Comment RoHS (Score 3, Insightful) 140
Rodents of Hunusual Size. I don't believe they exist.
Comment Re:May have a solution... (Score 1) 162
Success! Just added support for GRID on GameRanger. This won't help the unfortunate PS3 souls, but will at least help out the PC players.
Comment May have a solution... (Score 4, Interesting) 162
I need to look into this further, but I may be able to provide a solution. GameRanger has "rescued" many other orphaned multiplayer PC games in the past.
Comment No more House M.D.! (Score 1) 141
Damnit, no! This is going to mean they'll wrap up House M.D.
Soldier Re-Grows Leg Muscle After Experimental Procedure
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Marine Isaias Hernandez has been able to grow back most of the missing muscle from his leg, including skeletal muscle, thanks to an experimental treatment involving an injection of a a growth promoting substance extracted from pig bladders. Hernandez lost 70% of his right thigh muscles from a mortar exploded attack in Afghanistan. Normally this type of injury would lead to an amputation. From the article: "In preparation for the operation, corporal Hernandez was made to build up the remaining 30 per cent of muscle left on the damaged thigh. Surgeons then sliced into the thigh, placing a thin slice of a substance called extracellular matrix. The surgery is the result of a $70 million investment by the US military into regenerative medicine research."
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 210
"Land shark!"
The Land Shark Gun from the game, Armed and Dangerous.
Comment Re:Oblig Additional (Score 1) 144
Comment Re:There's a sucker is born every minute (Score 1) 108
That won't help their business. They need a sucker dying every minute.
Comment Re:neat (Score 1) 83
Whoooosh! (And you also missed the other intentional misspelling.)
Comment Re:simole solution ... (Score 1) 1051
"And then they came for me."
Comment Re:Already a trend (Score 1) 307
Let's talk about some old games. Take, for one, Halo 2. It's now going to be permanently offline, as a result of it being connected to Microsoft's services. Let's go back though. Take a look at Jedi Knight. Can you play that online anymore? Nope. Microsoft service. Dead. Any of those other MSN/"Zone" games? Dead. At least DirectPlay supported LAN in the same manner as online, so the games all still support that.
You raise a valid point, though Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and nearly all of the MSN Zone games can still be played online through GameRanger (see the list). You'd be amazed at how many games of Age of Empires II are being played each day -- it puts many recent games to shame.
Comment Re:Doh! (Score 2, Informative) 74
Throttling does not affect packet latency. At the router level, it generally involves selectively discarding packets. Data is not drip-fed at the bit level or byte level.
In order to intentionally affect latency, it would have to do a lot more work by buffering them for a period of time before forwarding onwards.
Now throttling can affect latency of logical messages within a TCP stream depending on the size of those messages, due to the retransmissions required, but does not affect the latency of UDP packets as stated.
Comment Re:Doh! (Score 1) 74
I'm not sure that net-neutrality would help this. ISPs are blocking high volumes of UDP packets, and they'll claim it's to protect users from DDoS attacks. They may even be telling the truth.
The summary is also badly composed by following the latency complaint with a quote about blocking traffic. That is, unless you consider a blocked packet to have infinite latency. The letter is much more vague about what their actual latency complaint is, other than, you know, latency is bad.
Comment ... and all that it entrails (Score 1) 262
Anyone else read it as entrails?
Comment Memory-erasing milk? (Score 3, Funny) 76
The milk is supposed to be left for Santa, not by Santa.
So kids with a crush on Santa are definitively deciding the naughty or nice question by slipping him some rohypnol.
