The amusing part about it, is that it will be capped at 30GB transfer a month probably. AWESOME! You can reach your cap for the month in a matter of hours.
1024Mbps ~ 128GBps, so no. You could, theoretically, hit your cap in less than one second.
Of course, if they follow suit with the rest of the Japanese internet market, there will be no down limit and the upload limit will be somewhere in the hundreds of gigs.
I don't know any service in which one purchases content to be stores on you own media where a second download is allowed. Now, if one is not allowed to backup the content, or transfer it to another device, then that may be considered more restrictive than normal.
The entire point of DRM content is that the content is restricted to approved playback devices. Allowing multiple downloads to the only approved device is not the same as allowing someone to download it willy-nilly onto fifty computers.
The point this article is making is the lack of options to re-obtain your content, as you are not allowed to backup the media, nor can you store it physically on any kind of medium other than the disk in your playstation.
Because Demo's are great indication of how games will perform when you purchase the full version.
I cant count the number of times I have tried a demo, then later bought the game to find promised features missing, performance on my computer vastly reduced and game play crippled by bugs that were no present in the demo.
So, I will, as I have in the past, continue to pirate the game first, then purchase it if it makes the cut.
On the contrary the internet makes knowing 'facts' irrelevant, no one has to memorise information anymore. It's the process of information interpretation that is becoming more important than the knowing of information.
The internet is making us smarter. It's spelled Memorize. I see some people's internet experience is making them more stupid. Perhaps they should try Firefox. It prefer to think it makes us smarter.
Less... Caffeine... Please...
Can I get it like eee size and eee cheap and put 6 of 'em together in a custom beowulf cluster that grows and shrinks as the various laptops enter and exit the house over wifi N, or wimax, or whatever? WTF would you do with a beowolf cluster of mini laptops on wireless? Folding@home that important to you?
It's depressing; I wish they would just start building one of these trains already. Thats the beauty of being a consultant. Especially if you have fancy letters in front and behind your name. You literally get paid for telling people what they want to hear. If the project fails, you get to keep your money!
I for one am really looking forward to this title. If the demo is anything to go by, this will be one of the best non-rally racing titles ever to hit the PC. Codemasters might redeem themselves with this one.
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Right, like that whole gun powder and rocket propulsion thing...
Geez, epic fail on my math again. I should stop posting on these stories. Someone mod me redundant so no one sees :(
The amusing part about it, is that it will be capped at 30GB transfer a month probably. AWESOME! You can reach your cap for the month in a matter of hours.
1024Mbps ~ 128GBps, so no. You could, theoretically, hit your cap in less than one second.
Of course, if they follow suit with the rest of the Japanese internet market, there will be no down limit and the upload limit will be somewhere in the hundreds of gigs.
Ooh, so If I found his real email address, does that mean I get to be in the cult?
http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/ryanandjacob.txt
I don't know any service in which one purchases content to be stores on you own media where a second download is allowed. Now, if one is not allowed to backup the content, or transfer it to another device, then that may be considered more restrictive than normal.
The entire point of DRM content is that the content is restricted to approved playback devices. Allowing multiple downloads to the only approved device is not the same as allowing someone to download it willy-nilly onto fifty computers.
The point this article is making is the lack of options to re-obtain your content, as you are not allowed to backup the media, nor can you store it physically on any kind of medium other than the disk in your playstation.
You sir, made my day.
They should send every last copy of the game into orbit and leave it there.
I just saw it for myself today. I was convinced it was an add for the shoe store until the very end when the windows logo flashed...
Italics look like this. /This/ /just/ /makes/ /you/ /look/ /like/ /an/ /ass/.
Within a year or so, I promise your phone will be able to play 1080i hi-def content at native resolution.
Right, and we'll be flying cars and colonizing the moon by 2010...
Even at 300px per inch, that would make the screen over three and a half inches tall.
The fact your argument is posted on Slashdot would kind of be self-defeating would it not?
Ill believe it when netcraft confirms it.
Oh, and...
Ive got balls of steel.
Because Demo's are great indication of how games will perform when you purchase the full version.
I cant count the number of times I have tried a demo, then later bought the game to find promised features missing, performance on my computer vastly reduced and game play crippled by bugs that were no present in the demo.
So, I will, as I have in the past, continue to pirate the game first, then purchase it if it makes the cut.
It also rules out pretty much any top 100 selling game for any platform in the last 10 years.
I mean, what do you play? Tetris?
Just put a Gn or K in front of any of those windows games and Im sure you'll have no problem finding them.
Very True.
Perhaps its self validating though? The internet made them stupid, they do not understand the concepts of correlation, proof and cause-effect.
The internet is making us smarter. It's spelled Memorize. I see some people's internet experience is making them more stupid. Perhaps they should try Firefox. It prefer to think it makes us smarter.
The overhead isnt due to the drive, its due to their filesystem. I knew they shouldnt have gone with CBNealFS.
Didnt they see the poll a while back?
Lets see. It has a singleplayer plot where you take on a role?
Seriously, how "open" can it be? You still have to hit the plot points or the story wont progress.
I thought this sounded familiar. Geez, it was a stupid idea then, its stupid now.
Its almost like the burden of proof is on the prosecution and you are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
Wow, how novel.
Hey now...
I for one am really looking forward to this title. If the demo is anything to go by, this will be one of the best non-rally racing titles ever to hit the PC.
Codemasters might redeem themselves with this one.