And no mention of it here... am I on crack? I could have sworn he was served with cease-and-desist letters to completely halt his mod given his usage of images/logos/intellectual property.
Oh, here's a reference. Yeah, it coined a phrase for that time period... getting "Foxed".
I'll have to concur with this. I just canceled my Tivo service today. They certainly made this hard to do, can't do it online, have to call and go through 3 separate people (recorded voice, customer help person, and then transfered to another).
I have my MythTV Box at the point where it makes my Tivo look inadequate. I have a nice SilverstoneTek case, with LCD, running FC5 (look for the FC5 guide + Myth to make it an easy install). I ran into a few small problems, sure. But with MythWeb, MythGame, MythMusic, and MythTV, my Tivo simply can't compare. MythWeb in particular - what an easy to use/configure interface for managing all my upcoming recordings, which easily allows me to see the conflicts, fix the conflicts, etc etc.
I think Tivo needs to take a good, hard look at what's out there now, at the cool stuff the hobbyists are putting together, and start incorporating that into their product. (Web interface, LCD, more control / insight into the recording schedule, media playing capabilities, etc).
One of my professors took the LISP code we turned in, and ran a 'reduction' program on it... changing all variables to 1 letter, removing all comments, removing all extra whitespace, basically making one "block" of code. Then he compared the normalized blocks to other people's blocks. He turned up two identical ones, and then gave them a t-shirt in class that said "I got busted cheating"... but only one t-shirt. He said they would just share it anyway.
but I'm starting to worry about the implications and far reaching effects of determining what is spam, and unlawful usage of email systems, etc etc.
It reminds me vaguely of companies slapping down DMCA suits on anyone who mentions their product or company in a negative light.
Eventually, companies and law enforcement will have the tools and the law on their side (everyone hates spam, right?)... but then who gets to determine the definition of spam?
I'm sure we can all come up with a number of scenarios which would highlight the problems of when companies, with money at stake, can arbitrarily determine what is spam. Which of course, will NEVER happen... (and I remember hearing the same thing about the DMCA and some of its glaring faults).
Eventually, it just seems it will become another tool for stifling what you and I may consider free speech, but yet again, the little guy can't afford $$$$$ to protect himself from big company with mega-lawsuit-fund.
Haven't you people learned? As long as some company owns the rights / copyrights / whateverrights to something that could conceivably make them a friggen' ***DIME*** - maybe not now, maybe not in 10 years, but at some distant point in the future, most companies CAN and WILL "protect" their intellectual property.
If you're going to make a mod based on other people's junk, you better be prepared to go underground, or release it from some country that doesn't give a frack about WIPO - and then hope you never visit a country that participates in WIPO, because you will be blackbagged and locked up just because you dared pay homage to something you really took an interest in.
*Subject is in reference to the Aliens: Total Conversion Doom mod that was shutdown by Fox Studios, as one of the first corporate shutdowns of a fan's work that I remember in the game scene.
I tried to take a NIS domain, mixed linux/solaris clients and convert into a single LDAP auth'ing environment, plus LDAP auth for our webservers... thus giving me finally a SSO environment where I didn't have to maintain numerous passwd files, etc. I went from knowing nothing about LDAP, to at least being able to set it all up. Even with the PADL tools things took a while. Setting up all the SSL certs... self-signing etc. Incorrect examples and docs from people online. Yeah, then try to make Solaris play well with OpenLDAP... all sorts of little hacks involved in that. Then enjoy the fun of getting Apache up and running and properly using LDAP. Lots of little things that can go wrong there, unless you follow things to a T. It was like two steps forward, 1 step back all the friggen time. Would have been probably 10x easier had I just been a pure linux shop...
I must say, despite all the pain, it was absolutely beautiful when it was working. I even managed to get all the auto mount maps working as well... the only thing I didn't get a chance (before I left) was to get our NetApp using LDAP. Another thing that "should have just worked" but didn't. Much like everything else along the road of LDAP.
These guys are hardcore gamers, that's not the kind of comment you want from guys that have this much clout.
They'll wait in line just like every other crack addict when the PS3 comes out - don't be fooled. You can't be a game reviewer / write comics about games and ignore what will be a large event in the game community (release of the PS3).
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They canned Scorpia. And then they started giving ratings to games instead of making you read the review and actually make an informed opinion. You can see the steady decline once they sold themselves(?) to Ziff-Davis.
This was THE best gaming mag when I was growing up - and then they fucked it up with tons of new changes under the new management, and you can watch the gradual fleeing of the staff as month after month you'd read a little intro of "someone new joining the team" and someone else departing. I was a heavy reader once I got into gaming.. I guess that was around '85... and then I read until the early 90s.
I'm sick of women being given special consideration in the tech field.
I believe in a meritocracy - if you have the skills and the knowledge, fucking prove it. Step up to the plate. Get involved. I know *I* don't give a fucking care if you're red, white, black, female, handicapped, just as long as you can do the fucking job set in front of you. Yet here we have 'special groups' to encourage more women to come out and play - what, are they afraid to come get their hands dirty and need some sort of support group before they have the confidence to chip in?
It's the kind of thing that pisses me off about the online gaming clans of 'all women' teams. Christ, you're anonymous, and can pretend to be whomever you choose to be, yet you fall back to some safe little sphere where you're 'all women' and can bond in your little gaming world. Way to take some risk and get involved.
And here's where I really burn: From my anecdotal evidence, all the women I've run into in the tech field have been, for the most part, silly girls who got where they were because they were hand-held by drooling nerds trying to score some female nerd BOOTAY and never had to fucking do anything/for themselves/.
"Oh, having problem with that system upgrade? Let me help, (and maybe I'll get in your pants!!)".
I find special groups for women secular, isolated, and counter-productive when it comes to dealing with the rest of the world.
But hey, if women out there want to join their "special" club instead of getting their hands dirty in the massive/already existing/ community, then whatever. Hold hands, and sing songs of trial and problems and how unfair the rest of the world treats you.
The enterprise version of Symantec sucks far less than their consumer version. Fairly light on resource usage, no annoying GUI "friendly for your Mom" interface with stupid pop-ups and irritating notices. I wish they used something similiar for their home version. I'd almost consider using it at that point.
Is it any wonder that they are floundering, when the executive branch is set and determined to push out 'bad facts' people and replace them with 'good facts' yes-men? The article references the CIA, but I'm sure the FBI has felt the push as well. Imagine the loss of talent and people who want to do a good job, do it right, and not have to be encumbered by coming up with 'politically convenient' reports.
Adventure Zork I Archon Arctic Fox Sentinel Worlds: Future Magic. Starflight. Still the best game ever. Starflight II. Quest for Glory I, II, II, IV. (Dammit, I still never played V). Kings Quest I, II, III, IV Space Quest IV (Never played the others) Ancient Art of War (Sea) Various early Chessmasters. System Shock (I, and then later II. RIP Looking Glass) All the Gold Box SSI games. (Forgotten Realms, Krynn, etc)
Pre-Internet Multiplayer:
Doom Hexen Duke Nukem
Welcome to the Internet (I go to college)
MUDs MUSHes MUSEs Netrek (Bronco / Paradise) Diablo Quake (and more FPS clones than I can remember) Quakeworld
Welcome to the Internet Crack Bar - snort and shoot up.
Ultima Online.
I skip EverCrack to save my life and sanity.
Then I log about 3 months worth of play in a year of City of Heroes.
Playing Guild Wars still. I won't touch WoW for my own sake.
Someday, I should really come up with the list of games I've played. This is just off the top of my head. I might be frightened by my shocking waste of time and life. And I'm not even counting my hours and hours in the video arcades.
So I'd say from 1986 to 1996 was a good run. That was my first computer and all my first games. Sigh.
Random Kudoes out to : Thief I, II, III. Alice. Deus Ex (Even II). Fear. FarCry. America's Army. Counterstrike. Half Life (I, II). Baldur's Gate (I and II). Neverwinter Nights + modules.
I'm glad you like to sink so quickly to personal attacks.
"This would pretty much prove that it was working... "
No, this would prove that the vaunted NSA could be fooled by a few 15 year olds playing pranks.
You're right, it would be a good thing if they broke down the door. It would point out the flaws in their methods, humiliate a few people at the top, and maybe, just maybe, remind people that domestic spying on citizens is beyond their charter and about as Un-American as it gets.
I'm more afraid of the government violating my civil liberties at this point than I am of terrorism.
I mean, seriously. With the amount of political talk these days, and the hate for the current administration, I just can't wait until there's "no route to host" when/. gets seized and the records / databases behind this site get ripped through - just another casualty in the 'war on freedom' because 'suspected terrorists' were posting their evil plans here.
I think I'm going to start correcting people - when they say "war on terror", I'll say "No, you mean the war on freedom.".
Rob, et al - please have a "emergency/. backup site" somewhere. I expect all icons on your site, that day, to be the guy with the gag in his mouth.
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I'd snipe some guy from 2 miles away and then they all turn and lay down fire on my exact location. Fuck that.
No reference to the first modder that I recall who ran afoul of Fox Studios intellectual property - the Alien TC mod for Doom.
... am I on crack? I could have sworn he was served with cease-and-desist letters to completely halt his mod given his usage of images/logos/intellectual property.
... getting "Foxed".
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http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Aliens_TC
And no mention of it here
Oh, here's a reference. Yeah, it coined a phrase for that time period
http://www.unfetteredblather.com/nucleus/index.ph
I'll have to concur with this. I just canceled my Tivo service today. They certainly made this hard to do, can't do it online, have to call and go through 3 separate people (recorded voice, customer help person, and then transfered to another).
I have my MythTV Box at the point where it makes my Tivo look inadequate. I have a nice SilverstoneTek case, with LCD, running FC5 (look for the FC5 guide + Myth to make it an easy install). I ran into a few small problems, sure. But with MythWeb, MythGame, MythMusic, and MythTV, my Tivo simply can't compare. MythWeb in particular - what an easy to use/configure interface for managing all my upcoming recordings, which easily allows me to see the conflicts, fix the conflicts, etc etc.
I think Tivo needs to take a good, hard look at what's out there now, at the cool stuff the hobbyists are putting together, and start incorporating that into their product. (Web interface, LCD, more control / insight into the recording schedule, media playing capabilities, etc).
Yeah, it's too bad he made a politically incorrect statement on a show called Politically Incorrect. WTF? Fire his ass.
I can't believe some of these didn't make the list.
Dark Forces/Jedi Knight : Falling Ship level.
Thief III : The Cradle.
I second whomever said the levels from Myth - The Fallen Lords.
I also second the original 2Fort4 from Quakeworld Team Fortress.
I want to throw in America's Army : Pipeline for a nod. Best from that game, IMHO.
I agree with the Beyond Good and Evil level from the article, a great, underrated game.
dopamine ftw!
Why do I have little sympathy for someone being an asshat, saying things you'd never say to someone else's face, and getting attacked for it?
.....
Just can't put my finger on it
Remind me again if I'm supposed to laugh or cry at this statement?
Collect $200. Pass Go!
Hah, nice.
... changing all variables to 1 letter, removing all comments, removing all extra whitespace, basically making one "block" of code. Then he compared the normalized blocks to other people's blocks. He turned up two identical ones, and then gave them a t-shirt in class that said "I got busted cheating" ... but only one t-shirt. He said they would just share it anyway.
One of my professors took the LISP code we turned in, and ran a 'reduction' program on it
but I'm starting to worry about the implications and far reaching effects of determining what is spam, and unlawful usage of email systems, etc etc.
... but then who gets to determine the definition of spam?
... (and I remember hearing the same thing about the DMCA and some of its glaring faults).
It reminds me vaguely of companies slapping down DMCA suits on anyone who mentions their product or company in a negative light.
Eventually, companies and law enforcement will have the tools and the law on their side (everyone hates spam, right?)
I'm sure we can all come up with a number of scenarios which would highlight the problems of when companies, with money at stake, can arbitrarily determine what is spam. Which of course, will NEVER happen
Eventually, it just seems it will become another tool for stifling what you and I may consider free speech, but yet again, the little guy can't afford $$$$$ to protect himself from big company with mega-lawsuit-fund.
Sigh.
Haven't you people learned? As long as some company owns the rights / copyrights / whateverrights to something that could conceivably make them a friggen' ***DIME*** - maybe not now, maybe not in 10 years, but at some distant point in the future, most companies CAN and WILL "protect" their intellectual property.
If you're going to make a mod based on other people's junk, you better be prepared to go underground, or release it from some country that doesn't give a frack about WIPO - and then hope you never visit a country that participates in WIPO, because you will be blackbagged and locked up just because you dared pay homage to something you really took an interest in.
*Subject is in reference to the Aliens: Total Conversion Doom mod that was shutdown by Fox Studios, as one of the first corporate shutdowns of a fan's work that I remember in the game scene.
Yeah, no kidding. Total pain in the ass.
... thus giving me finally a SSO environment where I didn't have to maintain numerous passwd files, etc. I went from knowing nothing about LDAP, to at least being able to set it all up. Even with the PADL tools things took a while. Setting up all the SSL certs ... self-signing etc. Incorrect examples and docs from people online. Yeah, then try to make Solaris play well with OpenLDAP ... all sorts of little hacks involved in that. Then enjoy the fun of getting Apache up and running and properly using LDAP. Lots of little things that can go wrong there, unless you follow things to a T. It was like two steps forward, 1 step back all the friggen time. Would have been probably 10x easier had I just been a pure linux shop ...
... the only thing I didn't get a chance (before I left) was to get our NetApp using LDAP. Another thing that "should have just worked" but didn't. Much like everything else along the road of LDAP.
I tried to take a NIS domain, mixed linux/solaris clients and convert into a single LDAP auth'ing environment, plus LDAP auth for our webservers
I must say, despite all the pain, it was absolutely beautiful when it was working. I even managed to get all the auto mount maps working as well
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040319h. jpg
These guys are hardcore gamers, that's not the kind of comment you want from guys that have this much clout.
They'll wait in line just like every other crack addict when the PS3 comes out - don't be fooled. You can't be a game reviewer / write comics about games and ignore what will be a large event in the game community (release of the PS3).
They canned Scorpia. And then they started giving ratings to games
.. ... and then I read until the early 90s.
instead of making you read the review and actually make an informed
opinion. You can see the steady decline once they sold themselves(?)
to Ziff-Davis.
This was THE best gaming mag when I was growing up - and then they
fucked it up with tons of new changes under the new management, and
you can watch the gradual fleeing of the staff as month after month
you'd read a little intro of "someone new joining the team" and
someone else departing. I was a heavy reader once I got into gaming
I guess that was around '85
I'm going to get flamed to hell for this.
/for themselves/.
/already existing/ community,
I'm sick of women being given special consideration in the tech field.
I believe in a meritocracy - if you have the skills and the knowledge,
fucking prove it. Step up to the plate. Get involved. I know *I* don't
give a fucking care if you're red, white, black, female, handicapped,
just as long as you can do the fucking job set in front of you. Yet here
we have 'special groups' to encourage more women to come out and play -
what, are they afraid to come get their hands dirty and need some sort
of support group before they have the confidence to chip in?
It's the kind of thing that pisses me off about the online gaming clans
of 'all women' teams. Christ, you're anonymous, and can pretend to be
whomever you choose to be, yet you fall back to some safe little sphere
where you're 'all women' and can bond in your little gaming world. Way to
take some risk and get involved.
And here's where I really burn: From my anecdotal evidence, all the women
I've run into in the tech field have been, for the most part, silly girls
who got where they were because they were hand-held by drooling nerds
trying to score some female nerd BOOTAY and never had to fucking do anything
"Oh, having problem with that system upgrade? Let me help, (and maybe I'll
get in your pants!!)".
I find special groups for women secular, isolated, and counter-productive
when it comes to dealing with the rest of the world.
But hey, if women out there want to join their "special" club instead of
getting their hands dirty in the massive
then whatever. Hold hands, and sing songs of trial and problems and how
unfair the rest of the world treats you.
The enterprise version of Symantec sucks far less than their consumer version. Fairly light on resource usage, no annoying GUI "friendly for your Mom" interface with stupid pop-ups and irritating notices. I wish they used something similiar for their home version. I'd almost consider using it at that point.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1
The solo years:
Adventure
Zork I
Archon
Arctic Fox
Sentinel Worlds: Future Magic.
Starflight. Still the best game ever.
Starflight II.
Quest for Glory I, II, II, IV. (Dammit, I still never played V).
Kings Quest I, II, III, IV
Space Quest IV (Never played the others)
Ancient Art of War (Sea)
Various early Chessmasters.
System Shock (I, and then later II. RIP Looking Glass)
All the Gold Box SSI games. (Forgotten Realms, Krynn, etc)
Pre-Internet Multiplayer:
Doom
Hexen
Duke Nukem
Welcome to the Internet (I go to college)
MUDs
MUSHes
MUSEs
Netrek (Bronco / Paradise)
Diablo
Quake (and more FPS clones than I can remember)
Quakeworld
Welcome to the Internet Crack Bar - snort and shoot up.
Ultima Online.
I skip EverCrack to save my life and sanity.
Then I log about 3 months worth of play in a year of City of Heroes.
Playing Guild Wars still. I won't touch WoW for my own sake.
Someday, I should really come up with the list of games I've played. This is just off the top of my head. I might be frightened by my shocking waste of time and life. And I'm not even counting my hours and hours in the video arcades.
So I'd say from 1986 to 1996 was a good run. That was my first computer and all my first games. Sigh.
Random Kudoes out to : Thief I, II, III. Alice. Deus Ex (Even II). Fear. FarCry. America's Army. Counterstrike. Half Life (I, II). Baldur's Gate (I and II). Neverwinter Nights + modules.
Yeah, I'm surprised I had time to date.
Re: The Cradle
Scariest. Level. Ever.
I'm glad you like to sink so quickly to personal attacks.
... "
"This would pretty much prove that it was working
No, this would prove that the vaunted NSA could be fooled by a few 15 year olds
playing pranks.
You're right, it would be a good thing if they broke down the door. It would point
out the flaws in their methods, humiliate a few people at the top, and maybe, just
maybe, remind people that domestic spying on citizens is beyond their charter and
about as Un-American as it gets.
I'm more afraid of the government violating my civil liberties at this point than
I am of terrorism.
About who can fake the NSA out. Using webrings, postings, blog articles, code words, etc.
I want it all to point to some abandoned house that's supposedly a terrorist cell.
I want a webcam and computer to snap a picture of NSA agents busting in, and then print
them out a little message :
"Stop domestic spying. Stop hurting America with your un-American actions. Stand up. Do
something. Speak out."
I think I'm going to start correcting people - when they say "war on terror", I'll say "No, you mean the war on freedom.".
Rob, et al - please have a "emergency /. backup site" somewhere. I expect all icons on your site, that day, to be the guy with the gag in his mouth.
Given EA's ability to drive a franchise into the ground, squeeze blood from a rock, etc, I think you really meant "John Madden 2XXX".