This reminds me of a story from a few weeks ago where Activision paid a handful of families to advertise on the grave stones of their dead relatives. Now, the number of video-game playing consumers that were likely to see the ads is probably minimal, BUT they got international press coverage.
And this brings us to Intel sueing some poor shmuck that they couldn't care less about...because at this very moment thousands of people are reading about Intel on/.
I concur. When you take into consideration what a video game should be about, MGS2 falls way short. The levels are well thoughtout, and gameplay is dynamic, but its simply not all that satisfying. Simply put, GTA3 blows it away, its nonstop action and challenging yet rewarding fun gaming.
Oh give me a break, Canuck's are whipped by Bush, always have been and always will be. In fact, there are a number of people who feel the assimilation is going to get far worse post 09-11. This is because invisable lines like boarders mean nothing if there isn't consistent regulations. My money says this was pure government biz.
I was surprised freedom.net was actually operative as long as it was. It was the most viable/dangerous privacy solutions out there, short of say, freenet.
I never had much faith the good people behind Ask Jeeves, that is until I noticed their great new "answer point" service. Its really unique and actually an idea I (as well as countless others) have had for ages. An absolute necesity for the net, kudos to them! What I of course have to wonder is how long until competition arrives, is there any out there yet? FIRST POST:P
My websites receive a tremendous number of port scans, vulnerability checks and other such nonsense, is there anything that can be done? And as stated quite simply in my topic, is port scanning legal?
Whether or not this outage is caused by script kiddies or government conspiracies we may never know, but whatever the case it seems that some good may come out of it. As of 11:50 EST Microsoft's entire webserver appears severly handicapped. While still "online" the vast majority of http requests appear to be rejected while those that do get through return very limmited content.
Is it just me or should all the employees of 3DFX and epic be beaten to death with their own shoes? How do you feel about a 3D chip company sponoring a demo so that it works only on their cards? Would you consider doing something similar if 3DFX or Nvidia made a similar proposition to ID for Q3test? Did either one of those companies try it?
Please please tell me, this had been keeping me up late at night for years! I can't eat, I can't sleep, I have no social life at all. What does the message that DOOM gives after typing idchoppers MEAN? For the love of god please put me out of my misery and tell me!
John, your games are amoung the most popular pieces of pirated software ever. What I find intriguing however is why you never attempted to really fight piracy? While many companies have spend a great deal of money on copy protection, serial numbers, online authentication and countless other anti-piracy schemes, ID continues to do nothing to stop pirates. Even Quake 3 which is basically (all bots aside) an online-only game, why not try something similar to what sierra did with halflife? Is it because to date every single game ever produced has been cracked and pirated? Will there ever been a way to combat this? What should future software developers do?
John, what do you predict will eventually dominate the online multiplayer service market? Will more software companies have to start providing the service for their own games ala battle.net and westwood chat? Will broader thirdparty services like mplayer takeover? What about the very basic services that do the bare minimum such as kali and gamespy?
What do you forsee as the future to the huge issues surrounding the battle between software pirates and developers? Will cryptography play a role in this? Of course I'm excluding GNU and OSS software from this:)
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Isn't it funny how he feels everything can be expressed in simple elegant expressions and yet he just released one of the longest books in history?
This reminds me of a story from a few weeks ago where Activision paid a handful of families to advertise on the grave stones of their dead relatives. Now, the number of video-game playing consumers that were likely to see the ads is probably minimal, BUT they got international press coverage.
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And this brings us to Intel sueing some poor shmuck that they couldn't care less about...because at this very moment thousands of people are reading about Intel on
I concur. When you take into consideration what a video game should be about, MGS2 falls way short. The levels are well thoughtout, and gameplay is dynamic, but its simply not all that satisfying. Simply put, GTA3 blows it away, its nonstop action and challenging yet rewarding fun gaming.
Please do mod this up!
Oh give me a break, Canuck's are whipped by Bush, always have been and always will be. In fact, there are a number of people who feel the assimilation is going to get far worse post 09-11. This is because invisable lines like boarders mean nothing if there isn't consistent regulations. My money says this was pure government biz.
I was surprised freedom.net was actually operative as long as it was. It was the most viable/dangerous privacy solutions out there, short of say, freenet.
Maybe I have a single track mind...but does this mean that there will now be high quality pirated copies of all my favoriate ps2 games?
I never had much faith the good people behind Ask Jeeves, that is until I noticed their great new "answer point" service. Its really unique and actually an idea I (as well as countless others) have had for ages. An absolute necesity for the net, kudos to them! What I of course have to wonder is how long until competition arrives, is there any out there yet? FIRST POST :P
My websites receive a tremendous number of port scans, vulnerability checks and other such nonsense, is there anything that can be done? And as stated quite simply in my topic, is port scanning legal?
Whether or not this outage is caused by script kiddies or government conspiracies we may never know, but whatever the case it seems that some good may come out of it. As of 11:50 EST Microsoft's entire webserver appears severly handicapped. While still "online" the vast majority of http requests appear to be rejected while those that do get through return very limmited content.
Is it just me or should all the employees of 3DFX and epic be beaten to death with their own shoes? How do you feel about a 3D chip company sponoring a demo so that it works only on their cards? Would you consider doing something similar if 3DFX or Nvidia made a similar proposition to ID for Q3test? Did either one of those companies try it?
Please please tell me, this had been keeping me up late at night for years! I can't eat, I can't sleep, I have no social life at all. What does the message that DOOM gives after typing idchoppers MEAN? For the love of god please put me out of my misery and tell me!
John, your games are amoung the most popular pieces of pirated software ever. What I find intriguing however is why you never attempted to really fight piracy? While many companies have spend a great deal of money on copy protection, serial numbers, online authentication and countless other anti-piracy schemes, ID continues to do nothing to stop pirates. Even Quake 3 which is basically (all bots aside) an online-only game, why not try something similar to what sierra did with halflife? Is it because to date every single game ever produced has been cracked and pirated? Will there ever been a way to combat this? What should future software developers do?
John, what do you predict will eventually dominate the online multiplayer service market? Will more software companies have to start providing the service for their own games ala battle.net and westwood chat? Will broader thirdparty services like mplayer takeover? What about the very basic services that do the bare minimum such as kali and gamespy?
You deserved to be spammed to death and then beaten with your own shoe!
What do you forsee as the future to the huge issues surrounding the battle between software pirates and developers? Will cryptography play a role in this? Of course I'm excluding GNU and OSS software from this:)