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Valve and Portals and Prey
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Prey Review
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· Score: 1
The portal idea is attractive one. I haven't been keeping up with the games industry enough to hear much about Prey and its use of the technology before this review, but I had seen the trailer for Valve's Portal technology (also available on Steam):
The trailer shows the use of a portal gun that seems to be an evolution on Valve's Gravity Gun from HL2, so you can pick up objects and such while traveling through portals. Watching the trailer made me really want to play with that technology, and after reading the review, I might have to try Prey when it's a little cheap.
Does Prey have multiplayer? I'm thinking that almost any of the multiplayer games based on Steam would be insane with the portal gun thrown in.
It appears to have been fixed. I posted the comment a few minutes after the news post showed up, but by the time I started getting replies, it was fixed.
I'm sure the wikipedia folk are easily alerted to a/. effect.
/. flamebait have already trashed the wikipedia page linked in the news post. It now contains an attempt to spoil the latest Harry Potter book for those that care.
Maybe we should try locking any wikipedia pages before actually releasing the news post into the/. wild?
The FBI will only be able to monitor packets over the plane's wired and wireless network. From TFA, the FBI is worried about a person somewhere else remotely detonating a broadband ready device on the plane. If the bomb is on the plane, we've already lost, because there's no need for something as complicated as an 802.11b based trigger.
For the FBI's other worries: that terrorists will communicate with each other and a device on the plane, the extremely techno-savvy terrorists that they believe might be out there, could just as well use an Ad Hoc network between their wireless laptops for intra-plane communication.
Then again, it's just silly to think that these wiretap measures are very useful to stopping a highjacking or a bomb. The real problem would have to be the weapons that must be on board for them to hijack or blow up a freaking plane.
Luckily there were some Gentooists recompiling their systems packages every so often, since the vulnerability was found by the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team here.
I've always thought the the more projects making use of the same library, as well as, the platforms a project is ported to eventually improves the quality and stability of the code. In this case the security was improved, but in general the abstracted parts of the code improve.
That's true. The flurry of rants and rumors that/. has been covering could just be the indications of natural growing pains in these huge community projects. It's definitely great to have more people concerned about the quality and future of these FOSS projects, but let's just hope that the net influence of the advocates, user, and developers on the software is positive.
I'm not a casual reader, and I don't believe that there is an actual movement that could be dying. I was merely trying to show that the purely/. side of things (the news posts) seems overly suggestive of problems in some grand movement that is on the brink of a great collapse. Choice and competition are good, but loyal users, advocates, and developers tend to get very defensive or adamant when talk concerns forks and the like.
I've gotten the impression over the last few days of/. being more of a volatile rumor/rant site and not really a site dedicated to collecting important news.
In the case of Mozilla, I think that mods and submitters probably should have waited until real changes and anouncements were made. These rants and such could easily be footnotes to the news.
It seems that/. is on a binge of Mozilla and GNOME rants. From all the different stories, I'm almost suprised that the mods haven't forked both projects themselves. With the amount of coverage given to the defects in the projects, the casual reader might think that the FOSS movement is dying.
I hear that somebody doesn't like the KDE development model, so let's see if that a news item in the next day or so.
I also can find almost nothing on their site about products for the handicapped anymore. What happened? Has Segway abandoned all their accessibility products in favor of the HT?
I believe you might be thinking of the IBOT wheelchair engineered by the same people behind the HT. Dean Kamen was the primary inventor behind both and created the IBOT with his company DEKA. I suppose one could augment the control of the wheelchair (IBOT) to be more like the Toyota product or add in some basic AI helper functionality into its control.
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One very nice feature of this in development service is that data is encrypted before it is uploaded to the server.http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=13
The trailer shows the use of a portal gun that seems to be an evolution on Valve's Gravity Gun from HL2, so you can pick up objects and such while traveling through portals. Watching the trailer made me really want to play with that technology, and after reading the review, I might have to try Prey when it's a little cheap.
Does Prey have multiplayer? I'm thinking that almost any of the multiplayer games based on Steam would be insane with the portal gun thrown in.
I'm sure the wikipedia folk are easily alerted to a /. effect.
Maybe we should try locking any wikipedia pages before actually releasing the news post into the /. wild?
For the FBI's other worries: that terrorists will communicate with each other and a device on the plane, the extremely techno-savvy terrorists that they believe might be out there, could just as well use an Ad Hoc network between their wireless laptops for intra-plane communication.
Then again, it's just silly to think that these wiretap measures are very useful to stopping a highjacking or a bomb. The real problem would have to be the weapons that must be on board for them to hijack or blow up a freaking plane.
Luckily there were some Gentooists recompiling their systems packages every so often, since the vulnerability was found by the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team here. I've always thought the the more projects making use of the same library, as well as, the platforms a project is ported to eventually improves the quality and stability of the code. In this case the security was improved, but in general the abstracted parts of the code improve.
I'm not a casual reader, and I don't believe that there is an actual movement that could be dying. I was merely trying to show that the purely /. side of things (the news posts) seems overly suggestive of problems in some grand movement that is on the brink of a great collapse. Choice and competition are good, but loyal users, advocates, and developers tend to get very defensive or adamant when talk concerns forks and the like.
I've gotten the impression over the last few days of /. being more of a volatile rumor/rant site and not really a site dedicated to collecting important news.
In the case of Mozilla, I think that mods and submitters probably should have waited until real changes and anouncements were made. These rants and such could easily be footnotes to the news.
It seems that /. is on a binge of Mozilla and GNOME rants. From all the different stories, I'm almost suprised that the mods haven't forked both projects themselves. With the amount of coverage given to the defects in the projects, the casual reader might think that the FOSS movement is dying.
I hear that somebody doesn't like the KDE development model, so let's see if that a news item in the next day or so.
And I thought I'd seen the worst... I don't know if you can attribute that to apathy or even rational ignorance!
I believe you might be thinking of the IBOT wheelchair engineered by the same people behind the HT. Dean Kamen was the primary inventor behind both and created the IBOT with his company DEKA. I suppose one could augment the control of the wheelchair (IBOT) to be more like the Toyota product or add in some basic AI helper functionality into its control.