I totally agree - you can claim that "You couldn't play EQ for the first 3 years!", but the fact of the matter is - there's examples of good launches out there - DAOC, Planetside, etc.
The standard excuses of "Oh, we really didn't think this many people would signup", or "There were undocumented bugs in the subscription system", should be translated as "We were getting so excited about finally starting to collect your money, we totally neglected working on subscription software/server stability for the last 3 weeks."
But for it to function as an drop-in unit, as he claims it does - it has to know how to communicate with the central server - leading me to believe that he did take the time to do all this.
Besides, it's stated that the only thing stored on the card is the id number, which is stamped on the outside of the card anyway. Why would you make a unit just to read information printed on the outside of the card?
I read through these also, and several related documents. At lecture that was cancelled by the C&D he claimed he was going to release two things: code to allow computers to emulate a card reader, and hardware specs and schematics allowing you to build your own drop in hardware.
From something like that, it seems that he HAS done more research than the currently published articles show, and has been able to do spoof/man in the middle attacks, as he's reverse engineered the system well enough to build his own units.
Yes - but with your TV at sub-30FPS - are you controlling the display in any way? Games at 30FPS are noticeably choppy to the average twitch gamer - we can process visual input and turn it into mouse output at a rate higher than 30FPS, so to a point - increased framerate = faster reaction time.
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Unless that game is Daikatana.
We use cPanel on all of our shared Webhosting machines - and a large percentage of our dedicated server and colocation customers choose to use it too.
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cPanel runs on RH7.3-RH9, FreeBSD, Mandrake, and SuSE. You're not limited to a single RH version there.
Not quite true - to get graphics anywhere near PC-quality, you'd need to shell out some cash for a HDTV - and the HD AV pack for your console.
As stated previously - 480x320 != 1600x1200
I totally agree - you can claim that "You couldn't play EQ for the first 3 years!", but the fact of the matter is - there's examples of good launches out there - DAOC, Planetside, etc.
The standard excuses of "Oh, we really didn't think this many people would signup", or "There were undocumented bugs in the subscription system", should be translated as "We were getting so excited about finally starting to collect your money, we totally neglected working on subscription software/server stability for the last 3 weeks."
But for it to function as an drop-in unit, as he claims it does - it has to know how to communicate with the central server - leading me to believe that he did take the time to do all this.
Besides, it's stated that the only thing stored on the card is the id number, which is stamped on the outside of the card anyway. Why would you make a unit just to read information printed on the outside of the card?
I read through these also, and several related documents. At lecture that was cancelled by the C&D he claimed he was going to release two things: code to allow computers to emulate a card reader, and hardware specs and schematics allowing you to build your own drop in hardware. From something like that, it seems that he HAS done more research than the currently published articles show, and has been able to do spoof/man in the middle attacks, as he's reverse engineered the system well enough to build his own units.
So does this mean that the Sonicblue Frontpath Progears will get even cheaper, or that my current ones have just become collector's items. :)
Yes - but with your TV at sub-30FPS - are you controlling the display in any way? Games at 30FPS are noticeably choppy to the average twitch gamer - we can process visual input and turn it into mouse output at a rate higher than 30FPS, so to a point - increased framerate = faster reaction time.