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I'd upvote that if my buttons weren't disabled (upvotes) and gone (downvotes). Not sure how other people are doing it.

Multiplayer doesn't require huge infrastructure investments by companies. We used to have multiplayer games constantly that ran just fine locally. You could throw up a game server and bring players in immediately. With Valve's overall approach, all they had to do was maintain a server...

Which is the only way to get Sony's attention. If you're not serious about your protest, they'll think they can just ride it out. You have to be willing to burn the game completely down to fight off the MBAs.

Yeah, relying on customer ignorance is a time-proven tactic.

I only have the one C2, but I've been using it very heavily for gaming, and everything's been fine. I haven't seen any image retention yet, although I hide the taskbar, don't have desktop icons, and rotate wallpaper once an hour. So far, those precautions seem to be preventing any burn-in.

As @baloroth says, it's unlikely that any VPN client anywhere has protection against DHCP option 121. Nobody thought of it as an attack before, and it runs outside the scope of the VPN client itself. All traffic that goes over the link is still encrypted, but the attack makes sure the traffic...

You can also run in DHCP mode long enough to grab an address, and then set yourself to static (fixed) IP addressing using that address. Your system won't renew your lease, but most DHCP servers will detect that the IP is in use and won't hand it out again to another client. (this is an old...

I disagree with that last bit. PC gaming would be a mess of different shitty launchers for each publisher, which would be one of the major reasons why indie developers would be able to compete. "Just go to dev website, pay, download game" would be a major selling point in a world without...

Yep, the more closely you examine the problem, the more reasons it doesn't really work keep cropping up. It's an idea so bad that it's fractal.

But that can also create a perverse incentive: coders may want to create bugs, so they can be paid for squishing them again. Security is very hard to measure. The metrics aren't good, and will definitely be distorted if you use them to pad or subtract from pay packets. I don't have the...

That's not true any more than the claim that W95 could live without DOS. 95, 98, and ME were all dependent on DOS being present. But all of them ran a lot of OS code out in 32-bit space, with native hardware drivers. The tricks they pulled to support DOS apps became increasingly...

The UI is terrible. FO1 is very small by modern RPG standards. (FO2 is fine). The games themselves are quite playable, if you can work with the interface. Note that crits are lethal, and you can be instakilled at any time. Save frequently.

Even at idle? I haven't used an Intel chip in quite awhile, but I thought one of their big advantages was idling at like 5W? The reverse has been a major criticism of Zen 3, that the chips idle hot.

For those of you following along at home, that means that all variables have to be explicitly declared before use. Mostly, it helps with typos in variable names.

Aha, thank you. Given that the modems are coming with 2.5Gbps ports now, I guess it doesn't matter. It's just that most home networks are still gigabit, and upgrading to use that last 200Mbps could be pretty expensive. I realize that the cable signal is not constrained by Ethernet limits...

But it does. That's why I'm pointing it out. You announce, you don't really discuss in most cases. You minimize other positions routinely, and in very insulting ways. Look back at @WereCatf's post on like the second page for another take on that. The way you have conducted your arguments...

It matters with you because you run the forums.

I have no strong opinions on amplifiers. Well, I have one, that I prefer Denon's tech to Onkyo's, because Onkyos run physically hot and audibly bright. But that's an obsolete opinion, as Onkyo failed awhile back. But in terms of tech, I don't care. Class D amps sound fine to me. Most...

You seem incapable of accepting other people's opinions as valid, or even better than your own. When you show up in a thread, it is to announce how things are, not to learn how other people see them. Once you have made your pronouncement, that opinion will never again change, no matter how...

No, it's not interpolation, it's actually solving a wave equation. Each new sampling point generates a new curve, such that the "drawn" output waveform will smoothly curve to pass over that sampling point. As new sampling points are presented, the smooth, generated curve keeps shifting...