You have a good point, haha. The Tribes community (yep, still exists, I'm still a part of it because I don't know when to give things up) pretty much are T:V deniers. IT NEVER HAPPENED!

If Tribes 2 is the most botched game sequel ever, then what the hell is Tribes: Vengeance?

I wasn't aware anyone had a reddish-pink colored mentality. Brain maybe, but mentality?

I suppose it's a good thing that I run a WSUS server for my Windows based computers and specifically picked upstream products that I want - Bing Search Enhancement Pack not being one of them. This 'update' never showed up for me anywhere - not even the WSUS server. :)

My initial backup was 291GB in one month after about 3 years of using local backups, so yeah, I have done it.

I'm a semi-professional photographer and could theoretically roll 250GB in a month, and as all of that gets shipped offsite to Amazon S3 nightly in incremental backups I could hit the limit. Generally I don't come close, but in a very busy month I could see it happening. The closest I've come was about 120GB in one month - I do wipe out rejected shots locally to save storage, but that's generally a few days after loading them in and due to that they're stored on S3 and remain backed up indefinitely in case I need one back.

Damn, hadn't heard that one until now. Nice.

Doesn't affect me; I use Chrome, which by all means may be more evil than Firefox, but hey, at least it doesn't prefetch stuff aside from DNS records.

Either way, your point still stands.

Yup. I was (emphasis on was) a customer of Turbine's up until about 8 months ago or so. I've already filed a complaint with the Massechusetts Attorney General as Turbine operates out of Mass. and have directly contacted Turbine as well explaining this issue.

I'd suggest anyone else who was a customer of theirs do the same to get the message heard loud and clear. At this point, despite not having logged in for 8 months, who knows what this company will do with my information and that of other prior customers a year from now?

The post says straight up that simply viewing the target Offer Wall sends your info out.

Did these idiot devs not even consider that Firefox does URL prefetching and they are, due to the prefetching of their sell-my-information-to-the-devil-wall page, selling information of people who didn't even view the wall but simply viewed a page that links to their offer wall?

This is shady at best and criminal at worst.

Leave it to an AC. It's spelled "giga," it's pronounced "jigga."

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I'd guess so. That game is so massively parallel that nothing would surprise me. If the input thread came to a halt, since it's not one big loop, the game should just carry on in the background not knowing what happened. I'd be willing to bet that the graphics could freeze and you could still play the game if you somehow knew exactly where all of your things were. That input glitch probably was fixed with a patch later on. It's been a while since I played it... I need to reinstall that game.

Modern games generally use the same cycle of input, update, render, repeat. The difference is instead of ticks being based on that loop's iteration the ticks are are based on system time. The end result is that a higher frame rate gives you less input lag and a more accurate simulation.

Some games, such as Supreme Commander, take multithreading to the extreme and will throw the AI and physics on one core then do the input and rendering on the other. In the case of a quad core it takes full advantage and has a core for general purpose, one for AI, one for physics, and one for GPU calls. This is an exception, not a rule, but in the future we'll be seeing more of it.

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