And you'll pirate Half-Life 3, and Half-Life 3's authentication system will be even worse for legitimate users? That makes a lot of sense, sure thing.
You are right, that does make sense - so a plot of users are probably going to do that.
Would you rather Valve spend tens of millions on developing Half-Life 2 and 3, sell it without DRM and barely sell a maybe a quarter of what they sold now due to rampant piracy?
Spare us the crap. Their copyright "protection" has no effect, except to piss people of who buy it. It always gets removed, and those who buy the game learn that perhaps they shouldn't help fund these idiots the next time.
If something doesn't sell well its because it isn't good not because it got pirated - but all programmers are always so full of them they can't accept that.
and the original single player games can be played from their original applications, not through steam
That doesn't seem to be true, since the applications require steam files that are only present if steam is running (Dynamically created link libraries)
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What I'd like to add is an explanation for why Valve created Steam at all.
Don't - we don't care. Its still immoral.
would say: "Isn't it great how I don't have to keep track of a CD and I can go re-download all the old games I paid for 5 years ago to as many computers as I want to without any hassle. And they give me free content later as it becomes available without paying for an expansion pack."
You must be working for Valve if you believe people would say that and not "Remember when you could buy a game and use it without BigBrother decideing if you were allowed or now. When you didn't have to hope that some servers were up to allow you to use it. When you could install something 10 years after you bought it because it didn't need "authentication". When you weren't a slave to greedy software houses"
Actually, the very thing you're dissing is the reason why QWERTY is a good layout for typing fast: letters that often occur together in are placed far apart.
I think most of the "let it die!" crowd has either never seen the third season - IMHO one of the best seasons of any scifi show, ever, including any single season of Farscape - or is so obsessed with continuity that any deviation from the previously established universe is heresy.
Or, they just have different tastes, and find that the third season was pedestrian, unimaginative, derivative and uncreative.
Well, how crappy, bland, and predictable do you think the show would be if everything went exactly as foretold?
Utter nonsense, the excuse of a lousy writer (you don't work on enterprise do you?) That's like saying you couldn't make a movie about the second world war because you know how it ends (Hello private ryan!) There was nothing wrong with the concept, the problem was the talentless execution.
And I do agree that neither of the first two seasons, where they tried this formula, were particularly good.
I take it you meant "weren't" - and they were crap because of bad writing and lame producers, not because of a straight jacket concept - one that they didn't respect anyway. Die hard fans can list hundreds, if not thousands of cases where they just change established continuity.
Rather than looking at the downside of the lack of continuity, consider the upside - there's now a possibilty for an "alternate" future, where the temporal war has changed things. Will this wind up being for the better or worse? Who knows!
I do, the odds heavyly favour crap. They hired Many Coto and at least he tries, but its probably to little to late.
DON'T TAKE THE TREK UNIVERSE TOO SERIOUSLY. When you get your panties in a wad anytime creative liberties are taken, you'll lead a very unpleasant life in your parents' basement.
You sound more like you are the one living in a basement with (your head up your ass). Its not a question about taking the trek university too seriously, its a question about expecting certain standards from people who pretend they are artists - something the writers fail at too much on Enterprise when they simply phone in a story from the commissary - if they have taken any liberties its the liberty to not be creative.
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And you'll pirate Half-Life 3, and Half-Life 3's authentication system will be even worse for legitimate users? That makes a lot of sense, sure thing.
You are right, that does make sense - so a plot of users are probably going to do that.
Would you rather Valve spend tens of millions on developing Half-Life 2 and 3, sell it without DRM and barely sell a maybe a quarter of what they sold now due to rampant piracy?
Spare us the crap. Their copyright "protection" has no effect, except to piss people of who buy it. It always gets removed, and those who buy the game learn that perhaps they shouldn't help fund these idiots the next time.
If something doesn't sell well its because it isn't good not because it got pirated - but all programmers are always so full of them they can't accept that.
and the original single player games can be played from their original applications, not through steam
That doesn't seem to be true, since the applications require steam files that are only present if steam is running (Dynamically created link libraries)
What I'd like to add is an explanation for why Valve created Steam at all.
Don't - we don't care. Its still immoral.
would say: "Isn't it great how I don't have to keep track of a CD and I can go re-download all the old games I paid for 5 years ago to as many computers as I want to without any hassle. And they give me free content later as it becomes available without paying for an expansion pack."
You must be working for Valve if you believe people would say that and not "Remember when you could buy a game and use it without BigBrother decideing if you were allowed or now. When you didn't have to hope that some servers were up to allow you to use it. When you could install something 10 years after you bought it because it didn't need "authentication". When you weren't a slave to greedy software houses"
..and steam is immoral - don't forget.
Not sure it was funny, but it certainly was relevant - that was my first thought as well. Though somehow I doubt it.
What is that thing called money you speak off? :)
Not really.
Well, these logs are very confusing and not really readable. Apache should start writing more readable logs.
Now if only we felt the same way about women, we'd be set! ;)
Actually, the very thing you're dissing is the reason why QWERTY is a good layout for typing fast: letters that often occur together in are placed far apart.
Depends on the langauge you are typing in...
The quality of videos from street vendors is notoriously unwatchable;
Well, it is Hollywood films after all!
Will you listen to the curves on her!
Good thing you didn't say that out loud ;)
It won't even start if you haven't got a mousewheel!
Amateur hour.
You are the one who is smoking something if you think he said that about BSG (Hint: He didn't)
While you are off to enhance your mental faculties one hopes.
I think most of the "let it die!" crowd has either never seen the third season - IMHO one of the best seasons of any scifi show, ever, including any single season of Farscape - or is so obsessed with continuity that any deviation from the previously established universe is heresy.
Or, they just have different tastes, and find that the third season was pedestrian, unimaginative, derivative and uncreative.
Well, how crappy, bland, and predictable do you think the show would be if everything went exactly as foretold?
Utter nonsense, the excuse of a lousy writer (you don't work on enterprise do you?) That's like saying you couldn't make a movie about the second world war because you know how it ends (Hello private ryan!) There was nothing wrong with the concept, the problem was the talentless execution.
And I do agree that neither of the first two seasons, where they tried this formula, were particularly good.
I take it you meant "weren't" - and they were crap because of bad writing and lame producers, not because of a straight jacket concept - one that they didn't respect anyway. Die hard fans can list hundreds, if not thousands of cases where they just change established continuity.
Rather than looking at the downside of the lack of continuity, consider the upside - there's now a possibilty for an "alternate" future, where the temporal war has changed things. Will this wind up being for the better or worse? Who knows!
I do, the odds heavyly favour crap. They hired Many Coto and at least he tries, but its probably to little to late.
DON'T TAKE THE TREK UNIVERSE TOO SERIOUSLY. When you get your panties in a wad anytime creative liberties are taken, you'll lead a very unpleasant life in your parents' basement.
You sound more like you are the one living in a basement with (your head up your ass). Its not a question about taking the trek university too seriously, its a question about expecting certain standards from people who pretend they are artists - something the writers fail at too much on Enterprise when they simply phone in a story from the commissary - if they have taken any liberties its the liberty to not be creative.
I don't think there's *ever* been a science fiction television program with a cast this skilled.
You haven't seen Firefly.
BSG explores ideas of how we define God, and who is eligible for religeon, and stuff that Star Trek wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
Because in Trek they grew up and didn't have to invent an unprovable father figure in the heavens to tell them how to be good humans.
But I take offense to the idea that just because BSG discovered that handheld style camera movements
And I take offence that you say BSG discovered this - it was Firefly - BSG is just ripping it off (and hired the same guys to do it of course)
Which essentially means "I wont fund real science because the voices in my head tells me not to"
Of course now other countries will do the real work, and american companies will just buy the results in a few years.
Outlaw can mean:
"...to place under a ban or restriction"
It most certainly has had a restriction placed on it now.
Next up: How the courts will determine if someone is a witch or not by testing if they float.
...there might be a poll for this: Is is legal for you to encrypt and hide your stuff?
It isn't everywhere. And in the UK for instance, if the goverment demand your password you must turn it over, if you don't (or forget) you go to jail.
Very handy...
....will it be just the one, or a whole cluster?