Such a silly idea - why didn't they give people the option to choose if they wanted to install the rubbish? If they ticked NO then the advertising system in-game could've just served out generic/random adverts like 99% of advertising systems on the 'net... not a difficult compromise - unfortunately now it's too late - the game's already packaged.
Better yet, streamed advertising. That way they can signup advertisers for 6 months, a year, whatever - when a user plays online, a small advertising update can be sent out to their machine to update ingame billboards, posters, etc. Thus giving a subscription model that users dont have to pay for on top of the initial purchase (which ought to be lowered - thus garnering more buyers - more targets for the advertising etc)
I like ColdFusion's method for helping coders protect against this issue -and quite a few other things too:
select blah from blah
where
field =
by setting the cfsqltype correctly it also gets around those sodding issues with databases that cant figure out WHICH field you've referenced incorrectly. How many times have you written a 30+ long insert or update statement, go to test it, and receive a message about incorrect data type with no other info... tells you which field broke your query!
So the crux of my comment is, I dont know much about PHP or ASP, but ColdFusion developers have ZERO excuse for making the mistake of NOT using cfqueryparam to protect against injection attacks.
From the Industry that brought us A Sound of Thunder. $5 and 103mins of pain. Turns out the movie wasn't even FINISHED when they released it - they ran out of money so shipped with preview special effects. AND I had to sit through the stupid fricking "If this movie doesnt have this warning it's been pirated" message.
www.LegalWarfare.com:: Trial by Firepower
See that's why PC Games Addict magazine was good here in Australia, they reviewed games with almost the same venom usually reserved for use by Penny Arcade. Which, in the context of this story, is probably why the magazine got shut down. *sigh*
So, what constitutes a pre-emptive nuclear strike anyhow? The whole idea of a pre-emptive strike being to defang an enemy before they can use their weapons against you. That isn't going to work with nukes though (ICBMs anyway) since as soon as you launch, people will be able to tell which country you're after based on their vectors, and responses will be launched accordingly. Surely the US doesnt have enough stealth bombers to take out every missle site in a given country either? so what's the point of making the claim? Any nuclear strike would involve horrendous casualties back on US soil.
Not to mention the issue of the big TV stations repeating shows in timeslots where, previously, only new episodes aired. Also their penchant for randomly changing timeslots to suit whatever dumbass Renovation Blitz Rescue BBQ Assault Force Grounding episode was doing up an old granny's footpath.
How do they make money through advertising when they're driving viewers away? My family only watches cable channels now, where at least the repeats are MEANT to be there.
Note well how the mainstream media only ever focuses on the BAD game-related new items (no matter how loosely they can relate them). What about the GOOD counter-strike worshipping stories, like those guys in france who dress up as the characters from the game and raid real terrorists on real airlines etc? Honestly, who throws a shoe?
We should really thank our lucky stars that these impressionable kids haven't seen the movie the day after, else they'd be trying to nuke the world right now I suspect.
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Such a silly idea - why didn't they give people the option to choose if they wanted to install the rubbish? If they ticked NO then the advertising system in-game could've just served out generic/random adverts like 99% of advertising systems on the 'net... not a difficult compromise - unfortunately now it's too late - the game's already packaged.
Watch out for viruses! http://www.legalwarfare.com/index.cfm?attributes.f useaction=showTemplate&calendar=2006-9-11&cy=2006& cm=9
Have they forgotten nGage so soon??
Better yet, streamed advertising. That way they can signup advertisers for 6 months, a year, whatever - when a user plays online, a small advertising update can be sent out to their machine to update ingame billboards, posters, etc. Thus giving a subscription model that users dont have to pay for on top of the initial purchase (which ought to be lowered - thus garnering more buyers - more targets for the advertising etc)
hah and next time I'll even preview my comment to make sure it goes in properly
I like ColdFusion's method for helping coders protect against this issue -and quite a few other things too: select blah from blah where field = by setting the cfsqltype correctly it also gets around those sodding issues with databases that cant figure out WHICH field you've referenced incorrectly. How many times have you written a 30+ long insert or update statement, go to test it, and receive a message about incorrect data type with no other info... tells you which field broke your query! So the crux of my comment is, I dont know much about PHP or ASP, but ColdFusion developers have ZERO excuse for making the mistake of NOT using cfqueryparam to protect against injection attacks.
Don't these people watch movies?!? For God's sakes do we *WANT* squiddies charging round killing people with their robo-tentacles?
From the Industry that brought us A Sound of Thunder. $5 and 103mins of pain. Turns out the movie wasn't even FINISHED when they released it - they ran out of money so shipped with preview special effects. AND I had to sit through the stupid fricking "If this movie doesnt have this warning it's been pirated" message. www.LegalWarfare.com :: Trial by Firepower
The title said it all! Hardware stores will be the battlefields of the future! re:f useaction=showTemplate&calendar=2006-4-20&cy=2006& cm=4
http://www.legalwarfare.com/index.cfm?attributes.
Warning - link contains strong language =)
So, it leaves no evidence of it's use huh? sounds perfect for that prison they keep having trouble with in iraq. scary.
I love this politically fucked up country!!
See that's why PC Games Addict magazine was good here in Australia, they reviewed games with almost the same venom usually reserved for use by Penny Arcade. Which, in the context of this story, is probably why the magazine got shut down. *sigh*
well... can't do it to images of humans eh? At least there's still goats!
Yeah, my boss runs www.frogwatch.org.au - he was saying a little while back that there is a snake that hunts them too.
Yay! Time for a sequel to The Dish: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
So, what constitutes a pre-emptive nuclear strike anyhow? The whole idea of a pre-emptive strike being to defang an enemy before they can use their weapons against you. That isn't going to work with nukes though (ICBMs anyway) since as soon as you launch, people will be able to tell which country you're after based on their vectors, and responses will be launched accordingly. Surely the US doesnt have enough stealth bombers to take out every missle site in a given country either? so what's the point of making the claim? Any nuclear strike would involve horrendous casualties back on US soil.
Not to mention the issue of the big TV stations repeating shows in timeslots where, previously, only new episodes aired. Also their penchant for randomly changing timeslots to suit whatever dumbass Renovation Blitz Rescue BBQ Assault Force Grounding episode was doing up an old granny's footpath. How do they make money through advertising when they're driving viewers away? My family only watches cable channels now, where at least the repeats are MEANT to be there.
does this line:
"Sensory features include a vision color system that enables Robosapien V2 to recognize objects and skin tones"
coupled with this one:
"fully autonomous in free-roam mode"
mean that robosapien 2 is now freely capable of joining the KKK of it's own free will?!??
that's all there is to say.
Note well how the mainstream media only ever focuses on the BAD game-related new items (no matter how loosely they can relate them). What about the GOOD counter-strike worshipping stories, like those guys in france who dress up as the characters from the game and raid real terrorists on real airlines etc? Honestly, who throws a shoe?
We should really thank our lucky stars that these impressionable kids haven't seen the movie the day after, else they'd be trying to nuke the world right now I suspect.