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Closed out of all tabs and was still at 60MB. Opened a new tab and closed the/. one, 50MB. Restarted firefox, 21MB. Went straight from plain text work page to/., this article, and replied to your post, 25MB.
Time to go searching for those FF tweaking options again...
I think there may be a difference in "can't be hacked" and "who the hell would bother".
On a more serious note along those lines, FF and Thunderbird are finally getting enough marketshare to grab the attention of spammers and virus writers. We should rejoice on it's success and how quickly it was patched instead of "oh noes there actually are security flaws in FF!" If you want more security, switch to a more obscure browser (just make sure it isn't just an IE wrapper). Sure, you will lose a lot of functionality but that is the trade off we all have to make currently.
No matter how secure or how quickly companies patch their products you will still never be able to get rid of the biggest security flaw of all: Users. Click here for free pr0n!
Work's home page(plain text), gmail, digg, thottbot, and/. open in 5 different tabs = 71MB. Minimized removes a few KB. It's been opened to these tabs for the last 5 hours.
Honestly not sure if this is better or not as this is the first time I have ever looked. Guess that's the advantage of having 2gigs of memory.:)
Even though they may have something like this, my impression of the Wii was that it was meant as sort of a party console or something the whole family can gather around and play. While being able to play online is a very nice feature, I think Nintendo is going for a more "arcade" atmosphere.
Well in all fairness many people read/. from work as I do. Many of us have thing like Websense or internet usage being monitored to worry about. Unless it's from a major news site I cannot get to the article to read and the usual mirrors are blocked. However my work does not block duggmirror so if I really want to see the article I will post it to digg (Which 99% of the time it is already in queue, if not front paged) and then use duggmirror to view the article when it caches it.
So yes, I commonly just read the comments and the summary of the article in the subject line. I however try not to make a post ABOUT the article unless I am already familiar with the topic they are discussing.
They have to buy a new copy of the game if they ban the account. They are not banning characters, they are banning accounts which (if they are smart) means they are making the serial number invalid as well.
Then again you may be right, they may not check the s/n on login, which in that case someone over there should have sensed a disturbance in the force when 59,000 level ones were suddenly created.
1. Yes but when you played a character through again you went through MANY more zones then that. The creatures you encountered were still randomized as well (sans the cow level)
2. There is too much loot. Money is never a problem and the vendors rarely sell anything better then what you already have on by the second act. Even if they did, with the 5 million I have on my character buying it will never be an issue. In D2 you lost money when you died and the vendors would often sell items that were far superior to what you had on which made your money actually mean something. You also had to buy quite a few potions which, depending on class, is not neccesary in TQ.
3. Note I said in the early levels, implying later on this was not an issue. Note I also said that in so many words that it was psychological as well.
4. Hacking cannot be stopped but in can be deterred. Hosting characters on an online server instead of on your PC greatly helps this. Duping in D2 can get you banned where as if it happened offline in TQ and is then brought online it would be very hard to detect. I can always play with friends but sometimes it's fun to just play with random people online. If cheating is rampant and I can't find a game without some guy glowing like the sun and one-shotting everything like D2 used to be then the game loses a lot of appeal in my eyes.
TQ is a lot of fun the first time through. I just think that they could have made it a lot more fun when/if you go back through it again. It's a play through once then forget about kind of game where as D2 I still fire up at least once a month and enjoy it. TQ had the potential to be the same kind of game and hopefully when future patches and an expansion comes out we will see some of this potential realized.
Problem with TQ is that you basically play the same game through each time. Mobs are the exact same place with each character, maps are the same, etc. In D2 it was kind of like this but the randomization of the maps added a lot of replay ability.
There is also WAY too much loot that drops in that game. There is no real money sinks so you just keep getting more and more money with nothing to spend on it. I've started not picking up items that aren't green or blue because there is simply no point. Speaking of items, there is no "chest" or something equivalent to it to store your items. This means if you are trying to collect a set of something you have to keep it on your person all times. Not a real big deal but it just annoys me, especially early on in the game when space is still a commodity.
Lastly, you can bring your single player characters into multiplayer so there is going to be rampant hacking.
You could upload high scores and download games but you could not actually play the same game together. Different, yet I guess for the time that was "multiplayer".
What a great console. First to have online gameplay (for all 4-5 games that had it) and it was night vs day compared to the PS1. Too bad piracy, Sega pissing off EA, and a multitude of other problems caused it's downfall. It served it's purpose and paved the way for what we have today but think about what the world might be like if Sega was still in the console business...
That is far, far better then what most cars get on the road. My Cougar gets around 22MPG and I think that is spectacular compared to the Sonoma Truck I was driving. Although after I took off the truck's bed the mileage was comparable. I also had a sundance that pushed 28MPG but after someone ran a stop sign and smashed into my passenger side it just wasn't the pimpmobile I was looking for. Something about opening the driver side door for a women and saying "Hop over the console" isn't appealing for most memembers of that gender.
Hm? Oh, you were talking about new cars? Oh well.. uh yeah... 35 mpg... must be rough...
My apologies AC, I know you are omnipotent (and sure post a lot!) and would never make such a typo. I have played the game and all that dancing that made me not wanting to play it around my friends for fear of my sexuality coming into play came back to haunt me. It is Dress sphere's I meant to say, although I think I'm still justified in keeping the rest of the sentence the way it is.
If the average student posts trash talk about the arch-rival's star player on FB, it is no problem, if an athelete does it, it could blow up into an NCAA investigation, and worse, loads of bad publicity on Spotscenter.
I fail to see the difference here. So trash talking around the school, in other public places, and in school newspapers is ok, but once it gets on the internet it is no longer alright? It's also ok if I'm not an athlete and I say "Team X from college Z licks my nuts" online, but an athlete says it and he/she gets in trouble?
It's the exact same stuff that people were doing when they were kids and what their kids have been doing all along. Myspace, facebook, and other social networking sites are now just an easy place for the parents and peers to actually see what it is going on in all of its unedited glory. Let's face many young adults either do or will be faced with "peer pressure" to do the following:
Drink
Talk trash
Have sex
If you are a parent hopefully you have guided your children to the right path were they will make smart choices and/or know how to get out of the wrong ones they made on their own.
On a side note, if you are a peer and male, try to hook up with woman with these qualities as often as possible (with protection, of course).
RIAA will die out, no doubt about that. They are aging dinosaurs in a changing climate with no will to change. The RIAA has an advantage the dinosaurs didn't however. The dinosaurs were helpless to change their environment and died out, letting new creatures evolve and prosper in their absence. The RIAA has the ability to forcibly change the "climate" thus killing off everything else while leaving them to prosper.
Only time will tell...
P.S: Sorry for all the analogies, won't happen again.;)
Thank God. While I did play some of the MMOFF and enjoyed it this is not what Square does best. I hope they return to their roots and release a game with innovative game elements and a great story line. Oh, and for the love of God, NO DANCE SPHERES.
Think about this: If Halo the movie kept to the original storyline (Master Chief gets in uniform, debriefing, oh noes attack, etc) and THEN the games came out, we could still have the same basic game we have now as well as a fun thriller / action movie. Nothing needs to change from the plotline in the game to make it a good movie. Dialogue needs to be added as well as some extra "fluff" to make the movie the longer but the basic plot line does not need to be changed.
I have the feeling that they will take this along the lines of Doom though and the aliens won't be aliens, they will action be terrorists and the AI won't be a hologram, she will be an android who constantly needs saving as well as is the main love interest in the movie. On that note, I hope they cast Kate Beckinsale for that role if they do that...
Just a drop in the bucket. However if they started having to shell out attorney fees to every case they lost it could act as a great deterrent for their "fire and forget" type lawsuits.
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... how many 1s did X-play and it's previous names give out? I watched the show pretty heavily for 2 years and never saw one.
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It's the article above this one. Someone just got back from the bar methinks ;)
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/. one, 50MB. Restarted firefox, 21MB. Went straight from plain text work page to /., this article, and replied to your post, 25MB.
Closed out of all tabs and was still at 60MB. Opened a new tab and closed the
Time to go searching for those FF tweaking options again...
I think there may be a difference in "can't be hacked" and "who the hell would bother".
On a more serious note along those lines, FF and Thunderbird are finally getting enough marketshare to grab the attention of spammers and virus writers. We should rejoice on it's success and how quickly it was patched instead of "oh noes there actually are security flaws in FF!" If you want more security, switch to a more obscure browser (just make sure it isn't just an IE wrapper). Sure, you will lose a lot of functionality but that is the trade off we all have to make currently.
No matter how secure or how quickly companies patch their products you will still never be able to get rid of the biggest security flaw of all: Users.
Click here for free pr0n!
Work's home page(plain text), gmail, digg, thottbot, and /. open in 5 different tabs = 71MB. Minimized removes a few KB. It's been opened to these tabs for the last 5 hours.
:)
Honestly not sure if this is better or not as this is the first time I have ever looked. Guess that's the advantage of having 2gigs of memory.
Even though they may have something like this, my impression of the Wii was that it was meant as sort of a party console or something the whole family can gather around and play. While being able to play online is a very nice feature, I think Nintendo is going for a more "arcade" atmosphere.
Well in all fairness many people read /. from work as I do. Many of us have thing like Websense or internet usage being monitored to worry about. Unless it's from a major news site I cannot get to the article to read and the usual mirrors are blocked. However my work does not block duggmirror so if I really want to see the article I will post it to digg (Which 99% of the time it is already in queue, if not front paged) and then use duggmirror to view the article when it caches it.
So yes, I commonly just read the comments and the summary of the article in the subject line. I however try not to make a post ABOUT the article unless I am already familiar with the topic they are discussing.
They have to buy a new copy of the game if they ban the account. They are not banning characters, they are banning accounts which (if they are smart) means they are making the serial number invalid as well.
Then again you may be right, they may not check the s/n on login, which in that case someone over there should have sensed a disturbance in the force when 59,000 level ones were suddenly created.
Lets see here...
59,000 X $40.00 = $2,360,000
Damn, time to invest in blizzard stock....
1. Yes but when you played a character through again you went through MANY more zones then that. The creatures you encountered were still randomized as well (sans the cow level)
2. There is too much loot. Money is never a problem and the vendors rarely sell anything better then what you already have on by the second act. Even if they did, with the 5 million I have on my character buying it will never be an issue. In D2 you lost money when you died and the vendors would often sell items that were far superior to what you had on which made your money actually mean something. You also had to buy quite a few potions which, depending on class, is not neccesary in TQ.
3. Note I said in the early levels, implying later on this was not an issue. Note I also said that in so many words that it was psychological as well.
4. Hacking cannot be stopped but in can be deterred. Hosting characters on an online server instead of on your PC greatly helps this. Duping in D2 can get you banned where as if it happened offline in TQ and is then brought online it would be very hard to detect. I can always play with friends but sometimes it's fun to just play with random people online. If cheating is rampant and I can't find a game without some guy glowing like the sun and one-shotting everything like D2 used to be then the game loses a lot of appeal in my eyes.
TQ is a lot of fun the first time through. I just think that they could have made it a lot more fun when/if you go back through it again. It's a play through once then forget about kind of game where as D2 I still fire up at least once a month and enjoy it. TQ had the potential to be the same kind of game and hopefully when future patches and an expansion comes out we will see some of this potential realized.
Well since all the cool kids are doing it, guess I will go write one too.
Problem with TQ is that you basically play the same game through each time. Mobs are the exact same place with each character, maps are the same, etc. In D2 it was kind of like this but the randomization of the maps added a lot of replay ability.
:p
There is also WAY too much loot that drops in that game. There is no real money sinks so you just keep getting more and more money with nothing to spend on it. I've started not picking up items that aren't green or blue because there is simply no point. Speaking of items, there is no "chest" or something equivalent to it to store your items. This means if you are trying to collect a set of something you have to keep it on your person all times. Not a real big deal but it just annoys me, especially early on in the game when space is still a commodity.
Lastly, you can bring your single player characters into multiplayer so there is going to be rampant hacking.
Other then that, yeah, it's a great game.
You could upload high scores and download games but you could not actually play the same game together. Different, yet I guess for the time that was "multiplayer".
That's crazy, I never knew that existed. Would have loved to have that back in the day. Let me put it this way then: First broadband online play.
What a great console. First to have online gameplay (for all 4-5 games that had it) and it was night vs day compared to the PS1. Too bad piracy, Sega pissing off EA, and a multitude of other problems caused it's downfall. It served it's purpose and paved the way for what we have today but think about what the world might be like if Sega was still in the console business...
That is far, far better then what most cars get on the road. My Cougar gets around 22MPG and I think that is spectacular compared to the Sonoma Truck I was driving. Although after I took off the truck's bed the mileage was comparable. I also had a sundance that pushed 28MPG but after someone ran a stop sign and smashed into my passenger side it just wasn't the pimpmobile I was looking for. Something about opening the driver side door for a women and saying "Hop over the console" isn't appealing for most memembers of that gender.
Hm? Oh, you were talking about new cars? Oh well.. uh yeah... 35 mpg... must be rough...
My apologies AC, I know you are omnipotent (and sure post a lot!) and would never make such a typo. I have played the game and all that dancing that made me not wanting to play it around my friends for fear of my sexuality coming into play came back to haunt me. It is Dress sphere's I meant to say, although I think I'm still justified in keeping the rest of the sentence the way it is.
I fail to see the difference here. So trash talking around the school, in other public places, and in school newspapers is ok, but once it gets on the internet it is no longer alright? It's also ok if I'm not an athlete and I say "Team X from college Z licks my nuts" online, but an athlete says it and he/she gets in trouble?
It's the exact same stuff that people were doing when they were kids and what their kids have been doing all along. Myspace, facebook, and other social networking sites are now just an easy place for the parents and peers to actually see what it is going on in all of its unedited glory. Let's face many young adults either do or will be faced with "peer pressure" to do the following:
Drink
Talk trash
Have sex
If you are a parent hopefully you have guided your children to the right path were they will make smart choices and/or know how to get out of the wrong ones they made on their own.
On a side note, if you are a peer and male, try to hook up with woman with these qualities as often as possible (with protection, of course).
RIAA will die out, no doubt about that. They are aging dinosaurs in a changing climate with no will to change. The RIAA has an advantage the dinosaurs didn't however. The dinosaurs were helpless to change their environment and died out, letting new creatures evolve and prosper in their absence. The RIAA has the ability to forcibly change the "climate" thus killing off everything else while leaving them to prosper.
;)
Only time will tell...
P.S: Sorry for all the analogies, won't happen again.
Square's next MMOG not FFXI II.
Thank God. While I did play some of the MMOFF and enjoyed it this is not what Square does best. I hope they return to their roots and release a game with innovative game elements and a great story line. Oh, and for the love of God, NO DANCE SPHERES.
Great, they slapped Microsoft hands for this but who is getting all this money and what are they gonna do with it?
"Swarming works :)"
:)
We called it zerging back in the day
Think about this: If Halo the movie kept to the original storyline (Master Chief gets in uniform, debriefing, oh noes attack, etc) and THEN the games came out, we could still have the same basic game we have now as well as a fun thriller / action movie. Nothing needs to change from the plotline in the game to make it a good movie. Dialogue needs to be added as well as some extra "fluff" to make the movie the longer but the basic plot line does not need to be changed.
I have the feeling that they will take this along the lines of Doom though and the aliens won't be aliens, they will action be terrorists and the AI won't be a hologram, she will be an android who constantly needs saving as well as is the main love interest in the movie. On that note, I hope they cast Kate Beckinsale for that role if they do that...
Just a drop in the bucket. However if they started having to shell out attorney fees to every case they lost it could act as a great deterrent for their "fire and forget" type lawsuits.