I am admittedly still in love with the "Hollywood" image of the lockpicking idea and spent a couple of happy weekends learning the most basic of tricks on the kitchen cupboards in my university halls, on one occassion had a flatmate walk in and find me bent over an unscrewed door, learning how the tumblers worked and the door clearly missing from their kitchen cupboard and seeing what I could move in the "security" doors we had on our rooms, so this kind of little niceness warms my heart to know that it's possible to beat these locks with next to nothing
Just two months ago I finished my summer employment before heading back to university and after much painstaking calculating, I found I had enough cash to equip myself with a new PC for that all important "Stay home playing games instead of going to class" factor. I budgetted myself £800, this being the price of my previous gaming rig a few years ago. I am now the proud owner of a Quad Core 2.4ghz Intel CPU, 2gb of RAM, 500gb HDD, swanky Asus mobo with all the extras and a 8800GTS 640mb graphics card as well as the usual keyboard, mouse, opticals etc. The only salvage was my nearly new Hyundai monitor ( a birthday gift) and my trusty 4.1 speaker system. The result?
So far, I've found nothing that can challenge it to any degree. The SupCom stress test rolls smoothly with a score that's by no means the highest but still far in excess of the average, Episode 2 and it's counterparts barely even caused it to look round and the Crysis demo is maxed out and running sweet as a nut at 1440x900. This came in to the grand total of £700, including a case and PSU.
Given current exchanges, that's nearly 1400$ but I'm still deeply in the black financially using nothing but my earnings as a freezer stocking monkey at the local supermarket. Hell, I've got 500$ in a sock under my bed. Surely it cannot be that hard to budget in a relatively epic machine into the monthly bills when you've got a real job?
Does anyone here know of them? Unlikely.
They are a small UK based dev who have provided us with two absolute gems of gaming fun. The first, Uplink, a fairly basic but tense hacking game. Yeah yeah it's not like hacking blah blah blah. It's graphics are little more than a few menus and a simulated OS. But the fun is there. The music builds as your TracerTracker (V3.0) alerts you that the corporation whose research you are stealing are getting close to tracking you. Feeling deliciously evil as you type the commands into the console to erase their fileserver and set it crashing. Building yourself a remote machine with 8 parallel processors and a self destruct in case you get caught.
Their other offering, Darwinia, is a simplistic looking RTS, released sometime in the aftermath of HL2 and Doom 3 engine games which is probably the source of it's poor sales. People fail to realise it is MEANT to look that way. Look up the picture poster "Digital Dreamscape" and tell me that you would imagine the inside of your computer in another way afterwards? Combat is not a matter of point and click the units go. You are firing the weapons, leading the tiny green stickmen Darwinians into battles against massive red viruses (virii?).
Above are two examples of innovative and damn fun games. Where are Introversion as a result of doing this? Currently beginning to get into finicial difficulty. Their crime: Having some fun.
Meanwhile I'm sure the "EA Sport Some Celebrity Football September Edition" game is about to make EA another mint.
Fun fun times.
At first I thought really cool idea. Then I saw the demo video was in Real format and have therefore consigned this technology to the back of my mind. When these doors come out, I'll probably resent them for some unknown reason. It's all Real Networks fault!
And Ml_pod has been able to do this for well over a year. Whoop de frick.
Also it takes the knowledge of turning on "Show Hidden files and folders" to copy music manually off your pod.
I bought an iPod cause a friend told me they were decent players. It had a nice capacity and it connected by firewire which was helpful in my ailing USB situation. I didn't see the adverts, see celebrities wearing them or any of that. I bought it cause I wanted to listen to my music and it had a recommendation.
Ohh...that old chesnut. A classic in comedy and brilliant commmentary on how people jump to conclusions. I believe I fail on some 8/10 counts. What counts? I.E I don't dress like a complete tool who fell into the TK MAXX bargain bin and I've never played Quake. Feel free to bash me for the last one.
I'm in a major computing course in the UK and you don't actually get taught anything that would be in any way useful in terms of fixing or setting up a network or anything. Our school net is held together with spit,prayers and Windows 95 on a bunch of old Compaqs that they quite obviously got taken for a ride on. It's also locked down on an obscure security program which all my attempts to find have come up blank. Seems like it was custom made or something for them, hence there is no documentation on it nor anyone but the one guy knows how to fix it. We're gonna be screwed if he retires or gets lung cancer from the 3 million cigars he seems to smoke.
It wouldn't be much of a war with no fuel to drive the vehicles that are ubiquitous in modern warfare. More like a schoolyard scuffle.
I foresee the Highlands of Scotland becoming a wonderfully rich source of fuel beyond the North Sea .
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I am admittedly still in love with the "Hollywood" image of the lockpicking idea and spent a couple of happy weekends learning the most basic of tricks on the kitchen cupboards in my university halls, on one occassion had a flatmate walk in and find me bent over an unscrewed door, learning how the tumblers worked and the door clearly missing from their kitchen cupboard and seeing what I could move in the "security" doors we had on our rooms, so this kind of little niceness warms my heart to know that it's possible to beat these locks with next to nothing
Just two months ago I finished my summer employment before heading back to university and after much painstaking calculating, I found I had enough cash to equip myself with a new PC for that all important "Stay home playing games instead of going to class" factor. I budgetted myself £800, this being the price of my previous gaming rig a few years ago. I am now the proud owner of a Quad Core 2.4ghz Intel CPU, 2gb of RAM, 500gb HDD, swanky Asus mobo with all the extras and a 8800GTS 640mb graphics card as well as the usual keyboard, mouse, opticals etc. The only salvage was my nearly new Hyundai monitor ( a birthday gift) and my trusty 4.1 speaker system. The result? So far, I've found nothing that can challenge it to any degree. The SupCom stress test rolls smoothly with a score that's by no means the highest but still far in excess of the average, Episode 2 and it's counterparts barely even caused it to look round and the Crysis demo is maxed out and running sweet as a nut at 1440x900. This came in to the grand total of £700, including a case and PSU. Given current exchanges, that's nearly 1400$ but I'm still deeply in the black financially using nothing but my earnings as a freezer stocking monkey at the local supermarket. Hell, I've got 500$ in a sock under my bed. Surely it cannot be that hard to budget in a relatively epic machine into the monthly bills when you've got a real job?
Does anyone here know of them? Unlikely. They are a small UK based dev who have provided us with two absolute gems of gaming fun. The first, Uplink, a fairly basic but tense hacking game. Yeah yeah it's not like hacking blah blah blah. It's graphics are little more than a few menus and a simulated OS. But the fun is there. The music builds as your TracerTracker (V3.0) alerts you that the corporation whose research you are stealing are getting close to tracking you. Feeling deliciously evil as you type the commands into the console to erase their fileserver and set it crashing. Building yourself a remote machine with 8 parallel processors and a self destruct in case you get caught. Their other offering, Darwinia, is a simplistic looking RTS, released sometime in the aftermath of HL2 and Doom 3 engine games which is probably the source of it's poor sales. People fail to realise it is MEANT to look that way. Look up the picture poster "Digital Dreamscape" and tell me that you would imagine the inside of your computer in another way afterwards? Combat is not a matter of point and click the units go. You are firing the weapons, leading the tiny green stickmen Darwinians into battles against massive red viruses (virii?). Above are two examples of innovative and damn fun games. Where are Introversion as a result of doing this? Currently beginning to get into finicial difficulty. Their crime: Having some fun. Meanwhile I'm sure the "EA Sport Some Celebrity Football September Edition" game is about to make EA another mint. Fun fun times.
At first I thought really cool idea. Then I saw the demo video was in Real format and have therefore consigned this technology to the back of my mind.
When these doors come out, I'll probably resent them for some unknown reason.
It's all Real Networks fault!
And Ml_pod has been able to do this for well over a year. Whoop de frick. Also it takes the knowledge of turning on "Show Hidden files and folders" to copy music manually off your pod. I bought an iPod cause a friend told me they were decent players. It had a nice capacity and it connected by firewire which was helpful in my ailing USB situation. I didn't see the adverts, see celebrities wearing them or any of that. I bought it cause I wanted to listen to my music and it had a recommendation.
Ohh...that old chesnut. A classic in comedy and brilliant commmentary on how people jump to conclusions. I believe I fail on some 8/10 counts. What counts? I.E I don't dress like a complete tool who fell into the TK MAXX bargain bin and I've never played Quake. Feel free to bash me for the last one. I'm in a major computing course in the UK and you don't actually get taught anything that would be in any way useful in terms of fixing or setting up a network or anything. Our school net is held together with spit,prayers and Windows 95 on a bunch of old Compaqs that they quite obviously got taken for a ride on. It's also locked down on an obscure security program which all my attempts to find have come up blank. Seems like it was custom made or something for them, hence there is no documentation on it nor anyone but the one guy knows how to fix it. We're gonna be screwed if he retires or gets lung cancer from the 3 million cigars he seems to smoke.
It wouldn't be much of a war with no fuel to drive the vehicles that are ubiquitous in modern warfare. More like a schoolyard scuffle. I foresee the Highlands of Scotland becoming a wonderfully rich source of fuel beyond the North Sea .