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Honestly why the fuck are you dissecting a shitty blog piece? As the tag says "why do books still have chapters?" Sometimes chapters are a Good Thing, and this fucking blog is trolling it around.
But hey, since we're on Digg, I guess discussing blogs is A-OK.
Whilst I'd agree that checking malloc should always be done, in reality on a modern OS malloc almost never fails (unless you do something silly and ask for 8gb on a 32bit machine) - all you do is drive things more and more into swap until the entire machine slows to a crawl. I don't quite get what you're saying. Are you saying that you would agree that checking malloc should be done, with the exception of a system that has a lot of memory (ie your "moderm" OS)? Regardless of how much memory the computer has or what kind of an architecture the OS is running on, the least you can do is at least make sure that memory allocated correctly!
Having said that, yes; the computer will have enough space to store a char* to some N-sized, null-terminating string. Doesn't mean someone won't try to overflow the damn thing.
Having said that I see this kind of Slashdot rhetoric all the time, picking on some majority that is somehow incompetent at programming, checking for errors and overflows, and so on. I am a university student and even I do basic things in C like make sure malloc returned a valid pointer, use a temp pointer when calling realloc, always make sure to call free, and so on. Granted I'm nowhere near knowledgable as I would like to be, I try.
there's something to be said about these type of stories.
But the only thing I can come up with is "ok". I don't get the significance... or is "I don't want to be sued so I'll sue first" some new tactic in digging an even deeper hole?
Reading over all the comments I see nothing but cry babies. Jesus fucking christ I thought Slashdot was full of old timers, not a bunch of rebellious teenagers.
It's just another lame article about how Vista sucks and Linux will continue to thrive. So what? I don't run Vista, and I don't plan to. I run a modified version of XP that did a few things which Microsoft should have. Shit actually works. But what about Ubuntu?
I had an easy time installing it, it's nice and I use it. I've been using Linux distros, but nothing this fancy (I used to have Debian and RH). I am still struggling trying to figure out why it won't recognize some of the resolutions of my GeForce 6800 (using sudo to change it doesn't really help the situation), and it's causing the UI rendering to be slow, even a simple thing like dragging the window around.
Either way I don't see why articles like these have to cause so much drama. One of the snags in the slow process of "migrating" to Linux simply couldn't be that it's users, like yourselves, are so fucking elitist. No, that's impossible. I guess you picked it up from your overlord, Linus.
I don't think you understood my point to begin with, in fact, you completely twisted my words around.
I said the game was fun. Clearly, I wouldn't go through all the trouble in the 2 or so hours that it takes to beat it if I didn't think the game was fun, now would I?
My original post is geared towards the storyline, as is the article itself. I can't really critique the gameplay because it's a simpleton and fun game, but from a storyline perspective, there is absolutely nothing important about Portal. Of course, you don't give a shit since to me it seems like you just wanted to troll somebody.
Of course, if you think this game is something new, I'll give you a few years to "rethink your hobbies". Everything "unique" so far that has come out of the game industry has been remade, rebranded, and resold. This, I believe, will include Portal's "technology." Yes, it's hot shit now. It won't be a few years from now when a few games are using this.
And regarding my last statement, I will reaffirm what I said originally about the article: it's still shit.
and aside from what the title itself gives, it's a one-trick pony. There is nothing "important" about Portal, and it doesn't have anything in terms of storytelling that games before it have not had.
The article is written so poorly for GWJ that I don't think I've ever read anything so banal. Between the -ism headers and massive Wikipedia rewrite, the only thing worse than it is the same old "Still Alive" annoyance that others have been spouting. It was funny, but that's where the line ends. It's not a work of art.
Of course, that's alright. I didn't expect the poster to have played any games with any meaning if the only reason he went to play Portal was because TF2 servers were full. I played through it, it was a muse, and it's just another game with a not-so-indepth storyline that people think has some deep, holy-shit-it's-the-twilight-zone twist to it. It's a gimmick, really.
Personally I'd be more inclined to read an article labeled "The Importance of Flashback: Quest for Identity" or "The Importance of Deus Ex" or hell even "The Importance of Mario," a game that barely has a story yet has attracted millions of players. The former two, in my opinion anyway, had a heavy storyline, and I found Flashback in particular to have a great way of telling a story. I'm sure Portal will do that.
I did approach this article with a lot of criticism, and it turned out to be shit just as I thought. There is nothing important about Portal.
I'm agreeing with you under the assumption that your last paragraph wasn't sarcastic.
I don't see why Manhunt 2 is being brought up so much. It's just a game, nothing more. As someone who's been playing games throughout his life, all sorts of hideous monstrosities down to Nascar racing games (yes, even those are fun sometimes), I think it's fair to point out a major distinction between games and movies/books that has been discussed many times before: passivity.
I suppose in a certain sense, it's a double edged sword. Yes, gamers claim that violent games do relax them, that's fine and I agree and see nothing wrong in it. However, on the other hand, that same lack of passivity can make for a very bad childhood, if you catch my drift.
My question was serious though... why is Manhunt 2 still such a big deal? I mean, I'm sure that Rockstar loves the attention, however other games are banned too.
While critics will undoubtedly note that the majority of Canadians were unaware of net neutrality Just because we "live in the north" doesn't mean we are ignorant of our surroundings and what neighboring countries are up to.
I'm sure lots of Canadians read/., Digg and are bombarded by American propaganda (interpret that how you may) on a daily basis.
(b) if the intercepted communication is encoded, compressed, encrypted or otherwise treated
(i) in cases where the service provider has applied the treatment, either remove the treatment or, if the treatment cannot readily be removed using the telecommunications facilities controlled by the service provider, provide the authorized person with the means to remove it, and
(ii) in cases where the treatment has been applied by another, either remove the treatment or, if the service provider does not control all the means necessary to remove it, provide the authorized person with the means -- other than transmission apparatus -- for removing the treatment that the service provider controls;
The game looks nice, I suppose it plays nice too, but honestly: when the hell is Contra III: Alien Wars coming? We've had too many games without manly haircuts.
I think Ikaruga and Castlevania are going to redeem XBLA.
I'd like to see more fair ratings on game review sites. Sites like gamespot are long biased and comment well on games if the developer/publisher provides them with everything they want.
Ah fuck it, mod me down. I was going to reply with a long ass speech but I'll just sum it up: random idiots saying shit like "we should blacklist because they " shouldn't be news in the first place.
But then again most other comments are what I would elaborate on anyway..
are we fucked?
I actually had hopes in the Canadian government but it seems all they are capable of is causing shit. And what kind of a government would leave a thing such as THE WORLD WIDE WEB in the hands of business'?
You can increase the quality of graphics as much as you want, but the gameplay will never change. A dead rat will still look like a dead rat.
On top of that, given what Bethesda did with Oblivion (charging for quest-by-quest content in an SP game), I wouldn't entirely count this as "good publicity." Sure the game is still there, it has prettier graphics, but the people behind the game are drowning it in bad business decisions.
If one airplane is above the other one does that mean they might go faster because the light that bounces off the bottom one will hit their plane faster than regular light?
In a recent stirr-up of events over the "Orc Marriage" glitch, the PR of Bethesda software stated that "it's a feature, not a glitch." Millions of fans across the globe have ceased holding down the Z on their keyboards and violently moving the mouse around, and decided to "stay home for the weekend" for "some hot coffee" with their female orcish partners.
Slashdot Mirror
is the new fad.
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Welcome to Digg guys, watch your step and make sure you say hi to the mac fanbois on your way in.
Honestly why the fuck are you dissecting a shitty blog piece? As the tag says "why do books still have chapters?" Sometimes chapters are a Good Thing, and this fucking blog is trolling it around.
But hey, since we're on Digg, I guess discussing blogs is A-OK.
Having said that, yes; the computer will have enough space to store a char* to some N-sized, null-terminating string. Doesn't mean someone won't try to overflow the damn thing. Having said that I see this kind of Slashdot rhetoric all the time, picking on some majority that is somehow incompetent at programming, checking for errors and overflows, and so on. I am a university student and even I do basic things in C like make sure malloc returned a valid pointer, use a temp pointer when calling realloc, always make sure to call free, and so on. Granted I'm nowhere near knowledgable as I would like to be, I try.
there's something to be said about these type of stories.
But the only thing I can come up with is "ok". I don't get the significance... or is "I don't want to be sued so I'll sue first" some new tactic in digging an even deeper hole?
Reading over all the comments I see nothing but cry babies. Jesus fucking christ I thought Slashdot was full of old timers, not a bunch of rebellious teenagers.
It's just another lame article about how Vista sucks and Linux will continue to thrive. So what? I don't run Vista, and I don't plan to. I run a modified version of XP that did a few things which Microsoft should have. Shit actually works. But what about Ubuntu?
I had an easy time installing it, it's nice and I use it. I've been using Linux distros, but nothing this fancy (I used to have Debian and RH). I am still struggling trying to figure out why it won't recognize some of the resolutions of my GeForce 6800 (using sudo to change it doesn't really help the situation), and it's causing the UI rendering to be slow, even a simple thing like dragging the window around.
Either way I don't see why articles like these have to cause so much drama. One of the snags in the slow process of "migrating" to Linux simply couldn't be that it's users, like yourselves, are so fucking elitist. No, that's impossible. I guess you picked it up from your overlord, Linus.
I don't think you understood my point to begin with, in fact, you completely twisted my words around.
I said the game was fun. Clearly, I wouldn't go through all the trouble in the 2 or so hours that it takes to beat it if I didn't think the game was fun, now would I?
My original post is geared towards the storyline, as is the article itself. I can't really critique the gameplay because it's a simpleton and fun game, but from a storyline perspective, there is absolutely nothing important about Portal. Of course, you don't give a shit since to me it seems like you just wanted to troll somebody.
Of course, if you think this game is something new, I'll give you a few years to "rethink your hobbies". Everything "unique" so far that has come out of the game industry has been remade, rebranded, and resold. This, I believe, will include Portal's "technology." Yes, it's hot shit now. It won't be a few years from now when a few games are using this.
And regarding my last statement, I will reaffirm what I said originally about the article: it's still shit.
and aside from what the title itself gives, it's a one-trick pony. There is nothing "important" about Portal, and it doesn't have anything in terms of storytelling that games before it have not had.
The article is written so poorly for GWJ that I don't think I've ever read anything so banal. Between the -ism headers and massive Wikipedia rewrite, the only thing worse than it is the same old "Still Alive" annoyance that others have been spouting. It was funny, but that's where the line ends. It's not a work of art.
Of course, that's alright. I didn't expect the poster to have played any games with any meaning if the only reason he went to play Portal was because TF2 servers were full. I played through it, it was a muse, and it's just another game with a not-so-indepth storyline that people think has some deep, holy-shit-it's-the-twilight-zone twist to it. It's a gimmick, really.
Personally I'd be more inclined to read an article labeled "The Importance of Flashback: Quest for Identity" or "The Importance of Deus Ex" or hell even "The Importance of Mario," a game that barely has a story yet has attracted millions of players. The former two, in my opinion anyway, had a heavy storyline, and I found Flashback in particular to have a great way of telling a story. I'm sure Portal will do that.
I did approach this article with a lot of criticism, and it turned out to be shit just as I thought. There is nothing important about Portal.
I'm agreeing with you under the assumption that your last paragraph wasn't sarcastic. I don't see why Manhunt 2 is being brought up so much. It's just a game, nothing more. As someone who's been playing games throughout his life, all sorts of hideous monstrosities down to Nascar racing games (yes, even those are fun sometimes), I think it's fair to point out a major distinction between games and movies/books that has been discussed many times before: passivity. I suppose in a certain sense, it's a double edged sword. Yes, gamers claim that violent games do relax them, that's fine and I agree and see nothing wrong in it. However, on the other hand, that same lack of passivity can make for a very bad childhood, if you catch my drift. My question was serious though... why is Manhunt 2 still such a big deal? I mean, I'm sure that Rockstar loves the attention, however other games are banned too.
I don't mean to troll, but with the audience she's tending to, isn't this a bit like preaching to the choir?
cool non-story that dates back to August 17th.
that Slashdot had become an advertising machine for Apple.
(b) if the intercepted communication is encoded, compressed, encrypted or otherwise treated
(i) in cases where the service provider has applied the treatment, either remove the treatment or, if the treatment cannot readily be removed using the telecommunications facilities controlled by the service provider, provide the authorized person with the means to remove it, and
(ii) in cases where the treatment has been applied by another, either remove the treatment or, if the service provider does not control all the means necessary to remove it, provide the authorized person with the means -- other than transmission apparatus -- for removing the treatment that the service provider controls;
... whoever is monitoring the amount of text messages sent (and what they contain) is probably thinking, "What the fuck is wrong with these kids?"
That game has a striking, striking resemblance to Metal Slug. I hope slashdotters remember that game (Hell, MS6 came out recently).
9 56602090&q=Metal+Slug
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6243305211
The game looks nice, I suppose it plays nice too, but honestly: when the hell is Contra III: Alien Wars coming? We've had too many games without manly haircuts.
I think Ikaruga and Castlevania are going to redeem XBLA.
this isn't even news. This is blatant advertising.
*cough* Vivendi
I'd like to see more fair ratings on game review sites. Sites like gamespot are long biased and comment well on games if the developer/publisher provides them with everything they want.
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A bit off topic
Ah fuck it, mod me down. I was going to reply with a long ass speech but I'll just sum it up: random idiots saying shit like "we should blacklist because they " shouldn't be news in the first place.
But then again most other comments are what I would elaborate on anyway..
are we fucked? I actually had hopes in the Canadian government but it seems all they are capable of is causing shit. And what kind of a government would leave a thing such as THE WORLD WIDE WEB in the hands of business'?
You can increase the quality of graphics as much as you want, but the gameplay will never change. A dead rat will still look like a dead rat. On top of that, given what Bethesda did with Oblivion (charging for quest-by-quest content in an SP game), I wouldn't entirely count this as "good publicity." Sure the game is still there, it has prettier graphics, but the people behind the game are drowning it in bad business decisions.
Hello $FetchFirstNameFromIP, would you like to play a game?
to ask "But does it run linux?" gets a punch in the face... from Sensatex.
If one airplane is above the other one does that mean they might go faster because the light that bounces off the bottom one will hit their plane faster than regular light?
... is because the site is still working.
In a recent stirr-up of events over the "Orc Marriage" glitch, the PR of Bethesda software stated that "it's a feature, not a glitch." Millions of fans across the globe have ceased holding down the Z on their keyboards and violently moving the mouse around, and decided to "stay home for the weekend" for "some hot coffee" with their female orcish partners.