Future prospective employers are now likely to throw out her application when they google her name and find out she's a whiny bitch with an inflated sense of entitlement who can't handle the stress of not finding a job within three months of graduating.
Good work there.
I guess she'll end up suing the entire internet for this article and any reference to it to be removed.
You're not supposed to pass cars that are on your left in france, from which results that the slowest vehicles should always be in the right lane and fast ones in the left lane. So be careful with that because someone going from the middle lane to the right lane will not always check his mirror to see if someone's coming faster than him from behind on the right lane (they're not supposed to).
For this very reason it can make it incomfortable to drive on the right lane when people are being jammed on the middle lane, especially if you get stuck behind a very slow vehicle on the right lane and can't move back to the middle lane because it's jammed.
I seem to recall that in the accolade affair, they managed to circumvent the loading code so as to avoid to include any sega material whatsoever. I believe that it's actually why sega on the dreamcast later explicitely made the firmware do a bit by bit comparison of a logo picture stored in the CD's bootstrap, although there was no cryptographic key involved yet afaik.
And the thing is that for a disc to be recognized by a game console, it usually have to include material copyrighted by the console manufacturer, usually a picture of their logo (compared against a copy located in the firmware) and sometimes some proprietary bootstrap code, so if you're pretty much forced to have a license to be legally able to make a game running on their console.
The reason atari sub contracts in the first place is that they fired all their internal developpement teams a few years back and externalized everything. They have absolutely no one working there anymore with the necessary knowledge to perform such an audit. All they can audit is the content of the game, not the code.
For this reason, I think they are to blame. They put themselves in a situation where this can happen.
Why should people have to choose between instantly on and fully functional? Can't Microsoft be ambitious enough to aim to make windows boot fast? This is like they're giving up on that as if it's just not possible, and instead offer some half-way compromise.
I'm not sure when TiVo first had that feature, but I have a friend who worked as a software engineer on a Sagem DVR that had that feature back in 2000 or 2001, and they believed to be the first to do that at the time.
I don't remember the outcome of it though, I don't think it actually got released to the market.
Nothing the EVE client can do can affect the game state, no advantage can be gained by manipulating the EVE client, no advantageous or disadvantageous information can be transmitted to other EVE users by altering the EVE client. While I agree with not relying on security through obscurity, there are cheats that can be created trivially with the client code.
For instance, integrating a fully automated mining bot in the client would be easy by using the auto pilot code as a starting point (it has more than likely already been done for ages too).
Altough I don't think it's a security problem as much as it is a game design problem: if mining wasn't mind numbingly stupid boring and repetitive, a bot probably wouldn't be able to do it as well (or even better as a bot never tires) as a human.
Exactly. I remember decompiling the stuff and doing some client tweaks (like forcing it to allocate a goddamn 24 bit zbuffer instead of a 16 bit one on my ati card) back in the day. It had taken me one day of work to do it with no prior knowledge of python.
So that leak doesn't sound like it would facilitate any cheating beyond what's already achievable by poking at the files with a python decompiler.
As a corollary to your prediction, I see a future of those ubiquitous ad displays being targeted by hackers and goatse getting displayed all over the place.
That's twice that someone from epic say pc gaming is dead. I think that's because they have sour grapes that UT3 sales failed.
The problem is that they failed on many points:
1. They shouldn't have released an unfinished games to meet seasonal sales, because in the end they missed much more than just christmas 07 - they made people ignore the game altogether.
2. When you release a primarily multiplayer game with the idea that it's third parties who'll host most of the servers, you have dedicated linus server binary available on the release day. On release day people had to host servers on windows with a retail CD in the drive for fuck's sake.
3. When you release a successor to ut2004 that had tons of maps and mostly the same gameplay and game mechanics (minus the bugs and unfinished features of ut3 like spectating), don't expect people to upgrade just for the visuals - especially since ut2004 can run so well on today's machines.
4. And they should have listened to complains and answered them on their forums instead of deleting any post suggesting ut3 is far from a perfect game in the hope that other potential buyers wouldn't otherwise find out (how stupid can those PR fucks be?). That or just don't have forums at all.
Now when you die alone in your studio apartment the decomposing of your brain will be interpreted as commands, further delaying the chance that someone will alert the police that something is wrong.
What's wrong with dead players? They can still compete in 2vs2 arena as resto druids.
I think the whole thing is a sad attempt at trying to glamorize computer fixing. They need people to actually want and go fix their neighbor/aunt/dog computer's that got infected by all kind of random shit and adwares.
And they should bug off with silverlight already. It's silly how one project (silverlight) can co-opt and basically undermine slightly another of their own corporate efforts. But I don't think it beats the annoying "GET SLIVERLIHGT NOW!!1!" popup when you open the msdn site to try and obtain some documentation about one of their repulsive win32 api functions.
But it would also need a small chip in each piece able to send an id code through the pins. Wouldn't embedding all that stuff complicate manufacturing quite a bit?
I think the best example is driving a car. You kind of forget about your immediate environement within the car but rather focus on the environment outside the car and kind of consider yourself to be the car itself. For instance if someone drives close to your car and almost hit your car, you think of it as "he almost hit me", etc.
"That depends on how you look at the fees. WOW is a service. We pay for access to the game. There are costs associated with running the game day to day."
The cost of running the game is very, very small compared to the money they get out of subscriptions. Back when I worked at Funcom (makers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan), at the annual employees meeting the CEO showed us a presentation breaking down a few interesting numbers. Basically the more subscribers you have, the bigger your profit margin is. And from memory, it was a rather nice margin, something like 80% profit with "only" 100,000 customers.
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1.Serialize ODF into JSON instead of XML
2.Laugh at both "office documents serialized into xml" patent trolls
3.profit
Future prospective employers are now likely to throw out her application when they google her name and find out she's a whiny bitch with an inflated sense of entitlement who can't handle the stress of not finding a job within three months of graduating.
Good work there.
I guess she'll end up suing the entire internet for this article and any reference to it to be removed.
You're not supposed to pass cars that are on your left in france, from which results that the slowest vehicles should always be in the right lane and fast ones in the left lane.
So be careful with that because someone going from the middle lane to the right lane will not always check his mirror to see if someone's coming faster than him from behind on the right lane (they're not supposed to).
For this very reason it can make it incomfortable to drive on the right lane when people are being jammed on the middle lane, especially if you get stuck behind a very slow vehicle on the right lane and can't move back to the middle lane because it's jammed.
I seem to recall that in the accolade affair, they managed to circumvent the loading code so as to avoid to include any sega material whatsoever. I believe that it's actually why sega on the dreamcast later explicitely made the firmware do a bit by bit comparison of a logo picture stored in the CD's bootstrap, although there was no cryptographic key involved yet afaik.
And the thing is that for a disc to be recognized by a game console, it usually have to include material copyrighted by the console manufacturer, usually a picture of their logo (compared against a copy located in the firmware) and sometimes some proprietary bootstrap code, so if you're pretty much forced to have a license to be legally able to make a game running on their console.
The reason atari sub contracts in the first place is that they fired all their internal developpement teams a few years back and externalized everything. They have absolutely no one working there anymore with the necessary knowledge to perform such an audit. All they can audit is the content of the game, not the code.
For this reason, I think they are to blame. They put themselves in a situation where this can happen.
Why should people have to choose between instantly on and fully functional? Can't Microsoft be ambitious enough to aim to make windows boot fast? This is like they're giving up on that as if it's just not possible, and instead offer some half-way compromise.
I'm not sure when TiVo first had that feature, but I have a friend who worked as a software engineer on a Sagem DVR that had that feature back in 2000 or 2001, and they believed to be the first to do that at the time.
I don't remember the outcome of it though, I don't think it actually got released to the market.
For instance, integrating a fully automated mining bot in the client would be easy by using the auto pilot code as a starting point (it has more than likely already been done for ages too).
Altough I don't think it's a security problem as much as it is a game design problem: if mining wasn't mind numbingly stupid boring and repetitive, a bot probably wouldn't be able to do it as well (or even better as a bot never tires) as a human.
Exactly. I remember decompiling the stuff and doing some client tweaks (like forcing it to allocate a goddamn 24 bit zbuffer instead of a 16 bit one on my ati card) back in the day. It had taken me one day of work to do it with no prior knowledge of python.
So that leak doesn't sound like it would facilitate any cheating beyond what's already achievable by poking at the files with a python decompiler.
I'm disgusted at the sheer stupidity of all those people who actually bought all his obvious bullshit and voted him in.
As a corollary to your prediction, I see a future of those ubiquitous ad displays being targeted by hackers and goatse getting displayed all over the place.
Leaving debug code in is no big deal. Writing utterly retarded debug code (like he did) is.
And that's why I wouldn't trust my login information to a closed source third party app coded by random joe schmuck.
...Pirates reduce global warming.
That's twice that someone from epic say pc gaming is dead. I think that's because they have sour grapes that UT3 sales failed.
The problem is that they failed on many points:
1. They shouldn't have released an unfinished games to meet seasonal sales, because in the end they missed much more than just christmas 07 - they made people ignore the game altogether.
2. When you release a primarily multiplayer game with the idea that it's third parties who'll host most of the servers, you have dedicated linus server binary available on the release day. On release day people had to host servers on windows with a retail CD in the drive for fuck's sake.
3. When you release a successor to ut2004 that had tons of maps and mostly the same gameplay and game mechanics (minus the bugs and unfinished features of ut3 like spectating), don't expect people to upgrade just for the visuals - especially since ut2004 can run so well on today's machines.
4. And they should have listened to complains and answered them on their forums instead of deleting any post suggesting ut3 is far from a perfect game in the hope that other potential buyers wouldn't otherwise find out (how stupid can those PR fucks be?). That or just don't have forums at all.
You gotta love how GP is "-1, Insightful" though.
Speaking of which, that email where he says "Thanks much will get after Nikon" sounded rather ominous.
Maybe they already do.
Now when you die alone in your studio apartment the decomposing of your brain will be interpreted as commands, further delaying the chance that someone will alert the police that something is wrong.
What's wrong with dead players? They can still compete in 2vs2 arena as resto druids.
All I read was "GET SILVERLIGHT NOWZ!!1!"
Why would I want to install their shit for the dubious privilege of being fed marketing bullshit in an interactive way?
*facepalm*
I think the whole thing is a sad attempt at trying to glamorize computer fixing. They need people to actually want and go fix their neighbor/aunt/dog computer's that got infected by all kind of random shit and adwares.
And they should bug off with silverlight already. It's silly how one project (silverlight) can co-opt and basically undermine slightly another of their own corporate efforts. But I don't think it beats the annoying "GET SLIVERLIHGT NOW!!1!" popup when you open the msdn site to try and obtain some documentation about one of their repulsive win32 api functions.
But it would also need a small chip in each piece able to send an id code through the pins. Wouldn't embedding all that stuff complicate manufacturing quite a bit?
I think the best example is driving a car. You kind of forget about your immediate environement within the car but rather focus on the environment outside the car and kind of consider yourself to be the car itself.
For instance if someone drives close to your car and almost hit your car, you think of it as "he almost hit me", etc.
"That depends on how you look at the fees. WOW is a service. We pay for access to the game. There are costs associated with running the game day to day."
The cost of running the game is very, very small compared to the money they get out of subscriptions.
Back when I worked at Funcom (makers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan), at the annual employees meeting the CEO showed us a presentation breaking down a few interesting numbers.
Basically the more subscribers you have, the bigger your profit margin is. And from memory, it was a rather nice margin, something like 80% profit with "only" 100,000 customers.
So yeah, they sure can provide "free" content.
Where have you been? 3drealms have been planning to release duke nukem forever for about ten years.