Cost of speed: yes. But this is not a big problem since the printers scale pretty linear. In the future we may have "3d copy shops" where they have like 10 printers being able to do small to medium size production runs quickly enough.
As being very impressed by Bear McCreay as soundtrack componist: Have you asked or are you planning to ask Bear McCreary for writing the sound track for Space Command?
I live in Germany and I admire many BBC productions. The problem is, after many years of the industry 'fighting piracy', they are still missing the obvious.
Yes, I consider myself a "TV show pirate". Why am I pirating? Let's say I want to watch the newest Doctor Who. There are a few ways to watch it:
- legally: Visit UK: Expensive. - legally: Buy a huge satellite dish and watch/record it. Expensive and complicated, not possible anywhere. - legally: Wait month for DVD. - legally: Wait 5 years for any TV station to pick the show up again and show it in Germany with bad synchronization. - somewhat legally: watch it on BBCs iplayer via Proxy: Complicated to set up, often slow - probably illegally: download it from Filehoster/Newsgroup: easiest and cheapest, also fast.
So why am I pirating: I'm always picking the fastest, most comfortable and maybe the cheapest way. But I would pay for it, as I would pay for a filehoster or newsgroup provider.
BBC and others: If you want me to stop piracy, please make a platform that - is available everywhere where I have internet access - that provides TV shows or movies to an affordable price, with original audio - that provides TV shows in decent quality (720p), unencrypted - that provides TV shows immediately after being screened.
As I see it, Bitcoin is a cryptographic peer-to--peer accounting system, with a virtual currency 'attached' to it. For me it looks like it's an experimentation platform for the accounting system itself, as well as for free markets. From my point of view, the Bitcoin other FIAT money exchangers show what happens on 'really' free 24/7 markets.
Currently, just wasting energy for mining accounting data makes not much sense for me (apart from someone else would pay you some kind of FIAT money for the results). The network adapts well to more and more miners added to the network, but basically adding more and more miners just increase the total power consumption, which is not proportional to the amount of security gained.
I believe Bitcoin is not end of the line. What will be the systems in planning building onto or what we learn from Bitcoin?
If these is actually an excerpt of the actual data, then it looks like test data for me. Look at the passwords. They repeat a lot but grouped with ascending order. For example in the middle of the file there are a lot of "123456" passwords, but nowhere else. As the data seems to be ordered by u_usr this seems to be very unlikely.
USPS... the other way around is actually terrible.
I sometimes ship from Germany to US by DHL. They deliver it to USPS. The packages are transported within 2-3 days to the US. After that happens, the tracking won't update it's status anymore and nobody knows where the package is. It usually takes them between 7-30 days to deliver a package.
Hm, the 64-bit version works much better and mostly stable for me while the 32-bit + ndiswrapper crashes on firefox every few flash sites.
It's a pity. 32-bit is not an option anymore. On all my workstations I need 4-8 GB memory and a 64 bit system is your obvious choice.
The current options for me is is either to live with having 25+ code execution vulnerabilities, get the crashing 32 bit version or delete it completely. I don't like any of the options.. Thank you Adobe.
I'm a pirate in Germany and I've heard this here too a lot. With now almost 12k members the number of issues addressed increases quickly now.
I don't think the UK pirate party does have a lot of members yet. That means they probably don't have competence in other areas so they don't serve you something that they can't to right.
If you want to do something, you can join the party and create those issues you want to have addressed.
At least for Germany I can say - I don't trust any other party anymore because they are all buyable. I don't believe that's completely different in the UK.
My linux systems get a lot of attacks every day. SSH, FTP and HTTP attacks are the most common.
On HTTP attacks most ones try to get a page/phpmyadmin or some other (most of the time php-) application which seem to have severe security issues. There are many insecure web applications out there that are not patched or pretty much broken by design.
I bet the security hole you're exploiting is already used in the wild. If that's so, who cares if another kid takes your code and turns it into real malware? I personally believe it's more benefit to release your code as "penetration test" and help some admins to check their servers of potential security holes than to do nothing in fear of a few kids.
What they are trying to do is very clever. The main target audience are large householders which have old, gas powered heaters. The replacement cost is relatively low.
The problem which the power suppliers see in the future: A rising amount of electricity is generated by wind and solar power. Some of Germany's nuclear power plants are getting old and may not get an approval to run further / or to build a new one in the future.
So, with rising amount of "natural" energy, there must be a solution to compensate if those solar/wind power plants are not generating power. Having lots of those small remote-controlled power plants on the network can easily and quickly compensate this.
So, do we get an arrow pointing to the nearest enemy?
I really wonder how much casual gamer friendly they'll make it this time. Anyway I'm not going to buy this game because as a fan of the System Shock series I expected a bit more of Bio"shock".
I play computer games since ~1995. I liked the LucasArts adventures at this time most. One thing I noted, the quality of games went down from time to time. Many game studios went bankruptcy or were bought by big game studios, which made bad sequels out of the games.
What I noted, especially in the last 2 years are two things: - Games are often made to run on PC and consoles. That makes the developers design it for the most limited platform in terms of input devices. This is usually bad for the PC port of the game. - Games are made in a way to maximize profit.
Maximizing profit means to appeal as many customers as possible. That often include people who want to play something like an "interactive movie", without any real challenges or parts where serious thinking is needed.
If this matches your definition of "modern players", I think they never had a patience for such puzzles.
> What fun is a "survival horror" if you're not scared? I second that. I actually thought I'll get a shocking game when buying Bioshock, but I totally missed the shock. Maybe they should have named it Biorun, BioWater, or BioMutation or just Bio.
They could have been much better with that. Well, the colors used usually create a warm, nice atmosphere. The problem is: they did nothing in addition to make this this more scary.
Both System Shock I and II still scares the hell out of me, but Bioshock didn't (well Half Life 2 did better on the Ravenhome level).
> I think that patch would have been an excellent time to redo the crafting system and make it interesting. The existing system is pretty halfassed.
I agree. It was not good for anything... Even on hard mode you have enough ammunition (and enough money), so why "invent" new ammunition? As I remember, you needed one of those stations for a quest, but there wasn't anything else.
Maybe that was one of the early plans to make some more quests or go create a "go-back to level x scenario to get a key for a bonus" scenario. They dumped all those interesting stuff at the end to make the game more "newbie-friendly".
> Adding a mode that penalizes you for using the Vita chambers (make them cost money!) would have been a nice touch too. Oh, yes. That would have been great. Adding hit points to your enemies on "hard" level makes it not much more difficult to kill enemies. You only need more time killing them. You can run as long as you want towards you enemy with a wrench and in the end you enemy is dead, but you are not, without any penalty. This makes me rate this game as "easy", even on hard mode.
No, if you loved System Shock (1 and 2) you'll be disappointed with Bioshock, because it's just an ordinary FPS without any noticeable RPG elements. Not saying Bioshock was a bad FPS, but it's a game for the masses: Just point and shoot and follow the hallway.
>...just released in three parts. To take 3 times the price for it?
> Out of curiosity, why didn't HL2 do anything for you? Did you not play the first game/not play to the end? I played HL1.
HL2 was fun to me in the first levels (the Ravenhome level was most fun and pretty well made). The Jail level was also ok. Then I remember driving around, kill some monsters, driving around, kill some monsters, go over a broken bridge in 200 meters height to press a button, go back, drive home... The fight in the streets with some other mates was refreshing, but too easy and too short. The last level(s) were just "where the frag am I?". I dont like structures and enemys 100 times bigger then me (why do they need humanoid sized enemys anyway when they can destroy everything with a big monster?). Maybe I ask too many questions.
I play FPS games often and I like well made single player action (I rarely play commercial games online). It seems to be a trend that the length is cut down to a few hours gameplay, usually in the last years the avarage length was about 10-15 hours (which is not very long) for a linear shooter game.
I didn't play episode 1 and 2 (because I wasn't satisfied with HL2 anyway), so 5 hours gameplay seems to be a rip-off for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Cost of speed: yes. But this is not a big problem since the printers scale pretty linear.
In the future we may have "3d copy shops" where they have like 10 printers being able to do small to medium size production runs quickly enough.
As being very impressed by Bear McCreay as soundtrack componist: Have you asked or are you planning to ask Bear McCreary for writing the sound track for Space Command?
I'd suggest #reprap on Freenode for being the easiest way to get information like this. In fact, you should try out Printrun and Slic3r.
Too bad it's in a museum now.
I live in Germany and I admire many BBC productions. The problem is, after many years of the industry 'fighting piracy', they are still missing the obvious.
Yes, I consider myself a "TV show pirate". Why am I pirating? Let's say I want to watch the newest Doctor Who. There are a few ways to watch it:
- legally: Visit UK: Expensive.
- legally: Buy a huge satellite dish and watch/record it. Expensive and complicated, not possible anywhere.
- legally: Wait month for DVD.
- legally: Wait 5 years for any TV station to pick the show up again and show it in Germany with bad synchronization.
- somewhat legally: watch it on BBCs iplayer via Proxy: Complicated to set up, often slow
- probably illegally: download it from Filehoster/Newsgroup: easiest and cheapest, also fast.
So why am I pirating: I'm always picking the fastest, most comfortable and maybe the cheapest way. But I would pay for it, as I would pay for a filehoster or newsgroup provider.
BBC and others: If you want me to stop piracy, please make a platform that
- is available everywhere where I have internet access
- that provides TV shows or movies to an affordable price, with original audio
- that provides TV shows in decent quality (720p), unencrypted
- that provides TV shows immediately after being screened.
I will be your customer.
As I see it, Bitcoin is a cryptographic peer-to--peer accounting system, with a virtual currency 'attached' to it. For me it looks like it's an experimentation platform for the accounting system itself, as well as for free markets. From my point of view, the Bitcoin other FIAT money exchangers show what happens on 'really' free 24/7 markets.
Currently, just wasting energy for mining accounting data makes not much sense for me (apart from someone else would pay you some kind of FIAT money for the results). The network adapts well to more and more miners added to the network, but basically adding more and more miners just increase the total power consumption, which is not proportional to the amount of security gained.
I believe Bitcoin is not end of the line. What will be the systems in planning building onto or what we learn from Bitcoin?
http://pastebin.com/WqLysjiN
If these is actually an excerpt of the actual data, then it looks like test data for me. Look at the passwords. They repeat a lot but grouped with ascending order. For example in the middle of the file there are a lot of "123456" passwords, but nowhere else. As the data seems to be ordered by u_usr this seems to be very unlikely.
USPS... the other way around is actually terrible.
I sometimes ship from Germany to US by DHL. They deliver it to USPS. The packages are transported within 2-3 days to the US. After that happens, the tracking won't update it's status anymore and nobody knows where the package is. It usually takes them between 7-30 days to deliver a package.
UPS and Fedex are much faster.
Better drivers? I don't know. However I'd call me a faster reacting driver. Due to FPS games my reaction time decreased significantly over the time.
Oh yeah yeah right.
I remember trying to install my nvidia graphics driver. "Your kernel is not supported. Please install the generic kernel"
Hm, the 64-bit version works much better and mostly stable for me while the 32-bit + ndiswrapper crashes on firefox every few flash sites.
It's a pity. 32-bit is not an option anymore. On all my workstations I need 4-8 GB memory and a 64 bit system is your obvious choice.
The current options for me is is either to live with having 25+ code execution vulnerabilities, get the crashing 32 bit version or delete it completely. I don't like any of the options.. Thank you Adobe.
Full-body scanners from the airport?
I'm a pirate in Germany and I've heard this here too a lot. With now almost 12k members the number of issues addressed increases quickly now.
I don't think the UK pirate party does have a lot of members yet. That means they probably don't have competence in other areas so they don't serve you something that they can't to right.
If you want to do something, you can join the party and create those issues you want to have addressed.
At least for Germany I can say - I don't trust any other party anymore because they are all buyable. I don't believe that's completely different in the UK.
Ghostbusters III was actually announced already! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/
My linux systems get a lot of attacks every day. SSH, FTP and HTTP attacks are the most common.
On HTTP attacks most ones try to get a page /phpmyadmin or some other (most of the time php-) application which seem to have severe security issues. There are many insecure web applications out there that are not patched or pretty much broken by design.
I bet the security hole you're exploiting is already used in the wild. If that's so, who cares if another kid takes your code and turns it into real malware?
I personally believe it's more benefit to release your code as "penetration test" and help some admins to check their servers of potential security holes than to do nothing in fear of a few kids.
What they are trying to do is very clever. The main target audience are large householders which have old, gas powered heaters. The replacement cost is relatively low.
The problem which the power suppliers see in the future: A rising amount of electricity is generated by wind and solar power. Some of Germany's nuclear power plants are getting old and may not get an approval to run further / or to build a new one in the future.
So, with rising amount of "natural" energy, there must be a solution to compensate if those solar/wind power plants are not generating power. Having lots of those small remote-controlled power plants on the network can easily and quickly compensate this.
Anyone got a mirror? In Germany I get
"This video is not available in your Country due to copyright restrictions"
So, do we get an arrow pointing to the nearest enemy?
I really wonder how much casual gamer friendly they'll make it this time. Anyway I'm not going to buy this game because as a fan of the System Shock series I expected a bit more of Bio"shock".
A broken one which is stuck in the pressed state would be fine also.
I play computer games since ~1995. I liked the LucasArts adventures at this time most.
One thing I noted, the quality of games went down from time to time. Many game studios went bankruptcy or were bought by big game studios, which made bad sequels out of the games.
What I noted, especially in the last 2 years are two things:
- Games are often made to run on PC and consoles. That makes the developers design it for the most limited platform in terms of input devices. This is usually bad for the PC port of the game.
- Games are made in a way to maximize profit.
Maximizing profit means to appeal as many customers as possible. That often include people who want to play something like an "interactive movie", without any real challenges or parts where serious thinking is needed.
If this matches your definition of "modern players", I think they never had a patience for such puzzles.
> What fun is a "survival horror" if you're not scared?
I second that. I actually thought I'll get a shocking game when buying Bioshock, but I totally missed the shock. Maybe they should have named it Biorun, BioWater, or BioMutation or just Bio.
They could have been much better with that. Well, the colors used usually create a warm, nice atmosphere. The problem is: they did nothing in addition to make this this more scary.
Both System Shock I and II still scares the hell out of me, but Bioshock didn't (well Half Life 2 did better on the Ravenhome level).
> I think that patch would have been an excellent time to redo the crafting system and make it interesting. The existing system is pretty halfassed.
I agree. It was not good for anything... Even on hard mode you have enough ammunition (and enough money), so why "invent" new ammunition? As I remember, you needed one of those stations for a quest, but there wasn't anything else.
Maybe that was one of the early plans to make some more quests or go create a "go-back to level x scenario to get a key for a bonus" scenario. They dumped all those interesting stuff at the end to make the game more "newbie-friendly".
> Adding a mode that penalizes you for using the Vita chambers (make them cost money!) would have been a nice touch too.
Oh, yes. That would have been great. Adding hit points to your enemies on "hard" level makes it not much more difficult to kill enemies. You only need more time killing them. You can run as long as you want towards you enemy with a wrench and in the end you enemy is dead, but you are not, without any penalty. This makes me rate this game as "easy", even on hard mode.
No, if you loved System Shock (1 and 2) you'll be disappointed with Bioshock, because it's just an ordinary FPS without any noticeable RPG elements.
Not saying Bioshock was a bad FPS, but it's a game for the masses: Just point and shoot and follow the hallway.
> ...just released in three parts.
To take 3 times the price for it?
> Out of curiosity, why didn't HL2 do anything for you? Did you not play the first game/not play to the end?
I played HL1.
HL2 was fun to me in the first levels (the Ravenhome level was most fun and pretty well made). The Jail level was also ok. Then I remember driving around, kill some monsters, driving around, kill some monsters, go over a broken bridge in 200 meters height to press a button, go back, drive home...
The fight in the streets with some other mates was refreshing, but too easy and too short. The last level(s) were just "where the frag am I?". I dont like structures and enemys 100 times bigger then me (why do they need humanoid sized enemys anyway when they can destroy everything with a big monster?). Maybe I ask too many questions.
I play FPS games often and I like well made single player action (I rarely play commercial games online). It seems to be a trend that the length is cut down to a few hours gameplay, usually in the last years the avarage length was about 10-15 hours (which is not very long) for a linear shooter game.
I didn't play episode 1 and 2 (because I wasn't satisfied with HL2 anyway), so 5 hours gameplay seems to be a rip-off for me.