If I remember correctly, when I played through all of the training to unlock everything a few years ago, all of the answers were available online and I just did something else while the lecture played... so much for learning how to dress a wound while I wanted to be shooting some terrorists.
Not very surprising, but what does surprise me is that the site owners are letting CourtTV broadcast to the world that their facilities are insecure.
Wouldn't airing this on TV encourage the security staff at these companies to make themselves more secure because now not only they, but they whole world knows how insecure their company previously was?... one could hope I guess... or you could always make a cheap buck off your companies insecurities:)
You might be right about most of these people being disguised pirates but there's definitly been a huge spike in interest in the ethical world... epically technology-literate people who don't want to have to spring for a encryption-bogged down system to watch this HD content... this is getting back to the debate that DRM Causes Piracy that was posted earlier where people will look for the best way to get their content and sometimes that means piracy...
All of this makes me ask the question: if none of these movies had any DRM and all the movies cost between $5-$10... would anybody even bother having there connection bogged down by downloading an entire movie for 2 days straight?
One of my most memorable moments from any game that I've played was in Deus EX(which was mentioned in the article) when you are forced to die and wake up in your what amount to your enemies lair. From the very start of the game you are taught how good you should be and then, 10 hours into the game, the game forced you to become evil even though you might not have wanted you. At the time that really brothered me so I went back any played the level a few times and realized that I had to do it..
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This was one of the most original things that made Dues EX so much better of a game then a game where you just play the hero and it really made me want to play it more... just my $0.02
I totally agree with you but that's exactly the reason why most serious gamers will join clans and such so that they can fell some sort of attachment to their opponents, instead of just playing against other usernames.
You couldn't remotely compare Far Cry to Doom 3. In my opinion the gfx in Doom 3 were just about as good as HL2 but the gameplay was a bit repetitive and I'm personally not a huge fan of horror video games. Having played all 3 games fully online and offline Far Cry is the lowest on every list. Having just recently gotten the urge to go back and play Far Cry the graphics look old and outdated on my new system and yet still slow it to a crawl, sure you can have huge scenes but what's the point when you just have to stare at the ground every two seconds to get you framerate back up? Besides that it's a very solid FPS but isn't anything remarkable or groundbreaking like HL2 and Doom 3 were. I fell like Far Cry gets vastly overrated by people who have never played other games (ie. Battlefield 2 or 2142 or even just 1942 for gameplay).
Think of the millions of clocks worldwide with automated systems b/c there authors didn't think that daylight savings time would change... sorta reminds me of something I saw in a "How not to program" book "don't set pi as a constant, you might have to update it". I work for a large clock company and there sending out many (20+) people throughout the country to reprogram the clock controllers so that there DST tables can be automatically updated in the future, nothing like more summertime:D.
Clock companies everywhere aren't prepared for this. I work for one and they have to manually update all of the tower and post clocks that they have made which is in the thousands. When this last happened in the 70's there weren't embedded electronic clock systems. When daylight savings time came around you just got up on a ladder and spun the dial backwards. CBS had the best quote on this from there nightly news "do you love summer barbeque's and parties? then you'll love this" almost like they were selling the story back when the first passed the bill.
The same thing is happening to the larger clock business. One of the remaining fully customized clock(large, like 1-20ft or postclock) is in our town. Almost everybody else has been bought of or outsourced and just have a small office here but they are entirely designed,built and assembled in the US. The clock, and watch business for the sake of this article are both losing quality to quantity and that seems to be happening almost everywhere in the US these days...
Ya and maybe someday they will take over the world. Ha! they will never be that smart. I say we all forget the whole idea. This message has been posted by TX-13-31786402.
I've always wanted to have a infrared automated minigun in front of every door of my house to greet the neighbors and a enough C4 and MLRS rockets in the background to make this July 4th one of the memorable ones in my town for years.
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This isn't the first time that they have done this, anybody remember those blistering mario party minigames that they actually gave out controller gloves for?
Look at the Crash Bandacoot(probably misspelled) series, they were a really good 2.5D game with truly next gen graphics(for the time) because they were able to restrict the perspective and use some nasty arthrograms to compress it down the PS1 pipeline.
Vista's 50 million lines of code have cost an estimated $7.5 billion to assemble.
I think that this is getting to a point where as the number of lines grow, there's a limit to the manpower that can be applied to make it secure, or even write it in the first place that is still profitable to the company.
I'd be seriously concerned about SSB online. Being a fairly serious player I know a lot about how much timing plays a role in a match. Even if one player was lagging a little bit then the game would be almost unplayable for both players, but it they can pull it off... as you put it holy shit.
Just to continue being the devils advocate: who says that a simple game like geometry wars isn't an amazing game? while I definitely agree that modern games push the physics and other complexity out for excellent gameplay, there are still very many simple, yet extremely fun games out there.
You think it's pricey to make games? I have to pay $699 for the console to play them!
and even then the next-gen consoles are 'loss leaders'.
Games have always been hard to produce the only difference between then and now is that they have more pixels to work with which means more graphics to create, not necessarily more gameplay. Gamers, in general, have been spoiled by the great control of games like 'Halo' and 'God of War' and the length of games like 'DeusEx', I think that this is just EA crying about how difficult it is to compete in the cutthroat industry that they have a firm grasp on.
I do believe that the correct CEO response on the phone is going to be:
"this is going to cost us how much per user? it's more secure? seriously? what about xyz? it works with that? o really? have you tested it yourself? your an employee at Microsoft and you haven't had a chance to use it yourself? call me back in a year"
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If I remember correctly, when I played through all of the training to unlock everything a few years ago, all of the answers were available online and I just did something else while the lecture played... so much for learning how to dress a wound while I wanted to be shooting some terrorists.
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no, but it'd be even worse to switch back now.
You might be right about most of these people being disguised pirates but there's definitly been a huge spike in interest in the ethical world... epically technology-literate people who don't want to have to spring for a encryption-bogged down system to watch this HD content... this is getting back to the debate that DRM Causes Piracy that was posted earlier where people will look for the best way to get their content and sometimes that means piracy... All of this makes me ask the question: if none of these movies had any DRM and all the movies cost between $5-$10... would anybody even bother having there connection bogged down by downloading an entire movie for 2 days straight?
One of my most memorable moments from any game that I've played was in Deus EX(which was mentioned in the article) when you are forced to die and wake up in your what amount to your enemies lair. From the very start of the game you are taught how good you should be and then, 10 hours into the game, the game forced you to become evil even though you might not have wanted you. At the time that really brothered me so I went back any played the level a few times and realized that I had to do it.. . This was one of the most original things that made Dues EX so much better of a game then a game where you just play the hero and it really made me want to play it more... just my $0.02
I totally agree with you but that's exactly the reason why most serious gamers will join clans and such so that they can fell some sort of attachment to their opponents, instead of just playing against other usernames.
You couldn't remotely compare Far Cry to Doom 3. In my opinion the gfx in Doom 3 were just about as good as HL2 but the gameplay was a bit repetitive and I'm personally not a huge fan of horror video games. Having played all 3 games fully online and offline Far Cry is the lowest on every list. Having just recently gotten the urge to go back and play Far Cry the graphics look old and outdated on my new system and yet still slow it to a crawl, sure you can have huge scenes but what's the point when you just have to stare at the ground every two seconds to get you framerate back up? Besides that it's a very solid FPS but isn't anything remarkable or groundbreaking like HL2 and Doom 3 were. I fell like Far Cry gets vastly overrated by people who have never played other games (ie. Battlefield 2 or 2142 or even just 1942 for gameplay).
Think of the millions of clocks worldwide with automated systems b/c there authors didn't think that daylight savings time would change... sorta reminds me of something I saw in a "How not to program" book "don't set pi as a constant, you might have to update it". :D.
I work for a large clock company and there sending out many (20+) people throughout the country to reprogram the clock controllers so that there DST tables can be automatically updated in the future, nothing like more summertime
Clock companies everywhere aren't prepared for this. I work for one and they have to manually update all of the tower and post clocks that they have made which is in the thousands. When this last happened in the 70's there weren't embedded electronic clock systems. When daylight savings time came around you just got up on a ladder and spun the dial backwards. CBS had the best quote on this from there nightly news "do you love summer barbeque's and parties? then you'll love this" almost like they were selling the story back when the first passed the bill.
The same thing is happening to the larger clock business. One of the remaining fully customized clock(large, like 1-20ft or postclock) is in our town. Almost everybody else has been bought of or outsourced and just have a small office here but they are entirely designed,built and assembled in the US. The clock, and watch business for the sake of this article are both losing quality to quantity and that seems to be happening almost everywhere in the US these days...
Ya and maybe someday they will take over the world. Ha! they will never be that smart. I say we all forget the whole idea.
This message has been posted by TX-13-31786402.
I've always wanted to have a infrared automated minigun in front of every door of my house to greet the neighbors and a enough C4 and MLRS rockets in the background to make this July 4th one of the memorable ones in my town for years.
sorta reminds me about the house of the future from the 60's which can clean it's own tables and make you dinner...
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This isn't the first time that they have done this, anybody remember those blistering mario party minigames that they actually gave out controller gloves for?
Look at the Crash Bandacoot(probably misspelled) series, they were a really good 2.5D game with truly next gen graphics(for the time) because they were able to restrict the perspective and use some nasty arthrograms to compress it down the PS1 pipeline.
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Vista's 50 million lines of code have cost an estimated $7.5 billion to assemble. I think that this is getting to a point where as the number of lines grow, there's a limit to the manpower that can be applied to make it secure, or even write it in the first place that is still profitable to the company.
I'd be seriously concerned about SSB online. Being a fairly serious player I know a lot about how much timing plays a role in a match. Even if one player was lagging a little bit then the game would be almost unplayable for both players, but it they can pull it off... as you put it holy shit.
Just to continue being the devils advocate: who says that a simple game like geometry wars isn't an amazing game? while I definitely agree that modern games push the physics and other complexity out for excellent gameplay, there are still very many simple, yet extremely fun games out there.
the MPAA apparently was taking a long nap after there last political escapade and somehow let this one slip through there firm grasp on politics.
You think it's pricey to make games? I have to pay $699 for the console to play them!
and even then the next-gen consoles are 'loss leaders'.
Games have always been hard to produce the only difference between then and now is that they have more pixels to work with which means more graphics to create, not necessarily more gameplay. Gamers, in general, have been spoiled by the great control of games like 'Halo' and 'God of War' and the length of games like 'DeusEx', I think that this is just EA crying about how difficult it is to compete in the cutthroat industry that they have a firm grasp on.
I do believe that the correct CEO response on the phone is going to be:
"this is going to cost us how much per user? it's more secure? seriously? what about xyz? it works with that? o really? have you tested it yourself? your an employee at Microsoft and you haven't had a chance to use it yourself? call me back in a year"