I saw a box for this on a shelf in my local Game store. The bottom right of the front of the box says, in red bold letters in a big red circle "This game requires a constant internet connection for play."
They knew exactly what they were buying. That makes them idiots for buying it, but it doesn't mean UbiSoft should get away with it. Their tech failed, and the product became useless. That's what I call "unfit for purpose."
I never got far in Deus Ex 2, but I really would have liked to. 7 minute level loads on a PC which was top-of-the-range at the time is just outrageous.
Still, you've mentioned Deus Ex, and now I'm going to have to hunt for the installation disk...
I go out to a rock night-club, get hammered, and pretend I'm playing the game. As long as you're not the drummer, you look just like everyone else there.
So this is something like approximate to the largest natural gas tanker in the world releasing it's entire load into the air about 90 times over per year.
Some clever soul found out which files the cdcheck looks for in some copy protections and put them in an iso, then messed around with the internal file structure to make it look like a 700mb / 4.7gb image when it was in fact only a 3mb file.
I guess it's not trivial from an end user perspective, until someone more intelligent than you or I has done the legwork.
I've lent the Worms code book to a friend, though!:D
I don't consider this a violation because a) I'm just place/format shifting
FILTHY PIRATE!
You should purchase one copy for each medium you want to view the media with! And another when you can't use it through wear and tear! AND AGAIN WHEN THE VIEWING DEVICE BREAKS!
*Wanders off to find more bolivian marching powder / ladies of questionable morality.
The trouble is that "playground piracy" as you call it is also trivially bypassed these days. Daemon Tools, a mini-image, and your local media check is circumvented. Or a NOCD crack. Or a memory-resident trainer. All of which are kilobytes in size (mini-images usually around the 2-3MB mark) which on today's connections is a few seconds of work. You can try 10 different schemes in under half an hour until one works. It's cost- and time- effective.
If the fan fails to spin up and the gfx overheats, the ambient temp in the case rises. Without good airflow it would be easy for an overheating gfx card to seriously affect the CPU heatsink's heat dispersion properties. An ambient temp of 100f means your cpu will be that temperature at least. I don't know the physics, but my "seat of my pants" maths tells me that you'll add 50% onto that temperature from the cpu, bringing up the core temp to almost 150f / 60c. My old prescott ran at that temperature, and it wasn't pleasant.
Plus, aren't most tower cases built with the gfx directly underneath the CPU? I never understood why the hottest component would be lowest in the case...
The shadows implemented with v3 crippled WoW graphics performance. I have an C2Q Q6600@2.8GHz, 4GB DDRII RAM, 8800gtx running everything at max settings except shadows (blob only), 1920x1200 with min 60fps. If I turn shadows up one level I get 40 fps, full shadows bring the thing to a crawl even in open areas like The Shimmering Flats.
I can easily see the gfx being a bottleneck with the shadows up, but other than that I agree. Loading the other players in Dala is horrid.
The EVGA tool has been used to manually set fan speed to 77% to compensate. I see no reason for other low-level customisation tools (RivaTuner etc) to not behave in the same way.
If you get a performance boost from this new driver, download RivaTuner or a similar tool and manually set the fan speed for gaming.
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Ever seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? You'll notice that the first thing that monkey does with the bone is beat on a rock. What does he beat on next? Another monkey.
Saying as much to other people is totally alien, though, and often gets you in trouble. Ever heard of a fairytale where the prince falls in love with the ugly sister? A case of "Love at first sight" with a person who looks like they've been pushed head-first into the corner of a cab twelve times?
First impressions are important. Ask any salesman.
It might be true (or it might not) for professional musicians, but how is an author, or an artist of the drawing/painting/photographer variety, or a software developer supposed to make a living in those ways?
I really wish people would stop auto-repeating this line. It might be true (or it might not) for a media creator to have their business model propped up by the law, but how is an IT worker or an accountant, mechanic, or teacher supposed to make a living in those ways?
Boy, I sure wish my choice of career was backed up by draconian enforcement of 100 year old laws based on a technologically and educationally outdated age. God forbid a "content creator" should have to do something else if their products don't sell.
(By the way, if people are willing to buy buy a copied disk of your product for $2 in a Thai market, maybe they should reconsider your pricing structure. It's obviously not worth what you think it's worth, and you don't get to pick the price I pay. Before the internet, you'd just go bust like every other business with a product too overpriced for the market.)
N.B. Any instance of the word "you" is not directed personally at the parent, just as a way of saying "someone other than myself, as I'm not in that situation."
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I saw a box for this on a shelf in my local Game store. The bottom right of the front of the box says, in red bold letters in a big red circle "This game requires a constant internet connection for play."
They knew exactly what they were buying. That makes them idiots for buying it, but it doesn't mean UbiSoft should get away with it. Their tech failed, and the product became useless. That's what I call "unfit for purpose."
I never got far in Deus Ex 2, but I really would have liked to. 7 minute level loads on a PC which was top-of-the-range at the time is just outrageous.
Still, you've mentioned Deus Ex, and now I'm going to have to hunt for the installation disk...
I've made up my own Guitar Hero-style game.
I go out to a rock night-club, get hammered, and pretend I'm playing the game. As long as you're not the drummer, you look just like everyone else there.
Nobody likes the drummer.
I want Tarantino to smuggle a knife into the fight, because there is absolutely NO WAY Boll should be allowed to continue breathing unaided.
FTFY.
Yes yes, but we're all past that long and short ton business. This is metric!
Poseidon needs to lay off the Shrimp Masala.
So this is something like approximate to the largest natural gas tanker in the world releasing it's entire load into the air about 90 times over per year.
Indeed. Thanks for pointing out that it's metric tonnes, silly American tons.
Don't forget; Lazy as well as backward.
So we need a huge canopy to collect all the methane in...
Quick! Someone call the Scientologists!
Some clever soul found out which files the cdcheck looks for in some copy protections and put them in an iso, then messed around with the internal file structure to make it look like a 700mb / 4.7gb image when it was in fact only a 3mb file.
:D
I guess it's not trivial from an end user perspective, until someone more intelligent than you or I has done the legwork.
I've lent the Worms code book to a friend, though!
I don't consider this a violation because a) I'm just place/format shifting
FILTHY PIRATE!
You should purchase one copy for each medium you want to view the media with! And another when you can't use it through wear and tear! AND AGAIN WHEN THE VIEWING DEVICE BREAKS!
*Wanders off to find more bolivian marching powder / ladies of questionable morality.
The trouble is that "playground piracy" as you call it is also trivially bypassed these days. Daemon Tools, a mini-image, and your local media check is circumvented. Or a NOCD crack. Or a memory-resident trainer. All of which are kilobytes in size (mini-images usually around the 2-3MB mark) which on today's connections is a few seconds of work. You can try 10 different schemes in under half an hour until one works. It's cost- and time- effective.
If the fan fails to spin up and the gfx overheats, the ambient temp in the case rises. Without good airflow it would be easy for an overheating gfx card to seriously affect the CPU heatsink's heat dispersion properties. An ambient temp of 100f means your cpu will be that temperature at least. I don't know the physics, but my "seat of my pants" maths tells me that you'll add 50% onto that temperature from the cpu, bringing up the core temp to almost 150f / 60c. My old prescott ran at that temperature, and it wasn't pleasant.
Plus, aren't most tower cases built with the gfx directly underneath the CPU? I never understood why the hottest component would be lowest in the case...
The shadows implemented with v3 crippled WoW graphics performance. I have an C2Q Q6600@2.8GHz, 4GB DDRII RAM, 8800gtx running everything at max settings except shadows (blob only), 1920x1200 with min 60fps. If I turn shadows up one level I get 40 fps, full shadows bring the thing to a crawl even in open areas like The Shimmering Flats.
I can easily see the gfx being a bottleneck with the shadows up, but other than that I agree. Loading the other players in Dala is horrid.
The EVGA tool has been used to manually set fan speed to 77% to compensate. I see no reason for other low-level customisation tools (RivaTuner etc) to not behave in the same way.
If you get a performance boost from this new driver, download RivaTuner or a similar tool and manually set the fan speed for gaming.
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Now let me hear you say way-oh!
So don't tell them before hand. When asked for a verdict, just say "Not guilty."
What is the judge going to do? Say "Sorry, that's the wrong answer." Last time I checked, that wasn't his job.
To quote the GP, "Juries are the reason draconian laws aren't enforced."
Ever seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? You'll notice that the first thing that monkey does with the bone is beat on a rock. What does he beat on next? Another monkey.
"Allegory"
Exactly.
Saying as much to other people is totally alien, though, and often gets you in trouble. Ever heard of a fairytale where the prince falls in love with the ugly sister? A case of "Love at first sight" with a person who looks like they've been pushed head-first into the corner of a cab twelve times?
First impressions are important. Ask any salesman.
Awww, troll mod? Someone thinks that artists, devs, and musicians are entitled to make a profit from their works!
Guess what! If people ain't buying it, it's not worth what you're charging to those people. Find a new market, or GTFO (find a new career).
It might be true (or it might not) for professional musicians, but how is an author, or an artist of the drawing/painting/photographer variety, or a software developer supposed to make a living in those ways? I really wish people would stop auto-repeating this line. It might be true (or it might not) for a media creator to have their business model propped up by the law, but how is an IT worker or an accountant, mechanic, or teacher supposed to make a living in those ways?
Boy, I sure wish my choice of career was backed up by draconian enforcement of 100 year old laws based on a technologically and educationally outdated age. God forbid a "content creator" should have to do something else if their products don't sell.
(By the way, if people are willing to buy buy a copied disk of your product for $2 in a Thai market, maybe they should reconsider your pricing structure. It's obviously not worth what you think it's worth, and you don't get to pick the price I pay. Before the internet, you'd just go bust like every other business with a product too overpriced for the market.)
N.B. Any instance of the word "you" is not directed personally at the parent, just as a way of saying "someone other than myself, as I'm not in that situation."
In my day it was symbiotics!
That's right! We had to do each others work! You wipper-snappers have it easy...
Pfff! The guy had no excuse!
Yeah, but because you searched for it, you now have shown an interest.
*Knock knock*