yes, and now deduct 100% from it, since you're talking about the increase (which is the difference 17000- 4465), not the ratio between the two numbers (which is indeed about 4 to 1)
depends on what you consider in what has been changed. If you consider the entire game, you're quite right. If you look solely at the exe, it has had a fundamental change: not needing the disc, which is a significant part of that exe alone. All the exe does is load all the other data that gets installed. It doesn't contain the game, it loads it, and that functionality hasn't been changed indeed. However, not needing a disc is an imo significat change to the exe itself, and noticable by the user. If it's creative, i dunno ^^. But i find dragging the entire game into this, which is content that's not in the exe, taking it a bit broad...
If i were to make my own port of the game, another exe, that i wrote completely by myself, loads all the datafiles from the game, and works identical from the original game. Wouldn't i own the copyright to that exe? can't i freely distribute that exe? i can't distribute the content it needs to be functional, but the exe is mine i think? so when considering if the crack is just a minor change or not, i'd say you can only look at the file that was changed, not at the entire game, that's just unfair...
i'm just wondering. isn't the crack their work? i'm willing to believe they can't release the exe legally, since it's mostly work by someone else, they have no rights on. but their part is their work, and does rockstar have the rights to release it? to me, it seems that the cracked exe has 2 owners, and neither could release it without permission of the other party?
so... you don't see the advantage of the police having a population of 300 million Americans being reduced to 100 possible suspects, of which it's very very likely that 99 of them obviously haven't got the slightest connection to the case? i don't see why being a match in the DNA database would then indicate that you were involved. if they get 100 matches, they know only one did it, and it'll probably be fairly trivial to find a very likely suspect
not that i'm pro ideas like this, but these arguments just don't make any sense >_
But indeed, the guitar hero games are ridiculously heavy on pc's.
GH3 barely ran on my previous pc (athlon 3500, 1Gb ram, gefroce 6800). But with a now modern pc i'd assume that it works perfectly and no controller issues since you'd probably buy the guitar with it ^^
Just awesome how now even people who say they aren't experts go into the same discussion as the experts they're talking about: Saying flat out contradictory things, and noone having any reliable source to find it out...
I'm starting to think i really need to treat this as religion, and call my self an agnost... All i ever read seem to read about AGW is just people contradicting each other, and good luck finding any good sources...
Lets say you're right, and what the guy you replied to is all wrong... why all the hostility? he did his best to word what he (thought?) he knew as politely as possible, and if you think it's all nonsense, back up your claims... Your hostile opinion, which just ends up in nothing but contradicting him is extremely annoying, and just contributes nothing at all to the discussion....
is there anywhere that would be a reliable source about possible problems with the current claims of AGW? because you're not gonna tell me it's all perfect, that all predictions became true, and that no errors were ever made. But somehow, whenever someone mentions such criticism, it all ends up the same. Either that claim was never made, or the data contradicting it is wrong, or whatever.... and we're back where we were, everyone contradicting everyone, and not a shred of backing it up -_-
because with a kill switch, pirates will have to circumvent your system, and you end up with knowing nothing at all. with tracking, you at least can see how bad the piracy is
why is he modded as flamebait? i was about to say the same thing, and he's right. i've also once had a windows reject its correct license key, i just phoned the support, and they provide you with a working key.
as if that is the only problem with the benchmark. they're also using a plain firefox. while with every discussion about firefox every fan hammers on how important the dozens of plugins they got are, and how they could never survive without them. add the reputation of firefox handling those plugins, and lets see where it ends up with some of the most popular plugins loaded.
it may not occur to you, but there's plenty more than just correct rendering. on facebook lots of interactive things suddenly stopped working, online banking scripts don't work, etc.... and i have seen sites that don't render perfectly, like the website of a pharmaceutical company my sister works at. when she asked to the people maintaining the site why it didn't render correctly on opera, they said opera's share was too small to be bothered with to make it work perfectly.
i've been using opera for quite a while, and i agree that it is an awesome browser.
the main problem however is that it's got bad compatibility with lots of sites. not really their problem, just that many sites don't bother to make sure everything works with opera.
besides obvious things like online banking, and microsoft junk, i've since a few weeks been having problems on facebook. lots of things suddenly stopped working, and it's seriously annoying....
never heard of them either. so basically adavies42's response was yet another example of "america = the entire world, it's known and popular here, so it must be so all over the world"
better experience than me then. when i tried to install the latest ubuntu on my brand new pc, i had to add an extra command line option to the launching of the installer, due to some problem with my generic dvd reader. And since i had the latest nvidia graphics card, ubuntu just didn't have any drivers ready for easy install at all. to get the drivers i had to download them manually from nvidia, from the package manager download the linux headers, then go to the console kill everything graphical, and then manually through the console install the drivers...
yeah, really sounds like something ready for the generic end user who knows nothing about pc's. i couldn't install it withouth googling, neither could i get it to give me good graphics without doing something pretty complicated.
it's stil a LONG way from being near windows in the area of being easy to install...
i got into trackmania since it's so similar in concept to stunts ^^
but it's a far more modern game, so it will be pretty different ^^. the free version (nations forever) is a lot of fun, but probably also the on with the most realistic kind of car (although still very arcade). i still prefer the environments of the original trackmania, but you'd have to buy trackmania original or trackmania united to play those, but it's worth it imo:)
so here is your latest message: CADIE has managed to decode my other messages. Damn. She's getting too smart. Double Hex encoding seems to be throwing her off for now. But at this rate we'll need to go to Triple DES or a public-key system like RSA. I'm not sure how we'll exchange keys, though.
Even with a public-key solution, she may find a way to extract the keys from our machines. Barring that, she's got the full power of Google plus several botnets, plus military mainframes at her disposal. She has sufficient computing power to brute force even the strongest keys in use today.
We're all doomed.
and i know, i could have easily coded something myself to extract the bytes from the hex data, but it was getting late here in europe:p and yeah, i needed help of the other posts to decypher your message, i'm not that good in decrypting ^^
yeah, just remove the spaces, leave the rest, and you get this: with the help of the other posts, i get this: CADIE is *everywhere*! Be careful, she's got the entire Internet bugged. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep hiding messages from her. She's getting smarter! Integrating new Javascript technologies as she goes along. I'm getting this message to you, because she has not yet found a BINHEX encoder written in Javascript. It's only a matter of time, though. Some poor fool will give her the tools she needs, then she will become unstoppable. Quickly, close the internet down before we are all enslaved!
but i already posted that (but non in this long thread)
with the help of the other posts, i get this: CADIE is *everywhere*! Be careful, she's got the entire Internet bugged. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep hiding messages from her. She's getting smarter! Integrating new Javascript technologies as she goes along. I'm getting this message to you, because she has not yet found a BINHEX encoder written in Javascript. It's only a matter of time, though. Some poor fool will give her the tools she needs, then she will become unstoppable. Quickly, close the internet down before we are all enslaved!
you really think there are many people who know how to google? lots of people know me for being good at finding things with google, while imo it's just thinking of good keywords and look at the results to see how to modify your search
and yet, it seems i hardly see any people capable of that, so if they could teach kids that google will only support you, and not magically give you an answer on everything from the first try with just about any keyword.
Google will work great if you give it the additional knowledge and insight of your own brain, but by itself it's fairly weak. and it seems very few people seem to understand that...
and frankly, why wouldn't it be good for the next generation to actually be good at finding information on the internet? it'll probably be even far more present than it is for us...
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yes, and now deduct 100% from it, since you're talking about the increase (which is the difference 17000- 4465), not the ratio between the two numbers (which is indeed about 4 to 1)
depends on what you consider in what has been changed.
If you consider the entire game, you're quite right.
If you look solely at the exe, it has had a fundamental change: not needing the disc, which is a significant part of that exe alone. All the exe does is load all the other data that gets installed. It doesn't contain the game, it loads it, and that functionality hasn't been changed indeed. However, not needing a disc is an imo significat change to the exe itself, and noticable by the user. If it's creative, i dunno ^^.
But i find dragging the entire game into this, which is content that's not in the exe, taking it a bit broad...
If i were to make my own port of the game, another exe, that i wrote completely by myself, loads all the datafiles from the game, and works identical from the original game. Wouldn't i own the copyright to that exe? can't i freely distribute that exe? i can't distribute the content it needs to be functional, but the exe is mine i think? so when considering if the crack is just a minor change or not, i'd say you can only look at the file that was changed, not at the entire game, that's just unfair...
i'm just wondering. isn't the crack their work?
i'm willing to believe they can't release the exe legally, since it's mostly work by someone else, they have no rights on.
but their part is their work, and does rockstar have the rights to release it?
to me, it seems that the cracked exe has 2 owners, and neither could release it without permission of the other party?
but ianal ^^. just wondering :)
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we're getting closer
not in my belgian dutch (flemish)
maybe it is in your region/circle. but this is the first i hear of it
so... you don't see the advantage of the police having a population of 300 million Americans being reduced to 100 possible suspects, of which it's very very likely that 99 of them obviously haven't got the slightest connection to the case?
i don't see why being a match in the DNA database would then indicate that you were involved.
if they get 100 matches, they know only one did it, and it'll probably be fairly trivial to find a very likely suspect
not that i'm pro ideas like this, but these arguments just don't make any sense >_
works very well on my c2d, 4Gb ram, geforce 280
But indeed, the guitar hero games are ridiculously heavy on pc's.
GH3 barely ran on my previous pc (athlon 3500, 1Gb ram, gefroce 6800). But with a now modern pc i'd assume that it works perfectly
and no controller issues since you'd probably buy the guitar with it ^^
Just awesome how now even people who say they aren't experts go into the same discussion as the experts they're talking about: Saying flat out contradictory things, and noone having any reliable source to find it out...
I'm starting to think i really need to treat this as religion, and call my self an agnost... All i ever read seem to read about AGW is just people contradicting each other, and good luck finding any good sources...
Lets say you're right, and what the guy you replied to is all wrong... why all the hostility? he did his best to word what he (thought?) he knew as politely as possible, and if you think it's all nonsense, back up your claims... Your hostile opinion, which just ends up in nothing but contradicting him is extremely annoying, and just contributes nothing at all to the discussion....
is there anywhere that would be a reliable source about possible problems with the current claims of AGW? because you're not gonna tell me it's all perfect, that all predictions became true, and that no errors were ever made. But somehow, whenever someone mentions such criticism, it all ends up the same. Either that claim was never made, or the data contradicting it is wrong, or whatever.... and we're back where we were, everyone contradicting everyone, and not a shred of backing it up -_-
OH NO!! He stole imaginary technology!!
stealing something imaginary?
this is clearly copyright infringement!!
maybe they should have just sent him a DMCA notice?
because with a kill switch, pirates will have to circumvent your system, and you end up with knowing nothing at all.
with tracking, you at least can see how bad the piracy is
why is he modded as flamebait?
i was about to say the same thing, and he's right. i've also once had a windows reject its correct license key, i just phoned the support, and they provide you with a working key.
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as if that is the only problem with the benchmark. they're also using a plain firefox. while with every discussion about firefox every fan hammers on how important the dozens of plugins they got are, and how they could never survive without them.
add the reputation of firefox handling those plugins, and lets see where it ends up with some of the most popular plugins loaded.
it may not occur to you, but there's plenty more than just correct rendering.
on facebook lots of interactive things suddenly stopped working, online banking scripts don't work, etc....
and i have seen sites that don't render perfectly, like the website of a pharmaceutical company my sister works at. when she asked to the people maintaining the site why it didn't render correctly on opera, they said opera's share was too small to be bothered with to make it work perfectly.
i've been using opera for quite a while, and i agree that it is an awesome browser.
the main problem however is that it's got bad compatibility with lots of sites. not really their problem, just that many sites don't bother to make sure everything works with opera.
besides obvious things like online banking, and microsoft junk, i've since a few weeks been having problems on facebook. lots of things suddenly stopped working, and it's seriously annoying....
never heard of them either.
so basically adavies42's response was yet another example of "america = the entire world, it's known and popular here, so it must be so all over the world"
ah, it's a song? and i'm probably among the many that don't know it?
i just looked it up on youtube, and it does sound familiar, but i couldn't say when i last heard it (many many years ago).
perhaps it's more "popular" where you are are then here?
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better experience than me then.
when i tried to install the latest ubuntu on my brand new pc, i had to add an extra command line option to the launching of the installer, due to some problem with my generic dvd reader.
And since i had the latest nvidia graphics card, ubuntu just didn't have any drivers ready for easy install at all. to get the drivers i had to download them manually from nvidia, from the package manager download the linux headers, then go to the console kill everything graphical, and then manually through the console install the drivers...
yeah, really sounds like something ready for the generic end user who knows nothing about pc's. i couldn't install it withouth googling, neither could i get it to give me good graphics without doing something pretty complicated.
it's stil a LONG way from being near windows in the area of being easy to install...
i got into trackmania since it's so similar in concept to stunts ^^
but it's a far more modern game, so it will be pretty different ^^. :)
the free version (nations forever) is a lot of fun, but probably also the on with the most realistic kind of car (although still very arcade). i still prefer the environments of the original trackmania, but you'd have to buy trackmania original or trackmania united to play those, but it's worth it imo
so here is your latest message:
CADIE has managed to decode my other messages. Damn. She's getting too smart. Double Hex encoding seems to be throwing her off for now. But at this rate we'll need to go to Triple DES or a public-key system like RSA. I'm not sure how we'll exchange keys, though.
Even with a public-key solution, she may find a way to extract the keys from our machines. Barring that, she's got the full power of Google plus several botnets, plus military mainframes at her disposal. She has sufficient computing power to brute force even the strongest keys in use today.
We're all doomed.
and i know, i could have easily coded something myself to extract the bytes from the hex data, but it was getting late here in europe :p
and yeah, i needed help of the other posts to decypher your message, i'm not that good in decrypting ^^
anyone know a simple prog to get these hex values back to their original bytes -_-
yeah, just remove the spaces, leave the rest, and you get this:
with the help of the other posts, i get this:
CADIE is *everywhere*! Be careful, she's got the entire Internet bugged. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep hiding messages from her. She's getting smarter! Integrating new Javascript technologies as she goes along. I'm getting this message to you, because she has not yet found a BINHEX encoder written in Javascript. It's only a matter of time, though. Some poor fool will give her the tools she needs, then she will become unstoppable. Quickly, close the internet down before we are all enslaved!
but i already posted that (but non in this long thread)
with the help of the other posts, i get this:
CADIE is *everywhere*! Be careful, she's got the entire Internet bugged. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep hiding messages from her. She's getting smarter! Integrating new Javascript technologies as she goes along. I'm getting this message to you, because she has not yet found a BINHEX encoder written in Javascript. It's only a matter of time, though. Some poor fool will give her the tools she needs, then she will become unstoppable. Quickly, close the internet down before we are all enslaved!
you really think there are many people who know how to google?
lots of people know me for being good at finding things with google, while imo it's just thinking of good keywords and look at the results to see how to modify your search
and yet, it seems i hardly see any people capable of that, so if they could teach kids that google will only support you, and not magically give you an answer on everything from the first try with just about any keyword.
Google will work great if you give it the additional knowledge and insight of your own brain, but by itself it's fairly weak. and it seems very few people seem to understand that...
and frankly, why wouldn't it be good for the next generation to actually be good at finding information on the internet? it'll probably be even far more present than it is for us...