the thing is i dont have any problem with drm. use as much drm as you want. but that drm should not interfere with my gameplay. so i dont necessarily want the drm to be removed. i just want the game to work without hassle. the best way to acheive that target is thepiratebay.org. also, if i pirate my game, does that also not show my non-support? why do i have to buy a competitor's product to show this?
but those other options don't allow me to do what i want to do: play the game. its like a tattered old man stranded in a desert asks you for water and you tell him, "well you know you could have something other than water." completely irrelevant and useless.
the major flaw in your plan is this: i want to PLAY the fucking game and i want to play it WITHOUT the drm. if there is an easy way of completing this objective of mine, i will follow it. i simply dont CARE about fighting this 'ddrms'. i dont care about open source/open source games/open source programmers/linux/rms. the courses of action you advise do not help because i wont be able to play the game i want to play. will all you people who keep chanting 'dont buy, dont pirate' understand this?
no i think its the best response. it says, "if you will act like an asshole, i will also act like an asshole." and that is good. if someone cons you out of 60 bux, you should con them out of 120 bux.
symbian is also open source. but all the device specific drivers are closed. so you have to make your own device to actually use completely open symbian on it.
i don't think iphone firmware is based on osx. even if it shares the kernel (which i doubt) the performance of applications cannot be presumed to be same. for example, look at android and maemo. both are based on linux but are very very wildly different from ubuntu on your desktop. even though flash sucks on ubuntu, maemo (n900) handles it quite well. you can go to any flash video website and the video will play with all the features you have on a pc. it even runs newgrounds games. not sure about android cause i haven't used it.
ok so you don't want flash on your phone. fine, fine. but consider the possibility that someone else might want to have it. so what you are saying is that nobody should be allowed to run flash on THEIR phones just because you don't like it? right? move on, folks! this one is beyond hope!
actually, you should use the much more powerful/better browser opera mobile on symbian and win mobile. they are true browsers which can even replace the inbuilt browser as default.
opera mobile on my e71 gets a full 100/100 on the acid3 test. i was very surprised. but guess what, it just can't handle slashdot. for that, i have to use opera mini. opera mini is a proxified access to the net thing, it is not a real browser. it was meant for cheap dumbphones that can run java apps but don't have enough power for actually rendering today's webpages. opera mobile is a real, full fledged browser. it even supports flash on win mobile, though i have never used a win phone.
actually, opera mobile on my e71 gets a full 100/100 on the acid3 test. i was very surprised. but guess what, it just can't handle slashdot. for that, i have to use opera mini. opera mini is a proxified access to the net thing, it is not a real browser. it was meant for cheap dumbphones that can run java apps but don't have enough power for actually rendering today's webpages. opera mobile is a real, full fledged browser. it even supports flash on win mobile, though i have never used a win phone.
That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD
How creative was that really? Medal of Honor did the dramatic war sim first, and it was at least as good. I never understood why CoD got all the attention.
maybe that's because you never played it properly? i find it very exhilarating and exciting. and graphics do matter. the photorealism increases enjoyment. also the bomber level in which you drop bobs from above is very very similar to what happens in real life. most people won't be able to tell apart a real video from a real bomber airplane and mw gameplay. medal of honor just did not have the graphics needed to pull off a good fps. so, contrary to your thinking, mw was creative. they made a game that did something no other game did well. i haven't played mw2 though.
i looked at my old palm. Actually its not palm. Its a handspring visor. It does not have wireless. Only connections are the dock and irda. I remember it was quite a marvel when i got it. I used to think 'OMG! 20 million operations per second! In my hand!'. I have an app loaded on it that even overclocks the cpu to 24mhz. I don't think you can do that on any of today's device
i have a w810i here with me, it does not rotate even pictures automatically because it does not have an accelerometer. There is no option to rotate video that i can find. My c510 turns pictures the right way but not videos. Anyway one replier has written that iphone records in portrait. So it must be that.
i have it with me. kept in my old drawer. even though its b/w touchscreen is old, and the cpu is 21Mhz, it was still very good. it had all the customizability my e71 has and had a very painless ui. indeed, it was better than the s60 ui in 5800. i have never used the pre because its cdma, there's no decent cdma network here. and of course palm did not launch it outside the us.
i thought it was apple zealots who started the whole evangelizing thing. not linux/ms users. oops, i'm sorry, don't let facts get in the way of you sucking jobs' dick. please continue.
Apple is not really, in spirit, a tech company at all, or rather, its a unique sort of tech company, its a tech company in the tradition of Walt Disney 1955.
Apple is the world's most successful tech company.
So it is always thinking, how to use its tech position to control what customers do, think and read.
Apple has never, once, told me what to think, and I own plenty of Apple kit, so I speak with actual, first-hand experience. This is in stark contrast to the Free Software types who never tire of telling me to fear Apple because Apple wants to control everything I do. The current groupthink nonsense is that I'm supposed to boycott h.264 in favor of an inferior codec, and that I'm supposed to shun the iPad because... Well, the because here is never quite coherent. It's something along the lines of Apple will control my every thought, charge me for everything I do on it, and somehow it will prevent me from programming for it.
I read that you cannot activate the iPad from Linux. Now, why would that be, exactly....? Its because open source is the enemy for Apple, even more than for MS, because it represents intellectual freedom.
Apple hosts, contributes to, and has created, *tons* of Open Source projects. The reason they don't support Linux is because too few people use it.
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the thing is i dont have any problem with drm. use as much drm as you want. but that drm should not interfere with my gameplay. so i dont necessarily want the drm to be removed. i just want the game to work without hassle. the best way to acheive that target is thepiratebay.org.
also, if i pirate my game, does that also not show my non-support? why do i have to buy a competitor's product to show this?
i dont think they can sue me for 20000 bux over a 50 bux game. if they do that i will sue them for a million bux over selling me a broken game.
i think the world would be a much better place if everyone was totally selfish. think about it.
but those other options don't allow me to do what i want to do: play the game. its like a tattered old man stranded in a desert asks you for water and you tell him, "well you know you could have something other than water." completely irrelevant and useless.
the major flaw in your plan is this:
i want to PLAY the fucking game and i want to play it WITHOUT the drm. if there is an easy way of completing this objective of mine, i will follow it. i simply dont CARE about fighting this 'ddrms'. i dont care about open source/open source games/open source programmers/linux/rms. the courses of action you advise do not help because i wont be able to play the game i want to play.
will all you people who keep chanting 'dont buy, dont pirate' understand this?
avoid gams that done work.
is that your normal behavior or were you in some kind of super-urgent hurry? :P
no i think its the best response. it says, "if you will act like an asshole, i will also act like an asshole." and that is good. if someone cons you out of 60 bux, you should con them out of 120 bux.
why in hell do people use flash to display documents on the net?
why not pdf or html or even docx?
symbian is also open source. but all the device specific drivers are closed. so you have to make your own device to actually use completely open symbian on it.
i don't think iphone firmware is based on osx. even if it shares the kernel (which i doubt) the performance of applications cannot be presumed to be same. for example, look at android and maemo. both are based on linux but are very very wildly different from ubuntu on your desktop. even though flash sucks on ubuntu, maemo (n900) handles it quite well. you can go to any flash video website and the video will play with all the features you have on a pc. it even runs newgrounds games. not sure about android cause i haven't used it.
ok so you don't want flash on your phone. fine, fine. but consider the possibility that someone else might want to have it. so what you are saying is that nobody should be allowed to run flash on THEIR phones just because you don't like it? right?
move on, folks! this one is beyond hope!
but we are not talking about osx. we are talking about iphone. how do you know beforehand that flash will suck on it?
actually, you should use the much more powerful/better browser opera mobile on symbian and win mobile. they are true browsers which can even replace the inbuilt browser as default.
if you open lots of tabs in mini, the non-active ones get all blank and you have to reload them.
that's identical to how opera mini handles tabs.
opera mobile on my e71 gets a full 100/100 on the acid3 test. i was very surprised. but guess what, it just can't handle slashdot. for that, i have to use opera mini. opera mini is a proxified access to the net thing, it is not a real browser. it was meant for cheap dumbphones that can run java apps but don't have enough power for actually rendering today's webpages. opera mobile is a real, full fledged browser. it even supports flash on win mobile, though i have never used a win phone.
i'm sorry i meant to reply to another post down below but wrote that here by mistake.
actually, opera mobile on my e71 gets a full 100/100 on the acid3 test. i was very surprised. but guess what, it just can't handle slashdot. for that, i have to use opera mini. opera mini is a proxified access to the net thing, it is not a real browser. it was meant for cheap dumbphones that can run java apps but don't have enough power for actually rendering today's webpages. opera mobile is a real, full fledged browser. it even supports flash on win mobile, though i have never used a win phone.
That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD
How creative was that really? Medal of Honor did the dramatic war sim first, and it was at least as good. I never understood why CoD got all the attention.
maybe that's because you never played it properly? i find it very exhilarating and exciting. and graphics do matter. the photorealism increases enjoyment. also the bomber level in which you drop bobs from above is very very similar to what happens in real life. most people won't be able to tell apart a real video from a real bomber airplane and mw gameplay.
medal of honor just did not have the graphics needed to pull off a good fps. so, contrary to your thinking, mw was creative. they made a game that did something no other game did well.
i haven't played mw2 though.
i looked at my old palm. Actually its not palm. Its a handspring visor. It does not have wireless. Only connections are the dock and irda. I remember it was quite a marvel when i got it. I used to think 'OMG! 20 million operations per second! In my hand!'. I have an app loaded on it that even overclocks the cpu to 24mhz. I don't think you can do that on any of today's device
i have a w810i here with me, it does not rotate even pictures automatically because it does not have an accelerometer. There is no option to rotate video that i can find. My c510 turns pictures the right way but not videos. Anyway one replier has written that iphone records in portrait. So it must be that.
i have it with me. kept in my old drawer. even though its b/w touchscreen is old, and the cpu is 21Mhz, it was still very good. it had all the customizability my e71 has and had a very painless ui. indeed, it was better than the s60 ui in 5800.
i have never used the pre because its cdma, there's no decent cdma network here. and of course palm did not launch it outside the us.
and you know what else is dying? myspace. now why should i care? if newspapers are dying, they are dying because we (as a society) want them to die.
i thought it was apple zealots who started the whole evangelizing thing. not linux/ms users.
oops, i'm sorry, don't let facts get in the way of you sucking jobs' dick. please continue.
Apple is not really, in spirit, a tech company at all, or rather, its a unique sort of tech company, its a tech company in the tradition of Walt Disney 1955.
Apple is the world's most successful tech company.
So it is always thinking, how to use its tech position to control what customers do, think and read.
Apple has never, once, told me what to think, and I own plenty of Apple kit, so I speak with actual, first-hand experience. This is in stark contrast to the Free Software types who never tire of telling me to fear Apple because Apple wants to control everything I do. The current groupthink nonsense is that I'm supposed to boycott h.264 in favor of an inferior codec, and that I'm supposed to shun the iPad because... Well, the because here is never quite coherent. It's something along the lines of Apple will control my every thought, charge me for everything I do on it, and somehow it will prevent me from programming for it.
I read that you cannot activate the iPad from Linux. Now, why would that be, exactly....? Its because open source is the enemy for Apple, even more than for MS, because it represents intellectual freedom.
Apple hosts, contributes to, and has created, *tons* of Open Source projects. The reason they don't support Linux is because too few people use it.
no.