DRM is installed on your computer whenever you install a new release game on it. (with exceptions, valve, stardock, etc)
iTunes is packed full of DRM. The problem isn't the DRM itself (although it seems to generate less sales rather than reduce piracy), but with rootkits that are installed along with it in some cases. (this was the case with sony, starforce, and the recent discussions about spore, for examples)
They aren't viruses, but they're definitely not welcome.
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I've banned you. enjoy 
Please never come back.
Everyone else return to the topic at hand, please.
Please never come back.
Everyone else return to the topic at hand, please.
I can make a trojan undetectable to antivirus in just 30 seconds.
Members who spam the forum or perform otherwise inappropriate activities will have their account suspended.blabbering about how you "make viruses" is inappropriate. cease and desist. if you want to be someone who ruins the computers of others, then don't do it on this site.
I wouldn't use AVG if it did the same thing as Norton.
heh, observant. irony get!
downloading executables from emule (or limewire) is just asking for trouble 
I'd say the games are more pathetic than I am, but that's just my opinion 
I'm not saying that they weren't good for their time, but I just don't like them now. I really enjoyed HL the first time I played it.
I'm not saying that they weren't good for their time, but I just don't like them now. I really enjoyed HL the first time I played it.
It's not the look that concerns me. I just can't enjoy most old games (especially shooters). I can't even play Half-Life anymore without being bored to death.
Nah, I can't. I played the first 5 or so levels and I wasn't enjoying it even a little bit.
I played through and loved Serious Sam 2. I tried The First Encounter but couldn't get into it because it had that nasty "old game" feel.
My dad gets viruses ALL THE TIME (me being the one to fix them), and all he does is look at real estate, read gmail, and do online banking.
My sister recently came back home for a while after moving away for a year. She plays all these flash games that you download and play offline. As you might expect, it was loaded with viruses, including ones, incidentally, called "XPantisypyware" 2007 and 2008. I managed to fix it without having to format, but get this: she uninstalled the firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware that I initially installed when I built it because "It kept updating and the window popping up for 30 seconds was annoying". Anyway, when I reinstalled everything, 273 malicious objects were picked up by one program alone.
I go on tons of "possible virus" sites and I've never got a virus.
Moral of the story is: never underestimate someone who doesn't know how to use a computer properly.
My sister recently came back home for a while after moving away for a year. She plays all these flash games that you download and play offline. As you might expect, it was loaded with viruses, including ones, incidentally, called "XPantisypyware" 2007 and 2008. I managed to fix it without having to format, but get this: she uninstalled the firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware that I initially installed when I built it because "It kept updating and the window popping up for 30 seconds was annoying". Anyway, when I reinstalled everything, 273 malicious objects were picked up by one program alone.
I go on tons of "possible virus" sites and I've never got a virus.
Moral of the story is: never underestimate someone who doesn't know how to use a computer properly.
You've probably screwed yourself over simply by using your computer. When things are deleted from windows, they stay on the physical hard drive sectors, but the NTFS index for those files are removed. this means that windows can (and will) use that space for temporary data, new files, etc.
Maybe you'll be lucky and this isn't the case. It's worth a try, anyway.
You can use software to search for blocks that aren't indexed and hope that none of it has been overwritten yet. If you plan on doing this, stop using your computer now. nearly everything you do will write to the hard drive.
You have a few options:
1) Install the software on another computer, then put the hard drive into that computer and run the software on that drive
2) Attempt to find and use a live CD with a recovery program included in it. Then you can safely use it as live CDs should not write to the hard disk unless you tell it to.
3) If the maps are on a different hard drive to your windows drive, you greatly increase your chances of recovering your map. just install the program to your windows drive like normal, and run it on the drive you want to recover.
Remember that you don't want to write anything to this hard drive at all if you want to recover data from it. Good luck!
Oh, and by the way: I hope your dam feels better real soon. I hear that antibiotics might reduce the fever.
Maybe you'll be lucky and this isn't the case. It's worth a try, anyway.
You can use software to search for blocks that aren't indexed and hope that none of it has been overwritten yet. If you plan on doing this, stop using your computer now. nearly everything you do will write to the hard drive.
You have a few options:
1) Install the software on another computer, then put the hard drive into that computer and run the software on that drive
2) Attempt to find and use a live CD with a recovery program included in it. Then you can safely use it as live CDs should not write to the hard disk unless you tell it to.
3) If the maps are on a different hard drive to your windows drive, you greatly increase your chances of recovering your map. just install the program to your windows drive like normal, and run it on the drive you want to recover.
Remember that you don't want to write anything to this hard drive at all if you want to recover data from it. Good luck!
Oh, and by the way: I hope your dam feels better real soon. I hear that antibiotics might reduce the fever.
it's nothing compared to prince of persia!
I'm a few hours into FC2 but I need to play more to get a decent opinion of it.
A decade in Valve time.
So you think that they'll just skip straight to Half-Life 4?
I always find that a dumb thing to say. Because, you know, if they were, they wouldn't be called "Half-Life 2: Episode 1" etc.
That was put online last week. It came in the PS3 version of the game.
Bioshock.
mp_flashlight 1
Grim, from what I hear, SC is similar to Total Annihilation. Except not as good.
I hope you're getting compensated for all these server fuck-ups :/
It's Wednesday, but yeah your days are a bit off Daub.
it's \n for a new line.
I cracked up at some of the deaths. Like the teacher, and the guy who got hit by a sign at the end. Hilarious.
Resident Evil 4 is the only horror themed game/movie I've enjoyed. Unless you count Final Destination, which I think is more comedy than horror.
All horror games/movies are cheap scares. Horror is lame.
just use relative file paths.
I'd do it if someone packed up everything needed and put in a batch file to do it automatically
PCG sucks here. I don't know if it's the US edition or if they have an Australian version (it's definitely not the UK version), but it sucks. PCPP is, on the other hand, most excellent. (but it's an Aussie-only magazine, I think.)
That is the one of the worst websites I've ever seen in my life.
Edit: I was going to point out the Compilator, but then I looked and it doesn't support Source. My mistake.
Edit2: Judging from the screens, this program needs a lot of work visually.
Edit2: Judging from the screens, this program needs a lot of work visually.
You have a point, but in my opinion, that kind of stuff is only appreciated once you actually know the language, not when you're just starting out.
You should find a decent gaming magazine and read it monthly. For PC games, I recommend PC Powerplay (You're in Australia, right?)
But really, L4D has been in development for ages (and it's been ages since Valve bought TR), so it's pretty hard to not know who's making it :/
But really, L4D has been in development for ages (and it's been ages since Valve bought TR), so it's pretty hard to not know who's making it :/
Heh, that was pretty terrible. But I lol'd.
While it is very true that programming theory is important, a book on a specific language is not meant for theory, and will not give it to you. (Usually, because these books are nearly always meant to be reference books.)
A book on design patterns, for example, is much better than a book on the C++ language. Why, you ask, should you read something about programming that may only contain unusable pseudocode? Because, I answer, that these kind of books are the ones that will make you a better programmer, not reading through a reference guide. (only using patterns as an example, there are plenty of other topics out there)
People keep suggesting reference books, and I dislike trying to learn a language by reading a book. Theory-based books, on the other hand, are very good.
A book on design patterns, for example, is much better than a book on the C++ language. Why, you ask, should you read something about programming that may only contain unusable pseudocode? Because, I answer, that these kind of books are the ones that will make you a better programmer, not reading through a reference guide. (only using patterns as an example, there are plenty of other topics out there)
People keep suggesting reference books, and I dislike trying to learn a language by reading a book. Theory-based books, on the other hand, are very good.
You didn't know L4D was by Valve? What rock have you been living under?
not 36 computers: eleven computers, 36 accounts.
wow Satchmo, that's really depressing. Also, didn't someone die from playing WOW for too long? or was that Starcraft?
The Wii has no decent games. (This coming from a Wii owner and Nintendo fan 
)
@urb: I'd say that if you're looking forward to a Halo game, you can be whatever the fuck you want, but you probably haven't played any good games to realise how crappy Halo actually is.
Gears of War is fun. Nothing amazingly stand-out, but fun nonetheless.
)@urb: I'd say that if you're looking forward to a Halo game, you can be whatever the fuck you want, but you probably haven't played any good games to realise how crappy Halo actually is.
Gears of War is fun. Nothing amazingly stand-out, but fun nonetheless.
Nods at Captain P's post and winks slyly at World Crafter
I've done Scheme so I know what different syntax looks like ;D
I've done Scheme so I know what different syntax looks like ;D
Yeah, you're talking about functionality. Pointers may have their own syntax, for example (incidentally, you can use pointers with the exact same syntax in C# using unsafe code), but that's really beside the point.
Differences in functionality really have no impact on how the code is laid out. For example, the following code will compile in C#, C++, and Java. It has a lot of the basic syntax of the language(s).
Differences in functionality really have no impact on how the code is laid out. For example, the following code will compile in C#, C++, and Java. It has a lot of the basic syntax of the language(s).
public int doSomething() {
int x = 4;
x++;
for (int i = 0; i <= 78; i++) {
x *= i/i--;
}
return x;
}I don't know what you're getting at by syntax but I'm talking about curly brackets and the like. Visual Basic doesn't use brackets:
C#/C++/Java:
if (true)
{
//do something
}
else if (false)
{
//do something else
}
Visual Basic (or close enough):
If true Then
'do something
ElseIf false Then
'do something else
EndIf
See how the C++ syntax just flows better? That's what I mean.
EDIT: I have never opened the Half-Life SDK code.
EDIT2: I realise that there's a lot of fucked up C++ code out there, but have you ever thought that some people (like Valve, if what you say is true) might want their code easy to read, to endorse maintainable code? It's good programming practice to let a "entry-level university student", as you say, be able to understand your code. It's not that "large corporations use code that nobody can understand", it's that "poorly designed code is hard to understand". This applies to ANYONE, no matter their level of experience.
C#/C++/Java:
if (true)
{
//do something
}
else if (false)
{
//do something else
}
Visual Basic (or close enough):
If true Then
'do something
ElseIf false Then
'do something else
EndIf
See how the C++ syntax just flows better? That's what I mean.
EDIT: I have never opened the Half-Life SDK code.
EDIT2: I realise that there's a lot of fucked up C++ code out there, but have you ever thought that some people (like Valve, if what you say is true) might want their code easy to read, to endorse maintainable code? It's good programming practice to let a "entry-level university student", as you say, be able to understand your code. It's not that "large corporations use code that nobody can understand", it's that "poorly designed code is hard to understand". This applies to ANYONE, no matter their level of experience.
I think you're confusing syntax with functionality.
Fact is, there are tons of languages that borrow from C-style syntax, and C++, Java, and C# are 3 examples.
Fact is, there are tons of languages that borrow from C-style syntax, and C++, Java, and C# are 3 examples.
And Java syntax is very similar to C++. What's your point?
I don't use SharpDevelop just for the conversion - in fact I've never used the feature myself. SD is quite a bit better than Visual Studio when it comes to features, size, etc. Its autocomplete is leagues better than VS, it's cleaner, faster, takes less time to start up, and it's open source, therefore free, no need for annoying "express" this and "professional" that.
While I've already mentioned that VB and C# use the exact same framework, C# is more flexible in terms of structure and code layout. (in my opinion)
Nowhere did I say it was faster than VB, that was just Muzz
I suppose I just like the C++-like syntax better than VB's wtf-like syntax.
While I've already mentioned that VB and C# use the exact same framework, C# is more flexible in terms of structure and code layout. (in my opinion)
Nowhere did I say it was faster than VB, that was just Muzz
I suppose I just like the C++-like syntax better than VB's wtf-like syntax.
Of course it't not a perfect converter (I doubt it would compile once you initially convert it), but I highly recommend converting it. C# is much more flexible.
Mirror's edge for PC is delayed until January ;( Somehow they think that it'll reduce piracy. EA are weird.