The Japanese gaming market, at least thats how it appears, I'm not a huge gamer, but you take a look at the majority of Japanese-only titles and think how well they would potentially do in the West.
Most of them would fall flat on their faces, and the same is true the other way around, at least in some part. My point is, companies like Nintendo and Sony are Japanese and they have a much better idea of what game content their market wants to see, therefore they are more succesful in producing tailored games for that market, and also find it alot easier to build up a fanbase for their hardware.
Japan as an entity seems to prefer titles like Super Magic Fun Travel Wish Yo-Yo 6 over something with lots of explosions and guns, maybe this is what companies like Microsoft are not realising?
Anyway, as I said, I may be way off, I havn't been a real gamer for years, and don't pay that much attention to it.
Wahaha. Who the hell modded this as "troll"? Its very well done, whether or not you agree with the underlying tone, you gotta admit its been put together well and can't be anything other than a lighthearted jab at Microsoft. Get a sense of humour;)
Either way, I found it hilarious, nice work (assuming you are the author of it).
What can I say? I'm delighted, I loved season 1 and 2 of RvB, I only found out about it a couple of months back from a Halo fanboy friend, and it had me in stitches. (Particularly the aformentioned pacifist / pacifier / pedophile joke)
I showed it to some friends round my place the other night, and whilst none of them being Halo fanatics, nor particularly hardcore gamers, they appreciated the humour and we had all had a good laugh.
As mentioned in a previous post, this stuff is better than the large majority of the crap that gets pumped onto our terrestrial / cable TV's all year round, kudos to Rooster Teeth. Keep up the good work.
Does anyone know if they will be doing anything similar with Halo 2 when its released, or are they moving off the FPS scene and sticking with the planned Sims 2 sitcom?
Windows with 95% has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities Unix with 5% also has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities.
I think the stats speak for themselves in which is more secure. If Win boxes can take such a phenomenal market share and still only have the same number of 'top' vulnerabilities, that's putting it 19 times more secure.
From the summary:
"The SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list is actually a compilation of two lists--the top 10 Windows vulnerabilities and the top 10 Unix vulnerabilities."
The two lists are not competeting with each other, it is simply the top 10 win vulns, and the top 10 unix vulns, its not a top 20 list where there happen to be 10 vulnerabilities of each OS.
Highly American of me? Stereotyping aside, that's interesting being as I am a British national. The funnier part is that you clearly didn't detect the trademark hint of British sarcasm when I stated your insult was creative.
Thought it was kind of obvious, oh well, simple strokes for difficult folks hey;)
Paraphrasing the article:
"Google AdSense administration pages work only with Internet Explorer".
Ahhh yes, I see it now! How could I have been so blind? That statement is clearly not complete bullshit! Look man, the only way that statement could be made and not be completely false, is if every single Firefox and Opera et al user couldn't access the AdSense admin page, but they can, making the statement not true, which in slang terms can be referred to as:
COMPLETE BULLSHIT
My god, how can you fail to see that the statement made there is 100% false? Are you trolling or are you just an idiot. Either way its sad. Later.
Look. I see where you are coming from, but you gotta admit the author made a very blanket statement, and one that is very wrong.
I don't think you can argue there. My original point was that it is complete bullshit to say that "Only IE can access Google Adsense administration pages", because its a fact that almost everyone out there using Mozilla / Firefox or whatever floats their boat can access it without any problems.
If he had stated something along the lines of "I had difficulty connecting to the AdSense site using Firefox", that would be fine, but saying the browser doesn't work at all with it because it failed when he tried is stupid.
I was never debating whether or not he had problems accessing the page with Firefox, and I really don't care how he came to his incorrect conclusion, but the fact of the matter is that his statement was completely false. Just because he had a problem, why assume that everyone has the same issue? Thats just sheer idiocy, especially when you take into consideration the amount of factors that could have been the cause of the problem in the first place.
When you can round up a nice portion of AdSense customers that can't access the admin site with Firefox, I will retract my statement. Until then, I am sticking with what I said originally, the author from TFA spouted complete bullshit.
"Actually, Mr Dip Shit"
Very creative insult by the way. Kudos. Do you degenerate every trivial debate you participate in to the level of kindergarten style name calling? Anyway, I'm done with this.
Actually, Mr "Complete Bullshit" was, funnily enough, referring to a comment the author made that was..... wait for it..... wait for it..... yes!
Complete Bullshit.
Let me enlighten you:
From TFA:
"The AdSense administration site works only with IE, which, if you think about it, is ironic given the competition Google is starting to face from Gates and Co."
Quite clearly, this is not the case, as I and thousands of other Mozilla / Firefox / Opera etc users can access the Google Adsense administration page with no problem, so a blanket statement like the author made is obviously false.
I'm having an issue on the demo with the sound server, causes a seg fault then just exits the game at random points.
during game/demo_mars_city1...
WARNING: Couldn't load sound 'guisounds.wav' using default
WARNING: file def/weapon_bfg.def, line 102: Unknown entityDef 'damage_bfgSplash' inherited by 'damage_bfgsplash_cinematic'
WARNING: file def/weapon_bfg.def, line 92: Unknown entityDef 'damage_bfg' inherited by 'damage_bfg_cinematic'
WARNING: file def/weapon_bfg.def, line 97: Unknown entityDef 'damage_bfgFreq' inherited by 'damage_bfgfreq_cinematic' WARNING: Unknown classname 'weapon_plasmagun' on 'weapon_plasmagun_1'. 5 warnings Toggling speakers signal caught: Segmentation fault si_code 1 Trying to exit gracefully.. Game Map Shutdown
Shutting down sound hardware OSS Sound Shutdown unmap dma sound buffer close sound device
idRenderSystem::Shutdown() Game Shutdown Game Map Shutdown
Shutdown event system
shutdown terminal support bash-2.05b#
Looks like a problem with my OSS emulation driver, has anyone else experienced this or anything similar? I havn't tried the full game yet, but I don't want to buy it if it is going to experience the same issues.
Aye, I have a couple of AdSense accounts, I have never actually accessed the administration page from anything but Mozilla / Firefox, and I have never once had a problem with it. Nor do I remember ever seeing anything on Google's AdSense pages advising users to use a specific browser.
Nahh... this is better. Make them use the products they sell, one time for each message they send.
So their punishment would include 42 meters of penis enlargement theropy, several hundered skanky Russian mail order brides and a heavy overdose of viagra and vicadin? Interesting punishment;)
the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car
So... my old floppy disks will be put out to stud and possibly race each other, whilst other more modern disk mediums will pollute the atmosphere and cause a few hundered thousand serious / fatal road accidents a year? Interesting analogy, yet a bleak look at the future of data storage.
That's nothing. I can decrypt 1024-bit encryption in my head, in under 60 seconds, with Natalie Portman and Halle Berry rolling about in hot grits just off to the side of my 6 flatpanels.
Actually it was 7 flatpanels.
Oh dear god, I am admitting I actually paid attention to that movie, I'm guessing the next step is lynching by the slashdot mob?
On a more constructive note, since UT2003/4, Quake3, Doom3, and a handfull of other badass games are supported by Linux why isnt there a Linux-Gamers distro. Even if it were just a bootable knoppix CD that could take advantage of the Athlon 64 and play these games off your harddrive it would really help get linux on the desktop in the gamers croud.
Someone is already working on that, its called Linux Live Game Project, a live CD that is orientated around gaming, the home page is at http://tuxgamers.altervista.org.
A site I run with a friend currently mirror their distro over BitTorrent, check it out at The Linux Mirror Project
Hey, I co-admin the The Linux Mirror Project which you mentioned in your post, and I just thought I would add my $0.02 to the topic.
It annoys the hell out of me when I read almost daily media articles about P2P networks being used only for sharing warez, and promoting illegal activities, myself and Matt have put a hell of alot of time, money and effort into our project and it feels like a kick in the teeth when these lobyists and "legislators" just immediately denounce P2P as illegal and immoral by default, and attempt to shut it all down.
I won't deny that alot of P2P users are simply warez leeches, but there are a hell of alot of legitimate uses (e.g. see Bob9113's examples), and these are becoming more and more widespread. Our trackers managed to see over 4TB's of transfer last month, and up until last week we were only based on a couple of 1Mb SDSL lines (which were also supporting FTPd's, HTTPd's, IRCd's etc), now think how much harder this would have been to accomplish using the FTP protocol. We would have had to increase our bandwidth by 10 fold. And this doesn't just apply to our project, this applies to alot of various content distribution, it really can work out well compared to the old FTP / HTTP standards in alot of scenarios.
I don't know how they can fail to see these new technologies as a real advancement in communications and data transfer, weilded correctly, they can be extremely powerful tools that could even save alot of companies and corporations time and money, and make content more accessable to the users. Sure there are problems, but maybe they should concentrate on putting out the fire rather than destroying the whole forest.
Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer takes a different view of the bug in Mozilla on Windows. Click here to read more.
I'm clicking but I'm not getting any reading. I assume this is the same for everyone else. For anyone who wants to read the article that wasn't linked properly, check here:
I had been saving up for a while to get a Voodoo 4MB graphics chipset for my P166, I remember spending about 2 weeks trying to get hold of one here when they were first released, but it seemed like all the stores had sold out.
Finally, I got a call from one of the local computer hardware stores informing me they had just receieved a shipment of these beasts, so I ran down there like a little child at christmas and forked over the cash.
I got home and opened up the packaging, then pryed open my box, I unscrewed one of the PCI blanking plates and tried to remove it, but it was bent and didn't want to budge, so I pulled as hard as I could, it came off and I went flying backwards right into the table beside me, I had a full pint glass of coke on the table which spilt into the case (and also over my keyboard).
Turns out that coke isn't only bad for teeth, its not good for x86 hardware either. Needless to say, I never did get around to playing GLQuake that day:(
Preventing people from making legal backups of their games that they purchased for $50 odd is insane.
That basically boils down to the fact that when you spend your hard earned 50 bucks, all you are getting is a CD / DVD disc (and hopefully a box and a manual), as you have no rights to do anything to the data contained on it.
That's one damn expensive disc.
Don't get me wrong, its their work and they should keep ownership rights, but for the money consumers pay for the product, they should at least have some freedom to copy the data providing it is for personal use. Whatever happend to "fair usage"?
I can understand their concern over piracy, but from a business point of view, is screwing over your customers in an attempt to stop a few people getting the product for free really a wise move? Seems like the path most corporations and companies are travelling recently.
Also, by preventing your customers from copying the data, you are implying guilt before innocence, ie: people are more likely to be pirating than making legimate backups, so treat them as criminals by limiting their experience.
Slashdot Mirror
Most of them would fall flat on their faces, and the same is true the other way around, at least in some part. My point is, companies like Nintendo and Sony are Japanese and they have a much better idea of what game content their market wants to see, therefore they are more succesful in producing tailored games for that market, and also find it alot easier to build up a fanbase for their hardware.
Japan as an entity seems to prefer titles like Super Magic Fun Travel Wish Yo-Yo 6 over something with lots of explosions and guns, maybe this is what companies like Microsoft are not realising?
Anyway, as I said, I may be way off, I havn't been a real gamer for years, and don't pay that much attention to it.
Either way, I found it hilarious, nice work (assuming you are the author of it).
Although I do agree, it's annoying that its a PDF document in the first place. Either way, here you go:
British Invention Show FAQ PDF > HTML google cache
You damn kids today and your Xvid-this and gigawhatsit-that. You don't know how good you got it. Grrr.
Get owrf my lawn!
I showed it to some friends round my place the other night, and whilst none of them being Halo fanatics, nor particularly hardcore gamers, they appreciated the humour and we had all had a good laugh.
As mentioned in a previous post, this stuff is better than the large majority of the crap that gets pumped onto our terrestrial / cable TV's all year round, kudos to Rooster Teeth. Keep up the good work.
Does anyone know if they will be doing anything similar with Halo 2 when its released, or are they moving off the FPS scene and sticking with the planned Sims 2 sitcom?
I think the stats speak for themselves in which is more secure. If Win boxes can take such a phenomenal market share and still only have the same number of 'top' vulnerabilities, that's putting it 19 times more secure. From the summary:
"The SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list is actually a compilation of two lists--the top 10 Windows vulnerabilities and the top 10 Unix vulnerabilities."
The two lists are not competeting with each other, it is simply the top 10 win vulns, and the top 10 unix vulns, its not a top 20 list where there happen to be 10 vulnerabilities of each OS.
Give me a shout:
bumboclot ([at)] g m a i l D|O|T com
Thought it was kind of obvious, oh well, simple strokes for difficult folks hey ;)
Paraphrasing the article:
"Google AdSense administration pages work only with Internet Explorer".
Ahhh yes, I see it now! How could I have been so blind? That statement is clearly not complete bullshit! Look man, the only way that statement could be made and not be completely false, is if every single Firefox and Opera et al user couldn't access the AdSense admin page, but they can, making the statement not true, which in slang terms can be referred to as:
COMPLETE BULLSHIT
My god, how can you fail to see that the statement made there is 100% false? Are you trolling or are you just an idiot. Either way its sad. Later.
I don't think you can argue there. My original point was that it is complete bullshit to say that "Only IE can access Google Adsense administration pages", because its a fact that almost everyone out there using Mozilla / Firefox or whatever floats their boat can access it without any problems.
If he had stated something along the lines of "I had difficulty connecting to the AdSense site using Firefox", that would be fine, but saying the browser doesn't work at all with it because it failed when he tried is stupid. I was never debating whether or not he had problems accessing the page with Firefox, and I really don't care how he came to his incorrect conclusion, but the fact of the matter is that his statement was completely false. Just because he had a problem, why assume that everyone has the same issue? Thats just sheer idiocy, especially when you take into consideration the amount of factors that could have been the cause of the problem in the first place.
When you can round up a nice portion of AdSense customers that can't access the admin site with Firefox, I will retract my statement. Until then, I am sticking with what I said originally, the author from TFA spouted complete bullshit.
"Actually, Mr Dip Shit"
Very creative insult by the way. Kudos. Do you degenerate every trivial debate you participate in to the level of kindergarten style name calling? Anyway, I'm done with this.
Complete Bullshit.
Let me enlighten you:
From TFA:
"The AdSense administration site works only with IE, which, if you think about it, is ironic given the competition Google is starting to face from Gates and Co."
Quite clearly, this is not the case, as I and thousands of other Mozilla / Firefox / Opera etc users can access the Google Adsense administration page with no problem, so a blanket statement like the author made is obviously false.
I'm having an issue on the demo with the sound server, causes a seg fault then just exits the game at random points.
during game/demo_mars_city1...
WARNING: Couldn't load sound 'guisounds.wav' using default
WARNING: file def/weapon_bfg.def, line 102: Unknown entityDef 'damage_bfgSplash' inherited by 'damage_bfgsplash_cinematic'
WARNING: file def/weapon_bfg.def, line 92: Unknown entityDef 'damage_bfg' inherited by 'damage_bfg_cinematic'
WARNING: file def/weapon_bfg.def, line 97: Unknown entityDef 'damage_bfgFreq' inherited by 'damage_bfgfreq_cinematic'
WARNING: Unknown classname 'weapon_plasmagun' on 'weapon_plasmagun_1'.
5 warnings
Toggling speakers
signal caught: Segmentation fault
si_code 1
Trying to exit gracefully..
Game Map Shutdown
Shutting down sound hardware
OSS Sound Shutdown
unmap dma sound buffer
close sound device
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Game Shutdown
Game Map Shutdown
Shutdown event system
shutdown terminal support
bash-2.05b#
Looks like a problem with my OSS emulation driver, has anyone else experienced this or anything similar? I havn't tried the full game yet, but I don't want to buy it if it is going to experience the same issues.
Complete bullshit.
What next? "Duke Nukem Forever delayed"?
Jebus.
So their punishment would include 42 meters of penis enlargement theropy, several hundered skanky Russian mail order brides and a heavy overdose of viagra and vicadin? Interesting punishment ;)
So... my old floppy disks will be put out to stud and possibly race each other, whilst other more modern disk mediums will pollute the atmosphere and cause a few hundered thousand serious / fatal road accidents a year? Interesting analogy, yet a bleak look at the future of data storage.
+1 insightful for Taco!
To paraphrase Principal Skinner:
There's no justice like angry mob justice
Gather the geek masses and lets riot! Next stop. Redmond, WA.
Actually it was 7 flatpanels.
Oh dear god, I am admitting I actually paid attention to that movie, I'm guessing the next step is lynching by the slashdot mob?
Someone is already working on that, its called Linux Live Game Project, a live CD that is orientated around gaming, the home page is at http://tuxgamers.altervista.org.
A site I run with a friend currently mirror their distro over BitTorrent, check it out at The Linux Mirror Project
It annoys the hell out of me when I read almost daily media articles about P2P networks being used only for sharing warez, and promoting illegal activities, myself and Matt have put a hell of alot of time, money and effort into our project and it feels like a kick in the teeth when these lobyists and "legislators" just immediately denounce P2P as illegal and immoral by default, and attempt to shut it all down.
I won't deny that alot of P2P users are simply warez leeches, but there are a hell of alot of legitimate uses (e.g. see Bob9113's examples), and these are becoming more and more widespread. Our trackers managed to see over 4TB's of transfer last month, and up until last week we were only based on a couple of 1Mb SDSL lines (which were also supporting FTPd's, HTTPd's, IRCd's etc), now think how much harder this would have been to accomplish using the FTP protocol. We would have had to increase our bandwidth by 10 fold. And this doesn't just apply to our project, this applies to alot of various content distribution, it really can work out well compared to the old FTP / HTTP standards in alot of scenarios.
I don't know how they can fail to see these new technologies as a real advancement in communications and data transfer, weilded correctly, they can be extremely powerful tools that could even save alot of companies and corporations time and money, and make content more accessable to the users. Sure there are problems, but maybe they should concentrate on putting out the fire rather than destroying the whole forest.
Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer takes a different view of the bug in Mozilla on Windows. Click here to read more.
I'm clicking but I'm not getting any reading. I assume this is the same for everyone else. For anyone who wants to read the article that wasn't linked properly, check here:
Larry Seltzer on Mozilla Flaw
Finally, I got a call from one of the local computer hardware stores informing me they had just receieved a shipment of these beasts, so I ran down there like a little child at christmas and forked over the cash.
I got home and opened up the packaging, then pryed open my box, I unscrewed one of the PCI blanking plates and tried to remove it, but it was bent and didn't want to budge, so I pulled as hard as I could, it came off and I went flying backwards right into the table beside me, I had a full pint glass of coke on the table which spilt into the case (and also over my keyboard).
Turns out that coke isn't only bad for teeth, its not good for x86 hardware either. Needless to say, I never did get around to playing GLQuake that day :(
I'm not sure if the 8 ball is trying to tell you to avoid Iraq or stop using Microsoft Outlook. Either is sound advice in my opinion. ;)
That basically boils down to the fact that when you spend your hard earned 50 bucks, all you are getting is a CD / DVD disc (and hopefully a box and a manual), as you have no rights to do anything to the data contained on it.
That's one damn expensive disc.
Don't get me wrong, its their work and they should keep ownership rights, but for the money consumers pay for the product, they should at least have some freedom to copy the data providing it is for personal use. Whatever happend to "fair usage"? I can understand their concern over piracy, but from a business point of view, is screwing over your customers in an attempt to stop a few people getting the product for free really a wise move? Seems like the path most corporations and companies are travelling recently.
Also, by preventing your customers from copying the data, you are implying guilt before innocence, ie: people are more likely to be pirating than making legimate backups, so treat them as criminals by limiting their experience.
Its amusing to watch the chip manufacturers scramble desperately to meet the recommend specifications for Longhorn in time.
Oh, c'mon don't look at me like that. A slashdot story without some kind of Microsoft snipe just wouldn't be the same now, would it?
Alright, fine. I'll pick on SCO or AdTi next time. Sheesh. /me crawls back under his rock