Avatar put me off all 3D films. Watch Thor on a plane with no 3D and all the huge panning shots are a pain to watch. I'll go watch the hobbit in 2d and at the end of its run so I can watch in a 1/2 full room. When my house renovations are done I intend to have a decent projector setup and I'll never watch a film in the cinema again. I'm thinking about installing a DVD standard low definition system and spend the rest on beer. Who needs HD when you're blind drunk?:)
I'm not too sure why either would want to get into the power business. But they should could waste some capital on some future power tech for kudos. They can't build Tony Stark's Arc reactor; but they can find some green pie in the sky equivalent. Install solar power on every house in the town. There they've just helped the grid for a few hours a day. Not a bad idea that.
So, you use HTTPS to fight tyranny and you want freedom of speech.... Hmmmmm?
- Worse than a terrorist!
- Worse than a peado.
- It's P2P downloading film and song villain!
Whoosh..... ----..... DMCA-MAN to the unrescue!!!
What wrapper of hidden agenda will use to foil a country's right to speak out against oppression DMCA-MAN?
What's that? - People have been downloading turd throwaway standards lowering pop-song?!?! This has cost the corporations over a billion billion billion dollars in sales?!?!
HTTPS IS EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED! // sorry - I've gone mental..
* No need to find new crack every time the game updates (or even check for new version.. it auto-updates)
Finding a crack was always easy. There is always the risk that a game update will break the game. So it is wise to wait. After a few days a recrack will be out. Wait a bit more and the recrack would be topped by another group. I know some games like Batman had some very good systems to protect it. Games for windows LIVE puts off many people from buying it.
* In-game chat system, with one-click multiplayer join function (for those games that support it)
A decent UI was often done well on the PC and done without DRM steam.
* Savegames are stored on Steam's servers and synced between machines (for those games that support it)
I'd rather have my own save games and be able to mess about with the hex values. I enjoy that.
* Consistent screenshot / gallery system across games, with upload support to Steam servers.
A bug reporting feature, great.
* Game statistics and achievements, displayed online on your profile.
I don't want to have the time I've pissed away on a game linked to a profile, posted to facebook, saved on a server, sold to a bidder, data minded to for years to come.
* Direct access to high-speed download of games, no virus risk, minimal game install process.
If I have the game on DVD you have no need to re-download the whole thing. The server farm may have high-speed. The home owner may have limited speed and/or a download limit. There is a risk of a virus if there system gets hacked. The install process is just a dull as it ever was.
* No need to search around, try different downloads, find one that downloads fast, then find out if it has virus, then find out if it works... Just click-click-click-click-click, and it downloads, full speed.
I'm not too sure what you mean by this one. I don't want the game to auto update. I'll do it. My game, My machine, My choice. Have a link in the game menu to open up a page.
Yes. Steam can fail (server down, can not start single player game), and it's offline modus can really do with some improvement (you have to be online to play offline? What?), but overall it does give some value over pirating games.
There is no value. What have they added? They are often more expensive than the shop boxed retail price. If they did lock out all piracy they will no drop their price at all. It’s another place for your credit card details to be kept, hacked and shared about. It’s another login to remember.
I’m not too sure how well it works in a house that shares the game amongst several siblings. But I’m sure they don’t like 5 boys playing one game. With their own saved games / user account per box.
They monitor your free time. Track a log everything. Stop you reselling. Turn a product that you should own into a rental and charge the same.
Steam is used for DRM, tracking, marketing and sales. As an idea - you have no other choice of DRM company when you buy a game which is a bit against a free market.
In the future you should be able to pick your DRM company of preference. Much like a search engine company does in your browser. I’ll pick the one that only wants to verify the game and doesn’t do anything else.
/ Rant over - proofreading left to my army of fishpoomonkeys.
2 Years seems a bit drastic, when a month or two would have been better for preventing polarization. As an American, of course, I find this antithetical to my values.
I'm wondering if you're just being sarcastic about Guantanamo bay. Ironically, Americana don't really do irony.
A huge number of children unable to use computers; but able to play games. I started in the days of the 48k spectrum and if you wanted to play a game in those days you had to have a little bit of exposure in knowing how to do that. Just a few commands.
If your best mate Barry came over to play games, you would have great fun in typing
10 PRINT "Barry is an Arse"
20 GOTO 10
just a few commands
Kids today don't get that. It's all locked away. They'll get 10years and a billion pound fine for downloading a game. A skilless task. They'll need the skills in not getting caught. I can't afford his fine so he'd better be a bloody good "cyber criminal". I'll not be paying £60 a game just like my parents wouldn't buy mine. And kids don't listen or do as they are told so things will be copied and swapped. AND I'm ranting - Sorry -- sorry. Lunch time.
Engineering / building a geek point missed I guess.
I always thought the penalty for "standing up for your rights" and not decrypting a drive would be better than being proved a *nonce. The fact that by not decrypting a drive implies a person is a nonce is another matter . Will they get a fair trial? I guess if you have a tan past taupe you'd be a terrorist for not handing over files.
No mod points. Have a +20 Yes all that. They do run a few programs on the BBC of "How to build..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lysc9
To stop home mind rot I got rid of my TV, stick to iplayer and take my son to the science museum as often as possible.You have to build geeks these days.
Nope. Innocent until proven guilty. If a society deems itself worthy enough take away liberty. The least it can do up uphold its own rules. By not doing so, people who are obviously guilty can and will go free. Those people may kill and murder again, maybe someone I love. GET IT RIGHT FIRST TIME. I pay a lot of tax into the system for that money I want a guilt and innocent verdicts which can trusted.
I'm going to need a super computer to work this problem out. I could drill a really big second hole and pump the water away. This will cost more than a millions dollars. Terrorism never pays!
The strength and elasticity of spider silk make it a good candidate for a broad range of medical and industrial applications. You can google it and get a lot of very dull web pages as a result.
I'm sure it cost more than the whole shire to make.
On the BBC, Horizon "Playing God". They show a lab that has altered the DNA of goats so they produce spider web protients in their milk which can be harvested.Makes production more feasible. [ As they have 8 legs you get more mutton too:)]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mgxf
I'd start up an Evil company and lower the water table. I'll not pump that water back unless you pay me.. One Millions Dollers. Mwaahaha aa Mwwhaahaa haaaa.
Well in the UK I'd rather have dollars. I'm sick of seeing a price for something on the net in the US and it costs $300 and when you look at the UK site and it costs £300 (or more). I'm happy to swap signs over as and when needed.
Agreed. I was just thinking about getting a "name" in for an open project. That said, I wonder how you would you go about getting a decent music score made. I guess an orchestra costs a fair bit. -I've no idea about anything to do with music recording. Crowdsourcing all those instruments and balancing recording quality would be a project and then some.
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I miss how the bottom and top of the VHS tape would warp. This can be put back with software. Downscale everything.
People get medical kit left in them all the time. A $244 million person can afford better care.
Avatar put me off all 3D films. Watch Thor on a plane with no 3D and all the huge panning shots are a pain to watch. :)
I'll go watch the hobbit in 2d and at the end of its run so I can watch in a 1/2 full room. When my house renovations are done I intend to have a decent projector setup and I'll never watch a film in the cinema again. I'm thinking about installing a DVD standard low definition system and spend the rest on beer. Who needs HD when you're blind drunk?
Not with those news chain I bought she wont.
Or you could (bride/ pay off / incentivise / lobby ) facebook to your town in return for jobs. Fuck the environment this is money for money.
I'm not too sure why either would want to get into the power business. But they should could waste some capital on some future power tech for kudos.
They can't build Tony Stark's Arc reactor; but they can find some green pie in the sky equivalent. Install solar power on every house in the town. There they've just helped the grid for a few hours a day. Not a bad idea that.
No mod points when you need them! Have a +1 Mahogany for that great impression.
So, you use HTTPS to fight tyranny and you want freedom of speech .... Hmmmmm?
..... DMCA-MAN to the unrescue!!!
// sorry - I've gone mental..
- Worse than a terrorist!
- Worse than a peado.
- It's P2P downloading film and song villain!
Whoosh..... ----
What wrapper of hidden agenda will use to foil a country's right to speak out against oppression DMCA-MAN?
What's that? - People have been downloading turd throwaway standards lowering pop-song?!?! This has cost the corporations over a billion billion billion dollars in sales?!?!
HTTPS IS EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED!
Well you've given up the fight.
* No need to find new crack every time the game updates (or even check for new version.. it auto-updates)
Finding a crack was always easy. There is always the risk that a game update will break the game. So it is wise to wait. After a few days a recrack will be out. Wait a bit more and the recrack would be topped by another group. I know some games like Batman had some very good systems to protect it. Games for windows LIVE puts off many people from buying it.
* In-game chat system, with one-click multiplayer join function (for those games that support it)
A decent UI was often done well on the PC and done without DRM steam.
* Savegames are stored on Steam's servers and synced between machines (for those games that support it)
I'd rather have my own save games and be able to mess about with the hex values. I enjoy that.
* Consistent screenshot / gallery system across games, with upload support to Steam servers.
A bug reporting feature, great.
* Game statistics and achievements, displayed online on your profile.
I don't want to have the time I've pissed away on a game linked to a profile, posted to facebook, saved on a server, sold to a bidder, data minded to for years to come.
* Direct access to high-speed download of games, no virus risk, minimal game install process.
If I have the game on DVD you have no need to re-download the whole thing. The server farm may have high-speed. The home owner may have limited speed and/or a download limit. There is a risk of a virus if there system gets hacked. The install process is just a dull as it ever was.
* No need to search around, try different downloads, find one that downloads fast, then find out if it has virus, then find out if it works... Just click-click-click-click-click, and it downloads, full speed.
I'm not too sure what you mean by this one. I don't want the game to auto update. I'll do it. My game, My machine, My choice. Have a link in the game menu to open up a page.
Yes. Steam can fail (server down, can not start single player game), and it's offline modus can really do with some improvement (you have to be online to play offline? What?), but overall it does give some value over pirating games.
There is no value. What have they added? They are often more expensive than the shop boxed retail price. If they did lock out all piracy they will no drop their price at all. It’s another place for your credit card details to be kept, hacked and shared about. It’s another login to remember.
I’m not too sure how well it works in a house that shares the game amongst several siblings. But I’m sure they don’t like 5 boys playing one game. With their own saved games / user account per box.
They monitor your free time. Track a log everything. Stop you reselling. Turn a product that you should own into a rental and charge the same.
Steam is used for DRM, tracking, marketing and sales. As an idea - you have no other choice of DRM company when you buy a game which is a bit against a free market.
In the future you should be able to pick your DRM company of preference. Much like a search engine company does in your browser. I’ll pick the one that only wants to verify the game and doesn’t do anything else. / Rant over - proofreading left to my army of fishpoomonkeys.
2 Years seems a bit drastic, when a month or two would have been better for preventing polarization. As an American, of course, I find this antithetical to my values.
I'm wondering if you're just being sarcastic about Guantanamo bay. Ironically, Americana don't really do irony.
Richard Hammond and Jon Tickle made me into a terrorist when they showed me how to make Thermite! Go arrest them!
I've turned it down far too much - SORRY! You'll be able to see the change in a few years from now.
Unless you only have one eye. I'm sorry to tell you ...
A huge number of children unable to use computers; but able to play games. I started in the days of the 48k spectrum and if you wanted to play a game in those days you had to have a little bit of exposure in knowing how to do that. Just a few commands.
If your best mate Barry came over to play games, you would have great fun in typing
10 PRINT "Barry is an Arse"
20 GOTO 10
just a few commands
Kids today don't get that. It's all locked away. They'll get 10years and a billion pound fine for downloading a game. A skilless task. They'll need the skills in not getting caught. I can't afford his fine so he'd better be a bloody good "cyber criminal". I'll not be paying £60 a game just like my parents wouldn't buy mine. And kids don't listen or do as they are told so things will be copied and swapped. AND I'm ranting - Sorry -- sorry. Lunch time.
Engineering / building a geek point missed I guess.
I always thought the penalty for "standing up for your rights" and not decrypting a drive would be better than being proved a *nonce. The fact that by not decrypting a drive implies a person is a nonce is another matter . Will they get a fair trial? I guess if you have a tan past taupe you'd be a terrorist for not handing over files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce
No mod points. Have a +20 Yes all that. They do run a few programs on the BBC of "How to build ..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lysc9
To stop home mind rot I got rid of my TV, stick to iplayer and take my son to the science museum as often as possible.You have to build geeks these days.
Nope. Innocent until proven guilty. If a society deems itself worthy enough take away liberty. The least it can do up uphold its own rules. By not doing so, people who are obviously guilty can and will go free. Those people may kill and murder again, maybe someone I love. GET IT RIGHT FIRST TIME. I pay a lot of tax into the system for that money I want a guilt and innocent verdicts which can trusted.
Shh, they'll have to go back and read 1005 of them!
I'm going to need a super computer to work this problem out. I could drill a really big second hole and pump the water away. This will cost more than a millions dollars. Terrorism never pays!
+1 Informative and funny.
The strength and elasticity of spider silk make it a good candidate for a broad range of medical and industrial applications. You can google it and get a lot of very dull web pages as a result.
I'm sure it cost more than the whole shire to make. On the BBC, Horizon "Playing God". They show a lab that has altered the DNA of goats so they produce spider web protients in their milk which can be harvested.Makes production more feasible. [ As they have 8 legs you get more mutton too :)]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mgxf
I'd start up an Evil company and lower the water table. I'll not pump that water back unless you pay me .. One Millions Dollers. Mwaahaha aa Mwwhaahaa haaaa.
Well in the UK I'd rather have dollars. I'm sick of seeing a price for something on the net in the US and it costs $300 and when you look at the UK site and it costs £300 (or more). I'm happy to swap signs over as and when needed.
Agreed. I was just thinking about getting a "name" in for an open project.
That said, I wonder how you would you go about getting a decent music score made. I guess an orchestra costs a fair bit. -I've no idea about anything to do with music recording. Crowdsourcing all those instruments and balancing recording quality would be a project and then some.