With Steam you can just use Offline mode. I did this when moving house and was without an Internet connection for a few weeks and could happily play Portal, HL2, etc. without any issues. (Not sure about other games which use non-Steam DRM though!)
Also should you want to format, it provides a way to back-up your games to a DVD/similar so you don't have to re-download.
I can't say anything about the other providers as I've never used them.
While that is true, and a good thing to remember, the phone was not claimed to be idiot-proof, nor would I call Dan Simmons an idiot (actually it was quite a smart move to whack the screen on the corner of the tank). So in this instance, that particular saying is not relevant.
It's strange, the human race have conquered the highest mountains on Earth, travelled through space, and explored the deepest oceans, yet making an unbreakable/unsinkable creation of our own? Seemingly impossible!
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I too was playing on my Wii at midnight (Frisbee Golf!) but it's survived the year change, must be a bug on the Wii Menu!
Wait, what? How do you run VNC without a desktop or anything installed? What does VNC render if there's no desktop to show? I think there's obviously a piece of this pie I'm missing...
I may come across as a newbie, but I've been using VNC for years (admittedly mainly in a Windows environment), and have a fairly basic idea of X (had to learn about it to understand how Xming worked) but I have no idea how VNC could work without some kind of desktop running on the server to show to the client. If you can educate me, then I would really appreciate the lesson:o)
That's fine until you have to reboot and X refuses to start because there's no monitor attached, then you have to faff about making a VGA nully-thingy with resistors.
It still boils down to the fact that a back-end should not need a GUI in order to be configured. Imagine if you couldn't configure Apache without a GUI, or MySQL?
Yeah, I once tried to configure MythTV over the Internet from work, that was a fun experiment! I think it took about 30 minutes to render the first screen, lol.
I've seen that mentioned before, but unfortunately (for me) that solution is slooooow. But that may be because my desktop PC is Windows-based and so I have to use putty & xming.
Although I have not tried it (yet), there is a more complete third-party MythTV plugin for XBMC. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/ and it works for Linux, OS X & Windows
Features:
Watch recordings with commercial skipping
Watch Live TV
Schedule recordings
Fanart from tvdb.com, tmdb.com, imdb.com, and Google image seach.
TV Guide
Upcoming Recordings
Supports MythTV 0.21 and 0.22
Move commercial flagging jobs to the front of the queue
So, you should be required to have internet access to purchase and play a singleplayer game that you purchased in a brick and mortar store?
In ten years, every version of Quake and Doom that I own will still work.
I won't be able to play Portal.
Not true. Steam allow you to make backups of your games (something I can't do with most of the games I buy from brick and mortar shops) and restore them, then play in off-line mode which never connects to the Steam servers. I know this because when I moved house, and didn't have the Internet for two weeks, I re-played through Half-Life 2 which I'd bought through Steam.
Steam is not perfect*, but so long as there's off-line mode you can still be playing Portal in ten years time
* The sooner they add the ability to transfer non-duplicate games to other accounts the better!
From TFS:
"Google now owns the idea of having a giant search box in the middle of the page, with two big buttons underneath and several small links nearby"
The altavista page you linked to does not have "two big buttons underneath", it has one button to the right, therefore it cannot be considered as "prior art"
I prefer physical presents (CDs) today than things that are virtual (MP3s) for my birthday, and in 16 years time, virtual presents may be the norm, and at that time physical presents would be really nice.
Be aware that a lot of right wing New Zealanders constantly talk the country down because it doesn't conform to their vision of a racist free market paradise.
Just for clarity, do you mean "racist-free market paradise" or "racist free-market paradise"?
OK it's not exactly like-for-like, but you can listen to an insane amount of music using Spotify - it's not a download service, but you can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, and it's all ad-funded. I've not looked back since I signed up (I'm just waiting for Android & Sonos versions!)
"The average user is more than willing to pay more money for hobbled music because of user interface, ease of use, and marketing."
The bit that is missing is "... until they try to move their music to another PC/non-iPod/Xbox/MP3 Hi-Fi/iTunes 2/whatever and find out they're not allowed"
If Steam's authentication server went down, you could still use Offline mode, and if you want hard copies, then just right-click on any Steam game in the menu and select "Backup game files"
"Until publishers do more to welcome their legitimate customers as friends instead of treating them as potential pirates, piracy will continue to eat at profits and morale."
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"If any service is stopped, we will create a patch for the game so that the core game play will not be affected."
If Ubisoft can create an "offline" patch, then so can crackers, and I'll bet they do a better job of it too.
I didn't know that (evidently I wasn't off-line long enough to experience this), thanks for the info!
With Steam you can just use Offline mode. I did this when moving house and was without an Internet connection for a few weeks and could happily play Portal, HL2, etc. without any issues. (Not sure about other games which use non-Steam DRM though!)
Also should you want to format, it provides a way to back-up your games to a DVD/similar so you don't have to re-download.
I can't say anything about the other providers as I've never used them.
While that is true, and a good thing to remember, the phone was not claimed to be idiot-proof, nor would I call Dan Simmons an idiot (actually it was quite a smart move to whack the screen on the corner of the tank). So in this instance, that particular saying is not relevant.
It's strange, the human race have conquered the highest mountains on Earth, travelled through space, and explored the deepest oceans, yet making an unbreakable/unsinkable creation of our own? Seemingly impossible!
I too was playing on my Wii at midnight (Frisbee Golf!) but it's survived the year change, must be a bug on the Wii Menu!
Wait, what? How do you run VNC without a desktop or anything installed? What does VNC render if there's no desktop to show? I think there's obviously a piece of this pie I'm missing...
I may come across as a newbie, but I've been using VNC for years (admittedly mainly in a Windows environment), and have a fairly basic idea of X (had to learn about it to understand how Xming worked) but I have no idea how VNC could work without some kind of desktop running on the server to show to the client. If you can educate me, then I would really appreciate the lesson :o)
That's fine until you have to reboot and X refuses to start because there's no monitor attached, then you have to faff about making a VGA nully-thingy with resistors.
It still boils down to the fact that a back-end should not need a GUI in order to be configured. Imagine if you couldn't configure Apache without a GUI, or MySQL?
Yeah, I once tried to configure MythTV over the Internet from work, that was a fun experiment! I think it took about 30 minutes to render the first screen, lol.
I've seen that mentioned before, but unfortunately (for me) that solution is slooooow. But that may be because my desktop PC is Windows-based and so I have to use putty & xming.
You're forgetting the biggest gripe - having to run X on a backend-only server just so that it can be configured
Although I have not tried it (yet), there is a more complete third-party MythTV plugin for XBMC. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/ and it works for Linux, OS X & Windows
Features:
(Why are <li>'s double line spaced?)
So, you should be required to have internet access to purchase and play a singleplayer game that you purchased in a brick and mortar store?
In ten years, every version of Quake and Doom that I own will still work.
I won't be able to play Portal.
Not true. Steam allow you to make backups of your games (something I can't do with most of the games I buy from brick and mortar shops) and restore them, then play in off-line mode which never connects to the Steam servers. I know this because when I moved house, and didn't have the Internet for two weeks, I re-played through Half-Life 2 which I'd bought through Steam.
Steam is not perfect*, but so long as there's off-line mode you can still be playing Portal in ten years time
* The sooner they add the ability to transfer non-duplicate games to other accounts the better!
Epic failure in the summary?
Sorry!
From TFS: "Google now owns the idea of having a giant search box in the middle of the page, with two big buttons underneath and several small links nearby"
The altavista page you linked to does not have "two big buttons underneath", it has one button to the right, therefore it cannot be considered as "prior art"
I prefer physical presents (CDs) today than things that are virtual (MP3s) for my birthday, and in 16 years time, virtual presents may be the norm, and at that time physical presents would be really nice.
based upon her attitude, is that the only person she could blame then is herself.
Oh my, that sums it up perfectly doesn't it? "Kids these days" seem to have forgotten what responsibility is, or how to take it.
Be aware that a lot of right wing New Zealanders constantly talk the country down because it doesn't conform to their vision of a racist free market paradise.
Just for clarity, do you mean "racist-free market paradise" or "racist free-market paradise"?
OK it's not exactly like-for-like, but you can listen to an insane amount of music using Spotify - it's not a download service, but you can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, and it's all ad-funded. I've not looked back since I signed up (I'm just waiting for Android & Sonos versions!)
We all knew they were going to make a new console, the big news is that it's going to be called the PS4! I don't think anyone saw that coming!
Fair enough, but Little_Professor wasn't arguing updates vs updates :o)
That's a little different as you are choosing to install Firefox, where as IE8 is cited as a "Critical Windows Update"
Wii uses ffmpeg??!
"The average user is more than willing to pay more money for hobbled music because of user interface, ease of use, and marketing."
The bit that is missing is "... until they try to move their music to another PC/non-iPod/Xbox/MP3 Hi-Fi/iTunes 2/whatever and find out they're not allowed"
If Steam's authentication server went down, you could still use Offline mode, and if you want hard copies, then just right-click on any Steam game in the menu and select "Backup game files"
Job done.
"Until publishers do more to welcome their legitimate customers as friends instead of treating them as potential pirates, piracy will continue to eat at profits and morale."