What's worse is that they're not even providing all languages in all regions. Living in South Korea, yet not being fluent in Korea means I can choose a low-ping version I don't really understand, or a high ping version I understand. Multiple e-mails to blizzard resulted in a round around and a suggestion I just buy a copy so that I can contribute to some suggestion thread to recommend they smarten the hell up. No. Fuck you Blizzard. You have completely and utterly gone to shit and should be embarrassed of what you've become.
I'm not sure if this is just informative or bragging that slashdot got to a story while it was still relevant
We covered the warrant being issued and withdrawn yesterday./blockquote.
I half expected to come here next tuesday and see a story about an arrest warrant out for him, only to have kdawson edit the story hours later to point out that he liked turtles.
They chose it because it is Portal. Not because it is a game. Were they just choosing a random game for no specific reason, there would be a case to be made that they could choose a free game.
However they were choosing portal for what it is and there is no free alternative to that.
This is extremely obvious and your complete miss of the point borders on intentional trolling.
Can you prove that anyone who made those recordings actually chose to put them under this system? I don't anyone recording something in WWI really gave two shits about copyright when they recorded it and created it.
Actually the bigger problem is that my banking apps no longer function. I finally jail broke my ipod touch, but then immediately restored it because I couldn't use my banking app. Far too useful to give up.
The problem isn't simply that they've moved on. it is that Slashdot has turned around and summarized the story with something that was debunked 2 days before it made it to Slashdot because they're so far behind the curve. Slashdot will actually post some of that sensational news a day or two after another site and act like its new and that the rest of the internet hasn't already clued in that it is junk.
Seriously? The issue is that Slashdot is 12 hours behind "the curve"? It's impact is minimal on the social web? It's not Digg? That's just fucking retarded.
12 hours is very generous. About 1/2 of the stories I see on slashdot were on digg, not 12 hours ago, but 2-3 days ago. A few hours behind is fine. But when we're talking days, when the rest of the internet has moved on, it gets a bit much.
Especially when slashdot is reporting some inaccurate information that was already cleared up days ago. That is when it gets really embarrassing.
You do realize who posted this story right? If you went by his house and scrawled "Aliens ate Sarah Palin using the new X75 fork from IBM" on his sidewalk in chalk it'd be here the next day as gospel.
This wouldn't happen. While Domain name resolution would stop working, if there was some kind of emergency situation, lists could be published of ip addresses for each site. Domain name resolution is convenient it isn't required for operation. The government of the country in question could also fire up their own DNS system and publicly publish the address for it so that citizens could use it.
I knew as soon as I read the title this was going to involve him. He's been around forever. I can remember when I first found exile so many years ago. Floating around a BBS. It was probably one of the greatest games I played in the early 90s. I probably spent most of time between it and Curse of the Azure Bonds.
I hope some day he turns around and writes a book about how he did it. I don't know that you could duplicate what he has done now. He started at a time and built up his fanbase when the world was a very different place.
You're not going to get someone who doesn't care about obscure system X to volunteer their time and resources making an emulator for it just because you made some noise on a forum.
If there's a game that no one ports to new generations of consoles, and no one emulates it, that's a reasonable indication that no one cared about it: it wasn't worth saving.
No. It means there is no one that cared about it who had the talent and resources to save it.
I've got a dell m1710 with a real video card in it, so I play a lot of games (since I don't have desktop right now) on it. I also watch shows, and do all my day to day stuff on it. Couldn't imagine not having it.
The price doesn't make sense, the quality is not great and the performance isn't as expected. How is that "working out"? It is far from "not quite the miracle they promised" it is an utter failure of a product. There is no compelling reason for anyone to invest in this product. It is cheaper and better to even build a low end gaming machine which will still produce better looking games than this.
No, our software ran on Windows. Generally it seemed successful, at least the projects I was on, but I do recall the odd time where for some reason there were connections between the outside network and the SCADA system. It was firewalled of course, but there was theoretically still a path there.
Trying to deny it doesn't make your astroturfing any less obvious. The technical limitations have been pointed out for a long time and the results have shown that they didn't overcome them, thus an utter failure. As the review pointed out, the service simply cannot be taken seriously.
Whatever they're paying you, tell them to double it, you're certainly trying your best.
You are moving the goalpost. The review utterly busted your claims that its technically not workable, since it actually works. And no, that it can't do 720p@60 doesn't change that,
not even a little bit. The review clearly states that they didn't meet their goals. They said they came close, they didn't say they met them. I know all those pennies they're throwing your way is blinding you but give it another go over. So no it doesn't remotely bust my claim since "close" means what they claimed still isn't technically workable. Until they actually provide the product they promised, they'll have to keep paying chumps like you to talk them up.
However, despite the incredible achievement in streaming gameplay with relatively low latency, the bottom line is that the gameplay experience is not better than what we already have - by and large it's tangibly worse.
I mean if we want to cherry pick comments. Just how much are you being paid for your comments today?
The varying quality of the graphics is questionable, and the lag is best described as "better than expected" - nowhere near the claims that have been made for the system, and still measurably inferior to current standards. It's just a question of how your personal perception level will interpret it as to whether it's a game-breaker or not.
Let's quote a little more since you seemed to miss it.
In terms of buying games, the prices for new titles are too high and the selection of games is uninspiring. The notion of paying so much for what is measurably an inferior product compared to the physical disc means that OnLive simply cannot be taken seriously at this point in time - especially when you don't own the games you are buying.
In other words, it's a joke.
So yes, it does sound like a complete and utter failure.
Perhaps by the time expensive next-generation hardware is unleashed upon us OnLive's value proposition will increase accordingly, but until then the value just isn't there.
and hey who could forget the paragraph immediately after what you quoted
However, even in this regard, lag doesn't meet OnLive's on-the-record promises, and elsewhere the system comes up short. The claims of 720p60 don't stack up compared to the reality of the service (unless you are describing the technical make-up of the transmitted video stream rather than actual game performance) and the quality of the image in challenging situations is poor and no match whatsoever for playing the same game locally. OnLive generally seems to be a system that can work well for certain games, but really isn't very well suited for others.
Lot's of people, including me, called it as soon as it was announced. It is an absolute failure, we've got screenshots that look horrible, latency issues, games that are so bad you can't see crosshairs.. I mean this is just a disaster. They should close from embarrassment and try and pretend the whole thing never happened. If they wanted to target turn based strategy games or something they might have something.. but their service simply can't service the market they want and the market they want doesn't really benefit from their service.
I used to work for a SCADA company our practice was to try to encourage (and was usually successful) to get the customer to cut the ties between the outside network and SCADA control system. Most system designs would often include an extra box with an extra link for an operator to access corporate email, internet, etc
That wouldn't preclude someone slapping something on a USB and taking it over..but why?
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Greenman gaming lets you trade games back in when you're done with them.
https://www.greenmangaming.com/
What's worse is that they're not even providing all languages in all regions. Living in South Korea, yet not being fluent in Korea means I can choose a low-ping version I don't really understand, or a high ping version I understand. Multiple e-mails to blizzard resulted in a round around and a suggestion I just buy a copy so that I can contribute to some suggestion thread to recommend they smarten the hell up. No. Fuck you Blizzard.
You have completely and utterly gone to shit and should be embarrassed of what you've become.
I'm not sure if this is just informative or bragging that slashdot got to a story while it was still relevant
They chose it because it is Portal. Not because it is a game. Were they just choosing a random game for no specific reason, there would be a case to be made that they could choose a free game.
However they were choosing portal for what it is and there is no free alternative to that.
This is extremely obvious and your complete miss of the point borders on intentional trolling.
Can you prove that anyone who made those recordings actually chose to put them under this system? I don't anyone recording something in WWI really gave two shits about copyright when they recorded it and created it.
Actually the bigger problem is that my banking apps no longer function. I finally jail broke my ipod touch, but then immediately restored it because I couldn't use my banking app. Far too useful to give up.
That's okay. I'm sure Kdawson was probably thinking that when he wrote it..
The problem isn't simply that they've moved on. it is that Slashdot has turned around and summarized the story with something that was debunked 2 days before it made it to Slashdot because they're so far behind the curve. Slashdot will actually post some of that sensational news a day or two after another site and act like its new and that the rest of the internet hasn't already clued in that it is junk.
step 3 is wave a piece of cheese in front of kdawson's face.
12 hours is very generous. About 1/2 of the stories I see on slashdot were on digg, not 12 hours ago, but 2-3 days ago.
A few hours behind is fine. But when we're talking days, when the rest of the internet has moved on, it gets a bit much.
Especially when slashdot is reporting some inaccurate information that was already cleared up days ago. That is when it gets really embarrassing.
You do realize who posted this story right? If you went by his house and scrawled "Aliens ate Sarah Palin using the new X75 fork from IBM" on his sidewalk in chalk it'd be here the next day as gospel.
At this point I suspect "Kdawson" is a lot like "Alan Smithee". He just forgot to tick the box this time.
This wouldn't happen.
While Domain name resolution would stop working, if there was some kind of emergency situation, lists could be published of ip addresses for each site.
Domain name resolution is convenient it isn't required for operation.
The government of the country in question could also fire up their own DNS system and publicly publish the address for it so that citizens could use it.
I knew as soon as I read the title this was going to involve him.
He's been around forever. I can remember when I first found exile so many years ago. Floating around a BBS.
It was probably one of the greatest games I played in the early 90s. I probably spent most of time between it and Curse of the Azure Bonds.
I hope some day he turns around and writes a book about how he did it. I don't know that you could duplicate what he has done now. He started at a time and built up his fanbase when the world was a very different place.
You're not going to get someone who doesn't care about obscure system X to volunteer their time and resources making an emulator for it just because you made some noise on a forum.
No. It means there is no one that cared about it who had the talent and resources to save it.
Those are two different things.
and yet Korea has had a thriving gaming industry for around 10 years existing solely on Microtransactions.
They've got tons of games here absolutely free, and completely playable to the end without paying a dime.
I've got a dell m1710 with a real video card in it, so I play a lot of games (since I don't have desktop right now) on it. I also watch shows, and do all my day to day stuff on it. Couldn't imagine not having it.
The price doesn't make sense, the quality is not great and the performance isn't as expected. How is that "working out"?
It is far from "not quite the miracle they promised" it is an utter failure of a product. There is no compelling reason for anyone to invest in this product. It is cheaper and better to even build a low end gaming machine which will still produce better looking games than this.
No, our software ran on Windows. Generally it seemed successful, at least the projects I was on, but I do recall the odd time where for some reason there were connections between the outside network and the SCADA system. It was firewalled of course, but there was theoretically still a path there.
Trying to deny it doesn't make your astroturfing any less obvious. The technical limitations have been pointed out for a long time and the results have shown that they didn't overcome them, thus an utter failure. As the review pointed out, the service simply cannot be taken seriously.
Whatever they're paying you, tell them to double it, you're certainly trying your best.
not even a little bit. The review clearly states that they didn't meet their goals. They said they came close, they didn't say they met them. I know all those pennies they're throwing your way is blinding you but give it another go over. So no it doesn't remotely bust my claim since "close" means what they claimed still isn't technically workable. Until they actually provide the product they promised, they'll have to keep paying chumps like you to talk them up.
Yes.
That one.
I mean if we want to cherry pick comments.
Just how much are you being paid for your comments today?
Let's quote a little more since you seemed to miss it.
In other words, it's a joke.
So yes, it does sound like a complete and utter failure.
and hey who could forget the paragraph immediately after what you quoted
So again, how much you being paid to astroturf?
Lot's of people, including me, called it as soon as it was announced. It is an absolute failure, we've got screenshots that look horrible, latency issues, games that are so bad you can't see crosshairs.. I mean this is just a disaster. They should close from embarrassment and try and pretend the whole thing never happened. If they wanted to target turn based strategy games or something they might have something.. but their service simply can't service the market they want and the market they want doesn't really benefit from their service.
I used to work for a SCADA company our practice was to try to encourage (and was usually successful) to get the customer to cut the ties between the outside network and SCADA control system. Most system designs would often include an extra box with an extra link for an operator to access corporate email, internet, etc
That wouldn't preclude someone slapping something on a USB and taking it over..but why?