Black Davy Rackham, at your service.

Looks like everyone is a Rackham, except for Blue.

The Chicago Tribune article "FTC to require label on sex spam" needs a login too.

They are pretty similar to Solitaire as well.

Perhaps it's the patch which makes the movie funny.

How come nobody comments on the "File Sharing's New Face" article? News related to Half-Life 2 or Valve generally result in hundreds of posts.

But unknown to Mr. Cohen, BitTorrent was serving as a job application. Out of the blue, he heard from Gabe Newell, the managing director of Valve Software, based in nearby Bellevue, Wash. Valve is developing what gaming experts anticipate will be a blockbuster video game, Half-Life 2, but it is also creating an online distribution network that it calls Steam. Because of Mr. Cohen's expertise in just that area, Valve offered him a job. He moved to Seattle and started work in October.

"When we looked around to see who was doing the most interesting work in this space, Bram's progress on BitTorrent really stood out," Mr. Newell said. "The distributed publishing model embedded in BitTorrent is exactly the kind of thing media companies need to build on for their own systems."

Very interesting that BitTorrent's author is working on Steam. I haven't heard this before.

It's bound to be fun for Valve to see HL2's pirated copies distributed over BitTorrent.

A few DirectX-only games get ported to the Mac too, that is, they have to port it to OpenGL in the process. Like they did with Halo.

You are missing a healthy dose of patience.

You may also be missing a direct connection to the Internet or have firewall blocking incoming connections.

uh? Which Blizzard game was it where you couldn't save any time you wanted? I can't remember any.

Another one of their recent games, Beyond Good & Evil has a handful of URLs mentioned in the game and the several sites they registered for the game.

This picture is still up on www.irisnetwork.net, a domain they own:

http://www.irisnetwork.net/uk/screens/BGE_Iris_emailsign_2.gif

..advertising www.irisnetwork.com. The dot com domain was picked up by one of those domain sharks. No porn in this case which is a real shame, I consider porn to be funnier than the "buy this domain" messages.

"The Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology is available in a variety of frequencies—3.20 GHz, 3 GHz, 2.80C GHz, 2.60C GHz, and 2.40 GHz—all delivering improved system performance in multi-tasking environments and allowing you to configure a system that best suits your requirements."

I believe HT is now available on all the 800 MHz FSB P4 CPUs. Not that I really noticed much of a difference on my 3 GHz/fsb800.

It's supposed to be permanent, the site tries to give you via JavaScript a cookie called "style" and sets its value to "alt"

Disable your web filters or fake the cookie.

Any word on how big the patch is? The download is painfully slow. Looks like it's getting a file called 'W3XP_XMAC_112A_113A_enUS.mpq' and is only at 2 MB after 10 minutes.

It's the Mac version, as I want to play it later on while travelling.

Wow, awesome news, the best game of 2002 getting a sequel!
I'm already more exited about this than Half-Life 2, Doom 3 or anything else announced.

For all the bugs and negatives this game has, I still got plenty of enjoyment out of it. Actually, I have just finished the game for the second time. Never before this did I feel the urge to immediately replay a game after completing it for the first time.

On the first go, I didn't kill a single person. Okay, I was forced make an exception in the last mission, but other than that, I just beat those unconscious who were really in the way.

For the second time I decided to kill everyone the first chance I got. Unarmed civilians, friends, little children? DIE!

Granted I'm a bit disappointed now that the two polar opposites played out almost exactly the same, other than having less people alive, including those who would have been part of a future mission, thus I had less to do than the first time around.

I was hoping someone would at least comment on my massacring every innocent civilian, or maybe for some new faces to substitute those that I disposed of... Most of the more important characters' deaths got a mention though.

Anyway, it's still refreshing to be able to eventually kill each and every character in a first person shooter, which Invisible War most certainly is. I wonder what makes some reviewers insist DXIW is not a shooter, while they are happy to label the Elite Force games or NOLF1-2 as a FPS.

So my point is simply that you should give this game a chance. Maybe wait for some more patches and the price to go down.. You might even like it. A lot.

...even if it works. Don't forget the fact that it ships on 4 CDs and the game periodically asks you after levels to switch CDs even though you did a full install (2.5 GB).

That beyondhalflife site is saying nasty things.

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Ooops, it took me a good two or three minutes and reading this thread when I finally understood that "Manual Patch" means you can install it manually.

All the while I was wondering why are people asking whether a patch for the game's manual improves performance.

By the way, the original release ran fine for me, on a massively outdated 1.8ghz P4, 1g ram and a Radeon 9700 Pro.

Don't worry, you are not alone. I have never ever gotten accepted into any game beta test either. Although it's only Blizzard's games that I tried to sign up for.
The rest I'll beta test on their release.

By the way, as far as I remember, in the War3 expansion sign-up, they didn't ask what kind of system you had.

That sounds scary.

You are missing the point that GameSpy sells SDKs which let developers easily plug-in some common functionality, such as implementing the GameSpy query protocol or having an in-game server browser.
Many developers just license this technology without writing their own code; this is where GameSpy comes into the picture as the one who could provide a workaround for many developers with updating their development kit.