Which is nice in theory, but then Microsoft went ahead to release a 360 without a hard drive, meaning that Mass Effect had to have those horrible elevator because it couldn't rely on pre-caching.
You must have not received the memo - this year isn't the year of the Linux desktop as it happens.
Joking aside, it does seem quite odd. Although, if they're aiming at an education market, then they're probably right in thinking the vast majority of their user base is locked into some MS license scheme.
The reason you can't "improve" on the A* is because the exam system is flawed at the upper end. A student who is already working at A* level could "improve" by starting to try their hand at A level material or explore more lateral avenues of thought (all with the encouragement of their teacher of course)
It would depend on what sort of life you are trying to sustain. If the temperature change is gradual enough then things will adapt and survive to meet the new climate.
I'm going to assume you're either refering to the temperature that results in the greatest biodiversity - which I would say is the current tropical rainforests (The Amazon in particular)
I always figured the TARDIS was bigger on the inside because the space was oriented through a higher (ie 4th) dimenstion perpendicular to own. Hence its intersection with perceivable 3d space would be small compared to its size.
Think of a 2d world, with another 2d world intersecting it. The cross section is far smaller than the 2d world that is intersecting.
"And hence, shall usher in the Year of the Linux Desktop..."
At least, thats what reading between the lines gave me. Your milage may differ. Its a nice idea, but how many of things have said they've managed to bridge the gap? I'm not holding my breath.
It does do a one time activation thing, but given its download only thats hardly going to be inconvenience. Also, I do not believe there is any download number restrictions - one key will cover multiple installs on multiple platforms.
Quote from a dev: We don't anticipate having to limit the number of redownloads but remember that each new machine or major hardware change may trigger a new key to be issued against your license. Our plan is to allow multiple installs and to be generous in that regard to cover murdered systems, planned upgrades, people wanting to play it on their PC and their Mac or even Linux box etc. Even if the limit is reached--a limit that we have not determined yet--we will be flexible in resetting or increasing the limit for paying customers. If you are registered, we will keep your license keys stored for you in your profile and you will be able to see the number of times that license has been used for various systems so there will be no surprises.
Genius! Set up filtering of your own, and then subtly steer the blame to the ISP. As long as he doesn't check the settings that should work.
Of course, you could try talking to him, but then if he refuses it ruins the credability of the above plan somewhat.
I think the various stats, articles, and studies linked elsewhere in the discussion give good reason to be dismissive. Whether the jaded offensiveness is justified is another quesion.
Playing Crysis 3, as suggested by the GP, what with its multi-threaded physics engine, that has a cloth thead, a debris thread, eye candy particle effect thread... not to mention the AI thread, the 3 cores the OS eats to keep itself from cardiac arrest...
Open a notepad window or 2. Interspares real typing with putting random stuff into the notepad windows. That way, when the keylogger results are read, they come out of as complete rubbish. A more sophisticated software one might distinguish between where the text was entered, but it would have to dump the file somewhere. Type randomly and look for files that inflate. That would confirm the presence and then you could edit it.
Then the keylogger would record you editing the keylogger's log, creating a bizzare echo of everything you type from the reader's perspective.
Tripping.
Can't be murder. Murder is defined (by dictionary.com) as killing with malicious intent.
Although, if you're the right-wing type who thinks of athesits as god-less satan worshippers...
Idea:
Get a keygen. Generate as many keys as you can and put them in notepad.
Publicise them, on a blog for instance and link to it from torrent comments.
All those keys will then be banned (they have said themselves they will ban public keys)- and eventually no keys will work, in theory...
Would demestrate the utter fail of the system they have devised. Plus you could probably make the news or something.
The true irony of this however, is that only the pirates would be able to play BECAUSE of the copy protection system.
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Actually he would be trying to imply it. You're the one infering it.
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Which is nice in theory, but then Microsoft went ahead to release a 360 without a hard drive, meaning that Mass Effect had to have those horrible elevator because it couldn't rely on pre-caching.
Then they would *shock* have to compete and maybe actually have to make a decent system?
It would only be for the best.
You must have not received the memo - this year isn't the year of the Linux desktop as it happens.
Joking aside, it does seem quite odd. Although, if they're aiming at an education market, then they're probably right in thinking the vast majority of their user base is locked into some MS license scheme.
The solution to your problem:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Never had a problem with that. Heck, even windows update works in it.
But steam does not tie games to your hardware. It ties them to your login - which you can use on any PC.
The reason you can't "improve" on the A* is because the exam system is flawed at the upper end. A student who is already working at A* level could "improve" by starting to try their hand at A level material or explore more lateral avenues of thought (all with the encouragement of their teacher of course)
Well.. it worked for me at least.
It would depend on what sort of life you are trying to sustain. If the temperature change is gradual enough then things will adapt and survive to meet the new climate.
I'm going to assume you're either refering to the temperature that results in the greatest biodiversity - which I would say is the current tropical rainforests (The Amazon in particular)
I don't think Valve has anything to do with Vivendi any more - given they self-distribute via steam and the orange box retail was done by EA...
I always figured the TARDIS was bigger on the inside because the space was oriented through a higher (ie 4th) dimenstion perpendicular to own. Hence its intersection with perceivable 3d space would be small compared to its size.
Think of a 2d world, with another 2d world intersecting it. The cross section is far smaller than the 2d world that is intersecting.
Could you care to name which PC gaming houses you like went bankrupt? And some sort of evidence that this was due to piracy?
"And hence, shall usher in the Year of the Linux Desktop..."
At least, thats what reading between the lines gave me. Your milage may differ.
Its a nice idea, but how many of things have said they've managed to bridge the gap?
I'm not holding my breath.
Easily solved: patches released should such an eventuality occur.
Or, failing that, cracks.
It does do a one time activation thing, but given its download only thats hardly going to be inconvenience. Also, I do not believe there is any download number restrictions - one key will cover multiple installs on multiple platforms.
Quote from a dev:
We don't anticipate having to limit the number of redownloads but remember that each new machine or major hardware change may trigger a new key to be issued against your license. Our plan is to allow multiple installs and to be generous in that regard to cover murdered systems, planned upgrades, people wanting to play it on their PC and their Mac or even Linux box etc. Even if the limit is reached--a limit that we have not determined yet--we will be flexible in resetting or increasing the limit for paying customers. If you are registered, we will keep your license keys stored for you in your profile and you will be able to see the number of times that license has been used for various systems so there will be no surprises.
Original thread:
http://forum.playgreenhouse.com/jforum/posts/list/302.page
Not quite as bad as our old friend SecuROM methinks.
Unfortunatly, you are infinging on my patent to "patent trivial things".
As much as I'd like to believe you, the train-wreck of Vista was supposed to usher in the year of the Linux desktop...
Genius! Set up filtering of your own, and then subtly steer the blame to the ISP. As long as he doesn't check the settings that should work. Of course, you could try talking to him, but then if he refuses it ruins the credability of the above plan somewhat.
I think the various stats, articles, and studies linked elsewhere in the discussion give good reason to be dismissive. Whether the jaded offensiveness is justified is another quesion.
Playing Crysis 3, as suggested by the GP, what with its multi-threaded physics engine, that has a cloth thead, a debris thread, eye candy particle effect thread ... not to mention the AI thread, the 3 cores the OS eats to keep itself from cardiac arrest...
I don't think a random number generator is going to help us here...
Open a notepad window or 2. Interspares real typing with putting random stuff into the notepad windows. That way, when the keylogger results are read, they come out of as complete rubbish. A more sophisticated software one might distinguish between where the text was entered, but it would have to dump the file somewhere. Type randomly and look for files that inflate. That would confirm the presence and then you could edit it. Then the keylogger would record you editing the keylogger's log, creating a bizzare echo of everything you type from the reader's perspective. Tripping.
Can't be murder. Murder is defined (by dictionary.com) as killing with malicious intent. Although, if you're the right-wing type who thinks of athesits as god-less satan worshippers...
Hold up there... pirates had trouble with copy protection? I must not have recieved the memo...
I think I've heard of this... steam I think it was called...
Idea: Get a keygen. Generate as many keys as you can and put them in notepad. Publicise them, on a blog for instance and link to it from torrent comments. All those keys will then be banned (they have said themselves they will ban public keys)- and eventually no keys will work, in theory... Would demestrate the utter fail of the system they have devised. Plus you could probably make the news or something. The true irony of this however, is that only the pirates would be able to play BECAUSE of the copy protection system.