I think people should mind their own bloody business personally. It's not like he's poisoning his body with drugs or alcohol or hurting other people with his "addiction".
How to help a friend? Leave them the hell alone to live their life how they want and stop being so bloody pretentious in thinking this person needs to be "saved".
Don't have to be 18 or older to buy an iPod Touch though.
I am a big NIN fan, and it pisses me off to see the lyrics of "Closer" taken completely out of context of not just the song, but the entire album. (Which like Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which inspired it, is a concept album.)
It's fucking stupid though. Not just the music they sell but some of the podcasts they list. Actual recordings of people having sex. And not just regular sex, but master/slave stuff etc...
And yet somehow something in the NIN app is offensive.
I was considering buying a PSP actually. The piracy aspect entered into the equation. Then I looked at the games available and realised it wasn't worth it.
Yes, Sony, I wouldn't even PIRATE your games.
About the only game I'd like is Football Manager. I like the idea of a portable version of that. But it's not worth shelling out $200 on a console for just for one title. And I literally found no other game across the entire race that I was interested in.
What a ridiculous comment. I agree that L4D is overpriced, but they're giving you this content, for free, just like all the TF2 content.
IT WILL BE FREE... Even the summary says that.
As trolls go, you didn't even try. Either that or you're a moron.
Can't wait for this content. Hoping Survival is playable in single player mode. A lot of people whine and say L4D is crap in single player mode, but I like taking it at my own pace. If I want to dash straight for the safe room and to hell with my partners, I can. If I want to shoot them in the head, I can. If I want to stand in one spot and just wait for waves to spawn, I can.
Online is fun, but I like firing up single player and doing speed runs through No Mercy. (I find the rooftop finale so damn easy now...)
Let me just say FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! Every year you pull this shit and it's never funny. Last actual funny thing you did on this stupid fucktard of a day was the pig latin.
Once again, FUCK YOU! Try actually being professional next year, kthxbye.
But what if the 3rd party escrow goes under? People come up with all these doom scenarios I figured I'd add another one.
If this removes the ability to run the same game on two machine at once, I am done with Steam. Now before anyone starts crowing on, the fact is I don't need to buy TWO DVD's of a film if someone wants to watch it with me. I don't have to buy two copies of an album if two people want to listen to it at the same time.
It's pretty sad that the software industry in this regard is worse than the RIAA and MPAA.
I rarely DO use the same game on two machines. My kids and I sometimes play Trackmania, but really, it's despicable this "one copy at a time" nonsense.
Only idiots need to run anti-virus all the time. The kind of pricks who download any random crap and run it.
Only virus infection I ever got on the PC was the CIH virus which the virus "protection" of choice, that I WAS running in the background, didn't notice.
All virus protection does is provide a false sense of security. Better to be paranoid and cautious than blindly do stuff thinking you're 100% protected.
Norton has been causing more problems than it solves for as long as I can remember. Still remember when I got it "free" with my laptop. Could never remove it fully, and running the uninstall only succeeded in breaking Windows Update. Had to do a fresh OS install to get rid of it properly.
Norton pulling this kind of garbage doesn't surprise me in the slightest. And really, what the hell are they thinking these days? Whatever they do is going to be found out and spread like wildfire online anyway resulting in nother but bad press.
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Well from reading the first page of that it seems Steam was maybe a day late?
Oh noes, instant gratification fail~!
Seriously, is there more to it than that?
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See, this attitude on Slashdot cracks me up.
1) A game ships with Starforce, Securom etc... Stealth copy protection... You complain.
2) A game ships with activation with Steam, a totally transparent process that doesn't install hidden kernel mangling drivers, is easy to uninstall etc... You complain.
Software makers have a right to protect their goods. Do I agree with DRM? No. The reason I suppose Stardock is because they ship their games without DRM. You need your serial number to access game updates.
However most publishers aren't ready to make that leap. Now I can either cut my nose to spite my face and deny myself games. Or I can support developers who go for transparent DRM over nefarious malware like Starforce.
Given the choice between Steam and nasty little trojans like Starforce and Securom, I'd take Steam any day. (See earlier post about the problems with new games on Steam including additional protection to save me retyping it all again.)
It's utter bollocks. Half-Life would still work as it's primarily a single player game and had no online verification of CD key. The online stuff like TFC may have been tied to Steam, but I doubt the WON servers were still active anyway, and if they were, that they were somehow able to nuke your key in WON so you had to use Steam seems somewhat unlikely to me.
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Stardock have Impulse. I've got a few games on that as well. DRM free etc... But the experience just isn't as solid as Steam IMO.
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You don't even need to do that. Login. Then switch to offline mode. You're done. I have Steam on multiple systems here and there is no problem even when my crappy ISP is down.
I'd much rather have online transparent validation than crap like Starforce or Securom infecting my store purchases.
I love Steam. Yeah, it has issues. As DRM goes, I'm happy with the compromise. However, what I am increasingly unhappy with is Steam allowing other companies to bundle junk like TAGES with games on Steam. Valve could clearly take the high ground and say no since they're the 800 pound gorilla of online game distribution right now, and could use their power for good, but they don't.
What's doubly sad is around Christmas they started listing on the games pages if it had third party infections likes TAGES. That information has quietly disappeared again I've noticed, making buying new games on Steam a much riskier proposition. (The new X3 game had TAGES listed for example, a listing which disappeared shortly after Christmas, despite it still being bundled with the game as far as I'm aware.)
I like Steam because it has spared me from the system damaging issues of Starforce and the like (own one system that Starforce damaged, and a friend owns two), but now that cancerous malware like TAGES, Securom etc... is slowly spreading on there, I am no longer as enthusiastic as I once was.
The problem is EA ripped the soul out of the game to pander to the mass market. From things I've read Wright is annoyed with what EA did to dumb the game down.
Game had huge potential. My seven year old son loves it. THAT is the market EA went for. The kids and the adults who like simple, boring games.
It's utter nonsense. Doctrow is a self important blowhard who, for reasons unknown, people think is actually relevant.
I watched a lecture from David Simon (creator of "The Wire", former journalist etc...) on this very subject, and his was the exact opposite opinion. That the Internet can't ever replace newspapers and proper reporting. Smaller newspapers will fold (no pun intended) but larger ones will always exist. I remember one comment was "How many bloggers are embedded in Falujah?"
It's a very good lecture, but I'd recommend avoiding it if you've not seen at least the first four seasons of "The Wire" due to potential spoilers, but really "The Wire" is the jumping off point for the lecture, not the subject.
Actually I think you're mistaken about it being the media, and the fears of nuclear power can be summed up in one word. Chernobyl.
Seriously, nuclear is great and clean and fabulous, right up until the moment it goes wrong then it all gets very scary very quickly and your bustling metropolis down the road is the next Pripyat.
That has nothing to do with the media, unless you're condemning them for reporting the Chernobyl accident in the first place
But then there's Three Mile Island, Tokaimura (twice), Montu, Sosnovy Bor etc... And not one incident was down to terrorism. Just human stupidity which is far more limitless and dangerous.
When solar power generation, wind power and pretty much any other form of power generation suffers a catastrophic failure, it doesn't carry the potential to devastate hundreds of miles of the surrounding area and kill thousands and thousands of people both in the short and long term.
So in short, I think you've oversimplified the issue a little.
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I think people should mind their own bloody business personally. It's not like he's poisoning his body with drugs or alcohol or hurting other people with his "addiction".
How to help a friend? Leave them the hell alone to live their life how they want and stop being so bloody pretentious in thinking this person needs to be "saved".
hahaha Nice one:)
Two sides of the same coin.
I'm still mystified why anyone gives a flying fig what Doctorow thinks about anything. The man is an irrelevant blowhard with a stupid website.
As I said a while back on here, I looked into getting a PSP and planned to hack it, with piracy being a part of it.
I didn't see anything for the PSP worth pirating. And only one game worth buying. (Football Manager.)
Of course lately the DS isn't much better IMO. I've largely stopped using mine.
All 27 remaining PSP users must be thrilled with this!
Don't have to be 18 or older to buy an iPod Touch though.
I am a big NIN fan, and it pisses me off to see the lyrics of "Closer" taken completely out of context of not just the song, but the entire album. (Which like Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which inspired it, is a concept album.)
It's fucking stupid though. Not just the music they sell but some of the podcasts they list. Actual recordings of people having sex. And not just regular sex, but master/slave stuff etc...
And yet somehow something in the NIN app is offensive.
Idiocy.
Mobile slime?
Politicians with cars.
Kudos for the "Clue" reference.
I was considering buying a PSP actually. The piracy aspect entered into the equation. Then I looked at the games available and realised it wasn't worth it.
Yes, Sony, I wouldn't even PIRATE your games.
About the only game I'd like is Football Manager. I like the idea of a portable version of that. But it's not worth shelling out $200 on a console for just for one title. And I literally found no other game across the entire race that I was interested in.
What a ridiculous comment. I agree that L4D is overpriced, but they're giving you this content, for free, just like all the TF2 content.
IT WILL BE FREE... Even the summary says that.
As trolls go, you didn't even try. Either that or you're a moron.
Can't wait for this content. Hoping Survival is playable in single player mode. A lot of people whine and say L4D is crap in single player mode, but I like taking it at my own pace. If I want to dash straight for the safe room and to hell with my partners, I can. If I want to shoot them in the head, I can. If I want to stand in one spot and just wait for waves to spawn, I can.
Online is fun, but I like firing up single player and doing speed runs through No Mercy. (I find the rooftop finale so damn easy now...)
"Employees playing those games may destroy the usefulness of those games."
Most of the publishers already did that when they included DRM in the first place.
I imagine the movie will be five minutes of actual action and 90 minutes of a guy riding around on a horse and falling off things.
Let me just say FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! Every year you pull this shit and it's never funny. Last actual funny thing you did on this stupid fucktard of a day was the pig latin.
Once again, FUCK YOU! Try actually being professional next year, kthxbye.
But what if the 3rd party escrow goes under? People come up with all these doom scenarios I figured I'd add another one.
If this removes the ability to run the same game on two machine at once, I am done with Steam. Now before anyone starts crowing on, the fact is I don't need to buy TWO DVD's of a film if someone wants to watch it with me. I don't have to buy two copies of an album if two people want to listen to it at the same time.
It's pretty sad that the software industry in this regard is worse than the RIAA and MPAA.
I rarely DO use the same game on two machines. My kids and I sometimes play Trackmania, but really, it's despicable this "one copy at a time" nonsense.
Only idiots need to run anti-virus all the time. The kind of pricks who download any random crap and run it.
Only virus infection I ever got on the PC was the CIH virus which the virus "protection" of choice, that I WAS running in the background, didn't notice.
All virus protection does is provide a false sense of security. Better to be paranoid and cautious than blindly do stuff thinking you're 100% protected.
Norton has been causing more problems than it solves for as long as I can remember. Still remember when I got it "free" with my laptop. Could never remove it fully, and running the uninstall only succeeded in breaking Windows Update. Had to do a fresh OS install to get rid of it properly.
Norton pulling this kind of garbage doesn't surprise me in the slightest. And really, what the hell are they thinking these days? Whatever they do is going to be found out and spread like wildfire online anyway resulting in nother but bad press.
Well from reading the first page of that it seems Steam was maybe a day late?
Oh noes, instant gratification fail~!
Seriously, is there more to it than that?
See, this attitude on Slashdot cracks me up.
1) A game ships with Starforce, Securom etc... Stealth copy protection... You complain.
2) A game ships with activation with Steam, a totally transparent process that doesn't install hidden kernel mangling drivers, is easy to uninstall etc... You complain.
Software makers have a right to protect their goods. Do I agree with DRM? No. The reason I suppose Stardock is because they ship their games without DRM. You need your serial number to access game updates.
However most publishers aren't ready to make that leap. Now I can either cut my nose to spite my face and deny myself games. Or I can support developers who go for transparent DRM over nefarious malware like Starforce.
Given the choice between Steam and nasty little trojans like Starforce and Securom, I'd take Steam any day. (See earlier post about the problems with new games on Steam including additional protection to save me retyping it all again.)
It's utter bollocks. Half-Life would still work as it's primarily a single player game and had no online verification of CD key. The online stuff like TFC may have been tied to Steam, but I doubt the WON servers were still active anyway, and if they were, that they were somehow able to nuke your key in WON so you had to use Steam seems somewhat unlikely to me.
Stardock have Impulse. I've got a few games on that as well. DRM free etc... But the experience just isn't as solid as Steam IMO.
You don't even need to do that. Login. Then switch to offline mode. You're done. I have Steam on multiple systems here and there is no problem even when my crappy ISP is down.
No copying and mucking about needed.
I'd much rather have online transparent validation than crap like Starforce or Securom infecting my store purchases.
I love Steam. Yeah, it has issues. As DRM goes, I'm happy with the compromise. However, what I am increasingly unhappy with is Steam allowing other companies to bundle junk like TAGES with games on Steam. Valve could clearly take the high ground and say no since they're the 800 pound gorilla of online game distribution right now, and could use their power for good, but they don't.
What's doubly sad is around Christmas they started listing on the games pages if it had third party infections likes TAGES. That information has quietly disappeared again I've noticed, making buying new games on Steam a much riskier proposition. (The new X3 game had TAGES listed for example, a listing which disappeared shortly after Christmas, despite it still being bundled with the game as far as I'm aware.)
I like Steam because it has spared me from the system damaging issues of Starforce and the like (own one system that Starforce damaged, and a friend owns two), but now that cancerous malware like TAGES, Securom etc... is slowly spreading on there, I am no longer as enthusiastic as I once was.
The problem is EA ripped the soul out of the game to pander to the mass market. From things I've read Wright is annoyed with what EA did to dumb the game down.
Game had huge potential. My seven year old son loves it. THAT is the market EA went for. The kids and the adults who like simple, boring games.
It's utter nonsense. Doctrow is a self important blowhard who, for reasons unknown, people think is actually relevant.
I watched a lecture from David Simon (creator of "The Wire", former journalist etc...) on this very subject, and his was the exact opposite opinion. That the Internet can't ever replace newspapers and proper reporting. Smaller newspapers will fold (no pun intended) but larger ones will always exist. I remember one comment was "How many bloggers are embedded in Falujah?"
It's a very good lecture, but I'd recommend avoiding it if you've not seen at least the first four seasons of "The Wire" due to potential spoilers, but really "The Wire" is the jumping off point for the lecture, not the subject.
I believe this is it. USC Lecture
Actually I think you're mistaken about it being the media, and the fears of nuclear power can be summed up in one word. Chernobyl.
Seriously, nuclear is great and clean and fabulous, right up until the moment it goes wrong then it all gets very scary very quickly and your bustling metropolis down the road is the next Pripyat.
That has nothing to do with the media, unless you're condemning them for reporting the Chernobyl accident in the first place
But then there's Three Mile Island, Tokaimura (twice), Montu, Sosnovy Bor etc... And not one incident was down to terrorism. Just human stupidity which is far more limitless and dangerous.
When solar power generation, wind power and pretty much any other form of power generation suffers a catastrophic failure, it doesn't carry the potential to devastate hundreds of miles of the surrounding area and kill thousands and thousands of people both in the short and long term.
So in short, I think you've oversimplified the issue a little.