They said it won't crash. Thats easy, just make it so it doesn't run. Then it crash into anything. Microsoft is great at making things not run, then again so is Ford....
If I remember which show that was, didn't Eddie Izzard come and sit down at the start of the show. I think the only reason I remember that is because he was wearing men's clothes.
Lets say its a level based RPG. And at max, someone in the SP game will be allowed to get to level 20 and be able to spend 40 points on their character. Anyone with more than 40 points is automatically voided, and/or above level 20 is voided. Its wouldn't be hard to do that. I would think it would also be bad for the SP adventure to have random loot drops, although if that was done, then just make really good items impossible to drop, and most of the MMORPG items would be naturally better than anything even the best random loot drop in the single player.
And if someone wants to use cracks or trainers in the SP adventure, well that could be negotiated by just being able to play the MMORPG immediately and recommend that you play the SP adventure first and by doing so you get a bonus by playing it.
Make the CD key generate a unique key after playing via some algorithm to unlock the MMORPG part. Sure, the algorithm could always be broken but if you put in the right checks like make it so that it really isn't worth bothering with it.
That frankly makes no sense. The game you buy in stores would probably have the Singleplayer RPG on it. Then once you want to move up to the MMORPG level, or have completed the single player RPG, you can then play it as a multiplayer online RPG. Then you start paying the monthly fee. Which makes more sense, unlike the MMORPGs which want to pay twice for a game. Once in the stores, then "subscribe" to it.
Americans spend $400 billion on their defense budget alone. Imagine what would happen if that went to a good cause. Thats $1,333 per taxpayer. Russians and the Chinese don't spend that much on their defense budget even combined.
In the long run, that is a false option. More and more CDs are copy protected and eventually there will be no more cds made, just as they no longer make LPs Wow. All this brand new vinyl I bought the other day must be a figment of my imagination. Time to lay off the acid...
Its like iTune's coders or administration want music to be free or something, they seem to leave these gaping loopholes that a couple of programs circumvent, either that or maybe just DRM is just a bad idea, and it seems hard to implement, and frankly I think it is just bad for the industry too.
My only statement would be.... "The cat is out of the bag, the industry has changed whether the industry in control wants to admit it or if they rather scream, whine, and sue grandmothers over it, well thats their decision. The very definition of progress is change itself. This is a change the consumers are quite happy with and the industry because they find they can't be as profitible as before. Which they could be, if they pulled their heads from their money leaking asses. Hell, I myself could think of a couple ways of still making money off the consumers."
I think the deal with this is, there are people that hack, and then they get banned. Wouldn't it suck if then they could still play by just getting a new SteamID which is the new version of "CD-key"?
If you want to have a "reality TV" show called "Survivor," you had better have all the contestants but one die, and you'd better not help them out at all. Just videotape what happens when you drop 16 people off with no supplies but the shirts on their backs and whatever they had in their pockets at an undisclosed location with no civilization for at least 100 miles in any direction.
That would never work. You know that as soon as they decided to resort to cannibalism, the film crew would be the first ones to go.
This one is easy. Tell them no prize if they even think of touching the film crew.
The way current PCs are built than yes, but if the path was short along with the transmission path being able to send large amounts of data fast and/or the information sent to those places wasn't time dependent, then it could be possible.
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My question is do you have to be female to get the position? If no, where should I send my photos?
They said it won't crash. Thats easy, just make it so it doesn't run. Then it crash into anything. Microsoft is great at making things not run, then again so is Ford....
If I remember which show that was, didn't Eddie Izzard come and sit down at the start of the show. I think the only reason I remember that is because he was wearing men's clothes.
Have you tried recompiling your humour kernel? Try the British flavor, you should at least chuckle with that installed.
Lets say its a level based RPG. And at max, someone in the SP game will be allowed to get to level 20 and be able to spend 40 points on their character. Anyone with more than 40 points is automatically voided, and/or above level 20 is voided. Its wouldn't be hard to do that. I would think it would also be bad for the SP adventure to have random loot drops, although if that was done, then just make really good items impossible to drop, and most of the MMORPG items would be naturally better than anything even the best random loot drop in the single player.
And if someone wants to use cracks or trainers in the SP adventure, well that could be negotiated by just being able to play the MMORPG immediately and recommend that you play the SP adventure first and by doing so you get a bonus by playing it.
Make the CD key generate a unique key after playing via some algorithm to unlock the MMORPG part. Sure, the algorithm could always be broken but if you put in the right checks like make it so that it really isn't worth bothering with it.
That frankly makes no sense. The game you buy in stores would probably have the Singleplayer RPG on it. Then once you want to move up to the MMORPG level, or have completed the single player RPG, you can then play it as a multiplayer online RPG. Then you start paying the monthly fee. Which makes more sense, unlike the MMORPGs which want to pay twice for a game. Once in the stores, then "subscribe" to it.
So they use the same math that the RIAA uses?
Americans spend $400 billion on their defense budget alone. Imagine what would happen if that went to a good cause. Thats $1,333 per taxpayer. Russians and the Chinese don't spend that much on their defense budget even combined.
Nothing beats the real thing, in 3 dimensions, not the 2d you see on your monitor. You can move your head and you can see the ball or whatever better.
Just another reason to swallow.
I went to Canada about 5 months ago, they checked IDs, on the way over and the way back.
Well there is one sign of the apocalypse...
It may be spyware and malware free, but I bet its got a really nasty GUI as it did in the past too...
In the long run, that is a false option. More and more CDs are copy protected and eventually there will be no more cds made, just as they no longer make LPs
Wow. All this brand new vinyl I bought the other day must be a figment of my imagination. Time to lay off the acid...
You do know vinyl pants will chafe you to death.
Its like iTune's coders or administration want music to be free or something, they seem to leave these gaping loopholes that a couple of programs circumvent, either that or maybe just DRM is just a bad idea, and it seems hard to implement, and frankly I think it is just bad for the industry too.
My only statement would be.... "The cat is out of the bag, the industry has changed whether the industry in control wants to admit it or if they rather scream, whine, and sue grandmothers over it, well thats their decision. The very definition of progress is change itself. This is a change the consumers are quite happy with and the industry because they find they can't be as profitible as before. Which they could be, if they pulled their heads from their money leaking asses. Hell, I myself could think of a couple ways of still making money off the consumers."
Firefox also comes preinstalled with Yahoo, eBay, Amazon.com, dictionary.com, and Creative Commons.
I think the deal with this is, there are people that hack, and then they get banned. Wouldn't it suck if then they could still play by just getting a new SteamID which is the new version of "CD-key"?
If you want to have a "reality TV" show called "Survivor," you had better have all the contestants but one die, and you'd better not help them out at all. Just videotape what happens when you drop 16 people off with no supplies but the shirts on their backs and whatever they had in their pockets at an undisclosed location with no civilization for at least 100 miles in any direction.
That would never work. You know that as soon as they decided to resort to cannibalism, the film crew would be the first ones to go.
This one is easy. Tell them no prize if they even think of touching the film crew.
Its not bullshit though, you just have to take the theory of moving dimensions along with the time-cube to see the true beauty.
When they can infect fat cells then and only then will America be saved from McDonalds.
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
So how many rods to the hogshead does it get?
The way current PCs are built than yes, but if the path was short along with the transmission path being able to send large amounts of data fast and/or the information sent to those places wasn't time dependent, then it could be possible.
Those are problems. Those are features! ActiveX is working as intended!
I already use a program that uses all of my extra computer cycles/time. Its called WindowsXP you might have heard of it. Its a resource hog.
They're called "captchas", a product of Carnegie Mellon, which is a product of Microsoft.