At first I was hesitant about Torchlight. But, it ['s boxed version] having no DRM swayed me to get it. I've had a lot of fun with it since. It's not the greatest "Diablo clone", but it's still good fun. LAN multiplayer, however, will breathe a LOT of life into it for me and, quite possibly, cause it to replace Diablo II as the game I play most with my roommates.
I opted in to a similar tracking that OpenDNS has (even part of its free service) that informs me when my network has been accessing known malware sites. I do wish they could do it without having to activate tracking/logging though -- "look at each one at a time, evaluate, discard" should be the norm.
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You beat me to it. Creativity is promptly beaten out of you in today's society.
PARTS of MS Office is in OS X. Outlook is not. PowerPoint is not. The statistical [and other] add-ins for Excel are not (nor any of the other extremely useful VBA stuff).
Your disk is 100% useless if you do not create a Steam account, associate with it, connect online, decrypt it, etc... I only buy things that have the following steps: * Purchase. * Put in disk. * Install. * Play. All of the above not requiring Internet or a 3rd party or any account creation.
That's the point of it: purchasing these games offline or in a retailer so they can be used whenever, wherever and however we want (without relying on the company sticking around indefinitely) is, simply, *not* possible.
Better to have no new Duke Nukem games that to have a crappy company like Valve make a Duke Nukem game that cannot be purchased because of their insistence on junking it up with Steam.
"An ABC source reported that the DVD and Blu-ray release of season 6 will feature twenty minutes of additional scenes, some of which will have answers to questions, cut from the storyline due to running time." - Wikipedia
So, if you buy the DVD, MAYBE you'll get some kind of worth-while closure? I highly doubt that. My apologies to all those who wasted 6 years on this show and couldn't see early on that it was like a six-year-old's summer midafternoon make believe story.
Finally, someone else who sees that tab placement as bad. I thought I was alone here. And what's up with hiding the menus? People actually DO use them.
Valve: Bringing video game DRM to Linux. (And I don't care about how much you think Steam is great and wonderful, it's still DRM and it cannot be tolerated.)
Not to sound like a broken record, but: Corporations and free markets are mutually exclusive. Simply the existence of a corporation (which is a government endorsed entity) is a hindrance against the free market.
Yes, I'm replying to what's marked as a troll. BUT: "Corporation" goes in one hand. "Free Market" goes into the other hand. You cannot have both. They're mutually exclusive.
Funny, 'cause whenever I have a site loading slowly, I usually can look at the address bar and see it stuck on Google Analytics. Well, until I blocked it and greatly sped up the web, that is.
So all emulation is piracy? Thanks for keeping me informed. And here I thought I emulated my PS1 and PS2 so I could enjoy them at the comfort of my PC with unlimited save space and with antialiasing.
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At first I was hesitant about Torchlight. But, it ['s boxed version] having no DRM swayed me to get it. I've had a lot of fun with it since. It's not the greatest "Diablo clone", but it's still good fun. LAN multiplayer, however, will breathe a LOT of life into it for me and, quite possibly, cause it to replace Diablo II as the game I play most with my roommates.
I remember such things being proposed in the US before. They were always rejected as "unsightly". Stupid NIMBY retards getting int he way of progress.
I opted in to a similar tracking that OpenDNS has (even part of its free service) that informs me when my network has been accessing known malware sites. I do wish they could do it without having to activate tracking/logging though -- "look at each one at a time, evaluate, discard" should be the norm.
You beat me to it. Creativity is promptly beaten out of you in today's society.
PARTS of MS Office is in OS X. Outlook is not. PowerPoint is not. The statistical [and other] add-ins for Excel are not (nor any of the other extremely useful VBA stuff).
Sims 3 and Torchlight are my most recent two.
Your disk is 100% useless if you do not create a Steam account, associate with it, connect online, decrypt it, etc... I only buy things that have the following steps:
* Purchase.
* Put in disk.
* Install.
* Play.
All of the above not requiring Internet or a 3rd party or any account creation.
That's the point of it: purchasing these games offline or in a retailer so they can be used whenever, wherever and however we want (without relying on the company sticking around indefinitely) is, simply, *not* possible.
Better to have no new Duke Nukem games that to have a crappy company like Valve make a Duke Nukem game that cannot be purchased because of their insistence on junking it up with Steam.
"An ABC source reported that the DVD and Blu-ray release of season 6 will feature twenty minutes of additional scenes, some of which will have answers to questions, cut from the storyline due to running time." - Wikipedia
So, if you buy the DVD, MAYBE you'll get some kind of worth-while closure? I highly doubt that. My apologies to all those who wasted 6 years on this show and couldn't see early on that it was like a six-year-old's summer midafternoon make believe story.
EA? You mean The Sims 3 -- DRM free?
"Yay, DRM coming to Linux!" say the Steam apologists.
Has anyone read Neal Stephenson's novel "Interface"? We're getting oh so close to it.
Finally, someone else who sees that tab placement as bad. I thought I was alone here. And what's up with hiding the menus? People actually DO use them.
Do not forget that steamworks DRM is also included on boxed copies.
Well, here's to the first game in the Civ series I don't buy.
Valve: Bringing video game DRM to Linux. (And I don't care about how much you think Steam is great and wonderful, it's still DRM and it cannot be tolerated.)
This does work. I successfully got a charge back on Cities XL when it insisted on being connected to the Internet to load.
Not to sound like a broken record, but: Corporations and free markets are mutually exclusive. Simply the existence of a corporation (which is a government endorsed entity) is a hindrance against the free market.
Yes, I'm replying to what's marked as a troll. BUT: "Corporation" goes in one hand. "Free Market" goes into the other hand. You cannot have both. They're mutually exclusive.
Funny, 'cause whenever I have a site loading slowly, I usually can look at the address bar and see it stuck on Google Analytics. Well, until I blocked it and greatly sped up the web, that is.
So all emulation is piracy? Thanks for keeping me informed. And here I thought I emulated my PS1 and PS2 so I could enjoy them at the comfort of my PC with unlimited save space and with antialiasing.
Except Starcraft2's a DRM fest and, thus, unobtainable.
You mean, like civilized Europe and WoW players have, but US banks still don't issue? *sigh*
It's damned near impossible, no matter how good the lecturer, to compete with addictive multiplayer andor online-games.