Not sure what you are on about as far as conspiracies go. I didn't mention any. If you have found a way for everyone to have exactly what they want without negative consequence, then goodie gumdrops. I am all for it.
Otherwise, you might want to clarify what you are on about.
I don't care that some people have much more than me, I am more worried that I don't have more.
Um... since we live in a world where resources are finite, isn't that just two ways of expressing the exact same thing. I mean I don't care about a yacht or a mansion either, but we are all still pulling from the same limited resource pool.
That is subjective, unless the email is the most bandwidth intensive bit of your work, I doubt that. I mean 10 down isn't awful, but calling to broadband in the US in 2018?
Also doing much of any work with a git repo on 1 up sounds awful.
Ultimately the problem is that word means "good internet" to a lot of people simply because they do not understand any more detailed explanations of speed.
Not really. They had 3rd party tools that (poorly IMO) emulated a mouse via the controller input, and they had a keyboard input for text entry (as have several other consoles).
That said, the entire issue is that it is a console and they do not want to give other players the advantage of the KB&M in multiplayer. Microsoft did toy with this on Shadowrun (don't get me started on how that game had nothing to do with Shadowrun...), and it didn't end well for the controller people. Ultimately the decision was made that since it was a console designed to use a controller they wouldn't pit the two against one another and that those looking for KB&M would go the PC route./shrug
I don't really have an opinion on that either way. I usually play racing, fighting, and RPGs on console and PC for everything else. It wouldn't impact me one way or the other were they to try cross-platform play again.
FWIW, the new (or Quantum) version of Firefox stopped me from switching to Chrome entirely. I had been using Chrome more and more as Firefox just seemed to stagnate. Luckily they did seem to make real progress here. I hope they keep it up. A browser monopoly has never been any good for end users.
Oh well look at Lord Reginald Fancypants von Moneybags III over here with his PDP-11! We are still using a straight-8! If it was good enough for 1965, its good enough for me I says!
No they didn't put it up there, they used a modified, not by Spotify, application to access it. Should Spotify be able to access all of your data? I mean, if they get in and take it you can't complain that they have it. You gave it to them.
> These apps allowed users with free accounts to suppress advertising
IOW, running software they chose to run on a device they owned?
Blocking ads is not theft any more than going to the bathroom during a commercial is stealing from Toyota
Except they are connecting to Spotify's servers that Spotify owns to listen to Spotify's music library.
so no, it is nothing like your Toyota 'example'.
Wikipedia is a fine tool for verifying information. Assuming 1) the Wiki article is correctly sourced and 2) you actually go check and verify THOSE SOURCES.
Just using it by itself.
Um... I really do think that something needs to be done about classic and abandoned games. We are, unfortunately, losing those parts of history to the obscurity of copyright.
With that said... "The article notes the DMCA notice came "just weeks after several organizations and gaming fans asked the US Copyright Office to make a DMCA circumvention exemption for 'abandoned' games."
WoW is not even close to an abandoned game. They are working on a subscription right now and maintain and update servers that millions play on right now. In what way is it abandoned? The language in this post is more like the FUD spread by hardcore DRM supporters than someone who wants to preserve software. This is an awful sub EditorDavid...
I have received a few of the emails and I checked them out, just curious. The links are indeed legit and I don't think I had singed in there since 2012 or so. I wonder how much traffic they actually get back? I just deleted the emails after I was just they were not just fishing attempts.
The top of Mount Everest seems the most logical to me. It's really fucking cold and the atmosphere is thin enough to kill you. Just set up a shelter that has a heavily tinted sun roof.
|| Mount Everest Mars Project - Administrator Log ||
Day 1 - Per ArmoredDragon's suggestions we have constructed a dome on Everest. Sun roof is nice. Moral is good and we begin the study tomorrow. History will remember us as giants of our era!
Day 4 - Experiments progressing nicely!
Day 12 - Today a tourist climbing group came by. Most of them just chucked used oxygen bottles at us, but one waved. These are likely to be the last climbers of the year.
Day 20 - It is getting very cold in the dome, we lost 3 researchers today.
Day 31 - Lost 7 today, but our work is invaluable! Moral seems to be holding.
Day 34 - Only one lost today. Sun roof has collapsed. Bob already ate the last of the Soup at Hand... Screw Bob.
Day 42 - Lost 2 more researchers. Moral starting to decline, but we found Mallory and Irvine's camera and it looks like we will be able to develop the film! EXCITEMENT!
Day 43 - Film only contains dick pics... 4 more researchers lost. Moral extremely low.
Day 46 - 3 lost... Food has run dry. Forced to 'repurpose' research subject Bob...
Day 49 - Lost 8 more today... down to shoe and belt leather rations. Moral continues to decline. Sent 2 to base camp for help.
Day 53 - WHY DIDN'T WE JUST STICK WITH HAWAII?!? WHY WON'T YOU MONSTERS COME GET US? WHY?!?!?
From the Article "The California-based company then informs the NYPD of the device’s current location — and it can track it even if it was reregistered with a different wireless provider."...they then boast how they have tracked a phone to brazil!?
Nobody, no-one concerned that a Apple is tracking their customers, and can do so without their knowledge.
Seriously "Do no evil?"
You have to opt in and setup Find My iPhone, so I don't see how that is without their knowledge. Unless you are talking about something different?
Best not to bother with trying to run it on XP. It, like most anything with a DOS version, tends to run under DOSbox better/easier than any other way.
Prepare to get super annoyed with the control scheme though. I really feel RTS controls were all rubbish until StarCraft 1, but stuff like Dune RTS and WC1... I honestly don't know how I played it. Then again I guess I didn't try to play it like I do now with RTS games were I like to try and pretend like I have great micro/macro.
Can I please have my single player offline games back?
Speaking just for myself, I'm skipping both StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3, because of the onerous DRM and always-online requirements Blizzard now uses.
I wonder if the DRM and always-online requirements are preventing enough piracy that results in sales, to overcome the loss of buyers like me.
You didn't miss anything with Diablo 3 really. It was ok, but nothing great. A step back for Blizzard if you ask me. With StarCraft 2 it was your own loss if you liked multiplayer. Also it had an offline mode that thanks to internet issues I got to make several uses of.
I understand your argument, I really do. however I dont understand any good reason to disable to single player mode from d2 (which the char was not able to play on battlenet, and therefore not able to access the "real money" market activision set up (in convinced this is an activision move, and not something blizzard would have done prior to being bought up) I simply disagree with the way the game was handled. Hell I pre ordered, pre downloaded, and still couldnt play for 2 days after it was "released" all because of server issues. If that the the route all games are going to go.. i guess I am not a gamer any longer. Thats just me, but I will not deal with that, Ill keep playing super mario world and D2 and be happy.
I am not the other guy, but maybe I can clarify: It is an online game. That is a fact. You may not like that, you may not have played previous Diablo games online ever, but Diablo III is sever side. It is an online game. That is not an argument, it is a statement of fact.
You are free to not like that and not buy the game and mention how much you dislike the fact, but it is still fact, not an argument. I agreed with their decision here, but I hope they (like me) look at it in retrospec and say "yeah that didn't really work out as well as we had hoped". I mean I only ever really played D1 and D2 online and I was very happy about very realistic changes to drastically reduce cheating and hacking. I was also excited about the (much less realistic) idea that maybe gold & item spam would be reduced by the RMAH. That said, in the end it wasn't worth it and it didn't improve either enough to justify doing it again. Overall I got enough hours out of D3 that I can't really hate on it too hard, but it just wasn't that good of a game. An ok game if you will, and I agree that I hope they drop online in the future.
Basically, I agree with 99% of what you are saying, but its not just 'add on offline and lan'. The game was server side, that was the way they wanted to go.
You seem to have a very odd notion of Twitter and how it is used. A large variety of people use it for an incredible diverse list of reasons. I use twitter, but I never 'tweet'. It just provides me with a simple single page where I can check for updates on various communities/podcasts/webshows that I follow. I have no idea why you think that only 40+ year old men use it.
In most areas people can hardly "vote with their money" on internet providers already due to monopolies. I hardly see how this tool changes that.
Also where do you live with your "violent State"?
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Not sure what you are on about as far as conspiracies go. I didn't mention any. If you have found a way for everyone to have exactly what they want without negative consequence, then goodie gumdrops. I am all for it.
Otherwise, you might want to clarify what you are on about.
I don't care that some people have much more than me, I am more worried that I don't have more.
Um... since we live in a world where resources are finite, isn't that just two ways of expressing the exact same thing. I mean I don't care about a yacht or a mansion either, but we are all still pulling from the same limited resource pool.
No, you looking for IDDQD.
That is subjective, unless the email is the most bandwidth intensive bit of your work, I doubt that. I mean 10 down isn't awful, but calling to broadband in the US in 2018? Also doing much of any work with a git repo on 1 up sounds awful. Ultimately the problem is that word means "good internet" to a lot of people simply because they do not understand any more detailed explanations of speed.
Of course not! That is barely even Scrooge McDuck vault money. You can't expect AT&T execs to swim in that like plebs!
Not really. They had 3rd party tools that (poorly IMO) emulated a mouse via the controller input, and they had a keyboard input for text entry (as have several other consoles). That said, the entire issue is that it is a console and they do not want to give other players the advantage of the KB&M in multiplayer. Microsoft did toy with this on Shadowrun (don't get me started on how that game had nothing to do with Shadowrun...), and it didn't end well for the controller people. Ultimately the decision was made that since it was a console designed to use a controller they wouldn't pit the two against one another and that those looking for KB&M would go the PC route. /shrug
I don't really have an opinion on that either way. I usually play racing, fighting, and RPGs on console and PC for everything else. It wouldn't impact me one way or the other were they to try cross-platform play again.
FWIW, the new (or Quantum) version of Firefox stopped me from switching to Chrome entirely. I had been using Chrome more and more as Firefox just seemed to stagnate. Luckily they did seem to make real progress here. I hope they keep it up. A browser monopoly has never been any good for end users.
That does not sound like a very fun birthday party...
I need a decent keyboard on my laptop. Keyboards are wider than they are tall. That is it really, seems pretty logical to me.
Oh well look at Lord Reginald Fancypants von Moneybags III over here with his PDP-11! We are still using a straight-8! If it was good enough for 1965, its good enough for me I says!
No they didn't put it up there, they used a modified, not by Spotify, application to access it. Should Spotify be able to access all of your data? I mean, if they get in and take it you can't complain that they have it. You gave it to them.
> These apps allowed users with free accounts to suppress advertising
IOW, running software they chose to run on a device they owned?
Blocking ads is not theft any more than going to the bathroom during a commercial is stealing from Toyota
Except they are connecting to Spotify's servers that Spotify owns to listen to Spotify's music library. so no, it is nothing like your Toyota 'example'.
Wikipedia is a fine tool for verifying information. Assuming 1) the Wiki article is correctly sourced and 2) you actually go check and verify THOSE SOURCES. Just using it by itself.
Um... I really do think that something needs to be done about classic and abandoned games. We are, unfortunately, losing those parts of history to the obscurity of copyright.
With that said...
"The article notes the DMCA notice came "just weeks after several organizations and gaming fans asked the US Copyright Office to make a DMCA circumvention exemption for 'abandoned' games."
WoW is not even close to an abandoned game. They are working on a subscription right now and maintain and update servers that millions play on right now. In what way is it abandoned? The language in this post is more like the FUD spread by hardcore DRM supporters than someone who wants to preserve software. This is an awful sub EditorDavid...
I have received a few of the emails and I checked them out, just curious. The links are indeed legit and I don't think I had singed in there since 2012 or so. I wonder how much traffic they actually get back? I just deleted the emails after I was just they were not just fishing attempts.
Honestly it should say "may" not "will", these things seem to rarely work out as proposed.
That is the twist! They are all plastic army men. I am pitching it to M. Night Shyamalan.
The top of Mount Everest seems the most logical to me. It's really fucking cold and the atmosphere is thin enough to kill you. Just set up a shelter that has a heavily tinted sun roof.
|| Mount Everest Mars Project - Administrator Log ||
Day 1 - Per ArmoredDragon's suggestions we have constructed a dome on Everest. Sun roof is nice. Moral is good and we begin the study tomorrow. History will remember us as giants of our era!
Day 4 - Experiments progressing nicely!
Day 12 - Today a tourist climbing group came by. Most of them just chucked used oxygen bottles at us, but one waved. These are likely to be the last climbers of the year.
Day 20 - It is getting very cold in the dome, we lost 3 researchers today.
Day 31 - Lost 7 today, but our work is invaluable! Moral seems to be holding.
Day 34 - Only one lost today. Sun roof has collapsed. Bob already ate the last of the Soup at Hand... Screw Bob.
Day 42 - Lost 2 more researchers. Moral starting to decline, but we found Mallory and Irvine's camera and it looks like we will be able to develop the film! EXCITEMENT!
Day 43 - Film only contains dick pics... 4 more researchers lost. Moral extremely low.
Day 46 - 3 lost... Food has run dry. Forced to 'repurpose' research subject Bob...
Day 49 - Lost 8 more today... down to shoe and belt leather rations. Moral continues to decline. Sent 2 to base camp for help.
Day 53 - WHY DIDN'T WE JUST STICK WITH HAWAII?!? WHY WON'T YOU MONSTERS COME GET US? WHY?!?!?
From the Article "The California-based company then informs the NYPD of the device’s current location — and it can track it even if it was reregistered with a different wireless provider."...they then boast how they have tracked a phone to brazil!?
Nobody, no-one concerned that a Apple is tracking their customers, and can do so without their knowledge.
Seriously "Do no evil?"
You have to opt in and setup Find My iPhone, so I don't see how that is without their knowledge. Unless you are talking about something different?
Best not to bother with trying to run it on XP. It, like most anything with a DOS version, tends to run under DOSbox better/easier than any other way.
Prepare to get super annoyed with the control scheme though. I really feel RTS controls were all rubbish until StarCraft 1, but stuff like Dune RTS and WC1... I honestly don't know how I played it. Then again I guess I didn't try to play it like I do now with RTS games were I like to try and pretend like I have great micro/macro.
Can I please have my single player offline games back?
Speaking just for myself, I'm skipping both StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3, because of the onerous DRM and always-online requirements Blizzard now uses.
I wonder if the DRM and always-online requirements are preventing enough piracy that results in sales, to overcome the loss of buyers like me.
You didn't miss anything with Diablo 3 really. It was ok, but nothing great. A step back for Blizzard if you ask me. With StarCraft 2 it was your own loss if you liked multiplayer. Also it had an offline mode that thanks to internet issues I got to make several uses of.
I understand your argument, I really do. however I dont understand any good reason to disable to single player mode from d2 (which the char was not able to play on battlenet, and therefore not able to access the "real money" market activision set up (in convinced this is an activision move, and not something blizzard would have done prior to being bought up) I simply disagree with the way the game was handled. Hell I pre ordered, pre downloaded, and still couldnt play for 2 days after it was "released" all because of server issues. If that the the route all games are going to go.. i guess I am not a gamer any longer. Thats just me, but I will not deal with that, Ill keep playing super mario world and D2 and be happy.
I am not the other guy, but maybe I can clarify: It is an online game. That is a fact. You may not like that, you may not have played previous Diablo games online ever, but Diablo III is sever side. It is an online game. That is not an argument, it is a statement of fact.
You are free to not like that and not buy the game and mention how much you dislike the fact, but it is still fact, not an argument. I agreed with their decision here, but I hope they (like me) look at it in retrospec and say "yeah that didn't really work out as well as we had hoped". I mean I only ever really played D1 and D2 online and I was very happy about very realistic changes to drastically reduce cheating and hacking. I was also excited about the (much less realistic) idea that maybe gold & item spam would be reduced by the RMAH. That said, in the end it wasn't worth it and it didn't improve either enough to justify doing it again. Overall I got enough hours out of D3 that I can't really hate on it too hard, but it just wasn't that good of a game. An ok game if you will, and I agree that I hope they drop online in the future.
Basically, I agree with 99% of what you are saying, but its not just 'add on offline and lan'. The game was server side, that was the way they wanted to go.
You seem to have a very odd notion of Twitter and how it is used. A large variety of people use it for an incredible diverse list of reasons. I use twitter, but I never 'tweet'. It just provides me with a simple single page where I can check for updates on various communities/podcasts/webshows that I follow. I have no idea why you think that only 40+ year old men use it.
Better rush to get those angry rager page views. Never mind anything else.
In most areas people can hardly "vote with their money" on internet providers already due to monopolies. I hardly see how this tool changes that. Also where do you live with your "violent State"?