," she said. "And the music industry is going to benefit, and the movie industry is gonna benefit, and emerging artists, and independent artists, and people who just want to share their views. They're all going to benefit. This technology is here to stay."
>>>
There you have it - the entire reason the RIAA is doing what it is doing - all summed up in one neat, tiny paragraph. Everyone will benefit from this...except the RIAA. This added level of interactivity will render the RIAA completely, utterly useless to all the record labels and put them out of business. plain and simple.
you are correct about the search enghine student, I was being vague; I apologize. I meant in the initial round of filings the sharers who were sharing 5,000 + music files there wasn't much leeway with.
unfortunately in the search engine case, there wasn't as much media hype because it simply affected only that one student. The tech world was pretty informed on it, however the 'mass sheep' were not for the most part. This case is completely different because it affects so many and is a big media story.
albeit [IMHO anyhow], the public would still be somewhat in the dark if TechTV and the like hadn't gone digging thru the legal system to find what suits the RIAA had brought up.
to answer the first post - it took this long because now is the perfect opportunity for a politician to finally speak out and garner some public support for their election given the latest round of subpoena's has indicted innocent victims or third party individuals who were a matter of circumstance. It's best summed up in this paragraph:
>>> "The industry seems to have adopted a 'shotgun' approach that could potentially cause injury and harm to innocent people who may simply have been victims of circumstance, or possessed a lack of knowledge of the rules related to digital sharing of files," Coleman wrote. >>>
Before it was students etc they were filiong against and the claims were pretty justified - there wasn't much leeway for a politician to step up - now there is a distinct case to be made and popular support to be garnered from it.
it looks like the entire domain is being redirected back to ./
I was really interested in seeing this in action. Is there a mirror up somewhere?
That said, in the cases we prosecute, we believe that using the term theft is not misleading. While there may be technical differences between certain types of infringing activity, conduct that triggers the criminal statutes is analogous to theft.
>>>
in a profession where technicalities and wording mean the difference between jail and freedom or life and death - or paying out your life savings..... I'm not really clear why his answer was so pro to the marketing engine. The dinstinct, direct, EXACT definition of those terms are clear, as clear as the fact the marketing machine abuses the term 'theft' because it's mental association with the general public is more harsh than if they used the term 'copyright infringement'.
I guess sometimes a two way street really can be one-way
I'll assume a lot of people playing swg played UO or EQ and were around at rollout time to know what that includes. I'm not saying it's right of the company, or it's smart to spend your money that way etc etc but it's all your choice. So wait a year then sign up, that's your choice and probably in 6 months or a year this game will be great - right now you're getting more marketing info out of SOE than game stuff because it's a release time.
1GB of ram expensive ?? I had 512 with my machine and popped another 512 in. It cost me less than SWG and 6 months of service will ....
DAOC - DAOC is nothing but a big levelfest. All you do is the equivalent of macroing. my friend played for 6 months casually before he qualified to be able to PVP. I'm not saying DAOC sucks - but it's ignorant to say it didn't[doesn't] have it's share of problems. Take a look through their dev notes and archived forums posts and see them all - I never played the game and I can point out a handful from 4 minutes of surfing.
it boils down to whatever makes you happy. 15/mo for SWG is more than other MMORPG's but consider this UO bumped to 13/month and those are 5-6 year old graphics and gameplay issues. I'd take my wookiee over that any day ;)
too many people whining. the game is what you make of it
when you first start a char in ANY mmorpg what do you do - mind numbing macroing until you uber out your character - that's to be expected
If all you're doing is destroy and delivery missions - who's fault is that ? your own - there are other things you can do on other planets. [take a trip to the SWG forums and check out the theme park stuff and other hidden places posts]
now the game is indeed full of bugs - and IMHO the most annoying features of the game are it's upto5minute bootup time and it's 3 minute log off time. If you're graphics are bad or your town lagging add more ram or get a better video card. I have 1GB of ram and an FX5900 and everything looks great to me on
anyone who plays an MMORPG knows that the first 6 months usually sucks off any game because it's rushed out, bugs needs squashing and other elements not deemed 'priority' still need to be added. but the rewards years down the line usually pay off with veteran rewards etc etc
I'm afraid this article seems to spin it's wheels in circles and never really seems to go anywhere past a hashing together of slashdot buzzwords and zeldman.com facts about different browsers.
I think the reality is that while a small minority of the planet may migrate to other browsers such as opera, mozilla, konqueror, etc - the majority of the world will stick with IE6.0 and not notice the difference - those upgrading to the new windows will get 7.0 but not care or notice the difference either.
As far as netscape goes - the author misses a key point . Sure 4.x is a terrible browser with rendering considered to be the bane of the ddevil to web developers - but you forget one critical fact. Many people still use it. Take for instance the nbr 1 contracting client entity in the free world[possibly the whole world] - still using netscape 4.78 as a default browser. Some of us don't have a choice but to follow bad practices, and that will continue years from now - 'browser war' or not [which ATM doesn't even exist contrary to this article].
>>>> The old king, once great and mighty but now becoming somewhat stiff of leg.....etc >>>>> ... =)
sounds like someone finished the new harry potter book before writing
here is the Amazon Link.
;)
I'm always wary of amazon reviews anyhow though, half the time their anonymous and most likely the publishers, authors, and editors. With my lack of trust does that mean I'm as knowledgeable as I would be from reading the book ?
given that no care in MMORPG is ever given to do server rollback's when they crash or just whimsically decide to [ala OSI / UO] they should just do a rollback of 24 hours and learn from their mistakes. hopefully some screenshots will popup from it soon, that sounds hilarious!
If it was that easy and quick for someone to break into their system that is something the mgmt team needs to explore as the competency of their QA and programmers.
that doesn't work at all ex. - I have a 3 - 30 round clips and kill 9 people in 10 shots but then empty all the rest of my ammo into the air like many people so in CS ;)
kills
9/10 = 90% kill accuracy
total for round
9/90 = 10% accuracy
and there is three themes to the site you can click the buttons to apply a -light grey on white -black on orange -or black on white foreground to background scheme.
sure maybe at 7000 x 7000 resolution it doesn't take up everything on your screen - however his compatible design works in all browsers and WAP out there currently - including Safari.
I have no issues reading it. maybe it's time for that yearly eye exam ? =)
> One (unfortunate?) thing about the Web is that its "architecture" (if you can even call it that) evolved and grew piece by piece. The design goals people had in mind back in 1993, or even in 1999, have been blown away by what has happened on the ground. Inter-company politics have also been a big factor - never helpful for promoting standardization, or sound design. >
I couldn't agree with this more from a web development area as well, so many designers are still using hack and slash methods from the early 90's it's sad[although not always their fault!]. It correlates to the same principles used to build the architecture itself.
side note: if you're interested in learning more about forward compatible web design you should check out Jeffrey Zeldman's new book 'Designing With Web Standards' you can find him at www.zeldman.com - I just finished this book and it was well worth the $24.50 - all you nested table designers should pick this one up or those looking to bridge the gap from using tabled design. =)
it only does a complete scan the first time and then anytiume after that the admin wants it to.
our cs server now has an anti cheat that the admin developed. It runs locally on your machine and checks your hard drive for common cheat files, it will also take screenshots of your game running and ftp them to an ftp server. IT also checks the md5 hash as you play. It's found a lot of h4x's already
you can check it out at www.wnygames.com - it's similar to creeping death imho, but more tailored to the server we play on.
they neglected something on this one....
blockbuster still continues the practice of stocking only widescreen formats. My local BB here in CNY had like 40 some copies of harry potter 2 on dvd. the entire group was widescreen only. I've noticed this for several other titles.
not that I'm saying widescreen isn't better, but it seems in my head wouldn't that impair a studies nbrs a bit if some big new releases aren't even sotcked with an option ?!?