I hear that, and trying to find a modern replacement for Tie Fighter is very very hard!
The most recent game that has that sci-fi 'flight sim' style mission-based combat is AquaNox 2. It sated the flight-sim bug for a bit (even though it's actually all underwater) but I keep getting reinfected and there's no replacement game! ARG
But yeah, if you really liked JK2 I suggest you check out some of the duel/ffa/tffa servers for Jedi Academy that have no force powers and saber only. That last sentence describes a whole following for the JK2 & JA series that stands seperate from the other game modes. People take this stuff as seriously as they take CounterStrike/Quake/etc. Mastering the saber in that game is more than enough to keep me entertained everyday after work. =)
"In order to maximize the value of new artwork created for new games, characters like Mario are first drawn in 3D. This is the only time consuming part. Afterward the 3D model can be manipulated and posed in infinite variety and 2D sprites created in rapid-fire, assembly line fashion. In addition the same 3D model can be used in a sequel, and in 3D games with few or no changes. While it's faster than drawing each frame of animation by hand, the results are usually disappointing, and often very ugly."
He writes it as though it's widely accepted, but from my perspective it's more 50/50. I wish he would throw a few "IMO"'s in there, but oh well.
For instance, if you blur your vision while looking at some of the screens of the 3D rendered-to-raster Marios they look much better than the Marios with the black outlines. This is a better judge because he scales the size of the Marios up VERY large making them look pixelated which supports the view the new raster Marios look like crap. Alternative to blurring your eyes you could just scale them down and see what I'm referring to, as well. As most artists know, blurring your eyes is an effective way to view the picture as a whole instead of focusing on little details (such as huge blocky pixels). Monet's paintings are famous for this due to his near-blindness (look at his art scaled down/blurred and it looks near-photographic.) This becomes a valuable tool for beginner and experienced artists for keeping track of the "whole picture" (pun intended:)
"What's more, UNC did a study, the link I'll post from home later if you like that showed that filesharing has a stasticaly insignificant impact on music sales. So you are talking extreme punishments for something that appears to be of very little harm."
That's all well and good but A) where's the study so I don't have to take your word for it and more specifically B) When did it happen and how active was RIAA's suits against consumers during this time?
Because, obviously, if it's statistically insignificant, it's plausible the reason for this is some people don't share because they're scared of the RIAA's possible suits against them...
So in your scenario if it came to pass that the RIAA couldn't sue over copyright infringement through P2P music downloads their losses COULD become significant.
Same goes for the amount the RIAA is suing for. From my perspective, most people aren't going to care if they have to pay for the music they downloaded, or even twice that, so what is the deterrent?
I also know how to create relatively grammar-error free posts, as well. (ONE friggin error (-_-)
I want to call you an idiot because obviously I know what I'm doing as can be seen from my previous post -- (e.g. it should be obvious I left amenities out because I was in a bind for time or something similar -- not because I don't know how..)
Please be happy you have the information and try not to criticize too much. It's not like I post onto slashdot for a living or something..
The story submitter is worried about his machine, not someone elses and if he wants to be sure he has no spyware on his system he should use HijackThis by Merjin:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ (official site, down ATM)
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Many popular anti-spyware forums accept posting a HijackThis log their HijackThis expert members can examine and advise you on. (e.g. The LavaSoft AdAware forums allow this but they require you post an AdAware log first:)
Anyway, HijackThis is fairly manual as far as you need to know what you're doing to use it properly. However, if spyware is on your system it will be in a HijackThis scan result as it shows your computer's startup programs/services (legitimate or otherwise) in all known places they exist on your computer.
Also, removing persistent spyware can get complicated using anything and this applies to HijackThis, too.
I suggest you use Process Explorer to aid you if you're ever in this situation:
The common approach for persistent spyware is to have 3+ processes running on your system, one that actually performs the spyware function and the other two which monitor the spyware process and each other. With Process Explorer You can susped processes that monitor other dummy processes that all make sure you A. Don't remove their startup entries and B. Don't try and terminate the spyware's running processes. They don't monitor whether their buddies are suspended, though so you can just suspend all of them after you've identified them, end them all, then remove the HijackThis entries now that the spyware startup entries aren't protected anymore.:)
There's also the 'Find Handle' feature which can be useful as some old methods of startup can run processes so they are a subset of Explorer rather than a seperate process name in Task Manager > Processes tab. This is also a good way to find spyware DLL's.
Anyway, as a technician, that's what I would do. Learning HijackThis and Process Explorer allow you to tune up a computer like you would a car.
They can't help the people they represent and try to make the changes the people want unless the representative wins.
Haven't you realized that offending someone is the quickest way for to get people not to support you? The more specific/personal/REAL a representative gets, the more they risk offending a certain voter-base for themselves.
The point the last 20 or so posts failed to mention is sooo out of your reach. You guys are just speculating -- thinking your limited involvement with protecting yourself from crime suddenly makes you experts. Taking part in these crime organizations or DIRECTLY fighting them is necessary to understand this situation.
Developers focused on securing their products don't count either as you're just interested in coding technically-armored snippets into your latest project. Noble, but it doesn't give you a strong insight into why there are more viruses on Windows than Linux.
Not suprisingly, it's all about the fame and money.
Why would one create a program that obsessively sends itself out to other computers??
Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame. Or ego, however you want to think about it. Fame involves an actual audience while ego is the performer and the audience.
With intelligence comes agenda, with agenda comes a desire to see it fulfilled. This sums up the fame category.
Non-Politically-Correct Example: Boo is intelligent. Boo has an agenda. Boo hates all gays. Boo writes a virus targetting gay porn scavengers (connoisseurs?). Computer owners of the homosexual persuasion suddenly have virus-infected machines. Agenda fulfilled, but not on Linux as that means less gays being harmed.
Money is also a good reason as I'm sure many spammers can atest to.
Obviously since most of the public currently uses Windows, most people are going to create viruses attacking these machines for above reasons.
-More virus infected machines mean more fame or more money either way you look at it.-
Also, comparing server-attacking viruses to desktop-attacking viruses is silly in the current state of both markets.
Let me explain: One can only assume a would-be virus creator's first attempt at creating these malicious programs would target a Windows Desktop as that's normally what they're going to be running (yay, graduated from public victim to public attacker!) So, with their skills polished on the Windows Desktop system what is the next logical progression you ask? Not almost the EXACT THING, just with web server support *gasp* *shock* *puke* NO NO NO, let's completely reverse directions and start learning how to attack Apache web servers!!
Does it happen? Sure. Often? Hell, no. Thousands of virus writers out there and most of them start with Windows so of course that's what they learn to attack first. It takes forever for them to get to the point where they have interest in Linux in the first place and then even longer to learn it. Most stop caring before they ever progress that far.
Like the other Anonymous Coward who's response was unjustly modded down I would have to say this is a silly idea.
Code is meant to be malleable/translatable.
Even if the this hardware ID system configuration stuff was a pain to change in the code it would still be less pain than actually writing the code in the first place.
"..but there's still the vast majority that expects you to pay for their work."
Weird, huh?
When every other Friday comes around it's nice to be paid for MY FSCKING WORK.
Anyway, this is off-topic like the firewall guy in earlier thread.
He's going to get away with it. I doubt any contributor to XChat has the bones to go after him and the FSF wouldn't do it as this guy obviously has very little $.
It would seem this is an inherent flaw of the GPL, but actually it's a great strength.
Say he DOES become successful selling the shareware versions. Enter FSF. Full pockets are now empty and the $ goes back to where it should go: GPL enforcers:)
Actually, speaking from experience black electrical tape may not be the best solution.
A. Not aesthetically pleasing.
B. Black electrical tape is known to come off of smooth objects with little effort if the object is exposed to a reasonable amount of heat. Eighty+ degrees Fahrenheit if I were to guess. Hopefully you don't keep a computer in that hot of an environment, though! (unless you get lucky you college nerd; queue drum line.)
C. This kinda goes with A. When you take black electrical tape off of something when it's been there for say 2 or 3+ months expect this black tape electrical goo to be stuck around where the tape lay. Easy to get off of one of these devices? Probably, but that would depend mostly on the device.
The reason I know all of this is because a past roomate of mine had his stereo ripped out of his car outside our apartment.
I put black electrical tape over the LED on the webcam I put in our window.. hoping they would strike again. They never did, filthy crooks:)
It seems much more intuitive than a regular keyboard while using a mouse mostly due to symmetry. Both hands have about the same size input device in their grip.
Currently I use it entirely for games -- BUT -- I use it for EVERY game. I've actually debated on using it as a onehanded keyboard before but I didn't because it would be rather complex to design. For it to work one would have to use more than two shift states which is what I prefer for a onehanded keyboard.
Anyway, even though it may not make the best onehanded keyboard, it's still a great gaming device! A friend and I modified ours so some of the keys are flipped around by shaving off the plastic fins on the keys. Every once in a while during a long gaming session a key will pop off because my hands are sweaty but it's still worth it;) If you'd like to know, we flipped the entire 1st & 2nd row's keys. Also, the pad comes with above-decent macro support through it's Loadout manager.
I've read the trilogy three times way before the movies came out because I like the genre so much, but YES I know what you mean. He's just so damn DETAILED about everything in the book especially in the first and second.
I kept finding myself mindlessly scanning some of the pages not registering the content. I would go back to where I was conscious of the story again and find out the last three pages I just scanned were about some stupid tree's leaves X(
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The same can happen using the shell.
When you run a binary from the shell are you ever sure what files it's accessing?
If you log it, sure -- but there are tools to do that in the GUI, too.
Slashdot Mirror
Thx!
I've checked out their website, looks pretty good.
And people always criticize AC's on Slashdot.. tsk tsk.
I hear that, and trying to find a modern replacement for Tie Fighter is very very hard!
The most recent game that has that sci-fi 'flight sim' style mission-based combat is AquaNox 2. It sated the flight-sim bug for a bit (even though it's actually all underwater) but I keep getting reinfected and there's no replacement game! ARG
But yeah, if you really liked JK2 I suggest you check out some of the duel/ffa/tffa servers for Jedi Academy that have no force powers and saber only. That last sentence describes a whole following for the JK2 & JA series that stands seperate from the other game modes. People take this stuff as seriously as they take CounterStrike/Quake/etc. Mastering the saber in that game is more than enough to keep me entertained everyday after work. =)
It does a good job at providing atmosphere for an enjoyable co-op experience with the singleplayer storyline and it has enjoyable multiplayer.
It has a good underlying structure for gameplay and a polish technically regarding graphics, sound, and cinematics that give off good vibes.
For me, the reason it is such a great game revolves entirely around the co-op aspect, so I can see why you didn't enjoy the PC version, much.
If you know anyone who's into Home Theater (HT) and has an XBOX + Halo 2 I would highly recommend you pay them a visit soon =)
1 Big Screen + Audiophile Surround Sound + Halo 2 + a few beers and you have one hell of a night on co-op =)
Funny, not flamebait.
;)
Or even offtopic i would say.
Definately not flamebait though, much too hilarious.
I'm guessing some mod out there says:
"Oh, I'm average.."
Come bed time:
Girl: "My god, you have an extra pinky finger!!"
bahaha
Fat guy in a little...
"In order to maximize the value of new artwork created for new games, characters like Mario are first drawn in 3D. This is the only time consuming part. Afterward the 3D model can be manipulated and posed in infinite variety and 2D sprites created in rapid-fire, assembly line fashion. In addition the same 3D model can be used in a sequel, and in 3D games with few or no changes. While it's faster than drawing each frame of animation by hand, the results are usually disappointing, and often very ugly."
:)
He writes it as though it's widely accepted, but from my perspective it's more 50/50. I wish he would throw a few "IMO"'s in there, but oh well.
For instance, if you blur your vision while looking at some of the screens of the 3D rendered-to-raster Marios they look much better than the Marios with the black outlines. This is a better judge because he scales the size of the Marios up VERY large making them look pixelated which supports the view the new raster Marios look like crap. Alternative to blurring your eyes you could just scale them down and see what I'm referring to, as well. As most artists know, blurring your eyes is an effective way to view the picture as a whole instead of focusing on little details (such as huge blocky pixels). Monet's paintings are famous for this due to his near-blindness (look at his art scaled down/blurred and it looks near-photographic.) This becomes a valuable tool for beginner and experienced artists for keeping track of the "whole picture" (pun intended
True, but chat networks (mostly IRC) are known for their virus/spyware sending hordes similar to P2P networks.
I can think of many ways viruses could affect more than the student who violated the no-chat rule.
"What's more, UNC did a study, the link I'll post from home later if you like that showed that filesharing has a stasticaly insignificant impact on music sales. So you are talking extreme punishments for something that appears to be of very little harm."
That's all well and good but A) where's the study so I don't have to take your word for it and more specifically B) When did it happen and how active was RIAA's suits against consumers during this time?
Because, obviously, if it's statistically insignificant, it's plausible the reason for this is some people don't share because they're scared of the RIAA's possible suits against them...
So in your scenario if it came to pass that the RIAA couldn't sue over copyright infringement through P2P music downloads their losses COULD become significant.
Same goes for the amount the RIAA is suing for. From my perspective, most people aren't going to care if they have to pay for the music they downloaded, or even twice that, so what is the deterrent?
Yes, but CS uses the Quake 2 engine..
Quake 2 was release in Nov. of 1997, so the engine is technically more than 6 years old..
I'm SURE he didn't mean the ENTIRETY of the hunting session was spent on his stomach...
I've used this before.. almost a year ago...
Or wait, maybe it's that Keyhole thingy from Nvidia.
NV's versions may have less info and only Nvidia video cards are compatible with Keyhole, but this HAS been done before FYI.
Last time I checked Keyhole had a 14 day trial and a fairly low subscription fee per month.
That's one of the first steps when reacting to an instance of malicious networking, but not always an option.
What if they're in Russia? or Germany? or you don't know where and can't contact their ISP?
DoS'ing and Trolling seems to come from more countries than just the U.S. last I recall.
Edit > Find in this Page
..Wait! I just did >.
"Mirror" > Next.
"The Text you entered was not found."
Please change above.
Sorry! (^_^)
I know how to create links.
I also know how to create relatively grammar-error free posts, as well. (ONE friggin error (-_-)
I want to call you an idiot because obviously I know what I'm doing as can be seen from my previous post -- (e.g. it should be obvious I left amenities out because I was in a bind for time or something similar -- not because I don't know how..)
Please be happy you have the information and try not to criticize too much. It's not like I post onto slashdot for a living or something..
The story submitter is worried about his machine, not someone elses and if he wants to be sure he has no spyware on his system he should use HijackThis by Merjin:
:)
e xp .shtml
:)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ (official site, down ATM)
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Many popular anti-spyware forums accept posting a HijackThis log their HijackThis expert members can examine and advise you on. (e.g. The LavaSoft AdAware forums allow this but they require you post an AdAware log first
Anyway, HijackThis is fairly manual as far as you need to know what you're doing to use it properly. However, if spyware is on your system it will be in a HijackThis scan result as it shows your computer's startup programs/services (legitimate or otherwise) in all known places they exist on your computer.
Also, removing persistent spyware can get complicated using anything and this applies to HijackThis, too.
I suggest you use Process Explorer to aid you if you're ever in this situation:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/proc
The common approach for persistent spyware is to have 3+ processes running on your system, one that actually performs the spyware function and the other two which monitor the spyware process and each other. With Process Explorer You can susped processes that monitor other dummy processes that all make sure you A. Don't remove their startup entries and B. Don't try and terminate the spyware's running processes. They don't monitor whether their buddies are suspended, though so you can just suspend all of them after you've identified them, end them all, then remove the HijackThis entries now that the spyware startup entries aren't protected anymore.
There's also the 'Find Handle' feature which can be useful as some old methods of startup can run processes so they are a subset of Explorer rather than a seperate process name in Task Manager > Processes tab. This is also a good way to find spyware DLL's.
Anyway, as a technician, that's what I would do. Learning HijackThis and Process Explorer allow you to tune up a computer like you would a car.
It's so they can win.
They can't help the people they represent and try to make the changes the people want unless the representative wins.
Haven't you realized that offending someone is the quickest way for to get people not to support you? The more specific/personal/REAL a representative gets, the more they risk offending a certain voter-base for themselves.
It's that simple.
@_@
The point the last 20 or so posts failed to mention is sooo out of your reach. You guys are just speculating -- thinking your limited involvement with protecting yourself from crime suddenly makes you experts. Taking part in these crime organizations or DIRECTLY fighting them is necessary to understand this situation.
Developers focused on securing their products don't count either as you're just interested in coding technically-armored snippets into your latest project. Noble, but it doesn't give you a strong insight into why there are more viruses on Windows than Linux.
Not suprisingly, it's all about the fame and money.
Why would one create a program that obsessively sends itself out to other computers??
Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame. Or ego, however you want to think about it. Fame involves an actual audience while ego is the performer and the audience.
With intelligence comes agenda, with agenda comes a desire to see it fulfilled. This sums up the fame category.
Non-Politically-Correct Example: Boo is intelligent. Boo has an agenda. Boo hates all gays. Boo writes a virus targetting gay porn scavengers (connoisseurs?). Computer owners of the homosexual persuasion suddenly have virus-infected machines. Agenda fulfilled, but not on Linux as that means less gays being harmed.
Money is also a good reason as I'm sure many spammers can atest to.
Obviously since most of the public currently uses Windows, most people are going to create viruses attacking these machines for above reasons.
-More virus infected machines mean more fame or more money either way you look at it.-
Also, comparing server-attacking viruses to desktop-attacking viruses is silly in the current state of both markets.
Let me explain:
One can only assume a would-be virus creator's first attempt at creating these malicious programs would target a Windows Desktop as that's normally what they're going to be running (yay, graduated from public victim to public attacker!) So, with their skills polished on the Windows Desktop system what is the next logical progression you ask? Not almost the EXACT THING, just with web server support *gasp* *shock* *puke* NO NO NO, let's completely reverse directions and start learning how to attack Apache web servers!!
Does it happen? Sure. Often? Hell, no. Thousands of virus writers out there and most of them start with Windows so of course that's what they learn to attack first. It takes forever for them to get to the point where they have interest in Linux in the first place and then even longer to learn it. Most stop caring before they ever progress that far.
I know: I remove this stuff for a living.
Like the other Anonymous Coward who's response was unjustly modded down I would have to say this is a silly idea.
Code is meant to be malleable/translatable.
Even if the this hardware ID system configuration stuff was a pain to change in the code it would still be less pain than actually writing the code in the first place.
"..but there's still the vast majority that expects you to pay for their work."
:)
Weird, huh?
When every other Friday comes around it's nice to be paid for MY FSCKING WORK.
Anyway, this is off-topic like the firewall guy in earlier thread.
He's going to get away with it. I doubt any contributor to XChat has the bones to go after him and the FSF wouldn't do it as this guy obviously has very little $.
It would seem this is an inherent flaw of the GPL, but actually it's a great strength.
Say he DOES become successful selling the shareware versions. Enter FSF. Full pockets are now empty and the $ goes back to where it should go: GPL enforcers
Actually, speaking from experience black electrical tape may not be the best solution.
:)
A. Not aesthetically pleasing.
B. Black electrical tape is known to come off of smooth objects with little effort if the object is exposed to a reasonable amount of heat. Eighty+ degrees Fahrenheit if I were to guess. Hopefully you don't keep a computer in that hot of an environment, though! (unless you get lucky you college nerd; queue drum line.)
C. This kinda goes with A. When you take black electrical tape off of something when it's been there for say 2 or 3+ months expect this black tape electrical goo to be stuck around where the tape lay. Easy to get off of one of these devices? Probably, but that would depend mostly on the device.
The reason I know all of this is because a past roomate of mine had his stereo ripped out of his car outside our apartment.
I put black electrical tape over the LED on the webcam I put in our window.. hoping they would strike again. They never did, filthy crooks
They're pretty nice.
;) If you'd like to know, we flipped the entire 1st & 2nd row's keys. Also, the pad comes with above-decent macro support through it's Loadout manager.
It seems much more intuitive than a regular keyboard while using a mouse mostly due to symmetry. Both hands have about the same size input device in their grip.
Currently I use it entirely for games -- BUT -- I use it for EVERY game. I've actually debated on using it as a onehanded keyboard before but I didn't because it would be rather complex to design. For it to work one would have to use more than two shift states which is what I prefer for a onehanded keyboard.
Anyway, even though it may not make the best onehanded keyboard, it's still a great gaming device! A friend and I modified ours so some of the keys are flipped around by shaving off the plastic fins on the keys. Every once in a while during a long gaming session a key will pop off because my hands are sweaty but it's still worth it
I've read the trilogy three times way before the movies came out because I like the genre so much, but YES I know what you mean. He's just so damn DETAILED about everything in the book especially in the first and second.
I kept finding myself mindlessly scanning some of the pages not registering the content. I would go back to where I was conscious of the story again and find out the last three pages I just scanned were about some stupid tree's leaves X(
The same can happen using the shell.
When you run a binary from the shell are you ever sure what files it's accessing?
If you log it, sure -- but there are tools to do that in the GUI, too.
AND you're also saying you thought redheads were cute maybe a year ago. :)
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy: Duels: No force powers: Lightsaber only.
Fights last minutes. You can get really good.
Now I just need something for this hand (>_)