Because on an open platform like Android the filthy pirates would have a field day. iOS, being designed to prevent users from using their computer in ways inconvenient to Apple and other large corporations, is much more suited to preventing people taking advantage of HTML5's inconvenient lack of DRM.
Why not? It's their server. They can do what they like. Should they allow their game to be ruined by the actions of stupid players. It's happened so many times in other games. If exploiters get banned early and often then that discourages other exploiters and keeps the game fair and the economy healthy.
This is more akin to a bug in an ATM causing it to give you free money. It may be the fault of the bank but it's theft for you to exploit it and if you do get caught then you will be punished.
Reading what ArenaNet have done has made me very pleased that I bought the game. I've seen MMOs destroyed because exploiters and cheats were allowed free reign. The devs didn't seem to understand that if you tolerate the dickhead players then decent players leave. This then leaves a game full of arseholes that no-one new would ever stick around in. When the arseholes get bored and head off to destroy another game, the original game dies. ArenaNet clearly don't want this to happen and I personally think it's great.
I've heard this shit several times that if the developer doesn't produce magical bug-free code then dickheads have every right to exploit the shit out of the bug and ruin the game for everyone else as it's the 'fault of the devs' for 'letting them do it'. I've seen other MMO economies trashed by such stupidity on the part of the players and so at the very least temp bans should be handed out to discourage such retards from wrecking other people's enjoyment.
It's funny but on another thread about how the PC is dying people are saying that a four year old PC is enough for most people. Clearly it's not enough to run Firefox.
And how would those big PC makers have managed to get all the software and devices that only run on Windows to run on BeOS. There's a reason why Windows hasn't gone away and it isn't cowardice it's the applications barrier to entry which has shrunk somewhat but is still very much alive.
Yeah because driver support is far superior under Linux *rolleyes*
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The original poster all those eons ago asked you if you had used the service. You said no but then proceeded to say how much it sucked based on your total non-experience of the service. This bugged me which is why we're still having this fairly pointless discussion.
Now let's try it in simple English. You do not know for sure that OnLive will work for you because you have never used it. I know it works for me because I use it all the time. I also know that it doesn't work for my dad because I tried it on his PC and it was shit. My personal opinion of OnLive is that it's a great idea but probably a few years too early. It works really well on my 100mb connection but for the average user with a flaky 7mb DSL line it doesn't.
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I'm not asking for any weight on the pile. I expressed an opinion disagreeing with yours and you had a tantrum. That is all.
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You haven't aggregated all the opinions since not all of them are negative as a quick Google search or a look at their Wikipedia page will show you. My opinion is based on my experience. Yours is based on "I read it on the internet so it must be true".
If the RAM is soldered to the board then YM will not vary. You won't be able to do it (or at least it will be very difficult).
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Who's this we? You're the only one having a tantrum about it. I will repeat myself since you're rather stupid. Having used the service I am happy with it. You have never used the service, and therefore only have other people's opinions to go on. So since I have now posted a positive opinion about the company on the internet you must therefore, by your own system, now love OnLive as if it was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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What giant conspiracy am I inventing here? You obviously didn't read what I wrote. Here's the key phrase: " Unless you've tried the service you have no idea if it's any good for you or not." That is a fact. A lot of people are unhappy with OnLive. I'm not one of them. I am a happy customer, however I haven't posted online about it until now. That's all. Simple and uncomplicated unlike your attempt to label me a conspiracy theorist.
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Have you thought that it might be because people are orders of magnitude more likely to complain than to praise. I'm really happy with my mobile network for example and recommend it to my friends but I have never posted online about how good it is. However if you Google that network you find a lot of horror stories. Same for OnLive. Some people are disappointed and say so loudly. Unless you've tried the service you have no idea if it's any good for you or not.
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So you've never played it but because journalists say it's crap you decide it's crap. I have used it and had no problems with the video quality. I think what helped him form an opinion is because he's actually used the service and isn't just talking shite on Slashdot. Batman Arkham City is as playable as it is on the PS3 for example and I can play it on every device I own.
Libertarians are just as guilty of that and far more obnoxious about it. That's why people don't like you. For example Scott Hanselman posted on Google+ that he couldn't get healthcare because of a pre-existing condition and within hours there were libertarians all over the thread quoting Thomas Jefferson at him and trying to tell him that the system was fine because anything else would be communism.
Sometimes you guys need to try a bit of empathy instead of being endlessly selfish and unbending. Yes we all know our governments are broken, however looking at how broken most of the world's governments are I'm pretty happy with mine. I don't have to bribe anyone, I don't have armed militias driving me out of my home, I can read and write, I live in a country where getting sick doesn't carry a huge financial penalty and the roads that I use to get to work are tarmac and regularly maintained.
It should be the burden of companies to ensure that their products are safe. The fact that concerns have been raised about this chemical and no action has been taken means that the burden is very much on companies now.
I'd be really happy to use Hulu or get the same content on Netflix as US users but due to an artificial restriction I am unable to. I don't want to have to pay for a proxy or VPN I want to get the same content that is available to US users (and Canadians?). I speak the same language and I have money. Feel free to offer me a product and you can have some of that money.
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Because on an open platform like Android the filthy pirates would have a field day. iOS, being designed to prevent users from using their computer in ways inconvenient to Apple and other large corporations, is much more suited to preventing people taking advantage of HTML5's inconvenient lack of DRM.
Do you think the one on the bottom is being legitimately raped or does it have ways of shutting the whole thing down?
I like the way you think :)
Why not? It's their server. They can do what they like. Should they allow their game to be ruined by the actions of stupid players. It's happened so many times in other games. If exploiters get banned early and often then that discourages other exploiters and keeps the game fair and the economy healthy.
This is more akin to a bug in an ATM causing it to give you free money. It may be the fault of the bank but it's theft for you to exploit it and if you do get caught then you will be punished.
Reading what ArenaNet have done has made me very pleased that I bought the game. I've seen MMOs destroyed because exploiters and cheats were allowed free reign. The devs didn't seem to understand that if you tolerate the dickhead players then decent players leave. This then leaves a game full of arseholes that no-one new would ever stick around in. When the arseholes get bored and head off to destroy another game, the original game dies. ArenaNet clearly don't want this to happen and I personally think it's great.
I've heard this shit several times that if the developer doesn't produce magical bug-free code then dickheads have every right to exploit the shit out of the bug and ruin the game for everyone else as it's the 'fault of the devs' for 'letting them do it'. I've seen other MMO economies trashed by such stupidity on the part of the players and so at the very least temp bans should be handed out to discourage such retards from wrecking other people's enjoyment.
It's funny but on another thread about how the PC is dying people are saying that a four year old PC is enough for most people. Clearly it's not enough to run Firefox.
And how would those big PC makers have managed to get all the software and devices that only run on Windows to run on BeOS. There's a reason why Windows hasn't gone away and it isn't cowardice it's the applications barrier to entry which has shrunk somewhat but is still very much alive.
Yeah because driver support is far superior under Linux *rolleyes*
The original poster all those eons ago asked you if you had used the service. You said no but then proceeded to say how much it sucked based on your total non-experience of the service. This bugged me which is why we're still having this fairly pointless discussion.
Now let's try it in simple English. You do not know for sure that OnLive will work for you because you have never used it. I know it works for me because I use it all the time. I also know that it doesn't work for my dad because I tried it on his PC and it was shit. My personal opinion of OnLive is that it's a great idea but probably a few years too early. It works really well on my 100mb connection but for the average user with a flaky 7mb DSL line it doesn't.
Germany.
I'm not asking for any weight on the pile. I expressed an opinion disagreeing with yours and you had a tantrum. That is all.
You haven't aggregated all the opinions since not all of them are negative as a quick Google search or a look at their Wikipedia page will show you. My opinion is based on my experience. Yours is based on "I read it on the internet so it must be true".
If the RAM is soldered to the board then YM will not vary. You won't be able to do it (or at least it will be very difficult).
Who's this we? You're the only one having a tantrum about it. I will repeat myself since you're rather stupid. Having used the service I am happy with it. You have never used the service, and therefore only have other people's opinions to go on. So since I have now posted a positive opinion about the company on the internet you must therefore, by your own system, now love OnLive as if it was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
The Germans look pretty well-fed to me.
What giant conspiracy am I inventing here? You obviously didn't read what I wrote. Here's the key phrase: " Unless you've tried the service you have no idea if it's any good for you or not." That is a fact. A lot of people are unhappy with OnLive. I'm not one of them. I am a happy customer, however I haven't posted online about it until now. That's all. Simple and uncomplicated unlike your attempt to label me a conspiracy theorist.
Have you thought that it might be because people are orders of magnitude more likely to complain than to praise. I'm really happy with my mobile network for example and recommend it to my friends but I have never posted online about how good it is. However if you Google that network you find a lot of horror stories. Same for OnLive. Some people are disappointed and say so loudly. Unless you've tried the service you have no idea if it's any good for you or not.
So you've never played it but because journalists say it's crap you decide it's crap. I have used it and had no problems with the video quality. I think what helped him form an opinion is because he's actually used the service and isn't just talking shite on Slashdot. Batman Arkham City is as playable as it is on the PS3 for example and I can play it on every device I own.
Yes they do. All the time.
Libertarians are just as guilty of that and far more obnoxious about it. That's why people don't like you. For example Scott Hanselman posted on Google+ that he couldn't get healthcare because of a pre-existing condition and within hours there were libertarians all over the thread quoting Thomas Jefferson at him and trying to tell him that the system was fine because anything else would be communism.
Sometimes you guys need to try a bit of empathy instead of being endlessly selfish and unbending. Yes we all know our governments are broken, however looking at how broken most of the world's governments are I'm pretty happy with mine. I don't have to bribe anyone, I don't have armed militias driving me out of my home, I can read and write, I live in a country where getting sick doesn't carry a huge financial penalty and the roads that I use to get to work are tarmac and regularly maintained.
It should be the burden of companies to ensure that their products are safe. The fact that concerns have been raised about this chemical and no action has been taken means that the burden is very much on companies now.
Swype is a very good way around the crappiness of touch keyboards but that's not available in the walled garden.
I'd be really happy to use Hulu or get the same content on Netflix as US users but due to an artificial restriction I am unable to. I don't want to have to pay for a proxy or VPN I want to get the same content that is available to US users (and Canadians?). I speak the same language and I have money. Feel free to offer me a product and you can have some of that money.