So there are some games that I continue to play years after they come out due to the mod community. Half Life 2 and Battlefield 2 are two that have to be into the pennies per hour by now; I don't even have an estimate.
That said, if you look at the direction COD-MW2 decided to take, from a single player perspective, you see the cost per hour go way up. Multiplayer certainly improves the value but the plan is to control development of maps/mods and charge for them, so the long-term value does not improve for the gamer, only the company.
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It isn't just you with the network issue. I had that problem on my new-ish Dell XPS. If I left 7RC running overnight, it would have no connectivity when I tried the next day. Then I would have to deal with the whole craptastic network management "tools" for 30 minutes before I just shut down and unplugged to release the Ethernet. I am thinking early drivers are putting the network card in a pickle, so I am hopeful this will be gone with the Gold version.
For the last few years the Battlefield crowd has been pretty solid, BF2 in particular. There are still plenty of populated servers and clans running around, not to mention many high-quality mods in the community. As far as relevancy goes, Battlefield still has a dedicated tab on IGN's FilePlanet which is reserved for the most active communities. But alas, EA has decided to pursue the console market and turn BF into an arcade style game stripped of any RPG elements it had going for it.
Actually, it would be similar to hating Sony because they have repeatedly controlled media formats to death, installed malicious software secretly, and ignored the modern standards for many of their products.
I mean c'mon, Bush, Obama, and Libertarian references!? Really?
I was sitting 4 or 5 seats away from a couple of early teen boys whose parents were two rows up. The scene where the little girl's leg bone was being fought over by the dogs or when the cleaver ended up in the guy's skull did not elicit any attempts by the parents to stop the viewing, yet when the two main characters began to screw in the ship, Mom was turned around and motioning for them to cover their eyes. Are you freaking kidding me?
These Sex vs. Violence discussions always bring me back to a Vanity Card by Chuck Lorre: http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=155
So first they come up with a method to easily deploy thousands of BB sized bombs in our "enemy's" back yard, combined with some nifty nano-scale geo-location, lase the BBs from space, then they will "solve" what is logically the greater danger to all human security, fossil fuel dependence.
While I understand what you are trying to say, I think your perspective is backwards. The web is an opportunity vector and business are seizing the opportunity to extend their services to this medium. This doesn't preclude using more low level development with C++ on the back-end at all. In fact is is more likely that the business logic and services are C++ or Java with a framework approach. So this "platform" is not a "modern" version of C++ by any stretch, its just an extension.
What you are saying is a sound argument. There are many design patterns that protect you from these kind of issues and also improve the maintainability of your application. This attack is successful because people are either creating ASP pages with DB access coded right in or are not following a design pattern that abstracts the DB access from the UI/Controller/Service layer in a way that makes SQL injection much easier to programatically test and defend against.
At the end of the day they are using IIS and MS SQL Server, which shows bad judgment at the outset.
How is the "on the road" version of the Mustang even closely related to the car in this situation? Additionally, there is enough aftermarket bits to get near 1g out of late model Mustangs so I am not sure about what you are really getting at.
From the perspective of a secret agency building a supercar, you really need to look at initial costs associated with the base model. Ideally you do not want to start with your budget ~$200K in the hole before you start engineering nanotech body panels and braking systems with quantum space-time folding capability.
Okay folks, I have some bad news for you. Human space exploration is deforming the universe and stuff. You heard it here first. I declare this anomaly "Universal Warming." What's higher than the Nobel prize?
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So there are some games that I continue to play years after they come out due to the mod community. Half Life 2 and Battlefield 2 are two that have to be into the pennies per hour by now; I don't even have an estimate. That said, if you look at the direction COD-MW2 decided to take, from a single player perspective, you see the cost per hour go way up. Multiplayer certainly improves the value but the plan is to control development of maps/mods and charge for them, so the long-term value does not improve for the gamer, only the company.
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The old Sega Genesis version would be awesome if it was reboot with next-gen scale and detail. Imagine GTA 4 size maps and rocket skates...
Dam your viscous comment!
It isn't just you with the network issue. I had that problem on my new-ish Dell XPS. If I left 7RC running overnight, it would have no connectivity when I tried the next day. Then I would have to deal with the whole craptastic network management "tools" for 30 minutes before I just shut down and unplugged to release the Ethernet. I am thinking early drivers are putting the network card in a pickle, so I am hopeful this will be gone with the Gold version.
For the last few years the Battlefield crowd has been pretty solid, BF2 in particular. There are still plenty of populated servers and clans running around, not to mention many high-quality mods in the community. As far as relevancy goes, Battlefield still has a dedicated tab on IGN's FilePlanet which is reserved for the most active communities. But alas, EA has decided to pursue the console market and turn BF into an arcade style game stripped of any RPG elements it had going for it.
Actually, it would be similar to hating Sony because they have repeatedly controlled media formats to death, installed malicious software secretly, and ignored the modern standards for many of their products. I mean c'mon, Bush, Obama, and Libertarian references!? Really?
I was sitting 4 or 5 seats away from a couple of early teen boys whose parents were two rows up. The scene where the little girl's leg bone was being fought over by the dogs or when the cleaver ended up in the guy's skull did not elicit any attempts by the parents to stop the viewing, yet when the two main characters began to screw in the ship, Mom was turned around and motioning for them to cover their eyes. Are you freaking kidding me? These Sex vs. Violence discussions always bring me back to a Vanity Card by Chuck Lorre: http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=155
So first they come up with a method to easily deploy thousands of BB sized bombs in our "enemy's" back yard, combined with some nifty nano-scale geo-location, lase the BBs from space, then they will "solve" what is logically the greater danger to all human security, fossil fuel dependence.
While I understand what you are trying to say, I think your perspective is backwards. The web is an opportunity vector and business are seizing the opportunity to extend their services to this medium. This doesn't preclude using more low level development with C++ on the back-end at all. In fact is is more likely that the business logic and services are C++ or Java with a framework approach. So this "platform" is not a "modern" version of C++ by any stretch, its just an extension.
What you are saying is a sound argument. There are many design patterns that protect you from these kind of issues and also improve the maintainability of your application. This attack is successful because people are either creating ASP pages with DB access coded right in or are not following a design pattern that abstracts the DB access from the UI/Controller/Service layer in a way that makes SQL injection much easier to programatically test and defend against. At the end of the day they are using IIS and MS SQL Server, which shows bad judgment at the outset.
Done. Internet squatters picked up your post with domain text and have it in their perpetual registration pipeline.
Even better, use more Botox.
How is the "on the road" version of the Mustang even closely related to the car in this situation? Additionally, there is enough aftermarket bits to get near 1g out of late model Mustangs so I am not sure about what you are really getting at.
From the perspective of a secret agency building a supercar, you really need to look at initial costs associated with the base model. Ideally you do not want to start with your budget ~$200K in the hole before you start engineering nanotech body panels and braking systems with quantum space-time folding capability.
Okay folks, I have some bad news for you. Human space exploration is deforming the universe and stuff. You heard it here first. I declare this anomaly "Universal Warming." What's higher than the Nobel prize?
"Mr. Ahmenijhad, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new supercomputer sucks."
Actually, this is dependent on the delivery system. For instance, one could use . . . say . . . bullets dipped in the stuff made from the generic DNA.