I disagree. Speech on products is highly regulated and printing a false claim on your product SHOULD be actionable. Printing patent pending while not actually having a patent pending is misleading. Patents are legal instruments, do not invoke them trivially.
Get over your yourself. We all grew from his tragedy, there is nothing wrong with seeing it. If you dont like, TURN AWAY. The internet is not a broadcaster, you have to CHOOSE to see stuff.
If you have a problem with employees clocking each other in and out, thats a HUMAN problem, not a technology one. Structure your organization (managers, reporting in, meetings) so that things like that cannot occur.
Money.....i mean really its that simple. Why let johnny use his Xbox controller on his PC that has bluetooth when we can charge him $20 for an official MS branded dongle? Microsoft lost their ass on Xbox 1, so they nickel and dime the shit out of you for everything on Xbox360.
I like the Sixaxis, simply becasue ive been using that layout since PS1 and its comfortable to me, but when i first held the Xbox 360 controller, i said to myself "this is the final evolution of the form, anything else we add onto it will be tangential." I DO miss the on-controller screen from Dreamcast though, that was a stroke of genius.
at the wide acceptance of this on Slashdot. There is NO NEED for biometric passkeys. For all those parroting ' it only stores a hash' , is it really that far out of the realm of reality to think that at some point they can flip a software switch and you have fingerprint pictures?
Inline controls are nothing new, I had em on my walkman ages ago. Whats new is that Apple decided that on-device buttons were icky. No one is saying that inline controls arent nice, but rather that ONLY inline controls suck. Hell even the sony inline controls had a SCREEN on them.
And MAYBE you can get 3 people to squeeze through your DSL for no real reason at all other then corporate greed. LAN parties werent a NEED, they were and sill are a WANT.
Seriously, how long have they been hyping this game? Jesus christ jsut release it already. Only Blizzard could get away with this long of a ramp up period. THe game has been done for quite a while, the beta is just a PR joke. How do i know its done? BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN HOLDING TOURNAMENTS WITH IT.
For every blizzard there are 4 infinity wards.
Even Carmack is going this route of lazy control freak by not allowing dedicated servers in Rage. THe game companies want it so that if you are playing their game, they want to know EVERYTHING you do in it. In 3 years there wont be a game available that doesnt require internet. I love where gaming is now in some regards, but the constant barage of pay me now and pay me later is a bit much.
ITs the constant reminder that if you havent bought the latest map pack you wont be able to play your game like you had in the past. If i pop in my Halo 3 disc right now and try to get some matches i GUARANTEE that i will have ot jump through hoops becasue i dont have the latest maps.
Those of us who have been gaming since the beginning see the gaming companies locking up gaming and all the tools and spoon feeding it back to us at a cost, and you expect us to be thrilled about it?
I like some of where gaming is going, but this constant feeding frenzy of user data is just too much. HAving ot be connected to the net all the time is jsut extremely greedy. I wouldnt mind it nearly as much if they provided EASY TO USE methods of playing offline. As it is now they use the online aspect to leverage you instead of helping you. Steam, while i enjoy the service, stil lags behind in this regard. It shouldnt take computer alchemy to get it to work in offline mode AND i shouldnt have ot pre-bless to get it to work.
I will say this about Bioware social club. At least your DLC can be cross platform. When you get DLC codes it is added to your Bioware site, platform agnostic. I do also like the screenshots it takes of your adventures.
Ubisoft is coming out with their own network as well. EA has a login for most of its games now too.. Pretty much all the major players have competing 'networks' now. Game for Windows Live is the fucking worst though. If im playing a GFW Live game even in SINGLE PLAYER MODE, i have to be connected to the net to even SAVE MY GAME. Worse then that it kicks my GF off Netflix on the XBox becasue Live is PER USER, which i find to be an incredible scam.
I actually lost my day one PSP that was cracked so i considered it Karma, bought a new one when PS3 remote play became avaialable. SO yes my PSP was cracked in he past, but not anymore.
NOw back to the argument. They COULD have put a custodial amount of flash on the device for the OS and then added a memory stick port for additional media storage. It was a design decision to always deny USB mass storage access. By the way, my Windows mobile smartphone can present itself as mass storage with some software, how is the iphone different again?
Sometimes while playing WoW ill lower my settings so my GPU( ATI 4850) fan doesnt spin up. For some reason, the frost path that Skadi lays in Utgarde really taxes my GPU, more then anything else in the game. Once that fist pass comes my GPU is LOUD. For awhile the frost was bugging and would remain long enough for Skadi to make a second pass and i thought my GPU was gonna pop.
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I disagree. Speech on products is highly regulated and printing a false claim on your product SHOULD be actionable. Printing patent pending while not actually having a patent pending is misleading. Patents are legal instruments, do not invoke them trivially.
Get over your yourself. We all grew from his tragedy, there is nothing wrong with seeing it. If you dont like, TURN AWAY. The internet is not a broadcaster, you have to CHOOSE to see stuff.
If you have a problem with employees clocking each other in and out, thats a HUMAN problem, not a technology one. Structure your organization (managers, reporting in, meetings) so that things like that cannot occur.
Money.....i mean really its that simple. Why let johnny use his Xbox controller on his PC that has bluetooth when we can charge him $20 for an official MS branded dongle? Microsoft lost their ass on Xbox 1, so they nickel and dime the shit out of you for everything on Xbox360.
Go out and buy the $5 trigger addons for Sixaxis, SOOOOOOOO worth it.
I like the Sixaxis, simply becasue ive been using that layout since PS1 and its comfortable to me, but when i first held the Xbox 360 controller, i said to myself "this is the final evolution of the form, anything else we add onto it will be tangential." I DO miss the on-controller screen from Dreamcast though, that was a stroke of genius.
at the wide acceptance of this on Slashdot. There is NO NEED for biometric passkeys. For all those parroting ' it only stores a hash' , is it really that far out of the realm of reality to think that at some point they can flip a software switch and you have fingerprint pictures?
You dont have to have public shareholders to be a CEO.......
And here we have the outlier datapoint. Should have accounted for you in my comment.
would have been better if you replaced naked virgins with Dabo girls.....
Wired, the difference between the true geeks and the duffers/married people.
Inline controls are nothing new, I had em on my walkman ages ago. Whats new is that Apple decided that on-device buttons were icky. No one is saying that inline controls arent nice, but rather that ONLY inline controls suck. Hell even the sony inline controls had a SCREEN on them.
In the last 10 years, QT has been nothing but useless to me. I keep installing it to watch trailers and then promptly remember why i uninstalled it.
An all 64-bit Windows 7 would lock out A LOT of hardware. Not good.
Torchlight (click) looked fun(click) until i realized (click) id have to (click) through the entire (click) game.
And MAYBE you can get 3 people to squeeze through your DSL for no real reason at all other then corporate greed. LAN parties werent a NEED, they were and sill are a WANT.
Seriously, how long have they been hyping this game? Jesus christ jsut release it already. Only Blizzard could get away with this long of a ramp up period. THe game has been done for quite a while, the beta is just a PR joke. How do i know its done? BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN HOLDING TOURNAMENTS WITH IT.
For every blizzard there are 4 infinity wards. Even Carmack is going this route of lazy control freak by not allowing dedicated servers in Rage. THe game companies want it so that if you are playing their game, they want to know EVERYTHING you do in it. In 3 years there wont be a game available that doesnt require internet. I love where gaming is now in some regards, but the constant barage of pay me now and pay me later is a bit much. ITs the constant reminder that if you havent bought the latest map pack you wont be able to play your game like you had in the past. If i pop in my Halo 3 disc right now and try to get some matches i GUARANTEE that i will have ot jump through hoops becasue i dont have the latest maps.
Those of us who have been gaming since the beginning see the gaming companies locking up gaming and all the tools and spoon feeding it back to us at a cost, and you expect us to be thrilled about it? I like some of where gaming is going, but this constant feeding frenzy of user data is just too much. HAving ot be connected to the net all the time is jsut extremely greedy. I wouldnt mind it nearly as much if they provided EASY TO USE methods of playing offline. As it is now they use the online aspect to leverage you instead of helping you. Steam, while i enjoy the service, stil lags behind in this regard. It shouldnt take computer alchemy to get it to work in offline mode AND i shouldnt have ot pre-bless to get it to work.
I will say this about Bioware social club. At least your DLC can be cross platform. When you get DLC codes it is added to your Bioware site, platform agnostic. I do also like the screenshots it takes of your adventures.
Ubisoft is coming out with their own network as well. EA has a login for most of its games now too.. Pretty much all the major players have competing 'networks' now. Game for Windows Live is the fucking worst though. If im playing a GFW Live game even in SINGLE PLAYER MODE, i have to be connected to the net to even SAVE MY GAME. Worse then that it kicks my GF off Netflix on the XBox becasue Live is PER USER, which i find to be an incredible scam.
So $140 then ($60+40+40) I highly doubt each expac will be less then $40. Look at Dragon Age's expac. I was excited until i saw it was $40.
I actually lost my day one PSP that was cracked so i considered it Karma, bought a new one when PS3 remote play became avaialable. SO yes my PSP was cracked in he past, but not anymore. NOw back to the argument. They COULD have put a custodial amount of flash on the device for the OS and then added a memory stick port for additional media storage. It was a design decision to always deny USB mass storage access. By the way, my Windows mobile smartphone can present itself as mass storage with some software, how is the iphone different again?
Sometimes while playing WoW ill lower my settings so my GPU( ATI 4850) fan doesnt spin up. For some reason, the frost path that Skadi lays in Utgarde really taxes my GPU, more then anything else in the game. Once that fist pass comes my GPU is LOUD. For awhile the frost was bugging and would remain long enough for Skadi to make a second pass and i thought my GPU was gonna pop.