Interesting that when it's Apple products it's called "thieving". For DVDs, music and other digital content it's just sticking it to the man. Rationalization can free you from any constraints.
I've always called it thieving. I post under the same username on Digg as well if you'd like to verify that fact. And I'm not exactly a Mac fanboi either although I will admit to owning an iPod Classic but that's more to do with the fact the wife bought me it as a present, daft bint.
Fuck off you British tossers. Keep your fucking pound and get the fuck out of the Community.
No problem. We'll take the £billions we pump into European countries with us as well. Good luck surviving without your EU subsidies which we fund. Hope you don't live in Portugal or any of the recent accession countries as we pretty much bankroll your entire country.
I guess that you're another stupid fucker I have to share space with in this country who has missed the point that this legislation contains pretty much what every ISP has in its terms and conditions already.
The last time I played a game using Crossover, it was in DX7, not 9, so I don't know how they can claim that's the case. For those still reading, it was CS:Source and Battlefield 2. Both looked truly horrific compared to playing on Windows and had poor framerates despite being run on a 9600GT.
And then there's Punkbuster support. Until they can get that working 100%, there's no point at all because you end up getting blacklisted so that money you spent buying the game is wasted as your CD Key is unusable on any PB server.
5 hours after the first sale, it appeared on the warez sites. Man that's got to suck. It's a shame the thieving cunts don't realise that with most of the App Store stuff they pirate that it's usually only a one man band behind it.
Excellent. Lets hope they can't make it and it means they have to get rid of them. Due to the current economic crisis, hopefully they can't afford to come up with a replacement.
In the current global climate, there's no point in having nuclear missiles. Those who could strike us are no longer interested and are now allies and those who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us.
The one thing i love about PS3 haters is that they try to state that each console are sold at a loss.
but there's no way to actually *prove* that with out Sony actually saying so.
OF course there is. It's done all the time. An analyst company buys the product, dismantles it to individual components then prices up the parts list factoring in volume discounts to come up with a price that's not far off. Ford did it in the 60's with British Leylands Mini and conluded that every one of those was being sold at a loss and they weren't far off the actual figure. So if the ability to do it in the 60's was there, you sure as hell can do it now.
So performance is based on something which it is advised to disable for security reasons? Fuck all mention about the fact that Chrome eats RAM like it's gone out of fashion.
I love Steam too, but won't even consider getting most of my games from there because of the price.
In the UK, Dawn of War 2 was available on Steam on release day for £35, before VAT, which bumps it up to something around the £40 mark.
And on the other hand, Lost Planet was on Steam this weekend for £3.99. Just remember though that if Steam are selling it in other EU countries for less, they have to also offer you the right to buy it for that price. I wonder if anyone has checked prices from one EU country to another.
I'd like to see Microsoft stop selling its product to the EU as well - then Linux will gain more support.:)
Because Linux netbooks are doing so well in the EU aren't they? Oh wait, they're being returned 4 times as much as XP. But then again, when you've got someone like Gerry Carr, Canonicals marketing manager saying that it's understandable as Windows XP is a technology that's been around 20 years, then it's no surprise really.
I'm in two minds. Steam works brilliantly and in the half a decade I've been using it, it's worked faultlessly over many changes in computer. Can't say the same for EA Store though. I stupidly purchased BF 2142 through the Store. Worked OK for a while but after the last change of PC, I can no longer run the game I've downloaded. It comes up with some "this is associated with another account" bollocks when starting up the game.
With an 8Mbit ADSL connection and unlimited off peak usage, downloading a 3 or 4GB game is no longer an issue, especially if there's a local content backup option like Steam provides. Because I live in the middle of nowhere and my nearest PC game shop is a 50 mile round trip, most of the time, I could probably download the game quicker than going to buy it.
Some companies just don't see their customers outside of US, Canada, UK, and maybe France or Germany - they don't offer shipping outside selected countries. This is a big source of frustration for big part of EU, where there customers willing to pay for stuff... only to find out they must take other means to get it.
Why? Under the 4 founding rights of the EU, you are allowed to buy anything from any other EU country without restriction. So therefore, if you're in Poland and it's only available in the UK on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon cannot refuse to sell it to you. Likewise if you're in Poland and it's available but costs less in another EU country, you are legally entitled to buy it in that country for the lower price. Apple found this out to their cost.
I agree. I usually "pirate" things that are unobtainable by any other means.
Wasn't that the statement that one of the witnesses said? AFAIR, she claimed she couldn't find some 1970's film so was downloading it via P2P. 2 seconds on Google revealed dozens of sellers in the UK selling the DVD for under 5 GBP with free delivery.
While I'm not sure where to stand, here are some of the things I've "pirated":
* Last nights survivor episode.
* Anime fansubs I can't buy anyway.
* Professional software I've been curious to try at home for fun and/or education. (Ended up saying Photoshop indeed is worth the money at work...)
* The entire Friends series. After concluding it's worth it I ended up buying the DVD's.
* Ditto with Sex and the City.
Ignoring the fact that TPB were actually being tried for "assisting in making copyright content available" which is hard to dispute and the prosecution successfully proved.
Crap interfaces seem to be the order of the day amongst many OSS projects mainly due to the fact that the only people involved are coders who have a mindset of "as long as it works, who gives a fuck what it looks like"? Sadly it means that although they can get the full potential out of their project, others can't due to stuff being hidden, overcomplication etc.
GIMP is an excellent example. It is truly powerful but most of it is hidden away in a mish-mash of different menus and counter-intuitive locations. Likewise, much of Windows home use marketshare has been because of an easy to use GUI compared to Linux. It's still the same at the moment because although Linux distros have made quite massive strides towards addressing this, sadly many of the GUI administrative tools don't work or you have the laack of consistency with things like keyboard shortcuts.
It's why I keep getting the feeling that I should leave the country and move elsewhere.
As much as I hate to admit it, France is looking pretty good. They've not forgotten how to tell their government to fuck off. Last time I came back from France, I felt immediately depressed the moment I pulled off the Eurotunnel and onto the motorway. Dirty, shitty stinkhole country pretty much sums up the UK now and that's from someone who served in the Forces.
Spec and numbers aren't everything. Take the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Both have far less RAM than a typical gaming PC yet manage to run the same games at the same resolution with the same detail as PC versions. Sure they won't do 200FPS but when you're playing on a TFT monitor, unless you want lots of shearing in the display, you won't be running at 200FPS either.
Take DX10. Considering how long DX10 has been out, there's not many DX10 games and most people playing them are playing them on DX9 hardware. Unless you want photo realism, DX9 was "good enough" and a top end DX9 card, which you can now buy from eBay for under $40, will whack out sufficient framerates to keep even the most serious gamers happy even though it was discontinued 12-24 months ago.
The first games will take little advantage of the HW, but as time goes on and developers become more acquainted with the platform they create games that take more advantage of those HW features.
That's if they've not got sick of fighting the console and decided to put their development money elsewhere. Developing games costs a lot of money and there's not going to be many software houses happy about having to needlessly waste money on R&D just because Sony decide to make it deliberately hard in order to artificially prolong the life of a console.
Hard skin on those part of the hands is commonplace amongst those who do manual work for a job. I guess there's so many pansies now working in offices that we've forgotten that such things on your hands used to be commonplace. Find anyone who works with hand tools doing a hard manual job and they'll have similar spots on their hands but they're patches of hard skin.
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You got DHCP? You're pretty much guaranteed to get someone else's notice.
Bullshit. In the UK, dynamic IPs are the norm with most ISPs. They retain logs of who gets what at what time.
Interesting that when it's Apple products it's called "thieving". For DVDs, music and other digital content it's just sticking it to the man. Rationalization can free you from any constraints.
I've always called it thieving. I post under the same username on Digg as well if you'd like to verify that fact. And I'm not exactly a Mac fanboi either although I will admit to owning an iPod Classic but that's more to do with the fact the wife bought me it as a present, daft bint.
Fuck off you British tossers. Keep your fucking pound and get the fuck out of the Community.
No problem. We'll take the £billions we pump into European countries with us as well. Good luck surviving without your EU subsidies which we fund. Hope you don't live in Portugal or any of the recent accession countries as we pretty much bankroll your entire country.
I guess that you're another stupid fucker I have to share space with in this country who has missed the point that this legislation contains pretty much what every ISP has in its terms and conditions already.
The last time I played a game using Crossover, it was in DX7, not 9, so I don't know how they can claim that's the case. For those still reading, it was CS:Source and Battlefield 2. Both looked truly horrific compared to playing on Windows and had poor framerates despite being run on a 9600GT.
And then there's Punkbuster support. Until they can get that working 100%, there's no point at all because you end up getting blacklisted so that money you spent buying the game is wasted as your CD Key is unusable on any PB server.
5 hours after the first sale, it appeared on the warez sites. Man that's got to suck. It's a shame the thieving cunts don't realise that with most of the App Store stuff they pirate that it's usually only a one man band behind it.
Excellent. Lets hope they can't make it and it means they have to get rid of them. Due to the current economic crisis, hopefully they can't afford to come up with a replacement.
In the current global climate, there's no point in having nuclear missiles. Those who could strike us are no longer interested and are now allies and those who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us.
Even being 200 more expensive the PS3 is absolutely destroying the 360 in both Japan and Europe.
It's certainly not doing in the UK.
The one thing i love about PS3 haters is that they try to state that each console are sold at a loss.
but there's no way to actually *prove* that with out Sony actually saying so.
OF course there is. It's done all the time. An analyst company buys the product, dismantles it to individual components then prices up the parts list factoring in volume discounts to come up with a price that's not far off. Ford did it in the 60's with British Leylands Mini and conluded that every one of those was being sold at a loss and they weren't far off the actual figure. So if the ability to do it in the 60's was there, you sure as hell can do it now.
I thought Peter Sunde claimed not to have anything to do with the daily running of the site?
So performance is based on something which it is advised to disable for security reasons? Fuck all mention about the fact that Chrome eats RAM like it's gone out of fashion.
I love Steam too, but won't even consider getting most of my games from there because of the price.
In the UK, Dawn of War 2 was available on Steam on release day for £35, before VAT, which bumps it up to something around the £40 mark.
And on the other hand, Lost Planet was on Steam this weekend for £3.99. Just remember though that if Steam are selling it in other EU countries for less, they have to also offer you the right to buy it for that price. I wonder if anyone has checked prices from one EU country to another.
I'd like to see Microsoft stop selling its product to the EU as well - then Linux will gain more support. :)
Because Linux netbooks are doing so well in the EU aren't they? Oh wait, they're being returned 4 times as much as XP. But then again, when you've got someone like Gerry Carr, Canonicals marketing manager saying that it's understandable as Windows XP is a technology that's been around 20 years, then it's no surprise really.
You already can. It's called Steam. You can download it and the game and put it on as many computers as you wish.
I'm in two minds. Steam works brilliantly and in the half a decade I've been using it, it's worked faultlessly over many changes in computer. Can't say the same for EA Store though. I stupidly purchased BF 2142 through the Store. Worked OK for a while but after the last change of PC, I can no longer run the game I've downloaded. It comes up with some "this is associated with another account" bollocks when starting up the game.
With an 8Mbit ADSL connection and unlimited off peak usage, downloading a 3 or 4GB game is no longer an issue, especially if there's a local content backup option like Steam provides. Because I live in the middle of nowhere and my nearest PC game shop is a 50 mile round trip, most of the time, I could probably download the game quicker than going to buy it.
Some companies just don't see their customers outside of US, Canada, UK, and maybe France or Germany - they don't offer shipping outside selected countries. This is a big source of frustration for big part of EU, where there customers willing to pay for stuff... only to find out they must take other means to get it.
Why? Under the 4 founding rights of the EU, you are allowed to buy anything from any other EU country without restriction. So therefore, if you're in Poland and it's only available in the UK on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon cannot refuse to sell it to you. Likewise if you're in Poland and it's available but costs less in another EU country, you are legally entitled to buy it in that country for the lower price. Apple found this out to their cost.
I agree. I usually "pirate" things that are unobtainable by any other means.
Wasn't that the statement that one of the witnesses said? AFAIR, she claimed she couldn't find some 1970's film so was downloading it via P2P. 2 seconds on Google revealed dozens of sellers in the UK selling the DVD for under 5 GBP with free delivery.
While I'm not sure where to stand, here are some of the things I've "pirated":
* Last nights survivor episode. * Anime fansubs I can't buy anyway. * Professional software I've been curious to try at home for fun and/or education. (Ended up saying Photoshop indeed is worth the money at work...) * The entire Friends series. After concluding it's worth it I ended up buying the DVD's. * Ditto with Sex and the City.
So who lost money?
Adobe and their reseller for one.
Ignoring the fact that TPB were actually being tried for "assisting in making copyright content available" which is hard to dispute and the prosecution successfully proved.
GIMP is an excellent example. It is truly powerful but most of it is hidden away in a mish-mash of different menus and counter-intuitive locations. Likewise, much of Windows home use marketshare has been because of an easy to use GUI compared to Linux. It's still the same at the moment because although Linux distros have made quite massive strides towards addressing this, sadly many of the GUI administrative tools don't work or you have the laack of consistency with things like keyboard shortcuts.
It's why I keep getting the feeling that I should leave the country and move elsewhere.
As much as I hate to admit it, France is looking pretty good. They've not forgotten how to tell their government to fuck off. Last time I came back from France, I felt immediately depressed the moment I pulled off the Eurotunnel and onto the motorway. Dirty, shitty stinkhole country pretty much sums up the UK now and that's from someone who served in the Forces.
Remember, that it is now a possible Terrorist Act if you take a photo of a Policeman anywhere, anytime.
Not forgetting all the train spotting enthusiasts who have already been arrested under the Terrorism Act for photographing trains in stations.
Take DX10. Considering how long DX10 has been out, there's not many DX10 games and most people playing them are playing them on DX9 hardware. Unless you want photo realism, DX9 was "good enough" and a top end DX9 card, which you can now buy from eBay for under $40, will whack out sufficient framerates to keep even the most serious gamers happy even though it was discontinued 12-24 months ago.
The first games will take little advantage of the HW, but as time goes on and developers become more acquainted with the platform they create games that take more advantage of those HW features.
That's if they've not got sick of fighting the console and decided to put their development money elsewhere. Developing games costs a lot of money and there's not going to be many software houses happy about having to needlessly waste money on R&D just because Sony decide to make it deliberately hard in order to artificially prolong the life of a console.
Hard skin on those part of the hands is commonplace amongst those who do manual work for a job. I guess there's so many pansies now working in offices that we've forgotten that such things on your hands used to be commonplace. Find anyone who works with hand tools doing a hard manual job and they'll have similar spots on their hands but they're patches of hard skin.