It might have been nice if they'd compared all of those to a handful of routers. Firewalls are great, but I think a lot of home networks now consist of at least 2 hosts. I'd be curious to see how they fair.
My issue isn't so much the boot time (which is pretty quick if you don't count the stop for a second for the bootloader) its the time after I type my password until my desktop is available. I think it mostly has to do with the network drive I have mapped (which I use frequently and won't unmap), but I also noticed once or twice after fresh wipes once I updated Windows, the login time goes from almost instant to about 10-15 seconds or more. I.e. the little login music is playing while your desktop is appearing, then you update (installing no third party apps) and suddenly the music has played, and you're still sitting there twiddling you're thumbs waiting for your desktop. It is microsoft's doing. I have no idea which particular update it is. Next time I wipe, maybe I'll install them one at a time until I find out which one it is.
That is what gamers want now I guess, and reviewers. I recently read a review on gamespot on Vice City Stories. One of the reviewers complaints was the lack of hand holding the game did. He was concerned that it wasn't popping up arrows showing you where to turn and mapping out the best routes to take for missions, etc. I guess as a developer in that environment you give them exactly what they want.
I think its going to depend heavily on what games the person plays. If they don't play the 6 online games or use the gameboy player, not an issue. Same with the virtual console. As far as emulation goes, my wife has been playing super monkey ball on it and hasn't mentioned any issues.
Another "me too" awards show. Following the crowd. We all know oblivion was a shiny turd and if people are still patting it on the back it shows they've learned nothing.
As someone pointed out, the Wii completely replaces the GC, so take that out of the equation. Depending on what you play on the NES/N64/SNES, the virtual console may or may not be for you. Nintendo looks like they're going to have a slow and arduous release schedule with no real indication of when anything is coming out. Stupid if you ask me.
I guess some kind of receiver with lots of inputs would work well. I'm not sure how many you can get on one receiver, but most of them work on those RCA deals. As far as high def goes for those systems, well I have no knowledge. Use cable ties and get a nice cabinet.
They really need to include the option to moderate stories and summaries in addition to the comments themselves. I'd like to put this one down for +1 misleading summary
addictinggames.com did that a couple days ago. This massive flash ad for the new zelda game. Not only did it pop up when moused over, it interfered with the flash games. If it was popped up (but under the game) the game would suddenly stop working. it also had sound, which could only be disabled when popped up, but popping it up often put it under the flash on the page which meant you couldn't get at the icon to turn off the sounds. That doesn't make me want to buy the product or visit the page.
Which is why flash ads were developed. Its hard to just right click and hit "don't show images from this server anymore". Ad-blocking doesn't do much good, if everytime you do it, they come up with a better way to show them. Pop-up blockers begot the pop-under ad image blockers begot flash ads if we block flash ads I'm sure they'll just start randomly coming to people's homes and breaking their legs.
Except you can plug your computer into the TV, just like my media center PC is. If you want to get snippy about technicalities you might want to check yourself before posting. The mouse and keyboard are only a very recent addition to the line-up of console accessories and as you said, nothing really takes advantage of them. But PCs have been plugging into TVs (I can remember as far back as 89/90 seeing a PC plugged into a TV and they've been using Joysticks and gamepads for a long time as well. So its not a recent development, something that has had plenty of time for it to be taken advantage of.
Except the reason consoles aren't suited to RTS play is because they don't take advantage of a mouse. They can't mimic that control properly. A PC has no such hardware limitation. Just because people don't use it to play party games doesn't make a PC itself unsuited for them. Plugging 4 gamepads in to it is no different than have 4 controllers plugged in to a console.
This could be a niche market for open source guys to get involved in. We already know you can easily hook up 4 gamepads (or as many as you want really) to a PC, so its a matter of having some games. Drive an open source project towards gaming glory and you're done. I think the reason it hasn't picked up mainstream is simply because people don't see the computer attached to the TV. I think making one or two really solid "Party" type games and you might see a shift.
I have to echo this, imagine what you could do in a Star Wars game on the Wii. You could mimic the force powers for really intuitive gameplay. A thrust would send a force push, a yank would pull them forward, a 45 degree forward thrust would choke someone, a double thrust could shoot lightning, a completely verticle thrust could send people flying up, a swirling motion could confuse them, etc and then of course the light sabre. Special attachment, controller, etc not withstanding, even using the wii mote it would be ridiculously awesome. Lucas arts needs to really look at this and consider doing it right.
I've been enjoying it thus far. I've got a beast of a machine to play it on though, Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a 512 MB 7900GTX, but I do play it all on high with a 1920x1200 resolution inside and out without a single frame rate issue at all.
No, but it was mentioned in the summary, and if you'd read the comments, several people were talking about it. A lot of people still seem to think Bioware developed NWN2. So regardless of Bioware's willingness to want to port to Linux, its no indication that NWN2 would ever show up on Linux.
Bioware has nothing to do with NWN2 other than hosting the forums. They don't control a linux port and since it was decided to use DirectX this time around, its not coming anytime soon. As far as games in general being on Linux, well that depends on the game. If the developer can be sweet talked into openGL you have a much higher chance of seeing it. Perhaps the community should start wooing developers.
Its better. Do you know if they actually decode it server side? Because that would be one of the keys. If they could create it so that the snooper had absolutely no access to the correct key or the method by which to decrypt it, thats about as secure as you can make it. Using a random pattern like that would ensure they couldn't create an algorithm or anything like that to figure it out. Clicking would have to be disabled as much of a pain as that is.
Its a bit overkill, but I'm wondering if it could be broken short of a screen cap? What if the user was presented with a randomized "number pad" image and the user was asked to input their pin on their number pad but using the layout presented on the screen. The packet might contain: 6689 as the pin, but in reality it would be translated on the server side to 3327 using the image they were served at the time of page creation. Its unsophisticated, but I'm sure someone here could turn it into a beautiful interface of some sort, using some kind of crazy method to hide the image from any kind of snooping software.
magical distinction? If a site is taken down, no one has access to it anymore. If its blocked by an ISP everyone else still sees it and you may as well through a proxy of some sort. It works fine until some idiot blocks a medical site of some sort because he only opened it long enough to see the nude picture of the 6 year old. Meanwhile the real criminals are still using proxies to view whatever they want. There are certain laws and things which do nothing to hinder criminals, this will be one of them.
Then obviously you've completely forgotten what just happened with the liberals. As a Canadian I'm opposed to any kind of censorship, period. Its more preferable to take down the sites than block them.
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It might have been nice if they'd compared all of those to a handful of routers. Firewalls are great, but I think a lot of home networks now consist of at least 2 hosts. I'd be curious to see how they fair.
My issue isn't so much the boot time (which is pretty quick if you don't count the stop for a second for the bootloader) its the time after I type my password until my desktop is available. I think it mostly has to do with the network drive I have mapped (which I use frequently and won't unmap), but I also noticed once or twice after fresh wipes once I updated Windows, the login time goes from almost instant to about 10-15 seconds or more. I.e. the little login music is playing while your desktop is appearing, then you update (installing no third party apps) and suddenly the music has played, and you're still sitting there twiddling you're thumbs waiting for your desktop. It is microsoft's doing. I have no idea which particular update it is. Next time I wipe, maybe I'll install them one at a time until I find out which one it is.
That is what gamers want now I guess, and reviewers. I recently read a review on gamespot on Vice City Stories. One of the reviewers complaints was the lack of hand holding the game did. He was concerned that it wasn't popping up arrows showing you where to turn and mapping out the best routes to take for missions, etc. I guess as a developer in that environment you give them exactly what they want.
I think its going to depend heavily on what games the person plays. If they don't play the 6 online games or use the gameboy player, not an issue. Same with the virtual console. As far as emulation goes, my wife has been playing super monkey ball on it and hasn't mentioned any issues.
Another "me too" awards show. Following the crowd. We all know oblivion was a shiny turd and if people are still patting it on the back it shows they've learned nothing.
As someone pointed out, the Wii completely replaces the GC, so take that out of the equation. Depending on what you play on the NES/N64/SNES, the virtual console may or may not be for you. Nintendo looks like they're going to have a slow and arduous release schedule with no real indication of when anything is coming out. Stupid if you ask me.
I guess some kind of receiver with lots of inputs would work well. I'm not sure how many you can get on one receiver, but most of them work on those RCA deals. As far as high def goes for those systems, well I have no knowledge. Use cable ties and get a nice cabinet.
99% of the games? You're kidding right?
You only need to include the torrent for the version of Vista that works best with this as well ;)
They really need to include the option to moderate stories and summaries in addition to the comments themselves. I'd like to put this one down for +1 misleading summary
addictinggames.com did that a couple days ago. This massive flash ad for the new zelda game. Not only did it pop up when moused over, it interfered with the flash games. If it was popped up (but under the game) the game would suddenly stop working. it also had sound, which could only be disabled when popped up, but popping it up often put it under the flash on the page which meant you couldn't get at the icon to turn off the sounds. That doesn't make me want to buy the product or visit the page.
ssshhhh don't tell them. If they find out about it, its good-bye knee-caps for all.
Which is why flash ads were developed. Its hard to just right click and hit "don't show images from this server anymore".
Ad-blocking doesn't do much good, if everytime you do it, they come up with a better way to show them.
Pop-up blockers begot the pop-under ad
image blockers begot flash ads
if we block flash ads I'm sure they'll just start randomly coming to people's homes and breaking their legs.
Except you can plug your computer into the TV, just like my media center PC is. If you want to get snippy about technicalities you might want to check yourself before posting. The mouse and keyboard are only a very recent addition to the line-up of console accessories and as you said, nothing really takes advantage of them. But PCs have been plugging into TVs (I can remember as far back as 89/90 seeing a PC plugged into a TV and they've been using Joysticks and gamepads for a long time as well. So its not a recent development, something that has had plenty of time for it to be taken advantage of.
Except the reason consoles aren't suited to RTS play is because they don't take advantage of a mouse. They can't mimic that control properly. A PC has no such hardware limitation. Just because people don't use it to play party games doesn't make a PC itself unsuited for them. Plugging 4 gamepads in to it is no different than have 4 controllers plugged in to a console.
This could be a niche market for open source guys to get involved in. We already know you can easily hook up 4 gamepads (or as many as you want really) to a PC, so its a matter of having some games. Drive an open source project towards gaming glory and you're done. I think the reason it hasn't picked up mainstream is simply because people don't see the computer attached to the TV. I think making one or two really solid "Party" type games and you might see a shift.
I have to echo this, imagine what you could do in a Star Wars game on the Wii. You could mimic the force powers for really intuitive gameplay. A thrust would send a force push, a yank would pull them forward, a 45 degree forward thrust would choke someone, a double thrust could shoot lightning, a completely verticle thrust could send people flying up, a swirling motion could confuse them, etc and then of course the light sabre. Special attachment, controller, etc not withstanding, even using the wii mote it would be ridiculously awesome. Lucas arts needs to really look at this and consider doing it right.
I've been enjoying it thus far. I've got a beast of a machine to play it on though, Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a 512 MB 7900GTX, but I do play it all on high with a 1920x1200 resolution inside and out without a single frame rate issue at all.
The comments here on slashdot not in the thread. There may not have been discussion that thread about NWN2, but there was discussion here.
No, but it was mentioned in the summary, and if you'd read the comments, several people were talking about it. A lot of people still seem to think Bioware developed NWN2. So regardless of Bioware's willingness to want to port to Linux, its no indication that NWN2 would ever show up on Linux.
Bioware has nothing to do with NWN2 other than hosting the forums. They don't control a linux port and since it was decided to use DirectX this time around, its not coming anytime soon.
As far as games in general being on Linux, well that depends on the game. If the developer can be sweet talked into openGL you have a much higher chance of seeing it. Perhaps the community should start wooing developers.
Its better. Do you know if they actually decode it server side? Because that would be one of the keys. If they could create it so that the snooper had absolutely no access to the correct key or the method by which to decrypt it, thats about as secure as you can make it. Using a random pattern like that would ensure they couldn't create an algorithm or anything like that to figure it out. Clicking would have to be disabled as much of a pain as that is.
Its a bit overkill, but I'm wondering if it could be broken short of a screen cap?
What if the user was presented with a randomized "number pad" image and the user was asked to input their pin on their number pad but using the layout presented on the screen. The packet might contain: 6689 as the pin, but in reality it would be translated on the server side to 3327 using the image they were served at the time of page creation. Its unsophisticated, but I'm sure someone here could turn it into a beautiful interface of some sort, using some kind of crazy method to hide the image from any kind of snooping software.
magical distinction? If a site is taken down, no one has access to it anymore. If its blocked by an ISP everyone else still sees it and you may as well through a proxy of some sort. It works fine until some idiot blocks a medical site of some sort because he only opened it long enough to see the nude picture of the 6 year old. Meanwhile the real criminals are still using proxies to view whatever they want. There are certain laws and things which do nothing to hinder criminals, this will be one of them.
Except it doesn't really anymore.
Then obviously you've completely forgotten what just happened with the liberals. As a Canadian I'm opposed to any kind of censorship, period. Its more preferable to take down the sites than block them.