The overly high prices in Europe (Which I'm assuming your from, based on the money-type shown in the post) is something that Valve did a while back. No one has gotten an answer from them, but in the US end of things, the prices are fairly decent.
PC side, cheats are controlled by the hosting server, and can only be turned on/off (sv_cheats 1/0) by an administrator of the server. If it's 0, NO client side console commands marked as 'cheats' can be used.
Other then that SecureROM will eat activation tokens if it detects hardware changes, and no one has given out information on what defines a "hardware change'. People have said they lost tokens just by unplugging/plugging in an external hard drive, upgrading RAM, etc.
It's quite easy to eat a full series of install tokens if your the unlucky sap whose system does not play nicely with SecureROM.
From what I remember reading on the Steam forums, the Still Alive expansion is something that will be available to PCs in a different form. Since Microsoft insists on charging for any updates, Valve's trying to get the XBox owners a decent bang for their buck.
I'm noticing something similar with Youtube and such. It's downloading streaming video a hell of a lot slower, and I keep having to wait for another chunk to download.
Doesn't necessarily have to be the email itself.
Assuming the account is used solely for password dumps, they probably have a record somewhere of emails sent to the account, and perhaps the subject line?
Is that the pot calling the kettle black?
If Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to steamroll their way to the front, I find it incredibly hypocritical of them to call someone else out on a counter.
I thought about the whole "They won't do it if they know it's happening" factor. Thing is. Do you really want those people who will simply hide it when they know it's being recorded in power?
Why not reveal their true colors if it makes the police force, etc, a better place? All it takes is one non-recorded instance, and they'd go back to their normal tactics.
Agreed.
Any time that people in power are in control of a situation, there HAS to be protection from abuse. Non-consenting recording of the situation, WITHOUT them aware of it, should be acceptable, if only to actually show that they will do it, given the opportunity.
As for recordings in civilian on civilian: That's going to be a gray area, no matter what, depending on the situation. But, again. Anything against legal authority such as cops, it should be allowed, period.
Yes, but your smarter then the average Joe, I'd guess. Lot of parents have no clue what anything looks like, other then the vague description. Remember, this is the TV/Videogame/Myspace generation of kids, with a lot less parental involvement then should be there. D:
Wow, I'm surprised that actually went through, if only because the court systems seem so broken. Hopefully, other manufacturers will get the hint and start changing their plans. I could just see this going after other manufacturers too, who insist on using smaller sizes for their measurements to seem bigger.
If there is space for it, even simply having a simple "overwrite" autosave would be nice. Die without saving your game recently? You can reload from the saved file, and possibly change your choice, or reload from a recent autosave that's much closer to where you were.
It shouldn't take much more space than a standard save, and would allow you to bring it back to it if your game were to suddenly crash/shutdown/various failures.
Having it overwrite YOUR save files is a bad thing. Having an automatic save system that is used as a temporary backup type save, however, can be a very GOOD thing when implemented properly. The extra space it uses would probably be worth the potential redundancy, especially when it saves you an hour of work because you didn't save, and the game crashed (Computer games especially).
Think about it. Buying it separately is what? 80 dollars for three games?
Buying it in the pack is 45-50 dollars. So, 30 dollar discount. And BONUS! Look, you get two more games that flesh out the background. If you already own them, oh well, it's a freebie regardless. If you don't? Congrats, two free games that you will likely enjoy.
Your not paying for the same stuff a second time, since, factor in those two games into the cost individually (100ish dollars). Freebies, and you people whine.
Bullshit. They offer you freebies and you people get pissed.
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The overly high prices in Europe (Which I'm assuming your from, based on the money-type shown in the post) is something that Valve did a while back. No one has gotten an answer from them, but in the US end of things, the prices are fairly decent.
PC side, cheats are controlled by the hosting server, and can only be turned on/off (sv_cheats 1/0) by an administrator of the server. If it's 0, NO client side console commands marked as 'cheats' can be used.
Other then that SecureROM will eat activation tokens if it detects hardware changes, and no one has given out information on what defines a "hardware change'. People have said they lost tokens just by unplugging/plugging in an external hard drive, upgrading RAM, etc. It's quite easy to eat a full series of install tokens if your the unlucky sap whose system does not play nicely with SecureROM.
From what I remember reading on the Steam forums, the Still Alive expansion is something that will be available to PCs in a different form. Since Microsoft insists on charging for any updates, Valve's trying to get the XBox owners a decent bang for their buck.
Valve is currently still private, so they can damn well do whatever they please in regards to the end of Steam.
From The Pirate Bay's Blog:
"(La Baia means The Bay in Italian)"
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/06/16/25FE-stupid-users-part-3-admins_1.html Printer friendly version, rather then 7 pages.
I'm noticing something similar with Youtube and such. It's downloading streaming video a hell of a lot slower, and I keep having to wait for another chunk to download.
So, RIAA and friends hand over 2-3 million dollars to their favorite Congress-Critter. Now he happily obeys his new corporate overlords.
Nimp.org link, yet again.
Nimp.org link. Do not touch.
Doesn't necessarily have to be the email itself. Assuming the account is used solely for password dumps, they probably have a record somewhere of emails sent to the account, and perhaps the subject line?
So... Comcast is saying that 5% of its customers aren't customers at all?
They did say ALL afterall.
Is that the pot calling the kettle black? If Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to steamroll their way to the front, I find it incredibly hypocritical of them to call someone else out on a counter.
I thought about the whole "They won't do it if they know it's happening" factor. Thing is. Do you really want those people who will simply hide it when they know it's being recorded in power?
Why not reveal their true colors if it makes the police force, etc, a better place? All it takes is one non-recorded instance, and they'd go back to their normal tactics.
Agreed. Any time that people in power are in control of a situation, there HAS to be protection from abuse. Non-consenting recording of the situation, WITHOUT them aware of it, should be acceptable, if only to actually show that they will do it, given the opportunity. As for recordings in civilian on civilian: That's going to be a gray area, no matter what, depending on the situation. But, again. Anything against legal authority such as cops, it should be allowed, period.
Yes, but your smarter then the average Joe, I'd guess. Lot of parents have no clue what anything looks like, other then the vague description. Remember, this is the TV/Videogame/Myspace generation of kids, with a lot less parental involvement then should be there. D:
Wow, I'm surprised that actually went through, if only because the court systems seem so broken. Hopefully, other manufacturers will get the hint and start changing their plans. I could just see this going after other manufacturers too, who insist on using smaller sizes for their measurements to seem bigger.
Actually, both of them do have a working pause. Just enable console, and bring it up. Pauses all single player games in Source.
Once again, the music industry hammers down people, even when they have no legal standing in the country. Pretty pathetic.
Then, when one drive kicks the bucket, now what? You've now got an irreplaceable FAILED drive within a RAID array. Sounds good, no?
Try Portal, the Valve game released October 10th.
If there is space for it, even simply having a simple "overwrite" autosave would be nice. Die without saving your game recently? You can reload from the saved file, and possibly change your choice, or reload from a recent autosave that's much closer to where you were.
It shouldn't take much more space than a standard save, and would allow you to bring it back to it if your game were to suddenly crash/shutdown/various failures.
Having it overwrite YOUR save files is a bad thing. Having an automatic save system that is used as a temporary backup type save, however, can be a very GOOD thing when implemented properly. The extra space it uses would probably be worth the potential redundancy, especially when it saves you an hour of work because you didn't save, and the game crashed (Computer games especially).
Think about it. Buying it separately is what? 80 dollars for three games? Buying it in the pack is 45-50 dollars. So, 30 dollar discount. And BONUS! Look, you get two more games that flesh out the background. If you already own them, oh well, it's a freebie regardless. If you don't? Congrats, two free games that you will likely enjoy. Your not paying for the same stuff a second time, since, factor in those two games into the cost individually (100ish dollars). Freebies, and you people whine. Bullshit. They offer you freebies and you people get pissed.