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Comment Re:parental self control (Score 1) 322

by iviv66 (#41461379) Attached to: Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains
I have a similar story. When I was growing up, we pretty much never went to fast food restaurants. To keep someone from being exposed to fast food advertising is impossible, but I was simply never allowed to go there. To an extent that meant that on the extremely rare occasions I was allowed to eat there it seemed like this amazing treat (Clearly my taste buds were as immature as I was back then), but now I'm living on my own I have no desire to go and eat there. In short, people need to be better parents. If your children only grow up knowing McDonalds then of course that's where they will always want to eat.

Comment Re:ugly specs. (Score 1) 122

by iviv66 (#40856999) Attached to: Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Blows Past Kickstarter Goal
At the bottom of the kickstarter page, they say:

While it’s true that the developer kit uses a relatively low-resolution screen (1280x800), we promise it delivers a compelling, immersive 3D experience. And to be clear, we plan on improving the resolution of the screen for the consumer version. Stay tuned for more details!

So hopefully there will be a larger resolution available by the time they actually go into mass production.

Comment Re:Carmack (Score 1) 122

by iviv66 (#40856991) Attached to: Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Blows Past Kickstarter Goal
Surely that's just a programming thing. The head piece gives a signal that it is being moved in a certain direction, and then its down to the game to decide what to do with that instruction. If it should move the crosshair or the viewscreen, or both. I'd hope it will be an option in the menu so people can switch between if they so desire.

Comment Re:Why would it need studies? (Score 2) 345

by iviv66 (#40140143) Attached to: TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap

TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house (in the middle of a large town) if you put my postcode into some of its GPS devices.

That's caused problems both for friends and takeaway delivery drivers :(

Isn't that what a post code is, though? They are only useful for narrowing a search down to a certain area, that's why addresses also include road names and numbers.

Comment Re:Yes, but other than that, how did you like it? (Score 1) 453

by iviv66 (#39804247) Attached to: Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires
So tweak it a little? Capitalize the first letter of each word, and maybe the last as well? Make it a question with a ? at the end? And regarding a dictionary attack, how many people have multiple word password? The average word is 5 letters long, including spaces and a punctuation mark at the end that's 24 characters. If you're going to try and crack someone's password, surely you're just going to try to brute force/crack up to something like 10 letters, since every extra letter you add in is going to exponentially increase the time to crack? Which for the average joe means its not worth it for the cracker.

Comment Re:How is Apple a bigger offender than Nintendo? (Score 1) 293

by iviv66 (#39506331) Attached to: Sony Taking Down PSP Titles In Response To Vita Hackers
There's never been a case of a 3DS bricking itself from a flash card. After all, this isn't some altered firmware, its simply a game cart inserted into the console. You can't brick a console purely because it doesn't recognise the cart as official, afterall what happens if one of the contacts on an official game gets dirty? Or dust gets into the 3DS reader part? You get a bad connection and the cart isn't recognised, so they would brick the console. Thankfully, they haven't decided to do something so monumentally stupid.

Comment Re:One million! (Score 5, Informative) 159

by iviv66 (#38367556) Attached to: New Humble Indie Bundle Goes Live

Sorry mate, won't be buying this bundle unless every game has a .deb package available.

Just for reference, in this bundle Super Meat Boy and Bit.Trip Runner have .deb packages available. Shank is a bin. Jamestown and Gratuitous Space Battles are .tar.gz. NightSky and Cave Story+ are .zip

Not entirely sure what any of that means, but hope its helpful for linux users.

Submission + - Crysis 2 leaked (rockpapershotgun.com)

Submitted by iviv66
iviv66 writes: I have no words. Actually, I have some words- according to a thread of the Facepunch forums, a developer build of Crysis 2 containing the full game, multiplayer and the master key for the online authentication has been leaked, and is currently freely available from all sorts of astonishingly illegal websites. This sounds like it might be a serious tragedy for Crytek. Crysis 2 was scheduled for release on the 22nd of March, so the leaked build could be dangerously close to finished. More on this as we hear it, and thanks to RPS reader James B for letting us know.

The Facepunch thread has been deleted, but the file is already circling various filesharing sites.
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Submission + - OnLive but Lan?

Submitted by iviv66
iviv66 writes: A whole lot of fuss has been made about OnLive, but is there anything similar to it on a smaller scale? Here at home I have a small media centre PC hooked up to my TV which I stream videos to from my PC upstairs. This PC is also capable of playing all the games I enjoy at a high resolution, while the HTPC can't cope with anything like that. Is there a program available similar to OnLive, but that purely functions over LAN, so my PC could crunch all the graphics, and send them over the network to my HTPC which just displas it on my TV? Especially considering the main issue with OnLive is the limited bandwidth over the internet, there shouldn't be a problem when dealing with a LAN?

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