It was pretty cool running around and shooting at other people, it definitly changed the dynamics of the game around. I think if Rockstar had built the game to be multiplayer it could've been awesome.
However, after the novelty of this mod wears off, it's just plagued with bugs. Your car will randomly disappear saying it's been 'jacked', even though you were speeding across an empty bridge, the lag is horrible(gameplay is smooth, but actually trying to hit people is near impossible). it's also incredibly easy to cheat, I had a stunt airport mod, and the multiplayer game just left it in, so I could drive up the long long ramp and take potshots at people below who just saw me standing in space.
So, basically, pretty fun for an evening, but little replay value after the initial coolness wears off.
I heard a rumor from a friend of a friend that the machines are considering consolidation the planet Earth with 7 other parrallel universes. We're screwed:(
What I said was: "Why not make all music free? If you want to brave the p2p networks for different quality mp3s and such help yourself. OR, you can pay $5 directly to the artist to download the cd from their website."
Why did you chop up what I said to try and make a (stupid) joke?
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And was wondering what was up. Been hearing about a lot of router issues from various people. Lets hope this gets wrapped up quickly.
The thing is, the RIAA has subsisted all along on being the middleman. They don't really DO anything. Sure they promote new albums.......oh wait, no they don't, they have ad agencies and their ilk to do it. I know, they press cds......oh wait, no they don't, they outsource it to record pressing companies.
The RIAA(meaning the record companies) only exists because the artists and the consumers haven't really questioned their existence. Artists stand to make a lot of money without the RIAA in place. Why not make all music free? If you want to brave the p2p networks for different quality mp3s and such help yourself. OR, you can pay $5 directly to the artist to download the cd from their website.
Artists can make MORE than enough money from licensing their music(think movie scores, and commercial soundtracks), and live performances. Without having to pay large portions of their income to the record companies, artists stand to make a LOT more money, once the RIAA is gone.
The artists you see fighting p2p etc, are the ones that NEED the RIAA to survive. I'm talking about the sell-out corporately manufactured groups that wouldn't last if the RIAA wasn't there to spam their name all over the radio and mtv every 10 minutes. Those are the only artists that NEED the RIAA, and if we lose them, frankly, here is one slashdot poster that could care less.
It's not that I mind paying for music, but isn't it about time for a paradigm shift? Natural selection has provided an easier and better way to get new music and the record companies are a dying breed.
I have a couple thousand mp3's on my hard drive that I didn't pay for, but I also have heard a lot of new artists that I will jump at the chance to see live, or buy merchandise from.
I'm a bit of an aspiring dj, and I buy records from artists that I've heard and liked through p2p. If it wasn't for p2p those artists wouldn't have had my purchase.
The problem is, that cheats come out daily that aren't detected by PB and it's ilk.
I admin a rather busy Counterstrike server, and rather than use anti-cheat technologies, the admins simply watch people play. It's not foolproof, but it is certainly more effective than anti-cheat mechanisms.
In time, spotting cheaters becomes second nature. Does the person track through walls, seeming to know where an enemy will come out? Do they normally shoot automatically after every corner, or did they just happen to do it on the one with a terrorist hiding behind the crate? Are their movements smooth, or erratic?
I think one of the problems that consoles have, is that there aren't many admins. People can't set up their own server, it is all dependant on the company that released the game to police, and that is a patently Bad Idea(tm).
Humans are the most effective anti-cheat mechanism.
Well, in my house, there are two floors between my sister's room, which is above and to the right ten feet or so from the ap, and then my mom's room is one floor away, but about 20-30 feet horizontally from the ap...
I walked all over the house, with a laptop measuring the signal, and everything was clear, regardless of the location, granted the signal wasn't perfect, but more than enough.
Our AP is in the basement, and we get fine WiFi access to the other floors of the house. Though, others have had different experiences, maybe it just depends on the type of wood the house is build with or something.
I broke my left arm(Again) a couple years back, and I had to wait a couple months until I could get the cast off.
Being able to use a computer is the LEAST of your worries. I was able to adapt to typing with my right hand about 60% of my previous typing speed in a couple days, it took some doing, but it wasn't that big of a deal. A couple weeks later, I had enough strength in my fingers to use the "WASD" keys on my left hand, so I was able to play First person shooters again with little trouble.
You only have a month? Just wait it out, it isn't the end of the world.....Why not ask "How do I shower with one hand"....though I guess maybe that hadn't come to mind:)
No, my post was in response to people that get angry when their site's are mirrored. They seem to feel that even though they are distributing the content on an international network with millions of users, they can still control the information, solely through litigation, and that is not how things SHOULD be.
My roomates and I took that test in Wired a while back(I have a subscription). They scored between 20-25, I scored a 32.
I think the test can help show autistic people(or those with asperger's syndrome), but I think it shows too many false positives. I'm a relatively social person, I live a pretty normal life, I'm just known as 'the geek' in my circle of friends.
Well, I've just got cell@mydomain.org set up to forward to my phone email, I'll never give out the actual email address, so if I started to get email spam on it, all I've got to do is remove the email forward for that address and create a new one.(using zoneedit)
I would have *no* problem paying a monthly transfer fee for my internet access, provided the cable ISPs would just focus on MAN's. Just make all cable -> cable connections full speed, since it would be in their own network, they wouldn't have to pay their upstream provider for bandwidth used, gaming pings would be lower if you only played with local people, and hell even p2p kiddies could trade locally and get better speeds.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, well, one time, I dropped a hard drive I had just taken out of my computer and it cracked a corner, and all the megabytes fell out.
:)
But, I was able to scoop them up and glue em all back on the platter, still works today
I downloaded it and played it for a bit...
It was pretty cool running around and shooting at other people, it definitly changed the dynamics of the game around. I think if Rockstar had built the game to be multiplayer it could've been awesome.
However, after the novelty of this mod wears off, it's just plagued with bugs. Your car will randomly disappear saying it's been 'jacked', even though you were speeding across an empty bridge, the lag is horrible(gameplay is smooth, but actually trying to hit people is near impossible). it's also incredibly easy to cheat, I had a stunt airport mod, and the multiplayer game just left it in, so I could drive up the long long ramp and take potshots at people below who just saw me standing in space.
So, basically, pretty fun for an evening, but little replay value after the initial coolness wears off.
Someone want to convert the chart into a format the rest of us can read?
:)
I'm interested, but I'm not a ms office whore
Well, I don't know about you guys but I feel so much SAFER now!!
Now our fears of terrorism are answered, I can now sleep well at night again.
God bless America!
I heard a rumor from a friend of a friend that the machines are considering consolidation the planet Earth with 7 other parrallel universes. We're screwed :(
Dumbass.
What I said was: "Why not make all music free? If you want to brave the p2p networks for different quality mp3s and such help yourself. OR, you can pay $5 directly to the artist to download the cd from their website."
Why did you chop up what I said to try and make a (stupid) joke?
Sounds pretty bad.
I got this email earlier:
Thank you for being a Cogent customer.
Sincerely,Customer Support
Cogent Communications
And was wondering what was up. Been hearing about a lot of router issues from various people. Lets hope this gets wrapped up quickly.
The thing is, the RIAA has subsisted all along on being the middleman. They don't really DO anything. Sure they promote new albums.......oh wait, no they don't, they have ad agencies and their ilk to do it. I know, they press cds......oh wait, no they don't, they outsource it to record pressing companies.
The RIAA(meaning the record companies) only exists because the artists and the consumers haven't really questioned their existence. Artists stand to make a lot of money without the RIAA in place. Why not make all music free? If you want to brave the p2p networks for different quality mp3s and such help yourself. OR, you can pay $5 directly to the artist to download the cd from their website.
Artists can make MORE than enough money from licensing their music(think movie scores, and commercial soundtracks), and live performances. Without having to pay large portions of their income to the record companies, artists stand to make a LOT more money, once the RIAA is gone.
The artists you see fighting p2p etc, are the ones that NEED the RIAA to survive. I'm talking about the sell-out corporately manufactured groups that wouldn't last if the RIAA wasn't there to spam their name all over the radio and mtv every 10 minutes. Those are the only artists that NEED the RIAA, and if we lose them, frankly, here is one slashdot poster that could care less.
It's not that I mind paying for music, but isn't it about time for a paradigm shift? Natural selection has provided an easier and better way to get new music and the record companies are a dying breed.
I have a couple thousand mp3's on my hard drive that I didn't pay for, but I also have heard a lot of new artists that I will jump at the chance to see live, or buy merchandise from.
I'm a bit of an aspiring dj, and I buy records from artists that I've heard and liked through p2p. If it wasn't for p2p those artists wouldn't have had my purchase.
The problem doesn't lie with the consumer.
If the doc thinks I need 600mg, he can just prescribe a 200 and a 600.
Nice math :)
Dude, the 'soviet russia' jokes have ceased to be funny quite a while back.
Didn't you get the memo?
The problem is, that cheats come out daily that aren't detected by PB and it's ilk.
I admin a rather busy Counterstrike server, and rather than use anti-cheat technologies, the admins simply watch people play. It's not foolproof, but it is certainly more effective than anti-cheat mechanisms.
In time, spotting cheaters becomes second nature. Does the person track through walls, seeming to know where an enemy will come out? Do they normally shoot automatically after every corner, or did they just happen to do it on the one with a terrorist hiding behind the crate? Are their movements smooth, or erratic?
I think one of the problems that consoles have, is that there aren't many admins. People can't set up their own server, it is all dependant on the company that released the game to police, and that is a patently Bad Idea(tm).
Humans are the most effective anti-cheat mechanism.
Amen.This is absurd.
How, per say, does one file suit against a company giving away free email accounts?
Just keep your router out of the vegetable crisper and you'll be fine. :)
Kind of OT, but a thread here a few months back pointed me to Avantbrowser, which I've been using exclusively since then.
It's got everything that Phoenix has, skinnable, tabbed browsing, popup blocking, activex blocking, java, js blocking, etc etc etc, the list goes on.
It uses the IE engine to render pages(which I think is a good thing, since 90% of websites look best in IE, standards be damned).
Well, in my house, there are two floors between my sister's room, which is above and to the right ten feet or so from the ap, and then my mom's room is one floor away, but about 20-30 feet horizontally from the ap...
I walked all over the house, with a laptop measuring the signal, and everything was clear, regardless of the location, granted the signal wasn't perfect, but more than enough.
Our AP is in the basement, and we get fine WiFi access to the other floors of the house. Though, others have had different experiences, maybe it just depends on the type of wood the house is build with or something.
The truth is, that Netscape stopped all innovation at 4.5.
The rest of the world moved on, and they STILL don't see that.
Bookmarks, back and forward buttons are FINE, the real innovation is in the content, and the display of said content.
CSS, Macromedia Flash, PHP, etc are all great web innovations that continue to push the envelope.
Just because natural selection weeded out netscape doesn't mean the rest of the world stopped innovating.
I broke my left arm(Again) a couple years back, and I had to wait a couple months until I could get the cast off.
:)
Being able to use a computer is the LEAST of your worries. I was able to adapt to typing with my right hand about 60% of my previous typing speed in a couple days, it took some doing, but it wasn't that big of a deal. A couple weeks later, I had enough strength in my fingers to use the "WASD" keys on my left hand, so I was able to play First person shooters again with little trouble.
You only have a month? Just wait it out, it isn't the end of the world.....Why not ask "How do I shower with one hand"....though I guess maybe that hadn't come to mind
I think you misunderstood his question.
No, my post was in response to people that get angry when their site's are mirrored. They seem to feel that even though they are distributing the content on an international network with millions of users, they can still control the information, solely through litigation, and that is not how things SHOULD be.
Here's a thought, a rather complicated one, but I Think it just might do the trick...
DON'T POST THINGS YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO SEE ON A PUBLIC NETWORK.
It's quite simple really.
Are you crazy?
Look at bbb in sweden, 10megabit to your house, both ways.
Granted, some countries are worse off than the us, a lot of countries have a lot more cheap bandwidth.
My roomates and I took that test in Wired a while back(I have a subscription). They scored between 20-25, I scored a 32.
I think the test can help show autistic people(or those with asperger's syndrome), but I think it shows too many false positives. I'm a relatively social person, I live a pretty normal life, I'm just known as 'the geek' in my circle of friends.
Well, I've just got cell@mydomain.org set up to forward to my phone email, I'll never give out the actual email address, so if I started to get email spam on it, all I've got to do is remove the email forward for that address and create a new one.(using zoneedit)
I have adminned mine from phoenix and w3m in linux, and both worked fine, I don't know what problems you guys are having...
I would have *no* problem paying a monthly transfer fee for my internet access, provided the cable ISPs would just focus on MAN's. Just make all cable -> cable connections full speed, since it would be in their own network, they wouldn't have to pay their upstream provider for bandwidth used, gaming pings would be lower if you only played with local people, and hell even p2p kiddies could trade locally and get better speeds.