Despite looking great, Killzone 2 isn't THAT much fun. It's the killer graphics that made it a hit.
It's more than just the graphics. Engineers who can repair items, plant sentry turrets, or the ability to launch flying sentries. Medics who can heal/revive teammates or drain energy from the enemy. The ability to plant spawn points can really make a difference in the game balance too. Saboteurs and cloaked snipers, while not that unique, rounds out the player balance. There's also how it seamlessly switches between the different game types (Assassination, Search & Retrieve, Search & Destroy, Bodycount, and Capture & Hold) where most other games reset the entire level.
All in all, Killzone 2 does look great but I find it to have a fair bit of gameplay innovation as well.
Judging this book by its cover, this looks like a remake of what I used to play more than a decade ago with Quake 3: Team Arena. I watched the video, looked at the website, but all of the improvements listed there boil down to either move better, or kill more stuff. Anything actually original about the gameplay that makes it Killzone 2 kind of fun?
Sorry. I had forgotten all about the Streisand effect. I revoke my previous comment.
Hey everyone... check out his previous comment! He actually advocated cease and desist letters than tried to revoke it. Must be something really interesting there if he's trying to cover it up. Go and look now, then share that comment everywhere!;-)
According to the summary too: "The hackers got onto Amazon's infrastructure by hacking into a Web site hosted on Amazon's servers..."
No different than "a web site hosted on Rackspace's servers". I agree with the other posts that this is essentially a non-news item. So a server gets hacked. It doesn't matter that the server is in someone's basement or in a colo or a VM somewhere.
I took a quick look at the article and I have no idea what this tool is supposed to do. I couldn't even venture a guess. So some tool that I know nothing about and have no idea what it does now has the source code available for it. I think the term "underwhelmed" would apply. What exactly is a USB/DVD download tool?
Because heaven forbid the alternative: that they were informed they did something wrong and then voluntarily did the right thing, regardless of how enforceable the license is.
As I understand it, you had to specifically approve each post. And if you didn't explicitly approve it, it would be ignored.
You could be right -- I recall hearing it would auto-publish. Regardless, in Blockbuster's specific case there is the Video Privacy Protection Act which prevents companies from sharing a member's video rentals with other entities without explicit permission. The penalty carries a $2,500 fine per incident. Even if Facebook requires permission to publish the post, Blockbuster would have still violated this law by simply sharing the information with Facebook.
"Due process requires in most cases that notice describing the class action be sent, published, or broadcast to class members. As part of this notice procedure, there may have to be several notices, first a notice giving class members the opportunity to opt out of the class, i.e. if individuals wish to proceed with their own litigation they are entitled to do so, only to the extent that they give timely notice to the class counsel or the court that they are opting out."
Why would one go publishing info about themselves that they didn't want out there?
Beacon was opt-out only. If you were logged in to Facebook at the same time you visited a third party site, that third party site could publish a story 'PyroMosh purchased the Deluxe 12" Ass-Ramming Dildo from Anal Enterprises' without having to ask your permission. Oh sure, you could opt-out after the fact, but only for each individual third party once they had published to your profile.
And truthfully? I loved this feature. I would order out to restaurants and at the end it would be like "do you want to share this over Facebook" and I'd be like "Shit why not!" and I'd get a laugh out of my friends criticizing or commending me on my food choice.
Yeah, that's cool. But what about the person who rented the DVD AIDS and HIV Answers from Blockbuster and had that rental show up on their Facebook profile without their knowledge or permission?
He's going in for an internship in the middle of a huge recession so he's gonna make $8 an hour.
For a larger company like the one implied in the summary, I call bullshit on that. I've used the recession to squeeze our suppliers even though in some cases we would have paid full price. It's saved us many thousands of dollars in expenses and the suppliers were eager to jump at the opportunity to get the business.
I wouldn't be surprised if the staffing company was billing out $18/hr and paying the intern only $8/hr. "Terribly sorry there, young chap... it's the recession! There are hundreds of other students who would be eager to even have a job right now, why are you being so picky?" Get rid of the middleman and see what the offer really is. You're likely to double your salary. Because of the relationship the company has with the staffing company, it likely precludes working there directly but there are other fish in the pond.
Unless you've completely exhausted your resources searching for work and need to rely on a staffing company's contacts and influence to find paid work, a staffing company is only going to shortchange you for such an entry-level position.
the good news is I eventually realised that towing corporate lines wasn't for me
Unless you work on a tugboat, you're probably referring to "toeing the line" as in everybody get in formation and line up your toes... though these days that's in the metaphoric sense rather than the literal.
More likely it's things like the fact that they don't require prosthetic limbs to be screened. If the terr'rists knew that, we'd have them terr'rists wearing prosthetic legs that had C4 in them.
And a whois lookup sure doesn't return a page either, unless you're using a web-based search.
"whois google.com" returns several "pages" worth of information at the command prompt, including two advertisements for MarkMonitor and an ad (or, more charitably, a public service announcement) for Internic:
$ whois google.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/ for detailed information.
Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com/
Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-sep-1997
Expiration Date: 14-sep-2011
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:04:20 UTC <<<
NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.
TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry Services' ("VeriSign") Whois database is provided by VeriSign for information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration record. VeriSign does not guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a Whois query, you agree to abide by the following terms of use: You agree that you may use this Data only for lawful purposes and that under no circumstances will you use this Data to: (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail, telephone, or facsimile; or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to VeriSign (or its computer systems). The compilation, repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign. You agree not to use electronic processes that are automated and high-volume to access or query the Whois database except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. VeriSign reserves the right to restrict your access to the Whois database in its sole discretion to ensure operational stability. VeriSign may restrict or terminate your access to the Whois database for failure to abide by these terms of use. VeriSign reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.EDU domains and Registrars. Ma
Adults chat in the online world,
decide to meet for coffee. To great effect she did a-twirl,
sparks fly that scare Khadafi. Until one day she chatted coy,
paid nary a thought to time. Turns out it was a 12 year old,
they charged her with a crime.
If, for example, the telephone company's accounting system goes down for a few seconds then they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year. At a hundred thousand dollars a second, your telephone company makes $3,155,692,600,000 a year from time-metered services?
I hear you. I built a trebuchet and launched my old LaserJet over the Hudson River in the middle of January this year. Not sure where it eventually landed as there was an Airbus A320 obscuring my line of sight.
While I don't have any insight into Windows internals, I would guess NTFS is has more features, like journaling, than the registry "database." Why spend resource duplicating features in NTFS?
Because filesystems and databases aren't mutually exclusive. Otherwise, why would people run MySQL on top of a journaling filesystem?
But you're right... the Windows registry is a shitty database. SQLite would probably be way more stable and performant.
Slashdot Mirror
Despite looking great, Killzone 2 isn't THAT much fun. It's the killer graphics that made it a hit.
It's more than just the graphics. Engineers who can repair items, plant sentry turrets, or the ability to launch flying sentries. Medics who can heal/revive teammates or drain energy from the enemy. The ability to plant spawn points can really make a difference in the game balance too. Saboteurs and cloaked snipers, while not that unique, rounds out the player balance. There's also how it seamlessly switches between the different game types (Assassination, Search & Retrieve, Search & Destroy, Bodycount, and Capture & Hold) where most other games reset the entire level.
All in all, Killzone 2 does look great but I find it to have a fair bit of gameplay innovation as well.
Judging this book by its cover, this looks like a remake of what I used to play more than a decade ago with Quake 3: Team Arena. I watched the video, looked at the website, but all of the improvements listed there boil down to either move better, or kill more stuff. Anything actually original about the gameplay that makes it Killzone 2 kind of fun?
The sad thing is, it's actually not a troll. Overrated perhaps, but dumb mods assume that if they disagree, it must be a troll.
Sorry. I had forgotten all about the Streisand effect. I revoke my previous comment.
Hey everyone... check out his previous comment! He actually advocated cease and desist letters than tried to revoke it. Must be something really interesting there if he's trying to cover it up. Go and look now, then share that comment everywhere! ;-)
According to the summary too: "The hackers got onto Amazon's infrastructure by hacking into a Web site hosted on Amazon's servers..."
No different than "a web site hosted on Rackspace's servers". I agree with the other posts that this is essentially a non-news item. So a server gets hacked. It doesn't matter that the server is in someone's basement or in a colo or a VM somewhere.
I took a quick look at the article and I have no idea what this tool is supposed to do. I couldn't even venture a guess. So some tool that I know nothing about and have no idea what it does now has the source code available for it. I think the term "underwhelmed" would apply. What exactly is a USB/DVD download tool?
Read TFA's discussed last weekend link.
Because heaven forbid the alternative: that they were informed they did something wrong and then voluntarily did the right thing, regardless of how enforceable the license is.
Try Costco. They'll take back Windows 3.1 and give you a full refund.
As I understand it, you had to specifically approve each post. And if you didn't explicitly approve it, it would be ignored.
You could be right -- I recall hearing it would auto-publish. Regardless, in Blockbuster's specific case there is the Video Privacy Protection Act which prevents companies from sharing a member's video rentals with other entities without explicit permission. The penalty carries a $2,500 fine per incident. Even if Facebook requires permission to publish the post, Blockbuster would have still violated this law by simply sharing the information with Facebook.
Is this legal?
Class action suits are like Facebook's Beacon: opt-out only. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action:
"Due process requires in most cases that notice describing the class action be sent, published, or broadcast to class members. As part of this notice procedure, there may have to be several notices, first a notice giving class members the opportunity to opt out of the class, i.e. if individuals wish to proceed with their own litigation they are entitled to do so, only to the extent that they give timely notice to the class counsel or the court that they are opting out."
Why would one go publishing info about themselves that they didn't want out there?
Beacon was opt-out only. If you were logged in to Facebook at the same time you visited a third party site, that third party site could publish a story 'PyroMosh purchased the Deluxe 12" Ass-Ramming Dildo from Anal Enterprises' without having to ask your permission. Oh sure, you could opt-out after the fact, but only for each individual third party once they had published to your profile.
And truthfully? I loved this feature. I would order out to restaurants and at the end it would be like "do you want to share this over Facebook" and I'd be like "Shit why not!" and I'd get a laugh out of my friends criticizing or commending me on my food choice.
Yeah, that's cool. But what about the person who rented the DVD AIDS and HIV Answers from Blockbuster and had that rental show up on their Facebook profile without their knowledge or permission?
He's going in for an internship in the middle of a huge recession so he's gonna make $8 an hour.
For a larger company like the one implied in the summary, I call bullshit on that. I've used the recession to squeeze our suppliers even though in some cases we would have paid full price. It's saved us many thousands of dollars in expenses and the suppliers were eager to jump at the opportunity to get the business.
I wouldn't be surprised if the staffing company was billing out $18/hr and paying the intern only $8/hr. "Terribly sorry there, young chap... it's the recession! There are hundreds of other students who would be eager to even have a job right now, why are you being so picky?" Get rid of the middleman and see what the offer really is. You're likely to double your salary. Because of the relationship the company has with the staffing company, it likely precludes working there directly but there are other fish in the pond.
Unless you've completely exhausted your resources searching for work and need to rely on a staffing company's contacts and influence to find paid work, a staffing company is only going to shortchange you for such an entry-level position.
the good news is I eventually realised that towing corporate lines wasn't for me
Unless you work on a tugboat, you're probably referring to "toeing the line" as in everybody get in formation and line up your toes... though these days that's in the metaphoric sense rather than the literal.
The TSA is to security what Micheal Vick is to Pet Care
Slashdot should have a facility to nominate quotes like this for a Slashdot Hall of Fame.
More likely it's things like the fact that they don't require prosthetic limbs to be screened. If the terr'rists knew that, we'd have them terr'rists wearing prosthetic legs that had C4 in them.
People who use the phrase "price point" instead of "price" need to be shot in the head.
Shoot this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_point
And a whois lookup sure doesn't return a page either, unless you're using a web-based search.
"whois google.com" returns several "pages" worth of information at the command prompt, including two advertisements for MarkMonitor and an ad (or, more charitably, a public service announcement) for Internic:
$ whois google.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com/
Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-sep-1997
Expiration Date: 14-sep-2011
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:04:20 UTC <<<
NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.
TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois
database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and
automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or
modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry
Services' ("VeriSign") Whois database is provided by VeriSign for
information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information
about or related to a domain name registration record. VeriSign does not
guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a Whois query, you agree to abide
by the following terms of use: You agree that you may use this Data only
for lawful purposes and that under no circumstances will you use this Data
to: (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass
unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail, telephone,
or facsimile; or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes
that apply to VeriSign (or its computer systems). The compilation,
repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly
prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign. You agree not to
use electronic processes that are automated and high-volume to access or
query the Whois database except as reasonably necessary to register
domain names or modify existing registrations. VeriSign reserves the right
to restrict your access to the Whois database in its sole discretion to ensure
operational stability. VeriSign may restrict or terminate your access to the
Whois database for failure to abide by these terms of use. VeriSign
reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.
The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
Ma
Note that the perjorative use has been deprecated.
Note that the act of deprecating definitions you do not like has been deprecated.
Adults chat in the online world,
decide to meet for coffee.
To great effect she did a-twirl,
sparks fly that scare Khadafi.
Until one day she chatted coy,
paid nary a thought to time.
Turns out it was a 12 year old,
they charged her with a crime.
I thought the GP was referring to whois lookups returning a page of ads. A DNS lookup doesn't return a page of ads, it returns an IP address.
If, for example, the telephone company's accounting system goes down for a few seconds then they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year. At a hundred thousand dollars a second, your telephone company makes $3,155,692,600,000 a year from time-metered services?
Refusal to put up with bullshit like Australia and Germany's ratings boards is the only way to bring them down.
How do you refuse when they are backed with the full force of law?
You refuse to sell your game in those countries.
I hear you. I built a trebuchet and launched my old LaserJet over the Hudson River in the middle of January this year. Not sure where it eventually landed as there was an Airbus A320 obscuring my line of sight.
While I don't have any insight into Windows internals, I would guess NTFS is has more features, like journaling, than the registry "database." Why spend resource duplicating features in NTFS?
Because filesystems and databases aren't mutually exclusive. Otherwise, why would people run MySQL on top of a journaling filesystem?
But you're right... the Windows registry is a shitty database. SQLite would probably be way more stable and performant.