I installed and ran Steam last night. I had neither Half-Life, nor any of its mods installed at any point in time on this machine.
I ran Steam, and within 3 minutes, was browsing DoD games to play (there were painfully few however). I looked into the cache folder (where it 'installs' the game files), and there was ~500MB of files in there. I have no idea how this was done on my 1.5Mb link - it defies reason, but it worked.
My only peeve - its actually tough to get into a game, between map downloads (though, once you have it, you keep it in the 'cache' folder, so you dont need to download it again), and the randomness you always got from Half-Life.
Valve is onto something here - just-in-time delivery, uber-compression, I don't know, but it seems to work very well so far.
"In a telephone interview after the appearance, Heckenkamp's father, Thomas Heckenkamp, said his son is only trying to protect his rights . "They've overstepped their bounds, and they're keeping him from defending himself," he said."
Here, they say due to pressure from its users, and some members of congress, they're going to stop monitoring immediately, which is the correct thing to do...
What this article fails to take into account, is this is an entirely NEW kind of war - this is not nation versus nation, nor is this a war over control of resources - this is a war fought simply to kill the other guy, and to stop thier actions.
It makes no sense to flood Afghanistan with troops - like I said, we are fighting neither for territory or for resources, but only for justice and peace of mind.
At the risk of becoming serious flame-bait here, anyone stop to consider, that maybe the Feds are right here, and that the warrant is sealed for a reason, and not some government-coverup conspiracy crap?
Not everything the government does is evil - lets give the facts time to shake out before we castrate the government for this one. That is, if the facts ever come out...
(note - this was origionally posted as a reply to the wrong news item. D'OH!)
At the risk of becoming serious flame-bait here, anyone stop to consider, that maybe the Feds are right here, and that the warrant is sealed for a reason, and not some government-coverup conspiracy crap?
Not everything the government does is evil - lets give the facts time to shake out before we castrate the government for this one. That is, if the facts ever come out...
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I totaally disagree here. When you buy a car, noone tells you that it has the potential to kill people, if used improperly, or not taken care of. Same thing applies here.
Its time for people to start taking responsibility for thier own actions (inactions), and not pointing the finger elsewhere. They sysadmins (yes, even the cablemodem people who simply installed the software and walked away) are the responsible parties here.
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Tim -
I installed and ran Steam last night. I had neither Half-Life, nor any of its mods installed at any point in time on this machine.
I ran Steam, and within 3 minutes, was browsing DoD games to play (there were painfully few however). I looked into the cache folder (where it 'installs' the game files), and there was ~500MB of files in there. I have no idea how this was done on my 1.5Mb link - it defies reason, but it worked.
My only peeve - its actually tough to get into a game, between map downloads (though, once you have it, you keep it in the 'cache' folder, so you dont need to download it again), and the randomness you always got from Half-Life.
Valve is onto something here - just-in-time delivery, uber-compression, I don't know, but it seems to work very well so far.
from the artilce:
"In a telephone interview after the appearance, Heckenkamp's father, Thomas Heckenkamp, said his son is only trying to protect his rights . "They've overstepped their bounds, and they're keeping him from defending himself," he said."
Here, they say due to pressure from its users, and some members of congress, they're going to stop monitoring immediately, which is the correct thing to do...
What this article fails to take into account, is this is an entirely NEW kind of war - this is not nation versus nation, nor is this a war over control of resources - this is a war fought simply to kill the other guy, and to stop thier actions.
It makes no sense to flood Afghanistan with troops - like I said, we are fighting neither for territory or for resources, but only for justice and peace of mind.
...that so many /. users know so much about the Power Puff Girls!
Man, you guys need to move out of your parents house, and get a life!
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At the risk of becoming serious flame-bait here, anyone stop to consider, that maybe the Feds are right here, and that the warrant is sealed for a reason, and not some government-coverup conspiracy crap?
Not everything the government does is evil - lets give the facts time to shake out before we castrate the government for this one. That is, if the facts ever come out...
(note - this was origionally posted as a reply to the wrong news item. D'OH!)
At the risk of becoming serious flame-bait here, anyone stop to consider, that maybe the Feds are right here, and that the warrant is sealed for a reason, and not some government-coverup conspiracy crap?
Not everything the government does is evil - lets give the facts time to shake out before we castrate the government for this one. That is, if the facts ever come out...
I totaally disagree here. When you buy a car, noone tells you that it has the potential to kill people, if used improperly, or not taken care of. Same thing applies here. Its time for people to start taking responsibility for thier own actions (inactions), and not pointing the finger elsewhere. They sysadmins (yes, even the cablemodem people who simply installed the software and walked away) are the responsible parties here.