In my case it's usually so highly improbable I can sort it out by the time I'm out of the shower.
Something like: Did I actually kill someone or just dream about it? It's usually easy enough to flag that with a "not reality" bit quickly. Although I have to say it is rather disturbing for those first few minutes of consciousness. Maybe this is the side effect of playing certain games immediately before sleep.
Meh, the hosts file is referenced by the network stack / operating system / whatever. No game has any business saying what can and cannot be put in that file, or any modification to it whatsoever.
There is obviously ways to code it such that some required information (actual game data or some such) comes in on that end, but then if the ad server begins to break down so does everything else.
That actually makes me wonder about some companies which provide customization options. Somewhere toward the bottom of the list you usually find this little drop down menu that lists off a couple OS options, which usually look something like this:
Windows XP Home Edition (-$46)
Windows XP Professional Edition (+$0)
The question now is how is Vista going to fit in there. Will XP Pro become a -$ option or perhaps even a +$ option. Of course Vista already contributes an insane amount of confusion to the issue with it's like 5 different versions anyway.
Sounds like you are referring to the chances of "Infant Mortality" (or whatever the correct technical term is when referring to hardware). That is when a device dies early on in it's life.
Most factories do some kind of burn-in test to make sure the device meets some minimum standard of "working". This imposes a small depredation in device life, but also results in many more satisfied customers not having to deal with immediately returning merchandise failing from a manufacturing flaw.
Once you are past that, the device is in it's normal life cycle, where it's assumed to not have any serious manufacturing flaw which could cause failure, but is still subject to the mean time to failure curve. The older it gets, eventually it will likely fail no matter what in the very long term.
Well, assuming it's stored in 8-bit ascii it's saving an entire byte by replacing the 00 with a k. Oh, and don't worry what will happen if you used a char[3] when it hits 2k10...
I can't even think of reading TFA based on the summary. I thought Warrior Within was the best in the current Trilogy. I found all the improvements made completely up to my expectations. The Prince's dark and brooding attitude of impending doom made it even more thrilling than the first. The mask of the wraith was a really neat plot device and mode of game play... although some of the temporal inconsistencies it introduced were a bit disturbing.
Overall, I'd highly recommend Warrior Within as a fitting and appropriate sequel. The Two Thrones was a bit of a step back to the original in terms of the Prince's temperament, but worth playing through.
Favorite Warrior Within Quote: "You should be honored to die by my sword!"
At the rate they're going, they are going to soon have the power of an enterprise server!
So is the way of technological progression. Keep in mind the Xbox we now know does have the power of what an enterprise server had years ago. Same thing goes for your average desktop PC, it's now as powerful as the mainframes of old.
I've seen games with a nice little catchall saying "Rating may change during online play". Funny but that was an online only game, so the rating was always subject to circumstance.
I actually got confused when going to buy a chip thinking AM2 was compatible with a socket 939 since the chips seemed to be named almost identically. Fortunately I realized it was actually different when I glanced over some other review raving about ddr2 and AM2.
Maybe make the last digit of the number a 2 like Athlon X2 4002+. That would clearly differentiate between that and the socket 939 flavor of the same chip. I suppose most vendors specify the socket type right in the item name so maybe it's not necessary. Still, just glancing over things and I got a completely false idea like the 2 would be compatible.
Yea... but remember a vital restriction on the disc swapping setup. The fact that disc swap games are at least to a point, linear. And that is what allows them to set up the game like that.
Take a final fantasy game for example. At some point in a disc change, some content becomes unavailiable. Now I'm sure a fair amount of that space is FMV's, and most of the game engine / world can be duplicated (more wasted space btw since it has to be on every disc). As a general rule, most FMV's also only play a single time as they are typically plot advancing in nature rather than some repetitive situation the player would find themselves in. I can think of maybe a couple spots where they would reuse one, but usually it's a one time viewing thing.
Now lets say we want to make a game where the player has access to essentially all content at the same time, and to populate the entire world we need say 4 DVD's to do so. Lets assume that there is a large world map, with many towns on it, and the player can rapidly fly to any town in an airship in a short amount of time. Lets assume a single disc can hold 10 towns and 10 dungeons worth of information in any combination, and that players can be expected to go to any random location at any point in time. Imagine that in the worst case scenario every time you enter a town or go to a dungeon you are asked to swap discs. Doesn't exactly sound like fun does it?
The problem with adding compression could be the CPU overhead. If something as simple as changing pages slowed down even a little I think people would get annoyed. If the device had enough ram to always keep the entire document in an uncompressed form it would be a good way to save on storage space and the compression ratio on text is likely pretty high. But with how cheap storage is now, I'd be more concerned with speed on an embedded device.
I know for.lit there is a program that will break it down into either html or txt. Oh yea, I just remembered having a good laugh about that program because it was named "clit". Not sure if the other closed formats are popular enough to encourage development on a DRM -> USEABLE app.
I can only think of a couple times I actually got 'lost' in DooM III. And what it usually came down to was some silly console that just looked like eye-candy to me was an actual console you could interact with.
Once you get into the 'mindset' the developers were using on DooM III it's actually far too predictable. It got to the point where I could even guess where odd spawns and 'traps' were going to occury with a rather high level of accuracy.
They don't want to alienate anyone, nor do they want the free publicity to end. All they want to do is keep their trademarks--hence the C&D letters.
A C&D letter clearly does not alienate anyone. And this is negative publicity. I had actually seriously considered getting a Mac, but clearly it's homegrown for the win.
I can see maybe $5 for a fully working, fully translated copy of Star Ocean. I really doubt Nintendo plans on any such thing, especially considering the game never was imported in the first place.
"Gosh, I would switch in a heartbeat if it ran [insert game title here]!"
Those who do nothing 'meaningfull' with their computers have a very limited need for GNU/Linux.
Lol, who modded that up Informative. That's -1 Flamebait.
Meaningfull is entirely a point of view. Your image editing in Gimp might be completely meaningless to me (and actually, it probably is), but it's what you do that matters to you.
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Err... I just realized what I wrote makes no sense... This is OS level stuff not application level.
My guess is you'll have the option to turn it off via complier options. Probably default off on debug builds and default on for release builds.
In my case it's usually so highly improbable I can sort it out by the time I'm out of the shower.
Something like: Did I actually kill someone or just dream about it? It's usually easy enough to flag that with a "not reality" bit quickly. Although I have to say it is rather disturbing for those first few minutes of consciousness. Maybe this is the side effect of playing certain games immediately before sleep.
Meh, the hosts file is referenced by the network stack / operating system / whatever. No game has any business saying what can and cannot be put in that file, or any modification to it whatsoever.
There is obviously ways to code it such that some required information (actual game data or some such) comes in on that end, but then if the ad server begins to break down so does everything else.
That actually makes me wonder about some companies which provide customization options. Somewhere toward the bottom of the list you usually find this little drop down menu that lists off a couple OS options, which usually look something like this:
Windows XP Home Edition (-$46)
Windows XP Professional Edition (+$0)
The question now is how is Vista going to fit in there. Will XP Pro become a -$ option or perhaps even a +$ option. Of course Vista already contributes an insane amount of confusion to the issue with it's like 5 different versions anyway.
Sounds like you are referring to the chances of "Infant Mortality" (or whatever the correct technical term is when referring to hardware). That is when a device dies early on in it's life. Most factories do some kind of burn-in test to make sure the device meets some minimum standard of "working". This imposes a small depredation in device life, but also results in many more satisfied customers not having to deal with immediately returning merchandise failing from a manufacturing flaw. Once you are past that, the device is in it's normal life cycle, where it's assumed to not have any serious manufacturing flaw which could cause failure, but is still subject to the mean time to failure curve. The older it gets, eventually it will likely fail no matter what in the very long term.
Of course it does... just as soon as someone finds a way to insert arbitrary kernel mode code execution into a DRM'd WMA 10 file.
That looks backwards to me. Isn't the error level (p-value) 0.95 then? The 1 in 20 is the time it works, thus 19 in 20 are errors?
Well, assuming it's stored in 8-bit ascii it's saving an entire byte by replacing the 00 with a k. Oh, and don't worry what will happen if you used a char[3] when it hits 2k10...
I can't even think of reading TFA based on the summary. I thought Warrior Within was the best in the current Trilogy. I found all the improvements made completely up to my expectations. The Prince's dark and brooding attitude of impending doom made it even more thrilling than the first. The mask of the wraith was a really neat plot device and mode of game play... although some of the temporal inconsistencies it introduced were a bit disturbing.
Overall, I'd highly recommend Warrior Within as a fitting and appropriate sequel. The Two Thrones was a bit of a step back to the original in terms of the Prince's temperament, but worth playing through.
Favorite Warrior Within Quote: "You should be honored to die by my sword!"
The acronym really could not be better... "Mafia" for the win.
I've seen games with a nice little catchall saying "Rating may change during online play". Funny but that was an online only game, so the rating was always subject to circumstance.
I actually got confused when going to buy a chip thinking AM2 was compatible with a socket 939 since the chips seemed to be named almost identically. Fortunately I realized it was actually different when I glanced over some other review raving about ddr2 and AM2.
Maybe make the last digit of the number a 2 like Athlon X2 4002+. That would clearly differentiate between that and the socket 939 flavor of the same chip. I suppose most vendors specify the socket type right in the item name so maybe it's not necessary. Still, just glancing over things and I got a completely false idea like the 2 would be compatible.
Yea... but remember a vital restriction on the disc swapping setup. The fact that disc swap games are at least to a point, linear. And that is what allows them to set up the game like that.
Take a final fantasy game for example. At some point in a disc change, some content becomes unavailiable. Now I'm sure a fair amount of that space is FMV's, and most of the game engine / world can be duplicated (more wasted space btw since it has to be on every disc). As a general rule, most FMV's also only play a single time as they are typically plot advancing in nature rather than some repetitive situation the player would find themselves in. I can think of maybe a couple spots where they would reuse one, but usually it's a one time viewing thing.
Now lets say we want to make a game where the player has access to essentially all content at the same time, and to populate the entire world we need say 4 DVD's to do so. Lets assume that there is a large world map, with many towns on it, and the player can rapidly fly to any town in an airship in a short amount of time. Lets assume a single disc can hold 10 towns and 10 dungeons worth of information in any combination, and that players can be expected to go to any random location at any point in time. Imagine that in the worst case scenario every time you enter a town or go to a dungeon you are asked to swap discs. Doesn't exactly sound like fun does it?
The problem with adding compression could be the CPU overhead. If something as simple as changing pages slowed down even a little I think people would get annoyed. If the device had enough ram to always keep the entire document in an uncompressed form it would be a good way to save on storage space and the compression ratio on text is likely pretty high. But with how cheap storage is now, I'd be more concerned with speed on an embedded device.
I know for .lit there is a program that will break it down into either html or txt. Oh yea, I just remembered having a good laugh about that program because it was named "clit". Not sure if the other closed formats are popular enough to encourage development on a DRM -> USEABLE app.
I can only think of a couple times I actually got 'lost' in DooM III. And what it usually came down to was some silly console that just looked like eye-candy to me was an actual console you could interact with.
Once you get into the 'mindset' the developers were using on DooM III it's actually far too predictable. It got to the point where I could even guess where odd spawns and 'traps' were going to occury with a rather high level of accuracy.
I can see maybe $5 for a fully working, fully translated copy of Star Ocean. I really doubt Nintendo plans on any such thing, especially considering the game never was imported in the first place.
"Gosh, I would switch in a heartbeat if it ran [insert game title here]!"
Those who do nothing 'meaningfull' with their computers have a very limited need for GNU/Linux.
Lol, who modded that up Informative. That's -1 Flamebait.
Meaningfull is entirely a point of view. Your image editing in Gimp might be completely meaningless to me (and actually, it probably is), but it's what you do that matters to you.
Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another.
If the pay is high enough...