If a cheap ass REALLY wanted something, and there was no other way to obtain it, they would pay for it. At least the ones I know would.
"4) There is no such thing as copyright (or shouldn't be)."
This is a perfectly reasonable position, which I take.
"11) It is just normal human nature to take the product of others' labor without compensating them."
Actually, it is. Copyright is a new invention. Look up history. Funny thing is that we had music, paintings, books, architecture, and all that, long before copyright. I know, it's hard to believe!
You cannot compare creations of the past to creations of the present. Before computers and electronics, the only way to create a 1:1 replica of art was to labor over it again. There was some work involved in copying other people's work which may end up being no less difficult. With a video game, I put in no effort to create a copy indistinguishable in any way from the original.
"7) I do not want to try the demo because the only meaningful way to try out a game is to try out the ENTIRE game."
Games still have demos? Wow, must be, what, one or two such games a year? The only demos I have heard of in recent times were released AFTER the game. Not much help there...
What if we operate on the assumption that there is a demo available before or at the time of release. Would this argument still hold?
"8) Who cares if there is 99.9% piracy, all the developers need is to make just enough money to fund developing another game"
Not me, because there is not 99.9% piracy. Nice straw man bashing, though.
You're reading too much into this one just so you can say that it is a meaningless argument. Ignore the number, it's not important. The idea that developers only need enough money to fund their next game is the point here.
"12) Pirating something NEVER results in a lost sale. Not even when spread over thousands of people."
Has one person ever actually argued this? Curious because I'd love to hit them with a large blunt object. If they haven't, I guess I'll hit you instead...
No need to get violent.
"14) Personal honor is such an outmoded concept anyway."
Call me when the megacorps whining are any more honorable.
The people involved with the game want compensation for their work. I see nothing dishonorable about that.
Don't worry, I have a feeling they'll stop when they hit version 10. They are just trying to get there as fast as possible so that they can change the name of the program Firefox X because X makes everything 20% cooler.
I have still yet to see them use the real name policy on anyone in my circles. Who checks the names? Do they need to be reported? I'm looking at one of my circles right now, and I see names like Sordid Euphemism, Mr Dragon, reddit brony, Fluttershy, the autowitch, Rainbow Danish, etc. Not to mention my own obviously fake name. As far as I can tell this policy isn't being strictly enforced, if at all. That doesn't change the fact that it is a stupid policy, but they don't seem to be removing fake accounts left and right.
I can think of one. Grim Fandango has one area that you can't get out of if your processor is too fast. I had to run a program to chew up my processor cycles to get through it.
That's not the issue that he's talking about. The problem is that when when the window is maximized, it aligns the tabs with the Firefox button in the titlebar. If you have enough tabs open to go all the way across the titlebar there is no space where you can grab the window since the whole titlebar is covered with tabs. There is no problem with the tabs on top when the window isn't maxmized because the tabs are not in the titlebar, they are in their own row below the Firefox button.
Fortunately this behavior is easy to disable. Just open up about:config and change browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar to false.
What theme are you using? I really like it. I've found a bunch of similar ones, but none of them put the glass effect on the bookmarks toolbar and the tab strip.
I had the same problem. If I looked at anything on screen that wasn't in focus, it gave me a headache trying to focus on something that can't be focused on.
However, I don't think video games will suffer from the same problem if depth of field effects are disabled while playing in 3D.
For someone who is fighting so strongly that hacker =/= cracker and that language shouldn't change like that, you've horribly misused "begs the question". Begging the question refers not to a statement causing a question to arise, but instead to a circular argument.
I was not trying to say this would mean that OnLive and Gaikai could compensate for the lag. I was simply responding to AC. Personally I think the latency will make the games unplayable.
As for streaming video vs local rendering, it requires significantly less power to decode a video stream. Even the low end graphics cards now can decode HD video streams in hardware. I think you are severely underestimating how much computing power has to go into the rendering of a single frame of a video game.
Hmm, what else do we need to remove? First of all, Notepad has to go, but even more importantly we need to lose that OpenOffice killer Wordpad.
Paint has to go too. Maybe Adobe will finally see some Photoshop sales when that happens.
Actually, it might just be easier to lose the entire Accessories folder. But that still leaves built in Zip archive support. So it seems our only solution is to remove Windows Explorer! We can kill two birds with one stone there, as now people will also have a choice of desktop environment.
Oh crap, I just realized that Windows forces people to use FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. We need more choice of file system. Hmm... well I guess this only means one thing. We need to have Microsoft remove the Windows kernel! That will make competition perfectly fair for absolutely everyone (...except Microsoft... but no one cares because they are the spawn of the devil...)
I just had one additional thought about this Windows patch. Perhaps some of these boxes are using illegitimate copies of Windows and are therefore ineligible for the patch?
Even pirated copies of Windows can get patches. Microsoft wants everyone to have a fully patched system because of the massive problems infected computers can cause.
It also helps to turn down the graphics settings to get rid of the head killing blurring effects. I think I got rid of that by going to DX9 mode and setting the post effects to low.
Of course your best option is just to not play it. It's a bad game. I don't think I ever would have had the will to finish it if I didn't get a trainer so I could walk super fast.
My high school did almost the same thing. If you failed any of the first 3 marking periods with a grade below 50%, it would be bumped to 50%. For the 4th marking period and the final however, the grade would not be changed.
I don't see an issue with this grade bumping. It prevents one bad marking period from completely screwing a student over. I know it saved my ass a couple of times (English and French...blah....)
No, real geeks adjust their brain wave patterns to a frequency of 2.4 GHz and wirelessly retrieve the data with their minds. They then parse the html in their head and display the page in their mind.
At least that's what I do, although I am working on tuning into GSM for web access anywhere.
The broadcasts have commercials because the cable subscription fees go to the cable company. Broadcasters only get money if they are a Pay-per view service or a separate subscription (usually movie channels like HBO).
Without advertisements, all broadcasters would have to charge as either a subscription or Pay-per view. Just imagine what that would do to your cable bill.
Now, I know there is the possibility that since companies won't be paying for commercials anymore, the prices of their products will go down, but I don't see that happening. The companies will just be enjoying more profit.
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"3) I am a cheap ass."
So you probably wouldn't buy it, anyway.
If a cheap ass REALLY wanted something, and there was no other way to obtain it, they would pay for it. At least the ones I know would.
"4) There is no such thing as copyright (or shouldn't be)."
This is a perfectly reasonable position, which I take.
"11) It is just normal human nature to take the product of others' labor without compensating them."
Actually, it is. Copyright is a new invention. Look up history. Funny thing is that we had music, paintings, books, architecture, and all that, long before copyright. I know, it's hard to believe!
You cannot compare creations of the past to creations of the present. Before computers and electronics, the only way to create a 1:1 replica of art was to labor over it again. There was some work involved in copying other people's work which may end up being no less difficult. With a video game, I put in no effort to create a copy indistinguishable in any way from the original.
"7) I do not want to try the demo because the only meaningful way to try out a game is to try out the ENTIRE game."
Games still have demos? Wow, must be, what, one or two such games a year? The only demos I have heard of in recent times were released AFTER the game. Not much help there...
What if we operate on the assumption that there is a demo available before or at the time of release. Would this argument still hold?
"8) Who cares if there is 99.9% piracy, all the developers need is to make just enough money to fund developing another game"
Not me, because there is not 99.9% piracy. Nice straw man bashing, though.
You're reading too much into this one just so you can say that it is a meaningless argument. Ignore the number, it's not important. The idea that developers only need enough money to fund their next game is the point here.
"12) Pirating something NEVER results in a lost sale. Not even when spread over thousands of people."
Has one person ever actually argued this? Curious because I'd love to hit them with a large blunt object. If they haven't, I guess I'll hit you instead...
No need to get violent.
"14) Personal honor is such an outmoded concept anyway."
Call me when the megacorps whining are any more honorable.
The people involved with the game want compensation for their work. I see nothing dishonorable about that.
Don't worry, I have a feeling they'll stop when they hit version 10. They are just trying to get there as fast as possible so that they can change the name of the program Firefox X because X makes everything 20% cooler.
I have still yet to see them use the real name policy on anyone in my circles. Who checks the names? Do they need to be reported? I'm looking at one of my circles right now, and I see names like Sordid Euphemism, Mr Dragon, reddit brony, Fluttershy, the autowitch, Rainbow Danish, etc. Not to mention my own obviously fake name. As far as I can tell this policy isn't being strictly enforced, if at all. That doesn't change the fact that it is a stupid policy, but they don't seem to be removing fake accounts left and right.
I can think of one. Grim Fandango has one area that you can't get out of if your processor is too fast. I had to run a program to chew up my processor cycles to get through it.
That's not the issue that he's talking about. The problem is that when when the window is maximized, it aligns the tabs with the Firefox button in the titlebar. If you have enough tabs open to go all the way across the titlebar there is no space where you can grab the window since the whole titlebar is covered with tabs. There is no problem with the tabs on top when the window isn't maxmized because the tabs are not in the titlebar, they are in their own row below the Firefox button.
Fortunately this behavior is easy to disable. Just open up about:config and change browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar to false.
That's simply a demo of his next project, Zero.
What theme are you using? I really like it. I've found a bunch of similar ones, but none of them put the glass effect on the bookmarks toolbar and the tab strip.
I had the same problem. If I looked at anything on screen that wasn't in focus, it gave me a headache trying to focus on something that can't be focused on.
However, I don't think video games will suffer from the same problem if depth of field effects are disabled while playing in 3D.
Your sig is missing a 't' in the first DoItFaster().
Besides ... if you have a radio link then why not just give them bluetooth headsets and let them talk to each other?
Because you won't need words when you can share thoughts.
For someone who is fighting so strongly that hacker =/= cracker and that language shouldn't change like that, you've horribly misused "begs the question". Begging the question refers not to a statement causing a question to arise, but instead to a circular argument.
Firefox does have a private browsing mode. Ctrl-Shift-P. Even saves the tabs you have open before you go into private mode.
I was not trying to say this would mean that OnLive and Gaikai could compensate for the lag. I was simply responding to AC. Personally I think the latency will make the games unplayable.
As for streaming video vs local rendering, it requires significantly less power to decode a video stream. Even the low end graphics cards now can decode HD video streams in hardware. I think you are severely underestimating how much computing power has to go into the rendering of a single frame of a video game.
You post anonymously because you know not of what you speak.
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If I had an old 17mpg pickup I would be allowed to get a 19mpg SUV and get the free congressional money
Are you sure about that? I know I remember hearing that there must be a significant MPG increase to be eligible.
Well its been rumored for a while that Microsoft would release the RTM build tomorrow, so this probably is it.
Add Cave Story (2004) to that list. It's one of the only good recent 2D platformers I've seen that is NOT based off an old platformer.
Just put a flash jumper on the motherboard that must be set to be able to flash the BIOS. Seems to completely solve the problem.
Hmm, what else do we need to remove?
First of all, Notepad has to go, but even more importantly we need to lose that OpenOffice killer Wordpad.
Paint has to go too. Maybe Adobe will finally see some Photoshop sales when that happens.
Actually, it might just be easier to lose the entire Accessories folder. But that still leaves built in Zip archive support. So it seems our only solution is to remove Windows Explorer! We can kill two birds with one stone there, as now people will also have a choice of desktop environment.
Oh crap, I just realized that Windows forces people to use FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. We need more choice of file system. Hmm... well I guess this only means one thing. We need to have Microsoft remove the Windows kernel! That will make competition perfectly fair for absolutely everyone (...except Microsoft... but no one cares because they are the spawn of the devil...)
I just had one additional thought about this Windows patch. Perhaps some of these boxes are using illegitimate copies of Windows and are therefore ineligible for the patch?
Even pirated copies of Windows can get patches. Microsoft wants everyone to have a fully patched system because of the massive problems infected computers can cause.
I have the same problem with Far Cry 2. If you're running in widescreen, the screwed up FoV could be part of your problem. This tool will let you fix it http://tocaedit.com/forum/dload.php?action=file&file_id=119
It also helps to turn down the graphics settings to get rid of the head killing blurring effects. I think I got rid of that by going to DX9 mode and setting the post effects to low.
Of course your best option is just to not play it. It's a bad game. I don't think I ever would have had the will to finish it if I didn't get a trainer so I could walk super fast.
My high school did almost the same thing. If you failed any of the first 3 marking periods with a grade below 50%, it would be bumped to 50%. For the 4th marking period and the final however, the grade would not be changed.
I don't see an issue with this grade bumping. It prevents one bad marking period from completely screwing a student over. I know it saved my ass a couple of times (English and French...blah....)
No, real geeks adjust their brain wave patterns to a frequency of 2.4 GHz and wirelessly retrieve the data with their minds. They then parse the html in their head and display the page in their mind.
At least that's what I do, although I am working on tuning into GSM for web access anywhere.
The broadcasts have commercials because the cable subscription fees go to the cable company. Broadcasters only get money if they are a Pay-per view service or a separate subscription (usually movie channels like HBO).
Without advertisements, all broadcasters would have to charge as either a subscription or Pay-per view. Just imagine what that would do to your cable bill.
Now, I know there is the possibility that since companies won't be paying for commercials anymore, the prices of their products will go down, but I don't see that happening. The companies will just be enjoying more profit.
If the person had the physical key why would he need to copy it?
I'm saying, so that the RFID can't be copied while it's in a pocket, the RFID transmitter should be activated by a switch.