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Yes, but if you have a working internet connection you can't play in offline mode. With the Steam servers down you can't play on any computer with a permanent internet connection.
Seriously why does this need a new story? What was wrong with the update posted to the previous article summary?
When you wrongly accuse someone of doing something nasty with a front page article on a website that gets millions of hits a day it's only fair that you correct yourself on the with an article just as big. Newspapers and the like may not operate this way, but they should.
Dude, you're on Slashdot here. Everybody knows the words to every Simpsons episode ever made, so if you're going to quote The Simpsons, try not to get it completely wrong.
DJ3000: Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns. Bill: Hehe, how does it keep up with the news like that?
Your average notebook sized hard drive such as those used in the iPod probably has a faster write speed than most Flash memory devices, so writing a large amount of data would be faster.
However the iPod hard disk runs with much less power and spins slower than a notebook hard disk. From what I've seen, a decent quality CF card writes at about the same speed as an iPod.
NO!!! This is not an exploit that can execute arbitrary code on your system through the browser. The exploit allows HTML code that would normally be filtered by the email server to be rendered. Look at the POC example they give on the website.
You failed to comprehend the article, but you succeeded in looking like a fucking idiot.
There are simply too many video codecs out there for us to test them all -- and most of them wouldn't be useful anyway. We focused on four codecs, all of which are free and can be used with free tools. (Or very cheap ones - QuickTime requires a $30 Pro registration for full encoding capabilities.) You don't want to pay $500 for a professional video authoring program just to send grandma a video of baby's first steps, so we stuck with these four very popular codecs...
The article is testing encoders used by non-professionals, so they aren't going to test something that costs $300.
Taking into account that they bash the Apple/Quicktime MPEG-4 quality, and that the article is published by Ziff-Davis (Who I consider to be the least credible source for information in the industry), you might as well be reading an article published by Microsoft about how great WMV is.
OH NO!!! The article didn't say that Apple is 100% awesome and they didn't replace the 's' in Microsoft with a dollar sign. That must mean that the article was written by Bill 'Son of Satan' Gates himself!!! Or it could just mean that the videos generated by the Quicktime encoder didn't look as good as the ones generated by the WMV9 and the DivX encoder. Lookatthecomparisons
for yourself and realise that in this case the Apple tool was a distant third.
I find their choice of RPC as the middleware layer surprising. I would imagine that a vast majority of events in a MMP game need to be passed on to a fairly large subset of players, for example, anytime someone moves, attacks, casts a spell, etc. the people visual or audio range of that player need to be informed. RPC is better suited to one-to-one interactions, not the one-to-many interactions we get in MMP games. It seems to me that a distributed publish/subscribe system like Elvin, SIENA or even Mercury (a pub/sub system specifically designed for MMP games!), or a LINDA-style shared memory system would be much more appropriate.
#of holes in Mandrake Linux 9.x: 158
#of holes in RedHat Linux 9: 82
#of holes in Debian GNU/Linux: 276
We should be comparing Windows to other complete Linux distributions, not just to the kernel. While many of the security updates for Windows are more severe than the ones in these Linux distributions, these Linux distributions are far from bulletproof.
In my country we built an expensive bridge across a harbour and we were promised that the toll would be taken away once it was paid for. 70 years later and it's still in place...
I don't understand why we need full time satellite tracking in our cars to simply track how many miles we drive on a highway. A system where each car has an RFID tag and each entry and exit ramp has a receiver be much simpler and cheaper, and would still provide the billing companies with all of the information they need (and then some).
Now excuse me while I use this sledge hammer to hit the button on my mouse to submit my post.
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Yes, but if you have a working internet connection you can't play in offline mode. With the Steam servers down you can't play on any computer with a permanent internet connection.
Seriously why does this need a new story? What was wrong with the update posted to the previous article summary?
When you wrongly accuse someone of doing something nasty with a front page article on a website that gets millions of hits a day it's only fair that you correct yourself on the with an article just as big. Newspapers and the like may not operate this way, but they should.
I hope this is a joke, because if not all hope for the human race is lost.
Unless the bubble was filled with propane.
no price is determinned by what the market will pay
Try this: No, price is determined by what the market will pay.
Commas can be fun!!!
That's funny, I'm looking at the moderation options and I don't see "tasteless" anywhere...
Dude, you're on Slashdot here. Everybody knows the words to every Simpsons episode ever made, so if you're going to quote The Simpsons, try not to get it completely wrong.
DJ3000: Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
Bill: Hehe, how does it keep up with the news like that?
I haven't heard about that one. Who is publishing it? Does anyone have any screenshots?
It's called Jesus Freakin. After 2000 years, He's ready to cast the first stone.
You seem to be equating a childs "worth" with their current economic earning power. ...this is ludicrous...
Hey, Kremlin Joe, that sounds like Commie talk to me. I'll bet you use Linux too!
Your average notebook sized hard drive such as those used in the iPod probably has a faster write speed than most Flash memory devices, so writing a large amount of data would be faster.
However the iPod hard disk runs with much less power and spins slower than a notebook hard disk. From what I've seen, a decent quality CF card writes at about the same speed as an iPod.
...and it should fit in my pocket.
I remapped the 'Caps Lock' Key to be the 'Any' key.
Yes if they don't give a fuck about you.
Quick, name the countries that have won Olympic gold medals in cricket.
Great Britain. Idiot.
NO!!! This is not an exploit that can execute arbitrary code on your system through the browser. The exploit allows HTML code that would normally be filtered by the email server to be rendered. Look at the POC example they give on the website.
You failed to comprehend the article, but you succeeded in looking like a fucking idiot.
From the article:
There are simply too many video codecs out there for us to test them all -- and most of them wouldn't be useful anyway. We focused on four codecs, all of which are free and can be used with free tools. (Or very cheap ones - QuickTime requires a $30 Pro registration for full encoding capabilities.) You don't want to pay $500 for a professional video authoring program just to send grandma a video of baby's first steps, so we stuck with these four very popular codecs...
The article is testing encoders used by non-professionals, so they aren't going to test something that costs $300.
Taking into account that they bash the Apple/Quicktime MPEG-4 quality, and that the article is published by Ziff-Davis (Who I consider to be the least credible source for information in the industry), you might as well be reading an article published by Microsoft about how great WMV is.
OH NO!!! The article didn't say that Apple is 100% awesome and they didn't replace the 's' in Microsoft with a dollar sign. That must mean that the article was written by Bill 'Son of Satan' Gates himself!!! Or it could just mean that the videos generated by the Quicktime encoder didn't look as good as the ones generated by the WMV9 and the DivX encoder. Look at the comparisons for yourself and realise that in this case the Apple tool was a distant third.
I find their choice of RPC as the middleware layer surprising. I would imagine that a vast majority of events in a MMP game need to be passed on to a fairly large subset of players, for example, anytime someone moves, attacks, casts a spell, etc. the people visual or audio range of that player need to be informed. RPC is better suited to one-to-one interactions, not the one-to-many interactions we get in MMP games. It seems to me that a distributed publish/subscribe system like Elvin, SIENA or even Mercury (a pub/sub system specifically designed for MMP games!), or a LINDA-style shared memory system would be much more appropriate.
Actually, San Andreas had quite a few bridges in GTA1. Check out the map.
Whoa, a TV an a mirror in one... that would really mess up your Feng Shui!
How about these numbers?
#of holes in Mandrake Linux 9.x: 158
#of holes in RedHat Linux 9: 82
#of holes in Debian GNU/Linux: 276
We should be comparing Windows to other complete Linux distributions, not just to the kernel. While many of the security updates for Windows are more severe than the ones in these Linux distributions, these Linux distributions are far from bulletproof.
Hearts runs OK but the netcode really slows the game down. I suggest solitare instead.
The day of the machines hasn't arrived yet because I can still kick Xaero's ass on nightmare.
In my country we built an expensive bridge across a harbour and we were promised that the toll would be taken away once it was paid for. 70 years later and it's still in place...
I don't understand why we need full time satellite tracking in our cars to simply track how many miles we drive on a highway. A system where each car has an RFID tag and each entry and exit ramp has a receiver be much simpler and cheaper, and would still provide the billing companies with all of the information they need (and then some).
Now excuse me while I use this sledge hammer to hit the button on my mouse to submit my post.