Yes, Rockstar, please tell us: Why is it so hard to write good Windows code? How is the PS3 so much easier? Why don't you let us play the games at much higher resolution on much better hardware? Is it really that important to sell mediocre crap and scrape every miserable penny? Is that also the motivation behind the DRM? Why don't you just sell a good product at a good price and stop trying to coerce the market. It won't work. Eventually some other game house will make your type of game, only better, and with better graphics and performance. And people will buy that instead.
You're missing the scale of this thing. If this DRM bullshit is taking even 2 minutes of anyone's precious time, anywhere, it is probably taking 2 minutes of MILLIONS OF PEOPLE'S TIME, also, which means a few 1,000 actual human lifetimes or lives.
This is the real crime here. Not that some kid wants to play a game for free. Duh.
These guys can totally suck my dick. All the way down till they mildly tickle my scrote.
And: I'M GOING TO PLAY THE GAME FOR FREE! FUCK YOU!!!!!
No, not really. I'm sure once I beat the missions I'll just go back to playing Urban Terror anyway, AND IT'S FREE!
Thank God, compared to the corrupt bank mother fuckers that just fleeced this country for 700 trillion or whatever.... I'm sure they are way less menacing than Zarqface or whomever I've never heard of. Quick, let's put them up in posh hotels!!
It doesn't work. It only hurts innocent people. The truly guilty completely avoid it. It makes the person doing it less popular. It's unpleasant. It's foolish. It's evil. Despite clear evidence that it IN NO WAY helps anyone, it is continuing to be done by a large institution against innocent people and other victims that have no relation to the initial causality.
If you are pro DRM, or pro torture, you are either horrifically ignorant, willfully stupid, or malevolently mis-informed.
Either way, do the math (or the research), and please wake the fuck up.
Torture and DRM are outmoded and outdated ideas that fail miserably at the assigned task, and should be completely eliminated, for the benefit of all, most importantly you promoting it.
Don't drive. I want to build autonomous GPS navigating zeppelins that drive for you. You can talk on a video phone at that point, or take a bath, or cook a breakfast, play Urban Terror, or practice your yoga, all while on your way to any location, work, school, a nightclub, the library, to pick up the kids.
Driving is lame. It's time to take this party to the next level. I have designs and am looking for venture capitalists.
By including DRM into the game, making it impossible for me to justify spending money on it....
I will be playing the game for free with a hacked version I get from Bit torrent.
Will many millions of people be doing this? Yes. Could you have sold a few more games by not including DRM? Yes. Will you learn from this egregious mistake? Maybe by the time GTA 5 comes out. I'm not holding my breath....
Ingredients: Any lightweight econo-frame, tires, drive train, etc.
One or more electric motors.
1,000 laptop batteries.
With economies of scale there is NO reason we can't be producing these by the millions for $5,000 a piece, even paying factory workers a living wage.
It's pretty clear that there are special interests STILL controlling the industry and continuing to lock the World populace into oil dependency. I just don't understand the motive!
Meh, I think you could probably get a scientific research paper to back the claim. This is slashdot after all, or were you just trying to assume I was a Jr. High arm chair sociologist?
Informative?!? Just because you disagree fundamentally with part of my statement doesn't mean I'm childish. What a ludicrous idea.
I don't think grown people should be spending money on consoles. Truthfully, playing games at all over 30 feels a little like a guilty pleasure, a lack of human ambition, and maybe even yet another opiate of the masses.
You can disagree, but that doesn't make you informative at all. LOL
I think Obama is another stuffed shirt. A corporate liar on the corporate payroll. His blackness does not mean he's not a sold out douche bag. Look at his nominations. This prick, and also Hillary? We needed a Ron Paul or a Kucinich, not this same old same old.
Let me be first to tell the hopers "I told you so".
if there is an extinct species of animal or plant that is essential for human health that we have been missing from our diet by over population. A mammoth or mastodon is the most likely suspect in the animal kingdom, so I can't wait to try a mammoth or mastodon burger, and see how I feel!
Just go CHEAP. I mean CHEAP. Very few people I know need anything more than Windows XP (or a similar Linux Distro), and Firefox and a handful of other apps that really do not require much processing power. I mean, as a nerd and slashdot junkie, I like a powerful computer and games and all that jazz, but mom really just does email, and occasionally surfs youtube or wikipedia.
Build her a laptop that costs less than $200, and she'll buy several. So will everyone.
I think why they suddenly changed their minds was explained in the article:
They can't write drivers for shit.
Now if only Nvidia, ATI, and all the other hardware manufacturers that can't code their way out of a wet paper bag would go FOSS with their drivers we'd have:
A. More usable and speedy hardware. B. A truly kick ass open source operating system that would kick the shit out of mac and Windows.
Sorry, am I not supposed to mention those other OSes? The debate above gave me all kinds of bullshit rules I'm not interested in following. Truth be told I bet you the FOSS Windows X-Fi driver gets more and better dev faster than the Linux one..../me puts $20 on it.
Stop with the themes. Just make it like Winamp 2.81, and then worry about new/different themes. If you HAVE to make it more modern, consider Rhythmbox for a reference design.
Better yet, ship with a Winamp 2 theme AND a Rhythmbox theme, AND an itunes clone theme. THEN default to whichever OS songbird is installed on.
THEN I would see the point of themes.
But without ipod support...... it's all still kind of pointless for most of society.
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PS If you're hiring a beta tester... I'd love to help you solve these problems. I require late hours and long lunches.
Yes, Rockstar, please tell us: Why is it so hard to write good Windows code? How is the PS3 so much easier? Why don't you let us play the games at much higher resolution on much better hardware? Is it really that important to sell mediocre crap and scrape every miserable penny? Is that also the motivation behind the DRM? Why don't you just sell a good product at a good price and stop trying to coerce the market. It won't work. Eventually some other game house will make your type of game, only better, and with better graphics and performance. And people will buy that instead.
Wait, you mean besides the DRM?
Once we get to 32 or 64 core cpus that cost less than $100 (say, five years), I'd HATE to have a beowulf cluster of those!
You're missing the scale of this thing. If this DRM bullshit is taking even 2 minutes of anyone's precious time, anywhere, it is probably taking 2 minutes of MILLIONS OF PEOPLE'S TIME, also, which means a few 1,000 actual human lifetimes or lives.
This is the real crime here. Not that some kid wants to play a game for free. Duh.
These guys can totally suck my dick. All the way down till they mildly tickle my scrote.
And: I'M GOING TO PLAY THE GAME FOR FREE! FUCK YOU!!!!!
No, not really. I'm sure once I beat the missions I'll just go back to playing Urban Terror anyway, AND IT'S FREE!
I think he does actually. Does anybody want a peanut?
Thank God, compared to the corrupt bank mother fuckers that just fleeced this country for 700 trillion or whatever.... I'm sure they are way less menacing than Zarqface or whomever I've never heard of. Quick, let's put them up in posh hotels!!
DRM is a lot like torture:
It doesn't work.
It only hurts innocent people.
The truly guilty completely avoid it.
It makes the person doing it less popular.
It's unpleasant.
It's foolish.
It's evil.
Despite clear evidence that it IN NO WAY helps anyone, it is continuing to be done by a large institution against innocent people and other victims that have no relation to the initial causality.
If you are pro DRM, or pro torture, you are either horrifically ignorant, willfully stupid, or malevolently mis-informed.
Either way, do the math (or the research), and please wake the fuck up.
Torture and DRM are outmoded and outdated ideas that fail miserably at the assigned task, and should be completely eliminated, for the benefit of all, most importantly you promoting it.
Don't drive. I want to build autonomous GPS navigating zeppelins that drive for you. You can talk on a video phone at that point, or take a bath, or cook a breakfast, play Urban Terror, or practice your yoga, all while on your way to any location, work, school, a nightclub, the library, to pick up the kids.
Driving is lame. It's time to take this party to the next level. I have designs and am looking for venture capitalists.
You forgot: Waiting for Duke Nukem Forever, and Waiting for Duke Nukem Forever.
By including DRM into the game, making it impossible for me to justify spending money on it....
I will be playing the game for free with a hacked version I get from Bit torrent.
Will many millions of people be doing this? Yes. Could you have sold a few more games by not including DRM? Yes. Will you learn from this egregious mistake? Maybe by the time GTA 5 comes out. I'm not holding my breath....
Why can't we have a CHEAP electric car?
Ingredients:
Any lightweight econo-frame, tires, drive train, etc.
One or more electric motors.
1,000 laptop batteries.
With economies of scale there is NO reason we can't be producing these by the millions for $5,000 a piece, even paying factory workers a living wage.
It's pretty clear that there are special interests STILL controlling the industry and continuing to lock the World populace into oil dependency. I just don't understand the motive!
Meh, I think you could probably get a scientific research paper to back the claim. This is slashdot after all, or were you just trying to assume I was a Jr. High arm chair sociologist?
By this time next year you'll be able to pull all the elements out of the air and robotically assemble them into steak or a rocket ship to the moon.
We just need the code and a decent fab.
Information: Check.
Moderation: FAIL.
Informative?!? Just because you disagree fundamentally with part of my statement doesn't mean I'm childish. What a ludicrous idea.
I don't think grown people should be spending money on consoles. Truthfully, playing games at all over 30 feels a little like a guilty pleasure, a lack of human ambition, and maybe even yet another opiate of the masses.
You can disagree, but that doesn't make you informative at all. LOL
I voted for Nader.
I think Obama is another stuffed shirt. A corporate liar on the corporate payroll. His blackness does not mean he's not a sold out douche bag. Look at his nominations. This prick, and also Hillary? We needed a Ron Paul or a Kucinich, not this same old same old.
Let me be first to tell the hopers "I told you so".
Where's the PC version? I don't play consoles, because I'm not a child.
if there is an extinct species of animal or plant that is essential for human health that we have been missing from our diet by over population. A mammoth or mastodon is the most likely suspect in the animal kingdom, so I can't wait to try a mammoth or mastodon burger, and see how I feel!
Just go CHEAP. I mean CHEAP. Very few people I know need anything more than Windows XP (or a similar Linux Distro), and Firefox and a handful of other apps that really do not require much processing power. I mean, as a nerd and slashdot junkie, I like a powerful computer and games and all that jazz, but mom really just does email, and occasionally surfs youtube or wikipedia.
Build her a laptop that costs less than $200, and she'll buy several. So will everyone.
LOLZ How do XP vms perform in BSD? /me considers a partition...
I think why they suddenly changed their minds was explained in the article:
They can't write drivers for shit.
Now if only Nvidia, ATI, and all the other hardware manufacturers that can't code their way out of a wet paper bag would go FOSS with their drivers we'd have:
A. More usable and speedy hardware.
B. A truly kick ass open source operating system that would kick the shit out of mac and Windows.
Sorry, am I not supposed to mention those other OSes? The debate above gave me all kinds of bullshit rules I'm not interested in following. Truth be told I bet you the FOSS Windows X-Fi driver gets more and better dev faster than the Linux one.... /me puts $20 on it.
I mentioned VLC further up in the discussion. I don't use it for music, but for video, it has no equal on any OS, and works on all three!
You forgot AND IS EASY.
They just want something that works, and that they can use in under 5 seconds.
By this definition there is STILL no good music composition program out on the market.
Amen again, again.
Stop with the themes. Just make it like Winamp 2.81, and then worry about new/different themes. If you HAVE to make it more modern, consider Rhythmbox for a reference design.
Better yet, ship with a Winamp 2 theme AND a Rhythmbox theme, AND an itunes clone theme. THEN default to whichever OS songbird is installed on.
THEN I would see the point of themes.
But without ipod support...... it's all still kind of pointless for most of society.