Actually what it means is we'll be seeing a press announcement in the next few months that the latest revision of the PS3 will be dropping the bundled Blu-Ray drive and moving to DVD drives as a cost cutting measure. The expected drop in price will be $20 and those who want to purchase an add-on drive can do so for $300.
The add-on will be a complete blu-ray player but can only output to the PS3, which will then pass the signal along to the display.
I've looked online a bit on how to do this and never really found more than people saying it was a PITA to accomplish. What is the best way of taking the Autopatcher files and getting them to nlite? Or is the effort involved one of the reasons you only do it once a month?
The way OpenID works (the "for dummies" version) is you go to a service which supports it and tell them "I'm Joe Joe from joejoe.com". The service then goes to joejoe.com and checks for the information there that would tell the service who to contact to verify you. It could be at joejoe.com itself, it could be openid.randomguy.com. It doesn't matter.
After the service knows who is allowed to verify that you are Joe Joe from joejoe.com, it asks them to do it. How they do it is entirely up to them. They could use a password/username. They could use a 32 point authenticaion scheme that at some point requires your mom to log in and ask you questions. It doesn't matter.
Once they've verifed you are Joe Joe, from joejoe.com, they tell the service that. Now, if the service considers itself 'high security' they can always do some extra checking before it logs you in fully (and some do). But if it's 'just Slashdot' then that's all that needs to happen.
So, someone hack your account with the group verifying you? Change authentication methods.
If you are implementing your side of OpenID correctly (and no it's not a given that you are) you have control over who verifys you as you and simply need to setup a different group to do the verification. YOU are in control of that. Unlike things like MS Passport, where you have to trust Microsoft not to foul up.
Of the single login setups I've seen OpenID is the best implementation I've run into. Yes, single sign on is inheritantly less secure than multiple sign ons, ASSUMING the authentication layer is equivalent across the board.
BUT, and this is the catch, YOU pick the level of authentication with OpenID. You get to decide how secure is secure, if you think it's ok to just go with a username/password. Then that's your choice and you can do that. But if you would prefer to go 'Fort Knox', it's entirely possible for you to do so, because you get to choose who does the authentication and therefore what authentication is being done.
However, filtering also raises the "you are now liable for what they say to an extent" issue that the whole Safe Harbor thing was suppose to fix for ISPs and could definately cost a huge pile more than just cutting access and losing customers.
I've only once had an issue with Steam's servers. The year Seattle got taken out by storms, their servers were down for a day. That's in all the years that I've played with Steam. One day.
I'm willing to give them that, given that's a better track record than my computer or any of the MMO's I've played, or any other similar platform (i.e. Xbox Live).
The sad truth of life is that those who are dangerous rarely are aware of it. Were they so, they would take actions to reduce the threat.
Your words remind me of a blog entry someone brought to my attention last year. A mother, who quite honestly held a POV completely alien to any life experiences I ever had, was lamenting to her online friends that she wished she had never given birth or that she had had an abortion.
The reason why? Her teenage son had been caught with a porn magazine. Once.
Her belief was that this single act was proof enough that he would grow up to be a serial rapist with an abusive personality.
Disregard that she had raised this boy, in her house, under her belief system, for at least a decade an a half. Disregard that this was a single act. Disregard that he was an adolescent boy, who was probably trying to work out his own issues.
No, this was enough in her eyes to justify the idea that it would have been better had he never existed. To condemn him in her eyes as nothing more than an irredeemable monster whose existence could only bring pain and suffering to those around him.
I respect the right of others to see the world differently than myself. I certainly don't have anything close to a monopoly on 'truth'. But there is a certain level of painting the world and the people in it with too broad a brush that is simply inconceivable to me.
Are you presenting your opinions honestly? Are you that damaged that your world view is as you've presented it? Or are you simply one of the best trolls I've seen so far? I don't know. What I do know, what I have a certainty of belief and convictions in, is that the world works nothing like you've presented it. And if you honestly believe what you are saying, I hope that someday you receive the help you need.
However, I quickly learned that if I drove my tank into a wall, just right, I would suddenly warp randomly around the screen. So every time I could, I'd drive behind a wall. And while he drove up to get a shot, I'd be ramming my tank into obstacles desperately hoping to trigger the warp and get a chance to be behind him and shoot.
It never really worked, and I'm still not sure my dad ever connected what I was doing to a strategy (I think he thought I just couldn't drive the tank at all), but it was both my first game and the reason why I spent most of my video gaming life poking at the 'hidden' corners of most games rather than playing as my brother did and trying to beat everything the first hour I played it.
Sadly, there are fewer and fewer games that have any sort of 'exploration' reward built in and 'glitches' like the one in the Combat game tend to be less and less interesting as code has becomes more and more complex.
I still remember the countless hours I spent in Dungeon Master, trying to max out a character to see if it was actually coded to do something if you become an "Arch-Master" (or whatever the ultimate title was called). Or the hours I spent playing Sundog, trying to get the developer easter egg to trigger again (while standing around in a town, a developer walked up and asked me if I enjoyed the game. I said yes and he gave me a million credits. I always wanted to find out what would happen if I had said no. ^_^)
Somehow, that was always more fun that just ramming through the game to prove I could beat it.
Because, unlike closed source solutions, when the company that was bankrolling the development of your favorite programs, someone else can still pick it up and run with it.
Because, unlike closed source solutions, you aren't reliant on solely one entity to provide assitance.
Because, unlike closed source solutions, even if no one is developing the software actively beyond bug patches, it's still avaliable.
Top two on my list: MTV (and SpikeTV, and VH1, and every other "entertainment only" network), and the idea that they have intelligible to say about the gaming industry.
This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture science. We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead.
(Chorus 1) But there's no sense crying over every mistake You just keep on trying till you run out of cake And the science gets done and you make a neat gun For the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart and killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. And as they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you.
(Chorus 2) Now these points of data make a beautiful line And we're out of beta we're releasing on time. So I'm glad I got burned think of all the things we learned For the people who are still alive
Go ahead and leave me. I think I prefer to stay inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa - That was a joke. Haha. Fat chance. Anyway, this cake is great: It's so delicious and moist.
(Chorus 3) Look at me still talking when there's science to do. When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you. I've experiments to run there is research to be done On the people who are still alive
And believe me I am still alive. I'm doing science and I'm still alive. I feel fantastic and I'm still alive. While you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive.
Your average/.er would also be smart enough to recognize the difference between recording a public official in the performance of their job and recording the private life of a private citizen.
Your above average/.er would probably also be smart enough to realize that we already expect servants of the public to place on hold or willingly suspend certain rights they have as private citizens when they are performing their public duties, as part of the necessarily higher standard we hold them to.
The guy who doesn't want to go to jail because he happened to accidently bump into a lobbyist in the supermarket and start talking to them before they realize what's going on?
My Linksys router does a shitload of stuff more than it did with the default firmware, now that I've installed a third party version. Is this really a serious complaint?
The lawsuit was either filed by a moron or a slimeball hoping to get a moron for a judge.
Actually no, if you peruse the site they make it extremely clear the boxes they are intending to subsidize aren't being manufactured yet and that the ETA is sometime Febuary/March. They also make it clear they aren't ISSUING cupons till then, meaning that the 90-day issue is moot. The only reason they have that in there is so someone doesn't snap these up then hold onto them for five years and then get upset because no one will honor it.
I have one better for you. W(hy)TF is the restriction on checked baggage and not on carry on baggage, if they think there is a safety issue?
"Why yes sir, those batteries are very, very dangerous. So please keep them as close to yourself and the other passengers as possible instead of storing them away safely in our baggage area."
Valve has a love for games on rails. They do everything they can possible to ensure that you see what they want you to see, when they want you to see it, without being aware of the rails. Listen to the dev commentary in Ep 2 and Portal and it becomes immediately obvious that the perfect game experience in Valve's mind would be to give the illusion of GTA while ensuring you never actually stray from the path.
This is not a horrible thing. The reason most people are down on games that are on rails is that most developers suck at story telling and cinematic experiences while simultaneously thinking they rock at the same. Therefore most games on rails feel more like a Disney ride than an epic adventure. Both in the fact that you are consitantly reminded that you are on rails and that the various "props" are obviously only expected to be seen from the "ride-side" of the game. Valve actually puts the effort in to cover up the rails, to polish the props and to make it look as if the fact that you just happen to be going down the path is because YOU choose to go that way, not because every other way was closed.
Take for instance, the 'other' episodic game that was released around the time of Episode 1. SiN Episodes: Emergence.
In SiN, you were shown this huge city, many of the locations in game were huge, the modern day equivalents of the Tower of Babel. And yet, there was always a fence, a door, or a window between you and the rest of the world. There were very strict paths you were forced to take, and even though you would often be assulted by people coming from the inaccessible areas, you never were given the chance to get to them yourself. It was very obvious that your goals were "get A to pass B so you can push C and open D".
This is exactly the same scenario that the Half-Life games provide, but with them it is far, far easier to forget that you are being herded along a path. Take dodging the Antlion guard in the mines/hive. Most people, the first time around, probably almost shat themselves when they finially fell down that final shaft with the guard seemingly just a millisecond behind them. However if you play the game through again, you realize that this spot was actually scripted to come off exactly that way. You might be able to mess around and actually die there, but you will never get so far ahead of the guard that they won't be a millisecond behind you at the final shaft.
Valve specializes in cinematic magic. A sandbox free-will game is their anti-thesis.
In British Columbia and Massachusetts and a few other states, a flashing green signal is used at a pedestrian crossing, at which pedestrians have the ability to stop traffic to allow a safe crossing. They may also be used at a drawbridge. The flashing green indicates that the signal is not currently in use. As soon as a pedestrian pushes the button to trigger the signal, the light changes to solid green for a short time before entering the normal yellow/red/green sequence, then returns to flashing green until another crossing is requested; however, in some places such as Vancouver, it goes directly from flashing green to yellow, leaving out the solid green sequence. In Massachusetts, specifically in Cambridge and Somerville, the main street will have a flashing green signal, while cross streets have a signal that have a red on top, yellow in the middle and flashing red in the bottom position. When a pedestrian activates the signal, the cross street changes from flashing red in the lowest position to yellow to red (topmost position).
In Ontario and Nova Scotia, a flashing green light indicates that the opposing direction still has a red light, thus drivers are free to make a left turn.
Holy F... this, children, is why God invented standards.
Having never "seen" a Shadowrun style hacking, I don't know if this is similar or not. But if you've ever played the Dystopia mod for the Source games, that has one of the best "hacking" setups I've run into.
Shadowrun/Mechwarior/Crimson Sky games all sound as if they would be better as massivily multiplayer FPS's as opposed to the current MMO crop that is primarly RPG with mock FPS stylings added on top.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually what it means is we'll be seeing a press announcement in the next few months that the latest revision of the PS3 will be dropping the bundled Blu-Ray drive and moving to DVD drives as a cost cutting measure. The expected drop in price will be $20 and those who want to purchase an add-on drive can do so for $300.
The add-on will be a complete blu-ray player but can only output to the PS3, which will then pass the signal along to the display.
I've looked online a bit on how to do this and never really found more than people saying it was a PITA to accomplish. What is the best way of taking the Autopatcher files and getting them to nlite? Or is the effort involved one of the reasons you only do it once a month?
The way OpenID works (the "for dummies" version) is you go to a service which supports it and tell them "I'm Joe Joe from joejoe.com". The service then goes to joejoe.com and checks for the information there that would tell the service who to contact to verify you. It could be at joejoe.com itself, it could be openid.randomguy.com. It doesn't matter.
After the service knows who is allowed to verify that you are Joe Joe from joejoe.com, it asks them to do it. How they do it is entirely up to them. They could use a password/username. They could use a 32 point authenticaion scheme that at some point requires your mom to log in and ask you questions. It doesn't matter.
Once they've verifed you are Joe Joe, from joejoe.com, they tell the service that. Now, if the service considers itself 'high security' they can always do some extra checking before it logs you in fully (and some do). But if it's 'just Slashdot' then that's all that needs to happen.
So, someone hack your account with the group verifying you? Change authentication methods.
If you are implementing your side of OpenID correctly (and no it's not a given that you are) you have control over who verifys you as you and simply need to setup a different group to do the verification. YOU are in control of that. Unlike things like MS Passport, where you have to trust Microsoft not to foul up.
Of the single login setups I've seen OpenID is the best implementation I've run into. Yes, single sign on is inheritantly less secure than multiple sign ons, ASSUMING the authentication layer is equivalent across the board.
BUT, and this is the catch, YOU pick the level of authentication with OpenID. You get to decide how secure is secure, if you think it's ok to just go with a username/password. Then that's your choice and you can do that. But if you would prefer to go 'Fort Knox', it's entirely possible for you to do so, because you get to choose who does the authentication and therefore what authentication is being done.
However, filtering also raises the "you are now liable for what they say to an extent" issue that the whole Safe Harbor thing was suppose to fix for ISPs and could definately cost a huge pile more than just cutting access and losing customers.
I've only once had an issue with Steam's servers. The year Seattle got taken out by storms, their servers were down for a day. That's in all the years that I've played with Steam. One day.
I'm willing to give them that, given that's a better track record than my computer or any of the MMO's I've played, or any other similar platform (i.e. Xbox Live).
The sad truth of life is that those who are dangerous rarely are aware of it. Were they so, they would take actions to reduce the threat.
Your words remind me of a blog entry someone brought to my attention last year. A mother, who quite honestly held a POV completely alien to any life experiences I ever had, was lamenting to her online friends that she wished she had never given birth or that she had had an abortion.
The reason why? Her teenage son had been caught with a porn magazine. Once.
Her belief was that this single act was proof enough that he would grow up to be a serial rapist with an abusive personality.
Disregard that she had raised this boy, in her house, under her belief system, for at least a decade an a half. Disregard that this was a single act. Disregard that he was an adolescent boy, who was probably trying to work out his own issues.
No, this was enough in her eyes to justify the idea that it would have been better had he never existed. To condemn him in her eyes as nothing more than an irredeemable monster whose existence could only bring pain and suffering to those around him.
I respect the right of others to see the world differently than myself. I certainly don't have anything close to a monopoly on 'truth'. But there is a certain level of painting the world and the people in it with too broad a brush that is simply inconceivable to me.
Are you presenting your opinions honestly? Are you that damaged that your world view is as you've presented it? Or are you simply one of the best trolls I've seen so far? I don't know. What I do know, what I have a certainty of belief and convictions in, is that the world works nothing like you've presented it. And if you honestly believe what you are saying, I hope that someday you receive the help you need.
Real security experts telnet to port 80 and hand craft their HTTP requests. It's the only way to be sure!
And my father never let me win.
However, I quickly learned that if I drove my tank into a wall, just right, I would suddenly warp randomly around the screen. So every time I could, I'd drive behind a wall. And while he drove up to get a shot, I'd be ramming my tank into obstacles desperately hoping to trigger the warp and get a chance to be behind him and shoot.
It never really worked, and I'm still not sure my dad ever connected what I was doing to a strategy (I think he thought I just couldn't drive the tank at all), but it was both my first game and the reason why I spent most of my video gaming life poking at the 'hidden' corners of most games rather than playing as my brother did and trying to beat everything the first hour I played it.
Sadly, there are fewer and fewer games that have any sort of 'exploration' reward built in and 'glitches' like the one in the Combat game tend to be less and less interesting as code has becomes more and more complex.
I still remember the countless hours I spent in Dungeon Master, trying to max out a character to see if it was actually coded to do something if you become an "Arch-Master" (or whatever the ultimate title was called). Or the hours I spent playing Sundog, trying to get the developer easter egg to trigger again (while standing around in a town, a developer walked up and asked me if I enjoyed the game. I said yes and he gave me a million credits. I always wanted to find out what would happen if I had said no. ^_^)
Somehow, that was always more fun that just ramming through the game to prove I could beat it.
Because they wanted to include Darth Vadar and Yoda into the mix....
Umm... yes?
Because, unlike closed source solutions, when the company that was bankrolling the development of your favorite programs, someone else can still pick it up and run with it.
Because, unlike closed source solutions, you aren't reliant on solely one entity to provide assitance.
Because, unlike closed source solutions, even if no one is developing the software actively beyond bug patches, it's still avaliable.
So you don't see the problem inherent in the whole world switching over to compressed air for their power storage needs?
Hint: If you think the Ozone Hole was an issue...
Top two on my list: MTV (and SpikeTV, and VH1, and every other "entertainment only" network), and the idea that they have intelligible to say about the gaming industry.
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture science.
We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead.
(Chorus 1)
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
And as they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you.
(Chorus 2)
Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta we're releasing on time.
So I'm glad I got burned think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa -
That was a joke. Haha. Fat chance.
Anyway, this cake is great:
It's so delicious and moist.
(Chorus 3)
Look at me still talking when there's science to do.
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you.
I've experiments to run there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
Still alive
Still alive
Your average /.er would also be smart enough to recognize the difference between recording a public official in the performance of their job and recording the private life of a private citizen.
/.er would probably also be smart enough to realize that we already expect servants of the public to place on hold or willingly suspend certain rights they have as private citizens when they are performing their public duties, as part of the necessarily higher standard we hold them to.
Your above average
The guy who doesn't want to go to jail because he happened to accidently bump into a lobbyist in the supermarket and start talking to them before they realize what's going on?
My Linksys router does a shitload of stuff more than it did with the default firmware, now that I've installed a third party version. Is this really a serious complaint?
The lawsuit was either filed by a moron or a slimeball hoping to get a moron for a judge.
Actually no, if you peruse the site they make it extremely clear the boxes they are intending to subsidize aren't being manufactured yet and that the ETA is sometime Febuary/March. They also make it clear they aren't ISSUING cupons till then, meaning that the 90-day issue is moot. The only reason they have that in there is so someone doesn't snap these up then hold onto them for five years and then get upset because no one will honor it.
I have one better for you. W(hy)TF is the restriction on checked baggage and not on carry on baggage, if they think there is a safety issue?
"Why yes sir, those batteries are very, very dangerous. So please keep them as close to yourself and the other passengers as possible instead of storing them away safely in our baggage area."
That's ok, it hasn't gone gold yet. And as Bogart would say, "We'll always have the Phantom."
A DDR mat and a bucket of water? Sounds like an emo suidice attempt.
Valve has a love for games on rails. They do everything they can possible to ensure that you see what they want you to see, when they want you to see it, without being aware of the rails. Listen to the dev commentary in Ep 2 and Portal and it becomes immediately obvious that the perfect game experience in Valve's mind would be to give the illusion of GTA while ensuring you never actually stray from the path.
This is not a horrible thing. The reason most people are down on games that are on rails is that most developers suck at story telling and cinematic experiences while simultaneously thinking they rock at the same. Therefore most games on rails feel more like a Disney ride than an epic adventure. Both in the fact that you are consitantly reminded that you are on rails and that the various "props" are obviously only expected to be seen from the "ride-side" of the game. Valve actually puts the effort in to cover up the rails, to polish the props and to make it look as if the fact that you just happen to be going down the path is because YOU choose to go that way, not because every other way was closed.
Take for instance, the 'other' episodic game that was released around the time of Episode 1. SiN Episodes: Emergence.
In SiN, you were shown this huge city, many of the locations in game were huge, the modern day equivalents of the Tower of Babel. And yet, there was always a fence, a door, or a window between you and the rest of the world. There were very strict paths you were forced to take, and even though you would often be assulted by people coming from the inaccessible areas, you never were given the chance to get to them yourself. It was very obvious that your goals were "get A to pass B so you can push C and open D".
This is exactly the same scenario that the Half-Life games provide, but with them it is far, far easier to forget that you are being herded along a path. Take dodging the Antlion guard in the mines/hive. Most people, the first time around, probably almost shat themselves when they finially fell down that final shaft with the guard seemingly just a millisecond behind them. However if you play the game through again, you realize that this spot was actually scripted to come off exactly that way. You might be able to mess around and actually die there, but you will never get so far ahead of the guard that they won't be a millisecond behind you at the final shaft.
Valve specializes in cinematic magic. A sandbox free-will game is their anti-thesis.
Having never "seen" a Shadowrun style hacking, I don't know if this is similar or not. But if you've ever played the Dystopia mod for the Source games, that has one of the best "hacking" setups I've run into.
Shadowrun/Mechwarior/Crimson Sky games all sound as if they would be better as massivily multiplayer FPS's as opposed to the current MMO crop that is primarly RPG with mock FPS stylings added on top.
No, no, wait!! I've got it.... Atari?