Why let demos out to spice things up? Let's just have people pay to try!
Loadcrap of idiots. Anyhow, demos are getting more and more useless, which is probably why EA is doing this -- they'll win more than they'll lose. Game critics and arcade boxes already let people try out games -- and those will (most certainly) always be free.
Yet, they won't see a penny of me -- those bastards!
As much as I found this info extremely useful and disturbing, I also find it utterly disgusting that "Big Brother" is becoming more and more of a reality...
What's next?, laying cameras in to see if they have their seat-belts on? Damn happy I don't live there...
We all knew it would happen. If you know that X leads to Y and you also know that you will be doing X in Z time, then you know that, in said Z time, Y will happen.
X Y Z Means eXtreme eYebally microZoft, of course.
Seriously, though, this was really expected. It's not that people actually like the browsers in such cases, but they just randomly click. I've had my grandfather randomly picking Firefox already; I've had my grandmother clicking an add that says "You are visitor 1M, you win a big prize!". It's the fact that many people are still "ignorant" or careless towards this question.
The dialog pops-up: "CHOOSE THY BROWSER". Reaction: "What the hell is a browser? Choose? I just want to 'surf' the 'internet'. Hell, this one with the shiny colors and the fancy name should be good, I'll click it. [double-clicks instead of single-clicking]."
All in all, I'm glad that people are being given the choice. But, really, those of us who care about it, already had the means to do it; it's the fact that we're fucking upset that other people don't get pulled into using them... Jorl has spoken. Now mod up/down/sideways.
Because what my parents' move would affect far less people. That is a false analogy, period.
How would you feel if your home country suddenly started protecting its money and raising taxes like hell, making you pay more and receive less? Another false analogy, this time, with the opposite effect.
Everything has a point. I might even be trying to influence people to buy the game by looking like an idiot who calls other people fucktards; I may be trying to be showing them that it is hackable and that, thus, they can freely buy it. Heck, I can even be trying to see if I can type something out of thin air.
If I get it correctly (I might have not understood it OK), they need a connection to the server to play, with different chains of ins and outs of switching info. That's the process that a client-side hacker-made server running at 127.0.0.1 would have to mimic. If only it were as simple as saving locally, uploading and deleting...
Even thought it's hard to crack, it's not uncrackable. A set of talented hackers/programmers can try and reverse engineer the system and build their own server (or a server might leak out). Then, changing the binaries or using some other technique, they can replace the server address with the address for their server. Given enough time, they might do it -- but the game will probably have become deprecated when they do it.
With that said, this is the most horrendous example of what the gaming society is becoming. I'd rather throw myself off a cliff than pay these fucktards.
Flash player is OPEN-SOURCE?!?!?!?! AHHAAAAAAAAAAAA, THE Sky IS ON FUCKING FIRE!!!!!!! COME, LORD, SAVE ME FROM THE INFIDEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111onetakular!
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Why let demos out to spice things up? Let's just have people pay to try!
Loadcrap of idiots. Anyhow, demos are getting more and more useless, which is probably why EA is doing this -- they'll win more than they'll lose. Game critics and arcade boxes already let people try out games -- and those will (most certainly) always be free.
Yet, they won't see a penny of me -- those bastards!
That's far more than insightful, that's the plain truth.
PWN.
As much as I found this info extremely useful and disturbing, I also find it utterly disgusting that "Big Brother" is becoming more and more of a reality...
What's next?, laying cameras in to see if they have their seat-belts on? Damn happy I don't live there...
The picture on this story is Sun's symbol, not a picture of 'the sun'. Nice badonkadonk, by the way.
Just call it 'Failure' or, as us idiots say: EPOCH FAILZ0RZ.
Exactly my point! That's what I mean with the end of my post here: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1575530&cid=31407998 .
We all knew it would happen. If you know that X leads to Y and you also know that you will be doing X in Z time, then you know that, in said Z time, Y will happen.
X Y Z Means eXtreme eYebally microZoft, of course.
Seriously, though, this was really expected. It's not that people actually like the browsers in such cases, but they just randomly click. I've had my grandfather randomly picking Firefox already; I've had my grandmother clicking an add that says "You are visitor 1M, you win a big prize!". It's the fact that many people are still "ignorant" or careless towards this question.
The dialog pops-up: "CHOOSE THY BROWSER".
Reaction: "What the hell is a browser? Choose? I just want to 'surf' the 'internet'. Hell, this one with the shiny colors and the fancy name should be good, I'll click it. [double-clicks instead of single-clicking]."
All in all, I'm glad that people are being given the choice. But, really, those of us who care about it, already had the means to do it; it's the fact that we're fucking upset that other people don't get pulled into using them...
Jorl has spoken. Now mod up/down/sideways.
I also want this to be modded funny, but I'm figuring offtopic...
By the way, I just ate my data matrix -- equivalent to swallowing the key!
Slashdot users, go away! The video is starting to stop! You are SLASHDOTTING IT!!
There's only ONE trully random-compliant function: http://xkcd.com/221/
I use it everyday. Funny, though, 4 turned out to be my good-luck number since I started using it...
That'd be the same problem! The thing is not the randomness of the number but how they use it!
Because what my parents' move would affect far less people. That is a false analogy, period.
How would you feel if your home country suddenly started protecting its money and raising taxes like hell, making you pay more and receive less? Another false analogy, this time, with the opposite effect.
Everything has a point. I might even be trying to influence people to buy the game by looking like an idiot who calls other people fucktards; I may be trying to be showing them that it is hackable and that, thus, they can freely buy it. Heck, I can even be trying to see if I can type something out of thin air.
Good question, "What is your point?".
What is your point?
If I get it correctly (I might have not understood it OK), they need a connection to the server to play, with different chains of ins and outs of switching info. That's the process that a client-side hacker-made server running at 127.0.0.1 would have to mimic. If only it were as simple as saving locally, uploading and deleting...
Exactly what I meant with "Given enough time, they might do it -- but the game will probably have become deprecated when they do it."
Even thought it's hard to crack, it's not uncrackable. A set of talented hackers/programmers can try and reverse engineer the system and build their own server (or a server might leak out). Then, changing the binaries or using some other technique, they can replace the server address with the address for their server. Given enough time, they might do it -- but the game will probably have become deprecated when they do it.
With that said, this is the most horrendous example of what the gaming society is becoming. I'd rather throw myself off a cliff than pay these fucktards.
Hahaha! Informative! I love this site, it's full of crazyness! (points-to-self)
How long until it is /.? Make your bets!!
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Flash player is OPEN-SOURCE?!?!?!?! AHHAAAAAAAAAAAA, THE Sky IS ON FUCKING FIRE!!!!!!! COME, LORD, SAVE ME FROM THE INFIDEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111onetakular!
Much like touchpads.
I find this article just nothing at all. It is an opinion -- an incomplete and pretty obvious one. How did it get to /.'s main page?