No, there have been a few false bans in the past that were reversed. The only reason it doesn't appear that way is that most cheaters immediately go to the forums to profess their innocence when they're banned.
It's true that there are exceptions, but the opposite is the much more common result.
if you are determined later to have been tossed out unfairly (by a fairly responsive review team, it seems), you get reinstated and compensated for lost time.
I've seen several cases where people were banned for "cheating" where the people were innocent (though I've also known a few that deserved what they got), and this case with Linux is the first time I've ever seen Blizzard's research come back in favour of the player. They are not, as you seem to think, at all responsive - they will not talk to you at all. I was rather shocked to see the Linux thing go the way it did considering their past performance, and the only thing I can figure is they were concerned about the publicity of so many verifiable false positives.
You are in NO WAY liable for someone getting a speeding ticket in your car that you lent out.
Your analogy is not useful, because the laws with regards to your car have a double standard. While you may not be liable for someone getting a ticket while driving your car, you are liable if they get into a wreck... it's your insurance that'll end up having to pay, and your premiums that will go up.
I was referring to most imaging tools that I've used on Windows, though my actual expertise lies in a different realm so I imagine there are imaging tools available that would allow a forensic analysis of his hard drive. It didn't appear to be so carefully worded, though.
Well, when you browser empties the cache, it doesn't mean the data is deleted to the point it can't be recovered. It just means the computer thinks the space is free for use. So your viewed hotmail, yahoo emails can be recovered long after you viewed them.
If the defendant had been ordered to hand over his physical hard drive, then your statement might have some validity. However, he was asked to hand over a copy of his hard drive. A copy of a hard drive, even an image, is not likely to reflect sectors that are free but contain data.
7) When you go to update your computer (with the hardware hash of "DEF") then a flag is drawn. An "old" system is getting updates, after a new one did. This is strong evidence of there being TWO computer systems, not just one.
Your method is definitely the way it should be done. Why is it that most anti-piracy initiatives are aimed squarely at the paying customer instead of the pirate?
When was the last version of Windows where your first step towards solving a truly major problem, "Reinstall Windows."
According to everything I've seen, what you just said didn't apply in the case of Vista re-install limitations because the Vista limitation was on significant hardware changes. If your hardware didn't change, then this would not crop up.
Make sure you are listed in the Do Not Call registry as well as this would give you some additional firepower in court.
The thing to bear in mind is that the original poster was talking about political campaign calls... and the DNC does not apply to political campaigning.
you want to give them copies and keep the originals on the shelf out of harm's way.
<sarcasm>But... but... but, the advertisements say copying that floppy is stealing! What kind of lesson are we teaching our kids if we show them how to steal a game?!?!?</sarcasm>
The recent Vista/DirectX decisions have driven this a fair bit. DirectX 10 support for non-Vista is not possible (and I even agree with the technical reasons for it, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it) and the DirectX 9 support for Vista is supposed to require an additional software abstraction layer that gives me pause for concern over the performance we'll see for DirectX 9 games running in Vista.
There's only one way to be sure your game will work equally well under Vista and XP... OpenGL.
(With the usual caveat that this is how I understood it, I could be wrong.)
You could probably learn how to bake bread from scratch, but why bother if you can just go to the store and buy it ready made? Sure, bread made from scratch is better tasting, and probably a LOT better for you, but you don't have time to fiddle around with it. So, you let other people do the baking for you, and you just keep buying scuzzy store-bought bread.
So what you're saying is, we need the computer building equivelent of a bread machine? Buy a big bag of parts, dump it into the hopper, and turn it on. 45 minutes later, you've got a new computer.
They found 500 so far. Yeah, they are old and rusty, but they are specifically of the type that were prohibited, they are WMD due to their containing active chem/bio agents, they are the type that the inspectors were looking for, and they are of the type that he "officially" claimed were all gone. No, he didn't get rid of them all. He was still sitting on a large stockpile. I would venture a guess that there are plenty more, too.
Huh. I must've missed that press release. I'd have thought that they'd still be trumpeting that one as loud as they could. You wouldn't happen to have a link to an article on that, would you? I'm really curious how I missed it...
Just because I got moderated insightful doesn't mean that's what I was trying to be... I was trying to be funny. On the other hand, you must have felt that you were being inappropriate in some manner or you wouldn't have posted as an anonymous coward. Learn how to relax, you'll live longer.
Despite that, the MPAA does exactly what the RIAA has been doing with its plethora of lawsuits aimed at filesharing instead of targeting counterfeiters.
Easier to crea... collect evidence and pursue... heck, none of them have to leave their offices to do it, whereas somebody selling physical disks, ya gotta actually catch 'em at it, get 'em to sell you a disk or 3, and so on. File sharers, ya just gotta show some screenshot of your computer with some names of songs on it, point your finger, and yell real loud.
It definitely remains to be seen. My thoughts right now is that Sony and the 2nd party will be pushing themselves to use the space, but I think the third party is where you're going to see the storage capacity barely used. It's kind of funny to me, because the machine has the processing power to use a lot of procedural generation techniques which would actually result in significantly smaller games... for example, it's strong enough to just store all the organic models in NURBS and generate the polys at run-time. Of course, that's me thinking like a demoscener, gotta make it small. heheheheh.
Thank you for the examples you gave, it's good to know that the folks that are buying the system will have at least some games that will make full use of what is most definitely contributing considerably to the cost of the machine itself. If it were me I probably wouldn't have forced Blu-Ray into the player, since the storage - while admittedly by your evidence being used by some games - is not necessary to create really awesome games. But cost is an entirely different conversation and I think it's time to let this thread peter out now.
The system isn't out yet but there are hints of Resistance, MGS4, afrika and warhawk actually using a large portion of blu ray.
I'm not sure I buy it, based on my own experience, but I'll withhold judgement until I see the results.
As for the normal mapping I was talking about the ability of modelers (thats really the only first hand knowledge I have) to be able to use bigger (higher poly count) models in a game.
Being the one that brought up normal mapping then, I must ask - do you actually know how it works? Normal maps do not take up gobs of storage, less than equivelent polys on disk.
and now for GT5 on the PS3 it takes half a year to complete one car.
No wonder we were hearing rumours of insane pricing for games, that's got to be doing just terrible things to the production costs of their games.
The PS1 games operated off of a raw reading drive that streamed more information to the system than was stored into the memory.
I was not referring only to the PS1, but to all game systems, PC included. I refer to the same for DVD, because generally speaking the PC has been the first to run into storage issues, not the consoles. Most of the multi-disc games on PC were not FMV, but massive levels and exactly the kind of detail that should be driving a move to a higher storage medium.
The majority of multiple discs games for the PS1 were RPGs
While it is true that RPGs tend to be the big disk space hogs, even looking at that can you explain why we haven't seen a ton of multi-DVD RPGs yet? Even the greatest storage hog genre of them all isn't pushing the current storage capacities and yet you claim that all these other genres are suddenly going to be able to make use of all that storage space? Even Oblivion couldn't push the boundary.
In all of this, though, I'd like to take a moment to thank you. You have given me a lot better discussion for this than anyone else I have ever discussed it with and I've been involved in this discussion many many times.
If you are a seasoned developer you are used to building models from the ground up. Modelers who have been introduced to the wonders of normal mapping now tend to make very detailed characters first then create a smaller sized model to normal map to.
But normal maps are about a lot more than just storage capacity, that is the least of it - it's about faking a high poly count for quality. If you were to use normal maps in the PS3 instead of high-poly objects, you'd be able to get even more on-screen at once.
but to tell me that it is hard for a game dev to fill up a dvd
What I said was that we're only just now starting to. How many multi-DVD games have you seen?
From 600MB to 1GB to the 4.5GB, all these forms of media were introduced at times when the extra space wasn't needed per say
Multi-CD games were common before a move was made to DVD. That's what I mean by critical mass. Games were taking up 5-10 CDs before DVDs started becoming a common distribution method. Multi-DVD games, while existing, are extremely rare - I've only heard of a couple. Until we hit that point, I do not believe the extra storage will be fully utilized.
And in each generation you can see that it normally took about a year and a half for most devs to acclimate to the space.
No, you are wrong. This will be the first generation where developers were not needing the space before it was made available. Every other increase in capacity has happened after we had started to create multi-disk games of the previous format... usually large quantities of disks like 5-10 at that. What few multi-DVD games we have now have been 2 disk games. That doesn't seem like critical mass to me.
Blu-Ray for the HD format, if you've use for it, is useful... but for game disks, is probably overkill. I suspect the pirates will be squeezing 95% of the PS3 releases onto a single DVD so they can be burned.
many of the games comming out for the PS3 are on Blu ray and actually taking advantage of the space. Not only in terms of textures but animations per character and the reduction of instanced objects in a given scene.
I'd like to see a reference on that, because I believe you just pulled that one out of the air - I have been following things, albeit only as closely as work allows, and I've seen nothing anywhere to suggest what you've just said. As a game developer, I do not believe for one minute that developers are going to come close to utilizing the space. As it is we have trouble filling a DVD now.
Bigger storage needs for video games haven't reached enough critical mass to warrant the bigger disks, in my opinion. My prediction is, if that space gets used at all, it's going to be for HD FMV, and I'm sorry, but HD FMV does not mean developers are utilizing the space any more than the CD Audio tracks on the PS1 could fairly be considered utilization.
but I *think* I'm just going to go take the GED exam and pass that
For what it's worth, an ex-girlfriend of mine did the GED thing, and it really did affect the rest of her life as much as they warned her that it would. She had a hard time getting a good job and being taken seriously because she had a GED.
The only way I've heard of a GED working is if you follow it up by getting a college education.
Take from this what you will, but do consider your future as well as your present when making your decision.
You might think that your daughter is a saint, and a wonderful little bundle of joy that everyone should love to have around - but so does every other parent in the world.
Haven't seen very many parents lately, have you? The instances of parents that hate their children is getting rather frightening these days, though the frequency of it ever is pretty frightening for someone with no frame of reference for such an insane state of mind.
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It's true that there are exceptions, but the opposite is the much more common result.
I've seen several cases where people were banned for "cheating" where the people were innocent (though I've also known a few that deserved what they got), and this case with Linux is the first time I've ever seen Blizzard's research come back in favour of the player. They are not, as you seem to think, at all responsive - they will not talk to you at all. I was rather shocked to see the Linux thing go the way it did considering their past performance, and the only thing I can figure is they were concerned about the publicity of so many verifiable false positives.
Your analogy is not useful, because the laws with regards to your car have a double standard. While you may not be liable for someone getting a ticket while driving your car, you are liable if they get into a wreck... it's your insurance that'll end up having to pay, and your premiums that will go up.
Then we'd have a lot more people settling out of court, that's for sure.
I was referring to most imaging tools that I've used on Windows, though my actual expertise lies in a different realm so I imagine there are imaging tools available that would allow a forensic analysis of his hard drive. It didn't appear to be so carefully worded, though.
If the defendant had been ordered to hand over his physical hard drive, then your statement might have some validity. However, he was asked to hand over a copy of his hard drive. A copy of a hard drive, even an image, is not likely to reflect sectors that are free but contain data.
Your method is definitely the way it should be done. Why is it that most anti-piracy initiatives are aimed squarely at the paying customer instead of the pirate?
According to everything I've seen, what you just said didn't apply in the case of Vista re-install limitations because the Vista limitation was on significant hardware changes. If your hardware didn't change, then this would not crop up.
The thing to bear in mind is that the original poster was talking about political campaign calls... and the DNC does not apply to political campaigning.
<sarcasm>But... but... but, the advertisements say copying that floppy is stealing! What kind of lesson are we teaching our kids if we show them how to steal a game?!?!?</sarcasm>
The recent Vista/DirectX decisions have driven this a fair bit. DirectX 10 support for non-Vista is not possible (and I even agree with the technical reasons for it, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it) and the DirectX 9 support for Vista is supposed to require an additional software abstraction layer that gives me pause for concern over the performance we'll see for DirectX 9 games running in Vista.
There's only one way to be sure your game will work equally well under Vista and XP... OpenGL.
(With the usual caveat that this is how I understood it, I could be wrong.)
4 eyes good, 2 eyes bad.
So what you're saying is, we need the computer building equivelent of a bread machine? Buy a big bag of parts, dump it into the hopper, and turn it on. 45 minutes later, you've got a new computer.
I'll take one just 'cause I'm lazy!
Huh. I must've missed that press release. I'd have thought that they'd still be trumpeting that one as loud as they could. You wouldn't happen to have a link to an article on that, would you? I'm really curious how I missed it...
Just because I got moderated insightful doesn't mean that's what I was trying to be... I was trying to be funny. On the other hand, you must have felt that you were being inappropriate in some manner or you wouldn't have posted as an anonymous coward. Learn how to relax, you'll live longer.
Easier to crea... collect evidence and pursue... heck, none of them have to leave their offices to do it, whereas somebody selling physical disks, ya gotta actually catch 'em at it, get 'em to sell you a disk or 3, and so on. File sharers, ya just gotta show some screenshot of your computer with some names of songs on it, point your finger, and yell real loud.
It definitely remains to be seen. My thoughts right now is that Sony and the 2nd party will be pushing themselves to use the space, but I think the third party is where you're going to see the storage capacity barely used. It's kind of funny to me, because the machine has the processing power to use a lot of procedural generation techniques which would actually result in significantly smaller games... for example, it's strong enough to just store all the organic models in NURBS and generate the polys at run-time. Of course, that's me thinking like a demoscener, gotta make it small. heheheheh.
Thank you for the examples you gave, it's good to know that the folks that are buying the system will have at least some games that will make full use of what is most definitely contributing considerably to the cost of the machine itself. If it were me I probably wouldn't have forced Blu-Ray into the player, since the storage - while admittedly by your evidence being used by some games - is not necessary to create really awesome games. But cost is an entirely different conversation and I think it's time to let this thread peter out now.
Cheers!
I'm not sure I buy it, based on my own experience, but I'll withhold judgement until I see the results.
Being the one that brought up normal mapping then, I must ask - do you actually know how it works? Normal maps do not take up gobs of storage, less than equivelent polys on disk.
No wonder we were hearing rumours of insane pricing for games, that's got to be doing just terrible things to the production costs of their games.
I was not referring only to the PS1, but to all game systems, PC included. I refer to the same for DVD, because generally speaking the PC has been the first to run into storage issues, not the consoles. Most of the multi-disc games on PC were not FMV, but massive levels and exactly the kind of detail that should be driving a move to a higher storage medium.
While it is true that RPGs tend to be the big disk space hogs, even looking at that can you explain why we haven't seen a ton of multi-DVD RPGs yet? Even the greatest storage hog genre of them all isn't pushing the current storage capacities and yet you claim that all these other genres are suddenly going to be able to make use of all that storage space? Even Oblivion couldn't push the boundary.
In all of this, though, I'd like to take a moment to thank you. You have given me a lot better discussion for this than anyone else I have ever discussed it with and I've been involved in this discussion many many times.
One game is an exception, not a rule.
But normal maps are about a lot more than just storage capacity, that is the least of it - it's about faking a high poly count for quality. If you were to use normal maps in the PS3 instead of high-poly objects, you'd be able to get even more on-screen at once.
What I said was that we're only just now starting to. How many multi-DVD games have you seen?
Multi-CD games were common before a move was made to DVD. That's what I mean by critical mass. Games were taking up 5-10 CDs before DVDs started becoming a common distribution method. Multi-DVD games, while existing, are extremely rare - I've only heard of a couple. Until we hit that point, I do not believe the extra storage will be fully utilized.
No, you are wrong. This will be the first generation where developers were not needing the space before it was made available. Every other increase in capacity has happened after we had started to create multi-disk games of the previous format... usually large quantities of disks like 5-10 at that. What few multi-DVD games we have now have been 2 disk games. That doesn't seem like critical mass to me.
Blu-Ray for the HD format, if you've use for it, is useful... but for game disks, is probably overkill. I suspect the pirates will be squeezing 95% of the PS3 releases onto a single DVD so they can be burned.
I'd like to see a reference on that, because I believe you just pulled that one out of the air - I have been following things, albeit only as closely as work allows, and I've seen nothing anywhere to suggest what you've just said. As a game developer, I do not believe for one minute that developers are going to come close to utilizing the space. As it is we have trouble filling a DVD now.
Bigger storage needs for video games haven't reached enough critical mass to warrant the bigger disks, in my opinion. My prediction is, if that space gets used at all, it's going to be for HD FMV, and I'm sorry, but HD FMV does not mean developers are utilizing the space any more than the CD Audio tracks on the PS1 could fairly be considered utilization.
Dude, are you even paying attention to your input into this thread? You are arguing in favor of this kid dropping out of school.
For what it's worth, an ex-girlfriend of mine did the GED thing, and it really did affect the rest of her life as much as they warned her that it would. She had a hard time getting a good job and being taken seriously because she had a GED.
The only way I've heard of a GED working is if you follow it up by getting a college education.
Take from this what you will, but do consider your future as well as your present when making your decision.
... and not willing to do it in your own hometown. heheheheh.
Properly restated:
Haven't seen very many parents lately, have you? The instances of parents that hate their children is getting rather frightening these days, though the frequency of it ever is pretty frightening for someone with no frame of reference for such an insane state of mind.