I'd rather have a submission rewritten or denied than have horribly biased or even misleading summaries crop up on the main page.
This. My number one complaint about slashdot is all the misleading headlines and summaries.
I'm not to worried about biased summaries as much, to an extent... after all we're a tech/nerd crowd and if we released certain high-rated-insightful comments out into the general public many (most?) of them would be perceived as "very biased" as well.
after this lawsuit is over, is go over to the Bethesda forums and start a thread asking who is excited for "that new 'SCROLLS' game" coming out soon.;-P
AFAIK the only games NOT playable in Steam offline (assuming your games & steam were up to date the last time you were connected to the internet with steam running) are games that have their own DRM protections that require internet even during single player. i think it was ubisoft that did this with a bunch of their games. I don't remember now, i never bothered to even look at them because of their douchebaggery.
Also steam warns you that these games use their own protection and may require an internet connection, which is good of them to do.
games that were patching during your last connection and did not finish will not run in offline mode
steam also used to require that you go into offline mode manually before starting up in offline mode, but they no longer require this. if no internet connection is found, it will automatically go into offline mode (after a warning "you are in offline mode" message)
im having trouble reading parents post as i was just outside staring at the bright thing in the sky. could someone type it in all caps to make it easier for me to read?
check again, you were undoubtedly looking at 5770s, not the 5870s. and then that is correct, 5770 -> 6870. which as noted, doesn't make a lot of sense when the 5870 performs better.
they should have really just started their base line at the 6660, obviously...
Why so much worship, hatred, and jealousy over this?
Money. Facebook logs the most human hours of any social website, and two months ago passed Google in the US. Not sure where it ranks globally right now.
Also in regards to Zuckerberg's opinion: I doubt it has to do with the creators having difficulty wrapping their heads' around a concept. It's more likely that no one wants to see a movie about somebody who "might build something because they like building things." That and the movie-makers would much rather wrap their hands around a boat-load of money.
I don't know much about PayPal, but wouldn't that be a viable option instead of keeping say... 600,000 pounds in PayPal?
from Notch's Blog:
Just to clear things up: I withdraw everything from paypal every week. They limited my account just as sales started spiking, so this money has accumulated since they limited the account.
from minecraft.net stats:
In the last 24 hours, 11837 people registered, and 4485 people bought the game.
4485*9.95 Euro = 44625.75. thats in 24 hours. it would only take about 2 weeks to accumulate over 600k.
To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
So whether this counts as stealing all really comes down to whether we are going to allow intellectual property to be a type of property. Sounds like and interesting debate but it is still a complete waste of time.
I agree with the general emphasis and message of your post. However, you failed to notice that "take" and "copy" are two different words with different definitions.
burn the clothes, but keep wearing the helmet. it would be a great defense. "if i had just robbed the bank as dressed as vader i wouldn't be stupid enough to keep wearing the helmet!"
um not only did u not read the article, you didn't even read summary, but for a FP not surprising. They wrote THIS version of the game to run on the source engine.;)
but just as a note: when you license a game engine it's not required that you must charge money for the products you create with said engine. obviously it would be sorta stupid because you do have to pay for the license, but you know, maybe recoup those fees by asking for donations? just sayin'
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I'd rather have a submission rewritten or denied than have horribly biased or even misleading summaries crop up on the main page.
This. My number one complaint about slashdot is all the misleading headlines and summaries.
I'm not to worried about biased summaries as much, to an extent... after all we're a tech/nerd crowd and if we released certain high-rated-insightful comments out into the general public many (most?) of them would be perceived as "very biased" as well.
It wuz anyway.
after this lawsuit is over, is go over to the Bethesda forums and start a thread asking who is excited for "that new 'SCROLLS' game" coming out soon. ;-P
I am sure that some idiot here will mention patents too. (Oh look, it was me!)
hahahaha ROFLMAO, many times.
You saw Shark Tale?
I am truly sorry for your loss.
i hate waking up on mondays only to realize that 30x100,000 = 30,000,000...
wait no it doesn't. today's ganna be a good day after all!
now that is some dry humor...
Saw some ladies laying out on towels today, glad to see it's not just the internet nerds who celebrate towel day.
I'm just disappointed that you didn't get first post, Dave.
I'm at home on my computer.
slashdot you owe me like 20 billion dollars now btw, i know how much this stuff is worth cause i read about it on slashdot.
AFAIK the only games NOT playable in Steam offline (assuming your games & steam were up to date the last time you were connected to the internet with steam running) are games that have their own DRM protections that require internet even during single player. i think it was ubisoft that did this with a bunch of their games. I don't remember now, i never bothered to even look at them because of their douchebaggery.
Also steam warns you that these games use their own protection and may require an internet connection, which is good of them to do.
games that were patching during your last connection and did not finish will not run in offline mode
steam also used to require that you go into offline mode manually before starting up in offline mode, but they no longer require this. if no internet connection is found, it will automatically go into offline mode (after a warning "you are in offline mode" message)
im having trouble reading parents post as i was just outside staring at the bright thing in the sky. could someone type it in all caps to make it easier for me to read?
they get a complete LOC on a single strand of hair.,,
or rather, as soon as it starts to work, and stops terrorist attacks...
well then it stops working, doesn't it?
No it's more like getting in your car and driving to McDonalds and complaining that the Big Mac is not on the value menu.
I tried that it didn't catch on...
check again, you were undoubtedly looking at 5770s, not the 5870s. and then that is correct, 5770 -> 6870. which as noted, doesn't make a lot of sense when the 5870 performs better.
they should have really just started their base line at the 6660, obviously...
Why so much worship, hatred, and jealousy over this?
Money. Facebook logs the most human hours of any social website, and two months ago passed Google in the US. Not sure where it ranks globally right now.
Also in regards to Zuckerberg's opinion: I doubt it has to do with the creators having difficulty wrapping their heads' around a concept. It's more likely that no one wants to see a movie about somebody who "might build something because they like building things." That and the movie-makers would much rather wrap their hands around a boat-load of money.
I don't know much about PayPal, but wouldn't that be a viable option instead of keeping say... 600,000 pounds in PayPal?
from Notch's Blog:
Just to clear things up: I withdraw everything from paypal every week. They limited my account just as sales started spiking, so this money has accumulated since they limited the account.
from minecraft.net stats:
In the last 24 hours, 11837 people registered, and 4485 people bought the game.
4485*9.95 Euro = 44625.75. thats in 24 hours. it would only take about 2 weeks to accumulate over 600k.
shuffle and flow?
To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
So whether this counts as stealing all really comes down to whether we are going to allow intellectual property to be a type of property. Sounds like and interesting debate but it is still a complete waste of time.
I agree with the general emphasis and message of your post. However, you failed to notice that "take" and "copy" are two different words with different definitions.
Except that they skip right to the second part.
burn the clothes, but keep wearing the helmet. it would be a great defense. "if i had just robbed the bank as dressed as vader i wouldn't be stupid enough to keep wearing the helmet!"
um not only did u not read the article, you didn't even read summary, but for a FP not surprising. They wrote THIS version of the game to run on the source engine. ;)
but just as a note: when you license a game engine it's not required that you must charge money for the products you create with said engine. obviously it would be sorta stupid because you do have to pay for the license, but you know, maybe recoup those fees by asking for donations? just sayin'
it's full of lies, don't believe it!