The people who pirated this game most definitely did lose the company money. They degraded the experience for legitimate players, thus reducing the opinion of the game, thus affecting future sales. Not to mention the cost of running the infrastructure for those internet games.
Does anyone here remember Eon 8? It was this website which displayed nothing but a map and blinking red dots on some cities and a countdown timer, if I remember correctly.
Ha ha, so true. When I tried this a while back, I used to cheat at some parts so that I could advance. Save right when you attack, and load and you'd get to make your move again (even though the results happened). So in one turn you could kill someone. Of course, that was annoying. I will play this game again. It was rather fun otherwise.
I have an old MPFI Maruthi 800. It gives me 20-21 km/l when I drive it carefully and let it cruise at 45-50 km/h. I have driven this car at 120 km/h on a bypass expressway and fuel mileage drops off very fast above 70 km/h (this is the 4-speed model). That's with an 800 cc engine.
Accelerate, shifting through the gears from neutral to 3rd and then decelerate, shifting downwards. (
Stop the car.
Wait 5 hours.
Take licence.
And if it's going to be the motorcyclists driving these cars, I fear for us all. Motorcyclists are notorious in India for trying to squeeze through non-existent spaces and getting killed. Of course part of the problem is the lack of proper lane regulations.
If you look at craigslist for Los Angeles, you will see that a lot (most, the last time I checked) of the cars being bought and sold there are SUVs. If you're from that city you don't need to worry about "mud, snow and streams". Yet people buy them anyway.
You're fortunate. The Linux version is a dog. I ran Sunspider on Firefox 3 in a Virtual Machine running Windows XP and it beat Firefox 3 on the Ubuntu host by a huge margin. The Linux version (or at least the Ubuntu one) is terrible.
That place is unbelievable! A bunch of iPhone users, none of which can manage to notice the number of similar threads there, all bitching about Google withdrawing a service that they labelled experimental. It doesn't make any sense! If you paid one party for a service, and they stop providing that service, you go bitch at another party? How does that even make sense?
What, woah? You've never experienced SMS spam? I live in a country where SMS is very cheap (0.1 US cent). Every week I get at least 4 or 5 spam SMS. Can you send IM to people without them first adding you as a 'friend'? If so, then maybe that explains why you don't receive spam IMs.
I don't know about the iPhone, but most other models have a feature where you can 'Send to All', 'Send to group' or where you just select multiple recipients. In India, where we had free unlimited SMS for a long time (none of the carriers provide that anymore, we get charged 0.1 cents now), people would send 'forwards'. Very annoying, and one person could easily send more than 200 messages a day with just 2 forwards (2 * 3-part SMS * 40 people). And yes, forwards are generally much longer than normal messages.
RedHat is a member of the Open Invention Network. This means that they will not sue you if you do not attempt to use your patents against Linux. There is a License Agreement, so it is best to read that instead of simply suspecting.
You are right about this, it is incredibly hard to find the download links. It was torturous trying to get them. But the game does function, it plays just like the original but cross-platform and with better graphics.
That certainly is interesting, but I wouldn't want to be in a library sitting next to someone going, "The New York Times", "Google", "Slashdot" and other such stuff. Could get annoying.
The OP is probably putting files in folders in C:/ instead of C:/Users/Username/. I like the way it is in Vista, I even removed the Computer shortcut and made one to point to my Home directory. It's very convenient. There's a nice separation between programs and my data.
Isn't gksu very similar to UAC? You can use it to elevate permissions to root. You can use it to run as a different user. It even makes a dialog box that demands attention just like UAC.
Oddly, this thing happens loads for me on Linux. I right-click and suddenly the page has switched sides because it selects 'Switch Page Direction' as if I only released the mouse button when I got there. Then again, it may be human error.
Who wouldn't they just use 'time' or the equivalent, anyway? Or some python script that does that? Much less trouble, and more accurate (albeit unimportantly so) results.
And what do you think it looks like from his point of view? "These people are taking my stuff, and they didn't even have the courtesy to ask. They don't even credit my company. I think I should have the book thrown at them." I'm not with this guy, and I think his name is hilarious, but I can understand where he is coming from.
Yes, I read it again after it struck me that it seemed rather odd that something so obvious would be called a 'security flaw'. You are right and I am wrong.
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As they said, the servers were not ready for release. That is the harm done.
The people who pirated this game most definitely did lose the company money. They degraded the experience for legitimate players, thus reducing the opinion of the game, thus affecting future sales. Not to mention the cost of running the infrastructure for those internet games.
Does anyone here remember Eon 8? It was this website which displayed nothing but a map and blinking red dots on some cities and a countdown timer, if I remember correctly.
Ha ha, so true. When I tried this a while back, I used to cheat at some parts so that I could advance. Save right when you attack, and load and you'd get to make your move again (even though the results happened). So in one turn you could kill someone. Of course, that was annoying. I will play this game again. It was rather fun otherwise.
I have an old MPFI Maruthi 800. It gives me 20-21 km/l when I drive it carefully and let it cruise at 45-50 km/h. I have driven this car at 120 km/h on a bypass expressway and fuel mileage drops off very fast above 70 km/h (this is the 4-speed model). That's with an 800 cc engine.
In Bombay, taxis use CNG (Compressed Natural Gas). Prices are incredibly low.
And if it's going to be the motorcyclists driving these cars, I fear for us all. Motorcyclists are notorious in India for trying to squeeze through non-existent spaces and getting killed. Of course part of the problem is the lack of proper lane regulations.
Those figures are very interesting. How come Canada consumes so much energy without producing so much CO2?
If you look at craigslist for Los Angeles, you will see that a lot (most, the last time I checked) of the cars being bought and sold there are SUVs. If you're from that city you don't need to worry about "mud, snow and streams". Yet people buy them anyway.
Can't agree more. See this example of a MITM attack.
You're fortunate. The Linux version is a dog. I ran Sunspider on Firefox 3 in a Virtual Machine running Windows XP and it beat Firefox 3 on the Ubuntu host by a huge margin. The Linux version (or at least the Ubuntu one) is terrible.
That place is unbelievable! A bunch of iPhone users, none of which can manage to notice the number of similar threads there, all bitching about Google withdrawing a service that they labelled experimental. It doesn't make any sense! If you paid one party for a service, and they stop providing that service, you go bitch at another party? How does that even make sense?
What, woah? You've never experienced SMS spam? I live in a country where SMS is very cheap (0.1 US cent). Every week I get at least 4 or 5 spam SMS. Can you send IM to people without them first adding you as a 'friend'? If so, then maybe that explains why you don't receive spam IMs.
I don't know about the iPhone, but most other models have a feature where you can 'Send to All', 'Send to group' or where you just select multiple recipients. In India, where we had free unlimited SMS for a long time (none of the carriers provide that anymore, we get charged 0.1 cents now), people would send 'forwards'. Very annoying, and one person could easily send more than 200 messages a day with just 2 forwards (2 * 3-part SMS * 40 people). And yes, forwards are generally much longer than normal messages.
RedHat is a member of the Open Invention Network. This means that they will not sue you if you do not attempt to use your patents against Linux. There is a License Agreement, so it is best to read that instead of simply suspecting.
You are right about this, it is incredibly hard to find the download links. It was torturous trying to get them. But the game does function, it plays just like the original but cross-platform and with better graphics.
That certainly is interesting, but I wouldn't want to be in a library sitting next to someone going, "The New York Times", "Google", "Slashdot" and other such stuff. Could get annoying.
Not at all. Compare this with asking START the same question: "How far is Los Angeles from New York?"
The OP is probably putting files in folders in C:/ instead of C:/Users/Username/. I like the way it is in Vista, I even removed the Computer shortcut and made one to point to my Home directory. It's very convenient. There's a nice separation between programs and my data.
Isn't gksu very similar to UAC? You can use it to elevate permissions to root. You can use it to run as a different user. It even makes a dialog box that demands attention just like UAC.
Oddly, this thing happens loads for me on Linux. I right-click and suddenly the page has switched sides because it selects 'Switch Page Direction' as if I only released the mouse button when I got there. Then again, it may be human error.
Who wouldn't they just use 'time' or the equivalent, anyway? Or some python script that does that? Much less trouble, and more accurate (albeit unimportantly so) results.
Sparkle makes cards for the PCI, AGP and PCI-express buses. That includes the 9400 (the desktop version of the Mini's graphics) in a PCI slot.
And what do you think it looks like from his point of view? "These people are taking my stuff, and they didn't even have the courtesy to ask. They don't even credit my company. I think I should have the book thrown at them." I'm not with this guy, and I think his name is hilarious, but I can understand where he is coming from.
Yes, I read it again after it struck me that it seemed rather odd that something so obvious would be called a 'security flaw'. You are right and I am wrong.